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(11/20/14 4:11am)
If you haven’t seen or heard about Kim Kardashian’s latest adventure, you may be living under a rock. The buxom beauty showed off her famous derriere on the cover of PAPER Magazine, prompting much criticism and debate.
(11/13/14 7:47pm)
Most college student knows the struggle of wanting to hang out with friends but having little free time during the week. Associate Professors of Communications, Naeemah Clark, Rich Landesberg and Anthony Hatcher feel the same way.
As a way to spend time with each other, the three decided to start a talk show on WSOE, Elon’s student-run radio station called “Three Professors With Class.”
“With our busy schedules, we never see each other during the week,” Hatcher said. “This was a fun way that we could guarantee seeing each other.”
Originally the trio planned to do a television show but then shifted their focus to radio.
During the show, each host thinks of a question or topic, such as childhood memories, and the others respond accordingly. They also discuss current events such as last week’s midterm election, or whatever they feel like talking about.
The tone of their show is informal, and they banter back and forth with one another. The conversation flows naturally among the three of them, so naturally, in fact, that they often finish one another’s sentences.
“It’s just fun,” Clark said. “We really get to know one another better through it. And any students listening can get to know their professors better.”
Hatcher said he enjoys being able to interact with students through the radio station because it’s different than the way he interacts with students in class. Landesberg said he feels that by doing this show, students will get a new insight into professors’ lives.
“Students have stereotypes of professors and what they enjoy, and I think that this humanizes us and gives us the ability to talk about things we normally wouldn’t discuss in class,” Landesberg said.
While they hope that many students tune in, Landesberg said getting a huge audience is not their main focus.
“This is for us. We work with a lot of students and a lot of organizations, but this is for our souls,” he said.
Landesberg, who spent the majority of his career in radio prior to teaching, is enjoying getting back into the swing of things.
“Radio is my first love,” Landesberg said. “And being able to share it with my two good friends is wonderful.”
Clark and Hatcher, neither of whom are broadcast professionals, are enjoying getting a chance to learn about radio.
“I always tell my students to go to WSOE if they want to get started in student media,” Clark said. “And now it’s time that I started practicing what I’ve been preaching.”
Hatcher said he is using the radio show as a professional development tool.
“When I listen to the tape, I can hear if I slur my words or hesitate,” Hatcher said. “Listening to myself helps make me a better professional.”
For more informaition visit www.wsoeelon.com/
(10/30/14 11:51am)
As the election season draws to a close, politicians are doing whatever they can to get their names out there and bashing their opponent is as good as any form of that.
U.S. Senate candidates D-N.C. Kay Hagan and R-N.C. Thom Tillis are running brutal ads slamming each other, making the North Carolina Senate race one of the most expensive and vicious in the country right now. But whether attack advertisements are really effective is up in the air.
Scott Windham, Elon University assistant professor of German Scott Windham said he dislikes attack ads because they show a lack of integrity.
“I’m generally disgusted by the way political candidates refuse to engage in what I consider good public discourse and respectful treatment of opposing opinions,” Windham said. “Attack ads are a great example of how candidates are not respectful of the other side.”
According to Kantar Media/CMAG, which monitors TV signals for political advertising, North Carolina candidates and support groups have run more than 90,500 ads and spent more than $54.4 million this election season. North Carolina politicians have spent more than $16 million more than the second state on the list, Georgia, with politicians spending $37.8 million.
The Center for Public Integrity reported that more than 10,800 of these ads in just one-week feature content that negatively targets either Hagan or Tillis. This means viewers are subjected to an average of one attack ad for every minute of television time.
The same report revealed that in one week, the Hagan campaign ran more than 4,300 attack ads (including ads attacking Tillis for attacking her), while Tillis has only run 2,900 ads attacking Hagan.
According to the Washington Post, Tillis has been attacked more than any other politician this campaign season while Hagan is the eighth-most-attacked politician. But the majority of the money being spent of the negative ad campaigns does not come directly from the politicians’ campaigns, but rather is paid for by independent or nonprofit groups such as Americans for Prosperity, which began running ads against Hagan last October, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has spent more than $17 million targeting Tillis.
Hagan has criticized Tillis on his support for the voter identification law, fight to defund Planned Parenthood and cuts to education, while Tillis has slammed Hagan for openly supporting President Barack Obama, voting with him 96 percent of the time.
