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By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
International student enrollment has grown substantially overall throughout the campuses of the Michigan Mid-American Confer-ence, including Central Michigan University.
CMU, along with Eastern Michi-gan and Western Michigan univer-sities, has recruited students from out-of-state and abroad in increas-ingly successful numbers.
“We’re bursting at the seams with international students,” said Pamela Gates, dean of the College of Hu-manities and Social and Behavioral Sciences. “This year, CHSBS ended up with record numbers.”
According to Gates, recruitment at CMU has expanded over the last three years to address potential students in Korea, Japan, China and Europe. She said CHSBS’s English Language Institute ended up with 130 unexpected students from abroad by the beginning of the semester.
International enrollment through-out the university grew by about 200 students this year.
“Demographics were down,” Gates said. “But now we’re having to hire more ELI instructors. It’s not quite as bleak as we anticipated.”
CMU is reporting a 33 percent increase in on-campus international students, growing to 748 students from last year’s total of 562.
Western Michigan University saw 7.2 percent growth at 1,688 interna-tional students, up from last year’s total of 1,575, boasting students from 104 countries.
“We’ve seen a healthy growth in international enrollment,” said Cheryl Roland, executive director of University Relations at WMU. “We’ve been pretty aggressive in marketing, but it’s also been a lot of word of mouth.”
Eastern Michigan University saw a modest decrease in international students, dipping from 829 in 2012 to 818 in Fall 2013.
OUT-OF-STATE NUMBERSCMU’s out-of-state enrollment
has also continued to grow over the years. Since 2007, on-campus out-of-state students have increased at CMU by 77.7 percent, totaling 846 students in Fall 2013.
WMU has also seen a 2.8 percent increase from 2,857 students last year, to 2,938 students enrolled from other states.
EMU saw its out-of-state enroll-ment numbers grow slightly, by nine students, from 1,559 in 2012, to 1,568 in 2013.
Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services Steven Johnson said some schools are focusing re-cruitment outside of Michigan.
International studentenrollmentgrows at CMU
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By Kate WoodruffStaff Reporter
Registered student organization Campus Grow celebrated its fi fth year of successful harvests last night at its Harvest Party.
The RSO reaches out to Mount Pleasant residents and students by donating food grown in a com-munity garden behind Theunissen Stadium.
The party brought together com-munity members by providing a potluck meal and activities such as gourd painting and live music by Kavazabava, a local band.
Campus Grow advisor Patti Trav-ioli said the Harvest Party, as well
as the season kicko� Garden Party, were both created to bring together all the organization’s members.
“The Harvest Party is just kind of an end of the year potluck get to-gether, and we call it ‘Harvest Par-ty’ because it’s harvest season and gardeners and community members can come out and celebrate the end of growing season,” she said.
Those who attended the party praised the work of Campus Grow and some even had a personal in-vestment in the organization, like Dewitt junior Taylar Miller.
Campus Grow celebrates successful growing season
Morgan Taylor | Staff Photographer Students and community members gather to paint gourds at the Harvest Party hosted by Campus Grow on Sunday night near Theunissen Stadium.
Oktoberfest livesThe sleepy town of Mount Pleasant went
on a trip to Bavaria last week. Students, residents and local businesses took center stage at the four-day Oktoberfest celebration outside Mountain Town Station.
Amid guzzles and the grandiose, camaraderie grew to unprecedented levels. Central Michigan Life dove into the depths of the local spectacle, drank on rich brews and witnessed the excitement of one of Mount Pleasant’s newest attractions.
Inside, you’ll find extensive coverage detailing the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Oktoberfest. The Mount Pleasant Brewing Company was on scene to indulge the masses on a larger scale than years past.
As your senses are met with the brilliant images and tales that follow, remember to salute to harvest with the event’s single battle cry: Probst!
By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
While Central Michigan Universi-ty’s freshman enrollment fi gures fell by more than 10 percent this year, other nearby universities are seeing signifi cant growth in their classes.
Eastern Michigan University enrolled freshmen for Fall 2013 in record numbers. Its record-setting 2,872 freshmen marked a 43 per-cent growth in size over the past three years.
Western Michigan University also reported an increase, with 5.1 percent more freshmen this semester, up to 3,362 from last year’s total of 3,198.
“Our dramatic growth in enroll-ment over the last two years, in which we are bucking state and national trends in declining fresh-man enrollment, demonstrates Eastern Michigan’s continued commitment to keeping costs down while increasing fi nancial aid and investing wisely in key aca-demic and student facilities,” said EMU President Susan Martin in a news release. “As we grow, we re-
main focused on our primary mis-sion, which is to o� er students an outstanding, connected academic experience that prepares them for today’s competitive job market.”
EMU has also seen a dramatic increase in fi rst-year under-graduate students, comprising of freshmen, transfer students and those looking for a second degree. First-year undergrads grew by 2.6 percent, from 5,076 students last year to 5,210 in Fall 2013.
“There’s something about the EMU atmosphere,” EMU Student Body President Desmond Miller said in the release. “We have a vibe that no other school can match. Once you set foot on the campus, everyone makes you feel welcome. Faculty, sta� and students are all friendly, personable and love the campus, and that rubs o� on you.”
EMU cited several reasons for its growth. By keeping tuition low, investing in new facilities, and improving residence halls, it says, the Ypsilanti university has main-tained a steady incline in enroll-ment numbers.
CMU’s incoming freshman fell this year by 11.4 percent, from last year’s total of 3,345 to Fall 2013’s to-tal of 2,963. Vice President of Enroll-ment and Student Services Steven Johnson said a state-wide reduction in high school graduates and sti� competition from other schools contributed to the decline.
CMU unique in declining freshmen enrollment
Taylor Ballek | Photo Editor Mount Pleasant resident Hillary Williams dresses up as a beer maid Friday evening serving the Oktoberfest beer that has been brewing since June at Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
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SPORTS
BRINGING HOME THE “W”CMU’s soccer team broke a seven-game losing streak this weekend when it beat Kent and Ohio. Check out highlights. w 12
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“Some schools are supplementing enrollment through large increases in out-of-state and interna-tional students,” he said. “We need to be visible on a national level.”
Johnson also pointed to CMU’s Global Campus, which saw an increase in undergraduate enrollment by 4.4 percent to a record high of 2,763 students.
The benefit, he said, is that CMU can capture a broader audience despite its mission to remain “Michi-gan dominant.”
“We’re serving a broader constituent of students,” Johnson said of CMU’s Global Campus. “It gives us
more flexibility. It’s about how you connect with people. We want to look at markets that have aware-ness (of CMU); possibly on a personal level.”
Johnson said CMU is looking to recruit more from nearby states includ-ing Indiana and Wisconsin, along with Texas and other Southern states that have seen the highest growth in high school graduates.
“Any time you can be where parents can see you,” Johnson said. “That’s criti-cal.”
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“We can hypothesize about the shrinking high school market, family economics that require students to stay close to home, more robust fi nancial aid programs at some universities, and high-demand
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programs such as nursing that CMU does not o� er,” Johnson said in a news release.
Despite CMU’s shortcom-ings, the nearby Grand Valley State University saw a modest 3 percent increase from 4,005 last year to 4,124 new freshmen on campus for Fall 2013.
Michigan State Universi-
ty reported a planned 3.7-percent drop in its freshmen ranks, down to 7,842 this year. Senior Associ-ate Director of Admissions Mike Cook said the reduction was planned by MSU’s administra-tion.
“Each year we set targets, and this year we lowered out targets,” Cook said. “It generally has to do with the overall size of the university, student demands and the quality of education.”
And as CMU continues to grapple with a declining student body, University President George Ross was optimistic that standards have been maintained and the university has had to make minimal job cuts.
“This is the cyclical nature of higher education,” he said. “At the same time, we must continue to move forward. We hired 151 new faculty this year. We deliver more than 200 excellent aca-demic programs to our students. CMU will overcome this.”
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorChildren climb an interactive piece of art Saturday afternoon at Art Prize 2013 in downtown Grand Rapids.
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“I’m president of Stu-dent Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, and I came because we’re trying to collaborate more with the events they’re doing since our organizations have similar goals,” she said.
Campus Grow is dedi-cated to offering people, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to grow fresh produce.
“Campus Grow’s mission is about offering a com-munity garden setting and managing that space so there’s fresh, local, healthy food options for people who might not normally have it,” Travioli said.
According to Campus Grow President Jackie Maggioncalda, the garden is designed to give every-one a chance to grow their
own produce.Vice President Courtney
Lorenz said all donated food is planted and main-tained by plot-renters on a volunteer basis.
