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By Maryellen TigheStaff Reporter
CMU will be more aggressive in its fiscal planning after Gov. Rick Snyder announced plans for a 15-percent cut to higher education in his 2012 budget.
The university has been in-volved in contingency planning for a while, but administrators will now step up their efforts, said Kathy Wilbur, vice presi-dent of Development and Exter-nal Relations.
CMU has until next semes-ter before the budget cuts will impact it because the state government runs on an Oct. 1 fiscal year, University President George Ross said. The univer-sity had heard rumors of 15-to 20-percent cuts prior to Snyder’s Thursday announcement.
“The conversation has always been 15 to 20 percent, at least the last couple weeks,” Ross said. “We’ll be huddling up the begin-ning of the week to see where we are with prioritizations.”
The university began budget-ing for reductions last spring, when it made $5.2 million in
cuts through personnel and other cost re-ductions, Ross said. This is a start toward covering the $12 million re-duction that may be needed if Snyder’s proposed budget is approved.
The 15-percent decrease in university funding will save the state $222 million, according to Snyder’s proposal. Eighty-three million dollars will be set aside to award universities which do not raise tuition more than 7.1 percent.
“That 15 percent is actually contingent on complying to that rate cap; the cut could be deeper (if they don’t),” said state Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant. “If CMU were to raise tuition at an amount not to exceed 7.1 percent then there would be an opportunity to recapture some funds ... if they were able to do that then the cut would be 15 percent.”
There are no proposed cuts to community college funding and it will stay at the 2011 level of $296 million.
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Kaitlin thoresen/staff photographerDionysio Basco, Jackson McQueen, and Rafael Agustin perform skits as part of the N*gger Wetb*ack Ch*nk performance at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium Thursday evening. The three showed the ways minorities are effected by racial slurs.
erica Kearns/staff photographerThe CMU Board of Trustees begins its meeting Thursday in the President’s Conference room in the Bovee University Center. Prior to the meeting the board was given a tour of the Real Food on Campus residential restaurant located in the Towers, The Market and Fresh Foods Company on east campus.
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By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
The University Health Center has seen a decrease of about 74.4 percent in the H1N1 cases compared to last year.
Helene Vossos, nurse prac-titioner at UHS said 23 cases have been reported on cam-pus so far this season — from the 90 cases in 2009-10. CMU is treating H1N1 prevention alongside the seasonal influ-enza virus.
“Rather than treating H1N1 individually, we are provid-
ing a seasonal vaccine that includes a protection (for H1N1),” Vossos said. “The in-fluenza vaccine includes pro-tection for influenza A, B and H1N1.”
Contributing to the quick spread of H1N1 last year was the similarity to the seasonal flu’s symptoms. Vossos said patients tend to have a fever, prominent headaches, mus-cle and joint aches, extreme exhaustion and sometimes a sore throat with sneezing and stuffy noses.
Holland sophomore Ty-ler Patterson was part of the
unlucky bunch to contract H1N1.
Patterson had the Swine Flu for about two weeks last October. While at Ferris State University, the doctor told him he had the common cold. After displaying flu-like symptoms for the following week, Patterson received a second opinion back home, where he was diagnosed with the Swine Flu.
“Overall, this was the worst experience with sickness that I’ve ever had,” he said. “I just
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By Maria AmanteSenior Reporter
CMU is set to renovate Pearce and Powers halls, but state back-ing for the initiative remains un-certain.
A $24.5-million capital outlay proposed renovation for Pearce and Powers halls was approved Thursday at CMU’s Board of Trustees meeting.
Following Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed 15-percent cut to higher education, University President George Ross said he “cannot speak to” if the pro-posal will be approved by state government.
“(Snyder) is attempting to ‘right-size’ our state,” Ross said. “He has inherited a tremendous budget deficit.”
The request includes up-grades to classroom furniture, floors, lights, windows, roofing, doors, fiber optics, ceilings and a new heating, ventilating and air conditioning system to both buildings.
It was submitted to the state Jan. 20 pending board approval.
“We spend a considerable
amount of time coming up with the best proposal for campus,” said Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Man-agement.
Before the plan can come to fruition, the Capital Outlay Subcommittee must approve the capital outlay funds for the university.
Other businessTrustees approved a 2-per-
cent increase to graduate assis-tantships and graduate athletic assistantships.
Master’s candidates and non-degree graduate students or a specialist candidate with less than 30 hours beyond a bach-elor’s degree earn $9,800 to $14,400. The board approved an increase of $10,000 to $14,700 rate for these students effective next year. Doctoral candidates or specialist candidates with 30 hours beyond a bachelor’s earn $10,850 to $19,000. Next year,
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“If we’re not what the cliches say we are, then what are we?” Basco said.
They said each ethnicity has positive qualities and people should not be confined to ste-reotypes. Basco said he is tired of the stereotype that all Asians are intelligent and joked that if he were black, he would be considered cool and tough.
“You realize those are just more stereotypes, right,” Mc-Queen said.
“Yeah, but I like yours better than mine,” Basco responded as the audience burst into laughter.
The performers acted out humorous scenarios including a “Chinese Superman,” a “black Santa” and a “Latino Jesus.”
After the audience’s laugh-ter calmed, the trio said the skits were only funny because many see the scenarios as im-probable. They said negative stereotypes can limit people’s potentials.
“Three words that label peo-ple that became ways to hurt people,” McQueen said, refer-
ring to the show’s title.Prudenville sophomore Jen-
ny Mendham said the show was eye-opening and hilarious.
“It made me realize just how unfair it is,” she said. “Language should bring us together, not tear us apart.”
Bay City junior Kasey McFar-land said she was impressed with the performances.
“I wasn’t sure what to expect, but they went off with a bang,” she said.
McFarland said she appreci-ated the actors’ direct approach to the discussion of language and race.
“I feel like with a subject like race, there’s no other way to go about it,” she said.
Keisha Janney, assistant di-rector of Minority Student Ser-vices, said the group performed at CMU a few years ago and it was invited back because of popular student demand.
Janney said “NWC” effective-ly examined the use of language in society.
Comedy show encourages understanding stereotypes‘N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK’ mixes laughs with messages
By Annie Harrison | Staff Reporter
The only race that matters is the human race.
This was the message of “N*GGER WETB*CK CH*NK,” a comedy show that analyzes language and race in the U.S. Rafael Agustin, Dionysio Basco and Jackson McQueen have toured the act in 41 states.
“America was supposed to be a great melting pot, but it’s more about segmentation,” Agustin said.
1,100 students filled Warriner Hall’s Plachta Au-ditorium Thursday to watch the three actors of different ethnicities share their personal strug-gles with cultural identity said Program Board president Steve Lewis, an Algean senior.
The actors began the event by listing common stereotypes about their ethnicities. They said ste-reotypes are often untrue and people lose their identities when they are labeled.
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w An espresso, tea and Community event hosted by FaCit will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the former Em-bers Restaurant location, 1217 S. Mission St.
w A “Deal or no Deal” game show hosted by Mortar board national College se-nior honor society will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
sAturDAYw recording artist Chinua hawk will be featured from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Bovee Univer-sity Center Auditorium as a part of Black History Month.
w “bye bye birdie,” present-ed by Mount Pleasant high school, will be performed at 7 p.m. in the Mount Pleas-ant Public Schools Performing Arts Center Auditorium, 1155 S. Elizabeth St. Tickets are $8 and available in the high school principal’s office.
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felt like a zombie the entire time because I was just so physically and mentally drained.”
Patterson said he dragged himself to class every day, but that was all the energy he had. While he does not know how he became infected, he recom-mends that people practice good hygiene and get the vac-cine.
Vossos urged the same pre-vention habits. She also encour-aged good health habits during the flu season, such as getting enough sleep and eating a nu-tritious diet.
The influenza vaccine is available in Foust Hall without restrictions, except if a person has an allergy to eggs or has a temperature over 100 degrees.
Orion freshman Andrea Secor is aware of the risks in being in-fected with any influenza virus, but refuses to get the vaccine.
“I don’t get (the vaccine) be-cause I don’t like the idea of put-ting the influenza virus in my body on purpose,” Secor said. “I don’t do much to prevent it, though. I just act immediately when I feel symptoms coming on.”
If a student contracts the influenza virus, Vossos said to stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours, making sure to get plenty of rest and fluid. If symptoms continue, contact University Health Services in Foust Hall.
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that Gov. Snyder has recog-nized the importance of com-munity colleges in restoring the Michigan economy,” said Mid Michigan Community College spokesman Matt Miller.
Wilbur said CMU will be in-volved in the conversations in Lansing while the higher educa-tion bill goes through the state
legislature.Cotter said it is important to
understand that Snyder’s pro-posal still has to be voted on by the state Senate and the House.
He said he looks forward to meeting with representatives from CMU and other voters to talk about the potential impact of the cuts on the university.
“(Snyder’s proposal) is really just the first step of the budget process,” Wilbur said.
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“It’s also to remind people that words have power and we give them that meaning,” she said. “Words have been used to hurt people in the past.”
