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By Jake MaySenior Reporter
Building renovations and financial necessities flood the list of responsibili-ties Thursday for the Board of Trustees.
And one building’s expansion will provide space for medical school op-erations at a higher cost.
A proposal of a Health Professions Building expansion asks for an ad-ditional $22 million, atop $2 million approved at two previous board meet-ings.
The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the President’s conference room in the Bovee University Center.
A 62,000 gross-square-foot addition to the building will allot the university a projected budget not to exceed $24 million when added to the initial costs, as proposed by Interim University President Kathy Wilbur.
“The (Liaison Committee for Medi-cal Education) sets certain standards for accreditation,” said Sam Kotta-masu, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees and ad-hoc medical school chairman. “This would meet those re-quirements.”
The university aims to build a program to meet the LCME stan-dards and qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
silver certification.The design includes an auditorium,
small group rooms, classrooms, a sim-ulation suite, anatomy laboratories, clinical skills teaching spaces and a li-brary resource area.
If approved, the addition is expected for completion by spring 2012.
Other agenda itemsAlso on the Trustees’ agenda is a pro-
posal to approve the campus improve-ment budget.
The budget is proposed for
$4,563,803, about $200,000 less than the 2008-09 campus improvement budget.
After an expected $1.15 million in fa-cility construction and renovation and another $1.4 million on other campus
projects, the budget is anticipated to use $3,163,803 — the same amount as last school year.
Another renovation, not included
Brooks Hall renovation, campus improvement budget also on schedule
B o a r d o f T r u s T e e s
Approval of $22 million sought for medical schoolother proposals on trustee agenda
w Renew a 10-year-lease for office space on East Campus Drive for Special Olympics Michigan. Rent would be $141,000 for this school year.
w Request to negotiate and execute an extension of a contract with Wolverine Power Marketing Cooperative beyond the university’s Dec. 31, 2011 termina-tion date. WPMC anticipates a decline in wholesale energy market costs, and the university looks to purchase a contract at similar or possibly lower rates.
w Four rooms in the new Education and Human Services building be named in honor of the following donors: Arlee and Peter Tampas; Judith French Smith and W. Sidney Smith; Myra and Tim Johnson; and multiple smaller donors.
A board of trustees | 2A
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By Jake MaySenior Reporter
A college student’s payday helps to square away rent, get groceries, catch up on bills and buy beer.
Not necessarily in that order.And because beer prices are on the
rise this fall for two brewing giants, students are looking to buy more to pay less.
“Buy it now. Stock up,” said Er-ika Voss, a Grand Rapids junior. “I can’t believe the prices are going up again.”
The two largest U.S. beer sellers, MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch, say they plan to increase prices, al-though they did not elaborate much on the reason.
“We feel like we will take a moder-ate price increase on our portfolio,” said Peter Marino, spokesman for Chicago-based MillerCoors, maker of Blue Moon, Coors Light and Miller Lite.
Marino blamed rising expenses, but did not give any specifics on the need to raise prices.
The two brewing companies con-trol 80 percent of the American beer market.
Brighton senior Ben Harris said students will pay the price to drink, so it is a smart move by the brewing companies.
“No matter what they do, we will still go and buy beer,” he said. “It’s a staple in the college lifestyle.”
Some beer prices onthe riseMillerCoors, Anheuser-Busch vague on reason for boost
A beer | 2A
By Eric DresdenStudent Life Editor and Brad CanzeSenior Reporter
Rapper Fabolous’ show Fri-day is now free for students, faculty and staff.
Scheduled by Program Board, On the Fly Productions and Minority Student Servic-es, the concert will end Hip-Hop Week at 7:30 p.m. in Rose Arena. Tickets originally were
set at $14 to $22 for stu-dents, faculty and staff.
But Mon-day, the groups said they would make the event free for everyone except the public ($14 to $22).
Program Board President David Breed said the decision was made because of dismal ticket sales.
“I think the idea behind it was ticket prices were a little bit high, and that was deter-ring students from buying
tickets,” Breed, a Muskegon junior, said. “We didn’t want attendance to hinder the show, so we decided to make it a free show. We have the budget to afford to do that. That was a collaborative effort between us and On The Fly Produc-tions. We all agreed that was probably the best way to go.”
Other reasOnsProgram Board Concert
Chairwoman Kirsten Trombly said another thing that fac-tored in was the economy.
“We had a lot of people say-ing it was too expensive with the economic times we were in now, and we can complete-
ly understand that,” Trombly, a Metamora junior, said.
Coordinator of Student Ac-tivities Damon Brown said ticket prices and sales had a little bit to do with it, but said other things, such as Central Michigan University’s victory over Michigan State University and the fact the home football game is the day after also were major factors.
“Everything factored into the decision. At the end of the day, we thought it was the best decision for the students,” Brown said.
Eric Steiner of On The Fly Productions said the groups are expecting a large crowd for
Fabolous.“A lot of people are going
to be in town for CMU’s (first home) game,” the Niles soph-omore said.
Brown said he was not sure about the ticket sales, but said he knew after the first week of sales a couple hundred tickets were sold.
Refunds for bought tickets are available by bringing the tickets to the CMU Box Office on the lower level of the Bovee Univer-sity Center by 5 p.m. Friday.
-Staff Reporter Megan Vance contributed to this report.
Only public must pay to attend showin Rose Arena
fabolous show now free amid dismal demand, economy
A family affair
Sibyl was the city’s mayor in 1977, 1979 and 1985 and served on the city commission for nine years. Arthur Ellis served as interim president of Central Michigan University in 1975, again in 1985 and as university president from 1986 to 1991.
“When we came here, part of the thing was to get the uni-versity and the city to work more together,” Sibyl said.
nO business On Christmas
The family’s first store was a Someplace Special Hallmark downtown.
Tillotson suggested pur-chasing the store in college — the beginning of the family af-
fair. Tillotson and her brother, Mark Ellis, had all their chil-dren work in the stores.
In the early 1990s, the family opened a high-end children’s clothing store called “Siblings” that closed five years later be-cause it was more than the family could handle.
“The town was a lot smaller and, if you had a local busi-ness, you were involved,” Tillotson said.
By that time, they purchased the Hallmark on Mission Street and incorporated a floral part into the traditional store. That grew into Four Seasons Floral in Shepherd, owned by Mark Ellis.
Ellis family closes its last business in Mount Pleasant
photos by Neil blake/Staff photographerMount Pleasant resident Lena Ludwig shops for her daughter Tuesday afternoon at the Someplace Special Hallmark store, 2205 S. Mission St. The store, family owned since 1979, will close sometime in the next few weeks. “It’s a shame the store is closing down,” Ludwig said.
After more than 30 years of involvement, Sibyl Ellis is helping her daugh-
ter, Marcia Tillotson, close the last business owned by a family deeply rooted in mid-Michigan.
Someplace Special Hallmark, at 2205 S. Mission St., will close by the end of the year.
But the family’s ties were not limited to business.
By Maryellen Tighe | Staff Reporter
Marcia Tillotson, owner of the Hallmark store, checks out a customer Tuesday afternoon at the register. A haLLMark CLosing | 5A
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w Lyricists Lounge, a night of battling, freestyle and true hip-hop talent, will take place from 8 to 10 p.m. in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
w “Quiz Central" will premiere at 7:30 p.m. on CMU Public Television.
w the art department faculty show will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the University Art Gallery.
w a cover letter workshop will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Maroon room in the Bovee University Center.
w the trustees-Faculty Liaison Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the President’s Conference Room in the Bovee University Center.
w the trustees-student Liaison Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. in Terrace Room C in the Bovee University Center.
thursday, sept. 17
w soup and substance — Celebrating hispanic heritage month will take place at noon in the Maroon, Gold and Chippewa Rooms at the Bovee University Center.
w a resume workshop will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Ma-roon Room at the Bovee University Center.
w Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland institute of music musicians will perform from 8 to 9 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
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Jeff smith/Staff photographerMount Pleasant freshman Jordan Roth, left, takes a break from rollerblading to light a cigarette and speak with members of the Third Party Movement on Tuesday afternoon while the group was protesting a smoking ban on CMU’s campus at the Central Park walkway. Third Party Movement will be protesting there at noon until Friday.
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‘pretty gOOd vaLue’Traditionally, brewers do
raise prices in the fall.“We still think that beer
is a pretty good value right now,” Marino said, “And we think we can raise prices on a market-by-market basis.”
Anheuser-Busch, maker of Bud Light and Budweiser, also will raise its prices this season.
“The markets have been assessed, and we’ll be acting on a by-market, by-brand
and by-package basis,” the company said in a state-ment.
Voss said she noticed some prices of off-brand beer go-ing down, but hearing about the major brewers raising prices made her upset.
Voss, who buys and drinks beer regularly, said people will still buy it, but nobody will be happy to do so.
“It sucks, especially for college kids like us who can’t necessarily afford expensive alcohol,” she said. “It is so expensive already. It’s really going back up? We’ve got to buy it now, stock up. What else can we do? Nothing, re-ally.”
Evan Kothmehl, a Lake Orion junior, is tired of see-ing companies continue to raise prices in a downturn economy.
He said he will still buy beer because he does not want his college experience to be affected by the amount of money he pays for a beer.
“The prices — they are high enough already,” he said. “But I will absolutely still be in line with a six-pack. It won’t stop me from buying. I’m a college student, and I like to drink beer. That’s a big part of what college is all about.”
Beer |continued from 1A
in the campus improvement budget, is Brooks Hall.
David Burdette, vice presi-dent for finance and adminis-trative services, proposed an additional $750,000 to correct design errors and omissions associated with the $5.65 mil-lion project.
The Board previously ap-proved the $5.65 million to amend mechanical, electrical and plumbing renovation in Brooks Hall over multiple years of deferred maintenance.
Brooks Hall was nearly closed the first day of classes this semester, and a three-day, around-the-clock weekend of work brought the facility up to fire code.
Burdette said continuing to correct these fire safety er-rors and pay for the quick
work done the weekend be-fore classes is expected to cost $750,000.
“Between the material we had to buy, the contractor’s cost and the overtime, we estimate that will be to ap-proximate total cost,” Bur-dette said. “We did a radical fix to get that building up to code in time for class. It’s im-portant that we keep it up be-cause we want the building to be the best it can be for the biology department and its students and faculty.”
-Senior Reporter Jake Bolitho contributed to this report.
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By Edward schutterStaff Reporter
The Isabella County Board of Commissioners agreed Tuesday to host two separate underwater police training sessions in Isabella County.
The two one-week train-ing sessions put on by Dive Rescue International, a Col-orado-based company, will allow local and non-local police officers a chance to train in underwater diving situations. The training dates have yet to be determined.