“Everyone takes their ex-tra plants at the beginning of the year and plants them (in a designated area.) Volunteers take care of them and then we donate that produce,” Lorenz said. “Last year, we donated more than 500 pounds and this year we’re getting close to that as well.”
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By Ben SolisStaff Reporter
The bonds of friendship can easily be compared to cups of coffee — the stronger, the better.
Nobody on campus under-stands that more than a small group of former Central Michi-gan University professors who have met in almost exactly the same spot at 10 a.m. on Wednes-days for the past 40 years.
They’ll gather at a table in the Down Under Food Cafe in the Bovee University Center, munching on pastries, sipping coffee and sharing conversation.
Chances are, they’ll practical-ly go unnoticed in the shuffling din of hurried students.
Yet this stately unit carries with them the wisdom and antiquity of CMU’s glory days, when students protested and fought for their rights and when the various bodies of faculty and administrators worked in unison.
It’s a climate, they admit, that has been all but forgotten.
“There was a lot more inter-action between students, faculty and administration back then,” said Forrest Robinson, one of two retired music professors in the group. “Today, it’s hard to do that because there isn’t any one place (or event) right now where students and faculty — even with other faculty — can get together.”
Comprised of one history
professor, Robinson and his musical colleague, the former head of the campus art gallery, and two other prolific faculty members, this weekly breakfast club informally emulates an old campus-wide coffee function, one held dearly when they be-gan their employment with the university in the late 1960s.
“The coffee hours brought di-verse members of the university together,” said Martha Smith, a former teacher education professor. “It was very difficult to have coffee with someone and be collegial, and then go to a committee meeting and then be obstinate. It built a decor that was very positive.”
The free flow of thoughts and ideas were a staple of the time, when student protests were at a peak and the collective con-sciousness begged for change.
It was, after all, the era of Civil Rights, Vietnam and Women’s Liberation, said Dennis Thavenet, the group’s resident historian and unofficial spokesperson.
“In the early years, I sup-pose, it was student activism,” Thavenet said. “They took over Central (Grawn) Hall with a lot of activism. They were Anti-Vietnam War, of course, but that led to a big Student’s Rights movement, too. Men could never enter a woman’s dorm, they could only get in the lobby, things of that sort. So, when you’re talking about same-sex
dorms now or double-sex dorms, those are all big changes made by these student activists.”
All things are evolutionary, even for the faculty.
“I believe the faculty unions came out of that movement, too,” said Marcella Kocar, a retired business instructor.
Students even lobbied for Board of Trustees membership and made enough waves to get a student involved with the proceedings, Thavenet said.
The collaborative, progres-sive mindset, however, was eventually met with opposition. Some thought the coffee hours could be a detriment to the col-lege, and ought to be contained, if not stopped entirely.
“One of our presidents, Leonard Plachta, if I may say who it was, shut the faculty and student cafeteria upstairs down — supposedly to cut costs,” Robinson said. “But it was pretty widely known that he thought there were various plots being hatched against him over here. So that kind of paranoia led to him shutting it down. I think that was unfortunate.”
When they meet, the conver-sation picks up right where it left off.
They’ll talk about the weath-er, the price of gas, but more importantly, what it is about the modern CMU that worries them today.
Thavenet worries about the rate of administrative growth
compared to a decline in faculty, while others in the group have different concerns.
“I think we’re well aware of tuition problems here,” said Dennis Horton, the other music instructor and the youngster of the group. “The fact that students have to price themselves right out of an edu-cation is a sad state of affairs. Students have this easy access to these huge loans, which at the time you’re in school you don’t worry about it. But you have these huge bills that are $25,000-$35,000, how are you ever going to pay that back?”
Another sticking point for Horton: Collaboration breakdown.
“Communications here at the higher level, from the president on down. We’re well aware of that,” he said. “Would we ever expect to see (University Presi-dent) George Ross here with us? No. The other presidents in the past did, they’d stop by pass-ing through just to see what’s happening. (Former University President) Bill Boyd did.”
However critical, the group has a love for CMU that spans generations — and a friendship that’s good to the last drop.
“I think we all just like each other,” Thavenet said. “I sup-pose that’s why we’ve been doing it for all these years.”
By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
Amid a performance of their native song and dance, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe called for a reform on federal law — and justice for one of their own.
Close to 50 members and supporters of the tribe gath-ered at Tribal Operations on Friday to show support for the case of Oklahoma Cherokee Veronica Brown.
The four-year-old was taken
from her biological Native American father by federal agents and returned to her non-Native adoptive parents in South Carolina last week.
“I always support every-thing for our children,” said Tribal Council member Steve Pego. “I can’t imagine what is happening to that father. To have his daughter taken, his own flesh and blood, it’s heart-breaking to me.”
Pego worried for Native American children being raised away from their families. He
said tribal groups across the county need to take notice of such issues.
“I’m thankful that I myself grew up with a loving mom and dad,” Pego said. “Every child wants that.”
Other speakers at the gath-ering went on to protest that the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was ruled inapplicable to the case. The law was passed in response to high rates of adoption of Native American children to non-native homes.
Brown’s father initially
relinquished custody to the mother in 2009, when the member of the Army National Guard was being deployed to Iraq. His mother-in-law, a non-native, then put the child up for adoption and a custody battle ensued.
Although a South Carolina court returned Brown to her biological father, the case reached the Supreme Court in June, and ruled the law did not apply in the Browns’ case.
“It affects all Indian nations across the country,” said Faith
Carmona-Pego, chairwoman of the Indian Child Welfare Committee.
Carmona-Pego said her organization will investigate the legislation, and address any areas that can be strengthened.
An organizer of the event, Melissa Montoya, addressed the crowd and asked American Indian families to volunteer for the foster care of native chil-dren. She said the Brown case has broader implications for the rights of American Indian families nationwide.
Other participants ex-pressed sorrow and confusion for a decision they felt had infringed on their civil rights.
“I can’t comprehend what (Dusten) is going through,” said David Russel, an attendee from Grand Rapids. “It’s rare that men stand up for their kids. We’ve got a guy who is fighting for his country. It doesn’t make sense.”
By Taylir EmeryStaff Reporter
Dozens of Central Michi-gan University students volunteered Friday morning to promote Chippewa pride by planting flowers around campus buildings.
“The grounds staff donated the flowers, and the staff and residents are planting them,” Canton junior Morgan Bartos said. “We’re trying to beautify the grounds for homecoming.”
Although similar projects have been implemented in previous years, volunteers this year were tasked with planting more flowers than
ever before.An extra 1,000 maroon and
gold mums were ordered in addition to the university’s yearly order of 500 plants for the entire campus.
While Bartos was busy planting at Barnes Hall, Sagi-naw Township senior Timmy Robinson was working out-side of Robinson Hall.
For him, the flowers were not only a chance to improve campus, but to contribute to the environment.
“Everything about these plants is biodegradable, so it gives us a peace of mind that we can plant these and know everything is recy-clable,” he said.
Also volunteering outside Robinson Hall was Hartland senior Kelly Schiess.
“We’re planting them to make campus look nice,” Schiess said. “It adds to school spirit.”
Students who work for the Towers building maintenance crew assisted volunteers in planting around the Towers residence halls.
“I care about my univer-sity, and I want to make sure freshman and alumni can see the school spirit,” said Sean VanEvery, a Mount Pleas-ant junior and Towers BMW crew member.
According to Joan Schmidt, director of Resi-
dence Life, the idea for the project came from former CMU Deputy Athletics Di-rector Derek van der Merwe.
Van der Merwe is the current athletics director at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, where the university plants flowers every spring.
“We aren’t able to plan for spring because most of our students are gone for the summer by the time the weather is nice enough. What we can do is plant them for fall activities to really make campus look great,” Schmidt said.
By John IrwinManaging Editor
It appears likely that a stalemate in Congress over defunding the Affordable Care Act will lead to the first shutdown of the fed-eral government in nearly a decade.
If the last shutdown, which lasted for three weeks in 1996, is any indi-cation, that could spell bad news for the nation’s still shaky economy and for many Americans — poten-tially including students who depend on federal loans to pay for tuition.
For the past several weeks, lawmakers have been at an impasse over funding the government with a continuing resolu-tion because of the health care reform law. House Republicans have insisted on delaying or defunding the divisive law, commonly known as Obamacare, in exchange for funding the federal government through mid-December.
President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress have shot down that idea as “extremist.”
“My message to Con-gress is this: Do not shut down the government. Do not shut down the economy. Pass a budget on time. Pay our bills on time. Refocus on the everyday concerns of the American people,” Obama said at a Friday news conference.
