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photos by jeff smith/staff photographerNorthville senior Aaron Ozimek, also known as LymeLight, performs a mix of electronic and dub-step music as hundreds of people dance Saturday night during Electrify CMU at Finch Fieldhouse. “It’s cool to see (the rave) come together,” Ozimek said. “We started working on this in November.”
andrew kuhn/staff photographerSenior forward Will McClure fights for position as he attempts a layup during CMU’s 41-38 loss at EMU Convocation Center in Ypsilanti.
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Elkton freshman Marquerite Mears dances with friends and holds flashing lights Saturday night. “We didn’t have anything better to do so why not (rave),” Mears said.
that’s so ravin’
Mount Pleasant resident Kalan Hubbard, 16, spins glow sticks and dances Saturday night at Finch Fieldhouse. Hubbard, who moved to Michigan six months ago from New Mexico, has been pleased with the electronic music scene. “In New Mexico, I didn’t hear any good electronic music, this has been my saving grace,” Hubbard said.
By Gabi JayeSenior Reporter
Mount Pleasant police are still searching for a 22-year-old man accused of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s house with a gun.
MPPD Sgt. Dan Gaffka said Richard Chamberlain is suspected of entering the woman’s residence at 615 1/2 E. High St. Saturday at 12:47 p.m. Chamberlain is believed to be an Alma resi-dent but also has an address listed in the Detroit area, Gaffka said.
A crime alert was sent to students in regards to the off-campus crime, and that the search for an armed 200-pound white male with black hair, blue jeans and a black and red jacket was on-going.
“The city (police) had a complaint where they were tracking a suspect of some-thing that occurred at the city,” said Central Michigan University Police Chief Bill Yeagley.
Police were called to the scene by a witness, Gaffka said. Chamberlain had fled the scene by the time police arrived.
Gaffka said Chamberlain is believed to have fled by foot. Footprints from the scene were tracked through campus.
Chamberlain is also be-lieved to have access to a vehicle.
There allegedly was a con-frontation between Cham-berlain and the woman when she came home, Gaffka said. The gun was recovered by police at the ex-girlfriend’s residence.
Yeagley said the suspect was originally seen at High and University streets. He then headed south on Uni-versity Street.
The crime alert was sent out to students because the suspect fled close to cam-pus, Yeagley said.
The suspect was tracked to Bellows and Washington
Search for armed burglary suspect still onMan fled across campus after home break-in
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Port Huron sophomore Ki-erstin DeWitt helped organize the event and said all 350 wrist bands were given out, but that attendance exceeded that number.
“We had just under 500 people show up,” she said.
The inception of Electrify CMU came with Northville senior Jesse Ozimek’s experi-ences with electronic music in metro Detroit. The Merrill Hall resident assistant said she wanted to bring what she loves about the genre to Cen-tral Michigan University.
“I’m an electronic freak so I decided to put this event into action. I’ve been to so many different electronic events in Detroit it makes it feel as if electronic music is unknown
on campus,” she said. “This is my way of showing CMU students what the electronic scene is and what it has to of-fer.”
Lake Orion resident Brad Lawrence trekked from the Detroit area to Mount Pleas-ant so he could sell glowing t-shirts and show off colorful paintings.
“I’m here today to spread color to the show,” he said. “I know people who are here so I came out to bring visually stimulating paintings under black light.”
Several disc jockeys took turns spinning different kinds of electronic music during the night, each with a different
Students fill Finch for ‘electrifying’ eventBy Rachel Dybicki | Staff Reporter
The dance floor in Finch Field-house Saturday night was full of students feeling heavy electronic
beats in white shirts, glow paint and bright colors.
Tyler Belote helped with crowd control during CMU’s first official rave, Electrify CMU, and said students would love the atmosphere once they entered.
“It’s set up just like a rave,” the Oakland freshman said, “so it’s going to be fun for students.”
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By Ariel BlackSenior Reporter
At the end of last semester, Robinson Resident Hall Direc-tor Bridget Dunigan submitted a proposal to Residence Life sup-porting gender-neutral housing on campus.
Currently, there is no policy for gender-neutral housing at large on campus. Dunigan’s mo-tive for suggesting the proposal was to benefit certain groups of students on campus, specifi-cally transgender students who are having difficulty with their on-campus living situations.
“This would benefit (trans-gender students) the most,” Dunigan said, “but other groups such as siblings could find this helpful as well.”
Although Residence Life works with transgender students on an individual basis, the office is working on language that will likely see approval within the next week or two, said Shaun Holtgreive, associate director of Residence Life. This language will indicate to students that Residence Life will work with them to accommodate their needs.
“Central Michigan University doesn’t have a good way to house transgender students, except for making them live alone,” said Macomb freshman and Spec-trum member Justin Gawron-ski. “Michigan State University has been using gender-neutral housing for two years and so far it’s been successful for them.”
The effecTsStasi Russell, co-president
of Spectrum and a Howell se-nior, has been a resident assis-tant for three years. She has wit-nessed the effects of transgender students being placed in a room alone and agrees with Gawron-ski that CMU should follow in MSU’s footsteps.
“Many of these students have depression as it is, significantly higher than the straight com-munity, and I see this increase even more when they’re put in a room alone,” Russell said.
Right now, Holtgreive said, CMU takes the same route for transgender students as it does concerning students with dis-abilities, athletes, international students, and others regarding their housing.
When asked about gender-
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By Maria AmanteSenior Reporter
Gov. Rick Snyder has chosen Dr. Patricia A. Maryland and William R. Kanine to fill the two vacancies on CMU’s Board of Trustees.
Maryland and Kanine will replace outgoing board mem-bers Stephanie Comai and Gail Torreano, whose terms expired Dec. 31, 2010, pending confir-mation from the state Senate.
“Both of the new trustees will be great additions to the board (because) they bring experi-ence that will be very relevant to CMU and its long-term strat-egy,” said Sarah Opperman, chairwoman of the CMU Board of Trustees. “Bill is not only a CPA with a strong financial background, but also a fellow alum. Dr. Maryland, with her experience in the medical pro-fession obviously will be very
helpful to the board.”Kanine, a certified public ac-
countant, lives in Petoskey and received his B.S. and B.A. de-grees from CMU. He previously served on the Petoskey Area Public Schools school board and is managing partner in Wil-liam R. Kanine, P.C., a CPA firm.
Kanine also serves on the College of Medicine’s steering committee, he said in an in-terview with Central Michigan Life.
“I’m totally honored to even be considered, and totally hon-ored at the opportunity of the appointment,” Kanine said.
Maryland lives in Bloomfield Hills, is president and CEO of St. John Providence Health System and was named one of Crain’s Detroit Business’s Most Influential Women in 2007. She received her B.A. in applied mathematics from Alabama State University, master’s degree
in biostatistics from the Univer-sity of California-Berkeley and doctorate in public health from the University of Pittsburgh.
She was unable to be reached in time for publication.
University President George Ross released a statement Fri-day in an internal communica-tion on Maryland and Kanine’s appointments.
“We welcome the Governor’s appointments of individuals who have diverse professional expertise, which will provide valued insight into board delib-erations,” Ross said.
Under state law, the appoin-tees will be able to serve at the February board of trustees meeting unless the Senate re-jects their appointments.
Snyder also announced trustee appointments for Grand Valley State University
Two new trustees take office Feb. 17
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Language will make living policy more gender neutral
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MONDAY
w The Wellspring Literary series will be hosted from 7 to 10 p.m. at The Art Reach Center, 111 E. Broadway St.
w The first student Government Association meeting of 2011 will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. in Dow 171.
w The cMU & WMU Blood Drive Partnership will take place from 12 to 5:45 p.m. in the Sweeney Hall lobby.
TUesDAY
w Graphic Protest will be on display from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University Art Gallery.
w “What’s the deal with Michigan? An economic Outlook” will be held from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
w The Powers Woodwind Quartet hindemith concert will take place from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
perry fish/staff photographerGrand Rapids junior Amber Hargett reads from the Book of Acts with Detroit resident and veteran Peter Brosing at the Detroit Veterans Center, during a His House HOME mission trip Saturday afternoon.
IN THE NEWS
By Peter Nicholas and Christi ParsonsMCT Campus
WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Barack Obama plans to use his State of the Union speech Tuesday to articu-late a centrist vision that will shape the remaining two years of his term and provide a template for his re-election campaign.
Obama has been moving steadily to the political cen-ter since his midterm elec-tion drubbing two months ago, agreeing to extend tax cuts for the richest Ameri-cans, calling for business-friendly regulations and attempting to repair his re-lationship with the business community. His speech Tuesday is an opportunity to showcase that transfor-mation, especially for inde-pendent voters.
“This is a fundamental, if not the fundamental, moment of the Obama presidency,” said Douglas Schoen, who was an ad-viser to former President Bill Clinton. “He has been moving to the center by fits and starts. But he has yet to declare where he stands and what he wants to ac-complish. This is his chance to eschew the partisanship of the first two years, to put himself in the center and be responsive to the mandate that elected him.”
In the speech, set for 9 p.m. EST, Obama will lay out the steps he’ll take to boost an economy bedeviled by high unemployment, while summarizing the progress made to date, according to White House aides. He will also address the whopping federal debt, a topic that contributed to voter angst in November when Repub-licans won control of the House.
He will try to plant the idea that things are getting better, but avoid suggest-ing that troubles are over. With unemployment at 9.4 percent, no one is apt to believe the economy has recovered.
“You’ve got to be careful not to take too much credit when people are still feeling pretty bad,” said Mark Mell-man, a Democratic pollster. “But you also have to put yourself in position to take credit down the road as things do improve.”
In a short video preview of his speech on his grass-roots website Organizing for America, Obama said: “My principal focus, my No. 1 focus is going to be mak-ing sure that we are com-petitive, that we are growing and we are creating jobs, not just now but well into the future. I’m focused on making sure the economy is working for everybody.”
