• Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

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    • November 5, 2020

    Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook unveiled the new iPhone 12 in a special event earlier this month. With the main iPhone, a cheaper iPhone 12 mini was announced alongside the more expensive Max and Pro Max phones. The main improvements to its predecessor are an improved screen, a faster chip and an ability to run

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  • Etown’s spring semester schedule announced

    Etown’s spring semester schedule announced

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    • November 5, 2020

    Oct. 29, Elizabethtown College released a plan for the upcoming spring semester. It followed speculation amongst students, faculty and staff, as they were waiting in anticipation for the release of the plans.  Prior to the email, the College addressed the concerns of students in the most recent Student Senate meeting. Within the meeting, students raised

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  • Welcome to the jungle

    Welcome to the jungle

    Hiii! I’m Atina and this is my big bro, Zeus! We just got on campus a few weeks ago and we live with our step-brother, Al. He’s been here since the start of the semester and he’s been nice to us even since we got here. Zeus and I were adopted during a trip to

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  • Archival work during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Archival work during the COVID-19 pandemic

    The staff at Elizabethtown College’s High Library are collecting projects of all sorts from faculty, staff and students regarding their experiences of living in the time of COVID-19.   “Keep in mind if you have a class that is doing a COVID related project, course assignments can be submitted. There is no deadline whenever people want

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  • The Role of Ethics and Morality in the Climate Change Debate, Part 2

    The Role of Ethics and Morality in the Climate Change Debate, Part 2

    Brown made note of the fact that even though “the evidence of human causation is incredibly, incredibly strong,” there are still targeted disinformation campaigns with the intention of minimizing public awareness about the dangers of climate change. According to Brown, the reason for the disinformation comes down to the control that the fossil fuel industry

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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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