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Sneaking out in the wee hours:
Photo by Josiah Garber

This semester’s South Africa cross-cultural group left for the airport at 2 a.m. Monday morning, and a large group of loyal friends stayed up to see them off. The EMU website reported that the group of 30 students arrived safely in Johannesburg the same day.

Above: Joel Lehman and Steph Miller pause a moment before boarding the bus.

Painting causes a Royal fuss

Who’d have guessed that the Fitness Center’s weight room would become the center of an artistic debate?
Work on a painting of a lion on the weight room wall has been suspended because the image departed from the standardized pictures used on official EMU logos and because it had not been properly approved by the committee that oversees the University Commons building. Read more...

Beryl Brubaker: first female to lead EMU

In 1970, a young woman stepped onto EMU’s campus as a faculty member in the nursing department, with no intentions of remaining on staff for any significant amount of time. Larger and better-known public universities were calling her name, and she was determined to answer. Read more...

And all that jazz: the new Chicago

This winner of the Oscar for best picture is a fun romp through the roaring twenties of Chicago. It brings the movie musical back to life as a remake of Bob Fosse’s original Broadway show. The story is based around two murderesses striving for fame in the jazzy scene of the 1920s. Read more...