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NEWS 8/26/15 6:48pm

Common reading as social change

By Danielle Deavens

In his iconic “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.” 

NEWS 8/26/15 6:24pm

Bex Pallant - 2015-08-26 18:24:25

 

Hi! My name's Bex and I'm a freshman. Since i toured campus i have been really interested in the broadcasting area and am wondering if theres anything that i could get involved in?

SPORTS 8/26/15 4:00pm

Experienced secondary ready to shine for Phoenix

By Alex Simon

When Chris Blair arrived at Elon University last spring, he said the other defensive backs on the football team knew more about him than he knew about himself. “[Junior linebacker] John Silas welcomed me into his apartment and told me to move in with him,” Blair said. The camaraderie is hoping to translate to some onfield success for Elon this fall, as Blair and seniors Miles Williams and Julius Moore will anchor what should be a strong secondary. The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) did not welcome Elon kindly in the 2014 season.

SPORTS 8/26/15 3:15pm

Finding, mastering a role

By Tommy Hamzik

A scrawny high school freshman named Jerry Tolley, sitting on his bicycle, leaned against the Edenton High School building on the first day of football practice in fall 1957. The legendary coach Bill Billings, who won four state titles at Edenton and later collected 10 unbeaten seasons as a coach in Delaware, approached Tolley with a skeptical look. “Tolley, what are you doing?” Billings inquired. “Well, I want to be a manager,” Tolley replied. Billings snapped back.

SPORTS 8/26/15 1:45pm

Column: Elon volleyball to reap benefits of deeper bench

By Tommy Hamzik

There were a handful of games in September 2014 in which the Elon University volleyball team dressed eight or fewer players. Not exactly a recipe for success. It also shouldn’t be a problem for this year’s Phoenix. With six new additions — including Michigan State University transfer junior and outside hitter Ebony Scott — Elon has a full roster and won’t see too many empty seats on the bench for games this year. There really isn’t anywhere to go but up for Elon after a 6-26 season and 1-15 mark in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play.

SPORTS 8/26/15 1:00pm

Title aspirations linger after Vargas departs

By Alex Simon

The 2014 cross country season was the longest in Elon University’s history. The impact of the success in 2014 can be felt as the 2015 season dawns for the Phoenix. In head coach Nick Polk’s office hang two plaques: one is for the 2014 Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Cross Country Athlete of the Year and the other is a 2014 All-American plaque.

NEWS 8/26/15 11:27am

Make Elon 101 more collaborative

 

On paper, the TA serves only as an assistant to the faculty or staff member instructor and explains parts of Elon the instructor isn’t familiar with. But the TA should take a more interactive role that allows him or her to better engage new students and prepare them for life at Elon both inside and outside the classroom.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:22am

Get your geek on

By Tom Mould

Let your geek flag fly. Because we all have a passionate geek inside us if we’re willing to admit it, and we are all are a heck of a lot more interesting when we connect our social lives with our intellectual ones and let our inner geeks out.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:18am

Experiences over expectations

By Lauren Phillips

Coming into college, many of us were told, “Watch out for the Freshman 15,” those pounds you may or may not pick up after late-night snacks and forgetting to go to the gym for a few weeks in a row. It doesn’t end with freshman year, though.

NEWS 8/26/15 9:15am

Column: Elon cross country holds some bragging rights

By Tommy Hamzik

The running teams were the class of the Elon University athletic department in 2014-15. Sophomore distance runner Kimberly Johansen and the women’s track and field team captured the school’s first Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title, winning the outdoor championships in May.

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LIFESTYLE 12/14/2025 11:03am
‘Hemos olvidado la conversación’: el VIH/SIDA todavía afecta al Sur a medida que disminuye la conciencia

45 años después de los primeros casos de VIH/SIDA reportados en Estados Unidos, la lucha contra esta enfermedad está lejos de terminar, especialmente en el sur del país. Según los datos más recientes de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, el sur representó el 52% de todos los diagnósticos de VIH en Estados Unidos en 2023. "Sabemos que el VIH/SIDA ha afectado de manera desproporcionada a las personas de color y a las personas LGBTQ+ de color en este país", afirmó Jeff Bennett, profesor de estudios de comunicación en la Universidad de Vanderbilt. "Hay muchas personas que viven en zonas rurales, existe desconfianza hacia los profesionales de la salud y persiste el estigma social".

LIFESTYLE 12/14/2025 11:03am
‘We've forgotten about the conversation’: HIV/AIDS still hits the South as awareness fades

45 years after the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the U.S., the fight against this disease is far from over, especially in the South. According to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the South accounted for 52% of all HIV diagnoses in the U.S. in 2023. "We know that HIV/AIDS has had a disproportionate effect on people of color or queer people of color in this country," Professor of communication studies at Vanderbilt University Jeff Bennett said. "You have many people living in rural areas. You might have distrust of medical providers, you have the social stigma.”

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