cm-life.com Central Michigan University’s premier news source and student voice since 1919. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014 | MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. | ISSUE NO. 75 VOL. 95 Life cm LIFE INSIDE Greek Week begins Sunday, ends Friday with mock rock »PAGE 3 Annual ‘Relay for Life’ to use Disney theme in 24-hours of support »PAGE 5 LIFE ON CAMPUS »PAGE 6A By Ben Solis University Editor A Freedom of Information Act request filed by Central Michigan Life asking for a copy of a legal settlement between Central Michigan University and LaBelle Limited Partner- ship was denied by the Office of General Counsel. CM Life requested the settle- ment information after learning both parties had reached an out- of-court settlement on a lawsuit filed after failed attempts to construct an on-campus hotel near or around Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The Office of General Counsel cited attorney-client communications as its reason for denying the public records request. In response, CM Life has filed new FOIA requests to obtain a copy of the settlement and any other court documents related to the settlement and for copies of any financial expenditures paid to LaBelle as part of the settlement. Plans for a LaBelle hotel were dismantled when the board of trustees approved moving the hotel to a different location on campus, which was not part of the original verbal agree- ment between LaBelle and former University President Leonard Plachta, said Presi- dent George Ross at the Dec. 5 board of trustees session. The arrangement ended in a lawsuit between CMU and LaBelle that was dismissed, appealed and settled out of court. During their Dec. 5 meet- ing, the trustees approved a $175,000 30-year land lease allowing construction of a proposed six-story Courtyard by Marriot hotel near or around Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The new hotel arrangements were re- ported to be between CMU and Mount Pleasant Hospitality, a company also known as Lodgco. University officials, including Ross and Steve Smith, director of Public Relations, told CM Life that a “gentlemen’s agree- ment” was also reached between CMU and LaBelle regarding the release of any information regarding their lawsuit. The “gentlemen’s agreement” stated if any member of the student or professional press wanted to view or keep a copy of the settlement agreement, they could do so by sending a FOIA request to the university’s General Counsel, Smith said. CM Life sent an initial FOIA request on Jan. 26 which requested the final agreement. The request was received by General Counsel the next day, Jan. 27. A denial of request letter dated Feb. 4 was subsequently sent back and was received by CM Life in mid-February. Ac- cording to the Michigan Consti- tution, Article Nine, Section 23, the public has the right to view or request copies of checks or expenditures paid using public monies through FOIA requests. Besides the cited exemption, Mary Roy, CMU’s Freedom of Information officer, wrote that the university sent a copy of the final agreement to CM Life on Dec. 5. CM Life has received no such document. [email protected]FOIA request for LaBelle, CMU lawsuit denied A new wage Union Township trustees address corruption complaints By Amanda Brancecum Staff Reporter Pay rates and the attendance policy for the Union Township Board of Trustees were heavily discussed in a Wednesday work- shop meeting after complaints of corruption from residents. Meeting pay is a small, but im- portant part of the more than $10 million budget. Funding for the budget comes from the near 11,000 Union Township residents’ tax dol- lars. Past and present trustees have been accused of poor attendance at meetings, one of the main calls for a deduction in pay. A main concern among the board members was preventing abuse of the policy, which Trustee Tim Lan- nen said has been in place for more than seven years. “I have seen it abused,” said Trustee Bryan Mielke. “I have seen members ... during their lame duck sessions suddenly start attending meetings for five minutes and then they would leave. I haven’t seen any- body here doing it, but I have seen it in the past.” One of the residents viewed the tape from the last meeting and gave some feedback to Trustee Phil Mikus regarding pay. “It seems quite clear that two new board members, Bryan (Mielke) and Roger (Hauck), found a loophole in the meeting policy,” Mikus said. “The loophole being that our policy states that we, as board members, can attend meetings that we are eligible to attend. (There is) no definition of eligibility.” Board of Trustees Supervisor Russ Alwood said he turns in only some documents for meeting pay from the ones he attends because he feels he is constantly in meetings. The township does not have de- fined hours of work for its employ- ees. With the position being part-time, Alwood said he doesn’t know when members have working days or time off. Mikus proposed an 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shift for their regular town- ship business hours. In the draft of the meeting pay policy, this would mean the township supervisor, clerk and treasurer would not receive any extra pay during those hours if at an extra meeting took place. “The way our policy is, it states that all seven of us could go (to a meeting) and all seven of us could get paid,” Hauck said. “I just don’t see how anyone on this board thinks it’s in the best interest of our taxpay- ers to go to any board meetings that they want to when we can assign one board member to go to that meeting.” Morgan Taylor | Assistant Photo Editor Mount Pleasant Union Township Board of Trustees Bryan Mielke, Margie Henry, Peter Gallinat and Brian Smith discuss meeting pay at Union Township Hall on Wednesday night. By John Irwin Senior Reporter ANN ARBOR — Matt Roughton is worried about how his children will be able to pay for college. Roughton, 52, was among dozens who gathered along East Hoover Avenue in Ann Arbor on Wednesday to watch President Barack Obama and his motorcade drive by before and after his speech at the University of Michigan’s Intramural Building. With tuition rates continuing to skyrocket nationwide, and fewer jobs available to pay for it, the Ann Arbor resident and father of two is worried about how he will be able to get them through college. “College is important, but it’s concerning that college is becoming so expensive,” he said. “We’re asking kids now to work through college and graduate in four or five years, but that’s impossible when there are so few jobs.” Obama was in Ann Arbor to push for an increase in the federal mini- mum wage from its current $7.25 sta- tus to $10.10 per hour. His speech was geared toward people like Roughton’s daughters, who are concerned about their futures as student loan debt rises and well-paying jobs struggle to come back. He spent much of the speech criticizing congressional Republicans for failing to get behind a minimum wage increase, pointing to polls that indicate as much as 75 percent of Americans support an increase. “(A wage increase) would lift mil- lions of people out of poverty right away,” Obama said. “You would think this would be a no-brainer, politi- cally.” Photos by Samantha Madar | Photo Editor TOP: President Obama speaks in the University of Michigan Intramural Sports Building in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. The President spoke about raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. BOTTOM LEFT: A member of the United States military stands on the tarmac awaiting President Obama’s arrival at Willow Run Airport on Wednesday. BOTTOM RIGHT: A spectator at the president’s speech stands and applauds Obama in the University of Michigan Intramural Sports Building on Wednesday. Obama’s Ann Arbor speech highlights challenges for young Americans, college students w OBAMA | 7 w UNION | 2 EDITORIAL: Renewing an emphasis on safety, security »PAGE 4
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By Ben SolisUniversity Editor
A Freedom of Information Act request filed by Central Michigan Life asking for a copy of a legal settlement between Central Michigan University and LaBelle Limited Partner-ship was denied by the Office of General Counsel.
