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  • Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Elizabethtown College hosted the New Playwrights Festival 2021 on Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. This year’s performance was hosted in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center rather than Tempest Theater to better abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines. Sock & Buskin worked in conjunction with ECTV to stream the shows, as viewership was entirely

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  • Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Wednesday, Feb. 17, as part of the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Inclusion] and Title IX’s series of Black History Month events, Asst. Dean of Students at Capital Law School and Diversity, Equityand Inclusion Consultant Dr. Marcelius Braxton gave a webinar presentation on anti-racism.  Drawing from his background as an educator, Braxton has taken the

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  • Bowers Center event encourages students to meet new year’s goals

    Bowers Center event encourages students to meet new year’s goals

    The Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being is hosting a new wellness challenge focused on leaving 2020 in the past and working toward a better 2021. Normally the challenges hosted by the Bowers  Center work on physical fitness alone, but this new year challenge is unique because it encourages all around health.  Bowers Center

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  • Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    With the world’s first Valentine’s Day in quarantine quickly approaching, many people find themselves considering just how drastically relationship norms changed since last March. Couples in long-term relationships have been forced to go extended periods of time without seeing one another, and healthy marriages have been challenged by heightened tensions and stay-at-home orders. Perhaps the

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  • Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse Waters tells it like it is. For the past several years, he has hosted Super Science Saturday, a lecture series for whipping engineering students’ writing into shape. Feb. 5, Waters Zoomed with a small group of Elizabethtown College’s engineering students to give the second talk in this semester’s

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  • Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Senior Shannon Kerwin, like any senior in the education department at Elizabethtown College, is ready to face her student teaching semester. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, including student teaching. Kerwin is one of the fortunate students placed in-person at East High Street Elementary School. For the semester, she is student teaching in a

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