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Eagle on the street

By Eugene Kutz · Monday, Nov. 7, 2016

Tyler Kochman, 20, is a sophomore majoring in Urban and Regional Planning. “I’m voting for Hillary Clinton.

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The Black and White: A rape case

By Leaha Dotson · Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016

Do not tell me white privilege doesn’t exist when young white men convicted of rape are given lighter sentences than those who have committed the same crime but with a different skin tone. Three cases have risen to the media’s attention in recent months.

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Why I stand with Colin Kaepernick

By Hudson Villeneuve · Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016

For a country that enslaved a race of people for centuries, took away their rights for another 100 years, and continues to heavily incarcerate people with melanin in their skin, I understand why an African-American would not want to stand for the national anthem. Colin Kaepernick shocked the world by taking a knee.

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EMU's wasted money on football is appalling

By Jacques Vorves · Wednesday, May 4, 2016

I didn't get to see the Real Sports HBO special that aired Tuesday, April 19th, about Eastern Michigan University's spending on sports (I was too busy thinking about how I'm going to pay off my student debt), but I've read enough about it to know that my university has spent $52 million in the last two years on sports, according to the show.

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Don't vote for Hillary Clinton just because she's a woman

By Jacques Vorves · Sunday, April 17, 2016

I understand the significance of electing a woman president, but Hillary Clinton is not the right woman for the job. It won’t come as a surprise to anyone that Hillary Clinton is a woman, especially if you pay attention to politics (and if you didn’t know, just watch the next democratic presidential primary debate, where she will assuredly remind us of that fact any time she feels like she’s losing traction among audience members), and, in all honesty, it’s getting a bit tiring constantly hearing about her gender, as if it has some sort of bearing on her ability to govern.

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The case for taxing churches

By Jacques Vorves · Sunday, April 10, 2016

The primary reason churches in the United States have been tax-exempt thus far is due to the protection granted to them through the separation of church and state.

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We're all responsible for Donald Trump

By Jacques Vorves · Sunday, April 3, 2016

Donald J. Trump officially announced that he was running for president on June 16th, 2015. Speaking from Trump Tower in New York City, the then newly-announced candidate opened with a no-substance quip about the supposed idiocy and gutlessness of the other candidates saying, “How are they going to beat ISIS?

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Obama's visit to Cuba is momentous

By Jacques Vorves · Wednesday, March 23, 2016

The United States’ record with Cuba since the 1960s has been rough and downright scary at times, and although my generation — the Millennials — never experienced the same fear as our parents did of nuclear war looming over our heads, we understand how incredibly significant Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba is. My mother used to recount her experiences at school and how her and her classmates would perform drills in case of a nuclear attack.

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Trump is unifying the Republican Party

By C.A. Joseph Peters · Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Four years after his even more impressive but nevertheless unsuccessful independent run in 1992, Texas billionaire and Reform Party founder Ross Perot won more than eight million votes in the 1996 presidential election.

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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