The Student Government Association at Elon University recently amended its constitution and bylaws to afford more power to the Senate, increase the efficiency of the organizational council and correct structural and grammatical discrepancies. The student body will vote on the amendments May 15. Several of the proposed amendments clarify and expand the responsibilities of the [...]
Members of the Elon and Burlington communities gathered May 1 to discuss issues, tensions and laws surrounding gun violence in the United States. The evening began with opening statements and concerns from community panelists, which consisted of Elon professors and students alike. “Taking a gun away from a person won’t make them any less violent,” [...]
He stifled her frantic screams with a pillow and restrained her flailing limbs with brute force. She could barely breathe as he raped her. When he pulled her body on top of his and pushed her head between his legs, she managed to slip her wrist from his grasp and swiftly struck him in the [...]
At Thursday night’s SGA Senate meeting, President Leo Lambert addressed the senators about the Board of Trustee’s decision to continue Elon’s partnership with Chick-fil-A. Last semester, the SGA was heavily involved in the discussion of the controversy regarding the franchise’s presence on campus. “This will not be the last controversial issue the university will face,” [...]
As any investigative journalist knows, anonymous sources can be crucial to writing a good story. That’s what Fox News reporter Jana Winter was considering when she covered the Aurora, Colo. shootings and spoke to law enforcement agents who wished to remain anonymous. She is now on trial and being pressured to name her sources, potentially [...]
The Supreme Court captured the attention of the Elon University community last month as it heard arguments about marital rights of LGBTQ-identified Americans, an issue that has elicited both activism and criticism from Elon students, faculty and alumni. The court considered both the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 federal law [...]
In the state of North Carolina, gay couples still await their right to be married. Elon University junior Madeline Carlin follows a Winston-Salem couple, Frank Benedetti and Gary Trowbridge, through the story of their almost 50-year relationship in her short documentary, “We Will Prevail.” “I chose the topic of gay marriage because Amendment One passed [...]
The Board of Alderman met Tuesday to discuss several new amendments to the Elon Land Development Ordinance, including giving the go-ahead to Elon to develop a new solar farm later on in this year. The green light was mostly a formality, as the Loy farm, where the farm will be built, does not break [...]
As the American public defends its title as back-to-back world obesity champions, state and city legislatures are taking it upon themselves to curb the health problems of an overweight nation. According to a study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a staggering 34 percent of the U.S. population is obese, making it the [...]
Last semester was largely unprecedented for Elon University’s Student Government Association. The Chick-fil-A controversy that erupted on campus prompted an ad hoc committee to draft several amendments to the organization’s constitution, some of which will appear on SGA election ballots this week. The amendments will be finalized if a simple majority of the student body [...]
If the words “gun” and “freedom” belong in the same sentence, then it should be in this context: America’s gun culture is a threat to one of our most fundamental freedoms, our most unalienable right: the right to life. The Second Amendment to the Constitution was part of the original Bill of Rights, adopted by [...]
Four years ago, it was the stimulus package and the health care bill. Now, it’s immigration reform. Recent proposals from the Senate and the president may make immigration reform the first big legislative push of Barack Obama’s next four years. A bipartisan committee of eight senators put out a framework for an immigration reform bill [...]