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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: Welcome back! It’s time for a new school-year and a new year of emYOU! The Magazine.

This year is going to be more packed than ever with exciting arts and entertainment events. Don’t miss September’s lineup of exciting activities on and around Eastern’s campus! From concerts to on-campus activities, charitable benefits to fashion shows—there’s a lot going on this month, and myself along with emYOU! will be the first to keep you updated on the latest! Don’t forget to check out our album and movie reviews as well as interviews with artists, musicians and more! There’s always something exciting going on, and emYOU! has it covered. Happy reading.

Welcome back, students!

My name is Jason Idalski, and I’m the new editor-in-chief of emYOU! While I may be new to the position, I’m not new to EMU (alumnus, class of 2006) or journalism (I’ve worked at newspapers in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek and Lansing since graduating).

In addition to my supervisory role as EIC and being sports editor, I’m in charge of writing the spotlights. This is where I want your help!

An EMU student doing great things? Let me know! You have a cool professor with an interesting story to be told? Let me know! Know of an alum making their mark? Let me know!

Remember, this is *your* magazine!

And finally: Ypsilanti, I’ve missed you.

Welcome (back), Eagles!

I’m so excited that another school year has just begun and the streets of Ypsi and campus are again bustling life.

For those that don’t know me, I used to be a staff writer for emYOU! but was recently promoted to the College Life section editor. Every month I’ll be bringing you pieces focused on the many happenings of EMU and the Ypsi community.

For my present fans, expect the same amount of humor and satire as before, but prepare yourselves for it to be a little more racy and raunchy than ever before.

Anyway, this month in the “College Life” section you’ll find a piece about EaglePalooza, which is geared towards new students; Cup of Joe, featuring dining on Cross Street; a feature on “The Wall”; and other great pieces. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Stay classy Eastern,

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Welcome to the city of Ypsilanti, home of Eastern Michigan University. A perfect break from your studies is a visit to historic downtown Ypsilanti on Michigan Avenue or to Depot Town on West Cross Street.

Downtown offers local live music venues like the Elbow Room, the Tap Room, Dreamland Theater, Pub13, and the Keystone. And you can find off-beat gifts like T-shirts or metal lunch boxes at the Rocket.

In Depot Town, enjoy a game of pool at Sticks, a great hamburger at the Sidetrack, or a deli sandwich at Café Luwak. If you need a computer upgrade, check out Clover Computers.

Both Downtown and Depot Town offer free wireless Internet courtesy of Wireless Ypsi. So bring your laptop and settle down with a coffee at Bombadill’s, Café Luwak, or the Ugly Mug. These are just a few examples of what Ypsilanti has to offer EMU students. I encourage you to explore for yourself.

Best wishes, Mayor, City of Ypsilanti Mayor@CityofYpsilanti.com

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Meet your 2009-2010 Student Body President

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SPOTLIGHT: Every four years, during the U.S. Presidential election, pundits will talk about whether a candidate “looks presidential.” Do they handle themselves in a manner fitting of the highest office?

One thing about Biology and Political Science Regina Royan: She looks presidential. No surprise, as Chemistry she is Eastern Michigan’s Senior student body president.

Every question asked, from the University budget to her The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Poisonwood Bible, career plans, is met with a Mountains Beyond Mountains thoughtful, in-depth response devoid of “uh”s or “um”s. She knows EMU inside and out: its Something with a good beat or moving lyrics. buildings, its people. The latter Preferably both. she always seems to have time for. “(Vice President) Josh Boondock Saints, Grease, Apollo 13 (Lelonek) and I joke that it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle.

Spend time with my Delta Zeta sisters, travel, read We’ve learned that it doesn’t really leave when you leave the office,” Royan said.

Tenacious, ebullient, like-a-boss “Coming to lunch, you see three people you know that want to talk business.”

Finishing up med school, and beginning residency If you’re starting to think at a large hospital. My passport will be full of stamps of President Barack Obama, and my camera will be full of pictures. you’re probably not alone.

In fact, Royan attended the Inauguration this winter.

“We could see him, the person, at the podium. We were close enough to see him,” she said of where she was in January.

The two also share similarities of being minorities in powerful positions. While Royan doesn’t dwell on being Indian (as in from India, not Native American) or a female, she does recognize its impact.

“There has not been a female student body president in a while. In quite a while,” she said. “You get viewed a little differently as a female, coming into meetings. Are you taken seriously? It’s always something that crosses your mind.”

Before you get images of Royan entering the White House, keep in mind that politics isn’t in her future PHOTO: RAJ MEHTA plans. She has a very good reason for wanting to become a doctor.

Royan, from Howell, was diagnosed with leukemia when she was three. Eighteen months of chemotherapy (resulting in remission) followed.

In high school, she started shadowing one of the doctors who treated her, Dr. Larry Boxer, something she‘s continued throughout college. She’s now

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SPOTLIGHT: working with some of the same nurses who worked with her as a girl.

“It’s really been great, interacting with patients and seeing them from week-to-week,” Royan said. “It’s very awesome, to let the parents know that there is light at the end of the tunnel.”

But before medical school calls, Royan has many things she wants to accomplish this year, including making Halle Library open 24 hours a day from Oct. 18-29 and Dec. 6-17.

“It kind of seems ridiculous that we have go to Denny’s or something, or Starbucks to have 24-

hour wireless,” she said.

“We are thrilled. It’s never been done before,” Royan continued.

“We’re kind of re-branding the library for this late-night time as ‘Club Halle.’”

While Royan won’t be as involved in politics after graduation, she will use the lessons from her experience in student government throughout her life.

“Being student body president has just taught me an unfathomable amount of things about management, time efficiency, scheduling, how to talk to very important people, right on up to the governor,” she said. “It’s been extremely rewarding thus far, and the school year hasn’t even started yet.”

Being student body president is a full-time job in and of itself, but Royan does more than that and classes (15 credit hours this fall). She’s a member of the Delta Zeta fraternity and waitresses at Sidetrack. She’s also participated in Model United Nations and studied abroad in El Salvador.

“I’m really busy, but I love it. I can’t picture doing it any other way,” Royan said.

EMU as a whole is fairly lucky Royan didn’t get snapped up by the University of Michigan.

“I was a U-M girl, destined for U-M. And I got the Presidential Scholarship to come here, and it must’ve been fate, ‘cause I’ve had an amazing experience here,” she said. “Now I look back and people I know that are at U-M for undergrad, and I’m like ‘You’re missing out.’

Because I’ve gotten to do so many more things at Eastern that I’d never get to do at U-M. Never.”