As of press time, it ap-peared highly unlikely both sides would reach a deal by tonight to avert a shutdown. It is unclear how long a shutdown would last, meaning most day-to-day government operations would halt for the foreseeable future.
With that in mind, here are a few of the many things to expect should the government shut down:
Student loans, re-search funds potentially delayed: According to Inside Higher Ed, a brief government shutdown would likely mean very little to students and fac-ulty at public colleges and universities such as Cen-tral Michigan University.
However, a prolonged shutdown could spell trouble for students who rely on federal aid. The De-partment of Education said in 2011 a shutdown would “severely curtail” its ability to provide funding to insti-tutions, both for loans and for research funds.
Federal workers furloughed, military per-sonnel to be unpaid for now: Since most govern-
ment agencies will lack the funds to operate beginning Tuesday, most federal workers (except for those working in “critical servic-es” such as air traffic con-trol and food safety) will be furloughed. At the same time, non-civilian military personnel will continue to work, but without pay. Most civilian personnel, like most of their fel-low federal workers, will likely be furloughed, and military medical service and weapons inspections, among other things, will be cut back.
After the last government shutdown, federal employees were given their money ret-roactively. It is unknown if that will be the case this time around, but military person-nel will get their accured money once the government begins to operate again.
Other nOtable shutdOwn effects:
w A prolonged shut-down through the end of October or longer would mean the Department of Veterans’ Affairs would lack the funds to dole out benefits to veterans.
w The Environmental Protection Agency would “effectively shut down” completely, according to the Associated Press.
w Passport offices would shutter until they received funding again from the government.
w The U.S. Postal Ser-vice will continue to oper-ate as normal.
w While not guaranteed, Social Security payments should continue to be doled out as normal.
w Obamacare, despite being at the center of the fight over government funding, will continue to be implemented, as it does not rely on congressional budget operations to be implemented.
How a group of retired professors keep their Chippewa loyalty ‘coffee strong’
Barack Obama
The Breakfast ClubPhoto Illustration by Taylor Ballek | Photo Editor
Chippewa Tribe calls for childcare reform during traditional gathering
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorRockford sophomore Trent Boyer, Rockford senior Andrew Scogg III, and Rockford senior Ben Eidson plant flowers in front of Kulhavi Hall Friday.
Govt. shutdown approaches, parties debate Obamacare
Volunteers paint campus maroon and gold with festive flowers
Tea Party conservatives have demanded that the A� ordable Care Act must be delayed or defunded in order to keep the government operational through the end of the fi scal year.
President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats rejected the idea, stripping the GOP’s measure out of the continuing resolution and saying that keeping the government func-tioning should not be beholden to a futile ideological battle.
But Republican leaders threw a similar measure back into the resolu-tion when it returned to the House, all but ensuring no deal to keep the government functioning will be reached by Tuesday.
As these “negotiations” on the resolution and the looming debt ceiling crisis have unfolded, the GOP has more than lived up to its reputa-tion as an obstructionist party. It has
revealed itself as a party bent solely on ideological warfare.
Objecting to anything Obama, the Democrats or anyone to the left of Ted Cruz is the one and only goal of the modern Republican Party.
While that might fi re up Tea Party activists, it leaves the country in the dust as it continues to slowly crawl its way back from the Great Reces-sion.
Make no mistake: A government shutdown would put a signifi cant damper on the already sluggish economic recovery. Thousands of federal workers would be put on furlough. Small businesses looking to take out loans from the government would not be able to.
Veterans would not receive benefi ts should a shutdown be pro-longed. Even college students might not be able to receive fi nancial aid if a shutdown lasts for a long period.
That’s OK, though, in the eyes of the GOP.
A responsible party, if it was that eager to get Obamacare o� the books, would work to elect a president and enough members of its party to Congress to do just that, realizing that elections have conse-quences and accepting the results.
The GOP is no responsible party, though. This is a party that exists solely to create chaos in Washington in some petty attempt to rile up ideo-logues and make Obama look bad, even if that means terrible things for this country.
Amazingly enough, it could get much worse.
House Republicans, in yet another attempt to prove an ideological point and pretend the 2012 presidential election never happened, appear willing and eager to let the United States go through its debt ceiling, likely ensuring global economic catastrophe.
The GOP is so far gone, though, that default might be for the best.
It would be incredibly painful, but having the GOP reap the seeds they have sewn might be the only way to prevent these faux-crises from oc-curring every few weeks for the next three and a half years. Especially if voters send a strong message, the GOP might fi nally come back down to Earth and act responsibly.
We can only hope.
KurtNagl
StaffReporter
This weekend felt too much like summer.
Almost like it would have been sinful to not forget about home-work and savor the sunshine.
The time to enjoy this weather is dwindling with each day. Trees are changing into their fiery, fall-colored attire, and the air smells like apple cider and football. It has a bite that wakes you up a bit each morning as you walk from class to class. Jeans and long sleeves are quickly replacing shorts and tank tops.
As beautiful as the leaves are and as refreshing as the air is, it all seems to serve as a warning of what’s to come.
Yes, that was super melodra-matic and depressing. While we’ve got a while before a snow-pocalypse hits, the carefree days of bare feet are behind us.
EDITORIAL | GOP acting recklessly ahead of shutdown
A House divided cannot stand
Even by their low standards, House Republicans are acting in an embarrassingly reckless manner, and
the entire nation looks like it is about to su� er as a result.
Sunny and 70 is no day for homework
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When news landed last week that former Vice President of Financial Services and Reporting Barrie Wilkes will o� cially replace Vice President of Finance and Administrative Services David Burdette, many faculty members and administrators might have let loose a sigh of relief.
With so many unique and mount-ing fi nancial challenges facing Central Michigan University — now and in its immediate future — having someone like Wilkes in the top mon-ey spot is a major source of optimism as the university moves forward.
Wilkes has the ability to make tough but incisive budget decisions, with the added benefi t of knowing just about everyone on campus.
There are a lot of good things to say about Wilkes’ ability to be e� ec-tive, which makes me wonder: Why was there even an external VP search at all, when the best candidate was here all along?
When the process began, six appli-cants were identifi ed as being possibili-ties for a fi tting Burdette replacement. Obviously, Wilkes, who even served in the very position he fi nds himself
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LUKE ROGUSKA | ASSISTANT DESIGN
Dillon Miller is a senior from Adrian who is majoring in sports management.
CM Life: Describe yourself in three words:Dillon Miller: Positive, optimistic and happy.
What is the best part about being a Chippewa?DM: I think Central is so di� erent. It’s pretty close-knit but it’s
still a big campus. It’s a great experience, and it still feels like home.
Who is your role model?DM: My dad, for one. But I’d have to say John Wooden. I’m into
coaching, and he’s one of the greatest coaches of all time. It’s where I want to be in my career.
What is the best piece of advice you have ever gotten?DM: Take life as it comes and don’t get ahead of yourself.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?DM: Brazil. We had an exchange student when I was younger from
Brazil and he always talked about it. But I plan on traveling everywhere.
S T U D E N T F A C E S
Meet Assistant Designer Luke Roguska
Hometown: Grand Rapids, Mich.
Years with CM Life: Two years.
What does your desk do? We do layout and essentially make the visual aspect of the paper.
What was the fi rst story you covered for CM Life? It was a back page. That’s what I was allowed to do when I fi rst got here. Then, I got assigned to sports fronts and other pages.
If a movie was made of your life, what genre would it be and who would play you? I wish it was action, but I would probably be in a comedy. I would be played by Macklemore.
What’s the best part about working at CM Life? Knowing that I help to make a printed issue that people pick up and actually see.
If you had to eat at one restaurant for the rest of your life, where would it be? Defi nitely Red Lobster. I love seafood.
Who is the most infl uential person in your life? My parents, because they have always loved and supported me.
The morning dew is turning to frost, which will ultimately turn into fl akes. Lots and lots of fl akes.
That’s an awful way to look at Michigan’s most beautiful season, isn’t it? It’s 65 degrees and sunny, and I’m in front of my window writing about snow. If I had any sense, I’d quit babbling right now, but so far I’ve been doing quite poorly in making my point.
Rest assured: I know the perfect way to proceed. I am going to take my laptop outside and set up shop under the nearest tree. For those of you reading this inside right now, I’ll give you a few seconds to find the nearest door.
Good. Now that we’re all outside, let’s take a deep, crisp breath and ob-serve. Nature really couldn’t celebrate summer’s end more festively. The air tastes sweet and the sun is still warm. The trees are painted with bright
oranges and pinks.There really is no time to dwell
on what’s to come; only to em-brace what’s here.