CM Life requested the settle-ment information after learning both parties had reached an out-of-court settlement on a lawsuit filed after failed attempts to construct an on-campus hotel near or around Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The Office of General Counsel cited attorney-client communications as its reason for denying the public records request.
In response, CM Life has filed new FOIA requests to obtain a copy of the settlement and any other court documents related to the settlement and for copies of any financial expenditures paid to LaBelle as part of the settlement.
Plans for a LaBelle hotel were dismantled when the board of trustees approved moving the hotel to a different location on campus, which was not part of the original verbal agree-ment between LaBelle and former University President Leonard Plachta, said Presi-dent George Ross at the Dec. 5 board of trustees session. The arrangement ended in a lawsuit between CMU and LaBelle that was dismissed, appealed and settled out of court.
During their Dec. 5 meet-ing, the trustees approved a $175,000 30-year land lease allowing construction of a proposed six-story Courtyard by Marriot hotel near or around Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The new hotel arrangements were re-ported to be between CMU and Mount Pleasant Hospitality, a company also known as Lodgco.
University officials, including Ross and Steve Smith, director of Public Relations, told CM Life that a “gentlemen’s agree-ment” was also reached between CMU and LaBelle regarding the release of any information regarding their lawsuit.
The “gentlemen’s agreement” stated if any member of the student or professional press wanted to view or keep a copy of the settlement agreement, they could do so by sending a FOIA request to the university’s General Counsel, Smith said.
CM Life sent an initial FOIA request on Jan. 26 which requested the final agreement. The request was received by General Counsel the next day, Jan. 27. A denial of request letter dated Feb. 4 was subsequently sent back and was received by CM Life in mid-February. Ac-cording to the Michigan Consti-tution, Article Nine, Section 23, the public has the right to view or request copies of checks or expenditures paid using public monies through FOIA requests.
Besides the cited exemption, Mary Roy, CMU’s Freedom of Information officer, wrote that the university sent a copy of the final agreement to CM Life on Dec. 5. CM Life has received no such document.
Union Township trustees address corruption complaintsBy Amanda Brancecum
Staff Reporter
Pay rates and the attendance policy for the Union Township Board of Trustees were heavily discussed in a Wednesday work-shop meeting after complaints of corruption from residents.
Meeting pay is a small, but im-portant part of the more than $10 million budget. Funding for the budget comes from the near 11,000 Union Township residents’ tax dol-lars. Past and present trustees have been accused of poor attendance at meetings, one of the main calls for a deduction in pay.
A main concern among the board members was preventing abuse of the policy, which Trustee Tim Lan-nen said has been in place for more than seven years.
“I have seen it abused,” said Trustee Bryan Mielke. “I have seen members ... during their lame duck sessions suddenly start attending meetings for five minutes and then they would leave. I haven’t seen any-body here doing it, but I have seen it in the past.”
One of the residents viewed the tape from the last meeting and gave some feedback to Trustee Phil Mikus regarding pay.
“It seems quite clear that two new board members, Bryan (Mielke) and Roger (Hauck), found a loophole in the meeting policy,” Mikus said. “The loophole being that our policy states that we, as board members, can attend meetings that we are eligible
to attend. (There is) no definition of eligibility.”
Board of Trustees Supervisor Russ Alwood said he turns in only some documents for meeting pay from the ones he attends because he feels he is constantly in meetings.
The township does not have de-fined hours of work for its employ-ees.
With the position being part-time,
Alwood said he doesn’t know when members have working days or time off.
Mikus proposed an 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. shift for their regular town-ship business hours. In the draft of the meeting pay policy, this would mean the township supervisor, clerk and treasurer would not receive any extra pay during those hours if at an extra meeting took place.
“The way our policy is, it states that all seven of us could go (to a meeting) and all seven of us could get paid,” Hauck said. “I just don’t see how anyone on this board thinks it’s in the best interest of our taxpay-ers to go to any board meetings that they want to when we can assign one board member to go to that meeting.”
Morgan Taylor | Assistant Photo EditorMount Pleasant Union Township Board of Trustees Bryan Mielke, Margie Henry, Peter Gallinat and Brian Smith discuss meeting pay at Union Township Hall on Wednesday night.
By John IrwinSenior Reporter
ANN ARBOR — Matt Roughton is worried about how his children will be able to pay for college.
Roughton, 52, was among dozens who gathered along East Hoover Avenue in Ann Arbor on Wednesday to watch President Barack Obama and his motorcade drive by before and after his speech at the University
of Michigan’s Intramural Building.With tuition rates continuing to
skyrocket nationwide, and fewer jobs available to pay for it, the Ann Arbor resident and father of two is worried about how he will be able to get them through college.
“College is important, but it’s concerning that college is becoming so expensive,” he said. “We’re asking kids now to work through college and graduate in four or five years, but
that’s impossible when there are so few jobs.”
Obama was in Ann Arbor to push for an increase in the federal mini-mum wage from its current $7.25 sta-tus to $10.10 per hour. His speech was geared toward people like Roughton’s daughters, who are concerned about their futures as student loan debt rises and well-paying jobs struggle to come back.
