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Elizabethtown chosen to participate in Obama’s interfaith service challenge Rachel E. Barr Staff Writer

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here is a new service initiative starting this year at Elizabethtown College. It is part of a challenge started by President Barack Obama: “The Interfaith Campus and Community Service Campus Challenge.” This service program challenges campuses across America to have many different religions work together in solving community issues. According to the White House’s website, 250 schools were chosen to participate, including Etown.

The two leaders of the initiative here at Etown are Amy Shorner-Johnson, assistant chaplain, and Nancy Valkenburg, coordinator of Community and Civic Engagement. Valkenburg was one of the people who represented Etown at the forum for the program, which was held in the White House on Aug. 3. This initiative is already under-way across the country with different focuses on ways to help the community.

According to Valkenburg, the focus at Etown is “hunger, humanity and hospitality.” The plan submitted to the White House outlined what Etown intends to do for the community. It states, “we will provide opportunities for free exchange of interfaith cultures and religions and affirm our commitment to human dignity.” Since there are so many international students at Etown, there are many diverse religious backgrounds on campus that students may know little about. The initiative is meant to change that. “Our priority will be to educate our campus, partners and surrounding communities about food, interfaith traditions, holiday meals and cultures,” Valkenburg said.

Events are already planned in which Etown students can participate. According to Valkenburg, “EC Honors classes will be interviewing food banks to find the greatest challenges faced by food banks and to learn about issues related to hunger in the community.” This will help bring awareness about how many food banks around the area do not carry food that is acceptable for all faiths.

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Pennsylvania capital fights bankruptcy filing

Harrisburg hemorrhaging funds; $300 million incinerator debt Lawrence W. Weiss Staff Writer

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n Monday Oct. 17, a federal judge heard arguments about whether Harrisburg, Pa., could move ahead with a bankruptcy petition. The mayor of Harrisburg is fighting a 4-to-3 City Council vote that allowed the city to file for bankruptcy. The city is now hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, with six pending lawsuits.

The filing of bankruptcy is strongly opposed by Mayor Linda D. Thompson, who refused to sign the filing.

Harrisburg’s bankruptcy filing comes as a growing number of municipalities across the country are struggling with mounting debt and a decline in revenue in the recession.

Does this mean that the city is in trouble? “Bankruptcy may lead to layoffs of some city employees, sale of assets such as parking garages and incinerator, reduction in salaries and benefits for city workers. Taxes on residents and commuters may rise. All these will make the city a less attractive place to live and work in,” Dr. Sanjay Paul, chair of Elizabethtown College’s business department, said.

To help with the issue, the city has suspended payment on the incinerator loans, but a quarter of its budget still goes to an assortment of debt payments. Before the filing occurred, the City Council voted twice to reject a state takeover plan, which the council members believe would have only brought

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The Capitol building, located in downtown Harrisburg, plays host to the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The building features some of the most intricate artisanal craftsmanship in the city.

temporary debt relief, as well as sparing creditors and forfeiting the city’s fiscal future.

With all the issues of spending and debt, and possibilities of public services being affected, will this affect the people around the city? “The bankruptcy filing is problematic, but really just a symptom of a more systemic problem.

The city doesn’t have the financial resources necessary to meet its obligations, so people are likely to see cuts in city services.

The state takeover may alleviate some of this, as the governor has pledged not to let Harrisburg citizens go without emergency services,” Dr. April Kelly-Woessner, chair of the College’s political sci-

ence department, said.

“This does impact the business climate. Investors and entrepreneurs will be leery about setting up shop in a city that faces economic insecurity,” she continued.

“As the city is forced to cut spending and work with the state-appointed manager to develop a plan for economic stability, some city jobs will be cut to reduce spending. On the bright side, there is likely to be a high-level job opening in the mayor’s office.”

The people of Harrisburg have to wait and see what is to come. It is unknown if they will be affected or not. “There is a possibility of a city commuter tax or sales tax. If either a sales tax or a commuter tax is implemented, that will

certainly cost individuals who shop and work in the city of Harrisburg more money,” Dr. Kyle Kopko of the College’s political science department said.

With more cities and towns feeling the stress of the recession, municipal bankruptcies do not occur frequently. Since 1980, fewer than 300 of the nation’s 19,000 municipalities have filed for bankruptcy, and some analysts believe that more bankruptcies make it harder for local governments to borrow municipal bonds to finance the necessities.

It is still unclear what the implications of the bankruptcy will mean but it will be seen in a few weeks since the hearing is set for Nov. 23. “Depending on the

exact terms of bankruptcy or the financial recovery plan that the state implements, there may be cuts to city services, but we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the coming weeks. Again, a lot depends on whether Harrisburg is permitted to move forward with filing bankruptcy,” Kopko said.

If Harrisburg’s bankruptcy filing stands, it would mark the largest municipal filing since Vallejo, Calif. did so in 2008. Harrisburg has been struggling for years under a heavy debt burden. Over $300 million is tied to an incinerator.

This is a developing issue and the outcome depends upon how the city will ultimately deal with the massive financial debt.

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Academic integrity: honor, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility Pledge: a sacred word or a joke? The importance and value behind this civil cornerstone Shana M. Mihovics Asst. Campus Life Editor

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Integrity at Elizabethtown is expected of all students. The Pledge of Integrity includes regulations such as plagiarism and encourages individual thought.

t might be said that all of the great professions command a sense of integrity from their members from medicine to service academies to law and law enforcers, to name a few.

The field of education is no exception and colleges and universities work hard to ensure the universal sustainability of a value upon which they are built: academic integrity.

According to the Center for Academic Integrity, comprised of 600 members at 220 colleges and universities nationwide, there are five fundamental values that comprise an academic institution of integrity: honor, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. The Eliza-

bethtown College community strives to uphold these values, as the Pledge of Integrity states, the foundation of the College is mutual trust and respect.

Etown’s Pledge of Integrity, defined in 1995, says that students and faculty “will strive to behave toward one another with civility and with respect for the rights of others, and we promise to represent as our work only that which is indeed our own, refraining from all forms of lying, plagiarizing and cheating.”

Integrity is a word that is sacred at Etown. Students sign a document pledging to be honest and uphold integrity upon arrival to the College.

Senior and student chair of the integrity committee Dan Silver said, “Integrity is not solely do-

ing what is right but actually believing and understanding one’s actions; holding true and remaining genuine to one’s beliefs and values.”

On the other hand, Etown defines plagiarism as “taking and using the writings or ideas of another without acknowledging the source.” There are different degrees of violation of the Pledge of Integrity at Etown, which can lead to possible suspension or dismissal from the College. According to Associate Academic Dean Betty Rider, in 2010-11 there were 21 cases of academic integrity violations reported.

Sufficient evidence led to the dismissal of two students from the College.

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A woman’s home in Portland, Ore. was raided by police last Tuesday after fliers throughout her neighborhood were found to be advertising drug sales at her address. According to Lt. Robert King with the Portland Bureau Police, officials executed a search warrant at a home in the 3900 block of North Massachusetts Avenue. Upon entering, police say they encountered “20 grams of marijuana, more than 10 grams of heroin, a sawed-off shotgun, thousands of dollars in cash and the materials for a methamphetamine lab inside the home.”

There were seven adults found inside the house at the time of the raid. Six of those adults were arrested on differing drug charges, and one teenager was placed in protective custody, according to police.

Innovation at its finest Lately, those involved with incidents of theft are really stepping up their game. At 6:40 a.m. last Sunday, a thief lifted a Jeep Wrangler off of a northern Indiana car lot by use of a crane, local media reported. The crime took only six minutes to pull off, according to Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ. The footage from surveillance cameras at LaPorte Chrysler showed “someone driving a truck carrying a crane onto the lot, then circling around to park next to the 2008 Wrangler,” WMAQ reported. The Jeep was then hooked by the crane and put onto a trailer.

According to dealership General Manager Matter Magnuson, the 2-door Jeep Wrangler was heavily damaged. “He clamped into the roof, put the jaws through both doors and lifted it up,” Magnuson told the Chicago Tribune. “The owner thought we were joking with him when we told him it had been lifted out of the lot. But once he saw the media coverage of the theft, he realized it wasn’t a joke.”

One suspect in the case was arrested last Tuesday.

LaPorte Police Chief of Detectives Adam Klimczak said that his team found the crane, which may have been involved in the theft. As of now, the bright red Jeep Wrangler is still missing.

Unlucky timing When police responded to a fire alarm at The Charleston Museum at 3 a.m. on Oct. 14, 29-yearold Michael L. Miller and a 22-year-old woman were found inside in a “compromising position.”

Miller, had pleaded guilty three years ago to cocaine charges, is now charged with “trespassing after being caught having sex in a Charleston museum,” authorities said.

The couple, who allegedly met at a bar near the museum, found the door unlocked and decided to take advantage of the open space. According to the police report, the man was completely naked and the woman was partially clothed. WCSC-TV reported that the woman was unaware that her underwear was attached to the bottom of her shoe when officials entered. Officers said the woman “appeared to be enjoying the act.”

When asked to comment on the situation, Miller told the Post and Courier of Charleston, “What can I say, I get around.”

A $2,000 burger, can you stomach the challenge?

Customers at Mallie’s Sports Grill & Bar in Detroit, Mich. can enjoy a sandwich that weighs 338 pounds and packs 540,000 calories. This unique restaurant has always been famous for extremely large burgers and made a name for itself by adding the “Absolutely Ridiculous Burger” to the menu this past Thursday. The cost? $2,000.

According to Manager Jason Jones, the burger features 15 pounds of lettuce, 30 pounds of bacon, 30 pounds of tomatoes and 36 pounds of cheese.

Oh, and it comes with fries and a drink too, just in case you’re still hungry afterwards.

Mallie’s is known for cooking up very large burgers. In 2009, their biggest burger weighed in at 186 pounds, and this past January, they broke that previous record when they cooked a 319 pound burger. Apparently there is no word as of now about how the “Absolutely Ridiculous Burger” tastes.

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As crime rates appear severe, personal awareness proves key

Millersville Campus Police were unavail- said Boyer. “But it does happen here just as it able for comment, but it seems as if this does anywhere else.” type of violence is not limited to a chance As assistant director of Campus Security, ollege campuses have been becoming encounter on campuses around the area. Boyer emphasized the safety measures that more violent in recent years. While each Elizabethtown College was also the site of sev- students should take to keep themselves, and college will always have their minor bumps eral incidents that involved outside parties, their possessions, out of harm’s way. “I try to in the road, it appears that more incidents including the theft of items from cars located stress that you take precautions here so that are occurring without any influence from the in Hackman and Brown Lots. There also was when you move out into the real world, to a sexual assault that occurred outside the Vera somewhere like New York or Philadelphia, hands of the students themselves.

According to LancasterOnline, an event Hackman Apartments at the beginning of you’re in the habit of locking your cars and took place this past month at Millersville Uni- October. Reported in the Campus Security houses or taking stuff with you,” Boyer said.

In regards to thoughts that there is a rise versity that involved three teenage boys who Blotter and LancasterOnline, a 17-year-old attacked several students and stole their cash sexually assaulted a female student who in criminal activity on campus, Boyer does and electronics as the students were leaving was leaving the their apartment. The teens advanced on the apartments to Students feel that this is Etown College and students, asking to borrow a cell phone. The visit her boyfriend.

The attackers then took off with said phone, and nothing bad ever happens here. But it does the student to whom it belonged confronted assailant was happen here just as it does anywhere else. them and was assaulted. Two of the remain- detained by a ing students were attacked, one of whom the male student, assailants forced onto the ground, where he reportedly the Dale Boyer was kicked several times. A third subject was female’s boyassistant director, Campus Security friend, and beaten and had his wallet stolen.

After the robbery took place, the police apprehended tracked down the boys, two of whom were by Campus Security, then arrested by the not think it has been any worse than usual, except for a few unique occurrences. cousins, by discovering their presence at a Elizabethtown Borough Police.

An event such as the sexual assault, along “Some of it, I think, is a result of better pizza shop and several parties that night. The pizza shop’s surveillance footage pinned the with other smaller instances of theft and in- communication around campus,” Boyer teens to the scene and the assaulted students decent intoxication make the crime rate of the stated in reference to students being more College appear to have increased, compared aware of what is going on, particularly that positively identified them.

In regards to feeling safe around the Mill- to previous years. Dale Boyer, the assistant which affects the crime rate, around the Colersville campus after such an event, Millers- director of Campus Security at Etown, com- lege. “With a rising awareness on how to do ville student Vanessa Trankle commented mented on this observation. “The crime rate things and better communication, we’re ebbs and flows, just like it would at any other getting information out to the students on the subject. in a better manner than we did before.”

“I feel Millersville University is a safe cam- campus,” Boyer stated.

