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  • New ITS blog offers technical support, resources to Jays

    New ITS blog offers technical support, resources to Jays

    he new Information and Technology Services (ITS) blog is an online resource that students and faculty members can take advantage of to help them with technological troubles. Computer Trainer Kathy Kellie and Instructional Technologist Dr. Linda Macaulay created this blog, which contains useful information on an array of subjects, like operating Blackboard. This blog is

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  • Blue Jay Barristers benefits students, alumni

    Blue Jay Barristers benefits students, alumni

    long with the new department of politics, philosophy and legal studies comes the newly-created alumni group called the Blue Jay Barristers (BJB). This interest-based advisory allows attorney alumni and legal professionals to network in that field. While this group enriches alumni’s current careers, it also creates an opportunity for students at Elizabethtown College to develop

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  • Jays welcome new men’s lacrosse coach

    Jays welcome new men’s lacrosse coach

    lizabethtown College’s Athletics Department recently hired Drew Delaney as the new head coach for the men’s lacrosse team. Delaney, a Lancaster, Pa. native, is looking forward to being back in the area and settling down with his wife Linda. “I decided to come to Etown because it seemed to be a great fit, professionally and

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  • Peace, Conflict Studies Dept. remodels study abroad trip to South Africa

    This year, Elizabethtown College is sponsoring a two-week peace and conflict study in South Africa for the 2014 May term. The trip will allow Etown students to explore the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town. The trip was originally scheduled for last year. According to Dr. Michael Roy, professor of psychology and one of the

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  • DeNiro leads star cast in ‘The Family’

    DeNiro leads star cast in ‘The Family’

    obsters have a way of dealing with problems the dirty, family way. They can’t help that it’s in their nature to do so with explosives, baseball bats or dragging someone behind a car. Mix that with dark comedy and family psychodynamics, and it becomes an intriguing mixture with memorable moments, known as  “The Family.” The

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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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