The world has survived yet another “apocalypse.” The media coverage and international drama over the supposedly fated day of Dec.
Political ads and campaigning for the Nov. 6 election have been ongoing for several months, but the weekend prior to the election, as well as Election Day itself, showed the hardest efforts made by both Democratic and Republican supporters in Alamance County. “The Alamance County Democratic Party has staff volunteers at all 37 voting locations to (give out) sheets that have our candidates listed on them, all the way from the president down to the local races for judges,” said Anna Gerow, vice-chair for the Alamance Country Democratic Party.
Politicians have a reputation for either manipulating the truth or leaving out important details in order to better their image to American voters.
For third year doctor of physical therapy student Ryan Mason, photography is a way to not only make some extra money, but to do something completely outside of the science world, just for himself. “What started off as something that was just kind of fun on the side became almost a necessity for me to have a break from (school),” Mason said.
[box]Video by Morgan Mayer, Multimedia Reporter.[/box] The stage had transformed into 1813 Hertfordshire, complete with bonneted women, lilting English dialects and male servants donning high heels.
It isn’t always easy to bring a 200-year-old love story to life. But that is exactly what Elon University’s Department of Performing Arts has been working to achieve for the last several months. The department will present Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” written in 1813, as this year’s spring play April 19-22.
Bullying – it’s a term everyone is familiar with, and may have even experienced personally at some point in time.
The morning was bright and crisp Saturday for the fourth annual Barbara Sullivan Race for Women’s Health 5k Race.
It isn’t every day that a college graduate joins the circus following commencement, but for Elon graduate Stuart Richie, that’s exactly what happened. While interning with Cirque du Soleil for three months during the spring semester of her senior year in the Las Vegas production of Mystère, Richie applied for her current position as a stage manager on the European tour of Alegría. “On my trip back across the country (to get back on time for Elon’s 2010 commencement) I was contacted for an interview,” Richie said.
In today’s social media-driven world, privacy seems to be intangible. We live in a society of friending, following, linking, posting and checking in.
Graduate students’ winter fly- in projects couple professional experience with social action. In January, iMedia graduate students at Elon University took the course COM 570 — Interactive Project for the Public Good, during which they worked in teams to create an interactive media project for the common good in a foreign country. “The students get a chance to put the skills they’ve learned to date in the program to use in an accelerated project, one that’s far greater in scope than anything they’ve worked on so far,” said Phillip Motley, assistant professor of communications, who led one of two Costa Rica programs.
Fibers have woven their threads through history to become more than just clothes worn on a person's body.
It goes without saying that, for some people, going to the gym three times a week and running on a treadmill isn’t exactly the most fun way to stay in shape.
Members of the 2012 Elon Dance Company and faculty members transformed their bodies and the stage of Black Box Theatre through original choreography.
For the past two years, the early childhood education program at Elon has been developing, but hasn't gotten off the ground until this semester.
Haunted rides and houses, from the mild to the downright terrorizing are found in many cities and all regions of the country.
A large crowd gathered around the Academic Village, as a group of dancers made their way through the grass, trees and pathways that comprise Elon University's campus on Sunday, Sept.
Ten years ago, the United States and the world changed forever when terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
A distinctive buzz could be heard at downtown Burlington's Company Shops Market Honeybee Festival Sept.
A statewide law banning the disposal of electronics as household waste and the introduction of sustainable graduation gowns have bolstered efforts by Elon University's Office of Sustainability to make Elon a "green" campus. Under the Discarded Computer Equipment and Television Management Law approved this summer in North Carolina, electronics can no longer be discarded as household waste.
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