It wouldn’t hurt to think about how you plan to spend the beauti-ful days we have left here in Mount Pleasant. All I can say is sunny and 70 is no day for homework. Home-work can wait for windy, ‘I don’t want to be outside’ weather.
Might as well get it out of your system now. Reap the benefits of Earth’s beauty this time of year before everything freezes.
And if your teachers ask why you didn’t do your homework, just blame it on mother nature.
now, as an interim, was one of those initial candidates. As the applicants were whittled away, Wilkes was the only strand who lasted.
According to Dean of Education and Human Services Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson, who also served as co-chair to the search committee, the goal of the committee was never to determine the best possible can-didate — an odd proposition for a body that determines successors.
“We wanted to determine those who were simply qualifi ed or not qualifi ed for the position,” Pehrsson said. “Our goal was to not make a decision or a recommendation on which candidate (University) Presi-dent George Ross should choose. He would be the one who chose the candidate, and he did.”
Ross should have known from working closely with Wilkes, that no other candidates — internal or external — were better to fi ll the po-sition. Couldn’t Ross have made this decision on his own, seeing as he was the one with the ultimate say?
This dragging of administrative feet didn’t just waste the commit-tee’s time, it also wasted Burdette’s. He was asked personally by Ross to stay on in his position until a succes-sor could be named, when he was originally scheduled to retire in July.
And what about the money spent on the search?
Pehrsson said this was less of a worry, as the university was money-conscious while looking for candidates. In total, the university expended only $343.20 in travel accommodations for Sue Fuciarelli, the only external candidate deemed worthy for an on-campus interview and forum. She was also given a free meal at Fresh Food Company on campus, which came to $9.89.
It eases the mind to know that the university did not expend large sums of vital funding on a search that could have ended months ago.
However, time, like money, is a terrible thing to waste — and of-fi cials wasted plenty of it looking outside of its own walls.
ADRIAN SENIOR DILLON MILLER
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CM Life presents
Oktoberfest 2013
Oktoberfest takes over downtown Festival lifts Mount Pleasant residents’spirits, mugs through song and drink
By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
Adam Failer came for the beer.And he found it. Beneath
the tent, chatting with door men dressed in traditional
German garbs, and weaving in and out of meticulously swift bar maids, Failer got his brew and a bit more.
The Oak Park senior and Dog Central employee was dying to vacate from his studies, guzzle some brews and enjoy a night of live music and escape.
His thirst to party led the 22-year-old marketing logistics major to Mount Pleasant Brewing Company’s third annual Oktoberfest celebration outside Mountain Town Station.
“It’s about beer-thirty right now,” Failer said, as he gazed into the deep, dark-golden complexion of his 40-ounce glass mug. “I’m excited to start drinking. It’s good to get away from the norm.”
Beneath a large tent erected behind the restaurant, the event attracted up to 200 drinkers per night during the four-day event from Sept. 24-28.
Failer and his friends described the atmosphere as a welcomed departure from the rigors of college.
“It’s a good, big social event,” Failer said. “This is my fi rst time drinking in weeks. I’ve been really busy with school.”
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorDan Bracken, left, on the guitar, Bruce Bauman on the fiddle, right, owner of Kaya Coffee John Cotton on the bass, and Bruce Gartner, all members of the Palooka Brothers, perform Friday evening outside of Mountain Town’s third annual Oktoberfest tent behind Mountain Town Station.
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorMount Pleasant resident Ryan Heisler, 23, takes a bite of a bratwurst in a pretzel bun at Mountain Town’s third annual Oktoberfest on Friday evening in the Oktoberfest tent behind Mountain Town Station.
Taryn Wattles | Staff PhotographerBassist Matt Weber and guitarist Mick Khzouz of the band Mega ‘80s get hyped during a song while performing for the large crowd of attendees Friday evening at Oktoberfest, Mountain Town Station’s third annual celebration of the release of their fall beer collection.
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“The goal is to create amazement. I want people to come in here as a hidden gem and say ‘Wow. Thank you.’ We use this to get the community involved. The excitement for providing a new atmosphere has been very intriguing.”�������
-Adam Failer, Oak Park senior
The manager at Mountain Town and organizer of the Oktoberfest event, Eric Bliss, hoped the celebration of the German tradition and home-made ales would remain a fi xture in Mount Pleasant as a testament to the eclecticism of residential taste.
“The goal is to create amaze-ment,” he said. “I want people to come in here as a hidden gem and say ‘Wow. Thank you.’ We use this to get the community involved. The excitement for providing a new atmosphere has been very intriguing.”
While Bliss admitted that beer is the focus of Oktoberfest, he was certain that attendees would also enjoy the night’s live music, food and pageantry.
“Obviously, we focus on the beer spectrum,” Bliss said. “But there’s a lot to go with it. Good times, good beer and great people.”
He described the typical crowd consisting of college students, business professionals and other local residents.
“There’s a wide variety of people here,” Bliss said. “We cater to that. We chose to go without traditional German music as the main focus. We try to get a lot of variety of music.”
CMU ALUMS RETURN FOR FESTIVITIES
Tuesday Reinke, a 2013 CMU graduate, enjoyed Oktober-fest over the years for a more relaxed atmosphere, free of the chaos of under-aged boozers.
“It’s not a fl ashy college party,” she said of Oktoberfest. “It’s a more classy crowd with less college kids getting bellig-erent. My mom would love it.”
CMU graduate Jeremiah Eerdmans came to Oktoberfest in part because of the large portions of beer being served, as well as getting away from a town he often felt was too satu-rated by college students.
After three 40-ounce mugs of an India Pale Ale, Eerd-mans was certain a good time would be had.
“I like that there aren’t a lot of college kids here,” he said. “I was drawn here by the 40-ounce mugs. I’m also sup-porting Mount Pleasant and
Michigan businesses. It’s good beer and good times.”
Stacy Fox, a 41-year-old resident and 1997 CMU gradu-ate, also enjoyed the night for di� erent age groups than typically populate the Mount Pleasant nightlife.
“This is great,” he said of Oktoberfest. “You can get a lot more community involvement. I saw four old ladies dancing outside and they were having a blast. Celebrate a bountiful harvest. The bands are great.”
SWEET, SWEET MUSICTaking the stage at Okto-
berfest, retro-rock band Mega ‘80s came from Detroit to perform in Mount Pleasant for the fi rst time.
Lead singer Carey Denha was grateful to try out his library of authentic 1980s pop hits for a new crowd.
“Anytime we get to play somewhere new, that’s the best thing,” he said. “It’s really good to play for a fresh crowd, to gauge their reactions. It helps us tweak our show.”
Performing at venues across the Midwest, Denha attributes the realism of his band’s sound when covering past hits to the authenticity of Mega ‘80s equipment.
“We buy all vintage key-boards and drum machines,” he said. “We do research and fi nd out what specifi c gear they used and we buy it. That’s why we sound just like the originals.”
Opening for Mega ‘80s, the Palooka Brothers of Mount Pleasant have performed at Oktoberfest each year since its inception. Mandolin and fi ddle player Bruce Gartner said his group has been asked back each year by audience demand.
“We kind of have a follow-ing from year to year,” he said. “This is just for fun, and an excuse to get out and play.”
But what brings Gartner back each year, he said, is the seasonal beauty of his home-town in early fall.
“What a beautiful night,” he said. “It’s just a great time of year.”
Students indulge in decadent brews at Oktoberfest
By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
Kim Kowalski, master brewer, came to the brewery in 2006. He quickly set to work challenging and perfecting what his new employer already had on tap.
“Kim brought in a superior product,” said his fellow brewer, Laren Avery. “He puts a lot of pas-sion into his beer. It’s fermentation of the imagination.”
Joined by Avery while he was interning through Central Michi-gan University’s food service administration program, Kowalski said improvement is the driving force behind his craft. He’s been brewing since 1998.
“They had these beers already. I brought recipes to improve every-thing from the color to the taste,” Kowalski said. “They haven’t been changed in years. It’s just my job to make things better as a brewer.”
At the Oktoberfest celebration last week, Kowalski and Avery served up four handmade beers to the myriad of thirsty patrons.
Kim and Laren are beer guys.
The duo has been crafting their original takes on several brews since they met at Mount Pleasant Brewing Company in 2008.
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“He puts a lot of passion into his beer. It’s fermentation of the imagination.”����������������������-Laren Avery, Mount Pleasant Brewing Company brewer
Featuring Raspberry Wheat Ale, Golden Ale, Iron Horse IPA and an Oktoberfest lager, the pair spent countless months preparing the bubbly beverages.
“To brew beer, you take a glass and visualize everything,” Kowalski said. “You consider the taste, the smell and even the head on top. Formulation is probably the easiest part, timing is the most important. We collaborate on everything. If Laren has an idea, we sit down and talk about it.”
