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By Sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
Little candles flickered along the edges of the walls and tabletops in celebration of the “Festival of Lights” dur-ing Sunday evening’s Diwali Night celebration.
At the Ward Theatre, 218 S. Main St., the Indian Student Association celebrated Diwali Night with about 400 attend-ees who immersed themselves in Indian culture.
The music was like a heart-beat, pumping movement through the veins of Jessica Rorai, Office of International
Affairs admissions officer, who said she was excited to be there.
“The music (there) makes me want to dance, you just can’t sit there. You gotta move,” she said.
ISA president and India se-nior Vinaya Adusumilli said Indian people are not as dif-ferent as they may seem.
“I hope people may be very patient and they understand how Indians get adjusted into American life,” she said.
A fashion show and sever-al dance numbers took place with colorful saris, tradi-tional cotton or silk female
India outer garment, that ranged in deep golds, blues and pinks.
India graduate student Venubabu Nallamothu said he loved the fashion show and felt that he was home.
“It was very good, I would like people to know about our traditions within each other,” he said.
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w Workshop Tuesday on how to form an RSO, 5A
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Governor speaking Thursday at CMU
Cameras add security to residence halls
Diwali Night attracts about 400
Staff Reports
Gov. Jennifer Granholm will speak from 9:15 to 10 a.m. Thurs-day in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium regarding the status of the Michigan Promise.
According to a forwarded e-mail sent over a Leadership In-stitute listserv by Coordinator of Leadership Development Dan Gaken, Mike Zeig, a former Student Government Association President and ap-pointments specialist for the governor, said Granholm will speak on campus to students regarding the Michigan Prom-ise, which was eliminated from the state budget in October.
The scholarship, which pro-vided $4.2 million to 4,200 stu-dents attending Central Michi-
gan University, began in 2007 after the state legislature voted to increase the state-sponsored award to $4,000 from $2,500.
During a conference call Thurs-day with reporters, Granholm said she wants to reallocate some funds from the Earned Income Tax Credit to help fund the Prom-ise. Granholm also will speak at Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Grand Val-ley State University, Saginaw Val-ley State University and Oakland Community College.
Campus Conservatives sent a release Sunday, saying the group plans to protest the event at 8:30 a.m. Thursday outside the Park Library Auditorium. The group cited the trip as a “partisan po-litical rally.”
Granholm to discuss Michigan Promise at Park Library
If you go...w What: Gov. Jennifer Granholm speaking on the Michigan Promisew When: 9:15 a.m. Thursdayw Where: Charles V. Park Library Auditorium
Staff Reports
Four residence halls re-ceived extra surveillance dur-ing the summer and fall.
Shaun Holtgreive, associate director of Residence Life, said 49 cameras were installed in Merrill, Sweeney, Beddow and Thorpe halls. Upgrades were implemented to the cameras in Saxe, Herrig, Celani and Fa-biano halls, as well as the Tow-ers residence halls.
“It gives us the ability to monitor doors and respond to unauthorized doors being propped open,” Holtgreive said.
The cameras on the exterior of the residence halls are next to entrances and side doors, as well as in the main areas of the floors. Holtgreive said the cameras on top of buildings did not provide the quality of picture he was looking for.
He said the parking lots and building perimeters of cam-pus will be left up to Central Michigan University Police,
not Residence Life.“We have got the areas of
concern for us (covered),” Holtgreive said.
Cost: $150,000The cost for the cameras’
wiring and software for Mer-rill, Sweeney, Beddow and Thorpe halls was $150,000, Holtgreive said. The upgrades to the Towers area, along with Fabiano, Saxe, Herrig and Cel-ani halls, did not cost Resi-dence Life anything because it was equipment they already had, said Coordinator of Resi-dential Security Ben Witt.
CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley said there are more than 300 cameras on cam-pus. He anticipates more cameras will be installed in parking lots and on build-ings throughout the campus as remodels and money per-
Gov. Granholm
49 installed in four halls; others receive upgrades
New surveillance around campus
w Beddow Hall: 9w Merrill Hall: 16w Sweeney Hall: 12w Thorpe Hall: 12
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libby march/staff photographerSana Gala, 9, performs an Indian dance during Diwali Night Sunday at Grace Church, 218 S. Main St. Diwali is the Hindu Festival of Lights holiday.
jake may/staff photographerBlanchard senior Mike Miserendino edits audio and video clips together Saturday afternoon during the 48-hour film festival, where students had exactly two days to shoot, edit and produce a film.
The art of the 48-hour film
By Luke DimickStaff Reporter
Produce, direct, film and edit a 7-minute film in 48 hours.
That is what four teams of students did over the week-end for the fourth annual 48-hour film competition hosted by the Central Michigan Uni-versity chapter of the Nation-al Broadcasting Society.
The competition began at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at 6 p.m. Sunday. To keep partici-pants from doing extensive preproduction, the film com-petition committee released a list of elements each film must include:
Line — “I can’t help but feel you’re lying to me.”
Location — StoopTheme — Good guys don’t
always wear white hatsProp — Cup of coffeeScene — A showdown“A lot of people come up
with ideas ahead of time, but we hope that by mak-
ing an elements list that we will keep them from writ-ing or filming anything be-fore the competition starts,” said Grass Lake junior and film competition chairman Colin Hennessy. “It helps to keep things in the 48-hour spirit and keeps people from cheating when faced with a challenge.”
The films will be judged by Kurt Wilson, executive pro-ducer of Public Broadcast-ing. The first-place film will receive a $50 cash prize and second place will receive gift cards and other random priz-es. The films will be show-cased and winners will be announced Nov. 30 in Moore Hall Room 110. The time has not been yet announced.
“We like to have outside sources judge the films so that NBS members can par-ticipate and non-NBS mem-bers don’t think we are play-ing favorites toward any one team,” Hennessy said.
Saint Clair Shores graduate assistant Garrett Tanner was up for the challenge for the third consecutive year. This is a chronicling of the making of his group’s short film “Re-venge.”
6:30 p.m. thursdayBlanchard senior Mike Mis-
erendino sits at the computer in his Jamestown apartment and begins the preproduc-tion for his group’s seven-minute film.
Preproduction is the most important element to the success of a film, he said.
“You can’t write a script un-til you have the elements, but there is a certain amount of planning you can do before-hand,” Tanner said. “It’s hard to go in completely blind so, in the past, what we’ve done is, at the very least, decide whether we want to do a hor-ror movie or a comedy. If you have a genre, then you can basically go where ever you want with it.”
8 p.m. thursdayMiserendino begins writ-
ing the script for “Revenge,” a horrific tale of murder and revenge.
10:05 p.m. thursdayThe script is finished.“We decided to do a hor-
ror movie, then we decided to do a revenge movie, and then we decided to com-bine them,” Miserendino said. “After talking with ev-eryone, I developed a char-acter that I thought would fit the situation. I wanted a concise plot that would be both horrifying and that would support a revenge movie plot line.
Students compete in competition for $50 prize
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“for me, it’s just so much fun. even if we place dead last, I don’t care, it’s just so much fun being able to go up and see what you can do
against other people and see the creative process.”
Garrett Tanner, saint Clair shores graduate assistant
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w “our spirits don’t speak English,” a documentary detailing U.S. government policy on Nat ive American boarding schools, will play at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
w Warren miller’s “dynasty” is play ing at 6:30 p.m. in Plachta Auditorium. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door.
w Keith Little, a Navajo code talker, is speaking on the code talker’s role in World War II at 7 p.m. in the UC Rotunda Room.
tuEsday
w a red Cross blood drive will take place from noon to 5:45 p.m. at the Student Act iv i ty Center. Students who donated on or before Sept. 18 are elig ible.
w a soup and substance session on Nat ive American boarding schools is taking place at noon in the UC Terrace Rooms A-D.
w“Challenges ahead: Energy and the Environment,” a Speak Up, Speak Out forum, will take place at 7 p.m. in the UC Auditorium.
w Comedian Lee Camp is performing at 8 p.m. in the UC Rotunda Room.
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THURS., NOVEMBER 5 – 3pm
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SUN., NOVEMBER 8 – 4pm UC Multicultural Center
MON., NOVEMBER 9 – 5pm
UC Rotunda $3 for CMU Students w/ID, $5 for non-students
TUES., NOVEMBER 10 – 7pm
by Dr. Brenda Child, with book signing afterward UC Rotunda, Free and open to the public
THURS. & MON., NOVEMBER 12 & 16
documentary with discussion afterwardUC Auditorium, Both days at 1pm and 5pm
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MON., NOVEMBER 16 – 7pm
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Documentary with discussion afterward - UC Auditorium
Native American Heritage Month Pow wow Exhibit—Looking into the Past. Regalia, photos and t-shirts from CMU’s annual Pow wow All month, in the Multicultural Education Center, UC125
Sunday, November 1 at 1pm 2nd Annual Environmental Awareness Day; cleaning up campus UC Multicultural Center
Thursday, November 5 at 3pm The “Chippewa” Nickname Forum UC Auditorium
Sunday, November 8 at 4pm AISES Social UC Multicultural Center
Monday, November 9 at 5pm Native American Heritage Month Food Taster $3.00 for CMU Students with I.D., $5.00 for non-students UC Rotunda
Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm "Ojibwe History and the Mount Pleasant Boarding School” by Dr. Brenda Child, with book signing afterward UC Rotunda, Free and open to the public
Thursday & Monday, November 12 & 16 both at 1pm and 5pm Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School documentary with discussion afterward UC Auditorium
CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity within its community. (see http://www.cmich.edu/aaeo/). For more information or for individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations, please contact the Native American Programs at 774-2508 at least two days in advance.
