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(02/26/15 1:00am)
Contrary to popular belief, Smith Jackson, vice president for student life, does not have the final say on when Elon University gets a snow day.
The power to close the university ultimately rests with Steven House, university provost, and Gerald Whittington, senior vice president for business, finance and technology.
But they rely on a lot of help — from Physical Plant, Elon University Police and the input of a slew of other campus departments and organizations.
As the provost gets each to weigh in, it’s not uncommon for House to hit the roads in the pre-dawn light and see for himself, according to Dan Anderson, vice president of university communications. Physical Plant workers and Elon University Police officers also beat the pavement to assess conditions early, he added.
“I think it’s our responsibility to make an informed decision about how to conduct the university’s business, and it’s important for every individual to take responsibility for themselves to get around safely,” Anderson said.
Though a late-arriving storm dumped a coating of snow and ice around campus Tuesday, the university opted to stay open, drawing the ire of certain students who said they ice-skated their way to class.
“I was really shocked that it wasn’t canceled,” said sophomore Taylor Hoerr., a former Pendulum staff member. “I went to ‘Sunrise Yoga’ this morning, and when we walked out, the paths weren’t cleared. I feel like they didn’t prepare at all, unlike last time.”
Unlike winter storm Octavia — which brought North Carolina plenty of warning before it hit last week — Tuesday’s wintry mix took the university by surprise.
By 6:47 a.m. Tuesday, when Jackson emailed campus, much less snow had fallen than would pile on during rush hour. Ideally, that email should be sent out around 6 a.m., Anderson said.
“What happened during the commute made it more slick than anyone would have anticipated,” Anderson said. “So, it’s not a flawless process to make this decision. Things change, and you can’t anticipate weather.”
Though no car accidents were initially reported around Elon, there were injuries, as well as some close calls.
“I was crossing the tracks near West End Apartments and lost control, slid into the curb and bounced off into the road,” said junior Lindsey Metcalf. “When I got out of the car to see if there was any damage, I almost slipped on the ice. I got back into my car, and another car making the same turn lost control and just barely stopped in time.”
For its part, Elon asks students, faculty and staff nervous about their commute to stay home, saying there will be no penalty for students who skip class out of safety concerns.
But not all students buy in.
“I feel like no teachers will uphold and respect it if you don’t make it to class,” Hoerr said.
The responsibility is actually with the individual student, not with the university, to make arrangements with the teacher, Anderson pointed out.
“Students should approach each teacher one-on-one, and I think faculty members will understand if they explain the particular situation,” he said.
Anderson added, “It always is a judgement call, and it’s always going to be second-guessed by people. Every school system in the world has the same issue.”
(02/25/15 6:55pm)
Drop/add — at least as current Elon University students know it — will soon be a thing of the past.
Beginning with the 2015 summer/fall registration period, the university’s registration process will switch to a 24/7 model in which students’ schedules can be swapped anytime.
It’s a move that has been in the works to minimize the impact of administrative red tape on student scheduling, according to Elon’s Registrar Rodney Parks.
“It’s definitely one we’ve been working on for a while,” Parks said. “Registration here at Elon was put in place at a time when Elon was a very different place, and it followed a very historic way of processing registration.”
That “historic way” gave upperclassmen a scheduling advantage by allotting them the earlier drop/add slots. Now, students will still have set registration times based on credit hours earned, but by not closing afterward, underclassmen ought to stand more of a chance at snagging coveted courses.
After the drop/add period begins later this spring, it will remain open until August 31 — except for a chunk of the summer from May 31 to August 11 to register incoming freshmen.
The registration change will not affect matriculating students, who will still be assigned courses by the university.
Elon would like to get to the point where freshmen can register themselves, Parks said, but it’s challenging for a school comprised of 78 percent of out-of-state students.
Pointing to his native University of Georgia, Parks said larger state schools are able to funnel incoming freshmen onto campus for registration over the summer. By squeezing advising appointments and an orientation of sorts into one day, it is possible for new students to have some say over their schedule, he said.
But that’s not a reality for Elon.
“We’re at this point in the process where they’re still being registered for a lot of first-year specific classes,” Parks said. “For some of these classes, we’re reserving seats specifically for first-years that we want them to be able to pick up.”
Over the course of this school year, the university has conducted networking tests to ensure its servers could handle the increase in students who could access drop/add at any time with the new policy.
