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�þ��� President Leo M. Lambert announced this week a special campus initiative to collect and distribute school supplies to hundreds of homeless children in Alamance County and to children at a school in Afghanistan who struggle for access to basic educational materials.

�þ��� chaplain emeritus Richard McBride, Elon trustee Dr. William N.P Herbert ’68 and retired vice president Nan Perkins received Elon Medallions on Aug. 22, 2011, in an annual ceremony that celebrates the highest honor the university bestows on individuals for their meritorious service to the institution.

Town & Country, the oldest continually published general interest magazine in the United States, picked Elon in an 11-page feature story on top colleges in the September 2011 issue. The top colleges were recommended to the magazine by counselors at dozens of private high schools across the country.

Elaine R. Jones, the nation’s top civil rights lawyer from 1993 to 2004, told current and prospective law students at Elon Law’s second annual Diversity Day, that preparation was essential to achieving success in legal practice and in advancing civil rights.

Elon's �þ��� Shop will be moving from Moseley Center to its new location in the Elon Town Center at 130 N. Williamson Ave. next to the Acorn Coffee Shop this week. The bookstore will reopen as Barnes & Noble at �þ��� on Monday, Aug. 22. Movers will be in the Moseley location on Tuesday, Aug. 16, and Wednesday, Aug. 17, to move items to the new location. Both locations will be closed Aug. 18-21 in order to move the technology and register systems.

From the Wilmington StarNews (8/23/11): Last year, Durham encountered a disturbing problem that would eventually have statewide ramifications: Witnesses to major crimes were calling 911 just to hang up.