Janney said she hopes stu-dents that attended the event take away a better understand-ing of stereotypes and lan-guage.
“Remember the laughs, but remember the message, too,” she said.
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Photos by sara winKler/staff photographerFrom left: Co-Director and Grand Rapids resident Pete Westers, Clinton Township freshman Dylan Broome, Indian River senior Josh Rorick and Grand Rapids resident Dan Winer gather around a piano and sing together at the end of rehearsal for their Youth Barbershop Chorus, named Northern Rhapsody, on the second floor of the Music Building. The group has just resumed practice after competing in the International Youth Chorus Festival in Las Vegas at the end of January where they placed No. 12 out of 19.
Ithaca resident Jeff Rayburn directs members of Northern Rhapsody, a Youth Barber-shop Chorus at CMU, during one of the group’s rehearsals on the second floor of the Music Building.
By Jessica FecteauStaff Reporter
What happened in Vegas, stayed in Vegas. But Northern Rhapsody and its newfound vic-tory quickly made its way back to CMU.
The group is an all-male youth barbershop chorus con-sisting of about 30 members from all over Michigan. Al-though the newly established registered student organization is primarily composed of CMU students, members range from junior high students to alumni under 30.
“There’s a lot of different people in the group with a big age range,” said Fraser senior Cameron Hunt. “But we all have one thing in common, and that is our interest and passion for singing.”
Co-founders Craig Johnson of Lake City and Ryan Collins of Holt, both seniors, and Dav-enport alumnus Dan Winer es-tablished Northern Rhapsody in September. Members were gathered from their individual chorus groups and brought to-
gether by their love for barber-shop-style singing.
“Our goal when we first cre-ated Northern Rhapsody was to perform at the Youth Chorus Festival in Las Vegas,” said John-son, the club’s president.
He said more than $7,000 in donations from people all over Michigan made sending a group of 17 to Las Vegas Jan. 27 to com-pete against 18 other chorus groups from around the world possible.
“After only about three-and-a-half months of practice and rehearsal we finished 12th out of 19,” Johnson said. “Which puts us in the top 50 percent in the world.”
Hunt said the competition was a rewarding experience.
“All of the different chorus groups were helping each other out after the performances and we all learned from each other,” Hunt said. “It was nice to watch the senior quartet perform too, because they gave us inspiration to improve.”
Mount Pleasant senior Gar-rett Gillingham was excited to compete and happy to explore
Making MusicMale barbershop chorus travels, sings together
the city while not performing.“We were always singing in
the lobby of the hotel, and we got the chance to walk up and down the strip and check out New York New York Hotel and Caesar’s Pal-ace,” Gillingham said.
Northern Rhapsody’s next performance will be at the Pio-neer District spring contest in April at the Soaring Eagle Ca-sino and Resort, 6800 Soaring
Eagle Blvd.Johnson said males interested
in joining the group can come to an open rehearsal from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 27 in room 217 in the Music Building.
“It’s a fun group and great hobby that is very addicting and a big part of our lives,” Gilling-ham said.
By Randi shafferSenior Reporter
Supporters of Special Olympics Michigan have no hesitation to show their enthusiasm for the cause — even if it means jumping into an icy pond.
SOMI’s fifth annual Po-lar Plunge is set for 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Registration for plungers will begin at 10:30.
Joel Warner, Polar Plunge coordinator and Informa-tion Systems Manager for SOMI, said 167 plungers have already registered on-line, and between 250 and 300 participants are ex-pected to plunge into the Rose Ponds this year.
“It’s huge,” he said. “Ev-ery year has been growing a good 75 percent.”
Warner said last year’s Polar Plunge brought out 216 participants to raise about $30,000.
This year’s goal is set at $40,000 — an amount War-ner said is completely ob-tainable. The registration cost per plunger is $50, but last year’s participants av-eraged a donation of $230 each.
Warner said the two reg-istered student organiza-tions in the lead for highest donations are Phi Sigma Pi fraternity and Therapeutic Recreation.
Phi Sigma Pi member Maria Schmieder, an Ada senior, is planning to make her first jump on Saturday after helping coordinate the group’s participation.
“I didn’t jump last year, so I’m nervous about the cold,” Schmieder said.
Schmieder said the Po-lar Plunge is Phi Sigma Pi’s second biggest fundraising cause.
“It’s our biggest fund-raising thing outside of our philanthropy,” she said. “Mount Pleasant is the headquarters for (SOMI), and I feel it’s really im-
portant that CMU and the community as a whole raise a lot of money for it.”
Plungers are encouraged to wear costumes, though it is not required to par-ticipate. Costumes must be appropriate and include shoes, Warner said.
“It’s whatever your imag-ination comes up with,” Warner said. “Wetsuits are not allowed. Quite a few are in bathing suits, but there are some pretty wild costumes.”
He said there is no age limit to participate and this year’s youngest registered plunger is 8 years old.
Kim Purdy, public rela-tions director for SOMI, said the event is an integral part of funding the Special Olympics.
“We get no state fund-ing,” she said. “We are funded by the generosity of donors and sponsors. Every dollar counts.”
Purdy said even though SOMI provides year-round athletic training and com-petition, the organization is about more than athlet-ics.
SOMI presents opportu-nities for Special Olympic athletes to experience joy, form friendships and gain self-esteem, among other things, she said.
Purdy estimates out of the 24 locations hosting Polar Plunge events across Michigan this winter, CMU will place second or third in terms of largest dollar amount raised.
An after-plunge party will be hosted at Wayside Central, 2000 S. Mission St. Food from O’Kelly’s Bar and Grille, also at 2000 S. Mission St., and The Cabin, 930 W. Broomfield St. will be provided. Par-ticipants can eat for free, but a $5 donation for non-plungers will be taken at the door.
Post-plunge awards will be given at the after-plunge party.
Volunteers to jump into icy pond for Special Olympics5th annual Polar Plunge to draw 250 to 300 participants
erica Kearns/staff photographerSouthfield sophomore Brandon Woods walks to his car Tuesday from Los Palominos, 4585 E Pickard St,, to deliver food for 317 FOOD. Woods has been driving for the busi-ness for about a month. “I think it’s a good business because it gives an opportunity to people to get food from places who don’t deliver and it’s convenient for kids on campus,” Woods said.
By Orrin shawlStaff Reporter
Taco Bell doesn’t deliver, but 317 FOOD gives students that chance.
Founded and owned by Mount Pleasant resident Mike O’Day, 317 FOOD is a delivery service that will order, pick up and deliver customers’ culi-nary wishes from restaurants that do not offer delivery.
O’Day operates the busi-ness from his house where he takes and sends orders to his drivers or carries out the order himself. To order, customers can call 317-FOOD (3663) or send an email at www.317-FOOD.com.
He said when he lived in
Lansing, he worked for a busi-ness called Special Delivery, which offered a delivery ser-vice similar 317 FOOD. He said he took his first order on March 11 last year.
“It was good starting out while the students were leav-ing,” O’Day said. “Because I got the bugs worked out early rather than have all kinds of things come up that I wasn’t expecting, and then getting too busy and getting custom-ers upset or not getting the service that they should.”
He added that students comprise most of his business but they are not the only cus-tomers.
One of the 317 FOOD driv-ers, Troy junior Mary Wilbur,
doesn’t even have to leave her home to be at her job, until she receives a delivery notice.
Wilbur said she was looking for a part-time job and saw a flyer for 317 FOOD and ap-plied.
“My favorite part of the job is all the different people I see. I deliver to students on cam-pus quite often or I’ll deliver to students off campus, as well as elderly people,” Wil-bur added. “I like interacting with all these different kinds of people. “
Middleman Delivery is an-other food delivery service similar to 317 FOOD. Owner Aaron Dome said, “We deliver everything but alcohol and to-bacco products. We run a rate
of $4. We do restaurants, fast food, grocery stores.”
Like most other businesses, 317 FOOD usually does not get a lot of business on regular weeknights, but weekends are usually the busiest, especially Fridays.
Applebees manager Russ Bielaga believes 317 FOOD really helps their business for those who do want to eat their food but not drive to the res-taurant.
“We’ve done business with them two or three times now,” Bielaga said. “We treat them like a regular customer order-ing food.”
Local resident starts food delivery service
By Brad CanzeNews Copy Chief
The fund for additional PrintQ allocations for stu-dents who have exceeded their limit on campus is making progress to come to fruition.
A joint project between the Student Government Associa-tion and Office of Information
Technology, SGA president Brittany Mouzourakis said OIT may give up to $10,000 per semester for the fund, de-pending on student demand.
“We did meet with (vice president of Information Technology and chief infor-mation officer) Roger Rehm ... about creating a system for allocation requests,” Mouzourakis, a Garden City senior, said. “Basically, Rog-er Rehm has promised us up to $10,000 for allocations for this semester.”
Kole Taylor, technical writ-er at OIT, said the requests
for additional printing al-locations will be handled through a website built on Microsoft SharePoint, the same foundation on which iCentral is built.
