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Police Blotter, Jan. 13

By Drew Saunders · Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016

Eastern Michigan University's Department of Public Safety has had a number of light drug possessions and drinking charges to deal with over the last few days. Thursday, Jan.

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News Briefs, Jan. 13

By Drew Saunders · Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016

Eastern Michigan University has a lot of activities going on around campus leading up to MLK day. On Thursday Jan.

Students enjoy ice cream during a farewell event for Kim Schatzel at the Eastern Michigan Student Center, 7 Jan.

Kim Schatzel says farewell with ice cream social

By Mona Beydoun · Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016

Kim Schatzel, former interim president, provost and executive vice president of academic and student affairs at Eastern Michigan University, explained at her farewell ice cream social that her move to Towson University will be the hardest change she has made in her forty years of working The social, held this past Thursday afternoon in the Student Center, was free and open to the campus.

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News Briefs, Jan. 10

By Drew Saunders · Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016

Eastern Michigan University's Intermedia Gallery Group is going to be hosting their Annual Juried Student Show this week.

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EMU to celebrate Martin Luther King Day

By Drew Saunders · Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016

Martin Luther King Day is coming up on Monday, Jan. 18. This year Eastern Michigan University is going to ring in the 30th anniversary of this holiday a bit early. Festivities will kick off on Thursday, Jan.

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EMU is now a doctoral university

By Meghan Koglin · Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016

The Carnegie Foundation reclassified Eastern Michigan University as a doctoral university in the 2015 edition of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education rankings system. EMU was previously listed as a large master’s university.

Petition striving to bring democratic election processes to EMU

By Nina Drumsta · Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016

Over winter break, the Board of Regents held a special meeting to announce the appointment of Interim President Donald Loppnow. A group of EMU students attended this meeting and left feeling as though the election of the new interim president was unfair, and they believe that Michigan’s state constitution should not allow EMU’s Board of Regents to be appointed by the governor and should be elected democratically through the university. However, even if they were to elect a new interim president democratically, another problem that these students recognized is that the meeting was announced on the last day of finals and took place after the semester had already ended.

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News Briefs

By Drew Saunders · Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016

Eastern Michigan University is back in full gear as of Wednesday. The EMU wrestling team will take on Northern Iowa at the Convocation Center Wednesday, Jan.

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EMU to say farewell to Kim Schatzel with ice cream social

By Nina Drumsta · Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016

Last semester Interim President, Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Kim Schatzel announced that she will be further expanding her career by leaving Eastern Michigan University to accept a new position in Baltimore County, Maryland as President of Towson University beginning on Jan.

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DPS investigating two robberies

By Drew Saunders · Friday, Dec. 18, 2015

The Department of Public Safety and Ypsilanti Police Department are investigating two armed robberies. The first one took place at 8:52 p.m., Thursday, on Ann Street Lot.

EMU issues update on "Bubble"

By Eric Coughlin · Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015

Eastern Michigan University will pay for repairs to the torn, deflated Indoor Athletic Practice Facility with funds from an insurance policy with FM Global, which includes a $50,000 deductible.

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Renowned journalist Beimeng Fu recalls her COVID-19 reporting experience on this weeks episode of Women Journalist COVID-19 Experiences. Check out this latest episode on Spotify! Or you can listen to their full unedited conversation at the Eastern Michigan University Archive website.

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