On Friday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., the new Boll-

man Fabrication Labora-tory was dedicated. The lab replaced the green-houses attached to Esben-shade.

The advanced prototyp-ing lab, nicknamed the “Fab Lab,” will be used in

several engineering cours-es to give engineering stu-dents a place to complete various projects. Accord-ing to an email distributed prior to the dedication, the lab will be “A place where ideas become prototypes, where projects help solve problems.”

The new lab was named for Bernice and Phil Boll-man.

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Class of 1976 alumna receives Educate for Service award, highest alumni honor

Nancy Dering Mock received the Educate for Service award on Friday, Oct. 24. The Educate for Service award is considered the highest award given to alumni. Senior Bhim Thapaliya attended a breakfast with her during her stay on campus.

Photo: Luke Mackey

Engineering program benefits from newly dedicated “Fab Lab”by SAMANTHA WEISS

Walk of Love 5k run/walk event raises money for orphaned children

T he Walk of Love cross country 5k run and fun

walk took place at Elizabeth-town College on Saturday, Oct. 25. Participants came together to raise money to benefit orphaned children around the world.

Sophomore Juliana Mow-en lives in the Hope House Student Directed Learning Community (SDLC) and works with the charity Brit-tany’s Hope to help promote the group and spread the word on what they do. “The Walk of Love is relevant to

Etown students because we are part of the young popula-tion of Etown, and we like to stay active,” Mowen said. “By participating, you get some sort of exercise, and it’s an overall fun event. Etown stu-dents participate by running or by volunteering for the day of the event or by help-ing set up the night before.”

Every year, the Walk of Love is held at the Ironstone ranch which is right down the road from Brittany’s Hope.

“The goal of the 5k is definitely to bring in money so that they can fund the or-

phans,” Mowen said. “How-ever, the more fun the walk and run, the more people come out! So that’s another goal — make it fun, make the money,” Mowen said.

The Walk of Love not only had the 5k run and fun walk but also children’s games such as mini-golf, pony rides and face painting as well as having vendors that were set up around the start/finish line. Raffles were held and free T-shirts were also given to all participants after the race.

by KELLY MOORE

Mellon Foundation awards humanities programs grant

Elizabethtown College students and fac-ulty members packed the Blue Bean to

celebrate Diwali, a Hindu festival of lights, on Thursday, Oct. 23.

Dr. Jeffery Long, professor of religion and Asian studies, opened the event by discussing the history of the holiday, as well as its significance to followers of Hinduism. Long, who recently has presented on Hindu topics in India, chanted several traditional Hindu prayers in Sanskrit. At one point, he showed the crowd a video of President

Obama wishing everyone a happy Diwali. President Obama ushered in Diwali as a national holiday.

The Blue Bean was draped in strings of lights and paper lanterns as decorations. There were also make-your-own paper lanterns for students to create before Long invited the students to try some desserts typical of Diwali celebrations.

The Office of International Student Services, along with the religious studies department at Etown, sponsored the free event.

Scholarship fund honors political science professor

Photo: Luke Mackey

The Bollman Fabrication Laboratory was dedicated last week. The lab will provide space and resources for engineering students to complete projects.

The Walk of Love 5k run and fun walk event is held every year at the Ironstone ranch. The money from the event goes to the Brittany’s Hope charity to help orphaned children.

Photo: Luke Mackey

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by TIANA FERRANTE

Event in Blue Bean celebrates Diwali

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recent-

ly presented a “Capacity Building for the Humani-ties” grant of $100,000 to Elizabethtown College.

This is the second time that the Mellon Founda-tion selected the College as an award recipient in its “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Human-ities” program area.

The College received $25,000 of funding from the organization back in 2006. While that award spe-cifically financed Etown’s international program-ming endeavors, the larger amount given in September of this year supports the development of a stronger liberal arts curriculum.

According to the Foun-dation’s website, “The An-

drew W. Mellon Foun-d a t i o n e n d e a v o r s t o strengthen, promote and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.”

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation offers grants in various categories. In addition to the “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities” section, the organization presented grants in other categories, such as “Arts and Cultural Heritage,” “Scholarly Com-munications” and “Diver-sity” this year.

S evera l other Penn-sy lvanian inst itut ions , such as Juniata College, Susquehanna University and Carnegie Mellon Uni-versity, also received grants from the Mellon Founda-tion last month.

by TIANA FERRANTE

Elizabethtown College is in the process of establish-

ing the W. Wesley McDon-ald Memorial Scholarship to commemorate Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, an Elizabethtown College professor in the po-litical science department who passed away on Sept. 9 of this year.

According to Director of Major Gifts Marty Thomas-Brummé, the scholarship is “not [entirely] developed at

this point.” He said that in most cases, donors have the power to decide what the qualifications of an applicant must be in or-der to receive the scholarship. However, he said that this situa-tion is an exception, since there will be many different donors. Instead, the plan is that those developing the fund will con-sult with McDonald’s wife in or-der to figure out exactly how a student will qualify. “We would develop that after [the funds are raised],” Thomas-Brummé said. He did, however, mention

one concrete prerequisite for applicants, namely that they must demonstrate financial need. There is also the consid-eration that a certain amount of money needs to be allocated to a fund in order for it to be an official scholarship fund. Ac-cording to Thomas-Brummé, the minimum amount for establishing one tends to be $25,000, four percent of which goes directly to the recipient of the award. Potential donors currently are being identified and contacted. Thus far, several

donors have shown enough interest to cover roughly half of that minimum amount.

McDonald’s obituary, which is published on Lancaster On-line, requests funds for the scholarship instead of flowers. It also lists the College’s Office of Development as the address for the donations. In addition, any individuals who want to donate to the scholarship can also access an online form at the Office of Institutional Advancement’s page via the Elizabethtown College website.

by TIANA FERRANTE

Diwali is a Hindu festival of lights. It was honored in an event on Thursday, Oct. 23.

Photo: Jacob Hopkins

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5k benefits Brittany’s Hope

Liberian ambassador discusses rebuilding, state of his home country

1976 alumna Nancy Dering Mock receives Educate for Service award

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Career Services holds first Pre-Law Night event

Yesterday evening, Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh visited the Elizabeth-

town College campus to speak about his home country, Liberia.

Sulunteh has been an ambassador to Liberia since May 2012. He attempted to run for Vice President in 2005 and plans to run for President in the future. He previously served as a professor of economics at the University of Liberia and Cuttington University. Since becoming an am-bassador, he has worked to help rebuild Liberia’s infrastructure following the country’s civil war.

The main focus of Sulunteh’s speech was on the struggle to rebuild the economy of Liberia. As a small, independent country, it has faced hardships tying into the country’s natural re-sources. Since the country’s resources were not being managed correctly or distributed evenly among its people, a civil war arose that lasted forty years. “This war destroyed the fabric of Liberia,” Sulunteh said.

Sulunteh continued by describing the state of Liberia’s educational system following the war. Average tuition per semester in Liberia is approximately $2,000 at a basic university. Be-cause of the poor economic state following the war, most students cannot afford to go to earn a higher education. Very little money is offered to student to assist them in their education. “Of the jobless in Liberia, 58 percent of them are youth,” Sulunteh said, most likely resulting in poor education. As a result, Sulunteh said they are not trained for jobs or educated to earn money. “The youth of Liberia have no education because of forty years of war,” he said. “What do you do with such a group of people? The educational system has broken down.”

He briefly mentioned the Ebola outbreak, of which Liberia was one of the countries affected by the disease. “We are looking beyond Ebola,” Sulunteh said. “Ebola is, today, just as hard as forty years of war. So, we wish to look into the future for reforming an educational system that would provide vocational, technical education that would provide college education for middle-level managers to take charge of that company.”

His main concern is focused on the future of Liberia through education and recovering from the war while dealing with Ebola on top of ev-erything.

Sulunteh placed emphasis on the importance of being a student. “What I have come to tell you is that you are blessed young people,” he said. “When you leave here today, just look into the mirror and ask yourself, ‘Had I been born in Africa or Liberia, would I have the opportunity to be the student that I am today?’ Students in Liberia should have the opportunity to learn.”

In response to the crises Liberia has had to face, Sulunteh proposed partnering with the College. “And, so, we have come today to seek partnership,” he said. “Building the leadership that will recreate the future of Liberia can start right in Elizabethtown with your support.” By donating to the country, doing service work or spreading education in Liberia, Sulunteh said, college students can make a difference to a country in need.

Photo: Kaitlin Gibboney

Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh spoke to students, faculty and staff members and members of the community in Hoover. He discussed how individuals in Elizabethtown can aid Liberia.

Top place finishers in the 5k race received a medal and other prizes depending on their position. “I feel this need because I love to volunteer and because it hits home for me,” Mowen said.

According to the organization’s website, “$40,000 can provide 4,000 kids with a year of medical care, 1,428 kids with food and clean water for a month or 340 safe, comfortable and stimulating cribs for infants who would otherwise be forced to sleep on a hard floor.”

Additionally, Brittany’s Hope donates 100 percent of donations it receives to orphaned children.

“All non-program expenses, such as fundraising and overhead, are paid for by a corporate benefactor,” the organization’s website said.

This year, the Walk fell on the same date as Etown’s community service program, Into the Streets, but Mowen encourages everyone to try to participate next year. “Registration was packed and it was a great turnout,” Mowen said. “I know that I would still love to have more people out there next year.” To donate to Brittany’s Hope or to get more information about running or walking in next year’s race, visit www.walkoflove.org.

Last Tuesday, Elizabethtown Col-lege’s Office of Career Services

held its first Pre-Law Night event in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College’s Pre-Law Club and Pre-Law Advising also sponsored the event.

The event primarily focused on providing pre-law students with information about law school appli-cations and options. The event also provided an opportunity for current students to socialize and network with representatives from several law schools in the northeast U.S.

Pre-Law Night featured three law school representatives who visited campus to present admissions advice and information to Etown’s pre-law students. The three law schools rep-resented were Seton Hall Law in New

Jersey, Widener University School of Law in Pennsylvania and Delaware and New England Law-Boston.