“One of the benefits ... is that SharePoint can access your data and autofill some things,” Taylor said. “One of our web developers is doing the heavy lifting.”
Muskegon senior Dave Breed, SGA vice president, said SGA and OIT met Wednesday to see a rough demonstration of the Share-Point website and to deter-
mine the criteria that will go on the application.
“They’ve pretty much got everything set (with the website),” Breed said. “We made little tweaks to what we were going to request.”
Although there is currently not a concrete timeline, Breed said SGA plans to have the system in place this semester.
“I would say it would prob-ably be good to go no later than mid-March. No later than that,” Breed said.
Currently, undergraduates are allotted $10 worth of print-ing each semester and gradu-
ate students are given $15.This new fund will allow
students to apply for addi-tional printing paid for by the university. Currently, any printing over the allot-ted quota is paid by the in-dividual student.
“I know my guys who were in the meeting said it was a very productive meeting,” Rehm said. “They’re work-ing with SGA to determine what information they need to determine locations.”
Breed said although the applications are only open to individual students, instruc-
tors will be able to e-mail the PrintQ fund when they are teaching a print-heavy course, so the fund adminis-trators will know those stu-dents have legitimate need if they apply.
Originally, the website was going to have one applica-tion for students and a sec-ond application for instruc-tors to request extra printing for their entire class. Breed said the second application was nixed because of tech-nical limitations.
PrintQ fund in development, tentatively planned for MarchOIT producing up to $10,000 for project
While cuts to higher education funding are always unfortunate, they are warranted this year. What is criti-cal is not how much was cut, but how CMU reacts.
In September, University President George Ross said CMU was preparing for up to a 20-percent reduction in state appropriations for the 2011-12
budget. Thursday’s budget proposal calls for less than that — a $12 mil-lion loss as opposed to $16 million.
Because CMU was planning for the worst as early as five months ago, there should be very little room for error once the state’s fiscal year begins Oct. 1.
Administrators have touted the
Academic Prioritization process as a way to rate programs and make cuts where necessary. The process, which commenced in November, should be used to decrease funding to pro-grams considered less vital at CMU. Priorities must put students and programs the university is known for first.
An example is the College of Edu-cation and Human Services, one of the largest and most prestigious of its kind in Michigan. CMU invested $50 million in the state of the art EHS building to replace Ronan Hall as the college’s headquarters, which was small and showing its five decades.
Meanwhile, spending to programs that do not directly affect student success can be reduced or even pos-sibly eliminated.
Snyder’s proposed budget comes with an $83 million incentive that
would be shared to public universi-ties if they keep tuition increases around 7 percent or less.
CMU must consider this and make every effort to keep this summer’s tuition increase minimal — or not include one at all. The last time CMU raised tuition by more than 7 percent was in 2008, when Michael Rao was university president.
A modest increase of 2.06 percent was approved last summer and a similar move should not be out of the question for 2011.
Snyder cited a need for “tough decisions” with the new budget and higher education is no exception. However, the governor’s decision cannot set off a pattern of education cuts later in his term.
Another significant cut to higher ed funding in the 2012-13 fiscal year would be undoubtedly baseless.
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Gov. Rick Snyder’s decision to slash higher educa-tion funding to state universities by 15 percent should not come as a surprise to CMU admin-
istrators, and it should serve as the perfect catalyst for them to prepare.
ediTorial | Proposed higher education cuts understandable, reason to prepare
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I’m outraged by what this school is doing. Nehad El-Sawi re-signed on her own free will. There is no need to give her $238,691.76.
No normal person would resign or get fired while being paid for it unless the campus is trying to hide something. Most professors that read the story know they would never be given that luxury.
Why is there always a setback with the College of Medicine or CMU’s new projects? I’m always hearing about a new building, relocation or an upgrade for cam-pus when the things we have are
fine the way they are.Why do we need a new gym
when the Student Activity Center is set up the way it should be? One or two people have to wait now and again for the treadmill, so what?
I want to know why campus is charging 200 percent more per credit hour than they did in 2001. I want to know why CMU has a rainy-day fund with 40 percent of their budget when they only need 25 percent.
I want to know why the Free-dom of Information Act had to be used to get the severance pay for
Nehad El-Sawi.The school can use its money
for more important things like fixing the ongoing parking prob-lem, not making students pay for parking passes like other public colleges, lowering the burden on tuition prices and helping out with more scholarships.
This school is doing a lot of cor-rupt and stupid things, I’m glad we still have good reporters to sniff out the truth behind the lies.
Julie M. SchimaRoseville sophomore
[Your voice]
Really? Nehad El-Sawi is re-ceiving nearly a quarter-million dollars upon her resignation? I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous.
No offense to the professor (I’m sure she provided much help for the College of Medicine), but she was here for 10 months and is be-ing paid almost 5 times more than my dad makes in 1 year! More importantly, her “severance pack-
age” could pay for approximately 11 years of tuition.
No wonder why the university doesn’t want to comment; this is absolutely unnecessary. I think CMU should start focusing on us students who are paying for an education with money that we don’t even have.
Many of us will be paying off loans for years and years to come,
and the state is already cutting aid by the thousands.
With “severance packages” like this along with new buildings (that we really could live without), tuition will most likely raise again next year, which will just be the highlight of my summer. NOT.
Samantha HegemanRockwood junior
Severance payment to El-Sawi ridiculous
Comments in response to College of Medicine opening delayed, first class to begin in summer 2013
912 - Feb. 15Hmmmmm? That’s not what
they said.A few days back, CMU claimed
— and CM Life dutifully echoed that claim — that the departure of the med school associate dean was “just a hiccup” in the med school plans. All was well, we were told. Pay no attention to those nay-sayers.
What happened between then and now? How much more money will the university pour down this hole before admitting its mistake?
And what will those well-paid remaining deans do between now and next year to earn that $250,000 (give or take a few $10,000) to earn their keep?
Inquiring minds want to know.In response to El-Sawi receives
nearly quarter-million dollars as part of compensation package
Garret Ellison - Feb. 16This just speaks to how fiscally
irresponsible the CMU adminis-trators are; who think nothing of drafting and signing a contract with this kind of severance pack-age included. The medical school is a huge boondoggle and this is likely to be only the beginning of
untold monies flushed down the drain getting such a folly up and running. This is why I’ll never donate as an alum. Morons.
Jesus_said - Feb. 16A $238,691.76 severance pack-
age! She should be paying central for her irresponsible professional behavior.
Joe - Feb. 16How do you get $238k in sever-
ance when you only work about six months and your salary is $200K for a year...oh and you QUIT? Can I get a job like this?
Last week, Maura Corrigan, the director of the Michigan De-partment of Human Services, an-nounced there would be changes to the Bridge Card food assistance program starting April 1.
Over the past week, these chang-es have been the victim of exagger-ation and misleading statements by many.
These changes are not some rad-ical scheme by Republicans; rather, DHS is simply bringing Michigan’s food assistance program in line to match federal guidelines.
The guidelines state that in or-der to receive assistance, a person must meet certain income and em-ployment requirements that prove assistance is truly needed, but the Michigan policy has been to allow an exception allowing student sta-tus to be its own qualification.
Such an exception is not only un-necessary, but it goes against the very fiber of why the program was created — to help low income peo-ple. Under the new policy, if stu-dents meet the income and work requirements, they are eligible just like everyone else.
Rectifying this is a much need-ed move at a time of crisis for the Michigan budget.
Bridge Cards are far too often abused in college and seen as a way of getting “free” money. In fact, dur-ing a recent grocery shopping trip, I overheard a girl telling her friend she was going to pick up a couple packages of cookies for her regis-tered student organization’s meet-ing the next day and just put them on her Bridge Card.
The citizens of Michigan should not be subsidizing snacks for stu-dent organizations.
If a student honestly cannot af-ford $200 a month for food, that person should reconsider if attend-ing college is right for them at the time.
Taking a year off between high school and college to raise some money never killed anyone. In fact, my father did just that. After he graduated from high school, he changed his plans to go to col-lege and took a year off from his schooling to work, and he saved up his money so that he could attend college and have money to live day-to-day.
There are some college students who genuinely have financial needs, and these people will still be able to access the necessary as-sistance.
What needs to end is the men-tality that the first place students should turn to for food is the gov-ernment. Bridge Cards may not cost them anything, but they have become an increasing burden on the state and its taxpayers, and it is a burden that we cannot handle anymore.
Most other states do not throw out the rules for people just be-cause they are college students, and Michigan cannot afford to continue to do so either.
In every lecture there will be those people — you know, the ones who can’t shut their mouths?
To those people I say, “Pre-pare to receive a nasty stare, at least if you are anywhere near me.”
I am not a perfect student, I don’t get all A’s and devote a ton of time to school, I’ll admit that. What I do spend my time doing though, is my decision, and not anyone else’s.
This is why disruptive people in class really tick me off; ap-parently, they decided they have control over whether or not myself or those around me get to listen to the lecture being given.
