cm-life.com Check back for video on this week’s weather reaction. By Mike Nichols Senior Reporter Being diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer did not stop Hannah Simons-Scalise from doing the things she enjoyed. The Mount Pleasant sophomore died in her home Monday. She was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma when she was a freshman at Mount Pleasant High School, 1155 S. Elizabeth St., but still managed to compete in the state championships for cross country running. Her mother, Lynn Simons, said Hannah spent the first year of treatment getting 14 rounds of chemo- therapy. After being discharged cancer- free, her cancer re- turned three months later. “If you can imagine a kid who is in chemo still practicing with the team,” Simons said, “that was impressive.” Simons said Hannah spent the next four years receiving treatment at the University of Michigan Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and the University of Pennsyl- vania. She underwent four thoracoto- mies, a surgery involving incision into the space between the lungs, had two courses of radiation and 900 doses of chemotherapy. Simons said Hannah endured all this and still managed to graduate high school on time. In college, Hannah studied history. She worked a part-time job at Spin- ning Wheels Arena, 1241 N. Mission Road, and spent the rest of her time doing volunteer work. She was a humanist who valued nature and the cycle of life, Simons said. Hannah volunteered for the Mount Pleasant Animal Shelter and had adopted a dog, Sophie. Queens University student and Mount Pleasant resident Jamie McDe- vitt-Irwin met Hannah in 6th grade and was with her all the way through high school. She said Hannah was her best friend and that she was inspired by how Hannah never allowed cancer to bring her down. “She’s had cancer since ninth grade and she’s never let it define her,” McDevitt-Irwin said. “Some people didn’t even know she had cancer be- [cm-life.com] Mount Pleasant, Mich. Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 A Great Tan at a Great Price! 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As a theater major, I give them each an individual name and story, so my life is like ‘Night at the Museum,’” Austin said. photos by victoria zegler/staff photographer CMU students wait for a Isabella County Transportation Commission shuttle bus just after 5 p.m. Tuesday outside of the Music building. Freshmen Jessica Wilson of Rochester Hills, left, and Annie Palmucci of Ann Ar- bor walk from south campus to the library Tuesday evening. “This is the reason why I skip class in the morning,” Wilson said. “The weather, it’s freezing.” Hannah Simons- Scalise color me! Kids today choose tech toys over tradition, 1B Student dies after battling rare cancer Hannah Simons-Scalise remembered for staying strong A SIMONS-SCALISE | 2A “In this area, it’s hard to tell,” she said. “We’re on the north border of the storm, and if the storm shifts farther north, we can get up to a foot of snow.” She said the storm’s effects will be far worse in Missouri, Illinois, and especially Oklahoma, where the state is not as prepared for rough win- ter conditions. The state legislature has canceled sessions for Today and Thursday due to weather conditions, according to a statement from the House Speaker’s office. Campus events and classes are normally canceled with lowered visibility and if travel is impeded or safety is af- Classes canceled Warning in effect until 7 p.m. By Maria Amante | Senior Reporter C lasses have been canceled today with a National Weather Service winter storm warning effective in Isa- bella County until 7 p.m. All buildings will be closed on campus except residence halls, according to an e-mail sent out by University Communi- cations. Charles V. Park Library and the Student Activities Center will open at noon. The storm will taper off by 8 to 10 a.m., said Jamie Bielinski, warning coordina- tion meteorologist for the NWS Grand Rapids office. “The heavier snow will take off from midnight,” she said. Bielinski said to watch for 8 to 10 inches of snow. Wind gusts during the day Wednesday could be as high as 25 mph, and that will cause blowing and drifts, she said. Caitlin Ross, meteorology temporary faculty member, said it was difficult to calls whether the storm would have such a massive effect because weather is unpredictable. A WINTER | 2A By Odille Parker Staff Reporter Spare time is far more ef- ficient when it results in a paycheck. Jobs on campus are a popular choice for students because they are required to prioritize course schedules over work schedules. Spencer Austin usually keeps to himself on the job. The Lansing freshman is a student assistant at the Mu- seum of Culture and Natu- ral History in Rowe Hall. He is in charge of cleaning the museum and preparing ex- hibits for the viewing of the public. “Since I am a theater ma- jor, I love working in the zo- ology room at the museum,” Austin said. “I like to pretend that I am Ben Stiller in the movie ‘Night at the Museum’ and talk to (the exhibits) and pretend that they are alive and give them names.” The Cedar Springs fresh- man Mandy Mann is both a receptionist and reference desk clerk at Charles V. Park Library. Shesaid she loves the simplicity and conve- nience of her jobs. She can not only work on homework during her shift but has also become skilled at navigat- ing through the library for classes. “The flexibility of my work is the best part,” Mann said. To be a reference desk clerk, a student needs to take LIB 197: Introduction to Library and Information Research and fill out an ap- plication. Freshmen are usu- ally favored because of their ability to work through the next four years, Mann said. The baristas of Java City carry the heavy charge of livening sleepy students’ mornings. The two coffee shops, located in the Health Professions building and Park Library, employ about 25 people. Mikado freshman Barbara McNeill described a baris- ta’s job as taking customer orders, making beverages, serving food and cleaning. “The best part of this On-campus jobs a popular choice for some student employment A JOBS | 2A By Emily Grove Senior Reporter Every Wednesday CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, ex- amining different issues. Mission Street has long been associated with high volumes of traffic and accidents in Mount Pleasant, but steps to revamp the road have already begun. Jeff Gray, Mount Pleasant’s director of Planning and Com- munity Development, said the main problem plaguing Mission varies widely depending on who you ask. For the city, the main con- cern is making sure the street stays a viable business corridor for business owners and people who shop there, as well as the people who live in that sector of the community, he said. But whatever problems Mis- sion itself incurs, the solutions are ultimately left to the Michi- gan Department of Transporta- tion, since it is a state highway. “The city obviously has no ju- risdiction of the street itself so our influence is primarily the sides of the street,” Gray said. Mount Pleasant has been working with businesses along Mission to increase accessibil- ity. The city has new ordinances for development along Mission which allow for businesses to be closer to street, like the new- ly renovated Taco Bell, 1143 S. Mission St. The new Taco Bell was also granted easements and the abil- ity to make future connections with businesses that build next to it in the future. “The city has to focus on what we can control,” Gray said. “We’ve been working on connections with businesses to avoid going out on the street.” Such projects are opportuni- ty-based and not all businesses can use this option. The site plans have to be approved and neighboring properties have to agree to work together. Gray said First Bank, 2013 S. Mission St., upgraded its exist- ing facility and the new drive- way was built to connect to the local shopping plaza. “The (Downtown Develop- City focuses on making Mission Street more business friendly A IN-DEPTH | 2A w Sibs Weekend coming Friday, Saturday, 5A w Army resolutions; students get fit, 3B
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By Mike NicholsSenior Reporter
Being diagnosed with a rare type of bone cancer did not stop Hannah Simons-Scalise from doing the things she enjoyed.
The Mount Pleasant sophomore died in her home Monday.
She was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma when she was a freshman at Mount Pleasant High School, 1155 S. Elizabeth St., but still managed to compete in the state championships for cross country running.
Her mother, Lynn Simons, said Hannah spent the first year of treatment getting 14 rounds of chemo-therapy. After being discharged cancer-free, her cancer re-turned three months later.
“If you can imagine a kid who is in chemo still practicing with the team,” Simons said, “that was impressive.”
Simons said Hannah spent the next four years receiving treatment at the University of Michigan Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and the University of Pennsyl-vania.
She underwent four thoracoto-mies, a surgery involving incision into the space between the lungs, had two courses of radiation and 900 doses of chemotherapy. Simons said Hannah endured all this and still managed to graduate high school on time.
In college, Hannah studied history. She worked a part-time job at Spin-ning Wheels Arena, 1241 N. Mission Road, and spent the rest of her time doing volunteer work.
She was a humanist who valued nature and the cycle of life, Simons said. Hannah volunteered for the Mount Pleasant Animal Shelter and had adopted a dog, Sophie.
Queens University student and Mount Pleasant resident Jamie McDe-vitt-Irwin met Hannah in 6th grade and was with her all the way through high school. She said Hannah was her best friend and that she was inspired by how Hannah never allowed cancer to bring her down.
“She’s had cancer since ninth grade and she’s never let it define her,” McDevitt-Irwin said. “Some people didn’t even know she had cancer be-
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jeff smith/staff photographerMuseum of Cultural and Natural History staff and Lansing sophomore Spencer Austin catalogs birds Tuesday afternoon at the museum in Rowe Hall. The room holds more than 300 species of birds, Austin said. “My job is cool because I get to work with animals, each has its own individual story, which is a mystery. As a theater major, I give them each an individual name and story, so my life is like ‘Night at the Museum,’” Austin said.
photos by victoria zegler/staff photographerCMU students wait for a Isabella County Transportation Commission shuttle bus just after 5 p.m. Tuesday outside of the Music building.
Freshmen Jessica Wilson of Rochester Hills, left, and Annie Palmucci of Ann Ar-bor walk from south campus to the library Tuesday evening. “This is the reason why I skip class in the morning,” Wilson said. “The weather, it’s freezing.”
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“In this area, it’s hard to tell,” she said. “We’re on the north border of the storm, and if the storm shifts farther north, we can get up to a foot of snow.”
She said the storm’s effects will be far worse in Missouri, Illinois, and especially Oklahoma, where the state is not as prepared for rough win-ter conditions.