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BY JASON IDALSKI jason.idalski@emyouthemagazine.com The economy in Michigan has But those who’ve been taught been bad. Many think the newspaper by Professor Carol Schlagheck know business is a dying industry. that pessimism isn’t her way.

It would then stand to reason that “Most of our students are in a the journalism program coordinator at good position,” she said. Thanks in Eastern Michigan might be pessimistic part to a digital journalism class in about the future of her students. its fifth year that is now required for

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journalism majors, she says recent EMU grads are “being snapped up” by employers.

A few years ago, when the journalism department hired another professor, she pushed for it to be someone with digital journalism

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SPOTLIGHT: Schlagheck traces part of the decline in newspapers to venture capitalists who entered the industry looking to make a English (Journalism Program Coordinator) profit.

“Newspapers are still some of the most JRNL 215 News Writing and Reporting profitable enterprises,” she said. She said JRNL 306 Feature Writing profit margins in the 30s are not uncommon JRNL 423 Magazine Writing and even struggling papers are in doubleJRNL 453 Advanced Reporting digits. (occasionally others) But, she warns, some of that profit comes at the expense of the newsroom and hard-working journalists.

Bachelors from University of Toledo (Communication) “I’m mourning newspapers, but as Master’s from Michigan State (Journalism) long as journalism survives, I’ll be happy,” PhD from Bowling Green State University (Mass Schlagheck said.

Communication) Whether or not newspapers as we know them stay for a while, Schlagheck said there will always be a place for journalism.

“Angela’s Ashes” (I almost always read NON-fiction.)

“Whose job is it to find out the truth?” she asked. “I think we have to have people Country (I do have a PhD, so I’m probably supposed asking questions and demanding answers.” to make up a more sophisticated answer, but I’m a Schlagheck has been one of those country girl at heart.) people from a young age. She worked at a newspaper while paying her way through undergraduate study at the University of “You’ve Got Mail” (I love both Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.)

Toledo. She was a first-generation college student, and with her busy work schedule, it took six years for her to graduate.

Schlagheck sees herself in a lot of the My family just yelled “WORK!!!” but I would say students she now teaches. gardening, antiquing, hanging out with my husband and “Eastern’s my kind of people,” she said three kids, checking my email on my new Blackberry... when asked why she loves EMU so much.

“I totally understand these students who commute long distances, and have families, optimistic, supportive, good-humored and have jobs.”

It explains why she enjoys working with students and watching them grow.

Hopefully still here at Eastern (I LOVE Eastern!), “I really like teaching freshmen, and maneuvering the as-yet-unimagined changes in the helping them make the transition from high fields of journalism and education. I taught my first school to college,” Schlagheck said. “That online class this year and plan to teach more, though I mentoring role is the most fun” hope the future always provides opportunities for faceSchlagheck related the story of a woman who told her how impressed she was with an EMU student intern’s experience, sensing the industry’s shift.

“I thought it was coming, but I was surprised at how punctuality, a trait she said was sometimes lacking in interns from larger schools. rapidly it came,” she said.

“I think Eastern students have a fabulous work Schlagheck doesn’t deny that the newspaper ethic,” she said. “These kids are pulled in a lot of business is in bad shape, but thinks some reports of its different directions.” demise have been exaggerated. She said she expects Non-journalism majors will most likely see newspapers to be around for her lifetime.

Schlagheck and her engaging personality and teaching “It’s been a difficult year for journalism,” she said. style in JRNL 215, News Writing and Reporting.

“But, every field has had major changes.”

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retaining wall on campus, nestled conveniently on a major thoroughfare between Pray-Harrold and Porter, has created a ruckus among dozens of members of this community in the past year.

Some have dubbed it “The Democracy Wall” and others call it “an eyesore,” “the hate wall” or “offensive.” Whatever people call it, this wall, in all its graffiti-ed glory, has become part of this community.

During the past few semesters at EMU, the wall was ever-changing. It seemed that almost every morning the wall would have some new paint on it, still wet from being tagged the night before. A handful of the markings on this wall were related to campus clubs, teams, or Greek life, but the majority of them were geared toward politics or the current situation in Iraq.

No matter how one may feel about this wall, one thing is certain: self-expression is afoot.

The latest “author” may be a punk kid so pissed off at “the man” that he feels the need to express yourself on a retaining wall on campus. Or it may be an aspiring philosopher or politician, just wanting to express himself or herself in the one spot in the spot that seems most appropriate, right outside a major academic building on campus where everybody can see it. Whoever it may be and for whatever reason(s) they tag the wall, students notice.

But the wall may not be around for much longer.

According to University officials, it is in poor condition, structurally unsound and in need of replacing. There’s no word on what it will be replaced with, but it may be big landscaping rocks. Eastern put a lot of them in over the summer and the trend may continue.

Those who feel passionately about the wall staying shouldn‘t worry. The wall isn’t coming down tomorrow and probably won’t even be touched until the Pray-Harrold renovation starts, at which point neither the wall or the kiosk will be available for use due to construction.

One thing most people should be able to agree upon is that all students need an outlet for selfexpression. Whether it be a wall, a kiosk, a bench outside a library, something, somewhere needs to be in place to ensure that students, especially those who call a college campus home, have a place where they are free to express themselves.

Right now at EMU, the wall is that place.

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in a university residence hall can be challenging. It’s an unfamiliar setting in an unfamiliar place with new people around every corner.

What’s even worse is that you’re now locked into living with a stranger the university paired you with because the two of you had similar answers on a survey you each took a while back.

Don’t fret, though, for going in blind your freshman year could produce a great new friendship with somebody you never thought you would have met. Or it could blow up in your face, and you could find yourself getting revenge by jerking off onto your roommate’s pillow when he’s out, just because he ate the last of your Easy Mac. Whatever the case, sharing a small room with a stranger doesn’t have to be terrible. You don’t have to be best friends, but you shouldn’t be at each other’s throat over something as miniscule as forgetting to flush or conflicting study habits.

In fact, there are dozens of books written and countless hours of research conducted about this very subject. But as a new college student, you should be far too busy adjusting to your new life, meeting new people, studying and breaking all the rules your parent(s) made you follow when you lived at home to have the time to read research results for fun. So, summed up below for some on-the-pot reading pleasure is everything you need to know about how to cope with a roommate when going in blind.

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COLLEGE LIFE:

On the first day of moving into your dorm room, the first thing you and your roommate need to do, even before putting up that poster of your favorite celebrity topless, is to agree on a set of house rules. Your rules can be as simple as not eating each other’s food without asking and everything else goes, or as indepth as setting study time, rules about borrowing clothes, who gets to watch what when on television and not having sex on each other’s bed. The important thing is that you set these rules early and follow them all year. If you do, everything else is smooth sailing.