He spent much of the speech
criticizing congressional Republicans for failing to get behind a minimum wage increase, pointing to polls that indicate as much as 75 percent of Americans support an increase.
“(A wage increase) would lift mil-lions of people out of poverty right away,” Obama said. “You would think this would be a no-brainer, politi-cally.”
Photos by Samantha Madar | Photo Editor TOP: President Obama speaks in the University of Michigan Intramural Sports Building in Ann Arbor on Wednesday. The President spoke about raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. BOTTOM LEFT: A member of the United States military stands on the tarmac awaiting President Obama’s arrival at Willow Run Airport on Wednesday. BOTTOM RIGHT: A spectator at the president’s speech stands and applauds Obama in the University of Michigan Intramural Sports Building on Wednesday.
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EVENTS CALENDARFRIDAYw The memory of Hiroshima: Hibakusha visit to CMU 2 to 3 p.m., Charles V. Park Library Auditorium.Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, Yuki Miyamoto and Masuoka, will be visiting campus to share their memories of the bombings. The event is free and open to the public.
w Graphic design class art gala grand opening2 to 4 p.m., University Art Gallery. Students in the graphic design capstone class will have their work on display in the art gallery Friday until April 19. The art in the gallery is from the capstone class, ART 472, featuring many years worth of training and creativity. The gallery is free and open to the public.
w The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Moore Hall Bush Theatre.The University Theater is performing the classic play “The Cherry Orchard,” a tale about an aristocratic family whose estate is being auctioned off to settle their debts. Tickets are available on Ticket Central, $7 for students and seniors, and $9 for general public. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $10.
Lannen, who earned the most of the four trustees from extra meeting pay ($3,950), was against having just one person go to meetings.
He said he doesn’t encour-age limiting the opportunity for trustees to learn more about what is going on in the community through meet-ings for the planning and road commissions.
“Nearly 50 percent of our residents are students,” Lan-nen said. “Limiting (trustees) would probably be the last thing I would want as a tax-payer to ask my board to do.”
There are some trustees assigned to go to extra meet-ings, such as Alwood, who attends the road commission meetings, and Mielke, who is already part of the planning commission.
“We don’t want to come down on anybody,” Mielke said. “We just want to maxi-mize the bang of the buck for our taxpayers.”
Mikus said he was happy with the policy introduced at the last meeting, as it could fi ll the loophole that was discovered.
They added a specifi c defi -nition in the revised meeting pay policy draft created by Mielke, Mikus and Hauck, which was introduced at the last regularly scheduled meet-ing Wednesday, March 26. The added portion included what meetings board mem-bers would be eligible to receive pay for.
Morgan Taylor | Assistant Photo EditorBoard of trustee member Tim Lannen listens to community member Edward Peters’ concerns about meeting pay at the Mount Pleasant Union Township Board of Trustees meeting at Union Township Hall on Wednesday night.
Extra Meeting Pay
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Elementary school students got a taste for the detective’s life in Rowe Hall this week. The children took part in a mock forensic investigation put on by CMUPD.
meetings,” said Clerk Margie Henry. “There should be seven chairs and all of us board members should be there without pay.”
In order for there to be a change in policy for meeting pay, Lannen said it must be presented before the board for approval to amend the budget.
However, Lannen believes there is a good system of checks and balances already in place.
“You guys (have) insur-ance,” said Mount Pleasant resident Edward Peters. “You’re getting a wage and a per diem. I know other people who were on the tribunal board. They never get paid. They do it because they want to help this community.”
Revised minutes for the workshop will be reviewed April 9 at the next Union Township meeting.
fraternities and sororities at Central Michigan University get ready for one of their most anticipated events of the year: Greek Week.
Scott Courter II, a program assistant for Greek Life, in the Office of Student Activities and Involvement, said this year’s chosen philanthropy is Special Olympics.
Events for Greek Week 2014 begin Sunday. Signs promoting Greek Week and mock rock are being created to hang up around campus.
There will be an all-Greek photo in McGuirk Arena at 6 p.m. on opening day.
Penny Wars, the main fundraiser for the week, also begins Sunday. All pennies collected are positive points, while all dollars and other coins collected are negative points.
On Monday, there will be a Special Olympics keynote athletic speaker at 7 p.m. in Plachta Auditorium.
Tuesday’s event will be academic games at 7 p.m. in Plachta Auditorium.
Courter said the games played will be much like “The Newlywed Game,” where paired fraternities and sororities have to correctly answer questions about their partner’s organization.
Greeks will challenge each other’s athletic prowess during the athletic games at 6 p.m. Wednesday in McGuirk Arena. The long-awaited mock rock concludes the week at 6 p.m. on Friday in McGuirk Arena.
All events are completely open to the public, and everyone is invited to come watch the Greeks compete.
-Andrea Peck | Staff Reporter
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Sarah White | Staff PhotographerYoung participants in the spring break spectacular “Crime Scene at the Museum” outside of Central Michigan University’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History on Wednesday.
Elementary Evidence
By Mark JohnsonSenior Reporter
Growing up, faking sick either got you out of school for a day or in a heap of trouble for attempting it.
But for those hired by the Col-lege of Medicine to take part in the Standardized Patient Program, the fine art of faking symptoms of illness is helping students learn, work and interact with real human patients.
Standardized patients are individuals paid by the school to portray a patient with some kind of sickness or other side effect. Students interact with the pa-tient by interviewing them, and diagnosing the disease the patient might have.
“Many students have not had any interactions with real patients in the real world, so this gives the students an opportunity to be face-to-face with somebody, who’s responsive to their questions, facial expressions and how they speak and phrase the questions,” said Nhu Dargis, director of the Standardized Patient Program. “The feedback they receive from the patient is from a different perspective than from what they would receive from an instructor.”
Patients are hired through refer-ral program and are paid $15 an hour to start, though some receive higher pay if they stay in the pro-gram long enough. Some patients refuse the pay because they are happy to help the students any way they can.
