• 550 Students Join The Flock This Fall

    550 Students Join The Flock This Fall

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    • September 20, 2024

    Each year, it seems a new bigger incoming class comes to Elizabethtown College. In the 2023-2024 application season, 3,618 senior high school students tried to join the Etown flock, making it 3 percent higher than the year prior and the most number of applications ever.  The class snapshot for the class of 2028 indicated that

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  • 2024 PA Ren Faire Season Starts

    2024 PA Ren Faire Season Starts

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    • September 20, 2024

    With fall classes starting and the workload already starting to pile up, an excursion outside of campus is what many students are looking for during their weekends. This leads to a lot of students going to the local restaurants and shops in town that they have been to many times before or making a drive

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  • PA Politics: Legal Hurdles for Independent Hopefuls Bar Candidates as November Looms

    PA Politics: Legal Hurdles for Independent Hopefuls Bar Candidates as November Looms

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    • September 20, 2024

    Pennsylvania Democrats have won a series of legal challenges keeping the Party for Socialism and Liberation from the presidential ballot in late August. A PA Commonwealth Court judge agreed with Democratic Party challenges, ruling that the paperwork filed by Party for Socialism and Liberation was fatally flawed and ordered the party’s candidate, Claudia De la

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  • Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend

    Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend

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    • September 20, 2024

    Homecoming rolls around every year as a chance for students and alumni to come together and celebrate Elizabethtown College and their time at the beloved institution. Last year, thousands of people from Etown’s past and present celebrated the college with several autumn events. The alumni were invited to an outdoor Oktoberfest party with food, live

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  • GPS for the Moon in Development

    GPS for the Moon in Development

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    • September 20, 2024

    More than 50 years ago, Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. Since then, 11 other people have joined him and became moonwalkers. What comes next, though?Recently, it has become apparent that the next step for lunar progress will be a global positioning system (GPS) on the moon. NASA, in

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  • 2024 NFL season preview

    2024 NFL season preview

    The 2024 National Football League (NFL) season is upon us. The Kansas City Chiefs are looking to win a third straight Super Bowl, while other teams are attempting to make a statement and dethrone the two-time defending champions. However, a lot has changed in the last couple months. From players signing lucrative deals with new

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  • Etown away game weekend recap and updates

    Etown away game weekend recap and updates

    This past weekend, several of Elizabethtown College’s athletic teams traveled on the road to play their respective matches. The men’s and women’s track and field teams, the men’s and women’s tennis teams and women’s soccer team were scheduled to compete this weekend, hoping to capture wins before coming back home. On Friday, Sept. 6, the

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  • Field hockey earns first win of 2024 season

    Field hockey earns first win of 2024 season

    The Elizabethtown College field hockey team netted their first win of the season this past Saturday, Sept. 7 in an exciting victory that came down to the wire. The Blue Jays bested the St. John Fisher Cardinals and protected their home of Wolf Field, winning 4-3. It was a statement win for Etown, coming back

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  • Video game review: Gestalt Steam & Cinder

    Video game review: Gestalt Steam & Cinder

    Something I often mention is the necessity for certain games to make themselves noteworthy. Metroidvanias—and rogue-likes—with buttery-smooth pixel art can feel like they’re a dime a dozen at times, and someone’s hard work could easily get lost in unstable digital marketplaces.   I highly praise games when they take new approaches to commonplace mechanics, as they

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