Windham is frustrated by the lack of clarity that comes with attack advertisements.
“I wish that candidates would outline what they stand for in more detail instead of using empty words,” Windham said. “In the last election people were calling Obama a socialist, and regardless of if you support him or not, the fact is that he is not a socialist. Anyone who says that he is clearly has no idea what the word means.”
Like Windahm, Junior Anna Patterson said she is also disgusted by candidates who run ads against their opponents and said she will be taking this into consideration when she casts her vote.
“We need to elect people who will work together to find common ground, not attack each other and create greater divides in our already polarized system,” Patterson said. “I would be less likely to vote for someone who runs an attack ad.”
(09/11/14 12:44am)
After a relatively restful summer, Campus Safety and Police are getting back into the swing of things with new equipment, enforcing old policies and keeping students safe.
(08/29/14 12:30pm)
In less than 10 weeks, Alamance County residents will be voting for several public offices, including three new members of the Board of Education. Three faculty and staff members at Elon University are beginning the home stretch of their campaigns for slots on the school board. There are nine total candidates for three spots. In a speech to faculty and staff on Aug. 18, Elon President Leo Lambert stressed the importance of public education.
(08/27/14 8:58pm)
Almost two-dozen Elon University students, faculty and staff members joined in the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Aug. 24, by dumping buckets of water on their heads in front of Koury Business Center. Dining Services will be donating money to the cause for each person who participated.
Aramark Resident District Manager Pulkitt Vigg spearheaded the event. Coming into his new position several weeks ago, Vigg thought this would be a good way for dining services to interact with students.
“I think this is the beginning of the evolution of dining,” Vigg said. “We had lots of fun and engagement.”
The challenge is simple. Post a video of yourself being doused with ice water and nominate a few friends to partake, or donate $100 to the ALS Association. Many participants have done both.
ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, “is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord,” according to alsa.org. Individuals with ALS eventually lose all motor functions, including muscle movement and speech. Approximately 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS each year.
Vigg challenged University of North Carolina-Wilmington as well as the rest of the Elon faculty and staff for the ice bucket challenge.
“It was awesome, much better than I was expecting,” Vigg said. “I’m so grateful to those who came out and participated.”
Glenn Austin, manager of Acorn Coffee Shop, chose to support the cause because he had a friend who had ALS.
“It’s an ugly disease,” Austin said. “I’m always up to support the cause.”
Freshmen Chris Brittlebank and Alex Gambini decided to take part in the challenge when they were walking by and faculty members invited them to join in.
“I was actually challenged already and hadn’t completed it yet,” Gambini said. “I thought that this would be a fun way to knock it out.”
Brittlebank and Gambini said they were impressed with Elon initiating the Ice Bucket Challenge.
“It really shows how much Elon cares,” Brittlebank said. “It’s nice to know that Elon supports such a great cause.”
Betty Garrison, business librarian, decided to join in when Chris Fulkerson, assistant vice president for administrative services, asked her to.
“When he asked, I said, ‘Absolutely,’” Garrison said. “It is such a great cause, and I’m glad I participated.”
Garrison wishes to nominate all her friends and all Elon students to complete the challenge.
“It’s so important to raise awareness for this disease,” Garrison said. “It’s so hard to hear about people who completely lose all of their motor control. It’s heartbreaking.”
The Ice Bucket Challenge has raised more than $79.7 million in donations for the ALS Association.
(08/27/14 8:40pm)
Interfaith dialogue has always been an important goal for the Truitt Center for Religious Life, but this year the center is making it its No. 1 focus through new staff, programming and initiatives.
The Rev. Joel Harter was hired as Protestant Chaplain, Rabbi Rebecca Joseph was brought on as Hillel Director and Jewish Chaplain and Father Gerry Waterman was promoted to Catholic Chaplain. These three leaders represent the three largest religious subsets on campus.
“The restructuring was absolutely necessary. Different religions approach life in different ways and need a leader of their particular perspective to help guide them through the spiritual discussions unique to college students,” Junior Alli Ginsburgy, Hillel president said. “Being able to have a voice for each of these three makes the interfaith religious discussions less biased.”
Diana Abrahams was hired as the multifaith and intern coordinator after graduating from Elon last spring. She will lead the Truitt Center interns and help coordinate the multifaith engagement program, which is new this year.
Twelve students will be taking part this semester and learning how to lead interfaith dialogue.
