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By Joe BorlikStaff Reporter
A college student’s life is busy enough without worrying about repre-senting an entire state, but Julie Claveau is eager to go for it.
The Scottville sopho-more is training to com-pete in the 2011 Miss Michigan Scholarship Pageant June 18 in Mus-kegon.
“It’s really exciting,” Claveau said. “If I were to win Miss Michigan, it would be a really great opportunity.”
Claveau qualified for the competition after winning the Miss Luding-ton Area Pageant in No-vember.
She will compete against 20 other women from all across the state. The win-ner will receive a $10,000 reward and $50,000 worth of scholarships, she said.
Claveau said she trains for about 10 to 12 hours a week and participates
in fundraising events and parades to prepare.
In It to wIn ItClaveau said the Miss
Michigan competition is divided into multiple parts: A 10-minute inter-view in front of the judges, an onstage question and answer session about her platform, the swimsuit and evening gown com-petitions and a 90-second talent performance.
She said she will play bass guitar for the talent portion of her perfor-mance.
Claveau said she has been in four pageants to-tal.
Her father, Dan Claveau, was the one who first en-couraged her to compete.
Dan Claveau said he had to miss seeing Julie win the Miss Ludington Area Pageant because he was sick with pneumonia and in the hospital.
Julie visited him in the hospital after she won, he said.
Dan Claveau said he will definitely be there this time.
“The only thing that will take me down is if I can’t walk,” Dan Claveau said. “I think she will do an extraordinary job.”
Julie’s roommate Steph-anie Jaczkowski, a Clinton Township senior, said she screamed on the phone with Julie in excitement
after hearing she won the Miss Ludington Area Pag-eant.
“Julie is a really great girl and works really hard,” Jaczkowski said. “I’m excited for her.”
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photos by sara winkler/staff photographerScottville sophomore Julie Claveau is in the running for Miss Michigan, a pageant to be held in June in Muskegon. She strongly supports her platform to raise aware-ness for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. As a music lover and member of the CMU Marching Band, Claveau played “slap bass” on the guitar for the talent portion of the pageant. “It’s about women being independent and hard working,” she said. “We can make a change in the world.”
Claveau is proud to be recognized in the four different categories the Miss Lud-ington Area Scholarship pageant values: Style, success, service and scholarship. She said she has had much support along the way from her friends as well as her relatives.
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By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter
The intersection of Preston and Mission streets will look different in the near future.
The vacant space, and former Pizza King building location, 714 E. Preston St. will be redeveloped into a single story retail building by the end of spring. The property, owned by Bobenal Investments, Inc. of East Lansing, has remained unde-veloped since a fire damaged the existing building in 2007.
Jerome Fine, general counsel of Bobenal Investments, Inc., said a representative recently appeared in front of the city and submitted a new site plan and a new concept for the vacated corner.
Bobenal Investments, Inc. was given site plan approval for the de-sign.
“It’s going to be retail,” he said. “We are now moving forward to locate tenants ... to look into con-struction costs and using those two things to try to gain financing.”
The planned building will stand close to Preston and Mission, with the long side facing Preston and parking located south of the fin-ished structure.
Jeff Gray, Mount Pleasant direc-tor of planning and community development, said the site plan was approved by the city because such a high quality plan was produced.
“It’s a little different than a typical strip mall,” he said.
The finished building will have multiple entries for the tenants and is expected to be close to 14,500 square feet.
Gray said the finished build-ing will not only cater to the city of Mount Pleasant, but also will be advantageous to CMU students because of its proximity to the uni-versity.
“The city is ... helping us to get a really high quality development on a key intersection in the city,” Gray said.
Fine said he is hoping construc-tion is completed by late spring of 2011. Names of potential retailers have not been released.
“We’re hoping that the economy will allow us to do this,” Fine said.
Retail stores will crop up at Mission, Preston cornerTenants still sought before planned spring opening
By Theresa CliftStaff Reporter
By the time Macomb freshman Justin Gawron-ski turned 18, he had won a lawsuit, donated $150,000 to charity and changed an international foundation.
Gawronski filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com in July 2009 for digital rights to a copy of “1984” by George Orwell. He purchased the book on Amazon.com the summer after his junior year of high school to read on his hand-held Kindle for his advanced placement English class. After own-ing the book for less than a month, Gawronski noticed
that Amazon.com deleted his copy because of a copy-right issue.
“I felt betrayed as a loyal customer to Amazon for a number of years and ... an early adopter of their flag-ship product, the Amazon Kindle,” he said.
Gawronski told his story in a comment he posted on a New York Times article online. He said he never expected anyone of impor-tance would ever read his comment or care.
But a New York Times re-porter read his comment and wrote an article about Gawronski’s experience. Lawyers from KamberE-delson, LLC, now Edelson McGuire, saw the article and reached out to him.
“What Amazon did was wrong and, more impor-tantly, allegedly illegal,” said Michael Aschenbren-
er, Gawronski’s attorney. “From a broader perspec-tive, I thought it was an important situation to help everyone in the public with the idea of digital rights, digital content and owner-ship.”
Gawronski said he was skeptical about filing a law-suit at first, but decided to go through with it after re-alizing his lawyers weren’t looking for monetary gains either.
“I thought it would bene-fit others,” Gawronski said. “The first thing we talked about was donating any money if we won.”
Gawronski said he hoped the outcome of Gawronski v. Amazon.com Inc. would “help propel the modern digital rights movement into a more ethical and trustworthy infrastruc-ture.”
The case was settled out of court and Gawron-ski was awarded $150,000. Amazon.com had to sign a legal document prohibiting the company from remov-
ing books wirelessly from Kindles once customers purchased them.
Customers who had the
Student’s lawsuit helps increase scope of digital rights
sara winkler/staff photographerWhen Macomb freshman Justin Gawronski purchased the book “1984” by George Or-well for his Amazon Kindle a couple years ago, he never thought it would lead to a lawsuit with the company.
Amazon.com ordered to change company policy
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BEAUTY and the BeatsCMU sophomore readies to compete in Miss Michigan competition
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By Carisa SeltzSenior Reporter
Colin Rheingans applied
to three universities, but ul-timately decided to come to CMU.
The Fenton resident chose CMU over the University of Evansville and Saginaw Valley State University because it was close to his hometown and he liked the sports management program.
“I figured it would be a fun place to be,” he said. “I liked the campus.”
Betty Wagner, director of ad-missions, said only the Univer-sity of Michigan and Michigan State University process more applications than CMU.
At this point in the recruit-ment cycle, CMU has received 13,441 freshmen and 797 trans-fer applications. Comparable data from last year’s recruit-ment cycle was not available before print, but Wagner said the number of applications re-ceived is higher than ever be-fore.
“Last year was the record number in terms of applica-tion flow,” she said, “but we’re on track for record numbers again.”
Of the 18,057 applications received during last year’s record-breaking recruitment cycle, CMU accepted 13,095 applicants and enrolled 4,173 freshmen for the 2010-11 aca-demic year.
Wagner said the number of applications at CMU has grown “dramatically” by about 1,000 a year since the onset of the de-cade.
Of the 12,100 applications received during the 2001 re-cruitment cycle, CMU accept-ed 9,422 students and enrolled 3,607 freshmen.
That is a 49.2 percent increase
Applications to CMU, nationwide could break recordsTrends show in-school increase of 49.2 percent since 2001
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w Incident at oglala: the leonard Peltier story viewing and discussion is at 1 and 3 p.m. in the Bovee University Center’s Multicultural Education Center.
w techniques for the singing actor is from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
w the wellspring literary series is from 7 to 9 p.m. at Art Reach on Broadway, 111 E. Broadway St.
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w there is a pottery sale from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Wightman 125A.
w school of music honors recital is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
w the symphony, university and campus bands will perform from 8 to 9:30 p.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
w midnight mind and body yoga will be from 10 to 11 p.m. in Kulhavi 145.
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By emily GroveStaff Reporter
Isabella County residents will notice changes in the operation of snow removal throughout the area this win-ter.
A millage for the county, which would have provided funding for some of its servic-es, was not adopted by voters in August’s primary elections.
In September, Tony Casa-li, county road commission manager, said they expected to make cuts around this time of year. He said they have ten-tative changes planned to re-main cost effective.
“We will no longer plow every road on the weekend, which is Friday night, Saturday and Sunday,” Casali said. “We are only plowing roads on the weekend that have a thousand cars or more, such as Broom-field or Meridian.”
In the past, Isabella County plowed about 460 miles of blacktop roads on weekends in the winter. Casali estimates between 150 and 160 miles of blacktop will not be plowed un-til Monday because they don’t see enough weekend traffic.
It is likely they will make ex-ceptions for more than four to six inches of snowfall, Casali said. They also will take into consideration ice and other weather conditions.
Previously, workers came in during the winter two hours early and stayed two hours late. They will do one or the other now, but not both in an effort to reduce overtime.
“We are trying to live within the means of our budget,” Casali said. “Services have
been reduced to try to conser-vatively save labor costs and also maintenance costs.”
To reduce costs further, brine and sand will be used on curves and hilltops instead of salt. These alternatives are extremely cheap compared to salt, although they don’t ac-tivate as fast, Casali said. Salt costs $60 per ton — almost double what it was five years ago. Casali said they will use salt occasionally, but not at a high volume.
Isabella County will not at-tempt a millage anytime soon, Casali said. Lincoln, Rolland and Coe townships attempted to pass their own millages this general election.
Rolland Township adopted its own millage specifically for roads in that area of the county. Township Supervisor Daniel L. Shaw said it was set up differ-ently when the county tried.
“The county set up the proj-ects they hoped to do,” Shaw said. “But the people didn’t agree with all the projects.”
This coming spring, Rolland Township will fix three miles of Costabella Avenue and Rolland and Blandchard roads.
The work will allow more peo-ple to utilize a bridge that has been avoided because the road is too dangerous, Shaw said.
Isabella County also reworked its winter weather equipment in order to have fewer break-downs. Snowplows now have side wings, which attach to the trucks, so they only have to do one pass, Casali said.
The county once had at least one truck and driver in each township, but they may have to overlap now because of a lack of resources. This will reduce response time, Casali said.
“We are prepared to do what we can with what we have,” he said.
Some county streets will not be plowed on weekendsRoad commission seeks ways to stay within budget
same issue as Gawronski also received compensa-tion. They either got their book restored, $30 or an Amazon.com gift card.
Gawronski said the $150,000 was donated to the Children’s Literacy Foundation because his lawyers thought it would be appropriate to donate
the money to an institu-tion that supports reading. He said he feels like he did the right thing and does not have any regrets.
