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- November 16, 2018
Around this time last fall, I wrote a column examining the protests of the closure of a detention center on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Hundreds of refugees barricaded themselves in the detention center and called on the Australian government to finally address the migrant crisis they had ignored. The international community advised Australia
READ MOREDisability Services expands current media solutions
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- November 16, 2018
Elizabethtown College’s Center for Student Success, partnered with the College’s Disabilities Services, has added SensusAccess to its list of accessibility resources for current students. SensusAccess provides students, faculty, alumni and staff with alternative media solutions. SensusAccess allows campus community members to automatically convert documents into a range of other media sources including audio books, e-books
READ MOREToday’s Technology
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- November 16, 2018
The next few weeks will focus on security and how you can protect and improve your experience on the Internet. Before we dive into anything too heavy, let’s start with something familiar: passwords. To start, let’s discuss different methods on how to construct a strong password. First, something to keep in mind, is the content
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Student Senate
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- November 16, 2018
The Student Senate meeting Thursday, Nov. 8 ran differently than its usual weekly meetings; Senate instead held its semi-annual senior staff meeting. Senators hosted members of the senior staff, as well as a Board of Trustees member, to ask questions regarding Elizabethtown College. This year, the senior staff also brought along questions to ask the
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Arts and Armistice program commemorates Great War
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- November 16, 2018
Photo: Madeline Kauffman The 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, also known as Armistice Day, was Sunday, Nov. 11. Events at Elizabethtown College allowed members of the College community to commemorate the end of what was known as the “Great War,” as well as all who have served in the armed forces.
READ MOREEnd-of-semester evaluations move to online platform
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- November 16, 2018
Elizabethtown College will conduct course evaluations in a new way for the fall 2018 semester. Instead of the old paper evaluations, faculty will administer course evaluations between Nov. 19 and Dec. 7 using an online platform through the company CampusLabs. CampusLabs offers the platform that provides the same IDEA course evaluations seen in the past.
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Office of Diversity expands, adds new members
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- November 16, 2018
Photo: Elizabeth Gipe The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Title IX at Elizabethtown College is undergoing many changes during the 2018-2019 school year. Most notably, the Office of Diversity has expanded from its history of being just one person, to adding a second person to work on programming, to becoming a team of three people,
READ MORECollege receives largest gift commitment in its history
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- November 16, 2018
Thursday, Oct. 25, Elizabethtown College received the largest gift commitment in its history from an anonymous alumni couple. This $8.5 million gift, which includes a combination of cash, pledges and bequests, will support the College in similar ways to the “Be More Inspired” capital campaign. With this gift, the College will work to improve its
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Field hockey suffers a loss in Landmark Conference Semifinals
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- November 8, 2018
The Elizabethtown College field hockey team went up against Susquehanna University in the Landmark Conference semifinal Oct. 31 on Wolf Field in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. When these two faced off in September, the Blue Jays won, but for the semifinals Susquehanna showed up stronger than before and was able to push just one goal ahead of
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