It lengthened the process, but it was necessary to make sure the servers could handle the additional load without crashing and adding to students’ frustration, Parks said.
“You’ve certainly seen a ton of initiatives, so this is one of those that was in the line,” he said. “One of the things that students may not be aware of is that we have to make sure the technology is in place to handle the load of students.”
(02/24/15 3:38pm)
Cleanup is underway in the aftermath of a frozen pipe that burst in the attic of the neuroscience lab on South Campus last week, adding another item to Physical Plant's mounting weather-related to-do list.
(02/24/15 2:03am)
STORY UPDATED 2/23/15 at 9:04 P.M.
(02/21/15 10:45pm)
In an era in which the cost of college climbs higher and higher each year, Elon University recently delivered a bold statement with the rollout of its 2015-2016 fiscal year budget. Slashing the tuition increase to a 27-year low of 3 percent — down from last year’s 3.96 percent bump — the new spending plan was said by senior university officials to toe a hard line on the cost-quality conundrum.
(02/19/15 6:38pm)
Bigger and better does not the best campus make — despite what Elon University would have you think.
The latest in a series of dramatic transformations, plans for a new “Convocation Center,” a 5,000-seat stadium and gathering place, have been backed already by an $8 million donation. Heralded by Elon as a much-needed space for campus-wide conversations, the multi-use facility aims also to push the school’s struggling athletics to a place of prominence in its transition to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).
There is a much better use for that much money, but the sell is a much harder one. It requires focusing not on the present, not on the near future, but rather on what’s quite a ways down the road.
That $8 million should be invested in Elon’s endowment.
Part of the largest single donation in the university’s history — $12 million total — the targeted gift this school year by Elon parents Dwight and Martha Schar was heralded as a “historic investment in Elon’s future.”
The lack of sustainable financial support for that future is troubling.
To start, Elon is a tuition-dependent institution, meaning it relies almost exclusively on new students each year to pay the university’s day-to-day bills. That source looks to be reliable — so far, the school has executed its “slow growth” model quite well.
Endowments are targeted gifts, yes, but they become a reflection of the university’s priorities. The Schars didn’t dream up the Center. Elon did. They generously supported.
This reliance on tuition comes at the expense of financial aid. Take a trio of Elon’s self-identified peer and aspirant institutions: Davidson College, the University of Richmond and Wake Forest University. Now, take recent valuations of their respective endowments: $649 million, $2.02 billion and $1.06 billion.
Take Elon’s endowment: $191 million. To be fair, it has more than tripled since its 2005 valuation of $61.275 million. That’s not pocket change. That means something.
But shoring up the university’s financial security has long taken a backseat to cushioning its amenities. The “country-club effect” is an over-simplification, but not much of one. Sorry, High Point University, but we’re you in a book-smart sheep’s clothing.
Despite the buzz around Elon’s academic rise from a party school to a force to be reckoned with, the numbers don’t quite match up. Over the last decade, applications have swelled, but so has the acceptance rate.
At a time when most acceptance rates are the lowest ever — the result of aggressive marketing tactics from college admissions offices — Elon’s has gone in the opposite direction. It’s up a staggering 13 percentage points from 2005’s rate, to 54 percent this year.
We’re attracting more students. We’re not attracting better ones. And we’re attracting a lot of carbon copies of each other.
It all circles back to funding. The whitewashed campus — 82 percent so — is comfortable for students who know no different. It captivates prospective students for the wrong reasons. I know it — I was one.
Despite what I tell almost everyone, I didn’t choose Elon for its academic rigor or renowned communications program. I chose Elon because the grass was flawless and the people were beautiful, because it seemed to me the kind of place where nothing could go wrong.
Shallow? Yes. Shortsighted? Absolutely. But at least now I can admit it. And I know I’m not the only one.
For now, all the talk of improving intellectual climate and increasing the caliber of academics is just that — talk. There is no question that Elon has grown by academic leaps and bounds since President Leo Lambert took over and led the school into the national spotlight. He has provided the kind of vision and leadership that has taken Elon from a small regional college to a university with a national name to match.
But on what are we staking such progress? Is it architecture alone?
To be sure, the Convocation Center will work wonders for recruiting, a shimmering shrine to the basketball and volleyball teams. To be sure, the athletes — even the struggling men’s basketball team — deserve a better place to play than the half-century-old Alumni Gym. (That said, I’m not sold on doubling the capacity for a team that sells out only a handful of games each season.)
