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Junior Caroline Resetar
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Bahamas
CAUGHT IN IRMA’S
CROSSWIHDS
Elon students discuss the effects of their families and loved ones
living in fhe path of reeord-breaking Hurricane Irma
Senior Lindsey Delorey
Cocoa Beach, Rorlda
HIGH-INTENSITY HURRICANE
185 MPH
Hurricane Irma’s wind speed
topped off at 185 miles per hour
and is the longest lasting Category
5 hurricane ever recorded.
70.000
Hurricane Irma covered a total
of 70,000 square miles, which is
larger than the state of Florida.
Sophomore Dana Knowles
Long Island, Bahamas
PHOTOS BY CAROLINE BREHMAN AND MEG MALONE 1 PHOTO EDITOR AND NEWS EDfTOR
MAP BY STEPHANIE HAYS | DESIGN CHIEF
Freshman Hannah Clements
St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Anton L. Delgado
Assistant News Editor! @]AOelgadoNews
F or almost 12 hours,
Elon University freshman
Hannah Clements lost all
forms of communication
with her family after Hurricane
Irma tore through her
hometown of St. Thomas,
the gateway isle of the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
As one would expect, she was
nervous. But the phone conver
sation she had with her parents
after the storm did not help
her fears.
“It looks like a bombs gone
off,” Clements recalled her fa
ther said the day after the hurri
cane battered her home.
Hurricane Irma is the longest
lasting Category 5 hurricane
ever recorded. Its wind speed
topped off at 185 miles per hour,
while Irma itself covered 70,000
square miles, which is larger
than the state of Florida.
Its path of destruction
steered through the Caribbean
and made landfall in Florida,
killing at least 40 people so far.
Clements is part of the 4
percent of students with perma
nent addresses in Irmas path.
See IRMA I pg. 5
^Why am I here?^
Nontraditional
students navigate
Elon’s traditional
campus
Alexandra Schonfeld
Lifestyle Editor 1 @3sclionfeld096
In August Elon University welcomed 1,553 freshmen
onto campus to begin the four years of their undergrad
uate career. While the majority of students on campus
are between the ages of 18-22, among them are “nontra-
ditional” students hoping to obtain a degree and better
their lives. Nontraditional students — students over the
age of 25 — only make up 1 percent of the Elon student
body, though exact numbers were not available through
Elon University admissions.
These are students who often have their own fam
ilies and responsibilities, but have made the decision
to come back to school in hopes of reaching a brighter
future. But despite their best efforts, some of these stu
dents are finding it hard to feel welcomed as part of the
Elon community.
ALEXANDRA SCHONFELD i LIFESTVLE EDITOR
, r, Harris, who has her own phsyical disability, hopes a degree in Hnman Services will allow her to be a resource fer
pg. IU parents and care-takers in Alamance County who are caring for loved ones with disabilites.
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SGA elects new
freshman class
officers
New Danieley gate
causes traffic backup
SPORTS •PAGE 11
Two volleyball team
members hit major
milestones