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  •  Business Buzz: EU free trade deal with India could come this year

     Business Buzz: EU free trade deal with India could come this year

    The European Commission announced that the European Union (EU) and India were pushing to sign a free trade agreement during 2025. India and the EU want to reach an agreement regarding this deal for potential foreign direct investment in a wide range of areas, such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI) and cleantech. Talks were restarted

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  • Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Science department to offer Medical Laboratory Science major

    Beginning the fall semester of 2025, the science department at Elizabethtown College will offer a medical laboratory science major. This announcement comes five years after the 2019-2022 addition of the chemistry laboratory science major at the college. Dr. Jeffrey Rood and Dr. Kristi Kneas, professors and the chairs of the chemistry and biochemistry department who

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  • Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Global Perspective: Thailand Cutting back on Student Expression Restrictions

    Thailand has a history of being a more conservative society. This includes laws and expectations ranging from how basic formality is supposed to be conducted to specifics like dress and hairstyles.   In the 1970s the nation of Thailand was going through rocky times as their government went through multiple identity changes. Shifting from a military

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  • BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    BIPOC Student History Talk Presented in Library

    On Feb. 26, at  Elizabethtown College’s  High Library held a talk titled “Research and Recording BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) Student History at Elizabethtown College.” The talk featured junior history and political science major and Young Center’s Ziegler Fellow Jordyn Dutko and sophomore legal studies major and student archivist Kalen Tendo, who had

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  • PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    PA Politics: PA to Hire Federal Workers Fired by Trump

    Pennsylvania’s Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on Wednesday, March 5 to streamline the process for Pennsylvania’s government agencies to hire recently-fired federal employees amid the Trump Administration’s purge of the federal labor force.  Signed during an appearance at the second annual Commonwealth Job Fair in Harrisburg, Executive Order 2025-01 is designed “to

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  • College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    College Announces Upcoming Changes, including From Renovations to Tuition Hikes

    Spring at Elizabethtown College means the return of classes, outdoor study sessions and all the joys that warm weather brings. It also carries a packed calendar full of deadlines and upcoming events, not to mention the announcement of changes for next academic year.  This year;s announcement came in the form of an email titled “A

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  • Elizabethtown Basketball Makes Strong Playoff Run

    Elizabethtown Basketball Makes Strong Playoff Run

    As the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team finished the season with a record of 22-4, the Blue Jays went dancing in the NCAA Division III tournament with a playoff berth, looking for a chance at a title after missing the playoffs last season.  In their first round matchup, the Blue Jays faced off against SUNY

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  • Blue Jays fly high at the Landmark and AARTFC Indoor Track and Field Championships

    Blue Jays fly high at the Landmark and AARTFC Indoor Track and Field Championships

    Before spring break, the Blue Jays saw over 20 athletes receive podium finishes at the Landmark Indoor Track and Field Championships, as well as one national qualifier come out of the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference (AARTFC) Indoor Track and Field Championships.  On March 1, both the men and women’s track and field teams

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  • HYROX leads athletes beyond traditional sports

    HYROX leads athletes beyond traditional sports

    The world is filled with several unorthodox sports, often overshadowed by more popular activities. The Olympics occasionally sees one or two of these with new events like breaking, and most people might not know that racketball exists when the more popular sport of tennis operates similarly to it. However, one new sport recently started strong

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