Topics - April 2, 2012
Are we portraying the 'real' us on social media outlets? Or are we filtering our lives for our web persona? Dan talks more about this and this week's staff editorial.
Are we portraying the 'real' us on social media outlets? Or are we filtering our lives for our web persona? Dan talks more about this and this week's staff editorial.
As we enter Masters week, the question everyone is asking is whether Tiger Woods can finally win his 15th major championship, his first since he won the US Open at Torrey Pines in 2008.
I would have liked to pursue a story on the Ryan Republican Budget last week, but few knew enough about it to provide good insight into its possible effects and ramifications for college students.
There is a joke among my teammates that has become more and more distinguished throughout the past two years. The joke has to do with the relationship between talking on a run and the pace of the run, and the joke is on me. One of my teammates told me I should talk while I race, because it seems the more I talk, the faster I push the pace. Though this seems backwards to talk more as your pace quickens and your breath becomes more rapid, my teammate had a point. I am not a science major, but I do know from running that endorphins released while exercising have an effect on the body and mind that no other sensation can compete with. This “runners' high” causes me to keep pushing, keep talking, keep running even in the harshest conditions, and to enjoy every minute of every run (or at least the majority of runs). There is a story I have been following via Runner’s World on Twitter, about Micah True, a legendary ultra-runner nicknamed “Caballo Blanco,” and featured in Christopher McDougall’s book “Born To Run.” Caballo Blanco (since this is a running blog, it only seems right to refer to him by his famous name in the running world) went missing on Wednesday morning after he didn’t return from a 12-mile trail run. Around 6 p.m.
“All I do is file papers. I’m not learning anything in my job. I don’t want to give up on my education.” These were the words Charles Price used to quote a welfare recipient in New York who struggled to maintain welfare status while working and attending school.
Senior Jennifer Small, a marketing major, represented Elon University at the World Collegiate Sales Open this year.
It’s complex. It’s variable. It’s religion. Any given religious denomination can be difficult to understand thoroughly, for its many facets are often deeply rooted in history, tradition and culture.
The Elon Network shows students they can get career insight not only from the professionals, but from fellow students as well. This year’s annual Elon Network gave students the opportunity to meet with both students and professionals with experience in their interested fields. Brian Serow, a senior marketing and entrepreneurship major and student director of the Elon Network, wants students to be able to have job opportunities from alumni after they graduate. “There’s a whole level of connection that we don’t have,” Serow said.
Elon alumni showed students it is possible to live internationally after graduation. Students got a chance to have a question and answer session with young alumni who have lived abroad at this year’s Destination International event. The Destination series of presentations is designed to give students the opportunity to talk with recent alumni about the different cities in which they live or work.
Katniss Everdeen. Peeta Mellark. The names of the champions ring in people’s ears as they leave the movie theater.
Sports Jam, has a special guest today! Elon men's basketball sophomore guard Jack Isenbarger talks with Zach and Adam.
North Carolinians expressed low confidence in the abilities of current presidential candidates, particularly Republican contenders, to handle foreign and domestic affairs, indicated by a recent Elon University Poll. Respondents were asked which candidate they were most confident of on matters of both foreign and domestic policy.
When Elon University’s Spring Show is held March 30, expect “Pandamonium” on the stage. The White Panda, consisting of Dan “DJ Griffi” Griffith and Tom “Procrast” Evans, began in 2009 when both boys were in college at the University of Southern California and Northwestern University, respectively.
The Elon University School of Law has a goal for its students that extends beyond finding success in the legal field.
[box]Video edited by Sheryl Davis, Multimedia Editor.[/box] Bare feet slide around in the grass and across the tarp.
Check out what some of our staff photographers did over Spring Break by taking a look at the photographs from their trips.
Grace and Melissa discuss this weeks short paper! This week they look into faculty discussing everything from weight loss to staff getting an Elon degree for FREE!
Have you ever tried to have a conversation about a person you know without using gender pronouns? It’s harder than you might think. Making a call home to update your parents on interactions with your roommates, friends and professors could prove especially challenging if the words “he” and “she” were off-limits. The role that gender pronouns play in our daily lives and daily conversations was brought to my attention today during an interview with SPECTRUM member Raafe Purnsley.
The Academic Council has clarified policies and procedures with respect to discrimination and prejudice on campus with a new policy. According to Brooke Barnett, the senior fellow for diversity and global engagement in the Office of the President, those who have worked on creating the new policy want to stress that Elon now has policies for any form of harassment or discrimination, and the new policy clarifies the process for reporting incidents of harassment and discrimination. The Academic Council passed the handbook change in February, and in early March the faculty approved it unanimously. [quote]We have a process that is more fair, not just for the person who had an injustice done to them, but also to the person accused of that injustice.
The loss of a few invoked the outrage of many. The recent tragedies that unfolded on three separate continents were distinct in context but similar in nature.