[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, Nov. 17, 2010 Student artiSt profileS, 1B Senior linebacker Matt Bernning commemorative poster, 8A eventS center | Weekend vandalism will not delay opening, 3A volleyBall Team ousted in MAC tourney opener, 7A perry fish/staff photographer Alma freshman Amanda Woodbury tries to stay warm while raising awareness of homelessness during the Cardboard City event for National Homelessness and Hunger Aware- ness Week in Central Park early Tuesday morning. Students built and slept in their cardboard homes to experience what it would be like to be homeless. victoria zegler/staff photographer Britton junior Rebecca Unsicker, president and founder of Campus Scouts, meets with mem- bers of the new registered student organization to discuss up and coming projects for the spring semester, officer positions and fundraising Wednesday night in the Bovee University Center’s Down Under Food Court. Campus Scouts is coordinating ‘Princess For A Day,’ a self- esteem workshop for younger troops which will be held next semester on CMU’s campus. andrea galvez/staff photographer Holly junior Raychel Payne prepares to read a story about a homeless man named Michael and his struggles with drug addiction during a candlelit vigil for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on Tuesday in Central Park. By Nora Naughton Staff Reporter The members of Cam- pus Scouts want to prove to CMU that you are never too old to be a Girl Scout. Britton junior Rebecca Unsicker, president of Cam- pus Scouts, said it is a vol- unteer group that promotes Girl Scouts and often works with some of the troops at schools in the area. “I have been in Girl Scouts for a large chunk of my life,” Unsicker said. “I want to try to give back to it because it did so much for me. I also love to volunteer and get in- volved in the community.” The organization was previously a registered stu- dent organization. Sterling Heights freshman Saman- tha Addington said it is undergoing changes and will be back in action next semester, when the main concern will be spreading the word about the group. She said the group meets at 5 p.m. two Fridays a month in the Down Under Food Court. Boyne City sophomore Sarah Gerberding was in the scouts all the way from kindergarten to her senior year in high school. “It was a very rewarding experience,” she said. “It’s helped me with so many things, even jobs. Being a Girl Scout was why I won pageants because it showed I was involved in the com- munity and was dedicat- ed.” Gerberding was Michi- gan’s 2006 delegate for Miss Teen America. She was re- cently crowned Michigan’s Perfect Teen. She said her years as a Girl Scout pre- pared her by teaching her to be grateful. Addington feels the scouts have a lot to of- fer young girls as they go through the highs and lows of childhood. “Girl Scouts is something that has died out and it can do so much for you,” Add- ington said. “That’s why we promote it. I think girls who don’t participate in Girl Scouts struggle without it and those who do it become more well-rounded.” Unsicker said her many years spent in Girl Scouts taught her how to be disci- plined and organized, and gave her the ability to bal- ance being a student and president of the organiza- tion. “It’s going to be a lot of fun once we get going with ev- erything,” Addington said. “Any help is welcome.” -Staff Reporter Mike Nichols contributed to this report [email protected]Group keeps Girl Scout traditions alive with local troops Campus Scouts looks to re-establish RSO status “I was miserable just that one night; I can’t imagine doing it night after night because I have no other option,” he said. “It was an eye-opening experience for me. Before, homeless- ness was more of a concept to me, but after sleeping in that box it became real.” As people walked by Tues- day, they could read the messages painted on signs and boxes with facts about homelessness. Cardboard City was just one of the many events being put on in line with Hunger and Homelessness Week. Greenville junior Troy Heffron of the Volun- teer Center helped plan Cardboard City and said it is definitely something they look forward to putting on in the future. “It’s a way to remember to be thankful for what we have and that we have this obligation to be a good community member and give back to others,” Hef- fron said. “It’s another way that we can raise awareness and understanding about the issue with hunger and homelessness.” About 25 people attended a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to wrap up the event. Attendees stood in a circle surrounded by cardboard boxes as they read true sto- ries of homeless men and women and had a moment of silence for every person living without a place to live. Danielle Schmutz, who works in the Volunteer Cen- ter for AmeriCorps VISTA, attended the vigil. While Schmutz said she didn’t sleep outside this year, she has participated the past three years and she enjoys spreading awareness about the issue. “By raising awareness, it inspires people to do more about it. Hopefully one day it will no longer be an is- sue,” Schmutz said. “That’s why we’re here, so we can help make that change.” [email protected]Helping the Homeless Students sleep outside, attend vigil to raise awareness By Heather Hillman | Senior Reporter Kyle Terwillegar huddled in a cardboard box outside of Charles V. Park Library with nothing but a sleeping bag and a coat as temperatures reached the low 30s early Tuesday morning. But the Freeland junior isn’t homeless — he eschewed his bed for a cause. He was one of about 40 volunteers who took shifts sitting out- side in cardboard boxes in Central Park during the 24-hour event. Terwillegar said sleeping outside from mid- night to 7 a.m. was worse than he expected. He only got about two hours of sleep because of the cold. “I was miserable just that one night; I can’t imagine doing it night after night because I have no other option.” Kyle Terwillegar, freeland junior By Emily Pfund Senior Reporter Students who believe a street sign or tree can dou- ble as a bike rack should think again. Beginning Monday, CMU Police will cut locks and im- pound any bicycles locked to anything other than a bike rack. Lt. Cameron Wassman said there are about 100 bikes locked to trees, signs and light posts around cam- pus. “We waited this long to re- move them because it took us a while to see how big of a problem it was becoming,” Wassman said. Despite an increase in bike racks on campus nearly every summer, Wassman said the number of bicycles inappropriately locked on campus has not decreased nearly as much as police had hoped to see. “It’s a matter of conve- nience,” Wassman said. “As a general rule, there is still empty space in the bike racks.” The bikes need to be re- moved because they com- plicate snow removal when locked too close to streets and sidewalks. Areas need to be cleaned up in preparation for the winter season, according to a CMU Police press release. Bikes must be removed pri- or to snow removal because they act as obstructions. If a student’s bike is im- pounded, it can be retrieved by contacting the depart- ment at 774-3081 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. “Students should have had their bikes registered with us and/or they need proof of ownership (to get the bikes back),” Wassman said. “We’ll do our best to verify and release the property to the Bikes not stored on racks will be impounded Monday Police: Bicycles obstruct sidewalk snow removal A BIKES | 2A By Tony Wittkowski Staff Reporter Renovations to Ronan Hall are 95 percent complete and one office has already started moving in from Bovee Univer- sity Center. The Office of International Af- fairs began the move Monday and will continue until the end of the week. The English Lan- guage Institute will start moving into Ronan Hall next week. Several other departments in the UC will make the move dur- ing and after renovations. “The project will be com- pleted in December,” said Steve Lawrence, associate vice presi- dent of Facilities Management. “The move-in will occur late November through January.” Workers continue to piece together the remaining renova- tions, said Jessica Ebels, director of Academic Space and Remod- eling. “It’s near completion,” she said. “It’s always the last 5 to 10 percent that takes the longest because of the small details.” Only portions of the second floor need to be completed, Lawrence said, including the in- stallation of furniture, restroom completion and a final clean- ing. “Ronan Hall is a very unique project,” Ebels said. “It’s not something we have done in the past.” The offices making the move to Ronan in December include Residence Life and Campus Dining, said Joan Schmidt, asso- ciate director of Residence Life. “It’s a five-day move because Ronan Hall renovations 95 percent complete One office moved in, more to follow Offices moving from Bovee UC: Third floor of Ronan Hall w International Affairs w English Language Institute Second floor of Ronan Hall w Dean of Students w Career Services w Academic Advising w Academic Senate w Residence Life w Campus Dining A RONAN | 2A
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perry fish/staff photographerAlma freshman Amanda Woodbury tries to stay warm while raising awareness of homelessness during the Cardboard City event for National Homelessness and Hunger Aware-ness Week in Central Park early Tuesday morning. Students built and slept in their cardboard homes to experience what it would be like to be homeless.
victoria zegler/staff photographerBritton junior Rebecca Unsicker, president and founder of Campus Scouts, meets with mem-bers of the new registered student organization to discuss up and coming projects for the spring semester, officer positions and fundraising Wednesday night in the Bovee University Center’s Down Under Food Court. Campus Scouts is coordinating ‘Princess For A Day,’ a self-esteem workshop for younger troops which will be held next semester on CMU’s campus.
andrea galvez/staff photographerHolly junior Raychel Payne prepares to read a story about a homeless man named Michael and his struggles with drug addiction during a candlelit vigil for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week on Tuesday in Central Park.
