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  • Men’s golf competes at Gettysburg Fall Invitational, place 10th overall

    First-year Garrett Leib entered the Gettysburg Fall Invitational as an individual and shot a team best 82 on Saturday afternoon at the Hanover Country Club in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania. Leib was not one of the five scores to factor into the overall team score, but his round was six strokes better than his collegiate debut at

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  • Field hockey opens Landmark play with shutout road victory

    Field hockey opens Landmark play with shutout road victory

    The Elizabethtown College women’s field hockey team entered Saturday’s Landmark Conference opener against Drew University, winners of two straight games and three out of four overall. After playing a tough non-conference schedule to begin the season, the Blue Jays have used the momentum from those tight games to their advantage. On Saturday afternoon, the Blue

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  • Women’s soccer restarts season with Landmark opening win

    Women’s soccer restarts season with Landmark opening win

    Saturday’s Landmark Conference game against Drew University at Ira R. Herr Field felt like a chance to start over for the Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team. Coming off their fourth straight loss and sixth overall in seven games this season, the Blue Jays were looking forward to conference play. It had been over 360 minutes

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  • Women’s tennis opens fall season with successful weekend

    Women’s tennis opens fall season with successful weekend

    The women’s tennis team headed to Fredericksburg, Virginia this past weekend, Sept. 24 and 25, to compete in the ITA Regional Championships. Through the weekend, the team competed in a total of 15 singles games and six doubles competitions. For the first time since 2011, a Blue Jay women’s tennis player proceeded to the flight

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  • Women’s volleyball falls twice in Landmark opener, steals one set in loss to Neumann

    Women’s volleyball falls twice in Landmark opener, steals one set in loss to Neumann

    Elizabethtown College’s women’s volleyball team traveled to Moravian College this Saturday to take on opponents Goucher College and Catholic University, both in the Landmark Conference. Etown’s first match of the day was against Goucher at 1:30 p.m. Sophomore Mackenzie Garner led the Blue Jays with 14 kills and .583 hitting percentage. Despite Garner’s strong stats,

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  • Pokemon Go helps get students exercising, socializing on campus

    Pokemon Go helps get students exercising, socializing on campus

    You’ve seen it on Twitter, you’ve seen it on Facebook and you’ve seen it on at least one friend’s smartphone. Whether you have watched hoards of people crowding around a landmark with their phones in hand or noticed the Twitter hashtags that have been trending on and off, there is a great chance that you

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  • Bobby Rush creates solid blues album, offers personal look into singer’s life

    Bobby Rush creates solid blues album, offers personal look into singer’s life

    Blues is a tricky genre to grasp. Born out of necessity, the slow-meter storytelling strikes the deepest heartstrings. If there are any ways to fuel the soul, it would be a small pawn shop, overflowing with old guitars and rusty harmonicas off the Alabama crossroads. Grab some Robert Johnson jet fuel or B.B. King kerosene

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  • Letter to the Editor: Response to Literature concentration

    Thanksgiving 1999. I can remember the look on my grandfather’s face. “English?” he asked. “Are you sure? The thing about teaching English is that you get everybody.” Grandpa was a math teacher, and his position at his rural high school allowed him the opportunity to teach advanced courses to juniors and seniors. His colleagues down

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  • Hiring alumni shows college pride, positive student effect

    Hiring alumni shows college pride, positive student effect

    I recently set out on a mission to understand Elizabethtown College community members’ opinions on whether alumni benefit or hurt the community at Etown. What are the advantages and what are the drawbacks? Executive Director of College Engagement Opportunities Mark Clapper, an Etown alum himself, shares his thoughts on the matter. “It’s wonderful to have

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