Tobacco farming is on the decline in North Carolina, but all those empty farms won’t be going to waste.
In 2012, U.S. annual sales from fast food giant McDonald’s were equivalent to the GDP of Yemen.
The Elon women’s basketball team traveled to the North Carolina coast on Thursday, Jan. 22 to take on Colonial Athletic Association opponent, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
The Elon University men’s basketball team nearly had a record setting night, but not one to be proud of.
Wilmington, N.C. - A slow first half set the Elon University Women's Basketball team back, as the Phoenix trailed the entire game in a 76-68 loss at UNC Wilmington on Thursday. Coming into Thursday's game, Elon was ranked fourth in the CAA, with a 4-2 record in conference play.
With 1.7 seconds left on the clock and the Elon University Men's Basketball Team trailing 53-51, Elijah Bryant hoisted a three-pointer from 27 feet away, but like the Phoenix's other attempts-- it didn't fall-- and Towson left Alumni Gym with the win. The shooting struggles continued for the Phoenix, as the team shot just 28 percent from the field, including just 20 percent in the first half. But despite the poor game offensively, Elon was in it the whole time, and even had a chance to take the lead with 31 seconds to go.
Everyone who has endured a winter at Elon University knows that nothing is predictable, except for one thing: as temperatures drop, numbers on thermostats rise.
Elon University recently announced a record-breaking number of students, faculty and staff traveled around the country and world to participate in a range of global study experiences during Winter Term 2015.
This Winter Term, Elon University rolled out a new diversity training session with good intentions, but was met with mixed reviews and more than a little confusion. At first, the university said freshmen had to attend at least one mandatory session.
More than 60 Elon students went to the Four Seasons Mall in Greensboro for the annual Martin Luther King Jr.
The Elon University men’s basketball team had been trailing the College of William & Mary for much of its Jan.
From one court to another, Malaya Johnson has added an undeniable spark to the Elon University women’s basketball team. After playing basketball and volleyball in high school, Johnson decided to focus on basketball has had an immediate impact on the team’s performance, averaging 8.8 points and 4.9 rebounds per game.
Hebe Fuller has been an international admissions counselor for 25 years, but it was only until 2014 that she became Elon's Associate Dean and Director of International Admissions. "The first thing we do [is] travel," said Fuller.
The transition from the Southern Conference to the Colonial Athletic Association has not yet proven too difficult a challenge for the Elon University women’s basketball team. After a semifinal loss to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the Southern Conference Tournament last season, the Phoenix knew it would need to prove itself moving into the Colonial Athletic Association.
The Elon University women’s tennis team opened up play at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center on Tuesday, Jan.
Doctor's Orders is a weekly satirical column in which two unprofessional, definitely fake doctors offer up prescriptions for their Phoenix patients. Okay, so you’ve used some of that extra $12 million your parents had lying around and spent a semester abroad.
They packed the room to the brim and then some, clogging the heavy air thick with loss, remembering a student, a brother, a friend. Gone too soon was junior Trent Stetler, the hundreds said together.
Talking about suicide saves lives, and we’re too often too quiet on the subject. Last week, Elon University junior Trent Stetler died of a suicide, as confirmed by the Burlington Police Department.
With a cyclonic ending still on his mind, Elon University men’s basketball coach Matt Matheny chose to start his press conference by talking about the Colonial Athletic Association. Elon had just been handed its third straight loss in the CAA, a 75-72 defeat to James Madison University in which senior guard Austin Hamilton’s 3-pointer missed right before the final buzzer. Instead of talking about that play, Matheny focused on the conference, in which it’s clear Elon is still adjusting.
My name is Jeffrey Williamson and I am an Elon graduate, class of 2013 and graduate class of 2014.
