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photos by bethany Walter/staff photographerUniversity of Notre Dame junior Kim Julian, left, and Michigan State University junior Josh Goethals help fellow squad member and Michigan State University junior Frank Varner after he had been “injured” on a situation tactical exercise on Saturday morning at Fort Custer in Augusta, Mich. Varner was “shot” by a commanding military science senior who shouted “bang” and ordered Varner to fall. The military science students were participating in combative field training exercises.
By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter
CMU’s 22 residence halls are preparing to meet their new staff members.
Assistant Director of Resi-dence Life Kim Voisin said 69 new staff members have been hired to fill current resident assistant and multicultural adviser positions that will be available next fall.
Though the office of Resi-dence Life does not have a so-phisticated software system to track the actual numbers, Voi-sin estimates between 55 and 60 percent of RAs and MAs return to their position for the following school year.
“It varies from year to year,” she said. “Some years we end up hiring 60 people, some years we hire 80.”
CMU has 146 RA positions and 22 MA positions each year.
Voisin said each RA who chooses to leave their position does so for his or her own per-sonal reason.
“It’s actually pretty evenly spread,” she said. “Almost half of the people that don’t come back are graduating. Some leave to student teach, some leave because they have an internship and the other half, they want to live off campus.”
White Lake senior Kevin Birkholz is part of that per-centage of RAs who leave to
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RAs, MAs chosen for fall 2011semester55-60 percent will return to positions
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paige calamari/staff photographerPort Huron junior Cody Bawol shakes the hand of Royce da 5’9” of Slaughterhouse on Friday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. Bawol was one of the first people in line for Friday’s performances by Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse.
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By Brad CanzeNews Copy Chief
Although Eminem did not make a surprise appearance as rumored, about 450 at-tendants bounced enthu-siastically to the hip hop of Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse Friday night.
The doors to the concert at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium were scheduled to open at 7:30 p.m. Concert sponsor Plus One Entertain-ment postponed the show and did not open the doors until 8:08 p.m.
The crowd began to get restless, chanting “open up!” for about a minute.
“I wanted to make sure I’m in the front row,” said Port Huron junior Cody Ba-wol, who was the first per-son in line in the Warriner lobby and waited more than 3 hours to get into Plachta. “I’m kind of pumped they came here to CMU.”
The two acts were both recently signed to Eminem’s label Shady Records, and the night before their show in Plachta, Eminem joined Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse on stage in Royal Oak for an encore of their collaboration “2.0 Boys.” Rumors spread rapidly, unchecked by Plus
One and others involved, that the same would happen at CMU.
“(My friend) said Eminem was going to be here and we went and bought tickets,” said Pinckney sophomore Sarah Deitert.
Despite disappointment from Eminem’s absence, fans gave strong reactions to rapper Yelawolf and Slaugh-terhouse, a group consisting of veteran rappers Joe Bud-den, Crooked I and Joell Or-tiz, and Detroit rapper Royce da 5’9”.
Yelawolf performed for about 40 minutes and Slaughterhouse followed with a performance of more than an hour.
“I did a huge college tour with Wiz Khalifa,” Yelawolf said in an interview before the show. “(College students) just want to have fun. I can’t wait to get out there.”
Yelawolf said he was com-ing off the emotional high of performing with Slaugh-terhouse and Eminem the night before.
“First night onstage with Slaughterhouse and Eminem? That was epic,” he said. “That was a pivotal point in my career. It was special, man.”
Onstage, Royce da 5’9” said driving only two hours from Detroit for a show
Eminem a no-show at Yelawolf, Slaughterhouse concertAbout 450 wait outside Plachta
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Grand Rapids sophomore Steve Scoles aims his gun as his squad prepares to attack an enemy camp on Saturday afternoon at Fort Custer in Augusta, Mich. The military science students were participating in combative field training exercises.
By Ariel BlackSenior Reporter
Health-minded students will have a few more cramped weeks with the completion date for the Student Activity Center’s Fitness Center ren-ovation pushed to April 25.
Stan Shingles, assistant vice president of University Recreation, said the plan for construction and moving in equipment is now on track. The facility is getting final-ized, he said, and equipment is being ordered.
He said the project was de-layed for four weeks because of the discovery of lead and asbestos in the facility in January.
“Things have been go-ing extremely well and moving the fitness center to a multi-activity center worked out better than we had expected,” Shingles said. “It helped because we weren’t forced to hurry with construction in any way. We could take the time that was needed.”
Shingles said the con-struction has been a bit in-convenient, but things are coming together nicely. The floor will be finished this week, and all the equipment will be moved in the week-end of Easter, or April 24.
Construction on the SAC and Rose pools has been underway for the majority of the school year, and sev-eral students have felt the impact of those renovations firsthand.
“First semester was really tough when we had to prac-tice in the SAC pool instead of Rose,” said Southfield sophomore J.D. Drain, pres-ident of the water polo club. “We had one-hour practices twice a week, which made us have to compact everything we needed to teach.”
The completion date of the pools kept getting pushed back, and Events Center construction made the projects a low priority, Drain said.
“However, when every-thing was done, I thought they had done a wonderful job,” he said.
Davison senior Jessica Cal-lis visits the fitness center often and said the construc-tion has not been a huge in-
Completion date for SAC facelift April 25Delay spurred by previous lead, asbestos problems
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Byron Nolde said the chilly nighttime stroll relaxed him.
“I’ll just relax and munch on food while I walk,” the Metamora junior said. “I found four out of five which is pretty good. The LDAC ter-rain will be easy.”
From 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, cadets undertook six different types of squad-tactical exercise missions.
Facing combat scenarios including attacking a bun-ker, ambushing a patrol and
a reconnaissance mission, cadets armed with M16 as-sault rifles fired blank rounds at fourth-year cadets play-ing the role of the opposing force. The senior students offered critique after the missions were completed.
“Really we’re not grading the tactics,” said Bronson senior Emily Nolin. “We’re grading on their ability to
Tactical TrainingROTC cadets exercise combat, land navigation skills in weekend retreat
By Mike Nichols | Senior Reporter
The smell of gunpowder filled the frigid air at Fort Custer in Augusta this weekend.
CMU’s ROTC joined 406 cadets from the University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan, Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan and Ferris State universi-ties to take part in the Combative Field Train-ing Exercise.
The CFTX is a weekend-long series of drills divided into two parts: Land navigation and situation tactical exercises.
Lt. Col. Aaron Kalloch, director of the ROTC program at CMU, said CFTX prepares mili-tary science cadets in their third year for the Leader Development and Assessment Course they will attend over the summer. Fourth-year students, who have already taken LDAC, plan the CFTX.
“This event helps us be really successful as a group of schools at LDAC,” Kalloch said. “For us, it’s about 95 percent (that pass).”
The cadets kicked off their training with nighttime land navigation in 19-degree weather. Lone cadets equipped with a com-pass and a map had four hours to find at least three out of five given points in a two-mile long, two-mile wide wooded perimeter.
“this event helps us be really successful as a group of schools
at LDaC. for us, it’s about 95 percent (that pass).”
Lt. Col. Aaron Kalloch, director of rotC at CMU
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experience personal freedom.Birkholz, who has worked
as an RA in Trout Hall for the past five semesters, will leave his position in May. He said although he enjoys working as an RA, he has sacrificed a lot of his free-dom to do so.
“After two and a half years,” he said, “I’m ready to get some of those freedoms back.”
Birkholz said he has an-other semester of classes left before he leaves to student teach. He plans on moving into an apartment off cam-pus with three other stu-dents for his last semester at CMU. The three students he plans to live with will be either graduating in Decem-ber or moving away from Mount Pleasant to student teach.
Voisin said RAs usually hold their positions for about two years.
“We have staff members that stay for three years, and once in awhile, for four years,” she said. “There’s a good num-ber of them that after one year, they’re satisfied, and want to move on.”
CMU alumnus Drew Proc-
tor said he kept his position as an RA in Robinson Hall for two years until he graduated in 2007.
“I liked the job,” he said. “I enjoyed helping people when I could, I enjoyed working with my fellow RAs, and free room and board wasn’t a bad deal either.”
Voisin said there are also students who do not leave their RA position by choice.
“There are a handful of stu-dents, several every year, that are not invited back or are terminated,” she said. “Staff members ... are terminated generally because they have
violated one of our policies or expectations.”
