This year, Elizabethtown College is sponsoring a two-week peace and

conflict study in South Africa for the 2014 May term. The trip will allow Etown students to explore the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The trip was originally scheduled for

last year. According to Dr. Michael Roy, professor of psychology and one of the trip’s coordinators, the reason for last year’s cancellation was because of a lack of student interest. The goal was to have at least ten people register for the trip, but they only received eight applications.

The program was redesigned to work in col laboration with the Center for International Studies (CIS) Abroad. CIS

Abroad is a company that provides students with opportunities and custom learning programs.

Roy commented that the reason the department chose to work with CIS is because, “they already do other programs in South Africa and have contacts there, so they can easily set up logistics. Someone from CIS will be there with me to take care of all of the travel and accommodations

while I will deal with the class portion.”W h i l e t h e re , s t u d e nt s w i l l v i s i t

approximately twenty dif ferent sites, including Robben Island, the Desmond Tutu Peace Center, the Apartheid Museum and the Constitutional Court. Students will also have the chance to visit popular tourist attractions including Table Mountain and Seal Island.

The new Information and Technology Services (ITS)

blog is an online resource that students and faculty members can take advantage of to help t h e m w i t h t e c h n o l o g i c a l troubles. Computer Trainer Kathy Kellie and Instructional Technologist Dr. Linda Macaulay created this blog, which contains useful information on an array of subjects , l ike operat ing Blackboard.

This blog is a new format for Kellie’s technological support.

For six years, Kellie created tips that were in the “Campus News” emails. However, ITS still received many visits and phone calls from Elizabethtown College students seeking help with their phones, computers and tablets. The majority of the student body remained unaware that there was a list of technology tips on the College webs i te . Ke l l i e wante d to develop a solution so students wouldn’t always have to call or visit ITS.

Along with the new department of politics, philosophy and legal studies comes the newly-created alumni group called the Blue

Jay Barristers (BJB). This interest-based advisory allows attorney alumni and legal professionals to network in that field.

While this group enriches alumni’s current careers, it also creates an opportunity for students at Elizabethtown College to develop relationships with alumni. The new group originated when alumni John Bayard ‘07, and Joseph Denlinger ‘91, discussed the benefits of networking earlier this year. After further planning, they approached Dr. Kyle Kopko, assistant professor of political

science and director of the legal studies major and the pre-law program, and Mark Clapper, director of alumni relations. With their enthusiastic approval, the Blue Jay Barristers alumni group was established.

Bayard and Denlinger hope that this group will facilitate many connections in the future, not only between alumni and students, but also between Blue Jays and other influential people in the field. While they all hope that the group is successful in its first year, they aren’t setting unrealistic goals.

With plans for the spring semester already set in place, the BJB will base its growth on the needs of the program.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Etownianwww.etownian.com Vol. 110. Issue 4

OPINION iOS7 represents materialism ingrained in culture | PAGE 8 SPORTS Women’s soccer wins over nationally-ranked team | PAGE 12

Students share Vietnam summer service experienceby KAITLIN GIBBONEY

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Jays welcome new men’s lacrosse coach

by KELLY MOORE

El i z a b e t h t o w n C o l l e g e’s At h l e t i c s Department recently hired Drew Delaney

as the new head coach for the men’s lacrosse team.

Delaney, a Lancaster, Pa. native, is looking forward to being back in the area and settling down with his wife Linda. “I decided to come to Etown because it seemed to be a great fit, professionally and personally, for my family. I believe Blue Jays lacrosse has tremendous potential to compete at the national level, both in our final year in the MAC and for years to come as we transition into the Landmark,” Delaney said.

Peace, Conflict Studies Dept. remodels study abroad trip to South Africa

Blue Jay Barristers benefits students, alumniby KAYLIN RUSSELL

by MARISSA PEDUTO

New ITS blog offers technical support, resources to Jays

by CORY STOLTZ

Harman receives grant, residency from Art Foundation of North-Rhine Westphalia

by ANDREW CALNON

Dr. Mark Harman, professor of English and German and professor of international studies, received a

grant and residency from the Art Foundation of the German Federal Province of North-Rhine Westphalia for his translations and commentary of Franz Kafka’s modernist story, “The Transformation.”

North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) is a populated state in northwest Germany, and the NRW Art Foundation, founded in 1989, is the agency that promotes literature, art and culture within the province. It also supports the work of foreign writers and translators. “The German state is far more supportive of literature and the other arts than the U.S. government. There are German arts agencies that award grants both on the provincial as well as at the federal level,” Harman said.

Senior Jacqueline Nunn and other Etown students traveled to Vietnam with the social work department during the 2013 May term. The trip, which lasted three-weeks, was led by Dr. Margaret McFarland, professor of social work.

Photo: Jacqueline Nunn

Drew Delaney joins the Elizabethtown College Athletics Department as the new men’s lacrosse coach and hopes to help the team compete at the national level.

Photo: Katie Brumbach

Photo: Katie Brumbach

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SEE AFRICA PAGE 2

SEE VIETNAM PAGE 5

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Mark Harman is composing a volume for Harvard University Press, which will include other Kafka literature.

This past May term, a group of students took Elizabethtown College’s “Educate for

Service” motto and applied it to their lives by attending a trip to Vietnam. The trip explored both North and South Vietnam within a 19 day time frame, featuring four in-country flights, two overnight train rides and a lot of commut-ing via buses. Some of the areas visited were Ho Chi Minh City, Nha Trang, Da Nang and Hoi An as well as the Vietnam War museum and the Cu Chi Tunnels used in the Vietnam War. In attendance were 11 students, two faculty members and 11 other adults, including alumni and two representatives from the Brittany’s Hope Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Elizabethtown.

The trip was sponsored by a partnership with the College and Brittany’s Hope Foundation. This organization was founded 13 years ago and was named after Brittany O’Connor, who passed away from a car accident during her senior year in college. She was studying to be a social work major and hoped to help orphaned children find loving families. Before her pass-ing, her family remembers Brittany saying she "dreamed of a world where all children know the peace and love only a family can provide."

This organization not only raises grant money for trips to places like Vietnam, but it also runs a sponsor program where anyone can sponsor a child living in an orphanage for $35 a month.

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Department coordinates South Africa study abroad trip, collaborates with CIS

New ITS website features timely, easily accessible information

Foundation rewards Harman for translations, commentary

She has provided a prudent solution with the ITS blog. Kellie and Macaulay created the idea to go on the blog; three editors than edit it before it is published on the blog. Kellie said the blog consists of “software, technology tips, t ime savers and links to articles.” Any

s t u d e n t o r f a c u l t y member can subscribe to the blog and receive emails once a week with timely information as it is added to the site. The blog is always improved to fit Etown students and faculty members’ needs.

To v i e w t h e b l o g one must simply go to the ITS homepage by

entering the URL: http://www.etown.edu/offices/its/ and click “blog” on the left side under the subheading “general.” The easy accessibility of this online resource is anticipated to solve a significant amount of the College’s technology troubleshooting issues.

Kellie and Macaulay

are eager to do whatever they can to improve the blog and help the College c om mu n i t y b e c om e more familiar with the technology Etown has to offer. Kellie said the feedback from students and faculty has been tremendous so far. She hopes to see its popularity continue to excel.

The foundation’s support of literary translation is quite significant, and it distributes some of the highest awards in German-speaking countries.

Harman was eligible for a grant from the Foundation because he had a valid book contract with a publisher. In July 2013, Harman also received a three-week residency to work on his translation at the European Translators Collegium, an artist colony for translators in the small town of Staelen in North-Rhine Westphalia,

which is closely associated with the Art Foundation. The grant Harman received was a stipend to cover meals, as well as other costs foreign visitors acquire.

Harman worked on the translations and commentary for Franz Kafka for a little over a year. He started to go more in-depth with the research project when he went on sabbatical last year. Franz Kafka’s “The Transformation” is, “a classic of modern literature. It tells the story of a young man who wakes up one morning to discover that he has been transformed into some kind of bug. The Prague-born Kafka leaves it open to what kind of bug his hero, Gregor Samsa, has been transformed into so that readers can form their own image of what he looks like. As this brief outline may suggest, the story is not without humor, but to appreciate it, readers need to detach themselves from poor Gregor’s plight,” Harman said.

“I have been obsessed, that is not too strong a word, with the works of Franz Kafka since my undergraduate days at University College Dublin in Ireland, where I grew up,” Harman said. Harman also went on to study at the University of Munich, and then attended Yale University where he wrote his doctorate dissertation on the relationship between Kafka and

Heinrich von Kleist, the eighteenth-century Prussian writer and playwright.

Harman has also translated other Kafka works in the past including “The Castle,” for which he received the Lois Roth Award of the Modern Language Association and “Amerika: The Missing Person.”

He also translated works by other German authors such as Hermann Hesse and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. “Although I have written introductions and notes for those volumes, I have never done an annotated book where the commentary is on the margins of the page, and I enjoy the challenge that kind of writing poses, especially in the case of an author so much written-about as is Kafka. It’s a little like trying to say a lot on the back of a postage stamp,” Harman said.

Harman is currently composing a volume for Harvard University Press,

which will include other well-known stories of Kafka’s such as “In the Penal Colony,” “A Hunger Artist” and “Report to an Academy.” Harman is teaching an upper-level English course on Kafka this semester. One interesting aspect of this course is that one of their classes will be held at Franklin and Marshall College, where Harman has been invited to attend a class and discuss the differences between his new annotated translation of “The Transformation” and previous English versions of the story.

Next semester, Harman will offer an Honors course entitled, “Irony, Humor and Despair,” in which the class will read literature by Kafka, as well as books written by Irish writers James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Harman will also be performing the ape role for the Etown “Academy” at the Bowers Writers House next semester.

As a requirement for the trip, students must enroll in a two-credit class that counts towards the peace and conflict studies minor, the international studies minor or for non-western cultural heritage core requirement. While in South Africa, students will also attend informational class sessions. The peace and conflict

studies major, which is sponsoring the South Africa trip, invites students from all departments to join in on the journey. As with all faculty-led programs, students do not need to be majoring or minoring in the subject in order to participate in the trip.

I n o r d e r t o e n c o u r a g e par t ic ipat ion this year, the

department has posted colorful posters around campus and has taken part in the study abroad fair. Additionally, the department garnered interest for the trip by including information in Etown’s newsletter. Yet another information session, which is projected for late Oct., will make the trip more of a reality to interested students.

Professor earns recognition for writing on Franz Kafka, titled “The Transformation”

Information and Technology Services (ITS) is now featuring an online, informative blog that provides students and faculty members with helpful software and technology tips, as well as time-savers and links to articles.

Photo: Leah Nissley

Blue Jay Barristers provides students, alumni with networking opportunities

Its founders also acknowledged the chal lenges of fast-paced increases in membership. For now though, that’s a smaller concern. The group’s main purpose is to introduce professional attorneys to aspiring attorneys and offer mentoring to current students. The first meeting for BJB is during homecoming, where it plans to recruit alumni for its upcoming programs.

The BJB will hold different events and have opportunities for alumni and student interaction. Alumni will be invited to the College to talk about their profession, give presentations, speak to classes and even participate in panels

on campus. There also will be chances for one-on-one matches and further facilitating pre-law mentoring. Profiles will be built on the alumni to see where they will best be matched and have the best experience.

The BJB welcomes all Etown students who are interested in Pre-law, as well as alumni who have graduated with a related degree. Even though many alumni aren’t local, they are still encouraged to participate through different forms of technology. Current students who are interested in the BJB may contact Kopko at kopkok@etown.edu for more information.

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Blue Jay Barristers is one of Etown’s newest groups on campus. The group’s mission is to connect professionals with aspiring attorneys and offer mentoring to current students interested in pre-law.

