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  • Campus rally day continues dialogue about gun violence

    Campus rally day continues dialogue about gun violence

    photo: Emma Pile Friday, April 20, an all-day campus rally was held at Elizabethtown College as the final installment of a three-part series of events on gun violence organized by junior Bekah Smith. The first event, the ENOUGH: Vigil for victims of the Parkland shooting, represented “remembrance.” The second event, the ENOUGH: Walkout, represented “solidarity.”

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  • Community Fellows program to begin in ILUs starting this fall

    Community Fellows program to begin in ILUs starting this fall

    Community Fellows will replace Resident Assistants (RAs) in the Vera Hackman Apartments, Schreiber Quadrangle and Featherton Crossing Apartments starting in the 2018-2019 academic year. The application period to become a Community Fellow closed Friday, April 6. Community Fellows have some of the same duties as RAs, including making door decorations and closing buildings before breaks.

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  • Annual Ware Lecture emphasizes the importance of compassion

    Annual Ware Lecture emphasizes the importance of compassion

    Wednesday, April 11, Elizabethtown College welcomed Dr. Karen Armstrong, renowned historian and theologian of world religions and author, to speak on the importance of compassion at the annual Ware Lecture on Peacemaking. In addition, groups of students were invited to meet with Armstrong in small-group discussions Thursday, April 12. Throughout Armstrong’s lecture, she compared different

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by: Quinten Yonkers To say that this study abroad experience has been the best year of my life is an understatement. This is my third time in Japan but the only time I have been here for more than two weeks. I have learned so much about this country and the culture of the

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  • The Study Abroad Experience

    The Study Abroad Experience

    Written by Sara Kroboth My time abroad kicked off about eight months ago when I landed in Vienna to embrace the record-breaking hot weather with two strangers. The German semester is different than the American semester—classes don’t start until October—so Vienna was technically a pre-semester program in which we would be taking German and history

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  • Everyday routines that kill: Non-sustainable palm oil and endangered orangutans

    Everyday routines that kill: Non-sustainable palm oil and endangered orangutans

    Photo courtesy of Benjamin Errickson Written by Jessica Royal Your everyday routines may be causing the death of orangutans and other endangered wildlife such as tigers and elephants. It is hard to perceive that something as mundane as brushing your teeth with toothpaste, washing your hair with shampoo, having toast with margarine and coffee with

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    It’s not every day an Elizabethtown College professor finds the opportunity to go to California and come back with more than stories and memories. For associate professor of engineering Dr. Sara Atwood, her sabbatical research starting as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, turned into something she could bring to her engineering

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Thursday, April 5, 2018, the Elizabethtown College Student Senate met in Hoover 212. The meeting began with a call to order from senior Senate president Sean Fiedler, which was then followed by a roll call by junior Senate secretary Tara Young, who also approved the previous meeting’s minutes. When there was a call for student

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  • Tempest Day discusses classroom conflicts

    Tempest Day discusses classroom conflicts

    Photo courtesy of Allie Vaccaro The Department of Education held its annual Tempest Day event, part of their Anna Reese Tempest Distinguished Educator Lecture Series, Monday, March 26, 2018. Nearly 100 students, as well as professors and faculty, gathered in the Susquehanna Room to learn about the importance of keeping an open mind, recognizing privilege

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