According to the crime rate statistics of As a form of prevention for any pus. There are emergency call poles all over the College, theft is one of the misdemeanors further incidents on campus involving campus, and there are always campus police patrolling,” said Trankle. “I always feel safe that happen most frequently on the cam- assaults or theft, Boyer talked about an walking to my off-campus apartment alone pus, rivaled only by drug abuse and liquor international women’s program called violations. According to Boyer, cars parked Rape Aggression Defense (RAD), that after my night class.” in Brown Lot are more Etown has had in effect since 1995. RAD susceptible to petty theft teaches female students how to defend because students do not themselves both physically and mentally drive their cars to and from in the event of an attack. Boyer teaches Brown Lot as frequently students several techniques to keep as those parked in other themselves safe by being smart about areas. Dust from stones their belongings and making sure that and leaves collects on cars, they don’t reveal too much information making it seem as if items about themselves in public places. He inside the vehicles are eas- also instructs the students on how to ier to pilfer because of the physically defend themselves by learning reduced likelihood that methods to harm their attacker. students will immediately “It’s a very dynamic program,” Boyer notice what is missing. said. “Ultimately, this is a life decision, Boyer urged students to something that you’re learning to protect lock their vehicles, rooms, yourself that could save your life.” bikes and other items to Boyer goes on to say how such a proensure the ultimate safety gram affects someone as a student and of the student. Boyer said, how you would retain this information “This is one of the reoccur- with you when you leave Etown, and have ring themes on campus,” in your own home to take care of. reference to students not The on campus RAD program schedlocking up possessions. uled a self-defense class earlier in the Boyer explained the cars semester that was delayed due to the that had objects stolen flooding. This class is 12 hours long and from them recently were spans over a weekend, with a four-hour not broken into but were class on Friday night, as well as Saturday simply unlocked vehicles and Sunday morning. There will be anof which someone took other class at some point this semester. If advantage. this is something that you are interested Photo: Matthew P. Butera “Students feel that this is in, you can go to their website, www.radThese blue lights can be found in several areas on campus.

If students feel unsafe, simply push the button and campus Etown College and nothing systems.com, to learn more about what security will respond to your emergency in moments. bad ever happens here,” the RAD program has to offer.

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Integrity immeasurable INTEGRITY from page 1 Other colleges encounter similar statistics. In Gettysburg College’s 2009-10 Honor Commission Yearly Report, there were 43 violations of the school’s honor code and one expulsion. Recently, The University of Pittsburgh faced a problem with an assistant professor in the School of Nursing who plagiarized some of his work. The question lies in whether the institutions are seeing an increase in plagiarism and what the next steps are in moving forward.

Rider said, “The College is a learning environment and the primary goal in each case of an integrity violation is to turn it into an opportunity to grow and to evaluate priorities.” Although learning institutions have to deal with these obstacles, it is a chance for renewal. Learning how to be honest and trustworthy is key to succeeding in life. English professor and board member of the Committee on Academic Integrity Louis Martin said, “If you’re not honest with yourself and with others, it’s hard to grow and to learn. Building trust in relationships is a critical part of living a good life, and even little lies and seemingly insignificant cheating can build a habit of dishonesty and taking the easy way, rather than doing the work necessary to become a strong, independent person. By upholding honesty we encourage ourselves and others to be happier, more positive, and more confident.”

“Integrity is the foundation of the community at Elizabethtown.

Without integrity, trust and mutual respect will dissipate and the community feel of Elizabethtown will be no more,” said Silver. Etown continues to pride itself on its core values and continues to work toward excellence.

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Pennsylvania Gov.Tom Corbett fights for education reform

$860 million taken away from public school funding; new voucher program to affect students Jared M. Schultz Staff Writer

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overnor Tom Corbett is now, for the second time, proposing a plan for Pennsylvania public school reform. His initiative involves a voucher program for low-income students in failing public schools to attend private schools, an expansion of the Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and better oversight of charter schools and teacher evaluations.

“When we have failing schools, we know we have failing students,” Corbett said in the Pennsylvania Independent, a public journalism project. “We can’t continue down this same path and think we’re going to get a different result.” According to the Pennsylvania Independent, Pennsylvania has 144 failing public schools wherein “fewer than 53 percent of students are at grade level in reading and math.” Corbett feels that, by introducing a voucher program that allows students to choose a private or charter school to attend, the competition between schools will force the failing schools to improve. The current educational system in Pennsylvania gives no inherent incentives for schools to improve on their own.

Opponents to this voucher program, however, argue that there is no way for failing schools to redeem themselves when Corbett is slashing $860 million in public school funding this year in an attempt to balance the state’s budget without raising taxes. Taxpayer money, in fact, is what will fund this voucher program. State money will be given to private schools in the form

of vouchers for those schools to use any way they please, rather than how the state of Pennsylvania dictates.

In response to that last argument, Corbett also plans to expand the EITC program by an unspecified amount, up from its current $75 million contributions.

The EITC is a corporate-funded program that gives scholarships to families with an annual income of less than $60,000. This program, too, is aimed at helping families pay tuition for private or religious schools.

Corbett’s voucher program is expected to cost $21 million in its first year. During this time, vouchers will only be offered to low-income students in Pennsylvania’s 144 schools classified as failing. In the second year, the program’s cost will rise to $82 million and be offered to all students in those failing districts. Finally, by its fourth year, the program will cost $103 million and be offered to about 14,200 Pennsylvania students. The private schools taking in these new voucher-funded students, however, are not required to accept the students.

Students must still meet their new school’s grade requirements.

Eligibility for the voucher program is based on family income. A family of four making $29,000 or less can receive a voucher for their school-of-choice’s full tuition. Families making up to $41,000 annually can receive a voucher for 75 percent of their children’s tuition.

In addition to the statewide voucher program, Corbett intends to create a new commission to oversee charter schools. He also wants to overhaul the state’s teacher evaluation process and instate an incen-

tive program for effective teachers. Specifically, Corbett wants to see student achievement and classroom observation take a stronger role in teacher evaluation.

Corbett’s opponents retort that, while education reform is an important issue for everyone, his plan has a lot of gaps in its implementation and they don’t trust it. “Reform should start with using ideas in education that have a long record of success and not rely on concepts where the evidence of academic achievement is inconclusive,” Senator Vince Hughes said.

Junior Emily Bancroft, a math education major, supports the voucher program for the choice it provides to these low-income students. “ Things work for Photo: Jacqueline E. Quidort some students that don’t for other students,” she said. Pennsylvania schools could potentially see major changes However, Bancroft criticized happening in the next few months. Governor Tom Corbett public education’s strict is pushing hard for a new voucher program which allow standardization to school- low income students a chance to attend private schools. send help into those schools rather than ing, saying, “A downside to public school is that they’re stuck in stan- send students away. More teachers’ aides dardization ... In private schools, you can and more one-on-one attention could do teach what you think is important.” She a lot for public schools.

Corbett is pushing for this education felt that sending students away from these failing schools and decreasing their budget voucher program to be passed in Pennwas counterintuitive to saving them. She sylvania legislature this fall, in time to be suggested it would be more beneficial to enacted for the 2012-13 school year.

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to observe their communities and consider how different people view physical and spiritual hunger,” Sammartino There will be several food drives scheduled in the near explained. It represents a chance to meet new people, learn future for this cause. First-year students are also participat- new things and gain a deeper understanding of the coming in the interfaith initiative. “Students in the [first-year munity we live in.” All of these ideas will be developed in peer group] HB are researching issues related to hospitality, the following months with the many events that have been religion and food for recent groups of refugees supported by put together.

Church World [Service],” Valkenburg said. The honors The original plan for The President’s Interfaith and students from HB are also putting together food Community Service Campus Challenge states baskets for refugees as they first arrive in that participants planned to “visit with lothe United States. “We’re trying to create cal farms in order to better understand food baskets that pertain to them so the agricultural process.” This plan will they feel welcomed and have somebecome a reality next semester, accordthing familiar,” Assistant Chaplain ing to Sammartino. “We are currently Amy Shorner-Johnson said. scheduling a visit to a local farm for While there are many staff memthe spring semester. We want to show bers who are a part of this initiathe progression of the food from the tive, there are many more students field of the farmer to the table of the involved. The whole point of this consumer. The aim of the visit is to initiative, besides helping the comeducate students about the processes munity, is to educate the students at which factor into the production of the College about different religions the foods they consume.” This event and how everyone can work together. is open to any student at Etown who Christian Sammartino, an AmeriCorp wishes to come. scholar, is one of the students who has There are also several events happenhelped with this initiative nearly from its ing very soon that students can participate in. beginning. “This project will allow students According to Valkenburg, “There are field Photo: Matthew P. Butera

trips planned in November to the Masonic Village Fruit Orchard, Brubaker Farms: Dairy, Poultry and Methane Digester and the Masonic Village Cattle Farm.” These will help explain the agricultural process, which is a major part of the Lancaster area.

Lancaster County is actually considered one of the most productive agricultural counties in the United States. This makes learning about agriculture even more important at Etown.

There are also on-campus events occurring. Valkenburg explained, “Food baskets will be arranged and distributed to local families and refugees coordinated to interfaith holidays.”

This is an initiative in which any student may participate.

While honors classes and AmeriCorp Scholars are planning many of the events, several other clubs on campus are also taking part in this initiative. Newman Club, Hillel and Faith in Action are planning future on-campus activities.

Etown has always been a service-oriented campus. This affects students when first applying to Etown to events scheduled throughout the school year, like Into the Streets. These events have made Etown one of 250 schools in the country that is taking a step forward, uniting campuses across the country with this interfaith service initiative. The events planned are approaching quickly, and everyone at Etown can take part in helping the community. If you have any questions or want to learn more about the initiative, contact Nancy Valkenburg at VALKENBURGN@etown.edu or Amy Shorner-Johnson at SHORNERA@etown.edu.

News in Brief Teenager shot outside N.C. high school

Earthquake deaths tallied in Turkey, count expected to rise

A teenager was shot outside of Cape Fear High School in Cumberland County, N.C. during an outdoor lunch period on Monday. The victim was outside the cafeteria when there was a loud pop, and she was shot in the neck, according to CNN. com. No arrests were initially made, no gun was found and officials were working on several different theories as to why the shooting occurred.

According to the Sheriff ’s spokeswoman Debbie Tanna, “This is a highly wooded area where people hunt and that is a possibility; however it was an awfully good shot.” Some parents and students believe the shooting may have been gang-related, but Cumberland County officials have not confirmed that theory.

The school later provided tapes from security cameras located inside the high school, which revealed that two students brought a rifle to school that day. The students were identified and arrested as suspects in the shooting. Investigators believe the gun was fired from indoors and that the victim “just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Cape Fear, along with a nearby middle school, was immediately put on lockdown, and no one was allowed in or out of the school. School district employees notified parents, who immediately reported to the scene but were not given information about the safety of their children. The students were eventually escorted outside in a single-file line.

The victim is reportedly 15-year old Caitlyn Abercrombie, a student of Cape Fear who was rushed to the hospital after the incident. According to WRAL News of North Carolina, she is currently in fair condition at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.

Eastern Turkey suffered a 7.2 magnitude earthquake Sunday, Oct. 23, and rescue workers have been working to find survivors. There are at least 459 confirmed deaths, while 1,300 more people were injured. Thousands of buildings were destroyed and rubble is crowding the area, making it very difficult to locate and rescue survivors.

According to the World Health Organization, the first 48 to 72 hours after a disaster are the most important in finding survivors.

Even so, rescue workers continued to find survivors in the rubble; 67 hours after the initial quake, several Turkish citizens were found, many injured, hungry and near-freezing. The area continues to suffer from aftershocks, leaving many in a state of constant anxiety.

According to CNN.com, eastern Turkey is one of the poorest areas of the country, and military backup was necessary for search and rescue missions. Turkey’s Health Ministry set up a crisis center to distribute rescue workers, machinery and drinking water. Many countries, including Iran and Israel, offered aid to Turkey in the aftermath of the disaster. Turkish officials refused most aid, claiming the country could handle the relief efforts on its own, but may reverse this decision in the coming days.

The earthquake struck at 1:41 p.m. a few miles from the major city of Van. Almost 2,000 buildings are counted among the damaged, including 55 buildings on the north shore of Lake Van, 25 apartment buildings, a university dormitory, a health services building and part of a hospital.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned the construction of the city’s buildings, saying low-quality materials can be blamed for many deaths.

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Prof. explores civil rights history Movies promote awareness Long to write two additional books, adds to library of 11 Kristen N. Lacaillade Staff Writer

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reatness is more than a matter of following society and doing what the majority tells you to do.” After sitting down with Dr. Michael Long, this was one of the many pieces of advice taken away from our conversation that is not only helpful, but incredibly true. Over the course of his career, Long has been considered a very successful writer and published author, among many other achievements.