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Monday, November 16 at 7pm Navajo Code Talkers: Keith Little UC Rotunda. Free and open to public.
Tuesday, November 17 at Noon Soup & Substance: Native American Boarding Schools by Veronica Ann Pashfield UC Terrace Rooms
Thursday, November 19, 5pm Dream Catcher Workshop UC Gold Room Free, but space is limited. Call 774-2508 to register
Sunday, November 22 at 7pm Native American Music Awards (Tour)—a musical performance Plachta Auditorium, Free and open to the public
Monday, November 23 at 11am Soup & Substance: Native American Music Awards Performers UC Terrace Rooms
Monday, November 23 at 5pm In Whose Honor, documentary with discussion afterward UC Auditorium
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CMU, an AA/EO institution, strongly and actively strives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity within its community. (see http://www.cmich.edu/aaeo/). For more information or for individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations, please contact the Native American Programs at 774-2508 at least two days in advance.
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“We started out with Gar-rett (Tanner) having this idea for the opening shot and we just kind of built it from that point.”
St. Charles junior Chad Weav-er’s character witnesses Livonia junior Matt Reznik’s character murder Riverview junior Devin Jones’ character. Weaver turns vigilante and murders Reznik in his apartment. A showdown ensues when Reznik’s room-mate, Saint Clair Shores senior Sarah Kamlay’s character, finds the body.
7:55 p.m. FridayAfter a couple hours of re-
working the script to fit the elements, the team is ready to film. It decided to film the most difficult scene of the film first — a continuous shot of Reznik arriving at his apartment.
The camera follows him from the parking lot, inside his apartment and to his desk in his bedroom. The scene features unique lighting tech-niques.
“Trying to get that from out-side was our big thing,” Tanner said. “It was difficult figuring out the lighting situation and camera composition.”
9:45 p.m. FridayThe team prepares to move
to its second filming location on University Street between Mich-igan and Broadway streets.
11 p.m. FridayThe team arrives back at
Tanner’s apartment to film the final scenes. After a quick break, it is back to the grind of filming.
Even though the team is film-ing a dark and serious movie, the atmosphere on set could not be more different as the team constantly quotes movies and cracks jokes.
“These competitions are always a lot of fun, and we al-ways have a really good time doing it,” Kamlay said. “That’s why I always make sure I’m on a team. I’m the financial backer and I’m also an ideas person. I like to throw in my two cents. I’m mostly just an actor because I’m the only girl they know.”
11:23 p.m. FridayThe team begins to film
Weaver choking Reznik from behind. Weaver drags Reznik by the neck into the kitchen, which is the final resting place for Reznik’s character.
2:45 a.m. saturdayAfter multiple takes, the last
scene in the movie is done and the filming for the movie is com-plete. The team celebrates and moves on to post-production with 39 hours and 15 minutes remaining in the competition.
“The filming was surprising-ly efficient,” Tanner said. “The ones we’ve done before took a longer amount of time. It just kind of fell together.”
3:00 a.m. saturdayMiserendino returns to his
apartment and begins editing footage.
7:32 a.m. saturdayThe editing is compete. After
staying up all night, it is time for Miserendino to get some sleep.
2 p.m. saturdayThe team meets back at
Tanner’s apartment and, after watching the edited scenes, begin post-production, which includes the voiceover, music and sound effects.
“Since I am recording the music, I can make it flow with the movie the way I want it to,” Tanner said.
9 p.m. saturdayThe film is finished 21 hours
before deadline.“As far as the look of the mov-
ie and the sound of the movie, I think it is easily our best yet,” Tanner said. “I think that this was one of the better experi-ences we had.
5:41 p.m. sundayTanner arrives outside the
Moore Hall Townsend Kiva and submits his team’s film after a long, tiring weekend.
“For me, it’s just so much fun,” he said. “Even if we place dead last, I don’t care, it’s just so much fun being able to go up and see what you can do against other people and see the creative pro-cess,” he said. “One of the cool things is seeing what the other teams are doing.”
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mits. He said CMU Police has
regular meetings on safety and security for the campus.
“Lighting, the design of the building and cameras are all discussed,” Yeagley said. “Whenever there is a reno-vation done to a building on campus, we give our input on where cameras should be installed.”
CMU Community Police Officer Mike Sienkiewicz said the cameras are used for mostly after-the-fact situ-
ations. It is a tool of review if needed. However, there is some live monitoring, he said.
“I have it set up in my office so, if I need to, I can watch the main areas where people move the most,” Sienkiewicz said.
Those include the main entrances of the halls and the stairwells, he said, which, in the past, have had incidences of vandalism and crime.
Witt said the cameras en-hance safety and improve on current systems that work in residential security.
“They are an invaluable resource,” Witt said. “We also have a change in phi-losophy by adding security to the perimeter instead of only concentrating on the interior.”
North Campus residence halls are older buildings, and camera installation is yet to be determined, Holtgreive said.
“We are still evaluating to upgrade or replace those fa-cilities,” he said. “Once that decision is made, we will then know where we stand on camera installation.”
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CMU sophomore heavyweight Jarod Trice defeated Chat-tanooga’s Tom Minwell 11-1 Saturday at Rose Arena. CMU won the match 32-6.
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slideshowCheck the Web site for a slideshow of photos of the week.
WWII code talkersKeith Little, a World War II Na-
vajo code talker, will speak about his role in the war at 7 p.m. today in the Bovee University Center Ro-tunda Room. “Not enough people know about it,” said Traverse City sophomore and Program Board cultural events chairwoman Am-ber Anderson. “It’s important to hear what the code talkers have to say before they all die.” The event is free.
Indian Boarding Schools
Native American Programs at CMU will play “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English” at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. today at the Bovee Univer-sity Center Auditorium. The docu-mentary is told from a Native American perspective and details the nationwide boarding schools set up by the U.S. government. A discussion will follow both film showings.
Soup and Substance
Native American Boarding Schools will be the topic of “Soup & Substance” at noon Tuesday at the Bovee University Center Ter-race rooms A, B, C and D. Soup and beverages will be provided at the event.
Warren Miller’s “Dynasty”
There will be a showing of War-ren Miller’s “Dynasty” from 6:30 to 10 p.m. today in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Audtorium. “Dynasty” is a film of collective footage from Miller’s past 60 years as a ski and snowboarding filmmaker. There will be ski and snowboard vendors and all attendees will receive free tickets to a ski lift. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door, and available at the CMU Box Office.
Music for the Movement
A cappella group Fish N’ Chips and several other CMU musical acts will perform at “Music for the Movement” at 7 p.m. today at the Wesley Foundation, 1400 S. Washington St. The concert will benefit the Michigan Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Donations will be accept-ed at the event, and raffle prizes will be awarded throughout the night.
Art Reach Holiday Collection
Art Reach of Mid-Michigan will open its “Holiday Collec-tion” today at its gift shop and gallery, 111 E. Broadway St. The collection, featuring art from more than 200 Michi-gan artists, includes paintings, jewelry, greeting cards, hand-blown Christmas ornaments and woodwork. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 pm. Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. More information is available by calling Art Reach at 773-3689.
Blood DriveThe American Red Cross is
hosting a blood drive from noon to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Stu-dent Activity Center. Those who donated on or before Sept. 18 are eligible to donate again. Partici-pants are asked to have eaten a healthy meal, drink fluids and bring picture identification prior to donation.
ComedianLee Camp, a comedian who
has appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and on Sirius and XM Radio, will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Bovee Univer-sity Center Rotunda. Admission is free and the event is open to the public.
Ritual RegaliaRitual Regalia for Contem-
porary Living will be on display from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University Art Gallery. The gar-ments are modern versions of traditional pieces worn during ceremonies and rituals. The gar-ments are on display through Saturday.
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photos by paigE calaMari/staff photographerUtica senior Stephanie Galli stirs the fire of a wood fire kiln Sunday afternoon between the North Art Studio and Wightman. Students and instructors built the kiln during the summer.
Grosse Ile senior Ryan Taylor rakes the ashes of a kiln Sunday afternoon between Wightman and the North Art Studio. Students are responsible for stirring, raking and stoking the fire while their pottery is fired in the kiln.
The holidays came early Sunday for Ryan Taylor.
The Grosse Ile senior, along with about a dozen other ceramic and pottery students, got to see their finished pots after spending the weekend firing them in a wood kiln outside Wightman Hall.
“It’s really exciting when we get to open (the kiln) at the end; it’s like an early Christ-mas,” Taylor said.
The art department fires up the kiln once a semester for a different pottery-making experience.
Kansas senior Megan McWhirter said the kiln, which runs off wood instead of gas or electricity, was running since 7 a.m. Friday.
