Archive for January 20, 2010

Many students, faculty and staff at Elon University have expressed concern for the people of Haiti following a massive earthquake on Tuesday that killed tens of thousands and devastated much of the Caribbean nation. A current student and a 2009 alum on the ground in Haiti have made contact with their families in the United States, while another two current students and other alumni have started hearing from their own relatives still in the country.

A winter tradition returns to campus Wednesday at noon when dozens of students brave the cold waters of Lake Mary Nell in the seventh annual Polar Bear Plunge sponsored by the North Area Council and the Resident Student Association.

From the Greenville Daily Reflector (1/20/10): Like many states, North Carolina enacted its public records law to define the relationship between people and their government. It intends to keep citizens informed of decisions by affording them access to all manner of documents utilized in the public realm, and is therefore sufficiently broad to encourage governments to err on the side of openness.

From the Wilmington StarNews (1/19/10): Kure Beach is planning to host a workshop discussing town e-mail accounts and public records.

In the course of writing her New York Times bestseller, former Clinton Administration spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers arrived at a simple conclusion: “More women in power would make the world a better place.” Myers elaborated on that theme Tuesday to a packed Whitley Auditorium in her second lecture of the month as Elon University’s sixth Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership.