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Students travel to New Orleans
Education applied to hurricane relief

Eight EMU students and two professors have left on faith to help hurricane victims. "We're not sure where we're going, or exactly what we'll be doing, but it will be somewhere along the Gulf and it will have something to do with community health care and helping the hurricane victims," said Don Tyson, assistant professor at EMU, before the group's departure. Read more...

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Leather and Lace Club dances to beat cancer

About $485 was raised by members of the Leather and Lace dance club in Dayton this past Friday night, with all the money going to the Walk to Beat Breast Cancer event to be held Oct. 22. Read more...

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Universities struggle to survive
Prioritization continues at EMU

Nothing is new about financial problems at EMU. As a tuition-dependent, small, private church college, it is struggling, along with the Ivy League schools, to make the dollars stretch. Read more...

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Four years and running strong

"Staying committed to a sports program for four years--that's the kind of building blocks that a coach needs." These words from Lester Zook describe the asset that two EMU seniors are to the cross-country team. Read more...

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Review: 'Arters improv entertaining

Imagine standing in front of an audience without a script. It's an intimidating thought. Now imagine standing in front of a crowd with the expectation of being funny.
That's a downright scary situation for most people, which is exactly what makes improvisational comedy so compelling. Read more...