Elon businesses thrive, survive in Valentine's Day winter weather
As snow swept through the Triad area on Feb.
As snow swept through the Triad area on Feb.
Church Street in Burlington is no stranger to local businesses. New stores and restaurants seem to open monthly, but many of them go out of business just as fast.
While many students prepare to enter the work force, some will be submitting another kind of application: graduate school applications.
GREENSBORO — It may have been a tale of two halves for the Elon University men’s basketball team at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Feb.
For the second time in three games, the Elon University softball team was beaten by Campbell University. The first time was a low-scoring, hotly-contested game in Florida at the Hatter Invitational in DeLand, Fla., This time, the Camels held the Phoenix offense in check while breaking out themselves for a convincing 9-2 win in Buies Creek, N.C. Campbell jumped on Elon right away in the bottom of the first.
The Elon University men’s golf team began its 2014 spring season at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate Feb.
A female student reported a man exposing himself to her around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18 near the intersection of O'Kelley and Haggard Avenues, according to an email sent by Smith Jackson, vice president for student life. The student reported the incident to Elon Town Police.
2014 was rung in with excitement, resolutions and an unexpected cold front. This winter season has been unseasonably cold in North Carolina, and authorities have had to go the extra mile to combat the frigid temperatures and snow. Temperatures in Raleigh reached the single digits this winter for the first time since 2000, only 18 degrees away from the record low of -9 degrees.
When it comes to downtown Elon, Alderman Mark Greene said it isn't about the students. "If you build downtown for the students, it will fail," Greene said.
Whether you spent this Valentine’s Day showering your loved one with chocolate and flowers, gathering the courage to ask someone on a first date or lounging around in your pajamas and preaching singles awareness, one thing is certain: Valentine’s Day is what you make of it. This year, a group of Elon University students decided that, rather than channeling their love towards their significant others, they would share the love with hundreds across the community with the Flower Project. In the spirit of sharing love, the Flower Project is an initiative that strives to give women in difficult circumstances in Alamance County a reason to smile by providing them with flowers this Valentine’s season. Freshman Chloe Allen, project pioneer, said a guest-speaker who visited her Winter Term human services class inspired the idea. “A woman with a background in family abuse services came to talk to us about her experience working at the battered women’s shelter,” Allen said.
Classes were canceled, and Elon University’s Young Commons was blanketed in snow. Within a matter of seconds, what was once a quiet scene of fresh snowfall became a full-fledged battlefield, and white balls of fluff were flying in every direction.
The recent snow storm didn’t just cancel classes at Elon University. The Phoenix men’s basketball team was forced to reschedule its game at Furman University and rework its practice schedule due to the weather conditions.
Elon University head football coach Rich Skrosky uttered the phrase “Embrace the Grind” at his first press conference on the job. Since taking over in December, Skrosky has faced a grind of his own to begin the overhaul of the Phoenix program, which now uses that same phrase as its mantra. Having spent a little more than two months at the helm, Skrosky has worked his way through three major tasks that awaited him upon his arrival. First, with Elon being his first head coaching job in more than 20 years, Skrosky assembled a staff of assistant coaches.
While coming from behind is something that’s not foreign to the Elon University baseball team, the hole it dug itself Feb.
Elon Campus Police are investigating a potential indecent exposure incident that occurred on Tuesday, February 18 at the intersection of Haggard and O'Kelly Avenues. According to the police report, a female Elon student witnessed a male driver in a silver Nissan Titan expose himself. The driver asked the female a question, according to an email sent by Vice President of Student Life Smith Jackson. "As she approached the truck she saw the man was exposing himself," Jackson said.
The Town of Elon has proposed a new revitalization plan that would restructure the eight-block area known as downtown Elon. The plan calls for the construction of 10 mixed-use buildings, six residential buildings, an office space and a civic/hospitality space. The first floor of the mixed-use buildings will house retails and restaurants, while the upper floors will serve as either offices or residential spaces depending on the building.
In terms of historical events to portray on the stage, the meeting of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1776 seems like an unlikely first choice.
Every year on Valentine’s Day, people around the world perform “The Vagina Monologues” as part of an international movement called the V-Day Campaign. Friday evening, EFFECT and Women’s/Gender Studies presented Elon University’s own version of the show in Whitley Auditorium. The campaign fights against and helps raise awareness about violence against women. “I think ‘The Vagina Monologues,’ because of its theatrical nature, provides a unique way for Elon students of all genders to really think about what it means to be a woman in the world today,” said director Jessie Bond, a junior theater studies major. Cost of entry was $5, and all proceeds went to Family Abuse Services in Burlington. “One goal is to raise money to stop violence against women,” Bond said.
On October 18 of last year, Elon University broke ground on its new admissions center that is slated for completion in early 2015.
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