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  • Literature quotes, graphic design come together in creative posters

    Literature quotes, graphic design come together in creative posters

    Students from Visiting Assistant Professor of English Dr. Tara Moore’s graphic design course, Word, Web and Design, have created graphic design collages featuring selections from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The collages, on display in the reference section on the landing floor of the High Library, blend typography, photography

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  • Scholar-in-Residence shares poetry, reflects on personal experiences

    Scholar-in-Residence shares poetry, reflects on personal experiences

    Elizabethtown College held its Scholar-in-Residence Celebration featuring Dr. Emily Grosholz Wednesday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Bowers Writers House. The Scholar-in-Residence program aims to bring in speakers who do interdisciplinary work. Grosholz fits this description because she is a poet, mathematician and physics philosopher. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a

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  • Alum stays involved, helps college athletics program post graduation

    Alum stays involved, helps college athletics program post graduation

    An incredibly important part of campus life at Elizabethtown College is sports. With 24 different varsity intercollegiate sport programs, students have many choices for how to become involved in Blue Jay Athletics. Students can also participate in any of the 10 different intramural sports, which are more casual and recreational and are managed by the

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  • Students weigh in on new food options offered by Dining Services

    Students weigh in on new food options offered by Dining Services

    Wednesday, Feb. 27, the Marketplace opened its doors at 4:30 p.m. to present Dining Services’ annual Food Show with its suppliers, John Gross & Company. Previous years’ themes have included pirates and superheroes, but this year, the focus was on all-new foods. In the Marketplace, students sampled various dishes that hadn’t been offered on the

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  • Fifth annual Power of One Day to raise funds for campus projects

    Tuesday, March 19, Elizabethtown College will raise money in its fifth annual Power of One Day. The Power of One Day is part of the Be More Inspired Campaign, which raises money to fund various programs and initiatives on campus. This year, the Be More Inspired Campaign aims to raise $60 million and has already

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  • Senior Capstone Series: Innovative and compassionate engineering

    Senior Capstone Series: Innovative and compassionate engineering

    As a liberal arts college, Elizabethtown College has a large variety of majors, minors and programs. One commonly shared aspect of majors is a capstone project. For the engineering major at the College, the senior capstone project actually begins in junior year when students are assigned to project groups based on their interests and begin

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  • Scene on campus: art, music come together prior to Ware lecture

    In anticipation of this year’s Ware Lecture on the cultural exchanges of the Silk Road, student volunteers came together to show the interconnectivity between peacebuilding, art, and music by painting greenery on a piano in the halls of the Baugher Student Center. This piano will be freely available up until the lecture itself for those

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  • Senior Capstone Series: Recitals showcase talent, growth of music majors

    Senior Capstone Series: Recitals showcase talent, growth of music majors

    Every year, senior Elizabethtown College music majors from all three branches of the department are required to perform a thirty-minute recital with their principle instrument, whether that be voice or a physical instrument. These recitals take the knowledge that students have acquired over four years and put it to use in front of an audience.

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