[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoxv4_pboQ&w=560&h=315] Going to college isn't getting any cheaper.
President Obama made headlines this week for talking about his past experiences with marijuana. In an interview with The New Yorker, Obama confessed to smoking marijuana when he was younger and said it was like smoking cigarettes.
Shoppers have returned to The Mall in Columbia today, after a gunman open fired in the Howard County, Md.
In remembrance of 50 years since Lyndon B. Johnson's efforts against the nation's poverty dilemma, Elon University hosted its Community Connections forum on "The War on Poverty," Monday, Jan.
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This past summer, the North Carolina General Assembly altered the face of public education through various budget cuts, program changes and salary alterations.
"She was a person who had a dream...and she followed it. And for a lot of us that was really hard to do." - Sarah Paterson, Elon junior and former East Area R.A. Lexie Kamerman devoted her life to students like Sarah Patterson.
The Colonnades' residential neighborhood hosted "Walk around the World" Wednesday, Jan. 23 in an effort to embrace diversity among students. The event promoted Elon's global awareness toward diversity and against discrimination following the events involving hate messages early last semester. Shena Lucero-Keniston, the resident assistant of first floor Kivette, explained the goal of the evening. "We are trying to expand people's knowledge of other cultures in order to foster that inclusive community," Lucero-Keniston said. Out of the fifteen residential halls in the Colonnades Neighborhood, thirteen of them participated in this event. Students at the event played games and ate food as they "traveled around the world" in Colonnades neighborhood. Small passports were handed out for participants to collect stars when they travelled from hall to hall.
BERLIN — On Jan. 1, 2014, citizens of Romania and Bulgaria were allowed to freely move, live and work in the major economic powers of Europe, including the United Kindom, France and Germany.
While many students pursue their undergraduate degrees in four years, some Elon students graduate a year early. Katie Pullman is in her third year of study at Elon and it will be her last.
The United State Senate’s top priority for January has been the extension of expired federal unemployment insurance – a reality in North Carolina for nearly six months. Federal unemployment insurance ran out at the end of 2013, and the Senate is currently working on legislation to extend those benefits until March.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced that North Carolina State University will serve as the head of his manufacturing technologies initiative. This public-private partnership between universities, companies and research institutions will work to create more efficient and sustainable methods of powering electronics. For the past 50 years, electronic devices have relied on silicon-based semiconductors to convert electrical energy into power.
New polling numbers show North Carolinians are changing their minds on the dangers of marijuana, opening the door for new medical marijuana legislation in 2014. In light of legalization in Colorado and Gov.
The Elon University School of Law now has its third dean, with Luke Bierman taking over for the school’s previous dean, George Johnson, starting June 1. Before accepting the position at Elon, Bierman was a distinguished professor of practice of law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, as well as the school’s associate dean of experiential learning. Faith Rivers James, professor of law and co-chair of the search committee for the school’s dean, said the committee looked for candidates who could use the strengths of Elon to improve the relatively young law school. “Elon’s outstanding record in terms of engaged learning is an important foundation for the law school,” James said. James said Bierman’s background and experience shows that he can combine university education with practical, hands-on teaching.
Last Friday, Elon University lost former faculty member Alexis Kamerman in an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kamerman served as assistant director of residence life for the East Residence Area from 2012 to 2013. In June 2013, Kamerman took a job at the American University of Afghanistan. She wanted to inspire young women to seek higher education.
At the MLK Difficult Dialogue on Thursday night, participants discussed social change on Elon’s campus and on a national and international scale.
The recently selected 2014-2015 common reading selection, William Kamkwamba’s “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind,” is designed to show incoming students the world through the eyes of a boy growing up in third world Malawi, one of Africa’s poorest countries. The nonfiction book was chosen by the Elon Common Reading Program (ECRP) to combat stereotypes and poverty through ingenuity, according to Jeffrey Coker, chair of the ECRP and director of general studies. “It’s empowering,” he said.
Former Assistant Director of Residence Life for the East Residence Area, Alexis Kamerman, known as Lexi, was killed Friday evening during an attack on a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to an email from Smith Jackson Saturday evening. Kamerman, a 27-year-old Chicago native, was working in residence life at the American University of Afghanistan. Her family released this statement to the Chicago Tribune via an email from her aunt, Julie Pfeffer: "She was an amazing young woman -smart, strong, beautiful, funny, stubborn and kind.
Elon University is expected to announce the hiring of Damian Wroblewski as offensive coordinator next week. Wroblewski's hiring is the latest in a long line of new coaches that Rich Skrosky has brought in since being introduced as Elon Football's head coach, Dec.
Down 14 with under five minutes to go in regulation, it seemed the Elon University Men's Basketball team was headed to its fifth straight loss against Southern Conference rival Davidson. But the Phoenix caught fire, going on a 16-2 run, culminating in a Jack Isenbarger three to send the game into overtime.