Long has published nine books and is currently wrapping up contracts to publish two more. These books, “Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball” and “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters,” reflect Long’s primary focuses of writing about subjects such as religion, politics, peace and conflict studies, civil rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. His first book, “Beyond Home Plate: Jackie Robinson on Life after Baseball,” is described by Long as “Jackie Robinson’s views on sports and family during his postbaseball career time.” This book also shows the mature side of Robinson and sheds light on the civil rights movement as well as the violence taking place during that time.

Long’s second book to be released, “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters,” is different than the Robinson piece. It is a collection of letters by Rustin, an

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Dr. Michael Long, current author of nine books, is set to publish two more. Major publisher Harper Collins is to distribute one of them.

African-American socialist and pacifist. The book details his role in the 1963 March on Washington.

Long secured Rustin’s letters, which are available in the Library of Congress, and edited them for release to the public.

“Not everyone has access to such wonderful pieces such as these, so to be able to put these primary documents in people’s hands can be considered a luxury to many people,” Long explained.

Long is no stranger to the publishing world, as he has already written and published nine books on many subjects related to his discipline. “I am always pleased to find a publisher who is interested in something that I am passionate about. I feel privileged to know that these types of books are something editors are willing to read, even though they may be viewed by others as being of narrow interest,” Long said.

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was first inspired to write by his 11th grade English teacher. “She told me that I was the most improved writer that year. Those four words just clicked for me, and they encouraged me to improve my writing even more and to continue to write,” Long said. “I want to take that kind of encouragement and give it right back to my students when they do well in a class I am teaching.”

Sophomore Travis Gerstacker took a class with Long and explained that he feels very confident in not only Long’s teaching ability, but his ability to give students the confidence and reassurance they need. “He is a very intelligent professor who is very passionate about the material he teaches.

He conducts interesting class discussions, and every class is different. I am not surprised in the least bit by his success,” Gerstacker explained.

Senior Andrea Raffensperger, who also took one

of Long’s courses, agreed, saying, “I loved his class, and he was always able to keep me engaged.” It is clear that both Long’s readers and students agree that he can truly hold an audience no matter the medium he uses to convey information. When asked what advice he would give to aspiring writers, Long explained that reading journalism, particularly material written by someone who would be considered a “good writer,” is a good place to start the writing process.

Being able to develop a discipline that you want to write about can prove extremely helpful in the long run. “Writing and the process should be like a habit, much like eating or working out. Being able to write just as we would normally go through our day can prove to be both rewarding and fruitful,” Long said.

As for future plans on his writing career, Long noted that he simply wants to create and write pieces which would make his sons proud. He wants to instill the idea that leading a creative life will yield a just and peaceful world in both his sons and his readers.

In terms of future books, Long is looking into the idea of possibly writing a biography of someone who is currently missing in his field, to give readers insight into another influential figure in history. Overall, despite not considering himself a “successful” writer, but instead more of a privileged one, it is safe to say that readers and students alike can expect great things from Long.

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ften, the greatest lessons in life are learned outside of the classroom, through mediums other than lectures and assigned readings. While books present a more conventional approach to finding out more about major issues in history, movies can also provide a different outlet for students to turn to for information. That’s why, beginning this year, the Academic Advising Office introduced the first annual Diversity Classic Film Festival.

Each month, a film that communicates an important issue such as race, gender, creed or sexuality will be shown in Gibble Auditorium.

Assistant Director of Academic Advising, Jean-Paul Benowitz, explained that the films which were chosen are the ones which dealt with important components of diversity in a constructive way for the first time.

“They are not the first films to [ever] deal with issues of diversity, but they are the first films to deal with issues of diversity where they are opening up a dialogue,” Benowitz said. “They are making people think critically about these issues.”

Film can be an excellent way to communicate ideas and begin thought provoking conversation among peers.

Each movie that is shown is selected to complement whatever is the nationally recognized theme of the month. A discussion facilitated by two faculty members from two different disciplines will follow each viewing.

“We want students, faculty, staff and the local campus community to watch the films and to think about how the filmmaker is challenging us to wrestle with these subjects,” Benowitz said. “The film festival is a great way to create a venue where the issues of diversity can be discussed.”

The first film, “Harvest of Shame,” was shown Monday, Sept. 12 in conjunction with National Hispanic Heritage Month and was facilitated by Dr. Fletcher McClellan and Dr. Michael Pisapia. The second film, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” was shown Monday, Oct. 10 in accordance with National Arts, Humanities and Book Month.

Dr. Kyle Kopko and Dr. John Teske helped lead the discussion afterwards.

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portunity to attend either of these showings, the next film, “Little Big Man,” will be shown on Monday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium. This somewhat satirical film deals with the westward expansion of white European populations as they interfaced with Native American populations. Faculty leaders McClellan and Dr. Robert Wheelersburg have a great interest in this subject and also for this film, as they have used it previously in various educational settings.

The festival will continue next semester with “Hoop Dreams” taking the screen on Jan. 23, followed by “The Defiant Ones” on Feb. 6, “The Children’s Hour” on Mar. 26 and finally “South Pacific” on Apr. 16. Full schedules of times and faculty mentors for each film can be found on posters hanging throughout campus.

So far, the program has been successful. As a result, the films for both the 2012-2013 school year, as well as the 2013-2014 school year, have already been decided. Diversity is something that needs to be continually addressed on campus, and most students find films interesting and view them as an attractive way to learn or spend time.

“I rather doubt most students know how powerful these films have been in shaping our culture and in forming our views about diversity,” Benowitz said. “If we didn’t have this film festival, the likelihood of [students] going to the library to see it, finding it online, getting it through Netflix or watching some classic movie channel is probably slim. But bringing it to campus and having it embraced by the faculty hopefully will get them to appreciate these films and learn from them.”

The festival provides the ability to think about diversity not only on campus, but in personal communities and globally as well. By actively participating in the diversity film festival, Benowitz believes that students are provided with a forum where they can have a constructive, open dialogue about diversity. “It is not the only forum where this happens, but I certainly think that it is part of what we can provide in terms of getting people together to think about these things and discuss them.”

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Mary Krikorian assists currently enrolled, alumni in job search Kyle P. Schutz Staff Writer

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very college needs a wellrounded, caring and passionate outreach and alumni liaison. Fortunately, Elizabethtown College has that and more in Mary Krikorian.

She is what people in her field might call a lifer, meaning that Krikorian has been doing this sort of job for a very long time.

Her experience in the field of career services makes her an invaluable asset to the students and alumni of the College.

Believe it or not, even the alumni of Etown need a little direction in their career paths.

When they need assistance, Krikorian is always ready and willing to help. She guides alumni that need help with getting to the place they want to be in life. However, Krikorian’s job does not end there.

The other part of her job is helping current students of Etown. As the saying goes, “it’s not who you are, it’s who you know,” so she helps current students get into their chosen career fields by getting them

in contact with alumni in their field of interest. This is instrumental for success in today’s world, and Krikorian is able to lead many students in the right direction.

Krikorian was raised in upstate New York, in a town called Oswego. She eventually received her Master’s degree in college student personnel at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Her undergraduate degree is in psychology and communications. “Initially, I wanted to go in for guidance and counseling; I knew I wanted to do something in education,” Krikorian said. Despite coming from a family of educators— her father is a college professor— Krikorian did not want to follow that path.

“What really interested me were these programs I was seeing in higher education,” Krikorian added. “I started off in student activities, and then I did an internship in academic advising that had a little bit of career stuff in it.”

Her first job was at Bethany College in West Virginia, a

very small school whose student body would make up less than half of Etown’s. There she did academic counseling, personal counseling and career counseling. She stayed at Bethany College for about six years, and in 1996, moved on to two new jobs. The first job was at a state school, and the second job was at a private school.

Krikorian started doing career counseling exclusively for the first time at the state school and continued to do the same when she moved on to her private school position. “We moved here about four years ago when my husband got a job at LVC,” she stated. Krikorian started working at Etown in January of 2009.

When Krikorian is not working, she enjoys a pleasant family life. She has five children, all still in school, and she is happily married to her husband, who still works at Lebanon Valley College as the Dean of Students.

“I think that kind of comes back to loving what I do,” Krikorian said. “I have so many times that it would be

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Mary Krikorian is essential for alumni career searches as well as for current students. She provides many with alumni contacts from their field of interest.

so hard to come to work and not like what I do and have to deal with the kids at home,” she added. “I also think it’s a really good role modeling thing for them [her children] to see me out there, helping people and doing what I’m passionate about.”

In addition to her husband and children, Krikorian has five pets, which includes a golden retriever, two cats and two turtles. “It’s quite a full

house,” Krikorian remarked.

She likes to read very much, and she also enjoys music a great deal. She was able to see two of her favorite singers perform this past summer: Peter Gabriel in Camden, N.J. and Todd Rundgren. She was happy about being able to see Rundgren because she grew up listening to him and actually saw him perform back in 1981.

When asked about her favorite books, Krikorian responded

with a half smile, “I have to say the classics are probably my favorite. My dad was an English professor, so I’m not even sure that’s by choice. It’s like a genetic thing.”

In the future, Krikorian really hopes to travel, ideally before she retires. She would like to see the world and experience different cultures and places. However, Krikorian noted that it is a little hard to travel with all of the children that she has to care for.

Krikorian lives by a great career quote from Aristotle: “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your occupation.” That quote is very applicable to her life and career. Krikorian is someone who helps people in their time of need, but it is more than a job for her. Her career is something she cares about deeply, and it shows through her work. “I really feel like higher education is my passion,” Krikorian said.

“I don’t see myself going anywhere else.” Hopefully, for the College’s sake, she will be here for many years to come.

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Roger Hoerl ‘79 finds career success, researches HIV/AIDS cure Stacey N. Kreston Staff Writer

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oger Hoerl is an Elizabethtown College alumnus. He is also the leader of the applied statistics laboratory at GE Global Research.

Hoerl leads a team of about fourteen professional statisticians who work with probability to make predictions and forecast the outcome of risks that the company is considering taking, usually on long-term service agreements.

For all of his hard work in the practice of statistics, Hoerl is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, which has awarded him with the Founders Award, and the American Society for Quality, from which he has received the Brumbaugh and Hunter Awards, along with the Shewhart Medal. He was also awarded the Coolidge Fellowship from GE Global Research. He has written six books, two book chapters, and is published in over thirty-five journals.

Yet, according to Hoerl, “a job is a good thing, but a job doesn’t define you.”

This line may be hard to swallow considering that it came from a man known so prestigiously for the hard work he puts into his career as a renowned statistician and leader.

Yet Hoerl is much more proud of an identity most people would not normally expect from a man with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s and doctorate in statistics. Hoerl would prefer to be viewed as a humanitarian, a description which he fits quite well. So well, in fact, that he is this year’s recipient of the Educate for Service: Service to Humanity Award from Etown.

Beginning at Etown, Hoerl had no idea where life would take him. Looking back, he said, “I didn’t know what I wanted to do other than something related to math.”

Originally from Newark,

Del., he chose to attend Etown for a few reasons. It was just far enough away from home, had a great mathematics program and he “liked the small school environment.” Hoerl graduated from Sanford High School, a small private school in Hockessin, Del., and wanted to go to a small college as well.

And it was a choice well-made, considering what he was able to accomplish here at Etown.

Hoerl majored in mathematics and was an active participant of Etown’s math club and honor society. In fact, he was president of the honor society his senior year. He was also an RA his junior and senior years.

Hoerl said that, as a math major, all of these extra activities “kept me pretty busy.”

He admitted, “There were times when I felt sort of overwhelmed. I wouldn’t say that I had a panic attack, but I would come back to my dorm room and would just say to myself ‘there is no way I can get all of this done.’”

But while at Etown, Hoerl learned an ability that he uses every day at his job with GE Global Research, and that was how to prioritize. He learned that “if you are disciplined and if you manage your time, there is enough time.” Hoerl would tell himself, “You’re going to do whatever you can do and if you can’t do everything, make sure you do the most important stuff.”

This worked well, even giving Hoerl some downtime to hang out at his favorite spot on campus: the gym. Hoerl jokingly called his college self a “frustrated jock,” then explained, “I wasn’t athletic. But I really loved sports, so I played a lot of intramural sports.”

Hoerl’s interests extended past math and sports. Though he did not have a minor, Hoerl took classes in many other areas, including psychology and foreign language. Hoerl was fascinated by psychology and took “a number of psychology

courses, but not enough to have a full-on minor.”

In addition to taking German, he also took Russian simply because “it was different and interesting.” Hoerl stated that “as a math major, I learned more math than anything else,” but within Etown’s liberal arts curriculum, Hoerl is proud to say that “I was not only encouraged, but I had to take English and philosophy and sociology and psychology,

mindset of most soon-to-begraduates of Etown College.

