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  • Student Wellness hosts Sexy Trivia for ‘Get Yourself Tested’ month

    Think you’re a sex-pert? Tuesday evening in Gibble Auditorium, the Student Wellness Center and the Student Wellness Advocacy Group (SWAG) hosted “Sexy Trivia” as part of their Take Care Tuesday series for students. The event was hosted as part of “Get Yourself Tested” month. As part of the event, students were invited to take part

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  • McFadyen-Ketchum reads poems from book ‘Ghost Gear’

    McFadyen-Ketchum reads poems from book ‘Ghost Gear’

    Poet Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, author of “Ghost Gear,” visited Elizabethtown College on Friday, April 6, as part of his book tour. “Poetry is really a true collaboration with the world,” he said. McFadyen-Ketchum derived some of his poems from stories his father would tell him.  “He’s not cool, my dad, so he would get really into

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  • Wosner’s performance concludes Monsters of the Steinway series

    Wosner’s performance concludes Monsters of the Steinway series

    To conclude the two-year celebration of Elizabethtown College’s new Steinway piano, the Monsters of the Steinway series featured Shai Wosner on the piano Saturday evening. During the concert, Wosner performed Franz Schubert’s “Piano Sonata in A Major” and “Piano Sonata in B-flat Major.” Wosner, a native of Israel, studied piano under Emanuel Krasovsky and composition,

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  • PRIDE Day 2014 motivates Jays, alumni to clean up campus

    PRIDE Day 2014 motivates Jays, alumni to clean up campus

    Elizabethtown College’s fifth annual PRIDE Program Volunteer Day was held on Saturday, April 5. The PRIDE program, standing for Promote, Recruit, Involve, Donate and Employ, was founded to engage all people in the Etown community. The first campus cleanup day was held on April 6, 1901. Today, the PRIDE Program has revived this tradition. The

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  • Demolition of on-campus greenhouses creates space for fabrication lab

    Demolition of on-campus greenhouses creates space for fabrication lab

    The greenhouses, which were previously attached to Esbenshade Hall, have been dismantled. The biology department had been the benefactors of the greenhouses. Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. David Bowne was one of the professors who had utilized the greenhouses, which had been used to store equipment and for student research projects. “Greenhouses take a lot

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  • Swanson directs award-winning play

    Dr. Michael Swanson, associate professor of theatre and director of theatre and dance, earned a Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) for his direction of “Looks Like Rain,” a short play. The festival took place last January at West Chester University. The KCACTF is a national theater program involving

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  • CCCE selects new director

    The Center for Community and Civic Engagement announced that Matthew Ascah will be its director beginning August 1, 2014. Ascah will be taking over for longtime director Nancy Valkenberg. The selection came after work done by a search committee made up of faculty, staff and students. “Dr. Elizabeth Coyle chaired that committee and recommended that

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  • ‘House’ script coordinator, alumnus offers industry insight

    ‘House’ script coordinator, alumnus offers industry insight

    Elizabethtown College welcomed alumnus Dustin Paddock, who discussed his Hollywood story with students at Bowers Writers House on April 2. After graduating from Etown, Paddock drove his hatchback to Hollywood where he hoped to make it big as a scriptwriter. Paddock expressed his enthusiasm for writing, and explained that he had taken a screenwriting course

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  • Professor receives Fulbright to travel to Vietnam

    Professor receives Fulbright to travel to Vietnam

    Dr. Margaret “Peggy” McFarland, professor of social work, has received an award which will allow her to share her expertise in Vietnam for an entire year. McFarland applied for a Fulbright for the second time in August of 2013; her application was reviewed and later accepted in the United States. Her application was then sent

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