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  • New Starfish program strengthens student and staff communications

    New Starfish program strengthens student and staff communications

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    • February 22, 2018

    With the beginning of the spring semester of the 2017-2018 school year, Elizabethtown College enters its second semester of using Starfish, the new software tool designed to aid in communication between students and staff. During the first semester, 846 students activated their Starfish accounts. The general consensus is that while Starfish has not seen a

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  • President Strikwerda announces retirement, effective June 2019

    President Strikwerda announces retirement, effective June 2019

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    • February 22, 2018

    Feb. 12, 2018, President Carl J. Strikwerda announced in a letter to the greater Elizabethtown College community that he will be retiring June 30, 2019, following the end of his second term as president of the College. Before being named Etown’s 14th president, Strikwerda was the Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences

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  • Etown swim teams finish seventh in Landmark Conference

    Etown swim teams finish seventh in Landmark Conference

    Friday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 18, Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s swim teams competed in the Landmark Conference Swimming and Diving Championships in Boyds, Maryland at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center. Susquehanna University defended their place at the top of the conference for the eighth year in a row. Etown finished seventh out of

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  • Sports of the 2018 Winter Olympics

    Sports of the 2018 Winter Olympics

    In the 2018 Winter Olympics, there are a total of 15 sports. These include variations of skiing, skating, snowboarding, curling, hockey, luge, bobsled and skeleton. Although a lot of these sports have been seen before, there are a few that are not as well known. Skiing is a common winter sport in the Olympics. There

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  • Finishing great season women’s basketball is off to playoffs

    Finishing great season women’s basketball is off to playoffs

    Wednesday, Feb. 14, the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team received an overtime win against the Catholic University of America. Sophomore Lydia Lawson was back in the starting line after a two-game absence and was a leading lady in the game, making 20 of Etown’s 66 points. She made 13 of her points in the first

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  • A tough loss ends the regular season for men’s basketball

    A tough loss ends the regular season for men’s basketball

    Wednesday, Feb. 14 in the Raymond DuFour Center at The Catholic University of America, the Cardinals barely managed to beat out the Elizabethtown College Blue Jays 74-72. The men’s basketball game, which was part of the Landmark Conference, was either in favor of the Blue Jays or a close match for a majority of the

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  • Men’s and women’s track and field headed off to Landmark Conference

    Men’s and women’s track and field headed off to Landmark Conference

    “I prepared for the meet like any other meet,” Mann said. “I went to practice and did the workouts Coach gave me. Also our running workouts and I put time in the weight room.” This helps Mann improve his times and pace going into the next race. “It felt great to win my events,” he

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  • Travelling exhibit starts conversation

    Travelling exhibit starts conversation

    The Elizabethtown College High Library provided students and local observers an opportunity to view the World War I and America exhibition Thursday, Feb. 1. Opinions toward the war will be showcased throughout the month, illustrated by works of the student body, college faculty and the general public from the College’s Hess Archives. The World War

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  • Speaker uses Lincoln as an example of civility, discusses modern incivility

    Speaker uses Lincoln as an example of civility, discusses modern incivility

    Dr. Matthew Moen visited the Elizabethtown College Feb. 12 for a lecture about incivility and about the use of past political climates as reference for civility today. Moen is the President of the Gettysburg Foundation following a job as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Political Science and Lohre Distinguished

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