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ashley miller/photo editorVedder pounds fists with his father, Rob, before snowboarding down the hill Saturday at the Freeze X Fest. While Jake and his brother are competitive snowboarders, Rob is a USA Snowboarding Association coach.
matthew stephens/senior photographerVedder jumps onto a corrugated pipe while snowboarding during the Mighty Midwest Snowboarding Camp on Saturday at Freeze X Fest. The camp was hosted by snowboarder Pat Milbery. Vedder has now snowboarded with Milbery in four different states.
Chills and Thrillsmatthew stephens/senior photographer
Pickney resident Jake Vedder, 11, has been snowboarding for six years and placed fifth last year at the national USA Snowboarding Association Rail Jam competition. On Saturday, he won the Rail Jam at the Freeze X Fest at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort for his age division.
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By Carisa SeltzStaff Reporter
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Jan. 21 is expected to change the way political campaigns are financed — something some would say heavily affects the nation’s voters.
The 5-4 ruling allows busi-ness entities to influence fed-eral campaign outcomes by spending unlimited resources on self-produced ads for or against candidates.
Christopher Owens, Central Michigan University assistant professor of political science, said the decision could increase
the number of ads issued and how much money is spent throughout political campaign periods.
“It all depends on how the corporations want to react to this,” Owens said. “I think we have to wait a couple election cycles and see how this plays itself out.”
The decision — Citizens United V. Federal Election Commission — overturned campaign finance laws classi-fied in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which prohibited businesses from financing is-sue ads from their general trea-sury funds. It also affects laws in 24 states.
The court struck down the BCRA rule that stated issue ads cannot air 30 days before
Ruling affects business spending for campaignsSides clash over decision on political finances
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By Amelia EramyaSenior Reporter
The $3,635,000 project to renovate Ronan Hall is on schedule.
Steve Lawrence, associ-ate vice president of Facilities Management, said 90 percent of the construction documents are reviewed.
“(We) ex-pect to issue the project documents for bid next week,” he said.
C o m p a -nies will be awarded contracts for work by the completion date in June.
“Substantial completion is planned in June and the building (is opening) in early
August,” Lawrence said.Currently, environmental
abatement and demolition have been completed, Law-rence said.
PreParationSeveral departments in the
Bovee University Center will move to Ronan Hall once the renovations are closer to com-pletion.
Bovee will undergo about $5 million in renovations starting sometime after April.
The offices occupying the second floor of Ronan will be Academic Administration, Academic Advising, Academic Senate, Affirmative Action, Campus Dining, Career Ser-vices, Dean of Students and Residence Life.
Ronan renovations on schedule by fall
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photo by matthew stephens
By Maryellen TigheSenior Reporter
Jake Bedder is not your av-erage 11-year-old.
He has dedicated more than half his life to competitive snowboarding.
On Saturday, the Pinckney native topped his age division in the USA Snowboarding Associa-tion Rail Jam during the second Freeze X Fest at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.
“It’s cool — it’s fun. I like it all,” he said.
About 4,000 people — com-petitors such as Bedder, as well as spectators — poured onto a field at 2395 S. Leaton Road for the two-day winter sports festi-
val Saturday and Sunday.Bedder’s entire family is in-
volved in snowboarding. His brother, Mitchel, has competed for six years and his father, Rob, is a USASA coach. He trains at Mount Brighton Ski Area in Brighton and uses balance and trampoline training during the offseason.
Last year, Bedder raced to fifth at nationals in board cross.
Many of the riders Saturday were striving to get closer to the national championships in Copper Mountain, Colo.
Fun in the snowThe snowboarding hill at
Freeze X Fest was used not only for competitions, but also by the Mighty Midwest Snowboard Camp, hosted by Pat Milbery, a competitive snowboarder.
Milbery grew up in the Mid-west and trains in Colorado. His goal is to bring the camp to snowboarders who may not have the money to travel out west to train.
“So much stuff in the snow-board industry is just based on contests,” Milbery said. “Rarely
will a group of pros come out to the Midwest and spend time in a community here; it’s contrib-uting to the next generation of snowboarders.”
Jason Hyde, a Plymouth se-nior, has done marketing for Freeze X Fest for two years. This year, he participated in the snowboarding camp with Mil-bery.
Hyde is a marketing student and said it is hard to get stu-dents out of their schedules of
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11-year-old among thousands at Freeze X Fest; weather shuts out festivities Sunday
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Chippewas beat northern illinois totie for top spotin MAC West, 1B
Women’s teamalso moves to4-2 in MACplay, 1B
By Ashante ThomasStaff Reporter
On the Fly Productions will no longer exist following the Spring 2010 semester.
The program’s termina-tion is a byproduct of budget cuts, Public Relations Chair-woman Amanda Rippin said at a meeting Sunday.
“It’s going to be hard, but we had a great run,” the Ma-
comb senior said.On The Fly was created in
spring 1996 with the goal of providing free, non-alcohol related entertainment on campus.
Rippin has been a mem-ber of OTF for four years, and said she will miss the students’ reactions to OTF’s programs.
“The energy from the shows is amazing,” she said. “Every-one’s always so pumped from the entertainment.”
Detroit sophomore Darryl Maxwell has been a member of OTF for three years and said he is not sure what he is
going to do when it ends.“I’m saddened by the
news,” he said. “I had high expectations for the program coming into my senior year.”
Rippin said some mem-bers have indicated they will join Program Board after OTF ends.
Mike Posner and big sean
One of the organization’s last acts before it dissolves will bring hip hop artist Big Sean and singer Mike Pos-ner to Central Michigan University’s Plachta Audi-torium on Feb. 25 at 8 p.m.
Tickets went on sale Jan. 13 and the show is sold out al-ready.
Music Chairman Eric Steiner said there are no big-ger venues the event can be moved to.
Steiner, a Niles sophomore, said the decision to bring Posner and Big Sean to CMU came following students’ suggestions. A Facebook group named “Bring Mike Posner to CMU” was started and, to date, has more than 1,100 members.
Maxwell said he once met Big Sean and was impressed by his humility and the fact
he was successful despite his upbringing in Detroit.
“Detroit is a pretty rough city,” Maxwell said. “To see a dude who made it from
nothing become something (is inspirational).”
Despite the excitement about Big Sean and Mike Pos-ner, Rippin said she will miss the work On the Fly does.
“I love programming and bringing entertainment to students,” she said. “I feel like students really appreci-ate what we do.”
Rippin said a formal press release announcing OTF’s cut will be released in the com-ing week. However, there are still events planned for the spring semester.
On the Fly disbanding at semester’s endProgramming group a victim of budget cuts
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todayw the CMu and wMu blood drive Partnership will take place from noon to 5:45 p.m. in the Emmons Hall lobby.
w The david garcia Project Open Session, a variety of simulations open to volunteers promoting disability awareness, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Room.
w wellspring Literary series, a forum featuring authors, will welcome Allegra Blake and Andrea Devenney at 7 p.m. at Art Reach Center of Mid-Michigan, 319 S. Univer-sity.
tuesdayw Faculty artist andrew spencer will perform a percussion concert at 8 p.m. in the Staples Family Concert Hall on CMU’s campus. Cost is $3 for students and seniors and $5 for the general public.
w safer sex Patrol is looking for volunteers to stuff kits promoting safe sex. The group will meet at 8 p.m. in the Down Under Food Court in Bovee University Center.
w kevin Cotter is scheduled to give a speech about his campaign for the 99th State House District at the CMU College Republicans Meeting at 9 p.m. in Anspach Hall Room 169.
w a Cover Letter and thank you Letter workshop is planned by Career Services’ REACH Peer Advising team from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Bovee University Center’s Lake Huron room.
w a german Club movie night featuring Die Welle with English subtitles will begin at 7 p.m. in Pearce Hall Room 332.
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By David VeselenakOnline Editor
City and university officials are gearing up to ensure stu-dents are accurately counted in this year’s census.
The city’s campaign aims to use advertising, educating techniques and social media to insure everyone in Mount Pleasant on April 1 is counted.
“This will probably be the first census they’ll be able to fill out themselves,” said Jeff Gray, director of planning and com-munity development. “There’s the potential of confusion for students as to where they should be counted.”
By law, every person in the U.S. is to be counted, whether they are citizens or not. People who have lived in Mount Pleas-ant for six months are to fill out their census forms in Mount Pleasant, Gray said. House-holds that do not respond will have a census official knocking on their door asking why the information was not provided, he said.
For off-campus students, one census form will be mailed to each apartment or house. That form will count everyone that lives in that household. Students living on campus will receive a form individually. Stu-dents studying abroad are not required to fill a census form out. Forms will be sent out in mid-March.