The flagship beer at Okto-berfest is brewed in late June, Kowalski said. It is then lagered, or stored at low temperatures, for the entire summer.
The result is a much smoother taste, Kowalski said — perfect to invite the changing seasons.
“We try to get it as close as we can to the tradition of late spring to early summer,” Kowalski said. “It is served in late September to bring in October. Oktoberfest is the best. It’s smooth, yet malty.”
During the year, the pair brews nine beers at the Mount Pleasant Brewing Company, three of which rotate seasonally. They produce 500 gallons per batch and make up to two batches per week.
Ales are the quickest beer to be brewed at three weeks, while lagers can take up to fi ve months.
“It sits for a while,” Avery said of the Oktoberfest lager. “But it’s worth it.”
Avery explained that the four ba-sic ingredients in beer — malt, hops, water and yeast — can be augmented for fl avor by a wealth of additions.
Both he and Kowalski said they have added honey, hibiscus, black pepper, beets, dandelions, almonds and even hot peppers into their brew on occasion.
“It’s all for the good of the beer, because the beer is good,” Avery said. “It’s like art: All in the inter-pretation.”
Holland senior James Holton was found under the tent at Okto-berfest sipping the locally crafted confections. He said he prefers to drink local.
“It’s something cool,” Holton said of the locally-produced beer. “I’ve always preferred local beers. It’s kind of like fi ghting the machine.”
But as the festivities were under-way, Executive Chef at Mountain Town Station Doug Evans began to dance with his machine, too.
The six-foot grill exploded with the smells of charred bratwurst and roasted peppers as patrons lined up in droves to enjoy the food.
“It’s really a fairly limited menu,” Evans said of the o� erings. “The biggest thing is brats, but people also like the soft pretzels and our lager dip. It’s not really a high-scale thing. It’s your typical comfort-style food for people to relax.”
Brent Peterson, executive chef at Camile’s on the River was also at Oktoberfest, happy to lend a hand and take part in the festivities.
“It breaks up the monotony of the kitchen,” he said of Oktoberfest. “It’s about getting out and being with other people, not being ham-sters in the cage.”
Taryn Wattles | Staff PhotographerBruce Bauman on the fiddle plays with other members of the Palooka Brothers Friday evening at Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorLead singer of Mega 80’s Carey Denha sings lost hits of the ‘80s at Oktoberfest Friday evening at Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorAuburn senior Tuesday Reinke, left, is handed a beer in a souvenir glass mug by Bessemer senior Brooke Berwald, right, who served as a beer maid Friday night during Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
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Oktoberfest’s dense beer challenged by even richer historyFrom keg party to themed festival, event evolves in Mount Pleasant
When he wanted to
bring something new
to Mount Pleasant,
Eric Bliss looked
no further than the
celebration of the
German fall harvest.
The 200-year-tradition — and quality beer — led the manager of Mountain Town Station to push to expand the Oktoberfest celebration each of the three years since its beginning.
“It started out as just a keg party,” Bliss said. “Now, we’re going for a more complete theme; more of an escape for Mount Pleasant. We’re really trying to stick to the roots, but adapting to the community.”
After the first incarna-tion of Oktoberfest was a local success, Bliss and his colleagues at the restaurant realized they had created the beginning of a legacy.
“We received a lot of posi-tive feedback about extend-ing it to more than just one night,” Bliss said.
In its second year, Ok-toberfest extended to two days and began serving food to patrons. Bliss hoped the added services would help complete the image of tradi-tional German beer festival.
With higher-profile bands, and an expanded schedule, Oktoberfest gained popular-ity after last year.
The success led organiz-ers to move the event from the restaurant into a large tent set up behind the build-ing.
“We decided, ‘Let’s make it a real bona fide beer tent,’’’ Bliss said. “We’re trying to give our take of Oktober-fest to the people of Mount Pleasant.”
Over the years, Oktober-fest has garnered the sup-port and sponsorship from several local businesses.
Smith and Sons Meat Pro-cessing began making the brats last year, and B’s Music Shop has rented out equip-ment for the stage show.
“Local business is the real focus,” Bliss said. “We just
try to keep it as local as pos-sible. It’s about beers, brats and great people.”
The event has also been sponsored by radio stations 104.3 FM and 95.3 FM.
Disc jockeys introduce the bands and host special events, such as a sausage eating contest.
“The original Oktoberfest was alcohol-free,” Bliss said. “There’s a lot of history that goes with Oktoberfest. We wanted to bring the traditions of Oktoberfest to Mount Pleasant,” Bliss said.
By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
THE ORIGINAL OKTOBERFEST:
w Oktoberfest is the world’s largest fair held in Munich, Germany.
w It’s a 16-day festival that runs from late September to the first weekend in October with more than 6 million people from around the world taking part in the event.
w Germany is celebrating its 203rd anniversary of the celebrated festival.
w Oktoberfest celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1910 where 120,000 liters of beer were poured.
w In 1913, the Braurosl was founded, which was the largest Oktoberfest beer tent ever, housing 12,000 people.
*Information provided by
the EU Oktoberfest website
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorFarmington senior Tres Yarmuth, left, Livonia senior Aaron Johnson, right, Troy senior Jeremy Cooper and Madison Heights senior Eric Bonk raise their glasses to celebrating Cooper’s 22nd birthday and Oktoberfest on Friday evening at Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorDrummer Mike Racette, band member of Mega 80’s, rocks out on his drums during the bands set list Friday evening at Mountain Town Station’s third annual Oktoberfest.
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Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorLansing-based rap group James Gardin (formerly P.H.I.L.T.H.Y.) hopes that five years from now they will be “doing this everywhere. In the states, out of the states everywhere on the moon.”
Midwest Fest finds a new homeHunter’s Ale House stakes claim to 27 bands during annual music performance
By Tony WittkowskiMetro Editor
Corey Densmore, the founder of Midwest Fest, helped fi ll Hunter’s Ale House from Thursday through Saturday evening. On Friday, more than 200 people packed the small bar located on 4855 E Blue Grass Road.
“Last year, I started booking some other shows here,” Densmore said of the new venue. “We have two stages this year, which is new. It came with doing it here at Hunter’s Ale House.”
What started in 2008 has turned into a main attraction to the city of Mount Pleasant after six years. That became apparent when the event was moved to Grand Rapids in 2010.
“The 2009 version (in Mount Pleasant) wasn’t the greatest, so we tried something new,” Densmore said. “People who came to the other shows I was putting on asked why Midwest Fest wasn’t here anymore.”
Since its return, the music festival has been held at the end of September for the last three years. In its early conception, Midwest Fest used to be a summer festival in July, which didn’t make sense to Densmore, who saw a decrease in student attendance.
Change is good, especially when it comes to the location of this year’s
Midwest Fest.A three-day music festival
hosted in Mount Pleasant, Midwest Fest attracts hundreds of students and residents to a venue to enjoy live music.
After Midwest Fest departed from its tra-ditional location at Rubbles last year, changes were made.
The bands performed on two stages during transitions for three nights, as opposed to the fi ve nights that used to comprise the festival.
“It was too many nights in a row of trying to expect people to come to the bar,” Densmore said. “The typical bar night in a college town is Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It makes sense to keep them that way.”
Running from 8:30 p.m. - 2 a.m. each night, a total of 27 bands were booked, with a three-band quick-o� party last Wednesday. Thursday through Saturday showcased eight bands each day, with its biggest crowd arriving on Friday night.
“We’ve got a little bit of everything; the headliners this year range from electronic/pop, punk rock, high-energy and even hip-hop,” Densmore said.
Last year was the fi rst year Midwest Fest hosted a hip-hop act, but it was not from the lack of trying, Densmore said. There were hardly any that applied.
However, this year included two hip-hop bands to make up for lost time. Of all the bands that fi ltered in and out and Hunter’s Ale House, six included students and alumni.
Some came from Lansing, others from Detroit, while the farthest one traveled from Oklahoma.
ONE MAN BANDFrom the far-reaching edges of the Midwest
came the band known as Young Readers. As a one-man band traveling, the lead singer fi nds a local drummer to perform with him at each showing.
Jordan Herrera started playing violin when he was three years old and has since written and played songs. Originally, he wasn’t sup-posed to play. Herrera was fi rst on the waiting list and was put on hold.
In late June, the stars aligned, and he was called up when some of the other out-of-state bands were unable to make it.
“I really like Michigan,” Herrera said. “I’ve applied for Mitten Fest a couple times and heard of Midwest through them.”
The creativity of the name Young Readers
goes along with the band’s album cover, “Fam-ily Trees.”