The state legislature has canceled sessions for Today and Thursday due to weather conditions, according to a statement from the House Speaker’s office.
Campus events and classes are normally canceled with lowered visibility and if travel is impeded or safety is af-
Classes canceled Warning in effect until 7 p.m.
By Maria Amante | Senior Reporter
Classes have been canceled today with a National Weather Service
winter storm warning effective in Isa-bella County until 7 p.m.
All buildings will be closed on campus except residence halls, according to an e-mail sent out by University Communi-cations. Charles V. Park Library and the Student Activities Center will open at noon.
The storm will taper off by 8 to 10 a.m., said Jamie Bielinski, warning coordina-tion meteorologist for the NWS Grand Rapids office.
“The heavier snow will take off from midnight,” she said.
Bielinski said to watch for 8 to 10 inches of snow. Wind gusts during the day Wednesday could be as high as 25 mph, and that will cause blowing and drifts, she said.
Caitlin Ross, meteorology temporary faculty member, said it was difficult to calls whether the storm would have such a massive effect because weather is unpredictable. A winter | 2A
By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
Spare time is far more ef-ficient when it results in a paycheck.
Jobs on campus are a popular choice for students because they are required to prioritize course schedules over work schedules.
Spencer Austin usually keeps to himself on the job. The Lansing freshman is a student assistant at the Mu-seum of Culture and Natu-ral History in Rowe Hall. He is in charge of cleaning the museum and preparing ex-hibits for the viewing of the public.
“Since I am a theater ma-jor, I love working in the zo-
ology room at the museum,” Austin said. “I like to pretend that I am Ben Stiller in the movie ‘Night at the Museum’ and talk to (the exhibits) and pretend that they are alive and give them names.”
The Cedar Springs fresh-man Mandy Mann is both a receptionist and reference desk clerk at Charles V. Park Library. Shesaid she loves the simplicity and conve-nience of her jobs. She can not only work on homework during her shift but has also become skilled at navigat-ing through the library for classes.
“The flexibility of my work is the best part,” Mann said.
To be a reference desk clerk, a student needs to
take LIB 197: Introduction to Library and Information Research and fill out an ap-plication. Freshmen are usu-ally favored because of their ability to work through the next four years, Mann said.
The baristas of Java City carry the heavy charge of livening sleepy students’ mornings. The two coffee shops, located in the Health Professions building and Park Library, employ about 25 people.
Mikado freshman Barbara McNeill described a baris-ta’s job as taking customer orders, making beverages, serving food and cleaning.
“The best part of this
on-campus jobs a popular choice for somes t u d e n t e m p l o y m e n t
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By Emily GroveSenior Reporter
Every Wednesday CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, ex-amining different issues.
Mission Street has long been associated with high volumes of traffic and accidents in Mount Pleasant, but steps to revamp the road have already begun.
Jeff Gray, Mount Pleasant’s director of Planning and Com-munity Development, said the main problem plaguing Mission varies widely depending on who you ask.
For the city, the main con-cern is making sure the street stays a viable business corridor for business owners and people who shop there, as well as the people who live in that sector of the community, he said.
But whatever problems Mis-sion itself incurs, the solutions are ultimately left to the Michi-gan Department of Transporta-tion, since it is a state highway.
“The city obviously has no ju-risdiction of the street itself so our influence is primarily the sides of the street,” Gray said.
Mount Pleasant has been working with businesses along Mission to increase accessibil-ity. The city has new ordinances for development along Mission which allow for businesses to be closer to street, like the new-ly renovated Taco Bell, 1143 S. Mission St.
The new Taco Bell was also granted easements and the abil-ity to make future connections with businesses that build next to it in the future.
“The city has to focus on what we can control,” Gray said. “We’ve been working on connections with businesses to avoid going out on the street.”
Such projects are opportuni-ty-based and not all businesses can use this option. The site plans have to be approved and neighboring properties have to agree to work together.
Gray said First Bank, 2013 S. Mission St., upgraded its exist-ing facility and the new drive-way was built to connect to the local shopping plaza.
“The (Downtown Develop-
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w Soup & Substance: What is Chinese New Year? will take place from noon to 1 p.m. in the UC’s Terrace A, B, C, & D
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cause she was so happy all the time.”
McDevitt-Irwin said she came down from school this weekend to hang out one last time with Hannah. She said they watched movies and talk-ed.
She said Hannah was the strongest person she had ever met.
“I think she just wanted to make a difference in other people’s lives,” McDevitt-Irwin said. “She was an inspiration.”
Mount Pleasant sophomore Taylor Bourns was Hannah’s friend since middle school and
said she will remember Han-nah’s spirit and the way she touched people’s lives.
“She had a great smile that could light up the room,” Bourns said. “She’ll be remem-bered by everyone.”
Hannah’s visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m on Friday at Clark Family Funeral Chapel, 114 S. Bradley Road.
able, but NWS is fairly good and accurate with predic-tions,” Ross said. “It’s sur-prising, things develop that you don’t foresee. Weather’s fairly complex.”
The conditions are signifi-cant compared to what this season has seen previously, she said, which has only amounted to 2 to 4 inches at once.
She said another issue is how the snow falls — if it comes in a two-hour period versus a 12-hour period, which could significantly impact how quickly roads are cleared.
East Lansing junior Joseph Sager said the media hype given to snowstorms annoys him.
“We live in Michigan,” Sager said. “I’m used to it — it’s terrible.”
Sager said he was still prepared for the possibility of snow-day class cancella-tions.
whole thing is the customer interaction,” McNeill said. “Despite the occasional mistakes, it is great to see a customer’s smile when they take a sip of a well-prepared drink.”
One of campus’ most popular jobs is being a resi-dent assistant. Each hall is assigned several RAs in order to build and foster a community on each floor and throughout the build-ing. These students act as academic and personal re-sources to residents.
Holland junior Will Da-mian loves every aspect of his job as an RA in Larzelere
Hall.“It’s a great leadership
experience,” Damian said. “(Being an RA) gives me the opportunity to interact, teach and learn with every-one in the building.”
Damian said an RA must earn an accumulative GPA of 2.5, and while they each receive a room and board compensation, none do it for the money.
There are many job op-portunities for every area of interest throughout campus. It is just a matter of getting out there and applying for the one that fits best, Da-mian said.
“Just go out and do it,” Damian said. “Once you find something you like and choose to do it, many other doors open up.”
jobs |
ment Authority) has the funds for combining drive-ways along Mission if there is an access way behind it,” said Gray. “With First Bank, we had the funds to provide.”
A SAFER ROADMount Pleasant is also
very concerned with making Mission Street pedestrian-friendly.
By moving new business-es closer to the street, it is hoping to give drivers a cue to slow down, but in the end, speeds are a deci-sion made by MDOT, Gray said.
“When the speed limit on Mission changed to 45, we were op-posed to it, but we had no authority to say anything,” said City Manager Kathie Grinzinger.
The speed limit change along the southern stretch of Mission was met with some negative reception from community members.
The city does have a say on approval if it is asked to match funds or for specific things.
In 2009, there was a plan to put in a boulevard from Broomfield Street to Blue-grass Road, forcing drivers to make indirect left-hand turns, or “Michigan lefts.” The new street design would have addressed accidents that occur during direct left-hand turns at intersections.
But businesses were con-cerned with whether people would frequent their estab-lishment if they had to drive past and turn around to get to it, Gray said.
The City Commission elected to not send the lo-cal share of funds that was needed for the project and MDOT did not proceed with the project.
“In the end we turned down the $4 million grant,” Grinz-inger said. “MDOT supplies very specific design options and the options available to
us were just unacceptable to businesses, residents and City Commission.”
POliCE PRESENCEAccording to the 2009 an-
nual report released by the Mount Pleasant Police De-partment on the city’s web-site, there were 177 acci-dents at the Mission Street intersections of Broomfield Street, Preston Avenue, Bel-lows Street, Appian Way and
High Street.MPPD Pub-
lic Informa-tion Officer Jeff Browne has seen the benefits of the collected i n f o r m a t i o n . A shift will go down and work for a cer-tain amount of time to correct behaviors seen at these inter-
sections, Browne said.Another method for Mis-
sion Street’s improvement is a grant the police station re-ceived last fall from the Office of Highway Safety Planning.
“The $74,428 grant was to get everyone in the county on the same computer system,” Browne said. “The benefits are to get data to the state of Michigan faster, to process data and track problems in more real time.”
This way the state will not have to wait until the end of the year to begin analyzing accident and citation data in specific areas such as Mis-sion Street intersections, he said.
MDOT has construction scheduled for Mission Street in 2011. It plans to resurface, repaint and narrow the driv-ing lanes slightly, Grinzinger said.
Specific attention will be paid to pedestrian-friendly crosswalks along with the streets.
Mount Pleasant will con-tribute $13,200 to repainting and upgrading the cross-walks. The crosswalks will be much larger and will have thermoplastic inlays for im-proved visibility.
Summer is a time for relax-ing for many students, but James Slider has other plans: To bike from Portland, Maine, to Santa Barbara, Calif.
The Williamston senior is a member of Bike & Build, an or-ganization dedicated to build-ing houses across the country, and will contribute to Habitat for Humanity construction projects along his nationwide bicycle trip.
Over eight seasons, Bike & Build has contributed more than $2.7 million to hous-ing groups to fund projects planned and executed by students. This includes more than $490,000 donated from the summer of 2010.