In previous years, the U.S. Census Bureau sent out two
forms, a long form and a short form. The Bureau will send out one 10-question form this year.
CMu invoLved, tooSteve Smith, director of pub-
lic relations, said Central Michi-gan University will act as a facil-itator to encourage students to fill out the forms. He said CMU officials will raise awareness using methods such as listserv e-mails and public service an-nouncements.
“We’re just now getting start-ed,” he said.
Smith and Gray said they are trying to get in touch with cen-sus officials to set up a question center on- and off-campus to answer any questions the pub-lic has.
In addition to a question cen-ter, the City Commission autho-rized $60,000 for the campaign at its July 13 meeting. CMU has not allocated any money to ed-ucate on the census, but Smith said there will be little to no cost to the university.
“It will be a minimal invest-ment,” he said.
The city is encouraging stu-dents to fill out the census form in Mount Pleasant because the city can receive increased fund-ing if the population increase.
“There’s a lot of risk if we are under-counted,” Gray said.
The census helps distribute more than $400 billion of state and federal funding across the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The population of Mount Pleasant, according to the 2000 census, was 25,946. The 2006 estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau was 26,203.
Mount Pleasant to begin 2010 census campaignOfficials stress students’ need to fill out forms
Occupying the third floor will be the English Language Insti-tute and the Office of Interna-tional Affairs.
In addition to the offices, there will be five conference rooms on the second floor and
five classrooms, one computer lab and one conference room on the third floor.
Joan Schmidt, associate director of Residence Life, is starting preparations for the big move.
“We’re getting excited be-cause we see the workers work-ing over there,” she said.
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partying every weekend and into something new.
“How often to you get to ride with pro snowboarders?” he said.
Some families participated in ice racing. Adam Wiseman of Wayland has been racing mo-tocross since he was a child.
Now his four-year-old son has taken up the sport as well.
“I’m gonna keep riding, get my little kid into it more,” Wise-man said.
In his first race in nine years, Wiseman placed second, one place short of a trip to the fi-nals. Family cheered him on.
His nephew, Gage Beland of Lake Odessa, also races. He earned sixth place out of 12 bikers in the finals of his divi-sion Saturday night.
“He battled for the last five laps — it was a very exciting race,” said Lori Beland, Gage’s mother.
rain CanCeLs sunday events
Much of the second day of competition was canceled be-cause of a change in weather, with warmer temperatures and
rain coming into the area. The events will not be rescheduled.
“We had 100-some race en-tries this morning,” said Corey Bixby, marketing director for Freeze X Fest.
Snowboarding purse prizes will be put toward next year’s total prize.
The snowboarding camp continued throughout Sunday morning with the rain making the runs faster, something the boarders enjoyed, Bixby said.
“Mother nature didn’t show us any mercy,” he said.
Pickney resident Jake Vedder, 11, walks back up the top of the snowboarding hill Saturday at the Freeze X Fest behind Soaring Eagle Casino before taking another ride down before his competi-tions. During the winter, Vedder trains at Mount Brighton and uses trampoline training during the off season.
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freeze |continued from 1A
Friday’s story, "Auxiliary services spreads money to departments," should have said Patty Davidson, director of financial planning and operations for ProfEd, said ProfEd recorded $40 million in revenue between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009.
By Tony WittkowskiStaff Reporter
The construction near Merrill, Sweeney and Thorpe halls
keeping students from parking in Lot 45 is almost complete.
The parking lot will re-open Wednesday, said Linda Slater, director of Plant En-gineering and Planning.
Since Jan. 7, construction has been ongoing on chilled water lines around the en-trance to Lot 45 near the three residence halls. Events Center construction work-ers tapped into the chilled water supply to tie in return lines to the facility.
“These lines are needed to support air conditioning in the Events Center,” Slater said.
The construction caused minor complications for students who use the park-ing lot. Its entrance is torn apart and the lot is being used to store construction equipment.
“It’s packed now,” said Richard Hayes, an Illinois sophomore. “It all started during (holiday) break, just before we came back.”
Students housed in Bed-dow, Sweeney, Thorpe and Merrill were notified through e-mail Jan. 6, one day before construction started, Slater said. Accord-ing to the e-mail, students will not receive any re-
imbursement for parking passes this semester, which cost $150 for a full year.
Armada junior Sheri Lew-is would normally park in Lot 45, but has found ways around the problem.
“They e-mailed us 3 or 4 days before we moved in,” she said. “It’s supposed to last 2-3 weeks but, for now, we can park in Merrill.”
The students were told to use Lot 44 between Merrill and Beddow halls or to park in Lots 63 and 64 — nor-mally designated for fresh-men near Kelly/Shorts Sta-
dium — and use Safe Rides to get back to the dorms.
Lewis said she has re-ceived a parking ticket in Merrill’s lot.
“I ended up parking on one of the end caps,” she said, noting that she lost an appeal for the ticket, despite the construction. “It looked like a parking spot.”
Slater said any minor ad-ditional work impacting the parking lot will be com-pleted during CMU’s spring break.
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Blood DriveCentral Michigan University is
partnering with Western Michigan University for a week-long blood drive. The “CMU and WMU Blood Drive Partnership” is hosted by the American Red Cross. It is scheduled to take place from noon to 5:45 p.m. today in the lobby of Emmons Hall, and from noon to 5:45 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Activity Center. For more infor-mation, contact Lindsey Mortier of the American Red Cross at [email protected].
New UndersheriffThe Isabella County Sheriff’s
Department found a replacement for the vacated undersheriff po-sition. John Tullis, commander of the Portland, Ore. Police Bureau, will begin the job March 1. For-mer Undersheriff Laude Hartrum left the department earlier this month and took the position of police chief in Pentwater. Tullis stood out above the other final-ists with his presence, Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said. “There’s a couple of things that separated him from the rest of the field,” Mioduszewski said. “His time at the command level, his education and just the way he handled and presented himself.”
Cover Letter and Thank You Letter Workshop
Career Services’ REACH Peer Advising team is hosting a work-shop to help students learn how to create an effective and profes-sional cover letter. The workshop will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Lake Huron room of the Bo-vee University Center. Attendants also will learn the importance of following up with thank you let-ters, as well as how to write and send the letters. For more infor-mation, contact CMU Career Ser-vices at [email protected].
Faculty Artist: Andrew Spencer
CMU’s faculty artist Andrew Spencer will give a percussion performance from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Staples Family Concert Hall of CMU’s Music Build-ing. Spencer will perform songs from various artists including Jay Batzner and Erik Lund. Admission is $3 for students and seniors and $5 for the public. For more infor-mation, contact John Jacobson at [email protected].
Sigma Tau Delta Information Night
Sigma Tau Delta, the Interna-tional English Honor Society, will host several informational meet-ings throughout the week. To-night’s meeting will take place at 8 p.m. in Anspach Hall Room 151, and Tuesday’s meeting will take place at 8 p.m. in Anspach Hall Room 151. Students can attend either meeting with questions or concerns about joining. For more information, contact Stacey Waldrup at [email protected].
Speak Up, Speak Out Wednesday
Speak Up, Speak Out: The Current Events Series will host a forum titled, “How Do Race and Gender Figure in the New Political Landscape” from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Participants will have a chance to collaborate in think-ing through issues, problems and possible solutions to the topic. The forum is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Ulana Klymyshyn at [email protected] or 774-7318.
State House Candidate to speak
Kevin Cotter, a candidate for the 99th State House District, will speak Tuesday at a meeting of the College Republicans. Cotter graduated from CMU in 2001 and currently practices law in Mount Pleasant. The event is free and open to the public. It will begin at 9 p.m. in Anspach 169.
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By Randi ShafferStaff Reporter
De’Shon Dixon finds sol-ace in athletics — they are his escape.
This much was clear for the Flint native and North-ern High School senior, as Relient K’s “Be My Escape” pumped through the speak-ers at Morey Courts Recre-ation Center, 5175 E. Remus Road.
Dixon was one of 76 stu-dents from five Flint-based high schools and middle schools to participate in Fri-day’s “Up All Night” event, which aimed to give pre-college students a chance to experience the university atmosphere.
The hopeful football re-cruit spent the majority of Up All Night playing basket-ball. Between breaks from shooting baskets, Dixon said Central Michigan University was one of the schools he was considering for his col-lege experience, and he was looking forward to leaving home.
“Flint is kind of rough, so I’m ready to get out on my own, take care of my own re-sponsibilities,” he said.
Campus exposureUp All Night was arranged
by CMU’s Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs staff and planned a variet of events for Flint students, such as board games, indoor athletics, movies and food.
