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  • Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing

    With the world’s first Valentine’s Day in quarantine quickly approaching, many people find themselves considering just how drastically relationship norms changed since last March. Couples in long-term relationships have been forced to go extended periods of time without seeing one another, and healthy marriages have been challenged by heightened tensions and stay-at-home orders. Perhaps the

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  • Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too

    Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse Waters tells it like it is. For the past several years, he has hosted Super Science Saturday, a lecture series for whipping engineering students’ writing into shape. Feb. 5, Waters Zoomed with a small group of Elizabethtown College’s engineering students to give the second talk in this semester’s

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  • Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Student teaching in the time of COVID-19

    Senior Shannon Kerwin, like any senior in the education department at Elizabethtown College, is ready to face her student teaching semester. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, including student teaching. Kerwin is one of the fortunate students placed in-person at East High Street Elementary School. For the semester, she is student teaching in a

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  • Men’s basketball team runs 2020 Toys for Tots fundraiser

    Men’s basketball team runs 2020 Toys for Tots fundraiser

    As the holiday season begins, it would be normal to see festivities, family gatherings, and charitable events starting to begin; however, due to the 2020 circumstances, many of these experiences have sadly been canceled, creating a sense of wonder on how the holidays will look this year. Luckily, there are still ways for people to

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  • Understanding Religion, Islam through a “calming” perspective

    Understanding Religion, Islam through a “calming” perspective

    Haroon Moghul has contributed essays to a half dozen major news outlets, written three books, served on the Advisory Committee on Cultural Engagement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, and helped establish the Islamic Center at NYU. Impressive. But Moghul would say, “My bio makes me seem like I do a lot of

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  • Senior thesis explores world history through familial letters, correspondence

    Senior thesis explores world history through familial letters, correspondence

    The senior thesis is the culmination of four years of work within a given discipline, giving students the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned in unique, personal ways. The thesis process will inevitably vary from student to student, but at its best it will embody a student’s passion and creativity. For senior Caitlin

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  • Music faculty performance parallels whirlwind emotions during COVID-19 pandemic

    Music faculty performance parallels whirlwind emotions during COVID-19 pandemic

    This past Monday Nov. 16, the Leffler Chapel stage was once again graced by a captivating performance. Dr. Justin Badgerow and Dr. Anne Gross,  associate  professors of  music, performed both joint and separate performances as a part of the Music Department’s annual Monday Concert Series.  Gross opened with her vocal performance titled “Then and Now:

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  • Angel Tree Project demonstrates community engagement, solidarity

    Angel Tree Project demonstrates community engagement, solidarity

    The Center for Community and Civic Engagement and Student Senate at Elizabethtown College will be hosting the Angel Tree Project once again this year. In a typical year, there would be a table set up with a small tree and tags hanging from the branches, each describing the age, gender, needs and interests of an

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  • Archival work during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Archival work during the COVID-19 pandemic

    The staff at Elizabethtown College’s High Library are collecting projects of all sorts from faculty, staff and students regarding their experiences of living in the time of COVID-19.   “Keep in mind if you have a class that is doing a COVID related project, course assignments can be submitted. There is no deadline whenever people want

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