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  • Craftwork by local artisans to be sold at new maker’s market

    Craftwork by local artisans to be sold at new maker’s market

    Whirligig Unique Boutiques is a maker’s market type shop that is currently home to thirty different artisans, and more artisans (and their products) are coming! The shop is owned and operated by local resident Stacey Derck, who takes pride in the products that her shop sells, as well as the stories behind the people who

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  • Alum conducts work to assist first-generation college students

    Alum conducts work to assist first-generation college students

    The Open Doors Education Group first opened its doors to first generation college students at the beginning of April. This group’s founder, president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ramon Rios, is an alum of Elizabethtown College and a few current students are helping out with the organization. This organization is based in Lancaster, and Rios

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  • Graduating senior staff says their “farewells” to the Etownian

    Graduating senior staff says their “farewells” to the Etownian

    Almost four years ago I walked into the Etownian news room and (at least it feels like) I never walked out. While I cannot speak for everyone, I know many of our seniors had similar experiences. The Etownian is where I found my true home at Etown, I found a family within my fellow writers

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  • Music Review: Indie artist “Still Woozy” channels funky, dreamlike sound

    Music Review: Indie artist “Still Woozy” channels funky, dreamlike sound

    Say “thank you” to the Internet. Straight from a garage in Oakland, California comes the positive vibrations of Still Woozy, directly into your ears. Still Woozy is not quite a band name. It’s a stage name for the 25 year-old solo artist Sven Gamsky. Named a 2018 “Artist to Watch” by Purple Sneakers (an Australian

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  • SCAD presentations showcase student creativity and intellect

    SCAD presentations showcase student creativity and intellect

    Beginning in 2007, Elizabethtown College has held a spring event to showcase student academics. At Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), students showcase their creativity and intellect through presentations about topics that are significant to them. To ensure academic quality, all SCAD presentations must first be approved by a professor. Beyond that, however, the responsibility

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  • Dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” will open in Tempest Theatre

    Dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” will open in Tempest Theatre

    Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m., the 2018-2019 Elizabethtown College Theater will open with its final show of the season, “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” The play is set in 1934 in the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. When the inhabitants of the small town of Inishmaan learn that a Hollywood film crew

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  • Music, gender at Ephrata Cloister

    Music, gender at Ephrata Cloister

    Keeping with Elizabethtown College’s rich history of Anabaptistism and Pietism, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist studies recently had the opportunity to bring Christopher Herbert to campus. Herbert is an assistant professor and head of the vocal department at William Paterson University. He received a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Julliard School and

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  • Fine Arts seniors bring unique talents, interests to senior projects

    Fine Arts seniors bring unique talents, interests to senior projects

    This semester, The Etownian is working to highlight and recognize the work being done by Elizabethtown College’s seniors in their capstone courses. One such capstone course has been taught by professor of art Milt Friedly to senior Fine Arts majors. This course is designed to prepare the students for gallery work and the logistics necessary

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  • Etown alumna poet returns, shares her poetry at open-mic night

    Etown alumna poet returns, shares her poetry at open-mic night

    The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Title IX partnered with the Women and Gender Studies department to bring back Elizabethtown College alumna, Nichole Acosta, ‘08. Acosta visited campus March 14 for an open mic slam poetry night in the Brinser Lecture Room. Acosta has been doing spoken word since she was 11 years old and

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