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  • Volleyball’s losing streak now at eight matches, team prepares for Florida fall break

    Volleyball’s losing streak now at eight matches, team prepares for Florida fall break

    The Elizabethtown College women’s volleyball team continued in the Landmark Conference Saturday Sept. 27 as they competed against Juniata College and Susquehanna University. Juniata and Susquehanna were picked first and second, respectively, in the Landmark Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Senior Kelci Scannapieco completed eight kills, leading Etown against Juniata (14-2, 2-0 Landmark). Unfortunately, the Juniata Eagles

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  • Student panel speaks on need for harmony between religions

    Professor of Religion and Asian Studies Dr. Jeffery Long ran an event this weekend titled, “Navigating World Views.” The purpose was to discuss whether or not religion and science could work together to save our endangered planet. Elizabethtown College brought in several experts as well as students studying religion on campus to speak. The student

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  • Pink hair extension sale helps raise awareness about breast cancer

    Pink hair extension sale helps raise awareness about breast cancer

    October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and, as such, Student Wellness will be holding several events throughout the month to raise awareness. To kick off the awareness month, Student Wellness held a table Wednesday afternoon in the BSC selling pink hair extensions to students, helping to spread the message about breast cancer. Alyssa McDermott, a

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  • CEO of Masonic Villages discusses values for non-profits

    CEO of Masonic Villages discusses values for non-profits

    Joseph E. Murphy, CEO of the Masonic Villages, spoke to business students on Friday, Sept. 26 as part of the M&M Mars Executive Lecture series. His lecture focused on how using a specific business model to run non-profit organizations relates to Elizabethtown College’s motto, “Educate for Service.” Murphy currently oversees operations at the various branches

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  • Strikwerda, Sadd attend Washington, D.C. interfaith conference

    On Sept. 22 and 23, President Carl Strikwerda and Reverend Chaplain Tracy Wenger Sadd gave presentations at the fourth White House convening of the President’s Interfaith and Community Service Challenge at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Strikwerda spoke on a panel about how and why college and university presidents should make interfaith education and

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  • Neuroscientist shares cognitive tasks, his work with IQ, creativity

    Neuroscientist shares cognitive tasks, his work with IQ, creativity

    On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Bowers Writers House hosted Dr. Oshin Vartanian, a neuroscientist at Defense Research and Development Canada. Vartanian visited campus for two days in order to give presentations on “The Prospects and Perils of Cognitive Training for Improving Cognition.” The purpose of these presentations is to provide concrete proof that one’s intelligence quotient,

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