• Farewell from the Managing Editor

    Farewell from the Managing Editor

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    • November 25, 2024

    My friends and peers around Elizabethtown College would often stop to chat with me, eager to get the inside scoop on campus events or student concerns. Keeping them on their toes, I’d always tell them they’d have to wait until Thursday—when the Etownian was circulated in print on campus.  I first heard about the Etownian

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  • New Zealand MP’s use Traditional Haka to Protest Proposed Bill

    New Zealand MP’s use Traditional Haka to Protest Proposed Bill

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    • November 25, 2024

    On Thursday Nov. 14, legislators in the New Zealand parliament staged a protest to the Treaty Principles Bill. When asked their vote on the proposed bill, 22-year-old Māori Party representative Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke began the ceremonial dance, with other legislators from her party and others from the Green and Labour parties and some in the general

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  • Faculty Cuts Continue to Impact Campus Community

    Faculty Cuts Continue to Impact Campus Community

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    • November 25, 2024

    While the announcement of the cuts to the Sociology major and minor, Spanish and Spanish Education Major and Fine Arts major occurred over a month ago, their impact is still being felt, especially by the students and professors who have devoted their time to fields that are no longer being offered by Elizabethtown College.  The

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  • Elizabethtown College opens new Anatomy and Physiology Classroom and Laboratory

    Elizabethtown College opens new Anatomy and Physiology Classroom and Laboratory

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    • November 25, 2024

    The official opening of the new Anatomy and Physiology Classroom and Laboratory was held on Nov. 7 and featured a variety of speakers including College President Elizabeth Rider, professors and students of the department.   Located in the Lyet Wing of the Masters Center, the new laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility set to vastly improve how

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  • PA Politics: Recount Triggered in PA Senate Election

    PA Politics: Recount Triggered in PA Senate Election

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    • November 25, 2024

    Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced on Nov. 13 that unofficial results in the PA Senate race have triggered a statewide recount. The announcement came  as total votes for incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, and Republican candidate Dave McCormick, are within a 0.5% margin, which initiates a recount under state law. Figures from NBC

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  • All-American athlete welcomed as assistant coach

    All-American athlete welcomed as assistant coach

    Elizabethtown College has welcomed a Division I All-American athlete as an assistant coach for the cross-country and track and field teams. Stefanie Cassel, who graduated from Edinboro University, started this year as an assistant coach at Etown. Cassel got her bachelors in exercise science from Edinboro and has her masters in exercise science and physical

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  • Men’s basketball continues strong start with win over Messiah

    Men’s basketball continues strong start with win over Messiah

    In their last game before Landmark Conference play begins, the Elizabethtown Blue Jays men’s basketball team looked to capitalize on their non-conference schedule with a record above .500 to begin the season against the Messiah Falcons on Saturday, Nov. 16.  Messiah and Etown were neck and neck in the first half, with either side only

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  • Star-studded market has all the attention in MLB offseason

    Star-studded market has all the attention in MLB offseason

    The Major League Baseball (MLB) offseason always starts off slow. Depth signings are made early on, but the big name players typically wait to pounce on a big-time offer. This offseason’s free agent market is filled to the brim with stars that can change the direction a franchise is headed. From aces that can take

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  • Video Game Review: Zenless Zone Zero

    Video Game Review: Zenless Zone Zero

    Similar to Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero is the most recent release developed and published by MiHoYo. As much as I enjoyed Honkai Star Rail, it quickly lost my interest. The turn-based combat clashed with the “fun-in-short-bursts” gameplay quirks woven into its mechanics. Despite the developers’ best efforts to make it function, divvying up

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