WALTER KRAFT

The faculty at Eastern Michigan University is headed to a strike. It was an overwhelming vote, with 91% in favor of authorizing a strike. It comes as contract talks with the university have stalled.

A labor dispute at Eastern Michigan University shows no sign of letting up. The faculty union at the university is set to make a critical vote Tuesday that could signal a strike just as the school year gets underway.

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – A pair of sexual assaults reported on and off Eastern Michigan University’s campus in late August were not a gang rape as alleged in a recent lawsuit, university officials said. Alleged gang rape on Eastern Michigan University campus under investigationEMU officials clarified Saturday, Sept. 11, the initial report was inaccurate, stating the survivor was assaulted by a single, different suspect in each location and that multiple suspects were not involved in both incidents. Five more students sue Eastern Michigan University for ‘failing them’ in sexual assault casesFlood, who is representing multiple Jane Does in the lawsuit, claims the Aug. 29 incident involves three suspects and not two as the university is claiming. An alert regarding the incident was issued to EMU students stating the Eastern Michigan University Police Department and Ypsilanti Police Department are investigating two incidents of multiple people sexually assaulting the same survivor. Shana Thompson at the Eastern Michigan University Police Department at 734-487-1222, or the Ypsilanti Police Department at 734-483-9510.