Archive for September 30, 2009

Ray Johnson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Betty Hatch, a former instructor in Communications, will premiere a new documentary film they produced Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.

First Amendment experts and advocates argued at length about whether corporations and individuals both share the same free speech protection and emphasized their optimism about the future of the First Amendment in an Internet-dominated age in a Sept. 29 panel discussion in Whitley Auditorium, one part of the larger daylong First Amendment Day celebration on campus.

Communications instructor Nicole Triche's short film "Thaumatrope" will be a part of the 20th Annual St. John’s International Women's Film Festival in Canada.

Elon Law professor and senior scholar Jeffrey Kinsler has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI), the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.

Michael Frontani, associate professor of communications, gave an interview this week to KCBS radio in San Francisco where he discussed The Beatles' songwriting and involvement with the counterculture and the recent death of Lucy Vodden, the inspiration for The Beatles' 1967 recording "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," which originally appeared on the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

This week, students from the Department of Physical Therapy Education Class of 2011 planted a Live Oak in honor of the human donors they had as teachers this year. At the memorial service held in July 2009 the students agreed that they wanted to commemorate the donors’ gift with something permanent. A tree was the logical gift as it signifies both life and knowledge.

Five Elon students presented research papers Sept. 25-26 at the Carolinas Communications Conference held in Wilmington, N.C. Their research was shared in a panel chaired by School of Communications associate professor Frances Ward-Johnson.