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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 EMU [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

According to Faupel, Fallon’s initial [...]

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 [...]

Perhaps this is the last we will hear from John Fallon…

Or we can hope, at least. From Pam Young comes this news:

Earlier today (October 30), Judge Archie C. Brown of the 22nd Circuit Court of Washtenaw County granted Eastern Michigan University’s Motion for Summary Disposition and dismissed former EMU President John Fallon’s lawsuit that was filed against the University in 2007. Judge Brown previously [...]

Fallon finalist for president job at North Country CC in New York

In the “where are they now?” category of things: John Fallon is one of four finalists for the job as president of North Country Community College in New York: NCCC narrows presidential search to four. This brief article from the local media in northeastern New York emphasizes Fallon’s past job as president [...]

“Jim Vick passed over for AD job at Ypsilanti schools”

From the Ann Arbor News comes “Jim Vick passed over for AD job at Ypsilanti schools.” In a way, the story repeats the news that was posted yesterday in this comment from Mark Higbee. Higbee is quoted in the article, too.

There were two passages in the piece that stood out for me:

Board [...]