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  • Nobel Laureate Gbowee presents at Ware Lecture

    Nobel Laureate Gbowee presents at Ware Lecture

    lizabethtown College welcomed Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Laureate, as the keynote speaker for the 2013 Ware Lecture on Peacemaking. The lecture was held April 17 at the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center at the College. Dr. April Kelly-Woessner, associate professor and department chair of political science, held a discussion following Gbowee’s lecture. The lecture was free

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  • Distinguished students, leaders, honored at annual ceremony

    Distinguished students, leaders, honored at annual ceremony

    n April 17, students, faculty and staff gathered in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center for the College’s 35th Annual Awards Ceremony. Students of distinction as well as scholarship winners and leaders were awarded for their accomplishments and commitment to service. Featured above are some of the distinguished student award winners. All of the recipients honored

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  • Take Back theTake Back the

    ake Back the Night, a walk to raise awareness of sexual assault on campus, will be held Wednesday, April 24 at 8:00 p.m. The walk will begin and conclude on the Brossman Commons Terrace. Students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend the walk and show support for victims of sexual violence. Take Back the

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  • Jays participate in honors band at annual festival

    The 66th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival was held March 15 through 17 at Mansfield University. Six Elizabethtown College students participated in the 115-member honors band: seniors Nathan Caudill, Chad Feakins, Dan Tschop, Brian Wilson, sophomore Jason Sandonato and first-year Christina McCall. At the Intercollegiate Band Festival, the students spent Friday afternoon and evening rehearsing

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  • Bomberger presents on MacDowell at Society for American Music conference

    Bomberger presents on MacDowell at Society for American Music conference

    Dr. Douglas Bomberger, professor of music and fine and performing arts department chair, presented a paper on composer Edward MacDowell at the 39th annual conference of the Society for American Music in Little Rock, Ark. on March 8. The Society for American Music is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization incorporated in the District of

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  • CCCE promotes awareness, holds fundraiser for local charity

    CCCE promotes awareness, holds fundraiser for local charity

    Elizabethtown College’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) recently partnered with Thistle Farms, a non-profit organization, to help women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction. The CCCE and Thistle Farms are setting up donation spaces in CCCE’s office on the second floor of Nicarry Hall for students to donate T-shirts to

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  • Dialogue features LGBT safety

    The Office of Diversity held another Diversity Dialogue event in which Dr. Amy Milligan addressed the question, “Are members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning community protected in Pennsylvania?” on Tuesday, April 2. After the hour-long lunch discussion of the issue, students and faculty came to the conclusion that there are not many

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  • ‘Intolerance 4 Intolerance’ forum held in Gibble

    ‘Intolerance 4 Intolerance’ forum held in Gibble

    A campus-wide forum , “Intolerance 4 Intolerance,” was held in Gibble Auditorium on Wednesday, April 3 at 11 a.m. The event was part of the efforts to curb the prejudices against students, and to encourage a commitment to tolerance and inclusion at Elizabethtown College. Attendees were a mixture of students, staff, faculty and members of

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  • Police respond to standoff, local gunman arrested

    Police respond to standoff, local gunman arrested

    Elizabethtown officials called a special emergency response team to Elizabethtown Square around 9:00 p.m. Sunday, April 7, in response to a gunshot heard in a South Market Street apartment around 8:00 p.m. The standoff between the gunman and local authorities ended peacefully at 11:10 p.m. when Elizabethtown resident Kirk J. Goldinger, 53, walked out of

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