[column size="1-2" width:220px] "ELN Year in Review 2013" recapped all the best moments from Elon Local News during the 2012-2013 academic year.
Prizes, raffles, food and music marked a fundraiser known as the "Purple Ribbon Gala" at the Alamance County Country Club Saturday night.
The student, whose bedroom was damaged after a car crashed through her wall Tuesday morning, said she has moved out of her Trollinger Apartment.
Walk into the Community Center at the Elon Community Church on the first Friday of the month and you would see crafts, kickball, dancing and a parachute.
The carnival is in town. The Powers Great American Midways opened its season last week at the intersection of North Church Street and Graham-Hopedale Road. The carnival has more than two dozen family friendly rides, games like ring toss where you try to win a prize and the classic food stands. Marc Janas, who is the Public Relations Director for Powers Great American Midways, said all the lights, rides and food are in Burlington to create some fun for local families. "Everybody has a good time and gets to have a good community celebration," Janas said.
Workers completed construction last week on the new multi-faith center, named the Numen Lumen Pavilion.
"It may just seem like $1500, but it's a lot more than that," said junior Arnetia Fogg, one student affected by a 3.9% increase in tuition for 2013-2014.
What she said began as a "fluke," turned into a local shoppe in Burlington for April Murray who opened Main Street Cake Shoppe on South Church Street seven weeks ago. "We started really just giving them out saying, 'Hey, have a red velvet cupcake.' And then people were like, 'Oh!
The end of the semester is here and while students are stuck studying in the library, many students are wishing for an excuse to relieve them from the stress of finals.
Through election season, many students may remember the advertisements or the debates. But one Elon student has a different perspective on politics. For Elon Freshman Ashlyn Ross, election season is a time full of many memories. "There's campaigning, celebrating, and failure," Ashlyn said.
It's been an exhausting, devastating week for many in the Northeast United States. Superstorm Sandy blew in last Monday night killing 111 people across 10 states.
Technology giants, yet again, are hoping to get their new products introduced this week into the hands of college students. "If you don't have technology in your life," said Mariah Czap, Senior Elite Team Leader of Student Support and Operations, "you're going to be left behind.
By Brian Mezerski Elon Performing Arts students are never limited to only McCrary and Blackbox theaters.
A university student was found dead at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday and even death at some other campus will impact any university. Faith Hedgepeth, a 19 year-old student at UNC Chapel Hill, was found dead inside her University apartment around 11a.m.
Brian Mezerski talked to some volunteers at the DNC. [div class="alignleft"] [/div]
There are several initiatives going on all around campus that are focusing on inclusion and Elon is adding new programs to campus this fall handling sexual harassment. "It was really time for this and it was an important institutional priority," said Leigh-Anne Royster, Director of Health Services and Health Promotion at Elon. For the first time this fall, students can use the internet to make a report of sexual or bias harassment.