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Emus lose opener in an “electrical” event

sitedad — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:22:32 +0000

I wasn’t able to attend last night’s EMU vs. Army football game, which is a shame since it is the only home night game on the schedule, and the night games can be kind of fun. But a loyal EMUTalk.org reader did go and I was happy to receive the following report:

“Eastern Michigan [...]

Bunsis visits my homeland!

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:30:19 +0000

Also in non-strike news (sort of) and news I find personally amusing: From the Waterloo Cedar Falls (Iowa) Courier comes this, “Expert on financial state of universities to speak at UNI.” That expert is none other than our own Howard Bunsis, and UNI is the University of Northern Iowa in my hometown of Cedar [...]

CloseUP Classroom Fall 2010 show for new & Ol’ Faculty

sitedad — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:19:41 +0000

In non-strike news: the C2 (CloseUP Classroom) is presenting its Fall 2010 Show for New and Ol’ Faculty on Thursday, September 2, 1 pm and 2:30 PM in Alexander Hall. This group, which is run by CTA professor Jessica “Decky” Alexander, does great stuff in depicting all sorts of college experiences with short acting [...]

This seems like a very bad idea….

sitedad — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:20:27 +0000

From AnnArbor.com from a few days ago, “University of Michigan students can now gamble on their grades online.” Basically, it’s a program from a web site called Ultrinsic that enables bets on grades. Here’s a paragraph from the annabor.com piece:

Ultrinsic CEO Steven Wolf, 27, said for students to earn cash, they have to [...]

EMU Professor one of Michigan’s best Senior Olympian pole vaulters

sitedad — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:27:34 +0000

It’s Sunday morning, and this seems like a nice and happy feature story to share around EMUTalk.org: from Annarbor.com, “Eastern Michigan professor Howard Booth, 67, one of state’s best Senior Olympian pole vaulters.” The opening lines:

Howard Booth was curious. He cut down the sapling in his three-acre backyard and shaped it into a [...]

Are college students shifting to the Mac?

sitedad — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:48:34 +0000

This is a bit of a tangent I suppose, though it might be interesting here, especially for the “IT” inclined. According to this AP article that is about downgrading Microsoft stock, Apple is taking a heavy bite out of the traditional dominance of Windows. Here’s the relevant quote for here, with the line about [...]

Say, anybody go to the picnic?

sitedad — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:06:50 +0000

I’m back in town and (very VERY slowly) getting back into the swing of things, and I stumbled across this Echo story, “Free food, sun draw crowd to campus picnic.” The EMU home page is rotating some images in the masthead, but no pictures with this article.

I was struck by this sentence: “Unofficial [...]

“Yes, there IS a FREE lunch:” All-Campus Picnic May 20

sitedad — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:47:12 +0000

I meant to post this a couple days ago, but I guess I forgot; plenty of time to plan ahead though. From Geoffrey “Geoff” Larcom comes this announcement/invitation to be in an ad for the 0-0-0 campaign:

Free food, fun and 0-0-0: Faculty, staff, students invited to “Yes, There IS a FREE Lunch,” All-Campus [...]

“Chronicle staff investigated for ‘PENIS’ gag”

sitedad — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:20:42 +0000

I discovered this via IHE and it seems completely up the alley of the hard-hitting journalism we are famous for here at EMUTalk.org: “Chronicle staff investigated for ‘PENIS’ gag,” which is a story in/on Salt Lake City Weekly.Net. Here are the opening paragraphs:

Nine University of Utah graduating seniors and former staff members of [...]

“Eastern Michigan grads create new social networking site”

sitedad — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:22:15 +0000

Just wanted to give a shout-out to some EMU grads/local entrepreneurs who are striking out with a new social networking site called uSurvive.com, as reported in the Ypsilanti Courier story “Eastern Michigan grads create new social networking site.” Here’s the first couple of paragraphs of the story:

While Tweeting and Facebooking have become regular [...]