“I suppose I would have used (the $150,000) for col-lege, but my intentions were never to keep any money, regardless of the amount,” Gawronski said. “I feel a lot more comfortable now pur-chasing things in a digital format and I truly believe the people at Amazon have learned from their mistakes
and this will prevent other companies from making the same one.”
The law firm also feels satisfied with the outcome.
“The case affected our reputation very positively,” Aschenbrener said. “Espe-cially because we did this for no fees, it showed every-one that we are really com-mitted to these interests.”
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sue they want to promote. Claveau’s platform is the VH1 Save the Music Foun-dation.
She has played clarinet for the CMU Marching Band for two years. She said compet-ing in pageants allows her to promote and raise money for music education.
“Music has always been my passion,” Claveau said. “I feel that it’s important for schools to have music programs despite the low budgets or low incomes they may have.”
She said she used to think of herself as a “band geek” until she went to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in middle school.
It was there, she said, she found many people who
share the same love for mu-sic she does. She said she re-mains friends with many of them today.
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Mount Pleasant residents Jennie and Eric Sehl look at their daughter Raylynn, 15 months, as they relax inside their home in Maple View Estates East mobile home park, 11025 E. Pickard St.
Eight-year-old Gage Sehl, left, shows his strength by lifting up his sister Destiny, right, while playing outside of their home in Mount Pleasant.
Gage Sehl, 8, sits outside of his home in Maple View Estates East mobile home park, 11025 East Pickard St., with his cousin James. The Sehl children frequently play outside their house with their cousins who live in the same park across the street.
Mount Pleasant resident Jennie Sehl, 30, sits with her daughter Raylynn inside her home as some of her friends converse with one another in the living room of her home in Maple View Estates East mobile home park, 11025 E. Pickard St.
A Small StruggleUnemployed couple relies on food stamps, benefits to support family of six
Living without a vehicle is just one of the difficulties the couple, who have been mar-ried for two years, dealt with re-cently. They moved from Alma to Maple View Estates mobile home park, 11025 E. Pickard St., about a year ago because it was more affordable.
Jennie lost her job a few months ago as employee at an Adult Foster Home in Ithaca, where she worked for five years to support her family.
“When she worked,” Eric said, “I stayed home with the kids.”
Eric lost his license when he was 18 and has worked to get it back. Also unable to find a job, he and Jennie now depend on Medicare, food stamps and un-employment benefits to support themselves and their four chil-dren.
The Sehls also have had sup-port from friends and fam-ily members with things such as transportation and shopping.
“We’ve got friends, we’ve done it for everyone else, they can do it for us,” Eric said, laughing.
The love Jennie and Eric have for their four children helps them overcome their obstacles.
“I like it when they’re having a good day,” Jennie said. “Even the small stuff, seeing them smile; that’s the best part.”
Jennie and Eric are not dis-couraged about their finances. Despite stress from efforts to support their family, they stay positive and enjoy their lifestyle.
“We don’t really struggle,” Eric said. “A lot of people have it a lot worse.”
It was a typical day.Racing around her home on Sunday afternoon, Mount
Pleasant resident Jennie Sehl, 30, rushed to dress her 6-year-old daughter Destiny, who had a fever above 103 degrees, to go to the hospital.
With Destiny being her main concern at the moment, Jennie was ready to leave. But she had one problem slowing her down. Neither her or her husband Eric, 24, own a car.
Photos and story by Sara winkler | Staff photographer
CMU’s annual tuition of $10,380 is $1,457 less than University of Michigan and only $800 less than Michigan State University.
In years past, CMU has been con-sidered an inexpensive alternative to these more expensive universities for in-state students considering where to go to college.
The question then becomes whether CMU’s quality of education comes as close to these other schools
as its price-tag does.If CMU can hardly, if at all, market
itself as an inexpensive alternative to larger in-state universities, what is the draw for students to enroll here, instead of one of the comparable, but cheaper, schools such as Eastern Michigan University or Grand Valley State University?
With a hefty tuition cost com-pared to the national average, EMU’s $8,378 or even GVSU’s $9,088, CMU’s
money is being funneled into novelty rather than improving the quality of education.
While opening the College of Med-icine, building the new Events Center and the Education and Human Services building, the university has made clear they are trying to attract potential students with what is flashy and new, rather than strengthen and support the programs and facilities that are already there.
While the university is focusing on expansion, growth and novelty, how much expansion and support have the core programs of the university gotten? When was the last time a major addition was made to the English department? How much ef-fort has been put into improving the education program, instead of just the building it is taught in?
Quite simply, if CMU wants to be priced like a major state university,
it should be a major state university. It should focus on strengthening the curricula of the programs that are in place and making them the best they could possibly be.
As CMU is one of three universities currently building a medical school, along with Oakland University and Western Michigan University, and the Detroit Free Press’s Nov. 21 editorial blasting the medical-school trend in the state with an appeal to Gov.-elect Rick Snyder to consider stopping it, this direction may not work out for CMU.
Even as dedicated to the College of Medicine as they are, they need to focus on strengthening the rest of the university’s programs to the quality of a $10,000-a-year school or decrease the cost of tuition.
Otherwise, CMU may be a large cluster of very nice, very empty buildings within several decades.
“(Ke$ha) is not my type of artist so I don’t plan on
going.”Benjamin Work-
man, West Bloomfield
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“I definitely plan on going. It’s cool
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“I don’t plan on going.”
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President Obama organized a fiscal commission back in February, com-posed of 18 members and tasked with crafting a solution to America’s long-term debt problem.
Its full report is not due until Dec. 1, however the co-chairs of the commis-sion released a plan of their own a few weeks early.
Having had a couple of weeks to digest the early proposal, it is prudent to reject it out of hand as a non-starter.
The co-chairs’ proposal calls for reducing Social Security benefits for future retirees, increasing the retire-ment age to 70, cutting the top income tax bracket from 35 to 23 percent and slowly reducing military spending. There are smaller proposals too, but these are the major ideas.
First to be discussed is the obvious — that the tax cuts for the richest 1 per-cent of income earners is being paid by making middle-class America work for more of their life. When they do retire, their benefits are reduced. The rich get richer, everyone else works harder. No one should take this seriously.
An argument is being made that Americans are living longer, so raising the retirement age makes sense. The counterpoint, to paraphrase Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krug-man, is it is like telling a janitor she has to work until she is 70 because lawyers are living longer than ever.
Asking people who work for their paychecks to work even longer is fun-damentally unfair.
The next idea is that the top income bracket, those who make $250,000 or more annually and which represents just 1 percent of the American popula-tion, should have their taxes eventually lowered down to 23 percent from the current 35 percent. Their reasoning is that those lower taxes will stimulate job growth, and each job will pay taxes.
The problem with this is twofold. First, they provided no evidence for the claim that lower taxes on high-income brackets create jobs, or even that it is the best alternative. Secondly, there is in fact evidence that lower taxes for the wealthy do not improve job growth, with the painful example being the tax cuts President Bush pushed early in his presidency. Looking through findings from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics makes it clear that compared to either President Clinton or President Obama, President Bush’s policies had an atro-cious job growth record.
If lower taxes on Paris Hilton does not create jobs, then it is only logical to conclude those cuts will serve no pur-pose other than blowing a giant hole in the federal debt.
To their credit, the co-chairs took a realistic look at military spending.
Including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America spends more on military and defense spending than the rest of the world combined. The co-chairs want to cut from new weapons and no-bid contracts, however they disappoint by putting non-combat compensation on the table. Even if a military member is not on the ground they deserve a hero’s paycheck.
Hopefully the Dec. 1 report is signifi-cantly more serious about debt reduc-tion, and less willing to shaft the middle class in favor of the wealthy.
As the semester comes to an end, I find myself reflect-ing on my college experi-ence, both what I could put into it and what I want to get out of it.
If there is one thing that could be improved that would in turn improve my daily life on the whole, it is the experience of using on-campus public restrooms.
My entire life has been plagued by the horrors and smells of male bathrooms. I will air my grievances in hopes that CMU facilities and dude-peers will take note.
I would first like to praise Java City for using Pro-Link odor neutralizers and be-dazzling the male bathroom with periwinkle and lagoon tiles. I never have more pleasant visits to bath-rooms in Mount Pleasant. It’s like walking into a zesty orange-scented art gallery, and leaving rejuvenated by the experience. They always have soap and for use high-speed, energy-efficient hand dryers, too.
The Towers and Moore and Anspach halls could particularly take from Java City’s example. Though I can handle cement walls and eco-damning paper towel dispensers, their chambers reek. Though I love Java City’s “Zesty Orange,” I wouldn’t mind a “Sparkling Wind” or “Ocean Mist” scent in these cases.
Also, facilities man-agement needs to check regularly to see if soap dispensers are empty. I do not think guys report it. It is gross enough seeing how many guys walk out with-out washing their hands anyway.
CMU facilities could also take example from Amster-dam’s airport. During a long layover, I reveled in AMS’s stalls’ seclusion and sound-proof walls.
Here, I can hardly take care of my business in private. I much prefer stalls that block us from seeing each other going to the bathroom to makeshift dividers. Besides rectify-ing the stinking pandemics and soap droughts, CMU male bathrooms need a little more privacy built into them.
Men’s restroom prob-lems extend beyond CMU’s responsibilities. Guys, wash your hands and please, wipe up the water you splash everywhere in the process.
We all play a part in pro-viding each other positive bathroom experiences. I hope next semester will be bountifully filled with them.
Editor’s note: The following com-ments were left on “Ke$ha to perform February 25 at Central Michigan University Events Center’s first con-cert” on cm-life.com.
Alfie said:6:56 p.m. Nov. 22
Ke$ha is a terrible musician. She stole her style from Uffie. I was really hoping Ke$ha would be a one-hitter, but I guess not.
Anonymous said:7:08 p.m. Nov. 22
We couldn’t get somebody who actually has talent?
Amanda said:10:55 a.m. Nov. 23
Eh I probably won’t go, all of her songs sound the same
Lulz said:12:37 p.m. Nov. 23
From Satan himself.
Beth said:10:34 a.m. Nov. 25
Ugh likes this ugly piece of garbage is beyond me. She looks and acts just like degenerate trash jersey shore. She looks like she smells like stale fish.
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Central Michigan life || Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 || 5A
By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
The transitions from bat-tlefield to campus and sol-dier to student can be dif-ficult, but a new registered student organization on campus wants to help.
CMU is home to a new chapter of Student Veterans of America, a nationwide as-sociation that aims to pro-vide a way for student veter-ans to network and discuss issues pertaining to their success.
