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SPORTS 9/26/15 11:43pm

Defense shines as Elon edges Towson for first CAA victory

By Alex Simon

ALL CQ ASAs the last 10 seconds ticked off the clock, and chaos devoured the Elon University football team’s 17-13 rainy victory against Towson University, junior linebacker Corey Mitchell couldn’t help himself. “I almost couldn’t move, I was shocked at what was really happening,” Mitchell said.

NEWS 9/25/15 6:10pm

Elon dedicates site of School of Communications expansion

By Tommy Hamzik

Elon University President Leo Lambert remembers a phone call with Dwight Schar from last December, days after he and his wife donated $12 million for a number of university projects, including the School of Communications expansion. "OK, have the bulldozers shown up yet?" Schar asked. They arrived in May, and the construction has continued on the project that Schar's donation spearheaded.

NEWS 9/25/15 11:13am

Elon Poll: Trump leads GOP, trails Clinton

By Max Garland

Donald Trump holds a slim lead over Ben Carson for North Carolina’s Republican presidential preference, but Carson and Jeb Bush would fare better against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Elon University Poll’s latest report.

NEWS 9/25/15 7:50am

Elon to expand flu clinic times, locations

 

With flu season approaching, Elon University is expanding its preparations to keep students healthy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu outbreaks can begin as early as October.

NEWS 9/24/15 10:16pm

Leonard Pitts Jr. challenges culture of innocence regarding racial bias

By Tommy Hamzik

Society is locked in a continual struggle with the crime of innocence, according to Pulitzer Prize winner and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. Pitts addressed a full crowd Sept. 24 at Elon University's McCrary Theatre on the topic of "Race in America," which he called a “big, scary topic" that the nation responds to with an “accepted script” when confronted with incidents of racial bias.

NEWS 9/24/15 9:23pm

Leonard Pitts, Jr., challenges culture of innocence regarding racial bias

By elonlocalnews

This coverage was a collaboration between Elon Local News' Alex Hager and The Pendulum's Tommy Hamzik and Sarah Wood Society is in a continual struggle with the crime of innocence, according to Pulitzer Prize winner and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. He called race in America, also the title of his speech, a "big, scary topic" and that there's an "accepted script" the nation follows in incidents where a "brown person is singled out treatment that's harsh out of proportion based on the threat." There was the time 41 years ago, when Pitts walked out of a University of Southern California dormitory aside a white man, and Pitts was asked if he knew anything about a stolen bike.

NEWS 9/24/15 12:00pm

‘Collage’: a mix-match of performances

By Danielle Deavens

As Elon University celebrates its annual Family Weekend, its musical theater department will put on a different time-honored event — one that, like the university, is an ever-changing standby the community has come to love.

NEWS 9/24/15 11:17am

Barbie gets her period

By Xernay Aniwar

Last week we showed you a very bloody Donald Trump, and this week we're continuing the conversation with more menstrual-talk. First, let's talk about Lammily dolls: they're basically Barbie dolls, only with normal, realistic, human proportions and features.  Their newest feature: having their period.  Yup, you read that right.

NEWS 9/23/15 6:54pm

Tech: It's time to upgrade

By Frankie Campisano

There’s an app for ordering appetizers, apps for making appointments, apps for renting apartments, apps for anything you can think of — and this year, that includes the career fair. When’s the last time you heard someone refer to a “program?” Who needs brochures and booklets?

NEWS 9/23/15 11:19am

No funny business here: Amy Poehler and Nick Kroll call it quits

By Tatum Pederson

Comedians, Amy Poehler and Nick Kroll are done after two years of dating.  US Weekly reported that the couple simply couldn't make it work due to their busy schedules, a source exclusively told US Weekly.  "Unfortunately, they just couldn't make the relationship work with their schedules," said one insider to the magazine who was close with both comedians.  Amy and Nick's love couldn't last because of their constantly busy schedules.  "They really tried, but it just wasn't realistic anymore," adds the source.

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Earth Week Keynote Speaker discusses global weirding

In 2024, Shell, a corporation responsible for roughly 2% of all global emissions, posted a poll on social media asking what the public was willing to do to reduce their carbon footprint. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy, did not let the post slide, she said during her Earth Week keynote at Elon University in McKinnon Hall on April 22.

LIFESTYLE 04/22/2026 3:44pm
Fighting stereotypes: junior finds ways to expand opportunities within stage combat

Elon junior Aubrey Kocsis wants to fight the patriarchy, literally. A Lumen Scholar winner, Kocsis first became familiar with stage combat when she travelled to Oxford, England in high school to attend a Shakespeare Summer Intensive. She learned so much about what she calls the “illusion of violence,” but also left the program feeling discouraged. 

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