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Etown Mourns the Loss of Professor Thomas Murray
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- December 3, 2020
“We will hear his echoes in the hallways, and in those places that we gather to remember his life, we will carry that pain that reminds us of what was real- that will remind us of what he had meant to us,” Director of Religious Life Amy Shorner-Johnson said at the beginning of a virtual
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Student Senate
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- December 3, 2020
Student Senate met Thursday, Nov. 19 over Zoom for their weekly meeting. It began with the Oath of Office for the newly elected first-year representative, Ryan Nguyen. Executive President of Senate Matthew Hetrick told senators that the meeting would end before 5 p.m. so that everyone could attend the virtual gathering for Professor of Biology
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End of the on-campus semester
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- November 23, 2020
Elizabethtown College is heading home for Thanksgiving break, and students won’t be coming back until late January. The decision made by the College not to have students return to campus to finish the semester after Thanksgiving break was made in August as part of the Fall 2020 Semester COVID-19 Plan. This plan is intended to
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Today’s Technology
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- November 19, 2020
During the tumultuous summer of this year, law enforcement agencies were able to deftly use facial recognition software to make arrests in protests and robberies. One such case was of a protester in Indiana who was arrested when a picture of him resurfaced on Twitter and was then fed into a facial recognition system. This
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Student Senate
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- November 19, 2020
Student Senate met for their weekly meeting Thursday, Nov. 12 over Zoom. This meeting was different, as it was their semesterly Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meeting. Sophomore class president Andrew Furman moderated the meeting, which included reports and questions divided into four sessions. The topics included COVID-19, increasing involvement and engagement on campus, residential renewal
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Senior leadership team, Student Senate, meet
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- November 19, 2020
President Cecilia McCormick and members of the senior leadership team were present at the weekly Student Senate meeting Thursday, Nov. 12 at 3:45 p.m. It was the first meeting with the senior leadership team since the COVID-19 pandemic. The senior leadership team consists of Vice President for Finance and Strategy Jerry Silberman, Provost & Senior
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Election post-mortem discussion, expectations and results
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- November 19, 2020
Following the 2020 general election, the Campaign 2020 Post-Mortem was held via Zoom to discuss the 2020 election season and the upcoming transfer of power. Speakers included the Dean of the School of Public Service Dr. April Kelly-Woessner, Dr. E. Fletcher McClellan and Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca. The post-election event is a tradition at Elizabethtown College
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Biden is president-elect with 290 electoral votes
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- November 12, 2020
Nov. 3, Americans awaited the results of Election Day following the 2020 presidential election; however, the results were delayed. With states allowing voters to vote by mail, approximately a third of registered voters voted prior to Election Day. Early voting even surpassed two-thirds of the ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election. Voter turnout was
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Pennsylvania Politics
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- November 12, 2020
Despite votes still being counted across the Commonwealth at the time of the writing of this article, enough of the votes have been counted to confirm results in statewide elections. Now, the balance of power in Pennsylvania shifts from a complete control by the Democrats in all four offices to an even two-two split between
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