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Celebrating Valentine’s Day while social distancing
- Features
- February 11, 2021
With the world’s first Valentine’s Day in quarantine quickly approaching, many people find themselves considering just how drastically relationship norms changed since last March. Couples in long-term relationships have been forced to go extended periods of time without seeing one another, and healthy marriages have been challenged by heightened tensions and stay-at-home orders. Perhaps the
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Etown engineers build machines, writing skills, too
- Features
- February 11, 2021
Director of the Bowers Writers House Jesse Waters tells it like it is. For the past several years, he has hosted Super Science Saturday, a lecture series for whipping engineering students’ writing into shape. Feb. 5, Waters Zoomed with a small group of Elizabethtown College’s engineering students to give the second talk in this semester’s
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Student teaching in the time of COVID-19
- Features
- February 11, 2021
Senior Shannon Kerwin, like any senior in the education department at Elizabethtown College, is ready to face her student teaching semester. COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, including student teaching. Kerwin is one of the fortunate students placed in-person at East High Street Elementary School. For the semester, she is student teaching in a
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Biden’s inauguration and presidency beginning
- News
- February 11, 2021
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States Wednesday, Jan. 20. This event marks the beginning of Biden’s four-year term as president, along with Kamala Harris as vice president. Harris is the United States’ first female vice president, the highest ranking female official in U.S. history, as well as the first
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Student Senate
- News
- February 11, 2021
With the start of the spring semester, Student Senate returned to their weekly meetings over Zoom. Thursday, Jan. 28, senators met, with the majority of their time spent talking to the Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas. He started his report by reminding senators to set-up multi-factor authentication as ITS will require it
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Strategic Planning Themes
- News
- February 11, 2021
Elizabethtown College announced its plan to develop a strategic plan for the upcoming years to create “a solid foundation for which to grow.” As mentioned in the purpose statement, the College is stressing visibility, the curation of new and existing partnerships, innovation and a social impact. To do so, the College is seeking feedback through
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The GameStop stock chaos, explained
- News
- February 11, 2021
In late January, struggling video game retailer GameStop saw its share price increase by 1,500 percent, reaching an unprecedented intraday high of 483 USD. No one foresaw this happening, leaving economists struggling to predict future market trends. To help us understand what GameStop’s wild stock market ride means for the future, Elizabethtown College associate professor
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Remote learning tips
- Campus Life
- February 11, 2021
With the third semester underneath COVID-19 restrictions starting, students on the Elizabethtown College campus are remote learning as well as those at home. However, not being in the physical classroom can be hard for students as they are easily distracted, lose motivation to keep up with homework or struggle overall. Since the virtual campus does
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Music review of Margaux’s EP “More Brilliant Is the Hand That Throws the Coin”
- Campus Life
- February 11, 2021
Uh oh! We’re starting the semester with an Etownian classic: a writer going into depth on a project by an artist you’ve probably never heard of! The great news is that, as always, in the Campus Life section we are allowed to express individual writers’ opinions. That just means I’m allowed to promise you’ll love
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