If you ever encounter your roommate doing something that bothers you, you have every right to let him or her know. Communication is most effective when done calmly, so keep your jets cool. If you charge in with guns blazing and screaming, you’re more likely to piss off your roommate, who will then retaliate in the same manner and nothing will be accomplished. So, next time you find your roomie using your Jergens, computer, or both at the same time, or anything that’s off limits for that matter, politely ask him or her to refrain from doing it again without your permission

Not everyone likes to listen to death metal when they study at midnight, just as not everyone likes to go to bed at 9 p.m. and rise at 6 a.m. to hit the weight room before heading to an 8 a.m. class. Undoubtedly, you two have already compromised on who was going to bring the mini-fridge through your summer e-mails, so there is no reason you have to stop

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compromising now. If you’re the roommate that likes to get up at 6 a.m. to go work out, be quiet so not to disturb your still-sleeping roommate. Likewise, if you do you best studying at midnight, try doing it in the library or Student Center, where you can listen to your death metal as loud as you want through your iPod’s headphones.

Really, how hard is it to say: “I’m running to Target. Do you need anything or want to come with?”

If they do, you can use this time to bond over your mutual love for [insert noun], or to make small talk about class or the cute person down the hall. Once you get to the store, shop together and get to know what each other likes. Who knows, you may decide to split the cost of the 2% milk or a bag of tortilla chips and share them. If that’s the case, a beautiful friendship has just blossomed, and by the end of next week you could even be in threesome together. Really. Stranger things have happened.

Really, that’s what it’s all about.

If you only leave this article remembering one thing, let it be this.

Former professional college student Dan Cameron once said: “I always ask questions, listen intently, then respond with something philosophical and thoughtful. Laugh, compliment and be on top first.” If you take the time to respect your roommate’s wishes and listen to him or her when a problem arises, or even if they just want to gossip, your roommate will do the same toward you.

For more reading on roommate relationships and being a freshman in college, check out these books or Web sites: “The Naked Roommate,” “How to Survive Your Freshman Year,” www.usurvive.com.

Without a doubt, no matter how hard you try, there are going to be things about your roommate that you will never understand. And that’s OK. Your roomie may be a pro-life devout Catholic who is saving it until marriage and you may have had your first abortion after your ninth-grade boyfriend knocked you up at the age of 14. Whatever the differences are, it’s best not to flame each other for them or agree to disagree. College is all about learning to accept people for their different creeds, colors, backgrounds, beliefs and values, and there is no better place to start accepting people for who they are than in your dorm room.

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COLLEGE LIFE:

how the economic crisis affects us during our undergrad days

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COLLEGE LIFE: Welcome to college!

First: hand over tuition.

Second: fees and charges assessed by the university.

Third: don’t forget the cost of books, housing, daily meals and a social life.

If you have a job; congratulations, because they are harder and harder to come by and paying less and less.

No job? Well, start taking notes and extras for your friend who thinks they can manage on their $150 a week salary. At some point during your undergrad days you will be tested on this information.

College expenses are not what they used to be. In addition to the rising cost of everything you expect to pay for while attending a university, there is always the rising cost of everything you didn’t realize you’d be spending money on in the first place. Stressed out over a final? Want to go out for a bit? Text everyone in your phone and see what happens. Guaranteed it will be the friend whose check you always end up picking up who’ll be available for helping distract you for a bit. Or maybe it will be the friend who can’t just head to Pub 13 for happy hour and no cover who answers you. This is the buddy that always wants to drive to Ann Arbor on your gas dollar.

More than likely you’ve considered charging up the credit card your parents advised you to get as an “in case of emergency card” under these circumstances or others. Even more likely, you’ve already turned your “in case of emergency fund” into your “everyday fund.” But the times, they are a-changing and the way we view the “credit” of credit cards needs to change with it.

The good news: the government has already passed legislation to make it easier for the average credit consumer (and even those of us who think of ourselves as “above average”) to read and understand our credit statements sent by our lender. The bad news: the lenders are attempting to protect their profits as much as possible before

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they are forced to make these changes in February.

Although you may have been given a huge amount of credit by your bank or credit company it does not necessarily mean you are out of the water when it comes to the lenders’ need to make money off of you. The first few months of the new year will assure your credit card statement clearly states how long it will take you to pay off your existing debt paying only the minimum payment each month. New statements will also guarantee you 45 days notice before any interest rate changes occur.

Over the next few months, however, your existing contract (yes, you have a contract) with your lender still gives them the right to hike interest rates, charge astronomical fees for late payments and maximize your minimum amount due at the end of the “month.”

So what can we do if we’re already a bit buried under credit card debt? The answer is moderately simple: Stop charging. Now is the time to start thinking of that “credit” Visa, MasterCard, or whoever else told you you had as exactly what it is: an unsecured loan that you have to pay back. It works to your advantage to only charge what you know you can pay back over the next few months.

Your credit score depends on wise spending and ability to pay back your debt, not overall spending habits. It also takes into consideration your “debt to credit ratio,” which should be no more than 10 percent. So, if you have a credit card with a limit of $10,000, you should have no more than $1,000 charged on it at any one time.

It’s easy to get scared of using your credit cards in realizing what’s really going on every time you charge

a round of drinks or decide you deserve to buy yourself one new shirt to wear on Friday night. Not using your cards altogether may seem like the best solution but it may lead your lender to close your account because of its inactivity and erase any good habits you may have developed in having their card.

The best things to do are: make payments on time, pay more than the minimum payment every month, do not agree to cash advance checks, and read everything your credit card company sends you and look for errors, opportunities and changes.

Consider your “needs” first over your “wants” and begin the road to financial recovery. It may be a long journey, but a trip everyone will be better for taking.

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SPOTLIGHT:

Slow Down as Cartoonist and EMU Alumni Dave Coverly rolls over “Speed Bump” Millions, perhaps even tens of millions of people are entertained by the comic “Speed Bump” appearing in their newspapers every day.

And according to its creator, Dave Coverly, it never would have happened if not for Eastern Michigan.

Coverly, who grew up in Plainwell, originally turned down a tennis scholarship from EMU to attend Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. He assumed he’d walk on

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to the tennis team there, but was not good enough.

A desire to play collegiate tennis, combined with some homesickness, caused him to transfer to Eastern after his freshman year. A study abroad experience in England helped send him on his career path.

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contributors. Coverly’s comic was called “Freen,” named after Arthur Freen, a character in short stories he and his roommate in England used to write.

