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  • Music Review: Indie artist “Still Woozy” channels funky, dreamlike sound

    Music Review: Indie artist “Still Woozy” channels funky, dreamlike sound

    Say “thank you” to the Internet. Straight from a garage in Oakland, California comes the positive vibrations of Still Woozy, directly into your ears. Still Woozy is not quite a band name. It’s a stage name for the 25 year-old solo artist Sven Gamsky. Named a 2018 “Artist to Watch” by Purple Sneakers (an Australian

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  • SCAD presentations showcase student creativity and intellect

    SCAD presentations showcase student creativity and intellect

    Beginning in 2007, Elizabethtown College has held a spring event to showcase student academics. At Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD), students showcase their creativity and intellect through presentations about topics that are significant to them. To ensure academic quality, all SCAD presentations must first be approved by a professor. Beyond that, however, the responsibility

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  • Dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” will open in Tempest Theatre

    Dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” will open in Tempest Theatre

    Thursday, April 11 at 8 p.m., the 2018-2019 Elizabethtown College Theater will open with its final show of the season, “The Cripple of Inishmaan.” The play is set in 1934 in the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. When the inhabitants of the small town of Inishmaan learn that a Hollywood film crew

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  • Music, gender at Ephrata Cloister

    Music, gender at Ephrata Cloister

    Keeping with Elizabethtown College’s rich history of Anabaptistism and Pietism, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist studies recently had the opportunity to bring Christopher Herbert to campus. Herbert is an assistant professor and head of the vocal department at William Paterson University. He received a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Julliard School and

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  • Fine Arts seniors bring unique talents, interests to senior projects

    Fine Arts seniors bring unique talents, interests to senior projects

    This semester, The Etownian is working to highlight and recognize the work being done by Elizabethtown College’s seniors in their capstone courses. One such capstone course has been taught by professor of art Milt Friedly to senior Fine Arts majors. This course is designed to prepare the students for gallery work and the logistics necessary

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  • Etown alumna poet returns, shares her poetry at open-mic night

    Etown alumna poet returns, shares her poetry at open-mic night

    The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Title IX partnered with the Women and Gender Studies department to bring back Elizabethtown College alumna, Nichole Acosta, ‘08. Acosta visited campus March 14 for an open mic slam poetry night in the Brinser Lecture Room. Acosta has been doing spoken word since she was 11 years old and

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  • Literature quotes, graphic design come together in creative posters

    Literature quotes, graphic design come together in creative posters

    Students from Visiting Assistant Professor of English Dr. Tara Moore’s graphic design course, Word, Web and Design, have created graphic design collages featuring selections from the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. The collages, on display in the reference section on the landing floor of the High Library, blend typography, photography

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  • Scholar-in-Residence shares poetry, reflects on personal experiences

    Scholar-in-Residence shares poetry, reflects on personal experiences

    Elizabethtown College held its Scholar-in-Residence Celebration featuring Dr. Emily Grosholz Wednesday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Bowers Writers House. The Scholar-in-Residence program aims to bring in speakers who do interdisciplinary work. Grosholz fits this description because she is a poet, mathematician and physics philosopher. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a

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  • Alum stays involved, helps college athletics program post graduation

    Alum stays involved, helps college athletics program post graduation

    An incredibly important part of campus life at Elizabethtown College is sports. With 24 different varsity intercollegiate sport programs, students have many choices for how to become involved in Blue Jay Athletics. Students can also participate in any of the 10 different intramural sports, which are more casual and recreational and are managed by the

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