The event followed CMU’s 18th annual CommUNITY Ball, which celebrated the end of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. Week. The ball fea-tured a dinner, theatre per-formance, live music and dancing for all in atten-dance — including the stu-dents.
Mary Henley, director of GEAR UP, said this is the sixth year students from Flint have come to the ball.
“This gives us a chance to expose students to cam-pus— the ultimate college experience,” she said. “A chance to get them excited in higher education.”
GEAR UP targets McKin-ley Middle School, Holmes Middle School, Northwest-ern High School, Northern High School and Classical Academy in Flint. The pro-gram offers college-bound students a chance to gain academic skills, informa-tion and encouragement prior to
Up All night offers taste of collegeFlint school students enjoy CommUNITY Ball, Morey Courts
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Classical Academy sophomore Avery
Adams, 16, juggles three tennis balls while sitting on a
bench early Saturday morning at Morey
Courts during CMU Up All Night, where
about 60 high schoolers stayed
awake until 7 a.m. playing basketball,
volleyball, tennis and other activities. “When I am worried about something or
anything troubles me, I juggle,” Adams said. “It’s a release
for me. There’s nothing else to
think about. All my focus is there, which makes this a perfect
stress reliever.”
jakE May/staff photographer
By Maryellen TigheSenior Reporter
The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe’s recently di-rected 2 percent of its in-come toward several area projects, including road resurface plans and govern-ment-run youth programs.
Twice each year, the tribe distributes a percentage of its income to local gov-ernment and educational agencies, particularly the city of Mount Pleasant and Union Township, among others. The recent distribu-tion totaled $5.4 million to the community.
“In general, the city re-ceives 2 percent alloca-tions from the tribe to fi-nance multi-jurisdictional or partnership programs,” said City Manager Kathie Grinzinger.
Mount Pleasant’s portion of the allocations was about $730,000, much of which went to the city’s Youth Services Unit, a group that
focuses on crime and vio-lence prevention in schools throughout the county. Other portions funded the Bay Area Narcotics Enforce-ment Team and Partners Empowering All Kids.
“PEAK is an after-school and summer program to further the education and health of students in the Mount Pleasant School Dis-tricts,” Grinzinger said.
Union Township is re-surfacing Isabella Road be-tween Pickard and Baseline roads with its share of the 2 percent fund.
Township Supervisor John Barker said it is an im-portant road, as it is used heavily by local residents en route to places such as the Mount Pleasant Municipal Airport, 5453 E. Airport Rd., or the Isabella County Fair-grounds, 500 N. Mission Rd.
“That road has been pret-ty well beat up,” he said.
Isabella County received almost $1 million of the tribe’s distribution, which largely went to the Isabella County Commission on Ag-ing.
tribe allocates 2%income toward roads, youth programsIsabella Road project included in Union Township
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Students workaround construction,use alternate spots
Construction workers from S & S Directional Boring work on an area off Ojibway Court across from the Education and Human Services building. The construction has forced the temporary closure of Lot 45.
photos by sEan proctor/staff photographerWendell Wilson of S & S Directional Boring adjusts equipment while working on construction Jan. 21 near Fabiano Hall. The construction caused the temporary closure of a student parking in Lot 45.
“they e-mailed us 3 or 4 days before we moved in. It’s supposed to last 2-3 weeks but, for now, we can park in Merrill.”Sheri Lewis, armada junior
By Eric DresdenUniversity Editor
The Feb. 18 Board of Trustees meeting will hold big news for Central Michi-gan University’s Medical School.
Cam Enarson, interim medical school dean, said one of the announcements will in-volve affiliations.
“Earlier this week, several hospitals said they are okay with the drafts we have sent them, they plan to complete them prior to the board meet-ing,” he said.
“So expect to have some additional announcements about affiliations.”
Enarson said a ground-breaking for the 62,000-square-foot addition to the Health Professions Building will occur Feb. 18 and leader-ship for the capital campaign will be announced.
maintaining effiCienCyEnarson declined the op-
portunity to become the medical school’s first dean last week. He said the deci-sion was based on his family in North Carolina.
After his term is complete July 1, he will return home.
“I’ve been married 26 years,” Enarson said. “From my perspective, I have the greatest wife in the world and have two great sons; my fam-ily is very important to me.”
He said he had been wres-tling with the decision for sev-eral weeks.
Enarson said he thinks many people feel that things have come to a halt because there is no announcement of a dean. He said that is not true.
“I’m absolutely confident we’ll have an excellent per-son to be the founding dean. Nothing has slowed down,” he said.
oppositionEnarson and Interim Presi-
dent Kathy Wilbur answered questions about the medical school at Tuesday’s Academic
enarson: expect big news at feb. 18trustees meeting
m e d i c a l s c h o o l
Affiliations announcement, groundbreaking forthcoming
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Pipe work keeps Lot 45 closed;parking to reopen Wednesday
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Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
The season may be early. But excitement is rising and students may have to rethink how to spend evenings with home basketball games on the schedule.
Fans should try to recreate the excitement that the football team fed off of in the fall when it went 12-2 overall and 8-0 in MAC play. If CMU can earn accolades for its game day atmosphere at Kelly/Shorts Stadium, it can do the same at Rose Arena.
The men’s team is having one of its best seasons since Chris Kaman left for the NBA’s Los Angeles Clip-pers after the 2002-03 season. That team finished 25-7 and advanced to the second round of the 65-team NCAA Tournament.
Point guards Robbie Harman and Jordan Bitzer are dominating the MAC in points and have become some of the best backcourt players in the league.
Harman is fifth in scoring in the
MAC, second in steals and second in 3-point shots. Bitzer is not far behind at tenth in scoring, sixth in steals and third in 3-pointers.
But Harman and Bitzer aren’t the only reasons to come out and watch. Coach Ernie Zeigler is shaping his players into a big contender for the MAC Championship this year. The NCAA Tournament is not out of the realm of possibility, either.
Quality entertainmentBut the teams aren’t just playing
for themselves. If the last few games have conveyed any sort of message, it’s that the basketball teams are go-ing to continue to give fans some-thing worth watching live during the cold winter months.
The men’s team beat Northern Illinois University 81-75 Saturday at Rose Arena, tying it for the division lead in front of what players called the loudest they have heard Rose Arena get. The women have won three games in a row and ended a decade-old losing streak to NIU.
Playing Ohio (5-13) on Saturday, that winning streak may very well continue.
Students often find themselves cooped up in their apartments or dorms for most of the winter, trying to fend off the cold weather and lack of sunshine. The basketball games are a great way to escape the dismal conditions and spend some time with friends.
This season also marks the last time that students can see Rose Arena in its original glory before it is renovated into the CMU Events Center next season.
Some bleachers have been removed due to construction, an-noying some fans. But there is more than enough seating remaining and students should take advantage of it.
The men host Buffalo on Feb. 4 and Kent State on Feb 6. The women will host Miami (Ohio) on Saturday and then Bowling Green on Feb. 10.
Students and fans would be wise to offer the teams their support as they aim for conference championships.
Students should take notice to Central Michigan University basketball — both the men’s and women’s teams are becoming relevant again.
The men’s team is currently 9-8 on the season and 4-1 in the Mid-American Conference standings. The women’s team is playing just as impressively in the conference, with a 4-2 MAC record and 7-11 overall.
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free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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I have dated several (okay, a lot) of my coworkers and it may be because I am lazy.
The way I see it is, why bother going out when there are perfectly attractive people sitting next to you?
With that said, work relation-ships are a tricky subject and, as such, I have done external research from the girl Bible, Cosmopolitan.
Dating a coworker, or even thinking about dating a coworker, is completely normal, as well as more common than you may think.
As reported by Cosmopolitan, a survey done by CareerBuilder.com found 40 percent of coworkers have dated each other.
There are obvious negatives with office hanky-panky. Keep in mind you will be seeing this person on a regular basis, regardless of how it turns out.
So hypothetically, if a guy you are seeing at work (we’ll call him Ed) ditches you on a date and never calls or apologizes; you still have to play nice with him Monday.
You also have to play nice with Ed on Tuesday, Wednesday and that long weekly meeting on Thursday... etc.
The point is this: if things go south, you must stay professional, and this can be tough. Also, you are never allowed to hit Ed with your car.
Now, there is a total difference between office flirting and office dating. There also is a total differ-ence between office dating and office hooking up.
Office flirting is totally fun and generally harmless. It is also a great way to ascertain whether your crush is interested.
Cosmopolitan suggests finding out by this tried-and-true icebreak-er: “Everyone thinks we’re seeing each other. Ha-ha... Crazy, right?”
If you decide to pursue a cubicle cuddle, the best thing to do is make sure both of you are on the same page. Set ground rules of what it is (and what it is not) before anything gets too involved.
