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  • Average isn’t enough

    Average isn’t enough

    Until my first year of college, I’d never heard the phrase “Cs get degrees.” Maybe I lived a sheltered life, but the first-year, doe-eyed me responded with a giggled “What? Why, that’s silly! You’re quite comical, fellow classmate.” My mood quickly deteriorated when I was reassured that yes, that phrase is describing a common mindset

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  • Laptops, tablets acceptable note-taking resources in class

    There has been much debate as to whether or not students should be allowed to use laptops in class to type their notes. Some professors allow them, while others ban them for fear that students will abuse that liberty to waste class time on social media networks. Personally, as the owner of an iPad, I

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  • Personal computers might reveal details of lifestyle, personality

    Personal computers might reveal details of lifestyle, personality

    hen I get back to my apartment after a long day of classes, activities and navigating Elizabethtown College’s gigantic campus, I usually do several of the same things out of habit. I greet my wonderful roommates with an elongated “Yo,” which would contain too many “o”s if written as spoken. I drop my backpack onto

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  • Custom grading scales prepare Jays for future careers

    Custom grading scales prepare Jays for future careers

    bet we all have heard it from our parents before, “Get good grades!” Sometimes I think parents forget what it was like to be in school, because getting those good grades is not always as easy as they make it out to be. With each new class that we take, we experience different professors, different

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  • Apple releases new iPhone model: Is it worth the upgrade?

    Apple releases new iPhone model: Is it worth the upgrade?

    olor. Yet another reason to love iPhone.” This slogan is the pitch that Apple is using during the release of the new iPhone 5c. “c” standing for color in this instance. Now it would be ridiculous to assume that the only new feature about the 5c is the fact that you can now choose from

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  • Campus retains friendly atmosphere despite ongoing changes

    Campus retains friendly atmosphere despite ongoing changes

    • News
    • September 26, 2013

    n the spring of my senior year of high school, my parents and I started touring the colleges on my list of prospective schools. We ran through the list, discussing possibilities as we went along. One school was overwhelmingly large with no person-to-person interaction. One was in the middle of nowhere. One was significantly out

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  • Second all-faculty music concert features department instructors

    n Monday, Sept. 23, the faculty of Elizabethtown College’s fine and performing arts department performed in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. This was the second department concert of the year and offered faculty members in the department a chance to play one or two short pieces of music. The first performer of the evening was

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  • Alan Houser presents at Bowers on dynamic communication

    Alan Houser presents at Bowers on dynamic communication

    n Thursday, Sept. 19, Alan Houser visited the Bowers Writers House. His presentation, titled Professional Writing and Dynamic Communication, focused on technical writing as a profitable, in-demand profession. He also discussed the ways in which the flow of information changed with the advent of the printing press, and again with the advent of the World

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  • Movie selection on campus is SWEET

    Movie selection on campus is SWEET

    .W.E.E.T is a branch of the Office of Students Activities (OSA) that stands for “Students Working to Entertain E-town”, a group responsible for organizing fun, non-academic events to keep students entertained. Did you have fun at Bingo Night? Thank S.W.E.E.T. Did you like watching The Great Gatsby in the Dell? S.W.E.E.T. was behind that too.

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