Building on a theme from his speech in Tucson after the shooting rampage that killed six and injured 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Obama is likely to call for more civility in politics. The conciliatory message is a sharp break from some of Obama’s more combative oratory of the last two years, when he said Republicans deserved to take a “back seat” to Democrats.
“This is his opportunity to close the book on the 2010 election and open up the Obama 2012 cam-paign,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster. “This is his initial opportunity to make the case to voters that he understands the mes-sage that they sent last No-vember — that he’s listen-ing and he gets it.”
State of the Union a ‘fundamental moment’ for President Obama
streets.“We are assisting the
city and alerting the stu-dents of a potentially dan-gerous situation,” Yeagley said.
Chamberlain is not sus-pected to be armed and dangerous, Gaffka said.
The Mount Pleasant Police Department was assisted by CMU police, the Isabella County Sher-iff ’s Department, Saginaw Chippewa Tribal police and state police from the Mount Pleasant post.
The investigation is on-going and Chamberlain is still at large, Gaffka said.
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feel.Emily Waddill, a Swartz Creek
sophomore, said she was excited to attend Electrify CMU.
“I’ve never been to a rave be-fore so I didn’t know what to ex-pect,” she said. “This was awe-some and it shows that CMU has some pretty cool school events.”
Waddill was surprised to see how much went on during the night.
“The best part about this
event is we’re selling glow sticks and water bottles. They are go-ing to a charity called The Go Ef-fect,” Belote said.
Members of the the charity are scheduled to head to Africa and build a hospital.
All of the money raised at Electrify CMU was donated to helping their efforts.
“I’m glad I could help bring this (event) to CMU,” Ozimek said. “Hopefully everyone learned about something they may not have otherwise known, like what a cool culture elec-tronic really is.”
rave |continued from 1A
neutral housing as whole, not specifically for transgender stu-dents, Holtgreive said the policy is not headed that way for ap-proval.
“It’s a sensitive topic, and the parent in me knows that I want to make everyone’s experience as positive as I can,” Holtgreive said. “Placing students in resi-dence halls is not as simple as it seems. Everyone comes here
with their own personalities and ideas, and we have to make sure the living conditions are comfortable and safe for all of them.”
Dunigan said she recognizes how intimidating it can seem to live with people of the opposite sex, but that it happens off-cam-pus all the time.
“I submitted this proposal not because I identify with the transgender community, but because they need people who specifically do not identify for support as allies,” Dunigan said. “Administration should not have
a blanket policy for everyone, but they at least have to say, ‘We hear you,’ in order to help these students.”
Sarah Winchester, politi-cal co-chairwoman of Spec-trum and Owosso senior, said this week, the RSO will inform the campus of gender-neutral housing facts in the lower level of the Bovee University Center. There will be a petition avail-able for students who support gender-neutral housing to sign.
housing |continued from 1A
and Northern Michigan Uni-versity Friday.
“I have every confidence
they will provide the leader-ship these universities need as we work to structure costs in a way that makes college affordable,” Snyder said in a statement released Friday with the names of the ap-pointed trustees for the three
universities.Former Gov. Jennifer Gra-
nholm attempted to fill Comai and Torreano’s vacancies last year, but her attempt was re-jected by Senate Republicans.
trustees |continued from 1A
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Before he goes to bed, Sarah Lukens reads William, 7, his favorite story. Until they move into the new house, William has a makeshift bed on the floor in Sarah’s room at her mother’s house.
Sarah Lukens tries to get Rachel, 9, to take her medicine. Rachel has cystic fibrosis and has to be hooked up to the machine for more than two hours each day.
overcomingphotos by kaitlin thorEsEn/staff photographer
The Lukens family tries to get together to pose for a family portrait in front of their house that is being built through the Habitat for Humanity program.
Mother of three faces illness, finds solace in effort to build her new homeBy Emily Grove | Senior Reporter
It first crept into their lives when Sarah’s second child, Rachel, was born. Sarah knew something was wrong and took the baby to a doctor for testing when she was four months old.
“She had failure to thrive, cried all the time and just wasn’t growing,” Lukens said. “They did the tests and they came back positive for cystic fibrosis.”
Rachel, 9, was in the hospi-tal for two weeks, but as soon
as she started medication her condition improved. She started growing and is now in the hundredth percentile for her age.
However, things aren’t al-ways easy and special steps are required to keep Rachel healthy. About every other year, Rachel has a hospital stay in Grand Rapids to clean out her system.
A rock And A hArd plAceBut the Lukens’ family’s
health issues didn’t end with cystic fibrosis.
Around the sixth month of her pregnancy with her son, William, Sarah was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. AML is a fast-progressing leu-kemia, requiring treatment within weeks of diagnosis for survival.
Because of the AML, an ear-ly cesarean section could not be performed or Sarah would
adversityToday, Sarah Lukens’ daughter Rachel is coming home from
the hospital.And in a few months, Sarah and her three children will move
into their new house, thanks to the Isabella County Habitat for Humanity. Both homecomings have the Shepherd resident grin-ning from ear to ear.
Overcoming and continuing to face illness is something Sarah and her children have become familiar with.
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Maryland is president and CEO of St. John Providence Health Sys-tem and Kanine is a certified pub-lic accountant who serves on the College of Medicine steering com-mittee.
Clearly, Gov. Rick Snyder’s ap-pointments, made with input from CMU figures including President George Ross and Kathy Wilbur, vice president of Development and Ex-ternal Relations, were squarely fo-cused on the medical school.
Whether or not it was inten-tional or incidental, this serves as a roundabout endorsement of the College of Medicine from Snyder, a matter that has been controversial
in the CMU community and state-wide.
The question is not whether these two can effectively help set up the College of Medicine, which they most likely will do admirably. The question is whether they can help govern the rest of the univer-sity, and whether they can do so in a fair and unbiased manner.
Trustees are appointed by the governor to serve an eight-year term. The College of Medicine is currently scheduled to accept its first class of students in 2012. Af-ter that, Kanine and Maryland will still have about seven years left in their terms.
They need to dedicate them-selves to serving the best interest of the university at large. Not just the College of Medicine, and not the personal interests of them-selves or any other higher-ups on the board or at the university.
Kanine and Maryland need to get acquainted with the university in order to make informed deci-sions based on their own knowl-edge — not the coaxings or de-mands of other board members, Ross or anybody else.
And they need to do it quickly. Barring the unlikely eventual-ity that the Republican-controlled state Senate rejects Snyder’s ap-pointments, Kanine and Maryland will begin serving at the Feb. 14 board meeting.
In future trustee appointments, the governor and those advising him should take a holistic ap-proach, making appointments based on who will help make the best decisions for the university at large, rather than just a money-draining pet project.
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The appointments of Dr. Patricia A. Maryland and William R. Kanine to the CMU Board of Trustees have proven the College of Medicine will
continue to be CMU’s main priority years down the line.
EDITORIAL | Trustee appointments confirm cMU’s true priorities
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After the last several years, I can no longer muster the naiveté to be shocked when political commen-tators sweepingly mischaracterize Muslims as violent enemies of freedom.
I just never expected to see such vitriol spurred on by “Batman” comic books, as was the case sev-eral weeks ago.
In the current storyline spanning the “Batman” comics, Bruce Wayne is travelling the world, setting up Batman Incorporated, a network of Batmen protecting major cities worldwide.
The trouble started in Decem-ber’s “Detective Comics Annual” #12 and “Batman Annual” #28. In those books, Batman travels to Paris, and is aided by a young French hero named Nightrunner in the Clichy-sous-Bois region of the city, eventually naming him the Batman of Paris.
Several conservative bloggers, most visibly Warner Todd Huston and Avi Green spoke out when Nightrunner took off his mask, revealing Bilal Asselah, a 22-year-old French Muslim of Algerian descent.
“How about that, Bruce Wayne goes to France where he hires not a genuine French boy or girl with a real sense of justice, but rather, an ‘oppressed’ minority who adheres to the Religion of Peace,” wrote Green on his blog, who must have missed the part where Asselah is written as a French citizen who has lived in Paris his entire life while he was assuredly scouring painstak-ingly through the issues.
The idea that a Muslim cannot be a hero is terrifying.
Both Huston and Green suggest the French Batman should be a “real,” Frenchman, and their com-ments suggest that people cannot decide what is right for themselves or where their loyalties lie.
Don’t forget that American leaders and heroes like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were born as British subjects.
“Through it all (“Batman” publisher) DC makes a Muslim in France a hero when French Mus-lims are at the center of some of the worst violence in the country’s recent memory,” Huston said.
Huston’s argument is basically that comic-book creators should not introduce a Muslim and/or Arab superhero while members of those groups of people are in a controversial spotlight.
Following that argument, in the wake of Tucson, Ariz. gunman Jared Loughner’s actions, no comic-book creators should create any white superheroes for the time being.
If it is that important for a na-tion’s fictional crimefighters to be representative of their “native” people, I assume that Huston and Green would prefer Bruce Wayne step down and hand his cape to an Iroquois or a Navajo.
Yes, throwing a fuss over a “Bat-man” comic is silly. However, be it regarding current events or the Caped Crusader, people should not tolerate prejudices based on false logic, ignorance or hate.
Batman wouldn’t.
file photo Former CMU Board of Trustees Chairwoman Stephanie Comai smiles during her last meeting in December at the President’s Conference Room in the Bovee University Center. Comai, as well as Gail Torreano, are no longer on the board, as their terms expired Dec. 31.
Several months ago, I was having drinks with some male acquain-tances — me and four guys — and I expressed my dislike for a woman we were all acquainted with.
The conversation about this person was already negative, but when I chimed in, the conversa-tion took a turn.
“You don’t like her because you’re a woman.”
Huh? “What do you mean, because I’m a woman?”
They proceeded to tell me women hate each other, always. More often than not, they said, it boils down to petty jealousies.
Instead of disliking this person for whatever reason I may have had, I had to dislike her because of jealousy.
