Elon College and the First World War, part 4: After the War

Posted on: November 8, 2018 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: Faculty and Staff, General Elon History, National Events, Student Life, Student Publications

By Randall Bowman, Archivist and Assistant Librarian. In December 1918, the SATC unit at Elon was officially disbanded; members of the company were discharged, and the officers who had trained them departed just before Christmas, to be reassigned by the Army. In May 1919, at the end of the academic year, President Harper informed the Board of Trustees that the college was in debt due to the cost of housing the SATC unit.  The cost of hosting the company had exceeded the War Department’s payments to the college by $14,065.05 ($233,368.53 in 2017 dollars).  College officials reached a compromise with the U.S. Government that reduced the deficit to $4,896.86 ($81,249.13 in 2017), still a large sum of money for the small college. Over the course of the following year, things began to return to normal at Elon.  Many college activities that had been suspended during the war resumed; the PhiPsiCli…

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Veritas: The “liberated” Elon College Newspaper

Posted on: March 28, 2014 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: General Elon History, National Events, Student Publications

Shannon Tennant March 28, 2014 The late 1960s were a time of turmoil on college campuses, and Elon was no exception. Serious issues such as the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War polarized public opinion in the United States. Rock and roll, “hippies” with long hair, and women’s changing roles were exciting new trends or the end of civilization, depending on your point of view. Elon had possessed a student newspaper since its earliest days. The Maroon and Gold was founded in 1919 to replace the defunct Elon College Weekly. Though initially independent, by the 1960s the paper was financially supported by the college and produced by a for-credit journalism class. Distrust of the college administration and concerns about censorship prompted a group of students in the Student Government Association to found a “liberated” newspaper. They called it Veritas, meaning truth.

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Bubble Bitching : Elon’s satirical underground newspaper

Posted on: November 29, 2013 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: Student Life, Student Publications

Shannon Tennant November 29, 2013 The Pendulum is Elon’s official student newspaper, but there have been several unofficial, “underground” publications offering different viewpoints of campus events.  One of the most amusing was the satirical paper Bubble Bitching.  In the style of the Onion, Bubble Bitching was created by a senior Business major and a senior Communications major in the spring of 2003.  “We’ve been making these jokes to each other for three years,” said one editor in a Pendulum interview. “Now we’re putting them down on paper.” Bubble Bitching was produced biweekly for a year, printed double-sided on a piece of regular paper (this was in the days of unlimited campus printing, before print dollars!) and slipped into the Pendulum’s newspaper racks.  The front page of Bubble Bitching contained two stories and a sidebar of funny headlines.  There was a joke under the masthead, and the reported price of each…

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Colonnades Literary Journal: Writing at Elon

Posted on: September 20, 2013 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: Academics, Student Publications

Julia Mueller September 20, 2013 The first issue of the Elon Colonnades was released in May 1937.  Elon College owned a printing press making the publication of the annual literary journal possible.  Students exclusively contributed to the content, which included poems, fiction, non-fiction, and art.  In 1951, the title was formally changed to Colonnades.  There were several years in the 1950s when the journal was not printed, but in 1962, Professor Franke J. Butler and Mrs. Nancy Butler restored the tradition.  From the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Colonnades also published planners and calendars displaying art and photography.  In 2002, the first issue with a theme was published.  The theme was “Snapshots of Life.” Today, Colonnades is an award-winning journal and continues to be entirely operated by students.  The goal of the journal is to promote creative expression among students.  Students develop a theme in the fall for the upcoming…

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Student publications on campus

Posted on: October 8, 2010 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: Student Publications

Pam Richter – Class of 2011 October 8, 2010 Throughout its rich history, there have been a number of firsts that have and also continue to take place on Elon University’s campus. The Elon College Monthly was the first student publication established on Elon’s campus with the first issue of the publication printed in June of 1891. This was a joint enterprise of the three literary societies (Clio, Philologian, and Psiphelian) on campus.

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Phi Psi Cli yearbook archive hits cyberspace

Posted on: January 4, 2010 | By: belkarchives | Filed under: Alumni, Digital collections, Student Publications

Eric Townsend-University Relations Dec. 21, 2009 Elon University’s entire collection of yearbooks, from Phi Psi Cli’s debut in 1913 through its 2009 edition, is now available to view online with search functions that allow users to locate specific names and organizations in a given year.

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