Image: Mark Clapper

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“I have been obsessed, that is not too strong a word, with the works of Franz Kafka since my

undergraduate days at the University College Dublin

in Ireland, where I grew up.”

~ Mark Harman

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Correction:In the article titled, “Cheetham joins Student Wellness,” published on Sept. 25, it was

stated that Cheetham was hired as the director of Student Wellness. However, she was officially hired to fill the position of health educator of Student Wellness.

Prior to taking the position at Etown, Delaney was the head coach at Arcadia University.

The previous Etown coach, Terr y Corcoran, resigned from his position as head coach to accept a position at Wabash College in Indiana. “I am very fortunate that this program already has a great group of student-athletes in place, and I hope to challenge them — on and off the field — to excel in ways they did not know they were able,” he said.

Delaney does not want to completely change the players’ strategy, but he is looking to make small changes to make the team the best it can possibly be. “I want our players to be ‘men of action’ — to do what is necessary to get the results they want — in the classroom and on the field. I expect that a greater level of accountability will help our student-athletes remain focused on their academic investment and balance their passion for playing lacrosse.”

The guys have already responded well to

the new routine in the first week of practice. “It’s a unique situation where we can all buy into his new ideas and philosophies on the game, while growing together as a team,” senior David Shatzer said.

“Our style of play is going to be a little more wide-open than in years past. I want to push unsettled opportunities, which will allow our players to be more creative and dynamic,” Delaney said.

Nancy Latimore, director of athletics and physical education, said, “We are looking forward to another successful year in Blue Jay athletics. As I said, last year we were ranked 66th of 436 NCAA Division III athletic programs. In addition, we had student-athletes awarded both a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship (Jill Casey ‘13) and an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship (Jenna Niedermayer ‘13). Year in and year out, our student-athletes are extraordinarily successful, both in the athletic arena and in the classroom. They make us very proud!” Two years ago, Etown was 75th in the NCAA

Division III athletics program, and last year Etown was ranked 66th out of the 436 athletics programs in the NACDA Director’s Cup rankings.

As for the upcoming season, Delaney is hoping for success. “There are so many

things to look forward to this lacrosse season; I am not sure I could pick any one. In a broader sense, I think I am most excited to get to know the campus community. As focused as I am on lacrosse, we are all Blue Jays, and being a member of this community is something that I am truly excited about,” Delaney said.

The Blue Jays are scheduled to participate in the Edward Taylor Coombs Fall Ball Shootout at Hatboro-Horsham High School on Oct. 13. Senior David Shatzer said, “I’m really excited for the new opportunity, and I think the entire team is as well. [The shootout will] show us where we are as a team at this point and what we need to work on. Right now we’re only focusing on getting better day by day.”

There will be eight teams competing with the Blue Jays including Ursinus College, St. Mary’s College, McDaniel College, Montclair State University, Eastern Connecticut College, Albright College and Eastern University.

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Delaney brings new style of play to men’s lacrosse program

Teske publishes new work in Zygon: Journal of Religion, Science

Milt Friedly accepted for national art exhibition in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dr. John Teske, a professor of psychology at Elizabethtown

College, has recently had his work published in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science.

Teske has his work published in Zygon regularly; his latest piece appears in Zygon’s September 2013 publication. Teske’s work in this particular volume is centered upon the concept of embodied cognition, which holds that “cog-nitive processes are deeply and inescapably rooted in our bodily interactions with the world.” Prior to his latest work for Zygon, Teske contributed to several other pub-lications, most of which concern topics in neuroscience.

Beginning in 1981 with a piece covering metatheoretic issues in cognitive science in the Journal of Mind and Behavior, Teske has written about cognition and similar topics for decades. This is Teske’s 12th publication in Zygon, to which he has been contributing since 1996. Moreover, Teske’s expertise led to his being named one of Blackwell Publisher’s Most-Cited Writers, a

highly prestigious honor. Zygon: Journal of Religion

and Science is a publication that hones in on the interact ions between science and structures, such as re l ig ions and mora l conviction. Cosmology, physics, biology and the neurosciences are discussed in the journal, providing an appropriate platform for presenting Teske’s work. The concept of embodied cognition is rooted deep in neuroscience, but also touches on subjects like sociology, morality and religion. While cognition is a function of the brain, embodied cognition concerns actions and reactions that are performed independent of the brain. Embodied cognition differs from typical cognition in that it doesn’t include the brain at all; it examines alternate body parts and doesn’t rely on a thought process.

In his published work, Teske explores the concept and what kind of effect it may have in the real world. Teske’s writing analyzes areas in which embodied cognition comes into play, part icularly in a physical manner, as with reactionary time. An example he used is motorcycle racing. At

100-plus speeds the motorcyclists are moving at during a race, even the brain’s split-second cognition cannot handle all the crucial details and choices that need to be noticed and made in order to race safely and competitively.

Therefore, embodied cognition comes into play at these points, with the body automat ica l ly adjust ing and react ing to its situation independent of the brain so as to be quick enough to avoid crashing and win the race. Teske also points out that there are very few professional motorcycle racers over the age of 25, as by that point in their lives, the racers’ reaction times slow down. Without the benefit of embodied cognition, older racers are less physically capable of keeping up with their opponents, and staying safely seated upon their bikes.

Teske expands on his concept of embodied cognition beyond the physical realm, into societal and religious dimensions as well. He covers externalism, which features decisions and reactions being made outside of the brain, whether through a di f ferent body part, or even an external

mechanism, such as a car. Teske wrote his article about the idea of embodied cognition, which gives explanations regarding the human body and larger groups and ideas

that humans make up, such as religion. He exhibits an obvious passion and interest in the subject. His work is an enormous asset to journals such as Zygon.

by MATTHEW KUKLA

The sculpture “Wireless – Double Indemnity,”

by Professor of Art Milt Friedly has been accepted for the national juried art exhibition “Unhinged.” The exhibition runs from Sept. 21 to Oct. 20 at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The exhibition was juried by Marshall Price, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Acad-emy Museum. This is not Friedly’s first national ex-hibit; he has shown in many national juried and curated art exhibitions, though this will be his first exhibition at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition.

The scu lpture i s two tower shapes made from CD holders that were welded together. The sculpture also includes bundles of communication wiring in both tower shapes, with the wire coming out of the ends

of the towers.“The complete process,

like many of my sculptural wor k s , i s a pro c e s s o f gather ing mater ia ls for their aesthetic, intrinsic and historical values. I usually

hold onto the materials until an idea gels. Once the concept comes together I begin to work with the material to create a whole,” Friedly said.

Most works take two to three months to complete, depending on how many pieces are required for the work.

“In the beginning, the inspiration for ‘Wireless - Double Indemnity’ was the wire itself, but I had to figure out what to do with it. I had just started a new ongoing series called “Wireless,” which makes reference to our push to become a wireless society and outdated technology - it is commentary on our culture, past and present,” Friedly said.

A f t e r t h e w o r k w a s installed for the first time, Fr ied ly rea l ized that i t referenced the Twin Towers due to its form and chaotic nature. “The form really speaks to structure/anti-structure – the chaos and order,” Friedly said.

Friedly said the most rewarding aspect of making a r t w o r k , s p e c i f i c a l l y sculptures, is the end result and positive feedback from both the local and national art communities. He feels that it is important to get feedback, both positive and negative,

from professional critics and not just the public who may or may not be informed about contemporary art. As

an educator, he feels it is necessary to inform as many people as possible about contemporary art. After the

exhibit in Brooklyn, Friedly hopes to show his work in a larger show or another venue.

Professor of psychology’s published article discusses concept of embodied cognition

Teske is a frequently published writer for the Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Teske’s most recent publication touched on the concept of embodied cognition, which is rooted deep in neuroscience.

Photo: Katie Brumbach

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Milt Friedly and senior Sarah Spang stand with “Wireless – Double Indemnity” at the national art exhibition in Brooklyn, N.Y. where Friedly showcased his sculpture.

Photo: Milt Friedly

“In the beginning the inspiration for ‘Wireless - Double Indemnity’ was the wire itself, but I had to figure out what to

do with it.” ~ Milt Friedly

“I want our players to be ‘men of action’ — to do what is necessary to get the results they want — in

the classroom and on the field. I expect that a greater level of accountability will help our

student-athletes remain focused on their academic investment and balance their passion for playing

lacrosse.” ~ Drew Delaney

by SARAH WERTZ

Players, Athletics Department staff welcomes new coach’s plan for motivating team

Certain classes at Elizabethtown College are famous for real-world learning experiences in spirit of the Col-

lege’s “Educate for Service” motto. In Dr. Kevin Shorner-Johnson’s World Musics class, this is certainly the case. “Many of us at Etown are working to design experiences that change us and that we remember for the rest of our lives,” Shorner-Johnson said. “We are seeking to move beyond sit-and-get lectures as a part of the Etown experi-ence.” Students taking this class are required to complete a research project on the role of music in a culture, specifi-cally Karen people.

“Karen is a term used to describe an ethnic group that has traditionally resided within the country of Burma/Myanmar,” Shorner-Johnson said. “Due to complicated ethnic struggles within this country, those who are in power have persecuted this culture. There are many violent stories of Karen homes being burned and people being executed, tortured, raped or forced to work simply because of their ethnic heritage.”

Because of this group’s persecution, the surrounding area has been affected as well. “Central Pa. has been a point of relocation for many Karen refugees who were granted entrance to the United States,” Shorner-Johnson said. “I began this project because I’m fascinated by such a beautiful culture, and I also feel a calling to lift up the voices of those who are often ignored. Because it is a project in world musics, we are interested in the role of music in creating and maintaining an identity among refugees from Southeast Asia.”

The goal of this project is to contact several people within the Etown area who identify themselves as Karen and interview them. The students conduct, transcribe, code and analyze these interviews. Through these methods, Shorner-Johnson hopes that both he and his students will have a research document that helps to better understand the Karen culture and the role of music among the people of that culture.

As well as having a better understanding of another culture, Shorner-Johnson hopes that his students take away his love for qualitative research. “I love the process of listening to people, hearing their stories and honoring these stories through disciplined inquiry,” he said. “Even more than this, I love the process of discovering research and listening to stories with students.”

Shorner-Johnson’s current project is similar to another project of his from last May. “In this class, we researched the role of music within a particular evangelical Hispanic church in Harrisburg,” he said. “It was fascinating to learn about the role of music in worship and the role of music in bringing together a group of people who were from different kinds of nationalities. In this experience, I found out just how much I love exploring qualitative research with Etown students. It was so much fun to experience and share a sense of discovery as we learned about the stories of diverse individuals.”

“I created the Karen research project because I wanted to create a similar experience for Etown students during the academic school year,” Shorner-Johnson said. “The first research project was led by only two Etown students — I'm interested to see if the project is also successful when it has as many as 10 students working on the project at the same time. I also have an investment in finding out if this works, because I created a piece of online software, qualQuery, that is designed to support undergraduate experiences in qualitative research. I'm interested to find out if this piece of software works with a larger group of students.”

Because of projects like these, Shorner-Johnson has gained a better world view. “This is an incredible project and already the stories that we have collected have been amazing and have changed my perspective and awareness of what I take for granted,” Shorner-Johnson said. “I'm in awe of people who have survived so many hardships and yet are some of the most beautiful individuals that I have met. I have so much respect for their values of family and the way that members within the Karen culture care for each other. I believe that we have a lot to learn from this amazing culture.”

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Core course researches music’s role for Karen refugeesShorner-Johnson explores local culture to gain understanding, promote real-world learning

by KAITLIN GIBBONEY

Photo: Katie BrumbachShorner-Johnson poses with some instruments used in his World Musics class. His students are conducting music research.