“The experience and the outcome is always different — unpredictable,” said Utica senior Stephanie Galli.
fire up the potsCeramic students use wood kiln over the weekend
By Maryellen Tighe | Staff Reporter
A new experienceThe students used a new
kiln built over the summer.The kiln is supposed to
reach 2,200 to 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit to fire the art-work. Students and profes-sors are not sure if it got hot-ter than 1,800.
Once the kiln reaches its maximum temperature, it starts the cooling process.
“We shut all the ports and all the doors and just let it slow cool for three to five days,” McWhirter said.
The kiln runs for 48 to 72 hours before the cooling process begins, but some artists may fire their work for five to ten days, she said.
At the end of the time peri-od, students open the kiln to see their artwork. If the kiln does not get hot enough, the artwork has to be taken out and refired in a different kiln.
Students put in an average of 15 pieces and the kiln can have up to 100 at a time.
“You’ll probably like about three of your pots that come
out of the kiln,” Taylor said. Firing kilns is a regular part
of classes for Central Michigan University pottery and ceram-ics students, who also make their own paints and clay.
“It kind of sucks if you screw up, but it’s good because you learn how to do it,” said Sag-inaw junior Todd Herzberg.
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By Carisa Seltz Staff Reporter
Registered student organi-zations can save money when hosting events at Broadway Theatre instead of Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
“It’s definitely cheaper,” said Whitney Dubay, Phi Sig-ma Sigma sorority president and Essexville senior.
The Broadway Theatre, 216 E. Broadway St., is al-lowing more Central Michi-gan University RSOs to use the venue, said Phil Mikus, board chairman of Friends of the Broadway, the non-profit entity that owns the theatre.
“We want to bring different groups into the Broadway and we’re willing to negotiate on price,” he said.
Mikus said RSOs are not charged more than $350 to use the Broadway Theatre.
Phi Sigma Sigma hosted the Mr. PhiSignificant Pag-eant at the Broadway Theatre in October.
The group tried for Plachta Auditorium, but did not get the paperwork in time to qualify for Student Budget Allocation Committee fund-ing.
“In my opinion, it worked out better anyway,” Dubay said. “The Broadway had a nicer atmosphere all around.”
She said the Broadway Theatre provided additional perks at no extra cost, in-cluding free concessions and free lighting services for the Mr. PhiSignificant Pageant.
whAt About plAchtA?Students who use Plachta
Auditorium and Broadway Theatre say there are pros and cons to both venues.
“We’ve had great shows at both,” said Nicole Bouman, Big Rapids senior and presi-dent of CMU’s female a cap-pella group On the Rox.
On the Rox hosted its fall concert this year at Plachta Auditorium because it felt it was more convenient than an off-campus venue.
The group paid within 5 percent of Assistant Director of University Events Keith Voeks’ original estimate of $1,212 to use Plachta Audi-torium.
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Both venues have pros and cons with cost, size
RSOs find Broadway cheaper than Plachta
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By Randi ShafferStaff Reporter
Not every person in America has a residential restaurant or a residence hall for their con-venience.
Students can experi-ence that first-hand dur-ing Hunger and Home-lessness Awareness Week, which starts today and runs through Saturday.
“If there’s one thing students get out of this, I hope it’ll bring awareness to the issue,” said event coordinator and MCC Americorps VISTA Dana Ging-rich. “Poverty isn’t a restricted area. We have homeless in Mount Pleasant, and this week gives students an opportunity
to help.”Special Events Student Co-
ordinator and Macomb senior Scott Hillman said various activities will give students a chance to learn facts about homelessness and to experi-ence it for themselves.
During cardboard city Wednesday, students can cre-ate homes out of boxes and spend 24 hours between class-es and meetings camping at Central Park, near Charles V. Park Library.
“All day Wednesday from midnight to midnight, there will be students camping out there,” Hillman said. “It’s meant to bring awareness that there are a bunch of homeless people and this is their way of living.”
He said students can sign up on the Volunteer Center Web site to camp out.
Cardboard camp out highlights homeless awareness weekEvents include free hot chocolate, Issue Day
Week’s eventsw All week: Food Drive on Monday-Friday at Minority Student Services (UC 121), or the Volunteer Center (UC 107).w Monday: Free Hot Chocolate from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside Bovee University Center.w Tuesday: T-shirt Aware-ness Day across campus.w Wednesday: Homeless Camp Out from midnight to midnight at Central Park out-side Charles V. Park Library.w Friday: Hunger and Homelessness Service Projects.*w Saturday: Issue Day from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the UC.
Visit at volunteer.cmich.edu and click on “events” to register.*Sign up on the Volunteer Central Database.A week | 6A
By Maryellen TigheStaff Reporter
The first-ever student-run Speak Up, Speak Out event will focus on the green movement.
The third forum of the se-mester, “Challenges Ahead: Energy and the Environment,” takes place at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
Merlyn Mowrey, associate professor of philosophy and religion and founder of Speak Up, Speak Out, is letting stu-dents run Speak Up, Speak Out for the first time.
“(Mowrey) let us do a stu-dent-run one because we have
some pretty strong leaders and some pretty strong minds on the student panel,” said West Olive senior Amy Terhaar, who planned and will facilitate Tuesday’s forum.
Other student participants are Grand Rapids senior Jack Buck, Battle Creek junior Travis Faber and Clare senior Jenna Hatch.
“I think it is really interesting to give more of an insight to the general campus population,” Hatch said. “Personal stuff, that’s what really gets me into it.”
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Student-run SUSO forum Tuesday looking greenPanel to discuss environmental challenges
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w what: “Challenges Ahead: Energy and the Environment”w when: 7 p.m. Tuesdayw where: Bovee University Center Auditorium
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On Oct. 27, the Board of Trustees approved returning $619,489 of a $770,119 grant to the NSF because of what investigators called plagiarism in the research.
Mathematics professor Douglas Lapp and former mathematics profes-sor Azita Manouchehri, now at Ohio State University, were found to have been involved with the wrongdoing.
Lapp spoke with CM Life on Thursday and said he was at fault for not double-checking his co-worker’s work. Man-ouchechri, according to documents, has a “pattern of being ‘careless.’”
Although Trustees did not reveal the real reason behind the move during its special session, CMU revealed the documents Wednesday to CM Life instead of waiting for the Freedom of
Information Act to force its hand.The university should use this as
a model for when problems arise to make sure everyone is in the know — an asset to a transparent university. It’s only fair to those affected the most.
While this situation was completely transparent, there have been others in which students have wanted answers and wanted their voices heard in which the university kept information withheld, with the recent changes to tailgate and the lawsuits involving women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara and former soccer coach Tony DiTucci being a few of them.
This information was given to CM Life after university officials alerted the newspaper about the plagiarism. The university did not try to hide any info, nor did it seem like they were trying to cover anything up. It comes down to taking responsibility, and CMU did just that.
In the NSF grant case, CMU eventu-ally worked well to make sure the stu-
dent body and public knew about the grant. Documents, reports and e-mails were all provided to CM Life when they were asked for. Administrators spoke to reporters, and even one of the names on the report, Lapp, spoke to CM Life to share his side of the story.
CMU was in the wrong; There is no denying this fact. Every party involved admits it, including Lapp. Even though the reprimands for the faculty involved will not get released, the university should keep in mind it fails students found guilty of plagiarism.
Students are looking at this as a “lead by example” situation. CMU should not just send a letter of rep-rimand — the professors involved should have to pay a price similar to what a student would have to if they are found to be plagiarizing or being a party to it. Professors need to be held to the same standard as students.
The entire NSF grant plagiarism situation is what transparency is all about: accessibility to the truth. That’s
Central Michigan University officials came through and revealed the names of those involved in plagiarizing research funded by
the National Science Foundation grant returned at the end of October. This was the right move and benefits all parties involved: the university, the faculty and, most im-portantly, the students.
EDITORIAL | CMU eventually got it right in providing documents regarding plagiarism
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A season well played
The Central Michigan Uni-versity women’s soccer players should not let Sunday’s 6-1 loss to No. 5 Notre Dame get to them.
What they accomplished leading up to that game should be applauded.
It was CMU’s first loss since Sept. 6, when it lost 4-0 to Michigan State. Only one goal was allowed since. The team finished 17-4-3, its best finish in history, along with a 9-0-2 Mid-American Conference record.
The Chippewas also came off a 2-0 win Friday over No. 24 Purdue, their first Big Ten win of the season after three losses, in their first-ever NCAA Tour-nament appearance.
Sure, Sunday was ugly, with Notre Dame scoring just min-utes into the game. But it was the No. 5 team in the country.
The team still had an admira-ble run to ease attention away from the CMU football team which, along with the wrestling team, carries the school’s lone MAC championships since 2005, when the field hockey team won the MAC Tourna-ment.
The team could get even better next year despite losing seniors Molly Gerst, Stepha-nie Martin, Amanda Waugh, Kristen Pelkki and Kristen Hubright. Goalkeeper Shay Mannino, after setting a school record with a 0.60 goals-against average this year, will return next season as a senior.
Also returning are defenders Bailey Brandon and Liesel Toth, along with forward Chelsi Ab-bott and a slew of other players who provided great contribu-tions this season.
