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At Thursday’s SGA Senate meeting, Executive President Joseph Incorvia recapped his conference call with the White House the previous evening, in which 800 student leaders were informed of President Barack Obama’s “It’s On US” campaign, aimed to stop sexual assault on college campuses.
In a time when sexual assault issues are dominating college campuses across the country, the founder of a national company dedicated to raising awareness of consent and other issues paid Elon University a visit Wednesday.
Dan Tart sat on a cushy, green couch in the lounge of Argo Tea, reflecting on an opening week in which demand exceeded supply on more than one occasion. Mid-sentence, a group of students in search of a snack interrupted the manager of Argo Tea and Winter Garden Cafe. Peering through the closed steel shutters to catch a glimpse of the menu, the half-dozen students complained loudly about the closure before leaving, still hungry.
A new campus-wide printing system was installed at Elon University this summer, intending to make the printing process more efficient. Even though users haven’t asked for help from Campus Technology, some say the new system is difficult to navigate.
Beginning this month and for the first time, applicants to Elon University will be given the option to identify themselves as part of the LGBTQIA community on the admissions application.
To celebrate Central American independence, El Centro hosted a cultural jubilee outside Lakeside Dining Hall Monday evening.
Daniel Herr, nanoscience department chair at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, sees potential for better technology all around him, from the feet of a fruit fly to the DNA replication of his granddaughter.
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.
Depression claimed her prisoner and made her bed the cell.
A Physical Plant work request backlog has left Elon University students scattered across Danieley Center frustrated by failing facilities ranging from interior flooding to mold-covered ventilators.
Dining options are changing across many Elon dining halls and local restaurants.
Almost anywhere you go on campus, you see Campus Police or Campus Security cars. At times, it can be intimidating to have a police presence in residential areas but this year, Elon Campus Police wants to change their relationship with students.
Joe Incorvia addressed the Elon University student body for the first time Aug. 2, 2011, weeks before arriving in North Carolina to begin his freshman year. From his home in Connecticut, he asked the members of the Class of 2015 via a Facebook video how they wanted to be remembered and how they could use the resources at Elon to achieve their goals.
The Elon University Student Government Association will introduce a streamlined system for allocating funds to student organizations when budget hearings begin next semester.
As any student knows, Elon University prides itself on having a large and well-attended study abroad program, with 70 percent of students leaving the country at least once in their college career. But Mark Dalhouse, Elon’s new director of domestic programs for Study USA, said with the United States becoming more and more diverse, it has become its own global community. “One can have a global experience without ever leaving the country,” Dalhouse said. “It’s a mistake to think of the United States as homogenous.” Dalhouse joined Elon in June to become the new director of Study USA, which organizes programs like Elon in New York, Elon in LA and recent additions in Washington D.C. and Alaska. Prior to coming to Elon, Dalhouse was president of the Washington Internship Institute in D.C., and before that, he was dean of active citizenship and service at Vanderbilt University, where he also taught American history. “Study USA seemed like exactly the type of hybrid position I had experience in,” he said. “I’ve had a foot in the classroom and in student affairs administration over the course of my 23 years in higher education.” Dalhouse is replacing Study USA’s first director, Phil Smith, who Dalhouse said left a lot of the infrastructure for the program behind. And it’s the newness of the program that Dalhouse said attracted him to the director position. “Study USA is a relatively new program, so it’s got a lot of room to grow,” he said. Among the changes Dalhouse has planned is an expansion of both Winter Term Study USA programs and a new fall semester for Elon in New York. There are also a number of new courses planned across the United States. They include a course where students visit the various sights affected by 9/11, a course exploring the First Amendment and its meaning in the modern world, a course in New Orleans to see how the city is doing 10 years after Hurricane Katrina and a course in Iowa during the presidential caucus. “I’d like to see students go to Iowa, work with whatever organization they want and see history be made ahead of the 2016 elections,” Dalhouse said. Part of Dalhouse’s hopes with Study USA is to not only expand the program into cities other than New York City, L.A.and D.C., but also to show students that internship opportunities exist there beyond the typical communications and political science positions. For example, Dalhouse talked about the possibilities for international studies majors to intern at the United Nations in New York City, education majors in Los Angeles and students interested in non-profits and strategic communications in D.C. “Not a lot of students know this, but D.C. has some of the best internships as far as experience, and they are very eager for Elon students in the spring and fall semesters,” he said. Going further, Dalhouse talked about the possibilities for using the Study USA office to strengthen the intellectual climate of Elon with annual or biannual trips, like one Dalhouse is working on in Selma, Alabama to look at the Voting Rights Act after 50 years. What Dalhouse stressed overall with Elon’s study programs is that, both abroad and domestically, Elon is trying to provide students with opportunities to get as much out of a globalized world as possible. “The world current students are growing up in is very different from the one we knew before,” he said.
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.
As technology improves, the world continues to change at an exponential rate. To keep up with a world forever changed by computing power, Elon University’s Love School of Business is altering the courses and curriculum for the new school year to teach students how to solve problems and analyze data. The business school is offering seven new courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, to instruct students in data analysis. The courses are not restricted to any particular business major. Raghu Tadepalli, dean of the Love School of Business, said employers across the board are looking for potential employees who can handle data. “We are coming up with career tracks in analytics to prepare students for any field,” Tadepalli said. The increasing importance of data has created, as Tadepalli put it, a new set of skills that have to be learned alongside traditional business training in order to stay relevant in the modern world. “Nowadays, there’s so much data, thanks to the availability of computers,” he said. “Students need to not just write and speak well.” Another change coming to the business school this year is a revision of the entrepreneurship curriculum to focus less on how to start a business and more on how to “think like an entrepreneur.” “An entrepreneur needs to be able to deal with unstructured issues,” Tadepalli said. “Let’s say you need to tackle a problem in your work. No one is going to tell you how to fix it. You need to be a problem solver.” Caralea Prentice, a sophomore Business Fellow at Elon, said she thinks the additional courses are a responsible change. “I think that it is natural for the focus of business education to evolve over time and to push students to learn skills that are of increasing importance to future employers,” Prentice said. The new emphasis on teaching data analysis to students comes from feedback Tadepalli said he has heard from employers who will give problems and assignments in interviews to see if potential hires have what it takes. “What employers now want to know is not just what you know, but for you to show what you know,” he said. Prentice said the job market she and other business students are looking at requires critical thinking skills and practical technical knowledge in things like Microsoft Excel and data analysis. “Students should be pushed to develop less easily defined skills, like strong leadership, productive teamwork and critical thinking,” she said. With this new entrepreneurship curriculum, students can take courses in any discipline and still develop problem-solving skills. Tadepalli said this is the first time entrepreneurship students have been able to take outside courses that count toward their major. This new system is working toward the goal of making students think like entrepreneurs. “There are certainly students in the business school with different priorities, and a well-rounded education should be expected at a liberal arts school,” Prentice said. He added that this new focus reiterates the teaching that entrepreneurs must figure out how to reduce, not engage in, risky behavior in business.
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.”
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.
Elon University welcomed freshmen, transfer students and their families with New Student Convocation Aug. 23. Keeping with tradition, the ceremony took place Under the Oaks.