After they presented information about the LSAT, personal statements for law school applications and other topics, the law school representa-tives then invited students to ask any questions related to applying to law school or legal careers in general.

Following the panel session, a catered meal allowed students and the law school representatives to connect for another hour.

The Pre-Law Advising Program is a means of guidance for Etown students who are planning to attend law school. Through the program, students can ensure their course-work aligns with their plans, receive assistance with applications to law school and attend events like Pre-Law Night.

On Friday, Oct. 24, Class of 1976 alumna Nancy

Dering Mock received the Service Through Professional Achievement Award of 2014. The ceremony took place dur-ing the President’s Dinner held at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown.

The Alumni Council se-lected Mock as one of three recipients of the Educate for Service Awards. Rachel Jones Williams (’06) received the Service to the College Award for 2014, and James H. Buford (’80) received the Service to Humanity Award.

“In the eyes of the Alumni Council, [Mock’s] accom-plishments and achievements throughout her professional life have been notable on re-gional and national levels,” Mark Clapper, the director of Alumni Relations, said.

Mock currently runs her own consulting practice, Nan-cy Mock, Inc. Mock founded the Dering Consulting Group, which worked with the United States government on local, regional and national issues for thirteen years, as well as in Argentina and Zimbabwe. In addition, she worked as Deputy Secretary for Human Resources and Management in the Governor’s Executive Of-fices for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2007 and has since worked in governmental human resources leadership positions.

Mock has served on the Boards of the Harrisburg Re-gional Chamber of Commerce, the Young Women’s Christian Association of Greater Harris-burg, the Harrisburg Sympho-ny and Leadership Harrisburg Area. Recently, she served on the Board and Executive Com-mittee of the United Way of the Capital Region, the Cultural Enrichment Fund Board, the Board of The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and on the Board of Advisors for Harrisburg Young Profession-als.

In 2004, Mock became an honoree of the YWCA’s Tribute to Women of Excellence. She was also named one of Central Penn Business Journal’s 2012 Women of Influence. She is the 2013 recipient of the American Society of Public Administra-tion’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Central Penn-sylvania chapter. Mock also received the United Way of the Capital Region’s Volunteer Leadership Award in 2013.

The Educate for Service awards are given to “alumni who exemplify the foundation of the Elizabethtown College spirit and legacy of education,” Clapper said. Starting in 1966, this honor is awarded annu-ally to alumni of the College. It is considered the highest award given to alumni. The Alumni Council coordinates the awards so that they embody the College’s motto, “Educate for Service.”

Three awards are presented for three distinct areas of ser-

vice: Service Through Profes-sional Achievement, Service to the College and Service to Humanity. Consideration for the Service Through Profes-sional Achievement Award comes from a list of criteria, including having published books or recognized journals in their field, achieving notable success in their profession or continuing their professional and personal growth through continued research and edu-cation.

The nominees are evaluated by the alumni who comprise the Awards Committee, which is a standing committee of the Alumni Council, the govern-ing body of the Elizabethtown College Alumni Association.

The Awards Committee considers alumni who have been nominated for the awards, selects a number of candidates and presents these individu-als to the full membership of the Alumni Council. The full Council votes on the final awardees during their Winter Meeting, held in early Febru-ary. Alumni, faculty or staff can nominate qualified persons by submitting forms that are avail-able on the College Alumni page.

Any alumnus is eligible for an award in any or all of the three categories, as long as they have not previously received an award in that category and are not part of the Alumni Council, Leadership Coun-cil or Board of Trustees. The nominations for this year are still open until Nov. 15.

by AMBER MANGABAT

Online humanities courses maximize convenience

by CRYSTAL UMINSKI

Elizabethtown College has received a grant to develop two new online upper-

level humanities courses from the Council of Independent Colleges. Dr. David Kenley, associate professor of history, and Dr. Jeffery Long, professor of religion and Asian studies, will both teach a course during the spring 2015 semester.

Kenley will be instructing “Contemporary China,” which will provide an overview of Chinese history from 1976 to the present. “I know that doesn’t sound contemporary to a lot of people, but from a historian’s perspec-tive, that’s pretty contemporary,” he said.

Long will teach “Indian Philosophy,” a course that he described as an in-depth examination of “the Indian philosophical traditions and the various views they have and also the debates with one another.” While the new courses are taught online, Long said he hopes “to make it as much like a classroom experience as possible in terms of the infor-mation content.”

Like other upper-level humanities courses offered at Etown, both new online courses will require textbook reading and a research project, but the difference, according to Kenley, is that the courses will be “asynchro-nous.” In other words, students will be able to work relatively at their own pace through the course. “Each week, the whole class will be working on the same material, but there will be very few times where everybody needs to be logged on at the same time,” Kenley said. Long emphasized that the classes are formatted to “maximize the convenience to students” and are set up so students can access the course anytime. “If they want to do the in-teractive part at 3:00 a.m., they can!” he said.

The Council for Independent Colleges has provided similar grants to 20 other liberal arts colleges. Like Etown, each will develop two new online humanities courses. The partici-pating colleges will pilot the online courses starting in spring semester of 2015 and each

college will make their courses available to the other 19 schools the next spring. “We’re getting a grant to develop two new courses, but, in a year, our students here will have the option of 40 new courses in which to enroll, which I’m guessing will probably double the number of humanities courses offered here,” Kenley said. “The humanities disciplines

have probably been slower to utilize online teaching than some other disciplines, so [the grant] was a way to encourage humanities to teach online,” he added.

“In January, we will teach these classes for the first time, and I think they will go great, but it is the first time so there is going to be a little bit of a learning curve,” Kenley said. Long also thinks that the course will be successful. “If it’s a popular course, and the students want it more often, then we might be able to look into doing it every year,” Long said. Students can register for “Contempo-rary China” and “Indian Philosophy” on Jayweb the same way they would a traditional Etown course. Course registration begins Monday, Nov. 10.

“We’re getting a grant to develop two new

courses, but, in a year, our students here will have the option of 40 new courses in which to enroll, which I’m

guessing will probably double the number of humanities courses

offered here.” ~ David Kenley

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by TIANA FERRANTE by KAITLIN GIBBONEY

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Into the Streets provides chance to volunteer in community

It was a dark and spooky Monday night at Hoover 215 as the Catholic

Newman Club held their weekly meet-ing. The theme this week — just in time for Halloween — was the paranormal. A YouTube video of a crackling campfire set the scene as the club members discussed their personal experiences with the su-pernatural.

From angels to ghosts, club members had plenty of stories to share. Newman Club President Meghan Donohue shared the story Fr. Dave told her of the unex-plainable footsteps in the rectory. Luckily for Fr. Steve, the current campus priest, the strange noises have ceased. Other students had less spooky stories to tell. Some experienced an angel’s guidance

and protection, while others received signs from deceased loved ones.

“I thought it was interesting,” said first-year Rose Ousey. “I liked hearing everyone’s different stories about angels or deceased loved ones.”

Luckily for some, Karen Bruskewicz, director of Catholic campus ministry, withheld her spine-chilling tales of grow-ing up in a haunted house.

“I appreciated that they stopped with the really scary stories since there were some sensitive people there,” Ousey said.

There is no definitive teaching from the Catholic Church about ghosts. Some believe that ghosts are the spirits of the deceased who have not yet reached heaven, but are waiting in purgatory. Ac-cording to Catholic teaching, purgatory is a place of repentance where the souls of the deceased must go through a purifica-

tion process before they can enter heaven. Of course, not everyone has to go

to purgatory. Those who go straight to heaven after death are called saints. The Catholic Church recognizes these saints at the All Saints’ Day Mass, which always falls on Nov. 1, the day after Halloween. The name “Halloween” comes from the phrase “All Hallows’ Eve,” which is what Halloween literally is — the night before All Saints’ (“Hallows”) Day. This day is usually a holy day of obligation for Catho-lics, meaning they are obliged to attend Mass that day. However, since Nov. 1 falls on a Saturday this year, the obligation has been waived.

Nov. 2 is All Souls’ Day, on which we pray for all the deceased. According to Catholic belief, we can help the souls in purgatory reach heaven by praying for them. Perhaps ghosts haunt because they

are asking for prayers.“Sometimes the veil between the two

worlds is very thin,” said Bruskewicz.The overall takeaway from the meet-

ing was that we don’t need to be afraid of supernatural beings such as ghosts. Catholics believe God is always with us and that He is in control. Fr. Steve noted that Hollywood often tries to play up the fear associated with what we don’t understand, and we certainly don’t un-derstand the supernatural. But movies are fiction for a reason, and chances are, most of us will never see a ghost. That doesn’t mean, however, that we won’t ex-perience something positive, such as the protection of a guardian angel. In one of the stories shared, a desperate plea to a guardian angel actually got someone out of a speeding ticket. Miracles truly do happen every day.

Newman Club holds paranormal-themed meeting, explains Catholic Church’s beliefs about angels, ghosts, supernatural

by CORINNE MCCARTHY

Photos: Luke Mackey

Into the Streets is part of how Elizabethtown College ful-fills its motto of “educate for service.” Into the Streets is

a yearly event that happens on a Saturday. The event allows students to volunteer with different organizations and is geared toward helping the community. Each year different clubs and organizations at the College can put together groups to participate in Into the Streets.

This year’s Into the Streets was on Saturday, Oct. 25. It had more than 500 participants, and approximately 40 community organizations and homes participated from the Elizabethtown community. Students performed tasks ranging from painting curbs to delivering food to helping children learn Spanish. Into the Streets provides a variety of different service-oriented opportunities for students. Depending on the organization an individual works with, the organization

may be helping at a youth center, working on improving community streets and sidewalks or cleaning the yard and house of an individual in the community. The day is designed to give students an opportunity to do community service and challenge them to volun-teer on a regular basis. The event helps student leaders to learn about being leader in the community. Another goal is to help students become more service-oriented and foster a since of community among the students.

by EMILY DRINKS

Dale Boyer, assistant director of Campus Security, led a

Rape Aggression Defense Systems (RAD) program at Elizabeth-town College on Oct. 25 and 26. Founded in 1989 by Lawrence N. Nadeau and Sheri Iachetta, RAD established an accessible, constantly improving and nation-ally respected program to educate women, children, seniors and men about violence and assault.