Coach Tom Anagnost, in his first full season, should be proud of himself and his play-ers — the 2009 soccer season was easily beyond anything we expected. Other CMU sports teams should follow suit this spring in working hard toward a MAC Championship.
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free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
– The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
They are often the neglected and forgotten ones, swept under rugs and tucked inside government-funded buildings when no one wants to deal with them.
They are the homeless — an important group of individuals that still deserve to be remem-bered. Cared for. Fed.
This week is National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
At Central Michigan Univer-sity, this week marks campus efforts to combat homelessness and hunger on the streets with various events and activities.
From donating nonperish-able foods at the Minority Stu-dent Services or being involved with the Volunteer Center, to speaking up and out about homelessness — you really can make a difference.
One of the most important aspects of giving to those less fortunate is actually giving your heart in the process.
According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, there are approxi-mately 3.5 million people (1.35 million of them children) likely to experience homelessness in a given year (2007).
By giving your heart, you can help at least one of the million by opening your ears to hearing their story, or emotionally be-ing there for someone less for-tunate, even donating money to a child who has never had a bed to call their own.
Little actions such as this are never too hard to carry out because there is always some-one out there that really needs your help.
On any given night, an es-timated 672,000, or 22 out of every 10,000 people, are home-less, according to Coalition for the Homeless.
By remembering the home-less, you remember they are people just like you and I who need some assistance in life.
We also are remembering the children, the women and men who do not always have the means to receive help needed.
But we can give them at least something to show we care, even if it is just a kind word.
For more information on campus activities for homeless awareness, visit CMU’s Volunteer Web site at volunteer.cmich.edu.
Sherrie KeatonSenior Reporter
Central Michigan University needs more trash cans in better locations on campus.
The campus gets so overridden with trash that it has become nec-essary to have campus clean-up days to offer some sort of solution to the problem.
One group of students hosted its own campus clean-up day and picked up sixteen 10-gallon bags of garbage in less than three hours.
Listening to the students on campus, many of them are con-cerned about the amount of litter that exists. While the cans next to the buildings are helpful, there are not enough of them in the places that they are most needed.
It is sad to say but, when stu-dents do not have a place to throw
their trash, many throw it on the ground. By giving them a place to dispose of their garbage, Central will have a much cleaner campus. Having trash on the ground when admissions tours come through give Central a bad and dirty im-age.
That is not the kind of image Central should have.
A possible solution for this issue is adding trash cans to the most highly trafficked areas.
Some of the biggest locations that need attention are the com-muter lots.
This was the area the students really focused on during their clean-up day.
The commuter lots have a very limited number of trash cans in the surrounding area.
One possible solution is add-ing waste receptacles to the light posts in the parking lots. Though these added trash cans would not solve the entire problem, but it would be a start.
Nicholas D. SmithRochester sophomore
912 says:Central Michigan University knew
of the allegations in June 2007, froze the funds in December 2007, but was “still engaged in some discus-sions and communication with National Science Foundation” on the day the trustees met in October 2009.
Yet just a day later, and only after the press asked why the money was returned, those discussions were suddenly wrapped up.
Something’s fishy.My guess is the trustees would
have told us nothing were it not for the media asking about it.
This is a good case of traditional watchdog journalism and a compel-ling example of why this country still needs vigilant and vigorous journalism — more than bloggers and Twitterers and pretty pictures.
Campus needs to take care of trash, clean up
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By Connor sheridanStaff Reporter
A large room in Kulhavi Hall was lit only by the unearthly glow of 70 computer monitors and cases this weekend.
The Big Shot Gaming Lo-cal Area Network (LAN) Party opened its doors Friday to about 75 participants and last-ed for 36 hours of competitive gaming action until 6 a.m. Sun-day.
A LAN party is a gathering where many gamers get togeth-er to compete in games and en-joy seeing their potential death-match victims in person.
While LAN parties classically refer to a gathering of comput-ers on a LAN in order to play PC games, they often encompass console games as well. The event had several Xbox 360s, a Nintendo Wii and a Nintendo 64.
“It’s still better than any LAN I’ve been to. The variety keeps it going,” said Ryan Lawera, a Macomb Community College junior from Romeo.
Big Shot Gaming is the alumni group for the Student Electronic Gaming Association (SEGA), a registered student or-
ganization.Lawera drove 2.5 hours to
participate in the gaming cel-ebration.
Controller mastersSeveral tournaments were
held throughout the night, in-cluding “Left 4 Dead,” “Super Smash Bros. Brawl,” “Wii Sports Resort,” “Mario Kart 64” and “Team Fortress 2.”
“It was fun. I slaughtered in ping pong,” said Nick Fedewa, a DeWitt senior.
Fedewa claimed the gold medal in the popular “Wii Sports Resort” tournament and also won several items at
the raffles and giveaways held throughout the party.
Prizes ranged from computer accessories to T-shirts to energy drinks and mints. Many of the items were furnished by the sponsors of the event, which included several national com-puter hardware retailers as well as the Central Michigan Uni-versity Bookstore.
Fedewa was able to take home one computer part he’d been particularly hoping for — a fan.
“I did want a fan. This is awe-some,” Fedewa said.
Gamers network in KulhaviStudents throw 36-hour LAN party this weekend
NathaN KostegiaN/staff photographerAlma senior Eric Angel and Midland resident Damien Little, 21, play Team Fortress 2 at the Big Shot Gaming LAN party Saturday in Kulhavi Hall. The party was 36 hours long and 75 people participated.
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Tom Idema said he believes students interested in starting a registered student organiza-tion may be surprised to find it is not difficult.
The assistant director of Student Life will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Powers Hall Room 136 on how to start an RSO. The Student Govern-ment Association, with help from the Growth and Devel-opment Committee, will host the meeting.
“Ideally, we’d like everyone to get involved with something on campus. There is a lot more to college than just staying in your dorm room and study-ing,” Idema said.
RSOs are one of the best ways for students to get in-volved on campus, said SGA
President and Mount Pleasant senior Jason Nichol.
“This event can help people decide to start up their own and expand Central Michi-gan University’s collection of RSOs,” he said.
‘relatively easy’RSOs are important and
beneficial because they can help prepare students for later in life, Idema said. They can be good for work experi-ence and team building.
The event coordinators are hoping for a decent turn out, expecting between 80 and 100 people to attend.
“I think people will learn a lot from this program. They will find that it may take some effort and work to start an RSO, but it’s relatively easy,” said SGA Vice President and Garden City senior Brittany Mouzourakis.
An RSO needs an idea and a group of people with a com-mon interest or goal to get started. Idema said students can create almost any type of
RSO imaginable with the right following, using the example of an UNO club.
Mouzourakis pointed to one of the newer RSOs, Tom’s Shoes. The group started at the beginning of the year and has grown to about 50 mem-bers, proving that a small idea can still make a difference.
Idema said the event is geared toward students in-terested in learning how to start an RSO, not for people looking to join one. He ad-vises students interested in learning more about the RSOs on campus to come to a future event in January, showcasing the numerous RSOs at CMU.
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By Jake BolithoSenior Reporter
Car accidents on S. Mis-sion Street will not end any-time soon.
But obtaining a report is not too difficult these days.
The Central Michigan Uni-versity Police Department, Mount Pleasant Police De-partment and Isabella Coun-ty Sheriff’s Department use TRACView, an Internet traffic accident report application.
Nationwide, 341 police agencies, many in Michigan and Illinois, use the applica-tion. TRACView originated in Lansing.
One of the main advantag-es with the online service is saving time, said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley.
“It makes it easier for the customer,” he said. “Instead of coming in and getting a hard copy, they can get it on-line.”
The CMU Police Depart-ment is the most recent agency to obtain the service, having done so in 2006.
The reports are available 24 hours a day and see a lot of use from insurance com-panies. Customers can pur-chase their accident report online for $10.
the benefitsIsabella County Sheriff Leo
Mioduszewski said the ap-plication does not cost the department any money and is easy to use.
“We just scan both sides of the report and put it online,” he said.
Service costs are handled by a convenience fee that insurance companies and individuals pay to TRACView when they buy a report.
The MPPD has used the ser-vice since 2004. The majority of reports are purchased by the insurance companies, said Public Information Of-ficer Dave Sabuda.
Private citizens do not have to worry about privacy issues with the application, he said. It utilizes firewall,
session time outs and IP ad-dress monitoring.
“There are some security measures with it,” Sabuda said. “For someone to get information on our accident report, they need to have specific info.”
In the case of Mount Pleasant and the campus community, the system can prove beneficial for college students, he said. Not only
can a student easily gain access to a report, but their parents can from home as well.
Mioduszewski said his of-fice has used TRACView for the last six or seven years and plans to continue using it.
“It’s really just made things easier for us and everyone else,” he said.
Accident reports accessible online at no costStudents can obtain paperwork digitally for $10
Hatch has served as me-dia chairwoman of the Stu-dent Environmental Alliance and helped organize Central Michigan University recruit-ment for Michigan Power-Shift 2009, a statewide energy rally.
a ‘pop Culture ideal’Faber hopes to give a bal-
anced perspective to the panel and show people can be concerned about the en-vironment without taking drastic measures.
“Yeah, we live on the planet, and we should be involved with taking care of it, but we shouldn’t be too extreme,” he said.