The CD is printed on construction paper, giv-ing it the appearance of a coloring book.
With each copy comes a small set of crayons the listener can use to color the front and the word search on the back.
After a tough decision between what he loved and what he was pressured into, Herrera dropped out of Oklahoma State University to tour around the country.
“I was going for music composition, but they ended up fi tting me into six hours of violin music,” he said. “I had a couple of shows when I should’ve been in class, so my private lesson teacher told me, ‘you don’t belong here, it’s like fi tting a square peg into a round hole.’”
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorKeyboard player Ashley McGrath and violinist Joanna Perry of the Soil and the Sun, a Grand Rapids-based band that describes their music as “experiential spiritual folk-rock/New Mexican space music,” perform before a packed room.
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorNorman, Oklahoma native Jordan Herrera performs as Young Readers. Herrera brought his CDs wrapped in a coloring book cover and gave them out for free along with crayons on Friday night at Hunter’s Ale House.
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The Technician | CourtesyRedshirt sophomore offensive lineman Nick Beamish and redshirt freshman offensive lineman Connor Collins challenge a North Carolina State player on Saturday during CMU’s 48-14 loss in Raleigh, N.C.
Running game met its match against N.C. State
Crushed in CarolinaBy Jeff Papworth
Staff Reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — Foot-ball dug its grave with a pick-six and nailed the cof-fi n shut after a special teams touchdown in the fi rst half of a 48-14 loss at North Carolina State on Saturday.
“When you play a really good team and give away a touchdown like that, it’s tough to win,” said head coach Dan Enos. “We miss a fi eld goal. Take 14 points o� , add three for us. But that’s a very good football team we just played.”
Redshirt freshman quar-terback Cooper Rush threw a pick-six to linebacker D.J. Green, giving the Wolfpack a 7-0 lead. It was one of three interceptions he had in the game. He also threw a touch-down pass and completed 16-of-37 passes for 165 yards.
Enos was less concerned about an interception he called a “50-50 ball” to junior re-ceiver Titus Davis in the fourth quarter than the other two.
“The fi rst one, the backer buzzed underneath the out-side slant and he should have pulled it into the inside slant and the second one we had a guy open and he just said the ball got away from him,” Enos said. “So yeah, there’s some growing pains there, but he’s a tough young man.”
Rashard Smith extended N.C. State’s lead to 28-0 with 6:54 left in the second quar-ter on a 67-yard punt return for a touchdown, one of four scored in the second quarter.
When the Wolfpack were not scoring non-offensive touchdowns, they were running it in, without a passing game to rely on since its quarterback Pete Thomas threw four inter-ceptions entering the game.
Running back Shadrach Thornton cut right through the middle and took it 29 yards for a touchdown run, and Matt Dayes added another on a 42 yard rush, making it 21-0 with 8:53 left in the fi rst half.
The Chippewas could not duplicate the Wolfpack’s per-formance in the run game.
The holes Saylor Lavallii found against Toledo on his way to 144 rushing yards were closed. He had nine yards on 10 carries in the fi rst half and 27 yards for the game.
“I thought their team was really good, especially on defense,” Enos said. “Their defensive line was dominant. As we watched them this week that was one of our big con-cerns coming into the game because how good they were.”
CMU had its two best chances at a score in the fi rst quarter on two drives in which a touchdown would have tied the game.
Junior receiver Courtney Williams had a 54-yard kick return, putting the ball at the Wolfpack’s 39-yard line. But CMU got pushed back three yards before punting.
Redshirt freshman kicker Ron Coluzzi missed a 38-yard fi eld goal for the fi rst time this season after the Chippewas moved the ball
59 yards on 10 plays.“We just stayed positive and
came out each series ready to work and tried to get in the end zone as much as we can,” receiver Titus Davis said. “But, at the end of the day, we got to score and our o� ense has got to keep moving.”
By Jeff PapworthStaff Reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State is no Mid-Amer-ican Conference opponent.
Central Michigan run-ning back Saylor Lavallii can attest to that after rushing for only 16 yards against the Wolfpack on Saturday after getting 144 against conference foe Toledo last weekend.
“When you play a good defensive line, it’s di� cult to run the football,” said head coach Dan Enos. “I’ve seen some good ones over the years, and that’s a good one right there. They’re active; they’re explosive and big.”
The Wolfpack came into the game ranked No. 26 in rushing defense, allowing 110 rushing yards a game.
Lavallii fi rst collided with N.C. State’s defense on the fi rst CMU o� ensive play, getting tackled in the back-fi eld for a loss of one.
The trend continued through the second quarter.
The score was 14-0 with 9:19 left in the fi rst half, and CMU needed one yard to convert a third down to give its defense a breather.
Lavallii took the ball but had nowhere to go and was tackled for a loss of one.
By the middle of the sec-ond quarter, CMU had one rushing yard.
“The running backs can’t get frustrated,” Enos said. “They can’t start guessing. And they can’t start pitter-pattering their feet.”
The backups had more success than Lavallii, facing a Wolfpack defense that was not feeling any pressure because of their lead.
Redshirt freshman Mau-
rice Shoemaker-Gilmore scored the only rushing touchdown for CMU on a 38-yard run. He fi nished with 63 yards, while junior Anthony Garland tallied 27 yards.
“Maurce Gilmore came in and hit things and ran hard,” Enos said. “(I) thought he did a good job, but the big thing was our line and tight ends getting beat a little bit. Whenever you get penetration, your running game’s not going to be very good.”
Receiver Titus Davis was responsible for the other touchdown. He said there was one thing the o� ense can look forward to: They don’t face another defense of the Wolfpack’s caliber again.
“They played hard and they made some things di� cult for us. We’re going into the MAC; that’s the good thing,” Davis said. “We won’t see any players like that. Any D-line like that, specifi cally. So I think they gave our O-line a great work day and we’re ready to move on to the MAC.”
Let’s be realistic for a mo-ment.
Central Michigan didn’t stand a chance on Saturday against North Carolina State. Not with a freshman quar-terback, not with injuries mounting on both sides of the ball and defi nitely not with this team’s inability to prove it can win on the road.
Instead, I was just look-ing for something to vali-date head coach Dan Enos’ statement earlier in the week that this team is “real close” to turning the corner on the season.
We got none of that. Quarterback Cooper Rush’s turnovers went up after he had three more interceptions, the fi rst one returned for a touchdown.
I would like to give him a pass by saying he’s only a freshman, but it’s becoming routine. The coaches said last week these are mistakes Rush shouldn’t be making.
In fact, I’d argue he plateaued during the fi rst half against UNLV and has regressed. That’s on the coaches, to immerse him in situations during preparation. The coaching sta� would probably like to throw the ball they need to run.
Leading me to the break-down of the run-game, held under 100 yards on Saturday for the third time this season. Sophomore Saylor Lavallii proved ine� ective, rushing 14 times for 27 yards.
They need to strike a bal-ance o� ensively and there’s no way this team is going to win strictly on the arm of their freshman quarterback. Maybe a year or two, but not now.
And then there’s the defense, arguably the weak-point of this team. The unit allowed a season-high 483 yards on Saturday, including 239 on the ground. N.C. State did what it wanted when it wanted on Saturday, making the defense look like a junior varsity team.
The worst part? CMU knew what it was getting with the Wolfpack attack but still couldn’t stop them.
That’s what makes this loss even worse. Even in 2011, during Enos’ second consecu-tive 3-9 season, the Chip-pewas went into Raleigh and played competitively.
I get injuries make a di� er-ence. I’m convinced things would have went di� erently with Cody Kater and Zurlon Tipton.
That doesn’t excuse a lack of depth at running back or a defense giving up an average of 432 yards per game. That doesn’t excuse breakdowns on special teams.
Even with all the injuries, I expected some sort of silver lining.
Now it just seems like this program is stuck in a spi-ral. Where it lands, nobody knows.
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By Jeff PapworthStaff Reporter
Some called the football team’s game against Michigan an insu� erable beating, with injuries to key players.
Wide receiver Andrew Flory said he calls it football, which Central Michigan played on Saturday against another BCS opponent, North Carolina State.
“It’s a physical sport,” Flory said. “We knew that since we played little league when we were young, when we were fi ve years old, fi rst starting the sport. You’re going to get hit; you’re going to get hurt. But every game’s the same. They put on pads just like we put on pads and we just come out there to play every day.”
The Chippewas and Flory, who had a season-high 86 re-ceiving yards against Michigan, went to Raleigh, N.C. and suf-fered another crushing loss.
The game is a part of a three-game contract that entailed CMU receiving $450,000 and $300,000 for its games at N.C. State in 2011 and this season and it paying $250,000 to host N.C. State in 2014.