Grubb Student Award promotes peacemaking

by NOEL ABASTILLAS

Imagine traveling to Northern Ireland to research a way to end

the violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics, or spending a summer in Southern Sudan to build a preschool. If these seem like humanitarian efforts for a seasoned social work graduate to tackle, you’d be wrong. They are projects any Elizabethtown College under-graduate can start with the help of the Paul M. Grubb Jr. Student Peace Award, a program of the Alumni Peace Fellowship.

The award is a chance for stu-dents to further their plans for global peace and justice. It offers $1000 to one selected applicant to pursue their research or service project. Applicants must fill out a form and provide a 500-word proposal that details their project. The deadline is Oct. 7 and the form can be found at www.etown.edu/centers/global/grubb.aspx.

The award enables students to express goodwill towards their fellow human beings beyond the boundaries that often restrain stu-dents from passing in the name of indifference and self-preservation.

Nancy Neiman-Hoffman, a founder of the Alumni Peace Fellowship, said “winners of this Grubb Student Peace Award are often led to what is a pivotal, sometimes life-changing experi-ence. The experience of other — sometimes very different from one's own — cultures, the coming to relate to real people living real lives, sometimes under harrowing circumstances, has the profound ef-fect of enlarging the world, stretch-ing the horizon, creating within the self a spaciousness that alters in a permanent way the way one views otherness.”

The first winner of the award, Laurelyn Foderaro in 2006, trav-eled to Northern Ireland. Foderaro

studied conflict resolution in con-text of what Ireland refers to as “The Troubles.” Melanie Blevins, the winner in 2007, worked with women and children in Southern Sudan to assist in the establish-ment of a preschool. In 2008, Da-vid Bresnahan lived with a native family in Guatemala to investigate the preservation of a culture. Just recently, Nikki Koyste lived in Vietnam to work in an orphanage helping kindergarten and middle school children.

Such a life-changing award can be daunting to those apprehensive to apply, as it is incredibly com-petitive. The award is one of the signature programs of the Alumni Peace Fellowship. Some proposal tips the site offers are: “take time to think through your proposal with care. Highest consideration will be given to those showing evidence of thought, clarity and specificity. Avoid vague generalizations. A winning application could mean a pivotal experience in your life. The more you put into it, the greater the return.”

The award is an opportunity to enrich the lives of the less fortunate, and more importantly, to have an impact on those involved in its ap-plication.

Lois Herr, liaison and member of the Alumni Peace Fellowship said “students should develop projects that fulfill the purpose of the award by combining the belief that peace-making is a viable approach to life with real-life actions that make a difference somewhere in the world.”

Students who want to truly em-body Etown’s founding principles should involve themselves in the award. For those who desire to live up to the College’s vision of peace, non-violence, human dignity and social justice, the award’s deadline is this Monday, Oct. 7. It is a rare opportunity to improve the world for the better, and it is one that students should strive to achieve.

Travels Abroad: Discovering Etown in Unexpected Places

by JAZMIN DEJESUS

When someone raves about study abroad, students may

believe the excitement stems from a destination not being “like home.” There are enormous differences from being at Etown while studying abroad, it’s also good to know that there are places on entirely differ-ent continents that feel reminiscent of home. One of my favorite places to get a coffee, relax and chat with friends in Elizabethtown is Folklore

Coffee and Co. (photo on bottom) Although there is nothing like Folk-lore here in Cheltenham, England, there is one café in particular that mirrors Folklore’s cozy atmosphere. The Swallow Bakery (photo on top), although specializing in baked goods rather than coffee, prides itself on being one of the very few locally owned coffee shops in Cheltenham. Similar to Folklore, The Swallow Bakery features open space, a variety

of coffee products, reasonable prices and an intimate and comfortable setting. Positioned near the town center on the bottom floor of a large building, Swallow Bakery can't be missed. Although it offers a wider food selection and more seating than Folklore, The Swallow Bakery hasn't quite erased my desire for a familiar Etown cappuccino, but while I’m here in a foreign land, I’m content with every little reflection of home.

Photos: Austin Whitlock and lancasteronline.com

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‘Serving to Build Hope’ presentation covers Vietnam service tripCONTINUED FROM NEWS PAGE 1

Since the organization is a nonprofit, all of the money goes directly to the children to help provide resources to aid in their de-velopment. While serving as a financial sponsor to their children, donors are also encouraged to communicate with their children via letters, webcam meetings and trips to meet them in person. The organization not only gives the children financial grants to children living in these orphanages but also gives them love and hope for a better future.

During the presentation, a few students who were involved with the trip recalled their unique experiences in Vietnam. One stu-dent recalled the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. Motorbikes were a main form of transportation and made up a lot of the traffic, which she likened to the modern-ism of New York City.

For most of the trip, students visited many different orphanages around Vietnam and performed any deed from raising money to doing service jobs to just being with the children. In one experi-

ence, students had raised enough money to help build a classroom for the Hunh De Nhu Nghia Center for the blind in a small village. Filled with gratitude, the children performed for the students do-ing the service work, which was enjoyed by everyone. In another experience, students helped to hand out bicycles bought by their sponsors for children in these orphanages.

Several students toured a few different orphanages for disabled children and were given an opportunity to interact with these children. While there, children flocked to meet the students who were handing out toys, vitamins and milk. Senior occupational therapy major Jaqueline Nunn recalls how some children couldn’t walk and were confined to their beds, unable to greet them despite their excitement. She remembered picking up one blind girl who immediately clung to her and would not let go. “We don’t think of holding children as a big deal,” Nunn said. “Small things like these mean so much to them.”

Most of the students in attendance on the trip had majors in occupational therapy, education or social work. These students were able to utilize what they had learned in the classroom to better relate to both the children in the orphanages and the country of Vietnam. Despite their language barriers, students felt connected to these children. With their experiences, most students felt they were able to grow as a person.

Senior early childhood education major Elizabeth Felcone highly recommends the experience to any ma-jor. For anyone feeling anxious about going abroad, she said to “throw all of those fears away.” One of the adult

participants, Elizabeth Braungard, executive director of marketing and communications, also is a great proponent of the experience. “Vietnam was not on my bucket list, but after I have been back, how could it not have been?” she said. “It reminds us why we do what we do at Etown. I was the best out students had to offer. Experiences like this differentiate how different an educational experience at Etown is.”

Bomberger presents on prolific composer Edward MacDowell

by EMILY VASAS

Dr. E. Douglas Bomberger, a professor of music and department chair at Elizabethtown College,

first encountered Edward MacDowell’s music as a high school piano student. MacDowell’s music stuck with him throughout his later schooling and into his career. Since then, Bomberger has focused much of academic his research on MacDowell’s life and musical career.

He has conducted research and written about MacDowell for over two decades. Earlier this year, Bomberger published his biography, titled “MacDowell.” He agreed to present some of his research on MacDowell’s career in a lecture for the Faculty Scholarship Series titled “Like a Dog Standing on its Hind Legs: Edward MacDowell and the music program at Columbia,” on Tuesday Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.

The presentation focused on MacDowell’s position as the chair of Columbia University’s newly founded music department. MacDowell was asked to take the position in 1896 and held the chair for eight years. He created the department’s entire curriculum completely from scratch.

Bomberger’s past research into MacDowell’s career prompted his fellow MacDowell scholar Margery Lowens to contact him about the possibility of writing a biography. She offered to share source materials that she had accumulated since the mid-1960s. “Her materials were so valuable that I dedicated the book to her in appreciation,” Bomberger said.

During the research process for the biography, Bomberger visited research centers with major collections of MacDowell materials and primary source documents, including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and Columbia University. He also made research trips to Germany, France and Canada to track down more obscure source material. “There were many unexpected surprises as I discovered new source material,” Bomberger said. “There were disappointments at things I hoped to find but never did. Writing is hard work, but I would not say that this project had unusual difficulties.”

The writing itself was a far more intricate process. “After thinking about the organization for a long time, I created a tentative list of chapters to plot the narrative arc of the book,” Bomberger said. He began writing the book while he was on sabbatical during the fall 2009 semester. His research had sent him to Germany just before he started writing the manuscript. This caused him to begin writing the manuscript starting with chapter four, which deals with MacDowell’s years as a German conservatory

student. After that, Bomberger worked backward to write the first three chapters before continuing on with chapter five.

The biography provides insight into MacDowell’s early life, as his later life has been researched extensively in the last century. Far less light has been shed on his earlier life before now. Because of this, Bomberger devoted more space to the composer’s early life, which gave him the opportunity to share new insights and information about MacDowell’s upbringing, his father’s business and the challenges of studying at the Paris Conservatory. “The later years will also contain some new perspectives for those familiar with his story,” Bomberger said.

MacDowell and his work are very important pieces of the history of American music. He was the first classical composer from the United States to achieve a major international reputation. “Most critics writing

between about 1890 and 1920 would have considered him America’s greatest composer,” Bomberger said.

Bomberger plans to move on to other projects and different research in the near future. “I intend to write a couple more articles exploring issues too specialized to address in a biography,” he said. “But after they are done I will be eager to move on to new projects.”

Bomberger received his bachelor’s degree from Goshen College, his master’s degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his doctorate from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. His primary area of study is music history.

High Library showcases anthropology students’ summer fieldwork

by MORGAN KING

Animal bones, cracked piec-es of pottery and beaded

jewelry are currently on dis-play in the High Library al-cove. Elizabethtown College students have been digging in Washington Boro, Pa. since 2006 looking for artifacts of the Susquehannock Indian tribe, who resided nearby from about 1600-1630. Students’ discov-eries can provide insight to a unique group of people and an unfamiliar culture.

Students have the oppor-tunity to participate in field school for three weeks over the summer, and the program is open to all students, no mat-ter their major. Dr. Robert Wheelersburg, professor of anthropology, mentioned that many students in the program are not anthropology majors but they participate because it is a unique and different expe-rience. This program has been offered to Etown students since the mid 1990’s, but they have only been searching for arti-facts in the Washington Boro area for the past few years. Typ-ically, there are about six to ten Etown students involved with the project at a time. Wheel-ersburg stated, “All the artifacts were found by students.” The display in the library is the re-sult of seven years of hard work and many students and faculty exploring the area in which the artifacts were found.

In addition to the artifacts on display, there are multiple draw-ings by senior Jeanette Kocz-wara, an Etown student. She has been drawing for Wheelersburg since the spring of last year, she said. Photographs don’t show the details of the artifacts, so Kocawara’s work helps ex-press what photography can’t. “When it came to drawing the historical context, I had plenty of references for the artifacts

(that's what we dug up after all) but there are very few visual records of Susquehannock. I worked off of illustrations by John Smith of a closely related native population to design the Native American's clothes,” she added. “I was able to apply my drawing ability to field school as well. The area we dug was stratified with layers of differ-ent soil types. Photography, again, can only capture so much and in the shadow of the pit a lot of the distinction was lost. So I got a clipboard, graph paper and measuring tape and was able to designate where one layer of darker, more organic soil ended and denser red clay began.” Koczwara’s drawings are a valuable part of the exhibit and provide detail that would otherwise be unnoticed.

The artifacts displayed in the library also have fascinating historical ties. “The artifacts show the connection between the Indian village and the colo-nists at Jamestown, including Captain John Smith of Poca-hontas fame,” Wheelersburg offered.

According to Wheelersburg, the display will remain in the library until Oct. 7 when it will move to the Washington Boro historical society permanently. Wheelersburg hopes the exhibit helps students understand that “Archeology is a discipline ... and how contact between Eu-ropeans and Native Americans influenced their cultures.”

It’s not every day that ancient animal bones, cracked pottery and colorful beaded jewelry from a local Indian tribe are displayed in the library. Stu-dent drawings add detail that would otherwise be unseen from a photograph. Many years of hard work and digging by students who participated in the summer field school pro-gram resulted in an exhibit for everyone at Etown to learn from and enjoy.

