The Classics Club may be an organization focused on old topics, such as the civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome, but it's just beginning at Elon.
The Elon University women's basketball team will head into Southern Conference play on a streak the team didn't see coming: three loses in a row. "I don't think anyone anticipated that we were going to go 0-2 this week," junior guard Ali Ford.
While student media offers enormous amounts of information, only one medium offers music, sports, news and talk shows all-day, every day.
Quickly eating her lunch during the few free moments she has during the day, continuously checking her email, consumed by school while keeping a positive attitude and peppy personality, Laura Williams, instructor of education, is more like her students than she may realize. Former students' artwork cover her walls, desk and shelving cabinet, which reminds her of what she's done and the lives she's touched. Williams, who graduated from University of Texas, Austin, with a Bachelors of Arts degree in French and earned a Master's degree in Journalism, first worked at CNN, later finding her stride as a school librarian.
With the popularity of restaurant chains, it's not always easy to find a family-owned business where the owners are mother and child. But for Greek restaurant Acropolis on North Eugene Street in downtown Greensboro, this is nothing new.
Peace and relaxation: two of the many calming feelings experienced throughout the yoga and meditation seminar held Nov.
Elon University students cram into College Street Tap House, a popular bar just off Elon's campus, several nights a week.
The North Carolina Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the Campus Police Act, upholding the right of police officers at religious-affiliated universities to enforce state law.
Junior David Campbell has completed two summer internships but only registered for academic credit for one because of the related cost. Campbell, an accounting and finance major, said he works two jobs on campus and is on the board of two campus organizations, making an off-campus internship during the school year impractical. "It is unfair to take students who are excelling in school and extracurricular activities during the academic year and tell them they must also take on (an internship) or else they'll be forced to pay for it during the summer," Campbell said.
Although the current rate of foreclosure in North Carolina is moderately low relative to the rates in the west and far south, the continuous quaking of the housing market is fracturing the entire nation.
Most resident assistants look forward to getting to know their residents and enjoy spending time with them throughout the year.
This January, Elon University students will have the option to take classes on dance, pop culture and art.
Revised, re–worked and renamed, the new "Student Perceptions of Teaching" evaluation process is more comprehensive than the forms students used to fill out at the end of the semester. Following months of planning and consideration on behalf of the Academic Council's "Task Force on Evaluations of Teaching," professors now have to seek an additional source of evaluation beyond required student feedback.
Though hammering won't stop anytime soon at some construction sites around Elon University's campus, other projects are running on schedule and new additions will be unveiled as soon as next year.
John Peterson took long-time Elon Board of Aldermen member Lawrence Slade's seat in this year's November election.
The New York Times called it President Barack Obama's "signature legislative achievement" and then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi commanded that it had to be passed.
It's November now, fall is coming to an end and winter is soon to follow. This is a time for hot chocolate, warm jackets, cuddle-buddies and, apparently, sundresses, shorts and leggings with cardigans.
I am a cold-natured person. I like to sun like a lizard in the summer. I cranked up the heat in my apartment the first day it dropped below 60.
The F-word is ugly. No, not the four-letter one, but the other one, a once harmless British word meaning "bundle of sticks." If you're waiting to see it printed here, keep looking because you won't find it.
Former Elon University quarterback Scott Riddle was arrested Saturday, Nov. 19, for "assualt on a government official and resisting a public officer," according to The Courier-Tribune of Asheboro, N.C. According to the story on The Courier-Tribune's website and an Asheboro Police report, Riddle, 23, and Caitlyn Prestwood were found unresponsive in Riddle's truck at 3 a.m., which was parked in a random driveway in Asheboro. After being woken up by police and advised to call his mother to pick him up, Riddle became angry and charged officer G.
