It could be referred to as a battle for Southern Conference supremacy, or even a SoCon goodbye party.
This past week, the Elon@Sundance class learned what it takes to put on a film screening from start to finish.
It may only be January, but if you are an Elon student, there is a housing email sitting in your inbox.
News flash – the Winter Olympics are less than a month away. I know, you didn’t realize that, right? I, for one, prefer the Winter Games to their summer counterparts.
Most freshmen spend the first day of school moving in and getting settled. But this year, 15 Elon students spent their first day of college in the remote wilderness of Wyoming with Elon's gap semester program. Now, the gap semester students are arriving on campus for the first time after their semester-long adventure, and students like Lizzie Thomson and Michaela Contois are looking back on how much they've bonded as a group. "I think throwing anybody into the wilderness, you don't have a choice other than to become like family," Thomson said. The gap semester program takes Elon students from the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming, across the country to Washington, D.C.
It’s been six years since a scrawny guard from Charlotte, N.C., danced into the hearts of thousands while leading tiny Davidson College to the Elite 8 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Wildcats have made the NCAA Tournament twice since then, but have failed to win a game there.
The clinks and beeps of workout machines are ringing in 2014 at Elon University. Well, at least, they are if you have been going to the gym lately. "Go to the gym or exercise everyday." "Stop drinking soda and play more tennis so I don't get the 'freshman 15.'" "Do more pushups." "Do more yoga." These are only some of the many New Year's resolutions that have been expressed on campus.
The Elon University women’s basketball team picked up a rare road blowout on Monday night with a 68-49 win over the Georgia Southern University Eagles. Senior guard Kelsey Harris led the Phoenix in scoring with 12 points on 4 of 9 shooting, while sophomore guard Jessica Farmer tallied a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds, as the team used a steady balance of defense and team scoring to rack up its second conference victory of the season. The two sides exchanged baskets in the early going and after a few minutes neither side had any advantage as the score remained even at five apiece.
Burst the Bubble courses are fun and enriching classes for students taught by students.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has only been in effect for two weeks, but the American opinion of the act is at an all-time low.
It's a show that audiences love to see and actors dream of performing. Les Miserables is set to make a come back on Broadway this March, but before that it will debut at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.
Cristiano Ronaldo was the best soccer player on the planet and it’s a shame it took an extension of the Ballon d’Or voting deadline to show just how great Ronaldo was. Although the Ballon d’Or is a sort of an odd award since it is voted on based on a player’s performance during the calendar year rather than the most recent season, Ronaldo proved that 2013 belonged to him.
Students returned from winter break to find that Elon’s signature bar, West End Station, underwent a massive transformation. West End’s new owner Harold Hill bought the bar at the end of the summer with the goal of creating more variety in the Elon community.
While man cannot live on bread alone, the need for food is still necessary to survive. According to the United Census Bureau, 17 percent of Alamance County lives under the poverty line compared to the national average of 15 percent. After serving in food kitchens for years, sophomore Jensen Roll came to North Carolina for school and found two main problems. "One of those was not [having] enough volunteers, and the other was not having enough food to feed everybody there," said Roll. Roll is creating his own Social Entrepreneurship major, and in December of 2012 he envisioned a solution to help solve Alamance County's hunger problem.
As a part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. 50th Anniversary Speaker Series, William Darity, Jr. spoke about economic justice Wednesday at Elon. Darity serves as the chair of the African and African American Studies department at Duke University. His research focuses on economic inequality. The talk focused on his plan to end unemployment and racially fueled wage discrimination. “The United States is characterized by a long-standing pattern of large structural racial inequality that has deepened further as a result of the economic down-turn,” Darity said. Despite the efforts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the unemployment gap and the racial gap have remained about the same nationwide. The joblessness rate for black male teen high school dropouts is 95 percent, according to Remapping Debate, an advocacy group based in New York. African-Americans with some college education or an associate’s degree earn less than white high school dropouts, on average.
Luke Bierman will assume the position of Dean of the Elon University School of Law on June 1.
Winter term offers diversity in both classes and experiences. Some students study abroad during the three-week term, while others choose to stay at Elon and take classes such as Hogwarts for Muggles, or Films of Woody Allen.
Few things can describe the sensation. "It's just like fire," said Senior Kyron Turner. "That's the only way I can describe it.
New melodies echoed through Moseley this week stemming from a piano. The music is thanks to junior Connor Whitaker's idea to move the piano from McKinnon Hall to the Moseley student center. "I think having a piano to play adds to a creatively conducive environment where students aren't afraid to just present themselves and another asset that they have," Whitaker said. An avid piano player, Whitaker would "occasionally just play whenever, just when I had free time" when it was in McKinnon.
While the rest of campus closes for the night, Kim Farmer arrives at work. Farmer works the night shift as a Telecommunicator for Campus Safety and Security, but when he's not at Elon, Farmer explores his passion for music. Farmer is the lead singer of the 70s rock band, Zachary Smythe.
