The only thing better than the feeling of sitting down with your family to enjoy a delicious Thanksgiving meal is knowing that you worked for this meal.
Writing the article regarding the GST proposal vote required more reporting than I had originally thought it would, but I subsequently learned a significant amount about how decisions like these are made at Elon and why some people are more willing to talk about them than others. It wasn’t until I learned how many years of work were put into the proposal that I realized how big of a vote this was, and the fact that it was put to a full faculty vote meant it was of extreme importance. Although I was hoping to attend the meeting during which the votes were cast, I was informed that the presence of a reporter might affect faculty participation in the discussion. It would have been helpful to see the specifics as to how the meeting was run, who participated in the discussion, etc. Instead, I knew that I would have to talk to faculty the following Monday. I wanted to get a range of faculty opinions on how they felt about the proposal being voted down, but getting clear answers from some faculty proved difficult. I was constantly re-directed to different people to talk to, and some simply said they didn’t want to comment. Although the majority of the faculty who participated in the vote voted the proposal down, no one I talked to would explicitly say they voted no. When it came to writing the story, it proved challenging to not have the story seem biased or one-sided because of the lack of sources I had that were against the proposal. No further discussion was held immediately after the vote, so my first follow-up story consisted of two students’ opinions on the result of the vote. I thought it was interesting that one of the students mentioned an over-arching concern regarding a lack of communication between faculty and students concerning these types of proposals/votes. I think it is true that many students did not know about the GST proposal, which is one of the reasons why I was happy I got to write about it for The Pendulum. I will be doing a second follow up for this weeks paper, which will include the specifics of what was discussed at various meetings following the vote. For more on this subject, check out this week's issue of The Pendulum.
While I was doing interviews for my story about the changes to SUB this week, I was surprised to learn how much work and planning goes into every SUB event.
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Since its first publication in 1928, the Oxford English Dictionary — at 20 volumes, the most comprehensive historical dictionary in the world — has only been revised once in 1933, and republished once with supplemental material in 1979. And though Jesse Sheidlower's job as the dictionary's editor at large for North America is to spend his days updating, revising and adding new entries, there's no guarantee that there will ever be an OED 3.
With the recent passing of the Affordable Care Act, some university health centers are being forced to adjust their fees because of changes under the preventative care portion of the act, which lists several preventative medications and measures that are covered under universal health care.
Kavita Ramdas, senior advisor for the Global Fund for Women, spoke Tuesday night, Nov. 8 in McCrary Theater on the effect of women's movements in bringing about social change.
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.