The panicked “I’ve got to get a job; anything beyond that is too far off in the distance to worry about” attitude. Hoerl worked with statistics for the companies of DuPont, Hercules and Scott Paper before working his way up to his position of leadership at GE Global Research. But in 2007, when he was awarded the Coolidge Fellowship, he was allowed to

not have had any knowledge in the medical field, but he said, “I know this: this is a disease that’s preventable. It’s a disease that’s treatable, and yet, millions of people are still dying.

So, something’s not right here.

This doesn’t add up.” He could not help but believe “there has to be some reason why all the money that’s been poured out, billions and billions of dollars hasn’t solved this problem, and I want to figure out what it is.”

Upon finalizing his focus on HIV/AIDS in Africa, Hoerl teamed up with Dr. Presha E. Neidermeyer, a professor at West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics, to study HIV/AIDS for five months, prior to spending a month in his second trip to Africa. He explained, “We decided we needed to do a lot of background research, a lot of reading, as opposed to going to Africa for six months, but we said, ‘we have got to go to Africa because that’s the epicenter of the AIDS pandemic.’”

So they did just that, and even published a book on the experience and study called “Use What You Have: Resolving the HIV/AIDS Pandemic.”

Eradicating HIV/AIDS is not going to happen overnight, which Hoerl learned while in Africa. The culture there Courtesy Photo makes a quick fix unlikely, Dr. Roger Hoerl graduated from Elizabethtown College in since some customs shun the 1979. He is now a leader at GE Global Research and is heavily use of medication and othinvolved in raising awareness of and researching HIV/AIDS. ers promote polygamy and promiscuous behavior, all of so I got a broader background choose a subject to study while which continue to allow the which I think broadens you as on sabbatical. Most people spread of the disease. It is not a person and makes you better expected him to do something an easy task telling an entire able to interact with people of math-related, but he chose country that they must change different segments of society.” to go to Africa and study the their centuries-old culture. But Hoerl graduated from HIV/AIDS crisis. for Hoerl, “being trained as a Etown in 1979 with his bachHoerl first became involved mathematician, as a statistielor’s degree in mathematics. with Africa “on a lark.” A friend cian, trained in the scientific Immediately after graduating, invited him to go along on a method, I look at it very differHoerl got married to his wife, trip to Africa in 2006 and he ently and I say, what’s the funSenecca. But he continued his went merely to keep his friend damental problem here? Let education at the University of company and because it was me dig a little deeper and figure Delaware, earning his master’s a new place to see. But Hoerl out, what’s the evidence of the and doctorate degrees in statis- said gravely that, while in Af- root causes of this problem?” tics. In the meantime, his first rica, “I saw people dying with Many people are under child was born. my own eyes. I came back just the impression that donating Hoerl is familiar with the shocked, stunned.” Hoerl may money is the best thing to do,

as promoted by many of the celebrities in our media-run society, but Hoerl knows that the true heroes of the struggle against HIV/AIDS are the “little people” working to solve the problem without any exterior motives, such as publicity. Hoerl stresses that it is extremely important for people to realize that “writing checks is a good thing to do, but it doesn’t solve the problem. Giving yourself is a lot better than giving money.”

Now, Hoerl understands that Etown students do not necessarily have the means or time to go to Africa for a month. But he promotes, “You don’t have to go to Africa. You don’t have to do anything exotic, but start early deciding that you want to do something with your life and start thinking, what do I really want to do with my life that really matters?”

Hoerl really enjoys his job at GE Global Research, but laims that “gradually, I started realizing that there’s more to life than working and getting a pay check.” Hoerl wants Etown students to start thinking about what they want to do with their life that is meaningful, along with choosing a career. He urges them to not wait until later in life, but to begin thinking now.

Hoerl said passionately, “You need a paycheck to survive, but surviving isn’t living. You know, animals survive, hopefully human beings live.”

Continuing into the future, Hoerl plans to take his own advice. Upon reaching retirement, he plans to take on the role of a full-time humanitarian. He continues to visit Africa every year and has future goals to spend more time in Bulgaria in Eastern Europe where he and his wife first began their humanitarian efforts helping orphanages. But for now, Hoerl is honored to be awarded such a high honor by the College and was thrilled to be back on campus and see the progress the school has made over the years. Upon his return to campus, he said, “In a sense, it’s coming home.”

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Seniors Barbara Prince, Michael Shields recognized with PSS awards Katherine G. Pebley Staff Writer

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he Pennsylvania Sociological Society held their 61st annual meeting at Seton Hill University in Greensberg, Pa., on Oct. 1, at which two Elizabethtown College students were awarded for their social research. Seniors Barbara Prince and Michael Shields received this recognition, and they attended the conference with their mentor and professor, Dr. Michele Lee Kozimor-King.

According to the society’s website, “The Pennsylvania Sociological Society has been serving Pennsylvania sociology faculty, students, researchers and other professionals for 61 years and continues to be a place to share ideas, network and learn from one another. In addition to learning from and collaborating with one another, this [conference] is also an excellent way to introduce students to the discipline and professional and research activities of sociologists.”

Prince is a sociology and anthropology major and an art history minor. At the conference, she was awarded Best Overall Student Research Paper in the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paper Competition. Her paper, which she presented during the meeting, is called “When is Mommy Coming Home? A Content Analysis of Spillover in ‘Parenthood.’” Prince originally completed the paper for her sociology class, Marriage and Family with Kozimor-King, as a content analyst related to course material.

“Spillover is when one domain of life interferes with another, like family coming to the workplace,” Prince explained. She looked at season one of the NBC series “Parenthood,”

as suggested by her professor and divided her findings into males and females. She counted each time that a member of the family came to another member’s workplace and each time work interfered at home, “which is a lot,” she said.

For this competition, papers were judged before the conference. After students presented in the morning, the awards were announced at lunch. Prince received money and a certificate at that time. The papers that win this competition are typically published in the journal “Sociological Viewpoints.”

Prince believes that her paper was chosen because she was very well-prepared, thanks to Kozimor-King, who requires her students to repeatedly revise their papers. “We learned that it’s not how everyone else does it. They don’t have the interaction with professors that we do here,” Prince said. She has been to several conferences before where she was able to learn what works and what doesn’t, which helped her gain valuable experience.

“I’m very excited about winning. I’m more into statistics, quantitative material, but it is very exciting to beat graduate students,” Prince said.

Shields, also a sociology and anthropology major, won Best Undergraduate Student Research Poster for his project, entitled “Is It Earth Day Yet? Measuring Knowledge and Interest of Environmental Topics.” His poster is currently hanging in Nicarry Hall. Shields is interested in urban sociology and environmental issues which led him to do this research, along with a requirement for Methods of Social Research with Kozimor-King. “I wanted to know how residence and region affected environmental knowledge and interest,” he said.

Shields’ award was also announced at lunch, the professional setting. Elizabethtown has a and he was amazed by his win. “I’m still very history of doing very well at this competition, surprised. We all knew Barbara was going to and it helps their resumes and applications for win, but I did not think I was. Not many of graduate school. They get to experience the the judges asked me to explain my project,” he professional setting, other students and faculty, said. Shields recalled graduate students being and see interest in their projects. Mentoring very impressed that he completed this research is a valuable experience,” Kozimor-King said. in his sophomore year. “I’m very proud of the “We know what we’re talking about because work that I did,” he said. of her,” Prince said. “Dr. Koz is awesome; I value He also values that they go to conferences like her mentoring. This wouldn’t have happened this as often as possible because of all of the in- without her.” Shields said, “Dr. Koz is driven, teresting projects they get to see. “You can really so she makes us very driven.” pick any part of society to study,” Shields said.

Both students are pursuing Honors in the Kozimor-King, associate professor of so- Discipline. At the next conference for the Eastciology and Etown class of 1993, was heavily ern Sociological Society, Shields, Prince and involved in the success of both projects ac- Kozimor-King will jointly present a workshop cording to her students. She reciprocates their about research methods. admiration, pointing out how they were both very prepared, which others also told her.

“Barbara’s paper was completed in one semester, which is impressive, and it is wellwritten, though she doesn’t like it as much as I do. Mike has a command of his material and didn’t need any assistance from me; they both handled questions and challenges on their own,” she said. “People thought they were graduate students, and they presented at that level.”

Her favorite part of the Courtesy Photo experience was the mentoring Seniors Barbara Prince (left) and Michael Shields (right) relationship that she has with received their awards at the Pennsylvania Sociological her students. “It’s fun to be able Society’s conference Oct. 1. Prince was awarded for a to do things with students in research paper and Shields for a research poster.

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Halloween activities

culinary inspirations

Fall entertainment frightens, delights National Chili Month Cherry Crest Farm and Jason’s Woods provide fun and fright adds spice to fall season

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unior Rachael Waldman waited in a long line at the graveyard for Jason’s Woods’ Horrifying Hayride in Lancaster, Pa. “You don’t want to sit in the front, back or middle,” she overheard a customer in front of her say. As Waldman continued to walk to the entrance, ghouls lurked around dressed as exconvicts and crazy clowns, approaching anyone they could sense was afraid.

She entered the haunted hayride and heard a chain saw, followed by distant screeches. The ride had begun.

Jason’s Woods is a Halloween activity for the fearless, including the Horrifying Hayride, the Barn of Terror, Pirate’s Revenge, Lost in Jason’s Woods, the Mystery Maze, the Grand Theater and the Carnival of Fear. All of these attractions are described as “bone-chilling” on their website. There are different combo packages you can purchase to participate in more than one activity or you can buy one separately. Waldman only went on the hayride, but this was enough for her.

“Driving to Jason’s Woods I noticed many cars were entering, but I didn’t see any leaving,” she said. Jason’s

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Megan Shuck enjoys the fall season by spending time in the corn maze at Cherry Crest Farm.

Woods is eerie, especially in the dead of night with little activity, aside from the ghouls and goblins creeping around the wooded area.

Waldman did enjoy her time on the hayride and was targeted by many of the creatures in the woods as they popped out at her more than anyone else on the ride. “The ghouls love me,” she said. The girl to the left of Waldman was petrified, endlessly screaming, but the teenager to the right remained unfazed. If you dare to enter Jason’s Woods, it is open on Friday and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. and Sundays from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. For more information about the Woods, visit the website at www. jasonswoods.com.

Those looking for a more low-key fall activity can visit Cherry Crest Farm, located in Lancaster, Pa. as well. Junior Jordan Laliberte attended Cherry Crest recently and participated in the Amazing Maize Maze, 5 acres of paths through fields of corn.

“I thought it was fun that participants piece together a map as they find checkpoints, so as the map gets more complete, people can use it to get closer to remaining checkpoints,” Laliberte said. To start the corn maze, you receive instructions from the staff and clues to maneuver around the obstacles that will last around an hour.

The Flashlight Maze held from 6:30 p.m. until 10 p.m. is offered during the first weekend in November.

Cherry Crest has a wagon express ride through the cornfield and a wagon tour of the farm. There is a fudge shop, gift shop and an informational farm education center. Nov. 5 the Pumpkin Madness Festival will be held for the second year. Instead of buying pumpkins to take home as decorations, they are demolished by catapulting, hurling, trampling and dropping them in contests. Cherry Crest is a fun fall activity for anyone. You can learn about agriculture and farming while having a good time. If you are interested in attending Cherry Crest, go to www. cherrycrestfarm.com.

nightlife

Casino Night offers risk-free gambling

SWEET sponsors chance to win big while having fun

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so for SWEET to bring one to Etown is pretty cool.”

Martin also seemed intrigued by the fact that everyone walks in with a chance to win.

“It’s nice that you’re not rigged to lose for once. I feel like I won’t make any decisions I’ll regret later. It’s fun to go into it with nothing to lose and to have a great time with friends. The prizes up for grabs don’t hurt either!”

“The last casino night I went to was really fun,” senior Krystal Talley said. “The Susquehanna room was set up like a real Vegas casino, and I enjoyed seeing the OSA employees dressed up like real [dealers].”

“They had raffles for those who didn’t want to partake in any of the table games. They also had little appetizers and music,” Talley continued. “I expect the upcoming casino night will be along the same lines, and I’m definitely looking forward to it!”

Don’t worry about your poker face or roulette skills for Casino Night at Etown Nov. 5; this is one of the only casinos where you really can’t lose.

t is no surprise that one of the first places a new 21-year-old wants to go is to the casino. Surrounded by loud voices, poker chips and a variety of ways to lose money rather than profit, most get lost in the atmosphere, betting a lot more than they should.

