Only seven miles from Elon University is Ace Speedway. Drive five miles further and reach the Piedmont Dragway. Venture 90 miles south, and you’ll find the famed Charlotte Motor Speedway. There’s no doubt, this is car country. Elon senior Michael Palombo and junior Taylor Davis fit right in, having founded the Elon Car Club last spring. “We met last year in a class, we had a philosophy class together and we discovered that we both love cars,” said Palombo, the club’s president.
With the Presidential campaigns building up for the final and most critical stretch of the 2012 election, media and delegates begin flocking to Tampa and Charlotte for national conventions.
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The High Point University Panthers got two goals in two minutes on set pieces. When another Panther goal found the back of the net eight minutes later, Elon University found themselves in a hole they could not climb out of. High Point freshman forward Ben Burdon scored the eventual game-winner from five yards out in the 34th minute, helping the Panthers to a 4-2 victory over the Phoenix in both team’s season-opener. “We certainly didn’t start the way we planned on starting,” Elon coach Darren Powell said.
BUENOS AIRES – After the longest subte strike in Argentinian history, an unofficial workers union and local leaders reached an agreement earlier this month that would allow for the much anticipated reopening of the subway system the following morning. The scheduled strike, which lasted longer than expected, began after the subway union demanded that the Buenos Aires government increase the workers’ salaries by more than 20 percent. It ended with a provisional agreement with Metrovias, the company that operates the subte, which included “improvements in working conditions, changes in leave entitlements and a re-categorization of wage levels,” according to the union’s press release.
The past three years, The Pendulum has produced a comprehensive look at the five fall sports teams: football, volleyball, men's and women's soccer and cross country.
At the end of each summer, Elon University’s freshman class turns the last pages of the common reading selection, a book chosen the previous fall by a committee of professors and students.
Black Box Theatre. Yeager Recital Hall. McCrary Theatre. Students and faculty alike will recognize these as the settings for many of Elon University’s performing arts productions.
Although construction continues on Elon University’s campus, a few projects have been finished just in time for the start of fall semester.
The growth of Elon University’s student population is being matched by the growth of applicants.
Just days before students arrive back on campus each year and prepare for the upcoming semester, faculty members gather to make preparations of their own. For more than 15 years, planning week has served as a time for faculty and staff to gather and discuss strategies and new programs for the upcoming semester. “This year, we have several new programs that will begin to reinforce some of the goals in The Elon Commitment,” said Mary Wise, associate vice president of Academic Affairs.
As a new class of students begins life at Elon University, the orientation team is working to ensure each of them feels welcome on campus. “The overall goal of orientation is to aid the transition for new students into the Elon community,” said Jill Padfield, orientation head team captain. To accomplish this goal, the orientation team has designed a series of activities to take place during move-in weekend to help incoming freshmen become more comfortable with Elon’s campus, the faculty and one another, according to Padfield. In addition to acclimating new students to Elon University, orientation also serves as an important social experience for incoming freshmen, according to senior Kathryn Knaus, student coordinator for orientation. “If you participate fully in orientation, I would be very surprised to hear that you don’t feel like you have a group of friends afterwards,” Knaus said.
New Student Convocation signals the beginning of another year as the members of the Class of 2016, transfer students and their families gather Under the Oaks at Elon University for the annual welcome ceremony. "This ceremony is one of the most meaningful occasions of the academic year," said President Leo Lambert." Lambert, along with Jan Fuller, university chaplain, Darien Flowers, Student Government Association executive president, Smith Jackson, vice president for student life and dean of students, Steven House, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and faculty members, greeted the most recent addition to the Elon community. The speakers challenged the more than 1,400 students to embrace the opportunities open to them and to seek adventure during the next four years. "If you take advantage of a number of opportunities Elon has to offer, you will lay the foundation for your future," Flowers said. The SGA President recounted walking tours through London that expanded his imagination and fed his curiosity, offering his own experiences as feasible goals.
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Dear Members of the Class of 2016: I hope I am not the first, but one of many to welcome you to Elon Uni- versity.
Though fall semester classes don’t start until Aug. 28, junior Katie Johnson said the Elon University campus has already been buzzing with activity. Johnson, who arrived on campus Aug.
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Congratulations and welcome to Elon University! As you rush from place to place during this orientation weekend, take a moment to realize the importance of the journey that lies before you and how Elon will be here to support you over the next four years. The excitement on a college cam- pus during orientation is palpable.
Recent Elon University graduate Jay Light may soon get to see his work on movie theater screens around the country.
