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NEWS 4/7/09 1:57pm

GM found its miracle cure!

By pendulumopinions

It makes perfect sense now that I think about it...if GM is failing at making cars that people want to use, then of course it should venture into the highly goofy market of personal transportation vehicles and team up with Segway.

NEWS 4/5/09 11:50pm

Boehner Taking Advantage of FOX's Rejection Of Fact-Based Journalism.

By The Pendulum

Fox News has lost its credibility when it has the House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner write a story on its blog starting with the phrase, "With Democrats now firmly in charge of Congress and the White House, Washington is increasingly out of control." Who even wants to read it with an open mind now, besides the far right? Let us address the issue that Republicans have in which, as Boehner puts it, "government is crossing lines [Americans] never thought they'd see their government cross." In the wake of an administration that nearly destroyed the reputation of the Republican party, it's pretty ballsy to say that. The only thing that can be referred to in this statement is the amount of money spent in the bills passed since January 20.

NEWS 4/4/09 8:05pm

Youtube down the tubes?

By pendulumopinions

The title sounds like something out of a poor Japanese translation guide, but it highlights the little-mentioned problem of just how those websites we all know and love are supposed to be profitable.

NEWS 4/3/09 3:50pm

Grumpy old media

By pendulumopinions

There's something inherent to anything related to blogging or any opinions section. Complaining. Glorified whining about why things and wrong and how they should be.

NEWS 4/1/09 1:44pm

Failing to close the Atlantic humor gap

By pendulumopinions

The Guardian has pretty much sucked the April Fool's wind out of my sails, beating any ideas that I had for a post celebrating the most fiendish holiday of them all. My cranky attitude toward Twitter is well-known, and The Guardian pleased me to no end with its announcement of a switch to a Twitter-exclusive publishing model. Just look at how effective The Guardian was in reporting past events in Twitter! 1927 OMG first successful transatlantic air flight wow, pretty cool!

NEWS 3/31/09 2:08pm

A bridge to somewhere

By pendulumopinions

The haggling over the stimulus package started up again with a bridge to Microsoft parking lot. The $36 million project connecting two wings of Microsoft's headquarters will be the lucky recipient of $11 million in federal aid, because Microsoft's cash reserves are, of course, historically minute.

NEWS 3/31/09 2:21am

Baseball and symbols

By pendulumopinions

Today, while carefully splitting my time between the Pendulum and ESPN, I was excitedly sitting through Baseball Tonight's analysis of the American League East.

NEWS 3/31/09 1:47am

If you break it, the fed will come...

By pendulumopinions

"But just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always.

NEWS 3/29/09 11:47pm

GM redesigns its 2009 CEO model

By pendulumopinions

Rick Wagoner, the former CEO of General Motors, is on the outs. This should come to little surprise, given his general ineptitude and the general failure of GM to do much of anything successful.

NEWS 3/26/09 4:45am

When baseball matters

By The Pendulum

Usually baseball is a sport that has little international significance. Soccer/football leads entire nations to spill into the streets and ignite things in joy or despair, all of the Olympic sports have great bouts of nationalism attached to them every four years, but baseball always seems to be a highly isolated affair. Until Japan beat South Korea 5-3 in the World Baseball Classic, on Monday that is.

NEWS 3/26/09 4:11am

Back from the grave!

By pendulumopinions

Well, not the grave so to speak. Think of it as a sun-soaked hiatus punctuated by rejuvinating weather, a startlingly high population of bikinis, hijinks and topped off by a temporary headstone on the blog.

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NEWS 10/31/2024 5:53pm
Hurricane Helene relief through lens of Black Hawk mission

After Hurricane Helene, rural communities continue to struggle with isolation in western North Carolina. A National Guard Black Hawk crew delivered generators to the Bull Creek community, a valley banding together in the aftermath of the storm, on Oct. 8. The National Guard has been working to sustain the recovery of western North Carolina’s fragmented pockets. After Hurricane Helene hit Sept. 27, much of the infrastructure throughout North Carolina was severed. At the storm's peak, there were hundreds of closures. Sections of I-40 still face significant damage, while power and clean drinking water are still issues.

NEWS 10/31/2024 11:44am
Board of Trustees appoints first graduate program alumna as youth trustee

Elizabeth “Liz” Kwon L’23 has been named the new youth trustee for Elon University’s Board of Trustees. Kwon found out she was nominated by a faculty member when she graduated in December 2023. She is the first alum of a graduate program to be appointed to the board and will serve a two-year term. As the first graduate student to be elected as a youth trustee, Kwon said she hopes to bring the graduate student perspective to the table — as well as her personal experiences in the law program.

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