RAD instructors work to help society eradicate violence as an accepted part of daily life and to develop self-defense education and options for those who experience violence and harassment. It is the largest women’s self-defense pro-gram in the world.

RAD’s main goal is to empower women. The program combines two schools of thought: learning martial arts and how to fight back and not fighting back so as not to make the assault worse, but report-ing it later. “Neither one is realistic as an interpretation,” Boyer said. “Nadeau blended both.” In RAD, there is not time to teach students

to master martial arts, but they should have more options that to comply with their attackers. “What we want is to give you the option to fight back should you choose to,” Boyer said.

RAD offers several different types of classes, ranging from RAD Basic, a physical defense program for women and RAD Advanced, which expands that physical de-fense, to RAD Men, which teaches defense to men at risk of assault. There are also RAD programs for children and seniors which focus on other types of risks. The chil-dren’s program teaches them how to recognize abductive behavior

like forbidding them from leaving an area or luring them away from their parents or guardians. For se-niors, the focus is on recognizing dangerous situations or situations in which someone is trying to take advantage of them.

Boyer has been certified and teaching RAD classes since 1995, and said that the primary groups involved in the program are those likely to be at risk of assault. This is why the RAD Basic class is open only to women. Boyer said that it is more realistic to teach women about assault in environments exclusive to women. There are several reasons for this. The chance of there being assault survivors in a class is quite high, so it avoids the risk of triggering someone’s trauma if the class is only open to women. The class is also more realistic and safer to pair women with other women when practic-ing self-defense techniques. In the worst case scenario, RAD instruc-tors want to avoid the chance that potential attackers might sit in on a class to learn their techniques.

However, instructors under-stand that women are not the only group at risk of violence, which is

why they have implemented other programs over the years.

The class taught at Etown this weekend was RAD Basic. The three class segments focused on three different parts of defense. Part one on Friday night took place in a classroom setting and covered reduction strategies: safety in the home, safety while traveling or dating, weapon defense, reporting sexual assault and what is involved in evidence collection.

For part two, physical defense was covered. Instructors focused on teaching students to effectively use their bodies against their at-tacker’s vulnerabilities. They teach easy-to-learn techniques so that students can become proficient easily and quickly.

In part three, the instructors reviewed what they had gone over in the previous two sessions and held a controlled situation in which students could practice the techniques they had learned against a simulated attacker. Boyer said that the opportunity to learn in a realistic but safe environment is extremely important. “Society portrays women as the weak vic-tims, and the class shows you how

to protect yourself,” Boyer said. “Empowerment is the key word there. It’s scary but it’s very, very empowering.”

Because of the nature of the class, instructors go through ex-tensive training programs before they are certified. Instructor train-ing consists of an intense 30 hour program involving all aspects of the RAD educational technique and is highly selective. “We take our ac-creditation very seriously,” Boyer said. RAD takes all of its educa-tional policies just as seriously. The classes here at Etown are free, but all RAD classes are intended to be affordable for the average person and have a lifetime return policy. This means that once someone attends one class, as long as they keep their signed and authorized instructional manual, they can use that manual as a free pass to subsequent classes anywhere and at any time.

Boyer said he tries to make sure the classes work with student schedules, but life is worth just as much as classes are. “Your life is worth 12 hours to learn skills and information that could possibly save your life,” he said.

“Where are people going to buy copies of the book, if they buy copies at all? Well, the answer is obviously online,”

Robert Swartwood said. He spoke about his experience with self-publishing at Bowers Writers House on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Swartwood initially went the traditional route of publishing. He got an agent, printed copies of his book and sent them out to publishers. Often the answer Swartwood got was that the editors liked the book, but it was not right for their publication, or they would give him constructive criticism. He explained that previously editors would pick books that they liked and get them published; however, the process has changed since then. “An editor can have strong feelings toward a book, but who almost always has the final say is a publisher,” Swartwood said. Relations with agents can be difficult as well. “An agent is there basically to make money. There are times when you feel like the working relationship isn’t going anywhere,” Swartwood said. He had this difficulty with his own agent. Swartwood became independent of his agent, but then realized that publishers rarely take books if an author is unattached to an agent. Swartwood found a way to be published without necessarily needing to have a publisher. His first book, “Hint Fiction” is an anthology of stories Swartwood referred to as ‘hint fiction’ because they are below the normal length for short stories. Swartwood said that they hint at being fiction. The anthology became published through a contest he held on his website. The second day of the contest a publisher emailed Swartwood and asked if he could put together an anthology of hint fiction. Swartwood sent the publisher’s request to publish “Hint Fiction” to his agent. The agent then helped him get it published and ensured Swartwood would make money off of the deal. “Hint Fiction” was published in both print and e-book. This became his first foray into digital publishing. After this Swartwood began working in self-publishing in-dependent of an agent. “Now there’s an option to put them out myself,” he said. Self-publishing largely began when authors realized they could do most of the same work as publishers. Sometimes publishers have in-house workers, but they often outsource the work of editing and graphic design of the book to individuals who work outside the company. “A lot of writers started realizing ‘well, we can do the same thing,’” Swartwood said. Swartwood explained that self-publishing, especially in e-book form, has several monetary benefits. In publishing, the publish-ing house that picks up the book will send out about 20 books at a time to stores and hope that one becomes a hit. Swartwood identified Khaled Hosseini’s book “The Kite Runner” as an example of this. Hosseini had not been published as a novelist previous to “The Kite Runner,” but the publisher liked the book and sent it out hoping that it would be a hit. After the publisher offer to sell a book, they send out repre-sentatives to books stores, such as Barnes & Noble, in order to push the books they are publishing. Certain books, often those seen on the new releases table near the front of the store, are part of a co-op space that the publishers will pay for. Essentially, Swartwood said that the stores will push books publishers pay a large sum of money for. Getting a book published does not necessarily mean that it will sell well. Swartwood said that unless the author is well-known, such as Stephen King or Danielle Steel, their book will not be

on store shelves for very long. “A book really only has a couple weeks shelf life,” he said. E-books differ from print books in this respect. E-books will be out for people to view and purchase for an indefinite period of time. Additionally, Swartwood said that he could never match authors like Stephen King’s output of print books; however, on e-book he has a much greater chance of his book selling well because it will have more longevity. “When it comes to digital, it’s a level playing field,” Swartwood said. Swartwood said that digital self-publishing also helps the author make more money. The base offer in print publishing for a book advance is often $5,000 to $10,000, and six figure offers are rare. After this, the book has to stay on the shelf long enough to begin gaining royalties. “To earn back that and then royalties almost never happens,” Swartwood said. On the other hand, publishing contracts for e-books with Amazon and Apple have risen from an initial 25 percent to 70 percent royalties, and if the book is self-published, as opposed to publishing houses normally offering less than 25 percent.

The profit for self-publishing is not just in the royalties, though. Swartwood said that he hires people to do the editing and layout of his book, but other than that, he makes the majority of the profit from the sales. “Once I earned that money back, it’s basi-cally pure profit from that,” he said. Swartwood also explained the difficulties of self-publishing. If people asking him if they should self-publish he would say, “The question is, should you? And the answer is probably no.” To self-publish is more difficult than going through a publishing house. For instance, an author either has to hire someone to edit their book or do it himself or herself, and it would still be nec-essary to read through the book again before it gets published. Swartwood does not mind the work himself because he feels connected to his work, but that this does not mean everyone should try to self-publish. He also said he would never want to publish a book with typos everywhere because then people would not want to read more of his work. He said that there are writers who are not as careful with their work, and they cause much of the controversy over self-publishing.

Features page 5October 30, 2014

Campus Security officer offers RAD self-defense classes, empowers women through education on safety, defense

Author speaks on self-publishing, rising popularity of digital publishing

by EMILY DRINKS

Photo: Luke Mackey

Robert Swartwood sat down with an audience at Bowers Writers House to talk about self-publishing and writing e-books. He explains the growth of e-book usage due to the release of technology like the Kindle and iPad. Swartwood identified digital publishing as an easier method of making money and getting people to read his work.

“Your life is worth 12 hours

to learn skills and information that

could possibly save your life.”

~ Dale Boyer

by EMILY VASAS

Three-segment class taught focusing on safety, physical defense, defending against simulated attacker

Features page 6October 30, 2014

On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Fine and Performing Arts Department held a reception for the

opening of artist, Herb Weaver’s ceramics gallery titled “Ceramics – Mixed Media” at the John W. Hess Gallery in Zug Hall.

His collection featured clay sculptures prepared in different methods such as low fired stonework, high fired stonework and by pit fire and mixed media elements such as found objects. Clay is used in a kiln, which is set at different temperatures for its effect on paint, then glazed with minerals and glass to get different colors. When the cavemen would create clay sculptures by pit fire, they would dig a hole, put combustible material in it, then let it smoke for days; Weaver used a barrel, kerosene, and sawdust.

Weaver explains his exhibition as an “attempt for my artwork to be an exclamation against boredom. By taking elements or pieces of everyday life and twisting or altering them in a whimsical fashion, I intend for my work to be a welcome relief from reality.”

His clay models replicate everyday objects such as teapots, bowling bowls and birds, while he includes objects such as clothes, metal and wooden frames.

Weaver believe that “often the juxtaposition of two or more relatively familiar objects can create unique relationships, coaxing the eye and mind to unfold all the possible riddles that lie in the artwork.”

He describes that his style “tries to lurk somewhere between surrealism and distorted reality.”

According to Weaver, he creates art because

he is “addicted to the process, the unexplainable urge of inspiration, the development of the idea, the construction, procedure, and intimacy with the materials, and finally the presentation. Each art piece represents my existence in bits and pieces, his struggles, happiness, questions a short story that he needs to disclose.”

