This week on The Swing we talk to SGA President-Elect Darien Flowers, Julia Boyd asks for your opinions on the housing process and Kassondra Cloos runs through this week's paper in less than 90 seconds.
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate Meeting, it was announced that SGA scholarship applications will become available tonight.
It’s the faces that tell all, according to Holly Hodge, interior designer for Elon University. “Just to see people’s faces for the first time when they’re walking through when everything is in place — just to see people’s gratitude — that’s what makes what I do all worth it,” she said. Since arriving at Elon about a year and a half ago, after spending eight years working in architecture, Hodge has been involved in the planning and design for the spaces students, faculty and staff visit everyday. “One of the things about higher (education) that I love, when you think about it, is you’ve got everything in this little bubble,” she said.
When staff photographer Al Drago went to photograph Elon Volunteers tutor Eryn Gorang at Cummings High School in Burlington on Monday, he later found a selection of his photos to be unusable...for the newspaper.
This week I’m writing about Impact Day, an event taking place on Saturday devoted to getting organizations and individuals involved in community service.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Sports_3.1.mp3 Zachary Horner and Adam Lawson discuss men's and women's basketball and the tournament this weekend!
Three members of the Elon University women's basketball team were selected to the all-conference team by members of the Southern Conference Sports Media Association today. Ali Ford's record-breaking season earned her a First Team all-conference selection for the the second time in her career.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/News2.29.mp3 News Editors, Grace Elkus and Melissa Kansky talk about whats in the paper this week as they explored different sections of the paper both sports and style.
With upperclassmen taking advantage of the opportunity to live in The Station at Mill Point, a new on-campus housing option available only to juniors and seniors, many students now find themselves with no place to live next year. Juniors and seniors who wanted to live on campus completed phase one of the housing selection last week.
Elon freshman guard Austin Hamilton took the honor bestowed on him with his usual humility. "It's a great honor," he said about being named to the Southern Conference All-Freshman Team by both the league's coaches and media.
In the past several years, bills to allow same-sex marriage have caused numerous controversies as they have been disputed, vetoed and reversed. Thursday night, The Elon Center for the Study of Religion hosted North Carolina’s first screening of “Question One,” a documentary about the 2009 referendum vote that caused Maine to reverse its move to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. The documentary, made by Joe Fox and James Nubile, details the battles fought by the “Yes on One” and “No on One” campaigns, groups fighting to vote to reverse and uphold the law respectively.
In college, Nagatha Tonkins, director of internships and external relations for the School of Communications, said she was at a disadvantage.
Elon junior guard Ali Ford and freshman forward Sam Coffer were honored by the Southern Conference's head coaches today. Ford was named to the All-Conference Team for the third straight season.
One week after the fall 2011 season closed, junior defender Claire O’Keeffe and the rest of the women’s soccer team were craving an opportunity to get back on the field and compete.
Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, gas prices have doubled, unwarranted wiretaps have continued, foreign intervention has accelerated and un-employment has not once dipped below 8 percent.
Sophomore guard Jack Isenbarger and freshman guard Austin Hamilton were both honored by the Men's Southern Conference Sports Media Assocation today. Isenbarger was named to the All-Conference Second Team and Hamilton was selected to the All-Freshman Team. This announcement comes one day after both players were recognized by the SoCon coaches. Isenbarger was named to the All-Conference Team and Hamilton was chosen to the All-Freshman Team by league coaches. Davidson College junior forward Jake Cohen, Jr., was named the Malcolm U.
Despite not having much of a winter at Elon this year, the rain that came on Sunday evening turned to snow, granting us one (very minimal) white blanket for less than 12 hours.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/A_E2.29.mp3 Rebecca Wickel and Rebecca Iannucci discuss this week's Style section in The Pendulum edition.
This evening I went to a Neighborhood Association meeting in the Washington Street Neighborhood. Washington Street Neighborhood is a community in High Point, North Carolina, located about 40 minutes from Elon.
With the recent obsession with all things green, the issue of sustainability has become a global hot topic that has trickled down into personal homes, office buildings and even college campuses. Elon University engages the campus community in sustainability with monthly themes that promote a specific sustainable aspect.
