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  • House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    House passes bill to potentially prohibit TikTok, hopes to push ByteDance to sell platform

    This just in screen watchers: the House of Representatives has voted in favor of forcing Bytedance to sell TikTok to an American investor or else see it banned in the United States. Bytedpace, a Chinese-based tech company, is looking to take this to court rather than selling one of their most profitable assets.   The Senate

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  • Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    Multiple bias incidents on campus prompt conversation

    On Monday April 15, the Elizabethtown College campus community received an email about a racial slur being found written on a board on the second floor of the Baugher Student Center. While the campus waited to see what updates they would receive about who wrote the slur or what was being done, another email came

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  • Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Etown celebrates Truman’s impact

    Depending on who you ask, the biggest celebrity on Elizabethtown College’s campus likely isn’t human. Rather, he is a big golden doodle named Truman. Truman is not your average pup: he is a therapy dog who makes his rounds around campus and even shows up at campus-wide events. Truman is a therapy dog here at

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  • PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    PA Politics: Predicting the 2024 Senate elections in Pennsylvania 

    In the upcoming elections this November, one of Pennsylvania’s Senate seats is up for grabs between Democratic incumbent Bob Casey and challenger Dave McCormick. Although current polling indicates that this election is not going to be as close as the last Senate race between John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz, with Casey maintaining 45 percent support

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  • Science Department receives grant to renovate anatomy labs

    Science Department receives grant to renovate anatomy labs

    The anatomy and physiology classroom at Elizabethtown College will be seeing major improvements over the summer of 2024. A cadaver laboratory will be connected to the classroom, which will greatly benefit learning opportunities for students who are studying the human body. With the addition of this lab, anatomy students have access to real-life concepts to

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  • PA Politics: PA Governor visits total eclipse in battleground county

    PA Politics: PA Governor visits total eclipse in battleground county

    As the moon crossed over the sun this past week, it seemed for a moment that all had become quiet in Harrisburg,  if only for a few moments. This eclipse also brought seemingly overnight state-wide attention to a smaller Pennsylvania city, the city being Erie, Pa. This county was taken into darkness by the unique

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  • Iran sends military strikes against Israel  

    Iran sends military strikes against Israel  

    This past week, Iran fired around 300 missiles and drones at Israel in retaliation for their strike against the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, which killed a top Iranian general along with other high-ranking individuals.  The attacks from Iran came from multiple neighboring countries surrounding Israel including Iran, Iraq and Yemen. However, the weaponry was

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  • Business Buzz: Is Pride Month no longer profitable? 

    Business Buzz: Is Pride Month no longer profitable? 

    In anticipation of Pride Month coming in June and as a recognition of Etown Does PRIDE coming to an end soon, one trend that consumers typically expect to see that has been popularized in the past decade is the use of pride logos and flags in businesses to increase their revenue stream from LGBTQIA+ consumers.  

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  • CGUP offers Ware Lecture photo essay competition 

    CGUP offers Ware Lecture photo essay competition 

    Elizabethtown College is offering opportunities to hear from diverse perspectives to allow for the building of a stronger community. Part of that effort is seen through the Ware Lecture, which is sponsored by the Ware Family and intended to encourage peacemaking in the campus community and in their larger lives. Speakers from years prior, which

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