Archive for December 1, 2008

Margaret Robison Kantlehner, an associate professor of law, has had an article published in the ABA Preview of United States Supreme Court cases about the pending Supreme Court Case, Carcieri et al. v. Kempthorne et al., which deals with whether the Indian Reorganization Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust on behalf of an Indian tribe that was neither federally recognized nor under federal jurisdiction at the time of the statute’s enactment in 1934.

University senior Breanna Carrie Detwiler has been named a 2009-2010 George J. Mitchell Scholar, making her the first Elon student to receive the award since the competitive scholarship was created in honor of a former United States Senator who helped broker a peace accord in Northern Ireland.

See what happened at Elon last month through the eyes of university photographer Grant Halverson. Events include Homecoming 2008 and the production of "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" by students in the Department of Performing Arts.