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“Fufilling the dream of a murdered young woman”

sitedad — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:54:42 +0000

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”

sitedad — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:54:44 +0000

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

sitedad — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:20:51 +0000

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 [...]

“Campus Rape Victims: A Struggle for Justice”

sitedad — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:35:19 +0000

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”

sitedad — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:43:12 +0000

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….

sitedad — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:20:08 +0000

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

sitedad — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:26:31 +0000

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?

sitedad — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:14:20 +0000

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 [...]

And what did Sidney Fallon have to do with this again?

sitedad — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:33:58 +0000

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 [...]

Fallon’s lawsuit dismissed

sitedad — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:40:39 +0000

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 [...]