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NEWS 1/23/14 1:30pm

Elon remembers former staff member Lexie Kamerman

By nchadwick

"She was a person who had a dream...and she followed it. And for a lot of us that was really hard to do." - Sarah Paterson, Elon junior and former East Area R.A. Lexie Kamerman devoted her life to students like Sarah Patterson.

NEWS 1/23/14 11:55am

Sean Magee uses YouTube, original music to set himself apart

By Casey Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0PXeixtHs "It’s just a little bit different, a little bit different, a little bit something more…” These lyrics to the song “A Little Bit Different” written by Elon University senior music technology major Sean Magee, ring true to the industry he seeks to enter.

NEWS 1/23/14 10:04am

Elon's Colonnades neighborhood hosts 'Walk around the World'

By jlaplante

The Colonnades' residential neighborhood hosted "Walk around the World" Wednesday, Jan. 23 in an effort to embrace diversity among students. The event promoted Elon's global awareness toward diversity and against discrimination following the events involving hate messages early last semester. Shena Lucero-Keniston, the resident assistant of first floor Kivette, explained the goal of the evening. "We are trying to expand people's knowledge of other cultures in order to foster that inclusive community," Lucero-Keniston said. Out of the fifteen residential halls in the Colonnades Neighborhood, thirteen of them participated in this event. Students at the event played games and ate food as they "traveled around the world" in Colonnades neighborhood. Small passports were handed out for participants to collect stars when they travelled from hall to hall.

NEWS 1/22/14 9:35pm

Douglas Foster speaks on post-Apartheid South Africa

By emcgillivray

South Africa is celebrating its 20-year anniversary since the end of the Apartheid. Reporter Douglas Foster has spent the last eight years writing his book, After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa, about the situation in South Africa since the end of the Apartheid through the eyes of six young South Africans. Foster has worked as a reporter in developing countries for 30 years.

NEWS 1/22/14 7:54pm

Elon students earn Pulitzer Center fellowship to Ecuador

By Addie Haney

I will miss meandering through the open, European-esque plazas of Old Quito. I will miss the walks through the dozens of parks teeming with joggers, dogs, futbol players and the occasional couple.  I will miss the sound of Spanish rattled off at lightning speed, the friendliness of Quito’s people, the food and the stunning scenery that surrounded me at every turn. All things considered, it was both an enjoyable and successful ten days in Quito, Ecuador, documenting the education system in the South American country for a fellowship from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. While in Ecuador, my partner and I spent three days alongside members from the iMedia program interacting with and interviewing students (the children were the cutest), teachers and alumni from the Escuela Nuevos Horizontes del Sur, a tiny, rural private school a winding and mountainous 45-minute drive outside  Quito. We also spoke with professionals involved in the higher education system in Ecuador, including a member of the university accreditation board, the head of a language immersion program for both exchange students and native Ecuadorians and an American professor who helped revamp the teacher training programs in dozens of schools across Ecuador and other nations. The interviews helped shape the narrative of a nation that for many years, and even still to this day, lacked quality education for its citizens, but now is trying to turn the tide to provide a better life for its people. Once upon a time, children in rural areas who spoke an indigenous language struggled to succeed in a Spanish-speaking school system.

NEWS 1/22/14 1:19pm

The Last Word: Not-so-easy A

By Jonathan Black

I’ve never been one to look too much into my grades. As a communications student, I’m more worried about my standings in organizations and landing good internships than studying for a test on the influence of guilds in the 19th century.

NEWS 1/22/14 8:07am

Main campus, law school opening delayed until 10:00 a.m.

By Michael Bodley

Elon University's opening this morning has been pushed back until 10:00 a.m., according to an email sent by Smith Jackson, vice president of student life.  In a separate announcement made via its web site, the Elon University School of Law will also open at 10:00 a.m.

NEWS 1/22/14 12:09am

Elon looks to avoid injury excuses entering "crunch time"

By Kyle Maher

One thing Elon University women’s basketball coach Charlotte Smith does not want to hear is excuses. Not from her players, not from her staff and especially not from the thousands of other “coaches,” also known as fans, that attribute the Phoenix’s struggles to either the rash of injuries the team has faced or the youth that has been pressed into action as a result. “We’ve never focused on the fact that we have all these injuries,” Smith said.

NEWS 1/21/14 11:10pm

Lifelong journalist discovers global implications for post-apartheid South Africa

By Michael Bodley

Eight years and hundreds of interviews later, an award-winning journalist visited Elon University Tuesday night to share his ground-up rendering of South Africa’s story since the Nelson Mandela-led revolution ceded the spotlight. Douglas Foster, associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, gave his audience a behind-the-scenes peek at the process of crafting his 2012 work: “After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” The moment was right to consider themes of racism and apartheid, healing and acceptance, Foster said – one day after the federal holiday for Rev.

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