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  • Student Senate offers scholarships to students

    Student Senate offers scholarships to students

    Beginning on Feb. 27, Student Senate has been offering scholarships to Elizabethtown College students. These scholarships were published on Canvas and are available for all students, both to nominate others for the scholarships and to apply for them themselves. All applications are due on Canvas on Monday, March 13, by the day’s end. These scholarships

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  • Today’s Tech: Spotify offers new AI DJ feature

    Today’s Tech: Spotify offers new AI DJ feature

    Many social media and entertainment platforms have recently embraced artificial intelligence (AI) as a means to enhance their user experience. In late February, music streaming service Spotify also joined this frenzy, debuting an AI DJ. “To create the DJ we reimagined the way users listen on Spotify,” the company’s website reads. “The DJ knows you

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  • Global Perspective: Americans kidnapped in Mexico

    Global Perspective: Americans kidnapped in Mexico

    On Friday, March 3, four Americans were kidnapped by heavily armed gunmen in Matamoros, Mexico, after traveling in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates to cross the border for a tummy tuck procedure. They were kidnapped by members of the Gulf Cartel, who have since released an apology letter addressing their violence toward

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  • Incentives for procreation, a missing banker, a lab leak and foreign aid: An update on China

    Incentives for procreation, a missing banker, a lab leak and foreign aid: An update on China

    When western adults think of pivotal Chinese policies, they typically think of the one child policy enforced from 1980 to 2015. This 35-year stint was an attempt to stop population growth in China, and resulted in a reduction of fertility rates, a smaller population of women and undocumented children. In 2016, China changed the policy

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  • Power of the One Day: What to know and how to help

    Power of the One Day: What to know and how to help

    For any college and higher education institution, there is a high value placed on the value of the community created both through the current students and staff, but also the alumni, parents and those in the community who can come together to celebrate.   Elizabethtown College fosters this sense of community in a variety of ways,

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  • Student Senate: The Jay Truck returns

    Student Senate: The Jay Truck returns

    Student Senate met for their weekly meeting Thursday, Feb. 23 at 3:45 p.m. in Hoover 212. The meeting began with a Special Order by Blake Reed who spoke on the Power of One Day. The Power of One Day is Elizabethtown College’s annual 24-hour day of giving in which the individuals are encouraged to donate

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