NEWS
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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Kopko anticipates becoming director of Honors Program
Last Tuesday, the Honors Council hosted a lecture by Dr. Kyle Kopko ‘05 as the first event of the new Honors Lecture Series. Kopko, an assistant professor of political science and the director of the pre-law program at Elizabethtown College, will succeed Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of English Dr. Dana Mead
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CAMPUS LIFE
Pop culture smorgasboard serves sauciness
It is great to be back writing for the Etownian this semester. But I was having trouble picking what my first article should be about; especially since there has been so much to talk about in the last few months. So I decided to do something a little different this week by doing a rapid
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Professor responds to Elmhurst’s LGBT admissions article
After reading Duc T. Dam’s “Prospective college students’ sexual orientation questioned” article in the Jan. 26, 2012 issue of the Etownian, I would like to present a few thoughts. Overall, I found the article to be supportive of the LGBT community. However, there are three points of which readers should be aware. Elmhurst College asked
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Workplace policies create monetary strife
The air is thick with talk of employment policies. Discrimination, harassment, workplace bullying — all, we’re reminded, stuff to be avoided. Training sessions for employees are being conducted, with the College’s lawyers holding forth with unseemly relish on statutes and Title VII and suchlike. Attendance at these sessions is mandatory. And what if you don’t
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