I understand some people are more extroverted than others, but there is a time and place to demonstrate that extroversion, and it is not while someone is trying to teach and other peo-ple are trying to learn.
When I come across these ob-noxious learning-obstructers, what they are chatting about usually does not at all pertain to the class, or anything remotely substantial. It’s always about some girl who likes their best guy-friend and how they can-not believe he likes her, too.
Really, people? Sometimes overhearing this stuff makes me feel extraterrestrial. I un-derstand gossip can be inter-esting and yes, it can even be more interesting than the lec-ture being given, but let people decide that for themselves.
By chatting away without any regard for other people, you are just being plain rude.
I got detentions in middle school and even in high school for talking and laughing in class — but that was grade school. This is college.
While we aren’t beyond se-rious bouts of immaturity, we are paying big bucks to be sit-ting in these classrooms, so if you don’t want to pay attention or at least pretend like you are, then please, don’t bother show-ing up for class.
I’m a visual/auditory learner, so I can sometimes gain more from a lecture than from read-ing a book, so if there is an important point made in class that is going to help me pass the test, I want to be sure that I hear it. Hard to do when some-one is having a gossip session behind me.
I know there are others who feel my pain, and it can be tough to confront these people, but I say do it anyway.
Whatever you do, don’t put up with Britney and Stacey talking about how weird it is that Scott and Jessi love each other.
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By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
Jake May has reached the top of college journalism.
The Grand Haven senior placed second in the news and sports photojournal-ism category of the Hearst Award.
This award competition is open to undergraduate jour-nalism students attending an accredited university. There are championship finals to each of the four divisions, and the winners receive scholarships with matching grants for their schools.
May was chosen by Kent Miller, an assistant profes-sor of journalism, as one of the two students who CMU entered.
Miller has been working with May for the past two years. As his advisor, Miller
has seen the range in May’s work and admires his eye for capturing great moments.
“Beyond being an amazing photographer, Jake is really personable,” Miller said. “He makes people feel comfort-able and it’s easy for them to open up to him. When he’s in the room, you know it.”
May’s submission was se-lected from among 74 entries submitted from 43 schools nationwide.
May has also been a big help in Miller’s classes. He comes in to help beginning students and makes himself available to anybody who wants to learn about photo-journalism. Miller said May has always been a leader among his peers, pushing them to get the best out of themselves.
For the competition, May submitted two news im-ages and two sport images. He gave a large amount of credit to the Jackson Citizen Patriot, a newspaper where he interned last summer.
Three of the four images were made while work-ing there.
One im-age was at a c h a m p i o n -ship base-ball game in Homer, where both teams were disqualified for starting a brawl. Another was taken at the Memorial Day parade. It is of a soldier with his hands on his son’s shoulders look-ing up into the rainy sky.
May emphasized the im-portance of being at the right place at the right time.
“It’s about being patient and enduring the weather to look for those kinds of mo-ments,” May said. “You have to look for something to tell the story and find the human interest within it.”
May’s passion for photog-raphy developed in college. He said he owes a lot of it to the “Rat Pack,” a group of this three closest journalism
friends. May said they are all in it together and push each other to be the best.
May is the photo editor at CM Life. Miller said the visual aspect and in-depth stories of the paper have im-proved since his arrival.
Director of Student Publi-cations Neil Hopp finds May as a very ingenious photog-rapher and deserving of this award.
“He has a great imagina-tion and is always thinking of how to shoot differently,” Hopp said. “He is very or-ganized and put together a portfolio of a great variety of moments.”
May intends to be a pho-tojournalist until the day he dies.
“My goal is to explore hu-man nature, emotion, mo-ments,” he said, “and hope-fully make people stop to realize each moment, no matter how small, is fleet-ing.”
Jake May
Photo editor wins national award for imagesJake May places second in Hearst competition
jake May/jackson citizen patriotAn umpire attempts to separate Homer High School’s Mitch Pease, left, whose arms are wrapped around the head of Concord’s Mike Kaplinski at the beginning of a fight at third base on June 5. Both benches nearly cleared out to join their teammates, resulting in both teams forfeiting the Division 4 district championship game. “(Kaplinski) steals third, why do their players have a right to jump in, hit him and tackle him?” said Concord coach John Ropp. “That’s exactly what happened. He slid into third, the pitcher was all ticked off and went chest-to-chest with him and the shortstop comes running and drills him in the back. Why does their player get to charge our player and start throwing haymakers when the game is still going?”
By Carisa seltzUniversity Editor
A detachment of suited professionals lingered among the usual rush of hungry students craving a quick breakfast at Real Food on Campus.
The CMU Board of Trustees paid a visit to Carey Hall’s RFoC residential restaurant
Thursday morning to evaluate its amenities.
The site trip to the Towers will help members decide if they want to approve a proposal to renovate the facility at a future date.
“That was an education process, to say ‘What is the status today?’ … so that we can make an (educated) decision,” board chairwoman Sarah Opperman said. “There’s something about walking through it, seeing it, talking to the people there that helps.”
CMU first reported on the proposal to funnel $850,000
into the potential project Dec. 1, 2010 based on the board’s Dec. 3, 2010 agenda. However, the proposal inadvertently made its way into the packet.
University President George Ross said the Dec. 3 agenda was sent before it was finalized and the proposal was removed. The board was not ready at that time to make a substantive decision.
“We apologize for that,” Ross said.
Opperman said the proposal may be presented to the board to approve the project at a future meeting, but that would be up to administrative officials. She
said it must be balanced with other needs.
The proposalThe original proposal
requested the board to authorize “the planning, design, construction and equipping” of the first phase of the renovation project.
The Phase I renovation would include new seating and architectural elements. According to the proposal, it would create eight seating areas which will provide “multiple dining experiences.”
The project also will
include a new front entrance, energy-efficient lighting enhancements, technology improvements and new signage, graphics and color palette.
The proposal states sustainability initiatives will be considered in all areas affected by the renovation.
If approved, the project will be funded by the auxiliary maintenance, renovation and replacement fund.
Shaun Holtgreive, associate director of Residence Life, told CM Life in December the new facility will allow Residence
Life to provide Towers residents a better living experience at CMU.
Ron Souva, food service director of RFoC, could not be reached for comment prior to print.
The board also discussed Thursday whether east campus’ Fresh Food Co. residential restaurant also might be renovated.
-News Copy Chief Brad Canze contributed to this report
CMU Board of Trustees gets first-hand look inside of RFoCMembers will vote on renovation atfuture meeting
By Gabi JayeSenior Reporter
A Shepherd man has been arraigned on six charges and could face more after sheriff’s deputies said he robbed an Isa-bella County Wal-Mart and as-saulted its employees.
Jeff Lynn Graham, 47, alleg-edly entered at about 7:40 p.m. Tuesday at the 4730 Encore Blvd. business and attempted to leave with several items he
did not pay for, according to the Isabella County Sheriff’s De-partment.
Members of the Wal-Mart Loss Prevention Team observed Graham placing the items in his pockets and inside his pants. The employees then stopped Graham as he was leaving the store.
According to sheriff’s depu-ties, Graham pulled out pep-per spray from his pocket and sprayed the employees with it.
Multiple other e m p l o y e e s then came forward to as-sist and two of them were al-legedly sprayed as well.
“ P e p p e r spray makes a persons’ eyes water and skin burn for a bit, but it causes more of an irritation than seri-ous injuries,” Sheriff Leo Mio-
duszewski said.Mioduszewski said no seri-
ous injuries were suffered dur-ing the incident.
Wal-Mart was contacted but referred all questions to its cor-porate offices.
Graham was eventually taken down to the floor by employees and a customer, according to sheriff’s deputies.
He said Graham attempted to steal a razor, speakers, men’s hair lightener, a salon board,
men’s Nair and Zegerid pills. The items had an estimated value of $78, Mioduszewski said.
Deputies then arrived and arrested Graham, who is lodged at the Isabella County Jail, 207 Court St., on charges of unarmed robbery, assault and retail fraud.
His bond has been set at $21,000.
Graham was arraigned on one count of unarmed rob-bery, one count of possession
of a dangerous weapon/using a self-defense spray device, one count of resisting and obstruct-ing a police officer, one count of assault and battery, one count of retail fraud in the third degree and one count of disor-derly person.
The sheriff’s department was assisted by a trooper from the Michigan State Police.
Man charged with robbing Wal-Mart, assaulting employees
By Jordan spenceStaff Reporter
Union Township has several options to regulate marijuana dispensaries in the future even though it cannot restrict medi-cal use in homes.
Andria Ditschman, a lawyer with The Hubbard Law Firm in Lansing, presented the town-ship board Wednesday night with laws, regulations and rights associated with medical mari-juana dispensaries.
“I think the law was purpose-fully written to make it broad, to define who can use and who can’t,” she said. “It isn’t written poorly, it’s actually written clev-erly.”
On Feb. 9, Union Township approved a six-month medical marijuana moratorium that pre-vents dispensaries from being developed during that period.
Ditschman said the intent of the Michigan Medical Marihua-na Act, approved by state voters in 2008, was to clearly allow pa-tients access to marijuana and also for caregivers that grow and dispense them.
