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  • Senior staff reflects on time at the Etownian

    Senior staff reflects on time at the Etownian

    Writing this means I am accepting that my time at both Elizabethtown College and the Etownian are coming to an end (which is something I do not want to think about, in all honesty). I have been in the academic world for so long, I do not know who I am going to be once

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, April 22 at 3:45 pm for the first meeting of their new term. The meeting was held both in-person in Gibble Auditorium and virtually over Zoom.  Since it marked the beginning of a new Senate term, the meeting began with the Oath of Office for all senators.  Senators then continued with

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  • Global Perspective

    Global Perspective

    India is currently facing a COVID-19 crisis, with millions of reported cases and no end in sight. More than 20 million COVID cases have been reported as of Tuesday, May 4, including approximately 3.5 million people who are currently being treated. In the past week, the number of COVID cases in India had increased by

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

    In recent years, the progressive movement has been assailed by the conservative critics as a movement of urban, liberal elites, with some going so far as saying it is a self-hating, anti-America agenda. However, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman – a goatee and tattoo sporting, bald, Sheetz-is-better-than-Wawa advocate standing over 6 feet in height – is

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  • Global Perspective

    Global Perspective

    Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum attempted to escape from Dubai in February 2018 after planning her escape with Hervé Jaubert and Tiina Jauhiainen since 2011. She first planned an escape in 2002 when she was a minor. It was her attempt to escape from the United Arab Emirates and her father; however, Jaubert’s yacht,

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  • Derek Chauvin trial taking place

    Derek Chauvin trial taking place

    Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd May 29, 2020. Floyd died May 25 after a store clerk accused him of paying with a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin and three other officers arrived at the scene and Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck and back for 9 minutes and

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  • Spring semester finals week schedule on the weekend

    Spring semester finals week schedule on the weekend

    This semester, Elizabethtown College will hold finals Saturday, May 8. Students and faculty alike were surprised to see exams take place on a weekend, and the change resulted in mixed feelings for many. While the administration has stated that it was necessary to hold finals on that day to ensure a timely Commencement Day and

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  • Interhall visitation allowed

    Interhall visitation allowed

    Elizabethtown College announced in a COVID-19 campus update email Monday, April 21 that interhall visitation would be permitted starting Thursday, April 15. In an email sent a few weeks earlier Monday, March 22, the COVID-19 Task Force said that they would not permit interhall visitation at that time but would instead continue to monitor the

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, April 15 at 3:45 p.m. over Zoom for their weekly meeting. Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas began the meeting with his administrative report. He started by saying he is disappointed by the number of inappropriate responses on the “before I graduate” boards in the Baugher Student Center (BSC)

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