Before working in the program, they are hired on a temporary basis and go through an extensive training process. This training period teaches them how to mimic symptoms of a disease.
Aside from practicing their interviewing skills, another key focus of the program is to help students learn how to adminis-ter physical exams, like taking a patient’s blood pressure, and to familiarize them with potential medical histories.
The training facility for both the students and the patients is a replica of a working doctor’s of-fice, with real medical equipment. Cameras capture the encounter between the students and patients so the footage can be reviewed later by the students and professor.
Nico Conti, a first-year medical student from St. Clair Shores, is in a course titled “essentials of clini-cal skills,” which uses the Stan-dardized Patient Program every other week.
There are two parts to the pro-gram, Conti said. The first involves learning how to conduct medical exams from a group of physicians. Next, the medical students practice on each other, administering the examinations throughout the week.
Students get to work with the standardized patients the follow-ing week.
Conti said the program has been beneficial in terms of relat-ing his course work to practical, hands-on skills.
Courtesy Photo | University of CommunicationsDr. Meredith Goodwin, assistant clinical professor and co-director of the essential skills course block, teaches medical students Magalie Bernardo, Patric Knecht and Shelby Reitzel how to preform a medical examination using “patients” faking illnesses.
CMED ‘patient’ program helps students diagnose illnesses
“You retain and remember stuff a lot better when you are taking it out of context, rather than when someone is dictating to you what you should see, or say, or do,” he said. “It helps prepare us for what we will see in the future.”
CMED professors share Conti’s sentiment, including Meredith Goodwin, associate clinical profes-sor and co-director of the essential clinical skills course block. Good-win teaches 64 students who use the program.
She teaches a class that uses the program and agrees the experience is much more valuable than learn-ing the same subject matter in a classroom or a lecture hall.
“By working with the standard-ized patients, we get an objective assessment of the students’ abili-ties,” she said. “Everybody is really enthusiastic about the program and the students really like it be-cause it’s like being a real doctor.”
Madeline Lee solved her first mur-der before she could even drive a car.
The 10-year-old and her classmates worked closely with the Central Michigan University Police Depart-ment and its forensics unit at the “Crime Scene at the Museum” mock investigation in Rowe Hall.
“Looking at the bones outside and picking them up was so much fun,” Lee said. “We solved that murder and I even got my fingerprints taken by cops.”
The crime scene program had children solve a phony murder using forensics Wednesday at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Rowe Hall.
Tammy Draves, a teacher at Mount Pleasant Seventh-Day Adventist Elementary School, brought eight of her students to participate in the crime scene scenario.
“I like the idea of my students learning how police do their jobs and having them realize that the police are here to help, not to be afraid of,” Draves said. “All kids love a mystery, and my students are having a blast.”
Participants worked outside at the fake crime scene that contained the remains of a skeleton, pieces of evidence including a Styrofoam cup, a Pop Tart wrapper and CDs. The kids recorded the information in their investigation logs, and strapped on gloves to collect the remains and gather evidence to bring to the class-room lab to analyze.
Dearborn Heights senior Kaitlyn
Schroeder developed the crime scene program last year, and offered an im-proved version Saturday.
“I got the idea for the crime scene program from a disease class I took at CMU, and I used other, different ideas from an osteology and forensics class, too,” Schroeder said. “Seeing how much fun these kids have with it feels amazing.”
The children were separated into three groups to work on the differ-ent forensic stations in a classroom lab to find out which of the provided suspects was the murderer.
One of the groups analyzed the fingerprints they found on the CDs and the Pop Tart wrapper to match them to a suspect. They also had their own fingerprints taken with assistance from CMUPD Sgt. Mike Morrow and Officer Tim Prout.
The second group worked on the skeleton analysis, organizing the bones to form a complete skeleton, compar-ing the bones to see what damage was dealt to the victim.
The third group worked in the dentition area, where they analyzed the bite marks found on the Styrofoam cup and compared the bite marks with molds of the suspects’ teeth.
Together, the children compared the evidence they found and worked cooperatively to solve the murder and pinpoint the victim through the use and analysis of forensic evidence.
“It’s great to work with the kids to show them what we do,” Morrow said. “This is the fun part of the job.”
Sarah White | Staff PhotographerYoung visitors look at a human skeleton during the spring break spectacular “Crime Scene at the Museum” outside of Central Michigan University’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History on Wednesday.
Sarah White | Staff PhotographerAlec Burch of Mount Pleasant teaches young participants how to identify subjects using teeth molds at the “Crime Scene at the Museum” event at the Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Rowe Hall on Wednesday.
baker unlikely to return this
semesterProfessor Sean Baker, who
took a personal leave of absence after an intoxicated incident and a string of altercations with other journalism professors, is unlikely to make a return to teaching classes this semester.
Journalism department officials said they were given notice that Baker would not return after his slated two-week leave of absence “until further notice.”
An email notifying professors of Baker’s status was sent out by Jiafei Yin, the chair of the department. According to the email, Baker’s status and future with the department is still unknown.
Professors will be meeting with Salma Ghanem, dean of the College of Communications and Fine Arts, and Dennis Armistead, the director of faculty and employee relations in the Faculty and Personnel Services department, to discuss any updates available on the situation.
“There is a process that we have to follow (when looking at professor conduct),” Ghanem said. “We haven’t had to do anything like this before, so we are doing our due diligence while also trying to protect the professor’s privacy.”
Journalism professors were concerned about the lack of action to address Baker’s conduct as it progressed over the past few years, as well as concerns about the perceived unwillingness on Ghanem’s part to share all available information.
Ghanem said she has tried to be in contact with professors as much as possible.
Calls to Armistead to confirm whether Baker is under a formal inquiry or investigation of misconduct were not immediately returned before press time.
The meeting with Armistead and Ghanem is scheduled for 2 p.m. on April 11.
