• Monique Coleman encourages students to embrace purpose and resilience at Leffler Lecture

    Monique Coleman encourages students to embrace purpose and resilience at Leffler Lecture

    Actress and advocate Monique Coleman brought a message of growth, courage and self-worth to Elizabethtown College on Thursday night as the featured speaker for this fall’s Leffler Lecture Series. The event, held Nov. 13 in Leffler Chapel, coincided with Coleman’s 45 birthday, something she noted with joy as she reflected on the lessons that have

    READ MORE
  • Medical Humanities: Health professions growth and awareness

    Medical Humanities: Health professions growth and awareness

    Recently, Elizabethtown College hosted a Medical Humanities talk hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities. This growing field is starting to build a stronger home for itself at Etown with the growing medical humanities minor the college offers. This event offered an overview of what the medical humanities are, along with details of what

    READ MORE
  • Record-breaking open house welcomes future Blue Jays

    Record-breaking open house welcomes future Blue Jays

    The pathways of Elizabethtown College buzzed with energy on Saturday morning as hundreds of families explored campus for the school’s largest-ever Fall Open House. With 252 prospective students in attendance, the day marked a milestone for the College’s admissions season, and for one of its newest tour guides, it was a milestone of her own.

    READ MORE
  • Business Buzz: Wicked marketing toned back or still too much?

    Business Buzz: Wicked marketing toned back or still too much?

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    When Universal Pictures started marketing the first “Wicked” film, the studio did not hide its strategy. Chief Marketing Officer Michael Moses said he wanted the marketing campaign to be “just short of obnoxious,” and they delivered. The pink and green branding appeared on television, social media, magazine covers, cereal boxes and even at the Paris

    READ MORE
  • “The Prospect for Freedom” restores the legacy of a forgotten civil rights pioneer

    “The Prospect for Freedom” restores the legacy of a forgotten civil rights pioneer

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    The discovery began quietly with a librarian pausing upon an old photograph he’d looked upon dozens of times before. Now-retired Elizabethtown College archivist Peter DePuydt paused over a 1928 football team portrait displayed in the campus’ Jay’s Nest. He had likely glanced at the image time after time and only then had he noticed, standing

    READ MORE
  • Today’s Tech: YouTube TV and Disney reach agreement, end blackout

    Today’s Tech: YouTube TV and Disney reach agreement, end blackout

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    YouTube TV and Disney reached a new carriage agreement Friday that restored ABC, ESPN and more than 20 other networks to the Google-owned streaming service, ending a blackout that lasted nearly two weeks. The resolution brought relief to subscribers who had been without major sports coverage and popular entertainment programming, but the dispute underscored a

    READ MORE
  • Herr Field to get artificial turf

    Herr Field to get artificial turf

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    The Ira R. Herr Field will be getting a major facelift following the announcement of plans to install artificial turf ahead of the 2026 fall season. Located behind the Bowers Center, Herr Field is the last natural grass field in the Landmark Conference, which includes Elizabethtown College and nine other Division III colleges. By replacing

    READ MORE
  • Global Perspective: Japan-China tensions flare amid Prime Minister Takaichi’s pledge to defend Taiwan

    Global Perspective: Japan-China tensions flare amid Prime Minister Takaichi’s pledge to defend Taiwan

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    Tensions are flaring up in Asia between the two largest countries in the region, China and Japan. A few weeks ago, Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, made several comments to the Japanese Parliament implying the nation’s readiness to act to defend the self-governing island of Taiwan. According to CBS News, she said openly that

    READ MORE
  • PA Politics: What is included in Pennsylvania’s budget?

    PA Politics: What is included in Pennsylvania’s budget?

    • News
    • November 25, 2025

    On the same morning Americans awoke to news of the ended government shutdown, Pennsylvanians were greeted by the resolution of their state’s shutdown, as well. The night of Nov. 12, as President Trump was signing the bill to reopen the federal government, Gov. Josh Shapiro was signing into law Pennsylvania’s four-month-overdue state budget. The budget

    READ MORE