Imagine a family member is murdered. Your reaction to losing your loved one is broadcast across national television.
Bob Dylan once sang the words, “I’ll know my song well before I start singin’.” The media teams covering the Newtown, Conn., shooting should have listened up. As details from the shooting were released, multiple news sources announced Ryan Lanza was the gunman.
While their presence isn’t exactly prominent on Elon’s classically preppy campus, we’ve all seen them.
Just another day in Alumni Gym for the Elon University men’s basketball team. Seventh straight victory overall.
The Elon Woman’s Basketball team fell to the Appalachian State Mountaineers 80-62 Saturday afternoon in Boone, N.C.
An Elon student was robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning behind building D of the Trollinger Apartments.
Three males robbed an Elon University student at gunpoint at 2:30 a.m. Feb. 1 on Trollinger Street near Trollinger Apartments.
“Next play, let’s move on, let’s focus on the here and now.” In a tough Southern Conference stretch, the Elon University men’s basketball team is doing just that. Junior guard Jack Isenbarger ended a game-long field goal-less slump by hitting a big three-pointer to give Elon a late lead the Phoenix held on to as they defeated the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Spartans 72-66 Thursday night for their sixth straight victory. After missing his first ten shots from the floor, seven of them from beyond the arc, Isenbarger hit a contested trey from just left of the top of the key to give Elon a 68-66 lead, a lead that stuck, with 1:27 left in the game. “You’ve gotta have shooter’s amnesia some times, just forget it,” said Isenbarger, who ended the night with just six points but a game-high ten rebounds.
The lives of Jo and Eugene Grimley, owners of the white historic house on S. Williamson Avenue, are almost too good to be true. Eugene Grimley is a chemistry professor at Elon University, and his wife, Jo, was a chemistry professor at Elon University for many years before her retirement.
Elon University men's basketball sophomore guard Austin Hamilton will miss the rest of the 2012-13 season with a torn ACL.
The University of Miami Hurricanes won nine games last year in the Atlantic Coast Conference, 19 overall.
After dropping its first game of 2013 two days ago to Davidson College, the Elon University women's basketball team got back in the win column with a 70-59 victory over the visiting Georgia Southern University Eagles on Monday night, Jan.
If you’re ever lying awake at night wondering what Elon University was like before the fire of 1923, you could always go to West Dormitory and chat with Mary. She has a track record of talking to students during the night, especially while they’re asleep.
The good, sane people of this country are not the ones walking into schools, churches and shopping malls firing at random.
Dartmouth College recently announced it will no longer accept Advanced Placement credits from incoming freshmen, sparking a debate concerning the academic worth of Advanced Placement credits at all college institutions, including Elon University. Dartmouth made the decision after its psychology department questioned the academic rigor of the AP psychology exam.
The Elon University women's basketball team suffered its first setback of the calendar year 2013, a 77-62 defeat at Davidson College on Saturday in the Wildcats’ Belk Arena.
Junior guard Jack Isenbarger scored 22 points and dished eight assists and freshman guard Tanner Samson scored a career-high 15 points in 38 minutes of action as the Elon University men's basketball team defeated The Citadel 70-66 Saturday afternoon in Charleston, S.C. With the win, Elon improved to 13-7 overall and 6-2 in the Southern Conference, while the Bulldogs are 4-15 overall, 1-6 in the SoCon. The Phoenix held a 38-30 lead with the clock winding down in the first half before The Citadel guard Marshall Harris III hit a buzzer-beater three-pointer to cut the lead to 38-33. In the second half, Elon maintained the lead throughout, but the Bulldogs fought back to within two five minutes into the half and within four with five minutes left, but the lead held up for the Phoenix. The Phoenix got 14 points and four rebounds from junior forward Lucas Troutman, who scored in double-digits for the 18th straight game. The Citadel was led by center Mike Groselle's 20 points and nine rebounds, while guard Matt Van Scyoc added 20 points for the Bulldogs. Elon face the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Jan.
“This team is the team to beat." "They will be a favorite come March.” Time and time again during the NCAA men’s basketball season, fans are made aware of the favorites - those teams that consistently win the tough games and stay at the top of their conference all season.
With music, television and even books turning digital, now the wave of web-content has turned to the classroom. “By 2020 in higher education there will be more collaborative online learning environments and a proliferation of massive online courses,” said Janna Anderson, director of the Imagining the Internet Center and researcher for the Pew Internet Project. With massive open online courses, or MOOCs, increasing in popularity, thousands of students are taking courses online through sites like Coursera, Udacity and edX.
When asked if 2,000 career points was in range, Elon University men's basketball junior guard Jack Isenbarger shrugged. He didn't even know he was hitting 1,000 until a couple of days before the Phoenix defeated the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Thursday night in Alumni Gym. "I didn't know I was coming up to 1,000 until a couple days ago, started getting texts from friends and family, saying, 'Hey, here comes 1,000,'" Isenbarger said following the win.
