A traffic stop on South Williamson Avenue near the intersection of Ball Park Road resulted in the arrest of two males for drug possession, said Elon Police Chief Cliff Parker. Mark Andre Manning, 22, of 205 Culbreath Park Dr., Chapel Hill, N.C., and Cordera Pierre Browning, 19, of 100 Forsyth Dr., A, Chapel Hill, N.C.
[box]Video by Adam Lawson, Assistant News Editor.[/box] Garrett Koster is sitting in a chair positioned at home plate at Latham Park, posed to destroy everything he’s been working on for the past two years. The senior shortstop is motionless as his girlfriend of two years, junior Emily Swapp, turns on a set of clippers and starts to trim away at Koster’s curly locks. He is one of 39 players and coaches on the Elon University baseball team participating in BaseBald, a charitable initiative benefitting the St.
During President Barack Obama’s first term in office, the new president and his liberal allies in Congress faced severe criticism for back room legislating and lax governing.
Contraception. The war on terror.
Elon University faculty, staff and students interviewed candidates for the position of dean of the Love School of Business, a position that serves the university on multiple levels, according to Art Cassill, co-chair of the search committee and professor of accounting. The dean conducts business with organizations outside the university, representing Elon to the external institutions. “The business school dean is uniquely situated to be the face of the university as well (as of the business school) because you are talking about the business community that serves all of Elon University and not just the Love School of Business,” Cassill said. Business connections translate to support for the university, he said.
Although Elon University prides itself on its student-faculty ratio of 13:1, not all staff-related ratios on campus are quite as low. Susan Wise, Disabilities Services coordinator, is in charge of about 450 undergraduate students and 25 graduate students registered with Disabilities Services, and she is the only staff member. “Obviously, just meeting the day to day needs of so many persons is challenging,” Wise said.
Though the constant presence of construction materials indicates an evolving campus, it is student experiences that establish the enduring culture of Elon University.
Although gas prices are currently dropping, by the end of the month, the national average is predicted to cost a whopping $4.25 per gallon, according to predictions from the Department of Energy. This news has driven many in the Elon University community to restrict how much they drive and rethink how often they fuel up and even shop for groceries. Ashley Burns, Elon University pre-doctoral fellow and political science instructor, commutes from Durham to Elon everyday, and despite driving a fuel efficient Honda, she said she is beginning to feel the pressure of filling up at the pump. “I fill up my car every Monday and Friday,” said Burns.
After much debate last week, the Student Government Association passed a resolution expressing SGA’s opposition to Amendment One during its regular Senate meeting. The resolution states that Amendment One, which will appear on the North Carolina Primary Election ballot May 8, contradicts Elon University’s discrimination policy by defining marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman and prohibiting legal recognition of all unmarried couples. The April 26 SGA meeting was unusually crowded with Elon students, faculty and community members.
In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, SPARKS took part in The Clothesline Project, a national program that allows women who have been personally affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a T-shirt. From April 23-27, students could pick up supplies to make the shirts from a box in Harden and then drop them off anonymously. In addition to encouraging students outside of SPARKS to participate, SPARKS also encouraged participation in from other associated organizations, said Kyle Whitaker, a sophomore in SPARKS. “We reached out to local organizations like the Women’s Resource Center in Alamance County,” he said.
The Global Neighborhood housing complex, which is scheduled to be completed in two stages by 2014, has been re-designed because of financial concerns and new conceptual ideas. The original site plan consisted of four four-story buildings, each with a common space on the first floor and residence halls on the upper three.
This semester at Elon, through a class in the religious studies department, I had the opportunity to intern with Faith Action International House, a social justice organization located in downtown Greensboro. I came into this class and the resulting internship expecting to learn a lot, meet new people and take critical looks at what it means to be a Christian in today’s rapidly changing world. What I did not expect was to be confronted with very real injustices that are occurring not just thousands of years ago in the Bible, and not just across the world and in presidential policy debates, but right here in our neighborhood. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centers are used to hold undocumented immigrants. According to ICE policy, individuals are held based on suspicion of visa violation, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival. The practice of detaining undocumented immigrants in these centers began in the United States in the early 1980s, but was made mandatory by legislation passed in 1996. Historically, these detention camps reach as far back as World War II, when Japanese-Americans and other “suspicious” immigrant groups were forced to relocate during the war. On any given day in the United States, approximately 31,000 non-citizens are held in about 250 immigration detention centers nationwide.
The landscape of ACC basketball is starting to look a lot different, and no I’m not talking about Syracuse and Pittsburgh joining the conference.
As May 8 approaches, elections aren’t the only things state officials are worrying about.
Elon University’s human donor lab, often referred to as the cadaver lab, may give some students chills, but this facility in the basement of McMichael Science Center offers students a unique learning opportunity to explore human anatomy as undergraduates. “The human anatomy lab was a huge factor (in my decision to come to Elon),” said freshman Natalie McCarthy, an exercise science major.
The General Studies program could be experiencing some new course changes in the near future. Although the proposed changes to the entire General Studies program was voted down Oct.
The Alamance-Burlington School System provides a public school education to students in and around Alamance County, including many children of faculty and staff members of Elon University. Read more on what Alamance County is doing to deal with their lack of funding.
The Temple of Heaven in Beijing reproduces the God of Heaven Praying Ceremony year round for tourists and visitors to experience the ritual of a music and dance tradition. The ceremony was designed to preserve as much of the original atmosphere as possible.
Katherine Wise DAKAR, SENEGAL— I had the opportunity to stay in a village for a week and shadow Tostan, an NGO that works for women’s equality in Senegal.
Dutch businesses forbidden to sell cannabis to international tourists Dutch authorities have passed a law that prohibits foreigners from buying cannabis, or marijuana, in the Netherlands.