“All cartoonists are the same,” Coverly said. “They draw when they’re little, they get encouragement, and they don’t stop.”

Despite his admission that he wasn’t the strongest cartoonist working for the Echo in the mid-1980s, he enjoyed seeing his work in print, enough encouragement to continue cartooning throughout graduate school. He received a bachelor’s in philosophy and imaginative writing from Eastern in 1987, and a master’s in creative writing in 1992 from Indiana University, the same place he attended after high school.

Starting in 1990, he was the editorial cartoonist for the Bloomington HeraldTimes. His work was reprinted in newspapers such as The New York Times and USA Today.

In 1994, Creators Syndicate picked up his untitled panel, but it needed a name. Coverly submitted about 20 suggestions and the syndicate unanimously chose “Speed Bump,” beating out Coverly’s personal favorite: “The Wide World of Stretch Pants.”

Perhaps the latter didn’t fit over one panel.

Regardless, Coverly resigned from the Bloomington newspaper in 1995 to focus on syndicated work and has racked up the awards ever since.

In 1994 and 2002, “Speed Bump” was named Best Newspaper Panel by the National Cartoonists Society. In 1997, Coverly received the organization’s

“Greeting Cards Award” and in 2008 earned what is considered the profession’s highest honor, winning the NCS’ Reuben Award.

Looking at panels like the one on his MySpace page (a father Grim Reaper telling his son Grim Reaper “No, you can’t kill a pony”), the question begs: Where do his ideas come from?

“The spark of the joke is almost impossible to put your finger on,” Coverly said. He calls the process by which he comes up with ideas “organized daydreaming.”

Put another way, while people such as journalists answer the basic questions of who, what, where, when, why and how in the usual way, Coverly tries to think of a different way to answer the question.

Thinking along those lines, a recent Sunday cartoon with a normal chameleon saying to an all-black chameleon “Well, I doubt you’ll survive long like that … but yes, the black is slimming” almost makes sense.

However he does it, it’s gotten his work published in the New Yorker and it’s made him a regular contributor to Parade Magazine.

Even with all of his more recent endeavors, Coverly says he’ll hear from people who read about the success of Speed Bump and say they remember him doing “Freen” for the Eastern Echo, something he finds remarkable.

“I thought there were like three people who read it,” he said.

Probably overly modest, but there’s no denying that his readership has increased since then.

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9/17:

on campus:

9/5:

noon, Evanston, Ill.

EMU football vs. Army, 7 p.m., Rynearson Stadium

The Hard Lessons, 9:30 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor

National Make a Difference Day, noon Volunteer and non-profit career fair and summit, noon Student organization and student employment fair, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., University Park SkyLounge, 9 p.m., Student Center room 300

9/6:

9/13:

Alice in Chains, 7 p.m., Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit

EMU women’s soccer vs. Michigan, 2 p.m.

EMU women’s soccer vs. Loyola, 1 p.m., Loyola College, Md.

9/18:

9/7:

9/14:

Fusion: new student orientation for transfers, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Monday matinee, 4 p.m., Student Center auditorium Beginning Ojibwe language class, 6 – 8 p.m., Student Center room 304

Friday night movie, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and midnight, Student Center auditorium

EMU athletics:

EMU athletics:

on campus:

9/8:

EMU athletics:

EMU women’s soccer vs. Detroit, 4 p.m., Scicluna field

around campus:

Community Plunge, 9 a.m. – noon Britney Spears, 8 p.m., the Palace of Auburn Hills

9/9:

EMU athletics:

EMU volleyball vs. Michigan, 7 p.m., Convocation Center

EMU athletics:

on campus:

around campus:

Snow Patrol, 6:30 p.m., the Fillmore Detroit The Proclaimers, 8 p.m., the Ark, Ann Arbor

9/15:

on campus:

No-limit Texas Hold’em, noon, Rec-IM Flavors of Latin America, noon – 2 p.m., Big Bob’s lake house Welcome Back Luau, 5:30 – 7 p.m., Big Bob’s Lake House

around campus:

9/10:

on campus:

Center for multicultural affairs welcome back mixer, 11 a.m. – noon, Student Center room 300

9/11:

on campus:

Friday night movie, 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Student Center Auditorium

EMU athletics:

EMU women’s soccer vs.

Richmond, 5 p.m., Virginia Commonwealth University

9/12:

EMU athletics:

EMU football vs. Northwestern,

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EMU athletics:

EMU women’s soccer vs. IUPUI, 4 p.m., Scicluna Field EMU volleyball vs. DePaul, 7:30 p.m., Chicago

9/19:

EMU athletics:

EMU football vs. Michigan, noon, Ann Arbor EMU volleyball vs. Sacramento State, 10 a.m., Chicago EMU volleyball vs. Western Kentucky, 12:30 p.m.

around campus:

Alice Cooper, 7 p.m., Freedom Hill Amphitheatre, Sterling Heights

Carbon Leaf, 8 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor Billy Talent, 7 p.m., Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit Regina Spektor, 7:30 p.m., the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor

9/20:

9/16:

on campus:

on campus:

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around campus:

The Fray, 7:30 p.m., Breslin Center, East Lansing

EMU athletics:

EMU women’s soccer vs. Michigan State, 1 p.m., Scicluna Field

9/21:

Monday matinee, 4 p.m., Student Center auditorium Fashion week: AIDS benefit concert, 8 – 10 p.m., Student Center grand ballroom

9/22:

on campus:

No-limit Texas Hold’em, noon, Rec-IM Dancers of David auditions, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., Student Center room 310

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A and B Fashion week: Supermodel survival, 8 – 10 p.m., Student Center grand ballroom

9/26:

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around campus:

EMU volleyball vs. Kent State, 3 p.m., Kent State University

around campus:

Detroit Tigers Excursion, 11:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Brody Condon lecture, 7 p.m., Strong auditorium Lincoln: the Constitution and the Civil War, 7:30 – 8:45 p.m., Student Center room 310

Own City, 6 p.m., The Eagle Theater, Pontiac Kings of Leon, 7:30 p.m., the Palace of Auburn Hills

9/23:

on campus:

Shades of Brown: Defining the Latino Identity, 6 – 9 p.m., Student Center auditorium Fashion Jeopardy!, 6 – 8 p.m., Student Center room 330 Fashion oasis, 8 – 10 p.m., First Year Center 352

around campus:

Willie Nelson, 7:30 p.m., Stranahan Theater, Toledo, Ohio

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on campus:

Fashion Week: Grandiloquence Fashion Show, 7 – 10 p.m., University Park

around campus:

