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  • ‘Pitch Like A Girl’ addresses gender identity, encourages women to ‘pitch’

    ‘Pitch Like A Girl’ addresses gender identity, encourages women to ‘pitch’

    re you pink or blue? This was the first question posed by senior and self-proclaimed feminist Sarah Steinmetz during her April 9 presentation on “Pitch like a Girl: How a Woman can be Herself and Still Succeed,” a book written by Ronna Lichtenberg. The overall theme of the book appeared to be not only that

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  • Columnist reflects on emergence of spring

    Columnist reflects on emergence of spring

    et me begin this article by saying that I slept through Thursday’s night class (thinking it was Friday) and have been about five minutes late to greater than 50 percent of my classes this week (sorry Mom and Dad). It’s not because I’m lazy, it’s not because I’m unorganized or set my alarm for too

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  • ‘Spelling Bee’ premieres in Tempest Theatre

    ‘Spelling Bee’ premieres in Tempest Theatre

    dolescence. A-D-O-L-E-S-C-E-N-C-E. Adolescence. For some middle school students who are going through adolescence, winning the school spelling bee is a dream. This particular dream is shared by six middle-schoolers who have qualified for the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by winning or placing at each of their school’s spelling bees. These soon-to-be-teenagers are motivated

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  • ‘The Well’ provides sufficient resources to keep students healthy

    ‘The Well’ provides sufficient resources to keep students healthy

    t some point or another, most every student at Elizabethtown College has dealt with illness. The Wellness Center, better known on the Etown campus as the “WELL,” is always available to assist students dealing with illness, in addition to maintaining their overall health and well-being. The WELL offers students self-care kits free of charge, and

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  • Maturity of students questioned in light of recent events

    t requires absolutely no effort to classify our generation as less mature than our predecessors. I frequently hear my elders make this claim, and I have to admit that I often agreed with them. Examples such as the hate crimes on campus seem to solidify their point. It makes no sense to me how individuals

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  • Letter to the editor: professor apologizes for failing to act

    believe this is my first letter to the Editor of the Etownian. I’ve made plenty of mistakes in my 25 years at Elizabethtown College, so I’ve had to offer many apologies, but this is my first to the community as a whole. Last week, at our Executive Council meeting, I discovered that there have been

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  • Online degree programs spark skepticism about educational quality

    Online degree programs spark skepticism about educational quality

    s the number of middle aged adults choosing to pursue an online degree increases, the number of online degree programs that are available for this niche of middle aged adults has grown a lot in the past few years. With the growth of online Master’s, doctorate and other assorted programs, many people have started to

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  • Zombie-themed media focuses on the living

    Zombie-themed media focuses on the living

    ove zombies? Watch the films. Read the books. Run the Zombie 5K. Hear lectures at York College’s Zombie Symposium. Not enough? Okay. Here’s another zombie theory to ponder: Why exactly are we all suddenly going cuckoo for the Undead Cocoa Puffs? The zombie craze is currently gobbling up all media outlets known to man. Based

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  • WHY SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM ISN’T ENOUGH

    WHY SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM ISN’T ENOUGH

    f you’ll turn the clocks back roughly one year, you may remember that for about a month, most of your Facebook friends were experts on a certain Ugandan warlord, and they wanted you to know all about it. Joseph Kony was the worst – the posters put up proved that Hitler and bin Laden were

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