“Each person on our esti-mated 30-person team is pre-paring by raising money for the cause,” Slider said. “The money will go toward build-ing equipment, wood, sup-plies and the overall cost of the trip.”
The team will bike from 40 to 100 miles daily starting at 6 a.m. and going until they are ready to rest or hit the next
building site, Slider said.“I think it’s great that stu-
dents from CMU are partici-pating in this,” said Monroe senior Sarah Bialecki. “I just wish there were more public-ity. It would reach out to so many different students.”
Slider said the primary pur-pose of the trip is to help build affordable housing for those who cannot afford it. He has given several presentations on affordable living, hoping to spread the word for the cause.
Troy sophomore John Loaf-man said it is a smart idea to get the group together for a summer of good deeds.
“I think it’s very cool that
they are doing this, especially with the economy today,” he said. “There are a ton of fore-closures out there so people are in need of affordable hous-ing.”
Slider is a cyclist for the Triathlon Club at CMU. He is looking forward to traveling across the country and meet-ing new people.
“This experience is going to be super rewarding,” he said. “It’s great to know that I’m do-ing this on my power and there are going to be so many differ-ent people I get to meet on this trip across the country.”
williamston senior readies to bike across countryTrip will include charity projects
kaitlin thoresen/staff photographerGrand Haven alumna Kristen Dyke shows her scrapbook from the Bike & Build she did last summer to Genesee senior Kelly Siegersma and Williamston senior James Slider Sunday evening at Kaya Coffee House, 1029 S. University Ave. Seigersma and Slider are doing the Bike & Build program this summer.
By Kyle KaminskiStaff Reporter
President Barack Obama made traveling to Cuba a much easier experience for college students earlier this month.
The country was nearly iso-lated from all travel from the U.S. for the past seven years, but recent legislation has opened up the gates to the island na-tion. While restrictions haven’t been completely lifted, it has become easier for researchers and academics to travel, in-cluding CMU students.
“Study Abroad has always been important for students,” said Dianne DeSalvo, director of Study Abroad. “Exposure and education in other countries can be life changing. It‘s also a great thing to put on resumes in the future.”
Casual travel to Cuba re-mains impossible under the U.S. economic embargo, which has been in effect for nearly five decades.
Obama has placed students in a unique category of travel-ers and granted them some of the only passes into the coun-try.
“Statistically, this could help bridge the large cultural gap that we have with Cuba,” said Orlando Perez, chairman and professor of political science. “I suspect (Obama) hopes to increase relations, both po-litically and economically, and this travel initiative is the first step.”
Cuba isn’t the only focus for the Obama Administration. Re-cently endorsed by both First Lady Michelle Obama and Sec-retary of State Hilary Clinton, the new initiative to increase student travel to China is al-ready well under way.
“Traveling abroad can really change your world view,” said Jiafei Yin, professor of journal-ism and coordinator to the Chi-na Daily newspaper internship program. “Experiencing culture firsthand is a remarkable expe-rience. It gives us a more global view, rather than focusing on
Traveling to Cuba through Study AbroadpossiblePassport Fair on Thursday
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perry fish/staff photographerHighland sophomore Alex Chouinard winces as Flushing junior Morgan Foshee, left, and Gwinn sophomore Kelli Kovarik cut his hair Monday evening in the Fabiano/Emmons/Woldt lobby. Chouinard created a ‘change war’ that determined he should cut his hair, in an effort to raise money for Special Olympics Michigan. “I feel ten pounds lighter, confident ... ready to take on the world,” Chouinard said after the event.
By Mike NicholsSenior Reporter
In a world where Justin Bie-ber pays about $750 for a hair-cut, Alex Chouinard raised money by letting others give him one.
Chouinard, a Midland ju-nior, said CMU Multicultural Advisers were looking for ways to raise money for Spe-cial Olympics Michigan. As the MA for Woldt Hall, he said he wanted to have some fun with it.
Since he’s known for having longer hair, said he let his resi-dents compete with charity to see if he would shave it all off.
“There were two buckets sit-
ting in the lobby where people could donate their money for about three weeks,” he said. “Whichever one raised more money I would do.”
After the fundraiser ended, Chouinard put in another challenge to Woldt residents Gwinn sophomore Kelli Ko-varik and Flushing junior Mor-gan Foshee. If they could raise $30, they would personally be given free reign to do whatever to his hair, and he would have to leave it for two weeks.
The two said they went door to door in Fabiano and raised the money. The largest donor was Richland freshman Benjamin Hoeksema.
Hoeksema said he met Ch-
ouinard through friends and now hangs out in his room often. Although he wanted to see the ladies give Chouinard a ridiculous look, Hoeksema said he mostly donated for the cause.
“My major is special educa-tion and my brother competes in the Special Olympics,” he said. “So I do have a special interest in it.”
The final tally of the dona-tions was $11.56 to not shave, $30.25 to shave and $54.47 to let them do whatever to his hair. The total raised $96.28. Chouinard said he was pleased with the result, al-though a little nervous about his new hairdo.
“I might have to wear a hat for a while,” he said.
A crowd of about 25 people gathered Monday night in the Woldt lobby to watch the hair-cut. Neither Kovarik or Foshee had ever done hair before, but Kovarik said they were excited to mess with Chouinard’s shag-gy hair. After contemplating on a mullet, a bald spot, and even a reverse bald spot, they made a ring around his head.
“We shaved everything but a little part that connected with his beard,” Foshee said. “We gave him a headband.”
Kyle Schwarting, a Grand Rapids junior, said the crowd had fun and laughed when big chunks of hair dropped off Chouinard’s head. He said it was a good thing to do for charity, but his biggest laugh will come when the two share a class. Schwarting said he is now very excited to attend.
“I am looking forward to Wednesday’s class just to see everybody’s reaction,” Schwarting said. “He looks ri-diculous.”
A Heartfelt HaircutWoldt Hall MA’s shorn locks benefits Special Olympics
more CoverAGew Pick up Friday’s paper for stories and photos from Special Olympics happening in northern Michigan this week.
By Maryellen TigheStaff Reporter
Mid Michigan Community College could face a lawsuit after allegedly firing former in-structor Jason Liptow over a Fa-cebook status update.
Liptow said he believes he was actually fired for trying to unionize the non-tenured fac-
ulty at the college.“(The Facebook post) was a
generic comment about, ‘You know when students ask for help too late there is nothing I can do to help them,’ ... without a stu-dent’s name or any identifiers,” he said. “For me it was venting, telling other students, ‘Don’t let this happen to you.’ They said it was a breach of confidential-ity ... I wouldn’t have been fired for what the complaint was if I hadn’t been organizing a union.”
The American Federation of Teachers Michigan filed a charge on Liptow’s behalf against
MMCC with the Michigan Em-ployment Relations Commis-sion Jan. 21.
It could take a little over a month for MERC to decide whether MMCC violated the law and then bring charges. Af-terward, the case could contin-ue to court, said AFT Michigan President David Hecker.
MMCC violated the law by fir-ing Liptow for attempting to or-ganize a union, Hecker said.
“Mr. Liptow informed the (college) administration that he was leading an effort to organize and then he was dismissed after
years and years of good work,” he said. “We hope that tomor-row they say, ‘Let’s take Mr. Lip-tow back and give him the back pay that we owe him.’”
Liptow first discussed form-ing a union with AFT Michi-gan Organizer Jon Curtiss and four other faculty members in October. He sent a letter to the president of the college in early November because he wanted to be upfront about his actions, Liptow said. He also sent a letter to all college staff.
One of the reasons Liptow wanted to unionize the tempo-
rary faculty was the high ratio of temporary faculty to full-time professors.
There are 43 full-time faculty and 219 adjunct faculty at MMCC for the winter 2011 semester, said MMCC spokesman Matt Miller.
“We’re just trying to let people know that while Mid continues to invest money in buildings and campuses which is nice, I averaged about $14,000 a year teaching nine classes,” Liptow said. “You don’t need to make six figures as a professor, but you need to get paid for what you’re doing.”
Liptow has consistently re-ceived above average perfor-mance reviews from students and other faculty as recently as fall 2010, the charge states.
The goal of the charge is for Liptow to be reinstated to his job and receive back-pay for time lost, Hecker said. AFT Michigan also wants the college to allow open union elections if the fac-ulty decides to unionize.
Miller said he declined com-ment because of the pending litigation.
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By Melissa BeauchampStaff Reporter
With spring break less than five weeks away, many soon-to-be vacationers are hitting tan-ning salons to get a head start on their sun-kissed glow.
The Residence Life Fitness and Wellness program present-ed “Truth or Scare” with Dr. Jen-nifer Nash, dermatologist from the MidMichigan Physicians Group Monday night in Kulha-vi Hall, to inform students of its potential risks.
In her presentation to about 20 people, Nash addressed tan-ning’s potentially detrimental effects on health. The relatively recent phenomenon of tanning is increasing, which has unfor-tunately increased cases of skin cancer, Nash said.
Clinton Township sopho-more Erica Sell, one of Univer-sity Recreation’s team leaders, said Nash was also brought in to inform students of sun expo-sure last year.
“Usually this time of the year people are starting to get ready for spring break,” Sell said. “Ev-eryone always wants to get a base tan.”
Despite evidence of harmful effects, the $5 billion per year industry is drawing in more people than ever before, Nash said.
She said skin cancer is the most common type of cancer; it is more common than breast, colon, lung and prostate cancer combined.
