School of Communications

Ashley Barnas works in a cave. Well, not a literal cave, with the high, damp walls, the darkness, the things that go bump in the night. But a figurative one that's probably better defined as a little room in the middle of a larger newsroom. It's affectionately referred to as a cave, and the employees who work inside it have hung bats from the ceiling and drawn pictures of sunshine on the windowless walls.

Elon University Provost Steven House visited with students and alumni in Los Angeles July 17-23, where he attended an alumni function and spent time at L.A. landmarks with students.

Casting isn't the glamorous position. It's just a name in a long list of credits. Certainly, the weight of a motion picture's success rests more on the visible shoulders of the movie stars and director. But put the wrong actors in the wrong parts, and a movie can fall apart. And it's that tension, that stress that invigorates Joanna Bateman.

Students in the Elon in Los Angeles program will have the opportunity to attend the Marina Del Rey Summer Classical Concert at 7 p.m. (PST) June 23 at Burton W. Chace Park.

Legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite died July 17 at the age of 92. Cronkite was famous for his reporting of the Kennedy assassination, Watergate and the U.S. space program. Cronkite came to Elon April 8, 2003, and had a conversation with David Gergen, a former adviser to four U.S. presidents and the chair of the Elon School of Law advisory board.

Research by associate professor Harlen Makemson has been featured by Triad television stations and newspapers in recent days in the lead-up to the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing.

Forget about orientation. Forget about easing into an internship. Lauren Murphy didn't dip in a toe to test the waters. Instead, she was thrust shoulders deep into her internship with MTV in Los Angeles: She had to work the MTV Movie Awards.

Three weeks in, and she's already been christened with a nickname. Her bosses call her Flash because she finishes her assigned tasks so much faster than they anticipate. But the name is perhaps more appropriate because of the multimedia training she is receiving on the job.

The Elon in Los Angeles program, a nine-week experience during which students live and intern in L.A., started its second year May 30 with a more ambitious structure and more enthusiasm from the students.

Mike Feldman wants to be the next Mel Kiper Jr. Feldman already studies the NFL draft and the college football players likely to be selected by professional teams every year. He already has experience on and behind the camera. And he already has a love of sports broadcasting. Seems like the only thing he's missing is a replication of Kiper's patented black, slicked back pompadour. But, hey, there's still time for that.