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“Fufilling the dream of a murdered young woman”

From WWMT’s web site (I think this is the CBS affiliate in Grand Rapids) comes “Fulfilling the dream of a murdered young woman.” It’s a story about how the Dickinson’s west Michigan church is going on a mission to South Africa, more or less in Laura’s name.  Here’s the video of the story:

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“Murder verdict upheld in EMU student dorm killing”

From the Washington Post online comes “Murder verdict upheld in EMU student dorm killing.” Basically, Orange Taylor appealed the guilty verdict in the murder of Laura Dickinson, claiming he had an ineffective lawyer.  Maybe I missed it in the local media, but I didn’t even know there was an appeal in the works.

Adjunct lecturers organizing committee rally, Tuesday 1 pm at the Student Center

This was passed along by EMU-AAUP president Susan Moeller and I thought I’d give the group some publicity here too:

The EMU-AAUP supports the organizing of the adjunct lecturers and I am sending you the following information about their organizing efforts and a rally they will have this Tuesday, March 16th starting at 1 p.m at the Student Center.

More details after the “continued” part, but it looks like this is kind of an all-day sort of event– that is, if you can’t make it at 1, stop by later.  I’ll be on the road, so if anyone goes and has anything interesting to say about the event, let me know.

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“Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle for Justice”

I’m listening to a good and important story on NPR’s “Morning Edition” just now, “Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle for Justice.” The audio part of the story won’t be available until later today, but the text is there now. I think it illustrates the problem of rape on college campuses, and it also mentions [...]

Online crime map is cool, but it is also a case of “garbage in, garbage out”

The new crime mapping tool being sponsored by/run by EMU and the EMU’s Institute for Geospatial Research (who news we had such a thing?) is pretty cool and has been getting a lot of press in the local and regional media. Here’s a link to the EMU press release, and here’s a link to [...]

In the “where are they now?” category of things….

Apparently, John Fallon has finally landed a job at NPower Indiana, which the AA News describes as an “Indianapolis-based nonprofit group that provides technological assistance to other nonprofits.” Here’s the link from the NPower website.

Honestly, what does Fallon know about any of this? It makes me think that there is some kind of [...]

Judge: John Fallon must pay Eastern Michigan University legal fees

In the never-ending saga that is John Fallon, we may have actually come to something that approximates “the end:” from mlive/AANews, “Judge: John Fallon must pay Eastern Michigan University legal fees.” I should have posted this yesterday because I actually first heard this story on Michigan Public Radio when the family and I were [...]

Farewell to the Ann Arbor News?

Some interesting you-know-what is hitting the fan over at Ann Arbor News that is not likely to be reported there: this might be a slight exaggeration, but it would appear that the paper is being all but closed down by the company that owns it.

A couple of interesting links to blog posts below the “Read More” part:
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And what did Sidney Fallon have to do with this again?

The Eastern Echo had a story the other day about Fallon’s lawsuit being dismissed, and it raised a wrinkle/issue I hadn’t heard much about previously:

Faupel said the Fallon family is currently without income due to the university’s illegal discrimination against his wife in violation of the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act.

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Fallon’s lawsuit dismissed

I thought I’d go ahead and post a link to the story that was in the AANews the other day about Fallon: Fallon’s lawsuit dismissed. There’s nothing really new here, except this:

Fallon’s attorney, Marian Faupel, said this morning that she and her client were disappointed in the ruling and that Fallon was [...]