(Roy Wilbanks, Jim Stapleton, Floyd Clack and Beth Fitzsimmons), were in Washington, D.C. attending an Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges conference. Following the conference they attended an alumni reception, after which Martin met at a bar with Michael Ferens, an EMU alumnus and the president of the Washington, D.C. alumni chapter, as well as an unidentified board member from the Washington, D.C. alumni chapter, and an unidentified EMU staff member. The exact details of the discussion are unclear, but they discussed EMU's 1991 mascot change and the "Huron Restoration" chapter of the alumni association, previous plans for a Huron statue, and John A. Fallon and Samuel A. Kirkpatrick, Martin's predecessors as president, both of whom left amidst controversy. According to emails they exchanged the next day, in which they apologized to each other, Martin thought Ferens said "John Fallon is my man"—a comment to which she was sensitive because Fallon had recently been hired by Ball State University, bringing the Laura Dickinson murder back into the news—while Ferens did not think he had said that and indicated that if he had, it had been a slip of the tongue. Martin subsequently described the incident, saying "I lost my temper with an alumni when our discussion turned to a particularly sad time in Eastern's history. As it turned out, we had misunderstood each other at the time and we apologized to each other in subsequent emails the next day for this misunderstanding." According to Ferens, "I mis-phrased a name in the conversation and that’s all it really was." Ferens subsequently characterized the issue as "a little miscommunication" and "a moment of intensity in a conversation" about the mascot change. Martin acknowledged that she "was drinking at the time that I lost my temper" and mentioned that she hadn't eaten, while Ferens stated, "We sat down and had a glass of wine, but we didn’t have 15 glasses of wine. I did not witness any heavy drinking. I did not witness any spectacles." In response to the incident the EMU Board of Regents officially reprimanded Martin on May 17: We want you to be successful as the President of the University. It is, however, incumbent upon us to emphasize the severity of the incident and its potential impact as your role as a leader and symbol of the University. You must deal with this issue immediately. If there are