Buck wants to bring the business side of the move-ment to greater light, spe-cifically how businesses are taking advantage of the green movement with things such as Victoria’s Se-cret green line, a more eco-
friendly version of the Pink line.
“It’s becoming a pop cul-ture ideal — it’s almost a hip thing to do,” Buck said.
The two faculty members on the forum are Thomas Stewart, assistant political science professor, and Thom-as Rohrer, assistant professor
of environmental studies.“Well, somebody’s got to
tell them the truth — the fact that we are using resources at unsustainable rates,” Rohrer said. “I don’t want to scare people, but I do want to get their attention.”
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“Yeah, we live on the planet, and we should be involved with taking care of it, but we shouldn’t be too extreme.”Jack Buck, Battle Creek junior
jeff sMith/staff photographerFrom Three Oaks resident Justin Horak, Bridgman resident Chad Shafer, Bridgman resi-dent Cory Schille and Grass Lake junior Colin Hennessy, play Call of Duty: Modern War-fare 2 on Saturday in Kulhavi Hall Room 142 during the three-day Big Shot Gaming LAN party from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday. It is their sixth year attending the event.
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By Amelia eramyaSenior Reporter
Friday’s “Thrill CMU” event did not live up to the hype sponsors thought it had.
“Thrill CMU” was an at-tempt to break the current world record for the most college students doing Mi-chael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance, which is 242 people. Approximately 50 students participated in the dance Friday at the Indoor Athletic Complex when 500 were ex-pected.
Its sponsors, Central Mich-igan Life, Moore Hall Televi-sion and Modern Rock 91.5, expected a bigger turnout Friday. Though the number expected did not show up, it did not stop students from enjoying the dance.
One student, Essexville senior Adam Militello, was more than happy to partici-
pate. He has been a fan since he was four years old. This being his last year at CMU, Militello was honored to be able to pay homage to the “King of Pop.”
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think CMU would do a ‘Thriller’ dance,” Militello said. “I think it’s awesome. If I have a chance to take part in it, I will.”
When Militello was 18, he got a tattoo of Michael Jack-son’s famous toe stand with ‘King of Pop’ tattooed around it. Two months ago, he added ‘never can say goodbye’ to honor his impact on the mu-sic industry.
unexpeCted resultsOne thought was some peo-
ple might have not come be-cause of a high school football
game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium taking place at the same time. Carly Mills, Central Michigan Life public relations intern and Orleans senior, was not aware of the game and hoped it did not hinder people from attending the event.
However, it did not stop participants from enjoying their time at the event.
“I’m happy with the out-come,” Mills said. “Everybody knew the dance really well.”
She was happy to see stu-dents participate in the event.
“It’s nice to see some faces out there,” she said. “It’s bet-ter than nothing.”
Larzelere Hall was awarded a trophy for best residence hall attendance.
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Matthew stepheNs/preseNtatioN editorMacomb junior Amanda Clark participates in Thrill CMU on Friday at the Indoor Athletic Complex. Approximately 50 students participated in the event, attempting to break the world record for the most college students doing Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” dance, which is 242 people.
“Never in my wildest dreams did i think CMU would do a ‘thriller’ dance. i think it’s awesome. if i have a chance to take part in it, i will.”Adam Militello, essexville senior
other eventsNew to the week–long
program is a three-part se-ries of videos that showcase homelessness and hunger in Mount Pleasant and the re-sources that students can use to help and volunteer. The videos can be found on You-Tube.com or at cmich.edu/itunesu.
Hillman said Friday will consist of service projects stu-dents can sign up for on the Volunteer Center Web site.
Some of the projects in-clude volunteering at the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, 621 S. Adams St., and the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store, 201 E. Pickard St.
“Students get hands-on ser-vice learning,” Hillman said.
Homelessness and Hunger Awareness Week concludes Saturday with Issue Day.
Issue Day is a one-day ad-vocacy conference working in part with the week’s events. The conference will include a keynote speaker and breakout sessions.
“Each session has different issues, ranging from animal rights to recycling; global is-sues,” Hillman said.
There are many collabo-rations with organizations to help homeless shelters in mid-Michigan.
This is the fifth year CMU has participated in the nation-al event, a part of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.
-Staff Reporter Sarah Za-lewski contributed to this re-port.
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Voeks said the use of sound, lighting, video projection and microphone equipment con-tributes to Plachta Audito-rium’s higher price tag.
“Plachta is not a regularly funded venue,” he said. “It does not have an operating fund.”
Voeks said that is why RSOs have to pay for equipment and labor costs.
The only organizations that pay rental fees are those unaf-filiated with the university.
Voeks said he refers stu-dents to the Broadway The-atre if Plachta Auditorium does not cater to their needs.
“It’s a great nonprofit facil-ity and we should support them,” he said.
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Soccer team eliminated by Irish in second round
The CMU soccer team lost to No. 5 Notre Dame 6-1 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.On Friday, the Chippewas beat No. 24 Purdue 2-0, becoming the first Mid-American Conference team to advance past the first round since Western Michigan in 2003.
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PHotoS BY MattHeW StePHenS/preseNtatIoN eDItorSophomore heavyweight Jarod Trice won by major decision against Tom Minwell 11-1 Sunday in the wrestling team’s 32-6 victory against Tennessee-Chattanooga in Rose Arena.
WRESTLING DOMINATES MOCSChippewas open regular season with 32-6 dual victory Sunday in Rose
Sophomore 133-pounder Scotti Sentes pinned his opponent, Josh Statum, 4:49 into his match Sunday.
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Number of losses CMU had in its opening dual match. It came by forfeit because junior Ryan Cubberly failed a skin check.
Amount of time it took sophomore Scotti Sentes to pin his opponent. It was Sentes’ first match at 133 pounds after earning All-American honors last season at 125.
Number of major deci-sions the Chippewas had. Sophomore 285-pounder Jarod Trice earned a 11-1 victory and senior Tony D’Alie won 10-2.
9Number of victories CMU had in Sunday’s 32-6 victory. The team earned six decisions, two major decisions and one pin en route to its season opening victory.
By Matthew ValinskiStaff Reporter
SOUTH BEND, IND — It took two minutes and 29 seconds for Notre Dame to show the CMU soccer team how dangerous its offense could be.
Sophomore Melissa Hen-derson headed in a shot af-ter junior Taylor Knaack’s initial shot hit off the cross-
bar to give it a 1-0 lead. The Fighting Irish never looked back.
No. 5 Notre Dame beat CMU 6-1 on Sunday in South Bend in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, eliminating the Chippewas from tournament play.
“We didn’t match them in any phase of the game,” said coach Tom Anagnost. “Ath-letically, they were a little quicker, a little faster and a little stronger.”
Henderson followed up her first goal with another, when she broke through the CMU defense and fired the
ball into the lower right cor-ner 18.5 minutes later.
With a little less than 12 minutes remaining in the first half, Henderson again found the back of the net when a Michele Weissen-hofer shot bounced back to
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Scotti Sentes opened the season at his new position with a pin.
The sophomore 133-pounder, in his first regular-season match since moving up from the 125-pound class during
the offseason, dominated the entire match, putting junior Josh Statum on his back, fighting to keep his shoulders from the mat.
With 11 seconds remaining in the second period, Sentes finished the job with his first pin of the season, leading the Chippewas to a 32-6 victory against the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga on Sunday at Rose Arena.
“I came out with a pin, but I wish I could have got my offense going in the first period,” Sentes said. “I felt really strong and I really didn’t get tired at all. The advantage of not having to cut weight re-ally worked out for me, and I hope it continues to work out for the rest of the year.”
Senior 157-pounder Steve Brown earned a 6-5 decision in the only match that featured two wrestlers in the top 20 nationally.
Brown entered the match ranked eighth in the nation and defeated No. 16 senior Joey Knox despite Knox earning a takedown with two seconds remaining.
“I wasn’t to happy with my per-formance. I came away with the win, but my performance was not a good reflection of how I’ve trained,” Brown said. “I was happy
with the result, but I should have finished better.”
Other nOtablesEarning major decisions for the
Chippewas included senior 149-pounder Tony D’Alie and sopho-more heavyweight Jarod Trice.
“Tony D’Alie most impressed me. He had some weight-man-agement issues this week and he showed some real guts,” said coach Tom Borrelli. “He was one of the few guys who really went out and
pushed hard against his oppo-nent.”
The only six points CMU allowed in the match was due to a forfeit at the 141-pound weight class. Junior Ryan Cubberly was scheduled to get the start, but he failed the pre-match skin inspection with a staph infection on his shoulder.
“Everyone went out there and stepped it up,” said junior 174-pounder Mike Miller. “I’m confi-dent that if we would have been able to wrestle someone at 141, it
would have been a complete shut-out.”
CMU competes next at the Northeast Duals at the end of No-vember.
“We know Tennessee-Chatta-nooga was going to come out and wrestle us hard,” Borrelli said. “They almost stole a couple of matches against us, but it was good to get the first dual match out of the way.”
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The CMU soccer team lost to No. 5 Notre Dame 6-1 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.On Friday, the Chippewas beat No. 24 Purdue 2-0, becoming the first Mid-American Conference team to advance past the first round since Western Michigan in 2003.
