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NEWS 2/21/12 9:48pm

Students experience real-world film production

By Zachary Horner

Burgess Jenkins, famous for playing Ray Budds in Disney's 2000 film "Remember the Titans," is one of many crew members involved with "Find a Way," a Cornelius Muller Productions feature that is filming on various parts of Elon's campus. The movie is inspired by the life of Harry Cohen, a student and quarterback at Walter M.

NEWS 2/21/12 9:17pm

Beyond the Bubble

By Grace Elkus

Elon University students jokingly refer to the Elon Bubble, but in the past year, students have broken out of that bubble by showing that international, national and local events have an influence in their lives. This is a demonstration of how Elon students have gone beyond the confines of Elon to show their appreciation and interest in the world around them.

NEWS 2/21/12 5:46pm

Air fresheners actually stink

By Sarah Carideo

[quote]Most of the perfumed air fresheners sold in stores actually fill your home with toxic chemicals.[/quote] A busy schedule combined with a lack of parental reminders usually results in some pretty messy student homes.

NEWS 2/21/12 4:55pm

Bringing study abroad experiences home

By Caitlin O'Donnell

When senior Hannah Barry returned to Elon University after studying abroad in Ghana last Winter Term, she wasn’t quite ready to let go of the experience she’d had there. “We came back and wanted to create an organization on campus where we can basically do international development projects for the communities we visited,” she said. The Periclean Scholars program, a civic engagement group which students apply to participate in, focused on Ghana in the past, but Barry wanted a new option to be more accessible to all students. When the group of students first applied to Student Life for recognition as an organization, the proposal did not pass, Barry said, because there was concern that other classes would want to create similar organizations for other nations, which would become overwhelming. Instead, the organization applied again under the name Elon Partners in International Development, which is now under provisional status as an organization.

NEWS 2/21/12 4:04pm

Breaking the gender binary: Junior leads charge to offer gender-neutral housing

By Caitlin O'Donnell

As Elon University expands the physical living space on campus, Laura Sturm is looking toward on-campus options, particularly those offering gender-neutral housing. The junior and vice president of SPECTRUM, Elon’s gay-straight alliance, first became involved with the issue as a result of a story that ran in The Pendulum last spring, which included a quote from an administrator inviting a student to take on the initiative.

NEWS 2/21/12 3:44pm

Honorary alumni recieve first school-specific award

By Hannah Delacourt

Elon University has presented its alumni awards for years, but starting this year, each school or college can now honor its respective distinguished alumni. Elon alumni Jo Craven McGinty, Class of 1985 and Doug Finberg, Class of 1994, were chosen as the inaugural recipients of the School of Communications Distinguished Alumni Award.

NEWS 2/21/12 3:43pm

Letter from the Editor

By Caitlin O'Donnell

When the new edition of The Pendulum hits the stands Wednesday mornings, the staff of the news organization expects feedback. Whether it comes in the form of red mark-ups from our adviser, Colin Donohue, critical emails from well-meaning professors or text messages from my mom about a misspelled word on the front page (she keeps insisting she wants to join our staff as a copy editor), we are no stranger to the fact that our publication will cause a stir. And, in all honesty, we hope it does.

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‘Hemos olvidado la conversación’: el VIH/SIDA todavía afecta al Sur a medida que disminuye la conciencia

45 años después de los primeros casos de VIH/SIDA reportados en Estados Unidos, la lucha contra esta enfermedad está lejos de terminar, especialmente en el sur del país. Según los datos más recientes de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, el sur representó el 52% de todos los diagnósticos de VIH en Estados Unidos en 2023. "Sabemos que el VIH/SIDA ha afectado de manera desproporcionada a las personas de color y a las personas LGBTQ+ de color en este país", afirmó Jeff Bennett, profesor de estudios de comunicación en la Universidad de Vanderbilt. "Hay muchas personas que viven en zonas rurales, existe desconfianza hacia los profesionales de la salud y persiste el estigma social".

LIFESTYLE 12/14/2025 11:03am
‘We've forgotten about the conversation’: HIV/AIDS still hits the South as awareness fades

45 years after the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the U.S., the fight against this disease is far from over, especially in the South. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the South accounted for 52% of all HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2023. "We know that HIV/AIDS has had a disproportionate effect on people of color or queer people of color in this country," Professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University Jeff Bennett said. "You have many people living in rural areas. You might have distrust of medical providers, you have the social stigma.”

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