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NEWSConflict Transformation Program (CTP) faculty member Patricia Spaulding submitted her resignation this week in response to the administration's request because she was in a relationship with a woman. Read more...
STYLEWhile other EMU students were having Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family, Blen Eshete, from Ethiopia, went with her host family to the host parents' children's house in Fredricksburg, Va., on Thanksgiving Thursday. Like Eshete, many international students left the quiet campus and spent Thanksgiving with their host families. Read more...
SPORTSInstead of taking a final for their Recreation Programming class on Friday Nov. 19, 12 students were told by their instructor, Linda Martin Burkholder, to organize some sort of recreational program. Read more...
BURGFor the past four months the Artisans' Hope gift shop has been able to survive with only the help of its five student workers from EMU. Since the three managers left the Gift and Thrift store near the beginning of the semester, the student workers have struggled to keep the store alive. Read more...
NEWSIn Hebrew, "Shekinah" means "God's presence among God's people." But since Fall 2003, "Shekinah" has taken on new meaning for members of the EMU and surrounding communities: namely, "women's a cappella." Read more...