There are exciting shapes, bright warm colors; there are designs of repeating patterns and a mix between asymmetric and symmetric forms. An ongoing visual theme is that there are various pillar-shaped pieces that have circular and conical shapes with a motif of groups of three. He forms different shapes with clay imitations of everyday objects and are altered into vessels for his artwork.

Weaver likes to talk about social issues. His work “Clear Conscious” was inspired by a bumper sticker he saw that said “Who would Jesus bomb?” during the Bush administration. It is a tall vertical sculpture with a circle of pillars supporting a base of a glass head, jammed between the pillars is a rock with jagged metal spikes embedded inside. Surrounding the sculpture are clay missiles which are “peace missiles.” The idea of the piece is to ask who God would kill and how no one can have a clear conscious in war.

In the piece, “American Tea Party,” there is a stand covered with Bible verses with specific passages in red font. Under the stand hang three metal bodies in chains, this represents homosexuals, minorities and women, three parties Weaver says are prosecuted in according to Tea Party ideals. He got the idea using Bible verses from artist Phil Hansen, who made a portrait of Ku Klux Klan members out of passages

of the Bible to show how people can misinterpret the Bible to assert their own oppressive views.

In “Preemptive Strike,” features traffic cones, a bowling ball and bowling pins. They’re all made out of clay, which he painted afterwards. The bowling ball has a rough texture because, on it, he has every verse in the Bible that mentions the word “peace” on it. Around the piece are smaller bent traffic cones in various shades of red and

orange to reference the color-coded system of the National Terrorism Advisory System introduced during the Bush administration.

Towards the end of the gallery introduction, Weaver recited a quote that his daughter found in a newspaper article: “Art should stand a part from media and entertainment, which often has the goal to not offend, art on the other hand, can offend.” The gallery will be featured until Dec. 12.

Comedian Matt Bellace discusses natural highs, relaxation without drugs

by EMILY DRINKS

Photo: Kaitlin GibboneyHerb Weaver’s works are currently on display in the gallery in Zug. His works are created as an attempt to combat boredom and escape from reality.

Herb Weaver explores surrealism through ceramics, mixed mediaby NOEL ABASTILLAS

Long leads event celebrating Diwali, Hindu festival of lights

by KAYLEIGH KUYKENDALL

On Thursday, Oct. 23, Elizabethtown College celebrated a holiday known as Diwali with

the help of Dr. Jeffery D. Long, professor of reli-gion and Asian studies. Diwali is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in India every autumn. Diwali rituals and prepa-rations typically take place over a series of five days, but the main festival night of Diwali coin-cides with the darkest, new moon night of the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika. Diwali usually falls somewhere between mid-October and mid-November. During the days before Diwali, people will usually clean, renovate and decorate their homes and offices. On Diwali night, Hindus will dress up in new clothes or their best outfit, light up “diyas” (lamps and candles) inside and outside their home and participate in family “puja” (prayers), typically to Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. After “puja,” an elaborate fireworks display will follow. Afterward, most families will sit down to a traditional dinner and exchange gifts between family members and close friends. While many Hindus celebrate Diwali, non-Hindus also celebrate Diwali as a holiday sig-nifying the triumph of the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil and hope over despair, much like how many non-Christians still celebrate Christmas as a day of family and good cheer. On the same night that Hindus celebrate Diwali, Jains (followers of Jain-ism) celebrate a festival of lights to mark the at-tainment of moksha by Mahavira, and Sikhs (fol-lowers of Sikhism) celebrate Bandi Chhor Divas. A number of students attended the Diwali cel-ebration in the Blue Bean that Thursday night. The students were greeted first by Long, who showcased a number of videos pertaining to Diwali, which ranged from a clip of President Barack Obama talking about Diwali to another of a young girl explaining the importance of Di-wali in context with the Hindu epic “Ramayana.” In “Ramayana,” Ram defeats the evil demon Ra-vana and his wife, Sita, is returned to him. Ram’s victory over Ravana is seen as an important ex-ample of the triumph of good over evil in this world. “The presentation was cool, and the event was very educational,” first-year Jessica Rhoades said. After the short presentation, students were invited to sample a few traditional Diwali treats and to construct a paper lantern. The lights of Diwali are an important part of the tradition, and they even honored that importance with both the construction of colorful and fun lan-

terns as well as numerous strands of lights deco-rating the Blue Bean. “The bright lights and paper lanterns made the event really exciting,” first-year Melissa Kalm-bacher said. The lights of Diwali are a very important as-pect of the holiday. In India, many people will light elaborate patterns on the ground of pub-lic places with candles. The lights can also been seen in the elaborate and numerous fireworks displayed during Diwali, both in public and pri-vate. “Diwali can almost been seen as a cross be-tween Christmas and the Fourth of July,” Long said while attempting to explain the holiday to the students in his Dharma Traditions class. Diwali is an important holiday to both Hindus and non-Hindus. It is one of the traditions that unite a rather divided India. Religious tolerance among its citizens is a fairly recent achievement so having such a universal holiday to celebrate between different religious backgrounds is a one of many great steps toward obtaining a united India. “It was interesting to learn about another cul-ture and its traditions. I’m glad that our school provides opportunities for us to learn about cele-brations like these” sophomore Abby Gould said after attending the event. This Diwali event was one of the many ways in which the College works toward educating its student body about the world and helping stu-dents explore different cultures around the globe.

Matt Bellace led a pre-sentation on how

to get high naturally that incorporated comedy and audience participation at Elizabethtown College on Sunday, Oct. 26.

Bellace began his presen-tation by asking four female audience members and four male audience members to approach the stage and sit on chairs. He positioned the chairs so that they formed two circles and the women sat in one. The men sat on the other. The students all faced outward so that when they leaned back they would be resting their heads on the other participants. Bellace said that the exercise was about supporting one an-other. He then took a chair away from each group until the members were each fully supporting one another. “I do it because I like to know how supportive the audience will be,” Bellace said.

The exercise was to dem-onstrate the importance of having people you can lean on, who will not let you fall. “It’s hard for you to be happy and mentally healthy if you don’t have lots of positive support,” Bellace said. He added that it is important to find positive people to lean on.

Bellace explained that his brother got into trouble with drugs and alcohol when he was in high school, so before Bellace entered high school, his mother sent him to a one-week leadership camp the week before school started. “That camp she sent me to changed my life forever,” Bel-lace said. He met his four best friends at that camp, all of whom are extremely positive

and gravitated toward natural highs rather than drugs and alcohol. Bellace said his first tip for the audience was to have healthy friends.

He also demonstrated a relaxation technique. Bellace had the audience close their eyes, rest their hands on their stomachs and breathe for 30 seconds. “This will change your nervous system. It will change the way you handle stress,” he said. Individuals who meditate for five min-utes a day tend to make bet-ter, less emotional decisions under stress.

Bellace’s second tip was to express emotions. He ex-plained that neither of his parents were good listen-ers. His father had difficulty empathizing with others and his mother would always cut him off when he was talking and try to help him solve the problem. Bellace said both of his grandparents, however, were great listeners, and he could talk to them when he felt the need to express emotions.

When Bellace was in eighth grade his grandfather died of cancer. His brother, a first-year in college then, buried his emotions and began partying harder, and before Thanksgiving break, his brother moved backed home after being kicked out of school. On the other hand, Bellace channelled his emotions into playing sports. He said that he be-came captain of the wrestling team, captain of the baseball team and quarterback of the football team in high school. Although Bellace lost his grandfather, he reconfigured all of his painful emotions and made it constructive. Bellace said one ability he learned was “the ability to go through pain or loss and

keep going.” At one college Bellace

spoke at, a student became very angry during his presen-tation and confronted him in the parking lot afterward. Bellace said the student had to be taken aside by an ad-ministrator in order to calm down. The next day that student was expelled from the college.

“One big difference be-tween your generation and mine: the consequences are so much greater,” Bellace said. He explained that students are usually punished more severely than they were when he was in school and when students turn to drugs and alcohol, the consequences of choosing to do can be harsh.

“Every drug that’s ever been made is meant to mimic a natural high,” Bellace said. One brain chemical that makes people naturally high, Bellace explained, was oxyto-cin, which is the chemical in-volved in the emotion of love. This is the same chemical mothers release to help them bond with their children.

“I think one of the pur-poses of love is to inspire you to be better,” he said. These chemicals that create natural highs can also help individu-als achieve higher levels of success both in their personal and professional lives.

Bellace’s final piece of ad-vice for the audience was to not be afraid to take a stand. At his own college he began a group, called C.a.l.v.i.n. & H.o.b.b.e.s., that focused on helping to create those natural highs. For instance, the group once taped a girl to the wall after she agreed to the joke in order to entertain students walking by in the residence hall. The group still exists in a residence hall on his campus.

Photo: Jacob Hopkins

Dr. Jeffery Long spoke at an event in the Blue Bean on Thursday, Oct. 23 which commemorated the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali.

Campus Life page 7October 30, 2014

Not too long ago, I wrote about how Elizabethtown College keeps getting

more and more convenient for its Blue Jay inhabitants. Sometimes, improvements to the school can lead to temporary impedi-ments, like the construction outside the main door of the Brossman Student Com-mons, or the BSC, as we affectionately and lazily refer to it. Other times, the improve-ments can lead to temporary eyesores, like when Lake Placida temporarily became “Puddle Placida” while it was being drained. Regardless, things are getting better around here. I’m sure I’ll come back in 20 years and find that Etown has found a way to make every day a chocolate day, bringing the scent of the Dove factory to one’s olfactory sense on a consistent basis.

But amid the constant improvements at Etown, we have made some sacrifices. Perhaps our greatest casualty to date is the loss of weekend dances in all of their sweaty, beat-bumping, awkward glory. Yes, you read that correctly, youngsters — we used to have regular weekend dances in the Koons Activity Venue, which we all know as the KAV because we love acronyms around here. The flashing lights, the semi-trendy music choices, the high school-esque formation of dancing cliques… it’s all coming back to me now. At the risk of sounding overly reminiscent, I think any senior who attended the weekend dances has come to miss them, if only for the novelty.

