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  • Remembering our beloved chaplain Joan Austin (1931-2024)

    Remembering our beloved chaplain Joan Austin (1931-2024)

     Dr. Patricia Joan Austin served as the chaplain of Elizabethtown College from 1981-2001. Joan was presented with the Four Chaplains Legion of Honor Award for her “outstanding service to all people regardless of race or faith.” A professor of psychology with a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive therapy from the University of Pennsylvania, she maintained a

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  • Fake Fireplace, Real Conversations encourages students to share their opinions

    Fake Fireplace, Real Conversations encourages students to share their opinions

    On March 15, the High Library held the Fake Fireplace, Real Conversation talk on its main floor at 7:30 p.m. By using The Fake Fireplace, Real Conversations Instagram account, this event facilitates student reunions and talks about discussion topics which are published on the day before the event. Many people find solace in this way around the High Library fireplace and know

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  • Elizabethtown College celebrates International Women’s History Month

    Elizabethtown College celebrates International Women’s History Month

    The sun is shining, birds are chirping, and the breeze smells like bloomed flowers. March means the start of spring and the beginning of International Women’s History Month. Women’s History Month lasts the entirety of March, and Women’s History Day was March 1st. Elizabethtown College celebrated early, as the students and staff had spring break.

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  • Business Buzz: Merger changes future of sports streaming

    Business Buzz: Merger changes future of sports streaming

    After Netflix’s rise in the 2000s, the world saw an influx of streaming services: Paramount Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, Prime video and Max, formerly known as HBO Max, to name a few. Users have complained that the surplus of streaming services is equivalent to paying for cable, and sports fans are part of that category. 

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  • Integrating Controversy: How will AI integration affect the classroom? 

    Integrating Controversy: How will AI integration affect the classroom? 

    If there ever was a hot topic of this generation—and there have been many—then the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) is king among them. After years of movies and novels prophesying doom to come off the backs of the creation of machines that can think for themselves, the public is conditioned to be skeptical

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  • Sock & Buskin announces benefit in Jo Russo’s honor

    Sock & Buskin announces benefit in Jo Russo’s honor

    Joseph ‘Jo’ Russo was beloved by many on campus, and touched the hearts of students and staff alike during his time at Elizabethtown College. In his passing, communities and people were brought together. His memorial service at the College illuminated his impact, as individual after individual came up and told their stories and experiences with

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  • Global Perspective: Attack contributes to growing conflict in Chad

    Global Perspective: Attack contributes to growing conflict in Chad

    The central African state of Chad was rocked by an attack on its National Security Agency (ANSE) on Wednesday, Feb. 28. Several people were killed in the shootout. In retaliation, the government arrested and killed some oppositionists who they claimed were behind the attack, including 49-year-old Yaya Dillo, the leader of Chad’s Socialist Party without

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  • The tightest race in PA: District 10 and Scott Perry

    The tightest race in PA: District 10 and Scott Perry

    The presidential election season is officially underway, and the fight for control of Congress is on the line in November. The House of Representatives is divided into districts based on the state’s population. Pennsylvania currently has 17 Congressional Districts, with nine represented by Democrats and eight represented by Republicans. House members serve a two-year term

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  • The growth of criminal justice at Elizabethtown College

    The growth of criminal justice at Elizabethtown College

    In 2018, Elizabethtown College didn’t have a criminal justice major to offer on its own. Now, there are over 35 students at Etown majoring in criminal justice. One of the main reasons for that is Kadee Crandall, who received her doctorate in criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. Crandall, the director of criminal justice

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