NEWS
First Momentum cohort reaches end of undergraduate years
On April 7, the first Momentum cohort looked back at their time and forward to their graduation this May with a celebratory dinner. Momentum is a program that incoming first-years who are first generation college students have the option of participating in. “We accentuate the liberal arts,” Jean Paul Benowitz, director of student transition programs,
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Stamps program students attend convention, meet other scholars
Sixteen Elizabethtown College students flew down to Atlanta, Ga. to attend the third biennial National Stamps Scholar Convention at the Georgia Institute of Technology this past weekend. The students, accompanied by Dr. Jean Pretz, associate professor of psychology and director of the Stamps program, had the opportunity to meet an estimated 600 Stamps scholars from
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Political science professor wins first Kreider prize
Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, associate professor of political science, was announced as the first recipient of Elizabethtown College’s Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence. She will be officially recognized during Commencement this May and at Opening Convocation in the fall. Her fellow faculty, staff members and students both present and past nominated Dursun-Ozkanca for the Kreider Prize.
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CAMPUS LIFE
Commuter voices concern over lack of safety as a result of current parking policies
Most of us have probably heard or observed that there has been a decent amount of concern over parking restrictions for students on campus. The restrictions are frustrating for everyone involved, especially in that moment when you’re walking to your car and from 20 feet away you can already see that angry orange envelope stuck
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Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?
I’ll be honest: I had to Google what “critical thinking” meant before I began writing this article. It’s a term we’ve all heard, but most of us probably don’t know what it means. In the simplest of terms, critical thinking is “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.” I realize we pay an atrocious amount of tuition to
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Last “Bourne” film disappoints
This past Wednesday, I took the time to go to MoviE-Town to see the final installment of the critically acclaimed Bourne series, “The Bourne Legacy.” I was a huge fan of the first three movies that starred Matt Damon as a former CIA assassin that the government was attempting to eliminate. The first three movies
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