• Alumni, students give back on PRIDE day

    Alumni, students give back on PRIDE day

    PRIDE (Promote, Recruit, Involve, Donate and Employ) is a volunteer program sponsored by Alumni Relations. On Saturday, April 6, Alumni relations, in collaboration with Student Senate, held its annual, campus-wide event, PRIDE Day. PRIDE Day provides alumni, students, faculty and staff with opportunities to work with one another on seasonal projects that help to beautify

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  • Liberian women call for peace in ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’

    Liberian women call for peace in ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’

    The only world you know is filled with darkness and hate: you have no home, your family is torn apart, and the only sounds you hear are gunshots and cries for help. This continues for years, It’s the only reality you know. The government raids your town, taking what little you have left. A rebellion

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  • Jays participate in honors band at annual festival

    The 66th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival was held March 15 through 17 at Mansfield University. Six Elizabethtown College students participated in the 115-member honors band: seniors Nathan Caudill, Chad Feakins, Dan Tschop, Brian Wilson, sophomore Jason Sandonato and first-year Christina McCall. At the Intercollegiate Band Festival, the students spent Friday afternoon and evening rehearsing

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  • Bomberger presents on MacDowell at Society for American Music conference

    Bomberger presents on MacDowell at Society for American Music conference

    Dr. Douglas Bomberger, professor of music and fine and performing arts department chair, presented a paper on composer Edward MacDowell at the 39th annual conference of the Society for American Music in Little Rock, Ark. on March 8. The Society for American Music is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization incorporated in the District of

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  • CCCE promotes awareness, holds fundraiser for local charity

    CCCE promotes awareness, holds fundraiser for local charity

    Elizabethtown College’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) recently partnered with Thistle Farms, a non-profit organization, to help women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction. The CCCE and Thistle Farms are setting up donation spaces in CCCE’s office on the second floor of Nicarry Hall for students to donate T-shirts to

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  • Dialogue features LGBT safety

    The Office of Diversity held another Diversity Dialogue event in which Dr. Amy Milligan addressed the question, “Are members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community protected in Pennsylvania?” on Tuesday, April 2. After the hour-long lunch discussion of the issue, students and faculty came to the conclusion that there are not many

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  • ‘Intolerance 4 Intolerance’ forum held in Gibble

    ‘Intolerance 4 Intolerance’ forum held in Gibble

    A campus-wide forum , “Intolerance 4 Intolerance,” was held in Gibble Auditorium on Wednesday, April 3 at 11 a.m. The event was part of the efforts to curb the prejudices against students, and to encourage a commitment to tolerance and inclusion at Elizabethtown College. Attendees were a mixture of students, staff, faculty and members of

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  • College leaves

    Tuesday, April 2, Elizabethtown College announced its plan to join the Landmark Conference, leaving the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), officially becoming a member on July 1, 2014. Etown will be the conference’s ninth member and the first institution to join the Landmark Conference since it began in 2007. Etown will be accompanying Catholic University of

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  • Police respond to standoff, local gunman arrested

    Police respond to standoff, local gunman arrested

    Elizabethtown officials called a special emergency response team to Elizabethtown Square around 9:00 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in response to a gunshot heard in a South Market Street apartment around 8:00 p.m. The standoff between the gunman and local authorities ended peacefully at 11:10 p.m. when Elizabethtown resident Kirk J. Goldinger, 53, walked out of

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