Voisin said most of the time, RAs don’t leave mid-year.
When they do, she said, they are replaced, and the new RA is given training. Resi-dence Life usually requires between six and 15 new hires at the beginning of the spring semester.
Voisin said the new hires are replacing an RA that is either graduating, leaving for an in-ternship or student teaching position, or is terminated or asked to leave.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
sara Winkler/staff photographerSt. John’s resident C.J. Sageman gazes at a model train as it makes its way around the display by the Michigan Small Scale Live Steamers at the Mid-Michigan Model Train Show on Sunday afternoon in Finch Fieldhouse. Sageman attended the show with his father Charlie and his grandfather Ross. “He’s been here since 10 a.m. running around and watching these things,” Charlie Sageman said.
MONDAYw An Organization of Women Leaders Women’s Panel will speak from 3 to 5 p.m. in Powers 136.
w A “Tick Tock Beat the Clock” game show will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Finch 113.
w Chaz Maviyane-Davies-Barstow will speak about his work from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Education and Human Services Building’s French Auditorium.
TUESDAYw A “Plus-Size Fabulous, Thin Happiness” discussion will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Sweeney Hall Lobby.
w Composers Symposium: Guest Composer Kyle Gann will perform from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
convenience for her.“I actually have liked the
way the treadmills are set up because I am able to watch intramural games and other activities while I’m run-ning,” Callis said. “It makes
the time go by faster.”As far as the new fitness
center, Callis said she is anx-ious to see what the final product looks like.
“I can’t wait to start work-ing out in a normal gym again,” Callis said. “I look forward to using the new equipment.”
lead and remain collected.”Nolde said his favorite
course was the variable lane, where cadets’ orders were changed mid-mission.
Fourth-year cadets Rachael Knapp, a graduate student of Montague, Midland senior Joseph Kok and Caledonia
senior Ken Potter played the role of surrendering enemies who made trouble for the ca-dets. Knapp said the exercise teaches cadets to think on their feet.
Nolde and Grand Rapids sophomore Steven Scoles were “killed” by Kok, who crept up behind the cadets and tapped them on the shoulder, consid-ered a safety kill.
Kok was “shot” after he opened fired on the rest of the squad. After a smoke grenade went off, the enemy team came out of their bun-ker and were apprehended by the remaining squad members.
“From day one, we were not really a squad, but by the end of day three they came to-gether,” King said. “The over-all growth of sixth squad was awesome.”
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photos by andreW kuhn/staff photographerThe women of the Mountain Town Mayhem roller derby team stretch out at the beginning of practice on Feb. 22 at Spinning Wheels Arena.
‘derby fever’
The Mountain Town Mayhem roller derby team skates laps during practice on Feb. 27 at Spinning Wheels Arena, 1241 N. Mission Road, in Mount Pleasant.
Rosebush resident and realtor Lily Angiolini measures a teammate’s foot for proper skate fitting after roller derby team practice on Feb. 27 at Spinning Wheels Arena.
Local resident finds remedy in starting league, love for skating
Lily Angiolini formed the Mount Pleasant Roller Derby League in the hopes of promoting “derby fe-ver” around the area.
The Rosebush real estate agent and stained glass artist had al-ways enjoyed skating whether it was at Spinning Wheels, 1241 N. Mission Road, or the Roll Arena, 2909 Bay City Road, in Midland.
However, the real idea behind the derby got started when An-giolini watched “Blood on the Flat Track” with her husband one night, a film about a Seattle roller derby league.
“It was a spark that ignited a huge flame,” Angiolini said. “It was really interesting, and after that I started researching more about roller derby and it was just what I thought it would be.”
Women involved in the league range from their teens to their 40s, made up of CMU students, alumni and employees.
There are also roles for men to fill in the league. Several men al-ready have stepped in to act as referees and non-skating officials.
“We are always looking for more skaters,” said Kristy Saxton, league secretary and player.
Saxton has been with the Mount Pleasant Roller Derby League since the she found the league’s Facebook page.
“I thought it was totally awe-some to have something like this start up in the area,” Sax-
ton said. “It really is such a great opportunity.”
After receiving non-profit cor-poration status, the league will take steps to start competing against other leagues sometime next fall.
For now, the women spend their time competing against themselves to prepare for the true competition to begin.
“Right now, we’re learning to-gether,” Angiolini said. “We have a lot of skaters that still need to learn the basics, and we have a lot of skaters that have their basic skills, but need to be trained in derby.”
The women are also attending practices all over the state. Many skaters are practicing with leagues such as the Flint City Derby Girls, as well as the Lansing Derby Vix-ens.
The league also hopes to attract a few sponsors from the commu-nity.
Holly Hansen-Watson, a Harri-son senior, dedicated a business class project to putting together a sponsorship package for the der-by to exhibit the league to various businesses.
“I think we are going to be a very large part of the community,” said Watson, who is doing the project for ENT 492: Special Issues in En-trepreneurship.
By Payton willey | Staff Reporter
The city further showed its in-tent to develop jobs and attract people to the region by unani-mously voting Thursday to pur-chase the Mount Pleasant Center property. The city only witnessed a 70-person increase from 2000, but the Mount Pleasant Center alone offers a great opportunity for economic development that will likely bring up population totals even more over the next 10 years.
More notably, Isabella County as a whole, and the ever-expanding Union Township, saw significant increases in population.
The population spikes are con-current with increasing enroll-ment at CMU. Students appar-ently made it a point to register in the area last year and the results show. The township relied heavily on students for its decennial head count.
CMU and Soaring Eagle Casino
have kept employment strong and the city is intent on maximizing the potential of the land it encom-passes. This includes the recently purchased Mount Pleasant Center property and land bought through the Project 2000 initiative in the 1990s. The intent was to buy and develop that land in both a resi-dential and commercial way. For the most part, the city succeeded.
What has happened in Detroit is devastating and the complete op-posite of Isabella County. South-east Michigan is still the driving point for Michigan’s economy and ultimately, the Census results there have a much larger impact than mid-Michigan.
Unfortunately, the city of Detroit has seen more and more land be-come vancant and building after building continue to deteriorate. Plans to turn that empty land into
a vast network of urban farms are in the early stages. The city may have the right idea with this, but it has yet to be proven on a large scale.
Isabella County has become a tremendous exception to the downtrodden economy that has loomed over the state for the past decade. It is an encouraging sign that may not be noticed by the rest of the state because it is a mostly rural county. However, other cities can learn from this area.
While Mount Pleasant may rest for the most part on the twin pil-lars of gambling and education, it has worked to diversify itself over the years and is rapidly developing into a well-rounded city of its own right.
Though we hope the best for the Motor City, the future of Michigan may lie closer to its heart.
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editorial | Isabella County’s growth in 2010 Census a sign of improvement
Not so downtrodden
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[YOUR VOICE]
Nothing brings a smile to my face more than seeing some-one slip on the “C” between Moore Hall and the Dow Sci-ence Complex.
I know that sounds hor-rible — seeing someone slip on ice and enjoying it. But in a society where people getting hurt is often laughed about, it’s hard to not “lol.”
And we’ve all been there. That position where you’re on the ground and looking around asking yourself, “Did anyone see that?” It’s even worse after realizing you have to finish your trek to class with a wet butt and damaged pride.
And the one spot on campus where I never fail to see some-one in that awkward position is on the “C.”
Sometimes I think the iced-over copper “C” is more likely to stand for “cursed” than “CMU” College of Science and Technology.
On days when it would make more sense to ice skate than walk to class, it is free enter-tainment.
People just minding their own business walking to class not knowing that the evil “C” is ahead of them; I think to myself that they must not know about it because those who have fallen sure know the alternate route. Then, all of a sudden, they hit the ground cold.
I sit here grinning just think-ing about it.
Slipping on ice in general is painfully embarrassing. The fact that the walkway between Dow and Moore Hall is so populated between classes makes it even worse.
Even when people don’t fall but take that slip just big enough to let out a little “whoa,” it makes walking to class in the cold weather a little more bearable.
That was, until I was the victim.
I usually go out of my way to walk around it and avoid possible embarrassment, but apparently not when I am late to class.
With an extra pep in my step to make it there on time, I totally forgot about the cursed square of sidewalk.
Since I’ve seen this happen so many times, I tried to laugh it off and not be ashamed that I had such a minor lapse in judgment.