What if there were a casino you could go to where you couldn’t lose? Friday Nov. 5, Elizabethtown College’s SWEET will be hosting Casino Night; this event occurs at 9 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room (located behind Myer). According to junior Kayla Lina, the SWEET programmer in charge of Casino Night, the event is scheduled to run for about two hours. Lina stresses that in this casino, it doesn’t matter if you are underage, and you don’t have to be 21 to come in and have some fun.

“This casino night will be similar to the one we held during TGIS a few years ago,” Lina said. “Each person who attends will receive a bag of poker chips when they enter to be used during a variety of casino-themed games.”

These games include poker, roulette, blackjack and craps. The dealers in this casino are actual students, bringing to life the casino atmosphere by dressing in black and white attire. Also, like a real casino, there will be servers to provide attendees with fun mocktails and hors d’oeuvres.

Once you’re finished with your game-playing, you can trade in any poker chips you win for tickets. Like the lottery, you can put your tickets toward certain casino-themed prizes, in which a drawing will determine the winner for each prize. Lina also said that cash prizes may be up for grabs.

Photo: Matthew P. Butera “I actually haven’t really looked into it until now,” senior Allie Martin said. “After hearing you describe it, Students can gamble the night away with games such as poker, roulette, blackjack and craps. They can also I really think I might check it out. It’s not every weekenjoy fun mocktails and delicious hors d’oeuvres while end you get down to Atlantic City to the real casinos, having the “Las Vegas” experience.

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hili: a warm concoction of ingredients such as meat, chile peppers, and at times beer and cocoa, which is appropriately celebrated during the month of October: National Chili Month. A simple and ancient food with a wide variety of recipes, it is the focus of chili cook-offs, the name of a chain restaurant—Chili’s—and the focus of Joe Cooper’s book, “With or Without Beans: An Informal Biography of Chili.”

To commemorate National Chili Month, famouschilirecipes.com recommends formulating a new family chili recipe, hosting a chili party or having a chili cook-off. When creating a new family recipe for chili, have each family member pick an ingredient to include in the new recipe. Ingredients could range from corn to mushrooms, according to the website.

“One way to host a chili party would be to have everyone bring a predetermined ingredient for the chili to the party. The ingredients can be added in as guests arrive,” advise the chili experts. A chili cook-off consists of each guest bringing, tasting and voting on the best chili that was made by the guests. Recipes can be shared, if desired.

Elizabethtown College students can purchase chili at several local restaurants in order to warm up on a cool day. T.J. Rockwell’s, The Etown Diner, Country Meadows Restaurant, Flowers in the Kitchen, Hoss’s and Chili’s (the nearest is located in Harrisburg, according to chilis.com) all serve chili. Flowers in the Kitchen even dishes up a unique white chili along with the traditional recipe, according to a phone interview. Hoss’s serves a solid and standard meaty chili recipe on Tuesdays, according to a phone interview. According to a phone interview with the Chili’s located on Manheim Pike, all of the chain’s chili is bean-free. It’s a little bit spicy too, as Chili’s is a Southwestern-style restaurant.

According to foodnetwork.com, chili is among the preferred dishes of their readers and viewers.

Because of this love for chili, the Food Network recommends chicken chili recipes, beef chili recipes, and bean chili recipes in order to satisfy all tastes. Despite its popularity, there are some people who do not care for the dish. “I don’t like chili,” sophomore Kimberly Grouser said. However, with a wide variation in recipes, there is a good chance that one of them will appeal to even a picky eater.

Among the suggested chicken chili recipes from foodnetwork.com are instructions on how to make white chicken chili, chunky chicken chili, easy cheesy chili chicken and Matt Hasselbeck’s comeback chicken chili.

Beef chili recipes include no bean beef chili, beef chili with red beans and chocolate and beef rib chili. Among the suggested bean chili recipes are veg-head three-bean chili, Emeril’s two-bean turkey chili, wholesome bean chili and Emeril’s vegetarian microwave black bean chili. The listed cooking times for the beef chili recipes ranged from 15 minutes for the veg-head three-bean chili to eight hours for Sandra Lee’s five bean chili. Cooking skill levels range from easy to intermediate.

According to momswhothink.com, the best chili recipes include not only expected ingredients like ground lean pork, chili powder and flour, but also unexpected ones like a can of beer or a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa. “It was the blue ribbon winner at a chili cook-off, garnering a prize worth $20,000 according to the recipe book it came from,” according to momswhothink.com. “With surprise ingredients like beer and unsweetened cocoa, the blend of seasonings and flavors creates a mouth-watering chili that will have them begging for the recipe. For the brave souls who like more fire, double the hot sauce to kick it up a notch.”

The International Chili Society ICS was established in 1967.

“The World’s Championship Chili Cookoff (WCCC) is the annual ICS event that truly brings out the best of the best when it comes to chili.” This year’s winner: John Jebson with the chili named: John’s Chili, according to chilicookoff.com. Other winners with more creative names included 2005’s Doug Wilkey with Dog Breath Chili, 1993’s Cathy R. Wilkey with Puppy’s Breath Chili, 1972’s Howard Winsor’s Howard Winsor World Champion Chili, and 1970’s Wick Fowler’s 2 Alarm Chili.

According to chilicookoff.com, “Chile refers to the pepper pod, and chili to the concoction. The e and the i of it all.” Pods also range in types. According to chilisalsa.com, sweet bells, sweet banana and pimento are the mildest chile pepper types, while red savina habanero and indian tezpur chile peppers were deemed the peppers with the highest heat level.

Chili, in fact, has a long history. According to chilicookoff.com, “The mixture of meat, beans, peppers, and herbs was known to the Incas, Aztecs and Mayan Indians long before Columbus and the conquistadores.”

“Chili buffs in San Antonio –and in most of Texas, for that matter–say the stuff called ‘chili’ was invented there, probably by ‘Chili Queens,’ women who dotted the Military Plaza and sold highly seasoned brews called ‘chili’ from rudimentary carts, all though the night, to a cadre of customers who rode in from all over the prairies to singe their tonsils,” according to chilicookoff.com.

So celebrate National Chili Month this month by warming up a nice hot cup of chili, because as first-year Theresa Forcellini said, “Chili’s pretty good.” Good enough that it is associated with cookoffs dedicated to its honor, an International Chili Society and a rich history.

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Lucky Ducks provides new atmosphere for familiar hot spot A variety of items are featured on the restaurant’s menu, including classic Flavers wings Benhamin M. Simms Staff Writer

pints. Other specials consist of “Wined down the Week” with $4 wines and the chef specialty of the night on Fridays. “The specials are awesome and re you looking for a different place to eat or to maybe so is the bar, always a good time when I’m there,” try something new? Well, Lucky Ducks Bar and Grille Mantz said.

“Lucky Ducks is a great place to meet up with is now open on Market Street across from Rita’s Water Ice. Lucky Ducks, previously the home of Flavers Food and Spir- friends and plan out your night,” junior Brian its, is under new management, and with new management Boring said, when asked about Lucky Ducks. “I comes a whole new restaurant. Lucky Ducks changed over go to trivia night as much as possible, and I see at the beginning of the school year and has been getting other students from Elizabethtown there all the time,” said Boring. great reviews ever since.

Mantz stated that, “the bar environment there Lucky Ducks offers a very broad menu from wings to seafood to burgers and fries. Management did keep some is great, and their service is good too.” Lucky of the same items from Flavers menu, such as the bat wings Ducks offers a great place for students to go eat and the honey garlic wings. “I love their wings, especially and socialize with other students. “I have met up the bat wings,” junior Andrew Mantz said. “Every single with friends there a good amount, and every time it has been a great time.” Mantz continued. time I’m there, I have to get them.”

Lucky Ducks is currently in the process of makIf wings aren’t your thing, they also have great entrees and sandwiches. “The sandwiches there are good; they do ing the restaurant more of a bar environment by a pretty good job making a Philly Cheesesteak,” junior Joe making the bar area bigger. They plan on having Renzi said. Lucky Ducks has great happy hour specials, too. this project done sometime around next semester.

Tuesday nights 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. is Brews and Burgers, $2 Why are they upgrading the bar scene? Well, it domestic pints and $6 build-your-own burgers. Wednes- could be because a few miles down the road studay’s happy hour special is $4.50 wings and $3 microbrew dents flock to Portabella’s Sports Bar and Grille, located in Middletown on East Harrisburg Pike, on Thursday nights for $1.50 pitchers of beer. Maybe Lucky Ducks is in the process of reeling in more students to the soon-to-be upgraded bar, giving students a place a little closer to campus.

Photo: Matthew P. Butera “I can’t wait to see how they Lucky Ducks will feature a few happy hour specials during the week. upgrade their bar. It will be These specials will consist of Brews and Burgers on Tuesday,Wings and interesting to see if they can Microbrews on Wednesday and “Wined down the Week” on Friday. bring in a bigger crowd,” Bor- Aside from the weekly specials, the new eatery will offer a variety of ing said. eating options, ranging from wings to burgers and seafood.

The restaurant’s website, luckyducksgrille.com, reads, “We pride one who is dining or at the bar. “I have been to trivia night ourselves on two simple values—fresh a few times and its always a great time. Everyone is always quality food and great ser vice. Our having fun.” Mantz said. Also, remember Wednesday nights kitchen proudly serves local products special during trivia is Wings and Microbrews for $7.50.

With all the positive things to say about Lucky Ducks from Groff ’s Meats and Masonic Village Farmer’s Market.” It’s great to see them and what they have to offer, it will be interesting to see use local businesses for their products. if their new renovations and management can make this Photo: Matthew P. Butera Lucky Ducks also does catering for cel- place a hot spot for students. With great specials, reasonFlavers Food and Spirits has recently been purchased by a new and ebrations such as rehearsal dinners and able prices and fresh and delicious food, it seems they are upcoming local hangout, Lucky Ducks Bar and Grill. The restaurant will weddings. on the right path to do so. So, if you want to play trivia or serve menu items that were staples at Flavers, such as bat wings and honey Lucky Ducks also has trivia night are looking for a nice dinner with a special someone head garlic wings, but they have also added their own flair to the menu.

Wednesdays at 8 p.m. This is open to any- down to Lucky Ducks.

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Games, fright, ghosts, treats offered during Halloween Weekend

Terrifying, gruesome menu items provide Halloween spirit with a ghoulish air in the background

Hub for a night of mazes, a haunted hayride and games Friday, Oct. 28. Bring friends or go alone, but one should be warned, it is common knowledge among returning students that the ghouls and ghosts like to jump out at you. The first-year class consensus is just izards, pumpkins, and haunts, oh my! It’s Halloween time at Elizabethtown College, to make it to finals without losing their minds in the maze. Enter if you dare.

Not ready to be attacked by Freddy and Jason yet? Fear not, there is still plenty to do and that can only mean one thing: frightening and fall-like activities to entertain on campus, both this weekend and next, to keep in the Halloween spirit. First up is the the College community. The next two upcoming weekends have everything from exciting Halloween version of the award-winning show “Let’s Make a Deal.” What is in store for haunted houses to movies. the students and faculty will Etown students are not alremain a mystery until 9 p.m. lowed to trick-or-treat around Saturday Oct. 29, but knowtown, and there can only be ing what SWEET has done in speculation as to why. Whatever the past, surely Etown will not the reasoning behind it, this unbe disappointed. SWEET has doubtedly means that students at outdone themselves this time, the College are unable to channel as only a few hours after “Let’s their inner children through this Make a Deal,” the midnight Halclassic activity and must find loween dance in the KĀV will be other sorts of entertainment in ready to see action. lieu of the standard house-toFinally, the Halloween fun house candy hunting. need not end with October. FriWhat is there to do instead? day Nov. 4 at 4 p.m., Nov. 5 at 7 For those who are most unp.m., and Nov. 6 at 3 p.m., will happy about missing the sweets be the show times for “Harry and treats, there is no need to Potter and the Deathly Hallows: fret for long. The Marketplace Part II,” the final installment of has two Halloween-themed the series. Both SWEET and the treats for students to enjoy durbillboard itself proclaim: “It all ing the week. ends here.” Watch the beloved Dining Services hopes you enmagical characters come to life joyed their gruesome Halloween for the last time in the comfort Spooktacular Dinner, complete of Gibble’s seating and witness with celebrity-judged costumes the final showdown between on who was prettiest, scariest, Harry and Lord Voldemort. funniest and most original.

The town may not allow Also, don’t forget the disgustingstudents to walk around the sounding menu options.

