A few months ago, I published a column criticizing the overwhelming willingness of the media and society in general to sweep charges of rape and sexual assault under the rug for well-respected males in a feeble attempt to maintain their shiny images.
Elon University’s move to the Colonial Athletic Association, announced May 2013 but not official until July 2014, was met with considerable financial weight and legitimate concerns with regard to travel and level of competition. But about two years in, fresh off the first CAA Championships that Elon hosted, it’s clear that the move was the right move for not just the athletic department, but the institution as a whole. Elon’s Jimmy Powell Tennis Center hosted the CAA Tennis Championships last weekend, with both the Phoenix men and women falling in tight semifinal matches.
'10 T.J. Douglas, an Elon University varsity basketball player at the time, was working on his research topic when he noticed the lack of health programs for young boys in Alamance County. While there were well-known programs for girls such as Girls on the Run, he noticed boys seemed to have limited options.
SGA continued conversations at its last meeting about increasing its recognition on campus and strengthening its relationship with the larger student body.
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and two years of supervised release on April 27 for a hush-money case involving the sexual abuse of teenage boys.
Come August 2016, juniors and seniors will be moving into the new apartments next to Skid’s Restaurant on Haggard Avenue.
Elon University honored renowned designer Alexander Julian with the Medal for Entrepreneurial Leadership on Wednesday in LaRose Digital Theatre.
Joni Tevis, a nonfiction writer who visited Elon University Wednesday in Johnston Hall, recognized Elon University's nonfiction contest winners and read samples of original work.
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[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PDJ59-qbkw&w=640&h=360[/embed] Today is national "Pay-It-Forward" day, but at Elon, the Center for Leadership has sponsored an entire week of good deeds. "Pay It Forward week is a week at the CFL dedicated to promoting good deeds around the community," CFL Marketing Director and Elon sophomore Ansley Hamilton said.
Summer is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with friends and food. Here are three easy recipes on how to make your picnic, well, a picnic! Cucumber Pinwheel Sandwiches: You'll need: 1 whole cucumber 1 pack of tortillas Low fat cream cheese 1 lemon for flavor 1 knife
Elon community members wore denim clothing Wednesday in solidarity and support of victims of sexual assault.
After coming back from two deficits to tie the game, the Elon University softball team could not do it a third time, falling to Virginia Tech 5-3 Wednesday afternoon at Hunt Softball Park. The Phoenix made four errors in the game, make two of the five runs unearned.
As I flipped through last week’s edition of the Pendulum, I was struck by how many photos looked similar: a panel of white, male students discussing politics.
“I’m a creative writer, so I took Cassie’s [Kircher’s] non-fiction essay class and wrote essays all semester, and in my creative writing classes I also continued to write non-fiction,” senior Lauryl Fischer said.
There are very few places that an Elon student can go to in Burlington without bumping into a classmate or someone they know while they are out to eat or get a drink.
The Elon University athletic department formally announced its partnership with Under Armour Wednesday morning. The agreement makes the Baltimore-based apparel company the official outfitter of Elon's athletic teams, coaches and staff.
Four cases of sexual offenses were reported in the Elon University Annual Security Report for 2014.
“It is taboo for men to talk together, to share their feelings and emotions,” Noah Rossen, Elon sophomore said, “there is no safe place for that in society or at Elon.” Rossen and his roommate this year, Elon Sophomore Scott Powell have had countless discussions since they moved in together about the role society expects men to take on and why it is okay if they don’t. “We created a Healthy Masculinity group.
On April 28th, The Department of Performing Arts will bring the stories of America’s unsung heroes to the stage with the Tony nominated musical, Working. Working, originally staged in 1974 is based on a book written by Studs Terkel, which he wrote after Terkel conducted interviews with hundreds of working men and women across the United States about their jobs and why they did them. The show has undergone many revisions, most recently in 2011 with the addition of two songs by 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda writer of both Hamilton and In the Heights. Elon will be performing the most recent revision including Miranda’s additions. The show also features music by James Taylor, Craig Carnelia and many other songwriters and composers. The 20 actors all had to audition for the show before gaining access into the course where they did most of their rehearsing up until Grand Night on April 3rd, when they begun evening rehearsals as well as weekends. “With this show, because of the nature of the beast—if you will—we began individual monologue work, sometimes we start staging big company numbers, and we did do some of that, we staged the opening and middle section, but we started working a lot on the acting, because there are a as many monologues in the show as there are songs,” said director Lynne Kurdzeil-Formato.