“Ultraviolet light is a proven carcinogen by the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services,” Nash said. “UVA and UVB rays can directly damage the cells or indirectly damage the DNA in skin cells, mostly occurring in the epidermis (top layer of skin).”
There is a false conception that the more tanned people are, the more protected they are from the sun, Nash said.
She said just by having tanned skin, DNA is damaged, which causes the skin to pro-duce more melanin.
“Some estimates say that one in three Caucasians will actu-ally develop skin cancer,” Nash said.
Despite what many adver-tisements preach, vitamin D is not obtained in significant amounts in the process be-cause of the UVA light emitted from tanning beds, Nash said.
“The healthiest way to get vi-tamin D is from supplements,” she said.
Nash said melanoma is the worst type of cancer with
120,000 cases every year. It is incurable when it spreads in-ternally.
Skin cancer is preventable, she said, and sunscreen should have a broad spectrum of UVA and UVB coverage.
Nash said despite concep-tions that sunscreen causes skin cancer, the chemicals are not absorbed beyond the sur-face of the skin.
Self-tanning products are a safe and non-toxic substitute for tanning without the carci-nogenic effects, Nash said.
“I’m probably not going tan-ning anymore,” Richmond ju-nior Alea Carlson said. “I was hoping that it wouldn’t be that bad for you.”
Tanning a bad idea forstudents, physician saysSkin cancer by far most common type
By emily GroveSenior Reporter
Isabella County has con-sistently maintained one of the lowest unemploy-ment levels in Michigan’s 83 counties during tough eco-nomic times.
In December 2010 Isabella County recorded an unem-ployment rate of 7.2 percent according to the Michigan Department of Energy, La-bor and Economic Growth. That is the second lowest in Michigan, tying with Clin-ton County and only being beaten out by Washtenaw County, with 6.6 percent of their labor force unem-ployed.
The main forces keeping Isabella County’s unem-ployment rate low are the large employers in the area — CMU and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe.
“It’s fair to say that coun-ties that have universities or large colleges often also tend to have lower unem-ployment rates than the av-erage,” said Bruce Weaver, economic analyst for the DELEG. “If you look in the top 10 counties with the lowest unemployment, counties like Washtenaw, Lansing-area counties, Isabella, Kalamazoo, and Marquette, they all have
colleges.”CMU employs approxi-
mately 1,400 staff and ad-ministrative employees ranging from professional and administrative, office professionals, service main-tenance, public broadcast-ing, senior officers, police officers and supervisory or technical employees, Direc-tor of Public Relations Steve Smith said.
Faculty numbers have in-creased from 962 in the fall of 2001 to 1,091 in the fall of 2010. There were 1,067 faculty in the fall of 2009, Smith said.
“Staff employment has decreased by 4 percent in the last year due primarily to the early retirement in-centive from (the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System),” Smith said. “Over the last 10 years the number has varied from a high of 1,467 to a low of 1,387.”
In Isabella County, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe employed a total of 3,268 people, said Public Relations Director Frank Cloutier.
The tribe is easily one of the largest employers in the county and spends about $35 million a year on insur-ance for its employees, he said.
The number of people the tribe employs varies on need. Before filling a posi-tion, they look at a depart-ment absorbing the cost or cross-training, but Cloutier said jobs are often avail-able.
“At this point, most vacat-ed positions we look to have filled,” Cloutier said. “There isn’t a day that there isn’t a position posted online.”
Manufacturing jobs are a large share of regional to-tals, along with other parts focusing on agriculture and tourism for a big percentage of employment, he said.
From December 2009 to December 2010, all 83 counties recorded jobless rate decreases, according to the DELEG.
Michigan’s drop in unem-ployment can be attributed to a few reasons, Weaver said.
Industries like manufac-turing, health care and the temporary-health sector have added jobs since 2009.
There are also fewer peo-ple active in Michigan’s job market.
“Our labor force has dropped 73,000 people in a year,” Weaver said. “The fewer unemployed that are looking for work also push-es down the numbers.”
County jobless rate second lowest in stateIsabella passed by Washtenaw, tied with Clinton
By Melissa BeauchampStaff Reporter
June Bonstelle opened a boutique in downtown Mount Pleasant December as an outlet for her lasting love for fashion.
June’s Boutique, 201 1/2 E. Broadway St., offers a vari-ety of women’s clothing and accessories including hats, jewelry, scarves, purses and sunglasses.
“Mount Pleasant needed a place to go for a unique clothing item that you wouldn’t find anywhere else,” she said.
Bonstelle said she has been shopping in downtown Mount Pleasant all her life.
“If I wouldn’t have got-ten this space downtown, I wouldn’t have opened it,” she said. “This is the place you have to be if you want this type of a shop.”
Bonstelle said she renovat-ed the space and built walls to separate her boutique from Norm’s Flower Petal, located at 201 E. Broadway St.
“I spent weeks painting,
reconstructing and decorat-ing the shop,” she said. “I’m still decorating and chang-ing things around.”
Bonstelle owned a flower shop, the Opal Rose, for sev-en years and then decided to venture into real estate.
She said she decided to open a boutique after miss-ing the interaction with customers and the close re-lationships she developed with them.
Bonstelle said she recog-nizes the importance of cus-tomer service and friendli-ness in any type of business.
“I get to know people re-ally well ... I’ve been in so many shops where employ-ees just grunt at me,” she said. “That doesn’t make me want to go back.”
Plymouth sophomore Samantha Schlampp said she loves shopping at bou-tiques.
“There is always some-thing different and unusual that you cannot find else-where,” she said. “I pur-chased a really cute shirt from June’s Boutique and I love it.”
June’s Boutique has more than a dozen clothing brands and the main clothing line for the boutique is Woolrich. It has many sizes for differ-ent shapes, she said.
Bonstelle is also start-ing a baby line at her shop inspired by her new grand-daughter.
“I get everybody com-ing in here,” Bonstelle said. “There is something for ev-eryone.”
Other brands such as Lu-lumari and DownEast Ba-sics are made in a smaller cut for young college-age women.
Bonstelle handpicks all the items herself based on her own preferences and popular trends, she said.
“I get items that are wear-able, affordable and won’t go out of style tomorrow,” she said. “Everything is unique, but nothing too funky.”
June’s Boutique is open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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view, rather than focus-ing on only what happens here.”
The White House’s new goals includes dou-bling the number of stu-dents traveling to China by 2014, an increase of 13,000 to 26,000.
More than 400 schools across the nation have vowed to meet these new standards. CMU has yet to make any promises although the outlook is good, Perez said.
“It doesn’t sound like too big of a leap,” Perez said. “I don’t see a down-side. The more the bet-ter.”
PassPort FairCMU is hosting the an-
nual passport fair Thurs-day. Those interested in attending should check in at the Mount Pleasant Room of the Bovee Uni-versity Center between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. The cost is $135 in check or money order.
Passport photography also will be available for an additional $12 charge. Information on the re-quired documents is available online at http://travel.state.gov/passport or through the Isabella County County Clerk of-fice at 772-0911, ext. 265.
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paige CaLaMari/staFF photographerMid-Michigan Industries employee Jeff Johnson works on the recycling crew Tuesday afternoon on East Chippewa Street. The recycling crew picks up approximately 18 tons of product each month. According to job coach Brad Bacome, seeing the crew accomplish its work is one of the greatest rewards of the job.
By emily GroveSenior Reporter
You’ve probably seen them working to keep cam-pus clean, but the crews of Mid-Michigan Industries fulfill many more roles across the local commu-nity.
MMI partners with more than 80 businesses in Clare, Isabella and Gratiot counties. The organization works in 10 mid-Michigan counties total, said MMI Director of Community Employment Sheri Alexan-der.
“People who come here really want to work,” Alex-ander said.
The non profit’s main mission is to provide jobs and training to people with disabilities. It provides transitional employment at two in-house manufac-turing plants, located at its main office in Mount Pleas-ant and in Clare.
Work offered at the man-ufacturing plants vary but include assembly, packag-ing and bulk mailing.
Employees deal with hundreds to thousands of mail items for companies daily, said MMI President Alan Schilling.
“On any given day, there can be as many as 120 workers out in the commu-nity,” Schilling said.
Crews work at hotels, gas stations and office build-ings. Others routinely work with the city picking up litter, recycling and shred-ding.
Brad Bacome of Mount Pleasant has been a job coach at MMI for 20 years.
He heads the curbside re-cycling operation with his crew Monday through Fri-day. Tuesdays and Thurs-days they partner with the City of Mount Pleasant’s
own operation.The route is too big for
the city, Bacome said. In a month they gather about 18 tons of product.
Bacome has worked with some of the people on his crew for 16 years.
He said the most reward-ing part of his job is seeing the crew’s feeling of ac-complishment.
“A lot of these people used to sit around and do nothing,” he said. “But now they are out working and getting checks they are very proud of.”
The crew is very gratified when they finish work ear-ly, Bacome said.
MMI also offers Commu-nity Connections, which provide various programs that take people into the community to learn skills like shopping, using the library, arts and crafts and other activities, Schilling said.
“For 37 years, we’ve been providing services and in time they have evolved quite a bit,” he said.
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“a lot of these people used to sit around and do nothing. But now they are out working and getting checks they are very proud of.”
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By Jessica FecteauStaff Reporter
Upperclassmen should not be alarmed this weekend when youngsters flood the campus — the freshmen are not getting even younger.
