• The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: What does the Trump administration’s redefinition of gender mean?

    The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: What does the Trump administration’s redefinition of gender mean?

    The Trump administration proposed a new memo to narrow the definition of gender to say that it is a biological condition prescribed at birth and related to genitalia Oct. 21. This decision has the potential to roll back what the Obama administration did to loosen the definition of gender to recognize it as a person’s

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  • Etown Simplified:  Simplify your life with DIY

    Etown Simplified: Simplify your life with DIY

    Written by Catherine Amos, Kayla Anderson, Lila Bolze, Lucy Conrey and Giselle Taylor The acronym DIY, which means “do it yourself,” may spur images of colorful crafts and sad Pinterest fails, but a modern wave of the DIY initiative is influencing bloggers and social media. Modern DIYers coined the name “Makers” to describe themselves and

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  • Eight great ways to reuse Halloween pumpkins

    Eight great ways to reuse Halloween pumpkins

    Photo: Megan White Those cheap, festive, farm-fresh pumpkins are too irresistible to pass up during the spooky season. Halloween has come and gone, though, and now you are left with an excessive amount of carved pumpkins and Halloween candy. Before you throw your masterpiece away, here are eight do-it-yourself ways to extend your pumpkin’s life

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  • Experts discuss college student voting trends in U.S. midterms

    Experts discuss college student voting trends in U.S. midterms

    The political process is, by nature, not a spectator sport. Politics, it is said, maintains deliberate interest in the disinterested. Those that do not vote are not removed from the consequences of the elections that go on without them. The upcoming midterm election exists in a national and cultural context wracked by division, rhetoric, and

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  • Counseling Services, Student Wellness offer resources for SAD

    Counseling Services, Student Wellness offer resources for SAD

    The approach of winter may bring excitement to many of us, but for those who experience seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the shorter hours of sunlight can bring about the “winter blues.” According to materials provided by Elizabethtown College’s Health Promotion Program, which consists of Assistant Director of Health Promotion Joni Eisenhauer and seven Student Wellness

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  • Alumna uses political science, sociology experience to help nonprofit

    Alumna uses political science, sociology experience to help nonprofit

    The Elizabethtown College motto, “Educate for Service,” does not end with graduation. Many Blue Jays leave the nest and enter service-oriented professions. Melissa Plotkin, ’91 is one of those Etown alumni. Plotkin works for the York Jewish Community Center (JCC), a nonprofit community center which serves all residents of York County. Membership to the York

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  • Etownian staff brave Harry Potter escape room in High Library

    Etownian staff brave Harry Potter escape room in High Library

    The rules were simple enough; get out of the room in time or face the wrath of a blighted Quidditch super-fan. What could possibly go wrong? For the week of Halloween, and as a final event in a string of Harry Potter-themed events on campus, the Elizabethtown College High Library staged a Harry Potter Escape

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  • The Global Perspective

    The Global Perspective

    • News
    • November 1, 2018

    Saturday, Oct. 27, 11 people were killed and six more were wounded in a shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. The massacre is believed to be the deadliest attack on the American Jewish community in U.S. history. “My holy place has been defiled,” Tree of Life rabbi Jeffrey Myers said to AP News. Myers

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    • News
    • November 1, 2018

    Student Senate addressed mostly internal issues in its meeting Thursday, Oct. 25. As always, the meeting started off with student comments and announcements, but there were very few this time. The meeting then moved to administrative reports, starting with Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas. Limas provided an update on the presidential search

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