Because of the way the law is written, there are only legal defi-
nitions of patients and caregiv-ers, not dispensaries. Ditschman said this causes confusion.
She said the township can take several forms of action. It can regulate dispensaries by cre-ating special use permits, home occupancy permits or specific licensing regulations.
“We can’t prohibit patients from using in their own homes,” Ditschman said. “I also don’t recommend prohibiting dis-pensaries altogether, either.”
The township will have a committee look into the issue. It will also be on the township board of trustee’s agenda for the next few months, trustee Phillip Squattrito said.
“We want as much commu-nity input as possible,” trustee John Dinse said. “The more people the better.”
oTher BusinessZion Lutheran Church, 3401
E. River Road, will be required to add a new sidewalk because it is constructing an addition.
“Any time there is construc-tion that requires a site plan review, they are required to add sidewalks,” trustee Squattrito said.
The new sidewalk will be on the north side of River Road and will be 350 feet long and five feet wide.
Options to regulatedispensary existLawyer presents rights to board onmarijuana use
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$10,850 to $19,000. Next year, they will receive $11,050 to $19,300.
Ross said giving graduate as-sistants a pay increase is an is-sue of fairness.
“The government says we all need to make a sacrifice; I think that group has made that sacrifice,” Ross said.
Graduate fellowships also received a 2-percent increase after board approval Thurs-day. During the 2010-11 school year, these awards include a stipend of $12,600 for doctoral students and $10,300 for sub-doctoral students.
Effective for the 2011-12 ac-ademic year, graduate fellow-ship stipends will increase to $12,850 for doctoral research fellowships and $10,500 for graduate research and diver-
sity fellowships.The board approved a pro-
posal to allow Merit Network, Inc. to use part of the uni-versity’s annual membership fees to help pay down a bond debt acquired by the organi-zation for a project to expand broadband networks across the state. Merit acquired bond debt to match federal funds for their project.
CMU’s portion of the repay-ment would amount to a 4.23 percent of the total $8 million bond, or $264,105, an amount the university pays to the orga-nization annually.
““It’s a pretty simple pro-posal,” said Roger Rehm, vice president of Information Tech-nology and chief information officer. “JP Morgan Chase is asking the university to guar-antee we can use our member-ship to pay bond debt.”
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Head start on headlocks
Each session is set up similarly to the CMU wrestling team’s prac-tices, starting with a warm-up and branching off into pairs to put the kids’ new moves to work.
Lyon is the primary coach of the program, with visits from CMU wrestling head coach Tom Borrelli and assistant coach Mark DiSalvo from time to time. Many of the kids’ parents were wrestlers, and often give them pointers during practice.
“I like the camp because (the kids) get more for their time and Paul keeps them from getting off task,” said Mike Lalande, whose stepson, Blayze Courtney, is in his first year with the CMU program.
Though the club hasn’t had much connection with the CMU wrestling team, it hopes to see more of the varsity wrestlers par-ticipate as the program expands.
“We’d like to get more wrestlers involved, but it’s kind of hard when they have practice right before the club meets,” Lyon said.
Even without their physical presence in the practice room, some of the kids are close follow-ers of the varsity wrestlers.
“I usually watch them on TV or see them in the newspaper,” Freier said. “Last year, I saw a few match-es and they were pretty good. Now they’re kind of slipping, but they’ll get back up.”
Frier was quick to say his fa-vorite wrestler was Florida junior Scotti Sentes, indicating Sentes’ speed and strength as his key at-tributes.
While some of the kids were able to attend the dual-meets against the University of Michigan and Old Dominion University, others said that they weren’t able to get to many CMU matches because of scheduling conflicts with other weekend tournaments.
Outside of the club, many of the wrestlers compete in leagues around Mount Pleasant, includ-ing the Michigan Youth Wrestling Association and the North Eastern Michigan Wrestling Association.
“It’s one of the tougher clubs I’ve been to, and probably the tough-est,” Freier said. “You get stron-ger, you get faster, you get better at techniques and you learn new ones.”
The six-month program will fin-ish in March with the end of the wrestling season.
perry fish/staFF photographerMount Pleasant resident Blayze Courtney, 11, attempts to hold down his opponent, Mount Pleasant resident Dylan Burns, 10, during wrestling practice in the practice wrestling room in the Events Center Thursday evening.
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Youth wrestling program gives kids
skills earlyBy Justin HicksStaff Reporter
Spoken like a true wrestler, 11-year-old Zach Freier said his favorite thing about wrestling is that it’s a tough-guy sport.
“If you’re too tough for basketball, you come down to wrestling,” he said during a Thursday meeting of the Cen-tral Michigan Wrestling School Youth Hammer Club.
Freier is one of almost 20 youth wrestlers who spend their Tuesday and Thursday evenings learning new wrestling techniques and improving on familiar moves in the new CMU Events Center practice room.
The kids, ages 7 to 11, are taught by volunteer assistant coach Paul Lyon, who finished runner-up at the California Community College Champi-onships in 2007. He wrestled for Cerritos College as the starting 133-pounder.
“We’re trying to build a good youth program so they can go wrestle well in high school, and then one day, maybe they can wrestle for us,” Lyon said.
The youth club was created in 2009 and has nearly doubled in attendance in its second year.
“We have 15 or 20 kids this year, and only had around 10 or so last year,” Lyon said. “People seem to enjoy it, and we’re getting a better following this year.”
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SportS WeekendPERFECTION | Gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard challenges team to aim for 10.0 against WMU, 2B
West Division Team MAC OverallWMU 7-4 14-10BallState 7-5 15-10CMU 5-7 8-17EMU 4-8 7-18NIU 3-9 7-17Toledo 1-11 4-22
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallMiami(OH) 9-3 14-12KentSt. 8-3 17-8Buffalo 7-5 15-9Akron 7-5 16-10BGSU 7-5 12-14Ohio 6-6 13-13
West Division Team MAC OverallToledo 11-1 19-6EMU 8-4 17-9CMU 8-4 15-9NIU 5-7 11-14BallState 4-8 9-16WMU 3-9 7-18
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallBGSU 9-3 21-4KentSt. 7-4 16-7Buffalo 6-6 13-12Akron 5-7 12-12Miami(OH) 2-9 10-14Ohio 3-9 7-18
Women’s MAC Standings
Men’s MAC Standings
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CMU hires former purdue Wr as receivers coach
By Aaron McMannSports Editor
Central Michigan has hired for-mer Purdue wide receiver Taylor Stubblefield as its receivers coach, sources close to the situation have confirmed to CM Life.
The move was first reported
Tuesday evening by the Blooming-ton, Ill., Penta-graph. The paper quoted Illinois State head coach Brock Spack, who said Stub-blefield had left the program to take the position at CMU.
“Taylor’s done a great job on the field for us,” Spack told the Penta-graph. “He had an opportunity (to improve himself ) financially and
he took advantage of it.”Stubblefield, 29, spent the last
two seasons as wide receivers coach at Football Championship Subdivision Illinois State. Before joining the Redbirds, he spent one season as a graduate assistant at Eastern Michigan in 2008 and wide receivers coach at Central Washington in 2007.
Stubblefield graduated from Purdue in 2005, earning All-Amer-ica and All-Big Ten honors as a four-year starter for the Boiler-makers. He holds the NCAA Foot-
ball Bowl Subdivision all-time record for career receptions with 316 and is second in the Big Ten Conference with 3,629 yards.
The hire rounds out the third hire to replace a trio of assistant coaches to leave CMU after their first season with the team. Re-ceivers coach Terrence Samuel departed the program last week to take a job with Michigan State.
The Chippewas finished the 2010 season 3-9.
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Can CMU end its road losing streak Saturday?
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By Aaron McMannSports Editor
An eight-hour trip to play a game that has no bearing on a team’s Mid-American Conference is typi-cally deemed worthless.
But in Central Michigan’s case, it could turn out to be more worth-while than many think. CMU will take a break from the conference schedule to play in the annual ESPN BracketBuster game, origi-nally intended to put mid-major teams on the cusp of making the NCAA Tournament.
The team will travel to Niagara Falls, N.Y., to play Niagara at 2 p.m.
Saturday, looking for its first road win of 2011.
“For us, because we’re so young, it’s an opportunity,” said CMU head coach Ernie Zeigler. “It’s going to be a tough trip in that it’s an (early game)
with a quick turnaround and eight-hour trip and all of that.”
The Chippewas are 0-6 on the road this year, and have not won away from McGuirk Arena since Nov. 24, a 62-52 win at Illinois-Chi-cago.
And much like them, the Purple Eagles come into the game with a sub-.500 record at 7-21 and 4-12 in the Metro Atlantic Conference. They are coming off a 67-65 win against Canisius and have won three of their last four games. CMU has won two straight.
