Archive for October 27, 2009

Elon University's Multicultural Center will debut a new diversity education program on October 27 in a community event at Carousel Cinemas, where a student-produced film will be screened to foster conversations about topics such as race and sexual orientation while addressing biases and stereotypes.

Through three articles published in the News and Record of Greensboro on October 25, Elon Law professors Scott Gaylord, Andrew Haile, and Alan Woodlief explore the merit of reforming North Carolina's system of selecting judges. A public debate on the subject will be held at Elon Law on October 29.

At an Elon Law forum on October 23, Dean George R. Johnson, Jr. and Professor of Leadership Roland Smith explored how economic conditions are changing the structure of law firms and the role of attorneys in public life.

Elon University senior Danny Bell and junior Charley Costa won top honors this weekend in the 2009 Eller Ethics Case Competition, a prestigious national contest hosted by the University of Arizona and featuring many of the top-ranked undergraduate business schools in North America.

Read novels from Victorian England, and in many instances, characters leave for or arrive home from what was then the British colony of Australia. But it’s almost impossible in the same books to find an accurate description of life there. Janet Myers, an associate professor of English, tackles that fact in her first book, Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination.