Stories from Iraq p. 16
Eton University’s Weekly
Student Publication
ENDULUM
Invisible children
demonstration
p. 12
Angie Lovelace/ photographer
Elon's online social network released
AsMey Lawton
Reporter
Elon University administration staff
members released the university’s new
community Web site, E2, Tuesday.
E2, short for Elon Town Square and
pronounced “E squared,” is a site to con
nect faculty, students, alumni and par
ents in an Elon social network. The site,
however, didn’t start out that way.
“The original goal was to connect
alumni to Elon,” said Dan Anderson,
assistant vice president and director of
university relations, the office which
made the site. “Many students have [a
Facebook profile], but what about alumni
that graduated two years ago?”
The idea expanded to include all four
user groups when Elon recognized a need
and desire for the four groups to interact.
With professors and alumni on the net
work, it would be only natural to expand
it to students.
The idea to allow parents to join origi
nated because “parents have been saying
for years they want a way to talk to other
parents,” Anderson said.
Overall, E2 shares some popular,
basic features with large, commercial
sites like Facebook or MySpace. But
according to Web Applications
Developer John David Parsons, “we
know we can’t compete with Facebook,
so we added new features.”
Story continues p. 2
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Photos submitted and courtesy of MCT Campus
May 3.2007
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Opinions
£2 p. 2 Find your piece p. 8
Ne^ majcire. P- ^ '‘‘s'oyalty.... p. 9
Heifer Campaign P- 5 Strong Gore p. 10
Freedom of Speech P- ^ Poverty. p, 11
Features A&E
Invisible Children, .p. 12 Elon musical p. 18
Iraq stories p. 15 University Chill p. 19
Honors thesis — p. 16 Summer movies p. 20
LD. Russell p. 17 Photo exhibition p. 20
Sports
Baseball p.2l
Men’s tennis p.2l
Reichenbach p.22
Round table p.23