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For four years, Elon University alumna Veronica Day mastered her craft as a jumper and sprinter for the track and field team.
After receiving plenty of submissions for its Name the Phoenix campaign at the end of last spring semester and then halting the event, Elon Athletics is reinstating the campaign.
When senior co-captain right side hitter Traci Stewart tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) her sophomore year during a volleyball match against rival UNC Greensboro, she had to be pulled from the game.
The definition of discrimination in the student handbook and staff manual at Elon University was modified earlier this semester to include gender identity.
The smooth sounds of saxophone notes are familiar to two seniors concentrating in the woodwind. Jon Moore, a performance major, and Nathan Thomas, a music education major, have been coaxing jazzy tunes out of their horns since before they enrolled at Elon University. Their first encounter was four years ago in Elon's marching band, the Fire of the Carolinas, when Moore played tuba and Thomas played euphonium. "We met each other outside of what we usually play, in the low brass section of marching band," Thomas said.
Drinking hot chocolate, hearing joyous music and seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus on campus brings community members together. But what really catches people's attention each year are the lights and luminaries that span from Alamance to Moseley Center. "Looking at the lights themselves is the best part of the celebration," said President Leo Lambert.
False alarms from Elon University continue to place a bind on the town of Elon's fire response resources. Any time Elon students pull a fire alarm or set off the smoke detectors by burning their dinners, the Town of Elon pulls out the cash register. According to Eddie King, fire chief for the town of Elon, the combined cost of personnel and vehicles is $575 per false alarm. "There's no such thing as a free response to anything," King said. "We're using fuel, wear and tear on the vehicles and man-hours." One recent incident at the Crest Apartments showed how the line between harmless cooking accidents and dangerous fires is blurred. According to the fire department, students cooking doughnuts led to a vat of grease causing a fire. The fire was extinguished by the apartment's sprinkler system and the apartment had more water damage than fire damage.
This year, a new major in public health studies has been added to the course offerings.
When Sue Walker arrived at Elon University, many of the buildings on campus didn't exist.
Elon's new work study program, Providing Aid Through Campus Employment, has had a successful first semester and will be growing in size next year, according to Rene Jackson, the coordinator of the PACE program.
There are many resources on campus regarding sexual health, but Elon University students aren't aware of these resources because the administration isn't disseminating these tools, students said. Sophomore Tori Walker said she doesn't think the university is doing enough to promote safe sex, sexual health and overall good decision making.
Laboratory Corporation of America, the largest private employer in Alamance County, is currently being investigated by the United States Senate for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Senators Chuck Grassley, R–Iowa, of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Max Baucus, D–Mont., of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the company in early November requesting a response to allegations of cheating the Medicare and Medicaid systems.
The process of developing students' writing abilities will be restructured in coming years as part of the Quality Enhancement Plan, an initiative required by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Since the creation of the U.S. News & World Report rankings in 1983, prospective college students have looked to the rankings to navigate the myriad of opportunities available to them. But there there have been people who disagree with the schools that are described as "America's Best" every year.
A group of entrepreneurs hope to integrate students' lives inside and outside of the classroom all on one mobile application, aptly called OneSchool. The Elon University edition of OneSchool is now available and contains BioBus route information, building and food locations and a chat room.
The founders might be surprised to see how the small Christian college they birthed from a church became a place where no one deity holds preeminence. There was a day at Elon College when chapel attendance was a requirement, a day when college trustees were elected by the local church and professors had to be members of that church. More than 120 years have passed since Elon was founded as a training ground for young ministers of the Christian church.
For Tylre Bigbie, sleep takes a back seat. The sophomore said her schoolwork and social relationships take precedent over her sleep cycle. "It never seems like you have enough time in the day for all three so usually you don't get as much sleep as you'd like because you feel you don't want to or can't sacrifice much of your social life and school work," Bigbie said. But she is not the only college student who struggles with the delicate balancing act. Katie King, associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, said having good support groups is important, but that students need to have effective strategies for dealing with stress. "Everyone experiences stress in their life," she said.
As their beards grew, so did the donations. For the newly clean-shaven brothers of Kappa Sigma at Elon University, No Shave November was a serious endeavor. The fraternity recently took a strict no-shaving policy to the extreme to visibly demonstrate their fight against prostate cancer, raising more than $20,000 in the process through Movember, an organization that benefits the Prostate Cancer Foundation and LIVESTRONG.
Many students choose to study abroad during Winter Term or a semester during their time at Elon and although it's an exciting time for students, they often have questions about the atmosphere and environment of their destination.
