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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Volume 42 Edition 36
Eton, North Carolina
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SEE SPECIAL SECTION B
AtiX SIMON I Sports Director
(From left to right) Shay Burnett (5), Malaya Johnson (44) and Jenifer
Rhodes (11) react to winning the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA)
championship March 11, earning the school's first bid to the NCAA
Tournament. Elon faces 6th-seed West Virginia March 17.
SGA releases 2017-
8G-A
HB2,a
year later
House Bill 2’s effects
still felt at Elon
University
Meg Malone
Assistant News Editor
@megretjeane
At the one-year anniversary of
House Bill 2, Elon University has
just begun to realize the breadth of
the impact of this controversial bill.
Despite the university’s choice
to distance itself from the legisla
tion, the university has not been
able to completely avoid the fall
out.
From SGA members, stu
dent-athletes, prospective students
and students fighting to find their
voices, many has been affected in
one way or another.
Bit by bit, actions have replaced
words. And that, said junior
Monique Swirsky, president
of Elon’s gay-straight alliance
SPECTRUM, “that’s whafs really
important.”
One year later
In addition to eliminating
non-discrimination ordinanc
es protecting members of the
LGBTQIA community, HB2 —
also known as the “bathroom bill”
— requires individuals to use pub
lic restrooms and locker rooms
coinciding with the gender on their
birth certificate.
As a private institution, Elon is
not required to comply with the
bathroom provision, which only
affects restrooms in public, gov
ernment-owned facilities.
HB2 was approved by the
North Carolina state government
on March 23,2016. Two days later,
Elon released a statement reading,
“Elon remains committed to inclu
sion and equal protection for all
people. ... We wish to provide a
safe and welcoming learning envi
ronment for every member of our
community.”
Elon’s statement stressed that
individuals were welcome to use
whichever bathroom they felt
most comfortable using: “Elon
maintains a list of more than 90
single-occupancy universal bath
rooms on campus that protect the
privacy of the users,” the statement
said.
See HB2
PRS. 4-5
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