I was instantly offended.But right then and there, I
gained great insight into how men think. They are impossibly chau-vinistic, but without trying. I don’t think it’s done without malicious intent.
For whatever reason, they feel the need to dismiss women, years after several feminist waves and various other alleged gains for women.
It is very easy for men to assume when two women dislike each other, it boils down to jealousy over something ridiculous, like the other’s boyfriend, or each other’s hair.
I’m quite resentful, but that’s their line of thinking. If they think this way about me, they think it about all women.
Consider the portrayals of women on television. While I love “Sex and the City,” all the women are displayed doing is talking about men. What else are men supposed to think of women if this is the show that completely speaks to us?
The fact of the matter is the blame lies with the women.
Women, in my generalized expe-rience, are afraid to show they are capable of intelligent conversation.
Women are beyond capable of engaging in the important conversations, and yet when men are around we tend to clam up, as though it’s 1955.
Women need to realize having an opinion — other than about highlights or self-tanner — is not the end of the world.
This isn’t to say it isn’t fun to be silly and frivolous, but doing it in front of men makes them think that’s all we’re capable of.
We don’t need to choose between Madonna and whore, Marilyn or Jackie. We can all find a happy medium, and be whatever it is we want to be.
It is the responsibility of our gen-eration to correct that perception. We need to embrace our clever-ness, and not shun it.
Otherwise, as a male colleague (because clearly, I cannot finish a thought on my own) said, why aren’t you all back in the kitchen?
The following comments appeared under “Non-scientific survey rates CMU professors among nation’s worst, university officials refute claim,” which published on Jan. 19.
Fezzer — Jan. 20
It appears that CM Life put more thought and research effort into this article than anyone has ever put into rating professors at the site. When looking for reviews of professors I had taken courses from at CMU, I noticed many places where students’ personal opinions of instructors led them to give very poor ratings for the very same reason I might have given them superb marks. The example: A
certain prof was given poor marks because his history class collided with the politics of a reviewer. It was obvious from the reviewer’s remarks that the instructor had elicited a great deal of thought and engage-ment from the reviewer — which is one of the goals of any education. I understand the temptation to pan someone with whom you disagree on fundamental outlooks, but the site doesn’t do enough to separate personal opinion from the more objective ways of looking at peda-gogy: did the student learn, engage with and retain information? Was the professor similarly engaged? I once had a prof who was on the op-posite side of everything I believed.
His method of teaching and listen-ing eventually became a useful foil and, over time, I came to agree with most of his perspective. If I had al-lowed his politics to eclipse entirely my own willingness to engage, then I’d be a different, worse version of myself today.
Chuck — Jan. 19
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By Tony wittkowskiStaff Reporter
A new course registration policy only needs minor ad-justments before it’s imple-mented campus wide.
The waiting list system, which was designed to pre-vent upperclassmen, who can register earlier, from saving class slots for under-classmen, is now in effect for health sciences and physical education and sport classes for a test run.
“Our OIT (Office of Infor-mation Technology) devel-oped it and did a good job,” said Registrar Karen Hutslar. “Right now, it is in review with colleges and other de-partments.”
Hutslar said when a course has filled up the new system will ask the student trying to register for the course if they would like to be put on the waiting list.
“The spots open up, and the students on the list go in,” she said.
There is no restriction on how many students can be on the waiting list for one specific class, she said.
No incidents of students abusing the system have oc-curred this semester among the two departments using the list. Students violate the provision in the student bul-
letin, which explains stu-dents must register for their own academic classes, when they save courses for other students.
“So far, we have not re-ceived any referrals from the Registrar’s Office for possible violations of this policy,” said Tony Voisin, director of Stu-dent Life.
If Student Life were to receive a case, the student would likely face a sanction of disciplinary probation for their actions, he said, though it would be dependent on the situation.
Freeland senior Jon Eaton said he thinks the new policy is fair because saving classes for underclassmen was a way to beat the seniority system of class registration. He said he occasionally had classes saved for him while attend-ing another university.
“I (saw) it when I went to Saginaw Valley (State Univer-sity),” Eaton said. “My broth-er had done it for me before I transferred.”
The waiting list has not been well received among some underclassmen.
“I feel like we get the dull selection of classes,” said In-dian River freshman Michae-la Wright. “I think it is unfair and there are other people who are still going to do it.”
The waiting list will likely be back next semester.
“Overall, I think it went well and only requires some small changes,” Hutslar said.
Course registration policy blocks slot holding for classesWaiting list so far implemented for Health, Phys Ed.
ALL THAT JAZZ | Family plays in Beat the Winter Blues festival
jeff sMith/staff photographerMount Pleasant senior Jason Nichol, a music major, plays the double bass and smiles at his father, John Nichol, professor of saxophone, as the two perform together Sat-urday evening during the Beat the Winter Blues festival at Buck’s Run Country Club, 1559 S. Chippewa Road. “It’s great to get out and play in the community, it breaks up these damn cold winter nights,” Jason said.
By Logan PatmonStaff Reporter
Martin Luther King, Jr. Week ended on a musical note this year night with the 19th annual Unity Ball on Friday.
About 50 attended the event in the Bovee Univer-sity Center Rotunda.
“Last year, we had a sort of play,” said Keisha Janney, as-sistant director of Minority Student Services, “but this year, we decided to do dance lessons.”
Janney said the Unity Ball caps off the week-long cel-ebration of MLK Day.
“I enjoyed the event,” said
Lansing freshman Kevin Reeves. “I came because I wanted to (end) MLK week with a big bang.”
Thirty seniors from South-western High School in Flint attended the event along with university staff and stu-dents, including University President George Ross and his wife.
Soon after the buffet-style dinner was served, audience members had a chance to participate in dance lessons. They could learn basic ball-room dance steps and vari-eties of the hustle.
“I liked the dance lessons a lot,” said Southwestern High School senior Kalieha Stapleton. “I never knew there was so many different versions of the hustle.”
The demonstrations start-
ed off with a thin group, but the entire dance floor was filled by the time the last hustle was being taught.
A live disc jockey and The Charles and Gwen Scales band alternated in provid-ing the music.
The three-vocalist band sang their own renditions of popular tunes from art-ists such as Mary Mary, John Legend and Ne-Yo.
A Michael Jackson imper-sonator also appeared wear-ing the star’s iconic silver sparkling gloves, red leather jacket and hat. He danced, sang and lead the crowd through some of Jackson’s biggest hits, such as “P.Y.T.,” “You Are Not Alone” and “Billie Jean.”
Dance lessons, dinner draw highlight Unity Ball
M A R T I n L u T H E R K I n g , J R . W E E K
About 50 attend finale event
By Ben HarrisStaff Reporter
A small group of students and faculty members spent their first two weeks of winter break on the other side of the world.
Four professors and four business administration gradu-ate students represented CMU in a delegation that visited three universities and three business-es in India from Dec. 10 to Dec. 22.
The purpose of the trip was to strengthen relationships with CMU-connected universities in India, said Anil Kumar, associate professor of business informa-tion systems. Kumar attended the trip, which was the first of its kind at CMU.
“As an institution, we wanted to expand our global footprint,”
Kumar said.Plans for the trip began to
take shape in late September when the Indian universities ex-pressed a strong interest in im-proving relations.
“It’s part of an ongoing pro-cess,” said trip organizer Deba-sish Chakraborty, professor of economics. “We’ll be going in the summer again with different faculty members so we’ll have a better understanding of them and they’ll have a better under-standing of us.”
The group held open sessions in which Indian students could communicate with and ask questions of the CMU delega-tion.
“It was a wonderful network-ing opportunity,” said Vietnam graduate assistant Hang Le.
The trip was a great opportu-
nity to get to know the profes-sors better and to meet faculty and students at foreign univer-sities, Le said.
CMU gets a number of ex-change students from India, and the teaching styles in India are a little different from those in the U.S., said Randall Hayes, professor of accounting.
“We needed to find out what students from India are used to so we can make our relationship work better,” Hayes said.
Students on the trip mingled with others and helped them understand the admissions process, classes and the general overview of U.S. university life.
“It started out as a nice oppor-tunity for the students, but hav-ing them along opened doors and really made the occasion special,” Hayes said.
Since the trip, there have been tentative plans for a faculty ex-change program.
“We came away with very much improved relations with all of those schools,” Hayes said.
Grad students, profs spend break in India
Courtesy photoA delegation of four CMU professors and four students affiliated with the College of Business Administration pose with associates in front of the Taj Mahal in India. The purpose of the trip was to strengthen relationships with CMU-connected universities in India and was the first of its kind at CMU.
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eriCa kearns/staff photographerA group of CMU students plays a game of touch football in the snow Saturday between the Health Professions Building and Finch Fieldhouse. We want you to show us Mount Pleasant’s winter through your eyes. Please submit your winter-related photos digitally to [email protected] by Jan. 30. We will publish the winner in the newspaper and a full gallery online.
Campus Dining works in food drive
By Melissa BeauchampStaff Reporter
Stephanie Cardaris is enhanc-ing her educational experience outside the classroom by enter-ing the business world.
The Clinton Township fresh-man is a member of the 2010-11 Michigan Distributive Educa-tion Clubs of America executive council. She said she became involved with DECA, an interna-tional association of marketing students that provides mem-bers development activities, her junior year of high school and has stayed active ever since.
“I’ve gained leadership skills through my involvement with DECA,” she said. “I’ve had experiences being able to work with teams and problem solv-ing.”
In high school, Cardaris com-peted in sports entertainment marketing and the merit award
program. She advanced all the way to the international compe-tition both years, she said.
Cardaris now serves as a state secretary and district seven rep-resentative.
“The state officers and I run each conference,” she said. “It is up to us to lead all the members of Michigan DECA and encour-age them to do the best of their potential.”
In order to become a state of-ficer, Cardaris had to go through an application process and an interview with the state officer team of the previous year, she said. Once she got that far, Card-aris campaigned and was elect-ed by Michigan DECA mem-bers.