Photo: Leah Nissley

Students involved with the anthropology department display their work in the High Library for members of the community to view.

“There were disappointments at

things I hoped to find but never did. Writing is hard work, but I would not say that this project

had unusual difficulties” ~Douglas Bomberger

The article “New York Times best-selling author speaks at Bowers” printed on Sept. 25 stated that Jason Mott was a customer service operator for Verizon Wireless in Philadelphia, Pa. However, he was a Verizon representative in North Carolina and serviced the New York City area. Additionally, Mott’s novel “The Returned” was optioned as a television series only, not a film. Mott attended the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, not the University of Maryland College in Wilmington.

Correction:

Biography discusses musician’s earlier years

Photo: Katie BrumbachSenior Elizabeth Felcone talks about her experience in Vietnam and how it helped her to relate to her classes at Etown.

Dr. Ted Davis spoke Thursday, Sept. 26 in Brinser Lecture Room about the contro-

versy over evolution. Davis is a professor of the history of science and religion at Messiah Col-lege. During his presentation, Davis remained neutral on the issue, presenting the facts behind the debate and the views of the people involved throughout the debate’s long history.

He explained the views behind creation science and intelligent design, as well as the history of these belief systems. His main point was to illustrate why these belief systems do not accept the scientific explanation of the theory of evolution. His presentation answered

three questions: why has evolution been so controversial among Christians? What do creation science and intelligent design claim about God, the Bible and Christianity? Does the acceptance of the theory of evolution deny Orthodox (traditional) Christianity?

From the culture wars of the 1920s to the literalism of today, Davis spanned the history of this conflict. Creation Science began in the early 20th century, when fundamentalist Chris-tians worried that modernity and science were assaulting traditional beliefs. Fundamentalists, at the time, claimed that teaching evolution in schools was a violation of religious freedom, as stated by the Constitution. In short, evolution has been controversial because it is a threaten-ing concept to many people. To some, it defies

what the Bible lays out as truth and having truth shaken can be a frightening thing.

To combat their worries, people at this time used political cartoons to describe science as a series of blind guesses attempting to destroy traditional beliefs. “As they say it, the Bible was being bombarded by culture, liberal theology, science, hypothesis, which really means revolu-tion, and atheism,” Davis said. “All those forces were attacking the bible.” Today, people equate a belief in Creation Science with a literal inter-pretation of the book of Genesis. This literal interpretation involves the belief that the earth was created in six 24-hour days, rather than over billions of years or during “ages” that the book’s writers interpreted as days.

This view is usually involved with the idea that the Bible is the only reliable source of information on the creation of the Earth and the universe because it is the word of God and God was the only eyewitness to the events of cre-ation. It also tends to lead to the view that the natural sciences, along with the theory of evolu-tion, are “falsely so-called” or even satanic in origin, designed to lead humanity astray.

Intelligent design lies some-where between creation sci-ence and scientific theories. Founded by Philip E. Johnson in the 1990s, intelligent design is actually a relatively new idea, at least compared to the other two contenders. It dictates that to bring God or religion into the equation is a losing proposition. This belief holds that there was an “intelligent designer,” that the creation of the earth and the universe did not literally happen in six days, but was not blind chance either. Intelligent design proponents call their theory a “big tent,” meaning that people

opposed to the theory of evolution get over their differences and focus on questioning scientific theories.

As for whether the acceptance of evolution is actually a threat to modern Christianity, ex-perts are divided on the answer. Some say yes; a belief in evolution leads to a slippery slope to losing faith. Others, such as Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” theorize the same slope, but believe the loss of faith to be a benefit brought by scientific theory.

There are also those who propose that Christianity must change with the times, like John Shelby Spong, a retired bishop of the Episcopal Church and author of the book “Why Christianity Must Change or Die.” They believe it is necessary for their faith to evolve along with changing world views, to accept scien-tific reasoning and incorporate it, or risk their religion dying away. And some, like Francis Collins, author of “The Language of God,” are far more optimistic. They feel, while all things change and grow, it is possible to harmonize their scientific views with their religious beliefs, that one is not necessarily more important or sounder than the other.

Staying strong to its Brethren roots, Elizabethtown College places much emphasis on ideals of peace and

nonviolence through classes and people on campus. For Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Rudy, he is the epitome of this tradition. A relatively new addition to the peace and conflict studies department as well as Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, Rudy serves the College under the title of peacemaker-in-residence.

Currently, Rudy is teaching a first-year seminar. “I teach one course a semester,” Rudy said. “It’s called Conflict Dy-namics and Transformation. We look at human conflict and how to both conceptualize it and analyze it, then toward the last half of the class we make it practical and work on conflict intervention skills as well as communications skills.” According to Rudy, his overall goal is for his students to be more empowered to take on conflicts and be able to face them. “It fits with almost every discipline, anywhere we are,” he said. “Conflict comes at us and we’re involved in it. I really hope that my students feel empowered to not run away from conflict but to move toward it and help to resolve and transform it into something positive.”

Rudy not only works with both the peace and conflict studies department and the Center for Global Understand-ing and Peacemaking, but he also works with student life in any sort of work from training RAs to basic dorm life. “I’m still feeling my way into it,” he said. “I’m kind of an out there kind of a guy, a big-picture thinker, and what I brought to Etown was connections to Africa and Asia, and I’m learning how to translate that into a local college setting. It’s a work in progress.”

Rudy has had extensive experience in about 30 countries in Africa and Asia, such as Somaliland, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Afghanistan, Burma, the Philippines, Laos and Vietnam. His work started in 1983 with a trip to China for a study abroad opportunity, and then went abroad again to Somalia in 1987 with the Mennonite Central committee with his wife. “I’ve had my mind in Africa and Asia since then,” he said.

One of Rudy’s favorite and most enriching experiences deals with his work in Somaliland. “I’ve recently reconnect-ed with Somaliland in the horn of Africa,” he said. “It’s been

over 20 years since I’ve been back there. Since that was the first place my wife and I spent a significant amount of time, that’s really close to my heart.” He hopes to earn a grant for Somaliland to connect faculty and students to faculty and

students in that area. “We left when the civil war started in 1988, and I left a piece of my heart there. Now to reengage with that and to bring those relationships to Etown, that’s really exciting to me.”

On Rudy’s shelf, a seemingly normal candleholder sits along with a few other mementos of his. “It’s kind of an ugly candle holder until you realize it’s a 105 millimeter Howitzer shell,” he said. “This is from a swords to plowshares project from a friend of mine in the Philippines. This shell was fired from anger in the seventies. It was collected and, through a community project, was made into art. I’m committed to nonviolence and transformation of violence into peaceful, robust, strong societies that can resist this urge towards destruction and violence.”

Another object he has is some spoons made from bomb casings that had been dropped on Laos. “These are another symbol of how we can change this very violent past into a better future,” Rudy said. “And that’s why I love teaching at Etown. I’m working with people who really are the future. The things you learn here, you can go out and change the world for the better. I see it in my students in the classroom. Part of my job is to explore and engage young people to discover those positive forces for change,” Rudy said. “How do we harness those? We do get discouraged and think that the ultimate is somebody’s threat to kill us, but there’s a lot of other power available beyond the threat of a bullet in our heads. In conflict transformation, you’ve just got to hang on for dear life and watch these things develop. You’ve got to move into new, hard space and think, ‘Am I going to con-tribute my own fear to the whole pall of fear that pervades at this time, or am I going to offer something different?’”

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Peacemaker-in-Residence Jon Rudy gives insight on conflict, peace in life

by KAITLIN GIBBONEY

by EMILY VASAS

Photo: Katie Brumbach

Messiah professor discusses debate of Bible vs. biology

“As they say it, the Bible was being

bombarded by culture, liberal theology, science, hypothesis, which really means revolution, and

atheism.” ~Ted Davis

“I’m committed to nonviolence and transformation of violence

into peaceful, robust, strong societies that can resist this

urge towards destruction and violence.”

~Jon Rudy

Davis speaks on controversy surrounding creationism versus theory of evolution

Photo: travelingmonk.com

Messiah College’s Dr. Ted Davis explored the views behind creation science and intelligent design. He discussed the story of creation in his lecture at Brinser Lecture Room on Thursday, Sept. 26.

Opinion page 7October 3, 2013

As college students, we are trained to work incessantly towards a purpose; we

are taught that we must configure our lives in such a way that they catalyze our careers. How can we catalyze our careers to embody the purpose of our lives? How might we plan for the future without limiting our activities for the sake of marketing ourselves to employers in a certain field? More specifically, when do the activities listed on our resumes make sense not only to us and our purposes, but also to our prospective employers and their values?

Imagine that you are filling out the application of your dream job. Before you continue the application, however, you notice more pamphlets for the Racing Student Unicyclists, the Lovers of Stupid Band Names and clubs that you have to stuff into a drawer before you try to refocus. “Wow,” you happily squeal as you fill the application with more information from your very long resume, “I don’t know how they could ever reject me; my resume is awesome, because I’ve done so many things! I’m so unique, and I’ll be their first choice because I’ve had so many different experiences!” You spin with glee in your swivel chair for a moment, then return to the desk.

Yet also imagine that further into that application for your ideal career, you glance at the section that says, “Please list years of experience in this field.” What if you didn’t even attend your major’s club more than once a month because you tried to extend yourself to each activity on campus? We’re

humans with a purpose, and it’s a great risk one takes to extend in every direction as only an octopus can. If you and I feel sick at the thought of how many times we could have quit the host of awesome, diverse clubs in order to excel in a hobby related to our majors or desired careers, what does that say about us to potential employers?

I admit that it is exhilarating to see how long a resume can be; we as humans are programmed to think the concept of “more” equals “greater,” and the more activities a student lists on his or her resume, the more likely they will feel successful. However, many employers tend to notice less value in the variety of what we do than in our devotion to a few key activities related to our desired fields.

It is a rare bunch of employers who will understand the advantage of an employee’s long list of activities, regardless of how many different skills a student learns in different outlets. Fewer employers will allow a varied skill set to supersede requirements for career-specific knowledge in their applicants.

There also is an issue of whether or not one’s involvement in many clubs indicates superficiality. On one hand, employers may offer such a student a position, believing that the student will be prepared for just about anything precisely because he or she tried everything in college.

Oftentimes, though, we students are inundated with the idea that employers want specific experience in their employees. Medical school admissions, for example, look for a great deal of medical-related involvement in their applicants. If an applicant has such diverse interests that

he or she has not invested most of his or her time in working for hospitals and private practices, the applicant may be rejected. Aside from the medical field example, employers want to envision how an employee will add to the company. It’s easier for them if prospective employees have some practical knowledge in the field; by hiring workers based on past involvement, whether in a leadership position or simple dabbling,

the employer’s marginal benefit will not exceed the marginal costs of training and babysitting each new worker.

If you dread that situation in the ideal career application example, perhaps it’s time to lessen involvement in everything else and become immersed in the clubs that will propel you into your desired career. I would also venture to underscore the importance of sincerely enjoying those activities, because however successful a person may be in the long-run, they cannot be satisfied

by that success unless they also enjoy what they do. Employers, like other people, use intuition, and an employer’s strong intuition can lead to equally strong initial judgments about his or her applicants.

Each reader probably has guessed that I will mention the importance of “finding a balance” in college activities. Yet I would guess that such equilibrium might lead to a flavorless resume, and a piece of paper that reveals a lack of devotion to one activity can lead an employer to question a student’s motives. Although this may sound extreme, I would question myself as to why I don’t simply choose my greatest aptitude and work in that specialized realm forever.