So I’ll take this time now to apologize to those who have heard my little chuckles when they slipped on the ice.
It really does suck.
It’s a simple mentality. Be good.Good. What is good? How can
one be good? And is it to yourself or to others? Or both?
There’s no definitive line, but there are examples many look to on a daily basis that can show you are a “good person.”
Holding the door for a stranger; that’s a good deed, right? Or has it become commonplace, some-what expected?
If you don’t hold the door on a cold, blustery day, the stranger may think you are a jerk. That thought doesn’t make him or her a good person either, or is that thought a slip in judgment?
A few days ago, I was driving on an unplowed street in the out-skirts of Mount Pleasant. My car has low traction control, which keeps me from moving quickly in less-than-favorable weather conditions. I swerved back and forth down the road trying to keep my car moving before being run offroad by a plow truck.
That truck driver never turned around, and continued down the road without a thought of what he had done to me. I didn’t blame him, but now I was stuck.
As my friend and I began dig-ging my car out, a smiling man appeared with his daughter in the seat next to him. He asked if he could help.
Good: morally excellent, virtu-ous, righteous, pious. In other terms, well-behaved, honorable, worthy, loyal, reliable, favorable. Not one of these defines “good” on its own, and even together, the terms don’t give a defined purpose to intentions we have as a human race when interacting with one another.
The man pulled a hook from his truck, showed me where to attach it to my car and dragged us 500 feet to the nearest plowed intersection.
He didn’t ask for money. He didn’t need to stop, but he did. Five minutes of his day, that is all it took. I couldn’t be more grateful.
I asked his name: Craig. I gave him a hearty handshake and he was on his way. So was I.
What I am trying to say is it’s not easy “being good.” Good deeds go unrewarded every day. You may get a thanks in passing, or a handshake upon a job well done in the office (a promotion or bonus if you’re lucky).
But good people don’t do good things to be rewarded. Good peo-ple do what they consider right according to their own values in an effort to better humanity.
All of this thought stems from one man’s good deed that made my day infinitely better, and now I am paying it forward.
People like Craig define good to me. He stops to help when someone is in need. His inten-tions were pure.
The community needs more people like Craig, and next time someone is stuck on the road, stop. Stop for Craig. Stop for me. Stop for yourself.
Be good.
Comments in response to “End-ing pension exemptions a justified cut”
Michmediaperson - March 25
Great, great, great column Na-than. Too bad we don’t have smart statewide media people like you.
The stenographers in the me-dia, the left-wing AARP and their Democrat Party friends, haven’t told the whole story.
You are correct when you wrote these free-loading grandmas and grandpas aren’t taxed twice. You get a tax deduction on IRAs and 401K and you pay the tax when you take it out. Problem are these free-loading old people who don’t want to pay taxes that they didn’t have to pay in their younger life. They want a free ride. Figure half of these old people voted for Gra-nholm who bankrupt Michigan.
Nathan, you’re right. Nathan, if you put a $1000 in a 401K or IRA this year, you don’t pay tax. But, when you take it out 40 years from now, then you should be expected to then pay the tax. But, that’s not how the free-loading senior crowd sees it. They want to dodge the taxes.
And, these free-loaders with public pensions, don’t get me started. Public pension old peo-ple are even worse free-loaders. Highly-paid public pensions paid for by the hard-working taxpay-ers of Michigan. One of the prob-lems, these old people see they won’t have as much money to go to the Casino and Las Vegas with. Well, too bad, start paying your fair share.
Nathan, you should interview these free-loaders at the AARP.
Great column. Keep up the good work. We need to get some of those liberal stenographers retired in Lansing and get a real hard-nose
hard-hitting journalist like you.
75chip - March 25
Michmediaperson I am always amazed at how narrow your point of view is. These same grandmas and grandpas you’re talking about will now be given this money to politicians who have proven to be inept at financial responsibil-ity since Proposal A was passed back in the mid-90s. So instead of them spending that money at local businesses and helping grow the local economy you want to give it to politicians to give tax breaks to their buddies in business with no promise of creating jobs but will guarantee that corporate profits will grow.
CMUJunior - March 25
I think what people are upset about, besides just the “free-load-ing old people,” is that they feel that this tax increase on one group (and it is a tax increase) is being used to pay for a tax cut for a dif-ferent group when the state can’t afford to reduce taxes for anyone.
I’m all for raising taxes until our state gets out of its budget crisis, but not solely on the backs of seniors (who, by the way, paid taxes on all the other income they earned while building the pension that they also earned). If the gover-nor wants to fix our budget prob-lems, coupling a tax increase with an even larger tax decrease is just not the way to fix the problem.
Comments in response to “CMU will feel effects of 23.3-percent cut beyond 2011-12 despite incentive funds”
Mike Soto - March 25
time for cmu to tighten their
belts like everyone else
Michmediaperson - March 25
Great editorial. Finally, some-one talking about pay cuts for administration’s higher-ups. This should have happened years ago. And, yes, reductions in executive niceties. The Raos use to live like royalty at the courtesy of poor stu-dents and taxpayers. Now, Ross is. All these freebies should be elimi-nated.
Everyone must take paycuts in-cluding faculty. Faculty should be expected to teach 4 courses, in-stead of 2. You could then elimi-nate the adjunct faculty and save about $8 million dollars. Current faculty salaries are a fixed cost in accounting terms so costs won’t go up.
CMU could easily cut about 20 million dollars and the effects wouldn’t even be noticed. CMU’s bureaucracy and faculty needs to get lean. It’s currently way too bloated.
No one on campus should make more than $175,000, the salary of the Michigan Governor.
Great editorial finish!
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Florenceschneider - March 25
I’ll be optimistic about CMU football again when Dan Enos man-up and reimplements the spread-option as the Chippewas’ base offense.
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By David OlteanStaff Reporter
Gamers matched wits, figu-rines and cards for cash prizes Saturday in the Powers Hall Ballroom.
CMU hosted “Hall-a-Thon 2011,” an all-day tournament featuring collectible and tabletop games such as “Magic: The Gath-ering,” “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and “Heroc-lix” that brought in players state-wide for prizes up to $1,000.
The event was coordinated by Michael Travis-Shuler, owner of local gaming and comics store Hall of Heroes, 316 N. Mission St., with the help of the CMU journalism department.
Travis-Shuler said he was excited to put on the first ever “Hall-a-Thon,” and enjoys orga-nizing the tournaments for their
social aspects.“As a player, to see your op-
ponent across from you rather than play against someone through a computer screen is great,” Travis-Shuler said. “It re-ally allows players to meet new friends and interact.”
The $1,000 grand prize was for the winner of the “Magic” tournament, but the eight victo-rious players in the tournament decided to split the money, giv-ing each $125 to take home.
Other prizes included smaller amounts of money, packs of cards and a rare “White Lantern Superman” figurine for the grand prize winner of “Heroclix.”
Mike Sheldon, building man-
ager of the Heritage Center at Alma College, helped out at the event as a volunteer, or “min-ion,” as the back of his shirt read. Sheldon said he recog-nized there are many common misconceptions about tourna-ments like “Hall-a-Thon.”
“Obviously, there’s no one with excruciating body odor or ghost-white skin,” Shel-don joked. “It’s just a bunch of people having fun and making some friends.”
Ravenna junior Nicholas Smith competed in the “Magic” tournament and said the game takes more skill than most peo-ple think.
“You really have to keep a good poker face, it gets pretty difficult,” Smith said.
Gamers compete in ‘Hall-a-Thon’
viCtoria zegLer/staff photographerGrass Lake junior Kyle Smith plays his final land card before tieing the match with his opponent Saturday afternoon during the Hall of Hereos: Hall-a-thon 2011 in Powers Ballroom. “I wasn’t expecting to be doing as good as I have been today,” Smith said. “I’m certainly not playing with a money deck but I’ve got a few gems hidden in there.”
By Riley NisbetStaff Reporter
World-class resources about the underrepresented global and local health care scenario will be available at an upcoming student-initiated conference.
CMU’s Universities Allied for Essential Medicine registered student organization chapter will host the international-level conference on Saturday and Sunday in Pearce 128. It is open to all students and the general public for free.
“UAEM’s main focus is the access to essential medicine worldwide, especially in under-developed countries,” said Sa-mik Upadhaya, CMU’s UAEM chapter president and Nepal senior.
