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  • Everyday routines that kill: Non-sustainable palm oil and endangered orangutans

    Everyday routines that kill: Non-sustainable palm oil and endangered orangutans

    Photo courtesy of Benjamin Errickson Written by Jessica Royal Your everyday routines may be causing the death of orangutans and other endangered wildlife such as tigers and elephants. It is hard to perceive that something as mundane as brushing your teeth with toothpaste, washing your hair with shampoo, having toast with margarine and coffee with

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    It’s not every day an Elizabethtown College professor finds the opportunity to go to California and come back with more than stories and memories. For associate professor of engineering Dr. Sara Atwood, her sabbatical research starting as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, turned into something she could bring to her engineering

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Thursday, April 5, 2018, the Elizabethtown College Student Senate met in Hoover 212. The meeting began with a call to order from senior Senate president Sean Fiedler, which was then followed by a roll call by junior Senate secretary Tara Young, who also approved the previous meeting’s minutes. When there was a call for student

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  • Tempest Day discusses classroom conflicts

    Tempest Day discusses classroom conflicts

    Photo courtesy of Allie Vaccaro The Department of Education held its annual Tempest Day event, part of their Anna Reese Tempest Distinguished Educator Lecture Series, Monday, March 26, 2018. Nearly 100 students, as well as professors and faculty, gathered in the Susquehanna Room to learn about the importance of keeping an open mind, recognizing privilege

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  • First Ranck Lecture and Award recognizes faculty scholarship

    First Ranck Lecture and Award recognizes faculty scholarship

    The inaugural Ranck Lecture and the presentation of the Ranck Award for Research Excellence was held Wednesday, March 28 in the Winters Alcove of the High Library. This lecture, sponsored by John Ranck ’58, professor emeritus of chemistry, recognizes faculty scholarship and research in various academic fields. The Ranck Award recipient was professor of political

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  • New Travel fund program open to students

    New Travel fund program open to students

    Student Senate recently passed a new program that will reimburse Elizabethtown College students with off-campus internships and positions for a portion of their gas and travel expenses. This program will be available for students who currently have unpaid positions off-campus. Those positions must fulfill some sort of requirement, such as a Signature Learning Experience (SLE)

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  • National participants march to end gun violence

    National participants march to end gun violence

    Photo courtesy of Darby Keller The estimated hundreds of thousands of participants at the Washington, D.C. March For Our Lives included Elizabethtown College students. The march, which supported gun control in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took place Saturday, March 24. About 40 Etown

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by Thomas Gerow Bon dia from Barcelona, España! As I am writing this, I have been in Barcelona for about two months and have been loving every second of it. Before coming to Barcelona, I was honestly a tad bit nervous about the whole thing, especially living in one of the largest cities in

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    A standard computer uses bits, or binary digits, to store information coded as ones and zeros. Binary not only stores information but can be compared to turning a switch on or off. The zero is identified with “off,” and the one is associated with “on.” Bits are strung together in combinations. Eight bits is a

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