Student Life

Women's history month brings Ali Liegott to EMU

By Mona Beydoun · Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Ali Liebegott,43, award-winning author, said the idea of success is bullshit Monday evening. Liebegott is a writer on the Amazon T.V.

Eagles baseball loses in a close game 5-4

By Allie Tomason · Sunday, March 8, 2015

Eastern Michigan University’s baseball team lost a second game to Georgia State University at the GSU Baseball Complex Saturday, 5-4.

News Briefs

By Scout Bostley · Sunday, March 8, 2015

Internationally Renowned Scholar & Morris Chair Recipient, Jerlando Jackson to speak at EMU Jerlando Jackson is helping lead an extensive project at Eastern Michigan University aimed at understanding and improving the experience of Black males on campus.

Learn, Play, Be sheds light on the the LGBTQ community in schools K-12

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, March 7, 2015

Eastern Michigan University hosted Learn, Play, Be in McKenny's Ballroom, Saturday. The public forum engaged academics, activists, teachers and coaches to talk about inclusion for LGBTQ students in K-12 schools and sports.

Best buddies chapter at EMU plans upcoming ball

By Mona Beydoun · Saturday, March 7, 2015

Eastern Michigan University’s Best Buddies student chapter will hold the 18th annual Best Buddies Ball March 14 in the Student Center Ballroom.

EMU Wellness Center hosted Healthy Minds Jeopardy

By Sarah Lewis · Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Eastern Michigan University Wellness center hosted the “Healthy Minds Jeopardy hour” in the Student Center Friday. Energies were high among students as they participated in a Jeopardy game immediately following a lecture on health and wellness on campus, substance abuse and mental illness.

Seena Skelton will close the Porter Chair Lecture series

By Josh Hoppstock · Saturday, March 7, 2015

Seena Skelton will be speaking at Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center. Skelton will be speaking on the topic of “Institutionalizing Cultural Knowledge: A process for engaging in critical reflection on policy.” Skelton works for the regional Equity Assistance Center, located at Indiana University.

2015 football season schedule preview

By Thomas Bieszk · Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015

As spring workouts begin for Eastern Michigan University’s football team, head coach Chris Creighton and his team, can now start the process of game-planning officially with the schedule released for the upcoming season. For the third straight season, EMU opens up at home, welcoming in Old Dominion Sept.

"The Missing 43: Mexico's Disappeared Students" Documentary showing at EMU

By Drew Saunders · Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015

On Sept. 26, 2014, 43 students disappeared from Rural Normal Isidro Burgos, in Ayotzinapa, Mexico.

Student Senate passes resolutions to clean up in-house issues

By Meghan Koglin · Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015

The Student Senate passed four resolutions at their meeting Tuesday. These resolutions included changing office hours, raising wages for all members, adding a new committee and limiting presidential and vice presidential terms. S.

Student Senate committee meeting Feb. 3

By Meghan Koglin · Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015

Student Senate Committees are made up of volunteers who oversee and handle Student Government’s affairs.

WRC explores women during the civil rights movement

By Sarah Lewis · Monday, Feb. 2, 2015

Eastern Michigan University students learned the roles of women in the civil rights movement as part of the “Intersections” series at the Student Center Thursday. Women’s Resource Center’s Intersections speaker series explores different identities, and looks at how they relate to each other.

EMU student wins prestigious graduate fellowship

By Allie Tomason · Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014

Trevis is a man who is self-determined. He knows that the paths we choose and the goals we strive toward determine the lives we live,” Kimberly Schatzel, Ph.D.

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