The conference, titled “Im-proving Global and Local Healthcare Disparities: A Col-laboration Across Disciplines,” will focus on global health in-equalities, especially problems created by neglected tropical diseases.
“These are diseases that are common in low-income popu-
lations in developing countries,” Upadhaya said.
He said he wants students to attend the conference to broad-en their knowledge about dis-eases affecting lesser-developed countries and what students can do to make a difference.
Upadhaya said student-ini-tiated action having driven the development of many hospitals in Nepal proves students can make a difference in ways other than walking a 5-kilometer race.
“There’s no way any one of us could have done this alone or take a lot of credit for it,” said Pratik Chhetri, a senior from Nepal and a member of UAEM’s international coordinating com-mittee.
Upadhaya said more than 16 speakers are confirmed for the conference and each will give a presentation on a particular topic. Speakers include CMU faculty and international speak-ers, including Dr. Ernest Yoder, founding dean of the College of Medicine.
The keynote speaker is Ste-phen Lewis, former United Na-tions Secretary-General’s Special
Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.“We were very surprised (Lew-
is) said yes,” Upadhaya said.Though UAEM focuses on the
quality and accessibility of med-icine, the speakers will discuss a range of topics from anthropol-ogy to personal ethics.
Chhetri said this is because changes in the field of medi-cine requires more than just a change in access to medicine. He said there is more than just one problem involved.
A brainstorming session will be held at the end of each day wherein attendees of the con-ference can discuss what was learned and what can be done now to make a change.
“It is designed to explore the possibility of starting a multidis-ciplinary team focused on glob-al (and local) health disparities and increase diversity in the uni-versity’s curriculum,” Upadhaya said in a follow-up email. “This is important because at the end of the day, the reason behind all of this effort is to benefit the campus and the community.”
Focus of health conference will be on international issues
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perry fish/staff photographerMount Pleasant resident Jeff Eddington shovels barley from a brew kettle into a trailer on Tuesday afternoon at the Mount Pleas-ant Brewing Company, 614 W. Pickard St. The barley is used to make Indian Pale Ale and is fed to local cattle after it is separated from water.
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Whether they won or came up short, partici-pants in Saturday’s Broad-way Film Festival were excited to showcase their movie-making talents.
The Broadway Theatre, 216 E. Broadway St., saw about 150 attendees at the event. The audience watched contestant-sub-mitted short films and were invited to buy raffle tickets to win various prizes.
Lansing junior Leah Far-rell was one of five stu-dents who organized the Broadway Film Festival as part of RPL 430: Planning Recreation Programs and Events. Her role was to get in contact with the Broad-way Theatre about the idea as well as supervising the volunteers in the lounge during the event.
“Our goal was to make over $500,” Farrell said. “I believe we were extremely successful in reaching that goal.”
The event raised about $1,000 through ticket sales, concessions, raffle tickets and change col-lected in voting jars.
“Community events like this are great for the Broadway Theatre because it brings new people to the Broadway,” said Phil Mikus, chair-man of Friends of the Broadway. “Individuals who have never been to this historic theater will come today, and they’ll fall in love with the building.”
Eight films were present-ed at the festival, many of which were provided by F1rst Post Entertainment, a registered student orga-nization centered on film-making.
Each film had a change jar and the viewer votes were based on the total currency in each. Films were required to be in DVD format, up to 15 minutes long and appropriate for the general public.
All the money raised went toward renovating the theater.
“We’ll put the money to-ward the roof repair,” Mi-kus said. “The Broadway Theatre was built in 1919, and we are in the process of continuing to maintain it. Repairing the roof is around a $50,000 project.”
Among the films were
“Torpedo,” “From Flabby to Fantastic” and winner “Nightmare on East Illinios Street,” made by Dominic Sheahan-Stahl, a former Mount Pleasant resident who lives in New York City.
“Kribs,” a film by Grosse Ile junior Michael Jurecki, had the audience laughing throughout its run.
“I spent about four hours filming it as well as two hours editing it,” Jurecki said. “I watched a lot of the show ‘Cribs’ (on MTV ) in the past, and I couldn’t think of anything else that great, so this is what I came up with.”
Jurecki said watching the other entries gave him good ideas for other films to make, so he will return to the festival next year.
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No one was injured when snow and ice damaged parked vehicles next to Cel-ani Hall last week.
Capt. Fred Harris of CMU Police said heavy snow and ice collected on the metal roof of the residence hall from Tuesday’s storm. It melted as the temperature warmed throughout the day and began to fall from the roof on Thursday afternoon.
“Those big sheets of heavy snow and ice came off the roof and damaged several vehicles right next to the building,” Harris said. “I be-lieve they ended up towing four vehicles because of the damage to the hoods (and) windshields ... to prevent further damage to them.”
He said three CMU po-lice officers were on scene to block off the area. Facili-ties Management also was called, he said.
“They were on site and setting up barricades to keep people out of that area,” Harris said.
Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Management, could not be reached for comment. Gen-eral Counsel Manuel Rupe could not be reached for comment to answer legal in-quiries about the damages.
Harris said Residence Life stationed staff by the door-ways to make sure students were not coming out and stepping into potential dan-ger from falling snow and ice.
“They were taking safety measures out there to keep students, faculty and staff away from that area,” he said.
Steely Pegg, residence hall director for Fabiano and Celani halls, could not be reached for comment.
Students could only enter
Fabiano Hall’s east entrance or the south entrance by Celani Hall until 4 p.m. on Friday. No entrance leading directly into Celani was ac-cessible because of the fall-ing snow and ice hazard.
Tricia Henry, a resident assistant for Woldt Hall, stood guard at an off-limits entrance Thursday evening outside of Fabiano during a shift. Henry said she did not know any of the people whose vehicles were dam-aged, but she saw pictures of the vehicles after they were hit.
“I thought it was surpris-ing,” the Illinois junior said. “I have never heard of it hap-pening in years before.”
Harris said he has been
working for CMU Police for five years and he could not recall a situation like this happening before.
Dewitt freshman Lindsay Chestnut took a turn guard-ing an off-limits entrance outside of Celani Hall. She said she was not aware of snow falling off roofs any-where else on campus that damaged vehicles.
“It is kind of like a freaky thing,” she said.
Janice Trionfi, director of risk management, environ-mental health and safety, could not be reached for comment to answer inqui-ries about preventing a sim-ilar situation in the future.
Safety a primary concern after snow, ice fell from Celani Hall roof
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About 150 attend downtown event
“Community events like this are great for the Broadway
theatre because it brings new people to the Broadway.Phil Mikus, friends of the Broadway chairman
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made him feel at home.“It feels so good to be here,”
said Royce as he first took the stage.
Mark Garland, a CMU alum-nus from Clarkston, was im-pressed by the concert.
“I thought it was great. I think Mount Pleasant should be more active in hip hop,” Garland said. “I’ve been following Yelawolf for a while. He’s got an original style. It’s nice that he’s getting some recognition, now that he’s signed to Shady.”
Garland said although he would’ve liked to see Eminem, he was excited Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse showed up, and speculated that if both acts came to CMU a year from now, they could sell out McGuirk Arena.
“I’m a little disappointed, just because why wouldn’t you want to see Eminem?” Garland said. “It was still big to get Slaughter-house.”
Gary Crafton, owner of Plus One Entertainment, said he en-joyed the show as a fan of hip-hop, but had hoped for a better turnout.
“Other than it being a weak
turnout, I thought the show was great,” Crafton said. “The energy was great. The guys put on a good show.”
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paige CaLaMari/staff photographerYelawolf performs for a crowd of 450 attendants on Friday night at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
The Students in Free Enter-prise registered student orga-nization knows buying and keeping a house is a challenging endeavor in a troubled economy and, it wants to help.
SIFE is a leadership organi-zation that appeals to students interested in business and help-ing the community. In an effort to improve Mount Pleasant’s housing crisis, SIFE has teamed up with Listening Ear, 107 E. Illi-nois St., an organization focused on human service and housing assistance for Michigan resi-dents, said SIFE President Amir Abu-Aita.
Abu-Aita, a Clio sophomore, said the project is part of an annual competition which re-quires SIFE teams to come up with ways to help their commu-nities by focusing on an issue and finding a solution.
