Chris Burgess received his first tattoo, a yellow round smiley face in the center of his arm, at age 14.
MADRID – Play, jump, fight and run are all things one can do with a bull in Spain. I moved to Spain to study abroad on Sept.
The job of art historians is to discover the origins of artwork, but when it comes to art from early medieval periods, historians find themselves in a world shrouded with mystery. "We've got objects, but no fancy story to attach to them," said Sigrid Danielson, in her lecture titled "Art History and the Early Medieval Artist" at Elon University Tuesday evening. Historians saw the names of artists as "signifiers of ethnic identity and geographic origins of the object's creator," Danielson said. From the 1920s to the 1950s, schools of art history responded to the lack of information about early medieval art by focusing solely on the artist, specifically his or her ethnicity.
Last year, the Elon Phoenix volleyball team started its Southern Conference schedule 2-0 on its way to winning the SoCon North Division crown. This year, the team started 0-2 in conference play and looks to rebound to defend its division title. Trailing the match by two sets early Sept.
The Elon University women's tennis team recently had the opportunity to volunteer at Kopper Top Life Learning Center, an organization that specializes in therapy for disabled individuals. The nine girls on the team and their head coach, Elizabeth Anderson, spent three hours one Saturday feeding the horses Kopper Top uses for therapeutic and recreational horseback riding. The girls had expected to work with some of the children who receive therapy at Kopper Top, according to Anderson, but instead they worked to feed the animals with the expired produce Kopper Top gets from stores like Costco. "It's a great organization," Anderson said.
The Elon University men's soccer team will be looking to snap its current two-game losing streak when the Phoenix begins its Southern Conference schedule at home against Appalachian State University at 7 p.m.
The crack of bats. The thwack of gloves. The overcast chill in the air? The date on the calendar? September seems like an odd time for college baseball since the season does not start until February.
Homecoming Weekend just got a whole lot funnier. Fred Rubeck, chair of the department of performing arts, has selected eight students to participate in an improv group set to perform at this year's homecoming. The creation of this group comes at a time of ease and convenience for the performing arts department, according to Rubeck. "The other staff and faculty are so busy mounting the other productions that we're doing," Rubeck said.
The most formal aspect of Peter Buffett's "Concert and Conversation" was his maroon velvet jacket. Buffett kept it casual throughout his performance with cellist Michael Kott in Friday, Sept.
Who will take over when I leave? For music theatre majors, this question was answered at "Collage," a program of Broadway song and dance held Sept.
A large crowd gathered around the Academic Village, as a group of dancers made their way through the grass, trees and pathways that comprise Elon University's campus on Sunday, Sept.
There are six billion people on the planet, and one in every seven goes to bed hungry. Oxfam is a well-known, international organization that works toward fighting statistics like this and creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice.
Diversity is used a lot at Elon University in its mission statement, in recent emails from the administration and as a descriptor for the freshman class. One of Elon's organizations, Better Together, is looking to do more than comment on diversity and is designed to promote interfaith cooperation and understanding. The organization was started last year by alumnus Zac Jordan, Class of 2011.
PARIS – France's nuclear power industry was shaken earlier this month by an explosion at the Marcoule nuclear waste management facility in its southern Languedoc- Roussillon region.
A thought was brought up by ESPN.com’s Gregg Easterbrook, aka the “Tuesday Morning Quarterback,” in his column Tuesday: a Detroit Lions-Buffalo Bills Super Bowl. Three years ago, this would have been unthinkable. In 2008, the Bills started 4-0 but ended the year on a 3-9 stretch, securing a ninth straight year without a playoff appearance.
The freshmen are beginning to find their way around campus, the upperclassmen are adjusting to their off-campus apartments and houses, and it finally feels like you can breathe again (without the thick humidity and hectic frenzy of the first few weeks of school). With this extra time and sense of direction, its the perfect time to start running regularly. Where to? The Elon University Cross Country course (also known as the intramural fields) has miles of grassy cut-throughs and trails that can easily turn a boring neighborhood jog into a challenging all-terrain run. Just past the railroad tracks, the course offers rolling hills and a softer surface than hard cement and asphalt. When you wear the course out, there are plenty of relatively safe neighborhoods, and parks around Elon. For those mileage perfectionists who count every tenth of a mile (guilty one right here...), there are great websites where you can track every turn of your run before-or after- you go out. Personally, I use walkjogrun.net to map out all my runs, but mapmyrun.com is also a great site where you can track miles. Both sites have search engines where you can type in your location (Elon, NC), and browse through routes mapped out by different users.
Don't have time to read in-depth reports on the major news stories of the moment? Don't fear! Check the News Blog every Sunday afternoon for a run-down of the top stories that matter to you and where to find out more information. Saudi women earn the right to vote Saudi Arabian women were granted the right to vote Sunday by King Abdullah in a move many say was prompted by the Arab Spring.
Despite leading in almost every statistical category against The Citadel Sept. 24, it took everything the Elon University men's football team had to kick a 33-yard field goal in overtime and scrape by with an 18-15 win against The Citadel. Although Elon heads into this weekend's matchup against Georgia Southern University at 3-1, two of Elon's wins have come in the last drive of the game, and by a combined four points. The Phoenix knows what it needs to work on and what to change as it hosts the No.
The Elon Centre Abroad in London will be all new starting fall 2012. The changes come after Elon spent almost two years reviewing the program, ultimately deciding to change partnerships from the Anglo American Educational Services to the Foundation for International Education. "From the perspective of a student, there will be more alike than there will be different, but the differences will all be positive," said Woody Pelton, dean of International Programs. The new program offers an expanded course catalog with 20 to 30 academic courses compared to the four or five offered in the current program, according to Heidi White, associate director for study abroad. "I think it's just deepening what we had before," White said.
When Bill Morningstar joined the Elon University basketball coaching staff in 1972, there was a caveat that doesn't exist today: The assistant basketball coach had to also coach golf. Morningstar had played basketball for the Fighting Christians from 1961-1964 and had returned to his alma mater to coach.
