Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
The Eastern Echo Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026 | Print Archive
The Eastern Echo

News

	Ali Suleiman Ali was the guest speaker at the event.

Fast-a-Thon encourages understanding, control

·

Eastern Michigan University’s Muslim Student Association organization hosted a Fast-a-Thon, engaging students in learning about the importance of fasting during Ramadan for Muslims with guest speaker Ali Suleiman Ali.




The Eastern Echo

Detroit bankruptcy would be largest

·

Chapter 9, or municipal bankruptcy, is the fate that awaits Michigan’s most populous city if Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s efforts to restructure the city fail.




	Eastern Michigan University Student Government Speaker of the Senate, Leo Cartier (left), introduced a resolution to the Senate to impeach Student Body President Matthew Norfleet (right) Jan. 29, and less than a week later Cartier withdrew the resolution.

Details of Norfleet impeachment scarce

·

Eastern Michigan University Student Government Speaker of the Senate, Leo Cartier, introduced a resolution to the Senate to impeach Student Body President Matthew Norfleet Jan. 29, and less than a week later Cartier withdrew the resolution.


The Eastern Echo

Detroit financial crisis similar to NY

·

In 1975, New York City suffered a financial crisis similar to the one Detroit is in now, and city leaders found themselves under the auspices of a state authority. An inordinate amount of municipal debt left the city unable to fund basic services and default appeared imminent.


The Eastern Echo

Facebook uses ‘likes’ to get info

·

Research from the University of Cambridge suggests that the pages people “like” on Facebook can be used to determine their race, intelligence, emotional stability, religion, sexual orientation and political views.



Medical marijuana restrictions increase

·

New legislation has made Ypsilanti’s medical marijuana dispensaries wary. “Basically, patient to patient sales are now illegal, and caregivers are only able to distribute medicine to their five registered patients,” said Katie Johnson, manager at the local medical marijuana dispensary Sticky Ypsi, located at 1090 N. Huron River Drive.


The Eastern Echo

Police blotter

·

March 7 A subject was lodged for an EMU failure to appear warrant at 4:01 a.m. A domestic dispute occurred between two subjects on Pearl Street at 4:48 p.m.





The Eastern Echo

Adidas denies responsibility for severance pay

·

Representatives from Adidas said the company was not legally responsible to pay former workers of the closed down PT Kizone factory in Indonesia, when Adidas representatives addressed an audience Tuesday in Eastern Michigan University’s Welch Hall.




In his pilot episode of his club-reviewing podcast, The Flock, Anthony Thaxton talks with student Raj Rahman about EMU's Astronomy Club.