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.
After more than 24 hours of traveling across the world and into a different time zone, I am happy and overjoyed to announce that I am finally in Sevilla!!!! I spent my entire Monday/whenever-the-days-melted-together-and-became- Tuesday with Marisa, one of my very best friends, traveling partner and home stay mate, and Meghan, my new friend who I have come to adore!
In 2011, Charlotte Smith was hired to take over the Elon University women’s basketball program when former head coach Karen Barefoot left to take the same job at Old Dominion University.
He wasn't even thinking about it. Right after hitting a three-pointer that gave him 1,000 career points, all Elon University men's basketball junior guard Jack Isenbarger had on his mind was the defense. "I guess I wasn’t really thinking about it at all," he said.
LONDON — Brixton. It’s located in central London, but have you ever even heard of it? The main groups of immigrants are those of African and Caribbean descent, but Brixton is also home to a multitude of different cultures and ethnicities. Brixton is largely unknown because it has undergone massive changes in recent years — changes that have attracted an influx of people to the area.
Rip_Chord, Elon University’s all-male a cappella group, hosted its first Speakeasy concert Jan. 19 at West End Station.
When Alpha Psi Omega, Elon University’s theatre honor society, began taking suggestions for the annual One Act Festival, senior Sean Liang, the society’s president, submitted Lanie Robertson’s play, “The Insanity of Mary Girard.” The play focuses on a woman’s experiences after her husband commits her to an insane asylum for becoming impregnated with another man’s child.
A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi Hello Everyone! Soon I will have a full account of my first few wonderful days in my Dublin apartment!
Beautiful, brazen and blustery Bornholm. The isolated island east of mainland Denmark is known for its vast lavender fields, steep cliffs and its well-known biking paths. The island itself is small but crowded, with nearly 40,000 inhabitants. But Bornholm’s biking paths seem endless, carrying bikers from historic, round churches to quaint harbor towns.
Theater of the absurd took on a new meaning this week, as Fred Rubeck, chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Elon, debuted Caryl Churchill’s 1979 play “Cloud Nine” in the Black Box Theatre. The play, which combined cross-dressing, a time jump and a huge helping of food for thought, presented an opportunity to laugh and ponder what people tend to overlook in their daily lives. Act I, set in British-ruled Africa, introduces Clive, a colonial administrator dedicated to his country, queen and family — a clan with more than its fair share of problems.
