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TEDxEMU hopes to bring out new ideas

By Alexabder Price · Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

The non-profit organization TED will partner with the Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management to bring the first ever TEDxEMU on March 9 in Sponberg Theater. TED, Technology, Entertainment and Design, is a non-profit organization established in 1984.

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Repairs continue at Halle Library

By Laura Heffner · Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

Repairs are progressing smoothly for maintenance crews at Eastern Michigan University’s Halle Library, and investigations are underway to determine why the pipe’s supports failed. It was first reported the cause of the falling pipe was the breaking of the clamp-like hangers that hold the pipe in place.

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Police Blotter

By Kody Klein · Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

Campus: Jan. 22 – A person was arrested for possession of marijuana with the intent to sell at 3:46 p.m.

EMU combines spring, summer semesters

By Katrease Stafford · Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

Students no longer being able to claim an official June graduation date and a change in how financial aid is dispersed are just a few of the new changes being rolled out following Eastern Michigan University’s decision to reclassify its separate spring and summer terms into a single summer semester.

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Pell Grant eligibility rules changing in '12

By Katrease Stafford · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

In what has been called a “tremendous loss” to students not only at Eastern Michigan University but institutions around the country, EMU Financial Aid Director Cynthia Van Pelt said students who were full-time during fall and winter semesters will no longer be eligible for Pell Grants during the upcoming summer semester. “It’s a big loss for us and really for every school and all of our students that are Pell eligible,” Van Pelt said.

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EMU Halle Library repairs start

By Laura Heffner · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

The repair process is underway at Halle Library after it was discovered that a clamp supporting a water return pipe had broken loose causing the pipe to come crashing down through the ground floor ceiling, triggering the sprinkler system in the process.

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EMU Pres. Susan Martin to accept distinguished award

By Michael Sanders · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

The Michigan Business & Professional Association has announced that EMU President Susan Martin will be awarded the distinguished leadership award in the area of education at the association’s annual Women and Leadership in Workplace Conference. According to Jennifer Kluge, President of the MBPA, the goal of the award is, “Basically successful women inspiring other women to be successful.” Martin is EMU’s first female president.

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Police Blotter

By Kody Klein · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Campus: Jan. 19 — A student was found in possession of cannabis paraphernalia at 7:20 p.m. in Wise Hall.

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Students need to be more aware of alternatives to student loans

By Chelsea Idzior · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Michigan has the 11th-highest student debt load in the country. In 2010, the average student with a bachelor’s degree graduated with $25,675 debt from student loans. In the 2009-10 academic year, the annual amount of loans taken out by college students reached $1.8 billion, a 49 percent increase from 2007.

Pipe damages Halle Library

By Kody Klein · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

Halle Library was closed for most of Monday and all of Tuesday after a water return pipe broke from its supports and fell from the basement ceiling, triggering the sprinkler system on its way down.

Keynote calls for efficacy

By Kody Klein · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

Despite Monday’s march against Governor Snyder’s Public Act 4 being organized several miles from Eastern Michigan University’s campus, the anxieties for the economic situation at local, state and federal levels could be felt on campus.

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Public Act 4 protest goes to Snyder's

By J Richard Bates · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

A red helicopter hovered low overhead, and police officers were at every intersection, as over 800 protestors, armed with signs and microphones, marched from Parker Mill Park to Governor Snyder’s home on a windy and overcast Martin Luther King, Jr.

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LBC credits needed to graduate

By Jennifer Niswender · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

The winter semester has begun, and, as seniors begin to receive their audits back, many are surprised to see they don’t have enough LBC credits to graduate.

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Sexual assault on EMU campus

By Kody Klein · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

A safety notice was issued by the EMU Police Department at 1:44 p.m. Wednesday informing the Eastern community that a female student was sexually assaulted at 7:40 p.m.

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Police Blotter

By Kody Klein · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

Campus: Jan. 12 – An unattended purse was stolen between 10:30 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. in Ford Hall. An unattended black cell phone was stolen between 4:30 p.m.

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Articles featured in this episode:

"Eastern Michigan women’s lacrosse team recognized at Board of Regents meeting" - Caleb Henderson

"EMU's University Park pond serves as home for dozens of koi, even during winter" - Israel Shriki

"Shakespeare in the Arb brings 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' to life this summer" - Allie Beecher

"EMU’s online vendor change & 6 things to know about textbooks before fall 2025" - Israel Shriki

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