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  • Counseling Services, Student Wellness offer resources for SAD

    Counseling Services, Student Wellness offer resources for SAD

    The approach of winter may bring excitement to many of us, but for those who experience seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the shorter hours of sunlight can bring about the “winter blues.” According to materials provided by Elizabethtown College’s Health Promotion Program, which consists of Assistant Director of Health Promotion Joni Eisenhauer and seven Student Wellness

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  • Alumna uses political science, sociology experience to help nonprofit

    Alumna uses political science, sociology experience to help nonprofit

    The Elizabethtown College motto, “Educate for Service,” does not end with graduation. Many Blue Jays leave the nest and enter service-oriented professions. Melissa Plotkin, ’91 is one of those Etown alumni. Plotkin works for the York Jewish Community Center (JCC), a nonprofit community center which serves all residents of York County. Membership to the York

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  • Etownian staff brave Harry Potter escape room in High Library

    Etownian staff brave Harry Potter escape room in High Library

    The rules were simple enough; get out of the room in time or face the wrath of a blighted Quidditch super-fan. What could possibly go wrong? For the week of Halloween, and as a final event in a string of Harry Potter-themed events on campus, the Elizabethtown College High Library staged a Harry Potter Escape

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  • Professors spearhead art, poetry exhibits of an American activist

    Professors spearhead art, poetry exhibits of an American activist

    Photos: Emma Pile Elizabethtown College is showcasing the artwork and poetry of French-American activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti until Wednesday, Nov. 21. His artwork can be viewed in the Lyet Gallery on the second floor of Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, and his poetry is on display at the Bowers Writers House. Essential figures in bringing these

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  • Harry Potter potions, transfiguration class leaves students spellbound

    Harry Potter potions, transfiguration class leaves students spellbound

    Photos: Paula Groff Tuesday, Oct. 23, the High Library hosted its second-to-last event of the Wizarding Events series. The event was a Potions and Transfiguration Class hosted in the McCormick Classroom by Instruction and Scholarly Communications Librarian Jennifer Strain. Strain said the themed program was inspired by the 20th anniversary of the release of the

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  • First-year student motivates peers to take flight in new Etown Runners’ club

    First-year student motivates peers to take flight in new Etown Runners’ club

    Meeting every Monday and Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Jay Walk and every Saturday morning, the Runners’ Club welcomes all that are interested in a nice run. The club typically runs depending on the day. On Mondays or Thursdays, the club will do a simple run that fits everyone’s ability, so no one feels

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  • Recipients of Eugene P. Clemens Award announced at peace lecture

    Recipients of Eugene P. Clemens Award announced at peace lecture

    Photo: Maddie Kauffman Dr. John Reuwer, professor of peace and justice at St. Michael’s College in Vermont, gave a lecture Wednesday, Oct. 17 in the Susquehanna Room in Myer Hall. The lecture was entitled “Lecture on Nonviolence: Power for Peace and Justice with Dr. John Reuwer,” and the event was sponsored by the Center for

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  • Student poverty on college campuses and accommodations of Etown

    According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly a third of all college students in the United States have household incomes below the poverty line, and 79 percent of students work either part-time or full-time while taking classes. What things are being done at Elizabethtown College to help with poverty? Much of the help

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  • Alumna remembers “Educate for Service” throughout her service career

    Alumna remembers “Educate for Service” throughout her service career

    Elizabethtown College graduates have a long tradition of service and meaningful work. Our alumni serve as leaders, volunteers and models for current Etown students. One such alumna who carries on Etown’s tradition of service is Tamara “Tami” Zavislan ’83. Zavislan currently serves as Director of Development of the Homeless Persons Representation Project (HPRP) in Baltimore,

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