Monthly Archives: September 2007

EMU sighting in today’s SpeedBump comic

Posted on September 16, 2007 by | 2 Comments

In today’s funny pages of the AA NEWS, the cartoon “Speed Bump” by Dave Coverly (an EMU grad, I believe) contains a character wearing a green EMU sweatshirt. Don’t know if you can find this online or not, but it’s a funny comic, in my opinion.

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Posted in College Fun, EMU Branding, EMU Images, In the media...

EMU 21, Northern Illinois 19

Posted on September 16, 2007 by | 2 Comments

Congrats to the Eagles and their defeat of the Huskies! EMU came back from an early deficit and blocked a field goal at the end to secure the win. This snaps EMU’s 6 game losing streak against NIU. The Eagles take on Howard University next week at home. Good luck to the team and hopefully they can secure some more W’s!

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Another laptop stolen from locked PrayHarrold office

Posted on September 15, 2007 by | 17 Comments

The AA NEWS reported on September 13, in its “Police Beat” roundup, that a “Laptop computer [was] stolen from a locked office” sometime between Friday and Tuesday. It does not report what floor of PrayHarrold this took place.

This is disturbing, as it suggests that DPS has not yet cracked the series of larcenies from locked offices that have plagued the campus in the last two years, despite the arrest of one suspect in the summer.

And did anyone who works in PH hear of this crime thru any EMU official source? I did not, and I think I would not have overlooked it. Is there a Building Administrator on the job for PH or not?

Many of us on the faculty had been given to believe that the Administration now realized that such stealing from offices needed to reported to the community quickly, for purposes of crime prevention and possible apprehension of the criminals.

Here’s hoping that the stolen laptop was not filled with hard or impossible to replace work – and that something serious is done to stop this series of crimes by what appears to be a serial burglar or burglars. It’s not clear whether this was from an office that had or had not been rekeyed.

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Posted in Security and Safety

Fallon has left the house

Posted on September 14, 2007 by | Leave a comment

According to the Ann Arbor News, Fallon has vacated the “University House”. In addition, at the next board meeting on September 21st, Sidlik is supposed to talk about the process of picking a new president.

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Posted in Board of Regents, EMU President, In the media...

EMU Student Government invites you to join us in Lansing…

Posted on September 14, 2007 by | 10 Comments

YPSILANTI- Eastern Michigan University will take part in the Student Association of Michigan’s rally for higher education funding on the steps of the State Capitol in Lansing on Wednesday, September 26, 2006.

The State Association of Michigan (SAM) is comprised of a majority of the student government associations of Michigan’s fifteen public universities. Student Government, in coordination with their collogues from SAM and the United States Student Association, plan on a gathering of over a thousand of Michigan students to protest the consistent funding cuts to higher education in Michigan. The rally is also meant to pressure lawmakers, expected to be in budget meetings for most of the day, to restore the millions taken from universities last May and to advocate for more funding in the fiscal year ’08 budget.

Eastern Michigan University Student Government is expecting over 200 EMU Students at the rally. Student Government is working with the new Eastern Votes Collation to advertise and educate students about the rally. Student Government is also providing charter busses to help transport students from campus to Lansing. Members of the campus community are invited, but preferential seating on the charter busses will be given to students.

Prior to the rally, members of EMU Student Government plan to talk to State Congressmen to educate them on the needs of EMU and the Student Body. Discussions items for these meetings include higher education funding and the Pray-Harrold capitol outlay project. This will occur in the morning, from around 10:00am to about noon.

Charter busses heading from the EMU Student Center to the State Capitol will be leaving the Student Center parking lot at 12:30pm. The rally is scheduled to start on the steps of the Capitol Building at 2:30pm. The charter busses are leaving the capitol at 5:30pm and are expected back on campus around 7:30pm. If you are interested in going to Lansing with Student Government on the charter busses, please RSVP to student.government@emich.edu, rkull@emich.edu, or (734) 487.1470. An RSVP is required to ride on the charter buses.

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Posted in Uncategorized

This week at the movies: Happy birthday, EMUTalk.org (and then some)!

Posted on September 13, 2007 by | 3 Comments

Just think: a year ago today (well, as of tomorrow,actually), I wrote the first post that appeared on EMUTalk.org. 480 or so posts and over 4,500 comments later, here we are.

I was contemplating a “real world” celebration of some sort, but I won’t be available for that (see below). But at a minimum, I thought I could share what is billed as the best birthday cake ever:

If that doesn’t work for some reason, try this link.

A couple other thoughts on a year of EMUTalk.org and then some:
Continue reading →

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Posted in EMUtalk.org News

“Education First” first detected

Posted on September 13, 2007 by | 2 Comments

I heard two bits on the radio this morning using the Education First tagline for EMU. The first put the spotlight on English’s Linguist List, the second on the Honors College. Very well done and not at all lame. Strong, strong emphasis on some of our academic strengths.

This campaign will, I hope, affect how we think about ourselves just as much as how the public thinks about us. Academics should be front and center at EMU.

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Posted in Academics

AA Editorial on the Faculty Assembly

Posted on September 13, 2007 by | 2 Comments

There is a nice editorial about the Faculty Assembly in the Ann Arbor News today:

“EMU leaders, faculty step in right direction Groups are partners, not adversaries“ 

I am curious what people think about the event here on EMUtalk. I posted the transcript earlier, and around 100 people have viewed it, referred from this site alone. It has yet to receive any comments, tho’–I am busy, your busy, everyone’s busy, but I am still curious what you all might think.  

Does the platform that faculty initiated at the Assembly seem in tune with what other members of the community think?

Does the student government, for example, believe that Putting Academics First, Creating Transparency, Democratizing Governance, and Resurrecting Community constitute an effective platform for change as the professors did at this meeting? 

What do the PT people think, the alumni, the surrounding community?

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Posted in Academics, Board of Regents, EMU Events, Uncategorized

EMU’s Restaurant Management Program

Posted on September 13, 2007 by | 3 Comments

In another first for EMU, the restaurant management program is the first (and only!) program of it’s type in the state to be accredited. The press release has more details, but one of the quotes “Gregory said one of the things that sets EMU’s program apart is the faculty.”

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Posted in Academics

Tickets for EMU-UM football game still on sale

Posted on September 13, 2007 by | 10 Comments

“Tickets to the EMU-Michigan Football Game on Sale,” at least according to this web site, until September 21. Who knows? The way that liberal arts school in Ann Arbor has been playing, perhaps this could be the Emus’ er, Eagles’ year.

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Posted in Sports