Bell XI, 9:30 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit

9/25:

on campus:

Friday night movie, 7 p.m., 9:30 p.m. and midnight, Student Center auditorium Fashion Week: The Arctic Ball, 7 – midnight, EMU Student Center room 300

EMU athletics:

EMU volleyball vs. Central Michigan, 7 p.m., Convocation Center EMU women’s soccer vs. Akron, 7:30 p.m., University of Akron

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The Ragbirds, 9:30 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor Sunny Day Real Estate, 6:30 p.m., Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit Sufjan Stevens, 7 p.m., the Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac KISS, 7:30 p.m., Cobo Arena Ani DiFranco, 8 p.m., the Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor WWW.EMYOUTHEMAGAZINE.COM

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Mayer Hawthorne, 9:30 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor KISS, 7:30 p.m., Cobo Arena, Detroit

9/27:

EMU athletics:

EMU women’s soccer vs. Ohio, 1 p.m., Ohio University

on campus:

HIGHLIGHTS:

around campus:

Immortal Technique, 9:30 p.m., the Blind Pig, Ann Arbor Mutemath, 6:30 p.m., Clutch Cargo’s, Pontiac

9/28:

on campus:

Sorority recruitment Homecoming week: doughnut drop, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Pray-Harrold Monday matinee, 4 p.m., Student Center auditorium “Walkout” documentary and discussion, 6 – 8:30 p.m., Student Center, Kiva Room Fashion Week: wrap-up meeting, Student Center room 304

around campus:

Honorary Title, 7 p.m., Frankies, Toledo, Ohio

9/29:

on campus:

Regina Spektor at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor (9/15) EMU’s SkyLounge (9/17) Fashion Week (9/21) Ani DiFranco at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor (9/25) EMU Detroit Tigers Excursion (9/30)

No-limit Texas Hold’em, noon, Rec-IM Homecoming week: all campus picnic, 11:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., University Park

EMU athletics:

EMU volleyball vs. Cleveland State, 7 p.m., Cleveland State University

around campus:

Honorary Title, 6 p.m., Pike Room, Pontiac Moby, 7 p.m., Saint Andrews Hall, Detroit She Wants Revenge, 8 p.m., Majestic Theatre, Detroit

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COLLEGE LIFE: Ypsilanti and green seem to go together like peas and carrots (as Forest Gump would say).

For that reason, it’s no surprise that Ypsilanti recently got a lot greener when it became home to Michigan’s very first store completely dedicated to the clean energy.

The Clean Energy Coalition, an Ypsilanti-based non-profit organization promoting clean energy technology, has launched the Energy Outlet, an innovative new retail and educational space aimed at meeting the demands of the growing green and energy efficiency movements.

At the Energy Outlet, consumers, contractors, and business owners can now access both information and products in order to decrease their energy use, improve their efficiency, and increase their use of clean energy.

“We are an asset to Eastern students because we walk them through, step by step, how to use less water, electricity and gas,” said Deb Heed, project manager for the Clean Energy Coalition.

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ways that will save them money by cutting down on their utility bills.

There are plenty of things you can do to keep you cool in the summer and warm in the winter while making you living space more comfortable.”

In addition, a non-profit organization operating in a normally for-profit arena adds a new element to the Clean Energy Coalition’s business model.

Any profits gained from the sale of products and class registrations will be used to support the work of the Clean Energy Coalition and its work around the state of Michigan.

Sean Reed, Executive Director of CEC, envisioned the store as he looked at potential new office space for the growing non-profit agency.

“I knew this was our chance to meet with people more one-onone, to let them know how they could navigate this changing time for energy use,” Reed said of the Depot Town storefront. “Being able to provide products, classes, and have new energy conversations, with new people, right in our own office, moves our mission forward in a substantially positive direction.”

Customers will have access to CEC’s own managers. The result is a one-on-one conversation with each customer who walks in the door, helping each of them meet their own unique needs.

The classes Reed spoke of are energy efficiency classes which are offered to patrons.

“The classes we host are so people can learn more about green topics and how to do more things on their own. They can look at and purchase different books and projects. They can come here and learn how to do this whole green thing.”

Heed said the CEC has a lot of products that are in high demand among students.

“We sell a solar powered backpack that has three solar panels on the outside,” she said.

“The panels charge a battery on the

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Stop by for fun, TONS OF FREE STUFF, inside of the backpack which allow for enough powered to be stored to be able to charge cameras, iPods, cell phones, GPS systems and a lot of other small electronics students normally use.”

The store also sells recycled paper notebooks and energy efficient products geared toward renters, but one of the newer features are solar powered messenger bags and solar powered laptop bags, each of which has larger, more powerful batteries and solar panels than the backpack.

Located at 44 East Cross St. in Ypsilanti, the Energy Outlet is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays,

Fridays, and Saturdays.

“We’re here for the students just as much as anyone else, that’s why we offer EMU students a discount through the EagleOne discount program,” Heed said. “I personally resonate a lot with the fact that we are Michigan’s very first cleanenergy store. You can come here and see what’s new and touch it and try it out and you can be the first one to see what’s coming next. Everyone who walks in here walks out with some new idea about how they can live more efficiently.”

To learn more about the Energy Outlet, contact Deb Heed at deb@cecmi.org or call 483-9000.

To learn more about the Clean Energy Coalition, visit www.cec-mi.org.

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ATHLETICS: No truth to the rumor that if EMU’s football team has a good season, the assistant coaches get raises in their allowance.

But spectators might notice that some members of new coach Ron English’s staff are only marginally older than the players they’re coaching.

“We do have some youth,” English said of his assistants.

Special teams coach Tom Burpee is 27. Wide receivers coach Antonio Carter is 28.

Defensive backs coach Tim Carter (Antonio’s brother) is 31. Offensive line coach Kurt Anderson is 31. Defensive line coach Casey Creehan is 32.

Defensive coordinator Eric Lewis is 33, and probably the most experienced of that group.

“Eric Lewis has been in this league (Ball State), the Patriot League (Bucknell), he’s been in the NFL (Green Bay Packers),” English said.

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ATHLETICS: coaching staff pulled from “Sesame Street,” the exuberant youthfulness is balanced with some experience.

“We have some youth, but we do have some veterans mixed into that,” English said.

Running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley is 37. Yes, that Tyrone Wheatley, the University of Michigan star who spent a decade in the National Football League with the New York Giants and Oakland Raiders.

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the game to the players,” English said. “It’s great to have him here and I think he’s going to have a great career if he sticks with it.”

Wheatley spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons as head coach at Dearborn Heights Robichaud High School, where he also coached track.

