My journey to Barcelona was uneventful. I packed everything I needed, didn’t forget my contacts and made both of my flights with time to spare. But one image stuck in my mind. As I was going through security in the Boston airport, I noticed an older man and his son directly in line directly behind me.
It’s been three different kinds of opponents in three games this season for the Phoenix. A clearly superior opponent in North Carolina, a clearly inferior opponent in West Virginia State, and an opponent hovering somewhere around Elon’s level in North Carolina Central. Elon did what they had to do this weekend, easily dispatching West Virginia State University in the team’s final non-conference game of the season before embarking on what could be called murderers row of the Southern Conference over the next three weeks. This week, Elon opens conference play in Statesboro, Ga.
On SGA Executive Vice President Connor O’Donnell’s desk, there sits a resolution. Drafted and submitted by Spectrum, Elon University’s queer-straight alliance, it opposes Chick-fil-A’s presence on campus and asserts the need for its removal.
The community atmosphere at Elon University prompted sophomore Laurel Weibe to uprot from Chicago and relocate to a smaller town in North Carolina. While Weibe said she loved the big city, she felt Loyola Chicago University lacked a sense of community and personal relationships with the professors. “Classes were not engaging,” she said.
While many Elon University students were getting settled into the routine of a new school year, others were hundreds of miles away, adjusting to the rhythm of the national conventions.
A missing person report concerning a Burlington resident attracted the attention of a reality television series this season. This fall, interested viewers can watch as the Burlington Police Department investigates the disappearance of a local woman on an episode of “Find Our Missing” on TV One, a cable channel based in Silver Spring. The show will follow Staff Sgt.
Eight Elon University students were accepted into the Executive Intern Program this year after undergoing an application process headed by SGA Executive President Darien Flowers and President Leo Lambert.
Elon University extended its reach into downtown Burlington with the purchase of a building at 217 E.
The Loy Farm property by the Magnolia Cemetery of Elon will be converted into a restored meadow this fall and will be renamed the Elon Environmental Education Center.
Overall, it was a very positive weekend for the Elon University women’s soccer team. The Phoenix battled the High Point Panthers to a 1-1 draw on Friday night, then beat Francis Marion at home on Sunday afternoon on junior forward Simi Dhaliwal’s third goal of the season.
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Hispanic students count for four percent of the student population at Elon University. Some were born in the United States and others come from countries like El Savador, Costa Rica and Panama. For these students, communication is more than just words.
Elon University students are harvesting success. When Bree Detwiler’s senior thesis initiated the development of the Elon Community Garden more than two years ago, few expected much from the proposed idea.
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Ciera Martinez was on her computer in class when her mouse started acting funny. So she shut down her computer and went to the Alpha Kappa Alpha house. "I opened my computer and I realized there was a new folder on my computer that I didn't create," said Martinez. It was then she realized her computer wasn't just acting funny, but a hacker was on the prowl. [div class="alignleft"] [/div] "They started playing chess which is kind of awkward.
"It's funny because you'll go out there and a lot of the kids are so shy they won't even ask you for your card." Elon Town Police Lieutenant James Perry says.
A university student was found dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday and even death at some other campus will impact any university. Faith Hedgepeth, a 19 year-old student at UNC Chapel Hill, was found dead inside her University apartment around 11a.m.
