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(02/13/14 4:26am)
Eating healthy and maintaining overall wellness is something that can be difficult to achieve, especially during the college years. The revamped club Eat Right Elon hopes to bring together students that share this common goal.
(02/13/14 4:20am)
“It’s the little things” is a statement commonly heard on the topic of what makes life good. While each person has their own view of what makes their cup half full over the alternative, as a rule it’s best to crosscheck individual definitions of the good life with the Kanye West song.
(02/13/14 4:09am)
After they complete final exams this spring semester, some Elon University students will abandon the continental United States and embark on the course to an internship program in Alaska.
(02/13/14 4:02am)
This piece is the ninth in a series of “Ask an Alum” columns that will be periodically published online through a partnership between Elon University’s Young Alumni Council and The Pendulum.
(02/13/14 3:50am)
The crying, the screaming, the constant attention — all are reasons people are dissuaded from having children. Even after having kids, Elon University English professor Andrew Perry said he still lives with the fear of fatherhood, so he decided to write a book about it.
(02/13/14 3:46am)
It’s not usual for Elon University junior Tereza Novotna to be dropped off in a forest, with only a map and a compass to help her find her way out. Sound scary? It might be for some people, but for Novotna, it’s just another day of orienteering.
(02/05/14 6:24pm)
Senior year is perhaps the most exciting time for many college students. With graduation just around the corner, seniors start to take the necessary steps to culminate the fruits of their four years of hard work into one final product. Gabriel Noble was among the many seniors who returned to Elon University this fall with the same goal in mind. Instead of preparing for his final classes, however, he was sitting in an office being notified that he would not be able to graduate because of outstanding financial dues and federal loans.
(02/03/14 7:25pm)
We are often told as Elon University students that we live in the “Elon Bubble.” But if you look a bit closer at the advertising boards and posters around campus throughout Winter Term, you will see a focus on diversity.
(01/24/14 10:11pm)
This piece is the eighth in a series of “Ask an Alum” columns that will be periodically published online through a partnership between Elon University’s Young Alumni Council and The Pendulum.
(01/22/14 3:28am)
Elon alum Wilson Owens (’10) is bursting from the Elon bubble and into the world of entertainment, who has recently been listed at No. 19 in Forbes’ “30 Under 30: Music’s Brightest Stars” list. Between the names of stars like Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars and Rihanna, Owens was listed for his work in co-founding Royalty Exchange, an online platform for buying and selling music royalties.
(01/21/14 10:43pm)
Dealing with fall’s deadlines, sleep deprivation and caffeine-induced craziness was so last semester. With nine hours for yourself everyday, Winter Term gives students plenty of time to relax, procrastinate (without consequence) and sleep! But, if you’re tired of stalking all the pictures of your friends on study abroad trips, and if you’re worried about how much time you have spent watching copious amounts of cat videos or back-to-back episodes of (insert any Netflix show here), then here’s some advice from five peers on different ways you could be spending all that time.
(01/21/14 10:29pm)
Growing up the second of five children on the wrong side of the tracks in white and wealthy Sudbury Mass., Deborah Long felt like the only girl in hand-me-down dresses and homemade sweaters for miles.
(01/21/14 3:50pm)
If you are one of the students who made the President’s and Dean’s Lists over Winter Break, don’t celebrate just yet.
(01/13/14 3:25am)
While the rest of campus closes for the night, Kim Farmer arrives at work. Farmer works the night shift as a Telecommunicator for Campus Safety and Security, but when he's not at Elon, Farmer explores his passion for music.
(01/10/14 10:06pm)
This piece is the eighth in a series of “Ask an Alum” columns that will be periodically published online through a partnership between Elon University’s Young Alumni Council and The Pendulum.
(01/04/14 4:30pm)
This piece is the sixth in a series of “Ask an Alum” columns that will be periodically published online through a partnership between Elon University’s Young Alumni Council and The Pendulum.
(12/02/13 4:29am)
Let’s start large-scale. The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration, locking up an average of 716 per 100,000 people. Now, let’s look at North Carolina. The 2012 census tallies an estimated 9,752,073 people living in the state. Alamance County houses 153,920 of that 9 million.
(11/30/13 10:54pm)
Dr. Ahmed Fadaam, previously a local reporter in Baghdad, knows what a war zone looks like.
(11/25/13 8:17pm)
Political debates change with every season, but one argument that will never end in North Carolina is where the best barbecue comes from.
(11/23/13 5:59pm)
"President Assad is president forever. We believe in one Middle East.”