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  • Golf team heads into Gettysburg Invitational prepared for success

    Golf team heads into Gettysburg Invitational prepared for success

    The Elizabethtown College men’s golf team is taking a swing at the 2014 season.  The team has been preparing vigorously in the off-season to contend with the tough Middle Atlantic Conference teams it will be up against. Going up against top programs like York and Messiah Colleges, Etown feels it has the athletes it needs

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  • Jays excel despite extended road trip

    Jays excel despite extended road trip

    The Elizabethtown College men’s lacrosse team experienced highs and lows during their two games this past week. The Blue Jays were defeated by the Stevenson Mustangs, the defending National Champions, on Wednesday, March 12 at Mustang Stadium. The game gave the Blue Jays their second loss of the season. On Saturday, the Blue Jays rallied

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  • Determination can defeat lingering laziness from being on spring break

    So we’ve set the clocks ahead and are getting ready for the nice warm spring weather that will, hopefully, be coming soon to stay. Let’s hope we have all come back from spring break relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to take on what is left of the semester. For those of you who have even less

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  • Blue Jays react to Honors Program privilege of possessing early course registration time slots

    Registration is coming!  Registration is coming!   Wouldn’t Paul Revere be so proud of all the Blue Jay posters and emails exclaiming, “Prepare for registration!” Yeah, I know it’s important to be informed of how and when we can sign up for courses. Yet isn’t that entire process merely a period of impending depression if you’re

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  • Busy weekends amuse Jays

    Busy weekends amuse Jays

    With a quick look at the Office of Student Activities’ (OSA) calendar, one can see that the weekends after spring break are filled with activities.  Each weekend, there are plenty of college-sponsored events for students to attend and participate in, but one weekend that seems a bit more packed than others is this weekend. With

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  • Out-of-class field trip requirements cause financial strain

    Out-of-class field trip requirements cause financial strain

    The value of out-of-class experiences is hardly debatable. Seeing the information that I had read about in a textbook come to life on a field trip helped to reiterate the lesson and cement it in my memory. Reading about the Amish in a textbook and eating lunch with an Amish family left two very different

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  • Mr. Etown involves infinitely more work than audience can see

    Mr. Etown involves infinitely more work than audience can see

    By the time this article comes to print, Mr. Etown will be a mere day away. The most widely-attended performance in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, Mr. Etown never fails to get all of Musser Auditorium roaring with laughter. The annual Office of Student Activities event, while hugely enjoyable to watch, may be somewhat of

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  • ASK MATT

    ASK MATT

    Dear Matt, I’m having problems coming up with story ideas for my creative writing class. I know that Ask Matt isn’t meant for homework help, but how do you usually brainstorm ideas? Dear Student Struggling with Writer’s Block, Creativity is definitely something that can’t be taught — it can only be preserved, exercised and cultivated.

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  • ‘300’ sequel combines action with compelling story, characters

    ‘300’ sequel combines action with compelling story, characters

    “300: Rise of an Empire” is the prequel to the popular film “300.” “300: Rise of an Empire” follows the story of Themistocles and his Athenian naval fleet. The Persian War plagued Greece for many years and the only chance the Greeks had at survival was uniting their individual city-states to fight against the Persians.

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