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NEWS 4/12/13 12:41am

SGA Recap: April 11

At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, the newly appointed senators were sworn in. Both those voted in by their peers and those appointed by SGA Executive President Welsford Bishopric assumed their new roles.


NEWS 4/11/13 4:45pm

Elon football looks to fill holes as spring practice starts

The makeup of the 2013 Southern Conference football slate doesn’t change, but the landscape and the possibilities turned drastically March 26. With SoCon powerhouses Appalachian State University and Georgia Southern University making the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level at the start of the 2014 season in the Sun Belt Conference, the two are not eligible to officially defend the conference title.


NEWS 4/11/13 2:59pm

The Last Word: 'Skim-milk marriage' hasn't won yet

It’s a gay time for America. Last week, Time magazine released an issue featuring either two men or two women kissing on the cover, with a headline declaring, “Gay marriage already won.” The statement — not unusual for a magazine that has received flak for presenting a darkened photo of O.J.


NEWS 4/11/13 1:07pm

Britain Remembers Margaret Thatcher

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died Monday at the age of 87 following a stroke. Thatcher was the first and only woman prime minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain from 1979 to 1990. Many referred to Thatcher as "The Iron Lady" for her personal and political conviction. [div class="alignright"] [/div] Current British Prime Minister David Cameron expressed his sorrow on Twitter stating "We have lost a great leader, a great Prime Minister, and a great Briton." Thatcher visited Elon University back in 1995 when the school called Elon College.


NEWS 4/11/13 12:07pm

New Social Media Manager Logs On

Elon University posts photos, videos and tweets each day, but who is in charge of social media on campus? Philip Jones came to Elon from WFMY where he worked as a reporter for four years. "I was ready for a new challenge," Jones said.


NEWS 4/11/13 8:30am

Check your facts before spreading the word

After news broke of a North Carolina resolution claiming the state can make its own laws regarding the establishment of religion — one that would question the federal government’s authority to decide what is constitutional — email inboxes overflowed with complaints, comment boards became saturated with concerned citizens and watercooler conversations were abuzz. At Elon University, many students were misled by the influx of media reports from credible media outlets and social media sources.


NEWS 4/10/13 10:08pm

Elon student’s documentary, 'We Will Prevail,' chosen for RiverRun International Film Festival

In the state of North Carolina, gay couples still await their right to be married. Elon University junior Madeline Carlin follows a Winston-Salem couple, Frank Benedetti and Gary Trowbridge, through the story of their almost 50-year relationship in her short documentary, “We Will Prevail.” “I chose the topic of gay marriage because Amendment One passed last spring and there was just a lot going on about it and I thought it would make a really great topic,” Carlin said. Amendment One, also known as the North Carolina Same-Sex Marriage Amendment, was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment that was passed in May 2012. The measure defines marriage as a union of one man and one woman.


NEWS 4/10/13 1:37pm

Alexis Gray trial postponed until July

Alexis Gray’s trial, which was scheduled for April 10, was postponed until July 3. She will be tried at the Alamance County Courthouse. Gray, an 18-year-old student at Penn State University, entered Elon University’s campus Nov.


NEWS 4/10/13 9:10am

Family ties may be familiar offstage in upcoming Elon play 'August: Osage County'

Secrets will creep around the stage April 11 in Elon University’s McCrary Theatre. In the play, “August: Osage County,” the Weston sisters’ father disappears so they return to their childhood home to support their mother, who is addicted to pills. The performance is meant to entice many of its viewers to think about what they can expect from their own family members and what dysfunction in a family might do to its dynamic. Kirby Wahl, assistant professor of performing arts and director of the play said Tracy Letts, the writer of “August,” uses a difficult family dynamic to question the nature of people’s social structure. “Everybody has their own story,” he said.



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