Ithaca senior Randy Odem, treasurer and co-founder of the RSO, is eager to give vet-erans a voice on campus.
“CMU lacked veteran rep-resentation in the past,” Odem said. “Veterans of America will make life easier for those coming back by giving them a place to gath-er and get informed.”
President and co-founder of the RSO Philip Gerhardt said the association is at its beginning stages and it will continue to grow.
“Right now, it’s more about getting the word out,” said Gerhardt, a Mount Pleas-ant senior. “Eventually, we want to expand to the com-munity with volunteer work, as well as creating a lounge area where the veterans can gather.”
As a veteran himself, Ger-hardt is grateful to take part in putting together an orga-nization that will ease the transition for students com-ing back.
The RSO’s first goal is to increase awareness and ac-quire funds. Through fund-raising events, Facebook advertising and campus chalking, they hope to in-crease the amount of regis-tered members.
Veterans of America works with the Veterans’ Resource Center in providing students with the resources and infor-mation needed for their suc-
cess at CMU. This includes financial aid and benefits granted to them by the up-dated GI Bill.
Odem also stressed the importance of the timing in which the RSO was es-tablished. With the updated GI Bill, which opens more doors for veterans to attend college, there will be an in-crease in soldiers on cam-pus.
Veterans of America is not an exclusive association. The team encourages any-one who is interested in the cause to join.
Steve Rellinger, academ-ic advisor and advisor for CMU’s Veterans of America, is happy to be part of the new addition to campus.
“It takes a core group to keep things moving forward, and we have that,” Rellinger said. “Now, it’s just a matter of showing our face to the community and continuing forth with our mission.”
new group helps veterans’ transition to campus lifeRSO welcomes all interested in cause to join
By Maryellen TigheMetro Editor
This was Taylor Owens’ first Black Friday shopping experi-ence.
The Clare High School se-nior and his mom, Karen, were at the front of the line at Kmart, 2125 S. Mission St.
“I would never allow my kids to do this until they got older,” Karen Owens said. “My husband and my other two are at Wal-Mart getting a com-puter.”
The Owens were chatting with Mount Pleasant residents DeDe Buerkel and Joy Kinney during the pre-dawn hours.
The stores have gotten more organized, making it easier for the customers, Buerkel said, but that did not help her find everything she wanted this year.
Buerkel was looking for a Nintendo DSi for each of her daughters. By the time the store had opened, all the slips for DSi’s were given out, one per person, so Buerkel would have to wait another hour to see if there were any left.
“You’ve got to be polite to the workers,” she said. “Plus, I love looking at the crowds and watching people.”
Their experiences were re-peated across the city and the country as thousands waited in line Friday morning to take part in Black Friday deals.
Mary Robinson waited for over three hours outside of Target, 4097 E. Bluegrass Road, to get a new television.
Heather Hamburg and LeeAnna Robinson were in line with Mary Robinson, all of whom drove in from Vest-aburg. The trio planned to go to Bath and Body Works, Me-
nards and Staples after leav-ing Target.
“We didn’t go to sleep at all,” Hamburg said Friday. “(I am) as soon as I get home.”
The promise of deals was overshadowed for some peo-ple by the promise of friend-ship. Melissa Chambers, Mon-ica Chambers and Johnny Loomis, of Weidman, met Dal-las Chinn and Alba Monroe, of Alma, waiting in line.
The two groups discovered they could divide and conquer their lists, each of them pick-ing up items for the other. The Chambers and Loomis were focusing on children’s toys and other Christmas gifts.
“Look how dedicated I am to Xboxes,” Loomis said. “San-ta works hard.”
He and the Chambers had already been to Wal-Mart, 4730
Encore Blvd., and they had their route choreographed for when the store doors opened at 4 a.m.
“You get your map studied, usually plan it out before,” Monica Chambers said. “Don’t bring a cart, I learned that the first year.”
As the doors opened and the crowed swelled in, Chinn and Monroe took off running to the electronics counter. Chinn grabbed a Nintendo DSi and a copy of Halo: Reach before stepping in line.
He was joined by the Cham-bers and Loomis.
“See, just like that, bam,” he said. “I sprinted all the way back here, (past) two old la-dies, they both had carts and TVs.”
B L A c k F r I d Ay
Local residents turn early bird for discount merchandise
photo courtesy of MctShoppers gather in line outside of a store as they wait for Black Friday sales to begin.
By Sherri Keaton Staff Reporter
A national search has produced three dean final-ists for the College of Hu-manities and Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Robert Pratt, a history professor at the University of Georgia; Russell Ganim, chairman of the Depart-ment of Modern Languages and Literatures at the Uni-versity of Nebraska-Lin-coln; and Pamela Gates, the interim dean of CHS-BS since 2009, were all named as finalists in a press release.
“The search commit-tee has identified three individuals to be inter-viewed on campus and it is important for faculty and staff to meet the can-didates and attend the fo-rums,” Gates said.
Gates’ forum is from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in
the Bovee University Cen-ter’s Maroon Room.
Ganim said the job really interests him.
“I want to get to know ev-ery constituency involved in our college and work with them to move them forward,” Ganim said. “Central is a school that re-ally appeals to me … and I want to help Central do something bigger.”
Ganim’s forum is from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Dec. 6 in the Bovee University Cen-ter’s Maroon Room.
Pratt was unavailable for comment. His forum is from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tues-
day in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Room.
national search narrows down college dean finalistsForums scheduled for CHSBS position
Dean forums
w Robert Pratt - 2:30 Tues-day in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Roomw Russell Ganim - 2:30 p.m Dec. 6 in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Roomw Pamela Gates - 2:30 p.m. Dec. 7 in the Bovee University Center’s Maroon Room.
“you get your map studied, usually plan it out before. Don’t bring a
cart, I learned that the first year.”Monica Chambers, alma resident
By Ryan Czachorski Senior Reporter
Shannon Marie Kelly was been identified as the victim of a fatal car accident last week in Mount Pleasant.
The 26-year-old Mount Pleas-ant resident died Tuesday night after the Ford Taurus she was riding in was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of East Blue Grass Road and Encore Boulevard.
“At this point, we’re dealing with a head-on left turn crash,” said State Trooper Don Dutcher.
The Taurus was traveling west on Blue Grass and attempted to make a left turn into the Union Commons shopping center at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. It was struck by the pickup while at-tempting the turn.
Dutcher said there was some debate about whether the light was yellow or red and the con-fusion may have caused the ac-cident.
The driver of the pickup truck, a female, was not hospitalized. Dennis Corser was driving the Taurus and was transported to
Central Michigan Community Hospital, said Sgt. David Kaiser. Corser was not listed as a pa-tient at CMCH as of Wednesday morning.
Police blocked off portions of both roads for nearly an hour and a half with traffic cones and
flares as they cleared the wreck-age and gathered evidence.
“Once the paperwork’s been completed, it’ll be sent over to the prosecutor for review,” Kai-ser said.
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Joe Tobianski/staff photographerA towing service employee sweeps up the glass at the scene of a fatal car crash on the intersection of East Blue Grass Road and Encore Boulevard Tuesday night. Two cars were involved in the crash, resulting in the death of a woman in what was described as “a head-on left turn crash” by State Trooper Don Dutcher.
sean proCTor/assistaNt photo editorMichigan State Police Trooper Mike White inspects the damage of the Ford Taurus in-volved in a fatal accident Tuesday night at the intersection of East Blue Grass Road and Encore Boulevard. Shannon Marie Kelly, 26, of Mount Pleasant was killed in the accident.
By emily GroveStaff Reporter
Several new business ven-tures, including a new restau-rant and bar/nightclub, could make their way into Mount Pleasant.
On Thursday, a Planning Commission public hearing will help determine the future of five proposals. Three of the proposals involve new dining establishments for the area.
A special use permit is re-quested for a restaurant and bar/nightclub on South Mis-sion Street. City documents show the business is proposed as a 3,500-square-foot facility and could potentially create 28 employee positions.
Mayor Jim Holton hopes to expand Mountain Town Sta-tion, 506 West Broadway St., on the northeast side of the restaurant.
“I’ve had the idea for two years now, but the economy scared me a little,” Holton said. “Now is the time to move for-ward.”
The expansion would add a fine, upscale dining compo-nent to the restaurant, he said.
It would look different and have a different menu, though it would still tie into the train theme of the eatery, Holton said. Mountain Town Station does not take reservations now, but he said the additional restaurant would almost re-quire them.
“I see this as a restaurant for special occasions like anni-versaries, engagements, birth-day parties, maybe a business partner or client is in town,” Holton said. “This will have a quieter atmosphere than the rest of Mountain Town.”
A bed And bistroJean Prout, owner of Cen-
tennial Hall, 306 West Michi-
gan St., has plans to open a bed and bistro called The Ginkgo Tree Inn, 309 N. Main St.
The vacant Victorian house would be renovated inside, complete with a library, five bedrooms and eight bath-rooms, and a restaurant open to the public as well as guests.
“This would be another fea-ture and historical element for downtown,” Prout said. “I want to attract people to Mount Pleasant, have them feel at home and decide, ‘Let’s just stay here tonight.’”
She hopes to help draw peo-ple to Mount Pleasant for eat-ing and shopping opportuni-ties available by giving visitors a place to stay close to down-town.
The original building for The Ginkgo Tree Inn is zoned as an office. A restaurant/inn is cur-rently not allowed in that dis-
trict.“If the rezoning is approved
at the hearing, the next step would be going to the city commission,” said Jeff Gray, director of planning and com-munity development.
The two other projects on the agenda are to build new housing on Main Street for stu-dents.
Olivieri Homes proposed demolishing an old building at 1001 S. Main St., in order to construct a new building for 12 occupants. The building would be for registered student orga-nizations.
Tim Driessnack, who owns several rental units in the area, wants to construct a two-unit rooming dwelling for up to 8 occupants at 1029 S. Main St. The units could have four oc-cupants in each.
Public hearing will decide fate of proposed businesses, expansion
P l a n n i n g C o m m i s s i o n
Approval of bar/night club, bed and bistro requested
By Michael L. HoffmanStaff Reporter
CMU will get a little sleazier in February when hip-hop star Ke$ha swings through Mount Pleasant as apart of her “Get Sleazy” tour.
CMU Program Board Presi-dent Steve Lewis said Ke$ha will be the first concert at the new Events Center on Feb. 25, 2011 and he expects her to draw quite the crowd.
“We are hoping she sells the place out,” the Allegan junior said.
