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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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  • Bowers Center event encourages students to meet new year’s goals

    Bowers Center event encourages students to meet new year’s goals

    The Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being is hosting a new wellness challenge focused on leaving 2020 in the past and working toward a better 2021. Normally the challenges hosted by the Bowers  Center work on physical fitness alone, but this new year challenge is unique because it encourages all around health.  Bowers Center

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  • Beyond the LGBTQ Acronym event showcases diverse student identities, experiences

    Beyond the LGBTQ Acronym event showcases diverse student identities, experiences

    Saturday, Feb. 13, a panel event took place over Zoom discussing the subject of what type of attractions exist beyond the first five letters of the LGBTQ+ acronym. However, this discussion was not led by professors or professionals but students.  The presentation aimed to make more people both in and out of the LGBTQ+ community

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  • Pan-African flag raising ceremony in BSC demonstrates a call for unity, justice

    Pan-African flag raising ceremony in BSC demonstrates a call for unity, justice

    Red. Black. Green. These are the colors of the tricolor banner hoisted over the atrium of the Baugher Student Ceter (BSC) on Monday, Feb. 15. Elizabethtown College’s associate director of intercultural affairs with the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Title IX, Ellis Bonds explained the symbolism of the flag as it was raised. “Red represents

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  • Etown Alumna Amita Mehta discusses career success as part of Executive Lecture Series

    Etown Alumna Amita Mehta discusses career success as part of Executive Lecture Series

    Feb. 12, Elizabethtown College alumna Amita Mehta spoke to Etown students as part of the Executive Lecture Series. This series is sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery and the Etown Department of Business, of which Dr. Krichevskiy, associate professor of economics, is the coordinator.  Mehta’s lecture, titled, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Lessons

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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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