Next time we see pamphlets for different clubs on our desk, let’s remember that, no matter how hard we attempt to be octopi, we are humans with limits. Let’s place our bucket-listed resumes aside and really ask ourselves this question: Would employers see the same value in the hobbies in which we are most involved, and, if they would not, why would we want to work for them in that field? That may imply that our purpose and passion don’t coincide with those of employers in that particular field. Why am I being an octopus, stretching to retain a wide variety in life, if I am passionate about one particular major and career?

Perhaps the situation of needing to do many things rather than the few activities for our careers reveals a greater need to change not only our majors, but also our entire career paths. If one ultimately sees great value in something that in no capacity pertains to one’s major, there is a chance that the passion lies dormant in an entirely changed career direction. Go wake it up.

Wearing Blue Jay-themed shirts demonstrates school pride

When your c lothes s tar t spilling out over the top

of your laundry basket, you know what time it is: laundry time. I procrastinate on doing my laundry so often that I’m regularly forced to examine the shirts that I wouldn’t typically wear. I dig through my dresser to find some articles of clothing suitable for covering my glorious body. All bunched together in my dresser, as i f quarantined from the rest, are my Elizabethtown College-themed shirts.

What shirts do I have to choose from? The first is a lovely Etown shirt in the typical navy blue color with white text across the front, as generic as store-brand soda. The next one is black, and it has the name of my dear friend on the back, in recognition of his athletic prowess. An imposing blue jay appears on the front, with a face that says, “You had better wear me, or else.” To break the monotony, my next option is — surprise, surprise — an Etown hoodie. Between the gray color and the blue writing on the front, this decked-out sweatshirt rocks the Etown colors with style. Shielding me from the cold several times with its comfortable fabric, the hoodie will look fine if I want to “bum it out” for the day.

My next Etown shirt shimmers with a blue hue, bearing text across the front that says, “Mr. Etown.” Although this one does not explicitly say “Etown College” on the front, the overall feel is the same. The words “I’m Too Sexy” on the shirt remind me of the once-popular song that we all tried to learn the words to. After sliding my next garb to the side, I find the Holy Grail: another Etown-themed tee. This one is navy blue

— my Jaywalker T-shirt — and is emblazoned with an “E” across the front. A hand-drawn blue jay in white on the back reminds of how prolific the darned bird is with its shirt appearances.

If you’re like me, you have enough Etown-themed shirts to fill at least three washing machines. O f t e n s u b c o n s c i o u s l y, w e accumulate more and more Etown shirts each school year, making us appear unhealthily obsessed with the school we call home. These shirts that constitute such a large portion of your wardrobe may seem tacky; they’re not necessarily the greatest fashion statement. But stop and think for a moment. What does each one of those shirts mean to you? What memories do they conjure? When you rock the “Etown shirt swag” years from now, will you do so with pride and fond memories?

My navy blue Etown shirt that I passed off as “generic”—that was the first Etown shirt I ever received. My cousin, an Etown alumnus, got it for me as a gift well before I even planned to attend col lege here. Lost among the sea of Etown shirts sitting in the metaphorical treasure trove that is my dresser drawer, I had forgot the shred of sentimental value that the shirt held. This shirt reminds me of beginnings.

The black jersey I bought in honor of my friend has its own flavor. I wore it to my friend’s soccer games all last year. His speed, dexterity and shooting skills impressed me beyond belief. I cheered for him so hard I almost fell off the bleachers. I even tried playing some soccer with him once, wearing his own jersey, which may have been awkward for him in retrospect. But those are memories that I want to keep. This shirt reminds me of friendship.

I remember wearing that gray

Etown hoodie while I was a first-year, sitting out in the Dell, gazing up at the stars. Powdery snow fell from the sky, sticking to the ground and getting me excited for the prospect of my first college snow day. Moonlight illuminated the Dell just enough for me to see my chilled breath, and the rapscallions in the background having a snowball fight for the ages. So much for my Zen moment. This shirt reminds me of hopefulness.

My blue Mr. Etown shirt reminds me of a great show. I recall a sound and atmosphere I can only witness once a year. As I watched the show two years ago, I knew I wanted to shake my “groove thang,” or lack thereof, onstage someday. Even

if I had to make my friends dress up as fruit. I could never have predicted that would happen the following year — if you had told me, I would have pooped my pants on the spot. This shirt reminds me of inspiration.

My Jaywalker T-shirt makes me reflect on the campus tours I have given to prospective students. While I lament having to wake up so early for open houses, I truly enjoy showing families around the place I have come to call home. Telling the story of how President Carl Strikwerda tied my tie for me never gets old. When my time at Etown is over, I will reflect fondly upon the tours I have given and the families that have chosen Etown

because I made them feel at home. This shirt reminds me of passion.

Obviously, I don’t go through my closet every morning thinking about the sentimental value behind every item in my wardrobe. I promise I’m not as foppish as I seem. But I also realize how precious my time at Etown is. The excessive number of Etown shirts I own will one day mean something to me. Heck, they mean something to me now. I can joke about the tackiness of my Etown-themed garb as much as I want, but my love for this school outweighs my desire to be ultra-fashionable.

So, rock those Etown shirts, people. You know you’ve got a ton of them. Go ahead and wear them.

by MATTHEW WALTERS

Photo: Katie Brumbach

by TIANA FERRANTE

Spirit wear creates common ground, trumps need to be fashionable, immortalizes experiences

We all own a large number of Etown-related shirts, from T-shirts to sweatshirts. While we might want to avoid wearing them around campus, years from now, we will come to appreciate our massive collections.

“Next time we see pamphlets for different clubs on our desk, let’s

remember that, no matter how hard we attempt to

be octopi, we are humans with limits.”

Selective involvement in clubs, organizations yields far greater rewards after graduation Joining too many extracurricular activities has its downside

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by KYLER KOONS

by BRIGHID FLYNN

I find one thing that is interesting, and I run with it. I take notes like a madman because it’s honestly the only thing that makes the time move the slightest bit quicker. And ... I file my nails. Sorry, but if nothing else works, I’m left to my own devices, aka nail care.

by MATTHEW WALTERS

When I know I’ll have a tough time paying attention, I try to do something at least semi-productive. Like a good English major, I’ll start writing a poem or two. When I’m feeling less creative, I go through my schedule for the week in my head just to stay on top of things. But for the most part, I try to listen intently. I’m not paying for college in order to scribble in class!

by NOEL ABASTILLAS

I usually have to trick myself into thinking it’s important. I reevaluate the lecture and see if it can pique my curiosity. If that fails, I try to mix in shades of daydreaming and obsessive note taking. I also read. Doodling helps too, so usually my most boring classes end up having the most interesting notes.

What’s your strategy for making boring classes interesting? We all have those courses where we’d rather swallow a cactus than sit in it for two hours. How do you get the most

out of the classes you don’t want to be in?

I’m a daydreamer by nature. Admittedly, I don’t always dive deep into class material if it doesn’t capture my attention within the first two classes. I have the at-tention span of a squirrel. I think, though, that there are always those classes we immediately label as “boring” that might actually surprise us. For example, a course I took a year ago to fulfill the Non-Western Cultural Heritage Core requirement, Hebrew Bible, was initially the bane of my existence. It was too early in the morning, and I’m not religious. But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered why was I letting that get in the way of enjoying the class just for the sake of learning. I eventually found that it was one of my favorite classes, because I stopped to really listen. What’s stopping you from getting really into something you never thought you would? You are. There are going to be courses that make you cringe, cry and fall unconscious. But if you give it a try, you could discover that those connections take you further in your understanding of the course ma-terial, and you might even be surprised how much you’ll grow to appreciate that boring class. I mean, it probably won’t convert you from a painter to a mathematician, but there’s no harm in expanding your horizons. JayCode.

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Just about everyone knows, Apple recently released its newest mobile

operating system, iOS7. While the loyal Apple fans downloaded the op-erating system as soon as possible, I was not so eager to do so. I was happy with iOS6 and didn’t feel the need to upgrade; however, at the behest of my roommates, I did upgrade only one short day after the release. After hav-ing played around with the features for a little over a week and having gotten used to the new look, I realize that, I absolutely detest it. That being said, I must admit that it is a thing of beauty.

For anyone who doesn’t know, my attitude towards Apple is a complex one. I will openly admit that Steve Jobs took helm of that ship and took it for one heck of a ride. He brought Apple Computers from near bankruptcy to profitability in his career, and for a short time, was the world’s most valu-able company. Yet, he was a mean and ruthless leader, a perfectionist who ob-sessed over appearances to the point of getting a new car every six months to avoid the requirement of having a license plate. Go ahead, Google that to double-check it … I’ll wait.

Jobs’ relationship with his company sums up my view of Apple products; the obsession with appearances goes too far, at times delving into narcis-sistic territory. The fact is, when you buy any Apple product, a considerable portion of your money pays for the brand. Hard-earned money is being spent on a logo. This tactic of creating a following of loyal users, by dividing society into in-groups and out-groups is devious, manipulative, immoral and completely brilliant. Honestly, my main complaint against Apple is simply that I wish I had been the first person to think like Jobs did.

The maintained upgrades, how-ever small, in hardware and firmware keep loyal users coming back for more, upgrading their phones every 24 months for sometimes minimal changes. This tapping into our societal

Letter to the editor argues for complete intolerance of sexual abuse

iOS7 update represents materialism ingrained in technology-based culture

Fall is upon us once again. The leaves are turning. The air is cooling. The color of pink adorns the campus,

reminding everyone that October is Breast Cancer Aware-ness month. But let us not forget the purple ribbons that remind us that October is also Domestic Violence Aware-ness month.

Among the many issues raised during this month is the larger challenge of addressing sexual assaults, especially on college campuses. Just this past summer, there was story after story of college campuses being sued by students for their failure to appropriately and effectively address instances of sexual assault and rape. In many cases, these colleges were found guilty of violating the civil rights of the victims when they failed to punish claims of assault.

Sadly, we see signs that this may be a problem on our own campus. Last Friday, Sept. 27, on the campus news alert, the college announced that women on campus have been victim to “shoving, touching and fondling.” While the college was right to alert people to these incidents, the tone of the message perpetuates the idea that sexual assault is simply an act of misconduct that should be addressed internally as a violation of our “student code of conduct,” resulting in suspension or expulsion. In reality, sexual as-sault is a crime and anyone attacked on campus has every right to make a criminal complaint with the local police and request a criminal investigation.

As we saw in last Friday’s campus news, bystanders apparently have little role in such events other than to be witnesses. The fact that the third incident apparently occurred in the company of a group of male students is not only appalling, but it is also criminal. Those men are accessories and should be treated as such. They should be ashamed for allowing their friend to think that such behavior is acceptable.

The rate of sexual assaults on college campuses is shock-ingly high, and while most assaults are between intimate partners or are instances of date rape, assaults by strangers do happen. People who witness or have information on any of these crimes have a moral and legal responsibility to report them.

Sexual assault is a serious matter and not simply an

“act of misconduct” equivalent to having too much beer in the fridge or changing margins to make your papers seem longer. To use the same language to describe these offences blurs the lines of moral and legal culpability. We fear that some of our recent efforts to crackdown on cam-pus conflicts have further blurred these lines, confusing serious acts of harassment and intimidation with things that merely make us uncomfortable. This has caused some members of our community to overreact to slight insults and offenses, and others to underreact to serious and even criminal behavior.

Thus, we need strong rules about harassment, discrimi-nation, threats, assault and intimidation. But this is not a mandate for “civility,” nor is it a reason to limit the free expression of ideas. There is a time and place for incivility. Every major social movement has been accused of being “uncivil,” and most started on college campuses. Appeals to niceties, politeness and civility have historically been used to silence minority voices and hence, while well-intentioned, can also be very dangerous.

