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Playing a round of golf with former Elon football players. Tailgating with members of the Phoenix Club. And watching the Phoenix football team play at Rhodes Stadium. Elon alums and sports fans don’t have to wait until fall to get a day like that. All three events are part of the 9th annual Spring Football Game & Tailgate on Saturday, April 24.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof called on students during a convocation speech Tuesday to find causes they care about and take steps wherever they are to make a difference in the world.

Business ethics speaker David Childers advised Elon students to move beyond a sense of ethics as a set of hard and fast rules and toward a life of integrity governed by a sense of personal accountability. Childers, president and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based EthicsPoint, Inc., spoke on campus March 11 as the 2010 Business Ethics Speaker for the Love School of Business.

Eight new members have been named to the Elon Alumni Board, the group of leaders that helps the university maintain strong ties with its alumni.

The work of Ashley Lawson '07 on behalf of the homeless was spotlighted recently in a story published by the Santa Fe Sentinel, the student newspaper for Santa Fe College.

A new set of members and a new leadership team have been named for Elon’s Young Alumni Council.

Elon will hold its 120th Commencement on Saturday, May 22, and as always alumni are invited back to campus for the events and to share their experiences with new graduates.

Former Elon soccer standout Steven Kinney has signed a contract to play for Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire. Kinney became the first player in Elon program history to be drafted in the MLS last January and is the first to be signed by an MLS club after being drafted.

A news story in the Times-News of Burlington, N.C., reports that former Elon University baseball player Chase Austin could start his first full year in professional baseball with the Greensboro Grasshoppers.

Elon junior Taylor Trensch and alumnus Matt Shingledecker '08 have spent much of the past year headlining the national tour of the Broadway musical, "Spring Awakening." This weekend, the Trensch and Shingledecker will enjoy a homecoming of sorts, as the critically acclaimed tour makes a stop at the Durham Performing Arts Center this weekend.