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By Catey TraylorSenior Reporter

In-state undergraduate stu-dents will pay $365 per credit hour at Central Michigan Uni-versity starting next fall.

Thursday, the Central Michigan University Board of Trustees approved a 1.96-per-cent undergraduate tuition increase for the 2012-13 aca-demic year.

With this increase, CMU will remains behind Michigan Technological University, Uni-versity of Michigan-Ann Arbor

and Michigan State University in terms of tuition rates.

The 1.96-percent increase translates to an increase of $7 per undergraduate credit hour.

“We’ve looked forward be-yond just the immediate year,”

said Vice President of Finances and Administrative Services David Burdette. “These num-bers reflect that.”

Last year, CMU had the lowest increase among the 15 Michigan public universities,

when tuition was increased for the 2011-12 academic year by 3.47 percent, or $12 per credit hour.

In addition to undergradu-ate tuition rates, graduate tu-ition rates, ProfEd, renamed at

Thursday’s meeting as CMU’s Global Campus and room and board rates were set.

An increase of 1.93 percent was approved for master’s pro-grams, bringing the cost per credit hour to $476. For doc-

toral programs, a 1.86 percent increase was approved for a cost of $548 per credit hour.

CMU’s Global Campus, the former “ProfEd,” will have a two-percent average increase.

Room and board rates will also increase two percent, but CMU will remain ranked sixth among the 15 public universi-ties in Michigan. Cost of room and board will be $8,376 with a unlimited meal plan.

Provost Gary Shapiro said the cost of CMU’s Global Cam-pus remains competitive with on-campus programs.

“We want Global Campus courses to be roughly the same price as on-campus course so there’s no incentive to take a

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By David OlteanSenior Reporter

Central Michigan Uni-versity’s Board of Trustees voted to rename off-cam-pus and online programs to CMU Global Campus and abandon the university’s former ProfEd name.

The resolution was ad-opted unanimously by the trustees Thursday in Bovee University Center’s Presi-dent’s Conference Room. The transition for renaming the off-campus and online programs will occur over the next 12 months, though former policies referring to the old name will still be recognized.

Trustee Sarah Opper-

man announced the resolu-tion before members of the board.

“We have resolved that the name of the unit known internally as ProfEd and externally as off-campus and online programs be changed to Central Michi-gan University’s Global Campus,” Opperman said. “The change will be phased in over a 12-month period in coordination with uni-versity communications. All Board of Trustees policy statements referring to Pro-fEd or off-campus and on-line programs will remain applicable to the global campus.”

Merodie Hancock, vice president and executive di-

rector of off-campus pro-grams, said the name was chosen after conducting marketing research and comparing other universi-ties’ names for online pro-grams.

“CMU has populations around the country and the world we serve and are in-volved in those communi-ties,” Hancock said. “That’s where you’re seeing global campuses, worldwide cam-puses, world campuses. Those are the names we bounced around with our stakeholders, employers, students and the like.”

Hancock said CMU has 50 to 60 off-campus sites,

ProfEd, online classes renamed ‘CMU Global Campus’

adam niemi/staff photographerTrustee Sarah Opperman looks on at the beginning of the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday in the President’s Conference Room in the Bovee University Center.

By Catey TraylorSenior Reporter

University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shap-iro will hold open meetings on Wednesday and Thursday to publicly answer questions from faculty, staff and students.

Shortly after Thursday’s board of trustees meeting, dur-ing which transparency was discussed, a university-wide email was sent detailing the public forums, which will take place in the Bovee University Center Auditorium on Wednes-day and the Townsend Kiva in Moore Hall on Thursday.

University President George Ross will be joined by Provost Gary Shapiro, Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services David Burdette, Vice President of Development and External Relations Kathy Wil-bur and Vice President of En-rollment and Student Services Steven Johnson.

Both forums will run from 3 to 4 p.m. and will also be live-streamed via CMU’s media channel website.

Director of Public Relations Steve Smith said forums such as these aren’t uncommon on campus.

Open forums planned with Ross, Shapiro

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Board approves 1.96 percent tuition increase

jake may/staff photographerOrange and blue paint powder flies through the air, landing on Traverse City senior Renee Rothgarber as she ducks her head but continues to throw more during a paint fight Thursday between Moore Hall and the IET Building during the Color Run, a two-mile fundraiser for Threads Fashion Show.

the colors runFundraiser for Threads Fashion Show douses runners in paint

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By David OlteanSenior Reporter

Central Michigan University President George Ross said an updated budget report for the College of Medicine will be pre-sented at the April 17 Academic Senate meeting.

Along with the updated budget report, CMED Dean Ernest Yoder announced a grand opening will be held for the CMU on-campus medical building on Sep. 21 and 22 and shared an update on fundrais-ing, faculty, accreditation and student admissions.

The announcement came during Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting held in the President’s Conference Room in the Bovee University Center.

Ross said concerns were ex-pressed by members of both the A-Senate and the Trust-ee-Faculty Liaison Commit-tee in past meetings, though no faculty members were in attendance to share their grievances at Wednesday’s CMED committee meeting or the board of trustees formal meeting.

“I believe that transparency in the College of Medicine bud-get is important,” Ross said. “From this end, we will again present all available financial information projections for the College of Medicine at the Aca-demic Senate meeting.”

Ross said although CMED budgetary information has been presented before, the new report will provide an updated version of the CMED budgetary projections.

Ross plans to address CMED financial concerns

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Full-meal plan, room, board setto be at $8,376

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Three-hundred pounds of paint will really turn

some heads.

Students at Central Michigan University found that

to be true Thursday during the first Coloring Time

Run.

More than 100 people gathered on the field be-

tween Finch Fieldhouse and the Health Professions

Building at 5 p.m. dressed all in white. Participants

varied in runners, joggers and walkers, all wearing

their fair share of paint.

The event raised about $500 for the 14th annual

Threads Fashion Show after expenses were covered,

according to Laura Czupinski, one of the show’s pro-

ducers. Threads Fashion Show is scheduled for 7:30

p.m. Saturday at McGuirk Arena.

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tanya moutzalias/staff photographerQuincy sophomore Audrey Oliver holds a handful of yellow powder paint from the first checkpoint of Thursday’s Color Run, a fundraising event held by Threads.

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including some in Canada and Mexico, and has con-sidered making partner-ships in India and China. Hancock said the new name better reflects CMU’s off-

campus programs rather than the previous “ProfEd,” which had multiple mean-ings on and off campus and a separate external name.

