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NEWS 12/10/15 10:53pm

A gaming clash in the Carolinas

By Max Garland

In its four years of existence, the Elon University E-Sports team has grown from a small, inexperienced club to an organization soon participating in the largest East Coast collegiate gaming competition to date. Elon’s team, along with 13 other schools in the Carolina Collegiate E-Sports Committee (CCEC), will have a chance to make a name for themselves at Clash of the Carolinas, a two-day gaming tournament held January 16-17. Teams from each CCEC college, including Elon, the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Clemson University and Duke University, will participate in tournaments for the games League of Legends, Hearthstone, Counterstrike: Global Offensive and Super Smash Brothers Melee.

NEWS 11/18/15 8:04am

Asian Resource Scarcity

By Max Garland

The Asian Studies Club had a problem. Members were running to and from different rooms in Elon University’s Moseley Center to get enough chairs for the unusually high amount of people present for its biweekly meeting Nov.

NEWS 11/12/15 10:35am

Triple the pitches, triple the impact

By Max Garland and Hope Koene

More than 90 Elon University students pitched their ideas for business ventures and social entrepreneurial opportunities, ranging from a pet rental service to a hunger prevention app, at the Triple Impact Challenge Nov. 11 in Upstairs Lakeside. The pitch competition, sponsored by the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, aimed to promote entrepreneurship and innovation among Elon students. Even more so than previous iterations of the challenge, that included non-business majors.

NEWS 11/7/15 1:11pm

Discoveries anytime, anywhere

By Max Garland

A major scientific discovery can happen at any time and any place, according to Robert Dunn, author and associate professor of biology at North Carolina State University. That includes during a bathroom break in Cape Town, South Africa.

NEWS 11/3/15 10:50pm

PARC holds grand opening

By Max Garland

It took some time, but the Phoenix Activities and Recreation Center (PARC) received an official nod from Elon University Tuesday afternoon with the PARC Grand Opening Ceremony. Members of Elon University’s senior staff gave brief speeches and mingled with dozens of Campus Recreation and Student Union Board members, along with Danieley Neighborhood residents, to celebrate PARC’s impact since its Sept.

NEWS 10/28/15 1:15pm

Mapping Elon's Mushrooms

By Max Garland

On associate professor of biology Antonio Izzo’s website is a link to a map that shows dozens of fungi, all in different shapes, sizes and colors, around Elon University’s campus.

NEWS 10/28/15 1:02pm

The eyes of the university

By Max Garland

Progress in both technology and the size of Elon University has led to the number of campus security cameras balloon to roughly 500 total. The cameras are primarily located in places such as parking lots and campus pathways, Elon Police Chief Dennis Franks said in an email, where people could be vulnerable to crime that no one else could witness. Other cameras are installed on building exteriors and popular areas in larger, public buildings such as the Moseley Center and Belk Library.

NEWS 10/6/15 8:46am

Advancing to the next level

By Max Garland

For the Elon University eSports team, setting up matches for its video games has been a hassle since its inception in 2012. “We need a place to play, so right now we rent out [McEwen 207] for practices and games,” said Elon eSports Vice President Tyler LaVecchia, a sophomore.

NEWS 9/30/15 5:50pm

Biochemistry department bucks larger STEM trend

By Max Garland

If college chemistry departments are typically made up of a large male majority, it doesn’t show at Elon University. Elon already has a strong female presence on campus with a roughly 60-to-40 male-to-female ratio, according to Elon Fact Book trends.

NEWS 9/25/15 11:13am

Elon Poll: Trump leads GOP, trails Clinton

By Max Garland

Donald Trump holds a slim lead over Ben Carson for North Carolina’s Republican presidential preference, but Carson and Jeb Bush would fare better against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to the Elon University Poll’s latest report.

NEWS 9/10/15 2:10pm

Gender-focused documentary series debuts at Moseley

By Max Garland

Violent media. Mass shootings. Pornography. Rape culture. These are a few of the hot-button topics “The Mask You Live In,” a 2015 documentary directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, links to the damage the United States’ idea of masculinity can have on boys and young men. Roughly 40 Elon University students and faculty members watched the documentary Sept.

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NEWS 04/17/2024 7:17pm
Elon adjunct faculty raise concerns over missing professor names on OnTrack

With the approach of spring semester’s end, students scour OnTrack to build their academic schedules, looking at the times available and selecting their preferred professors.  Senior Alex Campbell said she noticed this past semester that adjunct professors, who are hired on a contractual basis each semester or year, she previously had classes with were not appearing on OnTrack.  “It’s pretty upsetting because two of my favorite professors are adjuncts that I’ve had classes with in the past,” Campbell said. “Since the change, I can’t purposefully take classes with them because I don’t know what classes they’re even teaching because they don’t show up.” 

NEWS 04/17/2024 10:56am
Elon University no longer offering Google accounts to alumni

Earlier this month, Elon University sent out an email notifying all Elon employees that as of April 15, Elon will no longer offer Gmail, Google Workspace, or Google file storage to alumni not employed by the university.  Previously alumni were allowed to use their account to use the storage and stay connected to Elon. 

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