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ELON, NORTH CAROLINA 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2009 | VOLUME 35, EDITION 1
New provost
found in-
The first
and second
story units
in the
apartment
building on
Atkinson
Avenue
have
extensive
smole
damage.
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PHOTOS BY LAURA SMITH 1 Photographer
Fire source still
undetermined, says
Elon Fire Chief
Margeaux Corby and Laura Wainman
News Editor and Senior Reporter
On Saturday, flames licked the first and second
floors of the apartments on Atkinson Avenue,
behind the Town of Elon post office. The Elon
Fire Department received the call at 3:30 p.m.
Saturday and took an hour and a half to search the
building, locate the source of the fire and extricate
the smoke.
“When we arrived, there was smoke coming
out of the second story windows,” said Eddie King,
town of Elon fire chief. “We started our fire attack
and did a primary search for victims and located
the fire on the first floor bedroom.”
None of the building’s occupants were home
during the fire and no one was injured. The
cause of the fire is still undetermined, but some
household items may be the cause, including a
pipe that was found in
the bedroom. King said
the one thing that is
certain, is the fire was
accidental.
King said that “basic
combustibles” suffered
the most damage and
there wasn’t much
involved in putting out
the fire. . . c- v. .
“The first floor apartment sustamed fire, heat
and smoke damage, and the adjoining apartments
just likely sustained smoke damage,” King said.
“My room was completely ashes, said Kevin
Murray who lived in the room where the fire
originated. “I lost all my clothes, my books, my
laptop, everything. It was all just gone.
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Steven
House
DEANS & DIRECTORS!
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more information about
Elon’s changing faculty
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Emily Silva
Senior Reporter
Elon has recently
selected Steven House,
the dean of Elon College,
the College of Arts and
Sciences, to succeed Gerry
Francis as the new provost.
Francis will move to the vice president position.
“I’m filling pretty big shoes with Dr. Francis,”
House said. He said he hopes to continue the positive
energy Francis brought to the Elon community
during his time as provost.
In his most recent
position as dean. House
worked with more than 326
faculty and staff members.
“The job of a dean
of arts and sciences is
to model the arts and
sciences,” House said.
He said he believes that
faculty members should be
three things; teachers, scholars and mentors for their
students.
House has had many years of experience working
at the college level. Before he arrived at Elon, he
served as associate dean and the director of health
professions at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.
House noticed “tremendous momentum” at Elon
and he joined the staff in 2001 as the founding dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, later re-named
Elon College. House held that position until 2006.
House also teaches an Elon 101 class and is
responsible for the Elon College Fellows learning
community.
“My major joy is to work with the faculty,” House
said. “To help them create an environment that
See HOUSE | Page 6
Copy freely,
iTunes users
Keegan Calligar
Senior Reporter
Elon iTunes users will soon notice changes in the
program’s music store, as Apple announced last week
that it will begin to offer songs at a variety of prices
and remove anti-copying restrictions from all song
files.
When iTunes was launched five years ago, Apple
and the four large music labels EMI, Sony Music
Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner
Music Group agreed Apple would sell songs with
digital rights management software. D.R.M. limits
with whom a user can share music and restricts
users from using iTunes songs on music software
created by any company besides Apple.
In recent years, Apple executives have publicly
spoken out against D.R.M., which they view as too
restrictive. According to a recent article in the New
York Times, music companies have only allowed
iTunes to sell their songs with D.R.M., but have not
required other online music stores, such as Amazon,
to do the same.
This is because the companies tried to limit the
amount of power iTunes, which sold approximately
2.4 billion songs in 2008, held in online music
selling, the article stated.
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