“Housing troubles are the number-one issue in the United States, not to mention in Mount Pleasant,” Abu-Aita said. “We picked an issue that would help the economy and people’s lives
if resolved.”If the team wins the regional
competition in Chicago, then they will go on to nationals in Minneapolis. From there, they have a chance to compete at the World Cup. The better they place, the more grants they will receive for philanthropy, proj-ects and trips.
This year’s project focuses on holding seminars for commu-nity members thinking about buying a home or facing fore-closure. SIFE members work alongside Listening Ear’s hous-ing counselor, Teagen Lefere, to put together presentations and counseling opportunities.
“We put on big seminars and reach out to people that are go-ing through the troubles of pur-chasing a home or facing fore-closure,” Abu-Aita said. “People need to know that there are op-tions and a way out.”
The first seminar was held on March 23, focusing on introduc-ing homebuyers to the basic facts behind purchasing a home. Abu-Aita said about 24 people attended and the seminar re-ceived unanimous approval.
Kody Herman, Suttons Bay
junior and SIFE vice president, joined CMU’s organization after hearing Abu-Aita’s project ideas and long-term goals.
“No one wants to see a family out in the street,” Herman said. “The more educated people are, the less likelihood of the is-sue increasing. You can’t blame people for being scared, and we just want to help anyone in trouble.”
SIFE will release the dates of upcoming seminars in early April. They plan to make it a continuous project throughout the year.
Bloomfield Hills freshman Gabriel Daramola is the latest addition to CMU’s SIFE.
“SIFE is a great organization for students that have a passion for business and are interested in using their skills to do good for the community,” Daramola said.
Daramola said the group’s projects not only help the com-munity, but by attending com-petitions, its members get their feet in the door with big-name corporations.
RSO hosts house-buying seminars
By Annie HarrisonStaff Reporter
University President George Ross will join a stu-dent panel on Tuesday to re-spond to questions about the college experience at CMU.
The Speak Up, Speak Out forum, titled “College Life: The Good, the Bad and the Solutions,” takes place at 7 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
Merlyn Mowrey, chair-woman of the SUSO organiz-ing committee and facilitator of the forum, said the forum will feature research about students’ perceptions of their experiences at CMU.
“It’s almost like holding a mir-ror up to students,” she said.
She said she hopes stu-dents will be “active rather than passive” and seize the opportunity to share their opinions with Ross.
“The president isn’t there to lecture, he is there to lis-ten and respond,” she said. “The things we say can help shape his perception.”
Mowrey, an associate pro-fessor of philosophy and religion, said her goals for the forum are to think more about how to be successful in the classroom.
“We really do get a broader and more varied feedback,” she said. “We never finish learning about how to be good teachers.”
Grand Blanc senior and panelist Brooke Adams said many students are often un-involved or overinvolved in extracurricular activities.
“The most important thing you are here for is aca-demics,” she said.
Newaygo senior and pan-elist Kasey Stevens said it is important for students to “develop as an individual outside of class.”
Stevens said he is passion-ate about the issue of reten-tion and hopes the forum addresses different ways to make students knowledge-able about student services.
“Sometimes we fail to make resources known to help students succeed,” he said.
Stevens said students should attend because they deserve a chance to speak up about what they want from their college experience.
“It’s up to us to make our voices heard,” he said. “We just have to hope someone listens.”
Milford graduate student Samantha Thorpe also will be a panelist.
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Former Central Michigan University soccer coach Tom Anagnost coached in his first game since taking over at the University of Miami in December, playing to a 1-1 tie against Florida on March 21.
“I think our women played pretty well, especially with it being the first time playing 11 a side,” Anagnost said. “I feel like they did a good job taking the training they re-ceived and applying it to the game. I am very interested to see how committed these kids are to getting better ev-ery day from here on and if we can do a better job the next time out.”
Last season, the Hurricanes finished 10-8-1 overall and 4-6 in the Atlan-tic Coast Conference.
Tom Anagnost coaches first game at Miami
Opening day is on its way. The Detroit Tigers begin their 2011 season at 1:05 p.m. Thursday against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The game will be televised on ESPN.
The Tigers are expected to contend for in the American League Central after an off-season shopping spree, in which they signed catcher/designated hitter Victor Martinez to a four-year, $50 million deal, relief pitcher Joaquin Beniot to a three-year, $16.5 million contract and starting pitcher Brad Penny to a one-year, $3 mil-lion contract.
The first game at Comerica Park will be at 3:05 p.m. April 8th against the Kansas City Royals. Before they begin their home schedule, the Ti-gers will travel to Baltimore to face the Orioles.
Opening day nears for Tigers
Former Central Michigan University basketball player and current Los Angeles Clippers center Chris Ka-man may be booked for the summer.
He is considering a trip to Lithuania this summer to compete for the German na-tional team in the European Championships beginning in August.
Kaman is considering but hasn’t given a definite answer because he is waiting on the commitment of a fellow NBA player Dirk Nowitzki.
“If Dirk plays, I will,” Ka-man said. “ “If he’s not play-ing, then I’m not playing. ... It’s all on him.”
Kaman considers playing for Germany
CMU swimming and diving team wins Akron heat
The Central Michigan Uni-versity swimming and diving club took first place in an in-vitational at the University of Akron over the weekend.
CMU finished with a score of 377, ahead of second-place Akron, Slippery Rock University, Xavier and Bowl-ing Green.
CMU swept by Miami to start MAC play
By Anthony FenechSenior Reporter
They didn’t show up in the box score, but they could have gone either way.
Two late-inning defensive plays, a line drive up the middle an inch away or a deep fly ball a foot away. But in a conference-opening series sweep by
Miami University, they were the biggest plays.
“The bottom line is that we had two opportunities to win,” said Central Michigan baseball head coach Steve Jaksa.
In the bottom of the ninth inning of Friday night’s series opener at McKie Field in Oxford, Ohio, with the score tied at one, runners on first and second and the Chippewas at bat, Jaksa de-cided to pinch-hit senior infielder Tom Howard.
The move came just after RedHawks starter Mac Thore-son was pulled in favor of left-handed reliever Sam Dawe
and after Thoreson previously stymied the CMU offense to one run on seven hits.
Howard lined a pitch up the middle, but off of Dawes glove and to RedHawks second baseman Jon Edgington, who turned an inning-ending double play.
“Unfortunately that ball didn’t go through,” Jaksa said.
The ball didn’t go through and, two innings later, the ball went over the head of sophomore second baseman Jordan Dean as a bloop single off the bat of Miami first baseman Kyle Wel-don scored the winning run in the 2-1 extra-innings victory.
“It would have been nice to have gotten a little momentum in that first game,” Jaksa said.
Junior starting pitcher Trent Howard pitched nine innings, allowing one run on five hits and struck out 13. In relief,
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ANDREW KUHN/staff photographerHead football coach Dan Enos and quaterbacks coach Morris Watts look on as junior quarterback Ryan Radcliff drops back for a pass Saturday morning during spring practice at the CMU Indoor Athletic Complex.
stafford adjusting to role as head coachs o CC E R
By John ManzoStaff Reporter
A job transition is much easier when it involves change within the system.
New CMU head soccer coach Neil Stafford was an assistant under former head coach Tom Anagnost before he took the same job at the University of Miami in January.
Anagnost must adjust to a differ-ent program, but Stafford avoids that hassle. He knows his players and a
majority of his opponent’s, and he’s already in the same environment.
“The relationship with the players is the same and so are the expecta-tions,” Stafford said. “There was a plus with the continuity with me tak-ing over. “
The expectations are high for the soccer program after Anagnost led the Chippewas to back-to-back Mid-American Conference Champion-ships and two consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.
Having Stafford here is a plus for
both him and the program, as he spent valuable time learning from the coach who had the most success with the CMU program.
“I was fortunate to see how hard Tom worked in certain areas,” Stafford said. “That experience with Tom has made me a better coach and it prepared me to be better.”
The experience can certainly be beneficial, but this is the Stafford era. Anagnost is off into the sunset. It
RB Austin White OK with sitting out season
By John ManzoStaff Reporter
Central Michigan running back Austin White is biding his time — waiting for an opportunity.
The 6-foot, 200-pound freshman transfer from the University of Mich-igan must sit out the entire 2011 football season due to NCAA trans-fer regulations, but it isn’t hindering his attitude.
In fact, in his eyes, the wait may be well worth it — for him and for anybody who is a fan of the CMU football program.
