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Four thoughts on this billboard

sitedad — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:25:05 +0000

I guess you’d call this a billboard; it’s hanging on the Student Center right now. Anyway, my four thoughts (please add your own in the comments):

I would really prefer if our students did not cheer their brains out as they might need them for classes. As an overweight white guy myself, the [...]

EMU rolls out new web site– thoughts?

sitedad — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:17:54 +0000

I don’t know when this happened because I don’t often have a reason to visit EMU’s homepage, but it looks like they’ve rolled out a new site. My 2 minute poke around impressions are positive. I don’t like the front page Flash animation for all kinds of different reasons, but I do like that [...]

Pray-Harrold No Smoking “pilot” zone

sitedad — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:46:36 +0000

This was new to me today (mainly because I have been working a lot at home lately): as this flyer taped to the window indicates, there’s a “Entrance Pilot” program at Pray-Harrold right now to enforce a no smoking zone entrance.

My pictures are not that great here for giving perspective, but the [...]

I kinda like a parade (and does anyone want to be in it next year?)

sitedad — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:51:48 +0000

But I didn’t love it this year– and by “it,” I mean the annual July 4 parade. I thought it was a little on the short-side, it featured too many cars with no decoration or indication at all why they were in the parade (perhaps they just got stuck in traffic), and it had [...]

Dear woman who rudely cut me off in the student center parking lot because “I have to go to work:”

sitedad — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:20:07 +0000

I hope you got my note.

I was the guy pulling into a spot in the EMU Student Center parking lot this afternoon, fair and square, when you cut me off by going the wrong way and took it. My jaw appropriately dropped onto the steering wheel, I pulled up next to you, rolled [...]

“Diversity at EMU”

sitedad — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:03:59 +0000

Ed. Note: History professor Walter Moss sent this to me the other day to post to EMUTalk.org. Of course, I always welcome contributions of various sorts, and it is even better when the contributions are things I agree with whole-heartedly. Thanks, Walter!

Recently students in my History 103, Twentieth Century Civilization, class handed in [...]

Pray-Harrold reconstruction pool, graphically speaking

sitedad — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:00:19 +0000

I saw the paper version of the Eastern Echo this morning, and as part of slightly updated story on the approved monies (“Pray-ers get answered by state”), they have this handy graphic to help would-be renovation pool entrants figure out which date to select:

This picture is way too small– it looks better [...]

“Billboard could bring money” (but probably for too cheap a price)

sitedad — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:54:13 +0000

From Sunday’s AANews, “Billboard could bring money to city Council votes to lease space for 60-foot-tall digital sign at Huron exit.” From the story:

The Ypsilanti City Council voted July 15 to lease space to Adams Outdoor Advertising for a 60-foot-tall digital billboard at the Huron Street exit ramp off westbound I-94.

Adams [...]

Trying to soothe gradzilla beasts

sitedad — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:13:46 +0000

There was a nice “other voices” piece in yesterday’s AAN written by EMU professor (and administrator? I know she was at one point) Denise M. Tanguay called “U-M commencement at EMU offers seniors unique experience.” It’s exceedingly polite; for example:

While I can understand the disappointment of students who cannot hold their graduation ceremony [...]

EMU sighting in today’s SpeedBump comic

Mark Higbee — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:34:29 +0000

In today’s funny pages of the AA NEWS, the cartoon “Speed Bump” by Dave Coverly (an EMU grad, I believe) contains a character wearing a green EMU sweatshirt. Don’t know if you can find this online or not, but it’s a funny comic, in my opinion.