Michigan DECA has more than 7,500 members in five di-visions: high school, collegiate, professional and alumni, ac-cording to its website.
“My favorite thing about be-ing an officer is being able to travel all around Michigan,” she said. “I have the opportunity to get to know all different kinds of people.”
Cindy Olson, a Tuscola Tech-
nology Center DECA advisor, said she is pleased with the way the state officers interact and motivate participants to suc-ceed in the competition.
“The officers are always friendly and welcoming to stu-dents,” she said. “It is a difficult thing for students to get up in front of judges … the state offi-cers serve as mentors.”
Cardaris spoke to partici-pants at the District Competi-tion at Northwood University in Midland on Saturday.
This year, the State Career De-velopment Conference will be held at Amway Grand Plaza in Grand Rapids, with over 2,200 members all around the state competing to advance.
Cardaris is studying business as a marketing major with a concentration in communica-tions.
“CMU has helped me as a state officer because I am on my own, independent of my parents,” she said. “I solve my own problems and lead my own life.”
Freshman takes position in international marketing groupTraveling her favorite part of DECA job
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By Matt TorresStaff Reporter
More than 150 community members got their fill at a Cam-pus Dining-sponsored food drive Saturday in Finch Field-house for Mobile Food Pantry.
Mobile Food Pantry is a com-munity program run by the Community Compassion Net-work, which Campus Dining recently partnered with to spon-sor a monthy deliveries.
The campus community at residential and retail locations worked from Jan. 10 to 21 to try and raise $2,200 for the food truck, or about 12,000 to 15,000 pounds of food.
“This is a very great organiza-tion to get involved with,” said Bloomfield Hills senior Jasmine Crossland. “Community Com-passion Network puts in a lot of
time and effort for the families.”CCN purchases food from the
Mid-Michigan Regional Food Bank in Lansing twice a month to distribute to families in the Mount Pleasant community through affiliated churches and organizations.
A Mount Pleasant resident, who wished to withhold her name, said the Michigan Bridge Card is no longer enough to feed a family of five with the increas-ing price of groceries.
“Some of the repetitive vol-unteers remember you and give you other resources, like other places that can help us out,” she said.
Crossland said she felt blessed and lucky to volunteer.
“The outpour of love and grat-itude from the families keeps me coming back,” she said.
It was the first time CMU alumnus Andy Curtis volun-teered at the pantry. He said it is important for students to help community members when
they can.“A lot of people here are in bad
situations and there is nothing they can do,” he said.
Real Food on Campus employ-ee Sandra Bell said it was nice to see people give up their free time to volunteer for the event.
“We all have time but we may not have money,” she said.
The Mobile Food Pantry also served a hot pancake breakfast. Another Mount Pleasant resi-dent, who also wished to remain anonymous, said it was a nice change of pace.
“At other pantries you have to go grab your cold breakfast,” the resident said. “You never know, it may not be sanitary.”
Mobile Food Pantry was the newest community service pro-gram added to Campus Dining’s 2010 platform, which also in-cludes Big Brothers Big Sisters, Adopt a Family, Special Olym-pics and United Way.
Mobile pantry receives $2,200
By Jordan spenceStaff Reporter
CMU alumnus Myles Walsh said “it’s about damn time!” there was a LGBT-friendly night in Mount Pleasant.
It was his third time attend-ing the LGBT night at Coco Joe’s Beach House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road, held every Tues-day.
“There’s a plethora of gay people in Mount Pleasant,” Walsh said. “I’m impressed that there’s finally something.”
The concept for an LGBT-friendly night began after one slow Tuesday, said Coco Joe’s manager Jamie Burke.
“We noticed some people at Coco’s having to leave Mount Pleasant for Grand Rapids to go to a gay club,” Burke said. “We thought that if we do something, people could stay in town and be safe.”
The first LGBT-friendly night was on National Coming Out Day in October and so far it has helped business on slower Tuesday nights, she said.
The Mount Pleasant com-munity has been supportive and impressed by it, Burke said.
“It’s opened people’s eyes,” she said. “It’s something that was growing and there was a need for it.”
A drag queen was brought in to entertain the crowd for the first time Tuesday. Erika Ad-ams, also known as Josh Kline, said the crowd in Mount Pleas-ant was by the far the best she has had in her two years of do-ing drag.
The Lake Orion resident said it was a positive experience for her first time branching out of the metro Detroit area.
“The energy was just fan-tastic,” Adams said. “Which makes my job a lot easier.”
Adams first started doing drag through a friend and got “sucked into” the entertain-ment world.
She said it is good Mount Pleasant finally has something for the LGBT community, but she would like to see more.
“Everybody needs some-
where to be accepted,” she said. “Going to a normal straight bar is just not the same.”
It was Joe Lawless’ first time at the LGBT-friendly night after discovering it through Face-book. He said it is good some-one recognizes the LGBTQ community in Mount Pleas-ant.
“Mount Pleasant has always been one of the most accepting northern towns in Michigan,” said Lawless, a Mount Pleasant resident. “I will definitely be coming back.”
Tuesdays are not just for the people of the LGBT communi-ty; it’s an all-inclusive night.
Lizzy Kipps said she fre-quents the establishment on Tuesday nights because she has always been around the gay scene and has many gay friends.
“CMU does a lot of stuff for the gay community,” the Royal Oak senior said. “So it’s cool to have something outside the university.”
LGBT night at Coco Joe’s brings supporters together
By John LetzingMCT Campus
SAN FRANCISCO — Face-book Inc. said Friday that it has opted to limit a private-placement offering for the closely held firm’s shares to $1 billion, while receiving an additional $500 million investment from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Digital Sky Technologies that values the social-networking service at $50 billion.
The Facebook place-ment by Goldman Sachs, which could have reached $1.5 billion, has drawn in-tense scrutiny as a means for wealthy investors to buy into the seven-year-old company at a rela-tively early stage.
Citing intense media
attention, along with con-cerns about whether it would be consistent with U.S. laws, Goldman Sachs recently opted to make the Facebook placement avail-able only to overseas inves-tors.
Facebook said Friday that the offering was oversub-scribed, and while the com-
pany “had the option to ac-cept between $375 million and $1.5 billion from the Goldman Sachs overseas offering. ... Facebook made a business decision to limit the offering to $1 billion.”
The company offered no further details. A Facebook spokesman declined to comment.
Facebook caps Goldman Sachs offering
By Andrew PriceStaff Reporter
Canadian comedian Phil Hanley’s act was populated with self-deprecation Satur-day night as well as audience participation and discussions.
The self-proclaimed “stay-at-home son” drew a crowd of about 50 people to the Bo-vee University Center Audito-rium.
He said his material is au-tobiographical, but with of-ten fictional punchlines. He riffed on many topics includ-ing Bridge Cards, fraternities, drinking, break-ups and living with his parents.
“I can come up with mate-rial, or something can hap-pen in my life, and I can try it out on stage the same night.” Henley said. “For example, my girlfriend really did break up with me three weeks ago.”
Henley had one audience member join him on the stage during his show and act out a dialogue he had during a break-up with a girlfriend.
“It’s fun doing shows on col-lege campuses, the crowd is usually much more attentive then the drunk rowdy crowds at the clubs,” Henley said.
Ruth Leibfritz said she liked how Hanley improvised much of his set.
“I’ve been to one or two comedy shows before,” the Midland sophomore said. “Phil was much more inter-active with the audience and talked more about college
topics”Midland sophomore Sara
Frazier said she was impressed with how much Hanley in-volved the audience.
“I liked how he said he was intimidated by our school mascot, the Flying ‘C’,” she said.
Hanley said he enjoys doing comedy because of the travel and sense of instant gratifica-tion.
CMU Program Board mem-ber Jena Schaner said the Pro-gram Board usually tries to bring one comedian a month to campus. She said this se-mester will be packed with a lot of exciting events.
“We have a singer-song-writer coming next week, and we have the Ke$ha show next month,” the Hart junior said.
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ABOVE: Oscar Eritano and Cole Prout, both 9, carefully measure out water into a measuring cup during a hands-on experi-ment on the properties of carbon dioxide during a workshop sponsored by the Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum and WCMU Saturday morning at the Annex at the Veteran’s Memorial Library, 301 S. University Ave. “It’s really awesome,” Eritano said, “I love science, trying to make different liquids and making them explode, and building robots and other things.” The three-hour event featured science experiments and creative projects themed around Dr. Suess’s “The Lorax.”
LEFT: Dart Overfield, right, helps his 9-year-old daugh-ter, Kaylee Overfield, of Mount Pleasant, put on her latex gloves before learn-ing about carbon dioxide with hands-on experiments during the workshop Saturday.
Comedian gets personal
ashLey MiLLer/staff photographerComedian Phill Hanley talks with a student in the audience while reading a monologue of the break-up with his ex-girlfiend, played by Britton senior Rebecca Unsicker, left, on Saturday night in the Bovee University Center Auditorium. About 50 people attended the show, however, Hanley took advantage of the small crowd by interacting with audience members.
SCIENCE | Children get experimental at workshop
Phil Hanley involves crowd during show
By Maryellen TigheStaff Reporter
Nineteenth-century thinker Benjamin Tucker once said “if the individual has a right to gov-ern himself, all external govern-ment is tyranny.”
This quote is inspirational for Anarchists without Adjectives, a new registered student organi-zation, said President Michelle Campbell. The Pierson graduate student formed the RSO this se-mester to raise awareness about anarchism, an ideology which regards government as harmful and unnecessary.
“It’s an educational group ... for education and discussion,” she said. “If someone wants to create a revolutionary group that wants to blow up the gov-ernment, they need to go some-where else.”
Group members are not re-quired to be anarchists, only in-terested in free speech and open dialogue, Campbell said.
Roseville junior Shanique Broom attended Tuesday’s meeting to learn more about Anarchism, a topic she wasn’t fa-miliar with. She said she appre-ciated the group’s open-minded philosophy.