One session will train of-ficers in underwater inves-tigating and the other will train officers in underwater technology used in crime scene investigations.
“A larger part of our reason for diving is for evidence,” said Isabella County Under-sheriff Laude Hartrum.
The program will not gen-erate revenue for the county, but the host county is al-lowed two free participants
in the training sessions. Har-trum said it is a good oppor-tunity for Isabella County’s Sheriff’s deputies to get good training for free.
“Isabella County has great conditions for the training because we have deep bod-ies of water and the water is fairly clear,” he said. “Plus, since we host, we can send our guys for nothing, which is a great opportunity.”
Isabella County has 3.48 square miles of water within its borders, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Web site.
The project will require prep time to set up the train-ing sites. Dive Rescue Inter-national, along with mem-bers of the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, will determine the sites used for training.
County Commissioner John Haupt said the program will be good opportunity for the county.
“This training is valuable for gathering evidence and we get to send our guys for free,” he said.
County to host underwater police training sessionsCourses will teach officers technology, investigation
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Art from the ParksPark-inspired art, live music,
poetry readings, trail walks, a “Creation Station” and the creation a community quilt will take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26 at Deerfield Nature Park, 2425 W. Remus Road. The event is free, but an entrance permit is required for a vehicle to enter the park. The event is hosted by the Chippewa Wa-tershed Conservancy, Isabella County Parks and Recreation and Art Reach of Mid Michigan. For more information, call the Isabella County Parks and Rec-reation department at 772-0911, ext. 340.
“Carol” auditionsOpen auditions for “A
Christmas Carol” will take place at 6:30 p.m. today at the Broadway Theatre, 216 E. Broadway St. There are parts for 22 men, women and chil-dren, and chorus spots. Ages 5 and older are welcome to try out.
Chamber MusicFive musicians from the
Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute of Music will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall. The art-ists will open the “Guest Artist” portion of the concert hall’s 2009-10 season. Tickets are $5 for the general public and $3 for students and senior citi-zens, and are available at the Central Box Office, in the Bovee University Center or by calling 774-3000.
Cover Letter Workshop
A workshop will take place at 6 p.m. today in the Bovee Uni-versity Center Maroon Room to help students with writing ef-fective and professional cover letters and thank-you notes for potential employers. Alpha Kappa Psi, a professional co-ed fraternity, will host the event. Alpha Kappa Psi also is hold-ing a workshop on effective re-sumes at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Bovee University Center Maroon Room.
Lyricists LoungeA night of battles, free styl-
ing and hip-hop lyricism will take place at 8 p.m. tonight in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Audi-torium. Lyricist Lounge Emcee Battle is sponsored by Minor-ity Student Services, On the Fly Productions and Phi Beta Sigma. Interested students can find out more by e-mailing [email protected] or calling 774-1189.
Halfway to St. Patty’s
Bennigan’s Grill and Tavern, 2424 S. Mission St., is host-ing a “Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day” celebration from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and from noon to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Sat-urday. The celebration includes live music and a D.J. Melissa May and The Thunder Chickens will perform at 9 p.m. Friday and Jedi Mind Trip will perform at noon and 9 p.m. Saturday. Food and beverage specials are available on both days. There is a $5 cover in exchange for an appetizer.
“I Hate Hamlet”The final performances of “I
Hate Hamlet” are at 7 p.m. Fri-day and Saturday at the Broad-way Theatre, 216 E. Broadway St. Tickets are $8 and are available at the door and at Ace of Dia-monds, 128 E. Broadway St.; Ben-nigan’s Grill and Tavern, 2424 S. Mission St.; Ric’s Food Center, 903 E. High St.; and the Doherty Motor Hotel, 604 N. McEwan St., in Clare.
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By Connor SheridanStaff Reporter
Central Michigan Universi-ty students will get to see their football team and sample local business offerings Thursday.
The 24th annual Wares Fair is running in conjunction with Fire Up Fest from 6 to 8 p.m. in Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Kathy Simon, assistant di-rector of Student Publications and Wares Fair coordinator, said the event should attract many students.
“The Wares Fair is an annu-al event that introduces local businesses to CMU students,” Simon said.
The events will run two days before CMU’s first home foot-ball game, at 3:30 p.m. against Alcorn State, as is the tradition for Fire Up Fest.
“Fire Up Fest is an event to get the students and general public excited for the football season,” said Mike Dabbs, as-sistant director of Marketing and Community Relations for the Athletics Department.
This is the third year the two events are running back to back.
“We both have really good events,” Dabbs said. “We thought this would be a very unique thing for our students, and something unique for vendors.”
Free stuFFAt least 90 local businesses
will be present at the Wares Fair, including national fran-chises and Mount Pleasant originals.
“Pizza places and sandwich shops (bring samples),” Simon said. “B’s Music serenades ev-erybody.”
She also said Sam’s Club/Wal-Mart often bring whole
bags of free products, always a popular stop for students.
“(We get) between 7,000 and 8,000 students,” Simon said.
It also will be the site of the “Most Spirited Chippewa Contest.”
“(Participants can) go ahead and get painted up and come out in full maroon and gold,” Simon said.
The top 10 contestants pho-tographed at the contest’s tent Thursday and at each home game will go to an online vote and the winner will receive $100 and an iPod.
A new contest will run at each home game.
Even those who do not want
to slather on body paint will be able to get pepped up for the football season at the Fire Up Fest.
There will be comments from several coaches, in-cluding men’s basketball coach Ernie Ziegler, and stu-dents will be able to see the demonstrations from the football team and marching band.
“(We have) a lot of momen-tum right now and we really need the students’ support,” Dabbs said. “Our students are very important to the athletic department.”
Wares Fair, Fire Up Fest on tap for ThursdayIf you go...
w What: Wares Fair/Fire Up Festw When: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdayw Where: Kelly/Shorts Stadiumw Cost: Free
By Joe BorlikSenior Reporter
The voices of America’s non-religious college students are being heard more than ever.
According to Secular Student Alliance, a national umbrella organization for the secular student movement, there are 159 campus groups affiliated with the nationwide organiza-tion as of Labor Day, up from 100 in 2008 and 80 in 2007.
Kirk Wilcox, president of the Non-Religious, Atheist, Free Thinker and Agnostic Alliance, a registered student organiza-tion he helped start last se-mester, said he is not surprised campuses across the county are seeing increasing numbers of non-religious students.
“Over the years, it’s become more acceptable — people should be proud of who they are,” the Royal Oak senior said. “If you want to be a Christian and go to church, that’s fine, but there should be institu-tions for people who aren’t re-ligious.”
Wilcox said Christians also are becoming more accepting of non-religious individuals.
the reasonsMacomb senior Jake Bar-
nett, NAFAA vice president, said there are various reasons for the increasing numbers of non-religious students, in-cluding education and the economy.
“When people are ethically and financially stable, it pre-vents them from exploring re-ligious options and they tend to focus on themselves and others,” he said.
Barnett said he believes every minority in the county deserves to be represented, including those non-religious, such as atheists and agnos-tics.
“If we can influence elec-tions, then we can show we have a voice,” he said. “Once we are visible, hopefully we can stop the negative stereo-types.”
study finds students are losing religion
A atheist | 7A
By Griffin FraleyStaff Reporter
There is some concern over how the new tailgating policy will affect attendance at foot-ball games this fall.
Central Michigan Police Chief Bill Yeagley discussed tailgating policies with Stu-dent Government Association members Monday and said he was concerned they would af-fect attendance.
“When people make change, I usually fear the worst,” he said. “The majority of change in my life, I thought would be terrible. I encourage students to try it first.”
The policy will limit the amount of alcohol allowed, prohibit outside stereos and will increase the amount of
space for student tailgating.SGA had the opportunity
to question Athletics Director Dave Heeke and Yeagley about the new tailgating policy in a question-and-answer format.
“They were a little worried about attendance, but they stressed that safety is more im-portant,” said SGA Vice Presi-dent Brittany Mouzourakis, a Garden City senior.
Heeke said he hopes stu-dents will give the new poli-cies a chance before they give negative feedback.
“We’re all in this together,” Heeke said. “We encourage you to be open-minded. We have a great football team to watch.”
Some SGA members were curious exactly how much the security would be increased
and what would happen to students who are caught with too much alcohol.
“The total amount of secu-rity has been doubled,” Yea-gley said. “We have rules and, if you’re willing to follow them, you’re welcome to stay. People probably will get caught. We will ask you to leave.”
Mouzourakis said she felt the administration did a good job of clarifying the new pro-cedures, but students were still left unclear how they would enforce the rules.
Students asked about the al-cohol quota in multiple ways, but were still left asking how it would be enforced, she said.
Heeke also talked about the addition of five food stations. Some SGA members were con-cerned the food would be too
expensive, but Heeke said the prices would be reasonable.
“We’re not looking to make a profit here,” Heeke said. “We’ve already allocated the dollars. We thought it was the right thing to do for the students.”
security concernsWith the increased focus on
the tailgating area, SGA mem-bers wondered if Main Street would see an increase in crime.
“I don’t anticipate any in-crease in crime,” Yeagley said.
However, action can be tak-en if needed to increase pro-tection of Main Street, he said.
“We’re not shorting the city staff. They will still be enforc-ing Main (Street),” he said.
Some were concerned shar-ing coolers could make it look like students had more than
the allotted limit of alcohol.“We’re going to use discre-
tion out there,” Yeagley said. “At the same time, we know people will try to deceive us.”
Mouzourakis said SGA mem-bers were told if students are sharing coolers, they should not wander away from it, leav-ing one student with a lot of alcohol.
Students should stay with their group.
“If you have your five or six friends around, you should be golden,” Heeke said.
Bag searches were another concern.
Student give up their right to say no to a bag search when they enter the tailgating area, Yeagley said.
tailgating procedures could decrease football attendance
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photos by nEil blakE/staff p hotographerTroy junior Dan Leonard, left, and Sterling Heights junior Fred Bartolomei man the donation box for the Autism Society of America Tuesday night at the Alpha Chi Rho house, 614 S. Main St. The barbecue was held as part of rush.
By Alex Washingtonand Taylor HillsStaff Reporters
There is more to fraternity life than partying.
That is what fraternities are hoping to get across as they began recruitment Monday.
Seventeen hopeful fraternity mem-bers played Ultimate Frisbee at the In-tramural Athletic Fields that day as the
first event of the Phi Kappa Tau social fraternity’s recruitment week.
“We needed an athletic event to round out the week,” said Clinton Township senior and Phi Kappa Tau member Tony Berardo.
Clinton Township freshman Brandon Szachta decided to join a fraternity be-cause of the stories his father and uncle told him.
“When I came to Central, I was in-terested in joining a fraternity because my uncle and dad were in one and
they told me great things about being in one,” Szachta said. “I went to MAINstage and checked out all the fraternities and visited houses and, of all the fraternities I checked out, I liked them the best.”
