NEWS
Nominations accepted for Kreider Prize honoring excellence in teaching
Throughout the month of January, Elizabethtown College students, staff members, alumni and faculty members are being encouraged to nominate a faculty member to receive the Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence, an annual award that recognizes educators who inspire their students. This is the first time the prize will be awarded since its inauguration last spring
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Junior Senior theme announced
Last night, the Class of 2016 revealed the theme of the 2015 Junior Senior formal — “A Night to Bond: From Etown with Love.” Nearly 100 juniors and seniors congregated in the Susquehanna Room from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. to buy their discounted tickets, pick a table with their friends and get information about
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Social Enterprise Institute provides new opportunities for real-world learning experiences
Elizabethtown College has established the Social Enterprise Institute (SEI) to offer another channel through which members of the Etown community can use their talents and skills to benefit the community. The Institute fulfills the College’s promise to “Educate for Service,” offering faculty and staff members, business partners and students the opportunity to integrate sponsored projects
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CAMPUS LIFE
Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?
I’ll be honest: I had to Google what “critical thinking” meant before I began writing this article. It’s a term we’ve all heard, but most of us probably don’t know what it means. In the simplest of terms, critical thinking is “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.” I realize we pay an atrocious amount of tuition to
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Last “Bourne” film disappoints
This past Wednesday, I took the time to go to MoviE-Town to see the final installment of the critically acclaimed Bourne series, “The Bourne Legacy.” I was a huge fan of the first three movies that starred Matt Damon as a former CIA assassin that the government was attempting to eliminate. The first three movies
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What I know now: reflections on the first year of college
I have yet to master college. I’m two years and a month into my collegiate career, and I’m still trying to learn how to survive in an environment that is simultaneously foreign (Lancaster County) and home (Etown). With each semester that goes by, I feel as if I learn something more about myself and my
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SPORTS
Women’s cross country dominates Battle for the Buggy Invitational
This past Saturday, Oct. 22, the Elizabethtown College women’s cross country team dominated the competition during the annual Battle for the Buggy Invitational. Although alumna Megan VanDenHengel won the race for the second year in a row, first-year Amelia Tearnan was quick to finish the 4K for Etown, crossing the line at 17:24.34. A total
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Pellegrino places first in MAC Championship
Tennis player Kaitlyn Pellegrino has been explosive on the court this year, and she is only a first-year student. She led the women’s tennis team to the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship and placed first in the competition. Being a first-year on a college team can be scary for a lot of athletes, but not
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Campus Security steps up enforcement during Homecoming Weekend
The 2011 Homecoming Weekend at Elizabethtown College consisted of more than just a few games. Yes, there were soccer games and family members roaming around campus, and lots of things to see and do. But Campus Security had their hands full with a number of incidents reported, included several altercations. It was however, not as
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