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NEWS 11/29/12 6:05am

A child’s escape from Nazi Germany: Henry Landsberger grew out of his misfortune

By Melissa Kansky

At 6 years old, he recognized the threat Adolf Hitler’s regime posed. Jewish and German-born, Henry Landsberger sensed the approaching danger. It was evident by the way three men responded to the passing Storm Troopers with an outstretched arm; by the way Landsberger’s teammates harassed him following a soccer game; by the way his father fell silent after surviving a month in Buchenwald; by the way Germany slowly disappeared from view as he headed toward London, a passenger on the Kindertransport. “I don’t think I had any regrets about leaving because I was so aware of the terrible situation,” Landsberger, 86, said.

NEWS 11/28/12 1:24pm

Silverman’s hard work pays off

By Matt Krause

In any sport, hard work in the offseason can produce an improvement in performance in competition. But rarely does such work and improvement result in a hot streak such as the one Elon University junior tennis player Cameron Silverman has been on in cheap viagra pillsthe fall season. While the NCAA’s official tennis season is in the spring, athletes compete on an individual level in amateur tournaments throughout the fall.

NEWS 11/28/12 12:05pm

Republicans back away from Norquist pledge in favor of fiscal compromise

By Rachel Southmayd

For years, GOP candidates running for Congress, governor or president would sign conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist’s pledge against tax increases, but those days may be coming to an end. Some promicheap cialisses are made to be broken, and in the case of Norquist and his “Taxpayer Protection” pledge, it’s never been a better time to break one. Norquist, founder of the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, and his supporters have been clamoring for legislators to sign the pledge for decades.

NEWS 11/28/12 10:48am

Business students buy real world experience: Senior fellows manage investment portfolio with portion of university endowment

By Natalie Allison

At a university where engaged learning is a primary focus, finding the means to manage an investment portfolio as an undergraduate can be a difficult task for students aspiring to be professionals in the financial services industry. But such an opportunity is afforded to a select group of students at Elon University — the business fellows — some of which selected the school largely for the portfolio management program. David Campbell, a senior double major in finance and accounting, was one of those students attracted to Elon because of the opportunity to manage a portion of the university’s endowment. Campbell is one of eight business fellows enrolled in the two-semester senior investment course.

NEWS 11/27/12 10:07pm

If at first you don’t secede, don’t try again

By Dan Quackenbush

In the weeks following President Barack Obama’s re-election, conservative citizens across the country upset with Obama’s victory have been looking for alternatives rather than enbuy cialis online no prescriptiondure another term under a Democratic administration. But a radical petition originating from Texas to secede from the United States has led to the spread of secession fever across all 50 states, with considerably more than a million signatures received already. Anyone with a political science or history degree will tell you a state or nation’s reasons for secession are pretty standard throughout history: resentment from the people on the level of power being exercised by their government. But if you were to ask them if secession could be considered a legitimate option in our scenario, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a satisfactory answer justifying it. None of this secessionist folly will amount to anything.

NEWS 11/27/12 10:06pm

Time to let the Phoenix out of its cage to revive school spirit

By The Pendulum

[quote]Elon students are in the midst of an identity crisis.[/quote] When we think of school spirit, we may think of bleachers filled with energetic students echoing chants with their school mascot painted on their chests and faces. But as muchviagra tablets as we talk about the strength of our close-knit community here at Elon University, we as students do a poor job of actively supporting that community.

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Students received an E-Alert around 4 a.m. April 5, informing them of an assault earlier that night in the Mill Point neighborhood and urging anyone with information to contact campus police.

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Elon University, Go Baby Go modify cars for children with mobility challenges

Elon University’s Innovation Hall was filled with the high-pitched hums of electric motors and the sounds of childhood play April 4. The noises came from the first Go Baby Go program at Elon, where the community takes standard electric toy cars and adapts them for children who cannot traditionally operate one. 

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