Head Coach Dan Enos said he was unsure if there is an increased risk of injuries in
games against BCS schools.He was defi nite in saying the
injuries to quarterback Cody Kater and running back Zurlon Tipton in the Michigan game had nothing to do with what team they were playing.
“There were kind of just freak things,” Enos said. “To be quite honest with you, I think that’s the way a lot of injuries happen.”
There was talk in the o� season of having fewer games matching schools from the BCS and non-BCS conferences in the future for competitive reasons.
Enos said the games are benefi cial to his program. He also said that while no win is greater than another, there are obviously positives to beating a BCS team.
“I would be lying to you if this wouldn’t be a feather
in our cap to beat an ACC school on the road,” he said last week. “I think that would be a huge accomplishment and something really great to build on.”
North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren was in Enos’ shoes as a head coach for a familiar CMU foe in North-ern Illinois the past two years.
Although he was 1-4 against BCS teams as NIU’s head coach, he was six points away from being 3-2 with losses to Kansas 45-42 in 2011 and to Iowa 18-17 in 2012.
“Those were games that we had a chip on our shoulder and wanted to prove we belong,” Doeren said of games against BCS teams. “I think that’s the mantra that most teams will take.”
After week fi ve, there is a Mid-American Confer-ence team in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
After its 55-24 blowout of Purdue, Northern Illinois will see nothing but MAC opponents, including Cen-tral Michigan, as it begins the rest of its season as No. 23 in the nation.
One season after being the fi rst team in MAC his-tory to be in a BCS bowl game, the Huskies became the fi rst team to beat two Big Ten teams (Purdue and Iowa) in the same season, with both games on the road. It’s hard to imagine them improving on the best
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Football suffers another brutalshellacking by a BCS opponent
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorThe Chippewas fell to the University of Michigan Saturday, Aug. 30 at the Big House in Ann Arbor.
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One of the few bright spots for football this season has been the performance of the special teams unit.
Coming into Saturday’s game at North Carolina State, redshirt freshman kicker Ron Coluzzi was a perfect fi ve-for-fi ve on fi eld goal attempts, with three of those kicks com-ing on the road at Michigan.
Coluzzi also kicked the game winning 27-yard fi eld goal to give CMU it’s lone win of the season against FCS op-ponent New Hampshire.
Against N.C. State, Coluzzi missed his fi rst fi eld goal of the season, a 38-yard fi eld goal. It came at a critical point before the route was on, early
in the fi rst quarter.Down 7-0, quarterback
Cooper Rush put together a 10 play, 59-yard drive to the 20 yard line, setting up the 38-yard fi eld goal attempt. The kick sailed wide left. The fi eld goal might have given CMU the momentum, and the miss knocks Coluzzi’s percentage from 100 percect to 83.3 percent.
And the special team let downs didn’t stop there.
Another critical mistake made by the special teams unit was on punt coverage. In the second quarter, CMU punted the ball away to N.C. State returner Rashard Smith who returned the punt 67 yards for a touchdown, making the score 28-0 before the half.
Smith ended the game with
an average of 43.5 yards.
Unlike CMU, the special teams unit for N.C. State per-formed well. Junior kicker Niklas Sade connected on both of his fi eld goal attempts, including a long of 46 yards.
The lone bright spot on special teams for CMU against N.C. State was the kick returns. Junior Courtney Wil-liams had a long of 54 yards, and ended the game with an average of 39.5 per return.
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You’re going to get hit; you’re going to get hurt. But every
game’s the same. They put on pads just like we put on pads and we just come out there to
play every day.”Andrew Flory, Wide Receiver
season in MAC history, but it looks like they have.
It’s rare that you see a team improve after losing a head coach (2012 head coach Dave Doeren left for North Carolina State), but that has happened under new head coach Rod Carey.
It all starts with senior quarterback Jordan Lynch, who as a junior, was seventh in Heisman Trophy voting.
Through four games last season, his Huskies were 3-1 and Lynch went 57-for-100 (57 percent) for 825 yards, 6 touchdowns and 2 intercep-tions and ran for 500 yards and fi ve touchdowns.
This year, NIU is 4-0 and Lynch is 81-for-125 for 869 yards (65 percent), 10 touch-downs and two interceptions, running for 468 yards and three touchdowns. In his last game against the Boilermakers, he played a little over one half.
Lynch has improved his passing game and remains a threat on the ground. If there was ever a MAC player who truly deserved to be in the run-ning for the prestigious award, it’s Lynch.
Eight MAC games stand in the way of them running the table and creating yet another BCS controversy. Those eight teams combine for a record of
11-27 (.289 winning percentage).There are really only two
games that could trip up the Huskies, and they come in back-to-back weeks.
Nov. 13 against Ball State at home, and Nov. 20 at Toledo.
If you ignore those two teams, NIU’s opponents com-bined record drops to 5-23 (.179 winning percentage).
The Huskies crashed the BCS last season due to a rule that states if a non-BCS confer-ence champion is ranked in the Top 16 at the end of the season and two BCS conference cham-pions aren’t, then that non-BCS team receives the spot.
NIU beat Kent State in the MAC championship, while Big Ten champions Wisconsin and Big East champions Louisville were ranked behind, meaning the Huskies took over what would’ve been an at-large spot.
It’s likely the Huskies go un-defeated this season. Last year, they went 12-1 in the regular season, but it’s unlikely the get that BCS position.
Hopefully, CMU fans aren’t expecting too much out of the Chippewas on homecom-ing because NIU is coming to town. But then again, who knows? Last time NIU came here, the Chippewas pulled o� the 48-41 upset.
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By Taylor DesOrmeauStaff Reporter
Five Chippewas tallied seven-plus kills per game in Friday night’s 3-0 sweep of Toledo, including sophomore middle blocker Angie White, who had 12.
White had arguably her best performance of the season, averaging four kills per set and tying junior outside hitter Kai-tlyn McIntyre in the match.
“It’s another day in the park for Angie,” said head coach Erik Olson. “I expect big things out of Angie. She knows that.”
The 6-foot-2-inch Bloom-fi eld Hills native made just one error on the night in her 23 total attempts, giving her a team- high .478 hitting percentage. She also had the game-winning kill in the sec-ond set, which ended 25-15.
“I’d say mentally, that was my best performance of the year,” White said. “There was no question in my mind that when I went up for a kill, I was just ready to go.”
McIntyre came into the contest ranked 47th in the nation, with 3.95 kills per set. Even though she only totaled 12 of the Chippewas 49 kills, McIntyre was pleased with the distribution and gave credit to senior setter Kelly Maxwell.
“I think it’s an awesome thing when we can spread the ball,” McIntyre said. “(Max-well) did an awesome job of spreading out the o� ense and getting everyone the ball.”
Maxwell ranked 13th in the nation with 11.43 assists
per set. She averaged 14.33 assists per set Friday night with her 43 assists. Maxwell also racked up seven digs and two kills.
SATURDAYSaturday night was a di� er-
ent story for the team.Only two players had more
than seven kills (McIntyre and Melissa Fuchs), and instead of sweeping, the team got a taste of its own medi-cine.
Fuchs led the team with 10 kills, McIntyre tallied eight and while Maxwell averaged 14.33 assists in her three sets Friday night, she only aver-aged 9.67 Saturday.
The Chippewas will have arguably their toughest week-end of the season next week when they travel to Western Michigan on Friday and Northern Illinois on Saturday.
Both teams are ranked ahead of them in the pre-season coaches poll.
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Morgan Taylor | Staff PhotographerJunior outside hitter Kaitlyn McIntyre spikes the volleyball during CMU’s sweeping win Friday night against Toledo in McGuirk Arena.
By Taylor DesOrmeauand Joe Judd
Staff Reporters
The brooms were out in full force this weekend, and the Chippewas were on the wrong side of Saturday’s sweep against Ball State.
CMU (7-7, 1-1 MAC) opened McGuirk Arena and the Mid-American Confer-ence Friday and only needed one hour and 34 minutes to sweep Toledo (7-8, 0-2 MAC) Friday 3-0. However, Ball State (14-3, 2-0 MAC) took only one hour and 25 minutes to sweep the Chip-pewas 25-14, 25-22 and 25-19 Saturday.
“(Ball State) controlled the fl ow of the match,” said head coach Erik Olson. “What we talked about in the locker room was how we weren’t very aggressive in just about every aspect of the game.”
Eight of the Chippewas past nine games have been sweeps, fi ve of which they have won. Olson says the team needs to be able to adapt better during the game to avoid being swept.
“We talked about how much the team heard our coaches tonight,” Olson said. “I think our focus got so narrow that we couldn’t see a brick wall headed right toward us. We have to do a better job under adversity.”