So allow us to attempt to clarify the moral code of higher education. Students have a right to be loud, ob-noxious and even uncivil. They have the right to disagree with one another, to challenge one another or to dislike one another. Students even have a right to say stupid and offensive things. Of course, the rest of us have a right (we’d argue, a responsibility) to point out when their thinking is clouded by unfair stereotypes, prejudices or false assumptions. That is part of the exchange of ideas, values, and perspectives that takes place when you bring people of diverse experiences together. If we shut down this exchange, no one really learns anything from one another. But while we support the right to free expres-sion and even some incivility, let’s also be very clear about the limits on our actions. No one has the right to assault someone or threaten someone. No one has the right to scribble intimidating messages on someone’s whiteboard or to use fear to make a point. As a general rule, if you are not willing to put your name on something or state it publicly, it probably should not be said. For this reason, legal definitions of “harassment” treat anonymous contact as more hostile than personal contact. Clearly no one has a right to “shove” or “fondle” someone against their will. If you see someone doing these things, please do not act with civility. Raise hell.

by TYLER KUNKLE

by APRIL KELLY-WOESSNER, RITA SHAH

Photo: Katie Brumbach

need for the latest and greatest is what has propelled Apple to the position of success it is in today. Actions such as making unlocking smartphones illegal, blatantly stealing (though ad-mittedly improving thereupon) ideas from other manufacturers and using questionable labor sources are just the sort of cut-throat tactics which laid their foundation for success. Jobs’ maintaining the illusion of his benevo-lence and creating a cult of personality is what let him stay there; it is what keeps him in our minds as one of the good guys, whose greatness Bill Gates could never replicate.

In considerable contrast to iOS6, the new iOS7 is sleeker, replacing faux buttons with simple text and incor-porating smart use of whitespace in apps such as Calendar. All native apps got a complete overhaul for the new release. The icons, which most users notice immediately offer a preview for the new look and features behind them. Tapping an icon to open an app, the user is almost whisked into the phone itself as the other apps fly to the side and the screen appears to zoom in on the selected item. When exiting an app, one zooms back out to the next level up, be it the home screen or a folder. The new notification and control centers slide out in drawer-like fashion and have a translucency to them, obscuring but not covering items in the background. These slide-out information centers provide the user with an instantaneous overview of what is going on with her phone. New controls, including quick access to Wi-Fi and airplane mode switches, allow the user to quickly access fea-tures, including the new native flash-light feature.

This smart nod to the abundance of third-party flashlight apps and control centers for jail broken phones shows that, finally, Apple is paying attention to what users want, and providing it themselves, limiting the appeal of jail breaking in the process. This upgrade from iOS6’s faux 3D through shad-ows to a more realistic experience in the third dimension is an obvious improvement. Apps no longer “run in the background,” but instead run beside the app being used, giving the user a sense of breadth to the whole process and an idea of exactly what one’s phone is doing. The previous practice of holding on to features and designs to keep the feel familiar has gone out the window.

This complete overhaul has mod-ernized iDevices in a way which firmware updates rarely do. The one drawback which I have to mention is this: if you have an older iDevice, you may want to reconsider updating. I know find myself among the minor-ity, but I have managed to keep my iPhone 4 unscratched, unscathed and in working order for over three years now. Some features of the new iOS

are not supported by my device, unfortunately, including filters in the camera app, Airdrop, and panoramic photos. The new iOS runs noticeably slower on older iDevices, and is in fact also slower on even the newest devices, albeit unnoticeably for most users. My iPhone 4 now takes 45 seconds to cold boot to the lock screen, up from approximately 30 with iOS6. The counterargument to this would be simply that my device was never designed to handle such firmware, which is 100 percent accurate. As such, I highly encourage everyone with a newer iDevice to update their firmware and enjoy the clean-er, smarter iOS7, but advise those who are still using older technology to consider the cost of speed before jumping on the bandwagon.

“This tactic of creating a following

of loyal users, by dividing society into in-groups and out-groups is devious,

manipulative, immoral and

completely brilliant.”

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October 3, 2013

After reading last week’s article, “Laptops, tablets acceptable note-taking resources in

class,” I decided the alternate viewpoint needed to be discussed.

By college, one can make decisions for him or herself; hopefully, these will be good deci-sions. Taking one’s laptop to class is a decision that students make everyday, but rarely think about. Are there really any consequences to such a harmless choice? Most professors would say there is. How are they to know a student is taking notes behind the lid of his computer? Here’s a hint: if a student is displaying signs of amusement and the professor is discussing geometry proofs, chances are his attentions are more likely directed at a game of Farmville or scrolling through his Twitter feed. While it is indisputable that students can benefit academi-cally from the resources on laptops, tablets and even smartphones, their use in classes is more harmful than advantageous.

As far as efficiency goes, students are no more capable of typing every word that a professor rambles off than they are of writing it. Despite teenagers spending much of their

time texting or typing statuses on their favorite social media sites, typing papers and sending emails, typing is not necessarily faster or more accurate. Relying on autocorrect to assure ac-curacy of one’s notes is actually detrimental to

the writing process. Yet, despite its newfound importance of typing in the educational system, it has been repeatedly found to be a substandard way of learning.

“The idea that writing is a method of learn-ing is based on simple principle: when students write, they process information in a physical, tangible form. Writing activities require stu-

dents to explore ideas, discover relationships, observe contrasts, sequence ideas and process information,” according to a study by college professors Fulwiler and Young in 1982 and Gage in 1986. The process of writing requires the student to focus on the creation of the letters, while typing does not. The physical creation of letters aids the memory in ways that hitting buttons cannot. If one must look at the keys to type, which most students no longer need to, he is better off than if he taps away, never glancing at where his fingers fall. He is still being forced to process the order of letters that he is typing. By simply looking at the screen or switching between glances at the screen and the keyboard, one is only paying attention to the words that are magically appearing in front of him or worse yet, is paying attention to something else entirely, be it a song that is playing or a call he is answering.

Many researchers support this theory with a quote from Frank Wilson, a neurologist and author: “Any theory of human intelligence which ignores the interdependence of hand and brain function, the historical origins of that or the impact of that history on the developmental dynamics in modern humans, is grossly mis-leading and sterile.”

With paper and pencil in hand, students don’t have the choice to quickly social media hop. How many students can really ignore the desire to log on to their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts and complain about how boring the lecture is? The professor has no way of knowing that instead of following the lecture notes, a student is spending his time jumping between social media sites. Also, it is easier to fall victim if the temptation of one’s favorite so-cial media sites or friends’ cell phone numbers are at his fingertips.

However, the most detrimental effect of access to computers, tablets and smartphones in class is the loss of self-reliance. With the ability to send oneself text reminders about classes or sit back and relax while a computer records lectures, students are becoming lazy and overly dependent on the technology that they surround themselves with. Soon, students will write essays by dictating to the computer what words to type. If we allow this trend to continue, will typing become obsolete too, because a more convenient method of doing work has arisen?

By the way, I have checked Facebook three times while writing this. How many times will you check it during class?

Letter to the editor argues laptops unnecessary in class

by SAMANTHA WEISS

“While it is indisputable that students can benefit

academically from the resources on laptops, tablets and even smartphones, their use in

classes is more harmful than advantageous.”

All this time, have we been eval-uating intelligence the wrong

way? Middle school and high school were all about being taught to the test. The advent of standardized testing ensured that students were no longer learning for the sake of learning, but learning to make their school look good in comparison to others so they’d get more funding from the government. Where has that left us all as college students?

Is our intelligence measured by our SAT scores? By our GPAs? By our GREs? From experience, I can tell you that the SATs are certainly not an accurate measurement of in-telligence or academic ability. I was a straight-A student in middle school and high school, and when I got to those SATs, man – let’s just say that if my attendance at the College had been dependent upon that score, I’d have never even gotten into college at all, even with a history of high course grades.

Still, there’s another problem. What does a course grade say about

by KYLER KOONS

Traditional means of testing students doesn’t account for all kinds of intelligence

Photo: Katie Brumbach

Traditional means of measuring students’ performance fail to assess other areas of aptitude. Intelligence comes in various forms and cannot be determined solely by pen-and-paper examinations.

Distractions, loss of work ethic plague students who rely on technology for note taking

intelligence? An “A” in a course doesn’t necessarily mean that a person is intelligent; it could mean that even if they had no talent or affinity for the material – kind of like me in my tenth grade chemistry course – they worked diligently outside of class, with peers and with teachers, to get the passing grade and move on with their lives. How do we qualify intelligence, especially as it relates to our peers? How do teachers and professors qualify intelligence in their students? Are we all doing it wrong?

One of my favorite motivational posters says, “If you judge a fish by his ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing it is stupid.” And, sadly, I think that’s the fate of too many students today. We’re taught that if we don’t make the grade, we’re just not smart enough to be in school. But how is our education system accounting for those areas of intelligence that can’t be quantified by a test grade?

As a child, Albert Einstein, who is arguably our most well-known thinker and theorizer, was believed to be intellectually inept because he

didn’t say a word for the first three years of his life. When he entered school, his teachers saw only his head-in-the-clouds attitude and labeled him a lazy, socially-awkward dunce who’d never achieve anything. Look at that kid now.

Gillian Lynne, best known for her choreographic work on Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Cats,” was originally thought to be a child with a learning disability who would never achieve the focus and clarity of thought necessary for academics. After underachieving in school, her mother took her to a doctor, who asked her mother to step out of

the room for a moment. He left the radio on in the examination room, and when he told her mother to look back in on her, she saw that Lynne was dancing to the music. He encouraged her to send her daughter to dance school, and voila: the world was presented with one of history’s most talented dancers, producers and choreographers who gave us “Cats,” “The Phantom of the Opera” and “The Muppet Show.” If Lynne’s particular area of intelligence was never afforded the opportunity to express itself, Lynne might never have become a person known to history, and those great works of the performing arts would not be the same as we know them today.

It seems to me that these different areas of intelligence are not only understated and overlooked, but they are also, at times, counterbalanced against one another by both the education system and our society. (I’m using Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, here, when I refer to the following areas.) We often view some areas as being more “valuable” than others – we enforce a prejudice of practicality against the “less logical” areas, such as the musical, the visual/spatial and the verbal/linguistic. We emphasize logical/mathematical intelligence as more valuable and desirable, and it can be said that interpersonal intelligence – which includes extraversion and ease of social interaction – is seen as more normal, effective and desirable than that of the intrapersonal – associated with introversion, introspection and self-reflectiveness. Rather than developing a national culture (and therefore an education system) that appreciates the varied areas of

intelligence equally, we glorify some and degrade others, or we ignore the fact that differences of affinity exist at all. Instead of telling the fish that it can swim if it wants to, and it should, because it swims well, we say: “Why were you born without arms? This tree isn’t gonna climb itself, young man, and you won’t make any money flopping around in that creek over there.”

It’s clear that academics do not account for the incredible diversity of intelligence, but if there is any educational level that best accommodates it, college is decidedly that. While elementary, middle and high schools tend to focus more strongly on standardized testing and a quantifying of very few areas of intelligence, college is a place where these differences are embraced more so than at any lower level.

Now, of course, there will be those who disagree, especially if they belong to a field of study that is regularly discriminated against, but the fact that we have those areas of post-secondary study at all is a start. Regardless of what your high school teachers thought of you, what your parents expect of you or what you expect of yourself, you at least have a choice. You can choose to harness your talents and pursue the craft you’re born to practice. No one’s forcing you to climb the tree, and if you know you can’t, you should also know you’re not an idiot. You just haven’t developed that hidden talent, that underappreciated affinity or that overlooked area of intelligence. You haven’t found your way to the water. But you’ll get there, and when you do, the system might be advanced just enough to accommodate it.

In a tri-match on Saturday, Sept. 28, the Elizabethtown College

Blue Jays volleyball team split its matches. Its match against Haverford College ended in a 3-1 set loss, but Etown rallied from a two-set deficient to win against Gettysburg College.

