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Alison Kafer, PhD, professor of feminist studies at Southwestern University presents her lecture "Haunting the Edges of Social Justice: Disability Across Movements"

Alison Kafer lectures on disability equality

By Sarah Lewis · Sunday, March 20, 2016

The lecture “Haunting the Edges of Social Justice: Disability Across Movements” which touches on how disability relates to social movements and social justice was presented by Alison Kafer, PhD, professor of feminist studies at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas on Thursday, March 17 in Halle Library. Kafer, who teaches feminist, environmental, and race and ethnicity studies said that she hopes that her lecture will teach people to look at disability in a new way and get more involved in activism.

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News briefs, March 20

By Drew Saunders · Sunday, March 20, 2016

Students will have the opportunity to learn about Confucianism Monday, March 21, when Grand Valley State University professor Peimin Ni visits campus.

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EMU student dead Thursday night due to probable suicide

By Drew Saunders · Friday, March 18, 2016

An EMU student was struck and killed by an Amtrak train, Thursday, just before midnight. According to a press release from the university that was emailed across campus, the victim was a young woman between the ages of 19-20 from Brownstown Michigan and a resident of Hill Hall. “Our thoughts and sympathy are with the victim’s family and friends,” the press release said.

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EMU student helps raise over $100,000 through poetry

By Drew Saunders · Wednesday, March 16, 2016

What do you do when you go back home from Eastern to visit your family? For EMU students such as Razjea Bridges-Fordham, she goes back to a city where she tries to avoid the water. Her immediate family is one of the lucky households in Flint, Michigan that do not receive city water for their faucets, but she has friends and family in the city that are connected to contaminated pipes.

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News briefs, March 16

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, March 15, 2016

St. Patrick's Day is Thursday, March 17. The Marketplace will be celebrating with Irish themed food, from 11:30 a.m.

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Police blotter, March 16

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Thursday, March 10, 2016. The Parking Department called the Department of Public Safety at 7:51 p.m., Thursday to report a fraudulent hang tag.

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Getting to know EMU's Upward Bound program

By Nina Drumsta · Sunday, March 13, 2016

Eastern Michigan University’s Upward Bound program is a Federally-funded pre-college academic program designed to provide students from Ypsilanti Community High Schools and Ypsilanti New Tech High School with the skills and motivation to move on to attend a university to obtain a college degree.

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News briefs, March 13

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, March 12, 2016

EMU students will have an extra free movie viewing, Monday, March 14. Good Will Hunting will be playing in the Student Center Auditorium at 12:30 p.m.

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EMU's Michigan DECA to host conference at Cobo Hall

By Nina Drumsta · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The Eastern Michigan University’s Michigan DECA will have their 70th Annual Career Development Conference, hosting 3,600 Michigan high school students from across the state at the Cobo Center in downtown Detroit March 11-13, 2016.

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News briefs, March 8

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The EMU Gymnastics team will be hosting Central Michigan University and South East Missouri State at the Convocation Center, Thursday, March 10.

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Police blotter, March 7

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016. Two non-EMU students were pulled over for defective car equipment at the corner of Huron River Drive and Lowell at 1:36 a.m.

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EMU to host job fair

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

In some ways, getting a college degree is the easy part of building a career. Getting a job after getting the degree is a bit more challenging.

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Philosophy series talks liberation of non-human anmials

By Jacycie Sabala · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The Philosophy Series invited professor of philosophy Dr. Corinne M. Painter from Washtenaw Community College on March 7 to speak about the genuine liberation of non-human animals. Painter explained took parts of her book, The Contemporary Crises of the Alienated Non-Human Animal: In Defense of the Vegan Imperative, and spoke about her views and ideas while connecting them to Marxism and liberation.

Members of Student Government listen to resolutions that were voted on at the Tuesday, March 8, regular meeting. 

Student government finds new funding for student organizations

By Mona Beydoun · Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The Student Government Senate passed a resolution 17-0-0 to amend the Student Government Budget at its weekly meeting Tuesday evening in the Student Center. The resolution calls to pull unused money from the budget and put that money in a new line item that will make it available for student organization funding.

Josh Rivedal performs his one-man show "Kicking My Blue Genes in the Butt" for students.

Josh Rivedal talks mental illness to students

By Sarah Lewis · Saturday, March 5, 2016

Josh Rivedal, actor, author and motivational speaker, spoke to 70 students about mental health issues and performed his one-man show “Kicking My Blue Jeans in the Butt” about recovering from clinical depression and suicidal thoughts in Pray-Harrold on Thursday, March 3. The one-man show was based on depression and his father’s suicide in 2009.

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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