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Thanksgiving dinner, tree lighting events are festive tradition
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- November 19, 2014
Elizabethtown College prides itself on building and maintaining a community feel between students, faculty and staff. In order to uphold this standard, the College has adapted several traditions unique to Etown. These traditions are long-standing and are used to bring the community together several times during a school term. Of these traditions, the most well-known
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Yorty explains difficulties facing women entering a STEM career
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- November 19, 2014
“I’m in the minority,” Associate Professor of Molecular Biology Dr. Jodi Yorty said as she began to discuss her vocational calling to a field where women are not always expected. As part of the Call To Lead Program, Yorty shared her personal story of being a women in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
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Robert Johansen lectures on six guidelines for global peacebuilding
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- November 19, 2014
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, Dr. Robert Johansen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Peace Studies at Notre Dame University and founding faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, one of the world’s leading centers for the study of the causes of violent conflict and strategies for sustainable peace, presented his lecture on
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Senior entrepreneur Quinn Nadu produces Redemption Calls for goose, duck hunting
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- November 19, 2014
Senior business major Quinn Nadu has had a mind for entrepreneurship since he was in high school. He has since created and maintained his own business, Redemption Calls, manufacturing and selling duck and goose calls. The name Redemption Calls comes from a joke during a hunting trip. Nadu said that the day after a bad
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Eli Hastings discusses trauma writing, narrative therapy, explains importance of narrative, storytelling for helping fragmented memories
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- November 19, 2014
On Monday Nov. 10, Bowers Writers House held an afternoon craft talk and evening reading with memoirist and therapist Eli Hastings. Hastings discussed the craft of trauma writing and later gave a reading of his memoir “Clearly Now, the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Other Trips.” He identified himself as a writer, father and
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Office of International Student Services holds information tables, special dinner as part of International Education Week
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- November 19, 2014
Asking Elizabethtown College students about the weather at this time of year is usually met with complaints about frigid temperatures from legions of chattering teeth. The same question asked closer to the equator would most likely be answered next to an air conditioner on full blast. At Etown, the Office of International Student Services (OISS)
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Students travel to see Newsies in Philadelphia through S.W.E.E.T.
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- November 5, 2014
This past Saturday, S.W.E.E.T. sponsored a trip for students to see the musical “Newsies” at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Pa. This highly anticipated event was a huge success, with many students attending. “Newsies” tells the true story of the Newsboy Strike of 1899. This Disney musical is about Jack Kelly, a newspaper delivery boy
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Students perform “Company,” musical challenges them to learn new acting techniques, improve vocal performance
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- November 5, 2014
The musical “Company” premiered Thursday, Oct. 30 in the Tempest Theatre. It also ran on Friday, Oct. 31 and Saturday, Nov. 1. Renowned composer Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for the 1970 musical, and George Furth scribed the book. Composed of fragmented vignettes as opposed to a linear storyline, “Company” revolves around the
READ MOREHaar and Cassel explain health care costs, importance of benefits
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- November 5, 2014
Janine Haar, Elizabethtown College’s health consultant from Benecon, and Capital Blue Cross Benefit Specialist Dana Cassel presented “Know Your Benefits,” the first of a series of discussions on utilizing health benefits. Haar first explained how the cost of emergency care has risen recently to deter people from visiting emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary, and the
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