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Top: Students and faculty
atber for a special “Rising
} of Racial Consciousness” (
College Coffee Ian. 16.
ft: AIDS Health Foundation
imoted their Stand Against
;e campaign at the Greens
boro parade Jan. 15.
Right: Danyer Rey of the
insboro City Workers Union
arches in the Martin Luther
fig Jr. parade in Greensboro
on Monday, Jan. 15.
Elon hopes to usoMLK
Day to jumpstart race-
related oonversations
Christina Elias and
Emmanuel Morgan
Reporter and Managing Editor!
@eliaschristina4@JinmanuelMorgan
F or BRANDON BELL,
THIS year’s Martin
Luther King Day was a
project of inclusion.
The assistant director
for the Center for Race,
Ethnicity and Diversi
ty Education (CREDE),
Bell, knew that the event
was celebrated annually at
Elon University, a similar
trend for the majority of
college campuses. But Bell
wanted to be different in
honoring the civil rights
icon. When he sat down
to think, the question Bell
wanted answered was how
Elon would do the greatest
amount of service involv
ing the most amount of
people.
After all, that is Elohs
mission. Bell said.
“Elon talks about cre
ating leaders, scholars
and global thinkers, and
Elon asserts that an Elon
education will touch the
mind, body and spirit and
in many ways MLKs life,
touches the mind, body
and spirit,” said Bell, who
started working here last
semester after a stint at the
University of North Caro
lina at Wilmington. “What
he set for us 50 plus years
ago speaks to the values
that Elon is trying to do
today.”
The result of this mis
sion culminated in a multi-
ALEEZAZINNI STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
ABBY GIBBS | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
See MLK | pg. 5
>eaths prompt national
iialogue on hazing
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^dents and staff
Bcuss concerns
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Abbey Ojemann visited
|r best friend at Florida
ate University and in one
liy was caught up in its
Ireek culture. In particular,
le said she noticed the nar-
)wed focus on drinking,
artying and harassment.
She had no way of
knowing that two years lat
er, in 2017, Andrew Coffey
would die there as a result
of hazing while pledging a
fraternity, and that the uni
versity’s president would be
forced to suspend all Greek
activities on campus.
In recent months, the
conversation around haz
ing has become a national
conversation. In 2017, four
student deaths involving
hazing became viral stories,
bringing the conversation
around the all-too-frequent
Greek life practice to Elon.
According to the Office of
GREEK INVOLVEMENT
42%
of Elon’s student popu
lation belongs to a Gree
organization according
to the Office of Fraternity
and Sorority Life.
Fraternity and Sorority Life,
42 percent of Elon’s student
population belongs to a
Greek organization. With
National Panhellenic and
See HAZING I pg. 3
Sumi Yu ’15 in a new role on
NBC’s latest drama, Rise
Musical Tfieater
alumna will appear in five
episodes of new drama
Deirdre Kronschnabel
Eion News Network j @kronsclid
During a scene in E5-
E10 of NBC’s newest drama,
viewers will see and hear
‘How I Met Your Mother’s’
Josh Radnor yelling across
the screen in the role of Lou
MazzucheUi, a dedicated
high school teacher who
takes over its sinking the
ater program.
Sumi Yu, ’15, playing a
Sumi Yu
Elon alumna’15
violin — or rather, miming
playing a violin to a pre
recorded track of herself
actually playing the violin
— can barely make out the
Radnor’s words. His TV
yells are real-life whispers
from where she’s at on set.
In TV, unlike musical the
ater, Yu’s major at Elon, the
audio levels must be catered
to the location of the re
cording equipment.
Yu plays the recurring
role of a violin player in a
high school band in the
show ‘Rise,’ which comes
ft'om the same producers of
See RISEl pg. 10
NEWS • PAGE 5
Students in The
Crest Apartments
forced to evacuate
LIFESTYLE'PAGE 9
Students test skills,
interests in Burst the
Bubble classes
SPORTS*PAGE n
Elon’s record in CAA
shows competition
in league