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(04/05/17 12:00pm)
The senior scramble to find postgraduate employment can be cumbersome, but four Elon seniors had clear missions — a strong desire to continue their time abroad by teaching. For these students, their separate searches ended in one place: The Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
(02/01/17 1:54pm)
Feb. 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month and this year numerous groups are working to plan events to bring Elon students, faculty and staff together to remember the month’s significance.
(02/01/17 1:00pm)
When junior Matt Cesari was in his first year at Elon, he bounced from one art-related major to another. After dipping his toes in virtually every area, he realized that there was a lack of inter-department community.
(01/17/17 4:30pm)
Some students may use Feb. 18 as a sleepy Saturday, but one Elon University alumna will be racing in honor of a lost role model.
(01/18/17 1:30pm)
Senior Stephanie Bedard found her own form of female empowerment when, last fall, she took the initiative to finally do something she had considered doing for years: taking pole dancing classes. She found a new exercise regimen and, along the way, said she discovered a love for her body she never had before.
(11/16/16 1:00pm)
Calling all students homesick for the New York and New Jersey area: there exists a deli down the street that brings the familiar sights and tastes of the city.
(10/22/16 3:37pm)
As a child, freshman Jess Avellino was obsessed with “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” But Avellino’s most recent accomplishment — writing a musical that was performed at the Fringe Festival in Scotland over the summer — goes beyond a candy dream.
(10/11/16 2:06am)
University of Maryland Professor Sarah Oates took her political expertise and dug deep
into the subjects of media and politics on her latest research, which she
presented at Elon University on October 10.
(10/04/16 11:00pm)
Many of us view making a mistake as just that — a mistake. But junior Maddy Gross sees it as an opportunity, or a joke. In the stand-up comedy world, the two become one and the same.
(09/18/16 9:06pm)
Classes have been in session for nearly a month, and amid the papers and projects, one Elon University club is searching for positivity.
(09/13/16 7:48pm)
When Drew Redington, Matt Meigs and Gerald Caesar took the stage on Broadway this fall, they remembered how Elon’s music theater program prepared them for their career debut. Now Redington and Meigs are playing in the ensemble in the show "Holiday Inn," while Caesar is playing a swing, or a member of the cast who understudies several characters, in "A Bronx Tale."
(09/06/16 5:42pm)
A man who goes by Uncle Harold, who has seen downtown Burlington dwindle and re-develop over the past 30 years, has recently taken on his newest business venture with Jazz N’ More, a bar, club and event center on Spring Street.
(01/07/16 2:08am)
Nearly one-third of children in Guilford County who were eligible for childcare subsidies in 2013 did not receive it. Instead, they were left waiting. In 2015, they are still waiting.
(01/20/16 1:39pm)
Instead of gobbling down turkey and mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, a group of Elon University students spent their Thanksgiving break hiking the Inca trail as part of the newest embedded study abroad class “Adventure and Wilderness Therapy.”
(11/17/15 6:07pm)
Aleks Babic, adjunct instructor in public health studies and human service studies, said some of their happiest childhood memories were when an underground bomb shelter served as their family’s home. When the bombing was too heavy, their neighbors would come to the shelter.
(11/04/15 5:00pm)
Josh Manning, a 29-year-old junior at Elon University and former American Army Ranger, recalls a mission while on deployment as what was meant to be a typical “cut and dried” operation — the work done and the “bad guys” gone.
(10/29/15 12:00pm)
When junior Rachel Zaleznik was growing up, she watched endless hours of hockey with her dad.
(09/07/15 2:04pm)
Or dare we say, “Straight Outta Brilliant.” We know this
movie released just less than a month ago, but its message is as important
as ever. This film cast a light on socioeconomic mayhem has been the
cause both for past unrest and current tumult. This is the real
inception-like, ingenious quality of
hip-hop’s newest hit “Straight Outta Compton”: The release of previous events
that look a whole lot like today’s headlines.
(08/05/15 6:43pm)
All of Disney’s finest princesses have doubled as enchanting role models for young girls for the past several decades. But the way these royal beauties have been portrayed has left the same young girls with mixed messages. With their unnaturally thin and perfectly contoured bodies and faces, these cartoons emulate unattainable figures.
(07/27/15 3:05am)
Forget “man’s best friend” — these rescue puppies just replaced the iconic “Friends” cast in a mock-intro of the famous television series.