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Financial inequality increasing

By Taylor Pinson · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

Financial inequality is worsening in the United States, but many people don’t know how bad it is. That’s what professor Paul Leighton told a packed crowd at Tuesday night’s lecture in the Student Center ballroom.

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Student senate approves bus resolution, sustainability committee

By Nora Naughton · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

On Tuesday, Eastern Michigan University’s student senate discussed whether it should support the implementation of a student fee of $0.93 for Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority bus passes, to establish an ad hoc Energy and Sustainability Committee for the 2013-2014 year and to remove a section from the bylaws of student government. All three resolutions passed.

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News Briefs

By Lisa Swearingen · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

Staff and Faculty to assemble for Fall Major Fest— The Fall Major Fest event, sponsored by the University Advising and Career Development Center, will be held Monday, Oct. 14, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held in the Student Center ballroom. The event is being held to help students with choosing a major, minor or both.

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Bomber Plant is being threatened

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

The Willow Run Bomber Plant, a historical WWII landmark located just east of the Ypsilanti area, is now being threatened with demolition.

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Clean-Up Day to collect waste items at Eastern

By Taylor Pinson · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

Washtenaw County’s Solid Waste Program is holding a County Clean-Up Day that will be returning to Eastern Michigan University on Saturday, Oct. 26 in Eastern Michigan University’s Rynearson Stadium parking lot.

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Student senate makes changes

By Nora Naughton · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

On Tuesday, Eastern Michigan University’s student senate discussed whether it should support the implementation of a student fee of $0.93 for Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority bus passes, to establish an ad hoc Energy and Sustainability Committee for the 2013-2014 year and to remove a section from the bylaws of student government.

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Model UN club to go to conference

By Nora Naughton · Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013

Eastern Michigan University’s Model United Nations club will be traveling to Chicago in November to attend the American Model United Nations Conference. They will bring two teams to represent Palestine and Guatemala.

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Alumni give lectures

By Nora Naughton · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

The Eastern Michigan University College of Business hosted a business conference on Thursday with some of its most successful alumni. Each alumnus in attendance gave a series of lectures throughout the day about the lessons they have learned in the business world after leaving EMU.

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Police Blotter

By Taylor Pinson · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

Sept. 14 A subject was arrested on Oakwood Street at 3:34 a.m. on EMU bench warrants for failing to appear regarding traffic violations. *Sept.

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Best Buddies program starts another year

By Bethany Preston · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

Roughly 800,000 people worldwide are engaging in a program designed to build friendships in a neurologically diverse climate, and here at Eastern Michigan University, that program is thriving.

Ypsilanti provides tax abatements to businesses

By James Tatum · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

The National Bureau of Economic Research announced a nascent recession in the United States in 2007, and then cited its end in 2009. There has since, however, been an economic malaise, with the national unemployment rate at 7.3 percent and state unemployment rate at 8.8 percent.

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Board of Trustees discusses its finances

By Lisa Swearingen · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

Eastern Michigan University’s Foundation Board of Trustees discussed business and finance agendas, intercollegiate athletics and other EMU-related issues in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Center on Friday.

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Ypsilanti Master Plan

By James Tatum · Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013

Last Monday, on campus Teresa Gillotti, the city planner of Ypsilanti, presented a draft of the city’s Master Plan to a room of 20. (A very lackluster turnout when you consider the 18,914 stakeholders who attend the school.)

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