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NEWS 3/1/14 11:24pm

Senior night woes: Davidson routs Elon

With the nostalgic senior night vibes in the air, the anticipated finale for the four Elon University men’s basketball seniors in Alumni Gym was rather anticlimactic. Facing top dog Davidson College in a rematch of the overtime thriller Jan.


NEWS 3/1/14 6:32pm

Elon women's tennis picks up win to start SoCon play

The Elon University women’s tennis team topped Georgia Southern University 7-0 March 1 at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center, earning its first Southern Conference win of the spring season. “I thought the girls played well today,” head coach Elizabeth Anderson said.  “We have a lot of things we’re still working on that we will work on over the course of the next few weeks but I think it was a good start to Southern Conference play. The Phoenix won the doubles point by winning on all three courts.  Senior Frida Jansaker and junior Maria Camara Ruiz needed just 25 minutes to capture an 8-0 win on court No.


NEWS 3/1/14 4:39pm

Men's tennis sweeps weekend slate

The Elon University men’s tennis team opened up Southern Conference play with a 7-0 win over the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Saturday, March 1. “We got on top of them and stayed on top of them,” Elon coach Michael Leonard said.


SPORTS 2/28/14 10:31pm

Elon Men's Basketball prepares for Senior Night

For Elon Men's Basketball Head Coach Matt Matheny, Davidson won't be the only thing on his mind Saturday night. Saturday is Senior Night for five members of the Phoenix squad: Jack Isenbarger, Lucas Troutman, Sebastian Koch, Ryley Beaumont and Egheosa Edomwonyi. "This is a special class," Matheny said.


NEWS 2/28/14 9:59pm

Elon professor prepares students for financial realties after graduation

An Elon professor recently traded his Thursday night to college students who penny-pinch and live paycheck-to-paycheck. Anthony Hatcher, associate professor of communications, led a presentation titled, “Life After Elon: Preparing for the Real World,” sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. “What I wanted to do with my workshop is tell students what I wish someone had told me when I was 21,”  Hatcher said. “Life After Elon,” was a part of Elon University’s Professional Discovery Week.


NEWS 2/28/14 3:29pm

Grandfather passes love of cinema to granddaughter by sharing story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIbQHwws3vc “There was so much blood.” This is a phrase Elon University sophomore Emma Vo heard her grandfather utter repeatedly into the phone as he told her, for the first time, the story of standing witness to one of the most iconic events of the Vietnam War. “He’d never talked to me about this,” Emma said.


NEWS 2/28/14 1:53pm

Elon raises tuition, financial aid for 2014-2015

With the passing of the 2014-2015 fiscal budget, Elon University reaffirmed its commitment to a slow growth model, increasing tuition by 3.69 percent and bringing the total cost of an Elon education to $41,914 per year for students living on campus.


NEWS 2/28/14 1:49pm

S.E. Cupp says Millennials are the future of politics

Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp visited Elon University Thursday, Feb. 27, to challenge students’ views of the United States’ “fractured political system.” Cupp asked the audience, largely students, some adjectives that come to mind when picturing how conservatives view young people.


NEWS 2/28/14 1:44pm

Elon senior Elizabeth Purvis prepares to push poetry beyond graduation

Elizabeth Purvis, known to her friends as Liz, could read when she was three years old, something most children don’t master until they’re five or six. “I know that because my sister was born when I was two and a half, and I was reading in the waiting room of the hospital,” she said. Now, as a senior English major at Elon University, literature and creative writing are what she does best.


NEWS 2/28/14 10:45am

Cochran's 3-pointers down Elon

Amid turnovers, fouls, and more than anything, missed shots, it all boiled down to the thing Elon University loves to do most. Shoot the 3-pointer. But that poison was used against the Phoenix Thursday night, Feb.


NEWS 2/27/14 11:56am

Behind the nameplate with Student Government President Joe Incorvia

Samuel Warren, Darien Flowers, Welsford Bishopric. These three men have represented Elon, and now the newest SGA President takes his seat at the head of the Executive Staff. Junior Joe Incorvia moves into the President's room in the Student Government Office on April 3, but there is more to Incorvia than just the title. "I come from a small town in Connecticut," Incorvia says.



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