University Chaplain Jan Fuller said she expects to have fun with this group and with the other new programs this year.
Fuller is running a new series of lecture presentations starting in September called Unlikely Partners, with talks by multi-faith couples. The first couple presenting will be a Southern Baptist minister and her husband, a Hindu monk.
“This is really highlighting how two people are living across religious differences and how they make it work and maintain their integrity,” Fuller said.
Read more from Fuller about the new multi-faith initiative
Harter will introduce a new program called One. It will be a Christian worship service Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.
The first worship will take place on Aug. 27. It will be a Taize-style worship, which is a continuous worship style relying on songs, chants and meditation periods. There will be another Taize-style worship in partnership with Catholic Campus Ministry on Sept. 24 in Holt Chapel.
“I’m really excited about this,” Harter said. “My experience is that this is a good way to not only get Protestants together, but to get Protestants and Catholics together on college campuses. I’m really hopeful it will resonate here.”
Sophomore Carolyn Rauch, a member of LEAF (Lutherans, Episcopalians and Friends) said she is looking forward to the protestant worship service and getting involved with other protestant groups on campus.
“There has been a lot of talk about multifaith initiative at Elon. I think it’s important that Christian groups recognize that multifaith includes them,” Harter said. “We are part of that diversity. We want to provide opportunities for all students to engage because multifaith includes Christianity.”
While Ginsburg is pleased with the multifaith initiative, she would like to try to get more people involved in the community.
“I want to see more outreach,” Ginsburg said. “The people attending these opportunities are those who are already interfaith-minded. Let’s educate the broader community about religious experience outside of their own.”
One way the Truitt Center is attempting to reach more students is through its interns. Each of the seven interns has been will be a residential contact for a different neighborhood on campus.
“We want them to give out information and hopefully bring students over and help us determine what the needs of the students are,” Fuller said.
Numen Lumen, formally College Chapel, is the Truitt’s Center’s weekly program held on Thursday mornings at 9:40. Fuller wants to encourage more students to attend this semester. This year, attendees discuss an enduring question each week.
“We want to be a part of asking the big questions, like ‘What does it mean to be a human being?’ or ‘What does it mean to be a person of faith open to other people of faith?,’” Fuller said. “So we’ll have a different question every week and a chance to really discuss our answers.”
According to Fuller, the Truitt Center will attempt to make students think critically.
“We’re not trying to make students think a certain way or believe a certain thing, but we want students to really think about who they are and what they want and what kind of world they want to live in.”
(08/27/14 8:34pm)
Nearly three weeks after unarmed teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by police on August 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” movement has arrived at Elon University, in the form of more than 100 people posing for an awareness-raising photo on Phi Beta Kappa Commons Tuesday during the first College Coffee of the new school year.
(08/22/14 1:16pm)
An overhaul of general studies courses at Elon University has resulted in a new Core Corriculum, which will take effect this fall.
According to Jeffrey Coker, director of the Core Curriculum, the changes are mostly just in the name, but there are also some changes to the General Studies — GST -— seminar courses.
The new Core Curriculum offices in the Global Neighborhood will hopefully forge the way for interaction and integration, Coke said. He, plus 11 faculty members from different departments, will work in adjacent offices in order to promote interdisciplinary learning on campus.
The most obvious change for students is the title change for GST classes. Courses that previously had a GST prefix will instead have a COR prefix. For example, the Global Experience class required for first years will be COR 110 instead of GST 110. However, seminars and study aboard classes will retain the GST prefix for the 2014-2015 school year to prevent confusion for upperclassmen.
“With the titling change, students will instantly know what we’re talking about, the one core experience that everybody shares,” Coker said. “The term ‘general studies’ was more ambiguous.”
Elon’s title for freshman curriculum changed from “first-year core” to “first-year experiences” to prevent confusion.
Perhaps the most impactful change is in the structuring of upper-level GST courses, which are mandatory for all students.
Starting this semester, most courses will require a capstone project at the end of the course that is meant to bring together what students have learned in their experiences at Elon. Not all courses have added this component, but starting in the spring, they will be required to have it.
Junior Shelby Lewis, who is taking the upper-level GST “Prison Nation,” said a capstone project is a good idea.
“The idea in theory since it helps us to continue to keep up with what we’ve learned in different areas,” Lewis said. “If it is executed right, it’ll force you to think critially and retain all the information better than just a final exam.”
