NEWS
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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Mellon Foundation awards humanities programs grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently presented a “Capacity Building for the Humanities” grant of $100,000 to Elizabethtown College. This is the second time that the Mellon Foundation selected the College as an award recipient in its “Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities” program area. The College received $25,000 of funding from the organization
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CAMPUS LIFE
Strikwerda responds to diversity editorial
My thanks to the staff members of the Etownian for opening a discussion on the status of the diversity plan at Elizabethtown College. That tells me is two things: 1) students value and, as they should, demand a diverse educational experience and 2) we need to do a better job of sharing the good news
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Put Your Records On: We Were Promised Jetpacks
On the Turntable: We Were Promised Jetpacks Genre: Indie Rock My opinion: Reach new heights with a band whose musical and lyrical talent defy gravity. I could hear the sound of my brother’s electric guitar amplifier reverberating through the floorboards in his bedroom above the living room, where I was lying on the couch. So
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Voting youth stand politically misinformed
I don’t vote. I don’t support or look fondly upon politics. I think the fact that there is such a thing as a “professional politician” is a bit ludicrous. Therefore I will not be voting for the next president of the United States. But with that being said, I’m also able to admit that I
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