But, there’s more at stake here, and that’s a focus on the flashy. Elon has staked its reputation more on well-watered lawns than on those who walk them. From the hotel-like Global Neighborhood to the new admissions center of palatial proportions, the university has placed a premium on eye candy.
A Convocation Center would be nice, but it’s not what should matter most to this university at this time. If endowed with a standard 4.5 percent return, that $8 million would generate $360,000 in interest each year. That’s real money to make Elon more affordable, real money that says something.
As long as Elon remains a tuition-dependent university, what we say will never be what we mean. Unless we can see beyond buildings, we’ll lag always a step behind.
The true worth of a college education lies in the maturation of the diploma. Making sustainable funding the university’s top priority will, in time, deliver the best return on the investment of its students.
(02/12/15 6:52pm)
UPDATED: 1:52 p.m. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
(02/12/15 1:00pm)
The Student Government Association (SGA) recently announced the launch of a $200,000 initiative to further student innovation outside of the classroom.
The new endowed program, dubbed the “Acorn Fund,” is said to support projects that have a positive impact in the community — both nonprofit and for-profit business models are eligible.
Funding for the project came from SGA’s so-called “rollover fund,” or money left over at the end of each academic year. The same pool of capital created the “Fun Fund,” best known for bringing camels to campus on Wednesday — “Hump Day” — last spring.
“While there are many mechanisms of monetary support for students interested in undergraduate research and implementing events for the student body, SGA felt there was a need to provide financial support to individuals pursuing other projects and ideas,” wrote Executive President Joe Incorvia, a senior, in an email.
With any lump sum of money, though, there are bound to be questions about its regulation, said Kyle Porro, a sophomore SGA senator who helped lead the Acorn project. A rigid application process ought to ease student concerns, he added.
“They need to get their acts together,” Porro said. “They need to know this is a lot of money, and they need to document every single thing that they do.”
A consistent criticism of the “Fun Fund” and some other SGA initiatives has been the notion that student’s money could be spend more shrewdly or go to better use.
After taking in student activity fees, SGA distributes funds to organizations in a massive budget process in the beginning of the year. What’s left over after that can be drawn on from organizations that submit special, or one-time, allocation requests. What’s left over at the end of the year goes into SGA’s “rollover fund,” from which they are free to distribute as they see fit.
The “Acorn Fund,” then, does come from the tuition dollars of students — but some of it is tied up in those who have long since graduated. It can lead to misconceptions about how SGA’s budgeting process works, Porro said.
“When people say that this is their tuition dollars going into this, kind of, but it’s also money that has been sitting there and accumulating over the years,” he said.
Though the fund is still in its infancy, some ambitious students have already begun vising how to capture the funds. Junior Kellen Sorenson, along with his partner, junior Robert Paxton, have for some time now been devising a compostable gardening product that they believe will expedite the planting process for trees.
Already, the pair has secured funding from a first-place finish at the Elon-sponsored Triple Impact Challenge last fall, among other investment sources.
“Obviously, if you’re going to start up a company, you need a lot of funding to get going, and this seemed like a really good way to do that,” Sorenson said.”
Successful applicants should not expect to have to deal with much micro-managing on the behalf of SGA, according to Porro, who emphasized a need for minimal regulation after applicants are given grants from the fund. To him, and other members of the eight-person team who out the fund together, accountability is at the core of it all.
“I feel like if you or your group is ready to get into this type of thing, you realize that this is not only a lot of money but you want to make a business out of this,” he said. “You’re not expecting to have that money sit in your pocket. It’s a little different.”
That’s just fine to Sorenson and Paxton, who already have a clear vision and a concrete business plan. They’re only in need of the missing piece: funding.
“If we don’t get the Acorn fund, we would definitely be seeking another source of funding,” Sorenson said. “Especially for a startup, funding is everything, and it’s the most difficult thing. This sort of money isn’t easy to come by.”
Porro and the rest of SGA say they don’t want to get in the way of that kind of vision —but they do want to keep an eye on their investment.
“Since we didn’t want to be watching over them the whole time, we will probably have them come present to the Senate on an infrequent basis,” he said. “But we won’t be asking for weekly updates. It’s not going to be that intense. The thought is that the committee will have picked a group that will be on top of their game and they will not need our guidance — nor will they want our guidance, really.”