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PHotoS BY MattHeW StePHenS/preseNtatIoN eDItorSophomore heavyweight Jarod Trice won by major decision against Tom Minwell 11-1 Sunday in the wrestling team’s 32-6 victory against Tennessee-Chattanooga in Rose Arena.
WRESTLING DOMINATES MOCSChippewas open regular season with 32-6 dual victory Sunday in Rose
Sophomore 133-pounder Scotti Sentes pinned his opponent, Josh Statum, 4:49 into his match Sunday.
By D.J. Palomares | Senior Reporter
Number of losses CMU had in its opening dual match. It came by forfeit because junior Ryan Cubberly failed a skin check.
Amount of time it took sophomore Scotti Sentes to pin his opponent. It was Sentes’ first match at 133 pounds after earning All-American honors last season at 125.
Number of major deci-sions the Chippewas had. Sophomore 285-pounder Jarod Trice earned a 11-1 victory and senior Tony D’Alie won 10-2.
9Number of victories CMU had in Sunday’s 32-6 victory. The team earned six decisions, two major decisions and one pin en route to its season opening victory.
By Matthew ValinskiStaff Reporter
SOUTH BEND, IND — It took two minutes and 29 seconds for Notre Dame to show the CMU soccer team how dangerous its offense could be.
Sophomore Melissa Hen-derson headed in a shot af-ter junior Taylor Knaack’s initial shot hit off the cross-
bar to give it a 1-0 lead. The Fighting Irish never looked back.
No. 5 Notre Dame beat CMU 6-1 on Sunday in South Bend in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, eliminating the Chippewas from tournament play.
“We didn’t match them in any phase of the game,” said coach Tom Anagnost. “Ath-letically, they were a little quicker, a little faster and a little stronger.”
Henderson followed up her first goal with another, when she broke through the CMU defense and fired the
ball into the lower right cor-ner 18.5 minutes later.
With a little less than 12 minutes remaining in the first half, Henderson again found the back of the net when a Michele Weis-senhofer shot bounced
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Scotti Sentes opened the season at his new position with a pin.
The sophomore 133-pounder, in his first regular-season match since moving up from the 125-pound class during
the offseason, dominated the entire match, putting junior Josh Statum on his back, fighting to keep his shoulders from the mat.
With 11 seconds remaining in the second period, Sentes finished the job with his first pin of the season, leading the Chippewas to a 32-6 victory against the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga on Sunday at Rose Arena.
“I came out with a pin, but I wish I could have got my offense going in the first period,” Sentes said. “I felt really strong and I really didn’t get tired at all. The advantage of not having to cut weight re-ally worked out for me, and I hope it continues to work out for the rest of the year.”
Senior 157-pounder Steve Brown earned a 6-5 decision in the only match that featured two wrestlers in the top 20 nationally.
Brown entered the match ranked eighth in the nation and defeated No. 16 senior Joey Knox despite Knox earning a takedown with two seconds remaining.
“I wasn’t to happy with my per-formance. I came away with the win, but my performance was not a good reflection of how I’ve trained,” Brown said. “I was happy
with the result, but I should have finished better.”
Other nOtablesEarning major decisions for the
Chippewas included senior 149-pounder Tony D’Alie and sopho-more heavyweight Jarod Trice.
“Tony D’Alie most impressed me. He had some weight-man-agement issues this week and he showed some real guts,” said coach Tom Borrelli. “He was one of the few guys who really went out and
pushed hard against his oppo-nent.”
The only six points CMU allowed in the match was due to a forfeit at the 141-pound weight class. Junior Ryan Cubberly was scheduled to get the start, but he failed the pre-match skin inspection with a staph infection on his shoulder.
“Everyone went out there and stepped it up,” said junior 174-pounder Mike Miller. “I’m confi-dent that if we would have been able to wrestle someone at 141, it
would have been a complete shut-out.”
CMU competes next at the Northeast Duals at the end of No-vember.
“We know Tennessee-Chatta-nooga was going to come out and wrestle us hard,” Borrelli said. “They almost stole a couple of matches against us, but it was good to get the first dual match out of the way.”
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By Aaron McMannStaff Reporter
The CMU men’s cross coun-try team will send no runners to the NCAA Championships despite an improved showing Saturday at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional meet.
CMU placed 11th out of 30 teams, scoring 262 points — an improvement over last year’s 14th-place finish — and had one of the best fin-ishes for the program in sev-eral years.
The meet in Bloomington, Ind., was a 10K, a longer race compared to the standard 8K the team ran for much of the season.
The Chippewas were led for the final time by senior Riak Mabil, who finished 36th with a time of 32 minutes, six seconds. Mabil finished first on the team in every race he competed in this year. He
also earned first-team All-Mid-American Conference honors at the MAC Champi-onships on Oct. 31.
“He comes from another level than just test and trials,” said cross country director Willie Randolph. “Given his Achilles injury, the fact that he went out there and gave everything he had speaks volumes.”
Coming in second on the team was Tecumseh Adams (49th, 32:28), who managed to place in the top 50 as a true freshman.
“There’s not much more you can ask of from a true freshman,” assistant coach Matt Kaczor said. “To fin-ish top 50, we were very pleased.”
Sophomore Matt Lutzke continued his return from injury, placing 59th (32:28). After several disappointing finishes earlier in the sea-
son, Lutzke earned second-team all-conference honors at MAC Championships two weeks ago, after which the coaching staff said he peaked at the right time.
Rounding out the regional meet for CMU was junior Chris Pankow (77th, 32:59), sophomore Jeremy Kiley (120th, 34:00) and junior Adam Smith (144th, 34:30).
Wisconsin took first in a race dominated by Big Ten programs. Five Big Ten teams finished in the top 10, includ-ing Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State taking the first three spots. Ohio State’s Jeff See (31:03) finished first in the individual race.
MAC programs Kent State and Eastern Michigan fin-ished ahead of the Chippe-was, finishing sixth and ninth respectively.
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PHotoS BY MattHeW StePHenS/preseNtatIoN eDItorJunior 174-pounder Mike Miller won 3-1 in his match Sunday in Rose Arena against Jake Young from Tenneessee-Chattanooga.
Redshirt freshman Ben Bennett won his first dual match of his career Sunday.
Miller gets start at 174 poundsBennett moves up to 184 and wins by decision, 5-4By D.J. PalomaresSenior Reporter
Mike Miller and Ben Bennett were warming up to wrestle in the 174-pound spot when coach Tom Borrelli delivered the news that Miller would get the start.
Miller, a junior ranked No.1 at that weight class, took the news and walked out on the mat for the first time this sea-son to take on UTC freshman Jake Young.
“Miller had a good week of practice and I knew he really wanted to get out there and wrestle,” Borrelli said. “I want-ed to get him going in a match and let him get a feel for what he needs to work on.”
A pinched nerve in his shoulder was scheduled to keep Miller out of the match but, when he was called, on he did not disappoint.
Miller’s defense kept the match low-scoring as the two were tied 1-1 early in the third period. Miller finally earned the only takedown of the match with one minute remanining.
“(Young) stayed in good po-sition and hand-fought well,” Miller said. “It was a good first match for me.”
Miller held on to his two-point lead through the rest of the match to win a 3-1 deci-sion.
“I was excited to get out and shake some of the rust off,” Miller said. “Coming off of an injury, I really wanted to get out and see what I still need to work on.”
ben bennett at 184With the decision to wrestle
Miller at 174, redshirt freshman Bennett faced sophomore 184-pounder Jason McCroskey.
Bennett may take over the 184-pound starting spot as the year progresses, however, the freshman took on the competi-tion despite weighing in at 174 pounds.
“I knew it was going to be a match-time decision and I knew there was a good chance I was going to be wrestling at 184,” Bennett said. “I just wanted to go out and wrestle hard no matter who I was tak-ing on.”
The match proved to be a high-scoring event, as Bennett scored a takedown 30 seconds into the match. McCroskey quickly tied the match at 2 with a reversal. Bennett retook con-trol with a reversal of his own and headed into the second pe-riod up 4-2.
Bennett closed out the match with a decision, his first official win at CMU.
“I still have a ways to go, but it was not a bad start to the sea-son,” Bennett said. “I’m confi-dent that I can get bigger and wrestle at 184 if I have to.”
The CMU wrestling team comes into the regular
season with a lot of proven veterans.
The team returns starting sophomores Scotti Sentes and Jarod Trice, junior Mike Miller and seniors Tony D’Alie, Steve Brown and Tyler Grayson.
Sentes and Miller earned All-America honors last season, and it is not out of the question for Trice, D’Alie, Brown or Grayson to earn it this season, too. D’Alie, Brown and Grayson all moved weight classes during the offseason.
Coupled with other re-turning wrestlers — sopho-more Jeff Shutich, junior Ryan Cubberly and senior Eric Simaz — the team is pretty deep.
But it will be some question-mark weight classes that will most likely determine the team’s suc-cess when it heads to some of its big tournaments and in April for the NCAAs.
Luke Smith, who gradu-ated in 2008, and converted 133-pounder Sentes have held down the 125-pound spot quite well the past few seasons. But this season, the starting spot is not so clear.
