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  • Religious scholar named 2021 Peace Fellow

    Religious scholar named 2021 Peace Fellow

    Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room commenced the 2021 Peace Fellowship Lecture. This annual tradition is rooted in Elizabethtown College’s peacekeeping heritage and serves to facilitate student engagement with diverse scholarship related to the values of the College.  The Peace Fellow is a scholar or significant actor in the realm of

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  • “Real Women Have Curves” film showing honors Hispanic Heritage Month

    “Real Women Have Curves” film showing honors Hispanic Heritage Month

    On Sept. 24, the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging along with the High Library sponsored a showing of the movie “Real Women Have Curves” in the Gibble Auditorium. Senior and Mosaic Unbound intern Lauren Robitaille served as the host for the evening. The movie was played in honor of National Hispanic Heritage

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  • Formal Jay provides fun for students

    Formal Jay provides fun for students

    Sept. 25, the Class of 2024 put on Formal Jay, an annual dance that the student body hasn’t gotten to experience since fall 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The dance’s theme was “Out of This World,” and it delivered on that promise. Everyone had glow sticks and the KAV was decorated with space-themed backdrops

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  • Etown student launches clothing company to “Free Your Journey”

    Etown student launches clothing company to “Free Your Journey”

    If you think college is rough, try running a clothing company startup while you’re still a student. Elizabethtown College junior Lucas Cunningham launched C&B Outdoor in August. The clothing line focuses on outdoor apparel and is staffed entirely with full-time college students at Etown and other colleges. “We have 14 items in the collection. We

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  • Mosaic Unbound–Hispanic Heritage Month

    Mosaic Unbound–Hispanic Heritage Month

    Lauren Robitaille wears a lot of hats. The Elizabethtown College student is simultaneously an intern with the Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging, Bowers Writers House and the High Library.  On Monday Sept. 20 these three organizations collaborated to sponsor a meeting of the Mosaic Unbound dialogue series to kick of Hispanic Heritage Month at

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  • Latino Mennonites

    Latino Mennonites

    Latino Mennonites? Yes, they do exist, and Associate Professor at Texas A&M University Dr. Felipe Hinojosa is one of them. On Thursday Sept. 16, Hinojosa delivered a lecture to Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Hinojosa is a historian focusing on the Civil Rights era but that wasn’t his first intended line

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  • Cultural dance workshop

    Cultural dance workshop

    The Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging hosted a Cultural Dance Workshop to celebrate the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. On Sept. 15, Etown students gathered in the Koon’s Activity Venue (KAV) to take part in this collaborative movement. Assistant Director of Residence Life Kayshen Morel led the class, establishing a comfortable pace

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  • The conversations of Etown StoryCorp

    The conversations of Etown StoryCorp

    “Why did you join the military?” “There was nothing else to do at the time.” “What was it like in Korea?” “There are things I’d rather do.” That was Lorelei Moser and her great grandfather discussing his service in the Korean War—just one of dozens of interviews in Etown StoryCorp, a new exhibit in the

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  • Students celebrate identity at Unity Rally

    Students celebrate identity at Unity Rally

    On Sept. 10, students gathered outside the Brossman Commons to participate in the Unity Rally, run by the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Equity & Belonging. The Unity Rally was created to celebrate the identities of Etown students and what makes each of us unique. Sitting around the outside borders of the event were tables

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