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Earlier this week, EMU-AAUP President Susan Moeller sent around an email that said, basically, that EMU is currently running a $5.8 million surplus. “Given that our academic departments are suffering from a terrible lack of funding lets hope that the EMU administration uses some of this surplus,” Moeller writes, “to remedy the underfunding SOON.” [...] I don’t know what this says about me as a person, but when the Detroit Lions were 0-15 last year, I mostly did not want them to win that sixteenth game. This is because in not winning that last game, Detroit set a record in badness (whereas had they lost just 15 games in [...] I actually saw this article in Crain’s Detroit Business a while ago, “Eastern Michigan University has long-range plan for arts village on campus.” To be honest, I’m cynical because of some politics I’m not going to get into here, and also because of the “beautiful dream” quality of the project. As the article points [...] This was new to me today (mainly because I have been working a lot at home lately): as this flyer taped to the window indicates, there’s a “Entrance Pilot” program at Pray-Harrold right now to enforce a no smoking zone entrance. My pictures are not that great here for giving perspective, but the [...] Losing, that is– Ball State 29, EMU 27. I didn’t see the game or hear anything about it on the radio, but I found this quote from the annabor.com article rather striking: Ball State coach Stan Parrish, a former University of Michigan assistant, said he never could have imagined winning a game with [...] This is an interesting piece by Tobi Writes at bleacher report: “Fix your danged stadium already No. 1: Eastern Michigan University.” This is the first in what is promised to be a series of articles about “problem stadiums that haunt programs at the FBS level,” and EMU’s stadium apparently is problem stop #1. [...] An alert and regular reader sent me this article from last weekend’s New York Times: “Furor Swirls Over College Chief’s House,” which is about a controversy about the President of North Dakota State University’s new house that is strikingly similar to EMU’s infamous house controversy. The opening paragraphs: Education officials in North Dakota [...] Yours truly will be busy doing computer stuff and God knows what else at EMU’s part of the National Day on Writing, which will basically run from 9 am to 4 pm, mostly in the EMU Student Center Ballroom. The Eastern Echo ran this nice story about the event, and our gallery of writing [...] I’ll be curious to see if this gets a lot of attention on the EMU homepage and other places promoting “Education First” here: “Local news: EMU to break ground for indoor sports facility.” Oh, and while the first story I came across was in the Detroit Freep, here’s a link in the Eastern Echo [...] I guess this has been going on for a while now, but I just caught wind of it last night when browsing through various things in my news feed: from Inside Higher Ed, University sues student blogger. Here are the opening paragraphs: Butler University has sued an undergraduate student for making libelous and [...] |
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