• Into the Streets provides chance to volunteer in community

    Into the Streets provides chance to volunteer in community

    Into the Streets is part of how Elizabethtown College fulfills its motto of “educate for service.” Into the Streets is a yearly event that happens on a Saturday. The event allows students to volunteer with different organizations and is geared toward helping the community. Each year different clubs and organizations at the College can put

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  • Herb Weaver explores surrealism through ceramics, mixed media

    Herb Weaver explores surrealism through ceramics, mixed media

    On Tuesday, Oct. 21, the Fine and Performing Arts Department held a reception for the opening of artist, Herb Weaver’s ceramics gallery titled “Ceramics – Mixed Media”  at the John W. Hess Gallery in Zug Hall. His collection featured clay sculptures prepared in different methods such as low fired stonework, high fired stonework and by

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  • Long leads event celebrating Diwali, Hindu festival of lights

    Long leads event celebrating Diwali, Hindu festival of lights

    On Thursday, Oct. 23, Elizabethtown College celebrated a holiday known as Diwali with the help of Dr. Jeffery D. Long, professor of religion and Asian studies.    Diwali is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in India every autumn. Diwali rituals and preparations typically take place over a series of five days, but the main festival

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  • Comedian Matt Bellace discusses natural highs, relaxation without drugs

    Matt Bellace led a presentation on how to get high naturally that incorporated comedy and audience participation at Elizabethtown College on Sunday, Oct. 26. Bellace began his presentation by asking four female audience members and four male audience members to approach the stage and sit on chairs. He positioned the chairs so that they formed

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  • Gross featured as part of Monday Concert Series

    Gross featured as part of Monday Concert Series

    As part of their Monday Concert Series, Elizabethtown College’s Fine and Performing Arts Department hosted a performance in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on Oct. 20, with Dr. Anne Gross, assistant professor of music. Gross is a new professor at Etown. She teaches voice and offers private lessons, and she is a soprano herself. In

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  • Religious Studies professor speaks on importance of identification in society

    On Monday, Oct. 20 at 3 p.m. in the Susquehanna Room, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Dr. Richard Newton delivered a lecture on the politics of identification cards and scriptures in America. Newton currently teaches three courses at the College. The Department of Religious Studies, Office of Diversity and the peace and conflict studies minor

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