He said the Program Board does not know who the open-ing acts are yet because Ke$ha has yet to announce the full lineup for the “Get Sleazy” tour.
Lewis said tickets will go on sale Friday for students and will be priced at three different
levels: $20 for lower tier seats, $16 for middle-level seats and $13 for higher-level seats.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Dec. 9, he said, and are priced at $25, $20 and $16 depending on seat lo-cation.
New York graduate student Colin Walker said he isn’t sure if he is going to go to the show or not.
Walker said he thinks it is “really cool that CMU could bring a main-stage act like that to campus.”
“If a lot of my friends de-cide they want to go maybe I will,” Walker said. “But that is the only way I go to concerts typically, because it’s better amongst friends.”
Marcus Freeman said he does not plan to “Get Sleazy” with Ke$ha, especially because of how fast tickets will sell out.
“Tickets will sell out before I even think about it,” the Roch-ester sophomore said. “The same thing happened with
Demetri Martin.”Lewis said the decision to
bring Ke$ha to campus was not solely that of the Program Board, but that it received in-put from other organizations on campus.
“It wasn’t just our decision,” Lewis said. “We talked with different Greek organizations, (Minority Student Services), and athletics and all the stu-dents associated with them.”
Lewis said Program Board wasn’t originally planning on bringing Ke$ha to campus, but her schedule made it an easy decision.
He said that other acts con-sidered were Wale, 3OH!3 and Bruno Mars, among others.
“(Ke$ha) kind of fell into our laps, actually,” he said. “It worked out completely perfect for us, she is playing in Chicago the day before and in Detroit the day after, so it worked out great.”
Ke$ha will be first performer in Events Center this FebruaryTickets go on sale Friday
Mount Pleasant woman identified as victim in fatal two-car crash
in applications, 39 percent in-crease in admissions and 15.7 percent increase in enrollment between the 2001 and 2010 re-cruitment cycles.
A nAtionwide trendAccording the Chronicle of
Higher Education, the college-bound population and the number of schools to which students apply has increased nationally.
Wagner said enrollment lev-els are increasing nationwide because students understand the value of a degree in hard economic times.
“I believe more and more students ... understand the val-ue of an education, not only in obtaining a job but in gaining promotions (and) understand-ing the world,” she said. “It’s common for students to apply to five or six schools.”
Wagner said students ulti-mately chose CMU because of the quality programs, fac-ulty involvement in the recruit-ment process, scholarships and financial aid, and positive feedback from friends that at-tend.
“We hear from a lot of peo-ple that our location and the beauty of the campus are rea-sons (for choosing CMU),” she said. “If you talk to students, they’ll tell you it was the right
fit.”Wagner said the College of
Medicine also is a reason CMU continues to get positive pub-licity.
Jane Matty, interim dean of the College of Science and Technology, said the number of chemistry and biology majors has increased since the College of Medicine was approved.
“(The College of Medicine) is bringing in more students to Central Michigan University,” she said.
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By Heather HillmanSenior Reporter
Jason Gagnon’s obsession with fashion started at a young age.
When the Riverdale junior drew comics as a child, it wasn’t a person’s face or dia-logue that he loved drawing — it was their clothes.
Gagnon, who has a double major in apparel design and merchandising with a minor in art, said attending hair school after high school re-kindled his love for fashion, and he decided to come to CMU and pursue it.
“My favorite part of fash-ion is being able to bring something you actually thought of to life,” Gagnon said. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. It took a long time for me to know exactly what to do with life but I have finally found it.”
With a cousin who’s a tai-lor and a mother and grand-mother who both knew how to sew, Gagnon said he has been sewing since he was a teenager.
Gagnon creates every as-pect of his clothing from be-ginning to end, from sketch-ing the idea to sewing and seeing the final product on the runway. It’s not uncom-mon to stay up until 4 a.m. or 7 a.m. planning every detail of an outfit, Gagnon said.
“I like to dress a girl who likes to blend art with a little bit of mystery and a good time, all while looking classy,” Gagnon said. “No Ke$ha moments here.”
Gagnon is one of two stu-dent producers this year for Threads, a fashion group on campus which allows stu-dents to do fashion shows and display their designs.
Gagnon said Threads will be hosting a fashion week in mid-April where he will not only help run the show but
feature an 8-piece collec-tion, meaning he will dress 8 models from head to toe.
For this show, he will be showcasing a spring/sum-mer line which fog helped inspire, Gagnon said.
“I’m taking fog and making it into a fashion statement,” Gagnon said. “I like the mys-tery of fog so I really wanted to play with the mystery and make it really romantic.”
Gagnon said his signa-ture piece is a sophisticated little dress. Romantic, girly items such as petals, lace and bows are all things he loves to incorporate to his pieces.
Outside of fashion, Ga-gnon works as a hair dresser part time and has done hair for four years now.
Elizabeth Goss is one of many people to have her hair done by Gagnon. The California graduate student
said he is very talented.“Very creative and really
knows how to work well with color and how to create a shape within the hair that complements the face,” Goss said. “He has a great eye for knowing what will work and creating things out of raw materials.”
As far as fashion goes, Goss described Gagnon’s style as “classically elegant with a feminine twist.”
In the future, Gagnon said he hopes to first work under more experienced designers before hopefully owning his own line and showing at a real fashion week.
“When you see your gar-ments out there for three minutes on the runway, it’s amazing,” Gagnon said. “Those three minutes are what you live for.”
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sara winkLer/staff photographerRiverdale junior Jason Gagnon poses with a clothing piece he is working on for a class in Wightman Hall. Gagnon is an art major who plans to use his passion for fashion and design in his future. “It’s just pretty much my creative outlet, it’s kind of like sculpture for me,” Gagnon said. He said he dreams of working for a designer after he graduates and eventually starting his own line.
Flair for
Fashion
By Maryellen TigheMetro Editor
Wyatt Card is going to get a new hand-held Nintendo from his grandmother this Christmas.
“I thought he was young, but Grandma knows best,” said the Mount Pleasant 6-year-old’s mom, Elizabeth Card.
Card put accessories for her son’s Nintendo and books she bought on layaway at Kmart, 2125 S. Mission St. She heard the store offered layaway and, though she hasn’t used the service in years, decided it would help her budget this Christmas.
“It’s nice to feel like I can provide for the kids and not feel so stressed out during the holidays,” Card said. “I don’t have to wait to the next to last paycheck before Christmas.”
Lawaway, a program allow-ing consumers to store their items and pay in installments, was popular in a pre-credit card economy. But many be-lieve the recent recession has fueled a resurgence of the service.
“For an old service, it is relatively new, coming back into consciousness,” said Tom Scott, Michigan Relators Association vice president of communications.
Card will make monthly payments at the Kmart store until she pays for her items.
Kmart Manager Cheri Holden said nearly everyone pays for their items on lay-away and if they do not, it is usually because they forgot about their purchases. Kmart is one of many stores which offer layaway at Christmas
time and year round.“People don’t want to do
charge cards,” Holden said. “(It’s) a huge business for us. We have a lot of people that use it (and) it doesn’t matter their status in life.”
Holden said most people pay off their bill and pick up their purchases, unless they forget the item. Before Thurs-day, the store had already surpassed the number of items placed on layaway for the entire year of 2009.
Ace of Diamonds sees a spike in the number of people placing items on layaway as the days get closer to Christ-mas.
Most layaways at Ace of Diamonds, 128 E. Broadway St., are men placing jewelry on layaway so the people they buy it for don’t find it, said owner Kriss Roethlisberger. It also helps them avoid the temptation of giving the gift early. Usually, she said, the items are in layaway for just a couple weeks before people pick them up.
“We probably have be-tween 100 to 150 layaways,” Roethlisberger said before Thanksgiving weekend. “In three weeks, it will be double the size it is now.”
Roethlisberger said she is flexible on layaway payment terms, as long as people are paying each month.
This is the first holiday season Sears, 1400 S. Mis-sion St., has offered layaway. Most of the people who pur-chase items at their store still use credit, said owner Matt Tilmann.
He was unsure how many people were using layaway at Sears, since the appliances
are stored in a warehouse un-til they are paid off. People who do buy appliances on layaway generally place one on layaway and when they pay the item off, they pur-chase another.
“Generally when people buy appliances, it is because they need them,” Tilmann said. “Sears just started to ad-vertise (layaway) again.”
Layaway returns as shopping option for holiday season
f r e s h fa C e s
Gagnon brings classic elegance to clothes and hair designs
“When you see your garments out there for three minutes on the
runway, it’s amazing. those three minutes are what you live for.”
Jason Gagnon, riverdale junior
LIFE IN BRIEFweekend breAk-in
Police arrested a 23-year-old Harbor Beach man after he broke into Wells-Car-Go, 6793 E. Pickard Road, early Saturday morning.
The suspect allegedly broke a window at the car repair shop around 5 a.m., broke into the cash register and stole a number of tools from the shop.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said the suspect told police he had plans to break into other businesses, although he did not indicate what busi-nesses.
“He needed money, so he was going to break into some businesses for cash,” Mioduszewski said.
The suspect is being held at the Isabella County Jail on charges of breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny, possession of burglary tools, larceny in a building and malicious destruction of property. The maximum penalty for the four charges is 25 years in prison and up to a $7,000 fine.
The sheriff’s department found the suspect hiding under a car with the help of a K-9 unit from the Saginaw Indian Chippewa Tribe.
“We just do that as a pre-cautionary measure,” Mio-
duszewski said. “It’s better to let the dog locate them if they’re armed.”
Mioduszewski said the suspect should be arraigned early this week as long as no one posts bond, which has been set at $30,000 or a 10 percent cash surety.
LAwsuit settLedThe lawsuit between the
Saginaw Indian Chippewa Tribe, the state of Michigan, U.S. Federal Government, Isabella County and the City of Mount Pleasant was approved Tuesday in Bay City.
The settlement overruled concerns by Michigan At-torney General Mike Cox that the lawsuit didn’t leave enough time for public com-ment and was inconsistent with the state’s jurisdiction.
Tribal lands will now in-
clude Deerfield, Denver, Isabella, Nottowa and Wise townships, as well as parts of Union and Chippewa townships.
Public comment was gen-erally in favor of the settle-ment to end the five-year lawsuit, according to court documents. Shepherd Po-lice Chief Michael Main, Union Township Supervi-sor John Barker and Isabella County Drain Commission-er Richard Jakubiec sought an extension to determine how the lawsuit would ef-fect their specific issues.
The only dissenting com-ment was from Isabella County Commissioner John Haupt, who felt the agree-ment could negatively im-pact the economy and tax revenues.
