• Faculty, staff members Grimm, Minton, Talarico-Beerman to present creative writing projects at Bowers Writers House

    Faculty, staff members Grimm, Minton, Talarico-Beerman to present creative writing projects at Bowers Writers House

    Start off your summer with the “Literary Reading with Wilkes Graduates” event at the Bowers Writers House on Saturday, May 11 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event will showcase the current writing projects of three Elizabethtown College faculty and staff members: adjunct English professors Tyler Grimm and Jeff Minton and Integrated Marketing Manager

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  • Bergel celebrates retirement from social work department

    Bergel celebrates retirement from social work department

    fter over 30 years of teaching social work at Elizabethtown College, Dr. Vivian Bergel is retiring this spring. In addition to teaching, she has acted as the field director and liaison for the social work department and as an advisor for Hillel, the Jewish student association and has played a vital role in the women

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  • Chalk the Walk spreads the love

    Chalk the Walk spreads the love

    On Wednesday, May 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., students, faculty and staff gathered together on the pavement in front of the BSC to participate in Chalk the Walk. The event encouraged participants to write positive and uplifting words, phrases and quotes, as well as to draw pictures which conveyed a message of love

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  • TWLOHA founder visits, reaches out

    TWLOHA founder visits, reaches out

    n Thursday, April 25, the campus community welcomed Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA), to Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Tworkowski is a native of Melbourne, Fla., and the organization was founded there in 2006. Since then, the group has garnered international attention from millions of followers and supporters. TWLOHA

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  • Silberstein and Stuckey to present paper, research at Munich conference

    Silberstein and Stuckey to present paper, research at Munich conference

    Professor and chair of philosophy Dr. Michael Silberstein and physics professor Dr. Mark Stuckey’s will present their paper, “A Path Integral Over Graphs Approach to Unification and its Foundational Implications,” as one of the five percent of projects accepted to be presented at the Foundations of Physics 2013 conference. This event is the 17th UK

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  • Office of Marketing, Comm. announces plans for Newsroom

    Office of Marketing, Comm. announces plans for Newsroom

    With the growing popularity of online news as opposed to print journalism, Elizabethtown College is doing its part to stay up to date. The Office of Marketing and Communications Newsroom will be put into place next year. This is Etown’s way of communicating news, current events and many other important campus activities online. Up until

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  • Jays place top three in Millersville’s annual original short playwriting contest

    Jays place top three in Millersville’s annual original short playwriting contest

    On Wednesday, April 10, three Elizabethtown College students were honored at the Millersville Annual Ten-Minute Playwriting Competition for writing original short plays. Sophomore Kaitlin Koons received first place in the playwriting competition, senior Jenell Abram took second and junior Andrew Herm came in third. “I think it’s validating to be able to see that someone

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  • Jays elect new Student Senate exec. cabinet officers

    Elizabethtown College’s Student Senate is preparing for next year by electing new officers to the Executive Cabinet positions. Voting was open to Etown students Tuesday, April 16. Each class consists of 12 members, four cabinet members – a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer and eight class representatives. All students who are enrolled at Etown

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  • Student urges Jays to inform themselves, understand what constitutes sexual assault

    The Elizabethtown College sexual misconduct policy is a vital read for every student on the College’s campus. Too many people view rape as a violent act perpetrated by a man with a mask hiding in the bushes. As a result of this inaccurate image of sexual assault, many women and men write off sexual assault

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