Sibs Weekend, which has en-couraged students to involve family in their lives on cam-pus since the 1970s, begins on Friday with a “Candyland” theme this year.
“It’s all about the excitement of spending time with siblings and there is something for everyone to enjoy, young and old,” Student Activities Coor-dinator Damon Brown said.
A life-sized version of the board game, tours of the event center and a movie night have all been added to the weekend’s itinerary, Brown said.
Students and family can take in a carnival, meet the CMU dance team, attend a club-scene event at Bovee University Center, ice skate and more. A full schedule of events can be found at www.stulife.cmich.edu.
The three-day event that takes place all over campus is intended to give students and siblings time together they might otherwise find difficult living away from home.
“Since I live on campus and don’t go home a lot, it‘s nice having my sister come up to visit and we can do a bunch of the different activi-ties,” Macomb freshman Sa-mantha Licari said.
The event already has more than 1,600 students registered, Brown said.
Parents of students are also encouraged to join.
“We always welcome par-ents to come and spend time with their son or daughter and their siblings during Sibs Weekend because it is a fun environment for everyone,” Brown said.
Farmington Hills senior Robert Dolecki, the week-end’s public relations coor-dinator is ready to energize anyone and everyone com-
ing this weekend.“I love every moment of this
event and I am looking forward to seeing the end product of all our hard work,” Dolecki said.
Though online registration is closed, it is not too late to join in. On-site registration will take place Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at Finch Fieldhouse at check-in.
The $30 registration fee per sibling/participant covers the
cost of entertainment, special events and commemorative shirts and bags. CMU students attend for free, and parents can join for a $10 fee not including shirt or bag.
Any additional questions can be directed to the Office of Student Life at 774-2547 or www.stulife.cmich.edu.
Sibs Weekend to reconnect families, students at CMU
With classes canceled for today and the much-publicized snow-storm not anticipated to let up un-til tonight, students will have some extra time this week.
While a day off may be viewed as such, the reality is a snow day is a
day of school for which students paid. To take that day and com-pletely neglect studying, catching up with homework or getting a head-start on upcoming projects is a misuse of already-spent tuition money.
Many people will use the day off to relax, go sledding and enjoy themselves, and they still can. It is a break and it is fair to enjoy the extra time, but wasting the entire day is also wasting money spent to learn at this institution.
Some time should be set aside for studying, and keeping on schedule for the classes they may miss. Tak-ing a few hours out of an entire day off to keep up with school is not unreasonable, even by slacker standards.
Extra care should be taken in the case of extreme weather. Dress ap-propriately, wear heavy shoes, hat and gloves.
Also, driving in extreme amounts of snow should be kept to an ab-
solute minimum. If driving is ab-solutely necessary, grandmotherly speeds should be maintained. If a driver thinks he or she is going too slow, that driver should slow down a little.
There will be considerably more snow on the ground than Mount Pleasant has seen this year. Any-where anybody goes, they will have to take more time, more care and avoid weather-based tragedy.
Regardless of what 24-hour tele-vision news channels have been saying, this major snowstorm will not be an “apocalypse” or an “ar-mageddon,” but be smart and stay safe as much as you can, because it could cause a whole lot of prob-lems.
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he needs to focus on that for our
safety.”Judea Archie-Walker,
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“the economy because from what I know
Michigan’s econ-omy is pretty low out of the United
states.”Tianqi Lu,
China senior
“Job creation be-cause that seems
to be the big-gest problem. he should get a grant from the govern-
ment to be able to move jobs into the empty production
facilities.”Jeremy McIntosh, Montrose senior
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I’ve finally made it. I’m in my last semester of classes.
A mere 12 credit hours of mostly 100-level courses makes me a super-happy super senior.
These classes were purposely selected to allow me the opportu-nity to skip out and sleep in.
But then something happened — something totally unexpected.
I ended up enjoying them.Of course, this conflicts with my
plans. My plans of staying home, playing video games, reading or whatever.
Instead, I’m learning about the relationship between the earth and sun. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I’m learning about sub-solar points, solstices, equi-noxes and how to calculate the exact degree of the sun’s height using a globe.
Before this semester, I hadn’t looked at a globe in years.
I’m learning about the earth’s atmosphere. About the reflection and convection of the sun’s en-ergy. That UV exposure is affected by albedo, altitude, sun height and visibility. I also found out that you can calculate how long a sun-screen should protect you by multiplying its sun protection factor by the amount of minutes it typically takes you to develop a sunburn.
Even if it’s really not that accu-rate, it’s cool to know.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I’m learning about archaeology. About the artifacts left behind by ancient cultures. I learned that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach the Americas, some 400 years before Columbus. Vinland, the Viking site in Newfoundland as described in their sagas, may not have lasted that long, but it’s sure neat to know it existed.
I’m learning about archaeologi-cal methods and dating. About ethnographic analogy, a tech-nique used to abstractly study past cultures by drawing a parallel between the cultures of non-Western societies and the people of long ago.
I’m also actively discussing and learning about oppression in another class. The struggles faced by individuals of various genders, races and religions. That race is not something genetically defined but instead socially constructed.
Some men in the class com-plained about having to buy women drinks at a bar. The women responded that they don’t feel safe walking alone at night — if they could trade buying drinks for safety, they would.
And now, with just a few short months ahead of me, I finally real-ize what I’ve taken for granted.
I’ve used most of my general education courses as an excuse to stay home.
There are people in other coun-tries that would kill for the oppor-tunities I’ve had and blown off.
But not this time. I’ve got stuff to learn.
I met my girlfriend on “World of Warcraft.”
Average college students would probably peg this at around six neck beards on a weirdness scale of one to 10. I don’t blame them.
It’s a pretty darn odd way to start a relationship, particularly when you’re both role playing as women. (There’s a mistake I’ll never make again.)
But after the giggles about misguided attempts to hook me up with other male players subsided, we had a healthy bond that has stuck around for four years and I hope to continue as long as we draw breath.
Did I get lucky? I definitely think so — and not just because she’s probably going to read this. But our case really isn’t so bizarre.
A 2006 study by Nicholas Yee, author of ‘The Psychology of MMORPGs,” indicated 15.7% of male players and 5.1% of female players had dated someone they met in a massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game, like “WoW.”
Keep in mind that in 2006 “WoW” was only two years into its paradigm-shattering climb to the top where it now holds steady at over 12 million subscribers, just 10 percent of whom would make for over a million people in relation-ships started in-game.
That’s a whole lot of cyber love.Do not be surprised if, in the
next 20 years, answers to the “How did my parents meet?” question become increasingly prefaced with explanations of guild politics, play-er-versus-player antics and minor quibbles over treasure drops.
If we decide to have kids I will be happy to tell them the exact story. And if “WoW” holds out the way it is now, I’ll probably be able to show them where I was standing in Stormwind’s Cathedral Square, right next to the priest-class trainer, when I first met their mother.
I’ll probably leave out the part where I’m a girl, though.
In response to “COLUMN: State of the Union has good, bad, no ugly”
Cvtheis55 - Jan. 28
“... any cuts would be a violation of the public’s trust in the ‘security’ por-tion of Social Security.”
Wrong. There can be no sacred cows when it comes to cuts. Two things will save us: being willing to do what is right and necessary — which means mak-ing cuts/adjustments everywhere, and not being on a hair-trigger just waiting to demagogue an issue the minute it is raised as a point of discussion, e.g. scream that they want to throw grand-ma in the street the minute any form of
reform to Social Security is discussed.Personally, I think Rand Paul is on the
right track with his proposal to cut bud-gets and eliminate agencies and de-partments — we simply cannot afford these things and they are not needed.
In response to “COLUMN: Taco Bell isn’t fooling anyone, consumers know its “beef” isn’t 100 percent beef”
Chemistry - Jan. 26
That law firm just wants money. They don’t want a better America. That’s how greedy America works. That law firm knows Taco Bell isn’t going to have to change anything, and they also know
business will NOT be affected.It’s sort of like Apple. You can launch a
new phone with a messed up antenna, tell people they are holding it wrong, and still have giant sales.
If they are suing over this, they might as well sue everyone. There’s silicon di-oxide, titanium dixoide, etc., etc. in just about everything. Your vitamin supple-ment has titanium dioxide in it, as well as your gum, so it will have a shine (just like the paint on the roads, it’s reflective because of titanium dioxide.)
That’s just the surface. People just don’t read labels and have no knowl-edge of general chemistry.
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I had epic toys.I pried open the an-
cient family toy box this weekend and, waving the dust away, my gaze rolled over the colorful collec-tion of a childhood world I hadn’t seen in years.
As I picked out a GI Joe figurine I smiled like meet-ing an old friend. It was a surreal feeling, realizing how much my fingers had grown since the last time I
held him. I reached back in to find other gadgets, games and plastic characters.
It was like a family re-union in the back of the laundry room.
I rediscovered all the sets of Playmobil, my cowboy and Indian figures, a shoe box of baseball cards and an army of Army men. Un-derneath those I saw all my “Star Trek: The Next Gen-eration” and “Batman” ac-
tion figures, a couple of huge “Jurassic Park” dino-saurs, more GI Joes, and a giant box with the word “LEGO” on the side. I am not ashamed to say I poured that whole thing out and re-built my LEGO X-wing be-fore moving on.
After that, I found a Lite Brite clown with all the pegs pushed through, a plastic case with my sister’s Barbies, and a dress up bag
which contained my Dragon Knight Armor and beloved Robin Hood suit. I decided I would indulge and let my-self play for a little while.
