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  • Editorial: Etownian staff participates in National Student Journalism day

    Editorial: Etownian staff participates in National Student Journalism day

    Photo: Megan White This past week we were notified of a national campaign to save student newsrooms. The campaign was started by a group of student leaders at the Independent Florida Alligator, a newspaper for the University of Florida. They called for students in colleges across the U.S. to speak out and let their communities

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    Until recently, Facebook has been privileged to experience a relatively positive view from the public. As of the last quarter of 2017, there were roughly 2.2 billion monthly active users. On average there are about 300,000 status updates per minute. Suffice to say Facebook has had an active influence on many of our lives. It

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    The weekly Student Senate meeting was held in Hoover 212 Thursday, April 12. The meeting began with a call to order by senior President Sean Fiedler and was followed by an oath of office. Junior Secretary Tara Young took roll call and approved the minutes. After the approval of the minutes, there were some student

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  • Student drop-in session critiques job search

    Student drop-in session critiques job search

    Wednesday, April 11, the Vice President for Student Life search committee had a drop-in student session in the KAV from 11-11:45 a.m. The committee wished to address the many previous survey questions and responses they received. There were five panelists: Chaplain Dr. Tracy Sadd, associate professor of Japanese Dr. Mahua Bhattacharya, athletic director Chris Morgan,

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  • Campus rally day continues dialogue about gun violence

    Campus rally day continues dialogue about gun violence

    photo: Emma Pile Friday, April 20, an all-day campus rally was held at Elizabethtown College as the final installment of a three-part series of events on gun violence organized by junior Bekah Smith. The first event, the ENOUGH: Vigil for victims of the Parkland shooting, represented “remembrance.” The second event, the ENOUGH: Walkout, represented “solidarity.”

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  • Community Fellows program to begin in ILUs starting this fall

    Community Fellows program to begin in ILUs starting this fall

    Community Fellows will replace Resident Assistants (RAs) in the Vera Hackman Apartments, Schreiber Quadrangle and Featherton Crossing Apartments starting in the 2018-2019 academic year. The application period to become a Community Fellow closed Friday, April 6. Community Fellows have some of the same duties as RAs, including making door decorations and closing buildings before breaks.

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  • Annual Ware Lecture emphasizes the importance of compassion

    Annual Ware Lecture emphasizes the importance of compassion

    Wednesday, April 11, Elizabethtown College welcomed Dr. Karen Armstrong, renowned historian and theologian of world religions and author, to speak on the importance of compassion at the annual Ware Lecture on Peacemaking. In addition, groups of students were invited to meet with Armstrong in small-group discussions Thursday, April 12. Throughout Armstrong’s lecture, she compared different

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by: Quinten Yonkers To say that this study abroad experience has been the best year of my life is an understatement. This is my third time in Japan but the only time I have been here for more than two weeks. I have learned so much about this country and the culture of the

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by Sara Kroboth My time abroad kicked off about eight months ago when I landed in Vienna to embrace the record-breaking hot weather with two strangers. The German semester is different than the American semester—classes don’t start until October—so Vienna was technically a pre-semester program in which we would be taking German and history

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