Residents packed the town municipal building Tuesday to discuss the proposal for the downtown expansion master plan during the Town of Elon Board of Aldermen's meeting.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8YFGQXPbvM&w=560&h=315] At the end of the day, many professors get in their cars, drive off campus and go home.
As snow swept through the Triad area on Feb.
A winter storm warning is in effect for Alamance County until 6 p.m. EST on Thursday. Snow will continue until 7 p.m., according to the National Weather Service, but Friday will bring a high of 41*F. Since early afternoon Wednesday, the Elon area has seen 4 to 6 inches of snow, sleet and ice, which has been the cause of many delays and closings in the area. Elon's Campus Dining has changed its hours for Thursday.
Drums echo through Whitley Auditorium as women in yellow and green dresses and men in leopard print loincloths stomp, shout, sing and dance across the stage.
This time in 2012, students were splashing in Lake Mary Nell for North Area Council and Residence Life Association's Polar Bear Plunge. While this tradition ended two years ago, one lake-related tradition remains: environmental testing.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JViM7ghhcuI&w=560&h=315] Sneezing, coughing and wheezing may not be the greatest way to ring in the new year, but that's exactly what a typical January in North Carolina often brings with it. For students who live in close quarters, germs are everywhere, including the flu.
Most freshmen spend the first day of school moving in and getting settled. But this year, 15 Elon students spent their first day of college in the remote wilderness of Wyoming with Elon's gap semester program. Now, the gap semester students are arriving on campus for the first time after their semester-long adventure, and students like Lizzie Thomson and Michaela Contois are looking back on how much they've bonded as a group. "I think throwing anybody into the wilderness, you don't have a choice other than to become like family," Thomson said. The gap semester program takes Elon students from the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming, across the country to Washington, D.C.