Don't be a Halloweenie
We’ve compiled a list of do’s and don’ts this Halloween so you can be a Hallowinner and not a Halloweenie.
We’ve compiled a list of do’s and don’ts this Halloween so you can be a Hallowinner and not a Halloweenie.
Without a clear maternal figure or older sister to turn to, I did what any reasonable adolescent would: I turned to the pages of a teen magazine. Seventeen.
As a competitive player in the “No-Shave November” since I started taking part in my high school’s competition, I view Halloween less as a terror and more as the day my legs begin to grow ... well ... hairier.
Elon is all about getting out of your comfort zone and starting to experience new adventures.
Once a year, folks from all walks of life find themselves waking in the middle of the night to an inexplicable autumnal energy flowing across time and space, telling them the time has come. The annual people-watching state championship, otherwise known as the North Carolina State Fair, has arrived.
As someone who teaches courses within the arts and sciences, specifically in the Department of Religious Studies, I often hear students say some variation of the following: “I love my courses in religious studies (insert any other arts and humanities field here), but I need to take a major that will get me a job after college.”
Republican and Democrat events, ideologies and politicians receive polarized treatment here, and it detracts from everyone’s awareness of the political climate as we approach the 2016 presidential elections.
Sports culture encourages athletes to play through pain. It romanticizes toughness, grit and perseverance. That culture also breeds the mindset that a broken bone or a torn ligament will heal, but the chance to compete in sports will be gone before you know it.
I write this from Salt Lake City, at the 6th meeting of the Parliament of World Religions. The Parliament was founded in 1893 in Chicago and has been considered the beginning off the global interfaith movement.
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.