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Elizabethtown College cuts three majors, 13 faculty members
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- October 4, 2024
Editor’s note: The Etownian chose to grant anonymity to all sources for fear of retribution. A Zoom call Tuesday, Sept. 24 announced faculty cuts and a five-year deadline for Elizabethtown College to sort out its finances before it faces a budget deficit of millions of dollars, sources familiar with the call
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Neurlink receives breakthrough device designation
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- September 30, 2024
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain chip company, is testing the boundaries of how medical technology fundamentally shifts how to treat neurological diseases and disorders. The implant is an experimental brain chip, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just announced that Neuralink’s Blindsight has received the prestigious “breakthrough device” designation. This status is reserved for path-paving
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Federal Rate Cut: All about
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- September 30, 2024
This week, the Federal Reserve met and dropped interest rates for the first time since 2020, targeting the Federal Open Market Committee at around 4.75% to 5.25%. The U.S. economy has grown substantially, and high interest rates could trigger higher inflation. The Federal Reserves decided to cut them, focusing on fighting further inflation and job
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Climate Crisis’ Effect on Gender Inequality
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- September 30, 2024
Many people’s first thoughts regarding the current climate crisis may fall back to the rising sea levels, the higher temperatures or the extreme weather. However, one area not thought about often would be the domino effect it may have upon the many other social and physical travesties that happen in the world, including the gender
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CCCE Promotes Voter Registration
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- September 30, 2024
With a presidential election on the horizon and political advertisements coming up on everyone’s social media pages, politics and voting have become the forefront of many conversations. This is the first major presidential election that many college students have been able to vote in and with that can come a lot of emotions and issues
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Elizabethtown College welcomes Penn Medicine Health Center to campus
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- September 30, 2024
Elizabethtown College announced the opening of the Penn Medicine Elizabethtown College Medical Center just before the fall semester began. The center is located at 530 East Cedar St., directly across from Ober Residence Hall. Aug. 20 marked the official opening of the facility, and students now have access to on-campus medical care. The change came
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PA Politics: The Push to Win Pennsylvania Voters
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- September 30, 2024
Entering the home stretch to the 2024 presidential election, Pennsylvania Democrats hold the weakest voter registration advantage compared to Pennsylvania Republicans in recent decades. The Democratic Party’s raw registration numbers saw a brief rise following Joe Biden’s exit from the presidential race in late July, and although this trend has continued, the number of Republicans
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Elizabethtown College announces faculty cuts ahead of projected deficits
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- September 26, 2024
Editor’s note: The Etownian chose to grant anonymity to all sources due to the sensitive subject matter. This story was updated to include the fact that the meeting took place over Zoom due to COVID-19 protocol. A faculty assembly meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 24 announced faculty cuts and a five-year deadline for Elizabethtown College to
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Is the Talent War over in America?
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- September 24, 2024
After COVID, companies fought each other to hire new employees to fill vacancies created by massive layoffs, retirements and “quiet-quitters” that surged during the pandemic. The rate of employee departures went from 2.3% each month to 3% at the beginning of 2022. Fighting for highly skilled workers at all levels made companies go toe-to-toe with
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