Senior Conor Beebe moved down from 133 this season, but was beat by fel-low senior Matt Steintrager in the team’s intrasquad match. Steintrager got the start in Sunday’s match, winning 6-5.
Another weight-class battle will take place between Shutich and Cubberly at 141 pounds. Both missed Sunday’s dual meet for various reasons.
At the 174-pound weight
class, besides Miller, is redshirt freshman Ben Ben-nett. Bennett, ranked No. 16 at the 184 weight class, will most likely compete there unless Miller misses time. That would solidify another weight class, which would otherwise go to freshman Raylen Davis. Bennett won his first collegiate varsity match Sunday in a 5-3 deci-sion.
Simaz and Trice comfort-ably held their respective starting spots at 197 and 285.
POtential successDespite a few weight-
class holes, the team should be in a good position to fin-ish in the top 15 at NCAAs for the fourth consecutive season.
The team begins its sea-son ranked 13th by InterMat Wrestle. Its schedule this season should help show how it stacks up against the nation’s best.
The team heads to the prestigious Northeast Duals during Thanksgiving Break and competes against No. 9 Nebraska in the Mid-lands tournament and the National Duals over winter break. By the time classes begin in January, the team will most likely have a clear idea on how it is doing.
Home duals against No.
21 Michigan State and Stan-ford and road duals against Virginia Tech, Old Domin-ion and Mid-American Conference opponent Kent State also should be good indicators.
When the MAC Champi-onships come in March to Rose Arena, it will be very interesting to see how many wrestlers will prevail and will be sent to Omaha in April for the NCAA Tournament.
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CMU loses to ranked DepaulBy Aaron McMannStaff Reporter
The CMU women’s basket-ball team picked up right where it left off last season in terms of offensive production.
However, the defense could not stop No. 17 DePaul as CMU lost its regular season opener 86-76 Friday in front of 2,132 at McGrath Arena in Chicago.
“It’s a tough place to play, and I thought we played really hard,” said coach Sue Guevara.
Junior guard Shonda Long led the team in scoring with a career-high 30 points. Long scored 29 points in the team’s Feb. 15 loss to Bowling Green last season. She also tied her career high in 3-point field goals Friday with seven on 7-of-12 shooting from beyond the 3-point line.
The Chippewas got off to a fast start, with senior forward Britni Houghton (18 points) scoring a quick four points to put the team up 8-4 early, its largest lead of the game. De-Paul (1-0) responded with 11 unanswered points.
Following eight first-half lead changes, CMU was down 41-37 at the half on 45.8 per-cent shooting. It held DePaul to 37 percent shooting from the field.
“Our press and the pace of the game was really there,” Guevara said.
But the Blue Demons im-proved in the second half, shooting for more than 53 percent from the field and opening up leads of seven, nine, 11 and 13 points. CMU did not get closer than its four-point halftime deficit.
late-game runThe Chippewas made a
late-game run, closing the lead to 80-74 with 2:38 re-maining in the game. Turn-overs by Shonda Long and
senior guard Kendra Holman sealed the game for DePaul.
The Chippewas were out-rebounded 49-31.
“They were a lot bigger than we were,” she said. “We have to get a lot more physical going after the ball with two hands.”
Junior forward Kaihla Szunko had 10 rebounds and two points while freshmen Stefanie Mauk scored seven and had six rebounds off the bench.
Freshman guard Jalisa Ol-
ive, starting in her first game of her college career, scored five points.
Four players scored in dou-ble figures for DePaul. Sopho-more Keisha Hampton led the Blue Demons with 23 points and 11 rebounds.
CMU will make its second trip in a week Wednesday to the state of Illinois to play Illinois in Champaign, Ill. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. at Assembly Hall.
fIle photo by Paige caLaMariSenior forward Britni Houghton had 18 points in Friday’s 86-76 loss against DePaul.
Sean Proctor/staff photographerThe soccer team lost 6-1 against Notre Dame, but became the first CMU soccer team to win a NCAA Tournament game.
matthew ValinksiStaff Reporter
A look back and forward
back to her and, after an initial save by Shay Manni-no, she scored for the third time.
“I think we may have been intimidated in that first half,” said senior forward Molly Gerst. “We needed Tom to get us riled up at halftime.”
On the bOardAfter Central was outshot
15-3 in the first half, it was Gerst who managed to get the Chippewas on the score-board when senior Amanda Waugh found her near the penalty spot area a little more than 10 minutes into the second half.
Gerst said in the first part of the second half was when CMU showed Notre Dame the peak of its abilities.
“There was a good 20 minutes where we actually played our game,” she said. “We gave them a run for their money and we finally played the way we have all year.”
However, five minutes later, junior Rose Augustin gave Notre Dame its fourth goal off a direct kick from 22 yards out, and Henderson added her fourth goal of the game about four minutes later.
Anagnost said CMU’s de-fenders played well, but Henderson is one of those special players that any team would find tough to defend.
“She was really aggres-sive,” he said. “She was more athletic than all our
backs. She just got in spaces and behind us and she re-ally hurt us. She is one of the best players in the nation.”
Senior Rachel Vander-Genugten scored from 35 yards out into the top right corner of the net with a little more than a minute remain-ing to finish the scoring for Notre Dame.
Central, which beat Pur-due 2-0 on Friday, became the first MAC school to ad-vance out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament since 2003, when Western Michigan advanced.
“I couldn’t have asked for anything better,” Gerst said. “Not having a goal scored on us in 17 games, from the backline to our forwards, we have played so strong.”
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A season that began with
a 2-1 exhibition win against Big East member Pittsburgh came to an end Sunday to fellow Big East member Notre Dame.
For most of the game, CMU was outmatched.
The Fighting Irish were faster, stronger and better with the ball. You name it, and Notre Dame was better at it.
However, losing to the No. 5 team in the nation cannot diminish what the Chippe-was have accomplished this season.
It is a season in which Central has etched its name in the NCAA record books, from the 13-game shutout streak to becoming the first Mid-American Conference team to go unbeaten in con-ference play.
But this is just the start.Throughout the sea-
son, the most seniors that started at once was three.
The team loses Stephanie Martin, Amanda Waugh, Kris-ten Pelkki, Molly Gerst and Kristen Hubright. Each are tough to replace in their own way, but it’s not impossible with the returning talent.
The majority of the start-ing lineup is back. Defen-sively, someone will need to step into Pelkki’s role as the top sub off the bench who provides stability to the backline.
But back for the team will be MAC Defensive Player of the Year Shay Mannino
and all four backline start-ers — the same five players who helped shut out No. 24 Purdue in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
Purdue has been ranked for 11 consecutive weeks and tied for the Big Ten lead in goals with 39. This was not just a shutout against a nameless Big Ten team. This was a quality win for any team in the country, let alone CMU.
Yet with Mannino, Liesel Toth and Bailey Brandon leading the way, CMU kept the Boilermakers off the scoreboard.
Mannino proved the coaches in the Mid-Ameri-can Conference knew what they were doing in naming her the Defensive Player of the Year.
In the MAC semifinals, finals and the first round of the NCAAs, Mannino stepped her game up to the point where she single-handedly kept the other team off the scoreboard.
Toth and Brandon showed as a sophomore and fresh-man they should be consid-ered the top combo of cen-tral defenders in the MAC.
To top it off, each player
demonstrated offensive at-titudes at times throughout the later parts of the year, which made each player more dangerous on the field.
In the midfield, the team returns the three most un-sung players on this team: Jenna Hill, Valerie Prause and Ashley Mejilla.
Juniors Hill and Prause were consistent players in CMU’s attack and defense throughout the season.
Prause also was the leader in the air in the midfield for the Chippewas. Mejilla pressured other teams as soon as she entered the game.
Finding rePlacementsMartin and Waugh will be
the hardest to replace.Both were able and will-
ing to attack defenders in one-on-one situations.
Martin also was the only player on the team always willing to take a shot from range and add creativity to Central’s lineup which, at times, ran her into trouble.
This is where players such as Chelsi Abbott and Laura Twidle need to step for-ward. Each demonstrated, at times, the ability to be first-team All-MAC selec-tions and, at other times, disappeared.
There is no doubt this was a season to remember. But this is just the start of some-thing special.