“We use professional education to mean differ-ent things on and off cam-pus, so there’s been a lot of confusion around it,” she said. “We’ve gone through

numerous name changes and some have multiple in-ternal or external names, so this pulls it all together into one global campus name and really reflects what we are as a campus delivering CMU’s academic programs from the colleges.”

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“Certain members of the Academic Senate and Trustee-Faculty Liaison Committee expressed concerns regard-ing transparency of the finan-cial operations of the College of Medicine. I heard them; I heard them loud and clear,” Ross said. “Although there’s been a presentation on the College of Medicine budget to the Academic Senate in addi-tion to the budget documen-tation prepared for the LCME accreditation visit, there still remains unanswered ques-tions in the minds of some of my faculty colleagues and oth-ers. I believe we have to provide all requests for information for the College of Medicine related to its budgetary requirements.”

Vice President of Develop-ment and External Relations Kathy Wilbur said fundraising efforts for CMED still remain at about 52 percent, totaling to $13,038,000 of the $25 million goal. The amount is not signifi-cantly higher than the fund-

raising amount announced by the committee almost one year ago, though Wilbur said each percent represents $250,000 and is progress for CMED.

Wilbur said many donors asking for their names to be placed on facility space or with scholarships will be ad-dressed at July’s meeting.

“We’ll bring forward a number of naming opportu-nities that the Board of Trust-ees needs to accept,” Wilbur said. “These are individuals who have indicated interest in naming, whether they are scholarships or some sort of facility space related to our building or potentially even space in the Saginaw area.”

Yoder listed some of the medical school’s established medical center partnerships, which include Saginaw’s Syn-ergy Medical Education Alli-ance, Covenant HealthCare and St. Mary’s of Michigan, and Mount Pleasant’s McLar-en-Central Michigan, which recently changed its name from Central Michigan Com-munity Hospital. CMED is working on forming partner-ships with six small commu-

nity hospitals in Michigan’s lower peninsula and seven in the upper peninsula as well, he said.

The advantages of basing a medical school in Mount Pleasant, because of preexist-ing science and technology re-sources, though he considered it the “most rural” location of any medical school in the U.S., Yoder said.

“When you look at the re-sources that are necessary for a successful medical school and you analyze an area like Mount Pleasant, which, by the way, is a really wonderful base for a medical school, albeit, somewhat more rural, in fact, it’s probably the most rural located medical school in the U.S.; there are huge resources here, and most of the resourc-es here are based in the uni-versity,” Yoder said.

Yoder said the report due Sunday to the Liaison Com-mittee on Medical Education has been completed and sent.

“We continue to work with the LCME and on our higher education reports,” Yoder said.

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“It’s been tradition for the past two to three years to have forums in April,” Smith said. “These provide an opportunity for the president and members of his cabinet to present information on the budget and to allow both on-campus and off-campus staff and students to ask questions.”

Transparency was a major topic of discussion Thursday when Board of Trustees Chair-man Sam Kottamasu acknowl-edged the increasing number of departments endorsing the no confidence vote against Ross and Shapiro. In February, Ross announced plans to create a shared governance committee made up of administrators, fac-ulty and students.

“We are concerned with re-building the mutual trust and confidence that has been dam-aged on many fronts. I believe we can all agree with the point regarding the need to improve communication, transparency and decision-making,” Kotta-masu said. “Improving in these areas can and must be the top priority of faculty, administration and staff as the university moves forward.”

Smith said during the meet-ings next week, members of Ross’ cabinet will make pre-sentations and give updates on projects. Public forums are one way to keep lines of communi-cation open between university officials, administration, faculty, staff and students, he said

Kottamasu said the trustees are committed to rebuilding re-lationships to better the univer-sity.

“The trustees remain commit-ted to ongoing dialogue to build strong, positive relationships so the university and its students can thrive,” Kottamasu said.

Additionally, Kottamasu men-tioned the vote of no confidence and reiterated confidence in Ross and Shapiro.

“The board respects Ross and Shapiro, continues to hold con-fidence in them and believe they exude the highest standards of ethical integrity at the univer-sity,” he said.

Ross also outlined communi-cation efforts between university officials and said the students’ best interest is always in mind.

“We’ve got to continue to im-prove communication on our campus in how we interact,” Ross said. “It’s all about the en-vironment created for students.”

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course on a specific campus due to price,” Shapiro said. “Right now, rates are close, and we don’t want to change that.”

University President George Ross said tuition increases re-main low because of sacrifices made by university faculty and staff members.

“Our tuition rates over the last three years have been very modest. Our faculty and staff have made compromises like

taking a year and a half, even two-year pay freezes,” he said. “That is why we can be so modest today.”

Trustee Robert F. Wardrop II asked why a 0-percent in-crease wasn’t an option.

“We do have certain costs we have to cover, so a 0-percent in-crease isn’t realistic,” Burdette said. “We thought four percent would be unfair to students and their parents. Therefore, two percent seems the appro-priate number for students and their parents next year.”

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By Jessica FecteauSenior Reporter

Thirty-nine student designers will send their work down the runway Saturday evening in the 14th annual Threads Fashion Show.

The event, which starts at 7:30 p.m., will feature more than 180 models walking down a runway in McGuirk Arena in front of an expected crowd of 1,200.

Mount Pleasant senior and co-producer Jason Gagnon said the show, often considered one of the top three largest events on campus, continues to cost more than $10,000 to produce.

This year’s “time”-themed show is completely student-run and advised by Apparel Mer-chandising and Design profes-sor Carol Beard. Each designer/duo will interpret and modern-

ize a time period that ranges from Ancient Egypt to the 1980s and the future.

“There are 33 individual de-signers and three designer duos with a total of 36 collections,” Gagnon said.

Designer Lindsey Peters said she is excited to see how every-one portrays their time period.

“I’m really excited to see what everyone else has been work-ing on,” the Warren junior said. “I am also super excited for my family to come and see what I’ve been doing.”

Numerous changes were added to the constitution this year to make the show bigger and better, Gagnon said.

This year, there will be a square stage not only to create interest but to provide multiple views for guests, said co-pro-ducer Laura Czupinski.

“While there is not a bad seat in the house, we like to improve the experience and opportunity for guests each year,” the Fraser senior said.

In addition to the new VIP seating, the VIP guests will be seated early where they can watch videos that document the time put into Threads, she said.

There will also be a panel of eight individuals involved in the fashion industry judging the de-signs.

“We really wanted to provide a greater opportunity for our designers and incorporate in-dustry professionals outside of CMU,” Czupinski said. “Guests will also watch designs come down the runway that reflect the designers’ skill level, which en-hances what they have learned throughout their time at CMU.”

