http://stream.elon.edu/pendulum/2011fall/podcasts/sports/Sports_11.10.mp3 This week on the Sports Jam, Justin and Zach discuss the Joe Paterno firing, a big weekend in college football and the beginning of the college basketball season, including the Carrier Classic.
Below, you can find the rules and regulations for the social media sweepstakes, to be held Nov. 10 through Dec.
College basketball is back. For the Elon University men's basketball team, the season begins with a handful of changes.
Three straight losses have left the Elon University football team in a hole with two games left against plus-.500 teams. Head coach Jason Swepson took the bye week to work on the essentials. "We did a lot of individual work and going back to the basics," Swepson said. That included not turning the ball over, tackling and blocking, he said. The Phoenix, 4-5 overall and 2-4 in the Southern Conference face Furman University in Greenville, S.C.
The Elon University men's soccer team defeated Georgia Southern University 1-0 in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference tournament Nov.
Standing on the sidelines, Bobby Blick, a tight end at North Carolina State University, watched his teammates' time, sweat and endless weeks of practice come to fruition.
Elon University's men's cross country runner Nick Schneider steals second, sliding into the base just before the ball hits the fielder's glove.
Thanks in no small part to Georgia Southern University, the Elon University volleyball team's playoff odds took a turn for the better this weekend. While the Phoenix was busy sweeping its match against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Eagles put a downer on Western Carolina University's Senior Night, helping the Phoenix get to within a game and a half of the Southern Conference North Division's final playoff spot. The weekend couldn't have started off worse for the Phoenix.
Joe Paterno should be glad he's 84. At least now he can provide a senility defense if somebody brings up the fact that his statement contradicts information in the grand jury indictment of former Penn State University defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Paterno can also take solace in knowing that after the Sandusky scandal inevitably leads to Paterno's resignation/termination as head coach that he can say he coached for 62 years under the façade of doing things the right way. This is the type of thing that stains a legacy.
Since Dave Blank, director of athletics, took the reins, Elon University has hired new head coaches for half of its teams and built two new buildings, while four others facilities have been renovated. This was all in six years, and another new athletic site is on the way. "We're trying to get all the facilities as advanced as possible," Blank said.
Hot treats straight from the oven are as much a part of autumn as falling leaves and chunky sweaters.
Between her honesty on racism and her paranoid schizophrenic mother, comedian Tracey Ashley discussed a little of everything without apparent shame or regard for the audience's judgment. The Student Union Board hosted Ashley as a part of SUBLaughs.
Novelists sometimes say their story already existed before it was written down. November is the time for aspiring novelists to finally put pen to paper. This month is National Novel Writing Month, also known to avid writers as NaNoWriMo, an annual writing frenzy put on by The Office of Letters and Light, a nonprofit organization that develops free creative writing programs for children and adults around the world.
With Twitter and Facebook, it seems like life events do not happen unless a status update announces them.
It was less than two weeks ago that the faculty voted down proposed changes to the General Studies curriculum, yet steps are already being taken to decide what will come of the efforts and research behind the proposed curriculum. Discussion about the proposal continues and will take place this week in several meetings, according to Provost Steven House.
This week on The Swing: Natalie Allison talks about the recent Liquor By The Drink referendum, we go behind the scenes of this week's editorial photo shoot, Julia Boyd asks students what they would do with half-a-million dollars and Rebecca Wickel visits Graham. Hosted by Al Drago.
By Adam Lawson When Vice President of the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees’ John Surma announced that Joe Paterno would no longer be the head coach of the Nittany Lions, an audible gasp was heard in the Penn State hotel. Journalism, an institution known for its objectivity, seemingly lost its way Wednesday night when a few students found their way into the Board of Trustees’ press conference. Surma revealed the news. Then, the conference was hijacked. Few intelligent questions were asked. Why didn’t you allow Paterno to go out with dignity?
In the six years since the School of Communications at Elon University was first granted full accreditation, a lot has changed.
The recent push for diversity on Elon University's campus is not enough for one student. "I am glad that Elon is taking all of these measures to bring in diversity," said senior Ali Garced, resident area coordinator of East Area.
Consent is sexy. The head nod, the squeeze of the hand, the wink. According to Elon University policy, these simple signs can't be interpreted as effective consent in the absence of a verbal, active "yes." But the charges assigned — or not assigned — to students accused of nonconsensual sexual acts don't always reflect what is mandated by university policy. On Elon's Sexual and Relationship Violence Awareness and Response website, effective consent is defined as an active, verbal, uncoerced "yes" in the absence of substances such as alcohol and is required at each stage of sexual advancement. Effective consent is clearly stated in the student handbook as a necessity for students to proceed physically in accordance with the Honor Code.
