• Irish UN ambassador gives lecture

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    • October 20, 2016

    Elizabethtown College welcomed David Donoghue, the U.N. Ambassador to Ireland, on Monday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. Donoghue gave a lecture titled “The U.N. in a World of Crisis” in Gibble Auditorium, which was full of students, faculty, staff and community members. The College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP) sponsored the lecture. Donoghue

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  • Men’s, women’s tennis teams conclude fall season over weekend

    Men’s, women’s tennis teams conclude fall season over weekend

    The men’s and women’s tennis teams went to Shepherdstown, West Virginia to compete against Shepherd University Oct. 10. The women’s team won with a 6-3 in singles and 2-of-3 doubles and the men lost with a 9-0. Senior Taylor Helsel and first year Lenea Riehl helped the women’s team when they played Shepherd’s No. 1

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  • Men’s soccer remains undefeated in conference, defeats Catholic

    Men’s soccer remains undefeated in conference, defeats Catholic

    While the rest of campus was off on Fall Break, the Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team traveled to Washington D.C. Saturday, Oct. 8 to face off against Catholic University. The 3-1 win over Catholic enabled the Blue Jays to extend their winning streak to four games. This streak currently stands at five. Catholic was first

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  • Homer finds faculty surveys reveal low morale amongst staff

    Homer has noticed that surveys of faculty routinely suggest that the world of academe and poor morale go together. Ask faculty how they feel about their college, or their level of satisfaction with the work environment, and you are likely to get a flood of responses indicating a general state of discontent. Homer is not

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  • Dining Chef defends healthy food options within Dining Services

    am writing this letter to address some of the issues presented in the article entitled “Students concerned over lack of healthy food options in the Marketplace” in the Sept. 22, 2016 issue of the Etownian. Overall, it was a good article, but I felt that our perspective wasn’t fairly represented. Additionally, the photos included in

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  • “Swiss Army Man” an odd yet unique film not for everyone

    Swiss Army Man” first came on my radar when reports came out about its first public showing at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. Apparently, the opening sequence caused about half of the audience to storm out of the theater booing, while the other half endlessly praised the film. The reason so many people

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