-Ben Solis | University Editor
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EDITORIAL | Renewing an emphasis on safety, security
LOCK IT DOWN
In fall 2013, Central Michigan University’s on-campus under-graduate enrollment decreased from 18,686 students to 17,771. Many argue the university is to blame for the decrease in enroll-ment.
I have to disagree.When I was contemplating
which university I wanted to attend during my senior year, CMU’s rural location knocked it off my top-choice list. Mount Pleasant was a less-than-de-sirable location. I couldn’t see myself spending my undergradu-ate career here. It seemed like a small community and I wanted
a campus where I could explore diverse surroundings.
When perspective college students visit CMU, they are left with an impression of Mount Pleasant largely defined by Mis-sion Street. It’s busy, it’s impos-sible to make left turns on and it’s plastered with fast-food.
It isn’t Mount Pleasant.I never knew there was a
downtown Mount Pleasant until after I was already enrolled. There are many other entertain-ing activities and attractions that help define the city, but they re-main largely out-of-view, hidden away from campus.
Mount not-so-Pleasant James WIlsonSocial Media Coordinator
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TO THE EDITOR:
The College Republicans at CMU are announcing an endorsement for Chuck Mahone because of his level of character, integrity, goals and plan for transparency. A ticket prepared to represent the views and opinions of the university will have our support. The willingness to not only speak his mind, but listen to the students of our school is incredibly important to leadership.
Trino Schincariol Chairman, College Republicans at Central Michigan University
TO THE EDITOR:
The College Democrats at CMU are pleased to endorse Chuck Mahone and Mariah Urueta for the presidential ticket in this year’s SGA elections. We have worked with them extensively and understand their character and their agenda. We appreciate their com-mitment to the community and their understanding that CMU and Mount Pleasant need to work together as one.
Taylor Gehrcke President, College Democrats at Central Michigan University
MOUNT PLEASANT
However, some recent events have caused a disconnect between that expectation and reality.
Last year, a student was robbed of his wallet near parking lot 42 and 7-Eleven, a student was abducted at gunpoint outside of the Student Activity Center and several laptops were stolen from Cobb and Carey residence halls.
This year, a homeless man was charged with larceny, trespassing and destruction of property after vandalizing — and living in — Finch Fieldhouse over the course of at least a couple of days. The man also stole a backpack full of equipment valued at around $400.
CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley epitomizes the attitudes surround-ing our city. After the abduction in January, he said the scariest part of the incident was that nobody thinks these types of situations can happen.
Mount Pleasant and the CMU community need a reality check.
While Mount Pleasant might be safer than many cities in Michigan, crime is inevitable. The common mindset that our community is excluded from the realities of the rest of the world is inaccurate and misleading.
Although these crimes are not the fault of the victims, CMU and its students need to realize that the real world can oftentimes be a dangerous place. Every precaution should be taken to promote our personal safety.
Ultimately, our personal secu-rity rests most heavily on our own shoulders.
While our police department — with a high-response rate and an advanced surveillance system — provides comfort from the inescap-able, the fi rst step in preventing
crime is to recognize that it exists.All buildings on campus should
incorporate a higher standard of security to protect our students. Although the residence hall check-in policy is useful for the evening hours, the majority of campus does not facilitate heightened safety measures.
Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University and Eastern Michigan University have implemented campus ID scanner systems for entry to residence halls. It’s time CMU does the same.
CMUPD employs 20 police of-fi cers. Our on-campus population is 19,634 students. With no additional security presence on campus, that leaves each o� cer charged with protecting 982 students. More can be done to expand our security.
While the homeless should nev-er be able to camp out in university buildings and students shouldn’t live in fear of being kidnapped, it’s an unpleasant reality both our facilities and our students could — and should — be more prepared to face.
When perspective students are given a campus tour, they are informed about the programs and awards each department has, but they don’t truly discover what Mount Pleasant can offer.
Why don’t we inform our students that there are five golf courses? What about our 15 local parks? We even have a skydiving location 10 minutes from campus.
Additionally, there are many restaurants downtown that are much more appetizing than Mis-sion’s fast-food, including Dog
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Christopher Lynn: It still blows my mind about that kidnapping that happened in the SAC parking lot. It just shows anything can go wrong on campus. It doesn’t take much — even if there are beefed up security measures.
Beau Christian Arlt: I would like to see more blue light emergency polls for individuals walking alone on campus. I think our school doesn’t provide enough emergency outlets that are distinctly clear and available.
Madison Taylor Phillipich: Maybe add more cars and employees to Saferides so it doesn’t take an hour for you to get picked up. Sometimes they never even show up.
Students, how do you feel about security measures on campus? OnFacebook
Tiffany Frutchey: I feel pretty safe here. Maybe locks in the dorms could be better, but that’s a pretty small complaint. I do know I would be absolutely terrifi ed if the students here were allowed to carry fi rearms.
Dustin C Coulter: Students and staff with concealed pistol licenses should be able to carry their pistols while on campus.
Central, Camille’s on the River, Max & Emily’s Bakery and even a vegetarian/vegan restaurant with a full tea bar.
What Mount Pleasant needs is an effective public relations team.
Students need to know there is so much to do in Mount Pleas-ant other than getting drunk or gambling at Soaring Eagle. CMU and Mount Pleasant need to work together to promote the positive aspects of each. One cannot grow without the other.
Maybe then, perspective stu-dents will really appreciate the city and again consider attending our university.
Andraya Croft | Staff PhotographerFaucher Elementary 5th grader Justice Griffen, right, accompanied by Loli Alverez, left, walk door to door selling candy at Copper Beech Apartments on Wednesday. Griffen is trying to raise money to afford costs required to be on the championship basketball team at Morey Courts Recreation Center. Griffen recently tried out and was one of 11 girls who were selected.
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Members of the Central Michigan Life Advertis-ing Department proved determination can surpass experience at this year’s College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers convention.