Photo: Jacqueline E. Quidort neighborho od in costumes Kathy Christopher of Dining Services said that she and the rest The annual Halloween Dinner strikes terror in the hearts of many students who dare to enter the cafeteria’s looking for candy, but this does of the staff did all of the decora- doors. Costumed servers, gruesome entrée items and creepy-crawly desserts provide a nice variety from not mean the campus community won’t be as undead as any tions themselves, trying to be as the normal cafeteria dishes in the form of Halloween fun and fright. other Halloween-loving town. scary as possible. Christopher hopes that those who do not enjoy Halloween or being scared visited the Jay’s Nest for SWEET is sponsoring all of these events, and individual students are sure to come up with their own ideas, from horror movie parties in their dorm rooms to door decorations dinner instead of the Marketplace, during the festivities.

The latter will take place on Halloween itself when special desserts will be available in around every turn. It is obvious that the population is ready for multiple nights of frights. celebration of National Candy Corn Day. Lovers of flavored wax can come and celebrate Classified by finding these treats atop their cookies and cupcakes, made especially for the occasion.

Nanny/Sitter needed for two adorable 2-month-old twin girls. 2-3 days a week needed to come to There is no need to cry over missing out on a night of spooks, scares and mischief either. our home in Elizabethtown. Please call Danielle at 717-712-9708.

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What does Halloween mean to you?

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Hallow’s Eve traditions progress throughout history

Andrew S. Herm Staff Writer

t seems to me that Halloween, more so than any other holiday, means something completely different to each age group: children are hell-bent on scouring the neighborhood for candy; the young adult generation that, since having abandoned the trick-or-treat quest, will use the day as an excuse for another themed party; and the older folks, who either love interacting with the kids or watch TV, ignoring their doorbell.

It’s interesting to see how the meaning of the holiday has changed for me personally as well—to be honest, I don’t see much point in it, except for maybe wearing a costume that may or may not involve tights. Hypothetically.

Also, when taking historical context into account, the fact that we’ve turned Halloween into what we know it as today is a tad peculiar. After snooping around on the History Channel’s website, it seems that the holiday is attributed to the Celts, in the form of Samhain, celebrated in modern day Ireland, Great Britain and France. Back in the day, the New Year was celebrated on Nov. 1, “marking the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the cold, dark winter… associated with human death.” Prior to this New Year’s Day, Samhain occurred; the spirits of the dead would return to the Earth, damaging crops and causing mischief. So, there’s definitely a common ground between the dark undertones of the histori-

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cal holiday, and that is manifested with our modern day ghouls, goblins and witches.

That still leaves me wondering about the candy. Is it that societies in general never like to really let go of the past? With 20/20 hindsight, we can acknowledge that, yeah, something important did happen back then, but since we don’t really like the way they did it, let’s do it this way. Our version is better. Substitute out druids

gain a different perspective on the holiday situation, I asked sophomore Austin Good, who is both a resident of Lancaster County and a practicing Mennonite, whether or not mainstream Halloween is the headliner of October in the areas surrounding the College. It’s not. “For us, personally, Mennonites are very conservative dress-wise … no witches or demons.

It’d be more of a football player, farm animal [type of costume].” Along with that, Good notes that, contrary to the way mass media depicts spirits and ghosts, his community views otherworldly things as just that, otherworldly: “It’s kind of like the good and bad, not individual ghosts.”

Good further explains that the emphasis is more on the season than the actual day of Halloween. “I wouldn’t be carrying a trash bag full of candy back to my house…a lot of things go around schedules. If trick-orPhoto: imageshack.us treating was missed it wasn’t the and ghosts for the spirits of saints and end of the world.” That is something I martyrs and you have the Church’s can get behind. Of course, when I was All Saints’ Day, but being unable to younger if I thought there was a threat give up that Samhain celebration, All of not receiving boatloads of candy, Hallows’ Eve, our Halloween, stuck there’d have been a serious problem, around as well. So, finally, morph- but in retrospect, was it worth it? ing from a festival with bonfires and It’d be nice to celebrate fall for being spiritual observance, we have a day fall, for a change, the winding down of that’s generated unbelievably large another year, the beginning of school. amounts of money through the sales Parties will always be there, and will alof candy, movies, toys, costumes, ways be fun, but half the time I can’t tell crappy spin-off remake movies and whether I should be dressed up, dressed decorations. down, bring candy or fake blood or Should it be that way? Because I’ll whether I’ll be running in to Hannah admit, that’s really the only Hallow- Montana or Satan. The good news is, if een I know, and it seems to carry way you’re as stressed or confused as me, you more weight than the other autumn can go take advantage of the Christmas holiday, Thanksgiving. We place sales at your local everything— they’ve candy over gratitude. Wanting to been going on since September.

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When I dressed up as a geisha

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Facilities responds to spider concerns in any of our residence halls, While it can bite, usually into contact with the spider Joseph Metro Director of Facilities Mgmt. it was most likely introduced the bite is an annoyance. and it bites in defense. You by a student in their belong- In some cases bites may may see a spider in the hallings. Our students travel all become infected with swell- way or your room, it’s not he Oct. 13 issue of the over the world, so picking ing, redness and tenderness. there to look for someone to Etownian concerning up a “hitchhiking” spider is If this occurs you should bite, and will run and hide if contact College Student given a chance. the Brown Recluse spider possible.

We are currently in a Health. Several spiders have Once winter sets in, the resulted in considerable seasonal transition, when been brought to Facilities cold will kill any insects that concern among students, staff and parents. Since evening and daytime tem- Management and most of don’t make it underground or into buildings. Thus, nobody in Facilities Man- peratures begin to drop, them are Wolf Spiders. we will still have agement had some insects, ina chance to cluding spiders, see the actual overwintering in spider, it was the cozy confines never identiof our buildings. f i e d . How If you see a spiever, after 10 der in your room minutes on and you are unthe Internet, comfortable dealI located the ing with it, we photo used in have insecticides the Etownian at Facilities Manand found it to agement so give be identical to us a call. Facilities a stock photo Management has that can be Ehrlich ExterPhotos: Rick Vetter found at this l i n k h t t p : / / Pictured left is a Wolf Spider. Multiple Wolf Spiders have been brought to facilities mination under en.wikipedia. this semester. Pictured right is a Cellar Spider that is indigenous to this area. contract to carry o r g / w i k i / Currently, they are seeking shelter indoors. Students should contact facilities if out Integrated Pest Management F i l e : B r o w n - they have any issues.The above pictures were selected by Joseph Metro.

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Since nobody but the most common spiders we paths with them by accident down, but these treatments student saw the spider, I encounter in our dwellings they run and seek shelter. will never totally eradicate can’t question the veracity are the Broad Faced Sac Spi- Like us, they have an inher- all insects from the campus.

Spiders have been around of the student identification der, Long-legged Sac Spider, ent drive to survive, and if Longbodied Cellar Spider, cornered, they may respond a lot longer than mankind. of the spider as a Brown Recluse. However, some Bold Jumper, Common by biting. Spiders kill and eat Spiders are a fact of life, are spiders that are native to House Spider and the Wolf other insects, many of which not aggressive and when our area, like the Cellar Spi- Spider. The Wolf Spider is can be disease carriers, and, given a chance will run from der can easily be mistaken very common in this area by doing this, they provide you. However, if you would and can grow to a formi- a valuable service. When like Facilities Management for the Brown Recluse.

Brown Recluse spiders dable size. As such, it is the someone is bitten by a spider to deal with a spider, just are not indigenous to this spider most apt to frighten it is usually a circumstance let us know and we will be area, so if one is ever present those who encounter it. when we accidently come happy to respond.

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Marshmallowcup ANnouncement Student Senate would like to remind Elizabethtown College students that offensive and lewd behavior on campus is not acceptable. Wearing offensive clothing (i.e. the “Muck Fessiah” shirts) to the Elizabethtown-Messiah game will not be permitted per the Dean of Students and the Athletic Department Chairperson. Any student wearing the shirt, or any other offensive shirt, will not be permitted to enter the game.

Also, per the Student Handbook, Student Senate would also like to remind you that offensive clothing is also not permitted on campus. Please, continue to use good judgment and be respectful towards our fellow community members. If there are any questions please contact SENATE@etown.edu.

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Halloween, ghost of senior’s childhood past?

Sean M. Duetsch Columnist

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t is finally October. A time when the leaves are changing and the weather is turning.

And there is one thing on every college student’s mind: “What am I going to be for Halloween?”

Personally, I feel like I have grown out of Halloween over the years. The idea of dressing up in a costume just doesn’t tickle my fancy anymore. However, I think we can all admit that Halloween is a very different experience for each of us depending upon how old we are.

Halloween is the greatest holiday as a kid. You get to walk around with your friends dressed as your character of choice while going door to door making strangers give you candy just because you rang their doorbell and uttered those three magical words, “trick or treat.” That is almost as great as

believing a fat, bearded man flies to most kids’ houses in the world delivering presents while having the time to take a break at each house and eat cookies (talk about the world’s biggest stomachache).

Then I feel like every kid goes through that phase where mischief night is ten times more important than the actual Halloween night.

Who can forget those nights going ding-dong-ditch-ing around the neighborhood, tricking all your elderly neighbors into answering the door to an exploding stink bomb (yeah, not too proud of this one). Now, whenever I see a house tepee’ed, I just hope it’s not double ply toilet paper (that would be such a waste).

Now that we are older though, Halloween has gone through a major paradigm shift. It has become a lot more... how do I put this... um... adult, if you will. And the biggest change of course is the costumes.

Costumes as a kid were always very simple. Girls were princesses or fairies and boys were superheroes (and then there was always that weird kid who was way too excited to dress as a girl every year). As we got older

though, this all began to change.

Women will generally now try to take the most wholesome professions or characters and turn them into the sexiest version they can think of. I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding this, but if a woman wants to be a sexy police officer, go for it. Just don’t complain to me when you are freezing cold and your feet hurt from wearing your unnecessary 15-inch heels.

Most guys, on the other hand, will try to do the least amount of work as possible on their costumes (I fall into this category). If you are looking for a simple Halloween costume, just wear a white shirt and write “GO CEILINGS” on it. You will have the simplest ceiling fan costume ever. The only constant is that kid who still is way too excited to dress as a girl on Halloween.

The other topic I want to touch on is the actually scary part of Halloween. Personally, haunted hayrides or the themed dinners every year in the Marketplace don’t scare me like they did when I was younger. I’m not sure why though, maybe it’s because behind all the make-up and tarnished bloody clothing, I know there is a middle-

aged bald man who is taking his volunteer job way too seriously.

Even scary movies have become so over the top and predictable that they are almost comical.

For example, I thought “Paranormal Activity” was one of the year’s best comedies.

Now, I am not saying I don’t get scared. I have been on ghost hunts before, and my pants have been wetter than a newborn’s diaper. But when Joe Scarecrow is trying to spook me with his plastic chainsaw and vintage hockey mask, I see right through it. Once you find out something is fake, it kind of ruins the entire experience, like Santa Claus or Pamela Anderson’s breasts.

I don’t want to sound like a Halloween Grinch (what is it with all the Christmas references?) because Halloween can be a fun holiday. It has been a large part of the American culture and great memories are made with our closest friends each year. So I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween. And remember to not drink too much candy. I mean eat too much candy. Wait, no, I mean drink too much alcohol.

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Treatment of disabled student raises questions Should all college students have the equal opportunity to participate?

Ginette Slaughter Staff Writer

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hould every college student be given the equal opportunity to speak up in class? Professors should be encouraging their students to participate and answer questions. However, a New Jersey college professor, Elizabeth Snyder, asked one of her students to stop participating by refraining from asking and answering questions in class because of his stutter. Snyder told the New York Times that the student took up too much time in class by wanting to answer every question asked during class. Instead of praising the student for participation and trying to work through his stuttering disabilities, she said she wanted to “put him at ease” by telling him not to talk at all during her class. How often do we come across a professor who doesn’t want her students to participate in class?

There is a good chance this student went through his school years without thinking it was wrong for him to speak in class because of his stutter, until he took Snyder’s course. In education, everyone should be granted the equal opportunity to learn and expand their minds by participating in deep discussions and asking his or her instructors intriguing questions.

Don’t we go to school to learn about things we are curious about? If I wanted to ask one of my professors a question, but was not allowed because I took too long to ask it, I would be annoyed. The reason is because not only would I not be able to learn, but I also would not be given the same opportunities as the other students in my class. What this student has experienced is an abomination to the education system because it goes against the point of education, which is to teach students what they do not already know so they can enhance their knowledge for the real world.

Sophomore Kim Wendling, a secondary math education major, disagreed with Snyder’s approach to the situation in her classroom. “I truly believe that no child should be left behind in their schooling for any reason, especially if they have a disability that they cannot control,” Wendling said. “As an aspiring teacher, I will most likely have disabled students in my classes, but I plan to work with them to make sure they understand the class and grasping all of the materials,” she added.

