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• Cross-Cultural Update: Marching for Land Reparations

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Here is some very exciting news from the Guatemala and Columbia Cross-Cultural. Our entire group is currently in Columbia, and Randi Hagi, Sophomore, and I are in San Jacinto. There are 34 communities, over 600 people, marching to demand land… Read More ›

• Deirdre Smeltzer Appointed EMU Undergraduate Dean

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

    Deirdre Smeltzer has many changes taking place in her life, such as preparing to lead the fall Cross- Cultural trip to China and transitioning into the role of EMU’s Vice President and Undergraduate Dean. At a young age, Smeltzer… Read More ›

• Bane and Chappell-Dick Break Track and Field Records

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

    Two women on the track and field team have managed to claim new records this past weekend at the Liberty invitational. Alyssa Bane snatched the record for the hammer throw that has been held by Becky Hoover since 2006… Read More ›

• By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The EMU Golf team is heading to their first ever ODAC Championship this weekend for the final tournament of the year. In their first seasons as NCAA programs, both the men’s and women’s golf teams have had their reasonable share… Read More ›

• Senior Student Art Projects: Beautiful and Meaningful

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As the year is wrapping to a close, the EMU community still has many opportunities to experience some amazing offerings on campus by highly talented students. Seniors have completed their final works in preparation for graduation, and as a result… Read More ›

• Overcoming the Minimization of Power By Participating

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

    Currently, EMU limits its hiring options by refusing to hire long-term faculty who are in same-sex relationships. EMU employees must comply with the Community Lifestyle Commitment (CLC), which restricts sex to heterosexual marriage. They must also respect the 1995… Read More ›

• To Be Sung As If John Coltrane Were a Mennonite

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  These are a few of our favorite things: 1. Weather Vane: I have spent four years pouring myself into the Weather Vane. I firmly believe that while it is not perfect, it retains the possibility for true impact. It is… Read More ›

• The EMU Life Cycle: Living, Learning, Becoming New

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Life exists within death, and death exists within life. It is just like compost; dead matter nourishing new growth. The ending feeds the beginning, and yet the beginning feeds the ending. You cannot have one without the other, and neither… Read More ›

• Finding Affirmation Outside of the Academic World

  By mck324 on April 18, 2013 • ( 0 )

    “Did you hear anything about Cords, yet?” The question was asked innocently, a friend casually wondering if I had received any notification about the Cords of Distinction awards. He did not have any idea of the way those words… Read More ›

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