The weekend dances were put on by the Office of Student Activities, commonly abbreviated as OSA in typical Etown fashion. I should make it known that I am an employee of OSA, but this does not particularly shape my opinion in any specific

way. The fact remains that every single one of those dances was an experience. I vividly remember my first one: I strolled on over to the KAV with my posse, not recognizing the extent of my awkwardness with each passing step. But I was a wee first-year, so I’ll cut myself a break. The student patrol officers, or SPOs, to add to our running list, leaned against the wall facing the KAV. Were they judging me? Yes. Do I blame them? No. I looked terrified and lost.

With obvious trepidation, I approached the OSA worker and got my first official hand stamp. I was ready to pop it, lock it and drop it on the dance floor, in that order, and with about as much prowess as you would expect. After about 10 minutes of meandering around the KAV and attempting to dance with a clearly unenthused girl, I felt overwhelmed. So I left. But I felt like I had gained something. I felt like a hero returning from battle, the

stamp on my hand a reminder of challenges I faced. I can never forget.

My first-year misadventures aside, I genuinely miss the Etown dances and am looking forward to the upcoming Halloween dance. I anticipate a horde of costumed college students will swarm the dance floor on that fateful night. Do I wish that we still had regular dances? Actually, yes and no. If I had steak for dinner every night, I would probably stop viewing it as a delicacy for special occasions. If anything, I might get sick of the beefy flavor. That is to say, the rarity of Etown dances has made them far more special than when we actually had them.

Clubs also have the opportunity to put on dances without running the risk of appearing redundant now. While I certainly long for the cherished days of my youth, dances and all, I also recognize the value of making dances special events.

So, dance your heart out, and have a good time this weekend. Bust out those moves you’ve been practicing in your room. Don your wackiest costume, and embrace the awkwardness. That’s what an Etown dance should be like. Will regular dances ever return to Etown? Only time will tell. All I know is that I intend to rave in the KAV this weekend, and no one’s going to stop me. See you on the dance floor, Blue Jays.

Senior reminisces about KAV dances, anticipates Halloween danceby MATTHEW WALTERS

“[A]mid the constant improvements at Etown,

we have made some sacrifices. Perhaps our

greatest casualty to date is the loss of weekend dances in all of their

sweaty, beat-bumping, awkward glory.”

Halloween is quickly coming upon us, and with it come the scares and attractions we all love: witches,

skeletons, costumes and, of course, candy. But with that fun comes amusement park events such as the Field of Screams and the Pennhurst Insane Asylum. What makes these spooky attractions so appealing to us, the obses-sion to thrive every year in scary situations?

I think we love scaring ourselves to put a factor of thrill into our lives. After all, Halloween is a season of spooks; it would be anti-climactic if we went through the whole season without trying to scare ourselves at least once. Even though I do not usually go to haunted houses, I always think of how much fun it would be to go and try to be brave in the face of ghosts that jump out at you.

The same goes for horror movies around Halloween. Recently, I saw a classic black and white movie called “House on Haunted Hill,” and though I knew the 1930s effects were cheap and none of it was real, I could not help but be slightly afraid of the images I saw. So, why is it that we become legitimately afraid of these haunted attractions even though we know they are solely for amusement? I think this is because, even though logic tells us that everything is a show, part of us believes there is an actual ghoul in front of us that we need to run away from.

Despite the thrill of putting ourselves into these sea-sonal scary situations, I do not believe you have to be brave to attend something frightening. When I was a child, I went trick-or-treating at my neighbor’s house. When I was walking towards the door, the neighbor’s friends had all dressed as monsters and were slowly com-ing towards me. As a seven-year-old, this was the most frightening thing I had ever seen. I screamed and ran all the way back to my house. This was the height of scare

factors during Halloween for me. But as people grow older and more experienced, they constantly try to raise the bar and test their bravery with different activities. There are plenty of haunted houses, amusement parks and hay rides that we can participate in to test our brav-ery and attempt not to freak out for as long as possible.

When I was younger, I went on a haunted house ride in Rehoboth, De. where projections of green ghosts would appear like they were sitting next to you in your seat.

And, in 2004, I rode the Tower of Terror in Disney World, which lifted about fifty seated people in an eleva-tor shaft. At each level, the doors would open and all of us would be rolled into a room full of ghosts jumping out at us. Sometimes, it lifted all the way up so we could see

the sky and the sun, only to drop suddenly to the bottom floor. During that ride, I was not afraid; I was having a lot of fun with the feeling of rising and dropping.

Sometimes, something that is intended to be scary is so comically unfrightening that you end up laughing through the whole experience. And even if an experi-ence legitimately frightens you, you usually end up laughing at the end of it with your friends and taking pictures. Ultimately, the appeal of scary attractions is to give yourself a thrill and a good memory during the Halloween season. It’s always enjoyable to have a happy Halloween experience with friends. I do not believe you have to be brave at all to appreciate being scared this season because it is all part of the fun!

Intentional scare attractions, films give Halloween enthusiasts opportunity to prove bravery or enjoy scare

by SKYE MCDONALD

“But as people grow older and more experienced, they constantly try to

raise the bar and test their bravery with different activities.”

Many people seek out scary activities and attractions during the Halloween season. One of the spookiest attractions on campus is the Wenger Center staircase.

Photo: Luke Mackey

Photo: Luke Mackey

The Office of Student Activities brings back the retired tradition of weekend dances in the KAV for the Halloween holiday.

page 8 October 30, 2014Campus LifeAbundance of T-shirts acquired from Homecoming Fair prove useful as keepsakes but not sensible garments

Homecoming weekend has passed in a blur again. With a weekend packed full

of activities for students, the Homecoming parade and market on Saturday, there was excitement all around. I am sure there was a common theme that everyone noticed while strolling around the fair: T-shirts. It seems like almost every club was selling T-shirts to promote themselves. We all probably bought a bunch of these shirts, but, then again, there is the saying, “Too much of a good thing is never a good thing.”

It is neat to see all of the different T-shirt designs that each club offers; some of them are funny, and others are more practical. However, for as much as we enjoy these shirts, don’t we ever get tired of them? I do appreciate the fact that each club takes the time to think of a design and then have it drawn. However, I cannot imagine it is easy for all members of one club to agree on the design they want to get, let alone find a good enough place to get these done. Nevertheless, I am confident most of us would appreciate some clubs offering different items to sell. By giving another option, people would be more interested in seeing what else a club has to offer instead of another T-shirt.

Maybe some clubs have thought about differentiating themselves through trying something new, but maybe what they were going for would not work. It is possible that they had thought of the idea too late and were unable to do something new in the short time frame. I know that the K-9 Club was thinking about doing something along the lines of making dog bandanas. Unfortunately, the

members of the club never set that idea in motion, so they ended up selling the surplus of T-shirts that they have accumulated over the years in addition to offering a pre-order sheet for the dog bandanas. I think that offering something new to the people walking through the fair can get the club the publicity they might need.

As the weather grows colder, we may be thinking, “Well, what am I supposed to do with all of these shirts now?” Just because we tend to bundle up with coats, hoodies and sweatshirts does not mean that we can’t still wear the new shirts that we purchased. In fact, with the way the weather seems to be going and how it fluctuates during these months, there will likely be days when it will be warm enough to wear a T-shirt and be comfortable. Even on the days where it

is cold enough to wear a coat, we all tend to shrug off our coats while we are in class or eating in the Marketplace or the Jay’s Nest, thus revealing the club’s T-shirt. There is also the case of just wearing it around your room and building. Who knows when you will run into someone who has not seen the club shirt that you are wearing. You may get complimented!

We are college students and tend to wear T-shirts fairly often. Usually, it is all about being comfortable, and that comfort can mean a T-shirt. We spend so much money

on all of the shirts we buy at the activity fair, so it is only logical that we should get a lot of wear out of them.

T-shirts are good to have around. You never know when a lazy day will strike and you’ll want to throw on a tee; or maybe a few years down the road you will look through your closet and find that club T-shirt you bought your first year of college, and you’ll think of all of the memories that go with the shirt. While it would be nice for clubs to offer things other than shirts, those shirts are also nice to have.

Photo: Luke Mackey

Homecoming allows for students to purchase a variety of different Etown inspired T-shirts. Clubs and organizations use different designs and logos to catch the eye.

by ABIGAIL PISKEL

Noises from professors’ offices, during class breaks disturb tranquil, quiet atmosphere in Hoover Center

A visitor to the college is struck by the charming

buildings, the sylvan campus, the sight of students striding purposefully at 7:55 a.m. to their macroeconomics class in Hoover. But above all, she is im-pressed by how quiet the place is. Indeed, she might think, is there a more suitable environ-ment for cogitation, reflection and inquiry — a better haven for liberal learning?

But our visitor would be unaware of the darker currents that eddy under the placid surface. Take the growing storm in Hoover, a vexatious situation that is not immediately obvious to the casual observer. Word has it that the Dean has been apprised of the state of affairs — and given his background in political science, he is well-equipped to deal with the kind of dark arts that currently afflict the genteel halls of Hoover.

In most cases, economists are the troublemakers, predicting six of the last three recessions, for instance, but missing the grand-daddy of them all, the Great Recession of 2008-09. But in the current imbroglio, the fault lies not with the economists, but with the marketeers. And the problem has to do with a most unusual reason: sound.

Or, rather, as Homer sees it, noise.

At a certain point during his 8 a.m. class, Homer and his students are distracted by something that occurs in the adjacent classroom: the noise of the door opening and closing repeatedly. The noise production is occasioned by a break in Dr. Brownberg’s marketing class; and as the students stream out of the room and then return after the undoubtedly well-deser ved intermission, the door swings back and forth

each time, causing an endless series of squeaking and clanging sounds that invade Homer’s own classroom, leading to titters, giggles and expressions of feigned outrage. (Mostly by Homer himself.)

But there is good news! Word about the noisy assault on Homer’s classroom must have evidently reached Dr. Brownberg’s ears, for one day, the sounds ceased altogether. Homer and his class would wait with bated breath at the appointed t ime for the

disruptions to occur — and nothing! Peace and quiet ruled the roost.

