Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University is a real school that is in Ypsilanti, Michigan, about 5 miles from the much bigger and better known University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

EMU was originally a Teachers College and education is still what it is best known for inside Michigan, but now it offers the full breadth of a university curriculum.

Here is the Wikipedia link to EMU.

Eastern Michigan University's own web site can be found at EMU.

In the Spearfish lake Tales universe EMU is where both Class of 1988 Bradford alumni John Engler and Mandy Paxton attended.