• Cooperative Grumbling: An Editorial on How to Play Nice

    Cooperative Grumbling: An Editorial on How to Play Nice

    As we push forward to become a truer liberal arts institution, promoting “Learning Everywhere” in every piece of Strategic Planning literature we print, the College needs to do a better job of engulfing its faculty in this very same principle, ensuring academic cooperation from all departments toward a singular goal of a premier student education.

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  • McDonald responds to diversity editorial

    McDonald responds to diversity editorial

    Contrary to the allegations of the Anti-Defamation League and the Etownian (2/2) editorial, the H.L Mencken Club engages in serious academic and intellectual discussions as opposed to racially-charged venting. The racist label is hurled at this group by those who prefer silencing those deemed politically incorrect rather than considering the merits of their arguments. As

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  • Professor responds to racist allegations

    Professor responds to racist allegations

    Having spent thirty years writing on the topic that Mr. Benincasa presumes to address, I am appalled by his inability to explain what the term “multiculturalism” means. This is particularly unsettling, given the fact that anyone who questions Benincasa’s understanding of this unexplained concept, including the majority of the student senate that voted against the

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  • Trustee affirms “commitment to diversity”

    Trustee affirms “commitment to diversity”

    As a member of the Board of Trustees, I applaud the Etownian for its recent editorial calling on the College to take seriously its stated commitment to diversity and inclusion of all students. But I do not agree with the alarming statement that Elizabethtown College is “not ready for diversity.” I also do not accept

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  • The Neglected Few: An Editorial

    The Neglected Few: An Editorial

    APOLOGIES During the past week, we have learned quite a bit about the definition of and the actions behind being a publication of integrity and how we failed these standards in relation to “The Neglected Few: An Editorial,” which appeared in the Feb. 2 issue of the Etownian. Although we do not retract our statements

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  • Strikwerda responds to diversity editorial

    My thanks to the staff members of the Etownian for opening a discussion on the status of the diversity plan at Elizabethtown College. That tells me is two things: 1) students value and, as they should, demand a diverse educational experience and 2) we need to do a better job of sharing the good news

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