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NEWS 7/18/16 7:04pm

Young people attend Republican National Convention

By Paige Pauroso

CLEVELAND — The Republican National Convention started Monday with many young people in attendance representing the Grand Old Party. Cassie Unruh, 17, said she “loves being part of the Republican Party,” especially now that she’s “actually old enough to care.” Unruh has attended conventions since she was born.

NEWS 7/13/16 7:46pm

"It's unfair, but that was my reality."

By Emmanuel Morgan

Maybe this is the new norm and I have to accept it. Silly me for thinking I was going to inherit a nation that was supposedly “indivisible,” as I robotically recited in the Pledge of Allegiance in grade school.

NEWS 7/5/16 11:10pm

In Raleigh, Trump criticizes Clinton, FBI ruling

By Alex Simon

RALEIGH — Even as he strayed off on tangents, presidential candidate Donald Trump threw multiple verbal barbs at Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton at his rally at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, news broke that Clinton was acquitted in her federal indictment involving her alleged disclosing of classified emails.

NEWS 7/5/16 6:20pm

Obama backs Clinton, attacks Trump at Charlotte rally

By Emmanuel Morgan

CHARLOTTE — In her second trip to North Carolina in the span of two weeks, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by President Barack Obama, stressed the importance of togetherness and how she would champion the middle class. Obama, in his first public campaign appearance with the presumptive Democratic nominee, reiterated Clinton’s qualifications and his high regard of her, which he also stated in his official video endorsement of her last week. Amidst a crowd of thousands in Hall C of the Charlotte Convention Center, both Democrats emphasized the importance the 2016 general election while lashing out at Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. “Despite all the progress we’ve made under [Obama’s] leadership — and we have made progress — we still have work to do,” Clinton said.

NEWS 7/5/16 9:00am

Why Elon Student Health Services clinic is closed for summer

By Hannah Silvers

Students on Elon University’s campus for the summer should take special care to wash their hands and sneeze into their elbows, because the Student Health Clinic is closed for the summer. According to Jana Lynn Patterson, associate vice president of Student Life and Dean of Student Health and Wellness, the decision to not keep Health Services open for the summer is revisited every year. “We certainly look at, ‘What is our on-campus population for the summer?’” she said. A realistic count of students on campus during the summer is hard to find — summer enrollment numbers from the Office of the Registrar include both on-campus and online courses, and numbers from Residence Life only include students in on-campus housing. Using those imperfect estimates, though, is the only way to get a reasonable tally.

SPORTS 6/27/16 8:45pm

Former Elon pitcher makes pro debut in Burlington

By Alex Simon

BURLINGTON — Fresh out of a blood test, former Elon University pitcher Chris Hall ’16 couldn’t help but laugh at his Sunday night. “A lot of firsts tonight,” Hall joked. The first official blood test followed his first appearance in professional baseball, in which he threw 1.1 innings for the Bluefield Blue Jays against the Burlington Royals. With about a dozen people from Elon in the stands to support Hall — including head baseball coach Mike Kennedy, assistant coach Micah Posey, and five former Elon teammates — Bluefield manager Dennis Holmberg’s decision to not pitch Hall so he could debut just six miles from his collegiate home. “I was the last guy who hadn’t thrown out of the bullpen, so I figured today was my day,” Hall said.

NEWS 6/24/16 4:31pm

Elon Study Abroad plans for Brexit impacts

By Kailey Tracy

Senior Noah Ganz stayed up until 1 a.m. to hear the news. United Kingdom, a country he spent four months in studying abroad last fall, was no longer part of the European Union. “The vast majority of eligible voters cannot fathom the consequences of exiting the European Union,” Ganz said.

NEWS 6/15/16 12:10am

Elon, Alamance County communities gather to honor victims of Orlando shooting

By Hannah Silvers and Jane Seidel

With candles raised, almost 200 members of the Alamance County community spoke in unison: “Good is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death.” As they uttered those words, the lights turned on in Life’s Journey United Church of Christ and thus concluded the vigil honoring the memory of the victims of the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando that claimed the lives of of 49 victims and injured at least 50 others. The candlelight vigil was hosted June 14 by the church, Alamance Pride and the Alamance branch of the NAACP. A similar, yet more intimate gathering of 80 attendees was held June 13 in Elon University’s Gender & LGBTQIA Center.

NEWS 5/27/16 10:01am

Elon's "30 Minutes" show wins College Television Awards Emmy

By JPascale3

Elon University's "30 Minutes" news program was awarded first place in the "Magazine" category of the 37th College Television Awards, presented on May 25 by the Television Academy Foundation in Los Angeles, California. The half-hour show included exhaustive reporting on the topics of post-cancer breast reconstruction, American-Muslim culture in the 21st century and one man's attempt to revitalize downtown Burlington. During her acceptance speech, Elon University alumna and former ELN Executive Producer Ryan Kathleen Greene '15 was humorous and honest with the audience. "I'm quickly learning why they told us to write a speech because I wrote it on my hand, and I got very nervous and sweated it right off," said Greene, who produced the award-winning entry.

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During his freshman year, now-senior Billy Impagliazzo took two classes taught by biology professor Antonio Izzo. When he got to Elon, Impagliazzo said he knew he wanted to take part in research projects. In his sophomore year, Impagliazzo went to Izzo to discuss research opportunities he had in his lab. Izzo said he believed Impagliazzo would conduct research for only a semester, but almost three years later, Impagliazzo has identified the main microbe infecting the blue curls plant and has presented his research on SURF Day. 

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Elon student digs into Burlington’s past after historic hotel demolition

The Rockefeller Integrated Hotel stood on Burlington’s Maple Avenue before being demolished a few weeks ago. Created by McBride “Mack” Thompson, a prominent African American entrepreneur in the Jim Crow South, the hotel was both his home and a place for Black travelers to stay somewhere safe. A single box of papers was recovered from the demolition site by a neighbor. Marshall Sears, a sophomore researching African American entrepreneurship in Petersburg, digitizes documents including those found in the demolition, as a part of his undergraduate research.

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