“It’s another opportunity, and that’s what we’re talking about,” Zeigler said. “Not only how we’re go-ing to finish this season, but you’re starting to see our young guys ma-
jakE may/photo editorJunior heavyweight Jarod Trice lifts Eastern Michigan’s Wes Schroeder during the last match Thursday night at McGuirk Arena. Trice, ranked No. 2 in the na-tion, won by a 2-0 decision to improve to a 22-3 overall season record.
MAKING A STATEMENTChippewas play 7-21 Niagara in ESPN BracketBuster game
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Needing a win to keep MAC title hopes alive, wrestling dominates EMUBy Josh Berenter
Staff Reporter
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The CMU wrestling team dominated Eastern Michigan Thursday night at McGuirk Arena, winning 29-3.
The Chippewas (7-8 over-all, 3-1 Mid-American Con-ference) nearly earned their first shutout of the season only losing one match in the dual.
With the win, CMU also kept its hopes alive to win a share of the Mid-American Conference championship.
EMU didn’t lead in any match until the fifth match of the night, when 157-pounder Ryan Cubberly fell behind early 1-0. But the deficit was short-lived as Cubberly came back with an escape to tie the match, forcing the only overtime match of the dual.
Cubberly’s match also provided the only controversy of the night as EMU nearly earned a victory in the first overtime period. The Eagles’ Aaron Sulzer was close to earning a two-point takedown, but the referee never awarded the points, allowing Cubberly to stay in the match and eventually get the win.
EMU’s coaches were irate when the points weren’t awarded, and were even more animated after the match, giv-ing the referee an earful until the next match started.
Head coach Tom Borrelli said he was extremely happy with his team’s performance in the dual.
“That might be the most comfort-able win we’ve had all year,” he said. “We’ve been pretty inconsistent most of the year. This was the first time we were real consistent throughout the whole dual meet. That’s a good time for that to happen.”
CMU earned two major decisions in the dual. Junior 133-pounder Scotti Sentes won 17-6, and sophomore 174-pounder No. 7 Ben Bennett shutout his opponent 13-0.
No. 11 Sentes handily defeated EMU’s Filiberto Colon, who came into the match 17-9 on the season. Sentes won his sixth consecutive match, im-proving to 25-6 this season.
“I know he’s really funky. He either wanted to pin me or get pinned,” Sentes said about Colon. “The guy I have from Kent State is kind of like that too. So it was real good to go out there and wrestle a kid similar to a kid I’m going to wrestle later on.”
Borrelli said Sentes has wrestled well all season, facing some opponents’
jakE may/photo editorJunior 197-pounder Chad Friend avoids a kick to the face while wrestling EMU’s Nick Whitenburg.
jEff Smith/staff photographerSophomore 125-pounder Christian Cullinan wrestles EMU’s Jared Germaine Thursday.
“We’ve been pretty inconsistent most
of the year. this was the first time we
were real consistent throughout the
whole dual meet.”Tom Borrelli,
CMU head coach
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By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter
Three of the four whiteboards in the gymnastics practice room have a simple saying on them.
“10.00: what can you do?” This mantra is something head coach Jerry Reighard adopted following one judge granting junior Kristin Teubner a 10.00 score in Sunday’s meet against Kent State.
“Teubner was an example,” Reighard said. “She convinced one judge last weekend, so I am hopeful that incident where she got one judge to commit to the 10 will carry on.”
Achieving the perfect 10 score is something that Reighard wants his gymnasts to know is attainable, and that the number is isn’t as elusive as it seems.
“We’re trying to become more perfect,” he said. “The challenge to my group right now is why can’t you score a 10, what’s so elusive about that?”
Respectively, there has only been one 10.00 score this sea-son, (Kylee Botterman of Michi-gan). CMU has had eight perfect scores in its 37-year history, with their last coming ion 2005 from Kara Reighard.
Reighard’s squad will look to build upon that momentum fol-lowing last weekend’s win when they take on Western Michigan at 1 p.m. Sunday in Kalamazoo. The Chippewas will bring their 10-1 overall record and confer-ence leading 3-0 record to Uni-versity Arena, where they have posted a 3-1 record since 2007.
Hard at workRiding a wave of momentum
following the win against Kent State last weekend, Reighard said that the team has been hard at work this week during prac-tice to ensure that there will be no setbacks.
“When you get complacent, which we’re not, that’s when the upsets take place,” he said. “So
my job is to keep challenging this team.”
The real challenge of the week-end may be on how the Broncos are able to compete against a CMU squad which ranks first in the MAC in both the balance beam (48.9) and floor exercise (49.125). Nationally, the Chippe-was rank 20th on the beam with a 48.504 average.
Reighard pointed to his team’s work from the beginning of the summer as to the reason why the routines are so polished.
“Our beam routines are as difficult as anybody that we compete against — there’s noth-ing in our beam routines that are easy,” Reighard said. “So the judges instantly stand up and take notice of the high difficulty level in those routines.”
Teubner, who has posted a season-high 9.775 score on the beam, said the reason the beam rotation has been so successful is because of the performances of her fellow gymnasts.
“We’re very happy with our beam line-up right now,” she said. “I think it is that we’re very confident in each other, and if you’re confident with the per-son in front of you than it makes your job a lot easier.”
One of those fellow gymnasts, senior Andrea De La Garza, holds the second spot in the league on the beam with a high score of 9.85. Freshman Emily Heinz has also posted a meet high of 9.850 against Northern Illinois.
teubner takes anotHer award
Teubner was awarded her sec-ond MAC Gymnast of the Week award on Thursday, following wins in three events, including the all-around (39.250) in Sun-day’s meet against Kent State. Teubner posted career highs on both the vault (9.925) and beam (9.775).
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Reighard challenges team
paigE CaLamari/staff photographerSenior all-arounder Cheryl Conlin performs on the balance beam during Sunday afternoon’s meet against NIU at McGuirk Arena. Conlin scored a 9.750 on her balance beam routine.
best wrestlers.“Scotti’s been wrestling re-
ally good. He’s wrestled really, really good competition this year, our whole team has,“ he said. “Like Scotti said, the guy he wrestled is kind of a flip-flopper, and Scotti’s really good at wrestling those guys.”
CMU improves its all-time record against EMU to 53-9-1, winning 20 straight meetings. The Chippewas have beaten the Eagles more than any oth-er team in program history, and haven’t lost to EMU since 1991.
CMU now turns its atten-tion to Kent State Sunday in its regular season finale in a dual meet that will determine the MAC champion.
KSU (14-5 overall, 4-0 MAC) sits atop the conference as the only undefeated team in MAC play. The Golden Flashes come into the match, winners of eight in a row and will look to hold off CMU to win the MAC title outright.
If CMU wins, both teams will have an identical 4-1 record in conference play and will share the regular season title. Ohio can also earn a three-way tie of the conference crown with
a win against EMU Sunday, paired with a CMU victory over Kent State.
Borrelli said he expects the match against KSU to be a very close, exciting match. He said it will be a pivotal match for both teams.
“This is a real important
event for Kent State every year. Kent State has tried to gauge the success of their program on how they do against us,” he said. “Obviously we’re fighting to stay at the top of the MAC and it’s big for us too.”
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jakE may/photo editorCMU head coach Tom Borrelli laughs between matches Thursday as CMU pulled away with a 29-3 win against EMU.
jEff Smith/staff photographerJunior 133-pounder Scotti Sentes wrestles Eastern Michigan’s Filiberto Colon Thursday evening at McGuirk Arena. Sentes won the match by a decision of 17-6 in CMU’s 29-3 win over EMU.
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About three weeks ago, dur-ing CMU’s ugly loss at Eastern Michigan, John Morris didn’t even leave the bench.
Up until that point, he had played four minutes all year.
Flash forward to Wednesday night, and Morris finds himself in a very different role.
With Amir Rashid opting to leave the team, more respon-sibilities have been placed upon freshman Derek Jackson and the 5-foot-10, 172-pound sophomore guard.
“It’s been really good to ac-tually be out there and playing and taking part in the games with these guys and help them out as much as I can,” Morris said following CMU’s 66-60 win Wednesday against the Eagles.
In the three games Morris has started, CMU is 3-0 and looking better on the offen-sive side of the ball. During the Chippewas’ Feb. 2 game against Ohio, his career start, Morris had a quiet two points and rebound.
But his presence really be-gan to be felt on Saturday dur-ing CMU’s 69-64 win against Bowling Green. Morris tallied four points, but his four as-sists was the real breakthrough. Struggling for most of the sea-son without an efficient point guard, CMU averages just 8.7
assists per game, putting them near the bottom of Division I.
“He’s just giving us what we have been stressing,” said CMU head coach Ernie Zei-gler. “He’s giving us good point guard play. It’s really a differ-ence for a team when you have a guard that’s trying to run the offense, (and) not trying to make things happen that’s not there.”
His strong play continued on Wednesday against EMU, his third start of the season.
After failing to reach the court less than a month before, Mor-ris found himself sparking the offense to a 26-21halftime lead. He tied freshman Trey Zeigler with a team-high 8 points in the first half, knocking down a pair of 3-pointers to boot.
Continuing his trend of
spreading the ball around, Morris tied Jackson for a team-high four assists, including a highlight-reeling alley-oop to Zeigler in the first half.