As a sophomore, designers

can use altered patterns. For juniors, half of their designs can be altered and half original. Se-niors must create their own de-signs.

Leading up to the show is what Threads members call Fashion Week.

“We have a plethora of events for students to attend,” Gagnon said.

In addition to a T-shirt recon-struction contest, a display of designs will be in the hallway of the library throughout the week, Czupinski said.

“I am looking forward to see-ing everyone who has been in-volved in this show feel accom-plished, proud and excited,” Czupinski said. “I am so glad to be a part of this team of produc-tion members and designers.”

Tickets will be sold until the day of the show and are avail-

able through the ticket box office located at the Events Center or online at threadsfash-

ionshow.com.

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Potterville senior Jordan Lett, an intern for LGBTQ Ser-vices, said it was her third time going to the show, and it never ceases to entertain her.

“I like how (Sabin) pushes everyone’s buttons,” she said. “(She) hates everyone equally, just like (she) says.”

Lett said the event is impor-tant within the gay commu-

nity, but it’s fun for everyone.“You don’t have to be gay to

enjoy it,” she said.Sabin stressed the impor-

tance of being comfortable in your own skin.

“There’s not a how-to of a drag queen,” she said. “It’s all about trying on different clothes. “

The host said CMU is her fa-

vorite place to perform.“I’m not just saying that,”

she said. “Four years ago, you guys changed my life.”

Four years ago, Sabin did a tap-dance performance and received a standing ovation.

“I feel more love five min-utes on stage than most people do in their lifetime,” she said.

DeWitt junior Megan Wi-

nans said it’s important for everyone to feel like a part of campus, regardless of their sexual orientation.

“I came to laugh and learn,” she said. “It’s a way to elimi-nate labeling in this small town.”

Garden sophomore Emily Thennes said it’s hard to cap-ture the inappropriateness of

the performance.“Every other word was pro-

fanity,” she said. “But it was funny.”

An audience member asked Sabin if she were a crayon, what color would she be. She replied with, “Neon f****** pink.”

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Drag it out loudZack WittMan/Staff PhotograPher

A student puts a dollar tip into Paulina Ramera’s cleavage during the annual drag show at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

By Jackie SmithStaff Reporter

Months remain before Mount Pleasant adopts a fi-nalized operating budget for 2013, but already, city officials are wading through options to keep it balanced without re-ducing services.

One option on the table since February has been an in-come tax.

On Monday, city commis-sioners approved Mount Pleas-ant’s contracting with Mu-nicipal Analytics, LLC, an Ann Arbor-based firm, to complete a feasibility study of installing an income tax. Mount Pleas-

ant has lost nearly $1.5 million in state-shared revenue in 12 years, and proposed legislation making headway through Lan-sing would eliminate personal property taxes, a major source of city earnings, for some busi-nesses.

City Manager Kathie Grinz-inger reminded commission-ers that if nothing changes, the 2013 budget will be at least $450,000 in the red.

“Michigan doesn’t give its communities many alternate ways to raise revenue, so we are left with few choices,” she said. “Cities can either elimi-nate staff and reduce services, you could raise the millage,

you could drastically raise all fees and charges or you can enact one of the only other kinds of taxes allowed to cities in Michigan, which is an in-come tax.”

The City Commission OK’d officials’ search for a firm in February. Municipal Analytics offered what Grinzinger told commissioners was the “more economical” of two options at $17,550.

According to city docu-ments, officials expect to work primarily with the firm’s founder and principal consul-tant, who was charged with a previous income tax feasibil-ity study for Mount Pleasant

in 2001 while working for the Michigan Municipal League.

Prior to 2001, the city addi-tionally fielded a study in 1990. Neither time was an income tax the favored option to in-crease revenue.

Vice Mayor Kathy Ling said it was important for people to realize the commission’s con-tracting of a feasibility study is only the start of the process, and they’re simply considering the implications of such a tax.

“We don’t know what the results of this study are go-ing to be and, if they come in the same as the study done 10 years ago, there are going to be some questions about whether

this was the best direction to move in,” Ling said. “What I’m looking for is, has the situation changed enough where it looks like this could be an appropri-ate way for us to deal with some of our revenue shortage?”

Commissioner Nancy Eng-lish said she too didn’t want residents to assume everyone’s taxes will simply go up.

After reviewing the 2001 study, she said the process was a balancing act and that even with an income tax “not every-one wins and loses (income) the same.”

“It’s spreading the wealth a little bit,” English said. “Not (from) one of those things we

can automatically assume we’re all going to have an in-crease in taxes. It could actu-ally be beneficial to some.”

On Thursday, Grinzinger said re-examining the income tax isn’t because of how much the population in Mount Pleas-ant has changed, but rather, it’s a matter of how much property value versus the local income value has changed since the last study.

Based on Municipal Analyt-ics’ proposal to city officials, the firm’s scope of work is ex-pected to take 185 hours of work over three to four months.

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The crowd threw money at the host as she pranced up on stage dancing to Jessie J’s “Domino” at Wednesday night’s Drag Show.

Central Michigan University has wel-comed the Drag Show as a part of Pride Week for eight years.

Shannon Jolliff, director of LGBTQ Ser-vices, said as soon as the doors opened, students rushed in. More than 1,100 people filled Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

“It’s a time for the queer community and the straight community to come together and celebrate LGBTQ,” Jolliff said.

Sabin, a Detroit-based drag queen, gained the audience’s attention right away as her comical performance was centered on offensive and insulting remarks to audi-ence members.

“B****, I hope someone farts on your pil-low,” Sabin said to one audience member.

Sabin introduced six different drag queens and 12 different performances throughout the night. Each drag queen lip-synced and danced to a song. Between each performance, Sabin stole the stage.

“You’d be angry too if your stuff was where mine was at right now,” she joked.

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By Adam NiemiStaff Reporter

Former Michigan Gov. John Engler will be on cam-pus on May 21 as part of a ceremony that will name Central Michigan Univer-sity’s Center for Charter Schools after him.

During Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Vice President for Development and External Relations Kathy Wilbur announced the College Education and Human Services renamed the charter schools center the John Engler Center for Charter Schools. The date of the ceremony was also revealed for the first time at the meeting.

Engler served as governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003 and signed the charter school law in 1994. CMU was the first university in the nation to authorize a charter school in August 1994 and remains the university with the largest number of char-ter schools in Michigan.

CMU operates 60 charter schools.

“CMU remains the largest authorizer of charter schools in the state of Michigan,” Wilbur said. “We will cer-tainly promote the involve-ment of other universities in charter schools, as well.”