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By Melissa BeauchampStaff Reporter
Though holiday breaks are great for students, they are not usually great for local businesses in a college town.
Hungry Howie’s Pizza, 111 S. Mission St., experienced major setbacks in the past because of the lack of stu-dents in town during holiday breaks. Manager Maggie Wy-att said the decrease in busi-ness is noticeable.
“Most of our customers are students, and during their breaks our sales go down,” she said. “We are normally open until 3 a.m. on the weekends, but we close at midnight be-cause students are not here.”
The atmosphere of Menna’s Joint, 1418 S. Mission St., is geared toward the students, said Manager Gus Brush. Nat-urally, he said sales decline when students go home.
It all begins the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Menna’s Joint encounters a drastic de-cline in sales, he said.
“We only receive around six sales an hour because the majority of students are gone by Wednesday,” Brush said. “Same goes for Friday and Saturday ... even though it is Black Friday 90 percent of our customers are students and they are gone.”
Last year, the whole month students were gone on Christ-mas break was dead for Men-na’s, he said.
“This year is the first year that we are trying to branch out to the other demograph-ics in the area and inform the
working people we are a res-taurant that they can come too,” Brush said. “One thing we are doing is hosting a spe-cial for 95.3 CFX, in an effort to spread the word.”
Other businesses face a less substantial impact from students leaving, including Biggby Coffee, 210 S. Mission St.
Store Manager Mickey Tar-ravallah said he only notices somewhat of a difference.
“Sales tend to go down 10 to 15 percent when students are not here,” he said. “Mount Pleasant is a small town and when students are not here it turns into a ghost town.”
Around 30,000 people leave for the holidays, but at the same time, teachers and other people of the commu-nity come in when they are on break, Tarravallah said.
“Most of our regular cus-tomers are not students, so it does not affect us as much as it would other businesses,” he said.
IHOP, 5245 E. Pickard St., is
another business which does not anticipate a dent in sales because of students leaving for break.
Joel Cain, IHOP assistant general manager, said the cli-entele is mostly local, middle-aged people.
“Students leaving for break contain little impact to IHOP,” he said. “We do not notice anything too substantial.”
Family Video, 317 N. Mis-sion St., also does not predict business to decline because of students leaving, said Store Manager Isha Walter.
There are still quite a few students that have jobs on campus or live in apartments that are still here for much of the duration of the break, she said.
“It really does not impact us much because it’s a holi-day season, so we are busy anyway,” she said. “A lot of people that live around here come and rent movies, out-side of students.”
Stores expect typical decline during this holiday break
B U s i n e s s i m Pa C t
Those with community focus will not see drop
By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter
Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s No. 1 priority for the lame duck session is approval to construct a second bridge between Detroit and Wind-sor.
With three meetings of the state House and Sen-ate scheduled, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and another round of tentative sessions scheduled for later in De-cember, she may continue to have difficulties moving the project through the Re-publican-controlled Sen-ate despite the promised 10,000 jobs.
Another pressing issue during the remaining time for this state’s legislature is funding for the Pure Michigan campaign.
State Rep. Bill Caul, R-Mount Pleasant, said he supports the concept of Pure Michigan, but can-not support allocating funds from the surplus to the travel campaign when the state faces a budget deficit in the next fiscal year.
“Those dollars can be used to balance the bud-get next year,” Caul said. “I’d rather see that dealt within Gov.-elect (Rick) Snyder’s first budget, he has indicated he wants that completed by the first of March.”
Katie Carey, a commu-nications specialist for Granholm, said the gover-nor is still putting energy toward the Pure Michigan campaign.
“It’s a successful pro-gram,” Carey said.
The Pure Michigan ad-vertisements, narrated by actor and Michigan na-tive Tim Allen, feature the state’s attractions, such as lakes, golf courses and cities, on television and in radio spots. If approved, the advertisements may
not return to the airwaves until spring 2011.
Caul said there are a few other things floating around during the legisla-tive sessions, specifically a capital outlay bill.
The capital outlay bill would give initial authori-zation to state universities to begin laying the ground-work for new projects, by searching for an architect
and other preliminary steps, before getting offi-cial state approval.
There are different ver-sions in the House and the Senate. But because of the limited time in session, Caul said it is a mystery if the bills will reach a com-mon ground and get ap-proved.
Second Detroit -Windsor bridge at top of list for GranholmOther priorities include Pure Michigan funding, capital outlay
“those dollars can be used to balance the budget next year. i’d rather see that dealt within gov.-elect (rick)
snyder’s first budget, he has indicated he wants that completed by the first
of March.” Bill Caul, state rep. r-Mount pleasant
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photos by SEan proctor/assistant photo editorJunior linebacker Mike Petrucci sits on the sidelines with his head in his hand after the CMU defense gave up another touchdown against Toledo Friday at the Glass Bowl in Toledo, Ohio. The Chippewas allowed 42 points during their last game of the regular season, finishing the season 3-9 and 2-8 in the Mid-American Conference.
WHAT COULD HAVE BEENInjuries, late-game breakdowns doom CMU of strong season
By John Evans | Senior Reporter
Sophomore quarterback Ryan Radcliff talks on the phone with coaches in the box upstairs following Paris Cotton’s 61-yard touch-down to start the second half Sept. 18 against Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti. Radcliff finished the season leading the Mid-American Conference in passing yards with 3,358, but threw 17 interceptions.
It was a season full of disappointment, ad-versity and injuries.
After a 12-2 record and finishing in the Top 25 for the first time in school history
last season, lofty expectations were placed on the CMU football team this season.
Faced with a changing of the guard — a new head coach, a new quarterback, new running back and a lot of fans still riding a high from — the team was picked to finish second in the Mid-American Conference West Division.
And while the season started just how every-one thought it would, it did not end the way many wanted it to.
“We found out a lot about ourselves,” said head coach Dan Enos. “We had 19 guys make their first collegiate start this year. There are some positives, but we have a lot of work to do.”
In week one, the Chippe-was were at home facing the Hampton Pirates. It was a good game to start the season and an opportunity to get off on the right foot and that is exactly what it was.
CMU defeated Hampton 33-0, marking Enos’ first win as head coach.
Only one problem was found after the first game, and it was that the team was going to have some trouble kicking the ball.
Andrew Aguila was lost to graduation and Enos was
scrambling to find a kicker. Freshman kicker Paul Mud-gett was 1-for-3 in field goal attempts against Hampton, and the kicking woes contin-ued into the next week and proved to be very costly.
In week two, CMU was headed to Philadelphia, Pa. to take on Temple, the pre-season favorite to win the MAC. Both teams struggled offensively and the kicking situation continued to be a problem for CMU as they lost a heartbreaker in overtime, 13-10. This was a game that
may have changed the entire season for the Chippewas.
“One thing I know is that you have to work for every-thing you get,” Enos said. “The teams in this league are very close and the margin of error is very small and you have got to have guys that will make plays in key parts of the
game.”Mudgett missed a fourth
quarter field goal against Temple. Later in the quarter, following a change, freshman David Harman came through with a field goal to send the game to overtime.
In the last game of a three-game road trip, the Chippe-
was found themselves in Evanston, Ill., facing the Northwestern Wildcats. CMU was able to keep it close but could not pull off the upset losing the North-western 30-25.
So the overall record
“this is not how we wanted to go out. they don’t want to have this feeling again. ”
Nick Bellore, senior linebacker
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I remember it clearly.It was Aug. 30, two days
before the start of the foot-ball season and CMU’s first game against Hampton.
I sat down in my room and started writing a column in which I was going to look at the season ahead and all of the questions that sur-rounded around the team.
Two paragraphs in, I stopped.
Honestly, I didn’t know how the season was going to turn out. I told friends and people who asked “6-6 or 7-5,” but that was just a guess.
The team had lost sev-eral of its key components on offense and had a lot of question marks entering the season, but still had enough players returning with expe-rience to make up for it.
Many different preseason college football magazines picked CMU to finish sec-ond in the Mid-American Conference West Division. The rest of the media agreed, tabbing the Chippewas to finish runner up to Northern Illinois in July at MAC Media Day in Detroit.
But one magazine pick stood out to me, and many other CMU fans.
Phil Steele.Well-respected as one of
the most reliable and accu-rate college football maga-zine writers, he went against the grain and picked the Chippewas to finish fifth in the West Division, just ahead of Eastern Michigan.
Yes, the same EMU team that went winless in 2009 and finished as one of the worst in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
“Is he crazy?,” fans asked. “There’s no way we could go from one of the top teams in the country to the bottom of the MAC like that.”
I thought the pick was a little unrealistic, and so did others.
But fifth?Four months later, it has
become reality.CMU lost its final game of
the regular season on Fri-day, a 42-31 defeat at Toledo. They finished the season 3-9 and 2-8 in the conference, tied with EMU for last in the West.
But how did they get to this
Aaron McMannSports Editor
Phil Steele was right
By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
Despite a 1-2 record at the Northern Quad this weekend, the Central Michigan wres-tling team has something to smile about.
Saturday was senior Mike Miller’s season debut after be-ing sidelined to heal a surgi-cally repaired shoulder. Miller is a two-time All-American and Mid-American Confer-ence champion and has quali-fied for nationals three times.
He dislocated his shoulder twice during the 2009-10 sea-son, but decided to put off having surgery until the off-season.
“I wouldn’t say he’s back,” said head coach Tom Borrelli. “It takes a while to get back and get into his rhythm, and his conditioning and timing isn’t where it needs to be, but we’ll get that back.”
In his first match back, the third-ranked Miller won the 165-pound class, getting the 10-2 major decision against Minnesota’s 10-th ranked Cody Yohn.
“I was excited about the way Mike wrestled for his first
FiLe photoSenior Mike Miller made his season debut Saturday at the Northern Quad meet in Rochester, Minn. Ranked third nationally, Miller is a two-time All-American and two-time Mid-American Conference champion.
Mike Miller makes return in Minn.w r E S T l i n g
match back,” Borrelli said.In his second appearance
of the day, Miller found him-self on the losing side of a 5-3 decision against Appalachian State.
“Mike had a tough match against the guy from Appa-lachian State,” Borrelli said. “He got caught in a cradle and gave up points, but he wrestled real hard in the third period to come back and I was really pleased with him.”
Miller felt that the injury ac-tually helped him in the long run.
