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  • Updates on the new Bowers Center progress

    Updates on the new Bowers Center progress

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    • September 6, 2018

    The Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being will be devoted to holistic wellness, which stretches beyond the physical person and will focus on mental and spiritual health, as well. The new facility will be a way to show Elizabethtown College’s commitment to well-being, but it will also include space for education and physical and

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  • Presidential search committee creates profiles for ongoing search

    Presidential search committee creates profiles for ongoing search

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    • September 6, 2018

    President Carl Strikwerda announced Feb. 12 that he will retire from Elizabethtown College June 30, 2019, after completing two four-year terms. There is currently a Presidential Search Committee trying to find Etown’s 15th president. Members of the executive search firm Witt/Kieffer Lucy Leske, Concetta Stewart and Christine Pendleton are supporting the search. Witt/Kieffer have been

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  • Microbial growth forces returning students to relocate

    Microbial growth forces returning students to relocate

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    • September 6, 2018

    Photo: Megan White Students at a forum in Gibble Auditorium Monday, Aug. 27 could be heard calling it “the Etown refugee crisis.” The students at the meeting, most of them residents of the Vera Hackman Apartments, had been relocated to other residence halls the week of Monday, Aug. 20 when a microbial growth was found

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by: Emily Wieder At the crack of dawn Dec. 20, 2017, I took a final jog around Aix-en-Provence. Ten hours later, I slid onto my favorite park bench to watch the sun set. The day symbolized my evolution during the semester, from my dim beginnings to thoughts that flowed more easily in French than

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    A species of alien creature from Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” the Babel Fish, was inserted into the ear and could instantly translate any language. This allowed for interspecies communication as a universal translator. Google may just have produced their own Babel Fish; the Google Pixel Buds are a simultaneous translation device.

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Written by: Student Senate Executive Cabinet Students of Elizabethtown College, Student Senate would like to thank you for another successful year! We have greatly appreciated your overwhelming support. Throughout the year, we have implemented new channels for students to submit their concerns, including the new Canvas “Anonymous Senate Submission Forum” available under the Senate Elections

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  • Board of Trustees reconvenes for spring meeting, discusses enrollment

    Board of Trustees reconvenes for spring meeting, discusses enrollment

    The spring business meeting of the Board of Trustees took place Saturday, April 28 at 9 a.m. in the Susquehanna Room. As always, the meeting started with the Mission Moment, where the trustees had the chance to get a glimpse of what happens at Elizabethtown College. The Mission Moment covered the Etown chapter of the

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  • OT program dedicates former department house to alumna

    OT program dedicates former department house to alumna

    Photo: Jess Pron Friday, April 27, the occupational therapy (OT) program held a ceremony to dedicate the department house to Irene Kershaw, an alumna of Elizabethtown College’s OT program. The Kershaw House has been in use in the program for a while but is only now being dedicated, in part to celebrate the 40-year anniversary

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  • Campus community honors and bids farewell to Dean Calenda

    Campus community honors and bids farewell to Dean Calenda

    Student Senate commemorated its relationship with Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Marianne Calenda before her retirement by creating a scholarship in her honor. Senior senate president Sean Fiedler presented Calenda with the award at the annual Awards Ceremony Wednesday, April 11 in Gibble Auditorium. In future years, the annual Marianne Calenda

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