NEWS
Engineering program benefits from newly dedicated “Fab Lab”
n Friday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m., the new Bollman Fabrication Laboratory was dedicated. The lab replaced the greenhouses attached to Esbenshade. The advanced prototyping lab, nicknamed the “Fab Lab,” will be used in several engineering courses to give engineering students a place to complete various projects. According to an email distributed prior to the
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Class of 1976 alumna receives Educate for Service award, highest alumni honor
On Friday, Oct. 24, Class of 1976 alumna Nancy Dering Mock received the Service Through Professional Achievement Award of 2014. The ceremony took place during the President’s Dinner held at the Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. The Alumni Council selected Mock as one of three recipients of the Educate for Service Awards. Rachel Jones Williams (’06)
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Senior earns 2014 Paul M. Grubb, Jr. Student Peace Award
The Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship honored senior Bhim Thapaliya with the 2014 Paul M. Grubb, Jr. Student Peace Award at a reception last Saturday. In recognition for his peace- and justice-related work with refugees through the Act for Humanity Foundation (AFH) and its Etown chapter that he founded, Thapaliya received $2,000 to invest in
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CAMPUS LIFE
Put Your Records On: Laura Stevenson and the Cans
On the Turntable: Laura Stevenson and the Cans Genre: Folk Rock My Rating: Refreshing beats and ingenious lyrics coalesce to soothe your music soul. Before I get down to business, I just want to ask: did you watch the Grammys?! Kudos to Bon Iver for winning “Best New Artist” and “Best Alternative Album;” although, you’ve
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Company mandates nicotine testing for employees
I’ll be the first to admit that I enjoy smoking a pipe or a cigar on rare occasions. I think it surprises many people when I confess to enjoying a high-quality stogie after my cross country or track season ends. The majority of runners typically don’t indulge in smoking, and I wouldn’t recommend it more
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States remove No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind, “one of President George W. Bush’s most touted domestic accomplishments,” according to the Huffington Post, is no longer in effect in 10 states. President Barack Obama has freed these states from certain restrictions of No Child Left Behind, such as using only standardized test scores as a way to measure academic
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