ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER
The Etownian
www. etownian.com
Vol. 109. Issue 2
Thursday, September 13, 2012
INSIDE SPORTS
FIELD HOCKEY TEAM RANKS 18TH IN NATION
INSIDE FEATURES
INSIDE OPINION
AROUND CAMPUS APP FEATURES ETOWNRELATED THINGS TO DO, WAYS TO SAVE
student policies
Our voices heard: job limits removed
#TRENDING: ARE WE KEEPING UP IN THE CLASSROOM?
part of a bigger picture
Concerns rasied, policy regarding employment revoked
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President publishes article for Huff. Post College
Article on world economy, corporate and economic globalization debuted in August 2012 Jill A. Norris News Editor
Photo: Katie J. Brumbach
Austin M. Whitlock Asst. Copy Editor
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fter much dispute and concern from the campus community, the policy keeping students from holding more than two paid on-campus jobs has been revoked. When it was announced that Elizabethtown College students would no longer be able to work more than two on-campus jobs, the decision was met with a variety of opinions. Those who were already working more than two jobs were notified that they would have to drop one or two positions in order to meet the policy change and those seeking more hours by taking on extra jobs would be denied. The decision about on-campus jobs was originally intended to allow for more job availability. Because a lot of jobs have been snatched up by upperclassmen, newer students were finding it difficult
to find places to work. Those working for the Business Office and for Human Resources noticed this problem and made the change to benefit students. “I feel that the two job limit was extremely unfair,” senior Brian Booker said. “Because I already had three positions, they were threatening to take one of my positions away in order let other students have the opportunity to find a position. Basically, they wanted to be fair, but taking a job away from me is not ‘fair’.” Donte McCrary-McClain, senior Student Senate member, heard these concerns and decided to take them to the Payroll Office, the Business Office and Financial Aid. The main concern was that most jobs on campus don’t offer more than a handful of hours to students, which makes it difficult for students to make enough money. In order to compensate, students are forced to try and obtain multiple jobs.
When McCrary-McClain voiced this concern to the respective offices in charge of the decision, he was emailed a detailed explanation about why the policy had been created and put into place. A day later he discovered that the policy had been reversed because of the students’ concerns. It was also determined through a survey that many other college policies do not limit the number of jobs that students are able to have but merely stick to the similar 20 hours a week job policy that Etown already follows. This policy reversal may leave students searching for available jobs, but it ensures that those who have worked hard to become proficient with their respective duties won’t have to leave in order to make room for new recruits. The 20 hourlimit should still be enough to prevent students from working an excessive number of jobs and will still allow working students time to concentrate on necessary schoolwork as well.
campus security
Issues arise surrounding vehicle policies Graham F. Lenker Staff Writer
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lizabethtown College has been receiving many new makeovers over the last few years, one of them being the new campus parking system. The College has been trying to make it easier for students, faculty and staff to park in their assigned areas. Some major issues have been the lack of parking on campus, signs around campus falling apart, and “signs just looking bad” Dale Boyer, assistant director of Campus Security, explained. Etown even set up a committee to agree on how the new signs would look. Parking regulations have not changed much in the last year, but parking lots are now clearly marked with numbered signs 1–16 instead of letters, making it easier for visitors, students, faculty and staff alike to park in designated areas. Boyer explained how the College wanted to Photo: Katie J. Brumbach regulate the format of all signs located on campus, New parking signs were installed at the beginning of the 2012-2013 how the process worked and how the committee school year in an attempt to better clarify where students, faculty, eventually came up with the final design of the staff and visitors may park. signs. “You know how committees work,” Boyer said. campus use Fast Signs for their signage needs. This First, they have to decide on the appearance of the signs, the company, out of Lancaster, produced the communications budget and which ones need the improvement first. The process department’s Mobile Productions Studio bus wrap, which will take a lot of time. they use to record different on and off campus events. The one aspect the College has already agreed on is the company used to produce the signs. Many departments on SEE PARKING PAGE 2
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t u d e n t s k n o w D r. Carl J. Strikwerda as president of Elizabethtown College, but as of August 2012, he is also known Check out Dr. Strikwerda’s nationwide as one of the article for yourself-- scan this Huffington Post’s writers QR code into your smartphone! of world economy and corporate and economic i n a b i l i t y t o m a i n t a i n p e acef u l rel at ions and globalization. Instead of taking the refers to World Wars I and su m me r of f l i ke many II, communism, fascism, o f E t o w n’s s t u d e n t s , the Great Depression and Strikwerda, a specialist the Cold War.” “Dealing with in modern European history and the history of globalization may tempt globalization, used some us to see other countries as of his knowledge and time simply our competitors — by writing an article for the or worse, as our enemies. Huffington Post entitled, If we are to de a l w it h “Globalization and the globalization more wisely, the lessons of history are Lessons of History.” “ T h e o p p o r t u n i t y crucial to understand.” He also explained why to contribute to the Huffington Post Education he believes that social order p a ge i s i nv a lu abl e for is the key to accomplishing Elizabethtown College,” economic globalization. Strikwerda said. In his “Old industries declining, a r t i c l e , h e d i s c u s s e d migration, social problems t h e i m p o r t a n c e o f in rapidly expanding cities u n d e r s t a n d i n g t h e — all of these occur almost world’s history in order inevitably with economic to successfully globalize growth,” he wrote. “If social our economy, as well as policies do not cushion maintain peaceful relations the costs and help people with other countries and adjust to the changes set off within our own. “Prosperity by economic growth, the in the long run depends on entire system supporting economic growth can be peace,” he wrote. Throughout his article, undermined.” Strikwerda he explained why economic believes that without evenly globalization is important distributing the gains from and the heavy presence it economic expansion, chaos already has in our lives. will quickly occur and “Economic globalization cause the economy to dive means that more countries back into depression. In his article, he also are exporting their goods, wrote that while it may generating first-rate research, and attracting s e e m e a s i e r t o a v o i d i n v e s t m e n t s : b e s i d e s working with outside allies, China, we compete with it could be detrimental to Brazil, India, South Korea, our economy’s survival. and Turkey,” Strikwerda “In tough times, it may be w r o t e . “ A l t h o u g h tempting to turn our backs terrorism, elections, and on the rest of the world natural disasters dominate or to think that economic headlines, globalization growth, once begun, runs has been the most powerful on its own. But we depend trend over the last thirty on our global economic ties for future growth … years.” Strikwerda went on to our competitors are also discuss that past economic our customers and our globalization has failed potential partners in a b e c aus e of t he world’s better world.”