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  • Elizabethtown College class aims to highlight ‘The Community of Etown’ with upcoming project

    Elizabethtown College class aims to highlight ‘The Community of Etown’ with upcoming project

    Elizabethtown College is home to many fields of study, from the arts to the sciences. Our college truly values this diversity of academics. While some may be in an Organic Chemistry Lab for 3 hours every Monday recrystallizing with Dr. Walby, others of us may spend their fair share of Tuesday evenings working tirelessly to

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  • Business Buzz: The downfall of self-checkout

    Shoppers who prefer self-checkouts will be disappointed as giant retailers, such as Walmart, Target, Five Below and Dollar General, start to phase out self-service lanes from their stores. This is an attempt to avoid shrinkage, or stolen merchandise. In 2022, Target lost over $200 million dollars because of shrinkage.  Walmart has already removed the self-checkout

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  • Global Perspective: Tunde Onakoya holds chess marathon to raise money for education

    Global Perspective: Tunde Onakoya holds chess marathon to raise money for education

    In a world climate of constant wars, dictators flashing the nuclear button, and unstable and unnerving elections it can be a lot sometimes to just go about our days without always looking over our shoulders. However, for every bad news line there is still another good happening in this world. Even if it’s a Nigerian

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  • House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    This just in screen watchers: the House of Representatives has voted in favor of forcing Bytedance to sell TikTok to an American investor or else see it banned in the United States. Bytedpace, a Chinese-based tech company, is looking to take this to court rather than selling one of their most profitable assets.   The Senate

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  • Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    On Monday April 15, the Elizabethtown College campus community received an email about a racial slur being found written on a board on the second floor of the Baugher Student Center. While the campus waited to see what updates they would receive about who wrote the slur or what was being done, another email came

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  • Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Depending on who you ask, the biggest celebrity on Elizabethtown College’s campus likely isn’t human. Rather, he is a big golden doodle named Truman. Truman is not your average pup: he is a therapy dog who makes his rounds around campus and even shows up at campus-wide events. Truman is a therapy dog here at

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  • PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    In the upcoming elections this November, one of Pennsylvania’s Senate seats is up for grabs between Democratic incumbent Bob Casey and challenger Dave McCormick. Although current polling indicates that this election is not going to be as close as the last Senate race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz, with Casey maintaining 45 percent support

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  • Crafting your path to publication: Learn from published writer and student Mylea Neidig

    Crafting your path to publication: Learn from published writer and student Mylea Neidig

    You did it. You finally finished the piece you’ve been working on for who knows how long. As you sit back in your chair, patting yourself on the back, a new thought comes to mind. Now what? You could dive into a new project like always. Or maybe it’s finally time to put your work

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  • Science Department receives grant to renovate anatomy labs

    Science Department receives grant to renovate anatomy labs

    The anatomy and physiology classroom at Elizabethtown College will be seeing major improvements over the summer of 2024. A cadaver laboratory will be connected to the classroom, which will greatly benefit learning opportunities for students who are studying the human body. With the addition of this lab, anatomy students have access to real-life concepts to

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