English is 41. Only ten head coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) are 40 years old or younger.

Offensive coordinator Ken Karcher is 46.

“Ken Karcher’s been around a long time,” English said.

“He’s coached a lot of football, played a lot of football in a lot of different leagues.”

Those leagues include the World Football League (offensive coordinator for the Orlando Thunder in 1992) and NFL Europe (offensive coordinator for the Rhein Fire from 1997-1999). Karcher was the head coach at Liberty University from 2000-2005.

While linebackers coach Steve Szabo’s age is not given on EMU athletics’ Web site, he is listed as a graduate of the Naval Academy, Class of 1965.

“Steve Szabo has been anywhere you can imagine. He‘s been at Ohio State, he‘s been at Michigan. He‘s been in the NFL for about 13 years,” English said.

“He brings a lot of wisdom to the table and is an outstanding football coach.”

Even though this staff is mostly young, the argument can be made that it’s more experienced than the staff of previous coach Jeff Genyk.

Eastern fans will get to see the coaching staff’s work starting Sept. 5 in the opening game at home against Army. One coach will win his debut, as Rich Ellerson is coaching his first game for the Black Knights.

While nobody will be calling EMU “Wide Receiver U.”, it’s starting to develop a reputation.

Eastern Michigan alumnus Kevin Walter is entering his seventh season in the National Football League, playing for the Houston Texans. Eric Deslauriers is playing for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

The next in this line of receivers may be Jacory Stone, named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List this summer.

Named after Oakland Raiders wide receiver and Hall of Famer Fred Biletnikoff and in its 17th year, the award recognizes the best wide receiver in college football.

Past winners include Randy Moss, Charles Rogers, Larry Fitzgerald and Braylon Edwards.

Stone caught 88 passes for 943 yards last season. His 148 career receptions ranks third in EMU history.

Coach Ron English said he was impressed with Stone’s career at Eastern.

“I think he deserves to be on that list,” English said.

Also among the 37 names on the watch list is Central Michigan’s Antonio Brown.

Ohio’s Taylor Price and Buffalo’s Naaman Roosevelt also represent the MidAmerican Conference.

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Student orientation is a long weekend chock full of events that helps incoming freshmen familiarize themselves with campus and the community. It’s been an integral part of EMU for years, and this year is no different.

With a plethora of lower-key events and a smattering of major events, such as the EMU vs. Army football game, Fajita Fest and CloseUp, orientation can become overwhelming. One of the more important events is EaglePalooza (scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 6 in the Student Center), an event for orientation students to unwind after a busy day with their orientation group.

“The purpose of EaglePalooza is to showcase the Student Center and all it has to offer,” said Katie Holdgreve-Resendez, assistant director with Campus Life, “and to show commuter students they have a home away from home.”

During the event, members of orientation will have the opportunity to check out a campus resource fair, purchase their books, get an Eagle ID and dine for free at one of the Student Centers eateries.

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What do you get when you mix indie music with Gypsy, Celtic, African & Indian music styles— among others?

You get the Ragbirds,

says band frontrunner Erin Zindle.

Listeners have long been looking for a way to explain the Ypsilanti/ Ann Arbor based band’s unique blend of music. However, it’s something that even Zindle herself has a hard time describing.

“Our catchphrase is ‘infectious global groove,’ and that’s the best way we can explain it right now,” she said. “It kind of branches in a lot of different directions. We have sounds from all over the globe.”

Zindle, a trained violinist as well as singer/songwriter for the band, attributes much of the band’s unique blend to the fact that she has been inspired by world music from the time she was young — although she says that Paul Simon was actually her biggest influence.

“Sounds from all over the place changed my musical experience and inspired me and moved me,” she said.

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truly her own.

Zindle and her husband/ drummer/manager, Randall Moore, started the band in Ypsilanti in 2005. She said they’ve had a lot of cast changes over the years.

Currently, the lineup consists of former EMU student Tim Dziekan on percussion, Dan Hildebrandt on the bass, and her brother, T.D. Zindle, on the guitar while she contributes lead vocals, violin, mandolin, sometimes accordion and banjo.

Erin Zindle said that she is a poet first and a songwriter second. Consequentially, she takes songwriting very seriously.

“Our lyrics are very positive, very spiritual, very trying to get a bigger perspective on things, the bigger picture,” she said. While she says that some of the songs are based on her own personal world experiences, she also says that many have to do with “trying to see a different world.”The Ragbirds have released two records independently and are working on a third. Aside from that, most of their time has been consumed with touring all over the United States — and outside of the United States. In May the Ragbirds completed a tour of Japan, where their “Wanderlove” CD was recently released.

“We’re finally to the point where we’re a full-time band, so that was a really huge step for us,” Zindle said.

In conjunction with becoming a full-time band, the Ragbirds have also become an eco-friendly band.

In 2008 the Ragbirds converted their van to run on waste vegetable oil to compensate for the great amount of time they spend on the road.

“That was a big step for us both environmentally and economically,” Zindle said.

The band is now able to run their tour van on used vegetable oil “straight from restaurant dumpsters.”

Although Zindle has many ambitions (for instance, she said she hopes to eventually release a book of poetry), for now she is putting all of her effort into the band.

“You’ve got to put everything you’ve got in it for a little while until it can kind of carry itself,” she said.

Her advice for musicians: “Focus on your songwriting craft. That’s what lasts. That’s what makes for enduring and meaningful connections with your listeners.”

For those who have not yet seen a Ragbirds’ live performance, Zindle describes their show as being “really bright and energetic.”

“We are always smiling and having so much fun,” she said. “We really love what we do.”

From touring Japan to playing at Rothbury, the Ragbirds haven’t missed a beat.

They recently played in the Ypsilanti Jamboree and at the Pontiac Arts, Beats and Eats fest. They will be playing again in the area September 25 at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor.

The cover of their latest cd “Finally Almost Ready” released August 2009

For more info about The Ragbirds, visit their Nest at www.theragbirds.com, or check out their Myspace page at www. myspace.com/theragbirds.

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“WILCO (THE ALBUM)”

“I LOVE YOU MAN”

Just when we think they can’t get any better, Wilco does it again -- they crank out another amazing album, and they haven’t disappointed us yet. “Wilco (the album)” is sure to please old and new Wilco fans alike. “Wilco (the album)” starts off with the ironic and upbeat “Wilco (the song),” only to seamlessly blend into more soothing and thought provoking melodies. Stripped of the band’s occasional bluegrass and/or experimental tendencies (and the slight blandness of “Sky, Blue Sky”), the latest installment in the Wilco saga gives listeners a heavy dose of Jeff Tweedy’s musings on love and what it means to be human -- which is what he does best.

