NEWS
College Bound mentor program continues to impact lives of McCaskey students
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Elizabethtown College welcomed a group of McCaskey High School students to participate in the College Bound events on campus. The program is sponsored by Etown’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) and Pennsylvania Migrant Education. College Bound is a program in which McCaskey students are paired with mentors at Etown.
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New schedule generator available through Jayweb
Elizabethtown College recently debuted the “Etown Schedule Generator,” a tool that incorporates current course listings into a customizable online schedule format. The new program can be found on Jayweb under the “Quick Links” tab and features course drop-down menus organized by department. It also allows users to type in a search bar to find specific
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Education department offers new seminar focused on Philadelphia
Elizabethtown College’s Education Department is offering a new course for its students. ED 371: The Philadelphia Urban Seminar acts upon the second pillar of the department’s mission statement, social justice. Faculty have been exploring many ways to create unique experiences for their pre-service teachers which emphasize social justice concepts of peace, equity, inclusion and diversity.
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CAMPUS LIFE
2012 Presidential election presents options
On Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, the American people will cast their ballot for president. Will we have four more years with Barack Obama, or will a to-be-determined GOP candidate take the win? The general presidential election tends to yield a voter turnout of about 50 percent of the voting-age population, a much higher turnout than
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Does Student Senate advocate student rights?
At every level of American society, there are elected officials who have been voted into a position of power by one group or another to lead someone or something. Going hand-in-hand with that are the complaints filed against those leaders—if something goes wrong, it’s their fault, they caused this catastrophe. If something goes right, they’re
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Black Friday causes shoppers to stress
Black Friday is a time for people to tent out in front of stores, like Best Buy, for eight hours in hopes of getting 30 percent off items like iPads. It is a marketing invention used to delude people into thinking they are getting the best deals on the hottest items. People become animalistic over,
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