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ELON, NORTH CAROLINA | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011 | VOLUME 37, EDITION 6
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BATEMAN TEAM PROMOTES FINANCIAL LITERACY
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Elon University seniors Molly Cox, Alex Harrington, Annie Hellweg and Liz Moy participated in this year's Bateman Case Study Competition, a nationwide contest
sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America. The client for this year’s competition was Ally Financial, an automotive financial services company,
which challenged students to improve financial education in their local communities. The culminating event was the Financial Friday Festival, held March 4,
featuring live music free food and prizes. Contestams were tested on their financial knowledge and winners received prizes, from a meet and greet with President Leo
Lambert to gift cards to YoZone. Other events sponsored by the Bateman Team included financial training sessions in the community and a financial trivia night at The
Fat Frogg. The competition ended March 8.
Students living in coed Crest
apartment forced to comply
with single-sex housing policy
Natalie Allison
Senior Repotler
Junior Sara Edwards met her future
roommate at a transfer orientation in 2009.
The two became best friends with one
another, and soon after decided to move
into an apartment with a few of Edward’s
former suitemates.
For three semesters, the roommates
celebrated birthday dinners with one
another. They’ve had movie nights and
gone grocery shopping together. They’ve
argued about loading the dishwasher
and sympathized with one another about
grades.
Edwards’ best friend, someone with
whom she currently shares an apartment,
is Hollace Jeffords. The friends, who live
at The Crest apartments along with one
other roommate, are among the students
at Elon University who currently reside in
off-campus coed housing arrangements.
After this semester, however. The Crest
apartments will be considered on-campus
housing and university policy, which
prohibits coed suites and apartments,
'vill go into effect. The entire complex.
recently acquired by The Preiss Company,
will be contracted to Elon as on-campus
housing option, according to Brian Collins,
associate director of Residence Life.
Jeffords and Edwards, both rising
seniors, said they were never personally
notified that The Crest was going to become
on-campus housing. Though Jeffords’
parents received a letter informing them
of the contract change, Jeffords said
he contacted Residence Life himself to
ask how they were going to handle the
particular situation.
“Since we’ve been living this way so
long 1 thought they’d make an exception
— but they wont," said Jeffords, who
has had to find another roommate in a
different apartment complex. “I'd love not
to have to move, but it's not possible to go
back now."
Despite Elon's firm enforcement ot its
single-sex room policy, the university s
administration recently initiated a
student-directed housing program that
would allow students to occupy eight-
person Danieley Center flats, centered on
a specific topic of interest. The university s
senior staff approved that these flats could
MOLLY CAREY | Staff Photographer
A change in Elon policy, which does not allow for coed housing, will require students currently living in The Crest
apartments to make other housing arrangements, despite a proposal for coed suites in Danieley Center.
be coed.
The focus of these flats is not coed
housing, but rather grouping students
together around a theme for which they
are passionate, said Smith Jackson, vice
president and dean of Student Life
“It may also be more feasible for
students to form a living group around
a specific topic if the flat is open to both
males and females," he said.
Because the program is in its pilot stage.
Jackson said it is not out of the ordinary
for the university to start a program or
alter a policy on a narrow basis so it can
first be evaluated.
“Often small pilots such as the student-
directed theme flats in the Danieley Center
allow for feedback from a small sample
of students,” he said. “These pilots help
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