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  • Faculty Recital spotlights talents of Fine, Performing Arts professors

    Faculty Recital spotlights talents of Fine, Performing Arts professors

    To kick off the 2016-2017 concert season at Elizabethtown College, the fine and performing arts department presented the Annual Faculty Recital Monday, Sept. 19 in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Every fall, members of the music department faculty prepare solo or chamber performances to share with the campus community. This year’s concert showcased both full-time

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  • Professors make trip to China, study impacts of Brethren missionary

    China, since 1949, has been governed by the Communist Party. Part of this party’s platform has been the oppression of religion. Today there are five government-sanctioned (and government-monitored) religions: the Buddhist Association of China, the Chinese Taoist Association, the Islamic Association of China, the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (a protestant branch) and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic

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  • Musicians celebrate World Peace Day with performance

    Musicians celebrate World Peace Day with performance

    International Day of Peace, or Peace Day, is a day devoted to “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples,” stated a 1981 United Nations resolution that created the International Day of Peace. This day is recognized Sept. 21 every year, usually commemorated by various events across college

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  • Opening reception for local artist showcases mixed media

    Opening reception for local artist showcases mixed media

    Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Hess Gallery of Zug Memorial Hall, the Elizabethtown College Department of Fine and Performing Arts hosted the opening reception for local artist John Baker’s exhibit entitled “Constructions.” Receiving his Bachelor of Arts from West Chester University (WCU) and his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Delaware, Baker has

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  • SWEET organizes road trip bingo night, offering students nine rounds of chances to win travel-themed prizes

    SWEET organizes road trip bingo night, offering students nine rounds of chances to win travel-themed prizes

    Friday night 232 people traveled from New York City to San Francisco in an hour. How? They attended Road Trip Bingo Game Night, sponsored by SWEET, and travelled vicariously while playing ten rounds of bingo in the KAV. The trip began with a line, which originated outside the KAV, stretched back to the front doors

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  • Bowers hosts craft talk about love of language

    Bowers hosts craft talk about love of language

    Bowers Writers House held a craft talk with Dr. Ruthann Knechel Johansen, Friday January 29.  Johansen has published numerous articles and papers in addition to several books including Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark:  Reconstruction Life After Brain Injury and The Narrative Secret of Flannery O’Connor:  The Trickster As Interpreter.  Presently, she is

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