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  • Lake Placida still under construction

    Lake Placida still under construction

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    • September 26, 2012

    Elizabethtown College and its Facilities Management team worked diligently on many different projects while students, faculty and staff were enjoying their vacation this summer. The largest and seemingly most visible project that the college took on was the Lake Placida project outside of Leffler Chapel and Performance Center, which is still in progress. The lake

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  • SAMs make improvements

    SAMs make improvements

    This year marks a new beginning for the Student Athlete Mentor (SAM) program at Elizabethtown College. According to senior softball player and SAM Elly McCarthy, the program wasn’t meeting its desired goals in the past, so a greater effort is being made this year to make several beneficial changes. SAMs are student-athletes who serve all

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  • Team crowned Days Inn Blue Jay Classic champions

    Team crowned Days Inn Blue Jay Classic champions

    First-year Steph High sets a ball for senior Lindsay Palm. The Days Inn Blue Jay Classic pitted the Elizabethtown College women’s volleyball team against  York College, the University of Rochester, Hamilton College and Bridgewater College. The Blue Jays finished undefeated over the course of the tournament, and this win was their first classic win since

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  • Cost, weight, environment: should we digitize required texts?

    Cost, weight, environment: should we digitize required texts?

    The act of reading a book has changed dramatically within the past few years. Today, many colleges are considering making the class textbook and other reading assignments available online instead requiring the hard copy. With this new system, textbooks would be more environmentally friendly. Instead of new books being printed for the courses, they would

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  • Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?

    Critical thinking: What is it? Are we getting enough?

    I’ll be honest: I had to Google what “critical thinking” meant before I began writing this article. It’s a term we’ve all heard, but most of us probably don’t know what it means. In the simplest of terms, critical thinking is “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion.” I realize we pay an atrocious amount of tuition to

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  • Housing issues caused by higher-than-expected retention

    Housing issues caused by higher-than-expected retention

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    • September 19, 2012

    As Elizabethtown College students moved into their new homes for the semester, some took issue with their living situations. In addition, upperclassmen were encouraged to pursue off-campus housing and many were left in transitional rooms. “It is the upperclassmen retention numbers, not the size of the freshman class, causing the excess of students,” Allison Bridgeman,

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  • Jays no stranger to overtime; team ties three games this season

    Jays no stranger to overtime; team ties three games this season

    Coming off a one-goal draw in double overtime with rival Franklin & Marshall College last Wednesday, the Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team put their unbeaten streak on the line against the Eastern University Eagles. Through the last two games, the Blue Jays have averaged almost 30 shots per game, and they did not let up

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  • Jays prove to be tough opponents for nationally ranked teams

    Jays prove to be tough opponents for nationally ranked teams

    The Elizabethtown College field hockey team continued their streak of knocking off nationally-ranked teams with a win over No. 13 Lynchburg this past Saturday. The No. 14 Blue Jays entered into the ranking themselves for the first time since 2009 thanks to the first Penn Monto/NFHCA Division III National Coaches Poll of the 2012 season.

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  • high library features photography exhibit by associate english professor

    high library features photography exhibit by associate english professor

    Beginning this week, a very unique and special artistic exhibit will be on display in the High Library: a collection of abstract photographs, all shot in Nova Scotia during the summer season by Associate Professor of English Dr. Matthew Willen. The collection, entitled “Certain Visions,” will be on display from Friday, Sept. 21 to Friday,

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