The fund, which will begin accepting applications this spring, is open to all majors and all students, save second-semester seniors.
“One thing we’ve really been emphasizing is that this is not a business school initiative,” Porro said. “We want to make sure that this is for any student that might have any interest for anything that might fall into this.”
(02/06/15 11:55pm)
A Town of Elon man was arrested near campus Friday on an array of charges, including possession of a stolen firearm and possession with intent to sell marijuana, according to the Alamance Narcotics Enforcement team.
(01/21/15 6:22pm)
They packed the room to the brim and then some, clogging the heavy air thick with loss, remembering a student, a brother, a friend.
(12/02/14 2:59am)
Dozens of demonstrators standing in solidarity with those in Ferguson, Missouri punctuated the holiday cheer of Luminaries at Elon University with the sharp sound of silence Monday evening. Those at the heart of the night’s events said they were brought together in the wake of the lack of an indictment from the police shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown in August.
(10/03/14 12:55am)
The best investment human beings can make is in one another, said the Pulitzer-prize winning, journalist-turned-something-more couple of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, at Elon University’s Fall Convocation 2014.
(10/01/14 3:34pm)
Uber has arrived at Elon University.
The nationally known ride-sharing service based in San Francisco recently expanded to 25 colleges and universities across the country, recognizing the untapped potential of college students who have places to go but no transportation of their own to make it happen.
Operated through a free mobile phone application available on both iPhone and Android operating systems, Uber uses GPS technology to pinpoint the locations of drivers and their passengers. Once a ride is requested through the app, an unoccupied driver picks up the passenger. The driver’s progress can be traced in real time, through a tiny car icon that meanders through streets en-route to pickup.
The latest section of the Piedmont Triangle to experience Uber, the university and the surrounding area, could use more in the way of reliable, affordable transportation, according to Uber spokesperson Taylor Bennett. The affordability comes into play on cross-campus hops. An Uber fare from Danieley Center to West End Terrace falls between $5 and $7, even less when split between up to four people for standard Uber vehicles, as allowed by the app.
So far students have seemed to agree. New Uber driver Billy Futch has grown his steady passenger base bit by bit since becoming a driver almost a month ago. The recently retired Town of Elon resident has been filling his days driving strangers, what he called a “welcome break” from the monotony of the television-fueled days that came before.
Though he was a bit apprehensive at first, the experience has been a good one for Futch, who said his passengers have been respectful and courteous.
Because all Uber drivers are independent contractors, each sets his or her own hours and schedules, which can vary week to week. Futch logs off the app and stops giving rides by 10 p.m. during the week. Weekends sometimes go a little later, depending on traffic.
Though the Internet is rife with Uber horror stories from drivers who pick up unruly, and often intoxicated, customers who wreak havoc on the interiors of vehicles, Futch hasn’t had such problems so far.
Averaging a couple of dozen rides each week, the new Uber driver’s only complaints have been with patrons who request a ride, then cancel, causing Futch to get in his car needlessly — not that he minds, much.
“I’m sitting right here watching TV, and when the phone goes off, I go,” he said, adding that the notifications from pending riders are more a cause of excitement than of annoyance.
And his customers have not just been students. Businessmen and professors on lunch breaks and commuters bound for Raleigh via Burlington’s train station have been added to a growing list of repeat patrons, in recent weeks.
Uber’s advantages — lower fares than cabs, drivers with thorough background checks and the sort of instant-gratification the service provides — help Futch’s business expand.
“I just want the kids to be comfortable,” Futch said. “I want to hold a conversation. I want to get them there safely and get repeat customers. It’s good for me, and it’s good for them.”
Known for fares cheaper than traditional cabs, largely due to a lack of regulatory fees from state and local agencies, the ride-sharing service has taken chunks of business from them.
But cost tends to even out over longer trips, which are expensive for Uber drivers who must make the trek back after dropping off customers. Burlington-based Golden Eagle Taxi Service, whose owner could not be reached for comment, charges a flat rate of $85 for a trip from Elon University to Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Uber, by comparison, starts at $87 for the 50-odd mile trip, and ranges up to more than $100.
Extensive safety features built into the service comfort weary first-time customers, of whom Futch has had many.
Before the ride, passengers can view their driver’s photo and see specifics on the vehicle that will be picking them up. All Uber-authorized vehicles must be from 2004 or newer, be mid-to full-sized and fit an “excellent condition” descriptor, though Uber does not inspect individual cars.