White believes the wait will make him hungry to get back onto the field for actual games once the 2012 season comes around.
“All the training will build up a lit-tle fire inside my stomach,” he said. “I feel like when I get out there I’m going to be hungry to make things happen.”
White may be ineligible for game action, but the freshman can still take part in practices, something he and CMU head coach Dan Enos looks at as beneficial.
“He needs to learn the system and just get better every day,” Enos said. “We need to keep him motivated
Full circle return
ANDREW KUHN/staff photographerJunior defensive back Jahleel Addae stretches Saturday morning during the football team’s first spring practice at the CMU Indoor Athletic Complex.
Twenty-one years after coaching Dan Enos at Michigan State, Morris Watts comes to CMU to lend his expertise with the QBs
By Justin Hicks | Staff Reporter
Chippewas drop DH Saturday to start 0-3 in conference play
Enos says he has a chance to be ‘real, real good’
Austin White
Vitals:6 feet, 200 pounds
High school:Livonia Stevenson HS
Notables:- Four-star recruit, named the fifth-best player in Michigan in 2009 by Scout.com- Carried for 1,494 yards and 21 touchdowns his senior sea-son; 1,610 yards and 28 TDs junior year
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file photo by SEAN pRoctoRNeil Stafford speaks to Kyle Kelley of CMU Athletic Communications after being named the team’s head coach.
HoTsTART| Track and field teams boast many top finishes at first outdoor meets
voLLEybALL| CMU beats Ferris State in first match at McGuirk Arena
-Compiled by Staff Reporter John Manzo
Game 1: l, 2-1 (11 inn.)Game 2: l, 3-0Game 3: l, 9-4
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Morris Watts enjoys fishing and hunting.Following the 2003 football season, he made
the decision to retire from coaching and give attention to such hobbies. Two years later, the excitement faded.
“I spent my whole life wanting to be the best coach I could be, 24 hours a day,” Watts said. “The biggest reason I came back to coaching after retiring was I was bored. I felt lost.”
Watts held the position of quarterbacks coach at Michigan State during Enos’ time there. As a coach and a mentor, Watts helped Enos lead the Spartans to two bowl victories and a 1990 Big Ten Championship.
Now, 21 years later, Watts will work under Enos as the quarterbacks coach and passing game co-ordinator for the Central Michigan football team.
“I coached Enos at college,” Watts said. “And when he called me with the job, it was an excit-ing thing to look forward to.”
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By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan wom-en’s track and field team opened up the outdoor season with a strong start this weekend.
Most of the team traveled to the Vanderbilt-hosted Black and Gold Invitational in Nash-ville, Tenn., while distance run-ners senior Danielle Dakroub and freshman Krista Parks went to Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif.
At Stanford, the runners made a good showing. Dak-roub finished sixth in her sec-tion with a personal-best time of 16:54.39, while Parks finished with a time of 17:45.23.
The rest of the team, how-ever, was in Vanderbilt for the Black and Gold Invitational this weekend, where CMU earned nine top-five finishes in the sprinting events.
“It was a solid opener. Not as warm as we wanted it, but it was solid and we have a lot good things to work from,” said Willie Randolph, CMU track and field director. “We’re going in the right direction.”
In the 100-meter hurdles, sophomore Tamica Harbour
placed second with a time of 15.04 seconds, while teammate senior Brittnee Shreve finished just behind her at third with a time of 15.13.
The 4x100-meter relay team consisting of seniors Shreve and Dunn, junior Dierra Riley and freshmen Kirlene Roberts took first place in the event with a time of 46.73.
In the field events, CMU came away with four top-five finishes. Freshmen Samantha Stein and Megan Heffner were among those top five finishes, both of which taking fifth place in the jump, with leaps of 5 feet, 2 1/2 inches.
Senior Katie Christensen also took fifth in the discus with a throw of 129 feet, four inches. She went on to shatter her per-sonal best in the hammer toss with a throw of 145 feet, three inches. Senior Mykal Imbrock bested that, coming in second with a throw of 172 feet, 10 inches.
Overall, CMU finished in the Top 10 23 times, with 13 of those coming in the top five. The women are proving they have a good mix of veterans and young talent by having 10
of the 23 Top-10 finishes com-ing from underclassmen, six of which being freshmen.
“Communication between upper and underclassmen and the coaches and for them to understand everyone’s roles,” Randolph said of the key to success this season. “We had a big recruiting class last year and they are getting support from the upperclassmen.”
One of the underclassmen that have been contributing this season has been freshmen sprinter Shawntoreah Turk.
“The freshman are really driven, coach Randolph really focuses on us because we are his first real class,” Turk said. “He knows we’re going to be the team next year and the years to come.”
Turk placed second in the 400-meter dash over the week-end with a time of 56.54.
“I was really excited, I didn’t think I would run under 57 sec-onds because my legs were re-ally heavy,” Turk said. “I actually kept up with one of our seniors. I was excited to be able to beat her.”
Women use weekend meet to gel
By J. Brady McColloughMCT Campus
SAN ANTONIO — The Kan-sas Jayhawks made their push, cutting the Virginia Common-wealth lead to two after trailing by as many as 18. But from then on, the same issues that plagued Kansas in the first half hurt them again down the stretch in a 71-61 VCU win that will go down as one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history.
In the end, the Jayhawks, 35-3, could not defend the
3-point line or make a 3 them-selves, and they certainly could not make enough free throws to put down the Rams, who beat their fifth BCS conference opponent on Sunday at the Ala-modome.
For Kansas coach Bill Self’s program, VCU will now reign supreme among mid-majors Bucknell, Bradley and Northern Iowa, who foiled the Jayhawks in the past. Kansas was the only No. 1 seed left and would have played No. 8 seed Butler for a chance to play for the national
championship had it advanced to the Final Four.
The stats said it all in this one:
Kansas made 54 percent (15 of 28) of its free throws. VCU made 77 percent (17 of 22).
Kansas made 10 percent (two of 21) of its 3s. VCU made 48 percent (12 of 25).
KU’s Marcus Morris had 20 points and 16 rebounds in what could be his last game as a Jay-hawk. But VCU’s Jamie Skeen was the star, scoring 26 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
VCU stuns Kansas, moves on to Final Four next week
By Brandon ChampionStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan men’s track and field team traveled to warmer climates this week-end to escape the inclement weather in Michigan.
As it turns out, the poor weather found them anyway.
The Chippewas sent most of the team to the Black and Gold Invitational — hosted by the University of Vanderbilt — in Nashville, Tenn., over the weekend to open the outdoor season, but the meet was cut short due to severe weather in the area.
“We knew going into the meet that we were going to have to deal with the weather,” said Willie Randolph, CMU’s director of cross country and track and field. “It’s something our kids were prepared for so it didn’t really affect us.”
CMU did not appear to be phased by the weather, as sev-eral athletes had impressive performances before the meet was canceled due to poor con-ditions. CMU won four events and had 17 top-five perfor-
mances on the day.
P e r h a p s most nota-bly was the performance of standout f r e s h m a n sprinter Ross Parsons, who had one of those wins. Parsons won the 100-meter dash and took second in the 200-meter dash. Fellow underclassmen Greg Knaus finished third and fourth, respectively, in the same events.
Freshman Parker Scott joined the underclassmen parade to the podium by win-ning the 400-meter hurdles.
“I was really impressed with the performances by some of our young kids,” Randolph said. “It’s great to see them get it done and finish the top five.”
As impressive as the young athletes were, the upperclass-men weren’t to be outdone as junior Charles Stinson won 110-meter hurdles with a time of 15.16 seconds.
The men’s 4x100 meter re-lay team of David Ashcraft, Renaldo Powell, Parsons and Knaus also finished first.
The Chippewas were also impressive in the field events, as senior John Calvert finished
second in the shot put with a throw of 54 feet.
Junior Ryan McCullough finished second in both the hammer throw and the dis-cus, setting personal bests in both events. Junior Kevin Ba-con added a second place fin-ish in the triple jump, leaping 44 3 1/4 feet.
“This weekend was a solid meet for us as a team and me personally,” McCullough said. “I still think I have more left in the tank, but it was a good stepping stone.”
Stanford InvIteThe Chippewas also sent
distance runners Tecumseh Adams and Matt Lutzke to the Stanford Invitational in Cali-fornia. Adams finished eighth in the men’s 5000-meter run.