I gave my smart yo-yo a spin (hitting myself in the eye while trying to see if I could still pull off my
“Around The World” trick), pushed some flashy “Hot Wheel” cars across the floor and fired off a couple discs out of my Millennium Fal-con Space Shooter that I terrorized my mom with.
I couldn’t believe how many toys I actually had as a kid, and my favorite set wasn’t even there. My Fish-er-Price Great Adventures Castle was given away to my little cousins when I left for college. That baby was the best thing ever and the set-ting for the adventures of all my toy characters.
Also missing was my fa-
vorite childhood game: Weapons & Warriors Castle Combat Set. My dad and I spent hours playing it and lost probably hundreds of those balls in our family liv-ing room. To this day, my mom will sometimes find a couple lodged deep under the furniture.
As I shut the lid to my toy box, a reminiscent wave of good memories flowed over me. What I had inside it and the fun it brought my child-hood was epic. Was yours?
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Pandora’s toy boxMike NicholsSenior Reporter
Some kids choose technology over traditional toys
iLLuStration by chELSEa kLEvEn/lead designer
By Maryellen Tighe | Staff Reporter
Marc Barlow loves playing with toy cars.The three-year-old had a pink con-
vertible he didn’t want to leave behind Monday afternoon in CMU’s Child Development and Learning Lab. At home, he plays with LEGOs and floor puzzles said his sister, Mount Pleas-ant senior Ashlii Barlow.
“They’re not all that different (from what I played with) because I played with a lot of them as a kid,” she said. “He’s starting to get into the technology. He likes to play with cameras and knows how to work an iPod.”
One of the advantages for Marc is that the toys keep him engaged, Barlow said, but he isn’t engaged with his environment.
Toys built around technology aren’t build-ing the skills for children parents want them to build, said Margaret Desormes, CDLL associ-ate director. Many parents have replaced time once spent in front of a television with time spent on a computer.
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ToYBop It
The original Bop It was developed by Hasbro in 1996. It quickly landed in my hands and remains one of my favorite child-hood toys today.
Bop It tests the users re-flexes with either Vox Bop (word commands) or Beat Bop (sound commands) shouting instructions to either “Bop it!,” “Twist it!” or “Pull it!” in either sin-gle or multi-player mode. Later upgrading to the “Bop It Extreme” (“Bop it!,” “Twist it!,” “Flick it!,” “Pull it! “and “Spin it!”) Hasbro took this hand-held game a step further in confusing the average 12-year-old’s developing coordination.
Bop It continues to be re-released in this gen-eration. Its only downfall? Batteries not included.
-Randi Shaffer
TV“Doug”
When I think back to my childhood, there are a few things that stick out in my mind: swimming, “Star Wars” and Nickelodeon’s “Doug.”
“Doug” was a show that defined the 1990s for me. It ran original episodes from 1991 to 1994. All four seasons are impeccable. I challenge you to find a dud episode. You won’t. It is not possible. The one to stick out in my mind the most is “Fun Day.” In the episode, Doug’s superhe-ro alter-ego “Quail Man” moves the earth slightly further away from the Sun so that there will be an eighth day of the week: Fun Day. If only it were true.
But I know if you pop in an episode of “Doug” you will be having a Fun Day.
-Michael L. Hoffman
moVie“Toy Story”
Toy Story was a first.It was the first feature film
entirely done with CGI. It was the first Disney/Pixar film that launched a genre of popular new classics. And it was the first in a trilogy of movies that have since become a record-breaking phenomenon holding its own among the most suc-cessful film franchises in cinematic history.
This film is a beloved trea-sure, considered a master-piece of animation, and one of the greatest films of the 21st century. You owe it to yourself to watch it.
-Mike Nichols
“They learn math by feel-ing things, not by touching a computer screen,” she said. “And with reading, you can picture the words ... If you cannot imagine them in your head, you aren’t go-ing to read the words.”
One of the best things for building math skills is build-ing with blocks, Desormes said. Seeing how they stack allows children to explore angles better than numbers they do not yet understand on a computer screen. Ka-trina Rhymer, associate professor of psychology, lets her two children play with a computer at home, which Desormes said is fine in moderation.
“They’re already playing on laptops, they know how to use a mouse, as soon as we get home they want to
play on the laptop,” she said. “The pro is that when they get on the Internet they can do research.”
Even simple toys, such as clay, she said, are important for children’s development. They help kids develop the fine motor skills needed to hold a pencil later.
Desormes advocated in-corporating as much po-tential for creativity as pos-sible, from mixing paint to using fabric for dress-up clothes.
“In young children espe-cially,” she said, “that pre-thinking piece is so impor-tant.”
Pushing children through the pre-thinking phase shows a focus on the wrong part of life, said Cheryl Priest, faculty director of the lab. It would be like teaching a 12-year-old how to drive so they are already prepared when they turn 16.
“We are so focused on
preparing them for the next step, we skip that age,” she said. “I think it just re-en-forces that we want them to be ready for (the next) grade.”
The best toys for kids are often the ones that are the least expensive, Priest said. Toys with multiple open endings allow children to continually play with them in new ways.
New toys, with lots of di-rections and only one use, do not allow them that free-dom, she said. Her advice to parents was throw away the directions before the child sees them if they buy toys with instructions.
“Children have always used their pretend play to ... explain their world bet-ter,” Priest said.
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paigE caLaMari/staFF photographerShelby Township senior Brent Kearns, left, takes a break from a workout routine with Petoskey sophomore Will Rigling Monday night at CMU’s Student Activity Center. Kearns made a resolution to lose 15 to 20 pounds while Rigling plans to work out with Kearns. Kearns and Rigling vary their workout routine by running on the treadmill, playing basketball, swimming and doing various upper-body exercises.
By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter
Many make it a resolution to get in shape for the new year.
Brent Kearns made it a re-ality.
The Shelby Township senior decided to lose weight and get in better shape to main-tain his involvement with the Army National Guard.
Kearns said he has lost three inches from around his waist.
“I’ve lost 15 pounds so far this year,” he said. “I’m hop-ing to lose two more inches by Valentine’s Day.”
Kearns said he was inspired to drop the pounds when a National Guard officer mea-sured his body fat last month at a routine drill.
“I showed up and I was way over the maximum that you’re allowed,” he said. “The guy in charge was like, ‘Dude, you’re fat. You’ve got to fix this soon or we have to kick you out.’”
Kearns picked up several gym classes at CMU includ-ing yoga, football, bowling, aqua aerobics, basketball and snowshoeing.
He frequents the Student Activity Center three to five times a day to work out.
“Sometimes I’m here for class, and other times I have a break between class and work,” he said. “I might as well run.”
Kearns also found motiva-tion in Petoskey sophomore Will Rigling, a fellow National Guard student with a similar resolution.
“I just wanted to lose 15 to 20 pounds,” Rigling said. “I just want to be in good shape overall and get healthier.”
Rigling has lost five pounds since the duo took on their 2011 challenge.
Though Kearns said he gen-erally falls through on his New Year-resolutions, he said keep-ing up is easier with a partner.
“I think (New Year’s resolu-tions are) stupid because I al-ways set one to do something great with my life and noth-ing ever happens,” he said, laughing. “This one I actually have someone else doing it with me so it’s a lot easier.”
Kearns will depart for his basic Army training in Fort Jackson, South Carolina on Feb. 14. Following basic train-ing, he will attend his as-yet undecided specialized job training in Fort Sill, Oklaho-ma before returning to CMU for the fall 2011 semester.
Kearns said when he leaves for basic training it will be a lot easier to keep going with his work-out routine.
“There’s definitely no way I’m going to get out of work-ing out with them,” he said.
In addition to adding fre-quent exercise to his weight loss regimen, Kearns also has cut back on his alcohol con-sumption.
Sgt. 1st Class John Clay-baugh, National Guard Liai-son, watched Kearns progress through January.
“I’ve worked with Brent for the last 12 months,” he said. “He’s very diligent. He’s a hard worker.”
Claybaugh said Kearns’ positive attitude and commit-ment to the National Guard will help him finish out his resolution before his Army departure.
When parents end play time, it should be because it’s time for school or a nap — not because it has be-come dangerous.
According to reports by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the median number of toy re-calls is 33 per year since 2000.
Choking hazards, burn-ing hazards and high lev-els of lead paint are three reasons many toys are re-called.
ToY sAFeTYTierney Popp, assis-
tant professor in human development and fam-ily studies at CMU, said one of the best ways for parents to avoid buying dangerous toys is to make sure the toy is develop-mentally appropriate and safe.
“If the toy is not devel-opmentally appropriate, if it’s requiring a child to do more than they’re ca-pable of,” she said, “that can be unsafe.”
Popp said giving small pieces to young children is a major safety concern and consumers should be wary of complicated toys that come with many small pieces.
CPSC spokeswoman Patty Davis said every toy recall issued is listed on the CPSC’s website, www.cps.gov.
Barnes Residence Hall Director Luanne Goeffnet said she relies fully on the media to hear about re-calls placed on toys.
“I read a newspaper ev-ery day, so I count on the media to kind of alert me on some of the (recalls,)” she said.
Goeffnet, who has six children ages 10 through 16, said she often looks at recommendations from parenting magazines and various websites before buying toys.
