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  • Governor visits Etown’s solar field to announce new solar energy bill

    Governor visits Etown’s solar field to announce new solar energy bill

    Monday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m., Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf greeted government officials and Elizabethtown College students and faculty at the College’s solar field to sign House Bill 118, which encourages Pennsylvanians to produce and use their own efficient energy sources. House Bill 118 was signed into law as Act 40 Monday, Oct. 30, according

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  • First play of the year “Medea” is a classic adaption of the original play

    First play of the year “Medea” is a classic adaption of the original play

    Elizabethtown’s Tempest Theatre is hosting its first play of the year this upcoming week. “Medea” was originally written in 430 B.C. and has had multiple adaptations since. Etown’s theatre department is doing Liz Lochhead’s Scottish feminist version. “Medea” is a play that centers on the controversial roles of males and females and how revenge can

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  • Live connected: new learning outcome, program theme for Residence life

    How do resident assistants (RAs), Area Coordinators and the Office of Residence Life as a whole help students at Elizabethtown College? For this academic year, the Office of Residence Life has launched a new learning curriculum called Live Etown. “We’re really pumped about [Live Etown],” Area Coordinator for Schlosser Residence Hall, Myer Residence Hall and

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  • Bowers speaker shares personal story in creative writing essay

    Bowers speaker shares personal story in creative writing essay

    Monday, Oct. 30, students gathered at the Bowers Writers House to hear a reading from speaker Jessica McCaughey. McCaughey is an assistant professor of academic and professional writing at George Washington University. She developed a writing program to aid organizations and their employees through workshops focused on proper technical and professional writing and editing. She

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  • Senate’s annual Trunk-or-treating event brings kids to campus

    Senate’s annual Trunk-or-treating event brings kids to campus

    Monday, Oct. 30, only a day before Halloween, was the day of the annual Trunk-or-Treat event in the parking lot of Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. The event was held to let children from the area have a fun, safe and easy way to go trick-or-treating. Student Senate has hosted the event around

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  • Editor shares working with celebrities, editing and publishing books

    Editor shares working with celebrities, editing and publishing books

    Oct. 28, the Bowers Writers House hosted a lecture entitled “Book or Bust: Make it or Break it in the Publishing World.” The lecture featured Charles “Chuck” F. Adams, Executive Editor at Algonquin Books. Previously, Adams worked at other publishing firms, including Simon & Schuster, Dell/Delacorte, Macmillan, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. During his career, Adams

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  • New poetry book on fracking read at Bowers, lecturers share artwork

    New poetry book on fracking read at Bowers, lecturers share artwork

    The Bowers Writers House held two events featuring Julia Spicher Kasdorf, the latter a joint effort with Steven Rubin on Thursday, Oct. 12. The pair is joining forces in a new book on the effects of fracking, which will feature both poems from Spicher Kasdorf and photographs from Rubin. Fracking is the process of shooting

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  • Discovering differences in gender ratios according to major

    Discovering differences in gender ratios according to major

    Does gender affect what major college students choose? Nationally, some majors have relatively even gender ratios, while others have more uneven gender ratios. What causes this? There are several possible answers, and each major is different. According to a 2014 Georgetown University study titled “What’s It Worth?: The Economic Value of College Majors,” some majors

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  • Etown alumna now lives in Mexico and co-owns two companies

    Etown alumna now lives in Mexico and co-owns two companies

    Where will your major take you? Elizabethtown College graduate Stephanie Watts ‘93 majored in business administration with a concentration in international business management and a minor in French. She currently lives in Puerto Vallarta, a resort town in Mexico. Watts and her husband, Conner Watts, moved to Puerto Vallarta a year after having their destination

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