• Kreider Prize Lecture

    Kreider Prize Lecture

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    • October 22, 2020

    The annual Kreider Prize Lecture took place virtually Thursday, Oct. 15 at 7pm. Elizabethtown College professor of political science Dr. E. Fletcher McClellan was the recipient of the 2019-2020 Kreider Prize for Teaching Excellence. He presented his lecture “Analytical Advocacy in the Age of Trump,” which examined the current political climate and how he gives

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

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    • October 15, 2020

    With less than a month until election day, Pennsylvania statewide election campaigns are in the home stretch. This year, Pennsylvanians will cast votes for Attorney General, Auditor General and State Treasurer.  For Attorney General, incumbent Democrat Josh Shapiro is up against Republican challenger Heather Heidelbaugh. Shapiro is running on his popularity and his accomplishments from

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  • Pennsylvania Politics

    Pennsylvania Politics

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    • September 17, 2020

    Last week, a video went viral of State Representative Malcolm Kenyatta (D – PA181) delivering an impassioned speech against an amendment to HB 2626. The amendment, which Governor Wolf claims “makes it harder, not easier, for citizens to vote,” aims to ban the use of ballot drop boxes for mail-in ballots statewide. More controversially, it

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  • Today’s Technology

    Today’s Technology

    Photo courtesy of Unsplash While the world seems to slow to a crawl in the midst of a pandemic, the United States Senate does not. Thursday, March 5, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the bipartisan Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act, usually referred to by the abbreviated name,

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  • Alum in politics series: Representative Martina White

    Alum in politics series: Representative Martina White

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Martina White graduated from Elizabethtown College in 2010, and she currently serves as a State Representative for Pennsylvania’s 170th Legislative District. Before her election to public office in 2015, White worked as a financial advisor. Having graduated from Etown with a B.S. in Business Administration and dual focuses in finance and

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  • David Hickernell: Alum and State Rep.

    David Hickernell: Alum and State Rep.

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Rep. David Hickernell ’83 is an Elizabethtown College graduate who went on to become the House Representative of Pennsylvania’s 98th District. During Hickernell’s time at Etown, he was involved with a variety of extracurriculars — including Student Senate. He was also a psychology major and was on the tennis team. Most

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  • Trump lashes out after acquittal

    Trump lashes out after acquittal

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    • February 20, 2020

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate in the conclusion of the impeachment trial Wednesday, Feb. 5. An acquittal was the expected result of the trial, as a conviction and removal from office would require a two-thirds majority. With the majority in the Senate being held by Republicans, an outcome

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  • The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: Is denying visas to same-sex partners of diplomats justified?

    The Weekly Chirp: Students, faculty weigh in: Is denying visas to same-sex partners of diplomats justified?

    Effective Oct. 1, the Trump administration’s State Department will no longer issue visas to unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats or officials and employees of the United Nations in the U.S. The diplomats were given a deadline of the end of 2018 to either marry or leave the country. This new policy is approximated to

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  • Student political clubs host candidate town halls

    Student political clubs host candidate town halls

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    • October 18, 2018

    With the 2018 midterm elections coming Tuesday, Nov. 6, college students are in an interesting position. Some are ready, while some may struggle to find time to get to the polls. Others may feel uninformed. Elizabethtown College’s chapters of the College Democrats and the College Republicans sought to remedy the latter problem in early October

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