• Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Senior Shannon Kerwin, like any senior in the education department at Elizabethtown College, is ready to face her student teaching semester. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, including student teaching. Kerwin is one of the fortunate students placed in-person at East High Street Elementary School. For the semester, she is student teaching in a

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  • Biden’s inauguration and presidency beginning

    Biden’s inauguration and presidency beginning

    • News
    • February 11, 2021

    Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States Wednesday, Jan. 20. This event marks the beginning of Biden’s four-year term as president, along with Kamala Harris as vice president. Harris is the United States’ first female vice president, the highest ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    • News
    • February 11, 2021

    With the start of the spring semester, Student Senate returned to their weekly meetings over Zoom. Thursday, Jan. 28, senators met, with the majority of their time spent talking to the Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas.  He started his report by reminding senators to set-up multi-factor authentication as ITS will require it

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  • Strategic Planning Themes

    Strategic Planning Themes

    • News
    • February 11, 2021

    Elizabethtown College announced its plan to develop a strategic plan for the upcoming years to create “a solid foundation for which to grow.”  As mentioned in the purpose statement, the College is stressing visibility, the curation of new and existing partnerships, innovation and a social impact. To do so, the College is seeking feedback through

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  • The GameStop stock chaos, explained

    The GameStop stock chaos, explained

    • News
    • February 11, 2021

    In late January, struggling video game retailer GameStop saw its share price increase by 1,500 percent, reaching an unprecedented intraday high of 483 USD. No one foresaw this happening, leaving economists struggling to predict future market trends. To help us understand what GameStop’s wild stock market ride means for the future, Elizabethtown College associate professor

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  • Remote learning tips

    Remote learning tips

    With the third semester underneath COVID-19 restrictions starting, students on the Elizabethtown College campus are remote learning as well as those at home.  However, not being in the physical classroom can be hard for students as they are easily distracted, lose motivation to keep up with homework or struggle overall. Since the virtual campus does

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  • Music review of Margaux’s EP “More Brilliant Is the Hand That Throws the Coin”

    Music review of Margaux’s EP “More Brilliant Is the Hand That Throws the Coin”

    Uh oh! We’re starting the semester with an Etownian classic: a writer going into depth on a project by an artist you’ve probably never heard of! The great news is that, as always, in the Campus Life section we are allowed to express individual writers’ opinions. That just means I’m allowed to promise you’ll love

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  • A brief Super Bowl history

    A brief Super Bowl history

    The Super Bowl is not a new thing to hit popular sports culture. It grew out of a rivalry between the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL) in 1966. The two divisions were rivals in every way except for one: they agreed that the end-of-season championship game, then called the AFL-NFL

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  • Super Bowl LV

    Super Bowl LV

    Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Kansas City Chiefs faced off in Super Bowl LV. The Super Bowl was a showdown between the two best teams in their respective conferences. This was a game to be remembered. To begin, in the first quarter, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker drove a 49 yard

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