“I had to improve my hip
CMU goes 1-2at Northern Quad
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T e s T r e s u lT s
F o u r D o w n s
Toledo 42, CMU 31 - Final statisticsScore by quarters 1 2 3 4 TotalCentral Michigan 7 7 3 14 31Toledo 14 14 7 7 42
Scoring summaryQtr Scoring play Score1st UT - Kenny Stafford 75-yard pass 0-7 (13:39)
1st CMU - Carl Volny 1-yard run 7-7 (8:54)
1st UT - Eric Page 99-yard kickoff return 7-14 (8:41)
2nd UT - Eric Page 9-yard pass 7-21 (11:56)
2nd UT - Eric Page 25-yard pass 7-28 (8:49)
2nd CMU - Zurlon Tipton 1-yard run 14-28 (3:31)
3rd CMU - David Harman 33-yard field goal 17-28 (10:42)
3rd UT - Eric Page 95-yard kickoff return 17-35 (10:29)
4th CMU - Lorenzo White blocked punt, TD 24-35 (13:02)
4th UT - Terrance Owens 28-yard pass 24-42 (10:39)
4th CMU - Zurlon Tipton 2-yard run 31-42 (7:23)
Team totals
CMU UTFirst downs 18 20Rushing yards 63 84Rushing TDs 3 0Passing yards 322 332Cmps.-atts.-int 28-39-1 25-33-0Passing TDs 0 4Total offense 385 416Gain per play 5.9 6.3Fumbles (No.-lost) 3-2 2-0Punts-yards 3-118 5-97Third-down conv. 6-12 7-15Fourth-down conv. 1-2 1-2Sacks by (#-yds) 1-4 1-3Penalties (#-yds) 5-63 6-30Field goals 1-1 0-0Possession 30:41 29:19
Game leaders
Rushing
Adonis Thomas (UT) 19 carries, 73 yardsZurlon Tipton (CMU)9 carries, 26 yards, 2 TDs
PassingTerrance Owens (UT)24-of-32, 304 yards, 3 TDs
ReceivingEric Page (UT) 12 catches, 12 yards
DefensiveDan Molls (UT LB) 14 total tacklesArchie Donald (UT LB)13 total tackles, 1 INT
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West Division Team MAC OverallNIU 8-0 10-2TOL 7-1 8-4WMU 5-3 6-6BSU 3-5 4-8CMU 2-6 3-9EMU 2-6 2-10
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallMIA 7-1 8-4OHIO 6-2 8-4TEM 5-3 8-4KSU 4-4 5-7BUFF 1-6 2-9BGSU 1-7 2-10AKR 1-7 1-11
Friday’s resultsWMU 41, BGSU 7Akron 22, Buffalo 14NIU 71, EMU 3Kent State 28, Ohio 6
Tuesday’s resultMiami 23, Temple 3
*Home teams in bold
RushingPlayer-team Att-Yds-TDw Chad Spann 226-1239-20NIUw Adonis Thomas 151-905 -6UTw Alex Allen 186-877-8Akron
PassingPlayer-team Cp-Att-Yds-TDw Ryan Radcliff 282-466-3,358-17CMUw Alex Carder 289-458-3.334-30WMUw Zac Dysert 222-343-2,406-13MIA
ReceivingPlayer-team Rec.-Yds-TDw Jordan White 94-1,378-10WMUw Cody Wilson 83-1,137-5Miamiw Kamar Jorden 96-1,109-4BGSUw Eric Page 94-1,081-8UT
TacklesPlayer-team Ttlw LB Dwayne Woods 134BGSUw LB Archie Donald 134UTw LB Dan Molls 133Toledow DE Brian Wagner 130Akronw DB Davont Shannon 120Buffalo
SacksPlayer Ttlw DL Roosevelt Nix 10.0Kent Statew DT Muhammud Wilkerson 9.5TEMw DE Paul Hazel 8.0WMU
RushingPlayer Att-Yds-TDw Paris Cotton 142-651-6w Carl Volny 81-402-5w Zurlon Tipton 56-203-5w Cody Wilson 18-96-1
PassingPlayer Att-Comp-Yds-TDw Ryan Radcliff 466-282-3,358-17w Brandon Fricke 8-4-17-0
ReceivingPlayer Rec-Yds-TDw Cody Wilson 83-1,137-5w Kito Poblah 44-558-5w Jerry Harris 30-332-3w David Blackburn 22-285-3w Paris Cotton 25-245-0
TacklesPlayer Ttlw LB Matt Berning 102w LB Nick Bellore 90w S Jahleel Addae 80w LB Armond Staten 78w CB Vince Agnew 73
SacksPlayer Ttlw LB Matt Berning 4.0w DT John Williams 2.5w DE Joe Kinville 2.5w Two with 2.0
Kick returnsPlayer No.-Yds-Avgw Zurlon Tipton 21-414-19.7w Kito Poblah 11-220-20.0
Punt returnsPlayer No.-Yds-Avgw Cody Wilson 16-120-7.5
Field goalsPlayer FGM-FGA-Lng.w David Harman 9-12-41w Paul Mudgett 1-5-29w Richie Hogan 0-3-0
CMU TEAM LEADERS
MAC LEADERS
AROUND THE MAC
I learned more about myself this year because things weren’t handed to us.”
Who’s next?
Season over
CMU ends the season 3-9, its worst record since 2005. After playing in a bowl game every year since, the Chippewas will stay home this holiday season.
Senior linebacker Nick Bellore
1ST AND TEN
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Toledo junior running back Adonis Thomas is wrapped up by senior linebacker Nick Bellore and freshman defensive back Avery Cunningham. Thomas rushed five times
for 52 yards, while Bellore recorded 10 tackles.
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3RD DOWN 4TH AND INCHES
GAME OVER WHEN ...
GAME BALL
2010 RESULTS
Eric Page
Offense
C-CMU’s offense was able to move the ball down the field once again, as sophomore quarterback Ryan Radc-liff went 28-for-39 for 332 yards but was unable to throw a touchdown. All three of its offensive touchdowns came from the running backs, as red-shirt freshman Zurlon Tipton scored twice from inside the red zone.
Defense
D-The Chippewas were outgained, 416-385, and allowed backup quarterback Terrance Owens to have a career day, going 24-of-32 for 304 yards and three touchdowns. Owens looked like a veteran out there, prompting head coach Dan Enos to say after the game that he played better than what he looked like on tape.
Special Teams
D-The unit flat out cost CMU the game on Friday. They allowed Eric Page two kickoff returns for touchdowns and squandered an easy touchdown op-portunity off a blocked punt late in the fourth quarter. They did, how-ever, block a punt for a touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
Overall
D-In their final game of the season and an opportunity to go out with some momentum heading into the offsea-son, the Chippewas resorted back to their old ways. Dropped passes, incon-sistency on offense and mistakes on special teams all played into the loss, their first against UT in five seasons.
Sophomore quarterback Ryan Radcliff’s fumble with 6:43 re-maining in the fourth quarter. After redshirt freshman Zurlon Tipton scored his second touch-down of the game, CMU came within two scores. The Chippewas forced Toledo three and out on the next possession and blocked the Rockets’ punt attempt, look-ing to make another late-game comeback. But one play later, Radcliff was sacked, fumbling the ball and ending any chance at a run.
It truly was the Eric Page show on Friday. The Mid-American Conference’s a l l - p u r p o s e yards leader was no match for the Chip-pewas, amass-ing 370 all-purpose yards and accounting for five touchdowns. He had a game-high 127 yards and two touchdowns receiving, while returning kickoffs 99 and 95 yards, respectively, for touch-downs. If that wasn’t enough, Page threw for a touchdown in the fourth quarter that sealed the win for Toledo.
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Sept. 2: Hampton, 33-0
Sept. 9: at Temple, 13-10
Sept. 18: at Eastern Michigan, 52-14
Sept. 25: at North-western, 30-25
Oct. 2: Ball State, 31-17
Oct. 9: at Virginia Tech, 45-21
Oct. 16: Miami, 27-20
Oct. 23: at NorthernIllinois, 33-7
Oct. 30: vs. BowlingGreen, 17-14
Nov. 5: WesternMichigan, 26-22
Nov. 13: at Navy,38-37
Nov. 26: at Toledo,42-31
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After Toledo drove down the field early in the first quarter to take a 7-0 lead, CMU tied the game
up on a 1-yard touchdown run by senior running back Carl Volny. But UT sophomore wide receiver Eric Page fired right back, returning the kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, putting the Chippewas back down a touchdown.
CMU looked to gain momentum late in the second quarter. After a 1-yard touchdown from redshirt
freshman Zurlon Tipton, the Chippewas forced Toledo to punt with 1:13 remaining and three timeouts. Head coach Dan Enos opted not to try and drive and take it into halftime. Out of halftime, CMU would get a 33-yard field goal from David Harman, cutting the lead to 28-17. Eric Page struck again on the kickoff, returning it 95 yards to extend Toledo’s lead once again.
Within a matter of three minutes in the begin-ning of the second half, Toledo made it known
it was not messing around. Looking for its eighth win of the season, quarterback Terrance Owens found Eric Page for a 9-yard touchdown pass. After forcing CMU three and out, the Rockets came right back, driving 74 yards as Owens found Page again, putting them up 28-7.
The Chippewas would pull within 11 points twice in the fourth quarter, with an oppor-
tunity to get closer. With less than six minutes remaining, CMU blocked its second punt of the quarter, but squandered an opportunity to score a touchdown. On the next play, sophomore quar-terback Ryan Radcliff was sacked and fumbled the ball, giving Toledo the ball back and win.
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photos by joE tobianSki/staFF photographerMount Pleasant Sacred Heart wide receiver Matt Mills catches a pass during SHA’s 42-21 win against Monroe Saint Mary’s Catholic Central Friday at Ford Field in Detroit. Mills scored two touchdowns, had a punt for 74 yards and recorded 181 all-purpose yards.
Sacred Heart claims D8 title
By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter
DETROIT – The Sacred Heart Academy Irish were all smiles Friday as they defeated the Saug-atuck Indians 42-21, capturing the Division 8 state champion-ship at Ford Field.
“(After our third win this sea-son) the guys got together and said we’re going to finish the deal, and this is finishing the deal right here,” said SHA head coach Rick Roberts.
The Irish won the coin toss and drove the ball 63 yards, scoring on a Bennett Myler 20-yard run. Saugatuck would fumble the ball on their own 44-yard line on their opening drive and the Irish took advantage, scoring 10 plays later on a Mitch Myler seven-yard run.
Saugatuck (11-3) would show some life though with a big 89-yard drive, spanning 6:18 scor-ing on a three yard run by Lance Kleino cutting the score in half.
Myler would find receiver Matthew Mills for a 66-yard touchdown that really took the life out of the Indians.
