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  • The Role of Ethics and Morality in the Climate Change Debate, Part 1

    The Role of Ethics and Morality in the Climate Change Debate, Part 1

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    • November 5, 2020

    On Wednesday, Oct. 28 Elizabethtown College welcomed Professor of Sustainability Ethics and Law from Widener University Law School Dr. Donald A. Brown to speak as the College’s 2020 Peace Fellow. Each year, the Elizabethtown College Alumni Peace Fellowship selects its annual Peace Fellow with assistance from the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP.)  The

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  • Letter to the Editor Response from Dr. Don Trahan

    Letter to the Editor Response from Dr. Don Trahan

    Note: This is a reply to a LTE submitted by Anonymous. In September and October, Elizabethtown College held a series of training sessions regarding power and microaggressions. Recently, the Etownian received an editorial in which the author expressed their discontent with the training sessions, specifically regarding the discussion about asking for people’s preferred pronouns in

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  • Letter to the Editor on the Diversity and Inclusion Training by Anonymous

    Letter to the Editor on the Diversity and Inclusion Training by Anonymous

    Note: Dr. Don Trahan, who led the Diversity and Inclusion Training, responded in a follow-up. During the summer, I was fed up. I was fed up by Elizabethtown College’s ties with a history of racial injustices and microaggressions against minority groups. I was even more fed up that the only attempt to fix these ties

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  • A Mile in His Shoes

    A Mile in His Shoes

    “A Mile in His Shoes” is a movie about an autistic man named Mickey Tussler, who was an actual baseball player in 1948. Mickey is the pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. He is 18 years old, marginally verbal, refers to himself in the third person, recites poetry when overwhelmed and is incapable of deception. He

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  • Angels in the Outfield

    Angels in the Outfield

    “Angels in the Outfield” is about an orphan child named Roger Bomman and his friend, J.P., who love to sneak into baseball games. Roger and J.P. particularly like to watch the Los Angeles Angels. Roger has limited contact with his widowed father, and is in an orphanage. The last time his father came to visit,

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  • Elizabethtown Athlete Spotlight: Luke Fernandez, Class of ‘17, excelled in wrestling, will make caged debut in Philadelphia

    Elizabethtown Athlete Spotlight: Luke Fernandez, Class of ‘17, excelled in wrestling, will make caged debut in Philadelphia

    Luke Fernandez did not start for the Elizabethtown College Men’s Wrestling Team his freshman year in 2013. However, he soon became one of the best players on the team, finishing his senior year with 27 wins to make the Etown program’s top 10 career wins list. Fernandez also earned himself a National Wrestling Coaches Association

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  • Sports practice updated

    Sports practice updated

    Various teams, such as the cross country team, started to practice as of last week, but were not competing against other schools since all competition has been postponed for the fall season. The athletes were getting tested for coronavirus before and after every practice for about two days, which was the duration of the practices

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  • Pushout

    Pushout

    Over the duration of the Fall 2020 semester, Associate Professor of Education and Interim Director of the Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) Dr. Shannon Haley-Mize has been leading both a First Year Seminar (FYS) and a book club to discuss anti-Black racism within the education system. These discussions centered around the book “Pushot:

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  • K/DA new single

    K/DA new single

    Popular video game and esport League of Legends has made great strides in recent years to broaden its reach throughout the entertainment mainstream. Its largest endeavor as of late has been through the virtual-reality pop group K/DA, which launched in 2018 for the League of Legends World Championship event. While Riot Games has explored other

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