By Nora NaughtonStaff Reporter
The members of Cam-pus Scouts want to prove to CMU that you are never too old to be a Girl Scout.
Britton junior Rebecca Unsicker, president of Cam-pus Scouts, said it is a vol-unteer group that promotes Girl Scouts and often works with some of the troops at schools in the area.
“I have been in Girl Scouts for a large chunk of my life,”
Unsicker said. “I want to try to give back to it because it did so much for me. I also love to volunteer and get in-volved in the community.”
The organization was previously a registered stu-dent organization. Sterling Heights freshman Saman-tha Addington said it is undergoing changes and will be back in action next semester, when the main concern will be spreading the word about the group.
She said the group meets at 5 p.m. two Fridays a month in the Down Under Food Court.
Boyne City sophomore Sarah Gerberding was in the scouts all the way from kindergarten to her senior year in high school.
“It was a very rewarding experience,” she said. “It’s helped me with so many things, even jobs. Being a Girl Scout was why I won pageants because it showed I was involved in the com-munity and was dedicat-ed.”
Gerberding was Michi-gan’s 2006 delegate for Miss Teen America. She was re-cently crowned Michigan’s Perfect Teen. She said her years as a Girl Scout pre-pared her by teaching her to be grateful.
Addington feels the scouts have a lot to of-fer young girls as they go through the highs and lows of childhood.
“Girl Scouts is something that has died out and it can
do so much for you,” Add-ington said. “That’s why we promote it. I think girls who don’t participate in Girl Scouts struggle without it and those who do it become more well-rounded.”
Unsicker said her many years spent in Girl Scouts taught her how to be disci-plined and organized, and gave her the ability to bal-ance being a student and president of the organiza-tion.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun once we get going with ev-erything,” Addington said. “Any help is welcome.”
-Staff Reporter Mike Nichols contributed to this report
Group keeps Girl Scout traditions alive with local troopsCampus Scouts looks to re-establish RSO status
“I was miserable just that one night; I can’t imagine doing it night after night because I have no other option,” he said. “It was an eye-opening experience for me. Before, homeless-ness was more of a concept to me, but after sleeping in that box it became real.”
As people walked by Tues-day, they could read the messages painted on signs and boxes with facts about homelessness.
Cardboard City was just one of the many events being put on in line with Hunger and Homelessness Week. Greenville junior Troy Heffron of the Volun-teer Center helped plan
Cardboard City and said it is definitely something they look forward to putting on in the future.
“It’s a way to remember to be thankful for what we have and that we have this obligation to be a good community member and give back to others,” Hef-fron said. “It’s another way that we can raise awareness and understanding about the issue with hunger and homelessness.”
About 25 people attended a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to wrap up the event. Attendees stood in a circle surrounded by cardboard boxes as they read true sto-ries of homeless men and
women and had a moment of silence for every person living without a place to live.
Danielle Schmutz, who works in the Volunteer Cen-ter for AmeriCorps VISTA, attended the vigil. While Schmutz said she didn’t sleep outside this year, she has participated the past three years and she enjoys
spreading awareness about the issue.
“By raising awareness, it inspires people to do more about it. Hopefully one day it will no longer be an is-sue,” Schmutz said. “That’s why we’re here, so we can help make that change.”
Helping the HomelessStudents sleep outside, attend vigil to raise awarenessBy Heather Hillman | Senior Reporter
Kyle Terwillegar huddled in a cardboard box outside of Charles V. Park Library with nothing but a sleeping bag and a coat as temperatures reached the low 30s early Tuesday morning.
But the Freeland junior isn’t homeless — he eschewed his bed for a cause. He was one of about 40 volunteers who took shifts sitting out-side in cardboard boxes in Central Park during the 24-hour event.
Terwillegar said sleeping outside from mid-night to 7 a.m. was worse than he expected. He only got about two hours of sleep because of the cold.
“I was miserable just that one night; I can’t imagine doing
it night after night because I have no other option.”
Kyle Terwillegar, freeland junior
By Emily PfundSenior Reporter
Students who believe a street sign or tree can dou-ble as a bike rack should think again.
Beginning Monday, CMU Police will cut locks and im-pound any bicycles locked to anything other than a bike rack.
Lt. Cameron Wassman said there are about 100 bikes locked to trees, signs and light posts around cam-pus.
“We waited this long to re-move them because it took us a while to see how big of a problem it was becoming,” Wassman said.
Despite an increase in bike racks on campus nearly every summer, Wassman said the number of bicycles inappropriately locked on campus has not decreased
nearly as much as police had hoped to see.
“It’s a matter of conve-nience,” Wassman said. “As a general rule, there is still empty space in the bike racks.”
The bikes need to be re-moved because they com-plicate snow removal when locked too close to streets and sidewalks.
Areas need to be cleaned up in preparation for the winter season, according to a CMU Police press release. Bikes must be removed pri-or to snow removal because they act as obstructions.
If a student’s bike is im-pounded, it can be retrieved by contacting the depart-ment at 774-3081 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
“Students should have had their bikes registered with us and/or they need proof of ownership (to get the bikes back),” Wassman said. “We’ll do our best to verify and release the property to the
Bikes not stored on racks will be impounded MondayPolice: Bicycles obstruct sidewalk snow removal
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By Tony WittkowskiStaff Reporter
Renovations to Ronan Hall are 95 percent complete and one office has already started moving in from Bovee Univer-sity Center.
The Office of International Af-fairs began the move Monday and will continue until the end of the week. The English Lan-guage Institute will start moving into Ronan Hall next week.
Several other departments in the UC will make the move dur-ing and after renovations.
“The project will be com-pleted in December,” said Steve Lawrence, associate vice presi-dent of Facilities Management. “The move-in will occur late November through January.”
Workers continue to piece together the remaining renova-tions, said Jessica Ebels, director of Academic Space and Remod-eling.
“It’s near completion,” she said. “It’s always the last 5 to 10 percent that takes the longest because of the small details.”
Only portions of the second floor need to be completed, Lawrence said, including the in-stallation of furniture, restroom completion and a final clean-ing.
“Ronan Hall is a very unique project,” Ebels said. “It’s not something we have done in the past.”
The offices making the move to Ronan in December include Residence Life and Campus Dining, said Joan Schmidt, asso-ciate director of Residence Life.
“It’s a five-day move because
Ronan Hall renovations 95 percent completeOne office moved in, more to follow
Offices moving from Bovee UC:Third floor of Ronan Hallw International Affairsw English Language Institute
Second floor of Ronan Hallw Dean of Studentsw Career Servicesw Academic Advisingw Academic Senatew Residence Lifew Campus Dining
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sara winkler/staff photographerPolice responded to a rollover of a Lincoln LS at about 8:30 p.m. Monday on Lincoln Road between Rivers and Baseline roads. At least one person was transported from the site by an emergency vehicle because of injuries. Police at the scene would not comment on details of the accident, as it is still under investigation.
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w a Homeless in Paradise documentary is being shown from noon to 1 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
w Student research and creative endeavors exhibition is from noon to 3 p.m. in the Bovee University Center’s Rotunda room.
w The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court is being shown at 8 p.m. in EHS 118.