“I feel pretty comfortable out there,” Morris said. “I was shooting the ball with a lot of confidence because they were leaving me so open, and then I was getting guys open shots. That really helped me get into the flow of the game.”
Said Ernie Zeigler: “You saw the continued maturation pro-cess of our guards. (John) has had two games in row here where he’s had four assists. He’s given us some really good min-utes, and hopefully it’s some-thing we can continue to build on.”
Morris excels at point guard
viCtoria zEgLEr/staff photographerSophomore point guard John Morris comes out of a time out Wednesday against Eastern Michigan. Morris scored 11 points and had four assists in the 66-60 win.
With Rashid gone, sophomorefilling big shoes
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ture. You look at the nucleus of guys with returning eli-gibility, it’s just another op-portunity for them to have a focus about preparing to try and win the next game.”
Niagara boasts three play-ers who average in double figures. Guard Anthony Nel-son is averaging 15.1 points and 4.8 rebounds per game, while forward Kashief Ed-wards is getting 12.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.
eMu winThe Chippewas are riding
high into New York.For the first time all season,
they put together back-to-back wins with a 66-60 victo-ry against in-state rival East-ern Michigan on Wednesday at McGuirk Arena.
“We had a great team ef-fort,” Zeigler said. “We were just as good with our defen-sive effort as the first time we played them.”
Freshman guard Trey Zei-
gler led all scorers with 24 points on 11-of-14 shoot-ing. Zeigler’s pair of layups in the final minute of the game sealed the game for the Chippewas, who are current-ly 8-17 and 5-7 in the Mid-American Conference.
“I got some easy buckets,” Trey said. “It was about get-ting to my spots and mak-ing sure I take those shots. I think I did that.”
Starting guards John Mor-ris and Derek Jackson each scored 11 points, while se-nior Antonio Weary came off the bench to add a season-high 10 points.
EMU forward Brandon Bowdry, the conference’s leading rebounder and sec-ond-leading scorer, experi-ence foul trouble early on and was limited offensively.
While he did finish with 13 points and four rebounds, he did it in just 23 minutes. Bowdry sat half of the second half and fouled out with 1:14 remaining in the game.
With four conference games remaining, CMU sits 2.5 games out of first place in the MAC West. Western
Michigan, at 7-4, leads the division, with 7-5 Ball State right behind.
For Trey, he and the team are treating every game as ‘must win.’
“We wouldn’t have been in this position if we were able to close out and play with a sense of poise (earlier in the season),” Ernie said. “But that’s not the case. It’s a testament to our guys that we’re playing with that sense of purpose and sense of pas-sion.”
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It’s not a step back, but it is a wake-up call.
That’s what head coach Sue Guevara said Thursday about the 59-45 loss to Northern Illinois on Wednesday night in DeKalb, Ill.
That’s done with. Now it’s time for Western Michigan.
The Broncos (7-18 overall, 3-9 Mid-American Conference) are coming at noon Saturday into McGuirk Arena, but they aren’t coming in hot. They lost to To-ledo by 37 points on Wednesday night in a 76-39 blowout loss at Savage Arena.
CMU (16-8 overall, 8-4 MAC) has won four of its last five and has been much more commit-ted to the defensive side of the ball.
The 45-point offensive
performance on Wednesday was a fluke, and CMU under-stands that it can score. Instead of looking at the game from an offensive view, it looked defensively.
“We know we can score,” Guevara said. “It was frustrating because we were doing what we needed to do defensively, but we couldn’t make a layup and get that basket that we needed.”
The Broncos have two play-ers who average double-digits points. Senior guard Taylor Manley and senior forward Ebony Cleary both average 13 points a game.
A loss to in-state rival WMU would be devastating to CMU, especially after falling to the Huskies.
Let’s not sugarcoat this Wednesday’s loss to Northern Illinois was a bad loss. However, the Chippewas understand that it’s over with and it has a differ-ent mindset.
Instead of dwelling on its past, it’s looking toward the future.
In that future is a MAC Championship and an au-tomatic bid into the NCAA
Tournament.“We have to play together
and keep it rolling,” said junior forward Skylar Miller. “I feel like we’re going to pickup from the loss and be smooth from here on out.”
If Miller’s keeping it rolling prediction is to stand true, CMU needs to toss the frustra-tion out the window.
Northern Illinois took the Chippewas out of its game plan. That’s when the frustration set-in. The frustration ultimately destroyed its chances of beating the Huskies.
“We have to give Northern Illinois a lot of credit because they’re defense took away what we like to do,” Guevara said. “We got frustrated and that frustration made us revert to what feels good and we didn’t stick to the game plan and our shot selection wasn’t what I wanted it to be.”
CMU will begin a three-game home stand against WMU this weekend, then follows up next week with games against Ball State and Eastern Michigan.
paigE CaLamari/staff photographerSenior forward Kaihla Szunko fights for the ball against Kent State’s senior center Ellie Shields Saturday at McGuirk Arena.
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File photo by Sean ProCtorSophomore Jordan Dean, second baseman, takes a practice swing on the on deck circle during an exhibition game against the 18-under Ontario Blue Jays on Sept. 17 at Theunissen Stadium.
By Kristopher Lodesand Brandon ChampionStaff Reporters
A week before the biggest competition of the track and field indoor season, the Cen-tral Michigan track and field teams will be taking it easy.
Most of the premiere ath-letes will not be participating, so that they can rest prepare mentally for the MAC cham-pionships next week. It will not be team scoring, but other schools like Alma and Michi-gan Tech will be in action.
Field events are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. while run-ning events will get underway at 6 p.m.
“This meet is going to fine-tune little things and (pro-vide) a last chance for na-tional qualifiers,” said Willie Randolph, director of track and field.
There will be some ath-letes, like jumpers, who will participate to get some repetitions in, while senior thrower Whitney Johnson will be going for the school record — 62 feet, 6 inches — in the weight toss.
The Chippewas have been on the road since the Jan. 14 Chippewa Invite, at which the Chippewas won.
“We want to keep our ath-letes at home where they're comfortable," Randolph said. "They will get a chance to rest their bodies and minds. We're trying to get them focused on what they have to do when they do go out on the road again next weekend.”
For the seniors, it will be final time to perform at the Jack Skoog Indoor Track. While many of them will not
even get the chance to com-pete, it gives them a chance to step back and reflect on their team at CMU. Among those athletes is sprinter Jor-dan Dunn.
“My most memorable mo-ment here would be when we almost won MACs last sea-son," Dunn said. "I didn’t get to run in the finals, but I felt it was a nice atmosphere and exciting. We were so
close to winning."CMU will be using the mo-
tivation of being so close to the MAC championship last year next week when they compete to take away Kent State’s title.
“This meet is going to fine tune little things and a last chance for national qualifi-ers,” Randolph said.
Seniors sit out final home meet
First pitch brings optimism as baseball opens season in Florida
By Anthony FenechSenior Reporter
All winter, the Central Michi-gan baseball team has been training.
“We’ve been working hard for a long time,” said starting pitcher Bryce Morrow.
And since last May, when the team fell in the Mid-American Conference tournament cham-pionship game, the Chippewas have been waiting.
“From that day,” said starting pitcher Mike Nixon, “We got a taste.”
Last year, the team got a taste. CMU won the MAC regular season champion-ship with a 36-22 record before falling just short to Kent State.
This year, the team wants its cake.
“We want to do more this year,” Morrow said. “We want to be the team winning the (MAC) Tournament and the team go-ing to (NCAA) Regionals.”
And starting today, as the team travels to Jacksonville, Fla., to open their season with four games against Florida Gulf Coast University, the Chippe-was are on its way.
“We’re ready for it,” Nixon said. “Our focus has been there
and our attitude has been there.”
The season-opening trip to FGCU is the second in the past three years for CMU.
In 2009, the teams played as part of Midnight Madness and the first college baseball game of the season.
“They’re a young pro-gram,” said head coach Steve Jaksa, “Historically, they’ve been a good ball-club.”
The Eagles return seven position players, four pitchers from last season and are led by senior starting pitcher Richie Erath.
Junior left-hander Trent How-ard will oppose Erath on the mound for the Chippewas to-night, followed by right-hand-ers Morrow and Zach Cooper in a Saturday doubleheader.
Junior Ryan Longstreth will round out the series-opening rotation on Sunday.
“It’s going to be good to get outside, play someone other than ourselves and get some wins,” said Morrow, a senior.
On Wednesday, the Chippewas were able to get out-side for the first time all winter, practicing on the football field at Kelly/Shorts Stadium thanks to mild Mount Pleasant tem-peratures.
“It was awesome,” he continued. “The weather was really nice, it just gets you excit-ed to get down to good weath-er.”
FGCU has won the past three Atlantic Sun championships and split the pair of games against CMU in 2009.
Nixon, a senior, made the trip that season as a sophomore.
“A big group of us have played them and they have a pretty good team,” he said. “They’ve been down there, outside for three months so we’re going to have to play hard and hopefully it will turn out well.”
