Ameera Salman uses she/they pronouns, and has worked for The Eastern Echo since Fall 2022. They started as Editor-in-Chief of Cellar Roots, then moved to Editor-in-Chief of The Eastern Echo in 2024. For the Fall 2025 semester they are serving as News Editor. Salman is a senior majoring in journalism with a minor in urban studies.
Her job entails working hands-on with reporters to write the best stories they can. News is the heart of our mission, and it's her job to make sure it doesn't fall through the cracks. For her, the best part is the people. She feels it's really special to build a legacy by doing what she loves with people who love it too.
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Due to constraints on staffing, the Center of Race and Ethnicity will change their Multicultural Graduation Celebration to a once-yearly event.
Students raised concerns about ongoing changes to EMU's dining options at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.
Ypsilanti City Council convened Oct. 21, 2025, with a packed agenda to tackle, including nine resolutions. Pressing issues for commenters included the proposed data center in Ypsilanti Township, the purchase of three new vehicles for the Ypsilanti Police Department and the need for a year-round warming shelter in the city.
Students are not the only people on Eastern Michigan University's campus affected by changes to E|Dining; faculty and staff are impacted as well.
Longtime coworkers and friends Brittanie Bondie and Megan Major opened their joint show, “Abstracting the Anthropocene: An Ecological Elegy” to a lively reception on Sept. 5, 2025 in Riverside Arts Center’s North Gallery. The collaborative show is an exploration of the human relationship to nature ...
Three weeks after E|Dining announced the closure of multiple campus dining and market locations, Eastern Michigan University students remain frustrated by the changes.
On Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, a physical altercation caught on video at The Beer Cooler on North Washington Street launched an investigation by the Ypsilanti Police Department.
As YpsiWrites' inaugural Writer in Residence, Angelica Esquivel already has big plans to bring together the community through writing and creative work.
Much of the Midwest will experience an extreme heat wave this weekend.
The 22nd Circuit Court of Washtenaw County ordered Arbor One Apartments to rectify the living conditions of the rental units immediately.
The Beer Cooler, on North Washington Street in Ypsilanti, Michigan, remains closed Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, following a physical altercation that occurred in the store Aug. 31, 2025.
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