The next thing is to keep your mouth shut about it. Gossip at work is terrible to begin with; the last thing a budding romance needs is for that one loudmouth to find out.
Several positives of an office ro-mance come to mind. For one, you have already skipped the awkward “getting to know you” phase. You do not have to work on impressing the other person.
Secondly, you get to spend time with that special person and you don’t have to pay for any of it. In fact, you are getting paid to make flirt-eyes with Mr. Nice Smile. Awe-some!
I am aware of several work romances that are pretty fantastic. One of my roommates is in an office relationship, and the two of them are so cute I want to squeeze their cheeks.
The best advice about dating a co-worker is to keep a clear head about everything.
Me? I frequently find my love life in situations that are far more com-plicated than dating a coworker.
So I say go for it.
Contrary to Jason Gillman’s claim (“A Diverse CMU,” 1/22/10) that Central Michigan University should decrease its efforts to pro-mote diversity, his column actu-ally highlights the need for even greater attention to this area.
Gillman cites comments from his conversation with one faculty member as evidence that the cli-mate for staff and faculty of color has improved so much that we no longer need diversity initiatives.
One individual cannot speak for any group.
I find it interesting that Gill-man simply ignores the larger body of evidence that contradicts his claim, evidence that is based on a careful social science analy-sis of the subject.
In addition, his claim that “there isn’t a department [at
CMU] lacking a decent represen-tation of various ethnicities and other demographics” is factually incorrect.
Gillman also concludes: “For the claims the survey makes about more than one half of minority faculty and staff report-ing negative experiences, it seems there isn’t a flight from employ-ment at Central Michigan Univer-sity.”
Gillman fails to recognize that those of us who are forced to deal with discrimination and exclusion in this university and community are CMU employees, taxpayers and everyday contributors to the well-being of CMU and Mount Pleasant.
It is both inappropriate and offensive to suggest, as Mr. Gill-man’s column seems to do, that people of color simply must “love it or leave it.”
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consequence of the condition of Michigan as it is today. You can only spend so much money and you can only have so much debt.
Revenue is shinking daily. Everything needs to be cut. In private business cut have already been made.
So goes revenue and profit, so goes jobs and wages. Public ser-vents are subject, at some point and time, to the same economic pressures as private servents.
I would be interested to know how a professor concludes they are underpaid.
Also of interest is how they would concluded a prolonged re-duction in revenue to the treasury shouldn’t impact them as it does others.
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The realm of political campaigns just dramatically changed.
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned laws decades-old that restricted corporations from buying political advertisements which, ac-cording to President Barack Obama, will lead to a “stampede of special interest money in our politics.”
He is correct.Look for the midterm elections to
get more ugly than usual now that corporations can fund ads not only issue-oriented, but for candidates directly. Some people — Justice Anthony Kennedy, for instance — say limiting how much money a corporation can donate to a politi-cal campaign is censorship and a violation of free speech, but this is incorrect. It is paid speech.
Corporations have millions, if not billions of dollars, at their disposal to spend on political advertisements if they choose to do so. And now they can spend that money as freely as I can walk down the street. They have the ability to control the airwaves. This goes for the left and the right.
In 1998, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) pushed for higher taxes on tobacco products to help raise money to increase health research and discourage teenage smoking.
The tobacco industry did not take too kindly to this, however, and did everything it could to get the bill dropped in the Senate. Eventually, the tobacco industry proved to be a formidable opponent and defeated McCain’s legislation through a series of ads that claimed the bill was actu-ally a tax on low-income families, not just cigarettes.
This is a perfect example of how big business can skew facts to fit the message. The tobacco industry was actually not dishonest because most smokers in America are of a lower socioeconomic status.
The ruling by the court last week hurts voters and, instead, benefits big business. We all know money talks. Now it will talk too much.
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Michelle Bigard spent Fri-day afternoon reflecting on the horror in Haiti.
She did so by strolling around a dimly-lit room on the fourth floor of the Charles V. Park Library.
Soft meditative music played in the background and a huge circular mat with a maze-like walking path covered the floor.
“Labyrinth is a walking meditation path,” said Big-ard, an associate professor at the counseling center. “It’s a representation of the path of life, a reflective kind of peaceful walk.”
Bigard was one of several people who participated in the Labyrinth Walk for Hai-tian Earthquake Recovery on Friday on the fourth floor of the Charles V. Park Library.
The event allowed mem-bers of the CMU commu-nity a chance to reflect on the devastation of the Jan. 12 disaster. Some say the 7.0-magnitude quake killed as many as 200,000 people and left more than a million homeless.
Labyrinth walks are inter-national fundraisers initi-ated by the Veriditas Global Healing Response during times of recovery for cities and nations in desperate turmoil. Similar events were held in the aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Bigard said the walks are set up all over the world and
take place on the same day. She walked at CMU’s event, served as a trained Labyrinth facilitator and helped with organization.
Bigard heard about the event on Martin Luther King Day and instantly wanted to get involved.
“I felt moved to do some-thing,” she said.
A wAy to contributeWashington junior Rachel
Thomas walked in honor of Haiti.
“This event gives people an opportunity to reflect on the situation,” Thomas said. “Being an advocate of social justice lets people see how they can contribute here in the U.S.”
Thomas works in the Vol-unteer Center on campus and said what happened in Haiti was unexpected and tragic.
“I care about people as a whole, and to see an entire nation in despair hurts my heart,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it, it seemed so un-
real.”Participating students
and faculty donated money through a collection box and also online. All donations will go directly to Haitian Re-lief through
clintonfoundation.org.“100 percent of the money
is going directly there instead of to administrative costs,” Bigard said.
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By Lonnie AllenStaff Reporter
Keara McKnight is no stranger to stress. It is a feeling that creeps up all to easily.
But who could blame the Jackson senior?
McKnight is taking a full course load of 12 credit hours as an art and photography major and, when she is not studying, she works about 20 hours a week at Staples, 2135 S. Mission St.
“It is stressful,” McKnight said. “It is very hard to balance work and trying to get time in the stu-dio for projects.”
McKnight’s job keeps her motivated to finish school and move on. But for some students, the pressure of work and school is just too much.
According to a national sur-vey, 71 percent of young adults who quit college cited work as a factor in their decision. Thir-ty-five percent of those who dropped out said they tried to balance work and college stud-
ies, but found it too stressful.The report, titled “With Their
Whole Lives Ahead of Them,” was released in December by Public Agenda, a non-partisan nonprofit research group, which surveyed 614 adults between the ages of 22 and 30.
Julia Sherlock, director of Ca-reer Services, said the number one challenge new students face is time management.
If students do not organize and prioritize, she said, they can become a victim of their own schedule.
“If you don’t manage your life,” Sherlock said, “life is going to manage you, and that’s where things can become complicated — ending with dropping out of college.”
be orgAnized, heAlthyJana Lewis, assistant director
of career services, said stress is often caused by an urge to com-plete a seemingly impossible to-do list in a short amount of time. That would include being a full-time student with a job.
Lewis said students should plan their projects and papers well before the due date and she suggests a healthy lifestyle of eating right, exercising and get-ting enough sleep.
With each student being dif-ferent, she said there is no set number of hours recommended to work.
“If you can, work in a field re-lated to the position you hope to obtain after graduation,” Lewis said.
It is important for students to work with their employers too, she said, and try to develop a consistent work schedule.
“This will help develop a school/homework routine and manage your sleeping pattern,” Lewis said.
Kristin Willis, a Battle Creek senior who double-majors in psychology and child develop-ment, works 10 hours a week tutoring children with reading difficulties.
Even Willis cannot imagine being a full-time student and employee and does not know how anyone could juggle the two.
“It stresses me out working only 10 hours a week and going to school full time,” Willis said. “It is hard because you want down time. When you get it, you still have things to do and then your downtime isn’t as enjoy-able as you wanted it to be.”
Work, school a juggling actSurvey says 71 percent of college dropouts cited job as factor
By sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
They are the type of friends who push each other to great-ness in the classroom and push with the same enthusi-asm while flying on snow.
Plymouth senior Jason Hyde and Rochester Hills senior Kyle Holderness are snowboarders who have practiced the craft of slicing through snow for years.
The two say their friendship is the biggest motivator to hit the powder with style.
“The encouragement is what makes us progress and why we get better,” Hyde said. “If you can push someone to do a back flip, then helping them with a cost analysis is a no-brainer.”
Freeze X FestHyde and Holderness par-
ticipated in this year’s Freeze X Fest last weekend and designed and installed the obstacles in the snowboard court.
The pair, along with other CMU students and Freeze X Fest employees, collaborated to put the course together.