“If everyone remembers
when we leave the meeting ... it will make the world a better place,” she said.
Campbell is a humanist anar-chist, an anarchist who wants to work for human rights and gen-der equality, she said. She likes anarchy’s ability to destroy sys-tems of repression, which was one of the problems she had drafting the RSO’s constitution.
“My constitution originally got denied because my non-discrimination policy was too non-discriminatory,” Campbell said. “Really, this constitution is ... operational. It’s really hard to have an egalitarian RSO if you’re required to have a hierarchy.”
Plans and goalsThe RSO plans to treat every-
one equally, and their constitu-tion acknowledges the positions are only created because they are required by CMU.
One goal of the group is to be involved in non-violent pro-cesses promoting anarchism, said Thomas Stewart, advisor for the group and assistant political science professor. The history of anarchism in the United States goes back to the very beginning of the country’s foundation, he said.
“The idea of being self-sover-
eign is definitely in the Declara-tion of Independence,” Stewart said. “The tenet that you’re born with inherent rights and no one can take them away unless you consent.”
Stewart’s PSC 371: Ameri-can Radical Thought and PSC 426: Feminist Theory classes helped inspire Campbell to form the RSO.
She wrote an essay combin-ing the two concepts and re-alized how little people know about anarchism.
“I came to be aware of the negativity and the people that were misinformed and com-pletely uninformed about anar-chism,” she said. “Once you get into it, it’s a valid ideology.”
There are two basic groups of Anarchists, Campbell said. The Anarchocapitalists would get rid of the government and let capitalism run free, but a more humanistic approach would fo-cus on creating individual, self-sustaining communities.
The second approach is the one Campbell would take, sum-ming up her thoughts in one question: “Would you give up Oreos if everyone in the world would have equal rights?”
New RSO started to raise government awareness
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“A lot of people are dig-ging deep into their hearts and pockets,” the Kent-wood freshman said. “We had one lady give us a 50 (dollar bill), and when we offered to give her a pair of shoes, she said she’d just rather it all went straight to the kids.”
TOMS Shoes is a com-pany that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need for every pair it sells.
Cole organized the event with the support of Moore Media Records and To Write Love On Her Arms, and brought in entertain-ers Chano, Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers, Zach Burger, Bloomill and Your Best Friend. Cole said Rub-bles allowed them to host the show for free.
The crowd stretched from the stage to the front and brought in a total of $1,043, which could pur-chase about 54 pairs of shoes. It was an achieve-ment TOMS Shoes CMU President Heather Burger, a junior from Lowell, said
was an exciting surprise.“We were only expecting
$500 at the most,” she said. “We’re already thinking about making this a yearly event because it’s been so successful.”
Cole credited the night’s success to people’s love of music, the talent of the bands and an attitude of generosity that caused many to give more than just the coverage donation.
Hertler, who brought his backing-band The Rainbow Seekers to perform with him, said he was impressed with the turnout.
“Last weekend (when we played) we had about 175 people out here, and it looks more packed than then,” the Orion senior said.
Nick Elder, drummer of Saginaw-based Your Best Friend, said he is a huge fan of TOMS Shoes and was happy to come out and support the effort.
“I have four pairs of their shoes,” Elder said. “I wear them all summer, abso-
lutely love them.”Brighton senior Beth
Wright said her favorite performances of the night were Joe Hertler and Your Best Friend. Wright is go-ing into the music busi-ness and was looking for performers interested in doing another concert, which she invited Hertler to afterwards. Wright has
watched Your Best Friend perform before and said she enjoys the melody of their music.
“They have a sound like Joe Hertler’s group that I’ve never heard before,” the Brighton senior said. “What I love about them is their harmony, it’s so unique.”
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Bloomfield Hills sophomore Chelsea Rabano, who performs under the name “Chano,” performs music from her upcoming album Saturday night.
photos by ViCtoria ZeGLer/staff photographerJoe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers perform a live set of music off of their upcoming album Saturday night during the Rock Your TOMS Off Benefit Concert at Rubbles Bar, 112 W. Michigan St.
Clarkston junior Kaity Jerolamon laughs with fellow members of CMU’s chapter of TOMS Shoes Saturday night during the Rock Your TOMS Off Benefit Concert.
RSO, local bands benefit TOMS Shoes at Rubbles Bar Saturday
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kaitLin thoresen/staff photographerSarah Lukens, her daughter Marina, 12, and fiance Lee Cater have a pillow fight. “We just try to enjoy the moments we can,” said Sarah, who tries to spend as much individual time with each of her children as she can.
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Event raises $1,043 in donationsBy Mike Nichols | Senior Reporter
The audience got its music, the bands got their audiences and the poor got shoes — everybody won.
CMU’s TOMS Shoes registered student or-ganization held a benefit concert from 7 p.m. to after midnight on Saturday at Rubbles Bar, 112 W. Michigan St. Terry Cole, RSO public re-lations executive, said the $5 cover charge was donated to help pay for Tiny TOMS, smaller shoes designed specifically for children, bound for Argentina.
bleed to death. She had no other choice but to begin chemotherapy while preg-nant.
“I was worried about the baby, but I had two other kids that also needed their mom,” Sarah said. “I had to do it for them.”
In January, three months after her diagnosis, Sarah gave birth to William, now 7, who was perfectly healthy. Sarah continued treatments and was soon in remission, but eventually relapsed. She would require a bone mar-row transplant and a stay in the Detroit Medical Center.
Sarah is now more than five years post-cancer.
“Everyone is great now,” Sarah said. “I thank God ev-ery day for the health of ev-eryone in my family.”
a helPing handHealth is not the only
thing the Lukens are thank-ful for these days.
About two years ago, Sar-ah ran into an old co-work-er, Edwina Clark.
Clark, Office Manager for the Isabella County Habitat for Humanity, told Sarah about a home that had been given back to the organiza-tion. The committee was trying to find a family to live in the house and Clark invited Sarah to apply.
“It’s a six-page applica-tion with a lot of financial questions,” Clark said. “The applicant is then chosen by the selection commit-tee of about seven to eight people.”
The committee first ap-proves the application and then conducts two to three interviews with the appli-cant and family.
The Lukens family was chosen to be a Habitat fam-ily after completing the pro-cess, but did not receive the home Clark originally told Sarah about.
After looking further into
that house, mold was found in the basement. Because of Rachel’s cystic fibrosis, they could not live there.
“They saw a need for a clean house for Rachel,” Sarah said. “By myself, I couldn’t give Rachel a mold- and dust-free house.”
With Rachel’s condi-tion, the family had always needed a new house, but it was beyond affordability. Habitat for Humanity could solve that problem.
My dent, My houseCosts are kept down be-
cause volunteers build the house.
The land it is built on is often donated or purchased inexpensively, though it still factors into the mortgage. Plumbing, electrical and mechanical work is usually contracted out, but Sarah had family and friends that were willing to do that work on her house.
Sarah said she was in shock of how giving people have been.
As part of the program, Sarah is also required to put 250 hours of equity into the organization. Those hours can be spent working on her own home, other proj-ects or working at the Habi-tat Restore.
“We like to call this a hand -up, not a handout,” Clark said.
Sarah has no problem with the equity require-ments. She said sometimes people take things for granted if they do not put in the work because they are not as invested.
“I put a dent on the back wall trying to hammer in a nail,” she said. “That’s my dent, and that’s my house.”
The house, located in Shepherd, is scheduled to be completed by the end of February or early March.
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“everyone is great now. I thank god every day for the
health of everyone in my family.”
Sarah Lukens, shepherd resident
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Monday
TickerThe Central Michigan Uni-
versity football program saw some familiar faces in the two championship games Sunday.
Former CMU defensive lineman and Green Bay de-fensive end Cullen Jenkins made one tackle and half a sack in the Packers’ NFC Championship win against the Chicago Bears.
Other notable Chippewas in the playoffs over the week-end included outside line-backer Frank Zombo (Green Bay), cornerback Josh Gordy (Green Bay) and wide re-ceiver Antonio Brown (Pitts-burgh).
Zombo was held out of ac-tion with a knee injury that he suffered during Week 14 against the Detroit Lions.
Former CMU stars in NFL playoffs
Ex-Colorado Avalanche star Peter Forsberg is con-templating a return to the team he once played for. The 37-year old has 249 goals, 217 with the Avalanche.
If he returns, it’ll be his third NHL team, but his third stint in Colorado. Fors-berg has been out of the NHL since the 2007-2008 season.
Forsberg considers returns to NHL
According to ESPN.com, Carson Palmer is demanding a trade out of Cincinnati. He’s spent all eight of his NFL sea-sons with the Bengals. He has 154 career touchdowns and has thrown for 22,694 yards. If Palmer indeed leaves Cin-cinnati, his brother Jordan Palmer would be next on the depth chart. Former CMU quarterback Dan LeFevour is the third string quarterback. Carson Palmer was the first pick in the 2003 draft out of the University of Southern California
LeFevour getting closer to a shot?
The Tampa Bay Rays agreed to one-year deals over the weekend with two well-known outfielders Manny Ramirez and John-ny Damon. Ramirez began last season as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers but was claimed off waivers by the Chicago White Sox. Damon was a part of the Detroit Tigers.
Ramirez, Damon back together
Gymnastics dominates Michigan-Illinois showdown
By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter
In the first annual Michigan-Illinois showdown on Sunday, the Central Michigan gymnastics team routed all three opponents to win the meet with a final score of
193.375.Facing off against Illinois
State (192.025), Illinois-Chicago (189.975) and Eastern Michigan (188.975) the Chippewas jumped out to wins in three of the four individual events and in the all-around.
Despite not reaching the desired score of 195 that CMU head coach Jerry Reighard had hoped his gym-nasts would notch this weekend, he was pleased with the perfor-mances of some of his upperclass-
men.“We certainly
had some high-lights and, overall, I felt our team per-formed very well,” Reighard said. “I am extremely pleased with (Andrea) de La Garza with a 39 in the all-around.”
