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Search continues for Elon’s ‘Danieley dog,’ runaway black lab
Since then, Khaleesi nicknamed the “Danieley Dog,” has been seen at night near the stadiums, Oaks, Greek courts and, most often, Danieley Center. Many students have been feeding the dog and treating it as a stray, unaware that the “Danieley Dog” is actually a long-lost pet.
“We’ve tried food we’ve tried calling the Humane Society but nothing seems to work so far,” says Alexa Dipeso, a resident of Danieley Center.
Khaleesi has all of her shots and did not have any health issues before running away. She has been out in the cold for about two months. Danieley residents even said they spotted Khaleesi during the ice storm.
Campus police has gone out to search for the “Danieley Dog.” Dennis Franks, director of Campus Safety and Police, did not know who owned the dog and said Yarwood had not reported the missing pet. But campus police have been called more than five times about the dog.
“One of the officers said they got about three feet, the dog let it get about three feet from it and then it took off running again,” Franks said. “But we’ve got animal control has been out helping us try to catch it and we’ve been in touch with a rescue shelter.”
No one has been successful in catching the dog. Khaleesi is extremely skittish and fast. She has yet to let anyone hold her or even pet her. Elon Local News has even tried to rescue the dog. The news team fed her and tried to lure her to the inside of a car. Though ELN Morning show host Matt Lee touched her and fed her by hand, Khaleesi refused to be held or pet. Lee tries to search for Khaleesi every night and continues to feed her. He hopes to one day capture and rescue her. Until then, campus police asks students to treat the dog with respect. Perhaps some kindness and tender care may be enough to save Khaleesi once and for all.
CORRECTION: We first reported Khaleesi’s name to be Lacey but it is actually Khaleesi
Wrote a web story on the history of the McEwen School of Communications.
This Month in History: Evolution of McEwen building
The Iris Holt McEwen building is home to the School of Communications now, but in 1968, McEwen was home to a different kind of communication.
In the mid-1960s, Elon College’s past library in Carlton struggled to accommodate the growing number of students, so on Nov. 4th, the school built the Iris Holt McEwen building, named so because of her contributions to the school, to house the new library. Elon dedicated the building in 1972, and named McEwen dining hall, located next to the library in honor of Iris’ husband, James H. McEwen.
The new, three-story Elon College Library held more than 600 students and had air conditioning, which the previous building lacked. The new McEwen library cost nearly 700,000 dollars to build and could hold more than 20,000 books, almost double the storage space in Carlton. And since the media of the time consisted of cassette tapes, the library had 24 listening tables for vinyl records and cassette tapes, as well as readers for microfilm and microfiche.
In 1995, Elon renovated McEwen to add new technology, like 42 new computers, and the school even added an online card catalog in a new Internet age. The system was called I.R.I.S, which stood for “Information Retrieval in Seconds,” and was named after the building’s namesake.
But even with all these changes, McEwen Library still did not have enough space to hold the increasing number of students. So in 2000, Elon College built Belk Library, and McEwen Library turned into the McEwen School of Communications. But it’s evolution won’t stop there; soon, McEwen will again be renovated into an expanded School of Communications, but one thing that will not change: its name.
Take a Haunted Hayride in Gibsonville
J. Razz and Tazz farms is located at 466 Peeden Drive in Gibsonville, N.C. The Haunted Forest Hayride runs Fridays and Saturdays with rides continuing through to November.
“We had some years where there have been terrible droughts here, and if it weren’t for J. Razz, we would go out of business,” Early said.
The Haunted Forest Hayride doesn’t have the blood, guts, and violence typically associated with hayrides.
“We found out that there really wasn’t anything offered suitable to take a 10-year-old child to for Halloween in this type of activity,” Early said.
Early built 95 percent of the props himself. He has never been on the trail because he’s the only one who knows how to operate all the equipment. Although, his wife Erin Early, and members of the community, dress up as monsters to bring the hayride to life.
“The rest of the day we are alone, we don’t see a lot of people,” Erin Early said. “So this is our social interaction for the year. I can’t talk much to a tractor. We get to see people have a good time.”
Matt Lee 