The team won fi rst place for Best College Newspa-per and 16 other awards for their mobile app, yearly sales increase and training pro-gram – and they did it with a predominately new group.
“We had to train com-pletely new staff,” said Julie Bushart, advertising man-ager and a Redford senior. “Everybody brought new, fresh ideas.”
Having such a young staff allowed Bushart and the other managers to shape the school year in a way that could guarantee success.
Elise Pelletier, account executive, is new to the
department and quickly learned the team’s presen-tation at CNBAM was an important goal to focus on. Pelletier works to sell space in the paper to local busi-nesses and clients, and is excited about working with the paper in the future.
“You couldn’t even describe how amazing it was,” the Caro sophomore said. “We just have to keep doing what we’re doing. We have a lot of new things coming up like Social Café that I think will be some-thing that sets us apart.”
After winning second place at last year’s CNBAM, members of the ad depart-ment made sure they met each of their quotas and kept an eye on their big-gest competitors at other schools.
Advertising Manager Dan Haremski said he has been motivated to beat Kansas University, the team that took first place at last year’s convention, keeping the logo
of their school in plain sight as a reminder all year.
A broadcasting and cin-ematic arts major, Haremski hopes to use the victory as a way to improve his resumé.
“We went down there with the intention of win-ning,” Haremski said. “As we started the awards ceremo-ny, I wasn’t feeling like we had it, but as soon as Kansas got third I started getting a little nervous.”
Haremski and the rest of the team experienced an emotional win, and found unexpected support from many of the other schools present during the awards. Bushart said becoming close with the members of her team helped them to achieve their goals.
“This was our end goal,” Bushart said. “We wanted No. 1 and we worked so hard to get it.”
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Illinois senior Jason Cle-ments has been dedicated to “Relay for Life” for 15 years, when his sister was first diagnosed with cancer at the age of three.
He was initially involved in his residence hall’s team, and has created his own team with a group of friends called the Zetter-beards.
“I didn’t get involved with actually fundrais-ing and everything until freshman year at Central (Michigan),” Clements said. “I look forward most to the luminaria ceremony be-cause a lot of times I don’t take the time to think about how much cancer impacts everyone and impacts me, and how lucky I am that my sister is still alive and moving on with everything. That gives me a moment to put everything in perspec-tive and really understand why I’ve been raising
money for months.”This year’s “Relay for
Life” at Central Michigan University begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday in the Indoor Athletic Complex. Students, faculty, staff, and the com-munity are invited to the life-saving tradition prac-ticed across the country.
The 24-hour event raises money for the American Cancer Society.
Mackenzie Guest, a junior from Rockford, has been involved in “Relay for Life” for 14 years.
Her mother was involved with the organization in her hometown since Guest was in grade school. Becoming a co-captain for her Larzelere Hall team her freshman and sophomore years at CMU was simply the next logical step.
The Zetterbeards team will feature homemade smoothies and possibly a mini-stick hockey game at Relay to raise money. Those who attend Relay can ex-pect to see the Zetterbeards
and other groups, regis-tered student organizations and Greek organizations surrounding the track in the IAC.
Relay is well-known for being a high-energy event, even into the early morning hours.
“I like just seeing all the teams show up, and then seeing how their attitude at the beginning of the day and their attitude at 3:00 in the morning is exactly the same,” Guest said. “Ev-erybody’s still got a smile on their face. It’s such a motivation at relay to keep pushing forward through-out the whole 24 hours.”
In addition to the lumi-naria ceremony, the event will feature a Disney prince and princess competition, as well as a reflection pre-sentation, during which pa-trons can share their stories of survival and support.
Students, community to support cancer survivors at ‘Relay for Life’
File Photo | Kaitlin ThoresenParticipants walk around booths at the “Relay for Life” event at the Indoor Athletic Complex on April 20, 2013. In 2013, Relay raised more than $70,000 for cancer research.
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Arin Bisaro | Staff Photographer Roseville senior Stephen Rafalowski practices for an exam on Thursday in the Music Building.
Morgan Taylor | Assistant Photo EditorA Capella group Fish N Chips warms up their voices before practicing songs in the music building on Thursday night.
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Flint graduate student Aurther Kimmons plays the tuba in a practice room in the Music Building on Thursday night.
Andrew Whitaker | Assistant Photo EditorCellist Melissa Bialecki and guitarist Josh Colosky play with Kavazabava, a Mount Pleasant Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy band, at Colosky’s home Saturday night.
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The president, speaking to a crowd of hundreds of mostly students, criticized Repub-licans for dismissing a wage increase as a benefi t only for younger people.
“We should be making it easier for your generation to grab a foothold on the ladder of opportunity,” Obama said.
GOP FIGHTS BACKMany Republicans and
conservative groups have called a minimum wage increase dangerous for a still-fragile economy.
Michigan Chamber of Com-merce Director of Health Policy and Human Resources, Wendy Block, said similar increases being pushed for by Democrats in the state legislature would place an unfair burden on many businesses.
“Our members don’t need the government to tell them to pay their workers a good wage,” Block said, adding that businesses already pay their workers as much as they can because that is the best way to stay competitive.
She said a nearly 40-per-cent mark-up in the minimum wage could “strangle economic growth in the state” as it recov-ers from the Great Recession, which Michigan received the brunt of.
“Many members are still struggling with the costs of gov-ernment-mandated health care, otherwise known as Obam-acare,” Block said, referencing the Aff ordable Care Act. “They don’t need another government mandate.”
The nonpartisan Congres-sional Budget Offi ce issued a report in February that painted a mixed picture on a $10.10 minimum wage. It estimated it would lift about 900,000 Americans out of poverty, but it would also cost the economy an estimated 500,000 jobs.
While warning a minimum wage increase would not solve all the country’s economic problems, Obama said upping the minimum wage would help to create “opportunity for all.”
“Nobody who works full-time should be raising their family in poverty,” Obama said to loud applause. “That’s what’s hap-pening right now all across the country.”
