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CAROLINE BREHMANI PHOTO EDITOR
Schar Center contruction continues
with clear weather Sept. 25.
‘Let’s get
it built’
Dave Blank comments on
the progress of the
5,400-seat arena
Erik Webb
(Sports Director 1 @ErikWebi]Elon
A quick drive down Hag
gard Avenue from downtown
Eton will bring you to the Elon
Phoenix athlet
ics fields and
facilities.
The beloved
Rhodes Sta
dium, Rudd
Field, Latham
Park and Hunt
Softball Field
have a new
neighbor
Schar Center.
It’s not hard to miss from the
road, and like its size, will be a
big addition for the athletics
teams that will call it home.
fifiOWlNG
IN SIZE
The new
arena will
seat 5,400
people -
3,800 more
tiian Alumni
Gym.
The new arena
The new 160,000-squarefoot
arena will serve as the home for
both the men and womens bas
ketball teams and the volleyball
team. Structurally, it will have a
spacious entry atrium, a hospi
tality room for social events, a
large practice gymnasium and
locker rooms and team facili
ties.
“This is an amazing addi
tion to the campus,” said Brad
Moore, university architect
and director of planning, de
sign and construction man
agement. “I don’t think that we
fully know how this is going to
positively impact the campus
community. It will, of course,
serve for large events — both
academic and athletic — but
it will now open up the op
portunity to host events that
we could not have dreamed of
hosting before.”
The 5,400-seat arena will
not only play host to Phoenix
athletics, but it will also host
See SCHAR I pg. 14
WHAT IS DACA?
DACA stands
for the Deferred
Action for
Childhood
Arrivals program,
which grants
“deferred action:
from deportation
for children
whose parent
brought them to
the United States
illegally before
they were 16.
Emmanuel Morgan
Managing Editor | @_EmmanuelMorgan
IHEN SHE WAS YOUNG, Yazmin
f Rico’s house in Mexico — her home
country — neighbored a pair of railroad
tracks. Sometimes when she played
outside with her siblings or friends, she saw
people latched onto a train as it ferried them
toward the United States. At the time, she didn’t
understand what they were doing.
But now she knows all too well.
“When I grew up, things started making
sense,” she said.
The little girl who watched people desert ev
erything just for the less-than-certain chance at
a better life in a foreign land ultimately took the
same leap. No, she and her family didn’t hitch
hike on a train. But they did migrate here illegal
ly 15 years ago. Burlington became home for the
then 13-year-old. And through determination,
a splash of luck and the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals program, Rico, 28, is now a
Masters student at the University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill.
Enacted in 2012 by President Barack Obama,
DACA grants “deferred action” from deportation
for children whose parents brought them to the
United States illegally before they were 16. But
for thousands, that reality quickly blurred. Earli-
See DACA I pg. 5
CAROLINE BREHMANI PHOTO EDITOR
Yazmin Rico surrounds
herself with old
photographs of her
family and personal
moments as she
reflects on her journey
of growing up in
Burlington after leaving
her native country of
Mexico at the age of 13.
Students return to
Park Place after
extensive cleaning
LIFESTYLE • PAGE 12
Ice cream shop brings
authentic Mexican
treats to Burlington
Ip sports •PAGE 15
Women’s soccer
pays tribute to Latin
American culture