The Blue Jays were led by junior Kelci Scannapieco and sophomore Abby Thrift, who each had 30 or more kills in the two matches. Defense for the Blue Jays was led by senior Carolyn Lukiewski by recording 29 digs in the first match against Haverford, falling one short of her fourth 30-dig match of the season. She went on to get 32 digs in the later match against Gettysburg.

Etown won the first set against Haverford, 25-23, but the Fords went on to win the next three sets, 25-23, 26-24 and 26-24. The Fords, now 10-4, were led by Keri Godbe who had 27 kills and 32 digs in the match. Etown sophomores Juliana Mowen and Mary Clyne put up their eighth double-doubles in the match. Mowen recorded 10 kills and

16 digs while Clyne accounted for 47 assists and 11 digs.

In the later match against Gettysburg, the Blue Jays were trailing by two sets, losing 25 -16 and 27-25. Etown then rallied back to win the next three sets, 25-22, 27-25 and 15-10. Head Coach Randall Kreider attributed the win to the team’s “never quit” attitude. “We faced match point more than once against Gettysburg and fought it off until we were done,” Kreider said. Clyne put up a career-high 55 assists along with 11 digs. Gettysburg, Kreider’s alma mater, fell to 8-9, a game below .500.

With the Blue Jays down two sets against the Bullets, Etown led most of the third set but faced match-point in the fourth set. Junior Taylor Beck lifted the Jays back into the match to lead 26-25. Thrift then made a set-point kill to tie the match at two sets. The fifth set started with the Blue Jays’ trailing 8-6. Lukiewski, the lone senior on the team, then went on to serve for six points and two service aces to give Etown a 12-8 lead. The team went on to wrap up the set and

match with an ace by sophomore Shannon Deck. Scannapieco was confident after the match, and said, “this weekend was a confidence booster. We proved to ourselves that we have already improved as a team in just a few short weeks.”

On Wednesday, Oct. 2, the team had a conference match against the Lebanon Valley College Flying Dutchmen. Both teams entered the match undefeated in conference play. Kreider attributed the success to their non-conference opponents. “We play a tough non-conference schedule to prepare for conference play,” Kreider said. “We still have work to do in the Commonwealth but are positioned well for the second half.  If we can continue to pull in the same direction, we will be right in the mix in November.”

The Blue Jays lost their first in-conference match-up against Lebanon Valley College yesterday in three straight sets. Mowen lead Etown with four kills in the match.

The Blue Jays will next play in the MAC Crossover, where they will take on Misericordia Wilkes Universities Saturday Oct. 5.

The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team (3-4-2) ended their scoreless and win-

less drought with a comeback 3-1 win against Susquehanna University last Wednesday. The team continued its dominance in a 3-0 win against Wilkes University last Saturday, begin-ning its first winning streak of the season ahead of its first conference matchup.

The Blue Jays hosted the Susquehanna Uni-versity Crusaders on a slick Ira R. Herr Field last Wednesday, Sept. 25. Susquehanna entered the game with a season record of 4-2-1. The Cru-saders got on the board first in the 35th minute with a goal by Susquehanna first-year Nick Fecci for his third goal of the season. The Blue Jays had their share of opportunities in the first half, including a routine ball into the box that Crusaders’ goalkeeper Matt Salsman misplayed, because he slipped on the wet grass. Despite the Blue Jays’ regaining possession behind the goalkeeper in the box, they were unable to put the ball in the net. The play eventually resulted in a Blue Jay foul.

In the second half, the Etown men’s lacrosse team, coming from practice, joined the fans in the bleachers and made a lot of noise in support of the soccer team. The change in atmosphere seemed to spark the Blue Jays’ play. In the 63rd minute, first-year forward Brent Batory scored a sliding goal, Etown’s first in 460 minutes and

12 seconds, with assists by junior David Boretti and sophomore Shane Votto. The winning goal came in the 82nd minute by Boretti, and he added a final insurance goal, four minutes later, to give Etown a late commanding lead, securing Boretti a five-point-two goal, one assist night.

Junior goalkeeper Justin Signora relieved sophomore Rodrigo Barrera when Barrera had to be carried off the field after a hard collision with an opposing player in the box.

The Blue Jays have lost only one game against Susquehanna in the team’s history. They im-proved their record against the Crusaders to 52-1-1, avenging their first loss to the school last season.

Three days later, Etown made the trip to Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to take on Wilkes University. The Colonels entered the afternoon meeting with a record of 7-2. The game’s first half ended scoreless, but it did not lack action. All of the game’s six corner kicks were won in the first half, Etown with two and Wilkes with four. Neither team, however, was able to get on the scoreboard. The second half of play unfolded in favor of the Blue Jays.

Thirteen minutes into the second half, junior Andrew Sandridge scored his second goal of the season and Etown’s first goal of the game off of a rebound. Sandridge also played a role in Etown’s second goal less than five minutes later, assisting junior midfielder Kyle Fowler’s 30 yard goal — his first of the season. The Blue Jays’ third and final goal came in the 73rd min-

ute, when sophomore Cal Graziano headed in a ball played into the box by Boretti for his first goal of the season. Boretti’s assist put him on top of the team in total points — two points for goals and one point for assists — with his two goals and three assists of the season. Both goals

and two of his three assists came in the last two games. Blue Jays goalkeeper Signora recorded two saves in the win.

The Blue Jays will begin conference play in their next game against Albright College on Saturday, Oct. 5. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

in Etown athletics...

The volleyball team (11-9) traveled to Lebanon Valley last night for a match against the Dutchmen in a battle of undefeated confer-ence opponents (4-0). The Blue Jays were defeated by a final of 3 sets to 0.

The men’s soccer team saw two juniors take home Commonwealth Conference honors this past week. David Boretti earned Player of the Week after scoring twice and having two assists in two Blue Jays’ recent victories. Justin Signora did not allow a goal in two games to earn Goalkeeper of the Week. The Blue Jays’ victory over Wilkes University moved them just two wins shy of 800 all-time wins.

The women’s soccer team entered the NSCAA Mid-Atlantic Region rankings for the first time since 2011, holding the 10th spot this week. Sophomore Dana Robidoux was named Conference Goalkeeper of the Week after shutting out seventh-ranked Misericordia. She now has three shutouts in her last five games in goal.

Sophomore Andrea Keady represented the women’s field hockey team well by earning conference Player of the Week for the first time in her career after helping the Blue Jays go 2-0 this past week. Keady scored five goals in those two games, including a hat-trick against York College.

in the pros...

In the Wildcard round of the 2013 MLB Playoffs, the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cincinnati Reds 6-2 and will move on to the Divisional round to play the St. Louis Cardinals. The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Indians and will play the Boston Red Sox in the next round. The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Texas Rangers 5-2 on Monday night in a decisive game to secure the final spot in this year’s playoffs.

in the NCAA...

Due to the government shutdown, the Army-Boston College and Air Force-Navy football games set for Saturday are both in jeopardy. The Defense Department temporarily suspended sports competition at the service academies.

After a blowout loss on the road against Arizona State University, the University of Southern California fired outspoken Head Football Coach Lane Kiffin just five games into the season.

In other college football news, the top five teams in the Associated Press Top 25 Rankings remained the same as the previous week’s rank-ings with Alabama and Oregon numbers one and two, respectively. The biggest game of the weekend was the University of Georgia’s 44-41 triumph over Louisiana State University in a battle of two top ten teams.

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Men’s soccer gains pivotal victories before entering MAC play

by MATTHEW SHANK

Boretti, Signora receive player of the week honors for top-notch performances

Photo: Athletics Department

The men’s soccer team looks to get back to a .500 record when they enter MAC play against Albright College on Saturday, Oct. 5. They currently have an overall record of 3-4-2.

Volleyball team defeats Gettysburg in Tri-Match; Scannapieco, Thrift lead in kills

by KYLE FARKAS

Photo: David Sinclair

The volleyball team split a pair of games at the Gettysburg Tri-Match this past weekend, bringing their record to 11-9 for the season. The team also played Lebanon Valley College yesterday, Oct. 2, losing by a score of 0-3.

Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s cross coun-try teams competed in the Dickinson Long/Short

Invitational in Carlisle, Pa. on Saturday, Sept. 28. The men’s team was able to race on either a 4,000 meter

course or an 8,000 meter course, and the women’s team had the option of racing on either a 6,000 me-ter course or a 4,000 meter course. “The weather was perfect and the competition was good,” senior Laurie Jones said.

Not everyone competed for both the men’s and women’s team this past weekend. The men’s team running the 8k finished with 170 points, taking 14th place out of 19. First-year Keegan McDonough crossed the finish line first for the Blue Jays, coming in 70th overall with a time of 28:21.7.

Following McDonough was first-year Ian Kulis with a time of 28:42.9, finishing 84th overall, and first-year Kegan Flagg finished third for Etown with a time of 29:17.6. The top five teams to place for the men’s long course race were New York University, Dickinson College, Navy, The College of New Jersey and DeSales University. Senior Ian Hamilton ran the 4k and finished first for Etown with a time of 13:17.5. First-year Patrick Jones finished next for Etown with a time of 13:50.5. The Etown men’s team running the short course finished 10th out of 20 teams with 115 points.

This race ended with Shippensburg University taking the number one spot with Dickinson, New York Univer-sity, Bridgewater College and Moravian College taking the next four spots. The women competing on the 6k course finished with 127 points and took ninth place out of 21 teams. First-year Amy Gessler was the first Blue Jay to cross the finish line of the 6k with a time of 25:34.3 and placed 48th overall.

Following Gessler was first-year Casey Quinto who finished with a time of 26:08.1. New York University, The College of New Jersey, Dickinson, Navy and Mary Washington were the top five schools to place in the women’s long course race. Senior Laurie Jones took first place for the Etown women’s team finishing the 4k with a time of 16:08.4. “I was happy with how I did. It’s definitely the best I’ve felt all season, so I’m excited to see how the rest of the season goes,” Jones said.

Senior Ali Christ and first-year Ni-colette Siermine both finished under 17 minutes. The women running the 4k tied

for ninth place with 113 points. Shippensburg, Dickinson, New York University, Gettysburg and Millersville Univer-sity were the top five schools to cross the finish line for the women’s short course race. “Both teams did really well. There were a lot of season bests on a fairly slow course, so that shows how much we are all improving,” Jones said. The men’s and women’s next race will be the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University on Saturday, Oct. 5.

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“I was happy with how I did. It’s

definitely the best I’ve felt all season,

so I’m excited to see how the rest of the

season goes.” ~ Laurie Jones

Photo: Athletics Department

The women’s cross country team finished in the top ten in the team standings for both the long and short distance courses at the Dickinson Invitational this past weekend. On the men’s team, senior Ian Hamilton finished 39th in the 4000-meter short course race with a time of 13:17.5 for the best finish on men’s team.

Field hockey team secures second shutout of seasonLeafs scores first career goal in victory over Arcadia; Keady leads conference in goals per game

The Elizabethtown College field hockey team moved their overall record to 5-3

with a 2-0 victory over Arcadia University at Wolf Field on Saturday, Sept. 28. Not only did the victory give the Blue Jays a head start in the Commonwealth Conference, but it also gave Etown a 6-0 all-time record against the Knights.

Junior Marlena Johnson stopped the only two shots she faced against the Knights. The first of the shots came early in the first half, while Arcadia dominated early possession in the contest with two corner shots. Even with the ball in Etown’s defensive end, Arcadia was unable to capitalize on their shots, thanks in large part to Johnson and junior Emily Mason.

After Arcadia’s early possession victory, the ball was on the Blue Jays’ offensive end for the majority of the game. Arcadia goalie Brittany Hodson stopped shots off the corner from sophomore Alyssa Aichele and junior Taylor Alwine. Hodson ended the contest with 12 saves on 19 shots.

