Three Republican senators challenged North Carolina’s voting procedures last week with two pieces of legislation targeting college students, one-stop voting registration sites and early voting periods.
Elon University is currently launching the Writing Excellence Initiative, a project aimed to make writing a key component of every student’s Elon education. The Elon community started developing the project in 2010 to build on the school’s mission of “integrating learning across the disciplines, putting knowledge into practice, and preparing students to be global citizens and informed leaders motivated by concern for the common good.” The Writing Excellence Initiative is a part of Elon’s overarching Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), as a required part of Elon’s reaccreditation process. The goal of the initiative is to prepare every Elon student to be an outstanding writer, regardless of his or her major. In creating “engaged minds, inspiring leaders, and global citizens,” the initiative is focusing on developing students’ abilities to write in three ways: writing to learn, writing in a discipline, and writing as a citizen. Writing to learn will focus on analyzing and problem solving, while writing in a discipline will be geared toward a student's individual major.
We’ve all seen the pink equals sign with the red background hundreds of our Facebook friends or maybe even we, ourselves, have sported as our profile pictures.
For those of you who logged on to Facebook March 26, you probably noticed a sea of profile pictures changed to a red and pink equals sign. At a time when the United States Supreme Court justices were preparing to hear arguments for two pieces of landmark marriage equality legislation, the profile pictures represent support for the equal rights cause.
UPDATE: As of 12:39 p.m., North Carolina A&T State University lifted its lockdown. All normal campus activities, including classes, resumed at 2 p.m. North Carolina A&T State University issued a campus-wide lockdown today after a man carrying a rifle was seen on its campus, though no shots had been fired.
Ask any class of first graders across the country what they want to be when they grow up and they are likely to respond with answers like doctor, fireman and maybe even bus driver. Many Elon University students have since digressed from their first-grade career paths, but not Emily Tomich. If you asked Tomich, a sophomore at Elon, what she wants to do now and what she wanted to do when she was 7, the answer would be the same: a world traveler. As a first grader in California, Tomich’s class participated in a pen pal program called Vicarious Voyage, in which students in her class would write to students on a Semester at Sea program. “My teacher made it an amazing experience,” Tomich said.
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, the newly appointed senators were sworn in. Both those voted in by their peers and those appointed by SGA Executive President Welsford Bishopric assumed their new roles.
Elon University students walk past Skid’s Restaurant every day on the way to the gym or en route to class.
Elonthon, Elon University’s 24-hour dance marathon, is returning April 12 for its eighth year and this time around it will be stronger than ever.
The makeup of the 2013 Southern Conference football slate doesn’t change, but the landscape and the possibilities turned drastically March 26. With SoCon powerhouses Appalachian State University and Georgia Southern University making the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level at the start of the 2014 season in the Sun Belt Conference, the two are not eligible to officially defend the conference title.
It’s a gay time for America. Last week, Time magazine released an issue featuring either two men or two women kissing on the cover, with a headline declaring, “Gay marriage already won.” The statement — not unusual for a magazine that has received flak for presenting a darkened photo of O.J.
If you’re walking around Elon University on a sunny afternoon, you may see a loud moped cruising around at 20 miles per hour with the rider’s blond mullet flapping in the wind. The rider is none other than men’s tennis sophomore Stefan Fortmann. The moped has a name, too: Monique.
It finally happened. The nonsensical breakup and rebirth of the Big East Conference has had a trickle down effect that now has affected the Southern Conference and Elon University.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday at the age of 87 following a stroke. Thatcher was the first and only woman prime minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain from 1979 to 1990. Many referred to Thatcher as "The Iron Lady" for her personal and political conviction. [div class="alignright"] [/div] Current British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed his sorrow on Twitter stating "We have lost a great leader, a great Prime Minister, and a great Briton." Thatcher visited Elon University back in 1995 when the school called Elon College.
Elon University posts photos, videos and tweets each day, but who is in charge of social media on campus? Philip Jones came to Elon from WFMY where he worked as a reporter for four years. "I was ready for a new challenge," Jones said.
After news broke of a North Carolina resolution claiming the state can make its own laws regarding the establishment of religion — one that would question the federal government’s authority to decide what is constitutional — email inboxes overflowed with complaints, comment boards became saturated with concerned citizens and watercooler conversations were abuzz. At Elon University, many students were misled by the influx of media reports from credible media outlets and social media sources.
A day after losing by 12 runs to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Elon University baseball team returned to Latham Park in need of a midweek win April 10.
The Elon University men’s tennis team wrapped up the regular season with a convincing 6-1 win over Appalachian State University April 10 in Boone, N.C.
Looking to snap a six-game losing skid, the Elon University Phoenix softball team traveled to Chapel Hill on Wednesday April 10 to face the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina.
In the state of North Carolina, gay couples still await their right to be married. Elon University junior Madeline Carlin follows a Winston-Salem couple, Frank Benedetti and Gary Trowbridge, through the story of their almost 50-year relationship in her short documentary, “We Will Prevail.” “I chose the topic of gay marriage because Amendment One passed last spring and there was just a lot going on about it and I thought it would make a really great topic,” Carlin said. Amendment One, also known as the North Carolina Same-Sex Marriage Amendment, was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that was passed in May 2012. The measure defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman.
