School of Communications

Alamance News publisher Tom Boney Jr. was honored for his outspoken support of the First Amendment and his dedication to open government at a luncheon Sept. 29 during Elon University’s First Amendment Day celebration.

Ray Johnson, assistant professor in the School of Communications, and Betty Hatch, a former instructor in Communications, will premiere a new documentary film they produced Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount Theater in Burlington.

First Amendment experts and advocates argued at length about whether corporations and individuals both share the same free speech protection and emphasized their optimism about the future of the First Amendment in an Internet-dominated age in a Sept. 29 panel discussion in Whitley Auditorium, one part of the larger daylong First Amendment Day celebration on campus.

Communications instructor Nicole Triche's short film "Thaumatrope" will be a part of the 20th Annual St. John’s International Women's Film Festival in Canada.

Michael Frontani, associate professor of communications, gave an interview this week to KCBS radio in San Francisco where he discussed The Beatles' songwriting and involvement with the counterculture and the recent death of Lucy Vodden, the inspiration for The Beatles' 1967 recording "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," which originally appeared on the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Five Elon students presented research papers Sept. 25-26 at the Carolinas Communications Conference held in Wilmington, N.C. Their research was shared in a panel chaired by School of Communications associate professor Frances Ward-Johnson.

Barbara Miller, assistant professor in the School of Communications, co-authored a chapter in "Communicating Science: New Agendas in Science Communication," with Janas Sinclair, asistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Radio host Scott Fitzgerald interviewed School of Communications Adjunct Associate Professor Dale Harrison for WPTF's morning-drive program "North Carolina's Morning News" on Friday, Sept. 11.