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  • Seniors ‘STRIVE’ for post-grad success

    Seniors ‘STRIVE’ for post-grad success

    How do I manage my finances? Where will I live after I graduate? How will I find a job? These are all questions beginning to creep into the minds of seniors as they move closer and closer to graduation. Fortunately, Career Services has designed special events, just for seniors, to address many of these pressing

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  • Ware Seminar features Ozkanca, Craig, Davis to share expertise

    Ware Seminar features Ozkanca, Craig, Davis to share expertise

    The Susquehanna room was filled Tuesday night on the Elizabethtown College campus as students, faculty, staff and locals came out to the 2012 Ware Seminar that was specifically focusing on the topic of the current conflict in Syria. A panel of three distinguished individuals, Dr. Oya Ozkanca, Ambassador John Craig and Dr. Joyce Davis hosted

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  • Expanding the friend rolodex, making cultural connections abroad

    Expanding the friend rolodex, making cultural connections abroad

    I’m working on expanding my friend-base. I aim to create friendships with people residing in all corners of the world. This will allow me to become both familiar with other cultures and reap the benefits of traveling with free lodging. While I already had connections in Quito, I can now also cross Cuenca, Ecuador off

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  • Campus fashionistas bundle up in preparation for winter

    Campus fashionistas bundle up in preparation for winter

    Hello all of you fashion-philes! The hurricane fudged up our production schedule a little, so you’ve gone without your campus fashion fix for way too long. It seems that this year the winter weather completely skipped over the warm fall temperatures that make the season so enjoyable for me. I should not be sitting in

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  • The Galapagos: volcanoes, snorkel, blue-footed boobies, adventures

    The Galapagos: volcanoes, snorkel, blue-footed boobies, adventures

    After one crazy full-body sunburn, a minor cold, and a wild (too wild?) Halloween bash, I can say, “I survived the Galapagos Islands.” My trip to the islands of Baltra, Santa Cruz and Isabela consisted of more than those three aforementioned things, of course, and fortunately the other components weren’t so dismal. There were also

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  • Alumni honored for dedication to service

    Alumni honored for dedication to service

    Lieutenant Elyse Braxton considers herself much more mature now than she was as a student at Elizabethtown College. The 1987 graduate has been on active duty as a Naval Officer in the Nurse Corps for six years as a more mature individual. Etown has changed in many ways since Braxton was a student at the

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  • Harvard doctor lectures on curing children’s illnesses, research on newborn diagnostics

    Harvard doctor lectures on curing children’s illnesses, research on newborn diagnostics

    On Thursday Nov. 8, Elizabethtown College hosted Dr. Holmes Morton’s lecture, “Roads Taken: Recollections, Words, and Images” in Gibble Auditorium to enlighten the community about diagnosing newborn diseases before they permanently affect a child’s life. The lecture gave the audience a full spectrum of what his study is all about and what Morton is trying

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  • ‘Shake the Earth’ discusses geological processes, natural gas

    ‘Shake the Earth’ discusses geological processes, natural gas

    The Elizabethtown College Open Book panel, “Shake the Earth: Fracking into a Fragile Future,” took place in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center last Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 11 a.m. The topic of discussion was the potential, past and future of fracking, the geological process by which natural gasses are loosened. On the panel were Seamus

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  • Noted fiction author, editor Robert Swartwood speaks at Bowers

    Noted fiction author, editor Robert Swartwood speaks at Bowers

    On Oct. 27 at noon, the Bowers Writers House welcomed Robert Swartwood, a published fiction author and editor of “Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer.” The anthology includes work by a multitude of authors, and the pieces consist of just what the title implies: entirely self-contained, enigmatic and intriguing stories,

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