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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Thursday, March 1, 2018 the Elizabethtown College Student Senate met in Hoover 212. As all meetings do, it began with a Call to Order by senior Senate President Sean Fiedler. Following the Call to Order at every meeting is the Special Orders section, which includes guest speakers, Oaths of Office and more. In this meeting,

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  • Relay for Life event raises money and spreads awareness

    Relay for Life event raises money and spreads awareness

    According to the American Cancer Society’s website, both men and women have about a one in three chance of developing some form of cancer and a one in five chance of dying once diagnosed. Decreasing that probability is a goal of Elizabethtown College’s annual Relay for Life, which starts at 3 p.m. Friday, March 23

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  • Student job and internship search enhanced

    Student job and internship search enhanced

    Elizabethtown College’s Career Services department introduced Handshake this school year, replacing Jobs for Jays as an online database for students to find jobs and internships locally, statewide and nationally. Though professional networking website LinkedIn shares a lot of similarities with Handshake, it would be beneficial for students to start making profiles on both services as

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  • Co-ed and pet-friendly housing options expanded

    Co-ed and pet-friendly housing options expanded

    *Edit: Elizabethtown College is no longer offering pet-friendly housing. For the most up-to-date information visit Etown College’s Office of Community Living’s official website. The Office of Residence Life will be implementing changes to housing at Elizabethtown College in fall 2018, most notably pet-friendly housing, Featherton Crossing Apartments and the expansion of co-ed housing options. The

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by Rebecca Wortmann and Danielle Bellai Dia dhuit, hello from Ireland! We have been in Ireland for one month at this point so it seems like a great time to look back and think about our experience thus far. Leading up to the trip, our nerves were all over the place. After much preparation

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    After the launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket into space, Elon Musk now seeks to further his technological influence by even more ambitious means. Since 2016, Musk has been pursuing the idea to launch a series of several thousand satellites that would work to provide low cost Internet access across the globe. This project has

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  • Dr. Armenta Hinton to begin new position, effective March 2018

    Dr. Armenta Hinton to begin new position, effective March 2018

    After serving as the Equity and Title IX Coordinator for the past two years, Dr. Armenta Hinton will begin her new role as the Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Title IX Friday, March 16, 2018. Hinton, the former Equity and Title IX coordinator, has served in her current position for the past two years. As

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Last Thursday, Feb. 22, at 3:40 p.m. in Hoover 212, the Student Senate met for their weekly meeting, where they voted on senate evaluation forms and faculty representative legislation. The senate discussed three different evaluation forms for students to give feedback to the senators, ultimately voting to approve Form C to appear on the Student

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  • What you will miss over spring break

    What you will miss over spring break

    Starting Friday, March 2, Elizabethtown College will be on spring break. Around campus, spring break will be relatively uneventful, but the normal campus busyness will continue following break. There are two events on campus during break: a UGro In-service event and a Gretna Theatre event. The UGro event will be held in the KAV Friday,

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