“I think a lot of solid things were accomplished this week-end,” Randolph said. “It’s a very promising way to start the outdoor season. It was a good weekend, but staying focused in practice is still the number one priority. We still have work to do.”
The Chippewas will stay closer to home next weekend when they travel to Toledo, Ohio, to compete in the To-ledo Collegiate Challenge.
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The Central Michigan volley-ball team was finally able to get back on the court on Saturday, after a disappointing loss in the first round of the Mid-Amer-ican Conference tournament last November.
The Chippewas hosted their first game at McGuirk Arena after playing the entire regular season at Finch Feildhouse dur-ing renovations to the arena.
CMU hosted Ferris State University, which finished the 2010 season with a 18-10 over-all record and a 13-6 mark in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, in its an-nual spring game and were able to pull out a hard fought victory in five sets, 23-25, 25-16, 23-25, 25-22 and 15-13.
“It was really nice getting back into our normal locker room and facilities,” said CMU head coach Erik Olson. “It’s re-ally helped our off-the-court chemistry which is so impor-tant for a women’s team.”
This spring has proved to have been a dramatic improve-ment over last year, when the Chippewas were dealing with several different challenges. It was during that time they learned they would not be able to play their home games in the new arena and would have to locate elsewhere.
“Last spring was almost a
negative time for us,” Olson said. “Just being displaced and dealing with a young team was difficult. This spring, training has just been going well — ev-eryday we walk out of the gym and feel like we’re getting better and better.”
The small crowd that was in attendance at McGuirk Arena got a sneak peak at next year’s
team. The Chippewas featured a balanced attack led by sopho-more Katie Schuette and ju-nior Kaitlyn Schultz. CMU also got strong performances from sophomores Jocelyn VerVelde and Lindsey Delude.
Another bright spot for CMU was the play of the young de-fensive specialists, including Jenna Coates, who saw signifi-
cant playing time last fall, and Jordan Hinkle, who was red-shirted last year.
“This is the importance of the spring game,” Olson said. “It gives us a chance to grow as a team and play some play-ers that usually don’t get to play that much.”
The Chippewas will contin-ue spring training throughout
March and will be joined by the freshman class this summer in preparation for the new season, set to begin in the fall.
Back in November, three players signed national letter of intents to join the program for the 2011 season. Middle block-
er Hallie Enderle (Mankato, Minn.), outside hitter Kaitlynn McIntyre (Beaver Dam, Wis.) and defensive specialist Haley Barker (Clarkston) consist of the Chippewas’ recruiting class.
Volleyball plays first match at McGuirk
Photos by Jeff SMith/staff PhotograPherSophomore defensive specialist Jenna Coates bumps the ball during an exhibition match against Ferris State on Saturday afternoon at McGuirk Arena. CMU won the match 3-1.
Junior middle blocker Jocelyn VerVelde blocks the ball during an exhibition match against Ferris State on Saturday.
Soccer beats Wisconsin, ties Oakland in spring games
“Defensively, we were very average and I was a bit disappointed
with our upperclassmen, but I’m glad to see they’re starting to gel.”
Neil Stafford, head coach
By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan wom-en’s soccer team picked up a win over Wisconsin and a tie against Oakland Sunday as part of its spring season.
In their first game of the day, the Chippewas blanked the Badgers 2-0, who beat OU ear-lier in the day 2-0.
Dribbling through defenders, junior Ashley Mejilla found the back of the net to take a 1-0 lead. Sophomore Estee Outcalt pad-ded CMU’s lead on a long ball from the right side of the field, finding the upper left corner of the net.
“Ashley Mejila was fantastic in the first half of the Wisconsin game,” said CMU head coach Neil Stafford. “It was nice to see our forwards and midfielders combining and being more cre-ative.”
In her first collegiate min-utes between the pipes, redshirt freshman Grace Labrecque didn’t give up a goal, helping her team solidify the victory.
“It was great to see Grace out there,” Stafford said. “She’s been struggling with stress fractures for a good chunk of time, and didn’t see any minutes this fall. To see her come out and be a part of things was really special for us.”
CMU doubled its opponent’s shots total, controlling the ma-jority of possession time in the win.
Stafford wasn’t as pleased with the quickness of his Chip-pewas against Oakland.
“We started out fantastic against Wisconsin,” he said. “You make changes in the spring time, trying different things, and I felt like we took our foot off the gas a little bit,
which was disappointing.”CMU got on the board first
again when Charlese McLem-ore intercepted a pass and sent a low shot past the Grizzlies goaltender.
OU answered back quickly, evening the score on a shot by sophomore Lindsey Hamann.
The majority of starters in the second game were reserves, but Stafford made a major sub-stitution after a goal by Laurie Nosbusch broke the 1-1 tie. The team was out-shot 6-2 before the substitution, but took con-trol of that stat column from that point on.
Nicole Samuel capitalized on a corner kick before halftime, sending a header into the back of the net. The tally would end
up being the last of the day, as both teams were scoreless in the second half.
“We’re controlling the ball more, and not playing kickball,” senior Claire Horton said of the team’s play. “We have a lack in communication and organiz-ing each other sometimes, but once we start helping and di-recting each other on the field we’re going to be a lot better.”
Said Stafford: “Defensively, we were very average and I was a bit disappointed with our upperclassmen, but I am glad to see they’re starting to gel together and we’re looking for-ward to getting to Michigan this weekend.”
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Central Michigan softball will play a doubleheader on Tuesday against Oakland University (5-15) in Roches-ter Hills in the last two games before conference play starts.
Oakland has three play-ers with above .340 averages: sophomores Abbie Richard-son (.364), Erin Galloway
(.359) and junior Kelsey Krych (.343).
Senior Kari Seddon (4-4) and sophomore Kara Dorn-bos (4-3) are the expected CMU starters to face the Golden Grizzlies. Both pitch-ers have an earned run aver-age of under 1.30.
On Friday, the Chippe-was will go to Kalamazoo to face rival Western Michi-gan University (4-18) in a doubleheader, then travel to DeKalb, Ill., to play Northern Illinois (10-11) on Saturday
and Sunday. Both teams are in the Mid-American Confer-ence West Division with CMU (13-9).
The last three CMU games have been canceled due to bad weather. The Chippe-was were scheduled to play Indiana March 20 and Indi-ana-Purdue Fort Wayne last Wednesday.
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Seddon, Dornbos expected starters against Grizzlies
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won’t all be the same. One of the areas Stafford has
emphasized since taking over is showing trust in his players. He’s allowed his team to play through more than what it’s used to, saying the Chippewas looked almost robotic at times last season.
“I want to let them just play and figure things out for themselves because I think we were a little bit regimented before,” he said. “We almost looked too computer-like or
too programed, but we were certainly disciplined before and we want to keep that dis-cipline up again.”
Senior midfielder Claire Horton played under Anag-nost for her first three seasons. It can be difficult for upper-classmen to adjust with a new coaching change because they are so far along in their career, but Horton said the transition has be quite easy for her.
“I’m surprised since I had Tom for three years,” she said of the smooth transition. “But I think Neil’s doing a great job with us and I think we’ll con-tinue to get better with him as the coach.”
Horton, defender Liesel Toth and forward Chelsi Ab-bott are the only three se-niors on a team that lost three seniors following last season. All three juniors last season were vocal, but Hor-ton said their leadership roles will have to increase with the departure of Shay Mannino, Valerie Prause and Jenna Hill.
“We definitely have to step it up a lot more this year,” she said. “Our three seniors were very vocal last year, especial-ly Jenna in the midfield. We really need to step it up.”
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The 2011 season will be Watts’ 48th season coaching. Penn State’s Joe Paterno and Southern California’s Monte Kiffin are the only active NCAA Bowl Subdivision coaches with more coaching experience in college and professional foot-ball.
“Coaching is about affect-ing young people and here’s a guy who has had a huge ef-fect on me, not only as a coach and a player, but as a person,” Enos said. “That’s why I coach. I want to have an impact on all these young guys in our program. I want to help them develop into men, to be good husbands and fathers and good role models, and here is a guy who had that effect on me and it’s a great feeling having him on our staff.”
CoaChIng CareerWatts has built up quite the
resume in his career as a foot-ball coach.
Upon graduating from the University of Tulsa in 1961, he started as a high school assis-tant coach in Missouri until 1965, when he took a step up to the college level.
