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  • Fox to be SCAD Keynote speaker

    Fox to be SCAD Keynote speaker

    The Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD) keynote speaker has been announced. This year’s speaker is filmmaker and environmental activist Josh Fox, who is best known as the director of the Oscar-nominated HBO documentary “Gasland.” The keynote speaker was chosen by a group made up of faculty members and students known as the SCAD Committee.

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  • One of five: Elizabethtown College one out of five in Pa. to be named to the President’s Honor Roll for commitment to service

    One of five: Elizabethtown College one out of five in Pa. to be named to the President’s Honor Roll for commitment to service

    The Nutrition Challenge has now begun at Elizabethtown College. Students can complete four nutrition challenges in four weeks to win various prizes. The challenge is taking place from March 11 to April 17. Participants select four different challenges and each day that a participant accomplishes the challenge for that week, a point is rewarded and

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  • College initiates ‘4 Nutrition Challenge’

    The Nutrition Challenge has now begun at Elizabethtown College. Students can complete four nutrition challenges in four weeks to win various prizes. The challenge is taking place from March 11 to April 17. Participants select four different challenges and each day that a participant accomplishes the challenge for that week, a point is rewarded and

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  • German-based center invites Silberstein as scholar

    Dr. Michael Silberstein, the philosophy department chair at Elizabethtown College, was recently invited to be a scholar at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) for the month of July 2013 and was elected vice president of the Society for Mind-Matter Research (SMMR). The MCMP deals with applications of logical and mathematical methods, as well

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  • HCFB names new exec. director

    Michael Mitchell, the new executive director of Elizabethtown College’s S. Dale High Center for Family Business (HCFB), began his duties on March 19. As the HCFB director, Mitchell hopes to incorporate his experience owning and managing a multigenerational family business. He is an Etown alumnus who graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing.

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  • Helb honored, named chair

    Helb honored, named chair

    This past year, Dr. Colin Helb was selected to serve as the Internet Cultural Studies Chair for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. The PCA/ACA seeks to analyze and examine trends in online media, as well as promote and establish conferences and publications among scholars and graduate students. It seeks to identify where the new

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  • Strikwerda addresses tuition rise

    Strikwerda addresses tuition rise

    Dear Elizabethtown College students: At the February 21 Student Senate Forum, questions surfaced about the 4.4 percent increase in next year’s comprehensive fee—the total cost of tuition, room and board. In response to those questions, I am sharing an outline of those investments the College has made as a result of increases in the comprehensive

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  • Admin.announces graduation speakers

    Admin.announces graduation speakers

    Eboo Patel, president of the Interfaith Youth Core, and Jeffery B. Miller ’85, vice president and chief security officer of the National Football League, have been chosen to speak at this year’s commencement ceremonies. Patel will speak at commencement for traditional students at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, May 18. Miller will speak at the ceremony for

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  • Officials explain bias-related incident procedures

    Officials explain bias-related incident procedures

    One of Elizabethtown College’s openly homosexual students fell victim to a bias-related incident between the late hours of Sunday, March 10 and early Monday, March 11 in Ober Residence Hall. This specific incident occurred in response to the student’s sexual orientation rather than cultural background, which has been the focus of previous events of this

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