http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/News2.29.mp3 News Editors, Grace Elkus and Melissa Kansky talk about whats in the paper this week as they explored different sections of the paper both sports and style.
With upperclassmen taking advantage of the opportunity to live in The Station at Mill Point, a new on-campus housing option available only to juniors and seniors, many students now find themselves with no place to live next year. Juniors and seniors who wanted to live on campus completed phase one of the housing selection last week.
Elon freshman guard Austin Hamilton took the honor bestowed on him with his usual humility. "It's a great honor," he said about being named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team by both the league's coaches and media.
In the past several years, bills to allow same-sex marriage have caused numerous controversies as they have been disputed, vetoed and reversed. Thursday night, The Elon Center for the Study of Religion hosted North Carolina’s first screening of “Question One,” a documentary about the 2009 referendum vote that caused Maine to reverse its move to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. The documentary, made by Joe Fox and James Nubile, details the battles fought by the “Yes on One” and “No on One” campaigns, groups fighting to vote to reverse and uphold the law respectively.
In college, Nagatha Tonkins, director of internships and external relations for the School of Communications, said she was at a disadvantage.
Elon junior guard Ali Ford and freshman forward Sam Coffer were honored by the Southern Conference's head coaches today. Ford was named to the All-Conference Team for the third straight season.
One week after the fall 2011 season closed, junior defender Claire O’Keeffe and the rest of the women’s soccer team were craving an opportunity to get back on the field and compete.
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, gas prices have doubled, unwarranted wiretaps have continued, foreign intervention has accelerated and un-employment has not once dipped below 8 percent.
Sophomore guard Jack Isenbarger and freshman guard Austin Hamilton were both honored by the Men's Southern Conference Sports Media Assocation today. Isenbarger was named to the All-Conference Second Team and Hamilton was selected to the All-Freshman Team. This announcement comes one day after both players were recognized by the SoCon coaches. Isenbarger was named to the All-Conference Team and Hamilton was chosen to the All-Freshman Team by league coaches. Davidson College junior forward Jake Cohen, Jr., was named the Malcolm U.
Despite not having much of a winter at Elon this year, the rain that came on Sunday evening turned to snow, granting us one (very minimal) white blanket for less than 12 hours.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/A_E2.29.mp3 Rebecca Wickel and Rebecca Iannucci discuss this week's Style section in The Pendulum edition.
This evening I went to a Neighborhood Association meeting in the Washington Street Neighborhood. Washington Street Neighborhood is a community in High Point, North Carolina, located about 40 minutes from Elon.
With the recent obsession with all things green, the issue of sustainability has become a global hot topic that has trickled down into personal homes, office buildings and even college campuses. Elon University engages the campus community in sustainability with monthly themes that promote a specific sustainable aspect.
Four months of work, triumphs and pitfalls. Four months of practice, of games, of long bus trips all over the Southeast. Four months of Elon University women’s basketball comes down to this weekend in Asheville.
A recent study fielded by Janna Anderson, director of Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, surveyed more than 1,000 Internet experts and users on the potential effects of hyper-connectivity on the digital generation. Participants had to choose between two opposite statements and were later allowed to qualify their responses. Fifty-five percent agreed with the following statement: “In 2020 the brains of multitasking teens and young adults are ‘wired’ differently from those over the age of 35 and overall it yields helpful results.
Leigh Iler LONDON — Travel opportunities are limitless in London, and England has so much to offer. I have been here for merely three weeks and have already gone to Stonehenge, Oxford, Bath, Canterbury and Dover. These places are within close proximity to the city, so day trips are quite manageable for students. From London, one can also travel through the United Kingdom. Wales, Ireland and Scotland all boast beautiful countrysides and gorgeous coastlines.
It is a running joke in my family that I am always the last to know about anything. My parents would typically mention something on Saturday afternoon about a relative coming for brunch on Sunday or the fact that my cousins would be staying the following Monday and would be sleeping in my room, and I would always respond, “Wait, what?
When Elizabeth Greenberg's friend was suddenly diagnosed with thyroid cancer last spring, silk flowers didn’t do the trick. The Elon University sophomore was not allowed to bring live arrangements to the oncology facility where her close friend was receiving treatment.
Dimmed lights, flying sunglasses and a live acoustic rendition of Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” sure doesn't sound like the typical atmosphere at Acorn Coffee Shop. But on Thursday nights throughout the year, the cafe in downtown Elon gets both an aesthetic and acoustic makeover for Open Mic Night. Created by Acorn employee Eddie Talley and manager Max Akhlaghi in the fall of 2011, Open Mic Nights provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers while bringing activity and an increased sense of community to the coffee shop. Although only four of the 10 acts scheduled to perform showed up, the Open Mic Night Feb.
The Elon women’s tennis team can look to a pair of second-year players as the push behind its 8-2 record halfway through the 2012 season. Sophomore doubles tandem Frida Jansaker and Jordan Johnston are currently ranked 43rd in the nation among doubles, making history as the first Elon girls and the only members of the Southern Conference to be nationally recognized. Women’s tennis head coach Elizabeth Anderson attributes the turnaround to the hard work and development of her young players, as well as their teamwork. “They have really good chemistry, get along really well and they’ve always been friends off the court,” Anderson said.
