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STEPHANIE HAYS I DESIGN CHIEF
Number of
Safe Rides
volunteers
declines
Fewer volunteers
creates concerns about
organization’s future
Grace Morris
New Member Coordinator 1 (5)GraceHMorris
Immediately after their first
ever assignment, Safe Rides
operators senior Dan Ford and
sophomore Remy Benzel were
on Lebanon Av
enue waiting
for their next
assignment, dis
cussing what
would happen if
Safe Rides didn’t
exist.
According
to several of its
drivers. Safe
Rides has been
struggling to fill
its vehicles’ front
two seats.
Before the
program began,
in the spring of
;1992 Elon student Chad Macy
|Was killed in a drunk driving ac
cident. In response, Elon Volun
teers! started Safe Rides.
The organization is a stu
dent-run and volunteer-based
program that offers free rides
to students to reduce the risk of
drunk driving and to ensure stu
dents get home safely.
"If there wasn’t Safe Rides I
feel like more walking would
happen, like bh I’ll just walk
home,’” Ford said. “It can also
be dangerous though, like this
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TEACHERS
STAND IN FRONT OF THE
BULLET
TO SAVE THEIR KIDS
AND THAT IS
TERRIFYING
How a school shooting is
changing the way Elon
trains future teachers
Anton L. Delgado
Enterprise Story Coordinator 1
@JADelgadoNews
f ITHIN THE FINAL
' MINUTES of her
high school senior
English class,
Elon University senior and
student teacher Annaliese
Jaffe noticed her students’
attention drifting to the
incessant buzzing of their
phones.
This is not an uncommon
occurrence after reading the
fourth act of Hamlet for 90
minutes, but as her seniors
from Alamance-Burlington
Middle College began to pack
up and Jaffe began to prepare
her grammar lesson for her
sophomores, she noticed fear
ful looks exchanged between
her students as seniors filed
out and sophomores filed in.
“Whafs up, guys?” she
asked.
Her students informed her
that a neighboring school.
Eastern Alamance High
School, was experiencing
a lockdown. Whether the
lockdown was a drill was un
known to both Jaffe and her
students. But as texts spread
between the students at Ala
mance-Burlington and their
friends inside Eastern Ala
mance, fear spread as well.
“When I heard my kids
say they were scared to be in
school I got so upset,” Jaffe
said. “After, I explained the
situation and they started
taking a test — I sat down and
realized I was also scared. But
ANTON L. DELGADO I ENTERPRISE STORY COORDINATOR
also furious because my kids
were scared. That was when
it really hit me, when I was
in school and my kids were
scared about it.”
It was Feb. 16, only two
days after a mass shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Doug
las High School in Parkland,
Florida, left 17 dead. Jaffe had
no direct ties to the shooting
or its victims, but that didn’t
stop the all-too-familiar pain
from suffering.
“It was awful to hear about,
but it was a similar feeling to
the emotions that I felt after
every school shooting that
has happened,” Jaffe said.
But the Parkland massacre
wasn’t like previous school
shootings — this one was
different.
See SCHOOL SAFETY!
. pgs. 8-9
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
BY THE NUMBERS
257
students majoring
in the School of
Education. Students
must student
teach in schools in
the surrounding
community in order to
graduate.
50
Elon University
students from the
School of Education
currently working as
student teachers at
more than 20 schools
within driving range of
the campus.
Top: Senior
Annaliese Jaffe
talks to her
students about
“The Crucible”
on March 2
at Alamance-
Burlington Middle
College.
Above: Senior
Virginia Little
handwrites a
letter to survivors
of the Marjory
Stoneman Douglas
High School
massacre March 2.
NEWS • PAGE 5
Local county
volunteers tackle
homelessness
LIFESTYLE‘PAGE 11
Elon community runs
for suicide awareness
SPORTS ‘ PAGE 14
Basketball season
ends on low note