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  • Etown comm students sweep Student Keystone Media Awards

    Etown comm students sweep Student Keystone Media Awards

    Concussive birds, insectoid invaders and do-gooder community centers.  What links these scattershot subjects? They are the topics that won Elizabethtown College communication majors all three top spots in a Student Keystone Media Awards category. Each year, the Pennsylvania News Media Association holds a competition to recognize excellent student journalism. Etown’s students dominated the Best Feature

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  • Senior recitals embody student success, determination

    Senior recitals embody student success, determination

    Every semester, students at Elizabethtown College participate in formal assessments to demonstrate mastery of their subjects. For music majors nearing the end of their time at Etown, this means performing in a senior recital. Sunday, March 7, senior music therapy majors Gabriella Clarizio and Angelina Pisacane did just that with their saxophone recital. “The senior

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  • Spanish Club event emphasizes significance of Puerto Rican music, culture

    Spanish Club event emphasizes significance of Puerto Rican music, culture

    Last Thursday, members of Elizabethtown College’s Spanish club were part of a fascinating presentation by senior Veronica Ruiz on Puerto Rican music. Ruiz, a biology and pre-med major, is Puerto Rican herself and has many extended family members living in Puerto Rico. The presentation combined Ruiz’s personal experiences with Puerto Rican music with an overview

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  • Taking a breath with Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit

    Taking a breath with Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit

    Every Tuesday at 3:20p.m. the Chaplain and Director of Religious Life Amy Shorner-Johnson hosts Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit. It is meant to be spiritual – however students choose to define that – instead of being religious the event. Student Pause welcomes everyone of any religion or spirituality. “I am also willing to adapt it

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  • 40th Anniversary of Emergent Scholars Program emphasizes ongoing commitments to academic excellence

    40th Anniversary of Emergent Scholars Program emphasizes ongoing commitments to academic excellence

    As of 2021, Emergent Scholars celebrates its forty year anniversary at Elizabethtown College. First created in the fall of 1981 by then Etown President and former professor of bible and philosophy Reverend Dr. Mark C. Ebersole, the Emergent Scholars award recognizes students who have a GPA of 3.75 or higher after their first three semesters

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  • Local politicians showcase opportunities for women

    Local politicians showcase opportunities for women

    The Elizabethtown College Democrats hosted a seminar on women in politics Feb. 27. The seminar included different women in local politics to speak on what they do in the field and answered different questions. The speakers were Jen Quinn, Mary Auker-Endresand Jo Ellen Litz.  The focus of the event was to educate students about all

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