If you’ve ever been in a relationship, if you’ve ever been in love or if you’ve ever searched for “the one,” you will relate to “500 Days of Summer.” However, don’t be fooled -- the film admits right away that it isn’t a love story, but rather a story about love. Written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, “500 Days of Summer” tells the story of Summer Finn (Zooey Deschanel), a girl who doesn’t believe in falling in love, and Tom Hansen (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), the idealistic greeting-card writer who falls for her, and chronicles their 500-day relationship in snapshot glimpses. Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt are perfectly suited for their roles in this both comical and profound indie masterpiece while director Marc Webb charmingly pieces together moments of a relationship, stumbling on a glimpse of love and life that is not only rare but as close to the real thing as film can depict. Try to hang onto the last days of summer and catch this film before it leaves theatres. (Limited release.)

BRAND NEW, “AT THE BOTTOM”

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Recently released on DVD, “I Love You, Man” is one of those rare comedies that stands apart from the masses because it’s legitimately funny … and because the laughs aren’t just confined to the clips from the film’s trailers. In this “bromance,” Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) and his fiancee, Zooey (Rashida Jones), have a picture-perfect relationship. However, as they are preparing for the wedding, Peter realizes that he is missing one important thing: a best man. Thus, he sets off on a series of “man-dates” to find his best man. What he finds in Sydney (Jason Segel) is just what he was hoping for -- and a whole lot more.

As of August 11, Brand New released “At The Bottom,” the first single from their upcoming album “Daisy.” “At The Bottom” is full of the same energy and soulsearching passion that made “The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me” great--but with a new, even harder-hitting edge. The track can be heard on the band’s MySpace page and purchased on iTunes and Amazon.com.

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AIDS benefit concert, 8-10pm, Student Center Grand Ballroom

Tuesday,

Supermodel Survival, 8-10pm, Student Center Grand Ballroom

Wednesday,

Fashion Jeopardy, 6-8pm, Student Center room 330 Fashion Oasis, 8-10pm, First Year Center 352

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Grandiloquence Fashion Show, 7—10pm, University Park

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The Arctic Ball, 7—12 am, Student Center room 300

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Wrap Up Meeting, Student Center room 304

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Have you ever longed to walk the runway during fashion week? Now is your chance.

During the week of September 21, Eastern Michigan plans to have its second annual fashion week complete with a fashion show, a “model boot camp” and a variety of other fashion-based events.

The idea was the vision of Emanuel Upshaw, an EMU business student and aspiring New York model. Upshaw first thought of launching an EMU fashion week after researching New York’s fashion week. He approached communications and public relations major Brittni Brown about his idea, asking for her support.

“When he first told me the idea, I thought he was thinking a little over-the-top because no one has ever heard of something like that happening at a university like Eastern or at any other university in the state of Michigan,” Brown said. “But something told me to get behind him because it was a really good idea, and I knew it was going to change my life, his life, as well as many Eastern students as well.”

Now Upshaw is president and director and Brown is vice-president and co-director of this successful event. They have also added several other members to their team, including a merchandising director, assistant merchandise coordinator, an audio/ visual team, a model coordinator, a fundraising team and more.

Upshaw is from Detroit. He will graduate from EMU in December of 2009 then plans to move to New York where he will pursue modeling.

Brown will graduate in 2012. She plans to become a public relations director and is also in the process of beginning a modeling agency.

During fashion week stores and designers contribute clothes from their fall collections for the show.

“Most of the clothes that are in the show are actually from local

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designers who actually sew these clothes by hand, stitch by stitch, piece by piece,” Brown said. “Most of them are EMU students, but they’re from all over.”

There were 600 people in attendance during last year’s fashion show, and at least 150 people at each other event throughout the week. Brown says that she expects this year’s turnout to be doubled due to all of the new additions made to the show.

“This year we’re going to have a different fashion event on campus every day Monday through Friday,” Brown said. “We’re going to have a really big fashion show Thursday night at University Park. And we’re going to have a model boot camp— kind of a model survivor thing. We took the idea from ‘America’s Next Top Model.’ We are going to give the models five minutes to do their hair, put on makeup and then pose for a photo shoot or something like that.”

The week’s lineup plans to incorporate an AIDS benefit concert that will benefit the Mid-American Conference AIDS fund—which focuses on fighting against AIDS using fashion.

Brown encourages EMU students to attend

fashion week events.

“If you are looking for something that you wouldn’t expect to see at a college campus produced by creative students, this show has everything -- and it’s done with hard work from Eastern students and from clothing designers,” she said. ”It’s a way to get [yourself and your work] out there. It’s artistic expression. It’s a great show. It will be worth your while.”

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Disc Golf for a Good Cause

BY AMANDA SLATER Amanda.slater@emyouthemagazine.com

Mark your calendar, as emYOU! The Magazine is sponsoring Ypsilanti’s first Discilanti Open in October.

Tim Adkins of emYOU! The Magazine says the idea came after being approached by two Eastern Michigan alumni who have started a group called Superfriends, a non-profit organization that exists to help out the community and raise money for different causes. The group was working with SOS Community Services at the time and wanted to find a way to raise money for the organization.

“That’s kind of where we came up with the idea for the Discilanti Open,” Adkins said. “We had to get the appropriate permits, and we’re also getting some corporate sponsorships. The bottom line is the whole thing is a 100% fundraiser for the SOS Community Center who we’ve worked with in the past. It’s an awesome non-profit program.”

Not only will the Discilanti Open offer disc golf, but there will also be live music and a beer tent, among other things — and all proceeds go toward the center.

So even if disc golf isn’t your thing, stop by, have a beer and raise money for a worthy cause. Interested disc golf teams must sign up online at www.discilanti-open.com SOS Community Services serves the Washtenaw County community and provides short term housing for those in need as well as food, personal hygiene items and a variety of other services. For more information, visit www.soscs.org.

WHO: SuperFriends Productions, emYOU! The Magazine, The Lake Shore Apartments and SOS Community Services WHAT: A disc golf tournament, local artists bizarre, live music, great prizes, beer tent, raffle, & more!

WHEN: Saturday, October 10 from 2-7:00pm *Registration starts at 1:00pm WHERE: The Ponds of Lakeshore in Ypsi (On property of Lake Shore Apartments WHY: 100% of money raised will benefit SOS Community Services

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THE CROSS STREET BOTTOM SPECIAL LINE

Double Eagle

Double Eagle, or “Deagle” as it’s occasionally called, is the best place for food after hours in Ypsi. That being said, after hours is the only time you should be eating food from Double Eagle. And you have to be all hammed up. Seriously, it’s a rule.

