From the first “Purple Press” issue printed as a mimeographed, letter-sized paper in 1939 to the Weather Vane online, the EMU student newspaper has been a vessel of student expression
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Eastern Mennonite University faculty and staff welcomed students back to campus for another great year in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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In 2014, the Frazier family planted a field of sunflowers along well-traveled Va. 33. They didn’t quite anticipate the impact of the flowers on passers-by, who stopped cars, gawked, took
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Herewith is presented a somewhat exhaustive chronology of Eastern Mennonite College/Eastern Mennonite University’s dining services. Consume as much as you’d like and return for seconds. Or simply begin reading in
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Simelwe “Sim” Dlova, of South Africa, was a student in Eastern Mennonite University’s Intensive English Program during the fall 2013 semester before attending Goshen College in Indiana. This article is
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Students talk about transformative classes, clubs, experiences, and activities at Eastern Mennonite University. Visit http://www.emu.edu/studentlife to find out more!
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Teresa Garcia-Bautista has a long list of summer goals while living at the Washington Community Scholars’ Center and working in Washington D.C. this summer. The first two are “meet the
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Homelessness wasn’t something Abby Hershberger was familiar with while growing up in Millersburg, Ohio, a town of about 3,500 residents. “It didn’t happen to people I knew,” she says. “It
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