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  • PA Politics: A Potentially Grim Future for Pennsylvania’s Mass Transit

    PA Politics: A Potentially Grim Future for Pennsylvania’s Mass Transit

    The future of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth’s public transit system hangs in the balance amid recent hearings over funding gaps. On Tuesday, April 15, the Senate Democratic Policy Committee held a hearing in Pittsburgh on the future of mass transit. The next day, the Philadelphia City Council held its own budget hearing with representatives from the

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  • Farewell from the Editor-in-Chief

    Farewell from the Editor-in-Chief

    I’ve always loved words. When I was a kid, I loved to talk to my siblings and my parents, probably more often than they wanted to hear. I wrote in my journal religiously throughout middle school and high school, making the daily interactions between my friends more dramatic than a soap opera. I dabbled in

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  • Farewell from the News Editor

    Farewell from the News Editor

    When I went to the club fair my first year at Elizabethtown College, I distinctly remember signing up for at least 10. How could I help it? The world was mine, and I felt like I’d have all the time in the world to explore my interests.  Even though a lot of those would fade

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  • Global Perspective: Pope Francis Dead, what is Next for the Vatican

    Global Perspective: Pope Francis Dead, what is Next for the Vatican

    After a month of battling a vicious attack of pneumonia, Pope Francis went against orders and suggestions to stay inside and recover, insisting upon traveling and speaking in foreign countries, and holding mass this Sunday. However, as of Monday, April 21, the Pope would succumb to a stroke and heart failure and pass away at

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  • Marketplace to undergo summer renovations

    Marketplace to undergo summer renovations

    Elizabethtown College’s Marketplace dining hall will be receiving significant renovations in the coming months. The project, announced in April, will fully begin June 9th and is on track to be completed by the end of July. The announcement made a splash, exciting the student community and dividing opinion on the aesthetic and practical changes these

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  • Today’s Tech: Why Nvidia Is the Front Line in the AI Cold War

    Today’s Tech: Why Nvidia Is the Front Line in the AI Cold War

    Once known mainly to gamers and graphics developers, Nvidia now finds itself at the heart of a new kind of geopolitical power struggle—one where semiconductors are the new oil, and AI chips are the battleground. This week, the California-based tech giant became the latest flashpoint in the deepening trade and tech rivalry between the United

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  • Business Buzz: Trade tariff uncertainty increases post “Liberation Day”

    Business Buzz: Trade tariff uncertainty increases post “Liberation Day”

    If you’ve been watching global markets lately, the mood has been anything but calm. Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs were announced on April 2, share prices have dropped sharply, forecasts have darkened, and the word “recession” has crept back into the headlines. The World Trade Organization says global trade will fall. The

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  • Today’s Tech: E-Cigarettes Damage Environment

    Today’s Tech: E-Cigarettes Damage Environment

    When e-cigarettes first hit the market, they were sold as a safer alternative to smoking—sleek, modern and clean. Now, over a decade later, their legacy may not rest simply in lung health debates or teen addiction statistics. It’s in something far more combustible: literal dumpster fires. According to Fire Rover, a company specializing in fire

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  • Professor Curtis Smith to release new novel in May

    Professor Curtis Smith to release new novel in May

    This May, Elizabethtown College’s very own creative writing professor Curtis Smith is releasing a new novel, titled “Deaf Heaven.” Smith is no stranger to the literary world, having published over 125 stories and essays which have appeared in publications spanning from “The Best American Short Stories” to the “W.W. Norton anthology New Micro.” The new

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