Unlike the cars that pick them up, Uber passengers and drivers are rated after each trip. On a one-to-five scale, both parties are graded in terms of courtesy and respect. Uber has drawn widespread criticism for allowing passengers to see driver ratings, but blocking the same passengers from seeing drivers’ ratings of them.
Rival ride-sharing services such as Lyft, which lets passengers see their own ratings, are causing more anxiety on the part of passengers and drivers seeking to raise their “score” through fake nice behavior, Bennett said.
“We’re trying to keep this as authentic as possible. When you have those scores, then there are efforts to manipulate those scores,” Bennett said.
Elon junior Brandon Coxall-Europe, who has been one of the early Uber adapters, said he wishes the service was a little more transparent, but he doesn’t think it’ll stop students from using it. Besides, drivers aren’t going to turn down easy money, he added.
“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Coxall-Europe said. “If a driver really wants to make some money, this is not New York or a huge market where they’re going to make lots. We’re in Burlingotn. If people really want to make some money, they’re going to pick you up, anyway.”
Futch, who likes to joke his new side job “keeps me out of my wife’s hair,” said the atmosphere in his car is a good one, often upbeat, always casually conversational.
But he knows he has a for-the-moment monopoly on the area, one he’s not willing to let slide without a fight.
“I really just enjoy this,” he said. “It’s not a full-time job. It’s not a way of life. But it keeps me busy, keeps me feeling a little younger. I don’t want to give that up.”
(09/30/14 11:18pm)
UPDATED: This story has been updated to include new information shared by the Delta Delta Delta house captain.
(09/22/14 11:03pm)
A grey Mitsubishi Lancer said to have been traveling at a "high rate of speed" collided with a silver Mazda 626 Monday evening at the intersection of Haggard and Oak Avenues.
(09/10/14 1:29am)
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.
(08/28/14 6:08pm)
Students parking near campus this year will face a heftier fine for violations and, in some areas, shorter parking times.
(08/22/14 1:29pm)
Under the guidance of a recently hired manager, Aramark has added new options in an effort to learn from last year’s mistakes — undercooked chicken, a moldy ice bin and a litany of other health code violations.
Pulkit Vigg, Aramark’s new resident district manager for Elon University, has been thinking big since he left a position at Mississippi State University and joined Elon last spring. Already, he’s announced the rollout of Argo Tea products in a new location in the new Global Commons, expanded hours at Qdoba Mexican Grill, planned round table-style eating at Acorn, added options to Green World (at Colonnades Dining Hall) and revamped the Varsity menu.
Qdoba will now be open from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, with a new 5-10 p.m. slot on Sunday nights. Vigg called weekend hours for Qdoba the “most-requested change.”
Varsity’s menu will have fewer restrictions on what constitutes a meal swipe. (Students in past years were limited to a half-dozen options with one swipe.)
In addition, Late Night McEwen is moving to a new home: downstairs in Varsity. A similar menu will be served, and the popular student fixture will remain accessible with an All Access swipe. The move is for the “safety of students and staff,” Vigg said, who added that the armchair area in front of the projector will be closed off during late night hours — which will remain the same: open until 3 a.m. Thursday-Saturday nights.
Junior Allie Kornaki who has a 300-block plan this year said she is not a fan of this particular switch.
“It just sounds weird to me,” Kornaki said. “I don’t think that it will be the same.”
Student feedback, Vigg said, is crucial to his goal of “getting as many students as humanly possible” on and content with the meal plan. Heather Krieger, Aramark’s marketing coordinator for Elon, declined to comment on the number of students with active meal plans, calling such figures proprietary information.
One suggestion Kornaki has for Aramark is to bring back breakfast at McEwen the closest dining hall to Historic Neighborhood residents. Last year, McEwen stopped serving breakfast when Lakeside Dinning Hall began serving it instead.
Twelve-thousand meals are served by Aramark each day at Elon. Growing that number requires regaining lost student trust, Vigg said, given campus concerns last year about not only the quality, but also of the safety of Aramark’s food.
Aramark’s food handling policies have not changed since last year; employees are still required to undergo first-week training and earn an Aramark “food handler certificate” before serving in any of Elon’s eateries. Mishaps, like last year’s widely-publicized incidents like poor sanitation codes, will not be tolerated, according to Vigg.
