Chris Johns, editor in Chief of “National Geographic,” talked with students in the VACA and science departments and at lunch this Monday. Johns is the father of Noel Johns, a Senior nursing major at EMU. He has accepted the role... Read More ›
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Cross-Cultural Update: Marching for Land Reparations
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 ›
Royals Volleyball Succumbs to a Tenacious Stevenson
The men’s volleyball team fought a back-and-forth match of five games yesterday against nationally-ranked and commensurately obnoxious (their team managers and players engaged in spits with Royals fans) Stevenson, finally succumbing to Stevenson’s pressure in the final game. The Royals... Read More ›
Intramurals Start Trash Talking International Rivalry
EMU intramurals sees one of the biggest rivalry games of the season on Thursday evening at ten o’clock between The Foreigners and the International Bone Breakers. The Foreigners team became so popular that it had to hold tryouts in order... Read More ›
Eastern American Studies Association Coming to EMU
An unprecedented opportunity for EMU students is coming up this Friday and Saturday. Professor Mark Metzler Sawin of the History Department is conference coordinator of the Eastern American Studies Association (EASA) and is offering students here a chance to be... Read More ›
The Injustice of Bug Splats: America Pay Attention
Bug splats. That is what the American operators of drones, sitting in safety thousands of miles away, call the casualties of a drone attack in Pakistan and Yemen. Why bug splats? Because that is what a human body zapped by... Read More ›
Royals Tried in Last Weekend’s “Salem Basketball Trials”
The ODAC Basketball Tournament was held this past weekend, with both our men and women earning the journey to the Salem Civic Center. The men went into the weekend as the ninth seed after defeating Washington & Lee in the... Read More ›
Education by the Numbers
Since 2002, the number of declared Education majors at EMU among traditional undergraduate students has declined steadily. In 2002, 190 students declared education as a major, and in 2012, that number fell to 151 students. In other words, among the... Read More ›
Donations Pour in at Second Annual “Mustache Match”
In the second annual “Mustache Match” held on Saturday, the EMU men’s volleyball squad blasted Division 1 opponent Rutgers-Newark in four games. The 8-3 Royals looked strong defensively, racking up 13 blocks on the day. Senior libero Travis Riesen contributed... Read More ›
Unsustainable Herm: Are Athletics an Exception?
As BluStorm hand dryers replace increasingly rare paper towel dispens- ers, one place clearly remains un- touched by change: the realm of ath- letics. The presence of paper towel dis- pensers in locker rooms may seem in- consequential, but they... Read More ›