This comes from EMUYou! folks/Bilal Saeed– he posted it on the book o’ face, but I’m sure he’d appreciate it being posted here too:
The Second Annual Ford Lake Frozen Leap is Saturday, February 13, 11am to 3pm. Check out the story– spectators are welcome, and it’s a fund-raiser for the American Heart Association.
Oh, and check out frozenleap.com, which has more info and pictures from last year.
After the jump are some of the details Bilal sent out:
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A couple interesting articles/headlines from the Eastern Echo:
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I’m not even sure how I stumbled across this, but here it is: from the site Oddly Specific, “The strangely particular website about peculiarly exacting signs,” “Why MSU is better than U of M.”
Actually, the comments on the site make it pretty clear that this is not really real/it’s a joke, etc. But I still thought it was funny.
FullOfQuestions comment on the “An Open Letter Regarding the EMU Chief Government Relations Search” reminded me of an email that Geoffrey “Geoff” Larcom sent around the other day. Remember those heady days of the Chief Government Relations position, the one that was going to replace Freeman Hendrix in that job? Well, that’s turned into a search for the “Executive Director, Governmental & Community Relations.”
Here’s the email Larcom sent:
The Eastern Michigan University community is invited to open campus forums for the finalists for the position of Executive Director, Governmental & Community Relations. The forums will take place on Friday, Feb. 12 in Room 205, Welch Hall.
The schedule is as follows:
10 – 11 a.m. – Leigh Greden, attorney, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone; former city councilman, Ann Arbor
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Eunice Jeffries, director of civic and community affairs, Michigan Secretary of State
Greden has a kind of interesting “track record.” Remember that mini-scandal last year where Ann Arbor city council members were sending snarky email messages during meetings? A simple google search turned up an old mlive story, “Ann Arbor City Council Member Leigh Greden apologizes to constituents; Christopher Taylor says comment taken out of sequence.” It probably cost him re-election to the city council. Anyway, I’m not quite sure what his EMU connection is or isn’t.
Jeffries seems a somewhat more traditional candidate for this kind of job in that her experience seems to be with stuff at the state level, though I didn’t find anything particularly interesting/unusual about her through a Google search.
Anyway, I can’t make it this Friday, but if anyone does go and want to report back here, feel free.
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An alert EMUTalk.org reader sent me an email today that raises some interesting questions about the recent news about a student with a documented case of tuberculosis. The official EMU announcement, with the easily deleted subject line “Message from University Health Services,” does not mention that the student worked for EMU food service (The Eastern Eateries), but this article in The Eastern Echo and this and this article in The Detroit Free Press.
So, why did the official EMU email about this omit this detail?
TB, as both the Freep articles mention, is not spread through food, drink, shaking hands, etc., but rather is “transmitted through the air when someone breathes in the bacteria from the infected person who is coughing, sneezing or speaking nearby, the CDC reported.” So in a sense, the extent to which it matters that the student worked in food service is probably debatable.
On the other hand, a food service employee– especially one who served food– would potentially have come in contact with a lot of students.
So, how come that detail was repeated in the press in a couple different places but it didn’t make it into the official release?
Wow– that’s what the EMU web site says, the place is closed. I figured my kid’s school would be closed, but I’m surprised about EMU.
In any event, I’m going back to bed– perhaps you should too?
Posted in Buildings and Grounds, College Fun, In the media...
I don’t think that EMU is going to be closed because of snow tomorrow, to be honest– enough for K-12 schools, but probably not for the colleges (though I might be proven wrong). But I came across this page about how Shenandoah University (in rural Virginia) has been closed for five days, with more snow coming. But at least they built this totally rockin’ snow man:
Dig out soon, Shenandoah!
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Via my EMU news feed, I came across “Report questions university response to budget crisis,” a generic enough headline, but from the Chicago Flame Online, which I believe is the student paper at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Here are the opening paragraphs, which explains why I came across it:
An outside report analyzing the financial condition of the University of Illinois is making the rounds around campus.
The report, titled “Analysis of the Financial Condition of the University of Illinois System,” was written at the request of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers for the United Faculty Organizing Committee at UIC.
Its author is Howard Bunsis, Professor of Accounting at Eastern Michigan University.
In the report, Dr. Bunsis analyzes the University of Illinois system’s finances based on public financial statements. It mostly looks at the audited financial statements of the University of Illinois’ combined campuses, but it does some analysis of UIC’s campus, too.
On the one hand, Bunsis obviously has expertise. On the other, as the article points out, Bunsis also has a pretty obvious point of view here.
The report is not without its biases. It was made for an academic union and in its conclusion Bunsis states that “the issue of furloughs is further evidence of the need for collective bargaining.”
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I am on my computer this Sunday morning, minding my own business, when I see this email from Geoffrey “Geoff” Larcom:
You can watch the inflation of the roof of the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Practice facility this morning (Sunday, Feb. 7) through live video streaming on the emich.edu Web site home page. Physical plant staff found a break in the wind and weather, and the roof is going up this morning, until about 10:30 a.m.
Sure enough, if you visit the EMU Physical Plant web page, you’ll see the inflating live. Or you might– it was a little glitchy for me. For those of you who have better things to do with your Sunday and/or those of you who are just not quite as breathlessly excited about the domed practice facility: here’s what it looked like inflating:
I predict when it is full, it will be more dome-shaped.
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As promised in this comment, Kayla Potter sent me a picture of a sign that I think beats the one I posted the other day:
Nasty.
I wonder if the tip on “easting disorders” was added later? And if someone is throwing up into a waste basket in the dorms, wouldn’t also make sense to add something to the sign about how to tell if you are a binge drinker?
Thanks, Kayla. I am sensing a whole new category of posts coming to EMUTalk.org….
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