Jaksa said he’s most excited to get onto a baseball diamond and compete.
“You set a tone anytime you go out there to play,” he said. “The thing that’s really impor-tant to me is to see how prepared we are and to see where we’re at competing.”
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CMU enters last week before MAC championship
Opening day has arrived for Chips against FGCU
Steve Jaksa
“We want to be the team winning the (MAC) tournament and the team going to
(NCAA) Regionals.”Bryce Morrow, starting pitcher
By Matt thompsonStaff Reporter
After months of practicing, head coach Margo Jonker is excited to finally see which of her players are “game players” and which are “practice players.”
Central Michigan softball will underhand the first pitch of its 2011 season at 1:30 p.m. today in Jacksonville, Fla.
“We’re ready to get outside,” Jonker said, entering her 32 season as head coach at CMU. “We’re ready to see opposing pitching and get out there on the dirt.”
CMU will play five games this weekend. The first games of the season will give Jonker the opportunity to see what players step up come game time.
“(We) want to see how well they play in games, who’s a game player and who’s a practice player,” Jonker said. “I want to see who’s ready to go. Who com-petes.”
O n e thing Jonk-er doesn’t have to w o r r y about this weekend is p i t c h i n g , even with at least 35 innings facing the Chippewas in three days.
“We have a lot of pitch-ers,” Jonker said. “Getting pitchers enough innings will be my problem this sea-son.”
Among the lineup, Jonker said the team has a good mixture of youth and experience.
“Experience is good for our potential lineup and the youth will push them,” Jonker said. “We have a good combination of pow-er and speed. We have experience in the circle (pitching) and in the infield.”
Jonker isn’t the only one excited for the beginning of this season. She has noticed that this team is “extremely pumped” and ready to go.
Her girls get to go as they face Jacksonville, Jacksonville State and Florida A&M this week-end. The Chippewas will play each team twice over a three-day span this week-end.
pegged second in MAcLast week, Mid-American
Conference coaches picked CMU to finish second in the West Division.
The Chippewas were able to snatch four first-place votes from the 12 coaches, while defending champions Ball State received seven. Jonker doesn’t think much into the voting, though.
“It doesn’t really matter,” she said. “I don’t care. Ball State won last year and they have a lot of people coming back. They deserve it.”
The softball team has impressed coaches so far in preseason practices.
“We have been doing a good job of being focused,” Jonker said. “That’ll be a huge key to our success.”
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By John Lowe and Elisha AndersonMCT Campus
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera was arrested in Florida on Wednesday night, on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and two counts of resisting an of-ficer without violence.
He was booked into the St. Lucie County Jail at 12:20 a.m. Thursday and released at 7:45 a.m., after posting $1,350 bond, according to information provided by Mark Weinberg from the St. Lucie County Sheriff ’s Of-fice.
According to an arrest affidavit, a deputy spot-ted the Land Rover Cabrera was driving, smoking on the side of Okeechobee Road in Ft. Pierce, about 100 miles southeast of the Tigers’ spring-training base in Lake-land. Cabrera had an odor of
alcohol on his breath, his eyes were bloodshot and watery, and his speech was heavily slurred, according to the report.
In the arrest affidavit, dep-uties said Cabrera repeated, “Do you know who I am? You don’t know anything about my problems.” Cabrera then picked up a bottle of James Buchanan’s Scotch whiskey and started drinking, ac-
cording to the report.When asked to get into a
patrol vehicle, police said Cabrera used an expletive. Police said he didn’t comply with several orders to get into the patrol vehicle.
He refused to submit to a breath test to check his alcohol content, deputies said. The 2005 black Land Rover was towed but since has been retrieved from the
impound yard by Cabrera, police said. Deputies did not see anybody with Cabrera at the scene.
In the portion of the po-lice report titled “Psycho physical Evaluation,” the arresting officer checked the boxes marked “cocky,” “combative,” “argumenta-tive” and “belligerent.”
Cabrera, who has a home in Miami and is a native of Venezuela, had not yet re-ported to spring training in Lakeland. Cabrera and the other Tigers infielders and outfielders don’t have their first organized workout of spring training until Satur-day. Pitchers and catchers have been working out since Monday.
“Everybody is in shock. You’ve got to keep looking forward,” said Tigers second baseman Carlos Guillen, a fellow Venezuelan.
Manager Jim Leyland de-clined to comment today.
Cabrera’s arrest represents a devastating setback in his bid to put behind him the alcohol trouble that erupt-ed at the end of the 2009 season.
CouRtesy oF MCt CAMpusMiguel Cabrera throws to Justin Verlander covering first base on June 5 against the Kansas City Royals.
Dave Dombroski, Jim Leyland and the city of
Detroit desperately need to call for an intervention for slugger Miguel Cabrera.
“I don’t like the way you put yourself before the team,” many Detroit Tiger fans would be able to shout in an intervention. Dom-browski, the Tigers general manager, would also tell Cabrera he needs to be on the field, not in rehab, to honor his 8-year, $153.3 million contract.
Cabrera was charged with
a driving under the influ-ence Wednesday night in Fort Pierce, Fla. It was his second drinking offense in three years.
In 2009, in the midst of a heated American League Central Division race, he was arrested and blew three times over the legal driving limit after his getting into a fight with his wife. So this isn’t the first time Cabrera drinking has worried Tiger faithful.
It’s time for an interven-tion. He’s hurting coach Leyland, teammates and fans too much with his drinking problem.
It’s time for leaders on the Tigers to step up and help Cabrera with his problem. The first step is recogniz-ing how it’s hurting himself, and others.
Detroit has to have it’s
triple-crown caliber clean-up hitter, but maybe he should take spring training off to rehab. And if Major League Baseball drops a suspension, make him stay in rehab longer.
We all know he can kill the ball and put up MVP numbers, now Detroit just wants him sober for his last
five years on his contract.Listen, Cabrera, Detroit
doesn’t need you to be tak-ing shots in the thigh from some angry Florida police officers. We can’t have you swig down some whiskey in front beside a car you’ve been driving.
Come summer, the Tigers will need that thigh to be pushing off in the back of the batters box in Comerica Park.
Whether it’s an interven-tion with the entire organi-zation, or two months off for rehab and suspension. Do it Cabrera.
Detroit needs the sober, homer-cranking Cabrera.
Not the glassy-eyed, belligerent and cocky smil-ing mug shot that the na-tion saw Thursday.
st. luCie CouNty sheRiFF’s oFFiCeMiguel Cabrera’s mugshot from Thursday.
Matt ThompsonStaff Reporter
Cabrera needs intervention
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I will never lie in one of my columns.
And I’m not going to lie, this column was supposed to be about the women’s basketball team.
But after a 59-45 loss at Northern Illinois on Wednesday night, I have nothing to say.
If I did, it would go something like this. At noon Saturday, you have a game against Western Michigan, and you better bring it.
The happy thoughts about getting a first-round bye in the MAC tourna-ment are quickly fading. Leave it all on the floor.
So instead, and in wake of the recent warm weath-er, let’s talk baseball.
Let’s talk MAC West championship baseball.
After winning the regu-lar season MAC West title last year and falling one game short from winning the MAC tournament, the CMU baseball team is poised for a big season.
The team has already been picked to win the West Division again but that will not be the ulti-mate goal this team has.
This team should not stop until they reach the regional round (first round) of the College World Series.
This team has big bats, guy that can hit the gaps, and a pitching rotation that can carry them as far as they desire. Defense will certainly be key for this team to succeed, but that is something that continues to progress as the season goes on.
Junior first basemen Nate Theunissen, a reign-ing first-team All-MAC honoree, led the Chippe-was last season in dou-
bles, runs batted in and home runs.
Sophomores Jordan Dean and Brendan Em-mett will both see time in the infield this season. Emmett led the team in walks last year and Dean showed glimpses of his young talent last season.
The catcher position may be one of the few question marks all season for this team.
But what makes this team so dangerous is its pitching staff.
The pitching staff only gave up two home runs at Theunissen Stadium all of last year. If that isn’t the best in the country then I don’t know what is.
After losing ace Jesse Hernandez to the majors, the rotation will see some new faces this year.
Junior Trent Howard will make his way back to the starting role after spend-ing the second half of last season as the team’s clos-er. Senior Bryce Morrow’s move from the bullpen to starter worked out won-derfully last season and he is ready for a big year in the middle of the rotation.
Junior Zach Cooper will also find his way into the rotation after spending most of last season in the bullpen. Cooper picked up the win in the regular sea-son’s final game last year to clinch the MAC West title.
To round out the pitch-ing conversation is sopho-more Dietrich Enns. Enns was a freshman All-Amer-ican after going 7-0 last year in relief. Enns boasted a league-best 1.23 earned runs average and just a .168 batting average against in conference games.
Why am I talking so much about the baseball team? Why should you care about the baseball team?
Because they are good, and their season starts tonight in Fort Meyers, Fla., with a four-game stint against Florida Gulf Coast.
John EvansSenior Reporter
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