You don’t have to be a student of either the School of Communications or the Department of Performing Arts to be able to point out the countless flaws in the 13-minute film the White House says is to blame for the deadly protests making headlines.
Elon University head coach Jason Swepson said earlier this week that he hoped his team would not allow Wofford College senior fullback Eric Breitenstein from becoming an "All-American" against the Phoenix on Saturday. Not quite. The No.
17 rookies. Need I say more? The 2012 Oakland Athletics have 17 rookies on their playoff-contending roster, including all five of their starting pitchers. With a week left in the season, the Athletics are in a position to make the playoffs as the second wild card team.
Now it’s familiar territory for the Elon University women’s soccer team, and not from the injury standpoint, but the record standpoint. Last season, the Phoenix started conference play 1-2-2 after two weekends.
The Elon University football team is finding themselves sort of like the victims of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisitors. There is a sense in which the same thing is attacking them, at least in the last two weeks. Unfortunately for the Phoenix, those attacking them have more bite than the Rack. Elon faces the battering triple-option, run-first offense for the second week in a row in this week's opponent, the Wofford College Terriers.
In listening to Southern Conference football teleconferences, I’m hearing much praise for Elon University senior quarterback Thomas Wilson from opposing coaches. Great arm.
Spectrum, Elon University’s queer-straight alliance, renewed yesterday its resolution against Chick-fil-A’s presence on campus.
There’s no question who the main target of the Elon University football team’s defense this Saturday. He’s the reigning Southern Conference Player of the Year, a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, Sports Network and Phil Steele and is on the 2012 Walter Payton Award Watch List. But the Phoenix is not afraid of the player who fulfills what was written above, Wofford College senior fullback Eric Breitenstein. “We’re not scared of any one player,” said Elon senior defensive lineman Olufemi Lamikanra.
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, Thomas Tiemann, Jefferson Pilot professor of economics, expressed his desire to take his urban economics class on the one-day trip to Chicago.
After the loss against the College of Charleston Saturday, Sept. 22, Elon University’s varsity women’s volleyball team is now 0-2 in the Southern Conference with an overall record of 7-10. The Phoenix fell to the Cougars in three sets, which follows a loss against the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that went to a decisive final fifth set. Both senior captain Ali Deatsch and head coach Mary Tendler said being consistent is something the team needs to work on as whole. “We can be a tough team and we can fight,” Deatsch said.
Maya Angelou has been described as a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, producer and director.
Definitions are fickle things to pin on an individual. They trick people to believe everybody must fall under a specific stereotype and obey what is expected from that classification.
In the wake of a tragic event, the dominant population often determines the face of the enemy. A documentary titled Divided we Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, which was screened at Elon University Monday, addresses how Americans identify those affiliated with terrorism and how such stereotypes perpetuate violence in the nation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, people in the United States began to associate turban-wearing Americans with religious extremism.
Two forty-five minute halves weren’t enough to decide the victor. Neither was the first ten minutes of overtime.
A magic show on a university campus cannot be an easy thing to perform. But Sept. 25 in McCrary Theater, Kevin Spencer was up to the challenge of giving a show that surpassed the power of skepticism. “The Spencers: Theatre of Illusion” is a husband and wife team; Kevin is the magic man and his wife, Cindy, is his lovely assistant.
Rumors have been circulating regarding the number of arrests and citations given out last weekend.
Elon University head coach Jason Swepson said today that junior running back Matt Eastman might miss the rest of the season. "He's going to get surgery on his knee in the next day or so," Swepson said after Tuesday's practice.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker spoke alongside fellow GOP party member and former Charlotte mayor, Pat McCrory, promoting the North Carolina gubernatorial nominee’s “comeback” campaign to a small group of local party supporters in Burlington on Tuesday.
To some questions, there are no clear answers. Though Spectrum, Elon University’s queer-straight alliance, and the Diversity Emerging Education Program (D.E.E.P) partnered Sept.
