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Peacemaker-in-Residence Jon Rudy gives insight on conflict, peace in life
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- October 3, 2013
Staying strong to its Brethren roots, Elizabethtown College places much emphasis on ideals of peace and nonviolence through classes and people on campus. For Dr. Jonathan “Jon” Rudy, he is the epitome of this tradition. A relatively new addition to the peace and conflict studies department as well as Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking,
READ MOREBomberger presents on prolific composer Edward MacDowell
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- October 3, 2013
r. E. Douglas Bomberger, a professor of music and department chair at Elizabethtown College, first encountered Edward MacDowell’s music as a high school piano student. MacDowell’s music stuck with him throughout his later schooling and into his career. Since then, Bomberger has focused much of academic his research on MacDowell’s life and musical career. He
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High Library showcases anthropology students’ summer fieldwork
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- October 3, 2013
Animal bones, cracked pieces of pottery and beaded jewelry are currently on display in the High Library alcove. Elizabethtown College students have been digging in Washington Boro, Pa. since 2006 looking for artifacts of the Susquehannock Indian tribe, who resided nearby from about 1600-1630. Students’ discoveries can provide insight to a unique group of people
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Students share Vietnam summer service experience
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- October 3, 2013
This past May term, a group of students took Elizabethtown College’s “Educate for Service” motto and applied it to their lives by attending a trip to Vietnam. The trip explored both North and South Vietnam within a 19 day time frame, featuring four in-country flights, two overnight train rides and a lot of commuting via
READ MOREGrubb Student Award promotes peacemaking
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- October 3, 2013
Imagine traveling to Northern Ireland to research a way to end the violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics, or spending a summer in Southern Sudan to build a preschool. If these seem like humanitarian efforts for a seasoned social work graduate to tackle, you’d be wrong. They are projects any Elizabethtown College undergraduate can start
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Travels Abroad: Discovering Etown in Unexpected Places
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- October 3, 2013
hen someone raves about study abroad, students may believe the excitement stems from a destination not being “like home.” There are enormous differences from being at Etown while studying abroad, it’s also good to know that there are places on entirely different continents that feel reminiscent of home. One of my favorite places to get
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Core course researches music’s role for Karen refugees
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- October 3, 2013
Certain classes at Elizabethtown College are famous for real-world learning experiences in spirit of the College’s “Educate for Service” motto. In Dr. Kevin Shorner-Johnson’s World Musics class, this is certainly the case. “Many of us at Etown are working to design experiences that change us and that we remember for the rest of our lives,”
READ MORESecond all-faculty music concert features department instructors
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- September 26, 2013
n Monday, Sept. 23, the faculty of Elizabethtown College’s fine and performing arts department performed in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. This was the second department concert of the year and offered faculty members in the department a chance to play one or two short pieces of music. The first performer of the evening was
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Alan Houser presents at Bowers on dynamic communication
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- September 26, 2013
n Thursday, Sept. 19, Alan Houser visited the Bowers Writers House. His presentation, titled Professional Writing and Dynamic Communication, focused on technical writing as a profitable, in-demand profession. He also discussed the ways in which the flow of information changed with the advent of the printing press, and again with the advent of the World
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