Editorials

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SPORTS 3/12/16 9:55pm

Late home run leads baseball over The Citadel Saturday

By Alex Simon

With the Elon University baseball team tied entering the bottom of the eighth, senior infielder Danny Lynch stepped up to lead off the inning. “Sometimes, when you don’t try to do too much, good stuff happens,” Lynch said.

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SPORTS 3/12/16 9:53pm

Women's lacrosse routs Holy Cross Saturday morning

By Alex Simon

In its first game since losing eight days ago, the Elon University women’s lacrosse team defeated the College of the Holy Cross 14-3 Saturday morning at Rudd Field. Sophomore attacker Stephanie Asher scored five goals, including three in a two-and-a-half minute span early in the second half.

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NEWS 3/12/16 2:49pm

What it's like to be an All-American girl living in China

By Allie Dietz

Leaving behind the life you know is always hard. Picking up and moving, leaving your friends and home is a hurdle that’s difficult for anyone to jump over.

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NEWS 3/12/16 1:58pm

"Being Male @ Elon" conversation engages students in gender privilege conversation

By Michael Somerby

The majority of Elon University’s undergraduate body is female, but the demographic continues to wrestle with gender-specific issues that remain prominent in the United States.

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SPORTS 3/12/16 1:19pm

Unlucky 7: Baseball surrenders 7 runs in 7th in home loss

By Jordan Spritzer

The Elon University baseball team couldn’t recover from surrendering seven runs in the top the seventh inning to the Citadel, losing 13-8 Friday night.

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SPORTS 3/12/16 1:00pm

Freshman pitches first perfect game in softball history Friday

By Maddy MacKenzie

Freshman pitcher Abby Barker threw the first perfect game in the Elon University softball team’s Division I era in a 8-0 win over Niagara University Friday night. “I was mixing it up and my catcher was calling a great game,” Barker said.

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NEWS 3/11/16 8:11pm

Bernie Sanders rallies in Raleigh

By afeather

RALEIGH-- Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders drew thousands of supporters to a rally in Raleigh on Friday afternoon, four days before North Carolina and four other states are set to vote in their primary elections. More than a thousand people couldn't make it into Memorial Auditorium, which seats 2,300, and supporters were lined up more than five hours before the event began. The crowd of primarily young people was loud, cheering and chanting Sanders name from the moment the doors opened two hours before the candidate was set to arrive. In his speech, Sanders went over many of his campaign's talking points, including student debt, campaign finance reform, universal healthcare, minimum wage and the environment, among other other topics. He drew large cheers from the crowd when he discussed campaign finance laws, denouncing Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling which allows corporations to fund political organizations. "When you have these horrendous Super PACs, which are funded by Wall Street and billionaires," Sanders said.

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NEWS 3/11/16 4:51pm

University sees another record-breaking Elon Day

By Christina Elias

In its third year, Elon Day continued its upward trend of breaking the previous year’s record donations. This year, the university received 3,749 total gifts, an increase of more than 1,000 from 2015.

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NEWS 3/11/16 4:36pm

Head of "Because of Them We Can" campaign speaks at Elon

By Micah Spoerndle

The SGA-funded Liberal Arts Forum had its second guest speaker this spring, Eunique Jones Gibson, visit Whitley Auditorium Tuesday to discuss the founding of her campaign, “Because of Them, We Can."

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NEWS 3/11/16 3:15pm

Maryland law professor speaks out against online harassment

By Mariah Posey

Four in 10 internet users are victims of online harassment, according to the Pew Research Center. At Elon University, that would translate to more than 2,500 students experiencing harassment.

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NEWS 3/11/16 1:30pm

Politics about issues, not entertainment

By Hunter Purvis

Here’s my issue with this election cycle. It isn’t that Clinton seems to be surpassing Bernie in the amount of delegates she has won, or that Donald Trump now seems to be the leading contender for the Republican nomination. What truly troubles me is that politicians in this country have finally figured out the secret to American public opinion — as long as we are entertained, it doesn’t matter what things you say, people you belittle or races you disparage.

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NEWS 3/11/16 11:15am

'Changing the Conversation' lecture takes cyber harassment from the web to reality

By kmckay3

Media critic and blogger Anita Sarkeesian had been facing serious harassment and threats as part of the 'Gamergate controversy' since she launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a series of videos addressing sexism in video games, but this threat was different.

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NEWS 3/11/16 9:00am

How negative campaigning has devastated national politics

By Tim Melton

Anyone familiar with American politics knows the constant presence of negative campaigning, such as attack or contrast ads, used by politicians in order to demean their opponents.

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NEWS 3/11/16 7:56am

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SPORTS 3/10/16 11:40pm

Women's basketball falls apart in fourth at CAA Tournament

By Alex Simon

UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND — The Elon University women’s basketball team fell apart in the fourth quarter, losing to the University of Delaware 57-50 in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament Thursday afternoon. “They say it’s hard to beat a team three times in a row, and I guess that proved to be true today,” said head coach Charlotte Smith.

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NEWS 3/10/16 9:26pm

Clinton focuses on education in N.C.

By pleblanc2

Durham, NC- The energy was high at Durham's Hillside High School as Hillary Clinton supporters flocked to the school's gymnasium for the campaigns get-out-the vote rally before the North Carolina Primary. Clinton hit the stage shortly after 5:00 p.m.

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NEWS 3/10/16 8:49pm

Junior launches wedding planning business

By ktracy4

Junior Katharine Mann doesn't just fantasize about her own wedding. She dreams about other brides' big days as well. "Having someone telling me what that vision is and making it come to life that's just what it's all about, making that big day so special for the bride and groom," she said. Mann became a certified wedding planner last month after a two-day class in Greensboro with The Bridal Society, a wedding planning certification agency.

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SPORTS 3/10/16 8:42pm

Elon women's basketball team bows against Delaware in CAA quarterfinals

By ahager3

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3vd4-44WDI&noredirect=1&w=560&h=315] UPPER MARLBORO, MD- The Elon University women's basketball team lost to the University of Delaware Blue Hens in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championship on Thursday afternoon by a score of 57-50. Elon closed the first three periods with an advantage on the scoreboard, but faltered in the contest's closing minutes.

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SPORTS 3/10/16 6:56pm

Seven-run sixth spirals softball to loss against UNC

By Maddy MacKenzie

The Elon University softball team lost to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 12-6 on Wednesday evening, as one bad inning doomed the Phoenix. The Tar Heels scored seven runs between four hits, four walks, and one error in the top of the sixth, with the big hit coming from freshman pinch-hitter Katie Bailiff.

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NEWS 3/10/16 11:30am

Yiddish isn’t ‘slang’ just because it’s borrowed

By Cassidy Levy

When Sarah Silverman used the word “meshugaas” in her speech at the Oscars Feb. 28, I knew what it meant.

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