Double Eagle is your typical coney island with the typical Greek twist. It boasts a large menu full of burgers, dogs, chicken, sandwiches and breakfast food (all served 24 hours a day). The staff is super-friendly and will chat with you all day long, but the thick haze in the air produced by chain-smoking hipsters and the old guy in the hat (you’ll know him when you see him) is more than enough to drive you out of there as soon as you’re done with your meal, if you stomach it that long.

The Bottom Line: If you’re 12 beers deep, it’s after 2 a.m., you’re not in the mood for a submarine sandwich and don’t mind getting lung cancer from secondhand smoke, by all means, Double Eagle is a great hangover prevention.

Golden Wall

If you’re craving Chinese food and have no other options, Golden Wall is great!

They have all the standard Chinese dishes, so you don’t even need a menu to order off of, which is nice. But seriously, if you have any other option, take it. And that’s all I have to say about that.

The Bottom Line: Wasn’t I clear enough already?

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ith a brand new crop of EMU freshmen taking up residence in Ypsi this month, it’s only fitting that they’re introduced to a few of the bars, restaurants and clubs within a few blocks walk from campus on Cross St., as most of them are probably too nervous to make the trek to Depot Town or downtown for some of Ypsi’s finer dining.

Upperclassmen, you’ll most likely recognize these places as your favorite Monday or Wednesday night hangouts, so be sure to make Ypsi’s newest Eagles feel welcome.

Tower Inn

If you’re one that enjoys great nightlife and a great happy hour, Tower Inn is the place for you, especially on Wednesday nights for karaoke and $4.00 34-ounce draft beers.

To get down to business, Tower Inn is one of the best restaurants on Cross Street. Its large menu boasts everything from burgers, pitas and seafood to pasta, salad, pizza and fancy little desserts. And everything is equally fantastic.

To keep things fair, what Tower Inn makes up for in exceptional hospitality and food, they lose at the bar, for their mixed drinks are a little on the weak side, especially their Long Islands.

The Bottom Line: Great food and service, weak mixed drinks.

Stick to beer if you plan to drink heavily during happy hour.

Theo’s

As a freshman, Monday night at Theo’s could arguably be one of the best nights of your week.

For you social butterflies out there, Monday night Theo’s is a great place to meet new people, enjoy the cheapest draft beer in town ($1.50 pitchers) and do the stanky legg on the dance floor. If showing off your stanky legg isn’t your thing, Theo’s, to steal a line from Maverick, is a target-rich environment.

While the atmosphere at Theo’s on Monday is one not to be missed, the food, on the other hand, is. With a menu featuring your standard bar food, dining at Theo’s is very hit or miss if you order anything besides sliders or wings. And even then, the wings are too small for the price tag attached to them.

The Bottom Line: Theo’s is a great nightclub, especially for those on the prowl, but could use some help in the kitchen.

*Formerly known as Taste of the Month, Cup of Joe is edgier, more honest and more fun to read!

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22

Deep down you feel you’re not strong enough for the challenge ahead. Here is where your dedication for completion comes in play. Yes, this is going to be a tough school year but it is nothing you can’t handle. Your strength in character will play a major part with your professors.

Lucky Numbers: 10, 12, 24

The love connection that wasn’t supposed to last one month made it through the entire summer! Can you balance this unexpected romance along with normal roster you keep during school?

Or is it time to settle down into an monogamous relationship?

The 21st will tell all.

Lucky Numbers: 7, 17, 27

OCT. 23-NOV. 21

NOV. 22-DEC. 21

Aiming for low objectives is not going to boost your self-esteem. It’s time to discover new depths about yourself and push through the BS to ultimately make a better you. Your job, school, family and friends should be laced together by a spiritual connection. Fulfillment is your greatest goal.

Lucky Numbers: 2, 11, 31

The song says “it ain’t trickin’ if you got it.” Well, you got it but you need to save it. That big trip you want to go on isn’t going to pay for itself. Save up your money, and once you get there let the shopping begin.

Like the other song says: “Just throw it in the bag!”

Lucky Numbers: 3, 15, 33

DEC. 22-JAN. 19

JAN. 20-FEB. 18

FEB. 19-MAR. 20

MAR. 21-APR. 19

You have a gift for recognizing beauty deeper than the skin.

Over the summer you let that go to focus on your own beauty but now it’s time to bring it back. A guy friend has suddenly lost confidence and needs your help to gain it back. Help him through his personality.

Lucky Numbers: 9, 28, 23

You are the person who has the fan club without the help of Facebook and Twitter. Good for you! Your name is known due to your abrasive personality, which is fine, it has gotten you this far. But for the record, let’s be a little nicer this time around. Things will soon not be going your way.

Lucky Numbers: 6, 14, 21

Here’s a great way to start the weekend. Take a Thursday night, light the candles, turn on the soft music and heat up the baby oil. Tell your partner to put on their birthday suit for a special massage. If all goes well, you might have to get your massage another night.

Lucky Numbers: 3, 9, 26

The goal for this month is to meet new people and try new things. Everyone understands that you like having personal control of things, but for once, throw it out the window along with your aggression, selfishness and jealousy.

ADVENTURE and HUMILITY are your words for the month.

Lucky Numbers: 5, 20, 29

APR. 20-MAY 20

MAY 21-JUNE 20

JUNE 21-JULY 23

JULY 24-AUG. 22

Stop holding back and let your lover know what’s on your mind.

Change may come and that’s OK. Wear pastel shades to soften your look and bring more sensuality to the relationship.

Your lover will appreciate it and the dull yellow flame will turn bright once again.

Lucky Numbers: 4, 16, 22

Your financial status will change this month. It won’t be a windfall of money but a nice cushion to sit on. Just talking to people between the 24th and 26th will get you what you want. Whether you’ve been hoping for that new Gucci purse or Movado watch, the gift is coming quicker than you believe.

Lucky Numbers: 18, 25, 30

Your nurturing instincts are kicking in but that doesn’t mean you’re the one pregnant!

A nearby friend is trying to keep this blessing a secret.

Assure her that telling her loved ones will bring the support and affection that she is seeking.

Lucky Numbers: 1, 13, 36

Take pride in your body and watch the compliments roll in. Hitting the gym three times a week will only boost your confidence, putting the “Kanye” in full effect. The offers you will get from people will blow your mind. Let the playfulness begin! P.S. Wear lots of yellow.

Lucky Numbers: 8, 19, 46

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