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  • College announces graduation speakers for traditional, SCPS ceremonies

    College announces graduation speakers for traditional, SCPS ceremonies

    A Campus News email distributed on Friday, April 10 announced the speakers for commencement ceremonies of both the traditional school and School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS). E. Roe Stamps IV will speak at the traditional school’s ceremony, and Dana Chryst has been chosen to speak at the SCPS graduation. Stamps supports current undergraduate

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  • Track and field teams compete at Bucknell, Messiah meets

    Track and field teams compete at Bucknell, Messiah meets

    The Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s track and field teams competed in two events, both on Saturday, April 12 at the Messiah Invitational and the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic. Multiple performances earned athletes new personal records in both locations. For the men at the Messiah Invitational, sophomore Mike Twist competed in the 800-meter and ran

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  • Junior offers advice for pushing through final weeks of semester

    The end of April is always ridiculously busy. The projects that you cringed just reading about during syllabus week are due, and every activity including TGIS, recitals, banquets and SCAD are here. It would be easy to let your grades slip in favor of finally getting down that dance routine before the Emotion showcase or

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  • Anonymous social media app Yik Yak creates controversy

    Since its creation just over a year ago, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak has massively grown in popularity on college campuses across the country. Unlike social networks like Facebook or Twitter, Yik Yak allows messages to be sorted by geographic location with posts only able to be seen within a 1.5-mile radius of

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  • Wilson explains negative portrayal, absence of females in video games

    Wilson explains negative portrayal, absence of females in video games

    Senior and Etownian webmaster Luke Wilson presented on the portrayal of women in video games, focusing on the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of many female characters as part of a computer science club tech talk last night. Wilson used DotA 2 as an example of stereotypes in video games. DotA 2 features 110 playable characters. “It

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  • Gans details Auschwitz, death marches during Holocaust

    Gans details Auschwitz, death marches during Holocaust

    On April 1, a lecture was held in Gibble Auditorium by Holocaust survivor Philip L. Gans who presented his experience as a survivor of Auschwitz, one of the most well-known concentration camps during World War II. Gans began his presentation with a retelling of the time he and his family were discovered by Nazis in

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  • Women’s tennis opens Landmark Conference with win over Moravian

    The Elizabethtown College women’s tennis team is starting off 1-0 in the Landmark Conference after a 7-2 win at the Alumni Courts over Moravian College on Sunday, March 29. Senior Kaitlyn Pellegrino earned her 100th career victory. She is only the tenth player in program history to achieve this milestone. Pellegrino was paired with her

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  • Lawler shares his writing process, reads from his fiction work

    Lawler shares his writing process, reads from his fiction work

    Patrick Lawler visited Bowers Writers House Thursday, March 19 at 8 p.m. A fiction writer, poet, teacher and scholar, Lawler focused mainly on his recent publication. Inspired by Zeno of Elea, he loves writing because he said, “It makes me feel part of a society so odd.” Having the power to make someone feel like

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  • Student comments on nature of social sub-groups on campus, visible effects

    Student comments on nature of social sub-groups on campus, visible effects

    “But what we found out that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal. Does that answer your question?” With those words, the classic 1985 film “The Breakfast Club” came to a close, and teenagers everywhere learned a little more about social sub-groups, whether

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