The Elon University Student Union Board announced Mac Miller and The White Panda will perform at the Spring Show during the final timeout of the first half of Saturday’s men’s basketball game. “I think it was an awesome reaction,” SUB President Amanda Long said.
The Student Government Association will host university-wide elections Feb.
The information below outlines the responsibilities of members of the SGA Executive Staff, per their constitution. [box] Video excerpted from The Swing, February 16th 2012 [/box] Executive President -The President of the SGA shall call and preside over any regular or special meetings of the student body. -Nominations for Senate approval of appointed positions to joint faculty-student committees and all vacant positions of the SGA are the responsibility of the President.
Somewhere on a Blacksburg, Va. field this past fall, Virginia Tech softball players were left seeing double – well, more like a mirror image. Elon University interim softball coach Kathy Bocock walked to the mound to remove her pitcher, senior Erin O’Shea, from the game.
Downtown Greensboro’s Elm Street is a popular place on Friday nights. Natty Greene’s Pub and Brewing Company, the Green Bean Coffeehouse and the nearby Carolina Theatre are hoppin’ nighttime destinations.
The concept of leadership transcends boundaries, but each culture still maintains its own distinct view, Marcus Dickson, an industrial psychology professor at Wayne State University, said Thursday, Jan.
In their 83-75 loss to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Elon Phoenix did not play bad. Yeah, they could have hit a few more threes in the second half.
For the fourth year in a row, Elon's Student Union Board has brought traveling musician Jason LeVasseur to Midnight Meals, an event sponsored by the organization. LeVasseur’s music has brought him to several universities around the country.
Elon University’s Women’s and Gender Studies and NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina cohosted a screening of “12th and Delaware,” an HBO documentary about abortion rights that takes place in Fort Pierce, Fla., Feb.
http://elonpendulum.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sports_2.10.mp3 In the first Sports Jam of 2012, Zachary Horner and Adam Lawson discuss the current state of Elon men's basketball and touch on the Super Bowl and Eli Manning.
With the season winding down, the Elon University women’s basketball team will have to work to earn any high seed it envisions for itself in the Southern Conference Tournament. The Phoenix plays Davidson College and Appalachian State University, two of the three best teams in the SoCon, on Feb.
Eight new freshmen, an interim head coach and a disappointing conclusion to last season. Pick a storyline.
It was a July afternoon when Carleigh Nester got the phone call. The name on her caller ID was a typical one.
Commitment and experience earned Ryan Keur, who graduated from Elon University in January, a step closer to acheiving his ideal job.
Thomas Frank admits that last semester he was over-involved. A typical day for Frank consisted of working as an RA, taking classes, doing homework, working a second job and working on web design for others’ sites as well as his own. This semester, Frank, a junior Management Information Systems major at Iowa State University, is cutting back on his activities to focus on classes, hang out with friends and, most of all, devote more time to his up-and-coming blog, CollegeInfoGeek.com. “Generally I would be writing the article part of the time in class and part of the time at my second part-time job,” Frank said.
As we grow older, certain events signal rites of passage that impact our lives. Things like a first crush, and the first time behind the wheel of a car are both signs that we’re growing older – both symbols of taking life by the horns. One Friday in January, eight Elon University freshman softball players stepped into a makeshift photo booth in the media relations office tucked away in Alumni Gym for their first headshots as college athletes.
Setting foot in McCrary Theatre for a new production by the Department of Performing Arts is nothing if not intriguing. In the last calendar year, the stage has been home to a number of characters — struggling bohemian artists in New York’s Lower East Side; a tribe of politically active hippies; and now, in “She Loves Me,” a group of employees at a parfumerie in 1930s Hungary. It’s a far cry from “Rent” and “Hair,” two high-energy rock musicals that have recently graced the McCrary stage.
Q: How did your history and political science studies guide you in your decisions as a member of the department of defense? A: Being a student of history makes you have a better understanding of today and being in the Navy and department of defense and living with the challenges of today.
The Interfaith Youth Core, a non-profit organization that promotes interfaith conversation, held a campus-wide meeting Tuesday, Feb.
[box] The following is a pre-departure post from an Elon student now studying abroad in Costa Rica. [/box] I remember starting to countdown with 134 days until Costa Rica!
