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  • Don’t feed the plants!

    Don’t feed the plants!

    For the uninitiated, the comedy-horror musical “Little Shop of Horrors” follows Seymour, a wimpy employee in a flower shop, who purchases an unusual plant from a mysterious source. He names the plant Audrey II after his coworker and crush Audrey. That’s before he realizes the plant has needs besides the standard water, soil and sunlight.

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  • CGUP Discusses White Supremacy and Global Colonization in Recent Lecture

    CGUP Discusses White Supremacy and Global Colonization in Recent Lecture

    This year has seen the implementation of various new projects and events by the Elizabethtown College Center of Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) in order to better align the organization with not only its values of peacekeeping, but with those of social justice. One of these new projects is a series of events, presentations and

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  • TikTok activist speaks at Etown

    TikTok activist speaks at Etown

    Bowers Writers House hosted famous TikTok user “Aunt Karen” on Oct. 9. Denise Bradley is a 32-year-old social rights activist from Detroit, Mich. who assumed the role as “Aunt Karen.” Inspired by the 2020 Presidential Election and the racial tension across social media platforms, Bradley wanted to take a stand against misinformation and discrimination. “Aunt

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  • Religious scholar discusses hate in American churches

    Religious scholar discusses hate in American churches

    On Oct. 6, Dr. Rebecca Barrett-Fox lectured at an event called “Worthy of Their Calling: Can American Churches Reject Hate?” It was sponsored by Interim Director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) Dr. Leigh Shannon Haley-Maze. This event, which occurs once a year, is a collaboration with the Elizabethtown College Peace Fellowship.

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  • Curtis Smith is no Sidney Poitier

    Curtis Smith is no Sidney Poitier

    Imagine you’re a special education teacher in a public school. You live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, far away from the classroom and it’s summer to boot. Yet, down the road pedals one of your students on a bicycle. He wants to chat. What do you do? Alright, now imagine you’re a

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  • Stretching class attended by glowing participants

    Stretching class attended by glowing participants

    The Elizabethtown College Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being hosted a Stretch and Glow class on Sept. 25. The event was created by Director of the Bowers Center Whitney Crull, and the class was led by Group Fitness Instructor Cassidy Dunn in the Bowers Center Field House.  The class was created to establish a

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  • Religious scholar named 2021 Peace Fellow

    Religious scholar named 2021 Peace Fellow

    Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room commenced the 2021 Peace Fellowship Lecture. This annual tradition is rooted in Elizabethtown College’s peacekeeping heritage and serves to facilitate student engagement with diverse scholarship related to the values of the College.  The Peace Fellow is a scholar or significant actor in the realm of

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  • “Real Women Have Curves” film showing honors Hispanic Heritage Month

    “Real Women Have Curves” film showing honors Hispanic Heritage Month

    On Sept. 24, the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging along with the High Library sponsored a showing of the movie “Real Women Have Curves” in the Gibble Auditorium. Senior and Mosaic Unbound intern Lauren Robitaille served as the host for the evening. The movie was played in honor of National Hispanic Heritage

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  • Formal Jay provides fun for students

    Formal Jay provides fun for students

    Sept. 25, the Class of 2024 put on Formal Jay, an annual dance that the student body hasn’t gotten to experience since fall 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.  The dance’s theme was “Out of This World,” and it delivered on that promise. Everyone had glow sticks and the KAV was decorated with space-themed backdrops

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