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(06/24/13 11:27pm)
How many of you still have to go to the Academic Advising Center? A lot of students do. Part of the reason most don’t go is that nobody wants to make that long trek across campus to Pierce or McKenny Hall. Realizing this, Francine Parker, chair of the Board of Regents, decided to create an Academic Advising Center in a more convenient and accessible location for students. So when a space opened in the Student Center, she and the rest of the Board of Regents jumped at the chance to put it there.
(06/24/13 8:20pm)
The American Cancer Society celebrated its 100th birthday Saturday with a cancer walk at Eastern Michigan University. The Ypsilanti Relay for Life 2013 began at 10 a.m. and lasted 24 hours, raising over $10,000.
(06/17/13 8:12pm)
Baseball fans can enjoy the Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago White Sox game with a $34 ticket package, sponsored by Eastern Michigan University.
(06/05/13 4:27pm)
Woodruffs Bar of Depot Town held a Beatles Night on Saturday, June 1 attracting over a hundred people from the Beatles’ generation to the current one. Woodruff, with its exposed brick walls covered in art by Gary Horton, is the perfect place to listen to rock and roll on a Saturday night.
(05/20/13 10:36pm)
The 2013 Washtenaw County Heart Walk, held on Sunday, raised $20,303.20 for the American Heart Association’s mission of building healthier lives free of stroke and cardiovascular disease, according to their web site.
(05/20/13 10:32pm)
The Louise Tumarkin Zazove Foundation held a deaf storytelling event on Saturday night at Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center. This was the second time the event was held at EMU.
(04/25/13 1:54am)
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrest of two men for plotting a terrorist attack with al-Qaida backing on Monday.
(04/04/13 3:07am)
Pat Solitano, a former school teacher fresh from a bit of time in a mental institution, moves back in with his parents and tries to make up with his ex-wife. But as you’d expect, there’s a catch. He meets a girl named Tiffany, who has problems of her own.
(03/25/13 12:05am)
Eastern Michigan University’s mock trial team will be participating in the opening rounds of the semi-finals next weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio. The program takes students from colleges around the country and puts them through the real legal procedures of a court case.
(03/18/13 2:09am)
The resignation by Pope Benedict XVI last month has far-reaching implications that will last well into his successor’s reign. Argentinean, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is the first Jesuit Pope and the first Pope from South America. The new pontiff has an opportunity to right the battered ship that is the Catholic Church while he is in office. Hopefully, for the church’s sake, he can set off a domino effect of positive changes to save the institution.
(02/25/13 3:06am)
The Eastern Michigan University tennis team started its double-header against the Dayton Flyers Saturday at the Chippewa Club. Eastern defeated its visitors from Ohio in the first match, as well as the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies from Rochester, Mich., in the second match—both by 7-0 margins.
(02/21/13 4:56am)
February is almost over, winter is showing signs of ending and March Madness is just around the corner. If you don’t like basketball, there are other sports to see here at Eastern Michigan University.
(01/21/13 2:17am)
Since June 2012, President Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, have said certain undocumented immigrant youth may live and work in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the Development, Relief
and Education for Alien Minors Act.
(01/14/13 1:56am)
In the aftermath of the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that resulted in the deaths of 26 people, including 20 children, national attention has turned to gun control. At Eastern Michigan University, students have mixed beliefs on gun control.
(12/13/12 3:26am)
Eastern Michigan University’s History Department is trying out a new way to teach history. Reacting to the Past is an academic role-playing game where students have to stay in character as historical figures and re-enact moments in history.
(10/18/12 1:55am)
The Princeton Review has ranked Eastern Michigan University’s College of Business as one of the best in the country for the ninth year in a row.