• National participants march to end gun violence

    National participants march to end gun violence

    Photo courtesy of Darby Keller The estimated hundreds of thousands of participants at the Washington, D.C. March For Our Lives included Elizabethtown College students. The march, which supported gun control in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took place Saturday, March 24. About 40 Etown

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  • Student club, groups raise money for children with A-T

    Student club, groups raise money for children with A-T

    The Elizabethtown College Education Organization (Ed Org) hosted the 13th Annual A-T Benefit Saturday, March 17 from 7-9 p.m. in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Ed Org raised a total of $1,300, which will be directly given to A-T Children’s Project. The donation was made in memory of Daniel Schuitema, 20, who recently died from

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  • The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in on national debate: Is stronger gun control necessary?

    The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in on national debate: Is stronger gun control necessary?

    The Marjory Douglass High School shooting in Parkland, Florida left 17 students and faculty dead in the largest high school shooting since the Columbine Massacre in 1999. The survivors left in the wake of this tragedy, specifically the students, are taking matters into their own hands and advocating for stricter gun control laws. They called

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  • Movie Review:  “Tomb Raider” seizes upon familiar format

    Movie Review: “Tomb Raider” seizes upon familiar format

    Lara Croft and the “Tomb Raider” franchise have been a fixture in video games for the last 20 years. As a protagonist, Croft serves as the female equivalent of Indiana Jones and has helped to recruit legions of female gamers, especially in the new millennium. In 2013, Croft’s story was reimagined by game developers, and

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  • Music Review: K. Flay delivers polarizing, captivating album

    Music Review: K. Flay delivers polarizing, captivating album

    In her second album, “Everywhere is Somewhere,” K. Flay has managed to encapsulate an incredibly broad range of emotion, from angst to new love. Her sound and lyrics breach an edginess that never fails to polarize listeners. “Everywhere is Somewhere” is not an album for a family roadtrip, but it will move or entertain many

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  • LTE: Homer decries recent trend of linguistic appropriation in faculty meetings

    LTE: Homer decries recent trend of linguistic appropriation in faculty meetings

    Written by Dr. Sanjay Paul, Associate Professor of Economics Branding. Core competency. Value proposition. These are terms that Homer rarely used to hear at faculty meetings. Routinely used in the business world, they have now made alarming inroads into the world of academe. Not that Homer’s faculty meetings were paragons of intellectual discourse—the ivory tower

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  • Business Profile: Creations Reimagined

    Elizabethtown College alumna Dena Krebs recently returned to the community to launch an upcycling boutique. Her store, Creations Reimagined, opened its doors Saturday, March 4. Located at 206 S. Market Street, the boutique features products from 13 artists. Though the artists’ products range in price and style, they all have one thing in common: they’re

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by Thomas Gerow Bon dia from Barcelona, España! As I am writing this, I have been in Barcelona for about two months and have been loving every second of it. Before coming to Barcelona, I was honestly a tad bit nervous about the whole thing, especially living in one of the largest cities in

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    A standard computer uses bits, or binary digits, to store information coded as ones and zeros. Binary not only stores information but can be compared to turning a switch on or off. The zero is identified with “off,” and the one is associated with “on.” Bits are strung together in combinations. Eight bits is a

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