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EMU comes together to paint history

By Malaya Elgarico · Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018

Almost 200 volunteers from all over Eastern Michigan University and the Ypsilanti community came to dedicate their time and efforts to paint 300 square feet of canvas. The mural is meant to represent the timeline of EMU and Ypsilanti divided into three sections: past activism, present, and future ambitions.

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Board of Regents Announce New Health Center

By Amanda Wasunyk · Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018

YPSILANTI - Friday, Feb. 9, the Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents announced their plans to build a new primary urgent care facility on campus. This will be in collaboration with Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, and Integrated Healthcare Associates (IHA).

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EMU's Decision to Work with Academic Partnerships

By Amanda Wasunyk · Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018

YPSILANTI, MI – Recently there has been controversy between Eastern Michigan University and the American Association of University Professors (EMU-AAUP), headed by Union President, Judith Kullberg. The Union and faculty supporters are displeased with the terms of the contract made between EMU and Academic Partnerships (AP). 

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Philosophy department hosts first lecture of winter speaker series

By Malaya Elgarico · Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018

Frustrated by the countless essays from his students on how men are oppressed as men, Higgins decided to present his research on how these claims can be flawed. In his lecture, “Three Hypotheses for Explaining the Alleged Oppression of Men,” he presents his findings and his own commentary following a questions from the attendees.

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Is EMU really safe?

By Dereka Bennett · Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018

More than 50 crimes involving sexual assault, theft, burglary, violence, vandalism, and harassments were reported on EMU’s campus within the first two months of the 2017 fall semester, according to the daily crime log. 

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EMU student Marawan Saadeldin talks on travel from Egypt

By Gary Simmons · Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018

Eastern Michigan University’s newest ad campaign “You Are Welcome Here” shows that the university is proud to be a second home to many of the international students who decided to come to the United States and study there. One of the many international students that the university is host to is Marawan Saadeldin, an urban planning major and GIS minor from Alexandria, Egypt. 

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Honors Yoga promotes stress relief for students

By Olivia Grills · Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018

Honors Yoga, a program in collaboration with Ann Arbor’s A2Yoga, held a class Tuesday, Jan. 16 from 6p.m. to 7p.m. at Eastern Michigan University’s Honors College for interested students and faculty to reduce stress.  

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YpsiREAL and SPARK East promote Ypsilanti events

By Gary Simmons · Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018

Usually when people think of Ypsilanti, the first thing that comes to mind is a small Rust Belt factory town that is overshadowed by its seemingly cooler and hipper neighbor Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan. In most cases, people even forget that Ypsilanti also is a college town that is home to Eastern Michigan University. 

Latest Podcast

Introducing The Eastern Echo’s newest event and news based podcast, Scoop on the Scene. These weekly episodes will be hosted by the organization’s Digital Editor, Julez DeShetler. She intends to bring awareness to the events happening on an around campus to Echo listeners. 

DeShetler’s goal with the podcast is to encourage students and community members to get involved in an educated, safe and fun manner. She will list various events to choose from in addition to sharing the key details of said events. 

These podcasts can be expected to come out near the weekends and be no longer than 10-15 minutes.

For the week of Sept. 14 to Sept. 20, DeShetler includes events such as sports, a pub crawl, yoga, a movie in the park, Study Abroad Fair and training sessions. 

Be sure to tune in weekly to stay up to date on all the Eastern Michigan and Ypsilanti amusement!

Listen to this week’s episode here: 

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