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Eloii News Notwork ATAXING CHANGE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION A tax reform bill in Washington may have everlasting effects on many lives at Eion ANTON L DELGADO | Assistant News Editor | (ajADelgadoNews B uried within a 429-page tax reform bill are provisions that specifically target those within the higher education community. In the bill titled H.R.l Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the elimination of student loan interest deductibility, tax ex empt bond financing and tax exempt tuition remission are three provisions with the most potential to affect lives at Elon University. The end of tax deductibil ity of student loan interest may make paying off stu dent loans, for seniors such as Erin Bishop, set to grad uate this May, harder than expected. The cutting of private ac tivity bonds may slow down Elon’s plans to continue to expand the campus. Additional taxes to tu ition remission may make affording Elon more difficult for students such as Kevin Scott who enjoy the benefits of having parents work at the university as faculty or staff. These potential challeng es for Bishop, the universi ty and Scott are becoming more likely as the majori ty of the Republican Party hopes the legislation will be signed into law by the end of 2017. It’s a goal many leaders on Elon’s campus have spoken out against. “I am not sure this bill has fully permeated into the American consciousness about what this is going to mean for actual outcomes for people and institutions,” President Leo Lambert told Elon News Network. “Those outcomes will not be posi tive.” Lambert’s stance on the issue has been supported by several professors from dif ferent departments. Profes sors in both the departments of accounting and econom ics agreed with Lambert. “This bill is bad. It is not good for Elon, and in the long run it is not good for the country,” said Susan Anderson, professor of ac counting with a specialty in tax policy. “The passing of this bill could be disastrous for Elon, there are a number of pro visions that would directly hurt not only universities See TAXES logs. 4-5 Stretched too thin Elon’s counseling services tries to do more as students seek additional resources Meagan Gitelman Elon News Network i @meagan_gitelman For his sophomore year of high school, Noah Dyson was not sitting at a desk in the classroom. After suf fering a mental breakdown and tak ing a razor blade to his wrist, he was in the hospital. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in 2015 almost 50 percent of coUege students in the United States report ed feeling hopeless. Of the college students who battle mental health is sues, almost two thirds of them nev er seek treatment, and one in 12 will make a suicide plan at some point in their college career. Elon University’s Counseling Ser vices is struggling to meet the needs of its students — students such as Dyson, who is now a freshman. See COUNSELING I pg 7 Female Elon leaders shine as powerful figures in their fields Lauren Kukosky Elon News Network | @!kukosky “I asked my dad, ‘Do they let girls do that job,’ and my dad said a very good thing. ‘Well you can be anything you want to be,”’ said Connie Book, the next president of Elon University. The topic of powerful women is one that is strongly represented in the world today. The Women’s Index Study revealed that 86 percent identi fy femininity as a strength and 76 per cent of women believe that the 21st century has become the best time to be female. Though in recent weeks, sexual assault reports have bombarded the news cycle as more women speak out about inappropriate, and often ille gal, practices in the workplace. The allegations bring about questions of women feeling safe in workplaces that are dominated by men abusing their power. In the face of the outpour ing of these allegations, women have proven they are important figures in their fields and wUl not be treated as anything less. Women are feeling more empow ered than ever before and taking mat ters into their own hands to alter the trend of male dominated workplaces, boardrooms and mastheads. Many women leaders from the Elon com munity are doing the same. PHOTO ILiUSTRATION BY CAROLINE 8REHMAN AND STEPHANIE HAYS I PHOTO EDITOR AND DESIGN CHIEF See WOMEN s. 12-13 NEWS-PAGE 6 With holidays approaching, Allied Churches feeds homeless LIFESTYLE • PAGE 11 New restaurant openening highlights chicken and shakes SPORTS • PAGE 14 Junior guard Dainan Swoope leads Phoenix squad
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