Topics Podcast - April 23, 2012
Are Elon students not that politically motivated or are they just taking their opinions to the web? Dan talks about The Trayvon Martin case and the reaction it spurred on our campus.
Are Elon students not that politically motivated or are they just taking their opinions to the web? Dan talks about The Trayvon Martin case and the reaction it spurred on our campus.
Last year, senior Josh Bonney participated in the Student Union Board’s first-ever Rock the Lawn event.
Elon's sport & event management students organized and executed a Carolina Surf & Turf barbecue on April 21 as a part of their final project.
As the end of spring practice approaches for the Elon University football team, I find myself eager for the annual spring game April 28 at Rhodes Stadium. Why am I fervently waiting for next week’s spring game?
It isn’t always easy to bring a 200-year-old love story to life. But that is exactly what Elon University’s Department of Performing Arts has been working to achieve for the last several months. The department will present Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” written in 1813, as this year’s spring play April 19-22.
“Athletes, love it!” is how former Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street introduced herself to the assembly gathered in the Walker Room of Alumni Fieldhouse at Elon University. She seemed right at home. Street came to Elon’s campus to talk to Elon athletes about injuries and other things that relate to athletes.
The annual Greek Week Dance featured judged dance routines from all the different fraternities and sororities on campus. All photos by Claire Esparros, photo editor.
Colin Beavan identifies himself primarily as a father, but he is most well known as No Impact Man, who in 2006 pledged to reduce his impact on the environment. Despite his knowledge regarding minimizing one's carbon footprint, Beavan's speech at Elon University Thursday addressed how each individual can contribute to the world.
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, Executive President Darien Flowers encouraged the senators better understand Amendment One, a proposed change to the North Carolina state constitution that would ban legal recognition of all unmarried couples and define marriage as a strictly heterosexual union.
This week on The Swing Kangaroo Express is cited for selling alcohol to minors, Dr. Earl Danieley gives you a historical tour through Elon, Fashion reporter Alison Ryncarz shows you how to wear a denim shirt, and Kassondra Cloos goes through this week's news in 60 seconds.
From the mountains of Czechoslovakia to the rocky terrain of northern Israel, the panic and loss of her adolescence stays with her. Marlene Appley, a retired professor of anatomy and physiology, is a Holocaust survivor.
Caution tape surrounded the members of Spectrum, Elon University's queer-straight alliance, as senior Raafe Purnsley, speaking as a carnival ringmaster, called the Elon community to observe them behaving...normal.
Ann Cahill, professor of philosophy and Elon’s Distinguished Scholar 2011-12, spoke to students and faculty Tuesday about complex philosophical issues, equating the feeling after a miscarriage to the moment an individual expects to find another step after having already reached the top of a staircase.
It is rare in professional sports that we see a true group of goofballs. But don’t tell that to PGA professionals Ben Crane, Hunter Mahan, Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler. Golf Boys - "Oh, Oh, Oh" I know this came out almost a year ago, so I'm kind of late, but I want to talk about this. Once I start, I cannot stop watching this video.
Grace Elkus talks about her experience writing on the Handmade cooperative's first event. While Melissa Kansky discusses future articles dealing with spectrum events happening this week.
Call me crazy, but I don't think every casual hockey fan is a fan of the violence abundant in the game. I for one, do not particularly care for what is going on in the NHL playoffs right now.
Al Drago and I, clusters of middle aged women and a few families took off down Huffman Mill Road; we were headed to the Best Western in Burlington.
Find out more on this week's double truck, Dr. Danieley's lifetime of maroon and gold, Rebecca Wickel discusses her time with the infamous Dr. Danieley.
I spent my Monday morning following Boston Marathon updates, checking the progress of the elite runners between classes (I admit it) on two extended trips to “fill up my water bottle” during class. This year’s marathon was an excruciating, hot race, run in over 80-degree heat.
Map drawing by Ronald Chang, contributing artist.