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LIFESTYLE 2/25/23 9:26pm

Elon University raises $48K during Relay for Life

By Anjolina Fantaroni

Elon University students honored survivors, fighters, caregivers and those who have lost their lives to cancer with the annual event, Relay for Life Friday. For twelve consecutive hours, members of the campus community including fraternities, sororities and service based organizations participated in the event that raised $48,985.14. 

LIFESTYLE 2/19/23 10:21pm

Elon University Truitt Center Sponsors annual, student-led Ripple Conference

By Anne Thyfault

Students from Elon University and visiting campuses left the three-day Ripple Conference after a weekend of interfaith discussion, speakers, and activities. The annual student-led Ripple Conference was sponsored by the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and aimed to inspire interfaith students to create leaders within spiritual and religious work. This year was the conference's eighth year and the first fully in-person conference since 2020. 

LIFESTYLE 2/16/23 10:00pm

Burlington’s Paramount Theater presents screening of “Racist Roots: The Film”

By Jenna Rudolph

Burlington’s Paramount Theater held a screening of “Racist Roots: The Film,” a film about North Carolina’s racist history with the death penalty Feb. 16. The film portrayed a series of stories from people who were advocates of ending the death penalty, who have been exonerated and who are currently on North Carolina’s death row. The 25 minute film was made by the Center for Death Penalty Litigation, a non-profit law firm that represents people on death row in North Carolina.

LIFESTYLE 2/13/23 9:00am

Elon University dance program to host Black in the Theatre, Black History Month dance concert

By Betsy Schlehuber

Elon Dance partnered with the CREDE this year to put together this Black History Month Dance Concert called Black in the Theatre, directed by Keisha Wall, professor of dance at Elon. Together, they chose the theme “Black Renaissance” to celebrate Black art. Black in the Theatre has been put on at Elon since 2012 as part of Black History Month, but in 2020 — with Wall as the new director — they held their last in-person performance right before the COVID-19 pandemic placed concerts on pause. In 2021 and 2022, the performance was filmed with dancers wearing masks.

LIFESTYLE 2/12/23 5:00pm

Down to Ride

By Thomas Denome

My Saturday morning begins at 6:30 a.m. All my tools, camera equipment and water bottles are already in a bag. The only thing I need to do is put on my lycra and take my bike out to the car. Those two simple tasks consume 30 minutes. It has not been my finest morning. This story continues on Elon News Network's In-Depth page. 

LIFESTYLE 2/10/23 2:38pm

Elon University Gender & LGBTQIA Center to host do-it-yourself valentines event

By Miranda Ferrante

Communications and Resources Manager Elon University's Gender & LGBTQIA Center sophomore James Hemmingway and CLEAR Manager for the GLC junior Oliver McGowan are coordinating an event inspired by the theme of Valentine's Day. On Feb. 10, they are inviting students on campus to make postcards for faculty and staff that made an impact on their Elon experience, specifically with the GLC from 5 to 7 p.m. in Moseley 206. 

LIFESTYLE 2/10/23 9:43am

Elon University School of Law hosts Sunny Hostin for speaker series

By Noah Goldstein

Elon University School of Law welcomed co-host of “The View” Sunny Hostin on Feb. 9 as part of its Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series. Interim dean of the School of Law Alan Woodlief moderated the conversation, where the three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist spoke on her childhood, early career, social justice, the importance of media and her autobiography, “I Am These Truths.” 

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NEWS 04/24/2024 11:35am
Elon announces 2024 Lumen Scholar winners

The Lumen Advisory Committee has announced Elon University’s 2024 Lumen Scholar winners. Lumen Prize winners are granted $20,000 to support their mentored research and creative projects over the next two years. “The competitive level was extraordinary this year and these winners deserve admiration for the creativity, thoroughness, and potential impact their proposals represent,” Mike Carigan, director of the Lumen Prize, wrote. There are 15 prize winners for the 2024 Lumen Scholarship.

NEWS 04/24/2024 10:57am
Pilot program passes through SGA Senate, brings Narcan to campus

Legislation to fund a $5,000 pilot program unanimously passed Elon’s Student Government Association, bringing Narcan to the campus in the fall of 2025. Generically known as “Naloxone,” Narcan is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose. The commonly referred to as “opioid antagonist” quickly restores normal breathing to a person whose breathing has slowed or stopped due to an opioid overdose. The legislation is still in the approval stage with campus leadership. Chief of Campus Safety and Police Joe LeMire declined to comment until a final approval is set.

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