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Put Your Records On: Radio 104.5’s Winter Jam concert feat. Tegan and Sara
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- January 31, 2013
Every year on the last Saturday in January, Philadelphia’s alternative music radio station, 104.5, puts on an amazing free outdoor show called Winter Jam, and gets some of the best bands around to perform. This year was no exception, with crowd-pleasing sets from June Divided, Twenty One Pilots, Walk the Moon and Tegan and Sara,
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Housing contracts misunderstood, should on-campus housing be required for all?
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- January 31, 2013
Did you know that as Elizabethtown College students, you signed a contract your first year saying you would live on campus for all four years you attended the College? Most students probably didn’t know this and may feel like sophomore Brittany Stepp, who said, “I don’t feel as though it was clear during my tour
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Gun control debate sparked: do policies need re-evaluation?
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- January 31, 2013
In light of the recent spike in gun violence in America, the topic of gun control has been on everyone’s mind. The two points of view, limiting weapons or imposing fewer laws on weapons, represent much of the debate. Few people stand in the middle of this issue. However, the sad truth is that few
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Te’o caught in catfish scandal
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- January 31, 2013
In early September 2012, Notre Dame linebacker and Heisman nominee Manti Te’o received tragic news regarding not only the death of his grandmother, Annette Santiago, but also of his longtime girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. However, it was recently released by deadspin.com that while it was true that his grandmother had died the “relationship” that he had
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Keynote speaker ignites debate among students, faculty
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- January 31, 2013
Angela Davis visited Elizabethtown College, leaving a trail of controversy behind. Angela Davis is known for her desire to bring justice across the nation, as well as the industrial prison complex. She wants a world without imprisonment. Mrs. Davis has first hand experience with the prison process having been in jail for 18 months and
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Photographic project manifests into Hurricane Sandy fundraiser
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- November 28, 2012
While Hurricane Sandy may have left Elizabethtown College and the surrounding areas mostly unscathed, other areas of the East Coast, such as New Jersey and New York, were battered with gale-force winds and torrential downpours, leaving parts of these places underwater and some homes destroyed. In the face of this adversity, many campaigns sprung up
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States threaten secession, residents fear for country’s survival under Obama
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- November 28, 2012
For those of you who are completely incapable of following the news in recent days, you should be aware that the United States is facing another Civil War. Residents from more than thirty states filed petitions to secede from the United States upon learning of President Barack Obama’s reelection. The idea of states seceding from
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‘Skyfall’ lives up to expectations, continues successful Bond franchise
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- November 28, 2012
A highly anticipated movie with its fair share of action, suspense and even love has hit the big screen for the third movie in the franchise’s recent history. The film pits characters of similar pasts against one another to battle to the death. If you are imagining the new “Twilight,” you are sadly mistaken. James
READ MOREEtown’s social norms: a sophomore’s look into campus culture
- Campus Life
- November 28, 2012
Before Ann Romney’s visit to Elizabethtown College, I was scrolling through Twitter passing the time until the speech began. I couldn’t help but laugh at one of Etown junior Beth Pearson’s tweets: “I keep thinking of how Secret Service probably won’t understand Etown norms – why is there an unattended bag? Why is there an
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