A more subtle change is the switch from “foreign languages” to “world languages.” This parallels the name change that came last year to the Department of World Languages and Cultures, formally the Department of Foreign Languages.
“Foreign language is traditional, but it has a negative connotation,” Coker said. “English is just one of the world languages, and this feels more of a how a global campus would talk about languages.”
After this year 200-level GST courses will be split into study abroad — STA — courses and interdisciplinary study —IDS — courses. The courses will formally switch names in the summer of 2015.
Coker said there were a variety of reasons for the changes this year, the primary one being the push to give students a more interdisciplinary experience at Elon.
“We are committed to providing the best education we can for students, and part of what drives that is going through a constant cycle of change and evaluation,” Coker said. “We want to try to get students more involved in different departments and making meaningful connections between majors.”
While the push to make students’ experiences more interdisciplinary has been slowly coming over the past few years, Coker said that it has blown up recently.
The Core Curriculum is designed to give students a shared experience no matter what they are studying.COR 110, a part of the first-year experience is set up so every section has the same themes and goals for students, no matter the professor.
“Faculty have different ways of getting across the message, but the point is the same in every class,” Coker said.
Later, taking their upper level COR class, go through the same thing they experienced in their first year. Each upper-level class is different, but they are all designed to get the same message of interdisciplinary learning across to students. As a way to connect the courses, the required capstone project gives students a chance to reflect on how their Elon experiences are all tied together.
(07/24/14 5:21pm)
On July 21, two United States appeals courts issued conflicting rulings on the availability of subsidies that help many Americans afford health coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
(07/14/14 3:08pm)
When I decided to stay at Elon University for the summer, I was expecting to be fairly bored. I've never been the type of person who enjoys sitting around doing nothing, but since most of my friends are living the glamorous intern life in Munich or New York or Los Angeles, I resigned myself to a life of work, sleep and television.
(07/07/14 5:26pm)
Elon University Junior Devon Bartholf of West Grove, PA was seriously injured in a single car accident near campus July 6.
Town of Elon Police report that Bartholf 's car struck a utility pole around 3 p.m. before her car stopped in the Elon Post Office parking lot. The utility pole was knocked into the street by the impact.
EMS and Fire and Rescue services arrived on the scene shortly afterwards.
She was transported to Alamance Regional Medical Center and then taken to University of North Carolina Hospital where she remains in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit as of Monday afternoon.
There were no passengers in the car and no other injuries were reported.
Elon Police are still investigating the cause of the accident.
(04/23/14 1:10am)
One of the biggest changes Elon University is striving to make in the upcoming years is the push toward fusing the residential experience and the academic experience. One way the university is working towards this goal is through living learning communities (LLCs).
(04/19/14 4:31pm)
The United States has many reality singing competitions, The Voice, American Idol and the X-Factor are all extremely popular, but none of these shows are as popular as the Eurovision Song Competition in Europe.
(03/20/14 7:42pm)
Evan Strong grew up in Hawaii with dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder. Ten days before his 18th birthday his dreams were shattered when he was struck by a drunk driver while riding his motorcycle. He lost part of his left leg in the accident.
(03/19/14 6:35pm)
Earlier this year, a freshman at Duke University was outed to the school, and later to the rest of the country, for acting in adult films to pay her tuition.
(03/05/14 3:58am)
More than 100 people attended a Mardi Gras party sponsored by Catholic Campus Ministry (CCM) and Lutherans, Episcopalians and Friends (LEAF) at Elon March 4.
(03/05/14 12:17am)
March 5, the Global Education Center unveiled its Winter Term study abroad programs for 2015 at the Winter Term study abroad fair.
(02/20/14 6:51pm)
After more than two months of protests in Kiev, fighting has surged again, leaving more than 100 people killed since the morning of Thursday Feb. 20. More than 500 people have been injured, and the fighting shows no signs of ceasing. These numbers come from the protestors’ chief medical officer. Kiev’s medical examiner puts the death toll at 67. The fighting began just hours after a truce was declared.
(02/19/14 6:32pm)
Classes were canceled, and Elon University’s Young Commons was blanketed in snow. Within a matter of seconds, what was once a quiet scene of fresh snowfall became a full-fledged battlefield, and white balls of fluff were flying in every direction. Students approached both ends of the commons armed with snowballs.