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w Free hot cider will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on front lawn of the Bovee University Center.
w Wahwahtay Benais will be in concert from 7 to 8 p.m. in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
w Faculty Cello artist James Fiste performs from 8 to 9 p.m. Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
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rightful owners.”Hudsonville senior Alyssa
Geerts rides her bike from her apartment to campus every day.
She said people mostly lock their bikes to objects other than the racks because it is more convenient.
“I think sometimes it’s
because the bike racks are so full,” she said. “The ones by Grawn can get pretty full later in the day.”
Wassman said all students should register their bikes with CMU Police and secure them with a U-bolt lock, rather than a chain or cable lock. Registration is free and can be done through the de-partment’s website, www.cmich.edu/police.htm.
SAN FRANCISCO — In a bold challenge to its rivals, Facebook Inc. is launching a messaging service for its more than half a billion users, setting off a battle that could shape the future of communication on the Inter-net.
Facebook Messages will meld the three major forms of com-munication — e-mail, instant messages and text messages — so users can manage all their communications through a single inbox on their personal computer or mobile device.
The common gateway will be an “@facebook.com” e-mail ad-dress.
This kind of unified digital communication is the wave of the future, said Jeremiah Owy-ang, a social media analyst at Altimeter Group.
If anyone has a legitimate shot at remaking Internet com-munication, and even eventu-ally replacing e-mail, it’s Fa-cebook, analysts say. It has a distinct advantage: It already knows who your friends are and most of them are already on its site. In the process, it would lay claim to one of the Web’s larg-est e-mail services. By way of comparison, Microsoft Corp.’s Hotmail has 361 million global users followed by Yahoo Mail’s 273 million users, according to research firm ComScore Inc. Google Inc.’s Gmail has 193 mil-lion users,
But big question marks re-main. It’s unclear how popular the service will be, particularly with older users. And more traditional e-mail users will miss some functions such as subject lines, carbon copy and blind carbon copy that are not built into the Facebook service, which is designed to be simple and minimalist.
Facebook seems to be bet-ting on future generations. The first e-mail was sent in the early 1970s, and it looked a lot like e-mail today. And that’s the point of the new system, Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Execu-tive Mark Zuckerberg said in unveiling the feature at a news conference in San Francisco. It’s time for e-mail to catch up with the way people interact, he said.
“We don’t think a modern messaging system is going to be e-mail,” Zuckerberg said. E-mail is just too slow and clunky for young people who gravitate to real-time, informal commu-nications such as online chat and text messaging, he said.
Young people, in particular, will take to Facebook Messages, which will roll out over the next few months, “like fish to water,” Forrester Research analyst Au-gie Ray said.
Studies bear that out. E-mail remains the primary way adults communicate, but text messag-ing is more common than any
other means of communica-tion for U.S. teens with only 11 percent of them using e-mail every day, according to a 2009 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
“Facebook wants to be at the center of most personal com-munication,” Ray said. “It’s fine with leaving the boring stuff to Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail. You can get your newsletters or bills over there. But Facebook wants you to come to Facebook for the most meaningful dialogues with your friends.”
Zuckerberg said he expected the communications revolu-tion he is trying to incite to take time to catch on.
“This is not an e-mail killer,” the 26-year-old chief execu-tive said. “This is a messaging system that includes e-mail as one part of it. We don’t expect anyone to wake up tomorrow and say, ‘OK, I am going to shut down my Yahoo mail account or Gmail account and switch exclusively to Facebook.’” But, he said, “maybe we can help push the way people do mes-saging more toward this simple, real-time, immediate, personal experience.”
The stakes are high: If Face-book succeeds, it will have won another key advantage in the bid for your time, attention and dollars.
Yahoo, Google and Micro-soft have been revamping their e-mail services to make them more about interacting with friends wherever they happen to be. Yet Google has struggled in its broader social-networking efforts. Its Google Buzz service built on users’ Gmail contacts prompted privacy complaints when Google automatically imported e-mail contacts into Buzz. It is working on adding a social layer to all of its products that it is expected to roll out soon. Yahoo, the most popular U.S. e-mail provider, has also tried to get more social by al-lowing users to broadcast their status on Facebook and Twit-ter.
In offering an alternative to these services, Facebook is ramping up pressure on its ri-vals. More than 350 million of Facebook’s more than half a billion users now actively send and receive 4 billion messages every day on the site. Zucker-berg’s argument: People will begin to shift to an all-in-one communications service like the one his company is offer-ing. A sign of how important the project was to Facebook: Face-book’s director of engineering, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, said 15 engineers worked on the project for 15 months.
In an interview at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francis-co, Google CEO Eric Schmidt shrugged off the new entrant in the e-mail melee and rising tensions with Facebook, saying Google is very pleased with the explosive growth of Gmail.
“More competition is al-ways good, because competi-tion makes the market larger,” Schmidt said.
But technology blogger Rob-ert Scoble said the new Face-book service could threaten Gmail and other e-mail services because they would find it in-creasingly challenging to attract new users.
“This just makes those other services look old and creaky,” Scoble said.
Facebook launches messaging service
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They served cake and toasted to the crowd. The six-person staff also passed out long-stemmed cream-colored roses to those who stopped by. The bouquets were bound together by a blue ribbon reading “In Loving Memory of Keith Alan.”
Anthony Johnson, studio co-owner, still gets choked up on his words when speaking about Alan but said people should know his cousin’s story, no matter how hard it is to tell.
photos by bethany walter/staff photographerMount Pleasant resident Robert Ekdahl gets his hair trimmed by Lansing resident Phillip Terry, the co-owner of the Keith Alan Hair Studio, 1222 S. Mission St. on Monday evening. “I needed a haircut so I came in.” Ekdahl said.
Lansing resident Lacey West and her 16-month-old son Keith walk into the Keith Alan Hair Studio, 1222 S. Mission St. on Tuesday afternoon. West is an assistant at the studio and her fiancée is the co-owner.
By Joe BorlikStaff Reporter
Raymond Shenoskey can make 10 hula-hoops spin at once while dancing to Ameri-can Indian rhythms.
But it’s not something the Charlevoix freshman learned overnight — it’s a part of his Odawa tribal heritage.
Shenoskey has been prac-ticing hoop dancing for three years.
“It is an indescribable kind of feeling,” Shenoskey said Monday, wearing colorful re-galia covering his entire body. “Your mind is always in differ-ent places because you have to decide what to do next.”
American Indian dancing and food was on display Mon-day in the Bovee University Center Rotunda for the Anishi-naabe Food Taster, as a part of Native American Heritage Month. Food included wild rice, fish, squash and venison. About 250 people attended.
Nathan Isaac said feasts are an important part of American Indian culture.
“Food is one of the biggest gifts you can give someone,” said Isaac, an Ojibwe language teacher at the Saginaw Chip-pewa Academy, 7498 E. Broad-way Road. “Long before the Europeans came here, these were the types of food that was shared.”
Isaac said most people today hunt and gather food at Wal-Mart.
Mount Pleasant junior Josh Hudson, a member of the Bay Mills Indian Community, said the event has been in plan-ning since September. Hudson said the night gave students an insight into American Indian life.
“This is a great learning ex-perience for CMU as a whole,” Hudson said. “We’ll have to find a bigger place for it next year.”
Several students participated in the “round dance” by holding hands and moving around in a circle as five people supplied the music.
“I really liked the dance and
how it was community-orien-tated,” said Dearborn freshman Elizabeth Cundy. “It was easy to learn and fun. I’d give the event a 10 out of 10.”
Wisconsin graduate stu-dent Chris Hagen personally thanked Shenoskey after the event for his “hoop dancing.”
“You could tell he mastered his dance,” Hagen said. “He did it with such fluidity.”
Hagen said he also enjoyed the food.
“The wild blueberry desert had a creamy consistency,” Hagen said. “They use special blueberries and you can taste the difference.”
