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  • Intramural basketball contest

    Intramural basketball contest

    Sunday, February 28, Elizabethtown College held an intramural basketball shooting competition. The contest featured eight competitors, who were shooting basketballs to win the contest. Whoever had the most points at the end of the contest won. At first, there were 20 layups which were one point each. Then, there were 20 foul shots with each

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  • Taking a breath with Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit

    Taking a breath with Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit

    Every Tuesday at 3:20p.m. the Chaplain and Director of Religious Life Amy Shorner-Johnson hosts Student Pause: Mind, Body, Spirit. It is meant to be spiritual – however students choose to define that – instead of being religious the event. Student Pause welcomes everyone of any religion or spirituality. “I am also willing to adapt it

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  • 40th Anniversary of Emergent Scholars Program emphasizes ongoing commitments to academic excellence

    40th Anniversary of Emergent Scholars Program emphasizes ongoing commitments to academic excellence

    As of 2021, Emergent Scholars celebrates its forty year anniversary at Elizabethtown College. First created in the fall of 1981 by then Etown President and former professor of bible and philosophy Reverend Dr. Mark C. Ebersole, the Emergent Scholars award recognizes students who have a GPA of 3.75 or higher after their first three semesters

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  • Global Perspective

    Global Perspective

    The U.S. intelligence community revealed Friday, Feb. 26 that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved of the operation that killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. U.S. President Joe Biden declared that he will hold Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights abuses the same day, further straining relationships between

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, Feb. 25 for their weekly meeting over Zoom. The meeting began with a special order from Assistant Director of Annual Giving Liz Moyer. She spoke to senators about the Power of One Day. The annual day of giving will take place Tuesday, March 23. The goal is to have 1,899 participants.

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    Feb. 18, NASA’s ambitious robotic explorer, Perseverance, landed on Mars in an effort to renew the search for extraterrestrial life on the red planet. The explorer holds advanced scientific tools meant to look for complex molecules that would signal the existence of past species. The rover lifted off from Earth last July, alongside rockets from

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  • Fresh Nest reopens with limited menu

    Fresh Nest reopens with limited menu

    As of March 1, the Fresh Nest in the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being will reopen after being closed during the previous fall semester. The Well, also located in the Bowers Center, will be open as well, just as it was in the Fall 2020 semester. The announcements were first made in an

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  • Intramurals update

    Intramurals update

    With Elizabethtown College’s COVID-19 restrictions and many campus activities being hosted virtually, students from a wide range of backgrounds are in search of extracurricular activities to participate in with their friends. For many of these students, intramural sports are the perfect way of getting out of the dorm room, staying active and spending time with

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  • Men’s Lacrosse

    Men’s Lacrosse

    April 1, 2015, the Elizabethtown College Men’s Lacrosse team faced off against Immaculata University. At the end of the game, the final score was 17-10. This marked the Blue Jay’s eighth straight consecutive win for the season. Immediately after the initial face-off, the Blue Jays took an early lead. In the first part of the

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