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  • Farewell from the Managing Editor

    Farewell from the Managing Editor0

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    • November 25, 2024

    My friends and peers around Elizabethtown College would often stop to chat with me, eager to get the inside scoop on campus events or student concerns. Keeping them on their toes, I’d always tell them they’d have to wait until Thursday—when the Etownian was circulated in print on campus.  I first heard about the Etownian

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  • Global Perspective: The Vatican announces progressive reforms in the Church

    Global Perspective: The Vatican announces progressive reforms in the Church0

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    • November 16, 2023

    The Vatican announced in a document on Wednesday, Nov. 8, that the Catholic Church will now allow transgender people to be baptized, serve as witnesses at weddings and be named as godparents under specific conditions. These new rules came in response to a dubia, or a set of questions that seek clarification, from Bishop Giuseppe

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  • Global Perspective: Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate 

    Global Perspective: Tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate 0

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    • November 2, 2023

    President Joe Biden ordered two airstrikes on military facilities belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and proxies in Syria early on Friday, Oct. 27. These measures were in retaliation for recent missile and drone attacks against American forces in Syria and Iraq. These airstrikes, carried out by two F-16 fighter jets, also intended to

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  • Global Perspective: U.S. vetoes UN resolution concerning Israel-Hamas war

    Global Perspective: U.S. vetoes UN resolution concerning Israel-Hamas war0

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    • October 26, 2023

    The United States vetoed a United Nations (U.N.) resolution on Wednesday, Oct. 18, that would have condemned Hamas’ attack on Israel, called for humanitarian protection for people in Gaza and advocated for the release of Israeli hostages.  Brazil proposed this resolution and gained the support of 12 of the 15 Security Council members. However, in

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