NEWS
Education department hosts panel on teaching in a post-Ferguson world
On Monday, March 14, the education students joined panelists in the Susquehanna Room for a program called “Education in a Post-Ferguson Society.” The panelists discussed four major points, including racial inequalities that continue to exist in the United States and are mirrored in schools, overrepresentation of children of color who are suspended and identified for
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Honors student hosts toy drive, supports child radiation therapy patients
There will be a toy drive in Brossman Commons from April 7 to April 10 to help patients at the Pennsylvania Proton Radiation Therapy Center. Sophomore Irene Snyder has taken on the planning and advertising around campus. Snyder has a personal connection because her sister had treatment at 11 years old, but her disease won
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Anonymous social media app Yik Yak creates controversy
Since its creation just over a year ago, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak has massively grown in popularity on college campuses across the country. Unlike social networks like Facebook or Twitter, Yik Yak allows messages to be sorted by geographic location with posts only able to be seen within a 1.5-mile radius of
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CAMPUS LIFE
Moving On: A Senior’s Reflection
In two weeks Elizabethtown College is asking five hundred of its most dedicated, hard-working students to politely leave. Throwing us through the Etown bubble into a world that four years of classes taught us is in ruins. Deserting us for a new batch of unpolished, wide-eyed 18-year-olds who know more about Snooki and iCarly than
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Put Your Records On: Dr. Dog
Don’t be like my brother. Don’t waste five years of your life choosing to not listen to Dr. Dog.
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Women in the workforce: impact of physical appearance
What if you found out that your slaving away for a 4.0 was in vain? What if I told you that, instead of investing in your education, you should be shelling out for a nose job and some liposuction instead? While I would never actually tell you to swap your books for a brow lift,
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