De La Garza paced the team with wins in the vault (9.775), beam (9.825) and the all-around (39.025).
Junior Kristin Teubner continued her strong start to this season by winning the floor exercise with a score of 9.825 and finishing in third place in the all-around cat-egory (38.675).
Freshman Alyssa Wilson also made an impact in Sunday’s meet, finishing the day with a 9.775 score on the bars, something Reighard said the team was really counting on. Reighard was also able to utilize
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courtesy photo by katy joE dESantiS/state newsSophomore Christian Cullian winces during his match against MSU’s Eric Olanowski Friday at Genison Fieldhouse in East Lansing. Cullinan lost 8-3.
andrEw kuhn/staff photographerFreshman guard Derek Jackson goes up for a rebound against Eastern Michigan’s Quintin Dailey. Jackson scored 7 points on 2-of-10 shooting. CMU shot a season-low 23 percent Sunday, losing 41-38 against the Eagles.
By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
No. 11 Central Michigan needed just nine wrestlers to knock off Michigan State Friday, winning the dual-meet 19-18.
Normally, a victory is followed by a cliché quote on how well the team wrestled, but head coach Tom Borrelli was not pleased with his team’s performance over the weekend.
“We felt like we wrestled a little flat in the match, and we weren’t as crisp as we should
have been,” he said.CMU (4-7,1-0 MAC) fell behind early af-
ter sophomore Christian Cullinan lost an 8-3 decision to Eric Olanowski at the 125-pound bout. Cullinan came out on top in their first meeting at the Michigan State Open.
That would be MSU’s sole lead of the night, as Scotti Sentes and Scott Mattingly each earned bonus points at the 133 and 141-pound weight classes, respectively, to put CMU up 10-3. Sentes needed just 1:50 to pin his op-ponent, and Mattingly followed it up with his first major decision of the season.
“I think that was the difference in the dual meet,” Borrelli said. “Those guys picking up bonus points in the dual meet, but also Ryan
CMU holds on to beat Spartans, 19-18, for 10th consecutive win
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YPSILANTI – Ernie Zeigler was frank in describing his team’s play Sunday.
Following CMU’s 41-38 loss against Eastern Michigan Sunday afternoon at the Convocation Center, the coach said, “It was probably the worst offen-sive display in Division 1 history.”
Even with how poorly the offense played, freshman Trey Zeigler had an opportunity to tie it at the buzzer. He caught a pass at the 3-point line with two seconds left, dribbled left, rose over three draping Eagles and missed a shot that could have put the game into overtime.
“He got separation,” Ernie Zeigler said of the shot. “But it shouldn’t have come down to that.”
After only scoring 13 points and shooting a season-low 13 percent in the first half, CMU put together a come-back in the second half. Trailing by 15 points, Trey made two lay-ups before junior Andre Coimbra tipped in a miss, cutting the EMU lead to single digits.
Coimbra kept his moment, drilling a three and tip-ping another missed shot in. He finished the game with a career-high 12 rebounds and 10 points, his first career double-double.
“He battled,” Ernie Zeigler said of Coimbra’s perfor-mance. “He’s getting better, getting a double-double against the best post player in the conference (Brandon Bowdry).”
Trey, a freshman guard, helped climb CMU back with his 13 points, but it was on 5-18 shooting.
With less than 30 seconds left, CMU trailed by four points. Finis Craddock checked into the game and on his first offensive position he drained a deep three to cut the lead to one. After EMU hit both free-throws, CMU needed Trey to make a 3-poiinter to tie it.
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“It was probably the worst offensive display
in Division I history.”Ernie Zeigler, cMu head coach
CMU scores 193.375, beats Illinois State, UIC and EMU
Jerry Reighard
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Evgeni Nabokov was signed to a 1-year deal with the Detroit Red Wings, but the New York Islanders claimed the former Shark off waivers. Nabokov has yet to report to New York, and doesn’t plan to. “It’s nothing against the Islanders and their organization,” Nabokov told ESPN.com. “It’s just that I’m at the point in my career where I want to help a team win in the playoffs and I don’t see how I could help the Islanders or what I could do for them.” Dis-cussions will continue though the week.
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EMU 41, CMU 38 - Final statisticsScore by half 1 2 TotalCentral Michigan 13 25 38Eastern Michigan 21 20 41
Team totals CMU EMU FG-FGA 14-60 14-42Field Goal % 23.3 33.33-Pt. FG-FGA 4-15 3-153-Point % 26.7 20.0FT-FTA 6-12 10-16Free Throw % 50.0 62.5Rebounds 45 37Blocks 13 7Assists 6 9Turnovers 13 17Fouls 16 13Steals 10 3Bench Points 12 4Points in Paint 14 22Points off TOs 14 8
Game leaders
PointsTrey Zeigler (CMU) G 13 pointsDerek Thompson (EMU) G 11 pointsDarrell Lampley (EMU) G 11 pointsAndre Coimbra (CMU) F 10 points
ReboundsAndre Coimbra (CMU) F 12 reboundsJamell Harris and Brandon Bowdry (EMU)8 reboundsWill McClure (CMU) F 7 rebounds
BlocksJamell Harris (EMU) F 5 blocks
By Anthony FenechSenior Reporter
Tyler Stovall made the 45-minute trip last March from his Cincinnati-area home to Ox-ford, Ohio.
With his cleats hanging up after two years in the Cincin-nati Reds minor league system, the former Central Michigan outfielder said he just wanted to catch the Chippewas game at Miami University.
But during the game, Stovall realized he wanted something else.
“I decided I wanted to get into coaching,” he said.
So after the game, he pulled CMU head coach Steve Jaksa aside and, “Planted the seed in his head that I was interested in coaching.”
And this season, after trading e-mails and text messages with Jaksa in the offseason, Stovall will be back in Mount Pleasant to finish his degree and begin his coaching career as an un-dergraduate coach.
“He’s a welcome addition to our staff,” Jaksa said over the weekend. “We’re really pleased that he’s back.”
Stovall was the 2007 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, leading the conference with a .391 batting average and 55 RBI. He added 58 runs and 20 stolen bases and was drafted by the Reds in the 20th round of the 2008 MLB Amateur Draft.
In the Cincinnati organiza-tion, he advanced to Single-A, hit .266 in two professional seasons, and decided to pursue other opportunities after the 2009 season.
“Playing professional base-ball was a dream come true,” Stovall said. “I’m glad I did it for a couple of years.”
He graduated from Cincin-
nati’s Moeller High, the same high school that produced future Hall-Of-Fame outfield-er Ken Griffey, Jr., and played three seasons for the Chippewas.
“Being part of the team up here was probably the best part of going to school,” he said.
In addition to his coaching duties, Stovall is working to-ward completion of a personal finance degree. He was named second team academic All-American in 2007.
“I’m pleased not that he’s just helping, but getting his degree,” Jaksa said. “He was a solid play-er and he’s a solid thinker.”
Jaksa said Stovall will work mostly with the outfielders but will spend some time working with catchers as well.
“Anytime you can add a coach, it’s a win-win situation,” he said.
And Stovall sees it the same way.
“You feel so much responsi-bility,” he said. “[Coach Jaksa] and CMU did so much for my career. This is a great place to start for any young coach, but to give back is amazing.”
SimmonS addedAlso new to the Chippewas
staff in 2011 is Derek Simmons, who will work with infielders and give additional hitting in-struction.
Simmons graduated in May 2009 from Georgia State Uni-versity, where he was the first player in program history to earn all-conference honors twice in a career. He finished his career with top-10 marks in school history for batting aver-age, RBI, home runs and runs scored.
“It’s been great so far,” he said. “I’m very excited. It’s going to be hard work to defend our title, but this team is capable of not only winning the MAC Championship but also ad-vancing to NCAA Regionals.”
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Jaksa adds new assistants
CMU was limited to its lowest point total of the year because of the Eagles’ defen-sive pressure against Zeigler, who came into the game leading the Chippewas in scoring.
“He’s the only guy on their team that was playing today that averaged in double dig-its,” said EMU head coach Charles Ramsey. “We said let’s make other people beat us.”
The Eagles gameplan worked. EMU put its 6-foot-9 center Jamell Harris on Trey Zeigler for much of the game. Harris blocked five shots, three of those on Zeigler. The Eagles also doubled-teamed Trey Zeigler when he got the ball in the paint.
The problem for the Chip-pewas, however, remained their shooting game. They made only 14 of 60 shots, good for 23.3 percent from the field, a season-worst.
“It was so, so pathetic,” Zeigler said. “We were fran-tic, rushed on point-blank shots around the basket.”
CMU drops to 5-13 and 2-3 in the MAC. It hosts the
Miami RedHawks at 7 p.m. Thursday at McGuirk Arena.
Coimbra, CmU ShUt down bowdry
CMU remained in the game with its defensive effort, par-ticularly against EMU senior forward Brandon Bowdry, who came into the game sec-ond in the MAC scoring 20.3 points per game.
“They did a great job shut-ting him down,” Rasey said. “They did a great job bang-ing him around. They got (Coimbra) going at him, that was part of their gameplan.”
Bowdry finished with six points, a season low. Coim-bra played most of the game on Bowdry, but he got plenty of help from his teammates.
“Bowdry is the best post-player in the conference,” Ernie Zeigler said. “We knew we had to have him con-tained.”
Coimbra had multiple blocks on Bowdry and a steal. The Chippewas benefited as Bowdry got into foul trouble in the first half and sit out the final five minutes, allow-ing them to pull within single digits, despite a poor shoot-ing performance.
Bowdry’s six points were very important in the out-come of the game, though.
His first basket, made with 10 minutes left in the game, ended a 6-0 CMU run. His next two points came at the foul line two minutes later that ended a 7-0 CMU run.
