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  • Blue Jays go 0-2 in joust with Knights of Arcadia, Crusaders of Alvernia

    Blue Jays go 0-2 in joust with Knights of Arcadia, Crusaders of Alvernia

    The Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team faced two teams in the Commonwealth Conference this week: Arcadia and Alvernia Universities. The Blue Jays played both games hard but were unable to come out of either game with a victory, losing 55-50 against Arcadia and 78-57 against Alvernia. The Knights and the Crusaders enjoyed a “home court

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  • Team competes in two meets, breaks number of records

    Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s track and field team had a fantastic showing in not one meet this past weekend, but two. The Jays headed to the Widener Field Meet on Thursday, Jan. 31. The lone participant from Etown on the first day, sophomore Joe Bayona, entered into the first day of the heptathlon at

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  • FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

    If you regularly use any social networking sites or attend music festivals you may have seen the iconic To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) logo. It is often worn on T-shirts by musicians or advertised online and at festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour. I for one have seen this logo frequently, but

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  • American rights versus citizens’ security

    American rights versus citizens’ security

    In place to protect their people, governments are posed with the curious predicament of creating laws that protect their people without dictating their day to day routines. This balancing act has proven a challenge for those in power. The question that is always to be considered; when does enough become too much? The gun control

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  • ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    Making fun of someone with a mental illness never seems to fly well with an audience, especially when it comes to the big screen. However, director David O. Russell was not afraid to go against the proverbial grain when doing just that with his movie “Silver Linings Playbook,” starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. In

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  • Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    On Jan. 24, Elizabethtown College hosted comedian Seaton Smith. One of his several hilarious jokes was on the hot topic, no pun intended, of global warming. He asked the rhetorical question, how are we supposed to stop global warming? His punch line, was just putting a plastic bottle in a recycling bin. While he was

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  • ‘Gun-free zones,’ a striking common denominator for mass murder in U.S.

    ‘Gun-free zones,’ a striking common denominator for mass murder in U.S.

    James Holmes, planning mass murder, drove past seven theaters that were showing “The Dark Knight Rises” to get to one in particular that he had in mind. Some were quite close to his home. Others held unusually large audiences that he might target. But he drove past these and headed for a specific theater in

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  • Perception, feeling, action: Rudy explains the experience of, resolutions for, conflict

    Have you ever had a fight with your best friend? Or maybe you’ve fought with your sibling over who gets the last slice of pizza? No matter what the situation, people are always finding reasons to be mad, which tends to lead to an argument. Believe it or not, communication is something that needs to

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  • Only at Etown: Mr. Fix-it

    Only at Etown: Mr. Fix-it

    Upon returning to campus this January, my roommates and I undertook some major rearranging in our dorm room. Once everything started looking more like an actual dwelling and not a homeless shelter, we decided it was time to finally report the missing tension rod for one of the windows in our room. We had gone

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