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event showcases anishinaabe culture, cuisine to 250Petoskey resident
Raymond Shenoskey performs a hoop dance in the Bovee University
Center Rotunda on Mon-day evening during the
Anishinaabe Food Taster. “I put hoops together
and they represent life,” Shenoskey said.
bethany walter/
staff photographer
By Ariel BlackStaff Reporterand Emily PfundSenior Reporter
A proposed bulletin and courses for the Doctor of Medicine program were approved by the Academic Senate Tuesday.
The move is another step toward accreditation, but several senators expressed uneasiness about a lack of specificity in the admission standards and course descriptions.
“I think this is grossly lacking in clar-ity and detail,” said Laura Frey, associ-ate professor of counseling and special education.
Dr. Ernest Yoder, College of Medicine dean, defended the program outline and said at this stage of accreditation, the college has only prepared a frame-work for the program. Further details will be filled in when the college’s fac-ulty have been chosen.
“It’s vague because the faculty must have a role in the process,” Yoder said. “They will have input. This is just a framework base.”
Senators said the program’s prereq-uisites for admission are lacking in hard science and mathematics classes.
Yoder said the new program is being modeled after procedures in existing medical schools, such as Boston Uni-versity.
He said BU admitted 20 percent of its students with less science credits, and these students were “extraordi-narily successful” with lower failure rates than peers with more extensive science backgrounds.
“It’s not just science,” Yoder said. “It’s equal parts art and science.”
Harvey Dorrah, assistant professor of educational leadership, questioned Yoder as to whether medical science is evolving into more of an art form.
CMU’s program is looking for a di-verse group of students with varied educational backgrounds, Yoder said, but this does not mean the admission requirements are “easier.”
“It’s not lower standards, it’s different standards,” Yoder said. “We’re looking at what the real predictors are of how physicians teach medicine.”
College of Medicine coursework approved by a-SenateAcademic prioritization forum scheduled for Monday
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By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter
This weekend’s vandalism of the Events Center construction site should not affect the struc-ture’s opening Dec. 1.
Lt. Cameron Wassman of CMU Police said two large windows were broken and a lightbulb was pulled out of a light fixture some time between Friday night and early Saturday morning. The de-partment has not received an es-timate for replacement from the construction company.
Wassman said police had al-ready planned on increasing patrols around the center as its opening neared.
“That area has always been on our priorities and we will be tak-ing an extra step to make sure it’s kept safe,” he said. “We’ll be step-ping up security measures there, as far as extra patrols.”
Police found blood at the scene and are using it as the basis of their investigation.
“Since there was blood evi-dence,” Wassman said, “we actu-ally have submitted that evidence to the State Police Crime Lab for evaluation.”
Police believe the suspect cut themselves while breaking the glass.
The process of DNA testing and blood typing can be lengthy, Wassman said.
“It’s just a matter of time before we might get those results back,” he said.
A suspect has yet to be identi-fied from other evidence at the scene.
Officers are still looking for witnesses or any information re-garding the incident.
The department is offering a $500 reward to anyone with in-formation that leads to a convic-tion. Those with information are asked to call dispatch at 774-3081 or the tip line at 774-1874.
Events Center site vandalized over pastweekendIncident should not interfere with facility’s opening
The studio opened its doors in late September to pay homage to Keith Alan, a Mount Pleasant High School graduate who attended CMU, joined the Navy and be-came a real estate developer in downtown Chicago. He was killed in his late 30s by a random act of violence in Florida in 2004. It might look like your average hair studio.
“He was who we aspire to be ... he grew up (here), that is one of the other reasons why we decided to put it in this town,” said Phillip Terry, owner of the hair studio and cousin of Keith Alan.
Terry and his co-workers, one of which is his brother Anthony Johnson, celebrated the official grand open-ing of the studio Sunday. Throughout the day about 30 customers and curious passers-by walked through the doors for chicken, marinated meat balls and pizza slices.
‘In Loving Memory’Hair studio honors Mount Pleasant native killed in 2004
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By Heather HillmanSenior Reporter
SGA hopes to open a pro bono legal clinic in the begin-ning of February
Brittany Mouzourakis, SGA president, said she is heading a project that will offer that assis-tance to students.
“Really we just want to pro-vide free legal advice to stu-dents who have a range of is-sues,” Mouzourakis said. “We don’t want to limit the scope of issues. If students don’t have the opportunity to seek legal advice and don’t know what to do, they can get taken advan-tage of.”
The Garden City senior said she has been in contact with an attorney from Joe Barberi’s office who would be available to meet with students two to three hours each week and of-
fer free legal advice, without actually representing them in court.
Mouzourakis said she met with General Counsel Manuel Rupe and other university of-ficials to make sure there is no red tape to cut through to start the project. None has been found and she said the project has been cleared by the univer-sity.
“We’re pretty much ready to go, we’re just waiting to solidify an attorney and get the mar-keting and promotion in line,”
Mouzourakis said. To give the project longev-
ity and ensure it stays well past her term, Mouzourakis said she would like to create a pro bono legal committee to oversee the appointments and keep the project alive.
Dave Breed, Muskegon senior and SGA vice president, said fi-nalizing an attorney, finding a space to hold the meetings and figuring out an efficient method for students to make appoint-ments with the attorney are the final pieces of the puzzle before
beginning the clinic.“When students are facing
some sort of legal issues, like tenants’ rights, we want them to have somewhere to go and someone to turn to,” he said. “Most students are really con-fused by the whole legal pro-cess — it’s not easy to figure out. This will become the first step students can take to get them headed in the right di-rection.”
Caitlin Montague has had the privilege of free legal advice her whole life. The Ovid freshman
said having her uncle as a law-yer has been helpful when legal questions arise and she agrees that students can benefit from it.
“It’s probably a good thing because not everyone has an uncle they can call up for legal advice if they get in trouble,” Montague said. “If students used it the right way, just to get a feel for a topic, it can be use-ful, but it shouldn’t be their en-tire source.”
SGA OKs pro bono legal clinic for studentsMouzourakis wants service running by February
By sherri Keaton | Staff Reporter
It might look like your average hair studio.
But if you walk past the mirrors, ra-zors and brown leather barber chairs and into the hearts of those who own the place, you may understand the Keith Alan Hair Studio, 1222 S. Mission St., has an untold history just waiting to be heard within its white-colored walls.
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ALL ABOUT STUDENTS | Bruce Roscoe speaks at SGA
Sara WinkLer/staff photographerDean of Students Bruce Roscoe speaks to student representatives at the Student Government Association general meeting Monday night inside the Dow Science Complex. Roscoe addressed issues such as student life complications, safety on campus, academic re-quirements and how he serves his role as dean of students. “Every day is a little bit different in my operation,” Roscoe said. “My job very much is to advocate for and to support students.”
By Kelli AmelingStaff Reporter
Casey Rowe is one of many students who has transferred from Mid Mich-igan Community College to CMU.
The Mount Pleasant sophomore said he started his college career out at MMCC because it was a lot cheaper than CMU. He has since transferred to the uni-versity.
“I transferred from MMCC to CMU because I wanted the feel of a university more than a community college,” Rowe said.
Matt Miller, executive di-rector of college advance-ment at MMCC, said the exact number of students who transfer from MMCC to CMU are not counted, but of the 7,000 students who took classes last year, more than 900 are now at CMU.
Miller said there are a variety of reasons why stu-dents transfer between the
institutions.“Some start at MMCC
and then transfer to CMU because of cost or conve-nience,” Miller said. “Oth-ers may not know exactly where they want to go after high school so they start at their local community col-lege until they decide.”
Rowe said there are good and bad aspects to both the community college and the university.
Although MMCC was cheap, had smaller classes and was more similar to high school, there were less classes to pick from and less preparation, he said.
“(CMU) has a greater se-lection of classes to pick from, greater diversity amongst students, chances to meet people and (a stu-dent) has to really take re-sponsibility of themselves,” Rowe said.
He said the downsides to CMU are cost of attendance and if a student is not disci-plined they can fall behind easily.