Over the next 18 years, Watts left his mark at various colleg-es, including Drake, Louisville, Indiana, Kansas and Louisiana State. He took another step up in 1984, taking the position as quarterbacks coach for the Birmingham Stallions of the now defunct United States Football League, but returned to MSU in 1986 for Enos’ fresh-man year.
“I really appreciated how hard Enos worked for me as a player,” Watts said. “He was al-ways a dedicated player at the quarterback position, making the offense better and making the other players better.”
It was obvious to Watts that Enos would make an outstand-ing coach based on how he set his priorities as a player.
“If (a player) has great work habits and they demand excel-lence from themselves, then they’re going to be a good teacher because that’s what they’re going to demand from their guys,” Watts said.
MSU said goodbye to its quarterback and quarterbacks coach in 1991. Enos graduated and Watts took a job in the NFL, coaching quarterbacks for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“Football is football. The biggest difference is the speed of the game and the skill level of the guys you’re coaching,” Watts said. “Otherwise, it’s not much different coaching at the different levels.”
He came back to college football in 1992 and worked at MSU, LSU and Mississippi State. Following the 2003 sea-son, Watts retired from coach-ing.
“When he retired, I (said) I didn’t know how this guy was going to stay retired,” Enos said.
Enos knew his mentor well and, upon returning to col-lege coaching in 2009, Watts worked at Miami (Ohio) Uni-versity as the quarterbacks coach.
He took over as the offensive coordinator in 2010, captur-ing the Mid-American Con-ference title, and helping the RedHawks to a 35-21 win in
the GoDaddy.com Bowl — his 12th career bowl appearance.
LookIng at the ChIppewaSFollowing Saturday’s prac-
tice, the team’s sixth of 14 spring workouts, Watts said he is hap-py with where the quarterbacks were, but said they needed to relax more.
“Those guys are growing, but they’re playing a little uptight,” he said. “They’re wanting to be good so bad that they’re not relaxed and just playing the game.”
Junior Ryan Radcliff has re-ally stood out to Watts at this point, improving at each of the practices thus far.
“Radcliff, I think, is having an excellent spring,” he said. “I like his attitude and how intense he is in meetings and how he just really wants to be a great player. He’s got to keep climbing and getting better at every practice, and not drop off.”
As the starting quarterback in 2010, Radcliff threw for 3,358 yards during a 3-9 season. He threw 17 touchdowns, but had just as many interceptions.
“Coach Watts obviously knows his stuff because he’s been around and he knows what’s going on,” Radcliff said. “He’s more about adapting (the structure) to the quarterback rather than adapting quar-terbacks to the structure. By adapting to quarterback, he helps you specifically achieve your best, based on how you perform.”
The team will continue prac-ticing the next three weeks, leading up to the spring game at 7:30 p.m. April 15 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
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sophomore Dietrich Enns walked three and was tabbed with the first loss of his colle-giate career.
In the second game, Mi-ami scored three runs in the top of the ninth on back-to-back errors by senior short-stop Robbie Harman for a 3-0 victory.
An inning earlier, senior first baseman Brendan Em-mett flied out to deep center field with two runners on be-fore RedHawks center fielder Ryan Brenner made a run-ning one-handed catch to end the inning.
“Six inches to a foot of a difference,” Jaksa said, “and that one falls in.”
Junior reliever Harvey Martin picked up the loss for CMU (9-15, 0-3 Mid-Ameri-can Conference), after taking
over for starting pitcher Zach Cooper in the eighth inning.
Cooper did not allow a run in seven-plus innings pitched. He struck out eight.
In the series finale, part of a Saturday doubleheader scheduled because of Sun-day storms in the area, the RedHawks (12-11, 3-0 MAC) tagged starting pitcher Jake Sabol for seven runs on seven hits in the first three innings and cruised to a 9-4 win.
Tom Howard drove in two runs and hits leader Tyler Hall had two hits.
“Results aside, I think we pitched very well,” Jaksa said. “I think we played our first two games very well. But we didn’t convert hits well enough.”
The Chippewas return to action with back-to-back midweek games at Notre Dame and Michigan State beginning on Tuesday.
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because he’s very competi-tive and he’ll probably get a little frustrated during the fall because he’ll want to be out on the field.”
The practice time is cer-tainly beneficial for White, but it can also be a bonus for his teammates. He in-sisted that he wants to get himself better every day, but he also wants to push his teammates to step up and improve themselves.
“My biggest thing is to keep progressing and get better, even though I can’t play in the games,” he said. “I didn’t see the field last year (at Michigan) and can’t this year, but I can bring a whole competitive nature and just raise peoples’ level of play.”
When he returns in 2012, expect production out of the running back who grad-uated from Stevenson High School in Livonia. Scout.com ranked him the fifth-best player in the state and 15th-best in the nation dur-ing his senior season in 2009.
During his senior season at Stevenson, he rushed for 1,494 yards and 21 touch-downs. He tallied 1,610 yards and 28 touchdowns as a junior.
“He’s a real natural run-ner and very quick,” Enos said. “He has tremendous ball skills and is real tough. He has a chance to be real, real good. He’ll be real hun-gry.”
The former U-M running back said he felt comfort-able at CMU during his visit to Mount Pleasant and ul-timately went with his gut feeling while choosing his new school.
“It was close to home and I know coach Enos and I know what he’s about and his plans,” he said. “It felt like the right fit to me and that means a lot.”
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By Randi shafferSenior Reporter
Ravenna senior Jordan Kantola wanted to help stu-dents relieve the semester’s stress by hosting a second Rave to Release the Rage event in Woldt Hall’s lower-level lobby.
The Emmons Hall resi-dent assistant said about 150 students attended the rave, which was held over Thursday night through 2 a.m. Friday.
Kantola said he had the idea for the first Rave to Re-lease the Rage at the sug-gestion of many of his resi-dents. He said the first rave was held prior to final exams during the fall semester.
“I think it was a lot easier this time, only because … I did it last semester and I got
most of the stuff worked out then,” he said.
This semester’s rave ex-panded on last year’s, Kan-tola said. Last semester’s rave featured 12 backlights and this semester’s featured 20.
It also had more than 1,000 glow sticks, glow-in-the-dark Mardi Gras beads, two light set-ups, a fog ma-chine, neon glow balloons and a visualizer for students to enjoy, Kantola said.
The cost for this semes-ter’s rave was $450, as op-posed to the $200 cost of last semester’s rave. The money was provided by Residence Hall Assembly.
CMU alumnus Dom Fra-cassa showed up to disc jockey the rave. He said he DJ’ed last semester’s rave and was invited back by Kantola to select the mu-sic for this semester’s event alongside Troy freshman Doug Eng, also known as DJ RubeZ.
“I really like playing the
music,” said Fracassa, also known as Coloreater. “I en-joy seeing people dance and be expressive in their own way to the music that you’re playing and the songs that you’re choosing. It’s really rewarding ... to see the songs that you pick affect people so directly.”
Kantola said both Fracas-sa and Eng played a large va-riety of dubstep, techno and electronic music.
“Doug and I play a pretty big variety of … electronic dance music,” Fracassa said. “We each have our own ap-proach with it comes to playing sets.”
Joe Barone showed up to the rave because he wanted a chance to enjoy the music.
The Bronson sophomore said he participated in the first Rave to Release the Rage and wanted another chance to have fun, be with friends, dance and let it go.
“If there’s (a rave) I’m usu-ally there,” Barone said. “It’s fun. People should do it as
much as they can.”Harbor Beach sophomore
Holly Buchholz said she stopped by the rave to check out the atmosphere because she had never been to a rave before.
“I do like the balloons
and all the highlighter glow stuff,” she said.
Buchholz said she would probably go to a similar event in the future.
Kantola said he plans on holding another rave during next fall’s semester.
“I’m into raves a lot my-self,” he said. “I like dance parties. It was kind of just one of those things I wanted to bring here, like stress re-liever type of stuff.”
Students release stress at rave’s second installmentAbout 150 attend event in lowerlevel of Woldt
jeff sMith/staff photographerSaline freshman Jake Leadbetter dances with crutches during Rave to Release the Rage on Thursday night in the lower level lobby of Woldt Hall. About 150 students attended the event featuring electronic mixes by DJ RubeZ and Coloreater.
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