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‘We Are Charleston’ authors speak on gun reform

Monika Jurevicius

Herb Frazier recounted the times in his life when he lived near Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church before the shooting that killed nine bible study members in 2015. The shooting was later determined to be a racially-motivated crime committed by then 21-year-old Dylann Roof.

Frazier is one of the authors of “We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel.” Along with co-authors Bernard Powers and Marjory Wentworth, Frazier spoke to the Elon community on Feb. 26 about gun reform as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address.

AI and Elon University: grappling with generative AI in, out of classroom

Tucker Price, Katharyn MacDonald

When it comes to the rise of Artificial Intelligence, journalism Professor Amanda Sturgill said it’s not all that different from when the graphing calculator was introduced decades ago.

“It was a new technology, it was helpful in doing the things that you needed, but you needed someone with some sort of experience in the field to guide you in how to use that too,” she said. “I feel like professors in college need to be doing the same thing with AI now.”