Notre Dame senior infielder, Tommy Chase, is more than just a student-athlete. Chase uses his free time to give back to his community by participating in Life Works, an organization that pairs mentors with underprivileged third and fourth graders. He is a finalist for the John Wooden Citizenship Cup Award, an honor bestowed upon athletes
READ MORELongtime photojournalist Dennis Hughes committed to donate his collection of about 18,000 pictures depicting life within the Amish community to Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Hughes delivered a presentation entitled “Amish in Focus: Photos and Stories” on Thursday, March 12, in which he selected and displayed roughly 150 of the most
READ MOREThe Bower Writers House offers a unique opportunity to students with Mellow Mondays, a time for students to relax after the weekend and prepare for the upcoming week. Mellow Mondays are held every Monday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. March 9 through April 27. Director of the Bowers Writers House and Lecturer in English
READ MOREOn Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, the Elizabethtown College Theatre and Dance Division of the Fine and Performing Arts Department hosted its fourth annual “Etown New Playwrights Fest” in Zug Recital Hall. The fest features students that have taken Associate Professor of English Dr. John Rohrkemper’s playwriting course. The plays are presented in
READ MORE“Life is fired at us point blank.” Though these are the words of Jose Ortega y Gasset, a Spanish philosopher who wasn’t even born at the time of the Civil War, Dr. Carmine Sarracino, professor of English at Elizabethtown College, thinks this best encapsulates what his novel has to say. “We might have ideas about
READ MOREWhen a couple of Blue Jays save fellow feathered friends, it makes for an intriguing news story. The Elizabethtown College baseball team played nine games in Fort Pierce, Fla. over spring break. The team finished 7-2 on their trip, but for two players, it’s not going to be the games they remember most. On the
READ MOREThe Delaware Valley College Aggies came to Elizabethtown College on Wednesday afternoon to face the Blue Jays in just their third game of their season program. “We were expecting them to come out confident and ready to play hard,” junior captain Jake Snyder said. The Aggies came in to the game undefeated after winning their
READ MOREThe Elizabethtown College’s women’s lacrosse team has surpassed last season’s win total through their first five games. In fact, it took the Blue Jays just two games to surpass their one-win total of last season. The team has improved dramatically over the course of one season. Last season, the team won just a single game
READ MOREThe Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team came home from their spring break trip to the Southeast Regional Championships at Hilton Head Island, S.C. with no victories over the four schools they competed against, but with a lot of experience gained and no loss of pride. The first match was on Monday, March 2 against York
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