He promised to “show complete due diligence in earning the trust of students back” and establish a zero-tolerance policy for violators of food safety precautions.
But the food itself is just a starting point for Vigg, who said his No. 1 goal is to raise excitement by expanding food programming and “not just serve food, but serve food and service.”
Unwilling to give much away, Vigg hinted at more, better-executed, theme nights at dining halls — the likes of past Thanksgiving dinners and Cajun nights at Colonnades.
Neighborhood-by-neighborhood dining is the blueprint for Aramark now, with the goal of having students eat close to where they live. An added bonus, Vigg said, would be tying the meal plan into the campus’s intellectual climate, by fostering “conversation spaces” and slowing down the “assembly line” that can be often thought of as college dining.
After arriving at Elon, Vigg took a tour of local town eateries such as Pandora’s Pies and others in the surrounding Burlington area.
“I went to local restaurants and said, ‘These guys are going to be full. Why can’t we be full?’” Vigg said. “Our goal is to give [students] everything on campus that they can get off.”
The ambition comes at a time when colleges nationwide, Elon included, are more expensive than ever before. The total cost of an Elon education rose this year 3.69 percent to $41,914. Of that, the cost of a meal plan varies, but the All Access Basic plan — which all underclassmen living in dormitories, Danieley flats and the Loy Center are required, at a minimum, to purchase — runs students $5,436.00 for the year.
Students are not expected to shoulder much in terms of increased costs from added perks and eateries, according to Michael Bellefeuil, Aramark’s director of operations at Elon Universituy.
“We need help to renew faith and really bring options here to the next level,” Bellefeuil said.
There has been progress — a dining advisory committee was created by Bellefeuil and Vigg last spring, and they hope to expand by recruiting students to meet with Aramark to discuss what’s working and what isn’t, what students are still asking for and what the campus — dining manager is doing well.
But Vigg knows there’s still a ways to go to mesh what Elon dining is with what it could be.
“It’s not easy,” he said. “It’ll take a paradigm shift on campus to make it better. We’re taking baby steps and moving toward that goal.”
(05/18/14 7:08pm)
12,000 chairs, 190 workers, one Elon University graduation.
When more than 1,000 Elon seniors in the Class of 2014 graduate Under the Oaks on the morning of Saturday, May 24, hundreds of hours of work will have already gone into preparing for them to receive their diplomas.
Nearly 200 Physical Plant employees — both full-time and part-time — will play an active role in everything from hanging flower baskets to placing chairs with “military precision” under the shade of the oak trees according to Robert Buchholz, director of the physical plant.
“As exams are finishing up, we’re getting in and making sure everything looks bright and shiny for parents coming in and alumni to go through places that they have gone through before,” he said.
It was especially important for the groundskeepers to tend to Elon’s flowers and lawns after the past unusually harsh North Carolina winter paid its toll not only in canceled classes, but also in damages to the campus’ carefully-tended plants.
“It’s tough when there’s a rough winter,” Buchholz said. “It means the grass and everything else doesn’t start growing right away.”
Members of the Physical Plant’s grounds-crew began spreading grass seed and working on irrigation systems in March, before winter was really over.
To accommodate the friends, family members and other well-wishers of the Class of 2014, Physical Plant places more than 1,000 chairs for commencement. Workers began setting up on Reading Day, which was Wednesday, May 14, to ensure the chairs are ready for the ceremony Saturday.
At the same time, regular Physical Plant operations — checking trash cans and bathrooms during the day and cleaning high-traffic areas — remain underway with a three-shift system that covers all 24 hours in a day.
It’s important to maintain day-to-day chores, Buchholz said, because the university doesn’t have much of a break after commencement before summer students move in, as well as some of those studying for the North Carolina Bar Exam or their MBA certification through the university.
Immediately following commencement, Physical Plant employees will move in and begin breaking down many of the chairs set out to provide a smaller venue for the Elon University School of Law’s own graduation ceremony later that same day.
In the parking lot outside Whitley, limited, reserved parking is available for handicapped persons attending commencement. In addition, Physical Plant employees will be operating a shuttle system of bus and golf cart cycles to accomdate visitors who park farther from the area Under the Oaks.
Those seeking accommodations can contact the Physical Plant at any time before Saturday, though the spaces available are limited, and the reserved parking spaces tend to fill up fast.
(05/09/14 4:07pm)
Vineyard Vines. Brooks Brothers. And now, Coastal Prep.