Students meet, discuss fracking
The ad-hoc student government committee on energy and sustainability held a meeting Thursday to discuss hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.
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The ad-hoc student government committee on energy and sustainability held a meeting Thursday to discuss hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.
A school shooting on Tuesday rocked Purdue University. According to CNN, a suspect was taken into custody after the shooting took place near the electrical engineering building. The Indiana school’s police chief said that the shooter targeted a single person, then left and was arrested by a city policeman.
The Pray-Harrold Eagle Café has been closed this week due to a plumbing backup that occurred over the weekend. From the dining area, which is still accessible, damage to the sink area is visible.
The Eagle Café in Pray-Harrold is closed due to flooding.
Eastern Michigan University’s moot court team went undefeated last month, beating 25 teams at the regional moot trial conference in Saginaw, Mich.
The Michigan Department of Education announced new testing standards in the Michigan Test for Teacher Certification (MTTC) earlier this month. Education majors are required to pass this standardized certification test before obtaining their teaching license in the state of Michigan.
Black Leaders Aspiring for Critical Knowledge, or BLACK, hosted a screening of the documentary “Central Park 5” on Thursday evening in the Student Center. The documentary illustrates a miscarriage of justice for five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman.
After 12 years in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, Veterans Day has come to hold a little more weight than before. As Americans remembered the fallen and the ones who have fought to keep our own fall at bay, the Ypsilanti Community Choir did their part to remember by teaming up with the Saline New Horns Band for a veterans’ tribute concert on November 10.
On Thursday, the Increase The Peace Rally & Walk kicked off in front of the north doors of the Student Center. This student rally and march was against the recent spat of violence and crime that has plagued the community at Eastern Michigan University since the murder of Julia Niswender almost a year ago. Several hundred people showed up for the event.
A small screening of the landmark 1990 documentary “Paris is Burning” played Monday evening. The event, organized by Beth Currans of the Department of Women and Gender Studies, was to celebrate the recent addition of the new minor in LGBT studies, which is now available at Eastern Michigan University.
Eastern Michigan University student athlete Demarius Reed was found dead today at 7:15 a.m. at the University Green apartment complex, located at 700 block of West Clark Road. The investigation is being treated as a homicide.
Pease Auditorium swelled with music on a peaceful Sunday on Oct. 13 as the Eastern Michigan University Wind Symphony, conducted by Mary K. Schneider, kicked off its first concert of the semester with a piece from 1943 called “Commando March,” written by Pennsylvanian-born child prodigy Samuel Barber.
“Growing Up Muslim in Bombay” is an equal parts autobiography and poem book written by Saleem Peeradina. Peeradina teaches at Siena Heights University in Adrian, a school that he described as being “strategically isolated.”
After the Westgate Mall terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya, 39 people are still missing on top of the 67 people the Kenyan government reported dead from the attack and four day long siege.
The art gallery in the Student Center is holding a new exhibit, Perspectives, curated by professor Diana Pancioli. According to the Perspectives press release, “Perspectives presents new sculptural ceramic work exploring a diverse set of ideas.” It is also the first exhibition for sculptural ceramics the University Gallery has hosted, according to Gregory Tom, the program’s director.
The Eastern Eateries Homecoming Cookout event on Sept. 20 attracted many students with enough hot dogs, brats, chicken sandwiches and other BBQ foods to keep everyone full and happy. While a good number of people traveled through, it was never packed to the point that you couldn’t get food and despite the humidity, it was a good turnout.
Just Arts and Music holds an open mic night monthly to find and showcase new talent. The event offers students a chance to get their feet wet onstage, often for the first time. The third floor of the Student Center gushed with music and poetry all night from talented students here at Eastern Michigan University.
Terry Jones, the controversial Floridian pastor, was arrested on Wednesday.
Eastern Michigan University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center will be holding its fifth annual BBQueer at Big Bob’s Lake House from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17. This welcome back event for the 2013-14 school year, open to all students and staff members, will demonstrate the scale of support for the LGBT community present on campus.
The act of phishing has been reported campus-wide with more than one victim at Eastern Michigan University.