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  • Elizabethtown College’s dining hall plans a ‘sweet surprise’ for students with new renovations

    Elizabethtown College’s dining hall plans a ‘sweet surprise’ for students with new renovations

    As many students at Elizabethtown College have already heard, the Marketplace is getting renovated this summer. There are a couple new additions to the dining hall that should be exciting for the students, including  a partnership with Hershey. Since Hershey is only about 20 minutes from campus, Etown decided to work together with the company

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  • Student anchors are so last year

    Student anchors are so last year

    After 40 years on air, ECTV is taking a leap, revamping the station and doing away with student anchors. Elizabethtown College Adjunct Professor Ali Lanyon and her abc27 Daybreak co-anchor James Crummel will be taking the main stage in the new ECTV. Lanyon, an adjunct professor for the Elizabethtown College communications department, and her co-anchor,

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  • Today’s Tech: Amish Engineers create PlainSpeak AI

    Today’s Tech: Amish Engineers create PlainSpeak AI

    In a turn of events that has surprised many, the world’s first off-grid large language model powered entirely by renewable energy has been launched by a group of independent Amish engineers from Lancaster County. Called PlainSpeak AI, its creators, inspired by their values of self-sufficiency and stewardship, sought to build a tool that aligns with

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  • Business Buzz: Etown Runs on Dunkin?

    Business Buzz: Etown Runs on Dunkin?

    Elizabethtown College  is buzzing,not just from caffeine, but from the latest campus controversy—the administration wishes to replace Starbucks with Dunkin’ Donuts. By the beginning of the new school year Etown hopes to have successfully transitioned Starbucks out of the Blue Bean, and replaced them with Dunkin’. The decision was announced earlier this past week, sparking

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  • Truman to Join Trustee Board Amidst Student Pushback

    Truman to Join Trustee Board Amidst Student Pushback

    This semester, faculty and administrators at Elizabethtown College have decided to respond to recent national resource cutting to the Department of Education and have decided to expand several offices and departments to ensure quality of education provided at the college. One board that the college had been fielding new faculty for was the board of

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  • Global Perspective: Returning Greenland to Olden Conquerors

    Global Perspective: Returning Greenland to Olden Conquerors

    As political and diplomatic tensions continue to rise, there is one location that has been continuously revisited and argued over. A territory many people have overlooked, and even more couldn’t point to on a map. A territory that has a long history within human history itself and one that is the key to an untapped

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  • Students to be Replaced by AI

    Students to be Replaced by AI

    Artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a number of conversations in higher education. While some professors and students consider the use of AI in the classroom unethical and count it as plagiarism, other departments encourage the use of it on a near daily basis for idea generation and help with simple tasks. Elizabethtown College, trying to

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  • PA Politics: Student Assembly to Replace Members of PA House of Representatives

    PA Politics: Student Assembly to Replace Members of PA House of Representatives

    In an unprecedented political shakeup, Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives has been completely replaced by Elizabethtown College’s own Student Assembly. The mix-up that experts are calling the most baffling bureaucratic error in the state’s history has left state officials and observers scrambling to determine whether the transition is legally binding.   According to sources within the

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  • Etown Switching to Yik Yak for All Campus Communications

    Etown Switching to Yik Yak for All Campus Communications

    Everyone loves anonymous social media apps. They’re considered fun, civil and informative. This is known widely, and Elizabethtown College is finally catching on.  In a statement titled “The Last Email,” President Betty Rider announced that moving forward, the College’s Office of Marketing and Communications (OMC) will be taking a new approach to campus communications.  All

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