A longtime Elon tradition returned to campus in a new location Tuesday morning as students reported to class for the first day of Fall Semester. Details...
Upperclassmen chatted with favorite professors while Elon freshman, just an hour into their collegiate studies on the first day of class, spent time in groups, many of them with little or no idea who their professors may be.
“It’ll be really neat once we get to know our teachers,” said Chelsea LeValley, a freshman from Cincinnati, Ohio. “Plus, I think it speaks a lot to what Elon talks about … the mutual respect between students and faculty, how they treat us as equals.”
Other new students said they were impressed with the turnout.
“I thought it was just going to be students out there,” said Gregory Hairston, a freshman from Winston-Salem, N.C. “It seems like you have a lot of professors, too. There’s no excuse for me to go back to my dorm room when all these people are out here.”
Communications professor Glenn Scott attended the event and said later that College Coffee is a good way for students to meet and talk with people they may not otherwise get to know on campus.
“You couldn’t just do this with a big university,” Scott said. “It just wouldn’t work.”
College Coffee has traditionally been hosted around Fonville Fountain in front of the Alamance building. Student life officials moved the event to the plaza in front of the Moseley Center to symbolize a new center of campus as the university continues its growth to the north.
“It’s nice here, too, because you can go into Moseley and get something else if you wanted it,” said Caitlan Pyden, a recent Elon graduate now taking courses as prerequisites for graduate school.