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Founder and former CEO of health technology start-up Theranos Elizabeth Holmes is set to go totrial this week for fraud after four years of repeated delays. She has been charged with 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud because ofthe false claims she made about Theranos’ blood testing technology. Jury selection began
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Etown engineering team wins regional IEEE Capstone Competition
It was announced Aug. 30, 2021 that an Elizabethtown College senior capstone engineering team won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Susquehanna Section Capstone Award at the first-ever competition that took place earlier this summer. The competition recognizes outstanding engineering capstone projects in colleges in the Susquehanna area. The team was composed of
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Student Senate Column
Student Senate met for the first time this semester at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 26. This was also their first time back in-person in Hoover 212 since the spring of 2020. This meeting was short, focusing just on administrative and executive cabinet reports, since there were no orders of business. This meeting was also available
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CAMPUS LIFE
Music Review: Anderson .Paak
Modern take on classic funk Every Christmas, when posed with the question, “Is there anything you want?” I always ask for clothes. Do I need new clothes? Not really. But I love receiving clothing as gifts from my family and friends. The reason? The clothes I receive as gifts are almost never ones that I
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Seniors: Favorite Etown memory?
There are less than 100 days until graduation! “The service trips to New Jersey during break to help with disaster relief and stuff. I had a lot of fun helping people. I went all three years. I would have gone the first year, but there was a hurricane.” ~ Bri Floystad “One of my favorite
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The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: How should political leaders handle crisis?
Venezuela has been in a state of crisis for much of the last decade, but tensions came to a head last month when the leader of the country’s National Assembly declared himself interim president. This leader, Juan Guaidó, declared himself interim president following the reelection and inauguration of President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro was first elected
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SPORTS
Women’s basketball goes for two consecutive wins
Wednesday Jan. 17, 2018 the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team took on the Drew University Rangers. With the score of 75-52, they received yet another win for the season. Right in the beginning of the game, the Rangers showed up with a hard defense, not allowing the Blue Jays to make any early baskets. Once
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Men’s basketball leads with a loss against Drew and a win with Goucher
Wednesday Jan. 17, Elizabethtown College’s men’s basketball team faced Drew University in a fast-paced, competitive game. The Blue Jays fell behind in shooting, but kept the Rangers’ leading shooter, senior Yonathan Napoleon, to only two points in the first half. The men ultimately came out slow compared to the game against Goucher College on Jan.
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Women’s XC second at regionals, advance to DIII champs
History was made Saturday, Nov. 11 as all five runners from Elizabethtown College’s women’s cross country team earned all-region honors. The women finished runner-up to Johns Hopkins Univeristy and earned a bid to the NCAA Division III Championship. Out of all the teams at the event, Etown and Hopkins were the only two to have
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FEATURES
College students to mentor international high schoolers
Friday, Sept. 23, the Elizabethtown College Center for Community and Civic Engagement launched its new Building Bridges program with Lancaster Mennonite School. The program includes international students from Lancaster Mennonite and students from Etown that help them learn about various components, mainly with the prerequisites to attend college. The Etown students meet once a month
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Honors society provides coloring sheets, gives smile to those in need
Students across campus may be wondering why there are bins of coloring pages in the Baugher’s Student Center (BSC) and in dorms. They are for Color a Smile, which collects colored pages and distributes them once a month to senior citizens, troops overseas and anyone else who needs a smile. The Color a Smile Campus
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Spanish Club sponsors trip, celebrates Latin American culture
For the first time, the Spanish Club attended the Latin American Festival at Long’s Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Saturday, Sept. 24. The group of 11 students watched Latino performers, ate Latin American food and visited vendors’ informational tables. The flags of various Latin American countries bordered the park and several community members carried their own
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