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NEWS 2/8/21 8:53am

Elon students weigh staying home for spring semester

By Jinger Callwood

The academic experience — all-nighters in the library, lab experiments, class field trips and connecting with professors during office hours — are all aspects of in-person instruction that have been redesigned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, students are adjusting to an online learning environment as virtual instruction has become widely prevalent in the education process over the past 11 months.

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NEWS 2/5/21 12:35pm

Daniel J. Watts selected as Elon 2021 commencement speaker

By Mackenzie Wilkes

The musical theatre alumnus is set give the commencement address on May 21, 2021. Plans for the class of 2021 and 2020  commencement have not been finalized. According to the press release, commencement plans will be announced on March 26.

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NEWS 2/2/21 8:31pm

Final candidate for Elon director of campus safety and police gives presentation

By Kyra O'Connor

Joe LeMire presented on-campus as the final candidate in the search for Elon’s next chief of campus safety and police. He presented his background, leadership philosophy, their vision for campus policing and the challenges and opportunities in campus policing to students, faculty and staff, as part of the fifth and final stage of the interview process.

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NEWS 2/2/21 8:17pm

Alamance County Commissioners approve 25,000 square foot COVID-19 vaccine site

By Graysen Shirley

The approval of the indoor space comes after Tony Lo Giudice, the Alamance County health director, told the board that the county’s demand for COVID-19 vaccinations is growing. The new indoor vaccination site will help with the county’s growing demand and is set to be leased for at least 3 months starting Feb. 1. The lease cost for the space will be $23,958.33 per month and can be renewed on a monthly basis 

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NEWS 1/29/21 9:47am

Elon University commencement plans in flux

By Jacob Kisamore

According to a university spokesman, there is currently no timeline for making a decision regarding commencement for the class of 2021. But Jeff Stein, chair of the Ready & Resilient committee, said right now, the university is planning for both the possibility of commencement happening or not — for both the class of 2020 and 2021. He said it would be “foolish” of them to make a decision now, but hopes to alert students and families of a decision by March.

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NEWS 1/26/21 12:20pm

Elon student remembered as 'someone to rely on'

By Mackenzie Wilkes

James Markley, an Elon University sophomore, has died at 20. Markley, a Burlington resident and Western Alamance High School graduate, died at his home and his cause of death is unknown at this time, according to a university wide email.

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NEWS 1/26/21 9:39am

Elon names Gozik as new dean of global education

By Graysen Shirley

Nick Gozik will start his new role as dean of global education at Elon University on Jan. 25 after a two year search following former dean Woody Pelton’s retirement. He said he hopes to continue expanding and improving global engagement and international programs in his new role at the university.

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NEWS 1/21/21 11:03pm

Craig Turner to fill vacant seat on Alamance County Board of Commissioners

By Graysen Shirley

Craig Turner, first vice chair of the Alamance County GOP, was elected by the Alamance County GOP executive committee to fill the vacant seat on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners. Turner is an Alamance County native, Elon Law alumnus ‘10 and veteran, serving in the US Navy for eight and a half years. 

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NEWS 1/21/21 5:27pm

Alamance GOP to vote on vacant county commissioner seat

By Graysen Shirley

The Alamance County GOP executive committee — made up of 44 party officers, elected officials and members — will vote on a candidate to fill ex-county commissioner Amy Galey’s vacant seat on the Alamance County Board of Commissioners tonight.

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NEWS 1/20/21 11:45am

Elon students react to election ahead of Biden inauguration

By Kieran Ungemach

With the inauguration on Jan. 20, some Elon University students are anxiously awaiting the new administration to be sworn in after a heated few months while on the other side students try to find their place in the Republican party.

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NEWS 1/20/21 10:34am

Elon University aims to administer COVID-19 vaccines

By Kyra O'Connor

University physician and member of the Ready & Resilient committee Ginette Archinal said that getting approval to become a vaccine site is a process with a lot of moving parts. Not only does the university have to have the ability to store vaccine doses, but there also have to be enough people to distribute the vaccine, and any distribution site must have the ability to record the data from the vaccinations.

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NEWS 1/18/21 12:18pm

Rabbi Sandra Lawson to leave Elon

By Christian Galvano

Lawson said she will be accepting a new position as the director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Reconstructing Judaism, a modern Jewish organization dedicated to progressively shaping the religion. According to Lawson, she’ll still be a resident of Alamance County and keeping in touch with any students that still want her to be their rabbi.

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NEWS 1/16/21 5:17pm

Weekly rapid testing among changes to Elon University’s COVID-19 response

By Jack Norcross

Some changes to Elon University’s COVID-19 response are happening as the second half of the academic year begins. More testing is one of the things on the top of Jeff Stein, chair of the Ready & Resilient committee’s mind as the second half of the academic year begins. 

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NEWS 12/23/20 2:54pm

New Alamance County health director faces challenges of COVID-19 response

By Madalyn Howard

When Tony Lo Giudice took on his new role as Alamance County’s health director on Nov. 30, the position had been in flux for almost five months after previous Health Director Stacie Saunders — who held the position since 2014 — left the department in July and Alexandria Rimmer, Alamance County’s environmental health specialist, assumed the role in the interim.

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NEWS 12/20/20 1:20pm

Alamance County expected to receive shipments of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine

By Madalyn Howard

Alamance County Health Director Tony Lo Giudice said Alamance County has prioritized the Moderna vaccine over the Pfizer vaccine because of the health department’s existing storage infrastructure. Lo Giudice expects the first shipment of the Moderna vaccine to arrive in Alamance County the week of Dec. 21. 

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NEWS 12/16/20 9:37am

Smitty’s Homemade Ice Cream to be sold

By Jess Baker

An Elon staple may soon be experiencing a drastic change: Smitty’s Homemade Ice Cream is being sold. After 18 years, co-owners Amy Nakhle and Tom Lambeth have made the call to pass the downtown Elon staple to someone new. Smitty’s has three locations across Alamance County — all of which are up for sale.

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NEWS 12/15/20 9:05pm

Computer requirement for business students to begin fall 2021

By Ellis Chandler

The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University will require students to use a Windows computer for all business classes beginning in the fall of 2021. The business school cites macOS compatibility issues as the reason for switching to Windows. LSB Dean Raghu Tadepalli said the business school announced this recently in hopes that families would take advantage of holiday sales to buy new computers.

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NEWS 12/11/20 4:09pm

Elon businesses brace for North Carolina’s modified stay-at-home order

By Sam Hess

The executive order follows consistent record breaking numbers of COVID-19 cases in the state and country. There have been an estimated 423,623 total cases in North Carolina as of Dec. 11, and cases in the state have broken single-day records on three separate days within the past week, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.

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NEWS 12/10/20 6:13pm

Elon University to require on-campus COVID-19 test, quarantine for Winter Term return

By Sophie Rosenthal

Students will also be required to complete PCR testing every other week and rapid antigen testing weekly, once supplies are available, in the winter and spring semesters, unlike testing done in the fall semester.

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NEWS 12/10/20 10:37am

North Carolina plans COVID-19 vaccine distribution, as FDA approval nears

By Kyra O'Connor

According to Alamance County Health Director Tony Lo Giudice, long-term care facilities u2014 which are part of Phase 1b of vaccine distribution u2014 have the ability to partner with pharmacies registered with the state and federal government to provide the vaccine. As soon as doses become available, the state will then give the allotted number of doses to registered pharmacies and providers, who will work with long-term care facilities to vaccinate staff and residents.

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