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  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Sexual Assault Awareness Month

    Student Wellness has coordinated many events for Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month (SAAM). The month of April is designated as such to raise public awareness and educate communities on how to prevent sexual violence. Amanda Cheetham, the health educator for Student Wellness, coordinated many of the events. According to Cheetham, the national movement serves

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  • Nolt joins Gorman as co-head coach

    Nolt joins Gorman as co-head coach

    Veronica Nolt has been promoted to the position of head co-coach,  alongside Coach Sherri Gorman, of Elizabethtown College’s women’s basketball team. Director of Athletics Nancy Latimore announced Nolt’s promotion on March 20. The College’s Hiring and Compensation Review Committee approved the naming of co-head coaches. All hiring decisions made within the College go through this

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  • Blue Jays host first meet of season

    Blue Jays host first meet of season

    The men and women’s track and field teams hosted a meet at home on Saturday, March 22. The men’s team tied for first place with York College, and the women’s team took first place as well. On the men’s team, first-year Mike Twist took first place in the 800m with a time of 2:00.39. Senior

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  • Annual Mr. Etown Competition

    Annual Mr. Etown Competition

    On Friday, March 21, Elizabethtown College continued its popular Mr. Etown competition with Mr. Etown 2014: Lumberjacked. Over 900 students attended the annual Office of Student Activities event. Eight male students, each representing a residence hall on campus, began the show with a dance to “Timber,” by Pitbull feat. Ke$ha. Former Mr. Etown and Etownian

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  • Air traffic controller, cousin of United 93 flight attendant share Sept. 11 experiences

    Air traffic controller, cousin of United 93 flight attendant share Sept. 11 experiences

    One day after the 9/11 Memorial Museum opened on the site where the World Trade Center stood, Mal Fuller, Ed Root and Kent Taylor spoke at Elizabethtown College to share their experiences of that famous September day. “Uncertainty was the best way to describe that day,” Taylor, a geographer for the 9/11 Memorial Trail Project,

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  • Samels to speak at 2014 traditional commencement

    Samels to speak at 2014 traditional commencement

    Mark Samels, the executive producer of PBS’ “American Experience,” was announced last week as the commencement speaker for the 2014 traditional graduation ceremony. Samels will also receive an honorary doctoral degree at the ceremony.   An official statement on behalf of Elizabethtown College President Carl Strikwerda and the Academic Occasions Committee was released to the

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  • Core program functions as hallmark of effective liberal arts education

    Core program functions as hallmark of effective liberal arts education

    After working as a tour guide for two years, I know that one of the most emphasized talking points used to sway prospective students our way is the Core Program: its the most exemplary facet of the Elizabethtown College experience that speaks to the liberal arts roots of the College, and its a great way

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  • Credit transfer process generates confusion among Blue Jays

    Credit transfer process generates confusion among Blue Jays

    After having taken four years of high school honors, dual enrollment and AP classes, I expected to come to Elizabethtown College with sophomore standing. I was prepared to move directly into my major and skip several requirements for the Core program. Unfortunately, I learned that my dual enrollment course would not be counted and only

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  • Chemistry majors attend conference

    Chemistry majors attend conference

    The Elizabethtown College’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry left its footprint in Texas this week. The department sent 11 students to the 247th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Exposition in Dallas, Texas, between March 15 and 18. Assistant Professor of Chemistry Dr. James MacKay went with nine seniors and two juniors to the

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