Some of the most prominent symbols of holiday celebrations are Christmas lights strung through bushes, trees and around doorways.
Every Elon University student has had a late-night craving, but not everyone has figured out a way to craft a business around quenching it. Fortunately for Elon's latenight munchers, sophomores Maritza Gamboa and Leah Hayes have. "We had been looking for jobs for a while and were talking about what things we could do on campus to make money," Hayes said.
Kasey Thornton has known she was going to be a writer since seventh grade. Now, as a senior majoring in English, Thornton has a big future ahead and she has already made a name for herself. While looking at North Carolina State University's Masters of Fine Arts graduate program, Thornton found the NC State Fiction Contest.
"We are a community that must listen to one another, even when that dialogue is one that's not necessarily easy." In the past 24 hours, The Pendulum has received a mountain of feedback concerning this week's front-page editorial. Thank you all for your comments, support and criticisms.
Q: How would you describe your first year playing for Coach Jason Swepson and his staff? A: It was a great experience.
This week we have complete coverage of the recent Tap House controversy. Senior Reporter Grace Elkus talks about her methods in writing the story that started the controversy, News Editor Kassondra Cloos and Managing Editor Rebecca Smith talk about what happened after the story was published while Editor-in-Chief Anna Johnson takes a stance for the Pendulum and Julia Boyd asks students what they think.
We've seen a special College Coffee, discussions and forums, the creation of a Speakers' Corner and the Elon administration make free speech and the First Amendment rights of students a matter of high importance. Yet in the last week, the university administration has bluntly put an end to this dialogue by punishing a student for speaking candidly about a serious campus problem.
The Elon community responds to "Hypocrisy exposed." In response to this an other feedback, The Pendulum published a follow-up editorial. If you have an opinion or comment on one of The Pendulum's articles please write a letter to the editor. All letters must be signed and emailed to pendulum@elon.edu.
For four years, Elon University alumna Veronica Day mastered her craft as a jumper and sprinter for the track and field team.
After receiving plenty of submissions for its Name the Phoenix campaign at the end of last spring semester and then halting the event, Elon Athletics is reinstating the campaign.
When senior co-captain right side hitter Traci Stewart tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) her sophomore year during a volleyball match against rival UNC Greensboro, she had to be pulled from the game.
The definition of discrimination in the student handbook and staff manual at Elon University was modified earlier this semester to include gender identity.
The smooth sounds of saxophone notes are familiar to two seniors concentrating in the woodwind. Jon Moore, a performance major, and Nathan Thomas, a music education major, have been coaxing jazzy tunes out of their horns since before they enrolled at Elon University. Their first encounter was four years ago in Elon's marching band, the Fire of the Carolinas, when Moore played tuba and Thomas played euphonium. "We met each other outside of what we usually play, in the low brass section of marching band," Thomas said.
Drinking hot chocolate, hearing joyous music and seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus on campus brings community members together. But what really catches people's attention each year are the lights and luminaries that span from Alamance to Moseley Center. "Looking at the lights themselves is the best part of the celebration," said President Leo Lambert.
False alarms from Elon University continue to place a bind on the town of Elon's fire response resources. Any time Elon students pull a fire alarm or set off the smoke detectors by burning their dinners, the Town of Elon pulls out the cash register. According to Eddie King, fire chief for the town of Elon, the combined cost of personnel and vehicles is $575 per false alarm. "There's no such thing as a free response to anything," King said. "We're using fuel, wear and tear on the vehicles and man-hours." One recent incident at the Crest Apartments showed how the line between harmless cooking accidents and dangerous fires is blurred. According to the fire department, students cooking doughnuts led to a vat of grease causing a fire. The fire was extinguished by the apartment's sprinkler system and the apartment had more water damage than fire damage.
This year, a new major in public health studies has been added to the course offerings.
When Sue Walker arrived at Elon University, many of the buildings on campus didn't exist.
Elon's new work study program, Providing Aid Through Campus Employment, has had a successful first semester and will be growing in size next year, according to Rene Jackson, the coordinator of the PACE program.
There are many resources on campus regarding sexual health, but Elon University students aren't aware of these resources because the administration isn't disseminating these tools, students said. Sophomore Tori Walker said she doesn't think the university is doing enough to promote safe sex, sexual health and overall good decision making.
Laboratory Corporation of America, the largest private employer in Alamance County, is currently being investigated by the United States Senate for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Senators Chuck Grassley, R–Iowa, of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Max Baucus, D–Mont., of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the company in early November requesting a response to allegations of cheating the Medicare and Medicaid systems.
