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  • Local politicians showcase opportunities for women

    Local politicians showcase opportunities for women

    The Elizabethtown College Democrats hosted a seminar on women in politics Feb. 27. The seminar included different women in local politics to speak on what they do in the field and answered different questions. The speakers were Jen Quinn, Mary Auker-Endresand Jo Ellen Litz.  The focus of the event was to educate students about all

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  • Author gives first public reading of new book at Bowers Writers House

    Author gives first public reading of new book at Bowers Writers House

    A nude man runs down a hotel hallway pursued by a clothed man wielding a big wooden coat hanger.  The naked man laments that his run-ins with married women often end in run-ins with married men. Then he laments the layout of the hotel. The hallway he is fleeing down comes to a dead end

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  • Chemistry Seminar Series explores progressions in latent print developments

    Chemistry Seminar Series explores progressions in latent print developments

    Feb. 26, the Elizabethtown College Department of Chemistry held a seminar led by Dr. Raychelle Burks. Burks is an esteemed associate professor of analytical chemistry at the American University in Washington D.C., and is well known for several prolific public appearances supported by prestigious scientific organizations and for advocating for various underrepresented groups in the

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  • Faith powders and paper toads—Young Center explores the weird world of Pietist conversions

    Faith powders and paper toads—Young Center explores the weird world of Pietist conversions

    Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies invited Dr. Jonathan Strom to discuss some old books. Strom won the Young Center’s Dale W. Brown Book Award for his own book, “German Pietism and the Problem of Conversion,” back in 2019. But, his book talks about some other books much older than that. Strom

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  • Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Student creativity flourishes at COVID-safe Playwright’s Festival

    Elizabethtown College hosted the New Playwrights Festival 2021 on Feb. 19 and 20 at 8 p.m. This year’s performance was hosted in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center rather than Tempest Theater to better abide by COVID-19 safety guidelines. Sock & Buskin worked in conjunction with ECTV to stream the shows, as viewership was entirely

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  • Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Embodying anti-racism through history, sustained commitments

    Wednesday, Feb. 17, as part of the Elizabethtown College Office of Diversity, Inclusion] and Title IX’s series of Black History Month events, Asst. Dean of Students at Capital Law School and Diversity, Equityand Inclusion Consultant Dr. Marcelius Braxton gave a webinar presentation on anti-racism.  Drawing from his background as an educator, Braxton has taken the

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