Elizabethtown College News 
Back to top 2/28/2006 Student recognized by national education magazine Senior education major Amanda Milner was recognized in Tomorrow's Teachers, an annual magazine for National Education Association (NEA) student members. An  article devoted to Read Across America festivals and activities featured the Dr. Seuss birthday festival she organized last year as Southern region president for Student Pennsylvania State Education Association. More than 50 students from five colleges and one high school volunteered for the event, which brought hundreds of children and parents to Harrisburg's Strawberry Square.Amanda's pictured with her mother (a Bucks County, Pa., high school teacher) as a first-year student at Elizabethtown, when she dressed up as the Cat in the Hat for an event for NEA's Read Across America. Back to top 2/27/2006 E-town captures men's, women's indoor track & field championships For the first time ever at a Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC)  track & field championship, Elizabethtown won both the men’s and women’s conference crowns at the 2006 MAC Indoor Championships, hosted by Susquehanna University on Feb. 25. It was the first MAC title for the Elizabethtown women’s track & field program and the fourth consecutive MAC indoor crown for the Elizabethtown men’s track & field program. Head coach Chris Straub was named the conference’s Coach of the Year on both the women’s and men’s sides, and Blue Jay first-year sprinter Stephon Finley was named the MAC Indoor Rookie of the Year. The Elizabethtown women placed first out of 10 teams in the meet with a score of 130 points, topping second place Susquehanna University by a margin of 14 points. The E-town men finished first out of 10 teams with a score of 129 points, topping second place Susquehanna by 48 points. Read more. Back to top 2/22/2006 $4-million gift paves way for Science, Math and Engineering Center The single largest cash contribution in Elizabethtown College’s history is paving the way for construction of the College’s new state-of-the-art Science, Math and Engineering (SME) Center. Designed to deliver on the Elizabethtown College promise of a relationship-centered education, the Center will provide the classrooms and the modern laboratories and research facilities essential for a 21st-century science education. Groundbreaking for the most intensive portion of this multi-phased project is expected by summer 2006. The recent gift of $4 million – contributed by a friend of the College who wishes to remain anonymous at this time – was given in support of the SME Center as part of Elizabethtown’s To Serve Tomorrow campaign. Launched in 2003, the campaign is the most ambitious in the College’s history and is funding its greatest period of capital construction since being founded more than a century ago. In response to this historic gift, Elizabethtown College’s Board of Trustees and the To Serve Tomorrow campaign executive committee approved an increase in the overall campaign goal from $35 million to $40 million and extended the length of the campaign to complete the fundraising effort for the building.  According to College President Theodore Long, the SME Center will further strengthen the College’s position as one of the nation’s top comprehensive colleges. “As a result of this transforming gift, new generations of science and engineering students will receive a cutting-edge education,” said Long. “Our exceptional faculty will now have the superior tools and facilities they need to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century.” The $19-million SME Center project – which was designed by architectural firm Marshall Craft Associates, Inc. in conjunction with Elizabethtown faculty and facilities management staff – takes a multi-phased approach to construction. The integrated plan includes considerable work to update existing science laboratories and classroom space and provides for the construction of an all-new wing for the College’s biology program, which has grown by more than 20 percent over the past 15 years. When completed, the project will renovate more than 95,000 square feet and provide an additional 33,000 square feet of science classroom and laboratory space. Over the past two years, the College already has completed portions of the work on the SME Center project, as it upgraded the electrical, mechanical and ventilation systems within portions of the existing science facilities. This recent gift will allow the College to break ground on the most extensive phase of the project by early summer 2006, which will include common areas within the SME Center, a new biology wing and an integrated building façade. Elizabethtown College provides its undergraduate science students with significant opportunities to participate in one-on-one, groundbreaking research with its faculty. The new laboratory space will offer the potential for broader opportunities for interdisciplinary research and project work in cutting-edge science arenas, such as robotics, neural networks, cybernetics and rehabilitation engineering. The new facility also will provide additional applied research opportunities and internships through partnerships with regional manufacturing companies and medical centers. Back to top 2/17/2006 E-town students plan benefit production of 'Vagina Monologues' Elizabethtown College’s students will present a benefit production of “The Vagina  Monologues”
at 8 p.m., Feb. 24 and 25, and 1 p.m., Feb. 26, in Steinman Center’s
Brinser Lecture Room. Tickets cost $5 and will be available at the
door. Elizabethtown’s production is sponsored by the student group
Womenspeak.Elizabethtown’s production of Eve Ensler’s Obie-Award winning play is part of the 2006 V-Day College Campaign. College and university communities around the world present benefit productions of “The Vagina Monologues” on their campuses on or around V-Day (Feb. 14) to raise money and awareness to stop violence against women and girls. The proceeds from these events are donated directly by the schools to local organizations in their communities that are working to stop this violence. Back to top 2/10/2006 Alumna named to NCAA 25th anniversary women's basketball team Page Lutz, a 1984 alumna of Elizabethtown College, is one of only five former  student-athletes
and one coach in the nation to be honored with selection to the
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III 25th
anniversary women’s basketball team. Announced today, the team is
comprised of basketball standouts who represent the strong leadership
and outstanding achievements of the millions of student-athletes and
coaches who have advanced opportunities for women in NCAA sports. Lutz was among a group of only 25 players and five coaches from the past 25 years chosen by the NCAA for inclusion on the ballot in an online election that selected the anniversary team. Her teammate Sherri Kinsey, also of the Class of 1984, and Elizabethtown College Head Coach Yvonne Kauffman were also nominated. Voting took place in late December and early January. More . . . Back to top 2/2/2006 One World Series to bring Libana Libana, a group founded to explore and perform pieces For the past 22 years, Libana – which takes its name from a 10th-century Moorish poet and musician – has presented a repertoire of ancient melodies and contemporary tunes that are performed a cappella and with a vast array of instruments including guitar, dumbek, accordion, oud, naqqara clarinet and double bass. Libana’s performance is part of the One World Series, a yearlong series of artistic and cultural events designed to build bridges. The series is being presented by Elizabethtown College’s Department of Fine and Performing Arts. |
that reflect women’s often undocumented musical heritage, will perform at 8 p.m., March 3, in Elizabethtown College’s Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. Libana’s performance is being produced in collaboration with the Susquehanna Waldorf School in Marietta. Tickets cost $20, and information is available at the School at 717-426-4506, extension 224. Back to News Index