CMU’s best chance to win a set came in the second, which had 12 lead changes. It went on a 5-1 run early on to take a 10-6 lead, but Ball State fol-lowed with a 5-1 run of its own to tie the game at 11.
At 18-18, the Cardinals scored three points in a row and took the lead for good.
“We came out really ag-gressively in the second set,” said freshman outside hitter Melissa Fuchs. “We were in control part way through, then we just kind of fell apart.”
Fuchs had a team high 10 kills in the match. She says the lack of aggressiveness was one of the major factors in the loss.
“I think we could be more aggressive for sure,” Fuchs said. “Ball State came out very aggressively, and that was the di� erence.”
Another area that lacked to match the aggressiveness from Friday night’s victory was the crowd noise.
“Our super fans were missing, and it was evident,” Olson said. “The fan attendance was close to last night’s, but the environ-
Team splits sweeps at home
By Joe JuddStaff Reporter
After sweeping Toledo on Friday, volleyball was swept by Ball State 24 hours later at McGuirk Arena.
Despite falling behind early in the match, the Chippewas produced a stel-lar e� ort by freshman out-side hitter Melissa Fuchs.
She proved to be a thorn in the side of the Cardinals on Saturday night.
With a total of 10 kills on the night, Fuchs fi nishes up her fi rst weekend of Mid-American Conference play.
For a freshman who is new to the scene, conference play can be challenging at times.
“It feels good, and it makes me feel more comfortable playing (various) teams,” Fuchs said. “I feel really close to the team, so it’s great to have these two matches so
we can build for next time.”On a night when it seemed
as if the Chippewas were continuing to fall short, the freshman from Utah made her presence felt on the court.
Head coach Erik Olson claimed his team did not play aggressively enough, and while that might be true, Fuchs still hit the ball with au-
thority against the Cardinals.“Kelly (Maxwell) gave me
a lot of great sets,” Fuchs said. “I have to give my thanks to her for that.”
Fuchs, a native of Provo, Utah, has had past success while in high school and looks to continue that in her time with CMU. Having won the 5A Utah State Champion-ship for Pleasant Grove High School in her senior year, she knows what it takes to win.
Under adversity, the team struggled to get much going against Ball State, but they aren’t hanging their heads. With so much of the MAC season in front of them, they cannot become discouraged.
“We have to do a better job under adversity,” Olson said. “I thought we did a great job against Toledo, but tonight we got out to a tough start and we just didn’t bounce back.”
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ment wasn’t quite as upbeat as it has been. We were a little bit more polite tonight as hosts. I think that we can be a little bit more rowdy and raucous.”
The attendance was 533 Friday and 474 Saturday, both higher than the crowd Olson described as “hostile” during last weekend’s Georgia South-ern Invitational.
“We want the whole arena to get crazy; we want the whole arena to have a fun time,” Olson said. “This team really thrives on that, so it’ll certainly help us in the future.”
FRIDAYIt was a di� erent story
Friday night.The Chippewas had fi rm
control on the match for the fi rst two sets, winning them 25-23 and 25-15, respectively, and the McGuirk Arena crowd saw CMU play some of its best ball all year.
“I’m very pleased with this victory tonight,” Olson said. “This is probably our best win of the season so far, and this was very big of us to put it together.”
Through the fi rst two sets, there was only one lead
change, with the Chippewas seeming to have the match under control. The second set saw CMU’s attacking percent climb to .484. Toledo, however, did not go down without a fi ght.
“Toledo stepped up and I re-ally thought they played great tonight,” Olson said. “Getting the fi rst (MAC win) out of the way is huge.”
Senior setter Kelly Maxwell, now ranked No. 13 in the na-tion in overall assists, had 43. Her teammate, junior Kaitlyn McIntyre, had an impressive performance of her own. With 12 kills, she helped keep CMU in good spirits.
Maxwell and McIntyre were not the only ones contributing for the Chippewas. Doing a quality job at spreading the ball around the court helped them prevail in the end.
Defensively, Fuchs had 13 digs, while senior libero Jenna Coates had 16 digs.
CMU will be on the road next weekend at 7 p.m. Friday at Western Michigan and 8 p.m. Saturday at Northern Illinois.
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Women’s soccer gained momentum this weekend by winning its fi rst two Mid-American Conference games at Kent State (1-0) on Friday and Ohio (2-1) on Sunday.
On Sunday, the Chippewas came out aggressively and were able to get into a rhythm on of-fense, with four shots in the fi rst 14 minutes of the game to go along with two fi rst half goals.
“We never stopped play-ing,” head coach Peter McGa-hey said. “We kept working and did the things we needed to do to win.”
CMU fi nished with 13 shots (nine on goal) and a stingy de-fense, which held the Bobcats to two shots on goal (seven total).
Junior midfi elder Emily Cooksey added three shots on goal in the game, giving her 12 this season.
Junior goalkeeper Grace Labrecque recorded one save in her fi fth start of the season.
“I thought she was composed and confi dent,” McGahey said. “She wasn’t rattled out there. That is what senior elite level goaltenders can do. The com-posure and grace she plays with really helps this team.”
After Ohio scored in the 19th minute, CMU responded with a goal of its own two
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minutes later.Sophomore midfi elder
Kaelyn Korte scored her fi rst goal this season in the 21st minute on an assist from ju-nior forward Laura Gosse.
“Grace saved the penalty kick, Ohio scored, and then we responded with a goal,” McGahey said. “That goal speaks to the resiliency of our team.”
CMU would grab the lead heading into halftime after Cooksey scored in the 34th minute.
The defense has been consistent for the Chippewas this season, but it’s been the o� ense struggling to get into a rhythm.
In the fi rst half, the Chip-pewas had nine shots (seven on goal), while the Bobcats were limited to only two
shots on goal.“There is a powerful thing
that is starting to develop with our team defensively,” McGahey said. “We have a really good collective spirit in understanding it takes a whole team to defend. The concepts we have been put-ting into games are starting to apply under the pressure of playing really good teams.”
FRIDAYA pair of fi rsts put the
Chippewas ahead when junior forward Morgan Wilcoxon scored her fi rst goal in the 36th minute o� senior midfi elder Tory Kinniard’s fi rst assist of the season.
“It’s always important to get the second season o� on the right foot,” McGahey said. “We had a good performance
to start the conference season against a very good Kent State squad. Part of getting o� on the right step is seeing results and beating a good team on the road.”
In CMU’s fi rst MAC game, it allowed six shots on goal. Labrecque was solid with six saves on 21 shots for her fi fth career shutout.
“We really earned that one,” McGahey said. ”I thought we created good chances today. I felt like we were able to keep Kent State under enough pressure to keep them honest.”
CMU will head home this week to face Western Michi-gan on Friday at 4 p.m. and Eastern Michigan on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorCMU players celebrate a goal during their Aug. 25 draw against Detroit at the CMU Soccer Complex.
After losing seven of the eight games it had played during a brutal non-conference schedule, the winless women’s soc-cer team had one objec-tive in mind heading into last weekend: Win the Mid-American Confer-ence.
The Chippewas (2-7-1) got off to a great start when they topped Kent State 1-0 on Friday and then Ohio 2-1 on Sunday.
It is important to appreciate the signifi-cance of that first win over Kent State. We hear coaches say things like: “A win is a win.”
What happens when a win is more than just a “normal” win?
One victory ignites an emotional and mental fire in the minds of a group of women who have only known failure, frustration and tragedy.
It’s one thing to steal a victory against Kent
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State, but it’s another thing to end an opponent’s five-game win streak and hand a team it’s first loss at home this season.
Beating Ohio proved something crucial about the players on this team: They are resilient and have stead-fast dedication.
The win proved the vic-tory against KSU just two days earlier was not a fluke.
Critics and college soccer experts might look at the Chippewas non-conference schedule and claim any one of the teams CMU played during the first month of the season could win the MAC.
Perhaps that is where this success is coming from. Maybe playing that ruthless road schedule is paying off.
It might take several weeks to fully evaluate how special a 1-0 win over the Golden Flashes was in terms of the bigger picture of the CMU season, but this might have been an early turning point.
First-year head coach Pe-ter McGahey called starting MAC play the Chippewas “second season.”
It might be one of the big-gest clichés in sports, but the more the Chippewas succeed, the more this feels like a Grade A example of “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”
McGahey’s coaching staff has had the most difficult circumstances thrown at it of any of the varsity sports teams on campus this fall.
At times, it appeared that oh-so-special first victory of the 2013 campaign would never come.
But last Friday, it did.And it could not have
come at a better time.