Had the market ing class f o r s w o r n b r e a k s , Ho m e r wondered? He hoped such was not the case: if pedagogical needs were being met with well-chosen pauses in instruction, why, they should be allowed to happen. He asked his students about the curtain of silence that had suddenly descended between the rooms.

The explanation renewed

Homer’s faith in the ingenuity a n d c a m a r a d e r i e o f t h e m a r k e t i n g f a c u l t y. Tu r n s out that Dr. Brownberg had employed WD-40 to good effect: a wel l-administered spray of the miracle fluid, and the door’s hinges were now doing their business silently. The noise pollution emanating from Dr. Brownberg’s class was history. All was well in Hoover.

Well, all, save for yet another source of noise pollution, this one closer to Homer’s office. Turns out that Homer’s neighbor is Dr. Chunsku, another marketing faculty whose decidedly quiet demeanor and placid exterior is belied by the volume of his office stereo.

When Homer totters into his office after a particularly demanding class lasting an hour

and forty minutes, he is looking for, nay craving, peace and quiet, but instead, what does he find? The sound of some infernal music wafting through the walls of his office! One day it might be Paul McCartney warbling about ebony and ivory, the other it might be the lugubrious strains of some classical piece. The din cuts across all musical boundaries, before entering Homer’s of f ice , ins idious , unbidden and unwelcome.

It is not that Homer is averse to music. But there is a time and place for it, damn it! And it is not just Homer who has noticed the auditory interference. Even management professor Dr. Chr is Tina-C aesar, whose off ice l ies two doors away, has acknowledged hearing the pernicious sounds of music

coming from Dr. Chunsku’s office at strange hours. She has commiserated with Homer, and the two of them routinely plot strategies to foil their wretched colleague.

But nothing has worked yet. Dr. Chunsku claims that he owns the property rights to sound; the silence cherished by his ne ighb ors i s of no consequence to him. In fact, he believes that he is doing a service to the denizens of Hoover by providing them with musical interludes for zero cost and effort. Homer and Tina-Caesar should be grateful to him, not complaining to the Dean or writing to the college newspaper about his tendencies.

The campus visitor may not have noticed, but things are at an impasse in Hoover.

Photo: Luke Mackey

Faculty and staff members of departments housed in James B. Hoover Center for Business have been experiencing problems with noise lately.

by SANJAY PAUL

“But our visitor would be unaware

of the darker currents that eddy under the placid surface. Take the growing storm in

Hoover, a vexatious situation that is not immediately obvious

to the casual observer.”

“It is neat to see all of the different T-shirt designs

that each club offers; some of them are funny

and others are more practical. However, for as

much as we enjoy these shirts, don’t we ever get

tired of them?”

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Campus LifeSpooktacular Dinner satisfies hungry, thrill-seeking students

Who’s ready for ghosts, goblins and the Great Pumpkin? I

know I am! After a stressful few weeks jammed with midterm exams, papers and studying, I think we all deserve a chance to celebrate a bit, and what better way to do that than with a little fall fun?

F o r a n y n e w s t u d e n t s experiencing their first Halloween at Elizabethtown College, I bet you are beginning to notice that our campus community is not one to scale back on the festivities. From costumes and decorations to eerie music and yummy treats, spookiness is in the air this week. Halloween enthusiasts will most likely be appreciative of the effort put into the event.

There is little debate over the highlight of the annual Halloween events at Etown. Most everyone looks forward to the Spooktacular dinner. With a title like that, who wouldn’t want to attend? Every year, the dining staff puts incredible effort and creativity into a night full of scares. The elaborate costumes and decor render the Marketplace

unrecognizable, bound to spook even the macho-est of men. The atmosphere is so chilling, in fact, that it becomes easy to forget about the food altogether.

But just like any of the beloved t he me d i n ne rs at Etow n , t he Spooktacular dinner always offers an excellent menu of appropriately-themed items, some f itt ing for Dracula himself.

Those with a less adventurous palate can enjoy a normal selection at the Jay’s Nest or, perhaps, fill up on candy back at the dorms, as college students tend to do.

Speaking of candy, I would be

remiss if I failed to mention one of Etown’s other great Halloween t r a d i t i o n s : S t u d e n t S e n a t e’s annual “ Trick or Treat” event. Who else misses the days when it was socially acceptable to go door to door in wacky costumes, filling entire pillowcases with treats? Well, at Etown, that era hasn’t passed. This event allows the student body — as well as community members — to travel around the Academic Quad collecting candy from various tables. Not only is it a great way for us to relive our childhood memories, but it also serves as a fun seasonal activity for kids from the community.

Speaking as a transfer student who has experienced two very different campus atmospheres, I can say that Etown is unique in its strong sense of community. Holiday celebrations stand as just one of many examples of this camaraderie. We do not hesitate to come together and have a great time, whether it’s through a special meal or an outreach event. So, this Halloween, I challenge all of my fellow Blue Jays to take advantage of the spooky, scary and yummy things Etown has planned for us!

by GRACE MARCHIONE

Photo: Samantha Weiss

The annual Spooktacular dinner provided fun and food for Elizabethtown College students. Spooky decorations and staff members dressed in creepy costumes added some fright to the night.

Photo: Luke Mackey

Costumes such as this one are generally appropriate at any Halloween party. When choosing a costume, you should carefully consider what the costume expresses about you and if that expression is desirable.

Centuries ago, it was believed that on All Hallows’ Eve, spirits who had crossed over into the land of

the dead could walk the Earth again. As a historically spooky evening, participants everywhere take their costumes up a notch each year. With new events and hits in entertainment and the media, costumes can reflect relevant topics or throwbacks.

Horrific TV shows like “The Walking Dead,” “American Horror Story,” “Hannibal” and “The Strain” allow for new inspiration for creative and creepy Hal-loween disguises. Rotting zombies, deranged clowns, fictional serial killers and monsters ringing doorbells for free candy and dancing at the Halloween parties add a little extra fright to the night.

All Hallows’ Eve is a chance for anyone and every-one to be someone different for a night. Trick-or-treaters and partygoers can indulge in an obsession with a fictional character, a love of superheroes, a twisted love for the villains or an interest in causing minor heart attacks.

Men and women alike can opt for the more scandal-ous and edgy costumes with the always reliable sleek and sultry “cat” costume or the shirtless Greek god. This is one of the few opportunities we have to put some creative effort into an outfit that will be seen once, for just one night out of all the nights in the year.

It all depends on the effect we wish to have on the public. Should people be flinching and putting their hands to their face to stifle a scream when they see your costume? Should winks, head nods and charm-ing smiles be sent your way? Or should people be reminded of another era with nostalgic memories when you walk by in your costume? How authentic and believable should it be? These are questions to consider when you’re hot gluing jewels or bugs to your costume.

Specific occasions can influence your final deci-sion in determining an appropriate façade. A family-friendly costume party might not be the best place for your Twisty the Clown get-up. Human skin com-posing half of your facemask could have a generally negative effect on the children who were expecting balloon animals and flowers that squirt water.

No matter the costumes or the candy, Halloween can also be a time to honor the dead in a Día de los Muertos manner, where painted sugar skulls and of-ferings are made. A different path is to simply relish in the cold-sweat-inducing, eyes-widening, hair-standing-on-end type of fear offered by gory costumes and exorcism horror movies. Whatever your fashion choices, this holiday provides us all an opportunity for individual expression.

“Etown is unique in its strong sense of community. Holiday

celebrations stand as just one of many examples of

this camaraderie.”

“A family-friendly costume party might not be the best place for your

Twisty the Clown get-up.”

in Etown athletics...

The volleyball team dropped both matches at Haverford last weekend to Haverford and Kean. The Blue Jays fell to Cabrini on Tuesday evening to drop to 11-19.

The men’s soccer team lost to Drew University on Senior Day 1-0. The Blue Jays are now in a four-way tie for the final spot in the Land-mark Conference playoffs.

The women’s soccer team extended their seven-game winning streak by defeating Drew University 5-0. The Blue Jays will finish the season at the University of Scranton on Saturday. The team will then host a semifinal match in the Landmark Conference Championships.

The field hockey team bounced back after losing to conference foe Drew University by defeating Moravian 5-1 on Sunday. The Blue Jays are now 4-2 in the Landmark Conference with one game left at home against the University of Scranton on Saturday.

Both the men’s and women’s swim teams dropped their opening meets of the season against York College (Pa.). The men lost 127-44, while the women fell 112-87.

The wrestling team will begin its season on Saturday at the Messiah Invitational.

The men’s and women’s cross country teams will take on the Land-mark Conference Championships on Saturday at Goucher College.

in the pros...

The Kansas City Royals defeated the San Francisco Giants in game six of the World Series to force a winner-take-all game seven last night in Kansas City. The game was still in progress at press time. This year’s World Series was the first-ever to have two teams with under 90 regular season wins play each other for the championship.

On the first night of the new NBA season, the New Orleans Pelicans defeated the Orlando Magic, the San Antonio Spurs dropped the Dallas Mavericks and the Houston Rockets beat the Los Angeles Lakers.

in the NCAA...

In the first-ever College Football Playoff rankings, Mississippi State, Florida State, Auburn and Mississippi are the top four teams. If the season were to end today, Mississippi State would host Mississippi in one semifinal game, while Florida State would host Auburn in the other semifinal game.

A recent news story broke of academic fraud at the University of North Carolina involving hundreds of students and student-athletes. The NCAA is currently investigating the matter and the president described the findings as “disturbing”.

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The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team came into Satur-day’s Senior Day showdown against Drew University with work

left to do to reach the conference playoffs. Entering the game, the Blue Jays sat in a third place tie with Drew, Scranton and Moravian with 10 points each.

Etown put themselves in position to have a chance at making the playoffs in dramatic fashion. In the team’s last game on Oct. 22, the Blue Jays came back from a three-to-one deficit with two goals in the final two minutes of the game to salvage a tie with Goucher College. A loss would hurt Etown’s playoff chances. Fortunately for the Blue Jays, their final two games were against two of the teams currently in a third-place tie. The Blue Jays controlled their fate. Two wins and the Jays would be in. A loss would complicate the playoff picture.