University President George Ross said, apart from private donations, there were no costs involved to name the center after Engler.

“We’re pleased that Gov. Engler agreed to have it named after him. I think it’s appropriate. You could ar-gue no John Engler, no char-ter schools initiative,” Ross said. “That’s a good thing. Having been governor here, there’s nothing in this state named after him.”

Engler could not be reached for comment Thursday.

“He didn’t bring it up,” Ross said. “It was suggested to us, and we had to go ask him.”

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JakE May/Staff PhotograPherDrag queen Eva Angelica mimics lyrics while dancing to Adele’s “Rumour Has It” in front of about 1,100 people at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

Governor Snyder cut $1 billion from education during his first year in office.

That is $1 billion taken away from the future generation, the generation that has to take care of us when we are old. Does that scare anyone else?

However, I have noticed an inter-esting trend in Michigan politics as a result of those budget cuts.

College students are starting to run for office in higher numbers, and I can completely understand why. Universities and education in general are suffering under the Snyder administration. For example, Central Michigan University has lost 23.3 percent of its state funding since last year thanks to Governor Snyder. Similar cuts are seen state-wide.

Student Government President at the University of Michigan - Dear-born and former U.S. Marine, David Knezek, is running for the state

House of Representatives seat from the eleventh district. Knezek is up against fellow student and Democrat Cody Bailey from Albion College. Public education, along with the economy, is a major issue. Seeing the 50-percent funding cut to higher education during the past 10 years, their stances are completely under-standable and long overdue.

Another candidate, one much closer to Central Michigan Univer-sity and Mid-Michigan, is Adam Lawrence. He will be graduating from CMU in May with a double major in History and Political Science: International Relations. The Coleman resident is running against incumbent Kevin Cotter for the 99th district Michigan House of Representatives seat. Lawrence said Michigan cannot afford to cut funding to education, and he fully supports the Michigan Senate Democrats’ Michigan 2020 plan to make college affordable and wants to help the plan into fruition.

The Michigan 2020 plan gives state high school graduates education grants by term limiting corporate tax credits. The proposal costs an estimated $1.8-billion, yet does not cost the state a single penny. Educa-tion grants for Michigan high school students would value approximately

$9,500 each year. Grants such as these are vital to the average student, who most of the time would be un-able to attend college because of lack of funds.

Adam Lawrence believes the teachers who inspired him and have made him and many other students successful should not be the target of massive budget cuts. Also, it is insulting to both public workers and taxpayers to make such extreme cuts during a recession just to turn around and put our state’s surplus into a “Rainy Day Fund.” Mr. Lawrence and I can both agree that recent GOP focus on social issues is not the way to pull this state out of an economic recession.

This new trend we are seeing, of college students running for office, has the potential to turn around the state’s current policy of slash-ing funding to education. Each of these candidates will represent the interests of Michiganders very well, including issues other than educa-tion. Sometimes we just need a new perspective in Lansing, and these candidates can do that for us.

Alex Middlewood is a member of the College Democrats. This column does not represent the views of the organization.

It was an important step taken by the board, especially Chair-man Sam Kottamasu, who explic-itly spelled out areas in which the administration has recently fallen short.

“We are concerned with re-building the mutual trust and confidence that has been dam-aged on many fronts. I believe we can all agree with the point regarding the need to improve

communication, transparency and decision-making,” Kottama-su said. “Improving in these areas can and must be the top prior-ity of faculty, administration and staff as the university moves for-ward.”

The board then reasserted its confidence in the administration of University President George Ross. While they are free to do as they please, it is concerning that

Kottamasu’s statement was not followed up by a plan of action.

Where were the plans to revamp University Communications, which is implicitly responsible for two-thirds of the problems laid out: communication and trans-parency.

Where, especially, was greater comment on the topic of “deci-sion-making,” particularly as it pertains to recent lax spending? It certainly seems as if the uni-versity has embarked on massive projects without being fully con-fident in its fundraising targets to support them.

The Events Center? Yes, that cost the university $10 million. Meanwhile, College of Medicine fundraising remains stuck at 52 percent, Vice President of Devel-opment and External Relations Kathy Wilbur reported.

Kottamasu’s statements amount to a kind of reactive oversight that is certainly better than the silence that came before but still falls short of active stewardship.

Proactivity is needed in cases like these. Had Trustees been pro-active initially with the votes of no confidence against Ross and Sha-piro, there’s a chance the campus climate would be much different.

Instead, they continued to beat around the bush, telling people it was time for a healing process to begin in December and Febru-ary meetings and barely acknowl-edging people were doubting the leadership at the top.

With progress being made in the Shared Governance Commit-tee, there is still hope.

We can only hope Kottamasu’s statements were not too little, too late.

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Recently President Barack Obama has been pushing for reforms to the tax system, specifically supporting the “Buffett Rule.”

The plan stems from Warren Buffett’s repeated statements that he pays a lower tax rate than his sec-retary, and if the “rule” were imple-mented, the tax plan would raise tax rates for those making more than $1 million per year.

The claim that millionaires are paying a lower rate than their secre-taries seems repulsive when heard for the first time, but the issue is ac-tually much more complex than that. The reason Buffett pays a lower rate is because his income is largely from investments, rather than a salary like his secretary’s.

Here in the United States, the tax rate for long-term capital gains, the tax rate that applies to long-term investments, is capped at 15 percent, whereas ordinary income tax rates are capped at 35 percent. The reason capital gains are lower than ordinary income taxes is low capital gains tax rates encourage investors to invest in the stock market and entrepreneurial activities.

Recognizing the value in relatively low capital gains taxes is not limited to Republicans; Bill Clinton saw this value, and he signed a bill that low-ered them during his administration.

Raising taxes on capital gains would discourage people from investing in the stock market, and that could have detrimental effects on our economy at this time, but ultimately, if he wants to do so, he can push for that.

That being said, it is unfair for him to campaign on this issue when he is simply saying, “It’s unfair that mil-lionaires are paying lower tax rates than their secretaries” without actu-ally explaining why that is. Obama is glossing over the fact that Buffett makes his income through invest-ments and is making it sound like he simply pays a lower ordinary income tax rate, when that is not true.

If Buffett truly thinks he should pay more taxes, he can make a dona-tion to the Treasury Department at www.pay.gov and ask that his dona-tion be used to pay down the deficit. As of now, he has yet to do that.

It might be popular to encourage the low and middle classes to hate on millionaires who are paying a lower income tax than their secretar-ies, but oversimplifying the situation to score political points is not help-ing the situation. If Obama wants to remedy the “problem,” he will have to raise capital gains taxes, and doing so will likely have detrimental con-sequences on an already unsteady economy.

