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News Briefs, Dec. 1

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015

Thursday, Dec. 3 The Quirk-Spongberg Theatre will be hosting the Interp/Performance Studies Program at 4 p.m.

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Police Blotter, Dec. 1

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015

Thursday, Nov. 19 DPS arrested an EMU student for assaulting another person with a broom when they responded at 1:47 a.m.

Eastern Michigan University professor Don Ritzenhein, a board member at the Detroit Institute of Art, will talk about his perspective on the museum.

Ritzenhein to talk about his perspective on DIA

By Madeline Reinbolt · Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015

Eastern Michigan University professor Don Ritzenhein of the communication, media and theater arts department will give a talk on his perspective of the Detroit Institute of Arts from 8:30-9:30 p.m., Tuesday, in the King Hall Lounge. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance @ Eastern Student Association and AMP!

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News Briefs, Nov. 28

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015

Monday, Nov. 30 Hillel, the Muslim Student Association and Unite EMU will be hosting an Interfaith Dinner at 6 p.m., Monday in the McKenny Ballroom.

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EMU receives $361K grant to support low-income Ypsilanti families

By Mona Beydoun · Friday, Nov. 27, 2015

The Kresge Foundation has given Eastern Michigan University a $361,000 grant to expand programs for low-income families living in Ypsilanti housing projects. The grant will support the Ypsilanti Family Empowerment Program, a community effort which began in 2012 to help families living in the award winning Hamilton Crossing development on Ypsilanti’s south side.

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Black Student Demands presented at conference

By Summar Abdelnour · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

A list of demands by the African American community was given to Eastern Michigan University at the Institutional Racism in Higher Education conference at 2 p.m., Thursday, in McKenny. Darius Simpson stood in front of a room full of people and encouraged the downfall of institutional racism.

Dana Dolinoy, from the University of Michigan, gave a lecture.

Dana Dolinoy talks DNA and destiny

By Sarah Lewis · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

Dr. Dana Dolinoy, associate professor of nutrition and environmental health from the University of Michigan, presented her lecture Your Epigenome: DNA is not Necessarily Your Destiny on Thursday at the Student Center. The lecture is a part of EMU’s annual George Liepa Sigma Xi speaker series which is inspired by former EMU professor of nutrition, George Liepa.

About 80 students attended the annual Thanksgiving dinner.

The Office for International Students holds annual Thanksgiving dinner

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

Thanksgiving Break is upon us, so Friday the Office for International Students and Scholars hosted the annual International Thanksgiving dinner Friday night in the Student Center. About 80 international and American students had a traditional Thanksgiving meal. "It's just a safe place for the international students to experience American culture, to learn the traditions of Thanksgiving and some of the things we have now like football, Black Friday shopping, the Macy's parade,” Emily Boerman, an international student advisor who helped set this up, said.

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News Briefs, Nov. 21

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

Monday, Nov. 23 Candidates for bachelor's of fine arts degrees will be presenting their bodies of works in the Senior Show/Capstone Exhibition from 10 a.m.

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Police Blotter, Nov. 21

By Drew Saunders · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

Monday, Nov. 16 An EMU student was pulled over for a traffic violation, Thursday near the corner of Huron River Drive and LeForge Road.

SOS held its discussion Nov. 19.

SOS holds discussion on Syrian refugees

By Nafiah Khan · Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015

Students Organize 4 Syria held a discussion about the current status of Syrian refugees Thursday afternoon in the Student Center. The purpose of this discussion was to engage in an open dialogue with Eastern Michigan University students about Syrian refugees following the stereotypes and political statements from recent terrorist attacks. In particular, subsequent to the attack on Paris by the Islamic State terrorist group, State Governor Rick Snyder has paused recent efforts on allowing refugees to enter Michigan. Ahnas Alzahabi, a senior business administration student, is the president of SOS.

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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