Letters to the Editor

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NEWS 4/15/13 10:11am

Biosolid application in Burlington remains contested

By Michael Papich

As long as there are humans, there is going to be sewage. In Burlington, the majority of treated sewage is applied to farmland as a cheap replacement for fertilizer.

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NEWS 4/15/13 10:02am

Elon names inaugural director to Gender and LGBTQ Center

By Michael Bodley

Elon University recently named Matthew Antonio Bosch as the first director for its Gender and LGBTQ Center.

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NEWS 4/14/13 11:59pm

No. 8 Louisville sweeps Elon in weekend series

By Andrew Wilson

Following a 24-12 defeat of North Carolina State University at home on March 5, Elon University head baseball coach Mike Kennedy and junior Sebastian Gomez talked about the importance of big wins over ranked opponents such as N.C.

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NEWS 4/14/13 3:45pm

Caruso, Watson lead Elon to softball series victory

By Matt Krause

It took five series, but the Elon University softball team used dominant pitching and timely hitting to claim its first Southern Conference series win of the year with a 4-1 win over Western Carolina University on Sunday. “We’re at the middle of conference play right now,” said Elon head coach Kathy Bocock.

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NEWS 4/14/13 1:51pm

Elon University percussion ensemble looks at percussion as instruments, not noise

By Casey Brown

The word “percussion” usually brings to mind performances like “Stomp,” where artists bang metal objects together to make noise. Contrarily, Elon University’s percussion ensemble brought a whole new level of professionalism to Yeager Recital Hall April 10.

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NEWS 4/14/13 12:30pm

Wind turbines may harness green energy off N.C. shore

By Corinne James

Five companies are vying to develop wind farms off of North Carolina’s coast, an effort that would promote and produce green energy in the state and the surrounding area. The federal government introduced the idea in December 2012 by asking companies about their interest in offshore wind development.

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NEWS 4/13/13 7:05pm

Women's tennis ends season with sweep of East Carolina

By Kyle Maher

The Elon University women’s tennis team ended their regular season in style, sweeping the East Carolina University Pirates 7-0 Saturday afternoon April 13 at the Jimmy Powell Tennis Center.

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NEWS 4/13/13 6:53pm

Pitching leads Elon to doubleheader split with Western Carolina

By Matt Krause

Coming off of a seven game losing streak where at least six runs were surrendered each game, the Elon University softball team knew improved pitching was the key to success.

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NEWS 4/12/13 5:11pm

NC Senate bill 666 takes aim at college students, early voters

By Katherine Blunt

Three Republican senators challenged North Carolina’s voting procedures last week with two pieces of legislation targeting college students, one-stop voting registration sites and early voting periods.

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NEWS 4/12/13 4:38pm

Elon University launches Writing Excellence Initiative

By Corinne James

Elon University is currently launching the Writing Excellence Initiative, a project aimed to make writing a key component of every student’s Elon education. The Elon community started developing the project in 2010 to build on the school’s mission of “integrating learning across the disciplines, putting knowledge into practice, and preparing students to be global citizens and informed leaders motivated by concern for the common good.” The Writing Excellence Initiative is a part of Elon’s overarching Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), as a required part of Elon’s reaccreditation process. The goal of the initiative is to prepare every Elon student to be an outstanding writer, regardless of his or her major. In creating “engaged minds, inspiring leaders, and global citizens,” the initiative is focusing on developing students’ abilities to write in three ways: writing to learn, writing in a discipline, and writing as a citizen. Writing to learn will focus on analyzing and problem solving, while writing in a discipline will be geared toward a student's individual major.

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NEWS 4/12/13 4:23pm

Equals sign logo a good place to start

By Audrey Horwitz

We’ve all seen the pink equals sign with the red background hundreds of our Facebook friends or maybe even we, ourselves, have sported as our profile pictures.

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NEWS 4/12/13 4:23pm

Change your actions, not your pictures

By Alex Francis

For those of you who logged on to Facebook March 26, you probably noticed a sea of profile pictures changed to a red and pink equals sign. At a time when the United States Supreme Court justices were preparing to hear arguments for two pieces of landmark marriage equality legislation, the profile pictures represent support for the equal rights cause.

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NEWS 4/12/13 12:37pm

North Carolina A&T on lockdown after reports of gunman on campus

By Katherine Blunt

UPDATE: As of 12:39 p.m., North Carolina A&T State University lifted its lockdown. All normal campus activities, including classes, resumed at 2 p.m. North Carolina A&T State University issued a campus-wide lockdown today after a man carrying a rifle was seen on its campus, though no shots had been fired.

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NEWS 4/12/13 9:00am

Semester at Sea student honored as global citizen at Clinton Global Initiative University

By Jonathan Black

Ask any class of first graders across the country what they want to be when they grow up and they are likely to respond with answers like doctor, fireman and maybe even bus driver. Many Elon University students have since digressed from their first-grade career paths, but not Emily Tomich. If you asked Tomich, a sophomore at Elon, what she wants to do now and what she wanted to do when she was 7, the answer would be the same: a world traveler. As a first grader in California, Tomich’s class participated in a pen pal program called Vicarious Voyage, in which students in her class would write to students on a Semester at Sea program. “My teacher made it an amazing experience,” Tomich said.

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NEWS 4/12/13 12:41am

SGA Recap: April 11

By Michael Bodley

At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, the newly appointed senators were sworn in. Both those voted in by their peers and those appointed by SGA Executive President Welsford Bishopric assumed their new roles.

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NEWS 4/11/13 9:02pm

Elon's Enactus helps Skid’s go green, gain customers

By Katy Canada

Elon University students walk past Skid’s Restaurant every day on the way to the gym or en route to class.

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NEWS 4/11/13 7:51pm

Step right up: Elonthon circus coming to campus April 12

By Jessica Petrocchi

Elonthon, Elon University’s 24-hour dance marathon, is returning April 12 for its eighth year and this time around it will be stronger than ever.

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NEWS 4/11/13 4:45pm

Elon football looks to fill holes as spring practice starts

By Andrew Wilson

The makeup of the 2013 Southern Conference football slate doesn’t change, but the landscape and the possibilities turned drastically March 26. With SoCon powerhouses Appalachian State University and Georgia Southern University making the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level at the start of the 2014 season in the Sun Belt Conference, the two are not eligible to officially defend the conference title.

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NEWS 4/11/13 2:59pm

The Last Word: 'Skim-milk marriage' hasn't won yet

By Jonathan Black

It’s a gay time for America. Last week, Time magazine released an issue featuring either two men or two women kissing on the cover, with a headline declaring, “Gay marriage already won.” The statement — not unusual for a magazine that has received flak for presenting a darkened photo of O.J.

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NEWS 4/11/13 2:14pm

A man, a moped and his tennis racquet: International Elon student, tennis player integrates passions on and off the court

By Jordan Spritzer

If you’re walking around Elon University on a sunny afternoon, you may see a loud moped cruising around at 20 miles per hour with the rider’s blond mullet flapping in the wind. The rider is none other than men’s tennis sophomore Stefan Fortmann. The moped has a name, too: Monique.

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