“We worked on it for several hours and put up all the rails and did a bunch of grooming to the course, making it look nice,” Holderness said. “It was a group effort to see what ev-eryone liked and we could vi-sualize it.”
During Freeze X Fest, Hold-erness and Hyde participated in the Mighty Midwest Tour, where professional snow-boarders helped amateurs practice their moves.
The duo said they had fun with the professionals, includ-ing Pat Milbery, Scott Stevens and Nick Visconti.
“It was awesome, (we) got to hang out and get to know them.
They’re good teachers and able to help you along the way,” Holderness said.
FriendshipHyde and Holderness have
been snowboarding for about 10 years, though they met for the first time while in a class last year.
Hyde’s uncle took him skiing in third grade and he became hooked on snow sports.
“I saw guys on the hill us-ing snowboards, and that was a lot more fun to me. Snow-boarding was more of a chal-lenge because it’s a whole balancing act,” Hyde said. “You’re sideways, it’s a com-pletely different workout for your body.”
The duo travels regularly to snowboard — a lifestyle not easy on the pocketbook.
“You have to factor in gas, money, time, food, or the lack thereof,” Hyde said.
the boArder’s liFeHolderness said, jokingly,
the two are going to be broke by the end of the winter.
But it is worth the effort, they agreed.
“On a day of fresh snow, (it’s) like your board is just floating through,” Holderness said. “It is one of the best feelings. A lot of people that ride skip school because it’s a fresh day of snow (and) you’re going out riding.”
Hyde said the hobby chang-es the whole way he views the world.
“A snowboarder would see a snow bank that someone else would see as one, too,” he said, “and the snowboarder would think of it as a jump or some-thing creative.”
Brothers in snowStudents push each other on the slopes
Students walk the Labyrinth for Haiti‘Meditation path’ used during times of recovery
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The education reform laws signed by Gov. Jennifer Gra-nholm earlier this month allow for the start of two pilot cyber schools formerly banned in Michigan.
If successful, cyber schools will increase in number as an alternative to traditional public high schools. Central Michigan University’s Center for Charter Schools, the larg-est university authorizer of
charter schools in the country, is qualified to authorize cyber schools.
The center’s executive di-rector, Jim Goenner, said there is plenty of enthusiasm in the education community over the new legislation, but also many questions surrounding accountability of the prospec-tive cyber schools.
“There’s also challenges because they’re so new to the field of public education that people are trying to figure, ‘Should the rules for account-ability be different?’” Goenner said when comparing cyber schools to traditional public high schools.
Pilot cyber school authoriz-ers will be required to report
any kinks in the start-up pro-cess to the state legislature and the state Board of Educa-tion so lessons can be learned from their errors before addi-tional schools launch.
Cyber schools are like tradi-tional schools in that they will cover the same subject matter, but teaching and learning is conducted over the Internet. Many anticipate that the two pilot cyber schools will be es-tablished and fully working by fall 2010.
Senate Education Commit-tee Chair Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, said cyber schools are beneficial in that students will be able to proceed at their own pace while working with an online instructor.
“(Cyber schools) open up a new avenue for instruction here in Michigan,” he said. “I believe it reflects where edu-cation is headed and where education will end up.”
Kuipers said entities wish-ing to start a cyber school will have to apply at one of the authorizing universities in Michigan, such as CMU. The schools will be run by insti-tutions that oversee online learning programs.
Once a cyber school obtains a charter and enrolls students, the student will be given a computer and an access code for instructional materials, he said.
Cyber schools could see spike in MichiganAccountability one lingering question among educators
heading to a university.Tina Natale, GEAR UP aca-
demic adviser for McKinley Middle School, Northwestern High School and Classical Academy said the CommU-NITY Ball was a chance for students to experience a fun aspect of college life.
“This is an experience that our students would never
get,” Natale said. “It’s an eye-opener. It’s the social part of being on campus. For some students, this is the first time they’ve been on any college campus. It’s a big deal.”
Natale said a portion of the students attending were high school seniors that had already been admitted to CMU.
“That one is the large on-going commitment that the tribe has made,” said David Ling, chairman of the Isabella County Board of Commission-ers.
Money also goes toward cancer awareness and HIV testing programs.
Two percent of the tribe’s net gaming proceeds are given back to the community each year. This is according to terms of the contract that Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, 2395 S. Leaton Road, signed with the state, which allows it to operate.
After an application process, the Tribal Counsel decides where the money goes.
One of the major benefi-ciaries of the funds is edu-cation. The Tribal Council
has historically given over one third of the 2 percent fund to educational institu-tions, said Frank Cloutier, the tribe’s interim public relations director.
“Tribal councils historically have been absolutely huge supporters of higher educa-tion,” he said.
The Tribal Council takes many things into consid-eration when deciding how to distribute education money, such as the techni-cal and book needs of each school. The school is asked to prioritize needs before they are submitted. The Tribal Council monitors the education system for inter-action with students and benefits to the tribal com-munity.
“We want to make sure ev-eryone has a mutual benefit,” Cloutier said.
Senate meeting.Several questions were
raised about funding for the medical school, which in-cludes $5 million set aside each year for five years. At the same time, Wilbur has requested 3, 6 and 9 percent budget reduction plans from budget centers within the university.
Enarson said he feels there will always be some people against the project and, though more than 50 people
attended the Academic Sen-ate meeting, only four or five spoke out about the medical school.
“I understand some peo-ple may not agree with it, but I would never be able to change their mind, I think that’s the reality of it,” he said. “In general, I believe it will be a positive for the uni-versity.”
He said the medical school will have its own budget re-duction plans based on the 3, 6 and 9 percent plans Wil-bur asked for, but the reduc-tions will not include the $25 million set aside in $5 million portions each year.
“(It’s) based on base bud-get through this fiscal year, so that’s what we are operat-ing from,” Enarson said.
He said the financial model created for the medi-cal school is one used by other schools, so it is very solid.
seArch For A deAnEnarson joined the search
committee chaired by Col-lege of Health Professions Dean Chris Ingersoll for the medical school dean posi-tion.
Ingersoll said he made calls to several candidates after he learned Enarson
would not accept the posi-tion.
Steve Smith, director of public relations, said there will be no rush to find a permanent dean because of Enarson’s decision to de-cline.
“It’s not how fast we move to get somebody in here, but about getting the right person in,” Smith said. “Not moving with haste just to get a warm body in here.”
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primary elections and 60 days before general elections.
However, corporations and unions still cannot directly contribute to a candidate’s campaign. The decision does not affect political action committees.
Some also would consider the decision a triumph for free speech — an open invi-tation for powerful interests with money to corrupt the political system. The court majority, five of the nine Su-preme Court justices, found
that restrictions of the BCRA legislation unconstitutionally inhibited First Amendment rights.
“The position in the court of course ... is the willingness to equate corporations with in-dividuals,” said assistant po-litical science professor J. Che-rie Strachan. “The Supreme Court is granting corporations the same free speech rights as individuals and saying that needs to be protected.”
reActionAmong the court minority
was Justice John Paul Stevens
who, in his dissent, stated, “the court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.” President Barack Obama issued a statement on his Web site condemning the Supreme Court decision, calling it the most devastating thing that could happen to the public interest.
“This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy,” his statement read. “It gives the special interest lobby-ists new leverage to spend millions on advertising to persuade elected officials to vote their way — or to punish
those who don’t.”The President said he al-
ready called on his admin-istration and supporters in Congress “to develop a force-ful, bipartisan response to this decision.”
The case spawned over con-troversy of whether Citizens United had the right to air ads for their anti-Sen. Hillary Rod-ham Clinton documentary, called “Hillary: The Movie,” during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary cam-paign.
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sean proCtor/staff photographerBattle Creek senior Chris Schoder and Lake Orion junior Kaitlin Denton, center, dance together and with other students during the CommUNITY Ball around 8 p.m. on Friday night in the Bovee University Center Rotunda.
