Many of us view making a mistake as just that—a mistake. But Elon junior Maddy Gross sees it as an opportunity.
RALEIGH — Basketball season is about a month away, but North Carolina State University's Reynolds Coliseum served as a battleground for a different type of contest on Tuesday.
Kathleen Parker regrets if her writing was misinterpreted in a way that suggests she advocates for victim-blaming in rape cases, but questioned the motives of those who organized a petition that sought to bar her from speaking at Elon University. Parker, the most widely syndicated columnist in the U.S., was on campus Tuesday to deliver the Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture, months after a petition was sent to the administration calling Parker "dangerous" and a "rape apologist."
On a typical Monday, I leave my apartment at 8 a.m. and don’t return until about midnight. During that time, I go to class, I work as a barista, I work in the newsroom, I sometimes eat, and I try to do homework. My visual transcript remains blank through all of this. The purpose of the visual transcript is to capture and validate student’s co-curricular experience.
Sophomore quarterback Daniel Thompson didn’t want to look at the stats after the Elon University football team’s game Saturday afternoon against Villanova University. And frankly, I can’t blame him. Not after the Phoenix was blown out by the Wildcats 42-7, a 35-point loss that felt like much more.
The latest Elon University Poll released Tuesday shows Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton edging Republican nominee Donald Trump by nearly six percentage points in North Carolina, while Democrat Roy Cooper is edging Republican Pat McCrory 48 percent to 44 percent in the governor’s race. The poll also asked potential voters about the treatments of African-Americans by police in light of the recent protests in Charlotte over the killing of Keith Lamont Scott last month.
Elon University’s campus was briefly gripped by panic late Monday night as reports of a clown sighting spread from student to student. University police and Town of Elon police confirmed that they never received any actual calls reporting a clown or any other suspicious person.
"When life gives you bikes...ride them," and that is what Elon seniors, Amanda Steinman and Nick Suarez, plan to do.
The Brooklyn indie duo Matt and Kim were announced as the Student Union Board's (SUB) headlining event for their Fall Event series on Nov.
The Moseley Center was packed on Monday night, as hundreds of students and faculty crammed in to watch the televised presidential debate as part of the Elon Political Forum’s non-partisan watch party.
A school shooting in South Carolina last Wednesday resulted in the death of a 6-year old boy and wounded a teacher and another student.
Jana Lynn Patterson, dean of Student Health and Wellness at Elon University, sent an email Sept. 27 regarding the semi-annual flu shot clinics that are being offered through October and November.
Students will join the minds of the creators of Apple, Facebook and Google while having time to bike the Golden Gate Bridge this summer with Elon in San Francisco, a new branch of Study USA. For eight weeks beginning June 1, 20 students will have to opportunity to take an Innovation Course and complete and internship in the innovation capital of the world.
While the Family Weekend game did not go well for the Elon University football team Saturday afternoon, the Phoenix received attention around campus for something positive. The football team partnered with Active Minds — the student advocacy club that “strives to break the stigma surrounding mental illness” — to create a 40-second video that was shown on the videoboard during the first half of Saturday’s game.
The fall semester at Elon University has just started this, but this summer, Kathleen Parker was the catalyst for many Elon students grumbling about certain aspects of the upcoming school year— complaints that were more serious and ethically challenging than homework and exams. A planned Baird Pulitzer Prize lecture in October from Parker, a syndicated Washington Post columnist, was met with hostility among the Elon community as more than 300 students, alumni and others signed a petition asking the school to cancel the event, according to the Greensboro News and Record.
Gary Cooper was shocked by what he saw in downtown Burlington. Living their since the 40s, he never imagined he would see rainbow flags and the community coming together to celebrate the LGBTQIA and inclusivity. A pioneer in the Burlington LGBTQIA movement, Alamance Pride on Oct.
Dancing in The Landscape Family Weekend welcomes those of all ages and from all across the country into the Elon community.
In a complete reversal from the previous week’s upset, the Elon University football team got shellacked by Villanova University Saturday afternoon, falling behind by 35 at half and losing the game 42-7 at Rhodes Stadium. In front of 10,424 fans — Elon’s seventh-largest crowd for Family Weekend — the Wildcats scored on all five of its first half drives, thoroughly silencing a relatively raucous Elon fanbase. “Well obviously, it was a disappointing effort in every phase of the game,” said head coach Rich Skrosky.
This week, the Elon community will have a chance to see “an amazing play that most Americans have never heard of,” according to Kevin Otos, the director of Memorandum—a play by Václav Havel and this year’s fall production. Many people know Havel, the native of Czechoslovakia, as a politician. He was largely opposed to the communist domination in Czechoslovakia.
Earlier today, the Elon News Network sat down briefly with Bob Woodward before he gave his Convocation Address at Elon University.
