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  • Opinion: Compared to others, Etown housing misses mark

    Opinion: Compared to others, Etown housing misses mark

    Elizabethtown College is the place many call home during the transition from student to career professional. Be that as it may, unlike the famous Etown carrot cake or Truman the labradoodle, student response is sometimes mixed when concerning on-campus living options, especially after undergoing recent electrical outages and microbial, some Etown campus community members may

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  • Students show growing awareness of living conditions in college housing

    Students show growing awareness of living conditions in college housing

    The recent evacuation and cleaning of the Vera Hackman Apartments has led to a growing awareness of problems in other residential buildings on and off-campus. Senior Olivia Lee lives in a Student-Directed Learning Community (SDLC) house just off campus. She lived in Hackman all summer. Shortly after moving into her house, the refrigerator stopped working,

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  • Blue Jays catch more Z’s a night than a fourth of working adults

    Blue Jays catch more Z’s a night than a fourth of working adults

    Sleep—it’s something we take advantage of as children and only seem to begin appreciating when we have no time for it. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), sleep indicates a person’s general health and well-being. People can spend up to one third of their lives asleep, but how much should they be sleeping? The

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  • Millions around the world celebrate 20 years of ‘the boy who lived’

    Millions around the world celebrate 20 years of ‘the boy who lived’

    For millions all over the world, the “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling has been a lighthouse in a dark and stormy sea. Sept. 1, 1998, the first book in the series, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” flew off bookshelves in stores all across the U.S. Since then, Harry Potter has been a household

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  • Peacemaking initiatives, incidents of bias complicate Brethren heritage

    Peacemaking initiatives, incidents of bias complicate Brethren heritage

    Photo by Jillian Distler Because of its origins with the Brethren Church, one of the Historic Peace Churches, Elizabethtown College has long promoted and upheld traditions of peacemaking and nonviolence. The influence of Etown’s Brethren heritage lives on today in various forms, from academic programs to faculty research to lectures. In such examples, Etown attempts

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  • College students have increased risk of exposure to meningitis

    College students have increased risk of exposure to meningitis

    Did you know that according to the National Meningitis Association (NMA), approximately 600—1,000 people contract meningococcal disease in the U.S. each year? According to Mayo Clinic, meningitis is the inflammation of brain and spinal cord membranes caused by an infection. The infection can be caused by a virus or bacteria. Viral meningitis is less severe

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  • Alum lives life of service, follows his passions to New Mexico

    Alum lives life of service, follows his passions to New Mexico

    No matter how far Blue Jays fly after they graduate, many still remember their roots and live Elizabethtown College’s motto, “Educate for Service.” Bill Smith ’91 is one of those alumni and now serves in Santa Fe, New Mexico as the president and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation. The Santa Fe Community Foundation

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  • The Global Perspective

    The Global Perspective

    • News
    • September 20, 2018

    Typhoon Mangkhut slammed the Philippines, Hong Kong and southern China over the weekend. The world’s most powerful storm this year, so far, reached sustained winds comparable to a Category Five hurricane. The Philippines were hit hardest by the storm, with dozens of people buried alive by resulting landslides. On the island of Luzon, a group

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    • News
    • September 20, 2018

    There is only ever a finite amount of any resource at any given time. This is especially true as the dwindling amount of fossil fuels leads to governments and businesses seeking out alternative sources of energy. Of those alternative sources, renewable energy has been on the rise across the globe. Countries like Germany and China

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