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Wadsworth Hall as seen on March 25, 2020, on the Michigan Tech campus. The university has come under fire recently after two members of the faculty sent letters to staff members in response to a University Senate resolution.
HOUGHTON Members of the campus community related their experience with discrimination locally and at the university during a Michigan Technological University Senate discussion on a recent anti-discrimination resolution and two campus letters from faculty protesting it.
Public comment was extended from 15 minutes to 45 minutes then extended twice more to accommodate speakers.
In December, the Senate approved a resolution calling anti-Blackness and systemic racism ills on par with poverty and disease, and making steps to remedy it part of the university’s core mission. It also called on awareness of the problem to be part of every graduate’s education, and part of the continuing education f
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Got a nasty pothole on your street that needs to be fixed but you don’t know who to call? Lower Burrell residents don’t even have to call.
They can send an email directly to the city’s public works department.
Timely public access is one of the features of a new website launched by Lower Burrell this week, providing residents with better ways to contact and learn about city departments, receive announcements and make some business transactions. The website address is cityoflowerburrell.com.
Rosyth families have been warned to remain vigilant after a boy was allegedly shot in the face with a BB gun. The incident is said to have happened at the town s Public Park at Park Road last Wednesday evening (December 30). Locals have reported that while the boy was walking through the park he was approached by a teen, who shot him in the face at close range, narrowly missing his eye. The boy s mum, Dara Portsmouth, confirmed the incident on Facebook after locals warned others to be vigilant. She said: It was my little boy that was hit! It was done at close rage!