NEWS
High center is turning 20!
The S. Dale High Center for Family Business recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. The Center invited some of their best speakers from past events to speak at the annual Family Business Forum. The event was held Thursday, March 26 at the Marriott hotel in Lancaster. The High Center was founded in 1995 by a group
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Pledge of Academic Integrity receives update
The Pledge of Academic Integrity has recently been rewritten to include a more personal aspect of commitment to the students’ promise to Elizabethtown College. Last year, Seth Previty, a current senior business major, realized that the former Pledge did not include elements that his peers felt strongly about. Etown students recognized they were promising to
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Retired professor of modern languages emerita passes away at age 80
On March 8, Suzanne Schmitt Goodling, associate professor of modern languages emerita at Elizabethtown College, passed away after battling cancer. She was 80 years old. Goodling taught in the Modern Languages department at Etown for 35 years before retiring in 1999. Born and educated in Gettysburg, Pa., she attended Valencia, Madrid and Valladolid Universities in
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CAMPUS LIFE
Major Dilemma: pursue a passion or what will help obtain a better job?
In the spring semester of my sophomore year at Elizabethtown College, I attended a “Tea at Three” program on migrant education. After the event, I spoke with the presenters about the dynamics of education in America. One of the individuals asked me what major I was pursuing and I responded that it was an English
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#Trending: Are we keeping up with social media in academia?
Outside of Etown, Twitter is becoming more popular than ever on college campuses. Students frequently shout out shameless self-promotion asking friends to “follow” them on Twitter. Teachers are now asking the same to their students. This raises a popular question, does twitter belong in the educational system? And even more importantly, should we teach students
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Put Your Records On: Jenny O
Have you ever seen a commercial that featured an awesome song, and you sort of hope that at the end of the commercial, in that tiny fine print that whizzes by, they’ll give the name of the artist? My hope springs eternal for the day companies finally do that, but until then, I will have
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