His last bucket, a layup in traffic to give the Eagles a five-point lead, came with 2:54 left. The field goal followed a Derek Jackson 3-pointer that pulled CMU within three.
“He made a huge basket down the stretch,” Zeigler said.
NOTES: The 41-38 final was the lowest combined score of any MAC basketball game this year. ... CMU’s 38 points is the lowest point total ever for an EMU opponent. Western Ontario scored 39 against the Eagles in 1954. ... Ernie Zeigler said he is hopeful Jalin Thomas will be ready for Thursday’s game against Miami (OH). ... That’ll be my prayer this week. ... Andre Coimbra fouled out of the game with 1:50 left. He finished with 10 points, 12 rebounds, three blocks and a steal in 33 min-utes. ... Brandon Bowdry’s last game with less than six points was March 4, 2010, against CMU.
EMU | continued from 1B
Central Michigan’s per-formance on Sunday
can be classified as one of the worst offensive perfor-mances in the history of Division I men’s basketball.
Don’t shoot the messen-ger, either.
That’s straight from the mouth of CMU coach Er-nie Zeigler shortly after the team’s 41-38 loss at Eastern Michigan.
It’s easy to put part of the blame on the absence of se-nior forward Jalin Thomas. He is, after all, the Chippe-was’ second-leading scorer at 15.1 points per game.
But not even Thomas could have fixed this mess. This one needs a more ex-tensive explanation.
Zeigler wanted at least one win over the first three Mid-American Conference road games.
He got zero. Maybe the blame should start with a 13.3 percent shooting clip in the first half against the Eagles. It’ll be a cold day in Hell when shooting 4-for-30 from the field results in a win. Likewise when you go into halftime with 13 points, and your most efficient first-half shooter is forward Andre Coimbra, who made 1-of-4 shots.
Not a single CMU player made more than one field goal at this point.
And no, that’s not a joke.When you simply can’t
shoot the ball — a point pre-viously established earlier this season, but cemented Sunday against EMU — then it’s tough to speak of con-tending in the division, nev-er mind the conference.
It’s a trend that likely will result in missed expecta-tions, namely falling short of a MAC West title.
Clearly, the loss of sharp-shooters Robbie Harman and Jordan Bitzer to gradu-ation left CMU with a void. But this is rock bottom.
Zeigler was asked after-ward about the team’s strug-gles scoring the ball.
He took a deep breath, let out an exhale and even chuckled slightly. He seemed baffled.
His son and star freshman guard Trey Zeigler never found the groove he so rou-tinely has found over the past few conference games. He finished with a team-high 13 points, but 27.8 percent doesn’t cut it when
you’re the team’s most ex-plosive scorer.
The blame doesn’t fall alone on the freshman’s shoulders. At the end of the day, he’s still a freshman, and somebody — anyone, please? — has to pick him up from time to time.
He can’t be asked to score 27 and go on the tear he did in the second half against Northern Illinois.
It’s just difficult to defense this team putting up 66 in their previous game, and stooping to the level of a 38-point performance against Eastern Michigan.
And that speaks to the struggles of Eastern Michi-gan as well. Allow just 38 points and have to squeak away a win? The Eagles will take it, no matter how unim-pressive.
But this isn’t about EMU winning the game, as much as it is CMU giving this one away.
The Chippewas didn’t hit their first field goal of the second half until the 13:59 mark, cutting the deficit to 29-16.
Take a second to let that simmer. Sixteen points scored. Twenty-six minutes into the game.
Is there anything else to add?
andrEw kuhn/staff photographerSenior guard Antonio Weary looks on as CMU struggles offensively Sunday against Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti. Weary did not score, going 0-for-3, and had just three rebounds in the Chippewas 41-38 loss against the Eagles.
The offense is inept
Andrew StoverSenior Reporter
Relying solely on Trey is not going to win CMU games
Steve Jaksa
sophomore Britney Taylor in three of the meet’s events. Taylor finished the day with a third place finish on the vault, scoring a 9.725, and a 9.750 on the floor.
Reighard said his team’s inability to meet his desired score highly on not being able to utilize score-building during the events. Reighard said that falls during the beam was an example of lost momentum.
“We opened the door a few to many times, as far as getting that 195 thresh-old,” Reighard said. “When you look at it, we need to improve by two points, which basically is a tenth per routine.”
The beam event was one of the areas of struggle, Reighard said. With two falls in the rotation, the team struggled to score highly, fishing with a total of 48.350.
“That’s just gymnastics,” he said. “You have to be able to count on your team-mate, and right now we’re
just making some mistakes that are really affecting our total team score.”
However, CMU would make up for the low score in the remaining events, post-ing a 48.425 on the bars, a 48.375 on the floor and a 48.225 on the vault.
Senior Cheryl Conlin was held out of action this weekend due to a lower leg injury following a fall dur-ing practice last week.
Although able to par-ticipate, Reighard held the senior out of action as not to further exacerbate the injury.
Conlin tied for fist in the floor exercise (9.80) at Ball State on Jan. 14.
“We just played it really safe, so we didn’t use her,” Reighard said. “Which cer-tainly had an effect, but we were able to put some other people in and take a look at them.”
The Chippewas re-turn to action at 2 p.m. Sunday when they compete in their first home meet of the season at McGuirk Arena against Northern Il-linois.
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Central Michigan Life || Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 || 3B
By John ManzoStaff Reporter
A statement was made Satur-day afternoon.
The Central Michigan wom-en’s basketball team went into Anderson Arena in Bowling Green, Ohio, looking to be the first team to defeat Bowling Green at home.
Instead, it lost 90-62.The Falcons (17-2 overall, 5-1
MAC) had five players in double figures, including 16 points from senior forward Lauren Prochas-ka, the second leading scorer in the Mid-American Conference. BGSU was one point off its sea-son high of 91 points.
The win pushes the Falcons home court record to 10-0.
“We choked,” said CMU head coach Sue Guevara. “We didn’t match their defensive intensity and it was a pretty big setback today.”
After a career game from freshman forward Taylor John-son, the Falcons held her to 5 points on 2-of-6 shooting and kept her frustrated throughout the afternoon.
The leading freshman scorer in the MAC, guard Niki DiGuil-io, also had offensive woes. She went 0-for-3 from the field for 2 points in 37 minutes. In the win
After losing 90-62, Guevara says team ‘choked’
against Toledo on Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena, she was held to 2 points.
The Chippewas (12-6 over-all, 4-2 MAC) were figured to out-rebound a much smaller BGSU team. That wasn’t the case, as the Falcons held a 44-35 advantage.
The top two scoring offens-es in the MAC were set for an offensive show, but only one team provided it. CMU shot a
mere 31 percent from the field and went 3-for-18 from be-yond the 3-point line.
On a positive note for the Chippewas, senior forward Kaihla Szunko scored a game-high 27 points on 9-of-12 shooting and hauled down 9 rebounds in a losing effort.
“She played well,” Guevara said on Szunko’s performance. “When she went out with two fouls it was tough for us be-
cause you can’t win a basket-ball game with one player.”
Sophomore forward Brandie Baker scored 14 points, but took 19 shots to do so. She went 3-for-19 from the field, but did manage to make all six of her free-throw attempts.
CMU returns to McGuirk Arena at noon Wednesday when it hosts Buffalo.
File Photo by ViCtoria ZegLerJunior forward Skylar Miller drives to the basket against Toledo on Jan. 19. Miller scored 8 points and grabbed seven rebounds in Saturday’s loss at Bowling Green. CMU is 12-6 overall and 4-2 in the Mid-American Conference.
CMU suffers blowout loss at B.G.
GYM|continued from 1B
W o M e n ’ s B a s k e t B a l l
By Kristopher Lodes and Brandon ChampionStaff Reporters
The Central Michigan men’s and women’s track and field teams were in action Saturday afternoon at Michigan’s annual Simmons-Harvey invitational in Ann Arbor.
CMU had two women take home first-place finishes on the day, as freshmen Shawn-toreah Turk took first in the 400-meter dash with a time of 58.71. She also took second in the 200 meter dash. Se-nior Raeanne Lohner won the 3000-meter run with a time of 10:04.65.
“We had a solid meet with a lot of top five finishes,” said track and field director Willie Randolph.
During the field events, freshmen Kelly Morrissey fin-ished fifth in the pole vault with a height of 3.40 meters. Fellow freshmen Samantha Stein also finished fifth in the high jump, recording a height of 1.62 meters.
It was during the track events when the women shined. Se-niors Shanaye Carr and Britt-nee Shreve finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 60-meter hurdles. Senior Jordan Dunn finished third and fresh-men Kirlene Roberts finished fourth in the 60-meter dash.
In the long-distance runs, senior Danielle Dakroub fin-ished third in the mile while teammate sophomore Maddie Ribbant took fifth. In the 600-meter run, senior Alexandria Sissions finished second, junior Stephanie Hurley took third and freshmen Raquel Gibbs came in fourth. In the 800-meter, ju-nior Charnele Lyons finished second with a time of 2:16.21.
CMU’s main goal of the sea-son is winning the MAC cham-pionship at Bowling Green, where many athletes will be head next week for a meet.
“We still have work to do to get ready for the MAC champi-onships, because that is when it really matters.” Randolph said.
Senior thrower Whitney Johnson finished sixth in the
weight toss Saturday with a throw of 16.67 meters. Although she was unhappy with her per-formance, she still said the day was good for the team overall.
“We had a pretty good day, we had a strong showing in the sprints and hurdles,” Johnson said. “I am pretty happy where we are as a team right now.”
MenThe men also put together a
strong performance, with ju-nior long jumper Kevin Bacon winning with a season-best 23-foot jump.
In the throwing events, se-nior John Calvert took third in the shot put, finishing one spot ahead of sophomore Alex Rose.
Junior Josh Kettlewell cleared 15 feet, 7 inches, in the pole vault, his best mark of the sea-son.
High jumpers Andy Kruskamp and Jacob McDon-ald tied for second place with jumps of 6 feet, 2 1/4 inches.