Fraternities recruit through
BBQ, sportsEvents this week help Greeks seek prospective members
A reCruitMent | 5A
Roseville sophomore Theron Cheatham, right, and Grand Rapids sophomore Josh Flermoen play cornhole at Alpha Chi Rho’s barbecue fundraiser Tuesday evening for the Autism Society of America at the Fraternity’s house, 614 S. Main St.
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By seth NieteringStaff Reporter
Being ‘green’ can be diffi-cult when there is nowhere to put recyclable goods.
To assist with that, Cen-tral Michigan University brought new recycling bins to pair up with existing trash cans on campus.
“It’s a great thing on cam-pus, especially when placed next to the regular trash bin,” said Director of Envi-ronmental Studies Thomas Rohrer.
Facilities Management worked on a contract with Kalamazoo-based recycling company Schupan and Sons Inc. for the football season this year.
The recycling bins were
intended only for football games. However, Schupan agreed to allow the uni-versity to use the recycling bins until the second home football game with no extra cost.
“We can only keep the recycling bins until Sept. 26,” said Student Recycling Coordinator and Metamora senior Nichole Crosson. “After that, they will only be around for football games.”
Staying greenShe said she hopes the
recycling bins will make a difference.
“We are keeping track of how much is being re-cycled,” Crosson said. “Af-ter everything, we will be giving a presentation to a committee to try and get money for permanent recy-cling bins around campus.”
Some students would like to see the recycling bins be a permanent addition to
campus.“It makes it easier for
students to recycle when the option is right in front of them,” said Parma junior Laura Hills.
The recycling bins around campus are supplied at a no cost to the university. In exchange, the company that supplies the recycling bins keeps all the recycled plastic and uses it for its own products.
“The recycled plastics get used for a variety of things,” Rohrer said. “They can be recycled into plastic pellets or used in clothing.”
There are 35 bins on cam-pus. Crosson would like to see students recycle more and put the bins to use.
“Right now, we are us-ing the bins around cam-pus as a free trial,” Crosson said. “Hopefully, we will see good results.”
By Amelia eramyaStaff Reporter
Ecuador senior Janeth Lung is feeling the pressure of being a senior.
As an exchange student, Lung has had a sense of the real world by throwing herself into a completely different culture and going through changes and new experiences.
“I’m looking for an internship and applying to grad schools,” Lung said.
Lung is not the only one try-ing to do final preparations to leave Central Michigan Univer-sity.
Students might not get a job handed to them, but there are ways to increase the chances of getting noticed by employers. Most importantly – have a nice resume.
Do’S anD Don’tS of making a reSume
One of the most important factors in creating a resume is proofreading, said Shannon Boyce, a Gaylord senior and presenter of a resume work-shop Monday.
Avoiding errors is a must for those applying to corporations. Putting emphasis on words, such as bolding, underlining or even italicizing catches the em-
ployer’s eye, she said. It is important to start each
sentence with a power word as well, such as created, de-signed, utilized or modified, said Columbiaville junior Sta-cey Shea.
The average time an employ-er spends looking at a resume is 30 to 90 seconds, Boyce said.
Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity and Career Services hosted the workshop in con-junction with Career Day.
Shea and Boyce demonstrat-ed the dos and don’ts of creat-ing a resume.
One ‘do’ would be to keep resumes short and simple, leaving room for employers to ask questions and become intrigued. Listing high school experience falls under the ‘don’ts’ because employers are more interested in recent success.
Macomb senior Brittany Hudson, an elementary educa-tion major, attended the event in hopes of updating her re-sume.
“It will help if I need to up-date and change it,” Hudson said. “I’m almost done.”
Hudson will apply during the spring semester at elementary schools near her hometown.
Career ConStruCtion
Shea and Boyce are the co-ordinators of Career Construc-tion, a series of events before Career Day on Sept. 25.
“The Career Construction will prepare the students who aren’t exactly ready for the real world,” Shea said.
Kady Campbell, a Battle Creek senior and Recognizing Education Aspirations and Ca-reer Horizons Adviser, said she is freaking out just like the rest of the seniors.
“It’s that last stretch, and they want to make sure they’re ready,” Campbell said.
Lung said she is trying to do whatever she can do to make sure she is ready for gradua-tion.
Lung is applying to graduate schools at CMU, University of Michigan, Michigan State Uni-versity, University of Ohio and several others.
On top of 18 credit hours, Lung is a part of Phi Chi Theta business fraternity, Sigma Al-pha Lambda leadership orga-nization and is a member of International Seniors Club. She also volunteers with Big Broth-ers Big Sisters.
“It’s still the beginning of the year, so it hasn’t hit me yet,” Lung said.
CMU seeing green for footballRecycling bins pair up with trash cans on campus
Develop resume to get an edge
Paige CaLaMari/Staff PhotograPherEcuador senior Janeth Lung has members of Alpha Kappa Psi look over her resume after the information session Monday evening in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Room during the Resume Fair.
By Blake showersStaff Reporter
To many students, the his-torical figure of James Madi-son is just that — a historical figure.
But a lecture from Oakland University Associate Professor of History Todd Estes brought Madison out of the past to show the father of the Constitution in a much different light.
Estes’s 4th Annual Constitu-tion Day Lecture, “James Madi-son’s Reluctant Paternity of the Constitution,” highlighted Madison’s viewpoints of the Constitution at different times.
Estes believes Madison went from opposing much of the Constitution to rallying for its ratification in front of the Virginia Congress.
Madison originally want-ed a ‘Council of Revision’ to be able to strike down state laws, the elimination of the Senate with equal represen-tation and won more argu-ments than he lost.
The time following the Con-stitutional Convention gave him time to reconsider and revise opinions to bring him in full support of the Constitution.
“I believe Madison used the Federalist Papers as a process, much like a professor writes a paper now, never clarifying thoughts until they were all on paper,” Estes said. “I think he stood back and said, ‘I didn’t get what I wanted, but how could I have?’ and accepted the compromise.”
Madison pressed hard for ratification in 1788.
“He did the worst thing in American politics today — he changed his mind,” Estes said. “Campaigning now, I think he’d be called a flip-flop.”
Students asked Estes’ opin-
ion on what Madison would think about politics today.
“I think he would be deep-ly disappointed, at both the tireless pursuit of agendas and the extreme lack of con-cession with both parties,” Estes said.
Though it might not have been new knowledge to some students who were there, it was far from dull.
“There wasn’t a particular most interesting thing, but it was interesting to go back and see what was going on at the time when the coun-try was coming together,” said Muskegon junior Dave Breed.
Still, Estes brought to light things skated over in history class.
“The fact that Madison would be reluctant to take ownership of the original (Constitution) was new to me,” Breed said.
Speaker: Madison disliked ConstitutionOU professor says president flip-flopped on issue
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By Joe AlbrechtStaff Reporter
Seasonal influenza vac-cines are now available around the mid-Michigan area.
“Typically, September to June is when people get flu shots, with the flu season peaking in February,” said Darcie Van Dop, community relations specialist at Central Michigan Community Hos-pital. “It’s never too late for anyone to get one.”
Flu shots are available from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in Foust Hall Room 200, the ready care walk-in clinic at CMCH or a personal
doctor’s office.Standard seasonal flu
shots cost $30 each, Dar-cie said, from Health Ser-vices and CMCH. Central Michigan Urgent Care, 520 N. Mission St., will offer flu shots for $20.
These can be billed to stu-dent accounts or personal insurance if done at Health Services.
Urgent Clinic Express, 1750 E. Bellows St., will offer flu shots, but the cost is not yet known.
Staying CleanThe Center for Disease
Control recommends getting vaccinated each year as the best way to prevent the flu.
“Students should take good care of themselves,” said Lori Wangberg, Health Educator for University Health Services. “They should get enough sleep,
stay home at least 24 hours until a fever breaks and take preventive measures to not spread germs.”
Other proactive steps in-clude using your elbow to sneeze or cough into instead of your hands, washing hands with soap if you sneeze or cough into them and eating right, she said.
“The shots are comprised of three different strains of what they think will be the most common types of influ-enza,” Von Dop said.
According to the CDC, the influenza vaccine can pro-tect against getting sick from these three strains or make an illness milder if students get a similar, but varying, strain of the virus.
“These shots do not pro-tect against the H1N1 virus though,” Wangberg said.
Flu vaccines cost between $20 and $30Shots does notprotect against H1N1 virus
The family involvement in the business was nearly uni-versal and often overwhelm-ing.
“No talking about business on Thanksgiving or Christmas. Christmas Day, we couldn’t talk about the day-after sale until we left Mom and Dad’s house,” Tillotson said.
Working for the Community
The family felt political in-volvement was essential for the success of a small business.
Tillotson served on the Downtown Business Associa-tion as president and saw over the creation of the recycling center.
Sibyl helped negotiate the waste water treatment plant expansion and organized pav-ing several local streets while she was mayor.
“I’m not gonna say I did it, no. Was I maybe the leader of the pack?” Sibyl said. “I was the first woman mayor, in fact, there were not very many in the state at that time.”
In spite of the economic troubles Arthur faced as uni-versity president, he secured funding to build the Industrial Engineering and Technology Building.
“It wasn’t really a time to be building things,” he said.
He was one of the first uni-versity presidents in Michigan who did not have a doctorate
degree, but said he felt he was well-equipped to handle bud-get problems.
The Ancient Honorable Stone Woman sculpture on the corner of Preston and Franklin, commemorated Arthur’s work in co-creating a state arts com-mission during former Gov. John Engler’s tenure.
He spent many years in the state government after leaving CMU, serving in the Michigan Department of Commerce and as superintendent of schools. Arthur was also involved on the state quarter design com-mittee.
“The reason you have a state quarter with the Great Lakes and Michigan in the middle is because I was appointed chair,” he said.
In Lansing, Arthur worked with Interim University Presi-dent Kathy Wilbur. She moved from Government Relations and Public Affairs to interim president like Arthur did.
Arthur has not returned to
campus since he was replaced as president.
“There’s only room for one president at a time,” he said.
Change, Change, ChangeMany of the changes the
family has seen in the com-munity are not related to changes they were involved with.
“In terms of growth, it’s tre-mendous,” Sibyl said.
Mount Pleasant became home to chain stores such as Meijer and Wal-Mart — the reason small stores such as Something Special Hallmark are going out of business.
“The big box stores have killed everything. That’s the easiest way to explain it,” Sibyl said.
Tillotson is the owner of the Hallmark on Mission Street and is charged with the task of closing it.
“It was a very, very diffi-cult decision when you’ve put thirty years of your life into the same business. It’s hard to say it’s time to go,” she said.