Now is not the time to take a gamble on economic recovery, espe-cially when the purpose behind the gamble is to gain political popularity.

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than it looks

Most Cold War-era action movies like to follow the same plot: “Watch out! The commies are coming for our women, children and Bibles!”

A little narrow-minded, sure, but I’m not complaining. Without com-munism, we wouldn’t have about half our Bond villains, “in Soviet Russia” jokes or “The Hunt for Red October.” Or those really cool tundra hats.

For the better part of the twenti-eth century, communism drove an awful lot of American culture and consciousness. It was Lex Luthor to our Superman, a challenge to our post-war moral authority that sustained it and gave it life for the next 45 years.

But what about now? Ever since the power of communist rhetoric dissipated, international politics has been left with a strange power vacu-um. No longer do we have Superman versus Lex Luthor, but just Superman — the Iron Curtain fell, and suddenly the U.S.’s superhero status lost a big part of its impetus. Now the world, not to mention Superman himself, is trying to decide what he’s all about.

It’s interesting to watch how the U.S. has developed as its origi-nal claim to moral authority has evaporated. Compared to the glo-betrotting do-gooder we used to be — fighting evil (read: communism) wherever we might find it, we’re now forced to find another binary to sup-port our superhero status.

The need to address how the U.S. sees itself is especially ascendant now as the Middle East begins to coalesce into a ‘bloc’; a nuclear Iran and an unfriendly Syria, not to men-tion a perennially surly Pakistan, don’t make the State Department’s life easier, and the East-West binary it’s beginning to create is hauntingly similar to Cold War styles of thought.

I’m not wary of keen foreign policy or of dealing responsibly with Iran, Syria and Pakistan. I am very alarmed, though, by the thought that our legislators might begin to see the Middle East as a commonly allied enemy, because this does nothing but create an artificial divi-sion between us — one that distracts the U.S. from constructive projects in other areas, like education, green energy and space exploration.

If we get caught in a national need to define ourselves as the enemy of some foreign ‘ism’ or allow our-selves to get caught in the need to live some kind of us-versus-them national narrative, the country makes a wrong turn. We condemn ourselves to a divisive process that can set good, problem-solving di-plomacy back a generation.

The people of the U.S. need to realize the Middle East is properly understood as a group of individual countries, as intricate cultures with unique diplomatic needs — not as our next Lex Luthor.

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much bigger city, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality and variety of good music here. And its concentrat-ed: in bigger towns there is lots more but there is also much more to do, and it can sometimes be hard to gen-erate buzz over any given band when there are two dozen other interesting things happening that same night.

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By Paulina LeeStaff Reporter

Central Michigan Univer-sity students can now join the multi-billion dollar advertis-ing industry fully armed with an advertising major, as it was approved two weeks ago.

The major is a combination of journalism and marketing designated classes.

Starting July 1, the new bulletin will allow students the opportunity to officially sign an advertising major, al-lowing CMU to be on a level playing field with other insti-tutions that offer the major, including Western Michigan University, Wayne State Uni-versity, Michigan State Uni-versity, Ferris State University and Eastern Michigan Uni-versity.

Journalism Professor Doug Berry said the whole curricu-lum approval process took about two and half years. Berry was the main profes-sor behind formulating and lobbying for the advertising major.

“Its approval means a lot of things,” he said. “It means students have a full cur-riculum that is really based on what they need to know

by the time they leave. The marketing and journalism departments were both very supportive and great. The dean was fantastic as well.”

Associate Dean of the Col-lege of Communication and Fine Arts Shelly Hinck said she is excited the major was passed.

“I was really positive about the curricular changes that the journalism department wanted to make, partly be-cause I know that we have a strong advertising concen-tration, and I thought the changes he wanted to make appeared to be sound,” Hinck said. “It will provide the stu-dents with the necessary edu-cation to be successful when they leave.”

Previously, only an adver-tising concentration within journalism and an advertis-ing minor were available.

“The minor was really good. It was half marketing and half media,” said Berry, who has 24 years of experi-ence working at firms like Young & Rubicam, Team De-troit and Leo Burnett. “Adver-tising and marketing are very interrelated, and you need both to succeed.”

One new class, JRN 397B:

Writing for Advertising, has been created for the major, as well as a mandatory intern-ship.

“The new class, Writing for Advertising, really came from the students, who requested more help on this,” Berry said.

“I think it’s a great idea,” said Salma Ghanem, dean of the College of Communica-tion and Fine Arts. “When Doug Berry showed it to us, he had done a survey of the students, and there seemed to be a very big interest in pursuing such a major here at CMU.”

Berry said the survey of 140 students revealed an ad-vertising major can comple-ment many different majors, as students had diverse back-grounds such as marketing, integrative public relations, psychology, journalism, ap-parel merchandising and graphic design.

Though Berry said many students take an interest in advertising after discovering their interest in a course like JRN 360: Advertising Prin-ciples, there is an advertising student stereotype.

“Advertising is ‘think differ-ent.’ The reason why the ad-

vertising is as substantial as it is, is that it thinks of brands in different ways, in emotional ways that linear people don’t understand,” he said.

Berry said a student might think, “I like marketing, but

I don’t like statistics. I like writing, but I’m not sure writ-ing press releases is what I’m made for, and advertising sounds much more interest-ing to me.”

“It’s a kind of student that

rebels against the rules a bit,” Berry said. “A more out-spoken student compared to news editorial students who are quiet and polite.”

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By Justin OrminskiStaff Reporter

A report from the Michigan Office of Highway Safety Plan-ning suggests eight percent of Michigan drivers still text and drive despite the law against it.

The Michigan Distracted Driving Survey of March 2012 surveyed 600 Michigan resi-dents of various ages, polling on what tasks they perform while behind the wheel.

The survey found 56.5 per-cent of Michigan drivers still accept and make cell phone calls while on the road, and 17.2 percent still look at in-coming texts or emails.

Spokesperson for the OHSP Melody Kindraka said the

numbers are fairly accurate.“It’s a small sample size but

is certainly a picture of what could be going on in the state,” Kindraka said.

“The survey was conduct-ed to help draw awareness to these problems,” she said. “It makes people think about what they may or may not be doing while they drive.”

Mount Pleasant Police De-partment Sgt. Andy Latham said it’s difficult to enforce the texting and driving law. Latham said he has only writ-ten one texting ticket.

