The haste of Elon Day’s fundraising is over. Now is an important time to reexamine what it means to be a university using our financial ties. It seems we haven’t talked about the consulting half of the picture. The Elon-Queens merger also brought Elon University to consult with ethically dubious consulting firms, including the consulting firm that did infamous financial mapping used in a proposal to turn the bombed-out Gaza strip into a resort.
For Tom Cowan, looking at a house is like reading a book. Houses are “visual literature,” he said. And Glencoe Mill Village has great literature. The siding, the windows, the doors, the roofs, the porches: these are all motifs that help tell the story of Glencoe, a colorful collection of 1880s mill village houses.