“Mitchell put the ball in a per-fect spot for me to catch it,” Mills said. “I don’t think they were ready for it. Nick Hire made a tremendous fake and they bit.”
Sacred Heart scored two more touchdowns in the second quar-ter, breaking the game open at halftime 35-7. Myler wouldn’t throw the ball again after that, finishing 9-of-11 for 178 yards while running back Nick Hire was up to 124 rushing yards.
“When we scored that third touchdown that’s when I thought we had control of the game,” Roberts said. “That was a huge play. I felt comfortable that our defensive team had set-tled in to the offensive package Saugatuck was throwing at us and without a real strong pass-ing attack it would be hard for them to score.”
Mills started the scoring for the Irish in the third quarter,
returning a 53-yard punt for a touchdown, giving Sacred Heart at 42-21 lead and win.
“We have played this well all season long,” Roberts said. “Our offense has been explosive. This is a big one – I have been at this for 33 years and this is my first title.”
Said Myler: “We had confi-dence and we knew our offense couldn’t be stopped. We made plays and we moved the ball no problem.”
One of the most impressive plays of the day wasn’t on of-fense or on defense, but a punt by Mills late in fourth quarter. A 74-yard punt gave him a new MHSAA state finals record and put Saugatuck inside its own 15 yard line.
“I’ve been waiting for that all year,” Mills said. “I get a lot of good ones in practice but when it comes game time I lose focus and botch them, but that one felt good.”
The Irish said that the turning point on the sea-son was their week four win against Montabella, a team they thought was bet-ter than them.
“A shutout against a con-ference team that we felt was the best in the confer-ence that was really big for us,” said Bennett Myler.
Nike Hire lead the ground game with 94 yards while Ryan Symanski lead the defense with 8.5 tackles. Connor Fermoyle added six tackles.
The Irish haven’t lost since week one against ri-val Beal City. They would go on to run the table, win-ning 13 consecutive games after that avenging the loss in the district finals and taking Beal City’s Division 8 title.
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Irish end perfect season with 42-21 win vs. Saugatuck
Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart Academy senior defensive back Bennett Myler returns an interception during SHA’s 42-21 win against Monroe Saint Mary’s Catholic Central Friday at Ford Field in Detroit. Myler had two touchdowns and 57 all-purpose yards.
niznak sets record in D6 win
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Ithaca quarterback Alex Niznak celebrates on the sideline after scoring a touchdown during the MHSAA Division 6 title game Friday at Ford Field in Detroit.
By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter
DETROIT – Alex Niznak’s five rushing touchdowns set a finals record as Ithaca clinched its first Michigan High School Athletic Association state championship Friday, beating Monroe Saint Mary’s Catholic Central 45-35 at Ford Field.
Before the game, Ithaca head coach Terry Hessbrook called SMCC a very physical football team.
The Falcons didn’t disappoint early on, jumping out to a 21-7 lead late in the second quarter.
“We just had to keep rally,” said Ithaca quarterback Alex Niznak. “I told coach to give me the ball and we’ll get ourselves back into the game.”
And that’s exactly what Niznak did. The star quarterback lead a six play, 67-yard drive, capped off by a five-yard touchdown run by fullback Garrett Miniard, to pull the Yellowjackets within 21-14 before halftime.
Niznak would tie the game at 21 early in the third quarter on a 55-yard touchdown run, his second rushing touchdown of the game.
Ithaca would take its first lead of the game on a 40-yard field goal by Zach Whipple with 4:45.
The lead, however, would vanish fast as SMCC would re-turn the kick to Ithaca’s 49 yard line and score two plays later on two-yard run by Zach Moore.
Niznak wasn’t finished, though, as he would gain rush-ing touchdown No. 3 on a five yard dive, putting Ithaca back up 31-28 to end the third.
The Falcons came back with a touchdown in the fourth quar-ter, driving the ball 80 yards while taking 7:30 off the clock.
“I turned to coach Hessbrook and he told me score,” Niznak said. “I told him it was the last nail in the coffin. They gave us too much time.”
But that proved to be too much time for Niznak and the Yellowjackets as Niznak tied the state record with his fourth rushing touchdown on a seven yard dive, giving Ithaca a 38-35 lead 2:02 remaining.
On their last drive of the game, Saint Mary’s Catholic Central would turn the ball over
on downs. With all three tim-eouts remaining, SMCC forced Ithaca to gain a first down, and they got more.
Niznak would break the MH-SAA state record, gaining his fifth rushing touchdown with a 36-yard sprint. He would finish the day 22-for-26 for 251 yards passing and one interception, he ran for 138 yards and his five touchdowns.
His main target was receiver Luke Capen, who caught 11 passes for 134 yards. Capen also lead the way on defense with 11 tackles.
“As a fan if you didn’t care who won, it was an unbeliev-able game to watch,” Hessbrook said. “I wasn’t sure we could stop them coming into this game. It was a major concern because
they are so good offensively.“When we got down 21-7 I
was very nervous, but we made plays when had to.”
Alex Niznak finishes his high school career on the highest note one can, winning a state championship and finishing undefeated. But Niznak isn’t done yet, as he is committed to play football at Central Michi-gan University.
“I’ll bring an unbelievable work ethic is all I can promise anybody right now,” he said. “I’ll work as hard as I possibly can and I’ll compete every day, whether it’s in the morning, at night or on the field. All I can do is compete and give the coaches everything I have.”
nIu routs EMu, Akron gets winM A C r O U n D U P
(at) Kent State 28, Ohio 6 Ohio’s seven-game winning
streak came to an abrupt end at a rather inopportune time. The Bobcats (8-4, 6-2 MAC) failure to win Saturday cost them their second consecu-tive Mid-American Con-ference East Division title. Quarterback Boo Jackson was unable to get anything started for his offense, throw-ing two interceptions. Kicker Matt Weller kicked two field goals for Ohio, accounting for the team’s only points. Kent State (5-7, 4-4 MAC) found all the offense they would need in the first quarter, following Luke Batton’s fumble return for a touchdown. The Golden Flashes offensive attack was lead by Spencer Keith, Eu-gene Jarvis and Andre Flow-ers, who each scored a rush-ing touchdown.
Northern Illinois 71 (at) Eastern Michigan 3
Northern Illinois (10-2, 8-0) won by its largest mar-gin of victory this year to remain undefeated in the
MAC. The Huskies scored 10 touchdowns on their way to victory. Quarterback Chan-dler Harnish, running back Chad Spann and receivers DeMarcus Grady and Jor-dan Lynch each accounted for two touchdowns, while Jasmin Hopkins and Ricky Crider each scored a single touchdown. For the first time of the season, Eastern Michigan (2-10, 2-6) was held to only a field goal dur-ing their game. Nothing went right for the Eagles, who had trouble scoring. Quarterback Alex Gillett had a day to for-get, going 4-of-9 for just 11 yards. NIU outgained EMU 646-160.
Western Michigan 41 (at) Bowling Green 7
Western Michigan (6-6, 5-3 MAC) managed to fin-ish its regular season on a high note with its third con-secutive win. Quarterback Alex Carder continued his impressive play, account-ing for four of the team’s five touchdowns. He finished the
day with 251 passing yards and no interceptions. Tevin Drake scored the teams lone rushing touchdown. Bowling Green’s (2-10, 1-7 MAC) loss is its third consecutive loss. A 19-yard connection from quarterback Matt Schliz to receiver Kamar Jordan was the team’s only offense of the day.
(at) Akron 22, Buffalo 14Akron jumped out to a
12-0 lead at the end of the second quarter and never looked back as Buffalo (2-10, 1-7 MAC) ended its season with seven consecutive loss-es. Akron’s Alex Allen had a game-high 106 yards rushing on 32 carries to lead the Zips to their first win of the sea-son. Bulls quarterback Jerry Davis went 19-of-34 for 268 yards and two touchdowns, but also threw two intercep-tions.
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By Aaron McMannSports Editor
CHICAGO – Sometimes it takes a grounding to make a point.
And Central Michigan men’s basketball head coach Ernie Zeigler made just that Wednesday in a 62-52 victo-ry against Illinois-Chicago in front of 1,612 at the UIC Pavilion.
Before the game, Zeigler opted not to start his son, Trey, following an eight turnover game Saturday against South Alabama.
“He’s been focusing on my defense,” Trey Zeigler said after the game. “The last game we made a lot of mistakes. He came at me personally and I just wanted to respond.”
And respond Trey did, scoring a game-high 17 points while adding seven rebounds off the bench, leading an offensive charge that included three players scoring in double figures.
He also limited UIC for-ward Paul Carter, who came into the game averaging better than 17 points per game, to just 10 points on 1-of-7 shooting.
“I’m really proud of him,” Ernie said. “He very eas-ily could have pouted or dropped his head, but the challenge for him was to have better effort and better focus defensively.”
CMU (2-3) shot 46.9 per-cent for the game, holding the Flames to just 32.7 per-cent from the floor and 3-of-12 from 3-point range. They entered the game ranked 11th in the Mid-American Conference in field goal per-centage defense, something Zeigler emphasized to the players before the game.
“Through these first four games, we really struggled,” he said. “There was very
much an attention to detail and we had a lot of guys really focus on what our defensive game plan was.”
The Chippewas got double-digit scoring from three play-ers for the first time since their 70-67 win against Cal State Fullerton to open the season.
Senior forwards Will Mc-Clure and Jalin Thomas scored 13 and 12 points, respectively. McClure tallied a double-dou-ble, adding 10 rebounds while leading the team with two blocks.
“We had all four seniors fi-nally starting again and want-ed to come out and show the younger players how to play tough and finish out games,” McClure said. “Every single game coach talks to me about battling on the boards and keeping people out of the paint, so I had to protect the house.”
UIC (3-3) jumped out to an early 12-6 lead eight minutes into the game, but the Chip-pewas countered with a 20-6 run before taking a seven point lead into halftime.
They came out in the second half with the same energy, ex-tending their lead to as many as 16 points and never allow-ing the Flames to mount a comeback effort.
The win snaps a three-game losing skid and is the team’s first win on the road.
“To go home and be 1-4 would have been a difficult circumstance for us to face, so for us to be able to get this first road win of the year and not have a game that comes down to the last shot was very pleas-ing,” Zeigler said.
Senior guard Robo Kreps, who entered Wednesday sec-ond in the Horizon League in scoring, was held at bay with 14 points.
home opener sold outCMU’s first game at the new
McGuirk Arena has sold out.In a statement released
Wednesday, all available tick-ets for CMU’s Dec. 1 game against nationally-ranked Temple have been accounted for. About 1,800 tickets were released to students over the last couple of weeks at various ticket pickup events.
