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  • Students help local winter shelter provide services to homeless

    Students help local winter shelter provide services to homeless

    What does homelessness look like in Lancaster County? It depends on the location. In more urban areas like Lancaster City and Harrisburg, some homeless people can be seen living on the streets. In more rural areas like Elizabethtown and surrounding communities, homelessness is less visible. “The nature of homelessness is different than the classic image

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  • Momentum, Kinesis help first-generation students adjust to college life

    Momentum, Kinesis help first-generation students adjust to college life

    Elizabethtown College created a program in 2011 called Momentum that was designed to aid first-generation college students in academic and personal growth. The College has received national recognition for its contributions. Additionally, Etown’s Momentum program has been used as a frame of reference for other colleges and universities. Representatives have come to Etown specifically for

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  • Cooperative Grumbling: An Editorial on How to Play Nice

    Cooperative Grumbling: An Editorial on How to Play Nice

    As we push forward to become a truer liberal arts institution, promoting “Learning Everywhere” in every piece of Strategic Planning literature we print, the College needs to do a better job of engulfing its faculty in this very same principle, ensuring academic cooperation from all departments toward a singular goal of a premier student education.

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  • E-Team aids @EtownCollege through social media

    E-Team aids @EtownCollege through social media

    The Elizabethtown College Social Media Street team, the “E-Team,” is a new initiative by the Office of Marketing and Communications that is making big changes on campus. This group helps the office by writing, tweeting and posting new updates, events and initiatives on campus. They also upload pictures, videos and other social media extras. The

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  • Music students, professionals jazzed to play premiere Saxophonium

    Music students, professionals jazzed to play premiere Saxophonium

    April 12, Elizabethtown College will be presenting an all-saxophone concert called Saxophonium. This concert is run by Faith Shiffer, adjunct flute and saxophone professor. Shiffer has had this date reserved for a year now, and after hours of practice, she and her students are about ready to show the rest of the College what they

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  • Texting language seeps into academic work

    Texting language seeps into academic work

    In coming years, students in Pennsylvania may be seeing tougher standards that will combat a declining quality in academic language use. According to an Associated Press release, press secretary Timothy Eller of the Pennsylvania Department of Education said, “The department [of education] is preparing to release new standards.” Eller emphasized that these standards will apply

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  • 25th annual student art show opens in Lyet

    25th annual student art show opens in Lyet

    Elizabethtown College is holding its 25th Annual Juried Student Art Show. The show will house roughly 77 pieces of original, student-created art. Anyone is allowed to submit artwork, as long as it was created in an Etown art class or under the supervision of an Etown art faculty member. The art pieces will be judged

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  • Cavender, students present cancer research for Inaugural Lecture

    Cavender, students present cancer research for Inaugural Lecture

    Medical breakthroughs don’t occur overnight; they take years of research, ingenuity and thousands of people working toward a common goal. One of the most baffling mysteries facing scientists today is the search for a cure for cancer. Although research continues, the basic understandings of cancer and tumor-related research starts at a biological level, and this

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  • Scholarships, awards offered for entrepreneurially-minded

    Scholarships, awards offered for entrepreneurially-minded

    The Entrepreneurship Program at Elizabethtown College has been very, well, entrepreneurial lately, acquiring multiple contributions from donors to aid Etown students through scholarships and awards. The Nuts About Granola Innovation Scholarship, a new financial incentive for entrepreneurial students concerned about sustainability, is an offering through the College and alumnae Sarah Lanphier ’09, founder of Nuts

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