Colin Donohue

The North Carolina Open Government Coalition issued a request for proposals to manage its newly formed endowment.

Colonnades, Elon University's literary magazine, received a 2010 national Magazine Pacemaker Award from the Associated Collegiate Press over the weekend at the organization's joint conference with College Media Advisers in Louisville. The Pacemaker is the highest honor ACP gives to its members.

The Pendulum, Elon University's weekly student newspaper, was honored with Best of Show awards from the Associated Collegiate Press on the last day of ACP's joint convention with College Media Advisers Oct. 31 in Louisville. Representatives from media publications who attend the conference may enter the Best in Show competition. All entries are submitted and judged on site.

From the Charlotte Observer (11/1/10): Two Latin words form the motto of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Lux Libertas - light and liberty. They are appropriate words for a university dedicated to learning. Yet UNC leaders believe that their obligations to student privacy under state and federal law do not give them the liberty to provide as much light about an ongoing football investigation as the state's news media do.

Three students in Elon University's School of Communications traveled to Washington, D.C., Oct. 30 to collect photos, video and interviews from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam made three presentations at the 2010 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Liverpool, England.

Elon University journalism major Jack Dodson '12 sat on a panel titled "International Opportunities for College Journalists: Internships, Freelancing, Study Abroad and Jobs" at the joint Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers conference Oct. 28 in Louisville.