• Forgetting to bring what truly matters

    Forgetting to bring what truly matters

    We’ve all been there before. You’re unpacking all of your belongings on move-in day, and something seems amiss. Towels? Check. Folders? Check. Your brand new guitar that you wanted to show off at the next Soul Café? Check. You think of all the important things you might have forgotten — things that you absolutely need

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  • PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: “Art Pop” by Lady Gaga

    PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: “Art Pop” by Lady Gaga

    Welcome back Jays to another fabulous installment of Put Your Records On. For new readers, I usually talk about the music I love and think you might like: why would I waste your time with anything substandard? Today, however, we will be taking a different focus as I ask you to think critically about the

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  • First steps: first-year students explore their surroundings

    First steps: first-year students explore their surroundings

    Cheers to all the peer mentors who resolutely sprinted and squealed with enthusiasm during the First-Year Walk.  You can hold me responsible for any intense suffering in the heat that day, and I especially apologize to my fellow first-years for bringing beach-necessary weather to a place devoid of beaches; driving to Pennsylvania from Florida, I

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  • Facebook: ‘like’ it or leave it

    Facebook: ‘like’ it or leave it

    hat once started as a social media site just for college students, the Facebook demographic has changed drastically since its beginning. Now, anyone in the world has access to this website without having to lie about their age or occupation to become a member. There are no restrictions or limitations; it is a free-for-all. From

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  • Standing Together for stronger community

    Standing Together for stronger community

    One of the most important lessons that all of us have to learn in life is how to get out of our own self-centeredness and realize that we are members of a larger community, one that depends on respect for other people and people taking responsibility for their own actions. We must treat others as

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  • Liu art exhibit opens in Lyet Gallery; features Chinese, American style work

    Liu art exhibit opens in Lyet Gallery; features Chinese, American style work

    On Tuesday, Sept. 10, Elizabethtown College’s Lyet Gallery in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center opened its doors to the painter Jun-Cheng Liu and his works. Liu is an associate professor in the department of art and art history at Franklin & Marshall College. He received his bachelor’s  and master’s degree of fine art in China,

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