The running events were highlighted by the performanc-es of a senior and a freshman.
Freshman sprinter Ross Par-sons continued to impress, winning the 20-meter dash with a time of 22.08 seconds.
“Ross is doing a great job,” Randolph said. “Even though he’s a young guy he’s really showing the others that fresh-man can come in and do some things too. It really motivates the team to see a young guy step up like that.”
The Chippewas also ben-efited from the return of senior Branden Post, who did not run in last week’s Chip Invite. Post won the 600-meter run with a career best time of 1:22.58.
The Chippewas are next in action when they travel to Bowling Green, Ohio, for a two-day meet beginning Friday.
“We had a solid meet with a lot of top five finishes and a few victories, but we still have a way to go,” Randolph said. “We are starting to come together as a team, but the real focus is to keep improving for the MAC. That’s when it really matters.”
Track and field teams show strong performance
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By Matt thompsonStaff Reporter
It felt like spring Friday morning as sun beamed through the Events Cen-ter atrium and on mem-bers of the Detroit Tigers.
The club came to Cen-tral Michigan University for a private “business over breakfast” event with the Mount Pleasant Chamber of Commerce as the days until spring training in Lakeland, Fla., draw closer.
“I think everyone is pumped,” Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge said during the event. “It’s the best I’ve felt in two years. I can go to spring training and just focus on baseball (two previous season had knee injuries). We got a good team.”
The players aren’t the only ones that expressed their excitement to the Chamber of Commerce crowd.
“With this team, we can get to the playoffs,” said Tigers Vice Presi-dent Al Avila. “We wanted to go out and get Victor Martinez from the get-go. We said we wanted to get Joaquin Benoit from the get-go.”
Avila had a busy off-season snagging both desired free agents. Mar-tinez was picked up from the Boston Red Sox af-ter hitting 20 home runs and driving in 79 runs in 2010. Benoit comes from the Texas Rangers, where he recorded a 1.34 ERA last season out of the bullpen.
Some young Tigers still want to prove that they belong on this team.
“I want to show what I can do this year,” said left fielder Brennan Boesch. “I want to show I can be consistent. … Spring training can’t come soon enough.”
Pitchers and catch-ers report to Lakeland on Feb. 13, with the first full-team work out on Feb. 19.
The CMU baseball and softball teams were two student groups that were invited to the Chamber of Commerce event.
“It was a good event,” said assistant base-ball coach Tyler Stovall. “You see those guys on the field, you don’t hear them talk. It was a good experience for our play-ers to see how to conduct themselves.”
AvilA gives projected lineup
During the event, Avila gave a glimpse of what the 2011 Tigers will look like.
Alex Avila and Victor Martinez are expected to split duties at catcher, while Miguel Cabrera re-
turns at first base.
S e c o n d base will be the most in-teresting sit-uation as an injured Car-los Guillen may not be ready to start at the begin-ning of the season. Backing him up is Scott Sizemore, Will Rhymes and Danny Worth. Jhonny Peralta (shortstop) and Brandon Inge (third base) round out the infield.
In the outfield, Magglio Ordonez and Austin Jackson will play in right and cen-ter field, respectively, while Ryan Raburn is the antici-pated starter in left. How-ever, Brennan Boesch, Clete Thomas and Casper Wells will also be right there in competition.
pickens returns to cMuTigers bullpen catcher
Scott Pickens came home today during the winter car-avan. As a catcher, Pickens was a captain on the 2002 CMU baseball team.
After spending a few years playing in the Frontier League, along with other minor league teams, Pick-ens came back to CMU as a coach. The Rosebush na-tive and Mount Pleasant High School graduate even recruited current assistant coach Tyler Stovall in his playing days.
“It’s really cool to see (Pickens),” said Kipke. “He’s does a lot for CMU. He’s a great spokesman for CMU
and is the closest we have to someone in the majors. He’s a great guy.”
CMU head coach Steve Jaksa was an assistant while Pickens played for the Chip-pewas, but brought Pickens on as an assistant coach when Jaksa got the head job.
“It’s good to see him come back today,” Jaksa said, af-ter explaining Picken’s CMU ties to the crowd before the Tigers arrived.
cMu teAMs excited for 2011
CMU baseball won the Mid-American Conference title and softball finished second in the MAC West division in 2010. Both programs are trying to build off that success heading into the 2011 season, which is set to kickoff next month.
Jaksa emphasized “the ability to repeat” during his speech to members of the Chamber of Commerce and invited guests. He stressed the importance of trying to defend their title.
“The ability to repeat is predicated on commitment, pride in performance and a certain attitude,” Jaksa said.
Softball coach Margo Jonk-er also had time to speak, ex-pressing her optimism for this upcoming season.
“This year is going to be a great year,” Jonker said. “I’m proud of our past and where we’re going. We have heart, passion and desire. We’re working hard in the weight room, conditioning and prac-tice. How can we not be suc-cessful?”
Fans get glimpse of 2011 Tigers team at local eventFormer CMU baseball player Scott Pickens returns
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Cubberly picking up the over-time win. Those matches were real big.”
Cubberly wrestled into a second overtime round be-fore finding himself on top of his opponent by 4-2 deci-sion. Senior Mike Miller and sophomore Ben Bennett each picked up decisions as the team split the last six matches of the contest.
“(Ryan) has been one of those guys who have really stepped in and picked up the program as far as doing what he needs to, and being a role guy,” Borrelli said.
With the match out of reach for MSU, the team did not wrestle junior Jarod Trice to close out the night.
“First of all, we’ve had had some injury issues with him a little bit this week,” Borrelli said. “We wanted to wrestle McClure, who’s their starter and ranked guy, but they didn’t send him out there. We decided it’d be best just to for-feit.”
The win was CMU’s 10th consecutive against the Spar-tans, improving the all-time series record to 13-13.
After two consecutive in-terstate matches, the Chip-pewas will play host to Old
Dominion at 2 p.m. Sunday at McGuirk Arena.
AshlAnd open
As 10 wrestlers headed down to East Lansing to compete in a dual-meet against MSU, 13 others traveled to Ashland, Ohio, to compete unattached at the Ashland Open Saturday.
Three wrestlers – redshirt freshmen Joe Roth and Kyle Waldo and junior Eric Cub-berly — all took first place in their respective weight class-es, and three others finished in the top six spots.
“We ended up with six plac-ers, but we had about nine guys really fighting all the way down to the last placings,” said graduate assistant Steve Brown. “We started a little slow, but everyone wrestled really tough.”
Brown said Roth has had some consistency issues this season, but he was opening up and really finding his shots.
His teammate, Kyle Waldo, has wrestled as a 125-pounder when he’s appeared in match-es this season, but moved up to 133-pounds for the event and finished first.
“Waldo, who was up to 133, looked 100 times better being up a weight class and he wres-tled really well,” Brown said. “Eric Cubberly went up to 165 and I think he’s looking a little fresher.”
Eric has bounced between
157 and 165 this season to fill in for injured Mike Miller and Adam Miller. He came into the contest with a 14-11 season record.
True freshman Ben Mat-thiesen took third place, knocking off Tyler Keslering, who finished fourth in the consolation round. Fresh-man Malcolm Martin fin-ished sixth.
Out of the 13 Chippewa wrestlers to participate Sat-urday, seven of them record-ed pins in the event – an un-usual occurrence.
“You don’t see (pins) much,” Brown said. “Some of the guys, they just caught fire and next thing I know I wasn’t standing in corners very long. Our guys were rolling people up in the first period and things just start-ed clicking for them.”
Although the event wasn’t an official tournament, the team found it to be useful.
“A lot of it’s confidence, and it helps them to be-lieve in themselves,” Brown said. “When they know that they’re out conditioning their opponents and their technique and training is starting to pay off, the next step is having them believe they can do that. It’s a mini goal; a mini step towards the larger scheme.”
MsU | continued from 4B
Photo courtesy oF Katy Joe Desantis/state newsSenior 165-pounder Mike Miller tries to gain position while wrestling Michigan State’s Ben Boudro on Friday at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing. Miller defeated Boudro 6-2.
By Jeff LaHayeStaff Reporter
Costly penalties and ques-tionable calls from the refer-ees proved to be the differ-ence Friday for the CMU club hockey team.
CMU went into its game against Grand Valley State on Friday looking to continue a season-high 10-game winning streak.
The chances of a win looked good early when it scored during the third shift of the game, but the Lakers quickly answered back with a goal of their own, tying the game at one.
In the second period the close game play continued and the team capitalized on a scoring chance to make the
score 2-1 entering the third period.
But it was the third period that cost CMU, as the Lakers scored four goals to pull ahead and earn a 5-3 win.
“The power plays against us really hurt us,” said head coach Mike Willett. “We should have beaten them and continued the streak.”
CMU played without team captain and scoring leader Jor-dan Jakubik.
To combat his loss, the CMU coaching staff switched up a couple of lines to better work the game plan.
“This game was a great opportunity to prove to the league that we could win with-out Jordan,” Willett said. “I’m not disappointed in the effort from the team, I’m just disap-pointed we couldn’t come out with the win.”
With their 10-game win streak snapped and the feeling of defeat in the locker room, the team was looking to get
their revenge Saturday when they were to play GVSU for the second time of the weekend.
There was just one problem, the game never happened.
Officially, the game was canceled due to weather and the Lakers’ safety on the drive home from the game Friday night.
Several CMU players, how-ever, have their own opinion on why the game was can-celed.
“I have never been so upset at another opponent in my life,” said junior Nick Badder. “They blamed it on the weath-er, but it was blue skies and sunny. They knew they were going to lose and didn’t want the loss to hurt their ranking.”
The current ranking period closed last Sunday and a win the day before could have given CMU a boost in the rankings. A make-up date for the game has not officially been set yet.
Power plays hurt team’s chance of continuing streak
Third period proves to be costly for CMU club hockey
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