• Department offers course in South Africa

    Department offers course in South Africa

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    • November 7, 2012

    Elizabethtown College, in conjunction with CISabroad, is offering a May-term South Africa trip. During this 19-day excursion, students will visit historical and cultural areas of South Africa while learning about Peace and Conflict Studies. Students who go on the trip will be eligible to receive class credit toward the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor and

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  • U.S. Dept. of Education names College two-year international grant recipient

    U.S. Dept. of Education names College two-year international grant recipient

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    • November 7, 2012

    The Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program, which is a part of the U.S. Department of Education, named Elizabethtown College as a recipient for a two-year grant, which will be used to help create, plan and carry out international and foreign language studies initiatives on campus. The funding will also support many study abroad

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  • Theatre department presents ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

    Theatre department presents ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

    The Elizabethtown College Theatre Department has tackled many award-winning plays in the past, and this season is no different. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams opened on the Tempest Theatre stage to a packed house on Nov. 1. The play, directed by associate professor of theatre and director of theatre

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  • Roderick collects Coach of the Year; Blue Jays fall to LVC

    Roderick collects Coach of the Year; Blue Jays fall to LVC

    The Elizabethtown College men’s soccer team fell 1-0 to the Lebanon Valley College Flying Dutchmen in the semifinal match of the Commonwealth Conference playoffs Nov. 2. Although the season ended prematurely for the Blue Jays, Head Coach Skip Roderick was named Coach of the Year for helping the Blue Jays successfully navigate a tough schedule.

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  • men’s cross country continues four-year winning streak to capture MAC title

    men’s cross country continues four-year winning streak to capture MAC title

    Champions. Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s cross country teams were used to hearing that word to describe their teams as both captured the Middle Atlantic Conference championships over the weekend. Winning one championship is hard enough. However, the run that both teams have had has been remarkable, with the men winning their fourth consecutive crown

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  • Slam Poetry event held in Blue Bean, all welcome to participate

    Slam Poetry event held in Blue Bean, all welcome to participate

    On Tuesday, Oct. 23, in the Blue Bean, a Slam Poetry event was held as a part of the Social Justice Week taking place on campus from Oct. 22-26. Social Justice Week is a new series of events currently being hosted by sociology/anthropology students and faculty. Those students and faculty hope that Social Justice week

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  • Visiting artist Fuhrman “plays with fire”

    Visiting artist Fuhrman “plays with fire”

    Visiting artist James “Jay” Fuhrman has been playing with fire. Fuhrman gave a follow-up lecture and demonstrated his incendiary technique when making some of his art pieces during the “Painting with Fire” event outside of Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performing Arts Center last Friday, Oct. 20. Furhman’s show in the Lyet Gallery will be

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  • High Library innovates research, reference material

    High Library innovates research, reference material

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    • October 24, 2012

    The High Library is introducing many changes this fall to make resources easier to access. BethAnn Zambella, director of the High Library, said, “We are always trying to improve our services to the community, to make the Library easier to use and to enhance the resources we offer.” Zambella and the Library staff wanted to

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  • Soccer teams hold Kicks for Cancer, raise awareness, support

    Soccer teams hold Kicks for Cancer, raise awareness, support

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    • October 24, 2012

    Elizabethtown College’s men’s and women’s soccer teams played on Oct. 10 in a game called “Kicks for Cancer,” which was created to show their passion and gain support for cancer awareness and find the cure for cancer itself. Etown’s men’s and women soccer teams battled the two Alvernia University teams and left victorious with two

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