OPINIONS
10/17/15 4:12pm
The cure to stress everyone has been looking for
Stress is very common among college students, and the best cure for stress is music.
Stress is very common among college students, and the best cure for stress is music.
This weekend can be more than a time for reconnecting. It also offers a rare opportunity for alumni to form new connections with current students and for current students to learn from former Phoenix who have been “out in the real world” for as little as a few months or for as long as a few decades.
As you all know, last week’s school shooting at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, was the fourth mass murder this year of Americans by American gunmen and approximately the 200th since 2006 in this country. The questions we should ask are simple: “Why does it keep on happening?” and “How can we stop it from happening again and again?” The answers are, unfortunately, not that simple.
No storms last forever, but you had every reason to barricade yourself indoors and ride out Joaquin over the past weekend.
When I toured Elon University my junior year of high school, I was mesmerized. Not only was the campus beautiful, but every student was passionate about something, whether that was art, traveling, service, politics or truly anything else imaginable.
“Consent is sexy.” “No means no.” “Got consent?”
Recently, the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) has established a new express bus route running between Greensboro and Chapel Hill: Route 4, or the Alamance Burlington line. As the name might imply, this bus route has a stop in local Burlington — the Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) — only about four miles from campus.
On Dec. 14, 2012 Adam Lamza took the lives of 20 children and six employees a mile away from my high school in Newtown, Connecticut.
Lucía Jervis The Secrets of a Life in Prison: A talk with Piper Kerman People are usually excited to listen to someone else’s story, either if it is a love story or a horrible story.
Elon University offers a fantastic array of cultural opportunities and diverse organizations to fit and benefit the entire student body. However, colleges tend to lean toward the left, and the presentation of all sides of the political spectrum need to be addressed in the classroom, cultural events series, etc.
There’s a lesson in everything if you look.
Life isn’t always great. Things don’t always go right, and sometimes all the bad things pile up into one colossally awful week.
As we’ve heard over and over again, there’s a fine line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation. But do we hear it enough?
As part of on-going efforts to end hazing at Elon University, the recently established Hazing Prevention Coalition organized events last week to participate in National Hazing Prevention Week (NHPW). The Coalition has brought new energy to the fight against hazing at Elon, but there is still a long way to go.
Are you registered to vote? Well, you’d better be, because we Millennials will represent the largest voting block for the first time ever.
But having been at it for a few months now, I feel like I’ve learned something about myself, my fellow students and the state of academic writing at Elon: Writing will still be important after college. Academic writing won’t be.
For those of you who I have not had the pleasure of meeting, my name is Anna Torres-Zeb, and I serve as the Muslim Coordinator at Elon University.
There’s an app for ordering appetizers, apps for making appointments, apps for renting apartments, apps for anything you can think of — and this year, that includes the career fair. When’s the last time you heard someone refer to a “program?” Who needs brochures and booklets?
Elon University’s semiannual Job and Internship Expos offer students of all years opportunities to interact with potential employers. But these expos, including yesterday’s, have consistently focused on business students, with communications students receiving comparatively little attention and students of other schools receiving even less.
If it had been available when I was a freshman, I absolutely would have applied. But the Sports, Participation & Networking (SPN) Living Learning Community (LLC), which is focused on sports and ties in with the Sport and Event Management (SEM) department, is new to Elon University this year. According to its page on Elon’s website, those in the SPN will “participate in intramural sports on campus as well as attend local sporting events” and “plan social events that interest them and engage with faculty members ... outside of the classroom.” The description also mentions meet-and-greets with Elon coaches, group dinners and trips to events such as the ACC Tournament and minor league baseball games. Sounds great.