“What’s hard is that you have to see the driver doing it,” he said. “It’s not like speeding where you can just pick them up on the radar. You have to be

100-percent sure.”Latham said he knew of one

recent accident involving cell phone use, where a pedes-trian was hit by a vehicle while crossing High Street.

Sterling Heights junior Mar-cela Micheloni said she has tried texting and driving be-fore, though she no longer does.

The main reason Micheloni said she decided to stop was the difficulty of trying to text and drive.

“It’s so hard to do while you’re driving,” she said. “I don’t know how other people can do it.”

Warren sophomore Caitrin Wojtas said she only texts at red lights.

“I guess I have done it, as bad as that sounds,” Wojtas said. “I try not to do it, now that you can get in trouble for it.”

Wojtas said most of her friends do not text and drive.

“A lot of them hand the phone to the passenger while they are driving, so they can text for them,” she said.

Kindraka said knowing about the issue will help de-crease the amount of people who drive while distracted.

“Awareness goes a long way,” she said. “There are lots of different things going on in a car. People need to remember what their main focus should be, and that is driving.”

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The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning recently found that only eight percent of drivers still text while driving after a ban on the issue went into affect in 2010.

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By John IrwinSenior Reporter

If a group of investors gets its way, the Soaring Eagle Casino and other casinos in the state could face more competition from eight new casinos.

The investor, Citizens for More Michigan Jobs, is looking to put a constitutional amend-ment on the November ballot that would green light con-struction of eight new casinos around the state. The State Board of Canvassers approved the petitions last week. The group needs to collect more than 300,000 signatures.

The new casinos would be built in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Clinton Township, Romulus, Birch Run Township, Pontiac and Clam Lake Town-ship.

Frank Cloutier, public rela-tions director for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, which operates the Soaring Eagle Ca-sino in Mount Pleasant and the Saganing Eagles Landing Ca-sino in Standish, said the new casinos would be harmful to business.

“Our perspective is that this is going to be catastrophic for the

gambling industry in the state as a whole,” Cloutier said. “The gambling operations that we have right now are holding their own. We don’t know if there’s room for growth without hurt-ing the industry as a whole.”

Cloutier said increased com-petition in the state gambling industry, contrary to most in-dustries, would hurt business.

“Competition is a good thing,” Cloutier said. “It’s what built our nation’s economy. But at the end of the day, in gam-bling, too much of a good thing becomes a bad thing.”

The tribe is represented by Project MI Vote, which opposes casino expansion and also rep-resents Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi and the owners of the MGM Grand Casino and Greektown Casino in Detroit. A spokesman for the group called the proposed amendment “irresponsible” and said expansion would be detrimental to business.

Emily Gerkin Palsrok, spokes-woman of Citizens for More Michigan Jobs, said construc-tion of the new casinos would create jobs and stimulate Mich-igan’s economy.

Palsrok said it is estimated

the plan would generate 16,000 jobs statewide, which would include construction of the ca-sinos, casino-based jobs and jobs called indirect casino jobs, which would pop up in the communities associated with the casino.

About 4,000 to 5,000 of those jobs would be construction, she said.

“We don’t think that anyone should be afraid of more com-petition,” Palsrok said. “We think there’s still plenty of room for competition and that the gaming industry is doing very well in Michigan.”

The state has 22 tribal-owned casinos in addition to the three casinos in Detroit. Cloutier said increased competition from Ohio makes expansion within state lines reckless.

“Any new competition from the Midwest region has an im-pact on the casinos’ business-es,” Cloutier said.

Citizens for More Michigan Jobs is not affiliated with anoth-er group, More Michigan Jobs, which seeks to approve seven other casino locations this No-vember.

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By Paulina LeeStaff Reporter

Chinese Students and Schol-ars Association created a Chi-nese Language and Culture Club after spring break.

The club, a subset of the CSSA registered student organization, promotes Chinese culture and teaches attendees basic Chi-nese.

“We work with students so we can tell them more about China, so they can know more about Chinese and like it,” said China junior Yan Zhang.

At their meeting Wednesday night, of the 10 who attended, four were American. The meet-ing started off by sampling vari-ous Chinese candies such as White Rabbit candy – which has a chewy texture and is shaped

similar to a Tootsie Roll.Club leaders, Zhang and fel-

low China junior Heng Dong, then talked about Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southern China. They discussed various topics such as trans-portation, weather and cuisine there.

China senior Yi Li taught stu-dents to say “bu yao la jiao,” which means “don’t want chili sauce,” which would be useful to tourists because Sichaun is known for having spicy foods.

Three of the non-Chinese at-tendees will be going to Cheng-du for a mission trip sponsored by His House Christian Fellow-ship for 17 days in June.

Rebecca Frantz, one of the trip’s leaders, said she has al-ready traveled on a mission trip to China previously, where she

spent nine months working with college students.

The Dearborn senior said when she first went to China, she had no particular interest in the culture.

“When I got back after my mission trip, I just grew to like it,” Frantz said. “I love Chinese people, the language, the food.”

Mount Pleasant resident Josh Chaffin is the associate campus minister of His House and is also helping Frantz lead the mission trip. He said he is excited to ex-plore Chengdu.

“I’ve always been interested in other cultures and see what God was doing around the world,” he said. “I just want to see China and meet people.”

Chaffin said his first time at a Chinese Language and Culture Club meeting was fun.

“I learned a few phrases that I’ll probably need, and it was just good to learn about the area and the transportation, plus the different kinds of food were re-ally interesting,” he said.

Though there was a lot of learning during the meeting, Dong said the club is not just about teaching.

“We are just sharing what we know about China, Chinese culture and simple Chinese,” he said. “Because you can ask whatever you want about China — it is free talk.”

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By stephanie TitsworthStaff Reporter

The Chippewa River will be overflowing with hundreds of yellow rubber ducks this week-end.

More than 440 rubber ducks have already been sold for the upcoming Rubber Ducky Derby event, where rubber ducks are sold and raced to raise money for Michigan’s Special Olympics.

The derby is being hosted by five students from Timothy Otte-man’s RPL 430: Planning Recre-ation Programs and Events class. The event will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday on the Chippewa River at Island Park. The group hopes to sell about 500 ducks and agreed they are confident they will be able to do so.

“The idea came from the oth-er group members in my RPL 430 class,” said Shaun Knight,

one of the five students orga-nizing the event. “The event is a great idea. It gives people an opportunity to contribute. You don’t have to be present to win either, but can still give to the cause by buying a duck.”

Three cash prizes will be giv-en away to the winners, as well as prizes for best duck decorat-ing contest, last place duck and a raffle. T-shirts from the Central Michigan University bookstore,

gift certificates to Lil Chef, Hall of Heroes and Applebees will also be given away.

