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News Briefs - Sept. 28, 2011

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Elon team travels to Kenya for forum about the Internet Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center sent three students to the Internet Governance Forum in Kenya this week. Seniors Kellye Coleman and Samantha Baranowski and sophomore Nicole Chadwick were joined by alumni Taylor Foshee and Lee Hopcraft and communications professor Rich Landesberg in Nairobi. Professor receives NSF grant Duke Hutchings, assistant professor of computing sciences, has received a $14,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a software tool that assists beginning computer programmers with writing code. Hutchings will be joined by colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Johnson C.

NEWS 9/28/11 9:39pm

Getting social to land a job

By Kelsey Trabue

Ross Wade, assistant director of Career Services for the School of Communications, invited iMedia students to join him as he presented at the Triangle Social Media Club (SMC) meeting to discuss how job seekers can successfully utilize social media in their job search.

NEWS 9/28/11 9:31pm

A new way to recycle

By Sarah Carideo

We all know it's important to recycle, but sometimes it's hard to keep track of the best way to do it.  Which recycling numbers are allowed?  Do I leave the cap on or take it off?  Should I rinse this out? A particularly troublesome object is the carton because it's part paper, plastic and aluminum. According to Earth911.com, there are two types of cartons.  The first kind is shelf-stable cartons, which are made from paper with a thin layer of plastic and aluminum to preserve products without refrigeration.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:54pm

Art historian discusses the influence of medieval pieces on culture

By Kristin Calabro

The job of art historians is to discover the origins of artwork, but when it comes to art from early medieval periods, historians find themselves in a world shrouded with mystery. "We've got objects, but no fancy story to attach to them," said Sigrid Danielson, in her lecture titled "Art History and the Early Medieval Artist" at Elon University Tuesday evening. Historians saw the names of artists as "signifiers of ethnic identity and geographic origins of the object's creator," Danielson said. From the 1920s to the 1950s, schools of art history responded to the lack of information about early medieval art by focusing solely on the artist, specifically his or her ethnicity.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:53pm

Volleyball looks to rebound from early season losses

By Adam Lawson

Last year, the Elon Phoenix volleyball team started its Southern Conference schedule 2-0 on its way to winning the SoCon North Division crown. This year, the team started 0-2 in conference play and looks to rebound to defend its division title. Trailing the match by two sets early Sept.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:52pm

Women's tennis team serves at Kopper Top

By Kassondra Cloos

The Elon University women's tennis team recently had the opportunity to volunteer at Kopper Top Life Learning Center, an organization that specializes in therapy for disabled individuals. The nine girls on the team and their head coach, Elizabeth Anderson, spent three hours one Saturday feeding the horses Kopper Top uses for therapeutic and recreational horseback riding. The girls had expected to work with some of the children who receive therapy at Kopper Top, according to Anderson, but instead they worked to feed the animals with the expired produce Kopper Top gets from stores like Costco. "It's a great organization," Anderson said.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:47pm

Practice begins early for baseball

By Zachary Horner

The crack of bats. The thwack of gloves. The overcast chill in the air? The date on the calendar? September seems like an odd time for college baseball since the season does not start until February.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:45pm

Performing arts department develops student improv troupe

By Rebecca Iannucci

Homecoming Weekend just got a whole lot funnier. Fred Rubeck, chair of the department of performing arts, has selected eight students to participate in an improv group set to perform at this year's homecoming. The creation of this group comes at a time of ease and convenience for the performing arts department, according to Rubeck. "The other staff and faculty are so busy mounting the other productions that we're doing," Rubeck said.

NEWS 9/28/11 4:44pm

Peter Buffett packs McCrary

By Audrey Horwitz

The most formal aspect of Peter Buffett's "Concert and Conversation" was his  maroon velvet jacket. Buffett kept it casual throughout his performance with cellist Michael Kott in Friday, Sept.

NEWS 9/27/11 10:51pm

New organization intends to show Elon community it's 'better together'

By Rebecca Smith

Diversity is used a lot at Elon University in its mission statement, in recent emails from the administration and as a descriptor for the freshman class. One of Elon's organizations, Better Together, is looking to do more than comment on diversity and is designed to promote interfaith cooperation and understanding. The organization was started last year by alumnus Zac Jordan, Class of 2011.

NEWS 9/27/11 9:39pm

A Bills-Lions Super Bowl?

By Zachary Horner

A thought was brought up by ESPN.com’s Gregg Easterbrook, aka the “Tuesday Morning Quarterback,” in his column Tuesday: a Detroit Lions-Buffalo Bills Super Bowl. Three years ago, this would have been unthinkable. In 2008, the Bills started 4-0 but ended the year on a 3-9 stretch, securing a ninth straight year without a playoff appearance.

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North Carolina is one of 12 states vying for the first-in-the-nation Democratic primary in 2028, according to the Democratic National Committee. The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee must select four to five states for the early nominating window of the 2028 presidential election, with at least one state from each of the DNC’s four regions: East, Midwest, South and West.

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