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Fraternity recruitment is different from sorority recruit-ment because there is no for-mal structure to introducing the potential members to the houses.
“They get to choose which houses they’ll go to and which events they attend,” Berardo said. “With sorority rush, they have to go to every house at one
point – ours, if you already know you want to rush Phi Tau, you can go to Phi Tau events.”
BarBeCuing for reCruitment
Phi Kappa Tau is not the only fraternity doing events all week.
All fraternities involved have planned events, bringing re-cruits out to get to know the group.
Alpha Chi Rho kicked off its week with a charity barbecue to raise money for one of its five philanthropies, the Autism
Society of America. Potential brothers, returning members and even supporting soror-ity women came out to donate money and socialize with Alpha Chi Rho.
Alex Angel, a Grass Lake sophomore who went through recruitment in fall 2008, said it was an open event.
“Everybody comes out to do-nate and socialize. The barbe-cue was an open rush event for new recruits,” Angel said.
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By Heather shoveinStaff Reporter
Clinton Township junior Amber Mardis is determined to study abroad.
Despite economic scares, Mardis and many other stu-dents flooded the Rotunda Room in the Bovee University Center Tuesday evening for the Study Abroad Fair.
Groups of students circled around tables lined up in the UC Rotunda Room to learn about CMU’s Study Abroad Program and all it entails.
Study Abroad has a vast number of programs students
can choose from in more than 25 countries.
Students had common con-cerns, such as which coun-tries offered which classes, or if studying abroad would af-fect graduating on time.
“I’m worried that it will set me back, because I won’t find a place that has classes that I need,” Mardis said.
Dianne De Salvo, director of Study Abroad, said credit transferring is a common question students ask. Every student who studies abroad can gain credit for their Uni-versity Program requirement Group IV, Subgroup B, in ad-
dition to the credits they set up to transfer before leaving abroad.
Along with this, students prepare credit transfers be-fore going abroad, so they are aware of which classes are counting toward their major, minor and graduation.
De Salvo said study abroad programs offer courses CMU does not and, in several cases, students corresponded with department faculty to receive transferable credits for class-es not initially exchangeable with CMU courses.
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This weekend, as the CMU football team plays Alcorn State in its home opener at 3:30 p.m., is the perfect time to make a stand. Starting a tail-gating event on Main Street is a great start.
New tailgating procedures include increased security that involves state, county, city and campus police for crowd control. A new alcohol limit is
in place, allowing each student only six beverages or one pint of alcohol. Students walking to tailgate will have to pass through five to six pedestrian checkpoints.
In order to park in Lot 63, the tradi-tional tailgating parking lot, students have to pay $10 on game day to park. The lot also will be broken up by ce-ment barriers, building an emergen-
cy lane during tailgating. All external sound systems are prohibited.
If these rules are not followed, stu-dents will be asked to leave tailgating and the game.
Some students believe tailgating is a tradition that shouldn’t be tam-pered with, and that the procedures from last year were fine. But school officials said tailgating had to change for safety issues.
“The injury rate increased last year, which demanded emergency re-sponse,” said Athletics Director Dave Heeke.
The event of tailgating is largely the students’. If they do not like the new rules, they need to be active with their views and put pressure on the university – respectfully, of course.
Some students are trying to move tailgating to Main Street, away from the increased security and other rules. Moving tailgating away from
Kelly/Shorts Stadium may not have the same atmosphere as lot 63, but it shows a reaction to the new rules.
The Student Government Associ-ation held a forum last night regard-ing the new tailgating procedures, allowing students to voice their opinion. It is motions like this that students need to be involved in.
The bigger the turnout on Main Street and the smaller the turnout in Lot 63, the better chance students have of getting university officials to talk. After all, those officials are sup-posed to be working for the ones who pay tuition to come to CMU in the first place.
Sitting at the edge of the parking lot during tailgating and complaining with friends won’t change anything. Don’t like the new tailgating rules? Take a stand. Get your friends together. Take your tailgating fun somewhere else.
In large numbers, tell the university how you feel — respectfully, of course.
Students will be experiencing a whole new game Saturday when it comes to tailgating at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Many are not happy with the changes made, which include tighter security and alcohol restric-tions. Many feel the new tailgating rules are unnec-essary and only put limits on their experience.
EDITORIAL | Students need to be active if tailgating procedures are to change
New rules, same game
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ASHLEY WEISS [CARTOON]
[our readers’ voice]
It seems students never grasp the importance of our faculty until years later. On Sept. 3, the Oakland Uni-versity Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ordered its members to refrain from holding classes as contract disputes with OU’s administration continued to go unresolved. Sound familiar, doesn’t it? Just last fall, the Faculty As-sociation at CMU threatened to strike if an agreement could not be made regarding a new faculty contract. Luckily, both parties came to an agreement, and there was no strike. Oakland didn’t fare as well. At 3:30 a.m. Thursday, OU and the AAUP agreed on a tentative contract and classes resumed after five days of striking. One day prior, Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Edward Sosnick ordered AAUP and OU to continue bargaining “through the evening and all night if necessary.” According to the AAUP Oakland Aug. 31 newsletter, “one of the most complex problems concerns how to accommodate the new School of Medicine into the AAUP contract.” The newsletter also says OU has not provided the AAUP with documentation explaining how the school of medicine is to be structured. Imagine that, a medical school in the works and the university has failed to inform the faculty of its structure, rules and adminis-tration policies. I fear the same for the CMU com-munity in the near future. With the faculty contract set to expire in 2011, there’s no ques-tion these same issues facing OU and the AAUP will arise between CMU and the FA. Why not look out for those who will be sitting in the desks we’re in now? So, a few years from now, you can bet your top dollar I will be following up on this potential problem as it unfolds – just as I did last year, and you should, too.
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through with it.”David Vang,
Lansing senior
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Last week, President Obama addressed Congress to push his health care reform plan. What was originally a 30-minute speech was extended to 45 min-utes, but did the longer speech help the President’s plan or hurt it? When it was revealed the speech would be longer, people thought Obama would be going into more details about his plan. While he did give an outline of his plan, including some details, only 51 percent of the President’s speech was actually about the specifics of the plan. The other 49 percent ranged from Republicans and Democrats working together to Ted Kennedy’s dream about health care to the reasons that we need health care reform (surely that has already been expressed enough by mem-bers of both parties). But what exactly was the goal of the President’s speech? Was it to convince Americans that his plan is a good plan? Was it to convince Congressmen his plan is a good plan? Or was it a combination of the two? If his goal was to convince Americans of his plan, I would say the President did a decent job. He appealed to the emo-tions of people by giving spe-cific examples of why we need health care reform. He showed this is something he truly believes in and is passionate about. Both of those had a positive impact on most Americans. A lot of Americans are skeptical of change, especially to a system so vital to their lives as health care. A lot of Americans wanted to hear the details of the President’s plan. Will a public option be includ-ed in the plan, or will the Presi-dent simply push for an insur-ance cooperative? How will the President enforce his mandate that “individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance”? Where are the areas that the plan will help save money, and what spending cuts will Obama make if he is forced to cut spending? These are just a few of the details the President should have ad-dressed in his speech if he wanted to ease the worries of Americans. If his goal was to sway law-makers to support his plan, he did a very poor job. The President is most likely going to need at least a few Repub-licans to support his plan, but while he conceded some points such as malpractice reform, he made more enemies on the Republican side of the aisle than friends. Taking jabs at the Iraq war and George W. Bush’s tax cuts will not help the President win over Repub-licans and, without the support of some Republicans, I don’t see the President’s plan passing the Senate. The President needs to take his own advice and stop both the partisanship and taking jabs at Republicans, or he will find him-self not signing any significant health care reform bill this year.
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After reading the Sept. 11 article in CM Life, I was amazed at how under-reported and underdevel-oped this story was. There was a glaring problem with it, namely the fact that most people that were interviewed were too young to even begin to under-stand what happened on 9/11, let alone know the true repercussions of it. I would even venture to guess that most of those people did not even know what the World Trade Center was prior to 9/11. While I was only 14 at the time of the attacks, I managed to carry at least a basic understanding of what had taken place on that day. I had a knowledge of what the Trade Center actually was, having grown up with movies during the 90s that made the towers famous (Independence Day, Men in Black, Armageddon, among others). I just fail to see the point in in-terviewing people who really had
no idea about what was happen-ing on Sept. 11. Of course they were all “con-fused, unsure of what was hap-pening,” because I highly doubt that these elementary school chil-dren were even allowed to watch the attacks from their classrooms, much less discuss them in a con-structive manner. I remember the television being turned on just in time to see the South Tower collapse during a live broadcast, and several of my classmates had even seen the sec-ond airplane hit the same tower some 55 minutes ago. Up until that point, the media was considering the first hit on the World Trade Center to be an accident. Once United 175 struck the South Tower, anyone who was ca-pable of understanding what was happening knew that times were going to change. You have a campus full of people who might offer a more meaningful opinion on the 9/11 attacks. Let me just say that I appreci-ated the commentary from the journalism professor CM Life
presented. It gave insight on how the Sept. 11 attacks fit into the U.S. histori-cal scale. Professor Hartman drew in-teresting parallels between the attacks and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These were two events which shaped the direction America went. For better or for worse, the American populace must accept the idea that the Sept. 11 attacks were glaringly significant, if not integral to American history, much like the JFK assassination was. It seems as though most news agencies are afraid to relive the day, to bring out people’s true feelings about Sept. 11. It appears that the goal of modern journalism is to sweep the tragedy under the rug, while the dates of other national tragedies (like Pearl Harbor) are commemo-rated yearly in the most patriotic of fashions. Your article helps people forget.
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Synchronizing for success
Photos By Paige CaLaMari/Staff PhotograPherThe Open Collegiate Synchronized Skating Club of CMU takes the ice during its first team practice Monday night at the ICE Arena on East Remus Road. The team welcomed five new members for the upcoming season.
By Ashley Hullinger Staff Reporter
CMU’s Synchronized Skat-ing Club is nationally recog-nized despite becoming a reg-istered student organization just five years ago.
Coach Kim Nelson worked with the team since it began competing in 2006. Last season, she coached the team to first place, second place twice and fourth place in competitions.
“Considering we’ve only competed the past two sea-sons, I think we’ve done very well,” she said. “It’s fun to work through the challenges and be able to see the success in the end. It’s all about the vi-sual effects.”
Aside from participating in four competitions across the country from September to February, the team also takes the opportunity to showcase its talents at various exhibi-tions throughout the season.
The first competition of the season is Dec. 5 in Ann Arbor.
“Think of it as synchro-nized swimming, but we’re ice skating. It’s a group of people performing to music with el-ements of synchronization,” Nelson said.
Nelson said the club was created to help keep people interested in what they have done for so long, but find hard to continue.