On Snyder’s side of the argument, could it be that the student crossed a line with participating too much in class? Is there such a thing? Everyone knows that one kid in class who can’t seem to put his or her hand down whenever a professor asks a question or even worse, the kid who just does not stop talking during a class. It is possible that the student had these tendencies and his stutter did not help the issue. However, does this make it okay for a professional educator to ask the student to stop speaking in class? As a college professor, Snyder should want her students to participate regardless of their disabilities and although she is entitled to feel a certain way about her students, she should not act on them even if it interferes with a student’s desire to learn.

Students with disabilities at Etown are given multiple opportunities to learn as much as the students without disabilities are. Etown has its own Disability Services as part of the College’s Center for Student Success that deals directly with students who have disabilities on campus. According to the College’s website, “Disability Services is committed to providing equal access and reasonable academic accommodations for qualified students with documented disabilities.”

Each student may have varying severities of disabilities, so Disability Services strives to give students the best accommodations on a case-by-case basis. One of the biggest services offered is the note taker service Image: theshynessproject.com where students take notes in class for students who have an impairment and cannot take their own notes as successfully.

There are many ways to go about accommodating students with disabilities, even those students attending higher education campuses. If a smaller campus like Etown has its own Disability Services, there is no excuse for bigger campuses not to have one especially because students with disabilities will most likely need more attention in a larger classroom setting. Students with speech impediments, like the student Snyder’s classroom, should not be shunned for having a disability, but instead, praised by their professors for having the guts to participate in class when there are students without any disabilities who choose not to participate at all. It is disappointing to hear stories like this one because as a nation, we have come too far in making education an opportunity for everyone to be going backwards in our progress.

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Professor considers implication of online advertisements Sanjay Paul Chair of Business Dept.

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he Etownian recently published a piece on Convocation. The Sept.

15 article dealt with speeches made at the event, and was also published online at etownian.com, and as Homer perused it, his eyes were drawn to links at the end of the article. These links, presumably generated by Web technologies that scour global databases to ferret out the most relevant matches, offered recommendations for further reading. Perhaps, thought Homer, there would be links to articles dealing with convocations, earthquakes, college presidents, even scones or iPads (all mentioned in the original article).

So imagine Homer’s surprise when the first recommended link in the list promised to show him “How to Become a Dietitian in Australia (eHow).” This was no errant fluke—the subheading clearly stated it was “Selected for you by our sponsor.”

Homer wondered who the sponsor was. If the ads on the page were any indication, the sponsor could have been Wells Fargo, American

Public University or Keurig. The first was a bank, the second appeared to be an institution of higher education, and the last was a maker of single-serve coffee brewers. People in higher education tend to have checking accounts and they consume a lot of coffee, so this juxtaposition is not that much of a stretch. But why would these companies think Homer would be interested in becoming a dietitian Down Under?

If he heeded their advice (by now, the recommendation was turning into solid career advice in Homer’s feverish mind), not only would he have to switch careers—from teaching economics to learning about diets (would his experience with scones count, he wondered fleetingly)—he would have to change continents as well. Couldn’t they have suggested that Homer become a dietitian in Elizabethtown, or move to Australia as a professor? The transition in either case would have been so much easier.

But Technology moves in mysterious ways. And who was he, thought Homer, to question the wisdom being dispensed by the Unseen Algorithm? If Google (or Bing or whoever it was behind the scenes) said he should be looking at a different career in an-

other country, could he afford to ignore the recommendation?

What if Technology was right—perhaps this was the best time to make a career-and-continent change?

And so Homer clicked on the link. The first sentence on eHow was promising: “Becoming a dietitian in Australia requires certain courses and certification... that qualify you to provide nutritional guidance to patients.”

Since then Homer has spoken to his family. They support him fully. Although it will be from afar! Turns out they didn’t want to leave their schools and work, and move to a distant continent to join Homer in his quest to provide nutritional guidance to patients.

Their faith in Technology’s recommendations was a little lacking, thought Homer, but he was okay with that.

Homer is now looking into taking out a loan from Wells Fargo to finance an online education at American Public University (assuming they are in the education business). And, oh, he thought, he would also need a coffeemaker. Homer wondered if he could use the proceeds from the loan to buy a Keurig.

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Runners dominate race: Battle for the Buggy Invitational Team victory ensured by five Blue Jay competitors crossing finish line in top ten spots Alexis L. Morris

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his past Saturday, Oct. 22, the Elizabethtown College women’s cross country team dominated the competition during the annual Battle for the Buggy Invitational.

Although alumna Megan VanDenHengel won the race for the second year in a row, firstyear Amelia Tearnan was quick to finish the 4K for Etown, crossing the line at 17:24.34.

A total of five Blue Jays finished the race in the top 10. Tearnan led junior Taryn Shank and first-year Ashley Underkofler, the third and fourth spots, respectively; sophomore Abby Mitchell and junior Sarah Steinmetz grabbed the eighth and ninth places to secure Etown’s first-place win.

According to sophomore Eileen Cody, Battle for the Buggy is fun for Etown because the alumni form teams and compete in the race. Also, “six runners will not be running, so it will give other members of the team a chance to show their skills and what they have been working towards all season,” Cody explained.

In addition to their success at Battle for the Buggy, the Blue Jays performed well in the Princeton Invitational on Oct. 15. Even though the team faced tough competition at the invitational from runners from Division I schools such as Yale University, St. Joseph’s University and Monmouth University, Etown was still able to grab an eighth-place finish.

Sophomore Traci Tempone led the team by clocking her fastest 6K time of the season with a 22:52. Tempone came in eleventh-place overall, and sophomore Megan Tursi also contributed to the team’s success with a time of 23:54; good for thirtieth place.

The Battle for the Buggy was the team’s last competitive meet before the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championships, which will be held in Grantham, Pa. at Messiah College. The women will be looking to defend their multiple MAC titles–they have captured four consecutive wins from 2007-2010. With their success at the Battle for the Buggy and at the Princeton Invitational, it looks like another championship will return to Etown.

However, Cody stated that these recent wins do not ensure a MAC victory, so the team cannot become too complacent with these past meets. When mentioning Etown’s

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

This past weekend, on Oct. 22, the head coach of the Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team was recognized by his alma mater. Jason Petronis, a 1997 graduate, was inducted into the East Stroudsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame. He was acknowledged for being an astounding goalie and leading the Warriors to four consecutive Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championships and two NCAA Tournament appearances.

renovations

Coach hopes to ‘dress up’ field

No plans in place for additional turf surface Jill A. Norris

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ield and equipment renovations are something that many Elizabethtown College athletes and coaches would enjoy seeing in the near future. There have been numerous discussions about a five-year strategic plan, installing a new press box in the soccer stadium and some chatter about an additional turf field.

Over the past few months, an athletics strategic planning committee has been working to develop a five-year strategic plan for Blue Jay athletics. “We will be working in the coming weeks to ensure that the athletics’ plan coordinates with and complements the college-wide plan that is now being developed,” explained Nancy Latimore, the director of athletics and physical education at Etown.

One of the main goals of the plan is to improve the condition of Etown’s athletic equipment. The objective of the plan is “to work with the College’s Facilities Planning and Construction Committee to create a five-year master plan for the development of athletic, recreational and fitness facilities.”

One renovation that Skip Roderick, the head coach of the men’s soccer team, would like to see is the installation of a new press box in the soccer stadium.

According to Roderick, the current press box that presides over Ira R. Herr Field was built in the ’70s and is not as safe as it once was. It was, however, just reinforced last spring as a safety precaution.

Roderick’s ideal press box would be on the same side as the bleachers. That way it could have bathrooms and hopefully even a snack bar for the fans. The press box would be an attempt to “try to dress up the field a little better,” Roderick explained.

Latimore noted that the project has not yet been approved, but “Coach Roderick has talked with some alumni and donors about the project.” He has talked to donors and alumni because, if a new press box

were to be installed, it would be purchased with money obtained purely through fundraising.

Roderick would like to build a new press box in honor of his assistant coach, Gene Clemens. Clemens, who was originally a philosophy and religion professor at Etown, has been working with Roderick for over 20 years and also takes photos of both the men’s and women’s soccer games. Clemens deserves this recognition for “the wonderful memories that he has given to all the former players,” Roderick added.

Contrar y to some students’ beliefs, Roderick did not receive an offer from the school to install a turf field in the soccer stadium. While another turf field would benefit many of the athletic programs, one is not currently in the works.

“We would love to have a second artificial turf field, especially at times like this when we are experiencing a monsoon season; however, it is unlikely that we will install another turf field any time soon,” Latimore reported.

Roderick is content with the soccer stadium continuing to be a grass field. “I would rather have the soccer field remain on grass, but whatever the school feels is necessary,” Roderick said.

Many schools that install turf fields do so because they do not have enough space for grass surfaces and athletic facilities must be used as multi-purpose fields. This change also leads to fewer postponed sporting activities.

However, Etown is not as short on space as some other schools and, therefore, the College is able to have numerous playing fields.

In terms of other renovations, the track is being repaired in preparation for the conference track and field championships that Etown will host in May of 2012. Money for a new sound system for the outdoor athletic facilities is also in the works. This project will also use the funds generated by this year’s Poole Blue Jay Open Golf Tournament.

performance during the Princeton Invitational, Cody said, “It was a good feeling, but it also put into perspective how much harder we do still need to work. One of our main competitors in the region, Haverford, was also at Princeton, and beat us. We know that we have to continue our forward momentum to give them a good challenge at Regionals.”

One runner sure to continue with her momentum is Tempone. Not only did she have Etown’s top time in the Princeton Invitational, but she was named MAC Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Week because of her stellar performance. Tempone received this award earlier in the season for her secondplace finish at the Lebanon Valley Dutchmen Invitational in September. She ran the 5K in 19:07.4, and in all of the races she has competed in thus far, she has been Etown’s top finisher.

Regardless, Tempone is not the only key to success for the Blue Jays. Cody named Tearnan, Image: etownbluejays.com Tursi, first-years Underkofler and Sarah Sophomore Traci Tempone led the Vaughn, sophomore Laurie Jones and junior women’s cross country team at the Megan Patton as solid assets to the team as well.

Princeton Invitational by finishing in Still, “it will take an honest effort from every eighth place. member of the team and a drive to succeed from everyone,” Cody explained about winning MACs. “In cross country, there is no runner that does not contribute to the team in some way.”

conflict resolution

Security steps in during game Homecoming events present security issues Meghan M. Sarik Asst. Sports Editor

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he 2011 Homecoming We e k e n d a t E l i z a b e t ht ow n C o l l e g e consisted of more than just a few games. Yes, there were soccer games and family members roaming around campus, and lots of things to see and do.

But Campus Security had their hands full with a number of incidents reported, included several a lterc at ions. It was however, not as bad as previous homecomings, according to Dale Boyer, assistant director of Campus Security, and Jack Longenecker, the Campus Security director.

At the men’s soccer game, there was an altercation between an irate parent and several drunk students.

E v i d e n t l y, a g r o u p o f students were intoxicated and acting in a loud and obnoxious manner.

A parent witnessed the group’s actions and objected to b ot h t heir l angu age and behavior. There was a verbal interaction among

techniques to diffuse the situation and would much rather do that than have to use physical confrontation.”

Not many people were aware of what happened unless they directly witnessed the situation as it took place. Security does their best to keep things contained by early intervention.

B oyer said that the way Campus S ecurity approaches each situation via early intervention and talking things out is the key to keeping things from getting out of hand and violent.

The end of Alumni Hill, located near the visiting teams’ bench, was roped off, and security worked hard to keep people out of t he are a. There is a long history of students being disruptive during the games and trashing the area. There were specific areas sectioned off where students and other spectators could stand and view the game.

The C ollege employs special officers just for sporting events to make

continued. These officers are an important part of why any incidents that take place at the sporting events are handled smoothly.

Campus Security seems to think that the combination of Homecoming and family weekend several years ago kept a lot of problems at bay.

Homecoming weekends used to be out of control and came with more alcohol abuse.

Ac c ord i n g t o B oy e r, the College thought the combination would be a good solution, as students are probably much less likely to get highly intoxicated if they know their parents and other family members will be around the next morning.

But despite that, there was certainly no lack of officers on high alert during the weekend’s celebrations.

“Because of the special events this weekend, we had a high profile to keep better tabs, watch things more closely,” Boyer said.

“Not all that bad, we’ve had a lot worse…we’ve seen really bad Homecomings.”

Campus Security patrolled the dorms more than usual.

In t h e d o r m s , one student broke t wo of t h e g l a s s panes in a door in Royer residence hall. He was sent to the hospital via ambulance for i ntox i c at i on .

A n ot h e r s tu d e nt broke into s o m e o n e’s h o m e and was arrested by the Elizabethtown B o r o u g h Po l i c e .

C ampus S ecurity also had to escort a drunk student out of the Homecoming dance for being disruptive.