On Saturday, Etown honored their ten seniors on Ira R. Herr Field. In what proved to be a pivotal match-up in the Landmark Conference, the Blue Jays could not find the back of the net against Drew. The Rangers broke the scoreless tie in the 55th minute when Eduardo Martinez put Drew ahead 1-0. The Rangers would not look back, holding on for a 1-0 victory over the Blue Jays.

Senior Andrew Sandridge had an opportunity in the 21st minute to break the 0-0 tie, but Drew goalkeeper Michael Reyes got enough of his fingertips on the ball to deflect the shot off the left post and away from the goal. Reyes kept all six of the Blue Jays’ shots out of goal that the afternoon.

The Blue Jays kept the offensive pressure on until the very end, but Reyes denied every chance.

Etown travels to the University of Scranton on Saturday, Nov. 1, for their final game of the regular season. The Blue Jays are in a must-win situation against the Royals. Etown is currently in a four-way tie for the final spot in the postseason with Scranton, Goucher College and Moravian College. Saturday’s game will kick off at 1 p.m.

Men’s soccer playoff hopes on the line after loss to Drew

Photo: Kelsey Bayzick

by BRIAN LUKACSY

Volleyball drops two at Haverford

The women’s volleyball team dropped both matches at Haverford on Saturday. The Blue Jays will finish the season on Saturday when they host the Elizabethtown Tri-Match with Lycoming and Wilkes.

A three-game winning streak turned into a three-game losing streak for Elizabethtown College’s women’s vol-

leyball team. Following a loss against Millersville University on Wednesday, Oct. 22, the Blue Jays lost six straight sets against both Haverford College and Kean University on Saturday, Oct. 25.

The Blue Jays’ first match of the day was against Haverford. The Blue Jays lost two of the three sets by only two points. The final scores for each game were 25-23, 25-21 and 25-23. The Blue Jays put up a fair fight in each game, but could not hold their own against Haverford. Haverford had 12 service errors within these three games, which played a role in the close scores.

The Blue Jays only managed to get 30 kills in all three matches, compared to Haverford’s 41. Senior Kelci Scannapieco led the team with nine kills, followed closely by junior Megan McNaul who had seven kills. The team put up ten blocks against Haverford. Scannapieco contributed four of these and McNaul had two, while first-year Brittianni Phillips contributed an additional six blocks. Junior Steph High had 13 assists in the three matches and junior Brynne Kirsch pulled in nine. Senior Jen Cook and McNaul led the team defensively with 19 and 18 digs, respectively.

The Blue Jays saw a similar outcome later that day in their three games against Kean. The Blue Jays had 29 kills and walked away with 19 errors. The opposing team had 42 kills and a similar number of errors at 20. Scannapieco got nine kills and put up four blocks. McNaul added to the team’s total with six kills and senior Samantha Hicks contributed five. High led the team in assists, totaling 20, while Kirsch had four assists of her own. Kirsch also

contributed defensively with eight digs, while Cook had 13 digs and junior Shannon Deck had ten.

The scores for these matches against Kean were 25-16, 25-21 and 25-21. In the first set, after a Blue Jay service error, Kean took and held onto the lead for the entire game. In the second game, the Blue Jays fought back. The held the lead for the majority of the game. Unfortunately, when the Blue Jays were in the lead at 18-12, Kean came back fighting with an 11 point streak. This gave them the lead at 23-18. The Blue Jays were still hopeful after a kill from McNaul and a block by Scannapieco put the score at 24-21, but Kean took the win with a final kill, ending the game at 25-21. Kean then held onto the lead for the entire third game, sealing the match 0-3.

Although these losses were disappointing, High acknowledges that in order to perform well, “the team must always work in unison,” and on Saturday “that was not happening consistently.” High observed that the team struggled with passing, which made their offense predictable. Even when they fixed this issue, another one arose as the Blue Jays’ opponents “set up a strong block against” their middle hitter, anticipating the ball going there. The team struggled to “get on the same page,” High said.

The Blue Jays will play their last matches at home on Saturday, Nov. 1, against Lycoming College and Wilkes University. According to High, as the Blue Jays finish out their season, they hope to “play as a unit and end on a high note” and send the seniors out with some wins. With a 0-3 loss against Cabrini College on Tuesday, the Blue Jays’ record currently stands at 11-19. With all their conference matches behind them, the Blue Jays should be able to focus on these last two upcoming matches and finish out the season strong.

by PAIGE WILLIAMS

After losing to Drew on Saturday, the Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team will play its final game of the regular season on Saturday at University of Scranton. The Blue Jays are currently in a four-way tie for the final spot in the Landmark Conference Playoffs.

Photo: David Sinclair

The Elizabethtown College women’s swim team opened the 2014-2015 season when they hosted York

College (Pa.) on Saturday. The Blue Jays took home four individual victories on the day but fell short against the Spartans. York came to Alumni Pool and defeated Etown 112-87 in the season-opener for both teams.

Fifth-year OT student Kimberly Cosgrove enjoyed a successful opening meet against the Spartans, taking home two first places. The first of her back-to-back first place finishes came in the 1,000-yard freestyle where Cosgrove won by over 33 seconds in a time of 11:31.21.

Cosgrove followed her first place finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle by taking first in the next event, the 200-yard freestyle. She defeated York’s Kate Mc-Conaghy by 1.54 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle event. Cosgrove finished the day with half of the Blue Jays’ wins against York. She also finished second in the 500-freestyle with a time of 5:43.66 to go along with her two first place finishes.

The Blue Jays narrowly missed a fifth first-place

finish against the Spartans when they finished second in the 200-medley relay, just 0.21 seconds behind York’s winning relay. The team of juniors Bonnie Lisk, Amanda Long, Ashley Dispenziere and senior Tara Deisher touched in at a time of 2:03.11.

Lisk went on to win the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 1:07.97. Long took home one first place finish against York by winning the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:13.61. First-year Dru Schneider placed second in the 100-yard breaststroke to give the Blue Jays a one-two finish in the event. Dispenziere finished second in the 100-fly with a time of 1:08.43.

The women’s swim team (0-1) will be back in action on Saturday, Nov. 1, in Selinsgrove, Pa. to face Susque-hanna University in their first Landmark Conference meet in the program’s history. Susquehanna is the four-time defending Landmark Conference Champion in Swimming & Diving. The Crusaders were picked as the favorites to win the Landmark Conference title again this season.

This year’s team has 15 returning swimmers from last year’s team that went 5-7. The women’s swim team was picked to finish 7th in the Landmark Conference Swimming & Diving Preseason Poll earlier this month.

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Four first-place finishes not enough to push women’s swimming past York College (Pa.)

by BRIAN LUKACSY

The women’s swim team fell in their season-opening meet to York (Pa.) 112-87 on Saturday. Fifth-year OT student Kimberly Cosgrove took home two first place finishes and one second place finish. The Blue Jays will travel to face Susquehanna University on Saturday in the program’s first Landmark Conference swim meet.

Photo: David Sinclair

The Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team was sit-

ting pretty at 11-3 heading into Saturday’s senior day against Drew University. The Blue Jays owned sole possession of second place in the Landmark Conference, one game behind Catholic University, with two conference games re-maining. Having already clinched a spot in the Landmark Conference Championships in their first year in the league, the Blue Jays earned a home playoff game with a win over Drew.

Last Thursday afternoon, the NCAA released its first Regional Rankings of the season. Etown found themselves ranked seventh in the first release of the Mid-At-lantic Poll. Familiar foes Lebanon Valley College (eighth), Misericor-dia University (fourth), Catholic University (third) and Messiah College (first), were also included in the Mid-Atlantic rankings. All three of the Blue Jays’ losses this year have been against teams in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Rank-ings.

“When we heard about our ranking, we were all so proud and excited,” junior Lauren Fredericks said. “Since we heard about it, we haven’t really brought it up again. We are honored but we are more focused on finishing the season and then playoffs. We can be happy about our accomplishments in

the standings and things like that when the season is over.”

The Blue Jays honored their lone senior Kendra Mancino in the final regular season home game of her career. The four-year player has provided a huge lift to the Blue Jays’ defense over her career.

On Saturday, Etown relied on its offensive attack against Drew. In the 14th minute, junior Deanna Slater found fellow junior Lauren Berry for the first of Berry’s two goals on the afternoon. In the 21st minute of the game, sophomore Maddie Burkhardt scored to give the Blue Jays a 2-0 lead over the Rangers. Burkhardt’s goal started a string of three goals in under 10 minutes for Etown.

Just over a minute after Bur-khardt’s goal, Berry scored her second of the first half off an as-sist from junior Trisha Clark. The first half scoring barrage ended in the 30th minute when Burkhardt scored her second of the game off an assist from junior Kaceyanne Cerankowski. The Blue Jays held a 4-0 lead over Drew in the first half thanks to two goals apiece from Berry and Burkhardt.

Junior goal keeper Dana Ro-bidoux played the entire first half and did not face a single shot. Robidoux gave way to first-year Hailey Parks who played the entire second half and recorded one save. It was the ninth shutout of the season for Etown.

Out of halftime, Cerankowski joined the scoring output by

taking a cross into the box and putting it into the back of the net for her team-leading 11th goal of the season. Burkhardt and Slater received credit with the assists on Cerankowski’s goal.

The victory over Drew was the Blue Jays’ seventh in a row. The women have secured a spot in the Landmark Conference semifinals and cannot finish any lower than second in the regular season con-ference standings. “This team is the best team I have been on dur-

ing my time at Etown,” Fredericks said. “We have come so far from our first day of preseason to now. As long as we stay focused, play as a team and play with heart like we have been, I have no doubt that we can get further than we did last year in the NCAA Tournament. Our goals are high, and we hope to accomplish them, but we will be taking each game one by one as far as we can.”

Etown is guaranteed a home playoff game in the Landmark

Playoffs, where they are 9-0 this season.

