Campus Life

Professor argues importance of professional language choices
- Campus Life
- April 30, 2014
The news that an Elizabethtown College graduate had received admission to the Harvard Business School was gratifying. But a closer look at Harvard’s acceptance letter made Homer draw in his breath sharply. The letter began: “Dear K, Welcome to HBS! We are excited that you will be joining us as an MBA student in the
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Student Wellness’ TGIS safety pledge encourages positive choices
- Campus Life
- April 30, 2014
I’m pretty sure we all know what big campus event just happened. Yeah, that’s right — Thank Goodness it’s Spring (TGIS). This has to be one of the biggest events that happens on campus, and I’m sure that you were all super excited about all of the activities that were being held on campus last
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Group projects prepare members for future work environments
- Campus Life
- April 30, 2014
As the semester comes to a strenuous end, professors are piling on the last assignments. To their credit, many attempt to ease our stress by making our final assignment a group project — more people, less work. That sounds ideal, right? In this utopia, the work is divided equally and each member provides exceptional information
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First-year shares discomfort with campus support of Planned Parenthood
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
The pro-choice ideology is not merely a set of beliefs. It involves actions that reverberate beyond a woman’s right to choose. Since abortion is a universal issue, the pro-life movement is also a worldwide endeavor. Elizabethtown College, like the majority of colleges, openly supports Planned Parenthood (PP), the largest abortion provider, through Student Wellness. Student
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Busy April schedules necessitate time management, decision-making
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
It’s that time of the semester when freak-outs are in full tilt and the endless sea of homework has reached high tide. Distractions become all the more deadly, those hours spent on BuzzFeed really start to hurt and coinciding paper due dates wipe the smile off your face faster than a four-year-old on a sugar
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Scholarship and Creative Arts Day should be incentivized to encourage participation
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
Any reason is a good reason to get out of classes, right? I would say so. But what if the reason is that one must give a 12 to 15-minute presentation? Suddenly, I’m less likely to agree. And many other students share this sentiment. Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), which will be held on
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Night classes prove important regardless of inconvenience
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
Classes are something that we all have to put up with. I mean, that’s why we’re here, right? During the course of our college career, we are bound to have classes that we love and classes that we hate. We’ll have the experience of getting up for those dreaded classes at 8 a.m. and we
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Making mistakes should not devalue magnitude of one’s successes
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
People tend to feel that, as humans, we are more likely to notice mistakes we’ve made or mistakes others have made before we notice our own or others’ successes. We all know it’s harder to become successful than it is to fail. Becoming a successful person is what everyone wants in life. No matter what
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Course registration during class deserves professor flexibility
- Campus Life
- April 10, 2014
Registration week is always stressful. Take it from me; this year I get to register on the very last day at the last available time. As difficult as it will be for me to register, some students have their registration times during class time. That makes registering even more difficult, as some professors will deny
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Professor argues importance of professional language choices