• College-Community Orchestra performs in Leffler Chapel

    College-Community Orchestra performs in Leffler Chapel

    At Elizabethtown College, community is a large part of campus life and culture. The Elizabethtown College-Community Orchestra (ECCO) performed in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center Sunday afternoon. The concert featured both student members of the orchestra and members of the Elizabethtown community. Dr. J. Robert Spence, associate professor of music in the fine and performing

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  • Called to Lead: How do you handle conflict?

    The Called to Lead program sponsored a lecture entitled “Called to Lead: How Do You Handle Conflict?” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18. The session was open to all students, not only participants in Called to Lead. The meeting focused on conflict as a necessity of life and the different strategies people use to

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  • Travels Abroad: Discovering Etown in Unexpected Places

    Travels Abroad: Discovering Etown in Unexpected Places

    During my stay in England, I have been able to visit some of the most beautiful and interesting places in the United Kingdom. I’ve been able to visit Stonehenge, and The Roman Baths, and I’ve spent numerous days in the city of London. At the end of the day, though, I always make my way

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  • Target Media presents at M&M Mars Lecture

    On Friday, Nov. 15, as part of the M&M Mars Executive Lecture Series, two members of the media analysis company Target Media spoke to Elizabethtown College students and faculty. Target Media is a company whose integrated media approach provides help for companies looking to achieve marketing success. The two speakers were John Bowser, president and

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  • Dr. Milligan speaks on teaching, acceptance

    Dr. Milligan speaks on teaching, acceptance

    Dr. Amy Milligan, visiting associate professor of women and gender studies here at Elizabethtown College, is also a Blue Jay who has returned to the nest. Milligan graduated from Etown in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies and German. After graduation, she spent a year in Marburg, Germany with a Fulbright scholarship. After

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  • ‘Project Brainwash’ explores depictions of women in media

    ‘Project Brainwash’ explores depictions of women in media

    “Reality TV has been functioning as backlash on women’s rights, cultural progress and social progress,” Jennifer Pozner said in her presentation “Project Brainwash: Why Reality TV is Bad for Women.”  The event occurred in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Pozner, a media critic and journalist, founded Women in Media & News

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  • Hiroshima bombing survivor Shigeko Sasamori spreads message of peace, empathy

    Hiroshima bombing survivor Shigeko Sasamori spreads message of peace, empathy

    Sasamori remembered seeing bodies in the streets, trapped under houses and several thrown into the river she was close to. “I could barely see the water,” she said. Those that could walk were “walking like ghosts,” disoriented and in shock from what had just happened. Some people trapped under collapsed buildings were crying for help,

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  • Business department creates Living Learning Community

    Business department creates Living Learning Community

    • News
    • November 20, 2013

    Elizabethtown College’s Business Department, under the leadership of Associate Professor of Business Law and Business Department Chair Dr. Sylvester Williams, created the first-ever Business Living Learning Community (LLC). The Business LLC consists of 58 first-year male and female intended business majors and is located on the second and third floors of Myer Residence Hall. During

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  • Mock trial team attends competition at UPenn, receives multiple awards

    • News
    • November 20, 2013

    Elizabethtown College’s mock trial team recently attended the University of Pennsylvania Quaker Classic Invitational 2013 competition. The Quaker Classic mainly consisted of Ivy League schools such as UPenn, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and George Washington University with other schools in attendance as well such as Etown, University of Delaware and Drexel

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