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  • Stamps program students attend convention, meet other scholars

    Sixteen Elizabethtown College students flew down to Atlanta, Ga. to attend the third biennial National Stamps Scholar Convention at the Georgia Institute of Technology this past weekend. The students, accompanied by Dr. Jean Pretz, associate professor of psychology and director of the Stamps program, had the opportunity to meet an estimated 600 Stamps scholars from

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  • Political science professor wins first Kreider prize

    Political science professor wins first Kreider prize

    Dr. Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, associate professor of political science, was announced as the first recipient of Elizabethtown College’s Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence. She will be officially recognized during Commencement this May and at Opening Convocation in the fall. Her fellow faculty, staff members and students both present and past nominated Dursun-Ozkanca for the Kreider Prize.

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  • Business administration alumna Martina White elected to Pennsylvania House of Representatives

    On Friday, March 24, Elizabethtown College alumna Martina White ’10 was elected to serve in Northeast Philadelphia’s 170th District. The election was held following U.S. Representative Brendan Boyle’s departure from the 170th District, and White defeated opponent Democrat Sarah Del Ricci by a 14 percent margin. White’s victory marked the first time in 24 years

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  • Pulitzer Prize winner gives 2015 Ware Lecture, addresses activism

    Pulitzer Prize winner gives 2015 Ware Lecture, addresses activism

    On Monday, April 13 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof delivered Elizabethtown College’s 2015 Ware lecture, during which he discussed his work as a journalist and human rights activist. The Ware lecture, sponsored by Judy S. ’68 and Paul W. Ware and Etown’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking, focused on Kristof’s latest

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  • Ants march on campus as warm weather arrives

    With spring comes warm weather, and with warm weather comes bugs. This week, Elizabethtown College sent an email to students warning them of the impending march of ants on campus. Mark Zimmerman, director of Facilities Management, advised students, staff and faculty to keep their offices and rooms free of food. Ants are attracted to crumby

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  • Professor of religious studies publishes book on public figure Mister Rogers’ pacifism, peace promotion

    Elizabethtown College associate professor of religious studies and peace and conflict studies Dr. Michael G. Long is the author of “Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering The Countercultural Mister Rogers,” released on March 13. The book takes a deep look at the prominent social figure’s pacifism and the still-present effects of his acts of peace promotion. Rogers is

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  • Education department hosts panel on teaching in a post-Ferguson world

    Education department hosts panel on teaching in a post-Ferguson world

    On Monday, March 14, the education students joined panelists in the Susquehanna Room for a program called “Education in a Post-Ferguson Society.” The panelists discussed four major points, including racial inequalities that continue to exist in the United States and are mirrored in schools, overrepresentation of children of color who are suspended and identified for

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  • Honors student hosts toy drive, supports child radiation therapy patients

    There will be a toy drive in Brossman Commons from April 7 to April 10 to help patients at the Pennsylvania Proton Radiation Therapy Center. Sophomore Irene Snyder has taken on the planning and advertising around campus. Snyder has a personal connection because her sister had treatment at 11 years old, but her disease won

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  • Anonymous social media app Yik Yak creates controversy

    Since its creation just over a year ago, the anonymous social media app Yik Yak has massively grown in popularity on college campuses across the country. Unlike social networks like Facebook or Twitter, Yik Yak allows messages to be sorted by geographic location with posts only able to be seen within a 1.5-mile radius of

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