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Saturday
Western michigan 35, eastern michigan 14
Eastern Michigan was seek-ing its first win of the season, but fell short Saturday after-noon. The Eagles started with a 7-0 lead on a quarterback keep-er from Alex Gillett, who had 105 rushing yards and a touch-down. But the Broncos came back to score 28 unanswered points, led by quarterback Tim Hiller, who threw for 275 yards and four touchdowns. Broncos running back Brandon West had 140 rushing yards on 25 carries.
nO. 4 tcu 55, nO. 16 utah 28
TCU added to its Bowl Cham-pionship Series resume with a 55-28 home win Saturday over No. 16 Utah. The Horned Frogs put the game out of reach when they scored three touchdowns in a 2.5-minute span to start the second quarter, giving them a 35-7 lead. TCU outgained Utah 549 yards to 284 while rushing for more than 340 yards.
stanFOrd 55, nO. 9 usc 21
Stanford running back Toby Gerhart fueled the Cardinal of-fense, rushing for 178 yards and
three touchdowns. The Trojan defense had no answer for a Cardinal offense that scored 55 points and accumulated 469 total yards. Pete Carroll lost for the first time in November af-ter 28 consecutive wins as USC coach. It was the worst loss for the Trojans at home since los-ing 51-0 to Notre Dame in 1966. Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and ran for one.
michigan state 40, Purdue 37
Quarterback Kirk Cousins threw three touchdown passes Saturday to help Michigan State overcome an 11-point deficit in the fourth quarter and become bowl eligible with its sixth win. Purdue quarterback Joey Elliot threw for 373 yards and two touchdowns, but it was not enough as MSU kicker Brett Swenson’s field goal with 1:50 remaining in the fourth quarter gave MSU the lead. Swenson made four field goals, including two at 52 yards, a career long.
nO. 20 WiscOnsin 45, michigan 24
Scott Tolzien had five total touchdowns, including four passing, to lead No. 20 Wis-consin over Michigan, 45-24. Michigan lost its sixth con-
secutive Big Ten game for the first time since the 1958-59 seasons. Wisconsin running back John Clay had 151 rush-ing yards and a touchdown on 26 carries. Wide receiver Nick Toon had five receptions for 98 yards and two touchdowns. The Wolverines took a 17-14 lead late in the first half on a fumble return by Ryan Van Bergen, but Wisconsin scored consecutive touchdowns to end the half ahead 28-17.
Friday
temPle 56,akrOn 17
Temple quarterback Ches-ter Stewart scored four touch-downs, two passing and two rushing, to help the Owls domi-nate the Akron Zips and stay in the running for the Mid-Amer-ican Conference title. The Owls (8-2, 6-0) are winners of eight consecutive and have their best record since 1979. Akron (2-8, 1-5) led 17-7 early, but Temple scored 49 unanswered points to extend its longest winning streak since 1973-74. Temple running back Bernard Pierce rushed for 97 yards and a touchdown.
Compiled by staff reporter John Evans.
Princetonspoils CMU’s opener
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Kellermann held to five points in loss to Tigers
By tim ottuschAssistant Sports Editor
CMU men’s basketball coach Ernie Zeigler commented be-fore Saturday’s game about how much better Princeton is since last year’s 55-53 victory to open the season.
Princeton returned four of its five starters and eight of the ten players that saw action against CMU last year.
The improved Tigers team Zeigler spoke so highly of showed its improvement Sat-urday at Rose Arena, defeating CMU 71-68.
“They were extremely pre-pared,” Zeigler said. “You could see the veteran lead-ership from when we played a year ago from about this time ... I was truly impressed with them.”
CMU, which stresses strong defensive play, struggled to guard the 3-point shot early in the game. Princeton shot 5-of-6 from 3-point range in the first half, putting CMU be-hind by four heading into the second half.
“We didn’t come out with a good defensive effort,” said senior guard Robbie Harman. “They were knocking down the shots and they were making the plays.”
In the second half, CMU’s defense improved, but the of-fense struggled for the first part of it. The teams locked up de-fensively and Princeton’s ability to make the Chippewas use the entire shot clock made the first 15 minutes of the half a back-and-forth type of game.
From there, CMU gradually put itself back into the game. A Harman field goal tied the game 62-62 with 2:53 remaining and, a little bit more than a minute later, senior guard Bitzer gave
the team the lead on a pair of free throws.
H o w e v e r , with CMU up 68-67 in the final minute, P r i n c e t o n scored to take the lead and then got a block on the other end, resulting in a free throw and a three-point lead. A des-perate 3-point shot by Harman with four seconds remaining missed, and Princeton grabbed the rebound to end CMU’s comeback.
After shooting 75 percent in the first half, CMU held Princ-eton to 45.5 percent shooting in the second, outscoring the Tigers 29-28.
POlar PerFOrmancesSenior forward Chris Keller-
mann was a force for the Chippewas last year, scoring 28 points and grabbing 13 re-bounds against Princeton. This year, he finished with five points and one rebound.
“It’s a definitely a contrast be-tween last year and this year for him ... I think they came out with physicality that they weren’t go-ing to allow him to do things as easily,” Zeigler said.
Marko Spica did not fare too much better — the junior for-ward finished with two points
and zero rebounds. Zeigler said Princeton did
a good job playing physical and playing strong defensively against the post players.
“They did all the tough things that good teams do to win on the road,” he said.
Harman led the team with 22 points and Bitzer finished with 19. Dan Mavraides and Douglas Davis each finished with 16 for Princeton.
Davis had found success each time he faced CMU. He scored 25 points in the game last season.
“He’s quite a good player,” said Princeton coach Sydney Johnson. “We are very fortunate to have him at Princeton.”
Princeton’s 71 points marks the first time CMU has given up more than 70 points since Jan. 20 against Toledo. Princ-eton finished the game shooting 58.5 percent and outrebounded CMU 28-27.
“They took advantage of our mistakes and knocked down shots and made us pay for what we did wrong,” Harman said.
The team plays its second home game in a three-game homestand at 7 p.m. today in Rose Arena against Ferris State. The team closes its homestand against Illinois-Chicago at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Rose Arena.
MattHeW StePHenS/preseNtatIoN eDItorJunior Jalin Thomas had eight points and four rebounds in Saturday’s 71-68 loss.
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CMU faces EMU in MAC tourneyBy D.J. PalomaresSenior Reporter
The CMU volleyball team enters the Mid-American Con-ference tournament as the No. 5 seed and will host Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Rose Arena.
Northern Illinois, despite los-ing in consecutive sets to CMU on Saturday, edged the Chip-pewas in the tiebreaker for the No. 4 seed, the final bye-round spot in the tournament.
The Eagles swept CMU Oct. 29 in their last visit to Mount Pleasant. Senior outside hitter Victoria Randolph led the Ea-gles with 15 kills in the match.
CMU won in five sets the first time the two teams met on Sept. 25 in Ypsilanti. Eastern Michigan, which finished 4-12 in the MAC, is the last seed.
If Central beats EMU, the team would have a rematch against Northern Illinois on Thursday in Toledo at the Sea-gate Center.
“I think we have momentum right now,” said coach Erik Ol-son. “It is our job to keep it up, but we should feel really con-fident with the way we played this weekend.”
saturdayThe crowd and coaching
staff honored the CMU vol-leyball seniors Saturday prior to the team’s match against Northern Illinois.
The athletes returned the fa-vor with a 3-0 win in their last regular-season match at Rose Arena.
CMU lost to Western Michi-
gan 3-2 Friday, but Saturday’s win gave the Chippewas an 8-8 record in the Mid-American Conference and a tie for sec-ond in the West division.
“It was a great game for us,” said senior libero Alexis Lon-neman. “We were able to stay tough even when it was really close. And we bounced back from the losing streak that we have been on.”
After winning the first set 25-17, Central had to battle for the last two sets. The Huskies had three set points in the second set before eventually losing 29-27. The team also forced over-
time in the third set, but lost 27-25.
Sophomore outside hitter Lauren Krupsky led the offense with 29 kills in the two matches.
In Friday’s match against WMU, Central was up two sets, but the Broncos won the final three sets to win.
“We have poured a lot of blood, sweat and tears into playing and it was kind of a sad moment,” said senior Kaitlyn Hurt. “But we are very proud to be a part of this program and proud to be a Chippewa.”
fIle photo by MattHeW StePHenSCMU hosts Eastern Michigan at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Rose Arena for MAC Tournament play.
Lonneman takes all-time digs recordBy D.J. PalomaresSenior Reporter
The CMU volleyball team broke its concentration and focused on senior libero Alex-is Lonneman for a moment during Saturday’s sweep of Northern Illinois.
Lonneman became the first player in school history to hit for more than 2,000 ca-reer digs.
A career’s worth of work culminated in the first set, when Lonneman eclipsed the mark and broke Ali Mc-Crite’s career-dig record of 1,996. She finished Saturday with 2,019, including 27 from the match.
“It was a great feeling,” Lonneman said. “As a team, we got the win and I broke the record. It is just an awe-some feeling.”
Lonneman came into the weekend needing 34 digs in the last two matches to clinch the record. She posted
29 digs the first match.
“Alexis was pretty phe-nomenal this w e e k e n d , ” said coach Erik Olson. “She certain-ly outdug her average and just preformed greatly.”
When McCrite set the ca-reer digs record in 2005, the number appeared insur-mountable — the previous record, 1,289, stood for 15 years before McCrite passed it by more than 700 digs.
“I’ve wanted it from the time I was a freshman,” Lon-neman said. “It has always been in the back of my mind and I knew I was going to get it.”
career’s WOrkLonneman joined the
Chippewas in 2006, the year after McCrite graduated.
She instantly garnered re-spect as a defensive special-ist and was given the title of libero early in her career. She missed two games her fresh-man year and has played in every match since.
“Alexis has anchored our defense for the last four years,” Olson said. “She cer-tainly had to grow through-out her time here, in terms of staying tough and consistent throughout the good match-es and the bad.”
Lonneman will have at least one more match to add to the record as the team will host the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament at 7 p.m. Tues-day at Rose Arena against Eastern Michigan.
“It means my name is al-ways going to be here,” Lon-neman said. “I wanted it ever since I was a freshman. It was amazing.”
Robbie Harman
Alexis Lonneman