“We know that we play our best on our home field, so having a playoff game at home is ideal for us,” Fredericks said. “We know that we have one more game before playoffs that we need to do well in and make sure we are playing our hardest to prepare for playoffs.”

The Blue Jays will finish out the regular season on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3:30 p.m. when they travel to the University of Scranton.

Women’s soccer earns Mid-Atlantic regional rankingBlue Jays defeat Drew on senior day, one Landmark game remaining against Scranton

The Blue Jays have won seven games in a row heading into their final regular season game of the season at the University of Scranton. The team is ranked seventh in the Mid-Atlantic Region by the NCAA.

Photo: Athletic Department

by BRIAN LUKACSY

Men’s swimming drops season-opening meet at home against York, Susquehanna up next

by RYAN SANDELL

The Elizabethtown College men’s swim team looks to rebound from losing their season-opening meet against York College

(Pa.) on Saturday, Oct. 25. In a 127-44 defeat at home, bright spots appeared for the

Jays in first-year David Foery, who won the 100-yard freestyle, and placed second in the 200-yard event. He was the only event winner that day for Etown. For his runner-up performance in the 200-yard free, he earned a 1:55.21, and he was also a part of Etown’s 200-yard medley team that also finished in second place, where he swam the freestyle leg of that race as well. Sophomores Ramon Rios (backstroke), Kieran Koehler (breaststroke), and senior Frank Capria (fly), aided Foery in the medley that saw them make a time of 1:47.97. Capria was third in the 1000 free with a time of 11:23.98, while Koehler swam the third fastest time in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:06.93).

After a disappointing season in which the team collected only two wins in the entire term, coming against FDU-Florham and Drew University, the team will hope to make a splash in the Landmark Conference this season. Capria led the team in four events last season: the 500-yard freestyle (5:05.53), 1000 free (10:53.08), 1650 free (17:54.40) and 200 individual medley (2:11.74). He posted a career-best time in the 100-yard breast-stroke (1:06.26) at the MAC Championships and placed 12th in the 1650 free.

Koehler qualified for the MAC Championships as well, in the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke, and the 50-yard free. He was Etown’s fastest swimmer in all three events last season and was the only Etown men’s swimmer to qualify for a final event at the MAC Championships in the 100-yard breaststroke, in which he placed seventh. Rios was the fastest men’s swimmer in the 100 and 200 backstroke last season and is one of five returning team members to have qualified for the 2014 MAC Championships.

Etown will host three more home duals in 2014-2015 season following this past Saturday’s opener against York. The Blue Jays will appear in the Alumni Pool against Drew University (Nov. 21), the University of Scranton (Dec. 6) and McDaniel College (Jan. 24). The Jays face a strong Susquehanna University team in the next meet, who placed second in the Landmark Conference Championship last season. The Susquehanna Crusaders won the Schweikert Relays on Oct. 18, winning seven of the nine events, and placing second in two others. The schools that participated in the meet, in addition to Susquehanna, were Goucher College, Lebanon Valley College and Lycoming College. It will be a tough test for the Blue Jay swimmers, but one that they will look to overcome, and capture an important early season victory.

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by BRIAN LUKACSY

Field hockey rebounds from second conference loss, defeats Moravian

Men’s basketball to host second bowling event after favorable turnout in Spring

The men’s basketball will host its second annual bowling event on Nov. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Clearview Bowling Lanes.

Photo: David Sinclair

The Elizabethtown College wom-en’s field hockey team’s five-

game win streak came to an end when Drew University defeated the Blue Jays on Saturday, Oct. 25, with a game score of 1-3. Just a day later, the team responded with a 5-1 victory over Moravian College on Sunday.

Senior Kaylee Werner scored early for the Blue Jays after only 41 seconds of play. It was her second goal of the season. The early goal put the Jays ahead, but Drew scored three unanswered goals to seal the win.

After Werner’s goal, the Blue Jays had the next six shots, four of which the opponent’s goalkeeper stopped, keeping the score at 1-0.

Drew tied the game at 1-1 in the 23rd minute of play from a penalty corner in Blue Jay territory.

With a tied score going into the second half, both teams were anxious to get the lead. At 49:19, Drew scored to put them up 1-2. Ten minutes later, they increased their lead to 3-1, with around ten minutes left of play.

Although the Blue Jays were unable to score the remainder of the game, they accumulated seven penalty corners. Senior Taylor Al-wine and Werner both had chances to score, but neither could find a hole in the defense.

The team knows that taking advantage of penalty corners is crucial. “I think in the past we’ve really struggled with it, so we have worked consistently on it at practices this season,” Alwine said. “Everyone realizes how important those opportunities are during the games.”

Senior Emily Mason agrees. “Our coaches stress that we need to capitalize on corners since they

are a prime opportunity to score,” she said.

Looking to rebound from the loss against Drew, the Blue Jays were ready to give it their all against Moravian College the following day. The Blue Jays came out on top with a 5-1 win. This win put the Blue Jays back into a second place

position, tied with Juniata College. The first goal occurred within

the first three minutes of the game, starting from a penalty corner from Mason. The ball found her again, but the goalkeeper blocked her shot. Junior Alyssa Aichele fired the ball toward the goal when junior Jacki Hikes connected and finished the offensive effort to put the Blue Jays up 1-0.

Senior goalkeeper Selene Jones made three saves against the Grey-hounds over the next six minutes. First-year Emma Christman scored the second goal of the game off a feed from senior Andrea Keady.

With under a minute left in the first half, the Greyhounds responded with a goal against the Blue Jays to make the score 2-1. In the second half, Mason came up with the third Blue Jay goal of the game and her fourth of the season.

At 47:20, Hikes followed a shot from Aichele, which was deflected

by the Moravian goalkeeper. Then, Hikes put the ball on Aichele’s stick, and she found the back of the cage to put Etown up 4-1.

Christman scored her second of the game off a feed from sopho-more Addie Stang to make the final score 5-1.

Etown’s defense dominated the efforts of the Greyhound offense, allowing just one shot in the entire second half.

Alwine has noticed develop-ment in the team throughout the course of the season. “Overall, we’ve been able to connect passes the length of the field and work to-gether to have some great sequenc-es of hockey,” she said. “I think we trust in each other’s abilities more now, and our communication has been improving, but there’s always more room for improvement.”

Mason also emphasized the im-portance of communication and its role in helping the team succeed. “Communication is needed on all aspects of the field and on both offense and defense,” she said. “It helps everyone to know where everyone else is, where the other team is and where the ball is on the field.”

The Blue Jays look to defeat the University of Scranton in Land-mark Conference play. “They are a very good team and are look-ing to move up in the Landmark standings, so they will definitely come out strong and look to upset us,” Alwine said. “Knowing this, we need to take what’s left of our season one game at a time and stay focused on each opponent.”

With the win against Moravian, the Blue Jays’ Landmark Confer-ence record is 4-2. Etown will host Scranton on Nov. 1 at Wolf Field for its final regular season Land-mark Conference competition.

by KARLEY ICE

“I think we trust in each other’s abilities more now, and our

communication has been

improving.” ~ Emily Mason

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lauren Berry

Junior Lauren Berry, who led the team with 16 goals and 35 points in 20 games last year, is on a recent scoring tear over the last few weeks. Berry scored only one goal through the first nine games, but has erupted for eight goals in her last six games to lead the Blue Jays to seven straight victories. The junior is second on the team in goals scored, third in assists and second in points with one regular season game remaining against the University of Scranton.

Major: Early Childhood/Special EducationHometown: Dillsburg, Pa.Favorite athlete/sports team: Alex MorganFavorite Jay’s Nest item:Curly friesFavorite movie: “Frozen” or “Pitch Perfect”Favorite musician/band:Luke BryanFavorite place to visit: Outer Banks, N.C.Hardly anyone knows that...I was a Horticulture major at my previous college.Favorite Etown Memory:Going to Costa Rica over Spring break with the women’s soccer team two years ago.Greatest soccer accomplishment: Getting an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament last yearI started playing soccer at age...4

by BRIAN LUKACSY

Photo: David Sinclair

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Athlete of the Week

M/W Soccer Landmark Conference Semifinals

Games Played:15Games Started:15Goals:9Assists: 5Points:23

Games Played:35Games Started:34Goals:25Assists: 8Points:58

Season Stats: Career Stats:

vs. Scranton

Elizabethtown Tri-Match

M/W Soccer @ Scranton

Landmark Championships

MessiahInvitational

Swimming@ Susquehanna

Field Hockey Landmark Conference Semifinals

The Elizabethtown men’s basketball team hosted its first annual bowling fundraiser last spring at the Clearview Bowling Lanes in Elizabethtown.

The event, which featured raffles, prizes and food, turned out to be a big event for the athletic program and the student body. The bowling fundraiser took place on April 27, bringing in family and friends of current basketball players to enjoy a night of bowling and socializing.

“When we held the bowling event in the spring time, it was a lot of fun and very successful. This time around, with free food, prizes and raffles, not to mention a lot of friends and family that will be in attendance, it is sure to be even more fun,” Coach Bob Schlosser said.

The men’s team will host the event again on November 8 as part of a fan-filled day. The team will host its annual Blue and White scrimmage from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. followed by the bowling event at the local alley.

“It is a very relaxed environment, and it is away from campus, which gives a lot of students the opportunity to get off campus and have fun when maybe they don’t always have that opportunity,” Schlosser said. “It also gives students and families a chance to interact with all of the members of the men’s basketball team while enjoying an afternoon of bowling.”

The event on November 8 will mark the second time the men’s basketball team will host a bowling event at Clearview Lanes. The men’s lacrosse team recently held a similar bowling event on Homecoming Weekend.

“Last spring, we were looking for something fun and relaxing to do as a team to raise money and get the school involved. We reached out to the bowling alley, not really knowing what to make of a bowling event,” Schlosser said. “The bowling alley had hosted other sports team from the college before, and they handled everything.”

Each player on the men’s basketball team must have four other members on their teams for the event. Students and faculty are welcome to join the festivities on November 8, and there is a $10 charge for each person.