Archive for August 27, 2010

Elon University welcomed the Class of 2014 on Friday with a clear blue sky and low humidity making move-in day a relatively comfortable experience for students and families who carried clothes, computers, food and furniture into residence halls across campus.

A poem by Claudine Moreau of the physics department appears in the Fall 2010 issue of Segue, the online literary journal of Miami University - Middletown.

Upon learning how boredom plagues troops in the Middle East, incoming Elon freshman Peter Gallagher and a friend started Games for Heroes, an organization that to date has collected more than $100,000 in hand held video games and cash that today keep hundreds of off-duty soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan entertained.

I am excited about the next two years. Leading the North Carolina Open Government Coalition will be a rewarding challenge for me and, I hope, the people of our state. I have several goals for my tenure I wanted to share in my first column.

John Burbridge, a professor of operations and supply chain management, explores the role Jersey City, N.J., played in trying to keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn in “The Brooklyn Dodgers in Jersey City,” which appears in the Summer 2010 issue of The Baseball Research Journal published by the Society for American Baseball Research.