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NEWS 4/28/16 11:24am

'Pay-It Forward' week at Elon

By Selina Guevara

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDJ59-qbkw&w=640&h=360[/embed] Today is national "Pay-It-Forward" day, but at Elon, the Center for Leadership has sponsored an entire week of good deeds. "Pay It Forward week is a week at the CFL dedicated to promoting good deeds around the community," CFL Marketing Director and Elon sophomore Ansley Hamilton said.

NEWS 4/28/16 11:09am

Simple, no heat, picnic recipes

By mstutz

Summer is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with friends and food. Here are three easy recipes on how to make your picnic, well, a picnic! Cucumber Pinwheel Sandwiches: You'll need: 1 whole cucumber 1 pack of tortillas Low fat cream cheese 1 lemon for flavor 1 knife

NEWS 4/27/16 8:00am

Healthy masculinity group promotes conversation

By Allie Dietz

“It is taboo for men to talk together, to share their feelings and emotions,” Noah Rossen, Elon sophomore said, “there is no safe place for that in society or at Elon.” Rossen and his roommate this year, Elon Sophomore Scott Powell have had countless discussions since they moved in together about the role society expects men to take on and why it is okay if they don’t. “We created a Healthy Masculinity group.

NEWS 4/27/16 8:00am

‘Working’ transports audience back to the 1960s

By Alexandra Schonfeld

On April 28th, The Department of Performing Arts will bring the stories of America’s unsung heroes to the stage with the Tony nominated musical, Working. Working, originally staged in 1974 is based on a book written by Studs Terkel, which he wrote after Terkel conducted interviews with hundreds of working men and women across the United States about their jobs and why they did them. The show has undergone many revisions, most recently in 2011 with the addition of two songs by 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda writer of both Hamilton and In the Heights. Elon will be performing the most recent revision including Miranda’s additions.  The show also features music by James Taylor, Craig Carnelia and many other songwriters and composers. The 20 actors all had to audition for the show before gaining access into the course where they did most of their rehearsing up until Grand Night on April 3rd, when they begun evening rehearsals as well as weekends. “With this show, because of the nature of the beast—if you will—we began individual monologue work, sometimes we start staging big company numbers, and we did do some of that, we staged the opening and middle section, but we started working a lot on the acting, because there are a as many monologues in the show as there are songs,” said director Lynne Kurdzeil-Formato.

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NEWS 12/17/2025 3:18pm
North Carolinians rate public schools poorly in new Elon Poll

As K-12 students across North Carolina prepare for their winter break, the Elon University Poll released poll data on Dec. 17 finding that most North Carolinians gave mediocre or poor grades to public schools across the state. “The states have always had deep authority on education, but there has been more federal involvement in various years,” Director of the Elon University Poll Jason Husser said. “So we thought, well, this is the time for us to really look in depth about what do people think about North Carolina schools.”

LIFESTYLE 12/16/2025 10:30am
Grief, loss support group provides comfort for Elon faculty, staff

Elon University associate chaplain Rev. Julie Tonnesen said loss and grief are universal emotions, but found that they can be difficult for faculty and staff to process while continuing their usual routines. “Even when we show up to work, that doesn’t mean that we get to put the rest of our lives on the back burner,” Tonnesen said. “Our grief comes with us. It’s not something we can just keep on a shelf at home.” In collaboration with Counseling Services, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, began offering a monthly group for faculty and staff to support those affected by loss. 

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