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This seems like a very bad idea….

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 [...]

“Lawsuit: Professor relieved of teaching duties following disagreements with University of Michigan administrators”

From Annarbor.com, “Lawsuit: Professor relieved of teaching duties following disagreements with University of Michigan administrators.” Unfortunately, it’s one of these articles about legal stuff and academic grievances and the like where it is pretty much impossible to tell what is actually the subject of the lawsuit. The comments are kind of interesting, though.

(And maybe this is why EMU is better than U of M too...)

I’m not even sure how I stumbled across this, but here it is: from the site Oddly Specific, “The strangely particular website about peculiarly exacting signs,” “Why MSU is better than U of M.”

Actually, the comments on the site make it pretty clear that this is not really real/it’s a joke, etc. [...]

Dorm fire at U of M displaces 8 students

From Annarbor.com last night, “Fire in residence hall room displaces 8 University of Michigan students.” Basically, a microwave incident went bad:

Eight University of Michigan students were displaced for at least the night after a fire that started in a microwave in the Baits housing complex spread to a resident’s room, university officials [...]

In teacher certification program news…

Two things I meant to post here earlier, but that pesky day-job kept getting in the way:

First, from several different sources (including an alert EMUTalk.org reader and EMU media wonk) comes news that EMU and several other Michigan universities are participating in a program funded by the Kellogg foundation to encourage and attract [...]

U of M as a private

There’s a lively conversation on Mark Maynard’s blog, “Will public universities begin going private?” Mark is referencing a NYTimes article, but most of the discussion here is about the highly hypothetical case of the University of Michigan “going private.”

Personally, I don’t U of M could afford to give up on state funding [...]

Apparently, CMU and EMU played football yesterday

I was kind of surprised to stumble across the CMU and EMU football game on television Saturday afternoon, though I have to say I didn’t stay for all of it. I mean, they were down 35-0 at half and lost the game 56-8. Here’s a link to the Eastern Echo’s collection of links about [...]

Shaman Drum closing June 30

This might be more Ann Arbor/U of M than Ypsi/EMU, and it might be more interesting to me as a book fan/reader/English major type, but I thought I’d post it here anyway: according to Mark Maynard, Shaman Drum is closing up at the end of this month. But I guess the good news is [...]

U-M Graduation back to big house (and definitely NOT at EMU!)

From the AA News: U-M graduation moves back to the Big House. The story revisits the outcry that would have caused U-M students to cross over into the dangerous territory of Ypsilanti:

U-M officials initially said commencement would move to Eastern Michigan University’s football stadium, but that prompted an outcry from seniors and [...]

MLK day and inauguration day festivities at EMU

Quite the busy couple of days on campus here at EMU: First, for Martin Luther King day today, EMU has a bunch of stuff going on, as listed in the EMU MLK Day web site: basically, there are speakers, “learning beyond the classroom” opportunities for students, the whole nine yards. Though I have to [...]

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