Luis Romero and Colton Ray elected as student body president and vice president
Luis Romero and Colton Ray have been elected as student body president and vice president, respectively, following EMU’s Student Government elections.
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Luis Romero and Colton Ray have been elected as student body president and vice president, respectively, following EMU’s Student Government elections.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Student Government elections were postponed and recently rescheduled Sept. 30 at 8:00 a.m. until Oct. 1 at 8:00 p.m.. There are currently 2 candidates for Student Body President and for Vice President.
After Student Government elections were postponed last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students will finally get to cast their vote via their my.emich page from Sept. 30 at 8:00 a.m. until Oct. 1 at 8:00 p.m.
Eastern Michigan University started a new wastewater surveillance program on Sept. 17 to monitor the spread of COVID-19 on campus.
Over the summer, big changes came to Ypsilanti Community Schools (YCS) with the district ending its contract with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department and implementing big changes to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic that have altered students’ daily lives.
The Criminal Justice Listening Tour hosted a stop Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Parkridge Park in Ypsilanti. The tour has been organized by the Democratic nominee for Washtenaw County prosecutor, Eli Savit, who his invited colleagues to speak alongside him.
An endowed scholarship has been established in memory of Marilyn Horace-Moore, a prominent member of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, at Eastern Michigan University. Horace-Moore taught at EMU from 1994 until her untimely passing in April 2020.
As of Sept. 26, the latest crime reported in the City of Ypsilanti was on Sept. 20.
Republicans want you to forget about the stunt they pulled against Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the seat on the United States Supreme Court left vacant after the death of Antonin Scalia.
The Ypsilanti City Council voted to protect people with misdemeanor convictions from discrimination during the council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 15.
The Michigan Office of the Attorney General has denied charges against the Washtenaw County Deputy Sheriff involved in a use of force incident which took place earlier this year in Ypsilanti Township. The Attorney General’s office justified the deputy’s response claiming that he had responded appropriately "given the level of resistance by those being arrested."
The Eastern Michigan University Aviation Program, part of the College of Engineering and Technology, has signed a 5-year partnership agreement with Crosswinds Aviation, a flight training school dedicated to broadening opportunities for aspiring pilots.
The campus area crime map is a report of criminal activity that has been reported in the Ypsilanti-area as well as on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. The following crimes were reported between Sept. 5 through Sept. 11.
Dr. Nelson Amos, a professor of guitar and music history and Ypsilanti storefront owner, will retire in April from EMU after 46 years of teaching at the university. Amos is the oldest faculty member, at 81 years old.
Kid Jay, a local Ypsilanti rapper, collaborated with the Detroit Youth Choir and Indigo Yaj to recreate the 2014 single “Glory,” originally sung by Common and John Legend,. The song is the theme of the 2014 film “Selma.”
Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced classes online, the Eastern Michigan University Student Government elections that usually take place in March have been postponed until late September. When election dates are announced, students will receive an email via their university email accounts with information on where and how to vote. The dates for the election have yet to be announced by the university’s Office of the President.
The Charter Township of Ypsilanti Board of Trustees voted down two options to purchase additional ballot scanners during their meeting on Aug. 26. The scanners would have been used to count absentee ballots for the upcoming general election.
Ypsilanti’s City Council held a virtual meeting Tuesday evening, Sept. 1. Council members voted on whether to allow medical and recreational marijuana retailers to open in neighborhood corridors, as well as an increase to the budget for ballot return postage. Other highlights included a report from the City of Ypsilanti Chief of Police on the completion of mental health training by all officers in the department and an increase to the residential cost of water and sewage in the city.
For an interactive crime map of the City of Ypsilanti from the Echo, follow the link here.
Eastern Michigan University officials are discussing the next course of action after learning the racist historical tie to one of the Quirk-Sponberg Theatre’s namesakes, Daniel L. Quirk Jr.