• Video Game Review: Persona 3 Reload

    Video Game Review: Persona 3 Reload

    It can be difficult to experience some games at their peak due to accessibility issues. Companies update and remaster titles only to accidentally forget critical features or content that makes said releases far from definitive. For example, Persona 3 has several releases, yet none of them act as a definitive version of the critically acclaimed

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  • Elizabethtown College starts its first on-campus service fraternity organization

    Elizabethtown College starts its first on-campus service fraternity organization

    ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Elizabethtown College welcomes a new chapter of Alpha Phi Omegato its campus. Inspired by Frank Reed Horton after serving in World War I, Alpha Phi Omega was founded as aservice fraternity organization in 1925 by a group of men who believed in coming together withother men from varying backgrounds to better the

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  • Sanskrit at Elizabethtown College: is it becoming ancient history

    Sanskrit at Elizabethtown College: is it becoming ancient history

    ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. — Elizabethtown College has offered the Sanskrit course since the 2001-2002 academic year. And while in recent years the first level has nearly filled, there’s been a pattern that the second level falls short of those numbers. Is this a sign of the course becoming part of the ancient history it comes from?

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  • Horoscopes: What candy are you?

    Horoscopes: What candy are you?

    Halloween is right around the corner, and what is more associated with the October holiday than the traditional treat: candy! Candy of all kinds are enjoyed year-round, but Halloween is when candy really circulates around the block. Let’s see what sugary treat each zodiac sign most aligns with.  Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21): The

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  • The Great Pumpkin Debate: Pumpkin Painting or Pumpkin Carving?

    The Great Pumpkin Debate: Pumpkin Painting or Pumpkin Carving?

    Oh my gourd! It is fall, which means it’s pumpkin season! There are many fall activities and traditions that involve pumpkins such as going to get a pumpkin spice latte, crafts, making a pie or eating the seeds, carving, painting and going to the pumpkin patch to pick out the perfect pumpkin. Once you get

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  • Job Spotlight: Substitute Teaching

    Job Spotlight: Substitute Teaching

    With the variety of jobs and internships that the Elizabethtown College student body holds, it is important to highlight students who show exemplary ambition and drive to accomplish their goals. Senior Brooke Seislove is not lacking in these departments and has already left a legacy before post-grad school employment. This week, The Etownian took a

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  • Local Sightseeing: Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum

    Local Sightseeing: Louise Arnold Tanger Arboretum

    This past week, Blue Jays were able to participate in Elizabethtown College’s yearly Into the Streets event hosted by the Office of Student Activities (OSA). Students traveled around the local community to volunteer in Etown, Mount Joy and Lancaster. As part of Into the Streets this year, I ended up at a quaint estate in

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  • Students of Etown: Lex Raught

    Students of Etown: Lex Raught

    This week, meet Alexander Raught, a sophomore graphic design major at Elizabethtown College. Raught chose his major due to his love for art, though he has had some difficulty finding the free time for personal projects lately. “I wanted to be an animator,” he said. However, he wasn’t sure whether it would work out. “[But]

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  • Welcome to the Jungle: Rocky and Simba

    Welcome to the Jungle: Rocky and Simba

    This week’s edition of Welcome to the Jungle introduces not one, but two pets! Meet 3-year-old dogs Rocky and Simba. Rocky and Simba live with junior environmental science major Angelymarie Pacheco. Since Pacheco is a commuter, both dogs live at home with her family. Pacheco’s family adopted Rocky first from a dog breeder in May

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