• Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak walks through Elizabethtown

    Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak walks through Elizabethtown

    Democratic Pennsylvania senatorial candidate Joe Sestak passed through Elizabethtown College on Friday, March 13 while making his journey on foot across the state. He will be walking 422 miles across Pennsylvania to tell to voters that he is willing to “walk in your shoes.” Sestak, who officially announced his campaign last Wednesday, is a former

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  • Student teacher from Hiroshima University arrives on campus from Japan

    Yuko Kamidera is a senior at Hiroshima University on their education track, who has spent the last few weeks at Elizabethtown College. Japanese universities, unlike their American sister schools, start their academic year in April. Often times, upperclassmen like Kamidera spend their spring break leading up to the new year job-hunting. But Kamidera decided to

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  • Kraybill to give keynote speech for SCAD

    This year’s Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD) will feature Dr. Donald Kraybill of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, who, as the kenote speaker will be discussing the growth of the local Amish community despite their reliance on tradition. Kraybill, Elizabethtown College’s expert on the Amish, will solve riddles both big and

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  • Emergent Scholars luncheon recognizes, rewards sophomores

    Emergent Scholars luncheon recognizes, rewards sophomores

    On Sunday, March 8, a luncheon was held to honor Elizabethtown College’s 2015 Emergent Scholars. The 54 sophomores and their chosen mentors spent time celebrating their accomplishments and appreciating the high standard of academics they have been able to attain as members of the Etown community. To be an Emergent Scholar, a student must maintain

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  • Nelson leads Flutefest Choirs

    Nelson leads Flutefest Choirs

    The Arioso Flute Choir performed at Flutefest in the Zug Recital Hall at 7:30p.m. on Monday, March 16. Dr. Paula Nelson, adjunct faculty, the faculty coordinator of Flutefest and the instructor of the Arioso Flute Choir, accompanied the choir on the piano. The twelve-member choir performed several light classical pieces, including the Overture from Semiramide

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  • Geaney performs Irish songs, reads poetry

    Michael Geaney, a graduate in Gaelic Language and History from University College Cork, educated students on his tenth visit to Elizabethtown College through song and poetry at Bowers Writers House on Tuesday, March 10. Geaney began his presentation by singing a song associated with the beginning of Ireland. The song focused on first discovering Ireland

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