However, the Knights could not hold the Blue Jays off the board for long as first-year Nicole Leaf scored her first career goal midway through the first half off a corner pass from sophomore Jacki Hikes to give Etown the lead. Hikes continued her dominance by controlling the play on the offensive side and helped the Blue Jays win the corner battle 15-5. With the assist, Hikes recorded her 19th point of the season.

The Blue Jays picked up where they

had left off in the first half, continuing to control time of possession through the second period.

Sophomore Andrea Keady made it three-for-three on penalty strokes on the year, scoring her sixth goal of the season, which put the Blue Jays up 2-0. Keady was rewarded for her performance this past week with Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week honors. This is the first time Keady has received this honor.

The team then traveled to Huntingdon, Pa. to play Juniata College in a non-conference match. The game ended with a score of 4-1, with goals scored by Keady, Hikes. The victory brought the team’s overall record to 6-3.

Keady cont inued to bui ld of f her Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week honors with three goals in the contest. Alwine assisted on two of Keady’s goals to help get the Blue Jays on the board.

Keady currently leads the Commonwealth Conference in total points, goals and goals per game. With her assist, Hikes is now second in assists and assists per game.

Senior Casey Fletcher is also leading the conference in game-winning goals with three on the season.

Etown’s f irst three goals were only separated by a little over three minutes, helping the Blue Jays to an early lead in the first half that they would not relinquish.

As a team, the Blue Jays now lead the Commonwealth Conference in goals on the season and goals per game after the victory. The team is currently second in assists.

Johnson played well in cage for the Etown yet again, stopping five of the six shots she faced during the contest. The was goalie’s sixth win on the season. Johnson is also doing well statistically as she is currently second in the conference in goals against average and is tied for first in shutouts.

This was the second straight game in which the Etown defense held their opponent to under ten shots in the 70

minute contest.The Blue Jays next game will be at home

against in-conference opponent Albright College on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Etown looks to get their second win and stay undefeated in conference play against a Lions team that is 5-5 and also undefeated in the Commonwealth going into the contest. The contest will be played on Wolf Field at 4 p.m.

Photo: Athletics Department Sophomore forward Andrea Keady was named the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week after having new career highs, in both points and goals, during this past week’s competition.

Th i s p a s t Mon d ay, t h e E l izabethtown C ol lege

men’s golf team took on the Franklin & Marshall Diplomats at Brent Creek Country Club in the Franklin & Marshall Fall Invitational.

The Blue Jays’ players shot well during the invitational. Junior Ryan Forbes had a great day, shooting the best of his career with a count of 79. Teammate sophomore Adam Amspacher also matched his score.

Junior Ryan Forbes and senior Zack Cook are confident about the future and where this team is heading. The team is young this year, so there are underclassmen getting a good amount of representation in tournaments, which will help them greatly for the next couple of years. “The season has been good. We have had a couple ups and downs, but that’s expected for having a young team. Half of our team are first-years, so our coach has thrown them into some tournaments so there have been a few growing pains with them,” Forbes said.

He feels this team will soon be able to really make a run and compete in the MAC. He went on about how the little things really make a difference in golf. “Altering your swing can affect your whole game, so it is important you practice as much as you can to really get your swing down,” he stated.

Forbes has faced this type of challenge this season as he too altered his swing during the summer stretch. He is also facing some injuries, which kept him off the course for a few weeks. “Over this past summer, I have altered my swing in a major way. I am still trying to figure everything out, and I also had a minor knee injury a month

before school that prevented me from playing. It took me a couple of weeks to finally get back into a groove and find my game back,” Forbes said.

The team is certainly capable of placing in the top five of MAC if they keep their performances strong and consistent. Cook mentioned that the team’s, “challenges have been the mental part of the game, staying focused out on the course. Also, getting our game back from a long summer.” Luckily, the team has

a great course where they can compete and enhance their game. “We usually practice three to four times a week to prepare,” Cook said. “We have a lot of good golfers, such as first-years Kyle Hakun, Chuck Johnston, and Dan Sheppard.” With the Blue Jays being so young, anything is possible for the team’s future and where the program is headed.

The Blue Jays are now just seven shots from getting into the top seven for the conference and the future is looking very promising. As long as the team stays focused and really practices their game, there is no doubt that they can be contenders for the MAC. The Blue Jays will participate in the Etown Fall Blue Jay Classic on Thursday, Oct. 3 at the Hershey Links at noon.

by AMANDA ROBERTSON

Women’s Cross Country team finishes top ten in long and short courses at Dickinson

by JASON KELLEY

Golf team places 16th at Franklin & Marshall Fall Invitational

by ADAM MOORE

“The season has been good. We have

had a couple ups and downs, but

that’s expected for having a young

team.” ~ Zack Cook

Th e f a l l s e a s o n s t a r t e d this past weekend for the

Elizabethtown College men’s tennis team. The team took par t in the two-day United S t at e s Te n n i s As s o c i at i on -Intercollegiate Tennis Association (USTA-ITA) Southeast Regional Championship, held on Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29.

The championship was held on the University of Mary Washing-ton campus in Fredericksburg, Va. The Blue Jays fought hard in Saturday’s singles bracket, where all the matches ended in the Jays falling to the consolation bracket. However, junior Michael Can-non was able to fight back with two wins to make it to the Blue 3 Singles Consolation Final. Cannon then narrowly missed defeating Bridgewater College senior Sam Churchill 9-7 in the Consolation Finals match. First-years Ryan Caris and Matthew Hornbaker were also competitive in their first round and consola-tion matches before falling.

The team saw six entrants in the tournament, led by Cannon and seniors Cole Turula and Joe Kirchner. These three are the only returning members to the team this year, with first-years

Caris, Hornbaker and Ben Geiger filling out the lineup. The first years fared well in their collegiate debuts even against a talented field.

Sunday’s doubles bracket fared better for the Jays then earlier in the tournament. The team of Caris and Geiger was able to advance to the semifinals of the Blue 2 Doubles match. The team had wins against Nick Ensoy and Wyatt Paulishak of St. Mary’s College, 8-3, and Keith Beizer and David Woods of Muhlenburg, 8-2. The pair from Etown then fell in the semifinals match, 8-2, to Fitzhugh Johnson and JB Weaver of Hampden-Sydney College.

“We are ready to prove to the rest of the conference that we can still contend,” Kirchner said. “I would not be surprised if we finished in the top four this year with the opportunity to defend our three-year reign.”

The Jays look for ward to ending their fall season at the Middle At lant ic Conference Ind iv i du a l C hampi onsh ip s , taking place in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The tournament begins on Saturday, Oct . 12 with both singles and doubles action. The matches will wrap up on Sunday, Oct. 13 with the crowning of a new men’s singles and doubles champion.

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KELCI SCANNAPIEcO

Junior volleyball player Kelci Scannapieco continued her dominance on the court. Last year, Scannapieco was ranked 10th in all of Division III in blocks per set. She was also named to the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team during her sophomore campaign. Most recently, Scannapieco helped the Blue Jays defeat Gettysburg College, producing 35 kills in the two matches on the day.

Major: Corporate CommunicationsHometown: Wrightsville, Pa.Favorite athlete/sports team: Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies and FlyersFavorite Jay’s Nest item:PierogiesFavorite movie: Mystic RiverFavorite musician/band:Kings of LeonFavorite place to visit: Grandma’s house

by ADAM MOORE

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In 10 years, I want to be … happily married with kids and a job in PR.Hardly anyone knows that...I can basically quote every line from “Dumb and Dumber.”Favorite Etown Memory:Plane ride to Puerto Rico last yearGreatest Etown accomplishment:Dean’s List every semesterGreatest volleyball accomplishment: Ranking 10th in the nation in blocks per set last year in Division III.I started playing volleyball at age...12.

vs. Albright @ Catholic @ Hood

The MAC Crossover

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Etown Fall Blue Jay Class

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M/W Soccer vs. Albright

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Lehigh Paul Short Run

Women’s soccer shuts out No.7 Misericordia University 1-0

Men’s tennis begins fall season with USTA-ITA two-day tournament

by KYLE FARKAS

Lead by seniors Cole Turula and Joe Kirchner, the Blue Jays competed in the USTA-ITA Southeast Regional Championships this past weekend.

Photo: Athletics Department

When the women’s soccer t e a m i s d ow n , d o n ot

count them out. After falling at home to Haverford College in overtime in the Blue Jays’ last game, they welcomed nationally-ranked Misericordia University last Wednesday. The game on Sept. 25 brought the country’s seventh-ranked team, undefeated coming into the game, to Ira R. Herr Field. The Cougars boast one of the nation’s best offenses, including senior midfielder Alyssa Mocion —recently named the Freedom Conference’s Player of the Week.

“The game plan for Misericordia

was to mostly defend. Misericordia’s best player was a forward, so we man marked her,” junior Kendra

Mancino said. “This completely shut them down and they had no idea what to do.”

Etown’s defensive effort was superb, anchored by sophomore goalie Dana Robidoux’ nine saves for her fourth win of the year—three by shutout. Alongside Robidoux, the Blue Jays’ defense withstood late pushes by Misericordia to hang on for the 1-0 victory.

“The win was awesome; one of the best wins in my soccer career. The last 20 minutes went by so slowly, but I couldn’t have been happier with how the team played,” Mancino said.

In the 64th minute, sophomore

by BRIAN LUKACSYDeanna Slater found fe l l ow s oph om ore K a c e y a n n e Cerankowski streaking up the left side of the f ield. Cerankowski fired a shot in the upper right corner, which passed Misericordia g o a l i e M a u r e e n Ciccosanti, for her second goal of the year.

“It felt awesome to score the game winning goal against the No.7 team in the nation,” Cerankowski s a i d . “ We d i d n’ t expect to have too many opportunities to score, so it was really important that we did when we got a chance.”

Etown managed just four shots on goal for the entire game, but made the most of their opportunity 20 minutes into the second half. Slater’s assist was her second of the season. The win improved the Blue Jays’ record to 5-4 on the season and wrapped up their non-conference schedule.

The major storyline of Etown’s first half success is how the team has played defensively. “Since the start of the season, we have lost seven defensive players to injury. We keep playing different formations, which allow us to easily defend our opponents,” Mancino said. “I try to control the defense since we have so many new players playing the positions. Right now, I  have two forwards and a center-mid playing defense with me, so it is imperative

that I keep communicating with them so they know what to do.”

T h o s e p l a y e r s M a n c i n o mentioned are sophomore Lauren Fredericks and first-years Elyse Koter was and Caroline Novak. Along with Mancino, the three of them played a vital role in slowing down Misericordia’s high-powered offensive attack. They made it hard for Misericordia’s Mocion to get comfortable offensively, giving her only one good shot on goal all evening. That shot hit the left post of the goal in the 85th minute, rolled parallel to the goal line and was cleared away by the Blue Jay’s defense.

“ T h e t e am’s d e fe n s e t h i s year has been very adaptable,”

Cerankowski said. “I thought we struggled a little bit in the beginning of the season to get things organized, but once the back line clicked, it’s been great.” 

“I’m expecting to start the rest of the season off with the attitude that we are capable of beating the best teams out there and hoping that we come out on top of our conference,” Cerankowski said.

The Blue Jays will put that attitude to the test on Saturday, Oct. 5 in their conference opener against Albright College, who is 4-3-1 for the season. The game against the lions is set for 4:30 p.m. at Ira R. Herr Field. Etown currently has an overall record of 5-4.

Photo: David Sinclair

The women’s soccer team celebrates after sophomore midfielder Kaceyanne Cerankowski scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over No.7 Misericordia University on Sept. 25. The team’s first in-conference game is against Albright College on Oct. 5 at Ira R. Herr Field.

Cerankowski scores game-winning goal in 64th minute; team’s defensive line pulls together