“It’s the commitment of wanting to be part of a team. That’s what it’s really all about,” Nelson said.
an eSSential SportStephanie Lange, a Highland
junior, has been skating for as long as she can remember.
After coming to college, she found it difficult to continue.
“The team is a good supple-ment for those who are used to being involved in the sport,” she said.
Lange said being an instruc-tor for the past couple years at the Mount Pleasant ICE Arena was the perfect opportunity to helped her stay involved.
“I wasn’t aware that CMU’s team competed. In this sport, it’s essential that there is something like the Skating Club because it’s not something that gets a lot of attention in college,” she said.
a CoStly effortLast year, the team had the
opportunity to travel to Ten-nessee and Colorado, though the perks have some costs.
Depending on the size of
the team, expenses can range from $700 to $1,000 a season. The money is used toward ice time, competition entry, travel expenses and team outfits.
The total expenses for the season are divided evenly among each member. Nelson said most people pay out-of-pocket or through fundraising.
Although members must be full-time students, they do not need to attend CMU. Mem-bers also can be from other area colleges.
To date, the team has con-sisted only of female athletes.
“There just hasn’t been any interest shown by male skat-ers,” she said.
Ice skating team prepares for new season
The Synchronized Skating Club of Central Michigan University prepares to perform a
wheel formation Monday evening at the ICE Arena on East Remus Road.
The results of the 2008 Ameri-can Religious Identification Survey parallel similar results regarding broader secular demographics.
Last year, 76 percent of Ameri-can adults identified themselves as Christian, down from 86 per-cent in 1990, according to the study.
The study reports increases
among the religiously unaffiliated especially prominent in people younger than 30.
a ‘Belief arounD nothing’Jeremy Priest, a pastoral as-
sociate at St. Mary’s University Parish, 1405 S. Washington St., finds it interesting non-reli-gious individuals are forming groups together.
“They’re forming a common belief around nothing,” Priest said. “I’d like to ask them what their community is founded
upon. Christians get together to celebrate the Lord’s creation and resurrection on the eighth day. Why do atheists get together?”
Priest said the increasing num-bers of people unaffiliated with religion could be partly to blame on Christians failing to live with a true spirit of joy and conviction.
The Non-Religious, Atheist, Free Thinker, and Agnostic Alli-ance meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Moore Hall Room 116.
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MatthEw StEphEnS/Presentation editorCMU defeated favored Michigan State 29-27 Saturday in Spartan Stadium. The win was the 13th time a Mid-American Conference team beat a Bowl Championship Series conference team since 2006.
THE PARTY CRASHERS
Early-SEaSon upSEtS put MaC SChoolS on thE Map
Central, Toledo beat BCS Conference teams last week
By Andrew Stover | Sports Editor
photo courtESy of tolEdo athlEticSSenior quarterback Aaron Opelt and Toledo defeated Colorado 54-38 Friday night in Toledo.
Dave JonesSenior Reporter
Coach Butch Jones took some time to look ahead
during his press conference following CMU’s 29-27 win over Michigan State.
He took a second away from looking back on one of the biggest wins of his career — and the school’s history — to look ahead to Saturday and the team’s home opener against Alcorn State at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
He saw the strong sup-port of students and fans at Spartan Stadium and said he expects Kelly/Shorts to be sold out next week.
“Why not?” he said.Really, though. Why not?What this team did for the
school on Saturday against the Spartans and the Big Ten more than garners the attention of 30,295 students and fans.
Campus buzzSaturday night in Mount
Pleasant was fun, and it’s no mystery why.
The bars were packed with Chippewas fans while Main Street and the rest of downtown was rowdy.
Athletic Director Dave Heeke foresaw those good times soon after the team’s impressive win Saturday.
He jokingly suggested the town would have to be locked up with a big fence put around it.
“It’s going to be fun in Mount Pleasant tonight,” he said.
The student body knows how to celebrate, but now it knows the football team is capable of giving more. The student section will have rea-son to stay the entire game and not leave at halftime.
But now the team comes back to Mount Pleasant and Kelly/Shorts to open its home schedule against Al-corn State. If the Chippewas receive even half the sup-port they got while being an hour down US-127 on Saturday, the atmosphere will be electric.
a New Team, a New weekSaturday marked one of
the biggest moments in the university’s athletic his-tory. It’s up there with the basketball team’s NCAA Tournament run in 2003.
Even though the football program defeated Michigan State in the past, it was 17 years to the day since the last win.
Most current students were still crawling when that happened.
But everyone can appreci-ate what happened Satur-day. Everyone can realize just how big of a deal beat-ing MSU — a major in-state program — is to a program on the rise.
The win makes the fans forget about the shortcom-ings from a week earlier in Arizona. They no longer exist.
There is a renewed and vested interest in this team on par with the team from 2006, which went 2-0 at Ford Field and brought CMU a Mid-American Con-ference championship and Motor City Bowl win.
The Chippewas will only benefit from a rowdy, full-to-capacity Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Last week’s monumental win was one huge step toward making that scene happen.
Coach rightfully expects packed
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This is not the way it is supposed to happen.
Major football programs are supposed to beat mid-major programs. There is a reason such programs are included in leagues called “BCS conferences.” Because
whichever team wins its conference, it gets an automatic bid to play in a Bowl Championship Series bowl game.
But those who tuned in late to Friday’s Toledo-Colorado game saw a score they likely were not expecting.
The Toledo Rockets, a Mid-American Conference football team, was leading the Big 12’s Colorado Buffaloes 23-3 at half-time. The Rockets eventually won the game 54-38.
The Big 12 is considered one of the top conferences in the nation. The MAC, on the other hand, is not. But the level of respect given to the MAC is beginning to show through, espe-cially when a team such as Toledo soundly beats a Big 12 team.
“All you have to do is just look at the history and the past performance,” said CMU coach Butch Jones. “And then you couple that with the great players that have gone on to play in the National Football League and you just see an even more level playing field.”
Jones’ Chippewas also knocked off a BCS program this weekend. When CMU beat Michigan State 29-27 Saturday in East Lansing, it marked the second time a MAC school defeated a BCS school for the year, and the 13th time it was done since 2006.
Last year, six different MAC schools beat BCS teams, all from the Big Ten conference or Big East conference. Jones said he expects more of that despite differences in budgets and other accessories.
“I thought last year, the Mid-American Conference was going to be extremely competitive,” he said. “But I think this year, (it is) maybe the most competitive its ever been in the history of the conference.”
Toledo coach Tim Beckman said there is more parity around college football because of the 85 scholar-ships each program is able to use. Teams are limited to 25 scholar-ships per year and 85 total.
“Because of the parity and the 85 scholarship for football players, any-one can win on any given day,” he said. “No one takes anyone lightly.”
Other teams were close to pulling upsets thus far this year. Bowling Green lost to No. 25 Missouri 27-20, Eastern Michigan lost to Northwest-ern 27-24, Wisconsin beat Northern Illinois 28-20, Indiana beat Western Michigan 23-19 and Connecticut beat Ohio 23-16.RisiNg To a New level
If there is any in-dication the MAC is gaining respect, it might be what is on tap this weekend.
Ohio State, a Mid-west power and perennial Top ten team since coach Jim Tressel took over in 2001, agreed to play Toledo at a neutral site. The Rockets and Buck-eyes will play at Cleveland Brown Stadium, home of the Cleveland Browns of the NFL, at 12:00 p.m.
CMU hosts Indiana next year and Michigan State in 2012. In the 13 MAC wins over BCS programs since 2006, only four happened in MAC stadiums. The other nine games were on the road.
Getting major programs to play in MAC venues helps the conference’s competitive image. Jones said win-ning the conference is always more important, but non-conference com-petition serves a crucial purpose.
“When you have extremely high goals for your football program in terms of national respect, bowl games, all that stuff, I think your non-conference games become im-portant,” he said. “When your ex-pectations of a program grow, your expectations nationally grow, your out-of-conference scheduling be-comes extremely critical.”
Butch Jones
Recent MAC wins vs. BCS
2009:
CMU 29, Michigan State 27 Colorado 38, Toledo 54
2008:
Illinois 17, WMU 23Toledo 13, Michigan 10CMU 37, Indiana 34BGSU 27, (25) Pittsburgh 17Ball State 42, Indiana 20Akron 42, Syracuse 20
2007:
BGSU 32, Minnesota 31Syracuse 14, Miami U. 17
2006:
WMU 17, Virginia 10Kansas 31, Toledo 37Ohio 20, Illinois 17
2009:
CMU 6, Arizona 19CMU 29, Michigan State 27Oct. 31 at Boston College
2008:
CMU 17, (2) Georgia 56CMU 25, Purdue 32CMU 37, Indiana 34
2007:
CMU 7, Kansas 52CMU 22, Purdue 45CMU 14, Clemson 70CMU 48, Purdue 51
2006:
Boston College 31, CMU 24CMU 17, Michigan 41CMU 36, Kentucky 45
CMU vs. BCS since 2006
* Bold denotes winner; home team on right.
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Colors, Cups and CuisineTailgating is, at its core,
about celebrating before a football game and showing school pride. As such, ma-roon and gold apparel is es-sential for any Central Mich-igan University fan.
“You need to dress in ma-roon and gold, and you need good food and music, and that’s really all you need,” said Ypsilanti sophomore Tristan Nelson.
Nelson said tailgating is best kept simple, but it is fine if people want to take their celebrations above and beyond.
“Tailgating is all about having fun and, if having fun means bringing your RV and Cornhole (game), then more power to you,” he said.
Along with food and ap-parel, a few drinks are cus-tomary for the 21-and-up crowd.
“I’m not saying you have to drink, but if you want to have a few beers, that’s your right as a 21-year-old adult,” said Richmond senior Carl Fraser.
Dearborn sophomore Jus-tin Straub said for tailgating,
quality of beer is almost in-consequential.
“Just buy whatever saves you the most money,” Straub said.
disCretion and patienCeThis year CMU’s new tail-
gating regulations restrict the amount of alcohol an individual can bring to six beers or one pint of liquor, and no glass bottles.
“You can bring it in plastic, you can bring it in a metal container, you can bring it in a milk jug, as long as it’s not glass,” said CMU police chief Bill Yeagley. “(In the past five years), the number of injuries to tailgaiters has increased, and the majority of those are cuts from broken glass.”
Yeagley said the main con-cern of the new regulations was public safety, and police and medical instances in the tailgating lot from the past five years were analyzed.
“We had the ambulance in there a number of times on alcohol overdose,” Yeagley said. “A good number of peo-ple who were injured were highly intoxicated. You start to see the pattern.”
Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said those tailgating need to be aware.
“All of our fans should make responsible decisions about their behavioral pat-terns,” Heeke said.
