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(01/22/14 4:10am)
Eight years and hundreds of interviews later, an award-winning journalist visited Elon University Tuesday night to share his ground-up rendering of South Africa’s story since the Nelson Mandela-led revolution ceded the spotlight.
(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.
(01/20/14 1:05am)
The recently selected 2014-2015 common reading selection, William Kamkwamba’s “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” is designed to show incoming students the world through the eyes of a boy growing up in third world Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest countries.
(01/15/14 11:51pm)
Following a disappointing December that saw job creation fall to a three-year low, President Barack Obama visited North Carolina State University (NCSU) Wednesday to announce a $150 million public-private partnership to fund the future of energy-efficient electronic chips and devices.
(01/06/14 2:57am)
Rev. John G. Truitt Jr., a graduate in the class of 1953, died Saturday at the age of 81. He died after a long battle with illness, according to Elon University Communications.
(12/09/13 8:00am)
Christopher Carrie loves rolling up his sleeves and streaking his arms with dirt to tend to his beloved camellias and crocuses, some of the flowers growing in his garden in the shadows of the Great Smoky Mountains. But after washing his hands, the professional landscaper can often be found inside tapping his fingers on the keyboard, waiting for his gardening blog to load.
(11/22/13 9:49pm)
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, two special allocations and an amendment to the elections procedures packet passed in the Senate.
(11/05/13 7:30am)
One rocky month into the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, a health care forum in McKinnon Hall found the issue far from settled on Monday.
(10/26/13 5:56pm)
After graduating from Elon University five years ago, Ian Baltutis ’08 never left Burlington. And he’s now trying to unseat incumbent Ronnie Wall as the next mayor of Burlington.
(10/23/13 1:13pm)
Elon University students are really into weird things.
(10/09/13 7:25pm)
The polarization of American government has left the confines of Congress and taken to the streets, Jason Husser, assistant professor of political science at Elon University and assistant director of the Elon Poll, said in a panel discussion in Lindner Hall Oct. 8.
(10/04/13 12:55am)
Before Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak revolutionized the world of personal computing with the Apple II in 1977, he was a self-described introverted geek, social loner and college dropout. But Wozniak had a lot of ideas from a brain that works a little differently than most people's, he said Oct. 3 at Elon University’s Fall Convocation and the school’s 125th anniversary in Alumni Gym.
(09/21/13 6:15pm)
This December will be the last chance for North Carolina teachers pursuing master’s degrees to earn a pay increase for earning one. As a result of legislation passed in the North Carolina state budget in July, pay for teachers with advanced degrees next year will match their colleagues who have bachelor’s degrees.
(09/16/13 2:14pm)
Designs for the construction and renovation of the McEwen School of Communications at Elon University have been finalized, though some specifics of the new building remain undecided.
(09/12/13 1:08pm)
A panel of experts came together Sept. 11 at Elon University to discuss the alleged use of chemicals weapons ordered by Syrian President Bashar Assad and what the United States, and the world, should do about the ongoing conflict there.
(09/11/13 3:35pm)
Town Table and Taphouse served their last meals and poured their last beers at the end of this summer, leaving many to question the viability of doing business in downtown Elon at a time when the area’s most consistent customers — Elon University students — leave campus deserted.
(09/09/13 3:17am)
Elon University held a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday for Biscuitville, the newest addition to Lakeside Dining Hall’s Winter Garden Cafe.
(08/27/13 8:47pm)
Though most Elon University students scattered for the summer at the end of the last school year, the campus was far from quiet during the summer months. The shouts of students were replaced by the whirring of power tools as several buildings sprang up and older facilities were renovated throughout campus.
(08/12/13 8:59pm)
This fall, Elon University students awaiting a package may be surprised not to find a white slip of paper in their university mailbox that formerly notified them of a new package. Instead, students will now be notified of package arrivals through their Elon email account.
(07/08/13 4:15am)
In some capacity, I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. I penned my first story in the first grade, a thriller featuring two snakes duking it out over a tasty fly at the top of a “really big rock.” (Spoiler alert: The fly makes a last-second escape.)