“I am going back to MMCC because I messed up this semester,” Rowe said. “I have to get myself back on track academically.”
Miller said a lot of students transfer from CMU to MMCC
for academic reasons. CMU does not track why
students leave the institu-tion, said Mary Meier, assis-tant director of institutional research. Students may go to another four year college, a community college, take a semester off or drop out of school entirely.
“We don’t have any data on students who leave CMU,” she said. “We don’t do exit surveys.”
Miller said students may have been struggling at CMU and need to transfer to a different institution to improve their grades.
“MMCC’s academic sup-port services can help these students with tutoring, small group instruction and study skills training.”
MMCC has a great rela-tionship with CMU, Miller said. The institutions work together to make sure that transferring is a simple and relatively seamless process.
“Going from MMCC to CMU, I simply filled the application out and went to orientation,” Rowe said. “Going from CMU back to MMCC, I just had to meet with the counselor and pick my classes.”
Transfers from MMCC in good company as they head to CMUMore than 900make move fromcommmuntiycollege
By Melissa TorokStaff Reporter
The Central Review staff has taken the visual appeal of its publication to a differ-ent level for this semester’s edition.
The student-run literary publication, which displays submitted works written by students, was released this week.
The publication contains works such as short stories, poetry and visual art. It is published each semester in November and early April.
“I think it’s really important that all of the editors brought very different ideas about what makes a piece engaging and interesting,” said Edi-tor in Chief Andrew Dooley, a Plymouth junior. “We were able to get along really well and come up with an issue that shows off the variety (of works) being created by Cen-tral students.”
Dooley, along with assis-tant editors Dan Crowley, Ann Arbor junior, Aubrey Bourgeois, a Marine City se-nior and Warren senior Marie Dandie pick three winners for the literary contest.
The editors select 12 in-dividuals to fill the publica-tion with 23 pieces. In previ-ous years, each editor was in charge of a specific part of the publication.
“There were several hun-dred submissions,” Dooley said. “It was very hard to pare them down to 40 pages.”
Neil Hopp, director of stu-dent media, said this year’s publication came out on time.
“It’s very well-designed,” Hopp said. “They added pho-tos this year to dress it up.”
Dooley said last year’s pub-lication featured no visual art.
This semester, the submit-ted works are also being con-sidered for a literary contest. The categories include prose, poetry and photography.
“There are some amazing photographs in this issue,” Dooley said. “People did so many experimental things with their writing this year.”
The three contest winners are Mount Pleasant senior Ben Lambright for prose, Burtchville senior Amanda Watters for poetry and Grosse Point sophomore Darnell Gardner for photography. Gardner took photographs while studying in Shanghai, China. Each winner received $100 cash prizes.
Those who contributed will read their works in the Charles V. Park Memorial Li-brary Baber Room Thursday. Students interested in sub-mitting work for the spring publication can go to cen-tralreviewmagazine.org for more information.
Dandie said she was able to look at the material in a different way than her co-workers.
“We didn’t always view things in the same way,” she said. “I can look at things in a different way — I can com-pare it and for me it has mul-tiple meanings.”
Dandie is the only business
major out of the four editors to review the submitted ma-terial. Dooley said the differ-ent majors bring a different perspective to the issue.
“Although we may not have the same view, we respect it and understand it,” Dandie said.
of every department on cam-pus will be the topic of an open forum next week. It will include a short presentation and a question-answer period, Pro-vost Gary Shapiro announced
at Tuesday’s meeting.The forum begins at 3:30
p.m. Monday in the Charles V. Park Library auditorium.
Academic prioritization is part of a university-wide effort to evaluate every department for efficiency and importance. It will determine where funding is needed and where it could be reduced, Shapiro said.
A live-streamed broadcast of the forum will be available
online. Instructions for view-ing it will be available later this week.
The College of Medicine was previously considered a top priority and therefore exempt from the prioritization process. Shapiro said after “significant communication” the college will now be included in the pro-cess.
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By sherri KeatonStaff Reporter
They were best friends as little girls.
They later grew into strong women. Yet, for Rickkey Mitchell, death separated her from her friend, who died of sickle cell complications in October.
But Mitchell didn’t dare let death erase those memories away.
“What I learned is have strength,” said Mitchell, a
Detroit sophomore. “Also, cherish each moment you have with that person be-cause you don’t know when (that moment) is going to leave ... Keep telling them you love them and keep all good memories in your head.”
Mitchell’s ordeal is one of the many examples of how a sickle cell — about 10 times smaller than a strand of hu-man hair — can turn into sickle cell disease, an inherit-ed genetic condition that can ravage body organs, cause
eye damage and leg ulcers.Detroit junior Toya Lewis
plans to try and combat the disease by spreading knowl-edge. Lewis, president of So-phisticated Women of Color, wishes to spread this mes-sage through the organiza-tion’s annual Sickle Cell Week 2010 this week.
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, there will be a potluck in the Sweeney Hall basement.
From 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday there will be speed dating with Men About Change at
the Bovee University Center’s Down Under Food Court.
“(This) is our philanthro-py,” Lewis said. “We’ve been doing it since we started the group and we raise money for the Sickle Cell Founda-tion here in Michigan, and try to get the word out about sickle cell because it really affects a lot of people.”
A Sickle Cell Skating Party will be held from 10 p.m. to midnight Friday at Spinning Wheels, 1241 N. Mission Road.
According to www.blood-book.com, the sickle cell disease affects more than 80,000 people in the U.S., 90 percent of which are of Afri-can descent.
The main symptoms of sickle cell disorder are ane-mia and severe pain, when the red blood cells stick to-gether and cause blockage in the small blood vessels, ac-cording to BME Health Net-work.
Sickle cell disease can oc-cur when a child receives two
sickle cell genes — one from each parent, according to Centers for Disease Control and Protection.
Lewis said the best way a person can find out if they have the trait for sickle cell is to go and get tested.
“I just really want people to come out (to our events) and get all the information they can on it, because you never know who it could af-fect,” she said.
Events to educate students of rare inherited genetic conditionS i c k L E c E L L W E E k
By Kurt NaglStaff Reporter
The holidays are a time for joy, celebration and family.
CMU’s Volunteer Center and Minority Student Ser-vices want to remind people they are also a time to help their less fortunate neigh-bors.
The two offices are col-laborating for a canned food drive, which started on Nov. 8 and goes through Monday to benefit Women’s Aid Ser-vices, Inc. in Isabella County, a support group that inter-venes in cases of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Royal Oak graduate stu-dent Caitlin Cavanaugh is in charge of the event and said she expects it to be as suc-cessful as last year.
“Last year, we had five huge boxes full of food,” she said. “Hopefully, we’ll have as many this year.”
Students are encouraged to bring any non-perishable food items to the Volunteer Center or MSS office in the
Bovee University Center. Though it is a canned food drive, monetary donations are also an option.
Dearborn graduate stu-dent Elway Pegg, also in charge of the drive, said be-ing mindful of those less for-tunate is important.
“Sometimes we need to take a step back and think about what we’ve been giv-en,” he said. “It’s an easy way to help.”
The Volunteer Center and Minority Student Services wanted to do something collaborative this year, Ca-vanaugh said. The canned food drive helped them do just that.
Keisha Janney, assistant director of MSS, said par-ticipating in fundraisers and helping out the community is an important part of being a student.
“The canned food drive and other similar events
help us to be mindful that many of us needed a com-munity to get us to where we are now,” Janney said. “During this season of cele-bration and togetherness, it seems especially important to support those around us.”
The Volunteer Center will also partner with United Way this Christmas for Adopt-a-Family. Anyone can sign up in the Bovee UC to donate gifts, food and money to an Isabella County family in need.
Registration for the pro-gram ends Friday.
Cavanaugh hopes stu-dents will participate in these events and realize how much it means to their neighbors.
“What we consider aver-age, some consider a luxury,” she said.