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Earlier this year, the president signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contractors to $10.10 per hour.
“If you cook our troops’ meals, our country should pay you a living wage,” Obama said.
The prospects of a federal minimum wage increase are up in the air, however, it stands a slim chance of passing the Republican-controlled House.
In the Democratic Senate, moderate Republican Sen. Su-san Collins of Maine is attempt-ing to win over several Demo-crats on a compromise measure that increases the minimum wage by a smaller degree.
Still, Obama urged Americans — especially younger people — to call their representatives and ask them to raise the minimum wage, and he called on busi-nesses to raise their wages on their own.
“Fair wages and higher profi ts aren’t mutually exclusive. They can go hand-in-hand. That’s what Henry Ford under-stood,” Obama said, referencing the automotive pioneer who paid his employees a then-unheard-of $5 per hour.
Obama took time to highlight other actions he has taken over the past fi ve years that have impacted students, pointing to the student loan reform law he signed in 2009, which cut banks out of the federal loan process and capped many loan pay-ments at 10 percent of a person’s income.
He also attacked congres-sional Republicans for the budget written by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., that was unveiled Monday.
Obama said it would drasti-cally cut funds for educational programs, while providing tax relief for the top income brackets.
“They do, to their credit, have one original idea, and that is to repeal Obamacare,” he said sar-castically. “Because they haven’t tried that 50 times.”
Obama highlighted his signa-ture legislative accomplishment as a way his administration has worked to create “opportunity for all” by creating access to quality health care.
“We believe everyone should have a chance,” Obama said.
Samantha Madar | Photo Editor President Barack Obama and Gary Peters, a representative for Michigan’s 14th congressional district, walk out of Air Force One on Wednesday at Willow Run Airport.
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Gymnastics team has ‘best chance’ to advance to nationals Saturday
By Taylor DeOrmeauStaff Reporter
“Every tenth, every turn, every routine, we fi ght.”
Senior Emily Heinz leads this chant before every meet.
“Basically (it means) that ev-ery tenth, every quarter-tenth counts, so we’re going to fi ght for everything so we don’t give anything away,” Heinz said.
No. 18 gymnastics hopes the “fi ght” will help them advance to nationals for the fi rst time in school history.
Central Michigan will need to fi ght for every tenth of a point in Saturday’s regional to takedown either host No. 6 Georgia or No. 7 Michigan if it wants to advance.
The chant is based on the rallying cry from the movie “Red Tails” and fi nishes with a call and response of ‘we fi ght.’ Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade used a similar motiva-tion when his team trailed the San Antonio Spurs in the 2013 NBA Finals.
While head coach Jerry Reighard has helped CMU to a record-setting 15 Mid-Amer-ican Conference champion-ships in his 30 seasons, he has never made it to nationals.
“I think it would be, in my career as a coach, certainly a capstone of my career,” Reighard said. “(It’s) some-thing that I’ve strived to attain year after year.”
Reighard said this year is the best chance the Chippewas have had to advance to nation-als since 2003, when they missed out due to a tiebreaker.
“Actually, I think this is a better chance for us,” Reighard said. “I really feel that top to bottom, depth-wise, this team is a better team. But that 2003 team was not to be denied. From top to bottom they came out with a little fi re in their gut and it paid o� .”
The top two teams from Saturday’s regional in Athens, Ga. will advance to the na-tional championships April 18-20 in Birmingham, Ala. CMU follows in seeding behind Georgia and Michigan.
No. 22 Ohio State, North Carolina State and Rutgers will be the other three teams at regionals.
“I feel fairly confi dent that both Georgia and Michigan are going to be in that 197 range,” Reighard said. “The score that we had at our championship meet isn’t going to move us on and we’re going to have to be even better than that. We have got to be push-ing the 197 envelope to even be in the running.”
CMU has scored more than 197 twice in school history, the last time being in the 2004 MAC championships.
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Georgia and Michigan rank sixth and seventh in vaulting nationally with CMU and NC State coming in at 22nd and 23rd. Michigan’s Austin Sheppard is the favorite to win the event individually, as she ranks sec-ond in the nation. CMU sophomore Kirsten Petzold is the top Chippewa on vault, ranked 33rd in the country.
Georgia is the top-ranked bars team in the nation, averaging a 49.485 for the season. They have fi ve individuals in the Top 25 nationally, including two gymnasts tied for second. While CMU sits fourth out of the six teams at regionals, they’re coming o� their best performance of the season on bars with a 49.475.
Georgia has the seventh and ninth best gymnasts on beam in the country, but CMU junior Taylor Noonan is close behind in 17th. Michigan lurks one spot behind CMU on beam, just .005 behind, according to the Regional Qualifying Score.
Michigan is fourth in the country on fl oor, with Georgia and CMU coming in at 10th and 13th. Michigan’s Joanna Sampson is the only gymnast ranked higher than CMU junior Halle Moraw in Saturday’s regional. Sophomore Taylor Bolender also has a shot at the title, tied for 23rd in the country.
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Samantha Madar | Staff PhotographerJunior Becca Druien competes her floor routine in the meet against Kent State on Feb. 16, in McGuirk Arena. Druien received a score of 9.850 on the floor.
second at regionals every sea-son in program history, dating back to 1984 and has won 10 NCAA national champion-ships. Michigan has fi nished fi rst or second at regionals 15 of the past 17 years.
Reighard said one of the toughest aspects Saturday will be proving to the judges that CMU is worthy of being men-tioned with teams like Georgia and Michigan.
“I think there’s a little more respect (for Georgia) than the unknown factor of Central Michigan,” Reighard said. “I really feel like that’s going to be our biggest battle. The faster we can convince the judges that we are a quality program, the better the scores are going to climb for us.”
Heinz and senior Brittany Petzold have been to region-als the past three years with CMU, but they believe this is the best chance they have had to advance.
