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  • Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Beginning the fall semester of 2025, the science department at Elizabethtown College will offer a medical laboratory science major. This announcement comes five years after the 2019-2022 addition of the chemistry laboratory science major at the college. Dr. Jeffrey Rood and Dr. Kristi Kneas, professors and the chairs of the chemistry and biochemistry department who

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  • Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Thailand has a history of being a more conservative society. This includes laws and expectations ranging from how basic formality is supposed to be conducted to specifics like dress and hairstyles.   In the 1970s the nation of Thailand was going through rocky times as their government went through multiple identity changes. Shifting from a military

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  • BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    On Feb. 26, at  Elizabethtown College’s  High Library held a talk titled “Research and Recording BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Student History at Elizabethtown College.” The talk featured junior history and political science major and Young Center’s Ziegler Fellow Jordyn Dutko and sophomore legal studies major and student archivist Kalen Tendo, who had

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  • PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Wednesday, March 5 to streamline the process for Pennsylvania’s government agencies to hire recently-fired federal employees amid the Trump Administration’s purge of the federal labor force.  Signed during an appearance at the second annual Commonwealth Job Fair in Harrisburg, Executive Order 2025-01 is designed “to

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  • College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    Spring at Elizabethtown College means the return of classes, outdoor study sessions and all the joys that warm weather brings. It also carries a packed calendar full of deadlines and upcoming events, not to mention the announcement of changes for next academic year.  This year;s announcement came in the form of an email titled “A

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  • Today’s Tech: iPhone 16e signifies major price shift

    Today’s Tech: iPhone 16e signifies major price shift

    Apple’s release of the iPhone 16e is a significant shift in the phone market. Its price tag, under  $600, provides affordable access to the world of Apple without sacrificing the core experience which makes iPhones attractive. In an industry where most phones set the price in excess of  $1,000, this release could signal a shift

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  • Business Buzz: Reshaping Asia’s Energy Supplies

    Business Buzz: Reshaping Asia’s Energy Supplies

    On Feb. 21, in Washington D.C., U.S.  President Donald Trump sat down with Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba. Their conversation was on how Tokyo could help the U.S. to unleash gas in Alaska and ship it to  U.S. allies in Asia. Trump and his main energy advisor Doug Burgum put forth the venture as

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  • Bathroom trash cans revoked in Myer dorm building after feces found

    Bathroom trash cans revoked in Myer dorm building after feces found

    Two weeks ago, feces was found in multiple bathroom trash cans along the second floor of Elizabethtown College’s Myer dorm building, MK White, area coordinator for Myer, Ober and Schlosser Halls, said at a Zoom meeting. The perpetrator(s), as well as their intent, are still unknown, White said on the call. The Zoom meeting was

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  • Global Perspective: Chinese Views on United States’ Shifting Taiwanese Stance

    Global Perspective: Chinese Views on United States’ Shifting Taiwanese Stance

    Among multiple different changes that have come from the administration shift for the past two months, one change has Chinese American relations setting towards rocky shores.   In the 1930s the Republic of China would be embroiled in a civil war between the Communist China and the Republican forces. Briefly stopping due to outsider invasion, the

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