Straub said the alcohol policy would be difficult for police to enforce, without becoming overly intrusive on tailgaters.
“There’s no way they could regulate that without being up in everybody’s business, and that would ruin tailgat-ing for everybody,” Straub said.
Fraser, a member of Sigma Tau Gamma, said the fra-ternity will be tailgating on Main St., then walking to the game, to show displeasure with the new policies.
“I can see where the uni-versity’s coming from … but
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Tailgating before a football game is about the simple plea-sures of life.
“(You need) the three B’s,” said Troy junior John Raymond. “Beer, burgers and brats.”
Although simplicity may be the best policy, there are some things that are absolute necessities for a successful, enjoyable and safe tailgate.
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Do’sw Grill out Why not get some food while enjoying the atmosphere, only bring small grills.
w Wear your Central garb Show your pride for CMU.
w Enjoy your weekend Football season means more than just a Saturday afternoon, make it more.
w Go the game Just because you’re having a good time tailgating doesn’t mean you should forget about the reason everyone is there.
w Have a good time with friends Nothing can be better than cheering CMU on with a group of friends.
w Get parking permits early If you don’t have these, you aren’t getting in.
w Designate If you have drank a little bit too much, don’t risk it, ask or call a friend.
w Be aware If things are getting out of control, don’t get involved.
w Toss your garbage There will be extra bins to get rid of trash and any recyclable contrainers.
Dont’sw Bring glass It’s not allowed anymore.
w Get belligerent It’s a good way to quickly get either kicked out, arrested or both.
w Bring Pets They aren’t allowed anymore and don’t take the risk of injuring an animal in the some-times chaotic realm of tailgating.
w Recklessly consume It’s best to show up to the game sober.
w Argue with the police They aren’t going to respect you more.
w Bring external stereos These aren’t allowed anymore either.
“(You need) the three B’s. Beer, burgers and brats.”
Troy junior John Raymond
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I think it hurts the students because our tailgate is a very unique experience.”
Nelson, a senior repre-sentative of Phi Kappa Tau, said the fraternity will be attending the official tail-gate in Lot 63 to show sup-port for the school and the football team.
Yeagley said he hopes people will come and give the new procedures a shot, and the CMU Police would be open to feedback after Saturday to adjust proce-dures for future games.
“I would encourage people to come down and evaluate it,” Yeagley said. “From a po-lice perspective, we’re going to judge how it goes as well. We want people to come, we want people to enjoy them-selves, but we want to keep them safe in the process. It’s a balancing act.”
Yeagley said he would consider holding on-cam-pus meetings for students to come and share their thoughts and feedback on tailgating procedures.
tips about ChangesWith the new regulations
being enforced on Saturday many tailgaters are scram-bling to make all their last minute plans, but there are some other things you can’t forget.
One aspect that partici-pants may neglect until it’s too late is parking.
“Purchase parking passes for the lots in advance,” Heeke said. “Advance purchases not only ensure your place in the student lot but are also avail-able at a discount.”
Once your able to get into the tailgating atmosphere what is there to do next? Lansing senior Kiel Web-ber said there are plenty of things to do all around.
“(Participate in the) yard games and barbecues,”
Webber said.Another change is the
university is bringing a live DJ to blast music over the proceedings, but tailgaters need to take care to not do the same. New rules en-forced will also not allow external speakers into tail-gating.
But other rules still will be enforced too. Adam Vander-Pols, a Lowell junior, said to keep a wary eye around you to make sure you know what is going on.
“Open intox, be careful about that. Keep everything under control,” VanderPols said.
Heeke, said another change made will be the addition of a full-tailgating announcement that the game is beginning.
“(The big siren) will blow off so they know it’s time to get into the stadium and root for the Chippewas,” Heeke said.
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By Luke DimickStaff Reporter
The sun was shining on the battlefield, the Nerf Cannons were loaded, the bunkers were inflated and the teams dressed in matching armor were ready for combat.
It was a beautiful day for war.
Bongo Ball Mania, a paint-ball and laser tag hybrid, was a free event introduced by Pro-gram Board to more than 150 students Monday afternoon outside Finch Fieldhouse.
The game consisted of two teams dressed in protective uniforms and helmets. Each team member carried a large, pressurized air cannon that fired Nerf footballs. The goal was to eliminate the opposing team.
“It was something different to bring to the campus instead of the usual concerts, comedi-ans, and lectures,” said Russell Pfafflin, the daytime/special events worker for Program Board. “I think it went really well.”
After the event was rained out last year, the Allen Park sophomore said he was ex-
cited for Cutting Edge Pro-ductions to bring the game to campus.
“People walking by were kind of confused about it but, once they played they got re-ally into it,” Pfafflin said. “It was a great event. Everyone that played really enjoyed it. We plan on hopefully bringing it back next semester.”
Flushing junior Andrew Gatlin spotted the Bongo Ball course on his way to Finch Fieldhouse and decided to check it out after class.
“It was a lot of fun. I used to play paintball a lot back when I was younger and it’s the same thing basically. It’s like speed-ball,” Gatlin said. “The guns
weren’t too heavy and they were really easy to reload.”
Gatlin got shot with a ball during the game by his friend and said he did not feel any-thing.
“It doesn’t hurt like paint-ball does. The Nerf balls come pretty fast but they are soft so it’s all right,” Gatlin said.
Duong Ngo, a Lansing ju-nior, said he would definitely recommend Bongo Ball to others.
“It’s tiring and a good work-out,” Ngo said, out of breath. “I played just to have fun and relax a little bit before I have to study all day.”
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By connor sheridanStaff Reporter
The debate as to whether video games can be consid-ered art is more or less trite, because something becomes art when people call it art.
“Braid,” a downloadable game available on Xbox 360 and PC for $15, is something people should call art.
At first glance, it looks an awful lot like a “Super Mario Bros.” clone with an impres-sionistic storybook art style.
While the central elements of Mario hold true (run to the right, jump on enemies to bounce up to high plat-forms, collect items), they’re all warped around a single ele-ment: time control.
Like a more fully-integrated “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” the protagonist of “Braid” (simply named Tim) is able to “rewind” time as far as he wishes, making death only a speed bump and some-times even a necessary ma-neuver.
The game introduces players to the deceptively powerful time control me-chanic slowly but, near the end, mind-bending puzzles require parallel and some-times backwards thinking.
Items immune to time control (they persist for-ward while everything else reverses) and entire levels in which the time-flow is dictated by which direction you’re running are a few examples of the clever me-chanics “Braid” introduces and explores just thorough-ly enough before moving on to the next.
But the tricky puzzles and amusing abilities are only half of what makes the expe-rience truly significant.
“Braid” explores emotions and concepts mostly foreign to mainstream gaming: Re-gret, obsession and forgive-ness to name a few.
Tim’s quest for “The Prin-cess” is a tongue-in-cheek poke at video game plots, as well as a startling look into a lonely man’s psyche.
This is mostly explored
through optional “books” which reveal the story be-fore each level. In this way, the game delivers a truly thought-provoking experi-ence without coming off as overwrought or long wind-ed, a problem that often plagues games that venture beyond simple action movie storylines.
The visuals are lovingly
handcrafted. The graphics consist of “painterly style” two-dimensional sprites on top of strikingly beautiful backgrounds which stretch out behind the action to create a surreal sense of depth.
This is a game that ben-efits immensely from its cre-ator, Jonathan Blow, seeming to have known exactly what he wanted to do and having stopped once he’d done it.
“Braid” is brief, probably only requiring about five hours for an average play through, but every moment is memorable.
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By connor sheridanStaff Reporter
A familiar face from the Cen-tral Michigan University is part of Domino’s Pizza’s accounting accomplishment in its recent national advertising campaign.
Matt Daugherty, a 1997 alum-nus, appeared in a recent cam-paign for Domino’s Pizza’s “Lava Crunch Cakes.”
“I think it’s awesome. It was fun, I enjoyed it,” he said.
Though you might think he was a theatre major from his performance as the head ac-countant, he actually graduated with a degree in accounting.
He is still using that degree to-day for his 12-year career as an accountant for Domino’s work-ing at Domino’s headquarters in Ann Arbor.
Daugherty said most of the
actors used in the commercial work for Domino’s.
“The introduction guy, I’m not sure, but all the others are (employees) I know,” Daugherty said.
This is not the first time Dom-ino’s showcased its employees in an ad campaign. Their com-mercials for regional pizzas had real chefs, as well.
It was a relatively on-the-spot opportunity for Daugherty.
“The marketing people asked me if I’d tried the new ‘Lava Cake’,” Daugherty said. “(At first, it was) five minutes asking me general questions, it would be a funny thing for internal.”
But the marketing depart-ment decided they might have an even bigger prospect avail-able.
“It took us three-and-a-half hours to shoot,” he said.
Because the performance was unscripted, the accountants and chefs followed impromptu queues from the director.
Matt’s popularity has explod-ed since his appearance on na-
tional TV.“My Facebook’s blowing up,”
Daugherty said. “I feel a little bit like a rock-n-roller, but not that much.”
Several companies ,such as In-tel, Best Buy and FedEx followed the employee spotlight trend.
“They’re trying to show people are satisfied with a good com-pany,” said Will Anderson, asso-ciate professor in the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts.
The idea of satisfied consum-ers and employees espousing a product’s quality or service is nothing new for advertising.
“Well, I guess there’s been a history of ‘real’ housewives writ-ing in about why they like their product,” Anderson said. “It’s kind of a testimonial thing.”
This new style of marketing also could be a result of tough financial times.
“I think it’s probably a sign of the economy,” Anderson said. “It’s expanding the job require-ments.”
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photos by neiL bLake/Staff photographerMontague senior Rachael Knapp peers around a barricade during a game of Bongo Ball on Monday afternoon on the field behind Finch Fieldhouse against other ROTC cadets.
ROTC cadets reach for Nerf balls in a game of Bongo Ball Monday afternoon on the field behind Finch Fieldhouse. It was a free event held by Program Board.
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By Rachel mater Staff Reporter
With fall starting Tuesday, it can only mean one thing — new TV shows are coming.
“The Office,” “Glee,” “Amer-ica’s Next Top Model” and “House” are just a few of the many TV shows returning in the fall.
New shows such as “Com-munity,” “Melrose Place,” “The Cleveland Show” and “FlashFor-ward” also will be debuting this fall.
“The Office” fans, such as Fort Gratiot junior Brad Perry, are awaiting its return.
“It’s the best show, you can just feel it in your bones that something is tremendously great,” Perry said.
“The Office” returns with a new episode on 9 p.m. Thursday on NBC, after leaving its viewers wondering if Pam and Jim will be expecting and if Michael and Holly will get back together.
After “The Office’s” new epi-sode, the new comedy “Commu-nity,” starring “The Soup’s” Joel McHale, will air.
