Read what three correspondents have to say so far about their time abroad. And don't forget to pick up a copy of The Pendulum tomorrow for news from around Elon ... and around the world. Peter Gallagher - Copenhagen, Denmark During my first few days in Copenhagen, I was amazed to see so few overweight people.
As you start a new semester of classes and organizations, The Pendulum news team is hard at work keeping the news section running strong, while also introducing new initiatives for the year.
A statewide law banning the disposal of electronics as household waste and the introduction of sustainable graduation gowns have bolstered efforts by Elon University's Office of Sustainability to make Elon a "green" campus. Under the Discarded Computer Equipment and Television Management Law approved this summer in North Carolina, electronics can no longer be discarded as household waste.
In The Pendulum's 2011 Fall Sports Insert that was included in the Aug. 31 newspaper, the 2011 Elon Phoenix Football Schedule was incorrect.
The Elon University men's soccer team hopes to achieve something this season that has never been done in program history, senior defender Austen King said. The goal: to win the Southern Conference tournament and earn a berth into the NCAA tournament. Elon was the regular season champion in 2008, when this year's seniors were just freshmen, yet the tournament title has eluded the Phoenix over the years. But the expectation this year is to win both and gain an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, King said. "Realistically, we have a team that can do that, judging from how guys are playing this summer and the guys we have coming back," he said. The Phoenix returns nine of 11 starters, including 2010 SoCon Player of the Year junior forward Chris Thomas.
Kristina Licare, class of 2011, experiences deja vu all the time. But while most people dismiss these moments as surreal, Licare finds truth. Licare describes her experience as a "belief in the purity of each moment." For her, they are not tricks of the mind, but real and previously lived circumstances that are re-occurring. Licare's experiences with deja vu led her to question her philosophy on life and, more specifically, time. "There are moments that everybody has in their life where they look up and say, 'Where am I?
As part of its commitment to training global citizens and encouraging students to experience new cultures, Elon University and the Isabella Cannon International Centre have added five new Winter Term study abroad programs and three semester programs across the world. The Winter Term destinations are India/Dubai, not to be confused with the existing program in India, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Turkey/Greece and Vietnam, while the semester programs are in China (Shanghai), France (Montpellier) and Turkey. "We are happy that the programs are in new places," said Woody Pelton, dean of international programs. For a program to be created, a faculty member who is interested in leading the course or program must submit a proposal to the Study Abroad Committee, which then determines if the proposal is successful or not, according to Pelton.
DateMySchool, an online meeting and dating platform for university students and alumni, launched at Elon on Aug.
The first day of classes is often affectionately called "syllabus day." Many times, there's little homework assigned, besides perhaps reading or purchasing a new notebook.
The last two weeks have been filled with bizarre events in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. An earthquake centered in Virginia sent hanging lights swaying and leaves shaking from North Carolina to New York.
We all remember our first Organization Fair: a bunch of tables and signs on Young Commons with a lot of people offering free T-shirts, pens, cups, candy and information.
The economy is shifting. Our country recently avoided the brink of debt destruction with a hard-fought compromise between tax negotiations and the budgets allotted to social services. The deal has not solved our problems – it has only offered a brief respite from intense public scrutiny.
President Barack Obama has made more than a few enemies throughout his political career both inside and outside his time spent within the Oval Office. The sheer size and scope of the Republican field of contenders for 2012 is proof.
For April Murray, making and decorating elaborate cakes for friends' celebrations was nothing more than a hobby.
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More than 1,400 students from 40 states and 32 countries filed Under the Oaks this evening for New Student Convocation, an annual ceremony welcoming the incoming freshmen and transfer students to the beginning of their time at Elon. Students and their families were met with words of greeting from Elon University administration including Jan Fuller, Chaplain and Director of Religious Life, Sam Warren, Executive President of SGA, Smith Jackson, vice president and dean of student life and President Leo Lambert. The ceremony, moved from its original time tomorrow morning due to the threat of Hurricane Irene, began with an invocation from Fuller, who drew from the recent East Coast Earthquake and hurricane in her address. "Let all thunder be an expression of your energy and a true reflection of joy," she said.
Going to college is one of those experiences that has been immortalized in TV shows, movies and songs.
The door opens to an empty, colorless dorm room. This new abode is bleak. Painting, nailing and gluing decorations on the walls are prohibited, so how can a sterile cube become a student's personal space for the upcoming year?