All in all, Campus Security was pleased with the way the weekend turned out and the officers were more than able to deal with situations smoothly and swiftly. “Overall, it wasn’t too bad,” Boyer admitted.

“We used verbal techniques to diffuse the situation and would much rather do that than have to use physical confrontation.”

-Dale Boyer the parties, but Campus Security was able to quickly address and diffuse the situation before any physical blows were exchanged.

Boyer did not personally witness the situation but said, “[It was like] fire and gasoline; keep ever yone apart and find out what’s going on. We used verbal

sure everything stays under control. “I believe we have three part-time guys who are always on call. They come in and just work sporting events. It’s just more eyes and ears that we can have, which is a big part of being able to diffuse the situation before anything gets out of hand,” Boyer

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men’s basketball

Team remains positive despite loss of players due to injuries Coach Schlosser plans to work team harder than opposing teams and form cohesive unit Jaime N. Thurmond Staff Writer

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cohesive unit. Men’s basketball Head Coach Bob Schlosser said that he has the same two goals every season. He plans to make his team a cohesive unit and to have the team work harder than their opponent. Schlosser holds a meeting at the beginning of every season and has the players create personal and team goals.

Ben Cable, a junior guard, said, “We definitely will look to turn some heads this year. We’re not going to get much respect from other teams around the conference after losing our two leading scorers from last season to graduation, as well as our third leading scorer to a season-ending injury [senior Brian Allport­—torn ACL]. I think we will surprise a lot of teams.”

Schlosser said the players usually create goals for themselves, such as “win the Conference, do not lose at home and make the NCAAs.” Cable said, “I think that I need to become a more consistent scorer, especially after the preseason injuries of Tom ‘the Coondog’ Cooney and Brian Allport.”

Cooney and Allport have both torn their ACLs this preseason and will be out for the entire season. “We will definitely miss Tom Cooney’s deadly outside shooting ability, as well as Brian Allport’s inside scoring and defensive presence. We will lean on the senior leadership of co-captains, Kyle McConnell and Dan Silver,” said Schlosser.

The team lost six seniors last year, three of whom were starters. Coach Schlosser described each player as an “integral part of the team.” Keith Fogel and Joe Flanagan were also All-Conference picks and lead the team in points last year.

Schlosser said, “replacing those points that graduated will be difficult for us, but we’re looking forward, not backwards. We’re

hoping we can develop what we need to to keep pace and be competitive.”

Despite losing a number of seniors from last year due to graduation, the team is gaining some valuable first- years.

According to Schlosser, “We really think this is one of our best first-year groups, even though it’s still early. We’re only three practices in, but we’re still really excited about the group we’ve got. It’s going to take a few weeks to determine if these first-years can be varsity contributors or not, but I’d like to believe that there are some that are going to help us.”

Joining a team as a first-year can be a bit intimidating because positions are already established and bonds are already made. Regarding this issue Schlosser said, “We always work on [team bonding] and I think even now the guys have done great jobs, the upperclassmen in particular, with working with the first-years.”

Schlosser continued by saying, “I think our captains, Dan Silver and Kyle McConnell, have done a great job of integrating the first-year guys. It’s an ongoing process, and we try to really work on the chemistry and getting everyone to mesh without having the upperclassmen separating themselves from the freshmen.”

There will be a lot of changes on the men’s basketball team

“We try to really work on the chemistry and getting everyone to mesh without heaving the upperclassmen separating themselves from the freshmen.”

- Bob Schlosser

this year. Losing the graduating seniors is always tough, and the preseason injuries have also hurt the team.

Every three years the basketball team has gone overseas to play internationally, and this upcoming summer would be three years since their last trip but, due to the economy, they will most likely push it back until next summer. The team is currently trying to raise funds to decrease the price but, for financial reasons, they will most likely still have to wait a year.

Still, both coach and players agreed to not dwell on their losses and to do their best this season. The team is scheduled to play their first game of the season against Penn State Harrisburg on Nov. 15 in Thompson Gym.

golf

Team perseveres through rain

Golfers emerge victorious through wet season Christian V. Sammartino Staff Writer

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ven with rainfall of historical proportions this season, the Elizabethtown College men’s golf team stayed on par. The players posted solid results while they weathered one of the rainiest seasons in recent memory.

“We lost half a dozen practices due to the storms, hurricanes and flooding. Hershey Country Club East had to close half of the back nine for two and a half weeks,” firstyear Brett Williams said. “I only played the entire back nine two times before we hosted our match,” he added.

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Drew Hanaoka measures his putt at the Albright Tri-Match. Hanaoka finished the match with a score of 85, which put him in third place.

The consistent performances posted by first-year Ryan Laudeman paced the squad this fall. Laudeman registered a twelfth place finish in his first match as a Blue Jay at the Chestnut Hill Fall Classic. In addition, he scored within the 70s four times this season.

“I like to take my game one shot at a time.

Golf is such a mental game and can frustrate you very quickly...whenever I hit a bad shot, I just forget about it and move on to the next one,” Laudeman said.

Laudeman and Williams were the top two finishers for the Jays at the Albright TriMatch on Oct. 10. Laudeman recorded a 79 to lead the team. Williams tied his best score of the season with an 84 and posted the second highest score for the Jays.

L audeman displaye d his consistent approach when he rebounded from a rough performance at the seventh hole. “I just really put it behind me and put a good stretch of holes together,” Laudeman said. “I wasn’t hitting many greens, so I had to rely on my chipping and putting to get me where I had to be,” he said.

Williams used a course management style to attack the links at Albright. His approach was to measure the distance to the hole, focus on the accuracy of his shots and lay up to distances which put him in a prime position for future shots.

“I found a great driver swing. I think I hit the fairway of almost every hole...in the middle portion of the round, I got into a really good groove with my irons,” Williams said.

Senior Drew Hanaoka concluded his round one stroke shy of Williams with an 85 and finished in third place. The highlight of his season came in the Blue Jay Classic on Oct. 6. Hanaoka recorded a 77 and captured thirteenth place in that event.

Given the performances of the first-years, combined with veteran leadership, the team has a bright future. “I am very impressed with the team this year,” senior Kent Hersom said.

“It’s a difficult transition from high school to college golf, and I think the team has a lot of potential in the lowerclassmen.”

The team has also developed chemistry in combination with their skill and leadership.

“I have really enjoyed golfing with the team.

There is a great team atmosphere going on, and I’ve definitely made some great friends for my entire college career,” Williams said.

Now that the fall season is over, the team can make adjustments and prepare to defend their Commonwealth Conference Title in the spring.

Hersom is entering his last year as a Blue Jay, and he realizes the significance of the season. “It is definitely sad to realize that I don’t have many collegiate tournaments left, and I will miss the team atmosphere.”

With a successful fall season behind them, the team is looking forward to continue their momentum in the spring.

Hersom has a few goals for the upcoming spring season. “I hope to just go out and be confident on the course and do the best I can.

I think we have a strong team, and I hope we can focus and come together to win some tournaments.”

Etown Athletes’ superstitions Erin Guarino: Volleyball

“In our team huddles, I always put my left hand up because I feel like whenever I put my right hand up, we lose.”

Chris Tunis: Men’s Soccer

“I turn my back when the opposing team is announced to help me stay focused on how I play and not them.”

Dillon Tagle: Baseball

“I have to take five and only five swings in the warm-up circle before going up to bat.”

Amy Bunting: Women’s Soccer

“I say the same prayer in my head during the National Anthem at every game. And Laura [Wingert] and I have worn the same colored sports bras since freshmen year.”

Brian Hicks: Men’s Lacrosse

“I can’t shave the day of a game, it’s bad luck.”

Bari Rosenstein: Women’s Lacrosse “I never play without wearing my Dixie Chicks shirt underneath my jersey. And I always have my hair braided the same exact way.”

Eric Fritzges: Men’s Tennis

“All the players warm-up with the same partner until one of them loses; then they switch.”

Eileen Cody: Cross Country

“The team walks to the starting line holding hands to show that we are one team and are all ready to fight together.”

Kevin Brady: Track & Field

“I have to put my left shoe on first because that’s the foot I plant when I’m pole vaulting.”

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women’s tennis

Pellegrino places first in MAC Championship

Inside Sports

First-year leads program and embraces higher-level competition Jessica M. Sassani Staff Writer

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ennis player Kaitlyn Pellegrino has been explosive on the court this year, and she is only a first-year student. She led the women’s tennis team to the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship and placed first in the competition.

what practices were like all he said was, ‘we hit a lot of tennis balls.’”

This regimen has certainly worked in her favor, and she claims her success is a result of the long hours she put into training as a member of the Elizabethtown College women’s tennis team.

Winning was of course Pellegrino’s goal when entering the MAC Championships,

“They were all supportive of my win. Even if I did not win, I knew they would still be supportive, that’s the kind of team they are and I am glad to be a part of it.”

- Kaitlyn Pellegrino Being a first-year on a college team can be scary for a lot of athletes, but not for Pellegrino.

She was not intimidated, and she knew she had something to prove. “College tennis is much different than high school. I was nervous to get out there and try to prove that I belonged with them,” Pellegrino said. It seems fair to say that Pellegrino did just that.

While intimidation was not an issue for her, training was a concern. Although Pellegrino has played tennis since the age of ten, she knew that college would be different. “Coach [Matthew Helsel] had us out practicing everyday. When I asked him

and she depended on her team and coach’s advice to make it through.

“Coach told me that for this tournament I need to be patient, get one more ball back than the other girl, and if I see a good opportunity to hit a winner, then do it. But if the opportunity doesn’t arise, then just outlast her and let her make the mistake,” she said.

His advice was just what she needed to clinch the win. “I tried my best to listen and in the end it definitely worked,” Pellegrino said.

Tennis may be a solitar y sport, but Pellegrino was far from alone in winning.

When she joined this team, Pellegrino was

welcomed with open arms by the coach, as well as her teammates.

A bond quickly developed. “When I won, all I heard was loud cheering coming from the girls. They were all supportive of my win.

Even if I did not win, I knew they would still be supportive, that’s the kind of team they are and I am glad to be a part of it.” The strong team support is one of the driving forces behind Pellegrino’s success.

Through her training she has developed into a stronger and more confident tennis player. Her team and coach have taught her a great deal within the few short months of the season.

“My greatest strength would have to be my serve and forehand. I would have said my mentality would have been a weakness, but since coming to college it has improved and now I really believe in myself when I play,” she said.

Pellegrino credits her success to her parents, who have been there for her from day one and support her and the goals which she sets for herself. Her mom especially has been a strong influence. “She’s my number one fan. She helps me win or lose and always has good advice,” Pellegrino said.

After Pellegrino began the sport, her mother picked it up as well, and they bonded over the game. “She started tennis after she saw the love I had for it, and now she is in love with the sport too. I have to say I wouldn’t be where I am today if she hadn’t been there with me every step of the way,” Pellegrino said.

Whether it is her supportive family, coach and team, long hours spent training or just pure talent, Pellegrino seems to be a star athlete on the tennis court. She has only been a Blue Jay for a little over two months, but she has proven her outstanding abilities on the court.

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Athlete of the Week Alex Topa

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Sports Recap Women’s Volleyball Etown 0, Salisbury 3 Etown 3 Goucher, 1 Etown 2, F&M 3 Etown 3, Arcadia 0 Men’s Soccer Etown 2, Arcadia 0 Etown 4, Susquehanna 1 Women’s Soccer Etown 0, Arcadia 0 Etown 1, Susquehanna 0 Field Hockey Etown 1, Juniata 2 Etown 2, Swarthmore 1 Etown 0, LVC 3

Q&A

Biggest Fear: driving next to big trucks Favorite Movie: “Madea Goes toJail” Greatest Etown Accomplishment: making the dean’s list Favorite Place To Visit: San Francisco Favorite Etown Memory: meeting new people and making great friends Favorite Holiday: Christmas

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Women’s Soccer

Major: early childhood education Hometown: Drexel Hill, Pa. Favorite Musician: Carrie Underwood Favorite Athlete: Alex Morgan Hardly anyone knows that...

I am a pretty good artist.

Favorite Jay’s Nest Item: chicken strips In 10 years, I want to be… an elementary school teacher and married with kids.

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Men’s Soccer October 29: Messiah Women’s Soccer October 29: Messiah Field Hockey October 29: King’s November 2: Messiah

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Sophomore Alex Topa scored her first hat-trick of her Etown soccer career this past week, scoring against Lycoming College. Topa, who started playing soccer at age five, is an unstoppable offensive player on the field, even after undergoing ACL surgery during her high school years.

Cross Country October 29: MAC Championship @ Messiah November 2: NCAA Mideast Regional Championship @ DeSales Women’s Volleyball October 29: Swarthmore @ Haverford