SoCon Tournament ticket and event information

Follow the #ElonPhoenix tag on Twitter, Instagram and Vine as the men's and women's basketball teams travel to Asheville, N.C.

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Get ready to "Live the Maroon Life" this weekend as the Elon Phoenix men's and women's basketball team travel to Asheville, N.C., for the Southern Conference Basketball Tournament.

Each team’s first game will be played Saturday. Semi-finals are set for Sunday, and the finals are on Monday evening.

SOCIAL MEDIA INFORMATION

For those not able to attend trounament games, receive updates from Asheville from the university on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Vine. For those who ARE traveling to the North Carolina mountains to cheer on the teams, share your own photos and videos using the #ElonPhoenix hash tag on all platforms!

On Twitter: @ElonPhoenix, @ElonUniversity, @ElonNews, @ElonAlumniAssociation

On Instagram: ElonUniversity, ElonPhoenix

On Vine: Elon University

On Facebook: /ElonPhoenix, /ElonUniversity, /ElonAlumni

TICKET INFORMATION

The Athletic Department and the Office of Student Activities will provide transportation and tickets to all games for $20 per game in which the teams play. They are also sponsoring viewing gatherings on campus for each game.

Buses will return after the games each day/night. Students who ride the bus and decide to stay overnight must sign a statement to clarify they are no longer part of the Elon sponsored activity. Should either or both teams make it to the finals on Monday, students who choose to go to the game(s) will be subject to the normal attendance policy in their classes.

Student trip packages for the men’s and women’s basketball games in the SoCon Tournament are now available for online purchase. Log on the student ticketing website (https://www.ticketreturn.com/Elon/SelectEvent.aspx) to purchase the package.

For Saturday, the buses will leave the Moseley Parking Lot at 2 p.m. Email your cell phone number to athtickets@elon.edu upon completion of your purchase. If the men's and/or women's team advance to Sunday, a bus trip package will go on sale after the games on Saturday night.

Students who wish to purchase just a ticket to the game may do so by calling the Athletics Ticket Office at 336-278-6750 or emailing athtickets@elon.edu. Tickets can be picked up on campus until 3 p.m. Friday, March 8, at the Athletics Ticket Office in Koury Athletic Center. Tickets purchased after this date and time must be picked up at Will Call at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville.

Student tickets purchased through Elon cost $12 each. Additional non-student tickets cost $18 each.

Additionally, the university will be hosting watch gatherings on campus during the tournament. Saturday’s games will be shown in Varsity and will include a Game Day buffet (meal plan or $6) and a beer and wine cash bar.

Anyone with questions or in need of additional information should contact the Office of Student Activities, jbaughman@elon.edu or 336-278-7214.

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by Eric Townsend, Staff Last Updated - 3/8/2013

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"The Visitor," a fascinating look at a historic event involving free speech and hate speech, to be performed at the Quick Center for the Arts

"The Visitor," by Carol K. Mack
Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 8 p.m.
Fairfield University's Wien Experimental Theatre
Free

"The Visitor," Carol K. Mack's gripping play about a German anti-Semite in New York City and the Jewish police officers assigned to protect his right to free speech, will be performed in Fairfield University's Wien Experimental (Black Box) Theatre at the Quick Center for the Arts, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 8 p.m.

Free and open to the public, this lauded work is co-sponsored by Fairfield University's Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and the American Studies Program. The play will be performed by an all-professional cast, and will be directed by Dr. Martha S. LoMonaco, professor of visual and performing arts. Seating is limited and reservations are necessary. Please call the Bennett Center at (203)-254-4000, ext. 2066.

The play takes place in 1895 when Theodore Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of New York City. Herr Ahlwardt, a rabidly anti-Semitic member of the Reichstag, came from Berlin with the announced purpose of "preaching against the Jews" and he demanded protection. Roosevelt assigned a group of Jewish policemen to be his bodyguards and protect his right to freedom of speech. "The Visitor" is about these policemen, this historical event and its significance.

Mack received a commission from Theatre J and the Foundation for Jewish Culture to write the "The Visitor," and she was greatly assisted by members of the Shomrim Society, an organization of Jewish members of the New York Police Department.

Mack's plays, which have been performed all over the world, include "Territorial Rites," "Postcards," "Esther," and "A Safe Place." They premiered respectively at The American Place Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The White Barn Theatre Foundation, and The Berkshire Theatre Festival in Association with The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts. In 2006, she conceived and organized a documentary theatre piece in connection with Vital Voices Global Partnership, an NGO that develops and connects women leaders in 80 countries. With a group of award-winning women playwrights, they wove the collaborative documentary theatre piece, "Seven," which has been translated into sixteen languages thus far. Her plays have been published in four separate editions of "Best American Short Plays."

Mack has taught at New York University, Marymount College and Fordham University.

For more information about the Bennett Center, visit http://www.fairfield.edu/judaic/.

Image: The Visitor," Carol K. Mack's gripping play about an anti-Semite in New York City and the Jewish police officers assigned to protect his free speech, will be performed in Fairfield University's Wien Experimental Theatre at the Quick Center for the Arts, on March 19.

Media Contact: Meg McCaffrey, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2726, mmccaffrey@fairfield.edu

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