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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    During Student Senate’s meeting Thursday, March 21, senators spent the majority of their time in debate. The junior class senate is responsible for organizing junior/senior formal, and it has been the precedent that they provide a bus for transportation. However, it is not a requirement, and the funds can be hard to come by. Senators

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  • Scene on Campus: Jays revel in spring weather

    Scene on Campus: Jays revel in spring weather

    With the recent trends of warm weather, Elizabethtown College students can be seen enjoying the sun, eating food from the Jay’s Nest, talking with friends and studying on the BSC patio. After a long, freezing winter, the warm spring weather is a welcome and much needed breath of fresh air for everyone on campus.

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  • Annual Relay for Life surpasses fundraising goals

    Annual Relay for Life surpasses fundraising goals

    Students, faculty and community members recently gathered in and around Thompson Gymnasium for Elizabethtown College’s annual Relay for Life. This year’s event took place from 3 p.m. Friday, April 5 until 3 a.m. Saturday, April 6. Etown’s Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) club runs the event, which raises money and awareness for the American Cancer Society.

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  • Pa. state senators push for student refinancing plan

    Pa. state senators push for student refinancing plan

    Rider Brandau is a low-income, first-generation student at Elizabethtown College. “When students borrow money for college, they agree to pay back that money,” Brandau said. “I will owe roughly $30,000 upon graduation, which is a fair price for what I have received from Elizabethtown.” Many students share his experience. About 1.8 million Pennsylvanians have student

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  • Then versus now: Behind the scenes of the Bowers Center

    Then versus now: Behind the scenes of the Bowers Center

    What started as a segment of the Be More Inspired campaign and a virtual “fly-through” has officially become a brand-new addition to Elizabethtown College. With just a few months left until its grand opening during the summer of 2019, the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being is set to include various amenities and recreational

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  • The Global Perspective

    The Global Perspective

    This weekly column will cover a variety of contemporary global issues including climate action, global health, international peace and security and gender equality. I hope that this column will act as a platform to advocate for global progress and to empower young leaders to get involved in international affairs. If there are certain global issues

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  • Current campus work order system overhauled, welcomes improvements

    Current campus work order system overhauled, welcomes improvements

    In an email sent out to the Elizabethtown College community by Campus News Monday, March 11, Facilities Management announced that during the switch to the new work order system, the previous email, workorder@etown.edu, would be closed as of Friday, March 15. The new work order request system, which has been in place since before Spring

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  • Common Cents

    This weekly column will feature the latest topics and tips in the financial world. Each week, we will focus on a specific financial topic, with topics covering a wide range of financial information and the latest opportunities with the Family Business and Entrepreneurship Club on campus. If there are any topics or concepts that you

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  • Power of One Day shows power of Etown

    Power of One Day shows power of Etown

    Tuesday, March 19 was Elizabethtown College’s 5th annual Power of One Day. Each year on Power of One Day, Etown sets a higher donor goal than the year before. For the first year in 2015, the initial goal was 200 donors in 24 hours. This has grown to this year’s goal of 1,700 donors in

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