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Getting to know SGA's president elect

Avery Steadman, figure skating enthusiast, accounting major, and newly elected SGA President. Steadman was raised in Buffalo, N.Y., where she acquired a passion for figure skating. "When we moved to Buffalo, I needed to get involved in something.

Changing majors leads to added stress

At the end of my first semester as a freshman at Elon University, I was overwhelmed with campus opportunities.

Voices of Elon: Bethany Beckham

Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Bethany is an ambitious freshman at Elon University. After only one semester on campus, she is the president of the latest all-female a cappella group, Shirley Tempos.

Housing prices should reflect housing quality

Inside an Elon snow day

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.

Chi Upsilon Sigma promotes inclusivity, women empowerment

The road to bring a new sorority to campus is a long one. After a push from students, Chi Upsilon Sigma, Elon University’s only Latina sorority, has emerged. While 38 percent of female undergraduates are involved in a Greek organization, some women felt that they did not belong in any of the nine pre-existing sororities that make up Elon ’s Panhellenic Council (PHC). The start of a Latina sorority was just a thought for students and is now the introduction of Chi Upsilon Sigma is being celebrated.

Elon’s Mansfield opens for ‘SNL’s’ Pedrad

Life may be tough, but Powell Mansfield can still find the humor in it. As a child, he performed dance shows for his friends and relatives.

Guy Harvey awarded for entrepreneurship

Elon University awarded the Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership to Guy Harvey in a packed LaRose Digital Theatre Monday night.

Eating disorder awareness week keys on intervention

Freshman Rachel Kauwe has struggled with anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder since childhood. Coming from a broken family, Kauwe has had anything but an easy upbringing.

Students, employers face challenges with internship hiring process

The number of Elon students completing internships or co-ops has significantly increased over time, though there have been some growing pains. According to the Elon Career Center, 55 percent of graduating seniors from 1993-94 participated in at least one for-credit internship or co-op.

Elon's second annual TEDx offers practical solutions to change

Elon University’s second-annual TEDx pushed the ideal that changing the world starts with the individual. Nearly 125 students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Yeager Hall Feb.

Elon registration process to switch to 24/7 model

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.

Doctors’ Orders: In memory of squirrels past

Doctor's Orders is a weekly satirical column in which two unprofessional, definitely fake doctors offer up prescriptions for their Phoenix patients.  Congratulations on surviving Icepocalypse 2015, now a time-honored Elon tradition.

Catching up with Luis Vargas

Luis Vargas stood at the finish line of the NCAA Men’s Cross Country championship on Nov. 22, 2014.

Phoenix football prepares for offseason

It is often said that winning comes in the offseason for many sports teams. It is the time that players build bonds with teammates and coaches and the previous seasons’ glories and failures are washed away and the team gets a clean slate. For the Elon University football team, the offseason is a time to improve in ways that are not accessible during the season. “Being here a year now, the players are more comfortable with the schemes in all three phases of the game,” said head coach Rich Skrosky.

Seniors making successful doubles combo for Elon

Seniors Brian Kowalski and Stefan Fortmann may have spent a lot of time together during the last four years, but this is the first season when they are sharing a court.

Housing prices should reflect housing quality

Correction: This article originally reported that Danieley, Global and Colonnades have disparate laundry facilities.

Snow does not alter University schedule on Tuesday, Feb. 24

Students and faculty woke up with an email from Vice President for Student Life Smith Jackson, informing them that the university would operate on its normal schedule, Tuesday, Feb.

Repairs underway on South Campus burst pipe

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. The lab, located in the Psychology and Human Services building, sustained extensive damage Feb.

Oscars 'Little Red Riding Hood' identified as an Elon student

STORY UPDATED 2/23/15 at 9:04 P.M. Dubbed "Little Red Riding Hood" by the media, the mysterious hooded figure prowling the red carpet at the Oscars Sunday night has been identified as Alyssa Shiller, an Elon University sophomore spending the semester in Los Angeles with the Elon in LA program.  After Shiller successfully photo-bombed star-studded attendees, including acclaimed actress Reese Witherspoon, and drew snickers from the crowd, the Internet buzzed with questions of who she was and why she was there.