J Richard Bates
Articles (8 total)
Dream Act awaits vote from Senate
The Student Senate will vote Tuesday on a resolution that would ask the Board of Regents to give undocumented citizen students in-state tuition rates.
Winter semester sees marijuana-related incidents increase, 12 of 15 on EMU's campus
EMU police have reported 15 marijuana related crimes on or around campus since the beginning of this year.
SESI conference features locals reinventing Michigan
The fifteenth annual SESI Midwestern Regional Entrepreneurship Conference was held in the EMU Student Center on Friday. The conference was presented by the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization and was focused on reinventing Michigan, utilizing the entrepreneurial spirit. In 2009 EMU received $200,000 from the estate of Catherin Sesi to endow the annual conference. The conference featured speakers from a variety of businesses and organizations, broken down into two breakout sessions with a keynote presentation during breakfast and another during lunch. The breakfast keynote speaker was Amy Cell from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. The first breakout session featured Chalres Senteio, an entrepreneur in health care and consulting; Gauri Thergonkar from Zingtrain; and Pat Muldoon, vice president of product development engineering for Venchurs Vehicle Systems. The second session included Zach Wigal, founder of Gamers Outreach Foundation; Kentaro Ray, founder of Kentaro SEO Marketing; and Bilal Saeed and Tim Adkins, founders of Pakmode Media and Marketing. The lunch keynote was delivered by Mike Lorenc, Google manager of Dedicated Client Services.
SOPA, PIPA raise privacy concerns, get put on hold
The House of Representatives put the Stop Online Piracy Act on hold indefinitely amid Internet protests that saw popular websites blacked out.
Remembering the legendary Paterno
Legacy: anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor. It is what you make of it.
Public Act 4 protest goes to Snyder's
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.
Gymnastics opens season at Kent St.
The EMU Gymnastics team opens the 2012 season on the road at Kent State following a strong sixth-place finish in the Mid-American Conference Championships last year. The Eagles finished the 2011 season with a 4-10 overall record and went 2-4 in conference match-ups.
Indoor season opens
The Eastern Michigan University women’s track and field opened the indoor season with a win Friday against the University of Toledo and University of Detroit Mercy at the Bowen Field House. Eastern earned 123.5 points, Toledo scored 83 points and Detroit Mercy had 64.5 points. The field events began the meet when senior Angela Scarber won the weight throw and set a EMU record at 17.38 meters.