A ribbon cutting event is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednes-day, officially marking the grand opening of the new CMU Events Center. Tours will also be held for students from 2-4 p.m. Tickets will be given out to the first 100 students to take a tour.
The last time CMU sold out a men’s basketball game was Feb. 10, 2001, against Western Michigan, in which 5,602 fans filled Rose Arena.
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CMU gets comfortable win at UICTrey starts game on bench, scores game-high 17
defense and be able to score defensively a lot more because I couldn’t attack with my left shoulder,” he said. “I can score on multiple positions now, so I think my getting hurt actu-ally helped me improve some skills that I would have ne-glected before.”
the northern Quad
Borrelli elected to hold a couple starters out of the opening dual meet against North Dakota State to avoid fatigue heading into the sec-ond round matchup against No. 3 Minnesota.
NDSU took advantage, up-setting No. 9 CMU 24-17.
“We were saving some of our starters for the Minne-sota match and it backfired a little,” Borrelli said.
Sophomore Scotti Sentes (133) won by a 12-0 major decision to take back the lead after redshirt freshman Joe Roth lost the first 125-pound match 4-0.
Redshirt freshman Scott Mattingly suffered a 9-5 deci-sion, but sophomore Donnie Corby bounced back with the 10-2 decision.
The Chippewas had a chance to extend its 8-6 lead, but redshirt freshman Zack
Cline lost by a late fall in the third period.
S o p h o -more Ben Bennett won on an 8-1 decision to narrow the deficit to 15-11 before Minnesota pulled away with back-to-back wins in the 184- and 197-pound classes.
“Those guys need to im-prove and need to be ready to step up when they get the chance to wrestle and a cou-ple of them had tough match-es,” Borrelli said. “The dual meet didn’t go our way.”
minnesota
CMU and Minnesota took five victories apiece, but Min-nesota came out on top with a 21-17 victory.
Sentes recorded his second consecutive major decision, beating Thane Antczak 11-0 to tie the match at four.
Minnesota started to pull away with Mike Thorn’s pin against Mattingly in 4:53 and Corby lost in overtime.
CMU fought back with a 10-2 major decision Miller, and junior Eric Cubberly (157) and sophomore Ben Bennett (174) each beat their opponents to give CMU a 14-13 lead.
“I think I did real good for
my first match,” Miller said. “I had my game plan down and I executed it.”
But the Gophers scored five points on a technical fall against junior Chad Friend, and three points from a 6-1 decision against redshirt freshman Craig Kelliher to pull ahead for the win.
Heavyweight junior Jarod Trice finished the match with a 3-2 decision, but the team came up short losing 21-17.
appalachian state
The Chippewas won seven matches in the final meet of the Northern Quad, finishing on top against Appalachian State 31-10.
Sentes and Bennett each won by falls against ASU, fin-ishing a combined 6-0 on the day. Sentes had two major decisions while Bennett won an 8-1 major decision and 7-1 decision, the latter coming against No. 10 Scott Glasser (Minnesota).
The team travels to Las Ve-gas, Nev., to compete in the Cliff Keen Invitational on Fri-day.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Miller said. “We’re a young team this year, and we made little mistakes that our older guys wouldn’t have made, so that’s cost us a little bit.
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point and who’s to blame?Obviously, it starts with
the head coach. While Dan Enos made
his share of mistakes this season, like any other head coach, it would be foolish to fire him after one season.
It is a little unrealistic to have a first-time head coach come in, implement a new offensive system and expect to win right out of the gate. You must give him at least another year to show prog-ress building “his vision.”
Secondly, it is on the play-ers. Injuries began to take a
toll on the team and several guys were playing out of po-sition toward the end of the season. Too often youth and inexperience played a role in the end of games. That can-not happen if a team wants to make a run at a confer-ence title.
While most fans are dis-appointed in this year’s per-formance, next season looks promising.
Ryan Radcliff returns for his junior year, but will have a number of challengers for the starting job. Senior Brandon Fricke, redshirt freshman Kyle Smith and freshman Alex Niznak will provide ample competition.
Many of the key players return on offense, including
Cody Wilson, David Black-burn and Paris Cotton.
The defense will be a little bit of a question mark with Nick Bellore, Matt Berning and Vince Agnew departing.
Even so, with all of these expectations going into next year, it is important not to get too overconfident.
Like Enos said following Friday’s loss against Toledo, every team in the MAC is so close to one another, a bad break here or there can cost a team.
Enos bad breaks and breakdowns on the field and the Chippewas will find themselves right back in the same spot.
COlUMn |continued from 1B
Tom Borrelli
CM Life staff reports
Sophomore guard Jalisa Olive continues to provide a spark off the bench as her 17 points helped the women’s basketball team defeat Bing-hamton 76-55 on Saturday.
It was a nice bounce back win for the team after losing the first game of the Hilton Garden Inn Thanksgiving Tournament on Friday, 90-70 against Drake.
Olive’s 17 points and game-high five steals came in just 20 minutes of play and se-nior Kaihla Szunko added 18 points and 13 rebounds
to pace the Chippewas. It was Szunko’s fifth double-double of the season.
With the win on Sat-urday, the C h i p p e w a s improved their record to 4-2 on the season. Sophomore Brandie Baker saw her scor-ing production drop, but fin-ished with five points, eight rebounds, five assists and two blocks in what was a great all-around effort from Baker.
Four of Binghamton’s play-ers finished the game in double figures, led by Kara Elofson with 12 points and 12 rebounds. CMU trailed the Bearcats by one with four minutes to go before half, but
rallied with a 19-7 run in the final four minutes to take a 41-30 lead into halftime.
A 16-2 run by the Chip-pewas late in the game blew the score open, leading to the win.
CMU shot 39 percent from the floor, a nice improvement from a tough shooting per-formance last weekend. The bench continues to play a big role for the Chippewas with freshman Taylor Johnson adding 11 points of her own to help CMU earn the victory.
Just one tournament re-mains on the road-heavy schedule to start the season. CMU opens the Evansville Tournament in Evansville, Ind., at 6 p.m. Friday against Coastal Carolina.
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Women leave Arizona 1-1Chippewas salvage tournament with win vs. Binghamton
Jalisa Olive
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In an attempt to rally the crowd during the final minutes of the fourth quarter against Miami (Ohio), senior defensive back Bobby Seay, left, and senior wide
receiver Kito Poblah turn toward the stands and shout and pump their fists in the air Oct. 16 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Seay, who came into the game banged up,
recorded four tackles, playing only the first half, while Poblah recorded four catches for 72 yards.
Junior running back Paris Cotton is thrown to the ground by Eastern Michigan’s senior linebacker Neal Howey and defensive back Brandon Pratt during the first half of play at Rynearson Stadium on Sept. 18th.
a Season to Forget
Freshman corner-
back Avery Cunning-
ham laughs while
sharing a meal with
fellow athletes at a
meeting of the Fel-
lowship of Christian
Athletes on Nov.
17th. The group
had just finished a
small group study
on a book of the
bible, and spent the
evening “hanging
out”. They also
watched a short
video and discussed
what it meant to be
a college athlete
and a Christian.
Junior running back Paris Cotton calls a friend as the buses pull into the parking lot of Kelly/Shorts Stadium following CMU’s 52-14 win against Eastern Michigan
on Sept. 18th.
As he bows his head kneeling on the 20-yard line, junior wide receiver Cedric Fraser cries while sophomore offensive lineman Mike Repovz comforts him after a pass intended for Fraser was intercepted in the last three seconds of the game, resulting in CMU’s 27-20
homecoming loss to Miami (Ohio) Oct. 16 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The game was tied 20-20 until CMU’s defense gave up a 71-yard-pass for a touchdown with 19 seconds left in the fourth quarter.
Head coach Dan Enos bumps fists with Jayden Williams, 5, son of junior defensive lineman John Williams, before
entering the locker room while CMU Police Officer William Martinez laughs following CMU’s win against Eastern
Michigan on Sept. 18.
Sophomore quarterback Ryan Radcliff laughs with teammate, redshirt freshman A.J. Westendorp, following a
prayer after practice Sept. 29 by the locker rooms. Radcliff is one of the several players who share a common
faith and help each other grow.
Senior wide receivers Matt Torres, right, and Kito Poblah embrace on the field following CMU’s 26-22 win over
in-state rival Western Michigan. With the victory, CMU has defeated WMU five years in a row. Torres recorded
three catches for 57 yards, while Poblah had four catches for 35 yards and one touchdown.
Offensive coordinator Mike Cummings talks strategy with the offensive line during the Miami (Ohio) game on
Oct. 16.
stood at 2-2 with both losses com-ing by a combined eight points. Things took a turn for the worst after that.
Two of the next four losses for the Chippewas came with less than a minute to go in the game. Because of multiple injuries to the second-ary, some young guys were going to have to step up.
Not only was the team losing players in the secondary, but three
starting offensive linemen were lost throughout the year, including sophomore left tackle Jake Olson, who left a big void to fill.
Injuries proved to be detrimental against Miami as a 71-yard touch-down pass with just seconds to go deflated the Chippewas season in what was a major setback for Enos and the team. In front of a home-coming crowd, it was not only a disappointing loss but a loss that really hurt the team’s chances at going to a bowl game.
“We have gone through so much adversity this year and a lot of people learned a lot about them-
selves,” said senior linebacker Nick Bellore. “Things were not handed to us and we struggled. Things that went our way in the past didn’t.”
The free fall continued in week eight when CMU was on the road facing the eventual MAC West champions Northern Illinois. NIU dominated the game on the ground with a potent rushing attack, de-feating the Chippewas 33-7.
CMU was hoping for a home field advantage the following week against a struggling Bowling Green team, but could not find it as they fell to the Falcons 17-14 in what was the most disappointing loss
of the season. The Falcons scored with just 21 seconds remaining to put the nail in the coffin on the Chippewas season.
The Bowling Green game was the breaking point for the team, but Enos was not going to let his play-ers give up and neither were the seniors on the team.
The following week provided a chance for the team to start over and a chance for the seniors to make history. On a cold, snowy Friday night in Mount Pleasant, the Chippewas defeated West-ern Michigan, 26-22. The win left the senior class with a 4-0 record
against WMU and gave the team something to look back on and be proud of.
A one-point loss to Navy the following week and an 11-point loss to Toledo to finish the season summed things up for CMU.
All season long the team was close, but could not finish the game on top.
“This is not how we wanted to go out,” Bellore said. “They don’t want to have this feeling again. I think they (the younger players) are in good hands and will be very suc-cessful in the future.”
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