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  • Global Perspective

    Global Perspective

    India is currently facing a COVID-19 crisis, with millions of reported cases and no end in sight. More than 20 million COVID cases have been reported as of Tuesday, May 4, including approximately 3.5 million people who are currently being treated. In the past week, the number of COVID cases in India had increased by

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

    In recent years, the progressive movement has been assailed by the conservative critics as a movement of urban, liberal elites, with some going so far as saying it is a self-hating, anti-America agenda. However, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman – a goatee and tattoo sporting, bald, Sheetz-is-better-than-Wawa advocate standing over 6 feet in height – is

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  • Global Perspective

    Global Perspective

    Princess Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum attempted to escape from Dubai in February 2018 after planning her escape with Hervé Jaubert and Tiina Jauhiainen since 2011. She first planned an escape in 2002 when she was a minor. It was her attempt to escape from the United Arab Emirates and her father; however, Jaubert’s yacht,

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  • Derek Chauvin trial taking place

    Derek Chauvin trial taking place

    Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with the murder of George Floyd May 29, 2020. Floyd died May 25 after a store clerk accused him of paying with a counterfeit $20 bill. Chauvin and three other officers arrived at the scene and Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck and back for 9 minutes and

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  • Spring semester finals week schedule on the weekend

    Spring semester finals week schedule on the weekend

    This semester, Elizabethtown College will hold finals Saturday, May 8. Students and faculty alike were surprised to see exams take place on a weekend, and the change resulted in mixed feelings for many. While the administration has stated that it was necessary to hold finals on that day to ensure a timely Commencement Day and

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  • Interhall visitation allowed

    Interhall visitation allowed

    Elizabethtown College announced in a COVID-19 campus update email Monday, April 21 that interhall visitation would be permitted starting Thursday, April 15. In an email sent a few weeks earlier Monday, March 22, the COVID-19 Task Force said that they would not permit interhall visitation at that time but would instead continue to monitor the

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  • Student Senate

    Student Senate

    Student Senate met Thursday, April 15 at 3:45 p.m. over Zoom for their weekly meeting. Vice President for Student Life Dr. Celestino Limas began the meeting with his administrative report. He started by saying he is disappointed by the number of inappropriate responses on the “before I graduate” boards in the Baugher Student Center (BSC)

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

    Article II, Section 17 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania states, “In each year following the year of the Federal decennial census, a Legislative Reapportionment Commission shall be constituted for the purpose of reapportioning the Commonwealth.”  With the 2020 Census having finished on October 15 and 99.98 percent of American households being counted,

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  • Finance and international business professor awarded Polanowski Prize

    Finance and international business professor awarded Polanowski Prize

    The winner of the 2020-2021 Polanowski Prize for Excellence in Faculty-Student Advising and Mentorship was announced March 26. The recipient of the award was Turnbull-Jamieson Chair and Professor of Finance and International Business Hossein Varamini. The award is intended to celebrate a faculty member’s excellence in advising and mentorship of students toward graduation and future

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