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West Division Team MAC OverallCMU 4-1 9-8NIU 4-1 8-9WMU 3-2 11-7EMU 2-3 10-8BallSt. 2-3 8-9Toledo 0-5 3-16
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallAkron 3-2 13-6Buffalo 3-2 10-6KentSt. 3-2 12-7Miami 3-2 6-12BGSU 2-3 9-8Ohio 1-4 10-9
Saturday’s resultsCMU81,NIU75EMU57,BallSt.53WMU73,Toledo41Ohio99,Buffalo77Miami64,BGSU52KentSt.87,Akron70
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West Division Team MAC OverallToledo 5-1 15-4EMU 4-2 14-4CMU 4-2 7-11BallSt. 3-3 9-10NIU 2-4 8-10WMU 0-6 5-14
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallBGSU 6-0 16-4Akron 4-2 10-9KentSt. 4-2 11-7Miami 2-4 4-15Buffalo 1-5 5-14Ohio 1-5 5-14
Saturday’s resultsCMU59,Ohio56BGSU83,EMU71Akron58,WMU44Toledo70,Miami63NIU93,Buffalo88KentSt.72,BallSt.63
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PointsPlayer (team) PPG
w DavidKool(WMU) 20.1w RodneyPierce(Buffalo) 18.7w BrandonBowdry(EMU) 17.8w CarlosMedlock(EMU) 15.2w RobbieHarman(CMU) 14.4w JakeBarnett(Toledo) 14.3w KennyHayes(Miami) 14.2w ArmonBassett(Ohio) 13.4w D.J.Cooper(Ohio) 13.2wJordanBitzer(CMU) 13.0
ReboundsPlayer (team) RPG
w BrandonBowdry(EMU) 10.4w OtisPolk(BGSU) 7.9w CalvinBetts(Buffalo) 7.9w DonaldLawson(WMU) 7.8w JarrodJones(BallSt.) 7.6
Field Goal PercentagePlayer (team) %
w MalikPerry(BallSt.) 58.4w SeanKowal(NIU) 54.2w NikolaCvetinovic(Akron) 53.8w JimmyConyers(Akron) 53.3w AdamFletcher(Miami) 51.5
Free Throw PercentagePlayer (team) %
w DavidKool(WMU) 89.2w JordanBitzer(CMU) 87.0w JauwanScaife(BallSt.) 85.1w CarlosMedlock(EMU) 84.2w JakeBarnett(Toledo) 82.8
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BasketballWeekend
Photos by Matthew stePhens/senior photographerJunior forward Antonio Weary played 18 minutes and finished with seven points and two rebounds Saturday in CMU’s 81-75 win at Rose Arena.
The CMU men’s basketball team owns the top spot in the MAC West
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Central Michigan men’s basketball coach Ernie Zeigler was not watching the play with 40 sec-onds remaining Saturday at Rose Arena.
Rather, with his arms raised to the 2,317 people in Rose Arena, he implored the crowd to cheer their team to a first-place spot atop the Mid-American Conference West Division.
It seemed to help — during Zeigler’s plea, junior guard Amir Rashid stole the ball and secured the 81-75 win against Northern Illinois.
“I think this was a huge signature win for us,” Zeigler said. Senior guard Robbie Harman said the game, which
featured 54 personal fouls, 70 free-throw attempts, four players that fouled out and 13 lead changes, was the loud-est he has heard Rose Arena.
“I’ve been here four years now and we haven’t been in this situation before where we can — this far into the season — put ourselves in first place,” he said.
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Harman, who finished with 17 points, seven re-bounds and four assists, made it a two-possession game — 76-71 — when he scored on a jumper from the foul line with 40 seconds re-maining.
The basket came after CMU (9-8, 4-1 MAC) got a defensive stop when junior center Will McClure blocked a shot.
“It was a four-swing,” McClure said. “Instead of them getting the two, I got the block and Robbie got
the two points which put us up.”Harman’s field goal broke a 14-
point streak where the two teams scored only from the free-throw line.
McClure said despite the amount of fouls being called, CMU still wanted to play its game.
“We still want to contest all the shots and we still want to body ev-eryone,” he said. “We just have to keep playing and hope the refs let us do what we want to do.”
The victory moved CMU’s MAC record to 4-1, tying Northern Illinois for first place in the division. But CMU has the tiebreaker because of
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Who’shot:JordanBitzerandRobbieHarmanpacedCMUagain,scoring17apiece.
Who’snot:OffensivelyWilliamMcClureisanon-factor(0pointsagainstNIU).Butdefensively,heledCMUwithtwoblocks.
What’s on tap
Robbie Harman
:54 SecondsremaininginthegamewhenjuniorcenterWillMcClureblockedanNIUlayuptopreserveathree-pointlead.
CMU’sMid-AmericanConferencerecord,whichtiesNIUatthetopoftheMACWest.CMUholdsthehead-to-headtie-breaker.4-1
By John EvansStaff Reporter
Winning four consecutive games is the surest way to erase memories of a four-game losing streak earlier in the month.
Led by senior guards Kendra Holman and Heidi Warczinsky, the CMU women’s basketball team beat Ohio 59-56 Saturday at Rose Arena.
The team’s four-game winning streak puts it at 4-2 in the Mid-American Conference West Divi-sion (7-11 overall), one game be-hind Toledo (5-1 MAC) and tied with Eastern Michigan.
Coach Sue Guevara gave praise to Holman, who finished with 10 points off the bench, and Warcin-sky, who finished with seven points and five assists.
“The game is over, we won, it wasn’t pretty, but we found a way to grind it out,” Guevara said. “Give credit to the senior guard play of Warczinsky and Holman. They came in and did a really nice job. It’s a win and we’ll take it.”
Holman was one of four CMU players in double figures for the game. She was 3-of-4 from the field and hit two free throws with six seconds re-maining to main-tain CMU’s three-point lead.
Earlier in the game, her 3-pointer sparked a 7-0 run with less than three minutes remaining in the first half to cut Ohio’s lead to two points.
“Kendra has done a great job of embracing her role on the team,” Guevara said. “And she is as cool as a cucumber on the free-throw line.”
After 10 minutes of back-and-forth basketball in the second half, Holman hit her second 3-pointer of the game with four minutes remaining. It put CMU up by five, its largest lead of the game.
Juniors Kaihla Szunko and Shonda Long led the team in points with 12 each.
Close finishOhio took a 53-51 lead with
less than two minutes remaining. CMU junior Shonda Long missed a 3-point shot that landed right into the hands of Warczinsky, who banked it in to tie the game
Chippewas win fourthconsecutiveHolman, Warczinskyearn coach’s praise
Kendra Holman
Senior guard Robbie Harman had 17 points in CMU’s 81-75 win against NIU on Saturday at Rose Arena.
Men’s track and field:MarcusBreidingerwinspolevaultatSimmons/HarveyInvite.
Women’strackandfield:ErikaSchrollwinshighjumpwithheightof5feet,9.75inches.
Gymnasticsvs.DenverandBYU:1.(17)Denver 194.22.CMU 194.0253.BYU 192.5
Men’s track and field:DavidAshcraftwins400-meterrunwithatimeof50.23seconds.
Women’strackandfield:DanielleDakroubwins800-meterrunwithatimeof2:15.16.
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William McClure did not score a point in Satur-day’s victory. But he made the biggest play. McClure, a junior forward, blocked an NIU layup with 54 seconds remaining.
Senior guard Robbie Harman grabbed the ball and hit a field goal, giving CMU a five point lead and secured the win.
McClure played 25 minutes, had six rebounds and two blocks.
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head-to-head play. In the first half, CMU and
NIU went back and forth. But a 9-1 run with less than 10 minutes remaining in the half gave the Chippewas a nine-point lead. The Huskies responded and brought the lead back to two by half.
NIU took a brief one-point lead off a 3-pointer by junior guard Xavier Salas to begin the second half. From there, the lead changed 10 times and 46 free throws were at-tempted.
The win improved the Chippewas to 8-0 under Zeigler against Northern Il-linois. CMU has won six con-secutive games at Rose Are-na, dating back to its home opener against Princeton on Nov. 14.
Close affairNIU (8-9, 4-1 MAC) went
27-for-34 from the free-throw line, while CMU shot 24-for-36. CMU outshot the Huskies 43.6 percent to 42.3, but were outrebounded 36-35.
“We’ve been spending a lot time with some extra shoot-ing here the last couple weeks, particularly even moreso this week,” Zeigler said.
Zeigler said he was im-pressed with how CMU fought through what turned out to be a physical game. Senior forward Chris Keller-mann, senior guard Jordan Bitzer and junior guard Jalin Thomas all took hits during the game, while Thomas, ju-nior forward Marko Spica and McClure played through inju-ries as well.
“You just see some guys that are really, really hungry to take this program to the next step,” Zeigler said.
Bitzer tied Harman for the
team lead in points with 17. Kellermann finished with 12 points and Thomas had 10. Bitzer and junior guard Anto-nio Weary fouled out.
Salas, who came into the game averaging 19.3 points per game, led the Huskies with 26 points and seven re-bounds before fouling out with 10 seconds remaining. NIU junior guard Darion Anderson had 15 and junior center Sean Kowal had 12. Anderson fouled out with 3:30 remaining.
CMU opens play against the MAC East Division at 7 p.m. Thursday at Miami (Ohio) (6-12, 3-2 MAC). CMU was winless on the road last season against the East.
