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  • Commentary: NASCAR season underway

    Commentary: NASCAR season underway

    For this week in sports, let’s go outside the “Big Four” sports, as I call them, that usually grab the most attention from American fans (football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey) and focus on another lesser known but hugely popular sport, NASCAR! My goal is to give those who have never given the sport a

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  • Satan goes to college; promptly expelled

    Satan goes to college; promptly expelled

    For too long Satan’s precise strategy to bring about America’s downfall had been a mystery. What exactly was the devil up to? Satan had of course made a rousing appearance in Biblical times, but that was a long time ago. He disappeared for a while after that, but then, in the fourteenth century, the circles

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  • Workplace policies create monetary strife

    Workplace policies create monetary strife

    The air is thick with talk of employment policies. Discrimination, harassment, workplace bullying — all, we’re reminded, stuff to be avoided. Training sessions for employees are being conducted, with the College’s lawyers holding forth with unseemly relish on statutes and Title VII and suchlike. Attendance at these sessions is mandatory. And what if you don’t

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  • Assault on free enterprise, top banker’s knighthood revoked

    Assault on free enterprise, top banker’s knighthood revoked

    The report from Britain is not reassuring. The Tories, supposedly the ally of business interests, are showing signs of hostility to capitalism. It is as if Mitt Romney were to propose an individual mandate as part of health insurance reform. Or Newt Gingrich were to accept honorariums from Freddie Mac to impart history lessons to

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  • NFL season culminates with exciting rematch

    NFL season culminates with exciting rematch

    As late as July 2011, the current NFL season was not going to happen. Due to last minute agreements and understandings, every regular season game was saved and fans were treated to an exciting year of football. And Ray Lewis was right —crime did stay down! Teams like the Packers and Patriots performed as expected

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  • Less than half of fall athletes make honor roll

    Less than half of fall athletes make honor roll

    Dec. 15, the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) released the names of those students who qualified for the Fall Academic Honor Roll. These student-athletes must have a 3.2 or higher cumulative grade point average, as well as sophomore standing or higher. Out of Elizabethtown College’s 85 fall athletes that met the sophomore standing requirement, 42 made

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  • Soccer venue change alters atmosphere, attendance

    Soccer venue change alters atmosphere, attendance

    The Marshmallow Bowl is among the biggest game every year in NCAA Division III men’s soccer. This was a large factor in deciding why I chose Elizabethtown College: to play soccer. The event is always a blood bath between two of the top teams in the Division III Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC): the Etown Blue

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  • Business chair sympathizes with Wall Street bankers

    Department chairs and Wall Street bankers have a lot in common. They lead the good life, collect hefty year-end bonuses and do God’s work. (The last, by the way, was what Goldman Sachs’ CEO claimed to do when he was questioned about the firm’s practices at a Senate hearing on the 2008 financial crisis.) But

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  • Professor discusses unexpected benefits of strategic planning

    Strategic Planning (SP) at Elizabethtown College continues at a furious pace. If you are not a member of one of the five committees involved in SP, you probably have little idea about the work being carried out by these committees (and especially by the co-chairs). Take the Campus Community committee. The group meets once every

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