“Most of the toys that we have in our home are plastic,” Goeffnet said. “I’m a little wary of mate-rials, (such as) toys with different paintings. I will pay more attention to the painting process because of the lead paint that’s come off so much.”
Davis said the highest number of toy recalls oc-cured between 2007 and 2008.
In 2006, CPSC issued recalls for 38 toys. That number jumped to 82 in 2007 and 66 in 2008 before declining to 32 recalls in 2009.
Davis said the reason for the increase in recalls was attributed to a high con-centration of lead paint used in toys during that time period.
She said that since the recalls, a new law has been put in place regarding the amount of lead a children’s product can contain.
“We know that lead can build up in a child’s blood-
stream and be danger-ous,” she said. “We are very mindful of that.”
Signed into effect in Au-gust 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Improve-ment Act dramatically brought down the levels of lead allowed in children’s products, as well as putting other safety restrictions on products aimed at chil-dren.
“The United States has the best laws in the world when it comes to keeping children safe,” Davis said.
33 median number for toy recalls within last 10 yearsChoking, buring hazards included as reasons
By Garrett TannerStaff Reviewer
A fictional conversation be-tween two Academy members about to vote for their nomina-tions:
“Well, we should probably screw this up yet again, right?”
“Of course, why would we make this a completely logical competition?”
“I do not know. Alright, so let’s start with Best Actor. We should probably nominate Jesse Eisen-berg, right?”
“Seeing as how he did abso-lutely nothing different than any other role, we definitely should. I mean he played Mark Zuck-erberg, that has to mean some-thing.”
“As for Best Supporting Ac-tor we should not even bother nominating Andrew Garfield? There would not be a reason since it is obviously going to Christian Bale.”
“Of course, Garfield only car-
ried ‘The Social Network,’ so it would not make any sense to recognize that.”
“Now for Best Effects, I like that we are giving recognition to ‘Inception,’ ‘Iron Man 2’ and ‘Harry Potter’ but we should make sure not to give any nomi-nations to ‘Scott Pilgrim,’ which was pulled off very well.”
“Leave ‘Tron: Legacy’ out as well. The effects were amaz-ing, but it is probably more im-portant to throw in things like ‘Hereafter.’”
“Best Score is really diffi-cult. There were some fantastic scores out there this year. We need to destroy the chances of a couple of them based on some really idiotic criteria.”
“I know, we can say if any of your music is written previously you are not eligible. That way we can make sure ‘True Grit’ and ‘Black Swan’ are not even allowed to compete no mat-ter how well-done their music was.”
“Now, we are allowing ‘In-ception’ to be nominated for a couple things but we better not let it in for Editing or Direction. Granted, it deserves the nomi-nations far more than films like ‘The Social Network,’ but that film truly defined this genera-tion.”
“It didn’t really define a gen-eration at all as much as it just shined a light on a select group of people, but since people so desperately want something to define this generation I suppose we can go with that.”
“Finally, we come to the Best Picture nominations. It sure is a good thing that we have 10 nominations these days. Seeing as how in the 82 years this award ceremony has been going there have been three times a movie has won Best Picture when not nominated for Best Director, it is entirely likely that it will happen again.”
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Who Are You Cheering For?greenBAY
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By Brad CanzeNews Copy Chief
“LittleBigPlanet 2” could spark a revolution in video games.
Whenever a game’s creators claim it will “revolutionize the platforming genre,” which like-ly peaked in 1990 with “Super Mario Bros. 3,” cynicism should be applied.
“LittleBigPlanet,” released in 2008 from developer Me-dia Molecule, took rock-solid platforming gameplay, added in physics-based puzzles and massive customizability op-tions and came as close to that high-water mark as any other game has.
Its sequel, however, does not try to one-up the first game or any other platformer. “LBP 2” is on an entirely different level.
The story mode in “LittleBig-Planet” was more like a warm-up for creating custom levels and playing the levels others created.
While that rings true for the second game, it is clear from the 50 story-mode levels that things here are different. Though tra-
ditional platforming gameplay of traversing obstacles from the left side of the level to the right is there, the gameplay is blown wide open.
The player will pilot ve-hicles, solve puzzles and play everything from side-scroll-ing space-shooters to racing games. Unlike most titles that take the kitchen-sink approach to gameplay, “LBP2” does ev-erything well, and the game is never not fun.
And that is only the begin-ning.
The game’s creation features are where it opens up and be-comes something special. The first “LittleBigPlanet’s” customi-zation feature allowed the play-ers to create platforming levels. “LBP2” allows players to create entire games — sports games, racers, even role-playing games.
There are so many tools and options available that the pos-sibilities are quite literally end-less. The player can customize the rules, game mechanics, and even the heads-up display. The impressive part is that it never seems overwhelming — the tools used to create levels and
games are accessible and easy to use.
Of course, creating more com-plex games can be involving and time-consuming. However, the most rewarding part is taking your creation online, sharing and playing it with others.
This game changes, on a fundamental level, the nature of the relationship between a video game and its players.
“LittleBigPlanet 2” is both a top-tier game and one of the most powerful and user-friend-ly game creation tools ever re-leased on consoles.
Packed full of cleverness and charm, it is impossible not to love. It is like an adorable pup-py — if that puppy was able to do trigonometry.
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By Jay GaryStaff Reviewer
The steps necessary to go from a bunch of kids in a ga-rage to a band that can draw and keep crowds are challeng-ing and many.
Groups need to have a fan-tastic sound, memorable song-writing and a demanding live presence just to be noticed. Ann Arbor-based Front of Resistance has shown they have what it takes to secure their place in Michigan’s music scene.
Front of Resistance’s new EP “Leave Me a Note” greatly im-proves on their previous full-length, “Reclaim Your Mind.” While “Reclaim” suffered great-ly from amateurish presenta-tion and songwriting inexperi-ence, Front of Resistance has shattered expectations with a fresh new musical formula.
The EP starts off with the ex-tremely catchy “Before You Go” and it beautifully showcases the improvements the band has made. Their sound is fuller and is able to better encompass their combination of indie, rock and punk. It goes from synth-
laden indie rock to hard-hitting breakdowns without sounding jarring or out of place.
The rest of the EP is able to maintain this level of qual-ity with amazingly well written tunes like “Just Think Enough” and “There Will Come a Time” as the listener is exposed to more addictive songwriting and lyrics that compel you to sing along. The vocal harmo-nies in “There Will Come a Time” deserve extra credit for being particularly impressive.
“Leave Me a Note” ends the EP on the highest note as “They Will Buy All Your Lies” is debatably the best track on the album. The song is able to dis-play how far Front of Resistance has come and is one of the best numbers they have written.
The band’s improvements are across the board but most noticeably in the vocal area. Ron Corte O’Brien’s vocal har-monies are much tighter and impressive while both Aubrey Franklin’s soft backing vocals and Justin Boothe’s fierce de-livery have improved greatly.
All of the songs present use fantastic multi-vocal layering
and “They Will Buy All Your Lies” in particular exhibits well-executed call-and-response vocal technique.
The most improved aspect is Franklin. Her keyboards and her vocals add a great amount of style and texture to the songs.
Previously she was one of the more superfluous mem-bers of the band, but she has since stepped up and become one of the more important with her keyboard helping to drive many of the songs.
“Leave Me a Note” is a little rough around the edges but what it presents is a gigantic leap forward for the band. With their greatly evolved indie/pop-punk sound don’t be sur-prised if you find yourself lis-tening to this EP on repeat.
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WHO ARE YOU CHEERING FOR?PITTSBURGH
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By Andrea AhlesMCT Campus
Three decks of temporary seats rise high above both end zones, obliterating all traces of Jerry Jones’ beloved standing-room areas.
The red, white and blue NFL logo has replaced the iconic blue star at midfield, and the end zones scream “Packers” and “Steelers.” Spotlights, wir-ing and cables for the halftime show starring the Black Eyed Peas ring the Hall of Fame level and hang from the massive video board.
Cowboys Stadium is almost ready for company, and it’s a good thing, because a record 105,000 visitors are expected Sunday when four years of planning culminates with the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Green Bay Packers in Super
Bowl XLV.The NFL confirmed last
week what has been apparent since the announcement that fans in a Plaza Party area out-side Cowboys Stadium would be included in the attendance: North Texas’ first Super Bowl will be a record-setter.
The Super Bowl attendance record was set in 1980, when 103,985 packed the Rose Bowl.
NFL spokesman Brian Mc-Carthy said the projected 105,000 figure includes about 95,000 tickets for fans in the stands, roughly 5,000 in the Plaza Party area outside and another 5,000 staff and media members.
Bill McConnell, the NFL’s di-rector of event operations, said about 500 standing-room tick-ets will also be sold, allowing fans to watch the game from the platforms off the end zone stairwells.
The Dallas Cowboys made their allotment of Plaza Party tickets available to season-tick-et holders, who were required to buy four, at $200 each.
They have all sold, team spokesman Brett Daniels said.
During a tour, McConnell described the stadium as the league’s best and answered “absolutely” when asked if he thought North Texas would get another Super Bowl.
He said crews are working around the clock.
“To make everything work, we’re taking advantage of every hour of the day, and as we get closer, it will get more intense,” McConnell said
About 15,000 temporary seats are being built, including on risers along the main con-course. Some of the new seats have an obstructed view of the field or of the massive video board that hangs above mid-field.
The NFL is still determining which obstructed-view seats to sell, McConnell said. The stadium is already in the re-cord books: for attendance at an NFL regular-season game, at 105,121; and for basketball, with 108,713 at the 2010 NBA All-Star Game.