Canned food drive continues efforts through MondayMonetary donations also an option
“sometimes we need to take a step back and think about what we’ve been given. It’s an easy
way to help.”Elway Pegg, Dearborn graduate student
fIle photo by Sean proCtor/assIstaNt photo eDItorGeorge Roberts of Troy watches the news as results continue to be reported Nov. 2 at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit. “I like the election results,” Roberts said. “They could be better, but they’re good.”
By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter
Whatever party is in control of the state legislature may have little to do with CMU’s funding, compared to the state budget shortfall.
Kathy Wilbur, vice president of Governmental Relations and Public Affairs, said CMU will be more affected by who is appointed to the state ap-propriations committee.
Kevin Cotter is the area’s representative-elect and Wil-bur said his freshman status will not likely factor to be a problem, as the area has had representation on the House appropriations committee for the past 20 years.
“I’m hoping Kevin Cotter will be the next state rep. on appropriations,” Wilbur said. “(Leadership) realize how im-portant it is to get freshmen in early.”
The local term-limited in-cumbent Rep. Bill Caul, R-Mount Pleasant, has served on the state appropriations committee.
Former State Rep. Judy Em-mons, who also has appro-priations background, will re-place term-limited Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-Dewitt, in the 33rd district, Wilbur said.
“We’re waiting to see what committee assignment she’ll end up on,” Wilbur said.
LegisLAtive shiftThe present legislative ses-
sion in Michigan is split 66-43, favoring Democrats, in the House and 22-16, favoring Re-
publicans, in the Senate.Republicans gained 21 seats
in the state House and four in the Senate, giving them 66-46 and 26-12 majorities next year.
On Jan. 1, Republicans will outnumber Democrats in all three branches of state gov-ernment.
“I don’t think (funding for CMU) has much to do with who is in the majority or not,” Wilbur said.
All representatives will have to resolve the state’s $1 billion budget shortfall next year and $2 billion decrease in the gen-eral fund.
On WKAR’s “Off the Re-cord,” Founding Principal and President of EPIC/MRA Bernie Porn said the Republican ad-vantage came from Michigan’s economic situation.
“In Michigan, it is much
worse than the rest of the country,” Porn said. “Michi-gan voters say the state is go-ing in the wrong direction at 15-20 points higher than the rest of the country.”
A difference between the 2008 election and this year’s is the low turnout of supporters of President Barack Obama, giving the Republicans anoth-er advantage, he said.
Although Gov.-elect Rick Snyder will have the advan-tage of Republicans in both legislative houses, Porn said the “jury is out” on whether the tea party and right wing of the Republican party will sup-port his policies.
“There will be opportunities for him ... he will take those opportunities to work with Democrats,” Porn said.
Legislative shift not expected to impact CMU’s state funding
“I have not bought them, only be-
cause I don’t drink those, but I have drank one since they announced
the ban.”Ryan La,
Algonac junior
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Last week, about 4,000 students received a survey in their e-mail from the presidential transition team to determine
what issues are the highest priorities to on-campus students.The random sample of students — about one-fifth of the on-
campus student population — is an adequate sampling for a scientific survey, but that is not what this undertaking needs.
EDITORIAL | Presidential transition team should send survey to entire campus
Cloudy sample
Growing up a gamer
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Debate over statutory rape laws, tragedy last week[Your VoicE]
I was on the phone with my mother last week after a job interview in Midland. I told her I had no classes left that day and I planned on going back to my room and maybe playing a video game.
She responded with some form of the phrase, “And I thought you were acting like a grown-up today.”
Also, when I told my girlfriend that my Thursday afternoon plans included a large dose of “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” she scoffed at the idea.
While not surprising, I had hoped society had grown past these points.
Just because I had a Nin-tendo when I was five does not make gaming a childish activity. If anyone walked past Gamestop last Monday night, they would not have found a group of children waiting for “Call of Duty” — or at least I hope not.
Just because I play a video game for a couple of hours does not mean I am wast-ing my time. If I had chosen to watch a movie instead, I doubt anything would have been said about it.
I understand where both points are coming from. Video games took off in the ‘80s and ‘90s when kids started playing, and society still thinks of a “gamer” as someone who plays “World of Warcraft” for 14 hours a day.
But there’s a reason games like “Call of Duty,” “Halo” and “Grand Theft Auto” sell like hotcakes: Gamers are older now. They have moved past the simple gameplay mechanics and storylines of days gone by.
I know gamers who are 40 and I know gamers who are 12. I know people who play for hours a day, and some who only play an hour a week.
To me, it’s all entertain-ment. If someone chooses to watch a marathon of “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Mak-ing the Team” or James Bond movies all day, I don’t see why I cannot put a few hours into “Fallout: New Vegas” without any grief.
Luckily, the Supreme Court seems to agree. After oral hearings, the Court’s initial leanings indicate games deserve equal protection as movies, books and the like.
I wish society would follow suit and deem games equal to other forms of entertain-ment. I have seen it in small glances, like my mom and girlfriend with Mario and Harry Potter games, respec-tively.
On my end, I am growing up and still enjoying video games like I did when I was 10. And I do not see that changing.
November is National Alzheim-er’s Disease Awareness Month and, according to a report released in August by www.alz.org, one in 10 American families reports they have a relative with Alzheimer’s disease.
Last year, I faced the fact I am now a statistic.
I recently began helping to care for my grandmother. She is suffer-ing from the early stages of Al-zheimer’s and it is starting to freak me out.
It has been a tough semester and I have often wanted to quit and just disappear.
Attending college and everything that goes with it seems so mean-ingless to me right now.
My grandmother is where my mind is and she has been part of my life ever since I can remember. My earliest memories of her are at her house preparing Christmas dinner with my mother and aunts. Now, I do most of the cooking.
Though we have had our person-al challenges between us, I believe my grandmother has the tough-est challenge ahead of her. She is slowly watching herself lose her mind. I cannot fathom what she must be going through.
She gets frustrated and angry when she forgets something. I try to sympathize with her but I feel like it only makes things worse.
It breaks my heart, watching her cry because she is unable to do the simplest chore.
I used to make jokes about her forgetfulness. I did this to help me deal with the reality of what was happening.
There is no more room for jokes or laughing. I can see the fear in her eyes when she is trying to re-member what she was doing.
Her stubbornness to seek help and the family’s apathy has me worried that she will be gone men-tally a lot sooner than I would like. But what I like no longer matters. This is about trying to help her through this challenge.
She goes about her day looking like she is healthy. But we all know she is not healthy. The hardest part to understand is she will not get better; there is no cure or pill to restore her brain. She only will get worse and someday she might not even know her own husband of 60 years.
Facing the truth that one day she may not even know who I am has me horrified. How does someone accept the fact that a person they love will slowly lose their mind?
Piece by piece she slips away from the family and there is noth-ing we can do but watch.
Yet as I see her face this chal-lenge I know I must go forward too. It would be easy for me to quit, but I cannot because I know she would not.
She once said to me that chal-lenges will arise in our lives, but it is how we face these difficulties that will determine in the end, how our story is told.
I know my grandmother’s story will be a great one to tell.
Editor’s note: The following com-ments were posted on cm-life.com in response to the column “Teen-age sex nightmare”
gimp1616 said:7:37 p.m. Nov. 15
That’s the problem. TV report-ed she didn’t consent, although both written statements he and she gave indicated it was con-sensual. It only became “rape” (I use that term to indicate forced intercourse and not between two
consenting people) when the TV cameras started rolling in from of her mom, who clearly wanted her 15 minutes of fame.
M1234 said:11:10 a.m. Nov. 15
The articles I have read the the news reported on TV are stat-ing that Samantha Kelly did not consent and she repeatedly told him to stop.
I understand your article is about consenting teens, but from
what I am gathering she wasn’t consenting.
take your own advice said:2:28 p.m. Nov. 15
Not true. In Michigan, a 16 year old can give consent to anyone older than 16 unless that person is in an authority position over the 16 year old i.e. lawyer, doctor, counselor, teacher, coach, etc.