The Chippewas defeated the RedHawks 57-55 last sea-son at Rose Arena.
The team’s next home game is Feb. 4 against Buffalo.
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CMU 81, NIU 75 - Final statisticsScore by half 1 2 TotalNorthernIllinois 31 44 75CentralMichigan 33 48 81
Team totals CMU NIU FG-FGA 24-55 22-52FieldGoal% 43.6 42.33-Pt.FG-FGA 9-25 4-133-Point% 36 30.8FT-FTA 24-36 27-34FreeThrow% 66.7 79.4Rebounds 35 36Blocks 3 3Assists 12 10Turnovers 11 18Fouls 25 27Steals 6 2BenchPoints 30 26PointsinPaint 24 34PointsoffTOs 22 9
Game leaders
PointsXavierSilas(NIU)G26pointsJordanBitzer(CMU)G17pointsRobbieHarman(CMU)G17pointsDarionAnderson(NIU)G15points
ReboundsSeanKowal(NIU)C11reboundsXavierSilas(NIU)G7reboundsRobbieHarman(CMU)G7rebounds
BlocksWillMcClure(CMU)C2blocksNajulErvin(NIU)F2blocks
It might have been difficult for the average basketball fan
to notice William McClure on Saturday at Rose Arena.
That changed with less than one minute remaining in the game and Central Michigan leading Northern Illinois 74-71.
It appeared NIU’s Michael Fakuade had an easy lay-up after grabbing a rebound off a missed shot by teammate Tony Nixon.
Fakuade, a 6-foot-7 sopho-more center, gathered himself on the right side of the basket and floated the ball toward the rim. But McClure, CMU’s starting center, leaped from the left side of the basket and swatted Fakuade’s shot into the hands of senior guard Robbie Harman.
About 15 seconds later, Harman came off a screen and buried an open jumper near the free-throw line to give the Chippewas a two-possession lead — 76-71 — with 40 sec-onds remaining. The momen-tum carried to the team’s next defensive possession, where Amir Rashid’s steal all but sealed an 81-75 statement win for the men’s basketball team.
So McClure must have scored, right? After all, he is a starter and made one of the defining plays of CMU’s season thus far. But the Indianapolis, Ind., native only attempted one shot in 25 min-utes — and missed.
It was a fitting way to cel-ebrate on the eve of his 21st birthday, which was Sunday. Afterall, his offense wasn’t why he was brought here.
“I’ve never really been a scorer,” said McClure, who
joined the Chippewas this season after transferring from Lake Land College (Ill.). “Defense is what I like to do — defensive rebound — and that’s what I’ve done since high school.”
How can CMU get away with this? The 6-foot-7, 240-pound McClure, who has started 16 of the team’s 17 games, averages only 2.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. He had six rebounds Saturday, but was out-rebounded by the 6-foot-1 Harman (seven).
It would be like a starting wide receiver not scoring any touchdowns, right?
Wrong. McClure is the epitome of why basketball pur-ists believe the game cannot be measured in statistics.
“We look at him like a poor man’s Ben Wallace,” said CMU coach Ernie Zeigler. “Ben Wal-lace didn’t score. (The Pistons) weren’t looking to find him, but he had his imprints all over the game.”
fitting the moldJust follow McClure for a few
minutes during CMU’s next home game (Feb. 4 against Buffalo). Watch him set screens down low to allow Harman and shooting guard Jordan Bitzer to
shed defenders for open shots. Watch him block out the
opponents’ big men so small forward Jalin Thomas, Bitzer and Harman collect easy re-bounds. And watch him alter shots after a guard beats the first line of Central’s defense.
“If I get a putback, that’s all I really need to do,” McClure said. “The shooters, that’s what they’re here for — I’m here to block shots and play defense.”
McClure is the type of player Zeigler and CMU have needed the past four seasons. An unselfish guy who embod-ies Zeigler’s ‘Think tough, be tough’ philosophy.
That band-aid McClure was wearing Saturday under his left eye? Covering up three stitches he received after col-liding with Eastern Michigan’s Brandon Bowdry in CMU’s 71-63 win on Wednesday. Fellow junior-college transfer Thomas already has battled symptoms from a concussion he suffered earlier this season.
McClure and Thomas spend more time on the ground hustling after loose balls than kids do making snow angels in the winter.
“That’s why they’ve had such success so quickly,” Zeigler said. “They already had those intangibles of mental tough-ness, battling and working hard, and not having a prima donna attitude as though, ‘You’re happy to have me.’ ”
But after the program’s first 4-1 start in the Mid-Ameri-can Conference since 2003, Zeigler and staff probably would agree.
Matthew stePhens/senior photographerJunior center William McClure finished without a point in CMU’s win Saturday. But his defensive game has not gone unnoticed.
McClure brings defensive prowess
Dan MonsonSeniorReporter
GAME BALL
William McClure
who’s next?
at MiamiThursday, Jan. 28
The RedHawks are 3-2 this season in the MAC, but just 6-12 overall.
GAME OVER WHEN ...
Following the timeout after junior foward William McClure’s block and senior guard Robbie Harman’s field goal, junior guard Amir Rashid got a key steal and NIU was forced to foul with 27 seconds remaining. Rashid split the pair of free throws, putting CMU up by six.
cm-life.comCheck out a photo slideshow of Saturday’sCMU-NIU men’s game.
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at 53. After Ohio’s Kamille Buck-
ner made one of two free throws, Long hit two free throws to put CMU back in front by one. On the next Ohio possession, Warczinsky drew an off-the-ball charge that led to a Szunko lay-up, putting CMU up by three
with 37 seconds remaining.“The team is finding a way
to win down the stretch,” Guevara said. “Heidi is a very emotional player. She brings that intensity and that pas-sion when she comes onto the floor.”
With the victory, it also gives the team five wins in a row at Rose Arena, and the four-game winning streak is the longest by CMU since 2006-07.
“We have our fans here
and we have the support on our back,” Szunko said. “To-day wasn’t a pretty game and everyone knows that, but you know what? It’s a win.”
The team now turns its attention to Kent State (4-2 MAC), who it plays Wednes-day in Kent, Ohio.
“It is a battle night in and night out. In our conference, you have to respect every-one, but you fear no one.”
Women | continued from 1B
Guevara calls win ‘not pretty’
W o m e n ’ s B a s k e t B a l l
CMU limits Ohio’s Poff to eight points
By Josh BerenterStaff Reporter
The CMU men’s and wom-en’s track and field teams had seven event wins this week-end in the Simmons/Harvey Invitational at the University of Michigan.
Several athletes won field events in the non-scoring meet Friday, followed by more of the same with the running events Saturday.
“I’m very excited for the athletes that have been put-ting in the work,” said coach Willie Randolph. “They’re getting some results for the work that they have done since the fall.”
Senior Marcus Breidinger won the pole vault competi-tion, clearing a career-best 17 feet, 4.5 inches.
“He’s been working re-ally hard, and I’m excited for that young man,” Randolph said. “He’s definitely one of our team captains.”
Breidinger’s jump earned him an NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
Another winner for the men was freshman Kevin
Bacon, who won the high jump, clear-ing 6 feet, 7.5 inches. Bacon, who started train-ing as a hur-dler, has competed in multiple events this indoor season.
Sophomore David Ash-craft won his first event of the season in the 400-meter dash with a season-best 50.23 seconds. He had a fourth-place finish last week at Eastern Michigan.
“David is our top return-ing 400-meter runner,” Ran-dolph said.
Women’s teamSenior Erika Schroll won
the high jump competition for the second consecutive
week, clearing 5 feet, 9.75 inches.
“She’s been really consis-tent. We need to start calling her Miss Consistency,” Ran-dolph said.
Other winners for the wom-en were senior Tanisha John-son, who took the triple jump competition with a 39-feet, 4-inch leap, and senior Char-ity Sunderman, who won the weight throw with a distance of 56 feet, 4.75 inches.
Junior Danielle Dakroub won the 800-meter race for the women with a time of 2 minutes, 15 seconds.
CMU will host the Chip-pewa Open next weekend at the Jack Skoog Track in the Indoor Athletic Complex. Randolph said there are a lot of things he is looking forward to.
schroll, Breidinger make markSeven CMUtrack athletes winindividual events
Marcus Breidinger
By Aaron McMannStaff Reporter
It was not pretty, coach Sue Guevara said afterward, but the CMU women’s bas-ketball team found a way to win Saturday.
Instead of the run-and-gun style of play CMU prefers, its 59-56 win against Ohio was one that required the team to battle until the end and grind out a win.
Ohio’s defense helped set the tempo, forcing 12 turn-overs and limiting CMU to 20 shot attempts in the first half.
