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Men’s golf takes fourth in Invitational
- Sports
- September 25, 2014
After a fourth place finish at the Messiah Falcon Classic last week, the Elizabethtown College golf team looked to improve on their performance in the Penn State Harrisburg Invitational this past Sunday and Monday. In last week’s Classic, junior Adam Amspacher set the bar for Blue Jay golfers when he shot a nine-over-par 81 for
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Junior shares frustration with water bottles in classrooms
- Campus Life
- September 25, 2014
If we want our bodies to remain healthy, hydration is essential. Keeping hydrated helps control body temperature, gets rid of potentially harmful waste and can even regulate metabolism, among other things. While the benefits are obvious, the disadvantages are even more apparent. Disadvantages of staying hydrated? Preposterous! Perhaps it isn’t harmful to the one drinking
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Business majors team up with local coffee company for hands-on project
- Campus Life
- September 25, 2014
It will forever amaze me how well this college prepares its students for their futures. If we’re being honest, all of the hands-on aspects of this school attracted me to it. Then again, I’m the type of person who learns best when I’m actually doing something rather than just sitting there reading a book and
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Poet speaks at Leffler Chapel, speaks at Bowers Writers House
- News
- September 18, 2014
Richard Blanco, a poet whose writing caught the attention of The White House, presented “Cuban Blanco, American Richard: Made in Cuba, Assembled in Spain, Imported to the USA” in Leffler Chapel and Performance Center on Wednesday, Sept. 17. Blanco also conducted several workshops this week and discussed his work, from the inaugural poem to those
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Young Americans for Liberty take field trip to Trop
- News
- September 18, 2014
In honor of Constitution Week, the Young Americans for Liberty group at Etown visited the Trop Gun Shop shooting range on Tuesday, Sept. 16. After a safety briefing and gun familiarization class, 16 students had the chance to freely shoot in six lanes that were donated by the gun shop. Both gun supporters and those
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North explains workplace culture, responsibilities of business leaders
- Features
- September 18, 2014
Roger North, president and founder of the North Group Consultants, spoke to business students on Friday, Sept. 12 as part of the M&M Mars Executive Lecture Series. His seminar, titled “Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch,” focused on the importance of culture in the workplace. The North Group is a leadership consulting firm which strives to
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Spanish program used to immerse children in language, give students service experience
- Features
- September 18, 2014
Every Tuesday from 6 p.m. to 6:50 p.m., one professor, two Spanish education students, two service learning students and eight children meet in Nicarry 104 and 106 to learn Spanish in an immersive environment. The Children’s Spanish Program, headed by Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair of Modern Languages Dr. Charla Lorenzen, is an intensive
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Sophomore Year Experience dinner, program demonstrates continued concern for students in second year
- Campus Life
- September 18, 2014
My first year at Elizabethtown College was rough, but I came into my sophomore year with much more understanding. When I got the invitation to the Sophomore Year Experience dinner, I accepted without knowing exactly what I was getting myself into. The KAV was set up on Thursday, Sept. 11 with unmarked tables. There was
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Renovations in Nicarry demonstrate commitment to majors in the arts, humanities by modernizing academic building
- Campus Life
- September 11, 2014
Four score and seven years ago, I stumbled into summer orientation at Elizabethtown College with a mixture of emotions — roughly one quarter excitement and three quarters fear. I, like every other high school graduate at orientation, scanned my first college course schedule for any horrific-sounding classes, like “Alligator Wrestling,” “Non-Stop Jumping Jacks” or, worse
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