Livonia sophomore Jessica Webb said she is excited for the race and cash prizes.

“It gives people the opportu-nity to give to a good cause by buying their ducks and send-ing them down the river,” Webb said.

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“With glow and paint stuff trending, it’s popular right now,” the Fraser senior said. “It’s get-ting warm out and I thought it would be a great way to start the summer.”

Registration for the event was available a week before the race and Czupinski said it was an im-mediate hit.

“We had 100 people posting on Facebook that they were inter-ested after three hours of registra-tion being open,” she said. “When we rescheduled the event, it went down to 120, but we had people sign up today as well.”

Byron Center senior Lauren

Patterson ran in her first color race with her boyfriend, Lansing senior Terry Foster, in support of the Threads Fashion Show.

“I’m one of the designers for the show, so I’m sort of fund-raising for my own cause,” Pat-terson said. “The show gives us great experience for our portfo-lios and we can win awards. It’s good to support the program.”

The race route had three paint stations where volunteers threw handfuls of paint powder at passing racers, concluding back at its starting point with pizza, water and awards given to the participants.

“C&O was awesome and do-nated T-shirts and we awarded one to the first finisher, as well as best dressed and most colored,” Czupinski said. “Also, B Tan do-

nated some minutes and spray tanning, and Papa John’s threw in some free pizza.”

Watervliet sophomore Eric Phillips was the first partici-pant to cross the finish line, entering a cloud of multi-col-

ored powder paint.“It was fun; better than I ex-

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Mose, 1978 graduate from CMU and stand out wide receiver for the Chippewas, said he could not be more ecstatic about his return to what he calls ‘home’.

“The return has been ab-solutely outstanding,” Rison said. “This is home for me. I’ve been here two months now and have gotten to know quite a few of the players.”

Rison has had many coaching stops in his career. After leaving CMU in 1988, he was the receivers coach at Navy, Rutgers and Stanford before moving on to the Na-tional Football League. He

was the receivers coach for the New York Jets in 2001 and 2002 and then returned back to the collegiate ranks where he was most recently the head coach for North Caro-lina Central.

“I’ve coached a lot of dif-ferent places,” Rison said. “This is year number 33 for me, and when I left here in ‘88, I had no idea I would be back here in 2012, but I’m glad to be here.”

It did not take him long to adjust to head coach Dan Enos’ system.

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Photos By Mike MuLhoLLand/Photo editorNew wide receivers coach Mose Rison tosses balls to sophomore wide receiver Titus Davis during his first spring practice back at Central Michigan March 29. Rison was a stand out wide receiver at before graduating in 1978.

Before CMU, Rison was the head coach at North Carolina Central from 2007-2010.

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By John ManzoStaff Reporter

Midweek games haven’t been kind to the Central Michigan baseball team lately.

After losing against Michi-gan State and Michigan in the past two midweek games, the Chippewas were hoping the third time was the charm Thursday against Oakland.

However, OU put up two big innings en route to an 11-8 victory on its home field in Rochester.

“We probably walked too many guys,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “They had a couple timely hits. We just weren’t able to get all the way back into it.”

It was a stalemate at six for two and a half innings, but the Golden Grizzlies busted that in the bottom of the seventh with one of their two major run-producing innings.

Hit batters and walks al-lowed OU to establish base runners for junior Nolan Ja-coby. He’s the guy who dam-aged Trowbridge’s stat line. Jacoby smashed the winning three-run home run to ulti-mately seal the deal for the Golden Grizzlies.

The Chippewas made it interesting in the eighth inning with two runs, but senior Sam Russell left two runners stranded when he struck out to end the inning.

“We had two guys on and we couldn’t get that one more hit that maybe would have put us ahead,” Jaksa said.

In the beginning of the game, CMU responded to an early run from the Golden Grizzlies with three runs in the top of the second, but OU scored four runs in the bottom half of the inning.

The usual midweek pitch-er freshman Matt Trowbridge was swapped out in favor of freshman Dylan Rheault, but the struggles continued for the midweek starters.

Rheault lasted just two innings, giving up five runs (two earned) on just one hit, but four walks.

Trowbridge entered the third inning in relief, but he had his ups and downs as well. He went 4 and 2/3 in-nings while giving up four runs on four hits with six strikeouts.

The Chippewas have a three-game series against Eastern Michigan in Ypsilan-ti beginning at 6 p.m. today. The Eagles are first place in the Mid-American Confer-ence West standings with a 6-3 record.

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The teams have been picked and the coaches have been decided for the annual spring football game set for 2 p.m Saturday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

Wednesday, the Central Michigan football team draft-ed the rosters that will square off Saturday. The seniors were divided between the Gold and Maroon teams and then drafted their teammates by position.

Redshirt freshman offen-sive lineman Nick Beamish was the number-one overall pick by the Gold team. Tight ends coach Butch Barry will head the Gold team while re-ceivers coach Mose Rison will head the Maroon team.

Head coach Dan Enos said the main goal is to make the game enjoyable for the play-ers and fans. After five weeks of spring practice, he under-stands his players are amped to get in front of a crowd and compete.

“I just want to see guys have fun,” Enos said. “I think it’s a great opportunity for the players to get in front of their family and friends. ‘We are trying to make it a fun at-mosphere. Regardless of the score, we just want to make it fun and make it somewhat competitive. But again, we will evaluate it likes it’s anoth-er game.”

Overall, Enos said he was pleased with what the team accomplished during spring.

“I think it’s gone very well,” he said. “We’ve obviously had days where one side of the ball dominated, but over the past week or two, it’s been pretty even. I think that’s a sign of a good football team - that one side is not dominating.”

Enos said one position that might be behind schedule as far as progress goes is the of-fensive line.

“With some of the guys not being back from injuries on the offensive line, that hurts because of the continuity — that’s one thing that’s been disrupted,” Enos said. “(Eric) Fisher and Andy Phillips who both started a lot of games last season, did not practice the whole spring, and Aaron McCord missed the entire spring as well.”

Since the start of spring, there have been no serious additional injuries. Enos said they’re working on getting ev-eryone healthy who missed the entire spring.

For junior safety Avery Cun-ningham, the spring game is an opportunity for both sides of the ball to show off what they have been working on.

“We’re just going to come out and try and put on a show for everybody,” he said. “Just go out there and compete with the offense, get a couple stops, get a couple turnovers and make us better and them better.”

Enos said the offense and defense will work with a lim-ited playbook, because he wants to see the guys just line up and play.

