The Study Abroad Office (SAO) has started a new program that will provide students interested in studying abroad with peer mentors who can help them prepare for the trip. According to Sabina Post, director of study abroad, the SAO started this program in response to student feedback. “A lot of people indicated that they wanted
READ MOREFederal Election Commission (FEC) Chairman Lee Goodman, the College’s 2014 Lefever Fellow, presented “Campaign Finance Regulation and the First Amendment” to students and faculty members at a dinner on Wednesday, Sept. 24 in the Susquehanna Room. While much of the Virginian attorney’s discussion focused on how the FEC monitors election campaign finances and contributions in
READ MORECampus Security released the 2014 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, which was printed yesterday. This report compiles the crime statistics of the last three school years — 2011, 2012 and 2013 — on campus. The report is printed each year in accordance with the Jean Clery Act as one of three transparency measures expected
READ MOREHaving spent thirty years writing on the topic that Mr. Benincasa presumes to address, I am appalled by his inability to explain what the term “multiculturalism” means. This is particularly unsettling, given the fact that anyone who questions Benincasa’s understanding of this unexplained concept, including the majority of the student senate that voted against the
READ MOREAs a member of the Board of Trustees, I applaud the Etownian for its recent editorial calling on the College to take seriously its stated commitment to diversity and inclusion of all students. But I do not agree with the alarming statement that Elizabethtown College is “not ready for diversity.” I also do not accept
READ MOREI am writing this letter to the campus community in response to something that I recently saw on campus. Within a short span of fifteen minutes, the time it took me to walk from my car to the Jay’s Nest and from the Jay’s Nest to my office, I saw two incidents that I found
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