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Employee Wellness Team hosts kickoff event to support healthy eating, stress management among faculty members
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- September 11, 2015
Elizabethtown College’s Employee Wellness Team is holding its annual kickoff event on Wednesday, Sep. 9 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the KAV. Health and wellness stations with information on women’s health, cardiac health, sleep disorders and healthy weight management and nutrition will be among the multiple different information stations available to visit from
READ MORELiveSafe mobile app provides new method of anonymously reporting campus emergencies
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- September 11, 2015
With the start of the new semester at Elizabethtown College came the next technological advancement toward a safer campus, a new security application called the LiveSafe mobile application. The LiveSafe app has been available to colleges and universities for their students and faculty since 2013; as of Aug. 20, Etown has employed this technology in
READ MOREFacilities team spends summer months updating campus buildings
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- September 11, 2015
Over the summer, the Elizabethtown College Department of Facilities Management and Construction had the opportunity to work on some of 2015’s biggest campus projects. In an attempt to beautify and update Etown architecturally and technologically, Facilities director Mark Zimmerman, his team of 75 workers and multiple student employees made progress on over half a dozen
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Former College President passes away after month-long illness
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- September 11, 2015
On Monday, Sept. 24, former Elizabethtown College President Gerhard Ernst Spiegler passed away after a month-long illness. He was 85 years old. Spiegler served as the College’s President from 1985 to 1996. During his time at Etown, he oversaw the building of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, the demolition of Rider Hall,
READ MOREFirst Battle of the Buildings event takes place on Brinser Field
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- September 11, 2015
Saturday, Aug. 29 marked the start of the new year-long event that is taking the Elizabethtown College campus by storm. Battle of the Buildings is a series of games that will be taking place throughout the next several months, pitting residents of each of the Etown residence halls, Quads and apartments against one another to
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Business professor studies sustainable workplace practices, green employees in Durham
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- September 11, 2015
Whether she is encouraging students in her business classes to minimize print documents or carrying plastic bottles home to assure they are properly recycled, Dr. Cristina Ciocirlan is constantly looking for ways to promote sustainability. In the classroom, at home and in her research, she makes it a priority to value the environment, a trait
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Blue Jays return to the nest, join faculty, staff
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- September 11, 2015
With the addition of Chris Morgan, ’91, as Elizabethtown College’s new athletic director, one can’t help but take note of the number of alumni who now serve the College as faculty members and staff. Dr. Kyle Kopko is one of those alumni. Kopko graduated with a degree in political science in 2005. While an undergraduate
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Benowitz discusses new book regarding history of borough
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- September 11, 2015
In the winter of 2014, Professor Jean-Paul Benowitz, director of Student Transition Programs and assistant director of Academic Advising, began to write his third book, Elizabethtown, at the request of Arcadia Publishing. The book was to serve as a part of their “Images of America” series and tells the history of the borough. Benowitz previously
READ MOREStudent Senate discusses hazing, reviews ethicality of campus traditions
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- September 11, 2015
A debate about hazing took up the majority of the Student Senate meeting on Thursday, Sept. 10. Student representatives from all four classes identified campus activities that may be in violation of Elizabethtown College’s rejection of all forms of hazing. As defined in the Student Handbook, hazing at Etown is characterized as “any act that
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