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  • New course explores ideas of time travel, multiple universes

    New course explores ideas of time travel, multiple universes

    A course titled “PH 374: Time Travel and the Nature of Space and Time” will be offered in the fall semester of 2014. The class will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. until 3:20 p.m. There will be not one, but two professors teaching the class — Professor of Philosophy Michael Silberstein and

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  • Air traffic controller, cousin of United 93 flight attendant share Sept. 11 experiences

    Air traffic controller, cousin of United 93 flight attendant share Sept. 11 experiences

    One day after the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened on the site where the World Trade Center stood, Mal Fuller, Ed Root and Kent Taylor spoke at Elizabethtown College to share their experiences of that famous September day. “Uncertainty was the best way to describe that day,” Taylor, a geographer for the 9/11 Memorial Trail Project,

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  • High Library names new director

    High Library names new director

    Elizabethtown College announced on Tuesday, March 25 that Sarah Penniman will begin working as the new director of the High Library. Before Penniman’s hire, Sylvia Morra served as the interim director after the previous director, BethAnn Zambella, resigned. Prior to her new position at Etown, Penniman, a native of Berks County, Pa., was a faculty

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  • Samels to speak at 2014 traditional commencement

    Samels to speak at 2014 traditional commencement

    Mark Samels, the executive producer of PBS’ “American Experience,” was announced last week as the commencement speaker for the 2014 traditional graduation ceremony. Samels will also receive an honorary doctoral degree at the ceremony.   An official statement on behalf of Elizabethtown College President Carl Strikwerda and the Academic Occasions Committee was released to the

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  • Student Wellness sponsors eight-week Mindful Way group

    Student Wellness is sponsoring an eight-week group for students on campus called The Mindful Way. The group focuses on developing awareness, enhancing focus, living in the moment, being non-judgmental and experiencing a sense of inner calm in everyday life. This group is open to any student who wants to join. The program is in place

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  • German Klub officers attend event at Dickinson

    German Klub officers attend event at Dickinson

    Professor of English and Modern Languages and College Professor of International Studies Dr. Mark Harman and two of the officers of Elizabethtown College’s German Klub traveled to Dickinson College, where Harman spoke about the author Franz Kafka at Dickinson’s German Klub’s annual dinner. The president of Dickinson and other faculty members also attended the event.

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  • Chemistry majors attend conference

    Chemistry majors attend conference

    The Elizabethtown College’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry left its footprint in Texas this week. The department sent 11 students to the 247th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition in Dallas, Texas, between March 15 and 18. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. James MacKay went with nine seniors and two juniors to the

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  • Campu sign’s missing letters undergo restoration

    Campu sign’s missing letters undergo restoration

    Earlier this year, between Jan. 19 and Jan. 20, letters were stolen from the Elizabethtown College sign at the corner of Mount Joy Street and College Avenue. The disappearance of the letters led to campus-wide interest in the sign and the works of the Campus Security office. The letters that were stolen included B, E,

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  • Hiroshima student experiences American education system

    Hiroshima student experiences American education system

    iroki Hashimoto, a student from Hiroshima University in Japan, is completing his three-week student teaching requirements at Elizabethtown College. Dr. Nobuaki Takahashi, assistant professor of Japanese, will be supervising Hashimoto as he progresses through his requirements. Using Takahashi as a translator, Hashimoto said, “The student-teacher relationship is much closer, especially here at Etown. I attend

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