Speak Out for Syria (SOS) was founded at Elon University this fall to educate the community and fundraise for the millions of refugees in need to help the approximately 9 million Syrians fleeing their home country after a civil war outbreak in March 2011.
Halloween is all about pulling off the craziest costume.
Senior Caitlyn Balkcum will take the audience through a range of cultures during her classical voice recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 in Whitley Auditorium. As a music education major, Balkcum is required to prepare a recital featuring music from various composers and time periods.
Science journalist Joshua Foer showed a half-packed Whitley Auditorium audience a list of 100 random words. He then issued them a challenge. “If I gave you 100 random words and gave you 15 minutes to remember every single word on that list, could you do it?” Foer said. For his speech “Nature of Memory” Wednesday, Foer talked an audience of Elon University faculty, staff, students and community members through his history with memory techniques.
The U.S. Justice Department is allowing Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson to receive federal funds after a court dismissed allegations that he ordered deputies to violate the civil rights of Hispanic residents. The North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission Executive Director David Huffman said Thursday that he received notice this week that the Alamance County Sheriff Office, could again seek the federal funds. Huffman says the ACSO had been blocked from applying for a piece of about $5 million divided among North Carolina law enforcement agencies since a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed in 2012. As previously reported, a federal judge in August dismissed the government's case alleging Alamance deputies targeted Latinos for traffic stops.
Front-runners Ben Carson and Donald Trump displayed unexpected amity while Marco Rubio performed impressively Wednesday night in the GOP economical debate.
Cornelius Muller ’93 had never heard of Elon University before coming to North Carolina for college basketball.
As of September 30, there have been over 8,000 alcohol related crashes in North Carolina in 2015 and 288 of them resulted in fatalities. In response to this, The Governor's Highway Safety Program and N.C.
The Elon University Phoenix volleyball team defeated the College of William and Mary Tribe 3-0 (25-22, 25-16, 25-20) on Wednesday.
If you were to tell John Pardini in college that he'd be coaching Division I soccer in North Carolina at this point in his life, he would have laughed at you.
When Elon University junior Rachel Zaleznik was growing up, she watched endless hours of hockey with her dad. “If you don’t love hockey and are from the Boston area you’re crazy,” she said.
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Elon University students have the chance to tango, salsa and cha-cha-cha their way through Latin dance classes with El Centro de Espanol. El Centro provides students and faculty with learning opportunities to not only master the Spanish language, but also to understand the culture from Spanish-speaking countries around the world.
With 12 wins, achieving the team’s highest ranking in program history earlier this year, and the longest winning streak to start a season in team history, Chris Little, head coach of Elon University’s men’s soccer team, has a lot to appreciate on the field. Though the second-year head coach is always widening his focus, keeping an eye on national rankings and opposing team’s Ratings Percentage Index (RPI). “It’s really important to us and it’s always has been to the program because why would you put all your eggs into once basket in terms of just winning the conference tournament?” said head coach Chris Little.
On associate professor of biology Antonio Izzo’s website is a link to a map that shows dozens of fungi, all in different shapes, sizes and colors, around Elon University’s campus.
NEWS Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is set to officially know if the title of Speaker of the House will be in his future. Dubbed currently the House Speaker-in-waiting, the decision to elect Ryan to one of the top positions will be voted on during a secret-ballot GOP election Wednesday and a full House vote Thursday. After years of resisted pressure to take on a more prominent role in the party, the decision for Ryan to nominate himself as a potential candidate for the position did not come quickly.
Progress in both technology and the size of Elon University has led to the number of campus security cameras balloon to roughly 500 total. The cameras are primarily located in places such as parking lots and campus pathways, Elon Police Chief Dennis Franks said in an email, where people could be vulnerable to crime that no one else could witness. Other cameras are installed on building exteriors and popular areas in larger, public buildings such as the Moseley Center and Belk Library.
The Elon University men’s golf team hosted a local tournament for the first time in 33 years on Oct.
The Elon University women's soccer team fell to the College of William & Mary 2-0 Tuesday night.
Jeff Colgan came to North Carolina with a mission. The Arizona-native had just spent a year and a half in New York City and wanted a different pace.
