The Elon Student Television show, entitled Phoenix 14 News, is hosted by two students, Randy Gyllenhaal and Dannika Lewis. It was produced on October 1, 2007 in Studio A of the Iris Holt McEwen School of Communications. Some notable topics include: a $200 million increase to Elon Campus Security over the next ten years; new Class of 2011 Student Government Association Freshman Officers have been announced with Justine Peterson as President, Sara Baker as Vice President, Kendra Cirillo as Treasurer, and Brandi Sheehan as Secretary; new Class of 2011 Freshman Senators have been chosen: Evan Davis, Earle Zack Pope, Hillary Srsic, Adam Walton, and Lindsay Wills; Elon University provides students with printing dollars on their Phoenix Card; new road construction to the Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI) because of new FedEx hub; Elon Homes for Children celebrated a century of service; Elon Homes for Children has transformed into the Elon School giving teenagers an alternative to a public school; the newest Olive Garden restaurant at Alamance Crossing in Burlington, North Carolina is opening for business; Huey’s BBQ on Church Street in Burlington, North Carolina is under new management and being renamed J & G BBQ; a new Georgia franchise restaurant is settling into Triad/Piedmont area called Zaxbys; a series of explosions in central Mexico kills 50 and injures 300; the nation of Nigeria is under combat fire with two bombings in one week killing more than 50 people with Al-Qaeda being behind the attacks; Osama bin Laden’s new tape confirms the person on the tape to be Osama bin Laden as he calls the Iraq War unjustified because of capitalism; President Bush says no increasing the number of U.S. troops being sent to Iraq; U.S. Army General David Petraeus says there needs to be an increase of U.S. troops to Iraq before the spring of 2008; Great Britain has named Kate McCann (the mother) as a suspect in the May 3, 2007 disappearance of Madeleine Beth McCann in Praia da Luz resort in the Algarve region of Portugal; in Argentina a museum is displaying a perfectly preserved female Inca mummy from 1500 A.D.; Alaska’s environment is experiencing global warning as evident by the reduction of the ice caps to half the size they were in the 1980’s; obesity in the United States is a concern especially in North Carolina; Apple Inc., has seen a backlash after cutting the price of their iPhone by $200.00; Wikipedia is becoming more of a reliable resource due to a faculty member at the University of California at Santa Cruz developing an application to determine if the information is credible; the E-store company has invented a car battery that charges in five minutes and lasts for over five hundred miles; processing Unites States passports takes three to six weeks instead of prior time of six months; Tropical Storm Gabrielle made landfall on September 8, 2007 on the North Carolina coast in the area of Cape Lookout with 45 mph winds; North Carolina Fair (NC State Fair) hosted the largest Latino festival (Fiesta del Pueblo) in Raleigh; Alamance County Police arrested 19 individuals who are believed to be illegal aliens who are part of drug related gangs; North Carolina jail population will be shrinking by three percent due to illegal immigrants being deported; Elon football game against West Virginia Wesleyan; the Carolina Panthers playing the St. Louis Rams; Charlie Engle, along with his teammates Ray Zahab and Kevin Lin, ran 4,500 miles across the Sahara Desert over a 111 day period to raise awareness of the lack of water in Africa; and Elon University hosted Sportsfest. Some notable names include: Randy Gyllenhaal, Dannika Lewis Jasmine Spencer, Chuck Gantos, Rebecca Childer, Alex Walton, Meredith Gulley, Paul Williams, Goldie Smith, Fred Grosse, Kiersten Bennet, Jeff Gazda, Laura Thompson, Abby Dennis, Kelley Knight, Marisol Jimemez McGee, Pedro Carreno, Scott Riddle, Terrell Hudgins, Osama bin Laden, Charlie Engle, Ray Zahab, Kevin Lin, Justine Peterson, Sara Baker, Kendra Cirillo, Brandi Sheehan, Evan Davis, Earle Zack Pope, Hillary Srsic, Adam Walton, Lindsay Wills, David Petraeus, Madeleine Beth McCann, Kate McCann, Matt Damen, Steve Haas, Drake Springer, Sean Cearley, Rachel Roshfeld, Katelin Downer, Brandon Echter, Andrew (Drew) Smith, Adam Leonard, Christine Mallia, Paul John(P.J.) Buckley, Linda Lashendock, and Leigh Lesniak.