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Bowers Center Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
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- September 24, 2024
It’s been a long five years for Elizabethtown College’s Bowers Center for Recreation, Sports and Well-Being. Almost immediately after the fitness center got the chance to open its doors in August 2019 to the campus community, it had to shutter them for the global pandemic. “The fall semester was so amazing in 2019. I can
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Pennsylvania Politics: Budget Woes
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- September 24, 2024
Pennsylvania’s budget was once again late this summer, the second consecutive summer that Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro and the divided legislature ran over the June 30 deadline. The $47.6 billion budget passed through the Republican-controlled state senate and the Democrat-controlled state house on July 12 after months of negotiations. While the budget pours money into
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SGPS offers discount for state employees
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- September 24, 2024
The Elizabethtown College School of Graduate and Professional Studies (SGPS) is rolling out a new discount program in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Many secondary education organizations in Pennsylvania– including Etown– will offer a hefty discount on certain programs. Who is eligible for this discount? Pennsylvania state employees, their spouses, and their children can
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Impact of Shift to Remote Work
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- September 20, 2024
The shift to remote and hybrid work has altered corporate business, from core functions like finance, marketing and accounting to interactions among staff. It seems what started out of necessity during the pandemic has become a trend that will last and possibly make some transformative changes in how we work and manage our daily business
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Germany’s Far-Right Party Looms in Local Elections
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- September 20, 2024
Germany’s right-wing party (AFD) is winning huge support within key local elections across eastern Germany. This support is unprecedented, as it hasn’t been seen for a far-right movement since the 1940s. As election season for them is also ramping up, a lot of citizens both inside Germany and abroad are worried about this sudden change.
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550 Students Join The Flock This Fall
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- September 20, 2024
Each year, it seems a new bigger incoming class comes to Elizabethtown College. In the 2023-2024 application season, 3,618 senior high school students tried to join the Etown flock, making it 3 percent higher than the year prior and the most number of applications ever. The class snapshot for the class of 2028 indicated that
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2024 PA Ren Faire Season Starts
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- September 20, 2024
With fall classes starting and the workload already starting to pile up, an excursion outside of campus is what many students are looking for during their weekends. This leads to a lot of students going to the local restaurants and shops in town that they have been to many times before or making a drive
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PA Politics: Legal Hurdles for Independent Hopefuls Bar Candidates as November Looms
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- September 20, 2024
Pennsylvania Democrats have won a series of legal challenges keeping the Party for Socialism and Liberation from the presidential ballot in late August. A PA Commonwealth Court judge agreed with Democratic Party challenges, ruling that the paperwork filed by Party for Socialism and Liberation was fatally flawed and ordered the party’s candidate, Claudia De la
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Etown Prepares for Homecoming Weekend
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- September 20, 2024
Homecoming rolls around every year as a chance for students and alumni to come together and celebrate Elizabethtown College and their time at the beloved institution. Last year, thousands of people from Etown’s past and present celebrated the college with several autumn events. The alumni were invited to an outdoor Oktoberfest party with food, live
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