Editorials


SPORTS 4/24/16 11:07am

Women's tennis falls in CAA semis to James Madison

Elon University head women’s tennis coach Elizabeth Anderson said her team came up just short in the Phoenix’s 4-3 defeat to James Madison University in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tennis championships April 23. No. 3 seeded JMU rattled off three straights singles victories to stun the No. 2 seeded Phoenix on its home courts.


SPORTS 4/24/16 11:00am

Baseball keeps roll going, sweeps doubleheader Saturday

The offense kept rolling for the Elon University baseball team as the Phoenix swept a doubleheader with Hofstra University Saturday afternoon at Latham Park, winning 14-8 and 7-2. “I thought offensively we just carried over what we did at High Point [University] and with UNCG,” said Elon head coach Mike Kennedy.


SPORTS 4/24/16 11:00am

Men's tennis falls in CAA semis at home to CofC

The Elon University men’s tennis team lost to the College of Charleston 4-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) semifinals, with a 30-point tiebreaker being the decisive moment in the match. On Court No. 2, freshman Mario Paccini battled Cougar junior Rodrigo Encinas to a third set tiebreaker, then fought back and forth through a 30-point tiebreak.


NEWS 4/23/16 11:56am

Elon Hillel's Passover Seder embraces interactivity, engagement

Why is this night different from all other nights? This night — more specifically, Friday, April 22 — was Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the freedom of the Jewish people. A crowd big enough to almost fill Upstairs Lakeside powered through the rainy weather to celebrate the holiday with Hillel at 5:30 p.m.


NEWS 4/23/16 8:00am

Nothing cool about cooler season

            Welcome to banquet season. A weekend of seclusion spent with fraternity brothers and their dates at the beach may sound relaxing, but the weeks leading up to it definitely are not for the girls attending.


SPORTS 4/22/16 6:36pm

Men's tennis breezes into CAA semifinals with shutout of Hofstra

The Elon University men’s tennis team cruised past Hofsta University 4-0 in the quarter-finals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) tennis championship April 22 from the Piedmont Indoor Tennis Center. The Phoenix won each of its singles matches, winning in straight sets at the top four singles positions to advance to tomorrow’s semi-finals. Petar Tomic clinched the victory for the Phoenix without dropping a single point 6-0, 6-0.


SPORTS 4/22/16 6:34pm

Women's tennis moves on to CAA semis with win over Drexel

WINSTON-SALEM — The Elon University women’s tennis team defeated Drexel University 4-1 in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship Tournament Friday afternoon. “We were pushed against Drexel a lot,” said head coach Elizabeth Anderson.


NEWS 4/22/16 3:32pm

Total Sorority Move responds to Sigma Kappa's Actual Sorority Move campaign

Instagram and Facebook feeds were filled with images of college women in lab coats or with books in hand with the hashtag #ActualSororityMove (ASM) on April 19. Elon Univeristy’s Kappa Zeta chapter of Sigma Kappa launched the ASM campaign in a Facebook post beginning with “Dear Total Sorority Move (and anyone else), This is a message for you...” The post went on describing the chapter was a group of real, passionate, smart women and are not what a website defines a sorority as. Sororities as a whole face a variety of stigmas such as having a certain appearance, paying for friendships and being more focused on partying than academia. Sigma Kappa tried to go beyond this, according to junior Amanda Steinman, a member of Sigma Kappa  who helped organize the campaign. “We are a multidimensional group of women, we have passions and dreams and goals, we fight for gender equality, we work together to lift one another up, we cannot fit a mold or be put into boxes,” said a statement from the Kappa Zeta chapter. Members of various chapters of Sigma Kappa as well as other sororities joined in and posted photos explaining how they were individuals while still being proud sorority sisters.


NEWS 4/22/16 12:52pm

Election is rigged against Sanders, Trump

Wyoming is the least populous state. With just 29 Republican and 18 Democratic delegates in the caucuses and three Electoral College votes, it carries very little significance in the 2016 presidential election. But results from the April 9 Democratic caucuses reflect a larger issue of voter disenfranchisement.


NEWS 4/22/16 12:50pm

Don't let your waste go to waste

In the last few weeks, Elon Dining unveiled new takeout boxes with large orange letters on the top, reading “Compost.” These new lables serve to remind students that the boxes are compostable, just one of many initiatives used to encourage students to live sustainably.


NEWS 4/22/16 11:12am

Elon awards 15 Lumen Prizes

Elon names 15 rising juniors the recipients of the 2016 Lumen Prize. This is the university's premier award for undergraduate research that comes with $15,000 to support their academics and research scholarship.


NEWS 4/22/16 1:07am

SGA unanimously passes resolution against HB2

SGA unanimously passed a resolution against the controversial House Bill 2 at its meeting Thursday night. All 30 members of the Senate who were present approved the resolution. "I thought it would pass, but I wasn't expecting unanimous," SGA President and junior Kyle Porro said.


SPORTS 4/21/16 4:00pm

Q&A: Elon trustee enjoys minor league ownership

Elon University gave an honorary doctorate to Wes Elingburg, PhD, at its Spring Convocation March 31. Elingburg retired as chief financial officer (CFO) at LabCorp in 2005 and has served on Elon’s Board of Trustees since 2005, spending time as chair of the board from 2010 to 2012. He and his wife, Cathy, have given to Elon on numerous occasions, and helped develop the internship program between Love School of Business students and LabCorp. But when he retired from LabCorp, Elingburg found himself looking for something new to do.



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