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Wednesday, November i6, 2016
Volume 42 Edition 27
Elon, North Carolina
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FEAR & MISUNDERSTANDING
Elon community addresses
divisiveness; moves toward
compassion, discussion after
Election Day
Emmanuel Morgan
News Editor
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For a tense, reflective moment, Elon
University senior Josh O’Neil stared
at the Nov. 11 front page of The New
York Times, which was plastered with
a picture of President-elect Donald
Trump shaking hands with President
Barack Obama at the White House.
It was a picture he never thought he
would see.
“It’s sad that the first black president
has to hand over the White House to
someone endorsed by the [Ku Klux
Klan],” O’Neil said. “When I look into
Obama’s face, even through a lens, you
can see disappointment.”
But while he grieved over who his
country elected, one of his peers was
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Football keeps Allison at forefront
Alex Simon
Sports Director
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For the Elon University football team,
Nov. 11 was more than just a day of practice
before its Senior Day game the next day.
It had been exactly one year since team
mate Demitri Allison died in what was ruled
a suicide when he fell off of a residential
building at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. For head coach Rich Skrosky,
that day will never again be just a day.
“I think it’ll be a day that we always com
memorate in some way,” Skrosky said. “The
kids who were closest to it won’t forget, but
I want to make sure the younger guys hear
that story, and sometimes those guys aren’t
going to talk about it. I want to make sure
he is remembered as a member of this team
and what this team went through.”
Skrosky did just that at the end of the
team’s practice Friday, allowing for any
player to, as sophomore wide receiver Corey
Joyner put it, “get out what we needed to
get out.”
On what would have been his Senior
Day, the team also honored Allison at the
game Saturday, painting a number 10 on
the field at the 10-yard line and inviting his
adopted family, mother Lisa Hartman and
brother Sam, to participate in the Senior
Day ceremonies. Sophomore quarterback
Connor Christiansen said it was “definitely
necessary” to honor Allison Saturday.
“The circumstances are unfortunate, but
it was awesome to have Miss Lisa and Sam
there,” Christiansen said. “It was cool seeing
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