Baseball teams in the Southern Conference are no slouches. So says Elon junior outfield Niko Fraser. “We won the conference by one game last year,” Fraser said.
Division I baseball means high competition, fast speed and elite talent. Transitioning from the high school level to Division I standards is an adjustment that all Elon varsity athletes must make in their first year of college. Thirteen new players will join the Phoenix baseball team this season, filling the shoes of recent graduates. A combination of work ethic and ability along with experience that will come in the next few months will morph these young players into college athletes. “They’ve got to grow up fast,” head coach Mike Kennedy said. “They’re going to be in for a rude awakening in terms of the energy level that it takes to play at this level.” Energy is only one factor that freshmen players must embrace at the college level. They must also adapt to changes that come with differing practice methods, managing time off of the field and dealing with being a full-time student athlete. “You can definitely tell there’s a transition from the speed of the game from high school to college,” said junior outfielder Niko Fraser. “Sometimes it takes a little bit longer to adjust.” Elon has been practicing for weeks in preparation for the upcoming season, working the freshmen onto the field.
MANAUS, BRAZIL – Semester at Sea students discovered that music is universal when they attended Teatro Amazonas’ free weekly orchestral concert on Feb.
My career as a sports journalist has been a wild one so far. It started when I was much younger than I am now.
Jeremiah Brown may seem like a typical Elon University student, but what sets him apart from the rest is that he has been selling real estate in New York City since he was 18 years old and created an iPhone application that had more than 1,000 downloads the week it was released. Brown was driving down 34th Street in Manhattan when he saw a sign outside Rapid Realty that said it was hiring.
After a brutal week on the hardwood, the Elon Phoenix must win on the road this week in order to gain ground in the Southern Conference standings. Elon plays Georgia Southern Feb.
When senior Spanish education major Phyllis Jarrell got engaged last November, she and her fiance didn’t anticipate being one of three finalists in an all-expense paid honeymoon to Fiji. Jarrell and fiance Tyler Claytor, a senior math education major at Wake Forest University, were selected as semifinalists in the the contest they entered on a whim after she saw an advertisement in BRIDES Magazine. Claytor proposed to Jarrell near a Japanese garden and waterfall in Maymont Park in Richmond, Va.
Freshman art history students Bethany Hill and Elizabeth Chang voluntarily took on the roles of Exhibition Designers in a project to curate African art in honor of Black History Month. The pieces used in the Arts West exhibit “Obscurity in Plain Sight,” which opened Feb.
Graduate students’ winter fly- in projects couple professional experience with social action. In January, iMedia graduate students at Elon University took the course COM 570 — Interactive Project for the Public Good, during which they worked in teams to create an interactive media project for the common good in a foreign country. “The students get a chance to put the skills they’ve learned to date in the program to use in an accelerated project, one that’s far greater in scope than anything they’ve worked on so far,” said Phillip Motley, assistant professor of communications, who led one of two Costa Rica programs.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/International_2.14.mp3 Katie Moran discusses love around the globe for Valentine's day.
North Carolina native Alan Fox finds beauty in the music he produces and wants to inspire his listeners. But it was a long road to get to where he is today.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/opinions_2.13.mp3 Opinions editor Dan Quackenbush, talks Super Bowl controversy.
The second week on a job proved a bit more challenging than the first. I had some difficulties with organization while writing, but Grace's edits really highlighted what needed to be reordered for the sake of clarity. The Washington Center piece was admittedly not my best work.
There is something to be said about society when the phrase, "Best Grammys ever!" is (albeit pleasantly) surprising. Nevertheless, those three words were splashed across social media for at least an hour after last night's broadcast of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, and for good reason. In the middle of awards show season, it's tough to be the Grammys.
Head coach Jason Swepson and the Elon football team will face an in-state opponent the first week of September, and will start the Southern Conference schedule facing the top three SoCon teams from 2011. “I’m very excited, obviously,” Swepson said.
Super Bowl: Giants beat Patriots The Giants beat the Patriots 21-17 Sunday for New York’s fourth Super Bowl title.
Like so many of my peers, one of the reasons why I selected to attend Elon University was due to its commitment to the study abroad program.
After an in-depth analysis and reading of “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” students in the Winter Term course French Theatre in Production performed the play Feb.
Elon University administration have said they are confident that currently vacant land will soon be incorporated into the university. Students walking along West Haggard Avenue pass the empty plot of land where Walker Dance Studio was located.
The Elon University Student Union Board announced Mac Miller and The White Panda will perform at the Spring Show during the final timeout of the first half of Saturday’s men’s basketball game. “I think it was an awesome reaction,” SUB President Amanda Long said.