“Joel McHale is the comedic savior of our generation,” Perry said, “I’m also excited to see if Chevy Chase can redeem him-self.”
“Community” is based around an ethically challenged attorney (Hale) forced to go back to com-munity college. Other starring actors are Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs and “Mad Men’s” Alison Brie.
Additional shows returning to television are “Glee” (after Fox’s preview this spring), “America’s Next Top Model,” “Bones,” “30 Rock,” “House,” “Gossip Girl,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Heroes,” and “How I Met Your Mother” - just to name a few.
“I am looking forward to what may be the most underrated sit-com on television. ‘How I Met Your Mother’ is a smart and quirky show that is laced with hilarity in the form of fantastic one-liners,” said Bay City soph-omore Alek Frost. “It also plays to heart in all of us its many ro-mantic undertones.”
“How I Met Your Mother” airs at 8 p.m. Monday on CBS.
Fans of the character Cleve-land on “Family Guy” will be happy to know “The Cleveland Show” premieres at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 27 on FOX.
The “Family Guy” spin-off, starring celebrity voices Seth Macfarlane, Mike Henry, Sanaa
Lathan and Kevin Michael Rich-ardson, follows Cleveland Brown as he rekindles a romance with his high school girlfriend in his hometown, (fictional) Stool-bend, Va.
New television series such as “FlashForward,” “Cougar Town,” “Melrose Place,” “Modern Fam-ily” and “The Vampire Diaries” also will air this month.
Frost said he is looking for-ward to two shows in particular: “Modern Family” and “Flash-Forward.”
“‘Modern Family’ looks to be a quite uproarious sitcom. It concentrates on three distinct-ly different families and their respective lives,” Frost said. “‘FlashForward’ is a thriller/sus-pense series, the plot is about how the entire U.S. population blacks out, during which they experience a glimpse of their fu-ture.”
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Get ready for fall television
Other fall TV premieresw 30 Rock (NBC) at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15
w Accidentally on Pur-pose (CBS) at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21
w America’s Next Top Model (The CW) at 8 p.m. Wednesdays
w The Beautiful Life (The CW) at 9 p.m. Wednesdays
w The Big Bang Theory (CBS) at 9 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20
w Gossip Girl (The CW) at 9 p.m. Mondays
w Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24
w Hank (ABC) at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30
w It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (FX) 11 p.m. Thursday
w Modern Family (ABC) at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23
w Private Practice (ABC) at 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1
w Smallville (The CW) at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24
w Trauma (NBC) at 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28
w Ugly Betty (ABC) at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9
w The Vampire Diaries (The CW) at 8 p.m. Thursdays
New season of “The Office,” “Family Guy” spinoff anticipated
CoUrteSY MCtB.J. Novak plays Ryan Howard in “The Office,” which returns at 9 p.m. Thursday.
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By amanda ObozaStaff Reporter
Despite student interest and the number two position in the box office, the movie “9” will not be playing at the Celebra-tion! Cinemas, 4935 E. Pickard St.
The latest film from Tim Burton opened last Wednesday — or 9-9-09 — and brought in nearly $11 million its opening weekend, but has yet to make an appearance in Mount Pleas-ant.
Assistant manager of Cel-ebration Dana Slachs said the decision to not play “9” at Cel-ebration was not by choice.
Slachs said “9” is a limited release movie, meaning there are only so many copies of the film and certain theatres are selected to play them. Man-ager Vicki Roggenbuck said the film companies deter-mine which theaters receive limited releases and Celebra-tion did not get “9” because of its size.
This is not new to Celebra-tion. There have been other
movies Celebration did not get on opening day. “(500) Days of Summer” was a recent movie the cinema received after its release date.
“We were very disappointed. We have had so many calls for (9),” Slachs said.
Flushing sophomore An-drew Price was surprised “9” is not playing at Celebration.
“I don’t know why they wouldn’t play a movie geared toward a college audience that they have a high demand for,” Price said.
White Lake senior Dave Youngquist planned on seeing 9 this past weekend.
“I’m gonna see it when I go home next week,” Youngquist said.
Youngquist said the movie theatre near White Lake rarely has limited release movies but is playing “9.”
As for the future, Slachs said Celebration might get the mov-ie soon, but will not know until the week of.
“Typically, we get limited releases about three or four weeks after (their actual re-lease),” Roggenbuck said.
Students interested in seeing “9” but uninterested in waiting for it can see it at the Celebra-tion! Cinema in Lansing or the Saginaw 8 Theater in Saginaw.
By Ben WeissenbornStaff Reporter
“So Far Gone EP,” the first official release from Canadi-an actor-gone-rapper, Drake, is a mixed affair.
Featuring guest appear-ances from Lil’ Wayne, Trey Songs and Bun B, “So Far Gone EP” varies greatly in quality over its seven tracks.
Though most hip-hop couldn’t be described as beautiful, the song “Houstat-lanta” is quite aesthetically pleasing, something that couldn’t be said for most ma-jor label hip-hop.
Where the EP really drops off is when it hits “Uptown,” which finds Bun B and Lil’ Wayne offering a few half-hearted verses. The song is a formulaic hip-hop tune, down to a tee, featuring the same sort of skittering, bass-heavy beat you’ve heard a million times before.
While “So Far Gone” varies in quality, it does have some very high points that make the low points forgettable.
See the full review on cm-life.com, including its rating.
Staff Reports
Whether its punk or hard-core, it will be on display to-night at the Wayside.
Moore Media Records and Modern Rock 91.5 are host-ing their second Battle of the Bands starting at 9 p.m. today at the bar and dance club at 2000 S. Mission St. Doors open at 8:30 p.m.
Four area bands are set to perform.
Shotgun Social is a Mid-land punk band, Of Want and Misery is a Jackson hardcore band, Come Find the Lion is a hardcore band from Grand Rapids and Day In, Day Out is a local Mount Pleasant punk band, said MMR Faculty Adviser and Broadcasting and Cinematic Arts temporary faculty Ei-leen LeTarte.
“It should be a really unique show with a good blend of punk, rock, and metal,” said MMR Label President and Williamston junior James Slider.
LeTarte said she encourages anyone and everyone look-ing for something to do on a Wednesday night to come sup-port the local music scene.
She said she is excited to put on another show at the Way-side after last year’s success.
LeTarte said the Wayside is
not just a dance club, but a great place to put on a show.
There is room for audi-ence members to dance or to just sit and relax, depend-ing on which they prefer, Le-Tarte said.
Brad Irvan, a graduate student assistant for MMR, said the goal is to make the “Battle for Broomfield” an
annual event. It is a great way to promote MMR and Modern Rock 91.5, he said.
“People have a good time at these events,” Irvan said.
The cover price is $6. Each paying customer gets one ballot to vote for the band that they believe is the best.
By Brad canze Senior Reporter
Editor’s note: This is a con-tinuation of a story following four freshman girls starting their college careers at Cen-tral Michigan University. To see the original, check the Sept. 26 edition of CM Life or go to cm-life.com’s version of this story.
The optimism the women shared before beginning their first year of college seems to be well-founded so far for the freshmen of Wheeler Hall Room 102.
“It was a lot easier than I thought it would be – I have a lot of spare time to do home-work,” said Kaylee Boos of Shelby. “My astronomy class is probably the hardest for me, just because science is hard for me to compre-hend.”
Carla Raymond of Cold-water said she had to switch into a few more University Program and prerequisite classes after being over-whelmed by the upper-level business classes she initially enrolled in.
“I switched to do my basics this year, and my business classes next year,” Raymond said.
Shelby Miller of Union City may have the biggest non-class commitment of the four girls. As a member of the marching band’s color guard, but she said the afternoon practices have not gotten in the way of her studies.
“All my classes are really early in the morning, and then I have three or four hours to start or finish my homework,” Miller said.
She said she has enjoyed her time in the color guard so far, and performing in front of approximately 76,000 people during the football game at Michigan State University has been an early highlight.
“The State game was amazing,” Miller said. “Ex-tra-nerve-racking, but excit-ing at the same time.”
Amanda Green of Shelby said classes have not been difficult so far, although she has already slept through a class.
Green said she is recon-sidering what to do with her free time after she tried out for the Club Soccer team and was cut.
“I didn’t want to play on an intramural team, so I’m just going to find a job or some-
thing, I don’t know,” she said.
The girls all said so far, liv-ing together in one bedroom has not caused too many problems, although Boos chided Raymond for being the “slob” of the room.
“I am not!” Raymond quickly yelled back.
Boos said the only real problem the girls have en-countered so far is coordinat-ing each other’s recreation to not interrupt one another’s academics.
“Probably the hardest time is when one of us wants people over and someone’s trying to study,” Boos said. “We’re all studying at differ-ent times, so it’s hard to pick a time.”
The girls said they are, for the most part, enjoying liv-ing away from their families, although they have all been in contact and have visited. Raymond said her mother and brother visited her Mon-day for her 19th birthday.
Boos admits she is prob-ably having the hardest time with the separation.
“I’ve been home every weekend so far. I talk to my dad every day, and I talk to my sisters almost every day, and I talk to my friends (back home) every day,” Boos said.
Area bands slashing guitars, rockingdrums in Battle of the Bands tonight
f o u r f r e s h m e n Tim Burton’s “9” not on tapfor Celebration! CinemasDirector’s latestfilm a limitedrelease nationwide
College life is simple thus far for foursome
Moore Media,Modern Rock 91.5 hosting Wayside gig
jake May/Staff photographerShelby Township freshman Kaylee Boos, right, takes a photo with her roommate, Coldwater freshman Carla Raymond, Monday at U Lanes, the bowling center in the Student Activity Center, as they celebrate Raymond’s birthday.
Working around study times canbe difficult
Mixedfeelings forCanadian rapper
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By Jesse OzimekStaff Reporter
Friday was the first official pickup for the new battery and light bulb recycling initia-tive on Central Michigan Uni-versity’s campus.
A total of 3,446 light bulbs and 2,415 pounds of batteries were collected.
Battery recycling bins were placed at residence hall front desks a few months ago for students and custodial work-ers to dispose of old batteries. During that time, custodial workers also were encouraged to save any burnt out light bulbs found in their areas.
Recyclable materials were then transferred to central storage locations at the Stu-dent Activities Center or the Charles V. Park Library, where representatives from Reliable Relamping picked up the ma-terials and took them to be recycled. Any reusable parts reclaimed from batteries and light bulbs undergo a decon-tamination process before be-ing disposed of.
“Through the process, we capture the mercury vapor and the phosphor powder that makes the lamp look white. The phosphor powder is still contaminated after the lamp is crushed. We ship that away as hazardous waste,” said Dan Schmidt, the owner of Reliable Relamping.
