For some Elon University students, the very office that brought them here is also the one keeping them.
He is easily identified by his bowtie. When Phil Smith first arrived at Elon six years ago, he was one of few on the campus who wore a bowtie, but as he prepares to leave Elon University, the associate chaplain leaves a larger legacy behind. He said he feels he has grown and learned a lot, and now it is time for him to move on.
According to The Blue Crew, Wharton High School's (in Wharton, Fl.) athletics website, former Elon University linebacker Joshua Jones has signed a free-agent contract with the National Football League's Jacksonville Jaguars. A post on The Blue Crew's website read as follows: Former Wharton Wildcats middle line backer and team captain Joshua Jones will sign with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jones confirmed the news through a phone call. Jones led the 2007 Wildcats in tackles and Wharton held opponents to a state best 6 points per game average, including five shutouts. During his 5-year career at Elon University, Jones and the Phoenix become one of the Southern Conference's elite programs.
Most college students don’t have the necessary training or ambition to join Cirque du Soleil. But Elon University freshman Sophia Koh is not an average college student - she’s also an acrobat. Koh became interested in acrobatics when she was eight years old, at a summer camp that had a trapeze.
Elon’s softball season came to an end May 11, in the Southern Conference tournament after falling to the College of Charleston Cougars, 4-2.
By midnight May 9, the results were finalized: Amendment One passed in the North Carolina primary elections with 61 percent of the vote.
It began with a request from Romania. There has been an increasing demand from outside the university for access to student research — including interest from other countries, according to Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, professor of psychology and director of the honors program at Elon University, In response, Belk Library has digitized every honors thesis dating back to 2007 for use on the Internet.
I still remember how I filled out that form in the fifth grade. For some reason, the state of South Carolina really cared about what an 11-year-old wanted to be when he grew up.
The idea came to Adam Smith, class of 2005, at a bar. After a long day at Public Campaign, the Washington non-profit organization where the Elon University alumnus works, Smith met up with his friend Stacy Lambe at Nellie’s Sports Bar. In addition to typical bar fodder, Hillary Clinton somehow became a topic of conversation.
It’s bound to be an interesting show when the main performer runs on stage and receives a standing ovation before he has said a single word. That is what happened during “Charlie Johnson: A Step in the Right Direction,” a one-man show featuring senior music theater major Charlie Johnson and two musicians, Michael Ptacin and university accompanist Haidee Dollak. Johnson had the opportunity to perform his show for several dance majors a few days before it opened.
I was probably the last person on the planet to see this trainwreck music video. So, I figured as one of my last contributions to The Pendulum, I'd live blog this music video disaster.
1. Lessen the stress. Exam week is awful but that doesn’t mean you make it worse by stressing yourself out to the max.
You have to give the guy credit. Tiger Woods is never rattled, even when going through the longest winless drought of his career from November 2009 until this year’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, he remained calm, cool and collected. He finally won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his first win in more than three years, and seemingly everyone was ready to hop right back onto the Tiger Woods bandwagon. Immediately, people began to talk about whether Woods could eclipse Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 major victories again, oddsmakers pronounced him the favorite at the Masters. And then, Tiger Woods plummeted again.
Millions of French households tuned in to watch a heated presidential debate between incumbent president, Nicholas Sarkozy and his opponent, socialist Francois Hollande May 3. The three-hour live debate was of critical importance to the candidates with the second round run-offs coming up and in June, the legislative election occurs.
It’s May, and graduation is right around the corner. Before you know it, you’ll be leaving the beautiful brick archways and towering oak trees of Elon University, and pounding the pavement en route to your first job in the real world.
Surrounded by war, hate and bigotry, people often turn to religion to escape the insurmountable hate in the world.
Despite the passage of the marriage-amendment May 8, those in opposition to Amendment One gathered in community and hope May 9 at Elon University. The university's Student Government Association approved a resolution stating the institution's opposition to the amendment that defines the marriage between one man and one woman as the only domestic legal union recognized in the state less than two weeks earlier. "We're in the liberal havens," said Charlie Loeser, a former student at Elon and resident of Chapel Hill.
Being a conservative on the campus of Elon University is hard. Want to know why I say this? I am one.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:36 pm Eastern Time: The New York Yankees 42 year-old closer, Mariano Rivera, is doing what he has done over the entire course of his career.
Leo Lambert, the president of Elon University, addressed students concerning the progress of Theme One of the Elon Commitment, which calls for unprecedented commitment to diversity. “We have a big agenda,” Lambert said at the open forum May 8.
