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Schwab lectures on keeping businesses afloat in changing market
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- January 28, 2015
Israel Schwab, the CEO of D&H Distributing Company (D&H), gave a presentation titled “Distribution, Sales and Logistics in the Computer and Consumer Electronics Business” at Elizabethtown College on Friday, Jan. 22. Schwab said he had always been able to explain what D&H did. “I’ve never been able to explain to my friends the why,” he
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Arnold designs appealing, grotesque artwork using dissimilar aesthetics
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- January 28, 2015
On Thursday, Jan. 22, from 4 to 7 p.m., an art exhibition that explores what it really means to be grotesque opened in Zug Memorial Hall. Dr. Kristi Arnold, assistant professor of art, combines both the older and modern denotation and connotations of the word “grotesque” through her paintings and printmaking. “A reappearing theme that
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Hoover hosts panel discussing constitutional voting rights
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- January 28, 2015
Continuing Martin Luther King Jr. week, Elizabethtown College held a Voter Suppression and Civil Rights Panel, Thursday, Jan. 22, in the Hoover Center. Leading the discussion was Andy Hoover, the legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania. Panelists for the event included Dr. Fletcher McClellan, dean of faculty, Dr. John Rohrkemper,
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‘Mississippi Burning’ shown as part of Martin Luther King Jr. week
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- January 28, 2015
A diversity film showing and question and answer session occurred on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium. Dr. Susan Traverso, provost and senior vice president and professor of history, had arranged this viewing, hoping to further enlighten students of the history of America. She hoped the attendees would further their knowledge on
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Kirk cultivates art collection painted by death row inmates
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- January 28, 2015
On Friday Jan. 23, during a week where we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy, Ann Marie Kirk, co-founder of Art For Justice, came to Elizabethtown College to present a gallery of pictures from her collection called Prisoner Art for Social Justice. The artwork she brought with her were pieces of work done
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CEO of NxtBook Media speaks about creativity in the workplace
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- January 22, 2015
Michael Biggerstaff, owner and CEO of NxtBook Media gave a lecture titled “Blending Creativity with your Company Culture to get Outstanding Results,” in the M&M Mars Room as a part of the Executive Lecture Series. NxtBook Media was named as one of the Ink’s 500 fastest privately held companies twice. It has been in the
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Long discusses Jackie Robinson’s impact on Martin Luther King Jr.
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- January 22, 2015
Many know Jackie Robinson as the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. Yet fewer recognize his role as one of the first civil rights activists. In 1947, the baseball hero from the Brooklyn Dodgers shattered the color barrier in the world of sports. Dr. Michael Long, associate professor of Religious Studies and
READ MOREDiversity film shows unity of family, community in Gobi Desert to save a camel
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- January 22, 2015
On Thursday, Jan. 15, Elizabethtown College showed the documentary “The Story of the Weeping Camel,” a German film set in Mongolia. Louise Hyder-Darlington, the access services librarian, hosted the event. Hyder-Darlington was introduced to the film by a friend who worked in the Peace Corps. Hyder-Darlington said that her friend worked in the same area
READ MOREMcCorkel discusses issues of race, class, rehabilitation of female inmates through stories, personal experiences
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- January 22, 2015
On Wednesday, Jan. 21, Dr. Jill McCorkel gave a lecture titled, “From Good Girls to ‘Real’ Criminals: Dissecting the Market Logic and Racial Politics of Incarcerati” in Gibble Auditorium in the MLK Celebration Week lecture series. She is Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Villanova University College of Liberal Arts
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