Students from both neighborhoods dined on March 6 with staff from Elon Dining, Environmental Services and Physical plant to explore issues of community.
Students, staff and faculty gathered together in Lakeside on Wednesday, March 6, for an event called “Dinner across Difference.” Students from the Global Neighborhood and the Historic Neighborhood came together to express their appreciation for and bond with the staff who work at Elon.
Participants also talked about belonging, specifically times they felt like they did belong and occasions when they didn’t. Also discussed were participants’ contributions to the Elon community and what makes the community strong.
The Historic Neighborhood will be hosting its next monthly dinner on Wednesday, April 10, at 5:30 p.m. The next Global Neighborhood event will be the Film Series, held on Tuesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Global Commons 103. The film will be “Entre Les Murs” (“The Class”), a French film about the challenges students and a teacher face in a diverse Paris classroom. Discussion will follow. This event explores another aspect of the Global Neighborhood’s 2018-19 theme, educational equality.