As for this tragic case, she could not have consented legally because she was under 16.
The purpose of this survey is to compile the results and analyze them in order to advise CMU President George Ross as to what his priorities should be in campus affairs. If the transition
team intends to use these results as actionable information, the results should be as close to the majority opinion of the student population at large as possible.
Surveys of random samplings
of a population have their place in research and creating strate-gies. For example, during elec-tion seasons, polling services will poll random samplings of people to estimate public opinion. That has a lot of value to candidates, strategists and voters.
When it comes to an actual election, however, results are determined from as many people as possible. Similarly, decisions of the direction the university should be led in ought not be made on estimations, approxi-mations or guesses.
It is not something that would create a massive amount more work for anybody; it would be as simple as sending the survey to the entire student listserv.
Even with a sample-size as
large as 4,000 students, the number of those students who complete the survey will in all likeliness be relatively small.
As simple as it sounds, increas-ing the number of students that received the survey, the number of responses to the survey would also increase. Thus the collective opinion of the results would end up closer to the opinion of the entire student body.
This is not polling for a presi-dential election or a governor’s approval rating.
This is determining in which direction a university of more than 21,000 students should be led. Each of those tuition-paying students should have a voice in the matter.
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Central Michigan Life || Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 || 7A
By Aaron McMannSports Editor
The youth and inexperience is beginning to show.
Two nights after dropping an overtime game against Mon-tana State, the Central Michigan men’s basketball team came up empty on a pair of possessions late in the second half Tuesday, losing 65-62 against Hawaii at the Stan Sherrif Center in Hono-lulu, Hawaii.
Trailing by two points with seconds remaining, freshman guard Derek Jackson’s pass went off a cutting Trey Zeigler’s hands out of bounds. After Hawaii’s Jas-ten Thomas missed a free throw, a half-court heave from Jackson did not fall, dropping the Chip-pewas to 1-2 on the season and a third place finish in the Outrig-ger Hotels Rainbow Classic.
“Like I told our guys, we’re going to be a good team,” said CMU head coach Ernie Zeigler. “Eventually good teams win these one-possession games. We were in three (close) situa-tions here, and I don’t know how many teams in the country say they’ve been consecutive games where they’ve had a chance to win.”
Trailing 54-48 with less than eight minutes to go, CMU went on a 9-2 run to take the lead heading into the final media timeout. After trading leads back and forth in the final few min-utes, the Rainbow Warriors held on to a two-point lead entering into the final 60 seconds.
But Jackson, who finished
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Rashid injured as CMU returns from Hawaii 1-2
the game with eight points and four steals, picked the pocket of Hawaii’s Hiram Thompson and was intentionally fouled. After splitting a pair of free throws, the Chippewas got the ball back with a chance to take the lead.
Trey Zeigler, with the team spread on the court, took the ball one-on-one but came up short on a 10-foot runner in the lane.
Zeigler finished with a game-high 24 points, while also re-cording five rebounds.
“I’m pleased with the fact that he’s been consistent,” Ernie Zeigler said. “He has an ability to do some things offensively for us, but he has a ways to go, particularly defensively. He has lapses, and for him 37 minutes is a whole lot to try to handle the ball and stay locked in defen-sively.”
Hawaii (3-0) shot 53.8 per-cent from the floor for the game, compared to 38.2 percent for CMU.
Foul trouble hampered the team in the second half, as the Rainbow Warriors went 15-of-20 from the free throw line. CMU went to the line just four times.
“While we were fighting and battling to get good shots, they were at the foul line,” Zeigler said. “They were able to create the advantage to put themselves at the foul line. That was prob-ably the difference in terms of us going back and forth.”
Senior Jalin Thomas, named to the all-tournament team, fin-ished with 14 points and five re-bounds. Junior Andre Coimbra chipped in eight points.
Senior forward Bill Amis, one of four players to score in double figures, had 17 points and eight rebounds for Hawaii.
The Chippewas arrive back in
town today before having to turn around 48 hours later and travel to Mobile, Ala., to play South Alabama at 7 p.m. Saturday.
“Even though we came out of this 1-2, it’s really clear that we have something here,” Zeigler said. “I told our guys not to get too down because we have to get ready for this weekend.”
Injury forces change to startIng lIneup
Freshman guard Derek Jack-son started Tuesday in place of senior Amir Rashid, who is suf-fering from a knee injury.
Zeigler said after the game that Rashid, who played just six minutes and went 0-for-2 from the field, is expected to have an MRI done on Thursday after the team returns to Mount Pleas-ant.
He scored four points on 0-for-4 shooting in Sunday’s overtime loss against Montana State.
“He’s really hobbling right now,” Zeigler said. “We tried to put him in there in the first half, but he’s a shell of himself with that knee.”
The Central Michigan wom-en’s basketball team can score.
And it scores often.Though its first two games
this season, it is averaging 110.5 points per game.
Six Chippewas are averaging double figures in points, while freshman forward Taylor John-son is on the verge of becoming a part of the group with nine points per game.
“It’s the fact that we have more than one shooter,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “It’s difficult to just focus on one player.”
The offensive efficiency has been a major factor in the team’s two wins that resulted in a Win-throp Classic tournament title.
It defeated North Carolina A & T 119-71 on Friday, with sophomore guard Jalisa Olive scoring a team-high 32 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range.
CMU hit 13 three-point shots compared to only five from the Aggies.
Four others reached double figures along with Olive.
On Saturday, the Chippewas overpowered Belmont, 102-71, to improve its record to 2-0.
CMU carried leads of 33 and 21 into halftime of both games.
Sophomore forward Brandie Baker returned this season after
suffering a torn ACL on Sept. 3, 2009, keeping the 2008 Mid-American Conference Fresh-man of the Year out of action for the entire season.
“Being on the sidelines last year was one of the hardest (things) for me, but I’m able to play now and I have a few years left,” said Baker. “It’s better to be on the floor than off it.”
In her first game back, she scored 12 points while record-ing a game-high 12 assists and adding 10 rebounds to earn the first triple-double in program history.
“She’s unselfish and she’s be-coming a better playmaker,” Guevara said. “She’s a tremen-dous competitor and she wants to win and the other kids feed of that and she feeds off the other players.”
Guevara said she has a good situation offensively, as there isn’t one player who carries the team. CMU will rely on various players to contribute to the of-fensive attack as 12 of the 14 players on the roster have al-ready played this season.
“Most teams have one or two scorers and if you stop them than you stop the whole team,” Baker said. “Our team doesn’t have just one person who needs to be stopped.”
The Chippewas will travel to Iowa City, Iowa, this weekend to compete in the Iowa Tourna-ment. They begin play at 3:30 p.m. Saturday against Northern Colorado, who enters the tour-nament 1-1.
Central Michigan junior setter Cath-erine Ludwig, left,
and sophomore out-side hitter Lindsey
Dulude, right, go for a block Tuesday night against Miami at Finch Fieldhouse.
CMU lost 3-2 and was eliminated from
the Mid-American Conference
tournament.
paige CaLaMari/staff photographer
Volleyball season ends unexpectedly
By Brandon ChampionStaff Reporter
The CMU women’s volleyball team experienced one of its best moments of the season Satur-day when they beat Northern Illinois in a come-from-behind fashion.
However, the Chippewas ex-perienced something different Tuesday night.
They saw their season end in a disappointing fashion, los-ing a first round Mid-American Conference tournament match in five sets against No. 11 seed Miami University at Finch Field-house.
“It was an inconsistent night and had a lot of passing is-sues tonight,” said head coach
Erik Olson. “Miami served a lot tougher than last time, and it led to a lot of errors for us.”
CMU, the No. 6 seed, feel by scores of 25-16, 25-20, 25-18, 25-21 and 15-13.