Record crowd expected for game105,000 to fill Cowboys Stadium for SB XLV
By Don WalkerMCT Campus
DALLAS — Thousands of federal, state, local and private workers will provide security at the Super Bowl on Sunday for a crowd expected to reach 105,000 people, the vast major-ity of whom have never been in the stadium before.
The nation’s most popular sporting event will have a se-curity force to match the size of the event, several top law-enforcement officials, includ-ing Janet Napolitano, secretary to the Department of Home-land Security, said Monday.
In federal security parlance, the Super Bowl is a Level 1 na-tional security event, which means officers from an array of federal agencies, including Homeland Security, the Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency, will provide support and manpower.
Supplementing the federal support are state and local law-enforcement groups, as well as more than 3,000 pri-
vate-security officers hired by the National Football League.
“We want to assure the pub-lic that they will be safe,” add-ed Milt Ahlerich, the NFL’s vice president of security.
Security planning for the game began five years ago, ac-cording to Theron Bowman, the chief of police in Arlington, Texas, where Cowboys Stadium is located.
“We have planned exten-sively,” Bowman said. “We are prepared. And we are execut-ing this plan. We believe it will be the safest and best Super Bowl yet.”
One logistical challenge the NFL and security officials face is that 80 percent of the fans entering the stadium are from out of town and have never set foot in the facility. And there are expectations that the NFL may set a Super Bowl atten-dance record for the game, which means a lot of people have to go through a lot of se-curity.
Ahlerich said as much Mon-day when he met with report-ers, adding that there will be more than 100,000 people at the game.
Another NFL official said the league was still finalizing auxil-iary media seating and securi-ty and camera positions. So far, the NFL expects to sell roughly 100,000 tickets — about 95,000 fans in the stands and 5,000 in the Party Plaza area.
Throw in an additional 5,000 staff and media, and the crowd could reach 105,000.
The Super Bowl attendance record was set in 1980 for Su-per Bowl XIV, when 103,985 fans showed up at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. In that game, the Pittsburgh Steel-ers defeated the Los Angeles Rams, 31-19.
“We recommend that fans travel early to the game and carry only minimal items,” Ahlerich said.
As an example, fans will not be able to bring camera or bin-ocular cases. And no spectator cameras with lenses longer than 6 inches will be permit-ted. Camcorders also are not allowed.
Fans will go through a scan-ning device and will be subject to a patdown. All items will be X-rayed.
Security five years in the makings u p e r b o w l
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Men tasked with slowing OU’s Cooper
File photo by jake MayFreshman forward Derek Jackson will be tasked with guarding D.J. Cooper today.
File photo by paige CaLaMariCMU sophomore guard Brandie Baker is averaging 13.4 points per game this season.
Women begin crucial stretch
By John EvansSenior Reporter
It comes down to the final eight-game stretch of the sea-son.
With three of their next four games on the road, the CMU women’s basketball team cur-rently sits two games out of first place in the Mid-American Conference West Division.
At 7 p.m. today in Oxford, Ohio, the Chippewas take on Miami (OH) in a crucial confer-ence road game.
“I’m only one game at a time. Here we go, this is noth-ing new,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “At this point it (the standings) doesn’t matter. Our defense is going to be even more important.”
The Chippewas (13-7 over-all, 5-3 Mid-American Con-ference) left Mount Pleasant Tuesday afternoon and will be staying in Ohio throughout the week, with a game against the Ohio Bobcats looming on Sat-urday.
This extended road trip has been planned for months and
has nothing to do with Wednes-day’s snowstorm. Both trips are long drives that would have created unnecessary travel for the team.
The RedHawks (10-11, 2-6 MAC) are currently on a four-game losing streak, with their last win on Jan. 15 at Akron. Be-fore then, they also knocked off a Buffalo team that CMU suf-fered a loss against last week.
“What you just said right there, they beat Buffalo and Buffalo beat us,” Guevara said. “We are waiting for all the cyl-inders to be working so this engine is efficient and strong, puts the ball in hole and plays defense.”
The Chippewas lead the MAC in scoring and have two of the conference’s rising stars.
Freshmen Niki DiGuilio and Taylor Johnson are two of the top scorers in the league and Johnson is one of the freshman leaders in rebounding as well.
DiGuilio is averaging more than 11 points per game but has scored just 19 points over the last four games.
After a school record nine straight road games to start the season, the Chippewas senior leading scorer Kaihla Szunko (16.5 points per game) said that has prepared the team for the 2-game roadtrip.
“I think those tournaments helped us not only being on the road but being away for a longer time,” Szunko said. “We have a long trip but everyone will be prepared. We can’t allow open looks and just play team defense.”
The RedHawks are led by sophomore guard Courtney Osborn, who averages 16.5 points per game. Sophomore forward Kirsten Olowinki aver-ages a double-double with 11.4 points and 11.1 rebounds
TV addiTionCMU’s Feb. 19 game against
Western Michigan at McGuirk Arena has been picked up for TV on SportsTime Ohio. Tipoff is scheduled for noon.
Check cm-life.com Wednesday for updates on the status of the game.
Less is more when defending Ohio’s D.J. Cooper.
Of course, he has to be guarded — and tightly, at that. The sophomore point guard is the Bobcats’ leading scorer by a wide margin with 17.0 points per game coming into the Ohio-Central Michigan men’s basketball game, 7:30 tonight at McGuirk Arena.
But don’t double-team him, not often at least. Don’t help out when he drives the lane, the 5-foot-11, 195-pounder will burn you.
In 21 games this season, Coo-per leads the Mid-American Conference with 7.76 assists per game. More impressive, his total of 163 assists falls just three shy of CMU’s team total of 166.
“He has such great vision, he finds guys as soon as he thinks you’re helping off someone,” said CMU coach Ernie Zeigler, after touting Cooper as argu-ably the conference’s best play-er. “The challenge is going to be being able to play one-on-one defense.”
When he’s not scoring, Coo-per is finding the open man. On Jan. 12 against Akron, Cooper’s 15-assist game led the Bobcats to a 79-70 win.
“He creates offense for them at such a high volume,” Zeigler said.
When he dishes it off, he seems to find the right person. Ohio has two players who shoot better than 45 percent from 3-point range; senior forward Tommy Freeman (45.5 percent) and freshman guard Nick Kel-logg (team-high 49.4 percent).
Then, there’s DeVaughn Washington. The 6-8, 225-pound senior forward averages 11.7 points per game — second on the team to Cooper — and 5.0 rebounds per game. He led the team and scored 24 in
last season’s 89-76 win against CMU.
But it all starts with Coo-per, who scored 19 against the Chippewas last year. New start-er Derek Jackson, CMU’s fresh-man guard, will get first dibs on stopping the point guard.
“Derek will probably get first shot at it. ... If you end up hav-ing to pick him up in transition, everybody that plays on the perimeter for us will have that challenge at some time during the night,” he said.
Jackson, who has started the past two games since the de-parture of senior point guard Amir Rashid, called it “just an-other game.”
Jackson led all CMU scor-ers with 11 points in Sunday’s 63-43 loss to Akron. Zeigler has called him the team’s best on-the-ball defender.
The freshman said he thinks breaking into the starting line-up was past due.
“I’ve been ready for it the whole season. I just didn’t get an opportunity,” he said. “I just
want to show coach that I could be starting — I’m a good starter — and I can bring a lot of en-ergy to the starting lineup.”
The 34 minutes he logged in Sunday’s loss was second on the team to freshman guard Trey Zeigler, who played 35.
With Jackson entering the starting lineup, Trey Zeigler has seen more time at point guard bringing the ball up the floor.
In his two games in the new role, Zeigler has struggled from the field, shooting a combined 10-for-34 (29.4 percent), de-spite scoring 27 points.
“It’s definitely something we’ve talked about today dur-ing the film session is him understanding the balance of when he’s running the offense and aggressively looking for his shot and maybe rushing or putting himself in a position where he’s forcing or taking bad shots,” Ernie Zeigler said.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — College football fans across the country are trying to make sense of last-minute developments that could de-termine their team’s future suc-cess.
From social media to new scholarship guidelines, even the most knowledgeable ath-letes, coaches and parents can be overwhelmed by changes in the recruiting process. Here, we take a look at some new is-sues and examine how they’ve affected one of the biggest days in both college and high school athletics.
How has social media im-pacted the recruiting process?
Today, most high school foot-ball players have Facebook or Twitter accounts. Needless to say, many are using social net-working sites during the recruit-
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When Blanche Ely coach Rod-ney Gray was recruited, players viewed making verbal commit-ments pretty seriously. That’s not always the case now.
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But others learn early on they’re not the only player at their respective position a col-lege is targeting and that does turn the pressure up, especially
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How do longtime high school coaches feel about the way their players view the word “commit-ment”?
Most veteran coaches aren’t fans of the terms “soft commit-ment” or “solid verbal.”
While recruiting fans may use those terms to describe how strong a player’s commitment is to a particular program, long-time high school coaches say a commitment should be just that — a commitment.
“I’d like the kids to take all their trips, but if they fall in love with a place and commit, that’s it. You’re going to cancel the rest of your visits,” South Broward coach Allen Held said. “It’s a reflection on you, your family and your school. If there are coaching changes, that’s different. But if nothing
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The program’s first major-college prospect, defensive lineman John Harris, is already enrolled at Mississippi State.
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