What started as a segment of the Be More Inspired campaign and a virtual “fly-through” has officially become a brand-new addition to Elizabethtown College. With just a few months left until its grand opening during the summer of 2019, the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being is set to include various amenities and recreational
READ MOREPhoto: Paula Groff Over this past semester, there have been many new changes happening at Elizabethtown College. One of the most noticeable changes on campus has been the construction of the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being. Anyone who walks by the construction site can see the changes that have occurred since the beginning
READ MOREPhoto: Melissa Spencer Saturday, Oct. 20 at 1:30 p.m., students, faculty, family and friends gathered in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the reopening of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. This ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorated the 29th anniversary and reopening of the Young Center’s newly expanded building. Director of the Young Center
READ MOREThe Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being will be devoted to holistic wellness, which stretches beyond the physical person and will focus on mental and spiritual health, as well. The new facility will be a way to show Elizabethtown College’s commitment to well-being, but it will also include space for education and physical and
READ MOREStarting Friday, March 2, Elizabethtown College will be on spring break. Around campus, spring break will be relatively uneventful, but the normal campus busyness will continue following break. There are two events on campus during break: a UGro In-service event and a Gretna Theatre event. The UGro event will be held in the KAV Friday,
READ MORERenovations to the second floor of Elizabethtown College’s Steinman Center have been pushed back to May 2013, due to a need for the installation of sprinklers. Phase one of the renovations was finished in January 2012. The College radio station, WWEC 88.3 FM, was moved and completely redone with new, state-of-the-art audio equipment to help
READ MORESeventeen traffic lights and 33 “Walk/Don’t Walk” signs in Elizabethtown were recently swapped out for energy efficient LED lights and sold on municibid.com. The traffic lights and signs were replaced as part of a regional traffic signal synchronization project with surrounding municipalities such as West Donegal and Mount Joy townships. The funding for the project
READ MOREElizabethtown College has been putting in plans to build a field house in the most recent draft of the 2012-17 Elizabethtown College Strategic Plan. For the less sports-inclined who don’t know what a field house is, it is a large facility that hosts a variety of sports and fitness programs. The Strategic Plan lists the
READ MOREElizabethtown College students frequent the streets of College Avenue and South Market Street. During this commute, students may notice construction vehicles parked on West College Avenue, the section of the road that continues across South Market Street at the intersection with College Avenue. There are also cement block walls framing the intersection on each corner
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