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NEWS 2/1/17 8:54am

Elon highlights significance of upcoming Black History Month

By Alyssa Potter

Feb. 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month and this year numerous groups are working to plan events to bring Elon students, faculty and staff together to remember the month’s significance. According to Elon’s Black History Month web page, one of the main goals of the month’s activities is to promote awareness and understanding of Black experiences.

NEWS 2/1/17 8:46am

Local businesses hit hard by slow J-term

By Anton L. Delgado

Despite January-term having been busy for many of the students staying at Elon for classes, the same can not be said for many of the local business around the campus that are dependent on the student body. For many of these local businesses, J-term is usually the slowest time of the year.

NEWS 2/1/17 8:38am

BENSON: There is still success in being single

By Hannah Benson

We’ve all been there; at a busy party or reunion with family and friends, just trying to make it to the bathroom for a moment of silence when the sister of your aunt’s cousin begins lightly interrogating you and poses the question, “So, do you have a boyfriend?” Here we go again, you think to yourself. And it’s not necessarily the question that bothers you, but the answer you get, regardless of what you tell them.

SPORTS 2/1/17 8:35am

Football releases 2017 schedule

By Alex Simon

The Elon University football team’s schedule for the 2017 season was released Wednesday, Feb. 1. The Phoenix will play the same eight Colonial Athletic Association teams it played last year, with the locations flipped from 2016.

SPORTS 2/1/17 8:30am

Sophomore taking star turn

By Alex Simon

When Elon University head men’s basketball coach Matt Matheny was recruiting sophomore forward Tyler Seibring, Matheny felt confident that he had a found a quality player for the basketball program. “When we saw him in the recruiting process, he’s exactly what we want in the system,” Matheny said. And now, firmly entrenched in second season through the Colonial Athletic Association, Seibring is blossoming into Elon’s best all-around player, leading the team in points, rebounds, blocks and minutes played. And, for Matheny, Seibring’s been a perfect fit at Elon, able to contribute in every facet of the game from the moment he stepped on campus. “He fits so well with his ability to pass — everybody can see he can shoot, but he can pass with his right hand, he can pass with his left hand,” Matheny said.

LIFESTYLE 1/31/17 2:53pm

Alumna starts positive campaign to combat post-election negativity

By Alexandra Schonfeld

After the contentious election cycle of 2016, many Americans are trying to find ways to combat the hate and negativity that dominates social media and funnel that energy elsewhere.  One Elon alumna is facilitating this by creating Hive Five to Kindness—a social media campaign aimed at encouraging acts of kindness and volunteering. Katie Perez graduated from Elon last year as an accounting major and is now working at Duke Energy as part of a finance rotation program.

LIFESTYLE 1/31/17 2:39pm

Phoenix published: Young Elon alumnae work in print in national literary magazines

By Hannah Silvers

Beckah Porter ’16 was sitting in a coffee shop one May weekend in 2016. She had come there to write, a routine she’d formed since graduating Elon University a short time before. But that day, she didn’t get any writing done. It was the day she got the email that her poem “Vignette” was going to be published in The Prairie Margins, Bowling Green State University’s undergraduate literary journal. “I had to step outside, do a little dance, I was so excited,” Porter said.

NEWS 1/22/17 11:12pm

BENSON: 'Busy-bragging' is a thing and we need to stop it

By Hannah Benson

We see it all the time here, in the land of acorns and squirrels. A peer sports a backpack covered in pins and buttons boasting their heinous spread of campus involvement, including SPARKS, Student Government, 110 percent sorority allegiance (and here’s a thing that bothers me: you statistically cannot be 110 percent anything, so now we’re just being inaccurate. And yes, I do own one, but it doesn’t mean I agree with the diction), SUB, Club Soccer — you get the gist — and drops it down on the seat next to you in your 2:20 p.m. class.

NEWS 1/22/17 8:45pm

Trump's inauguration and Washington D.C.— A Tale of Two Cities

By Emmanuel Morgan

WASHINGTON, D.C.— The weather seemed to fit the occasion. The Rev. Franklin Graham told the thousands flocked in the National Mall that rain symbolizes blessings from God in the Bible. Others — particularly the younger generation — interpreted the gloomy skies as a dark omen of things to come. Regardless of the rain, Donald Trump took the Inaugural Oath of Office Friday, cementing him as the 45th President of the United States. Barack Obama’s administration has washed away, replaced with streams of an uncertain time for millions. And Washington, D.C.’s, reaction in its wake, much like many U.S. cities, just reflected 2016’s overarching theme — polarization.

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NEWS 12/12/2025 12:25pm
Elon University students prepare for internship, job searches

From freshmen starting to navigate the professional world to seniors preparing for post-graduate opportunities, understanding how to navigate the application process can make all the difference in landing an internship. “That doesn’t mean they need to start seeking out an internship right away,” Amber Moser, director of internships in the School of Communications, said. “Planning for it and researching and putting the pieces in place to be successful in your first year is really beneficial, particularly if students are double majoring, depending on the kind of double major they have.”

NEWS 12/11/2025 2:48pm
‘Definitivamente no queremos que nadie pase hambre’: ABSS gestiona comidas gratuitas, aumento de la deuda en almuerzos

A las 10:32 a. m., el sonido de las bandejas resuena en la Escuela Primaria Harvey R. Newlin mientras los trabajadores del comedor se apresuran a preparar el almuerzo para el primer grupo de estudiantes. En esta escuela, la mayoru00eda de los alumnos comen gratis: sin formularios, sin pagos y sin preguntas. Para muchos, esta puede ser la comida mu00e1s segura que reciben en todo el du00eda. El Distrito Escolar de Alamance-Burlington cuenta con 28 escuelas que participan en el Programa de Elegibilidad Comunitaria (CEP), como la Escuela Primaria Harvey R. Newlin. El CEP es un programa que permite a las escuelas de zonas de bajos ingresos ofrecer desayuno y almuerzo gratuitos a todos los estudiantes sin necesidad de solicitar comidas gratuitas o a precio reducido.

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