“This is the fi rst time since we’ve been here that I think we can go to nationals,” Heinz said. “Last year we talked about it, but we still had those doubts. This year, I have no doubts we can beat Michigan or Georgia or both.”
The meet will start at 4 p.m. Saturday and can be watched live at georgiadogs.com.
Baseball hopes to keep one streak alive after anoth-er was snapped Wednesday.
After losing to Michi-gan, ending seven-straight wins, Central Michigan hopes to keep its unbeaten Mid-American Conference record this weekend against Buffalo.
“We’ll focus on (Buf-falo) when we get back (to Mount Pleasant),” said head coach Steve Jaksa following the 6-3 loss to the Wolver-ines. “By (Thursday), it’ll be time to turn the page on to the weekend against Buffalo.”
The Bulls have improved in recent years, going from 10-16 in MAC play in 2012 to 19-7 last season. As a team, they are in the top five in the MAC in slug-ging percentage, on-base percentage, triples, home runs, sacrifice flies and are patient at the plate with 104 walks (No. 4 in the MAC).
In pitching, Buffalo is No. 3 in team ERA at 4.05, two spots behind CMU at 2.66. Opposing batters are hitting a MAC-worst .231 against Buffalo with 164 hits and 87 runs earned, No. 2 in the
MAC behind the Chippewas (70).
“We know Buffalo pretty good,” Jaksa said. “We know they’ve got a good ball club and I’m excited we’re go-ing to (be)playing at home again this weekend.”
With the three-game weekend series, CMU wraps up a five-game week.
The bullpen has seen in-creased innings of work this week, though Jaksa said it’s a reality of the game.
“You have to be able to handle the highs and lows of a game,” he said. “We play mid-week games every year and we have to look (at) what happened in those games and strike to improve from them.”
Jaksa hopes to see an improved effort on defense this weekend. The Chip-pewas recorded six errors in two games this week, resulting in nine unearned runs.
“That’s the key,” Jaksa said. “How do you get bet-ter when you’re playing one or two mid-week games?”
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By Nancy BlackTribune Content Agency(MCT)Today’s Birthday (04/04/14). Happiness shines brighter than silver this year. Compassion with community enlivens you. Education and commu-nication skills further your career, with extra points for artists of all media. Creativity comes easy. Home is where your heart is, with family and friends. Balance work with romance over springtime, then play full out over summer. An autumn revelation provides freedom, innovation and integrity.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Prioritize talk over action. Tell imaginative stories. Entertain and inform. Reality interferes with fantasy, however. All isn’t as it appears. Emotions prevail where logic fails. Cut to basics... aim for simplicity. Organize and plan who’s doing what over a shared meal. Enjoy fun with friends.Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Discover a way to work smarter and earn more. Connections, communications and clever ideas win profit. Streamline procedures and routines to save time. Pay off bills before spending on frills. Put in extra work for high quality results. Dress up for a fun social event.Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- A little illusion goes a long way to spark emotions. Build this for promotions. Avoid travel, big launches or transportation. More work is required. Stay where you are and increase productivity. Long-distance communication provides the info you need. Tele-conferencing saves time and money.Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Think, plan and research. Hunt for inspiration. Write, record and brainstorm. Satisfy your curiosity. Make a list of potential costs. Your skill at pinching pennies comes in handy. Avoid gambles or risk. Do your homework to meet deadlines. Be sensitive to another’s view.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Enter a two-day party phase, and get involved with your community. Your friends are there for you. Hold meetings, collaborate and throw ideas around. Respectfully abandon a scheme lacking soul (or advise another to do so). Have fun while contribut-ing for a good cause.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Con-
sider new opportunities today and tomorrow. Trust emotion over rationality. Go with your feelings and intuition. There could be a test. Upon winning, new responsibilities raise your stature. Choose a direction that’s grounded in reality, even as you aim for the stars.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Reduce speculation by announcing your plan. Today and tomorrow begin an expansion phase. Include travel and fun in the agenda. Make a promise, and put it in your schedule. Take a bold step, supported by friends. Take it slow. Get yourself a treat.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Support a partner with financial paperwork like insurance or taxes. Every little bit counts. Consider practical details. Today and tomorrow favor financial review to save money. Make sure funds are there to cover upcoming events. A little planning goes a long way.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Partnership and negotiation take priority today and tomorrow. Consult with experts on strategy. It’s easier to delegate; someone else on the team wants to be more directive. Pay attention to all offers. A caring soul has a fresh perspective on a big decision ahead.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s plenty of work... you’re extra busy and things could seem hectic or intense. Rely on your schedule, and move items forward as needed. Creative ideas abound, and you’re in the thick of the excitement. Take frequent deep-breathing breaks, or go for little walks. Stay frugal and focused.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Go back to basics, and follow the rules. Abandon far-out ideas, and go for low-hanging fruit. Confer with your team. You get some good press. A barrier is dissolving, or becoming unimportant. Set long-term goals with your sweetheart today and tomorrow. Attitude is everything.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Today and tomorrow favor making household decisions and changes. You and your partner have the energy for it now. Imagine sharing your cozy home with friends and family, and clean up with that vision. Play music that makes you dance. Snuggle into your lovelier space tonight.(c)2014 BY NANCY BLACK DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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News Central Michigan Life | cm-life.com | Friday, April 4, 2014 | 9
Baseball carries undefeated MAC record into Buffalo home series
UP NEXT
CMU (17-11, 6-0 MAC) vs. Buffalo (12-10, 3-2 MAC)
GAME 1: Today at 3:05 p.m.
GAME 2: Saturday at 2:05 p.m.
GAME 3: Sunday at 1:05 p.m.
WHERE: Theunissen Stadium
Tianyu Han | Staff PhotographerJunior outfielder Nick Regnier drops his bat to run to first base in CMU’s game against Miami at Theunissen Stadium on March 29, 2014.
Tianyu Staff | Staff PhotographerThe CMU baseball team gathers behind the mound at Theunissen Stadium during the Chippewas win against Miami on March 29, 2014.
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