Opinion

Looking back: Flaws and strengths of the Elizabethtown experience

In just a couple weeks, I will be saying farewell to the place that I’ve called home for four years. In my time at Elizabethtown College, I have had the best times of my life as well as the worst. I have laughed the hardest I ever have and also cried harder. I’ve made some great friends, and I’ve met people whose voices I hope to never hear again. There are so many things that I love about Etown, yet there are so many things that need some serious work.

I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that I remember upperclassmen boasting about how great it was when Dashboard Confessional and Third Eye Blind came to Etown. Every year we were ...
• Oversight

I was visiting the campus this past weekend and spied your front-page article “I’m Moving Out?” I agree; it’s a bogus decision to kick out students the same day they graduate. Some grads have to trave ...
• The final thought

The collection of columns I’ve written over this past year has played out much like an episode of Jerry Springer. Together, my readers and I have investigated the horrifying side of young love and nav ...
• Emotion strays from mission; dances cut

I didn’t know much about Emotion before writing this article. I thought I knew what most every student who has gone to the club’s semester shows thinks: these people love to dance for fun while formin ...
• Dietary awareness: choosing meals wisely

It’s been a long day, and you’re working into the morning hours on a paper. All of a sudden it hits you, and the grumbling at the bottom of your stomach just won’t quit. No matter how much you try to ...
• Criminality of underage ‘sexting’ exaggerated

“Then I would run my hands down your sides and I would put my tongue on your ...” You get the picture, or, I guess, the “sext.” If you have never sent that kind of message attached to a picture of you ...
• Red light cameras benefit careful drivers

An investigation in Italy revealed that officials in the town of Segrate have been using red light cameras to issue unfair tickets and generate additional revenue for the town. Three red light enforce ...

• Studying abroad enhances values

What is the purpose of an education at Elizabethtown College? How will its motto, “Educate for Service,” be shaped by the new century? These are big questions for which each student may have a differe ...
• Lesson plans

It’s come to my attention that, while I continue to offer helpful advice to my female readers on the trials and tribulations of love, I’ve been unfairly neglecting the masculine minority of my reader ...
• Offensive statement disregards issue

There was something written in the last Etownian that has affected and offended many people. In the Campus Security section it was written, “The College is preparing for even higher numbers [of drug u ...
• Environmental concerns decrease

Apparently it is not that easy being green, according to a recent Gallup poll. The poll, which surveyed 1,014 adults, claims that Americans have not improved in their efforts to live more eco-friendly ...
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New Jersey Students - ¬for staging mass walkouts on Tuesday in response to a state wide vote that rejected 58 percent of New Jersey school district budgets. The largest of ...
• Reality TV: teen mistakes entertain viewers

“We had sex a lot, and it was unprotected. You know it’s your baby,” 16-year-old Valerie Fairman said to her alleged “baby-daddy” Matt in the third episode of the second season of MTV’s “16 and Pregna ...
• Adoption agreements may ensure child safety

Adoption is a difficult legal process, and seems that it is even more difficult adopting a child overseas. Recently, Terry Hansen placed her adopted son Artyom (whom she renamed Justin) on a plane bac ...

• Baby hatches avert responsibility but ‘need to exist’

Picture this scene: a teenage girl in Germany just had a baby, yet she has no idea what to do. She is too young to raise a child and does not have the money to even do so. So what does she do? Luckily ...
• Experiment ‘proves’ that money affects mental states

Society’s growing dependence on material possessions can be expressed in any number of ways, but it was perhaps stated best in the classic musical, Cabaret: “money makes the world go round.” Now, scie ...
• Fountain of love faces drought: AOL.com

While searching for inspiration for this week’s column, I decided to browse the World Wide Web and see what romantic news I would stumble upon. I found something frighteningly interesting. There are t ...
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The Institute of Medicine - for urging the Federal Drug Administration to regulate sodium levels in food. Too much salt intake is one cause of high blood pressure, which often leads t ...
• ‘The Dark Knight’ observes moral limits

Alfred: Know your limits, Master Wayne.
Bruce Wayne: [The Joker] has no limits.
Alfred: Well you do.
Wayne: Can’t afford to know them.
Alfred: What’s going to happen on the ...
• Partisanship must remain within boundaries

“If you like your home, don’t vote for the health care bill.” These were the words Gregory Giusti gave to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Giusti, from San Francisco, is charged ...