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The lobby of a local Honda dealership has seen hundreds of Burlington residents in recent days. Though the location is typically filled with individuals interested in purchasing or repairing a car, many are there for another reason: to drop off strollers, suitcases, sleeping bags and other everyday essentials.
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It all started with joining a football team in the third grade for Lauryn Carlton. The strength Carlton built up from the sport followed her throughout high school as she continued to be successful on the field. But when she received a phone call from Elon track and field coach Laura Iguane during her junior year, she didn’t know that football would lead her to be on another field — throwing discus, shot put and hammer in track and field.
It all started with a pack of press-on nails. Burlington resident Tori Mitchell began running around Tucker Street offering manicures to her neighbors. This love for painting nails landed Mitchell first job straight in a salon in East Burlington when she was 17 years old. Now Mitchell, 45, serves as the founder and CEO of Nail Fiendz Nail Institute, a nail tech school that provides skills and experiences for local residents.
Driving down North Graham Hopedale Road in Burlington, Seneca Rogers passes by the former Western Electric Company-Tarheel Army Missile Plant. Rogers, who is currently running for Alamance Board of Education, hopes that the area can one day turn into something else — a Black community space.
It’s been over 16 years since Jim Merrill walked down the halls of Alamance Burlington School System as the superintendent. Now, after serving in three other school districts and an official retirement, Merrill returns to ABSS this year as the interim superintendent.
Elon University’s Healthy Committee announced that the indoor mask policy will remain effective during Winter Term and January 2022. Students, employees and visitors must continue to wear masks in indoor campus spaces, except when alone in a private office, in a residence hall or apartment, or while eating or drinking.
Criminal justice studies, an interdisciplinary study that draws on the expertise of several departments across campus providing an educational foundation in the realms of crime and justice, won “Best Minor.”
Correction: In a previous version of this article, Professor of Strategic Communications Michele Lashley's name was spelled incorrectly. Elon News Network regrets this error.
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Alva Sizemore walked through the town of Elon Fire Department Station No. 8 in 1976 when he was a senior in high school. Little did he know that he would become the first full-time paid fire chief for the town of Elon in 2015.
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Kate Shugar drives two hours from Hickory, North Carolina to Elon every Tuesday and Thursday morning. When she’s not commuting, she’s teaching at a dance studio in Hickory or working as a virtual tutor. This is Shugar’s life as an adjunct professor in Elon’s performing arts department.
Senior Emily Wilbourne spent the summer dancing in Busan, South Korea. Studying Seungmu, a national Korean folk dance, Wilbourne combined her interreligious studies and dance minors with the Multifaith Scholars program, where she conducted interviews on how a dance that was initially performed by Buddhist monks came to be a widely performed cultural presentation.
La sensación de estar limitada a una identidad siempre estuvo presente para Cici Salazar a medida que crecía. Marcando casillas en cualquier aplicación que preguntara sobre la raza y la etnia, la primera pregunta que siempre tuvo que responder fue: ¿Eres hispano/latino? Pero esos dos términos no fueron suficientes para describir las culturas y orígenes reales no sólo para ella, sino también para otros miembros Hispanos y Latinxs.
Checking off boxes in any application that asked about race and ethnicity, the first question junior Cici Salazar always had to answer was ‘are you Hispanic/Latino?’ But those two terms weren’t enough to describe the actual cultures and backgrounds for not only her, but for others who either identified as Hispanic or and Latinx.
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