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  • ‘Women Lead the Way’ seminar challenges gender inequities

    Is equality inevitable? This was one of the major questions posed during “Women Lead the Way,” a lecture presented by Elizabethtown College Librarian and Director of the High Library Bethann Zambella. As part of the Called to Lead programming this semester, the lecture, which took place on Thursday, March 14, focused on the obstacles women

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  • Kreider Fellow Dick lectures on peace speeches of Cheyenne chief

    Kreider Fellow Dick lectures on peace speeches of Cheyenne chief

    On Tuesday, March 12 in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Ms. Marie Dick, a newly-inducted Young Center Fellow, presented her research on the peace talks, speeches and presentations of Lawrence Hart, a peace chief of the Southern Cheyenne tribe and a Mennonite minister. “A good story grabs my attention,” Dick said. “I

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  • Mr. Etown competition takes the stage

    Mr. Etown competition takes the stage

    As is to be expected, this year’s Mr. Etown was filled to the brim with dance-offs, men in women’s clothing and lip syncs to a variety of songs. The theme was the ‘80s and began with a video and a group dance with all of the men in colorful wigs wielding inflatable guitars. This year’s

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  • Republican Senator Mike Brubaker hosts M&M Mars lecture

    Republican Senator Mike Brubaker hosts M&M Mars lecture

    Republican Senator, Mike Brubaker spoke at the M&M Mars Lecture Series on Friday, Feb. 22 at 11 a.m. in the Hoover Center for Business. Brubaker did not write a formal speech or prepare a presentation, but instead he chose for students to ask him questions on any topic of interest they wanted to discuss. Students

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  • Alumnus Kuder ‘03 successful in anthropology, archaeology

    Alumnus Kuder ‘03 successful in anthropology, archaeology

    Who knows where a childhood interest in dinosaurs and Indiana Jones will take you?  Elizabethtown College alumnus Andy Kuder ‘03 didn’t think that his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology would actually become a reality. Kuder worked as an archaeologist for approximately nine years, and now works at AK Environmental, LLC, an environmental firm, as a staff

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  • State Patty’s: the contrast of college cultures

    State Patty’s: the contrast of college cultures

    Last weekend, I trekked up to Penn State to partake in the annual State Patty’s Day traditions that Happy Valley has offered for the past few years. I lived in a two-bedroom apartment with about 12 friends from home for the duration of the festivities, an experience that everyone is telling me you can only

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  • ‘Housing After Etown’ seminar presented by S.T.R.I.V.E

    ‘Housing After Etown’ seminar presented by S.T.R.I.V.E

    One of the most difficult tasks following college graduation is finding a place on your own for the first time. On Monday, Feb. 25 at 6 p.m., S.T.R.I.V.E held a workshop titled “Housing After Etown” in Hoover 110. S.T.R.I.V.E stands for Senior Transitions: Realized, Identified, Visualized, and Enacted and is part of Elizabethtown College’s Career

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  • Eric Byrd jazz trio performs

    Eric Byrd jazz trio performs

    On Wednesday, Feb. 20, the Elizabethtown College campus was visited by international ambassadors of jazz The Eric Byrd Trio (EBT). The EBT are former Kennedy Center/United States State Department Jazz Ambassadors. This allowed them to perform in countries like Columbia, Bolivia, Chile, Estonia, Italy, Scotland, Honduras, Tobago and Trinidad. They also toured at the Montreux

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  • Bible exhibit impacts community

    Bible exhibit impacts community

    On Thursday, Feb. 21, the closing reception of Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible was held at Elizabethtown College’s Winters Alcove in the High Library. During the reception librarian BethAnn Zambella offered remarks about the unique exhibit and its impact on the Etown community. The Manifold Greatness exhibition first opened

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