While Colleen Choquette-Raphael was in graduate school, she was the only female in her class. Her class often had critiques on their work and she was told one day not to create any work with flowers. “Flowers are a metaphor and a very powerful symbol,” Choquette-Raphael said.
As the economic slump continues, law school applications nationwide are plummeting toward a 30-year low.
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A finance major with minors in economics and accounting, junior Welsford Scott Bishopric was recently elected to be Elon University’s next Student Government Association executive president.
On a rainy weekend in Myrtle Beach, S.C., the Elon University baseball team played a lot of waiting games. Due to predicted rains throughout the weekend, the tournament, hosted by Coastal Carolina University, was moved up a day to allow the first scheduled games to be played without having to worry about making the games up later in the weekend.
Two nights after clinching its second North Division title in school history, the Elon University men’s basketball team lost a hard fought battle to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 72-68, at the McKenzie Arena on Sunday, Feb.
Elon takes on the latest dance craze. Video by The Swing.
There's just something about the Oscars. Once a year, there is a three-hour-long snapshot in time -- okay, three and a half, though I can't even be mad about host Seth MacFarlane's 17-minute opening this year -- during which the moviegoing public unites for one cause: critiquing films they most likely haven't even seen yet.
The Elon University women’s tennis team continued their recent dominance over in-state opponents with a thrilling 4-3 win over the University of North Carolina at Wilmington Seahawks Sunday afternoon, Feb.
The Elon University men’s tennis team defeated the Winthrop University Eagles 6-1 on Sunday afternoon, Feb.
Senior outfielder Tomeka Watson had already collected countless accolades in her Elon University softball career.
Note: By the time this article ran, the NC General Assembly gave the legislation an "unfavorable report." This means that similar legislation will be marked as being "unfavorable" and this will be made known to the representatives by the clerk and allows them the opportunity to vote to accept the report and kill the bill.
When Instagram released a new privacy policy last December that suggested the company would sell users’ photos to advertisers without any compensation to the user, Elon University freshman Aurora Albi-Mercier was worried. “I think not knowing if my personal photos, that I really only share with my close friends, were being shared with the rest of the world without my permission or compensation would have made me feel uncomfortable,” said Albi-Mercier. “Had they instated that policy, I would have felt pressured to take my pictures down and delete my account.” Albi-Mercier is not the only one. After Instagram announced the policy change, more than half of its 16.7 million users deleted their accounts.
The Center for the Arts at Elon University was teeming with activity on Valentine’s Day. Parents, students, faculty and other community members came to see the Department of Performing Arts’ latest production – Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party.” As the house music faded and the spotlights came on, a silence swept across the audience.
After taking the pulse of North Carolina voters during the 2012 presidential election season, the Elon Poll now seeks to determine how North Carolina citizens feel about various state and national issues. The next poll, which will be conducted from Feb.
There are so many a cappella groups on campus, sometimes it’s tough to keep track. With rehearsals, concerts, competitions and recordings, as well as repertoires ranging from pop to indie, each a cappella group at Elon University boasts its own particular identity. While Rip_Chord has been Elon’s lone all-male group since its establishment in 2006, junior Montez Brown and sophomore Cody Schmidt have broken this six-year precedent by founding newest all-male a cappella group, Smooth Progressions. “Over the past few years I have become aware of the immense amount of vocal talent on campus that often gets neglected due to limited space in other groups and performances,” Brown said.
The Burlington Police Department has provided Elon Local News with a press release on Friday's train accident: On Friday February 22, 2013 at 1928 hrs Burlington Police, Burlington Fire Dept.
According to Lt. Bret Currie of the Burlington Police, a white male, thought to be 50 years of age, was struck and killed by N.
The Village Project and The Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement officially expanded into downtown Burlington following the renovation of 217 E.
Aramark, Elon University’s dining service provider, released a list of vendors that may potentially replace Chick-Fil-A if the Vendor Policy Study Committee decides to retire Chick-fil-A later this year. The Vendor Policy Study Committee was created in October to examine Elon’s partnership with Chick-fil-A, a controversial relationship that divided the student body last fall.
