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EMU Honors College helps students succeed

By Dereka Bennett · Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017

Eastern Michigan University offers many academic opportunities for students in good standing, but The Honors Program is the cornerstone out of all the academic programs offered at the university.

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EMUBA holds "Young and Successful" panel

By Malaya Elgarico · Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017

“Love” by Kendrick Lamar ft. Zacari boomed as the room filled with black EMU students. Four rows of about 15 chairs for attendees were placed in front of a long table in the front of the room with six name tags placed at the edge of it. They read from left to right: Danielle Clair Simpson, Alex Simpson, Choi Portis, Nicole Brown, Nick Patterson, and Tanasia Morton. 

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Former EMU student arraigned for racial graffiti on campus

By Sydney Nimeth · Monday, Oct. 23, 2017

A former EMU student was arraigned Monday morning in the Washtenaw County District Court for the racial graffiti incidents on campus during the Fall 2016 semester.  Eddie Curlin, 29, who was already in jail for unrelated charges, was arraigned on three counts of malicious destruction of property, four counts of identity theft and one count of using computers to commit a crime stemming from vandalism incidents. 

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A reflection of Apartheid

By Jack Swartzinski · Friday, Sept. 29, 2017

This past week, as reported in the Echo, the “Students for Justice in Palestine” held a protest at the freedom wall which, not surprisingly, turned out to be rather controversial.  Now, there are many different aspects of this event one could review or criticize, from freedom of speech to the many divisions between campus organizations, but I am going to focus on the heart of the protest, the accusation of Israel being an Apartheid State.

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Eastern Michigan University's Black Student Union holds racial graffiti memorial rally

By Malaya Elgarico · Monday, Sept. 25, 2017

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, the Black Student Union held a rally in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial reflecting on the racial graffiti incidents one year ago and the action taking place moving forward. The racist graffiti incident took place on Eastern Michigan University’s campus, where the words “KKK leave N------” was spray painted along the side of King Hall. 

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WEMU holds first pledge drive of the semester

By Sarah Lewis · Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017

Eastern Michigan University’s public broadcasting service, WEMU held its annual pledge drive to raise money for continued operation on Wednesday, Sep. 13 and Thursday, Sep. 14 at King Hall’s Studio A.  

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'Growing Hope' in Ypsilanti

By Olivia Grills · Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017

Students from Eastern Michigan University’s Honors College gathered in downtown Ypsilanti to help with the development of Growing Hope’s new indoor community building Friday, Sept. 15.  

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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