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Mose Rison did not know where - or if - his coach-ing career would resume after leaving North Carolina Central in 2010.

He said he wanted to continue coaching. He was still passionate about the game and enjoyed seeing his team run out onto the field on Saturday afternoons, but he did not know what was going to come next.

What started as an initial phone call to Plas Presnell, CMU Director of Football Operations, Rison found out about the receivers coach vacancy and was hired to fill that role. It is his second stint at CMU where he was the receivers coach and directed the special teams from 1981-88.

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A major key on any foot-ball team is the play of its offensive line.

Heading into this year’s spring practice, the Cen-tral Michigan football team hopes to have plenty of ex-perience along its offensive front.

The Chippewas entered spring practice with six players who started at least

one game last season. The group includes four seniors in Eric Fisher, Darren Key-ton, Jake Olson and Mike Repovz. Sophomores Andy Phillips and Kevin Henry also started games for the Chippewas in 2011.

The group is one of the most experienced on the team and looking to im-prove.

“It’s very important for those guys to perform,”

head coach Dan Enos said. “They are a veteran group, and I expect a lot from them.”

So far in spring camp, the line has had its fair share of injuries. Keyton, Fisherand Phillips have all missed time, which has created some opportunities for the younger players along the offensive line.

“Us being out has given the other guys a chance,”

Fisher said. “It’s important for those guys to get reps, because depth is always something that’s important for every team to have,”

At times, the team has had three freshmen (Kenny Rogers, Ramadan Ahmeti-and Nick Beamish) work-ing on the first team offense during spring practice.

“Those young guys have done a nice job filling in while the older guys have

been out,” Enos said. “That being said, it will be nice when we get the older guys back, and we can move those guys to the back-up position where they prob-ably need to be right now.”

The offensive line and the rest of the Chippewas will play their annual spring game at 2 p.m. this Saturday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

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The Eastern Michigan baseball team sits on top the Mid-Amer-ican Conference West standings with a 6-3 record.

It is the place where the Central Michigan baseball team wants to be. With a series victory this week-end, the Chippewas have an op-portunity to do just that.

“Yeah, the rivalry is real,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “Last year, we had to take two out of three for the championship on the last weekend, so I’m sure they remember that. We’re playing at their place like we were last year, so we know the surroundings very well.”

The series starts at 6 p.m. to-day in Ypsilanti with CMU se-nior pitcher Zach Cooper on the mound and continues at 3 p.m. Saturday with junior Patrick Ka-minska. The final game is at 1 p.m. Sunday.

“Our guys have been resilient and we have to go in there, and I fully expect that we’ll be ready to play,” Jaksa said.

The Eagles, who are 6-2 at home, are coming off a 13-5 vic-tory over Michigan State Wednes-day in East Lansing.

EMU used a 12-run third in-ning to propel itself to the victory to get even in the season series with MSU at 1-1.

The Chippewas, who are 7-14 on the road, dropped their mid-week game 11-8 against Oakland (7-23).

The state of Michigan has produced quality baseball in the MAC this season. EMU holds the top spot in the division and West-ern Michigan and CMU are right behind the Eagles in that order.

“I think those rivalries have been real good, and I think every-body wants to knock each other off,” Jaksa said. “It speaks well for the talent that we have in the state and how we recruit.”

A series victory over the Eagles could be crucial for the Chip-pewas, because they open a five-game homestand against

Oakland, MSU and Kent State the following week.

CMU wants revenge in the opening two games against the Golden Grizzlies and MSU, be-cause it dropped the first game between both teams.

After two non-conference games, the Chippewas face a KSU team that is 9-0 in the MAC and could be their biggest competi-tion in the MAC tournament in late May.

Before that, CMU must take care of an Eagles team that comes into the weekend on a four-game winning streak. Within it, they have scored double-digit runs in three of the four games, scoring nine in their only game without double-digit runs scored.

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“I’ve developed a great re-lationship with Dan, and he understands and respects the fact that I’ve had some different experiences,” Ri-son said. “It’s been some-what of an adjustment, but at the same time, a lot of the things we’re doing I have done other places, so it’s molded well.”

Enos said he can already see the impact he has had on the receivers.

“He’s done a great job,” Enos said. “Titus Davis was a good player in the fall, and now he’s becoming a very good receiver. Coach (Rison) has done a great job with his technique and the fundamentals part of it, and you can see that growth in all our guys.”

The receivers have also taken the transition ex-tremely well. They could tell from the beginning he was more than just a foot-ball coach.

“Coach Rison is very ex-perienced and definitely knows what he’s talking about,” redshirt freshman Jesse Kroll said. “You can tell he really cares about you, because he’s trying to get you better as a player and as a person.”

Rison said he knew he could not come to CMU and be overly abrasive from the start. He wanted to get to know the players first — gain their trust.

“One of the first things I told the young men when I got back here was I want to develop a relationship with them,” Rison said.

“Because sometimes when they make mistakes and you don’t get to know the guys, they don’t know where you are coming from. So we have developed a strong bond, and I think they re-spect the fact that I’ve had a lot of experience and have coached some guys at some very high levels.”

Rison has also stressed the importance of academ-ics and how performing well in the classroom can translate into better perfor-

mances on the field.“The first thing I tell the

players always is make sure you take care of your academic business,” Rison said. “If you can take care of your business academi-cally, a lot of times, the on-the-field stuff is a lot easier because you don’t have that added stress.”

Although Rison said he has gained valuable experi-ence throughout his coach-ing career, he reiterated the fact that there is no place

better than being back at CMU.

“I’m very comfortable here,” Rison said. “I went to school here and then came around and coached here. I still know a lot of people in town. For me, it’s very easy going up and down Broom-field (Street) and Mission (Street). I get up in the morning and jog through campus, and I’m at home.”

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FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES


















like ad attractors.


NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

WANTED TO RENT

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES

NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES


















like ad attractors.


NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

WANTED TO RENT

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES

NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES


















like ad attractors.


NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

WANTED TO RENT

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES

NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES


















like ad attractors.


NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

WANTED TO RENT

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES

NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES


















like ad attractors.


NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

WANTED TO RENT

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

MOTORCYCLES

NOTICES

LOST & FOUND

FOR RENT

WANTED TO RENT

ROOMMATES

REAL ESTATE

WANTED TO BUY

FOR SALE

AUTOS FOR SALE

HELP WANTED

SPECIAL SECTION

TRAVEL

PERSONALS

HAPPY ADS

OFFICE SPACE

SERVICES

GARAGE SALES

PETS

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