“They came out really ag-gressive and we were kind of complacent in the zone (de-fense),” junior forward Kaihla Szunko said. “We weren’t cut-ting hard in places and getting open.”
Once CMU found itself behind by double-digits with six min-utes to play in the half, the team went on a 10-0 run to tie the game while holding the Bobcats to 0-for-6 shoot-
ing and two turnovers.
senior sparksFor the second consecu-
tive game, senior guard Ken-dra Holman helped spark the team’s comeback efforts, scor-ing on two consecutive pos-sessions to cut OU’s lead to two points.
“She gives us some energy, can push the ball and, defen-sively, has been doing a pret-ty nice job since we’ve been
mixing up our defenses,” Guevara said.
The game was a back-and-forth affair — there were six lead changes and seven ties — that came down to sev-eral plays made by Holman and fellow senior guard Heidi Warczinsky. A 3-point field goal from Holman with 4:18 remaining in the game put CMU up 51-46, its largest lead of the game.
Following a 7-0 Ohio run that gave the Bobcats a 53-51 lead with 1:41 remaining, Warczinsky grabbed and laid in an air ball from 3-point range by junior forward Shon-da Long.
Warczinsky also helped seal the game for the Chippewas.
While holding on to a 55-54 lead with just more than a minute remaining, she took a charge that gave CMU the ball. On the next possession,
Warczinsky issued an assist to a cutting Szunko, who laid the ball in — a basket that proved to be the game-winner.
“She brings that intensity and passion when she comes on the floor,” Guevara said. “She’s one our best interior passers.”
poff preventionA big part of the CMU de-
fensive effort was its abil-ity to limit Ohio senior guard and leading scorer Jenny Poff (11 points per game) to eight points on 2-of-11 shooting.
Poff, a native of St. Johns who had family and friends in attendance, was held score-less in the first half.
“Our kids did a good job of keying on her, knowing where she was and making it diffi-cult (for her) to get shots off,” Guevara said.
Matthew stePhens/senior photographerSenior guard Kendra Holman scored 10 points off the bench Saturday at Rose Arena.
Sue Guevara
CMU 59, Ohio 56 - Final statisticsScore by half 1 2 TotalOhio 28 28 56CentralMichigan 26 33 59
Team totals CMU Ohio FG-FGA 21-45 20-59FieldGoal% 46.7 33.93-Pt.FG-FGA 6-19 6-273-Point% 31.6 22.2FT-FTA 11-16 10-18FreeThrow% 68.8 55.6Rebounds 30 39Blocks 0 1Assists 9 12Turnovers 21 19Fouls 16 20Steals 11 8
Game leaders
PointsJenniferBushby(Ohio)G16pointsKaihlaSzunko(CMU)F12pointsShondaLong(CMU)G12pointsKendraHolman(CMU)G10pointsBritniHoughton(CMU)G10points
ReboundsKamilleBuckner(Ohio)F10reboundsKaihlaSzunko(CMU)F8rebounds
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Women take second in Denver
By Nick Conklin Staff Reporter
The CMU gymnastics team finished second out of three teams Saturday in Denver despite earning its highest score of the season.
The Chippewas scored a 48.55 or higher as a team in three of four events. Despite a season-high final score of 194.025, one event contin-ued to plague the team at the Hamilton Gymnasium in Denver, Colo., leading to a second-place finish behind Denver (194.2). BYU came in third, totaling 192.5.
Before Saturday, CMU’s highest score was 192.275 last week, when it hosted Utah State.
“We hit 194, and that’s what we came out here to do,” said coach Jerry Reighard. “We still need to improve our shaky events, but we felt re-ally good about this compe-tition.”
With success on the un-even bars, vault and floor ex-ercise, CMU’s struggles came on the balance beam.
CMU fin-ished the event with a 47.75, be-hind Denver (48.325) and BYU (47.9). S o p h o m o re Kristin Teu-bner (9.775) was the only
CMU gymnast to score higher than a 9.7.
Despite three falls, CMU improved statistically on the event from its last meet against Utah State (47.3).
“The beam has been our nemesis this year, and we had a couple falls that hurt us,” Reighard said.
Highlighting the scoring in the first event for the Chip-pewas was senior Katie Si-mon, who scored a 9.85 on the uneven bars.
“We had a tough go, we had some great scores; (Katie Simon) had a really nice bar routine,” Reighard said.
Freshman Britney Taylor scored a 9.775 on the uneven bars, while junior Andrea de la Garza earned a 9.750.
Reighard said starting the competition on the bars was a difficult event to begin the night, but he was impressed with the team’s efforts.
“Tough event to start on, but we persevered,” he said.
“We came out behind Den-ver, but we were well ahead of BYU.”
CMU continued its scoring pace through the next two events — vault and floor ex-ercise.
The Chippewas grabbed the high score of the tri-meet on the vault, notching a score of 49.2. Denver scored a 49.0 and BYU a 48.1. Leading the charge was Simon, Teubner and Taylor (9.875 each).
CMU scored a 48.525 on the floor exercise, placing second in the event, but it was a drop from last week’s score by less than a point (48.6).
Teubner had the team’s high score with a 9.8.
all-around improvementde la Garza scored a team-
high 38.925 all-around score, which placed second in the meet to Denver’s Brianna Ar-temev (39.25).
Simon improved in the all-around category by .925 from her score against Utah State to finish with a 38.775 overall. Reighard said he was pleased by the all-around improvements.
“Overall, the athletes were much more poised,” he said. “We had better competitive heads. We have to continue the hard work.”
Taylor finished with a 38.675 and sophomore Cher-yl Conlin scored a 38.025.
CMU competes next on Jan. 30 against Eastern Mich-igan in Ypsilanti.
CMU scores above 194 for firsttime in 2010
file photo by sean ProCtorJunior all-arounder Andrea de la Garza led CMU to a second-place finish in its tri-meet in Denver, Colo., with an all-around score of 38.925. She finished second overall.
Nextup:Jan30:@EMU
Who’shot:Juniorall-arounderAndreadelaGarzaledCMUandfinishedsecondintheall-aroundwitha38.925score.
Who’snot:Asateam,CMUhadthreefallsonthebal-ancebeamandscoreda47.750.
What’s on tap
Katie Simon
g y m n a s t i C s
By Lindsay KnakeSenior Reporter
CMU’s Athletics Department will face the same reductions as the rest of the university as it faces rising operating costs and the necessity to maintain NCAA standards.
Athlet ics Director Dave Heeke said the depart-ment is look-ing at new ways to bring in money — including charging stu-dents who at-
tend games or athletic events.“We are trying to find new
revenue streams to support our budget ... with a challenging economy, it’s probably some-thing that will be considered,” he said.
Like Charles V. Park Library and the Student Activity Cen-ter, athletic events are free for full-time students and have preparation and cleaning costs, among others.
The new revenue streams will help the de-partment enhance facili-ties for student-athletes and cope with rising costs, Heeke said.
“We are very prudent with our dollars,” he said.
money managementThe athletics department
operates off a $21,907,364 budget — a $1,696,661 in-crease from 2008-09.
It is supported by a $15,996,661 subsidy from the university’s general fund. The department is projected to earn $6,051,103 from ticket sales, game guarantees and fundraising, according to the
2009-10 Operating Budget.Salaries, benefits and
compensation for adminis-trative and clerical staff and coaches make up the biggest cost for the department at $5,875,725, or 38 percent of the total budget.
Scholarships for student ath-letes total $4,872,357, or 22 per-cent of the budget. According to the 2009-10 Operating Bud-get, the department distributes the money through 210 full and partial awards.
Total costs for attending the GMAC Bowl earlier this month have not been finalized yet, said Sports Information Director Ja-son Kaufman in an e-mail.
revenueThe largest source of revenue
for the department is football — $1.5 million through ticket sales at games and through game guarantees.
Fundraising is another source of income for the de-partment, and it brings in about $1 million annually. Each
sport also has its own fundrais-ing program, Heeke said.
Summer sports camps earn about $1 million, but much of the money goes back to the university to pay for food and housing costs, said Associate Athletics Director Derek van der Merwe said.
Marketing and advertising generates about $700,000 an-nually, Heeke said.
Budget CutsThe Athletic Department
also will be looking at cuts, as a part of the 3, 6 or 9 per-cent base budget cuts Inter-im President Kathy Wilbur has asked every department to make.
He said the process is chal-lenging because the depart-ment has to maintain mini-mum parameters to have a Division-I football team. As per the NCAA, universities must have 16 Division-I sports teams, which CMU has.
Athletics looks for more revenueStudents mayhave to pay to see sporting events
Dave Heeke