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NEWS 10/23/13 10:45pm

Elon student body, where are you?

By Matt Krause

Elon University, hold the excuses. I don’t want to hear them. Your poor showing at last week’s football game against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has angered me. “Oh, it was raining and cold, that wouldn’t be comfortable in my sorority sundress,” says the general female population of Elon University. “Dude, that bro Johnny Manziel was on TV, so were the Red Sahx, and besides, dude, we're bad,” says the general Elon fraternity brother. “I don’t even like football, I prefer musical theater,” says another general population of Elon. I said, hold the excuses.

NEWS 10/23/13 9:05pm

Alexis Gray permitted to remove electronic monitoring device

By Katherine Blunt

The Alamance County District Court today granted Alexis Gray permission to remove the electronic monitoring device she has been required to wear since December 2012, when she was charged with felony possession of a firearm on Elon University's campus. Gray is awaiting her trial, which is scheduled for Dec.

NEWS 10/23/13 9:04pm

Alexis Gray Update

By jbruno

ELN first broke the news that an Alamance County Judge lifted Alexis Gray's requirement to wear an electronic monitoring device, and Vice President of Student Life Smith Jackson has now emailed the school about it. "Ms. Gray's attorney requested the requirement of the monitoring device be lifted to alleviate her expense for the device and to allow her to move forward with her educational and career pursuits," Jackson said. Jackson's email added Gray is currently at her Holland, PA home and is facing a felony charge for possession of a weapon on a college campus. Last November, Campus Police pulled over Gray's vehicle and found a rifle in her car.

NEWS 10/23/13 3:16pm

State Fair comes to town

By lcook8

Step right up, step right up - to the North Carolina State Fair. The annual event has changed since it first opened in 1853, but the atmosphere hasn't.

NEWS 10/23/13 3:01pm

The best way ever to start a World Series

By Andrew Wilson

The World Series has not even started yet, but for fans of any other team in baseball, such as myself, or namely any other fan hating the Boston Red Sox for that matter, the World Series has already had its best moment. “Rookies” is an application that can create personalized baseball cards.

NEWS 10/23/13 9:13am

Skeptic Magazine founding publisher’s Whitley talk hits capacity, students locked out

By Michael Bodley

Elon University students are really into weird things. So many students, in fact, that the doors were closed and locked 15 minutes before Skeptic Magazine founding publisher Michael Shermer’s talk on weird things was set to begin in Whitley Auditorium Tuesday evening. As students swarmed the front steps of the auditorium, they were met with the refrain, “We’re at capacity.

NEWS 10/22/13 11:02pm

Katy Perry Debuts New Album

By sbarry4

There are few things an Elon student loves more than a hit song coming from Katy Perry. With her new album, "Prism", Elon students now have 15 new hits to listen to.

NEWS 10/22/13 10:43pm

Raw Chicken Served in Lakeside Dining Hall

By nchadwick

Complaints about Elon's dining services continue; the most recent one at Lakeside Dining Hall. "It was so gross." Jessica Trinidad cut into an unexpected dinner last week at Lakeside Dining Hall. "They gave it to me and when I was cutting into it, it was completely raw on the inside," Trinidad said. An Aramark worker served her raw chicken and when Trinidad brought it back, she was even more surprised by the response. "She responded with she already knew," Trinidad said.

NEWS 10/22/13 10:15pm

Piercing for a Cause

By cshegda

Elizabeth Jinx is a piercer at Inferno Ink Tattoo. "I have 155 of them, and I can tell you the meaning of each one," Jinx said. Each of Jinx's tattoos mean something to her.

NEWS 10/22/13 9:51pm

Go for the music, not the Instagrams

By Alex Jakaitis

For the majority of the kids who attended my high school, the beginning of August was consistently defined by a single, memorable juggernaut of an event: Lollapalooza. Living in a Chicago suburb, I would’ve been considered insane to miss out on the annual weekend – happening nearly in my backyard – that always marked the steady and miserable countdown to the back-to-school blues.

NEWS 10/22/13 9:49pm

Culture Shock

By Karina Pepe

“Culture shock: a feeling of confusion, doubt or nervousness caused by being in a place (such as a foreign country) that is very different from what you are used to.” –Merriam-Webster Dictionary

NEWS 10/22/13 5:45pm

A Historical Twist on Halloween

By mmurray16

You don't have to go to a cornfield to get spooked this October. The Haunted Forest Reborn is a Halloween trail right here in Burlington. You can find clowns, monsters, vampires and plenty of scares all in owner April Tate's backyard.

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NEWS 04/14/2026 11:10am
Burlington man charged with 20 additional charges of solicitation, sexual exploitation of a minor

A Burlington man, who worked at The Oak House coffee shop in downtown Elon as an assistant manager as of March 2026, has been charged with 10 additional charges of solicitation of a child by a computer and dissemination to a minor under 16 years of age, alongside 10 charges of sexual exploitation of a minor after initially being arrested March 5. The dissemination charges date back to November 2025. 

NEWS 04/14/2026 9:36am
Elon University’s Student Government Association updates finance bylaws

Elon University’s Student Government Association’s finance board has updated the finance bylaws. Finance bylaws are updated every year. The finance board reviews notes made throughout the year on the current bylaws and reviews ideas the board has come up with which could be added to the bylaws. After reviewing, the vice president of finance, the finance board, the SGA senate and the rest of the executive council will have the opportunity to suggest changes. 

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