The crack of the bat, the cheers of the crowd, and the resounding strike three call of an umpire.
When walking past the pool in the Koury Athletic Center, you will usually see people swimming or diving but last Friday was not your typical day as Campus Recreation made a splash by clearing the swimming lanes at Beck Pool and dropping in canoes for an event adapted from a classic board game. The game is called Battleship and the title is not the only thing the board game and the Campus Recreation event have in common.
The Company Shops Market, also known as Burlington's Food Co-Op, is discussing creating a satellite store in Elon.
The Elon University softball team won both games Saturday, defeating Oakland University 8-0 win over Oakland University and Niagara University 7-2. Against Oakland, Elon scored four runs in the first to kickstart the day.
With the Elon University baseball team tied entering the bottom of the eighth, senior infielder Danny Lynch stepped up to lead off the inning. “Sometimes, when you don’t try to do too much, good stuff happens,” Lynch said.
In its first game since losing eight days ago, the Elon University women’s lacrosse team defeated the College of the Holy Cross 14-3 Saturday morning at Rudd Field. Sophomore attacker Stephanie Asher scored five goals, including three in a two-and-a-half minute span early in the second half.
Leaving behind the life you know is always hard. Picking up and moving, leaving your friends and home is a hurdle that’s difficult for anyone to jump over.
The majority of Elon University’s undergraduate body is female, but the demographic continues to wrestle with gender-specific issues that remain prominent in the United States.
The Elon University baseball team couldn’t recover from surrendering seven runs in the top the seventh inning to the Citadel, losing 13-8 Friday night.
Freshman pitcher Abby Barker threw the first perfect game in the Elon University softball team’s Division I era in a 8-0 win over Niagara University Friday night. “I was mixing it up and my catcher was calling a great game,” Barker said.
RALEIGH-- Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders drew thousands of supporters to a rally in Raleigh on Friday afternoon, four days before North Carolina and four other states are set to vote in their primary elections. More than a thousand people couldn't make it into Memorial Auditorium, which seats 2,300, and supporters were lined up more than five hours before the event began. The crowd of primarily young people was loud, cheering and chanting Sanders name from the moment the doors opened two hours before the candidate was set to arrive. In his speech, Sanders went over many of his campaign's talking points, including student debt, campaign finance reform, universal healthcare, minimum wage and the environment, among other other topics. He drew large cheers from the crowd when he discussed campaign finance laws, denouncing Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court ruling which allows corporations to fund political organizations. "When you have these horrendous Super PACs, which are funded by Wall Street and billionaires," Sanders said.
In its third year, Elon Day continued its upward trend of breaking the previous year’s record donations. This year, the university received 3,749 total gifts, an increase of more than 1,000 from 2015.
The SGA-funded Liberal Arts Forum had its second guest speaker this spring, Eunique Jones Gibson, visit Whitley Auditorium Tuesday to discuss the founding of her campaign, “Because of Them, We Can."
Four in 10 internet users are victims of online harassment, according to the Pew Research Center. At Elon University, that would translate to more than 2,500 students experiencing harassment.
Here’s my issue with this election cycle. It isn’t that Clinton seems to be surpassing Bernie in the amount of delegates she has won, or that Donald Trump now seems to be the leading contender for the Republican nomination. What truly troubles me is that politicians in this country have finally figured out the secret to American public opinion — as long as we are entertained, it doesn’t matter what things you say, people you belittle or races you disparage.
Media critic and blogger Anita Sarkeesian had been facing serious harassment and threats as part of the 'Gamergate controversy' since she launched a Kickstarter campaign to create a series of videos addressing sexism in video games, but this threat was different.
Anyone familiar with American politics knows the constant presence of negative campaigning, such as attack or contrast ads, used by politicians in order to demean their opponents.
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UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND — The Elon University women’s basketball team fell apart in the fourth quarter, losing to the University of Delaware 57-50 in the quarterfinals of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament Thursday afternoon. “They say it’s hard to beat a team three times in a row, and I guess that proved to be true today,” said head coach Charlotte Smith.
Durham, NC- The energy was high at Durham's Hillside High School as Hillary Clinton supporters flocked to the school's gymnasium for the campaigns get-out-the vote rally before the North Carolina Primary. Clinton hit the stage shortly after 5:00 p.m.
