Tuition Rise Affects Students and their Families
There's always something else to pay for. With room and board, textbooks, meal plans and tuition payments, Elon University students and their families are persistently being presented with bills.
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There's always something else to pay for. With room and board, textbooks, meal plans and tuition payments, Elon University students and their families are persistently being presented with bills.
SGA candidates presented their speeches Thursday Feb. 17 regarding their platforms and ambitions for the university. The majority of the speakers belonged to the class of 2014. No one from the class of 2013 spoke, and the two candidates for senior class president addressed the study body.
The first issue of an undergraduate research journal titled Perspectives on Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (PURM) will be released in Oct. 2011.
1. Examine the text of the original Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell bill. Do you agree with it?
One of the four functions of a newspaper is to serve as the watch-dog of the government. The recent apology letter from Taylor Martin, SGA executive president, criticized student media coverage of SGA happenings. In response, this week's editorial vowed to provide more information regarding the accomplishments of the student government association. As a beat reporter for SGA, my role involves reporting on meetings and any stories related to student government and fulfilling The Pendulum's promise.
1. Take a look at this great resource from CBS News for some of the details of the bill, including the cost, proposed coverage and effect on Medicare.
At the Jan. 24 Elon University budget forum, the budget committee proposed a salary pool of two percent, which will go toward raises for faculty and staff members.
If you are a student or faculty member at Elon University, chances are you have at least caught the drift that the school has been positioning itself to lower its carbon footprint-- Elon, like many others, is going green.
By Michael Hermanson
Here at Elon, one of the main goals of the administration is to make students "global citizens." I'm not really positive what they mean by that, but if they want students to be concerned about the world around them, both on a public and personal level, I think they've done a pretty good job. The current unrest in Egypt has had an impact here, an ocean and most of a continent away from the African nation (which is being discussed on the media as more of a Middle-Eastern state).
Too bad money doesn't grow on trees.
After my second-ever production night, I can’t even begin to fathom how newspapers were printed back when type had to be set by hand. Fixing mistakes must have been a pain. Even tonight, with just a few pages of news, each batch of edits brought new changes which often involved tweaking the page design to accommodate one or two more words here and there. I would not have enjoyed laying out an article letter-by-letter only to notice a misspelling that meant realigning an entire section.
Each New Year, people around the country make resolutions to lose weight, get fit and become healthier. Students at Elon University are no different. The result? Gym and fitness center traffic increases dramatically after students return to campus for winter term.
The ice is on the ground and our classes have, yet again, been delayed. I spent my entire MLK holiday in the basement of McEwen, working on a project until it was dark. However time consuming, the beauty of winter term is that we can all be more focused (well, a lot of us).
In transitioning from fall to spring semester, the Bursar's office is responsible for compiling information concerning grade distributions and grade point averages. Despite slight decreases in comparison to the 2010 spring semester, during the 2010 fall semester 25 percent of all grades awarded were A’s while 12.8 percent were B’s, bringing the standard grade point average to 3.17.
By Michael Hermanson
By Michael Hermanson
Its that time of year again! Malls and retail stores across the country will be filled with shoppers hoping to find all items on their holiday wish lists. Well...hopefully. This week in The Pendulum, I wrote a story discussing Alamance County retailers' high hopes for holiday sales this year.
Here at Elon, we have a program called "Burst the Bubble." During our three-week long Winter Term, students can sign up to actually teach their fellow students. This week in The Pendulum, I did a short piece about the program, in anticipation of next semester's courses being announced.
You can click on the Issuu link on the side. Or check out the website. Here's a view of the front page: