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While I was away….

In the last six days, I am certain that I spent at least 25 hours in the car and most of it behind the wheel. A long but good family trip. Anyway, I’m a bit behind, but I came across a couple of things I thought I’d group together in one post to kick [...]

my.emich creates a “fail blog” worthy submission

Assuming that ICT has not cracked the secret of time-travel, I’m guessing that someone has made a pretty silly error.

BTW, for the unfamiliar, see the often not completely G-rated FAIL blog.

Happy Thanksgiving from EMUTalk.org (and don’t do this)

After school today, sitedad and family will be off to an undisclosed location to visit family for Thanksgiving. My assumption is that we won’t be deep-frying a turkey. I have to say that I’ve always been kind of fascinated and tempted by the possibility, but watching videos like this one makes me think [...]

How was the Governor? (And an open letter)

I didn’t realize that Governor Jennifer Granholm was going to be on campus so early today, 9 am. I couldn’t have made it if I had remembered though. Did anyone go? How was it?

I also discovered this morning this fine press release on the EMU web site, “An open letter to EMU Students [...]

At least one Division I school with “eastern” in its title has stopped playing football

From Inside Higher Ed this morning, ” Northeastern Ends Football.” In many ways, Northeastern University is very different from EMU; but, as this quote suggests, they share a lot in common:

Joseph Aoun, president of the university, said in his statement that the decision involved setting priorities. “Northeastern has always been guided by [...]

“Campus concealed weapons bills debated at Eastern Michigan University panel discussion”

From Annarbor.com (and, surprisingly, nothing from the Eastern Echo, at least yet) comes “Campus concealed weapons bills debated at Eastern Michigan University panel discussion.” There’s a good discussion going on there, but I have to say I very much agree with this comment from Andy Ypsilanti:

This is a great idea. Because college [...]

32% tuition/fees hike in UC system and “near riot(s)” ensue

I found this via Mark Maynard’s blog this morning, where students were protesting/rioting about the University of California system board of regents raising tuition:

The filmmakers were apparently in the area filming something about an upcoming documentary about the collapse of the U.S. dollar. According to the SFGate article “UC regents approve steep [...]

A bit about the chief of government relations interviews

So, I followed through on my threat/promise to go to the forums for the chief of governmental and community relations interviews this afternoon. I typed up some notes on both Jon Cool and Felicia Wasson, but I don’t think what I typed up was particularly interesting. So, here’s a few bullet point impressions instead.

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“Forums on Nov. 20 to meet finalists for position of chief of governmental and community relations”

I’ve gotta say: this is starting to look a little fishy.

Geoff Larcom sent around this email this afternoon at about 1:30 announcing the opportunities for faculty and staff to meet and greet the finalists for the chief governmental and community relations job:

Faculty, staff and students are invited to open forums to [...]

Granholm on campus Monday (and a complaint to the Echo…)

Also in the news: “Governor to talk the ‘Promise’ at EMU.” From the Echo:

Granholm will be visiting campus from 9 – 9:30 a.m. Monday at the Student Center to discuss the scholarship.

“Promises should be kept, not broken,” Granholm said in a radio address Friday. “It’s time for the Michigan Senate to [...]