Editorials

NEWS 1/13/14 5:25pm

Cristiano Ronaldo rightfully deserves top honor

By Jordan Spritzer

Cristiano Ronaldo was the best soccer player on the planet and it’s a shame it took an extension of the Ballon d’Or voting deadline to show just how great Ronaldo was. Although the Ballon d’Or is a sort of an odd award since it is voted on based on a player’s performance during the calendar year rather than the most recent season, Ronaldo proved that 2013 belonged to him.

NEWS 1/13/14 4:56pm

A remodeled West End rings in Winter Term

By Meghan Leonard

Students returned from winter break to find that Elon’s signature bar, West End Station, underwent a massive transformation. West End’s new owner Harold Hill bought the bar at the end of the summer with the goal of creating more variety in the Elon community.

NEWS 1/13/14 4:43pm

HOPE strives to localize hunger

By mstutz

While man cannot live on bread alone, the need for food is still necessary to survive. According to the United Census Bureau, 17 percent of Alamance County lives under the poverty line compared to the national average of 15 percent. After serving in food kitchens for years, sophomore Jensen Roll came to North Carolina for school and found two main problems. "One of those was not [having] enough volunteers, and the other was not having enough food to feed everybody there," said Roll. Roll is creating his own Social Entrepreneurship major, and in December of 2012 he envisioned a solution to help solve Alamance County's hunger problem.

NEWS 1/13/14 3:38pm

Duke University professor offers unorthodox solutions for U.S. income gap

By Stephanie Lamm

As a part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. 50th Anniversary Speaker Series, William Darity, Jr. spoke about economic justice Wednesday at Elon.  Darity serves as the chair of the African and African American Studies department at Duke University.  His research focuses on economic inequality. The talk focused on his plan to end unemployment and racially fueled wage discrimination. “The United States is characterized by a long-standing pattern of large structural racial inequality that has deepened further as a result of the economic down-turn,” Darity said. Despite the efforts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the unemployment gap and the racial gap have remained about the same nationwide. The joblessness rate for black male teen high school dropouts is 95 percent, according to Remapping Debate, an advocacy group based in New York. African-Americans with some college education or an associate’s degree earn less than white high school dropouts, on average.

NEWS 1/13/14 6:14am

Challenging Winter Term Courses

By cdavis46

Winter term offers diversity in both classes and experiences. Some students study abroad during the three-week term, while others choose to stay at Elon and take classes such as Hogwarts for Muggles, or Films of Woody Allen.

NEWS 1/13/14 5:21am

To be a Panthers fan

By arose8

Few things can describe the sensation. "It's just like fire," said Senior Kyron Turner. "That's the only way I can describe it.

NEWS 1/13/14 12:46am

Piano encourages artisitic mentality in student center

By ktracy4

New melodies echoed through Moseley this week stemming from a piano. The music is thanks to junior Connor Whitaker's idea to move the piano from McKinnon Hall to the Moseley student center. "I think having a piano to play adds to a creatively conducive environment where students aren't afraid to just present themselves and another asset that they have," Whitaker said. An avid piano player, Whitaker would "occasionally just play whenever, just when I had free time" when it was in McKinnon.

NEWS 1/12/14 10:25pm

Campus security employee has a hidden talent

By malfini

While the rest of campus closes for the night, Kim Farmer arrives at work. Farmer works the night shift as a Telecommunicator for Campus Safety and Security, but when he's not at Elon, Farmer explores his passion for music. Farmer is the lead singer of the 70s rock band, Zachary Smythe.

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ENN Tonight | April 13, 2026

Join us at 6 p.m. for ENN Tonight for the latest on a lawsuit filed by a former Elon professor, the celebration of Holi and the Savannah Bananas' latest stop in North Carolina. 

SPORTS 04/13/2026 1:44pm
Baseball coach mentors students on sportsmanship, service

Elon baseball head coach Mike Kennedy has spent most of his adult life at Elon. As a student, he was catcher for the baseball team. Kennedy signed with Oakland Athletics in 1990 then returned to Elon in 1993 as a pitching coach. He’s worked with the team ever since and was named head coach in 1996. 

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