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@TheElonD, one of Elon University’s many anonymous Twitter accounts, appears to have been deactivated today in the wake of a controversy sparked by one of its tweets.
It is undeniable that springtime is an amazing time of year. The trees are full, the flowers blossom and the weather is perfect for a stroll around the park. Students and faculty members have spoken, and here are the top five aspects of spring:
The Student Government Association at Elon University has received fewer applications for its SGA Scholarship than last year, which was the first year the scholarship was offered. Last year, more than 100 students applied for the scholarship, but this year, less than 50 have applied. The deadline has not yet closed.
On-campus housing at college has historically been structured according to traditional gender norms, with boys and girls in separate rooms or separate buildings. But students at Elon University and other North Carolina colleges seek to change that.
The Numen Lumen Pavilion, located in the Academic Village at Elon University, is now open to students and other Elon community members. The pavilion was designed to support all religions and levels of spirituality.
Elon University recently established a partnership with the Peace Corps to better prepare students for the rigors of the program and the prospect of working abroad.
Thursday’s SGA meeting was Darien Flowers’ final meeting as executive president. Flowers thanked the Senate, his fellow executive board members and SGA adviser Jana Lynn Patterson for the work they’ve done throughout the past year and encouraged those remaining on SGA next year to keep up the great work.
Guest lecturer Bryan Alexander tackled the effects of technology on academia in his “Digital Humanities” talk March 6. Alexander focused on how social media and other technologies are reinventing the humanities for scholars, professors and students alike.
On March 7, Jill LePore, Harvard University professor, author and writer for "The New Yorker" gave a speech in Elon University’s Whitley Auditorium titled “The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death” in which she used various iterations of the board game “Life” to talk about how one contemplates life and death in society. In addition to teaching at Harvard, LePore has written many acclaimed books, including her 2005 piece, "New York Burning," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays have appeared in various scholarly journals and her current project, a biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister, Jane Franklin Mecom, will be released later this year. “This is a story about the history of life and death,” LePore said as she began her talk. The story she is referring to is the evolution of “The Game of Life,” a game that is centuries old, but popularized by Milton Bradley in 1860 when he invented “The Checkered Game Of Life.” Prior to Bradley’s invention, other forms of the game existed with names like “The New Game of Life” and “The Mansion of Happiness,” both of which were popular in the early 1800s in America and the United Kingdom. Throughout the years since Bradley’s first version of the game, the Milton Bradley Company has released various adaptations of the game: a centennial version in 1960, and updated versions in years as recent as 2007. “The aim of these were to teach morals and values of life to those playing the game,” LePore said. “These games are like time capsules and tell us something about how people thought life should be lived at that time.” The audience in a mostly full Whitley Auditorium was thoroughly engaged throughout the nearly hour-long presentation, responding to LePore's talk with laughs and applause when appropriate. LePore’s biggest question was, “Why did Milton Bradley invent the game the way he did, when he did?” She deduced that Bradley’s ideas about life itself could be found in “The Checkered Game of Life.” His game was a reflection of the values of the 1860s, and each additional adaptation reflected the values of those respective times. LePore is visiting Elon through the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars program, which invites renowned scholars to visit college campuses where Phi Beta Kappa chapters are located. Visiting scholars such as LePore spend two days on the campus, visiting classes and giving one address which is open to the public. “[Milton Bradley] took a game and turned it into the story of America,” LePore said. “It is a game of destiny, of the human condition.”
Recyclemania at Elon University is now a competition. Though the university has participated in the national program each February for the past seven years, it has never before competed for rankings.
Standing outside one’s dorm building in nothing but pajamas and slippers at 3 a.m. is a memory shared by many Elon University students. It is not uncommon for several fire engines to appear on Elon University’s campus in the early hours of the morning, or anytime during the day, in response to false fire alarms, and the Elon Fire Department is getting annoyed.
Gov. Pat McCrory recently sparked a debate among educators when he claimed certain liberal arts degrees from public universities are not economically viable in the long run. He said such majors should be offered exclusively at private schools, sparking indignation among many members of the Elon University community.
Sequestration, gun control and the state legislature constituted the questions in the most recent Elon Poll, which released results March 1 and March 4. The live-caller telephone poll of 891 residents was conducted Feb. 24-28, and the results have a margin of error of 3.28 percentage points.
The North Carolina Supreme Court voted 3-3 this month on a North Carolina Court of Appeals ruling that North Carolina Public Records Law is not applicable to state-commissioned police departments of private universities within the state. The tied vote leaves the appellate court ruling undisturbed.
In the wake of the Great Recession, North Carolina borrowed funds from the federal government to pay for the citizens’ unemployment insurance. Now, the state is cutting benefits to help pay back that debt.
On July 3, 2011, a grisly murder occurred in Wayland, Mass. Nathaniel Fujita, now 20, beat, strangled and slashed to death Lauren Astley, then 18. She was expected to enroll at Elon University that fall.
The room was packed Feb. 25 as L.D. Russell, a religious studies professor at Elon University, delivered a presentation on the relationship between music and spirituality and how both give meaning to human lives.
Students are saying goodbye to traditional homework as “flipped classrooms” attract national attention.
Elon University freshman Caroline Bauer was hit by a car on East Haggard Avenue at 3:23 p.m. today. Sue Ellen McKinney, a Burlington resident, was driving.