The point is to properly take care of hazardous materials.
“Our goal was just to start recycling the lights and batter-ies to keep mercury out of the landfills,” said Cody Webster, the recycling coordinator and a Petoskey graduate student.
The weights of all of the recycled materials will be recorded and added into a monthly poundage count.
“Weights of the lamps and batteries will be reported to the Department of Environ-mental Equality. The weights are competitive among the schools,” said Recycling Coor-dinator Jacqueline Upshur, a Stockbridge senior.
This is one of the many programs designed to in-crease campus recycling ef-forts. Thanks to programs such as these, CMU received the Michigan Recycling Co-alition 2009 Recycler of the Year Award and was ranked in the top 50 “Cool Schools” by Sierra magazine, said Heath-er Smith, assistant director of Public Relations.
South Campus Custodian Dick Reid said he is a big fan of recycling. He was collecting light bulbs all summer and was very enthusiastic about participating in the new recy-
cling program. “I think it is a good idea be-
cause it will give your grand-children a place to live. It can’t be good for the environment,” Reid said.
Hopefully, the program will continue to grow in years to come, Webster said.
“We hope to keep this going forever. It’s a new implement-ed program that will make CMU more green,” Webster said.
This program will continue throughout the year.
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Mount Pleasant, Mich.Friday, Sept. 19, 2008
By Mike Wayland
Tyrone Calvin Graham-Jones’ attorney said he will file a com-plaint with the Michigan Depart-ment of Civil Rights against the CMU Police Department.
After two non-running exami-nations, Graham-Jones’ attorney, Tony Moses, said his client was discriminated against because of his race and was treated unfairly.
“At this point, after speaking with different witnesses that were tail-
gating that evening and saw what occurred, unfortunately, it appears that my client was treated differ-ently because of his race,” he said.
The 24-year-old black Mount Pleasant resident was maced and arrested around 7:30 p.m. Aug. 28 in parking lot 63 during tailgating at the football game against East-ern Illinois for obstruction and restriction of an officer and dis-orderly conduct, according to the CMU Police report.
The disorderly conduct charge was changed to disturbing the
peace after Graham-Jones was ar-rested.
The Michigan Department of Civil Rights contacted Moses about the incident, and Moses said a complaint will be filed with the Department of Civil Rights against the CMU Police Department.
Trevor Coleman, director of communications for the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, said if a complaint has not been filed, he cannot comment on anything about the case.
According to witnesses in prior
interviews with Central Michigan Life, a group of people were in the way of the car Graham-Jones was in, and as he tried to leave the lot, beer cans were thrown at the car and beer was poured on Amanda Tupuola, girlfriend of Graham-Jones and driver of the vehicle.
Richmond junior Brian Wirth is reported as being a part of the fight that erupted when Graham-Jones got out of the car.
“Wirth stated Graham-Jones then got out of the car and punched him and several others. Wirth stated
he was fighting with Graham-Jones to defend himself from further as-sault,” the report states.
Wirth is also stated in the report as being taken to the ground and ques-tioned, but not maced or arrested.
“There’s no doubt that excessive force was used against my client, Mr. Graham-Jones,” Moses said.
CMU Police Chief Stan Dinius said he can not comment on any-thing because the investigation is ongoing.
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The Board of Trustees on Thursday gave approval for University President Michael Rao to proceed with a medical school.
Central Michigan University is the 65th largest public university in the nation by enrollment, but one of the few without a medical school.
The Undergraduate Medical Educa-tion Program would change that.
In addition, the Board approved a $1.5 million budget to design additions to the Health Professions Building, where the
program will be housed.
Rao addressed the issue of physician shortage in northern Michigan.
“This region will suffer disproportion-ately when that physician shortage hits, and it is definitely going to hit,” he said.
There is a population of two million people sparsely distributed around mid and northern-Michigan, where most re-gions this size in the United States would have a medical school, Rao said.
Jeff Caponigro, Board of Trustees chair-man, said this is a great public service to
Michigan.“When we look at the shortage of 6,000
physicians by the year of 2020, somebody has to step up and help fulfill that need,” Caponigro said. “From this moment on we will be seen in a different light nationally.”
Claudia Douglass, proposed curriculum coordinator for the medical program, said the university has just starting to plan the details.
A $15 million budget will be used to renovate the Health Professions Building while making building additions.
Douglass said the additions with have labs, a large lecture hall, examination rooms and tutorial rooms.
“This could be the bridge between a prospective medical school and the ex-isting and successful programs in the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions,” Rao said.
Funding for medical school will be a tuition-based revenue structure with no intent to absorb ongoing or existing op-erating dollars, Rao said.
“Some money that has to be invested that is one time, the school will have to pay back. But what that amount will be is subject to modeling right now,” he said.
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By Jackie Smith
No agreement is yet in place to build a Holiday Inn on campus property, trustees were told Thursday.
President Michael Rao presented a confirming res-olution regarding Central Michigan University’s au-thority in negotiations for building a hotel complex.
The proposed hotel and conference center, which would be located in the Center for Applied Research and Technology on South Campus, has seen no progress beyond concluding a challenge involving the facility’s height, Rao said.
Traditional design guidelines include a recommend-ed maximum building height of four stories, a covenant that contradicts the university’s proposed six-level limit to the project. It was attested that the university has the authority to determine the project’s height.
“Whenever you have those types of challenges, you have to be fair,” Rao said. “We want to see the university get the most that it possibly can since this is such a long-term deal.”
CMU’s plan for a hotel complex center would fa-cilitate several programs for students, he said, and provide opportunity to maximize the number of in-ternships available. It is an asset for the university that, in certain circumstances, could be lost for a small price, Rao said.
“We originally thought it would be a site for intern-ships for one or two programs,” he said. “Because it’s expanded to other areas, there are others involved in discussing this. That’s what happens when you work with the university. We move things as quickly as we can, but we also have to be sure the right expertise is at the table.”
Since the board’s July 17 meeting, which origi-nally turned negotiations over to Rao, Lodgco Man-agement LLC, a partial party involved in the hotels development, has given the university a proposal to the plan. There has been no deadline set by the company for the university to reply, Rao said.
“We’re also a little bit concerned about making sure it is as close to the market value for that kind of property as possible,” he said. “We have two ne-gotiators who are working with the company that’s proposed this project.”
The campus improvement budget was also ad-dressed at the Board’s meeting, and $1.4 million was approved for this year’s projects.
Proposed development confirmed, awaits
Rao’s decision
Michael Rao,
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By sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
Central Michigan Life has been named a 2009 Pacemaker Finalist by the Associated Col-legiate Press.
Of 228 entries nationwide, 48 college newspapers were finalists for one of the highest national high school and colle-giate journalism awards.
The Pacemaker is awarded annually at Associated Col-legiate Press/College Media Advisers National College Me-dia Convention for categories ranging from Newspaper, On-line, Yearbook/Magazine and Broadcast.
CM Life’s advertising de-partment also received an Ad Finalist honor in the House Ad category.
“It is all about heart and being passionate in this in-dustry in its dying age,” said 2008-2009 Editor in Chief Jake May. “I don’t think journalism is dying, that is why I think a lot of us at CM Life are able to continue forth and see the big picture and not worry about where this is going.”
The Grand Haven junior said the honor is a great one for CM Life.
“This honor shows yet again that CM Life is a national con-tender when it comes to high standards of quality and when it comes to newspaper produc-tion,” May said.
The Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker contest has been judging colle-giate newspapers for 82 years.
Newspapers are judged from several randomly selected is-sues to determine consistent quality throughout the aca-demic year.
Newspapers are entered in one of three categories: four-year dailies, four-year non-dailies and two-year papers.
Entries are judged based on coverage and content, quality of writing and reporting, lead-ership on the opinion page, evidence of in-depth report-ing, layout and design, pho-tography, art and graphics.
May said CM Life has a qual-ity product consistent in writ-ing, reporting, photo and de-sign and has many dedicated staff members.
“When staff members and
editors think outside the box, it definitely shows creativ-ity and originality. And that is something every paper has, but unless executed correctly, it could work against you,” he said. “Lucky for us, at CM Life, we don’t have that problem.”
Director of Student Media and CM Life Adviser Neil Hopp is proud the newspaper is a fi-nalist for the award this year.
“This is the seventh Pace-maker finalist award in eight years,” Hopp said. “It shows the professional level of consisten-cy that CM Life is producing. This is the highest award a col-lege paper can earn, and high-est honor you can achieve.”
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Battery recycling helps mercury stay out of landfillsNew program to continue throughout year
By Ryan CzachorskiStaff Reporter
Mount Pleasant does not have to wait until February to get a taste of Mardi Gras.
The city’s decade-long tra-dition kicks off at 3:30 p.m Friday downtown.
“It started with the pur-pose of uniting the student community with the Mount Pleasant community,” said Kathryn Hill, Art Reach Cen-ter of Mid Michigan execu-tive director and Mardi Gras coordinator.
The festivities start with children’s arts and crafts, caricature drawing and face painting. A foam dance party will take place from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Heartstrings & Fun Things, 209 W. Broadway St.
“It’s a good crowd,” Hill said. “It always fills the streets.”
The festival also is featur-ing a cornhole tournament, with $100 going to the first place team and $50 to the second. There is a $10 reg-istration fee and teams can sign up at artreachcenter.org. Cornhole is a game in-volving two teams trying to throw beanbags through a hole on a slanted board.
Both Central Michigan University’s and Mount Pleasant High School’s marching bands will march in the parade, which starts at 6:30 p.m., and the Marching Chips will play in the town center following the parade.
“We have two great local bands, so it’s exciting,” said Parade Coordinator Kris Roethlisberger.
The parade will start in Sacred Heart Parish‘s parking lot, loop through downtown and conclude at Sacred Heart.
The festivities end with a concert downtown by lo-cal jazz band The Saucecats. Their set starts at 7:30 p.m. at the town center and is ex-pected to run until 9:30 p.m.
Hill expects approxi-mately 3,000 people to at-tend and local stores, and downtown businesses are looking forward to poten-tial customers.
“We get two to three times as many people, with
all the added population,” said Kim Nelson, manager of the Downtown Soda Shop, 121 E. Broadway St.
The soda shop will stayi open later than usual and will offer a number of specials.
While businesses such as the Downtown Soda Shop get an instant business boost, businesses like Ace of Diamonds see the benefits further down the road.
“You get so many people looking around before and after the parade,” Roethlis-
berger said, who also owns Ace of Diamonds, 128 E. Broadway St. “We can have 100 people in the store be-fore and after. When else do you get 100 people in a jew-elry store? Never, unless you give away diamonds.”
Roethlisberger’s business picks up after people try things on and make wish lists. Some people come back later and pick up those items for themselves or others.
Mardi Gras downtown Friday