Archive for May 26, 2010

Elon Law professor Scott Gaylord, speaking this month with WGHP Fox 8 News and WFMY News 2, described United States Supreme Court precedent relating to the ability of government entities to institute prayer in public meetings.

Elon will provide live streaming video coverage of the Elon University School of Law Commencement today, May 23, beginning at 2:45 p.m. Details are included in this news posting.

Martha Peters, professor of legal education at Elon Law, spoke at the 11th Annual Conference on Legal and Policy Issues in the Americas, May 17, in Montevideo, Uruguay, on the importance of training law students to communicate effectively with disabled clients and to include clients in legal and procedural decisions that involved their interests and needs.

Are you expecting or know a fellow alum who is? Have a future Phoenix toddling around the house? Deck them out in maroon and gold with great new infant, toddler and children's apparel now available at the Campus Shop!

Is there a special part of the Elon experience that still means something to you today? Join the "Elon Traditions" group on Facebook to share your favorite university tradition.

Janet Warman, professor of English and education, attended a poetry workshop sponsored by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, May 17-24.

From the Lexington Dispatch (5/26/10): Public records laws guarantee citizens the rights to certain government documents. From time to time, individuals or organizations will test the accessibility to those documents, and far too often they find roadblocks erected by government employees.

The United Church of Chapel Hill is celebrating its centennial anniversary, and on May 23, 2010, the church unveiled a bronze plaque listing all of its former pastors, including Elon University president emeritus J. Earl Danieley.

Efforts of Elon University volunteers at Homecoming 2009 bore fruit in Haiti this spring as meal packages distributed by the Stop Hunger Now project fed hundreds of residents left homeless from a January earthquake that killed a quarter million people.