Hi! I started an awareness blog for Elon Volunteers!'s Awareness Team last semester, and was wondering if ELN would be interested in helping us gain more publicity for it. The purpose of the blog is to serve as a resource for those interested in active community dialogue and engagement.
Elon University has grown tremendously since 1889 from a single building to its current size of 620 acres.
Elon University sophomore Aubrey Crawley has a schedule she adheres to each week. Mondays are spent working at the Allied Churches food pantry with her boyfriend, Matt Lee. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Crawley and Lee go to Poverty and Social Justice class together, then Crawley heads back to Allied Churches to put in more hours at the food pantry. On Thursday nights, Crawley grabs dinner with her roommate, then meets with her InterVarsity Christian Fellowship small group. For someone who has become so settled here, Crawley said it’s hard to believe that in just two months, she will be leaving Elon for good. Crawley is a member of Elon’s International Business dual-degree program, which means she, along with three other Elon students, will spend the next two years at Reutlingen University in Germany. There, she will get the opportunity to explore the European business sector while experiencing a different culture — something she said enticed her when she was first applying to colleges. “It just seemed like a great opportunity everyone would take advantage of,” she said. Crawley said she knew in high school she was interested in pursuing international business.
Pandora’s Pies and Acorn Coffee Shop are the only restaurants left standing on Williamson Avenue where Elon University students, as well as the local community, can enjoy a meal.
SOUTH It’s tough to envision a scenario where the Florida Gators don’t make it out of their region.
Amid a recent announcement regarding one of their teammates, the Elon University women’s soccer players took a moment to gather their thoughts.
An open letter to the Elon University community: Just four years ago, you accepted our son Jack Isenbarger as a student athlete at Elon University.
The Elon University women’s lacrosse team is back at Rhodes Stadium for a mid-week game on Wednesday, March 18 at 7 p.m.
Elon University junior women’s tennis player Barbora Lazarova was named Southern Conference Player of the Week March 18 for matches played March 10-16. Lazarova won three singles matches during this stretch and has won eight straight singles matches overall. Lazarova’s week began with a 6-0, 6-0 sweep of Gardner-Webb University’s Jenny Lunde March 11.
As my colleagues at The Pendulum have said, I can’t remember a year where the tournament is this wide open and features this much parity.
Since 2010, there have been more murders in Honduras than anywhere else in the world, which is why Elon had some reservations when the Periclean class of 2016 proposed a trip there this January. Elon does not sponsor travel to areas with travel warnings, and the U.S.
Of everything that has helped the Elon University baseball team to a 13-7 start, the Hawkeye State must be the most beneficial. Two junior college transfers from the state of Iowa, juniors Lucas Bakker and Jake Stalzer, have combined for six wins and have now won the last four Southern Conference Pitcher of the Week honors.
I find that every year the brackets become harder and harder to predict. I find this year to be particularly difficult because many of the teams I like have been drawn against each other while the teams I don’t like seem to have easier paths to Dallas. The first of the teams I don’t like is Kansas. Obviously, Kansas will miss Joel Embiid, but the Jayhawks should cruise through the opening weekend of the tournament. I’ve picked New Mexico to take on Kansas in the round of 32, but the Lobos don’t have a quality win that gives me any belief they can pull off the upset. New Mexico lost to Kansas by 17 points already this year on a neutral court, and the Lobos have also lost to fellow tournament teams UMass, New Mexico State and San Diego State. Kansas should make it to the regional finals after beating Syracuse, who is in a similar situation. Syracuse’s best basketball is behind it but I think the Orange can squeak by Western Michigan and Ohio State. Syracuse’s 2-3 zone will do enough to disrupt a poor shooting Buckeyes team, but will lose to Kansas in the elite 8. Top-seeded Florida will have difficult matchups at the top of the bracket, but Pittsburgh and UCLA are just too inconsistent to have an extended March run. There’s something to be said about Florida’s long winning streak and guard play is always important in March. Scottie Wilbekin has been phenomenal for the Gators thus far and will lead them to another Final Four. In the East, I like Michigan State to advance to the Final Four, defeating Iowa State in the regional final. St.
Whether or not it was ready, Rudd Field played host to some intriguing preseason matchups for the Elon University men’s soccer team this past Saturday, March 15. The Southern Conference champions rolled out to face the Wilmington Hammerheads and the Raleigh Amateurs squad.
A typical bagel brunch turned into a holiday celebration at the Hillel House this Sunday, March 16. Students of many different religious denominations gathered at the cultural event to celebrate the Jewish holiday, Purim. "Purim is like the Jewish Halloween or Mardi-Gras.
SOUTH REGION I’m still not 100 percent sold on Florida. Sure, the Gators are 32-2, but they did it against SEC competition and had a few near misses down the stretch.
Millennials, the term coined for the emerging youth generation between the ages of 18-33 in 2014, are detached from political parties and organized religion, according to the results from a Pew Research Center study. The study, released March 7, also found Millennials are more connected to social networks and other technologies than past generations. The study was based on a survey of 1,821 adults, including 617 Millennials, and was conducted in Febuary.
As more and more high-profile movies and television shows are starting to be filmed in North Carolina, the General Assembly is considering making the state’s financial incentives for producers permanent. The incentives, which started in 2005, give film and television crews a 25 percent refund on expenses and can even pay back crews more than they pay in state taxes.
Students are coming together to show support for Elon's Women's Soccer player Nicole Dennion. Dennion was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma in February, which is a type of bone cancer.
Columbia University Professsor Samuel Moyn’s talk about how human rights have been considered in relation to the Holocaust brought the Numen Lumen Pavilion to capacity March 13.
