NEWS
Liberian ambassador discusses rebuilding, state of his home country
Yesterday evening, Liberian Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh visited the Elizabethtown College campus to speak about his home country, Liberia. Sulunteh has been an ambassador to Liberia since May 2012. He attempted to run for Vice President in 2005 and plans to run for President in the future. He previously served as a professor of economics at
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Career Services holds first Pre-Law Night event
Last Tuesday, Elizabethtown College’s Office of Career Services held its first Pre-Law Night event in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Elizabethtown College’s Pre-Law Club and Pre-Law Advising also sponsored the event. The event primarily focused on providing pre-law students with information about law school applications and options. The event also provided an opportunity for current
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Scholarship fund honors political science professor
Elizabethtown College is in the process of establishing the W. Wesley McDonald Memorial Scholarship to commemorate Dr. W. Wesley McDonald, an Elizabethtown College professor in the political science department who passed away on Sept. 9 of this year. According to Director of Major Gifts Marty Thomas-Brummé, the scholarship is “not [entirely] developed at this point.”
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CAMPUS LIFE
Professor responds to racist allegations
Having 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
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Trustee affirms “commitment to diversity”
As 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
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Letter to the Editor: Hostile stares bring unwelcoming environment
I 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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