The first set was back in forth early until a Miami error gave CMU an 11-10 advantage, a lead they would not see for the rest of the set. With sophomore Amy Kendall serving, MU rattled off 13 consecutive points and won the first set 25-16.
The second set was more what CMU wanted. Back and forth once again early, CMU found themselves with a 13-9 lead. They continued to lead the set, taking a 20-16 lead and cruised to a 25-20 victory on a MU attack error.
The third set was even early, and after both teams tied at 11, a pair of kills by sophomore out-side hitter Lindsey Dulude and a
crafty kill by junior setter Cath-erine Ludwig gave the Chip-pewas a 14-11 lead they would not surrender. The RedHawks tried to inch back, but CMU was too much and won the set on a Lauren Krupsky kill to take a 2-1 match lead.
In the fourth set, Miami came out quick, taking an early 10-5 lead. CMU would struggle to cut the MU lead to fewer than three throughout and never re-ally threatened. The RedHawks won 25-21 and sent the match to a fifth and final set.
With both team’s season and a trip to Toledo on the line, they battled in the fifth set. With the set tied at 12, a Miami attack er-ror gave the Chippewas a one-point lead.
But after a timeout, the Red-Hawks scored the final three points and punched their ticket to the quarterfinals.
For the Chippewas, it was a tough end to a disappointing season. They finish the season 14-15 overall, despite being the preseason pick to win the MAC West Division.
“This team was capable of a lot more,” Olson said. “The ups and downs we went threw this season were completely con-trollable by ourselves. We need to want it more than everyone else.”
Junior middleblocker Kaitlyn Schultz had 24 kills, while Krup-sky had 15. Sophomore Katie Schuette added 10.
For Krupsky and Lisa John-son, it was the final match of their college careers.
“I love them to death,” Schultz said. “They have been great leaders all year and we’re going to miss them.”
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Many of his projects are designed to poke fun at certain aspects of society or to critique it. He calls them anti-trophies, and he considers them mock awards.
One bronze bust shows a mouth with a hairball coming out. Anderson said this award is for liars. It symbol-izes how people can get caught up in their own lies just like cats gets caught up in their hairballs. Another one is a small Ugg boot which Anderson made as a plea for women to stop wearing them.
“A lot of girls think they’re cool and fashionable things to wear,” he said, “but they look like sponges and they’re just disgusting.”
His largest anti-trophy is a bronze shirt with a popped collar, which Anderson affectionately named the “Douchebag Award.”
“I want people to see how funny my art is and the different aspects I try to portray,” Anderson said. “If I find
something funny, and some of my friends think it’s funny, I’ll try to por-tray it in a piece.”
The processBuilding from bronze is time con-
suming. Anderson said it takes a couple of months just to create the bronze. A few more months are then given to design the shape and finish the retexture.
“You take bronze foundry wax and fill the inside and then put it on a tree, so when you pour the bronze out it fills all the sections,” Anderson said. “Then you put it in a ceramic shell and melt all the wax out, then you preheat the ceramic shell and then pour the bronze into it and wait for it to solidify.”
He said it isn’t so much difficult as it is time consuming, but he still loves it.
Anderson got involved with ceram-ics in middle school. In high school, he won an award for his portfolio, and received an all expenses paid trip
to Chicago. He became heavily influ-enced by bronze artists Jeff Koons and Robert Arneson.
Anderson’s art has already left a per-manent impact on campus. One anti-trophy, the “Facebook Award” can be seen in an artists’ case in the main lobby of the towers.
But his biggest contribution was in the fall of 2007 when he was commis-sioned to build a permanent structure just outside of Thorpe Hall.
“Residence Life gave us a specific commission piece to come up with, we just had to build it,” he said.
Hessel senior Mark Kozma helped Anderson build it. They had worked together classes in classes before, but this was their biggest project together.
“I did most of the welding,” Kozma said. “The design is Arik’s, he came up with it. I had a good time working with him.”
themanofbronze
Student finds creative outlet in metal alloy
sara winkler/staff photographerArt is a large part of life and one of Fremont senior Arik Anderson’s favorite hobbies. He has been creating bronze sculptures since 2007 and made the piece he is pictured with, “D.B.A” (Douchebag Award), in the spring of 2008. “I enjoy sparking emotion in people, and I try to portray aspects of fashion and ways that people handle themselves that I find humorous,” Anderson said.
By Mike Nichols | Staff Reporter
Arik Anderson literally has bronze balls.
The Fremont senior is a sculpture major who works primarily with bronze. For a class project, he used his own testicles as a model for a hood ornament bust.
“I used a skin wax, then plaster and a rubber mold,” Anderson said. “It was quite hot.”
Anderson said the testicle bust is built like a hood ornament to mock how men identify their masculinity with the kind of vehicle they drive. A bronze | 2B
By Michael L. HoffmanStaff Reporter
Kyle Post’s parents always en-couraged him to try new things and take on new challenges.
That encouragement was what helped mold Post into what he is today: A musician trying to turn his passion into a career.
Post, a Bad Axe senior, began his music career began when he was only six years old.
“I got my first keyboard when I was six or seven,” he said. “I fell in love with it.”
He said he has played a few different instruments through-out his life but that “piano has always been there.”
His 14 years of playing pi-ano are starting to pay off for Post. He has played shows at
Kaya Coffee and Tea Co., 1029 University Ave., and is always writing more music. He one day hopes to be able to make a living being a musician, even if the aspiration may be some-what lofty.
“It’s a cliche dream to be that rock star that everyone loves,” Post said. “More than anything, I just want people to hear my music.”
He knows becoming famous is tough, but said he is already starting to have people inter-ested in having him come to play at their venue.
One of those venues was CoCo Joe’s Beach House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road. CoCo Joe’s manager Jamie Burke said she has been in contact with Post about playing there and hopes that he does.
“I try to hire talent that a lot of people will like,” Burke said. “It’s a lot of fun and he puts a lot of energy into his set.”
Burke said personally she thinks that he will do well at the bar and restaurant.
“I enjoy watching him and I know my customers will too,” she said.
Post said he draws inspi-ration from many different sources including other music, things he sees around him and inspiration from his own life.
His songs, he said, are often autobiographical and tend to be more emotional.
“Ninety percent of my music shows emotions I have felt,” he said. “I have written a few hap-py songs, but negative emotion is a better motivator.”
Miles Potter, a friend of Post,
said Post’s emotionality is one of his favorite aspects of Post’s music.
“I think knowing him, you see the passion he has for not only his music but people and people’s situations,” the Muskegon junior said. “I think that’s what his music is really about, showing that things will always turn out good in the end.”
He thinks Post has what it takes to make music a career, he said. He thinks Post’s drive to achieve his goals will be his biggest asset.
“He’s definitely got the tal-ent,” Potter said. “And his in-volvement on campus shows that he has the drive as well. He has the drive to pull it off.”
Bad Axe senior Kyle Post began playing the piano at age 6. Post, who writes his own music, is a self-taught pia-nist. “Everything I love is what I put into my own writ-ing,” Post said.
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Get your party hats ready — this is the last time you’ll have to see this piece in the paper this semester. That be-ing said, I’d just like to share with you a couple of my gripes from this semester at CMU.
First up on the list: The fact that a majority of my tuition does not go toward anything related to my education. Man, I’m so happy I helped fund a medical college and a brand new “Events Center” that replaced an arena simi-lar in size. How about we re-allocate our tuition funds so we have some printing free-dom?
Second: The first home game of the men’s basketball season, which is held in our brand new McGuirk Arena, is limited to only 1,500 stu-dents. Are you kidding me? Whether or not that many
students actually attend is irrelevant. Without students, the funding for that building would not exist. Yet, instead of allowing us full access, our university is limiting how many of us can go.
I’m glad my time here is al-most finished here at CMU. It’s disappointing that state universities are concerned more with making money than they are with educating their students.
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RYAN’S RANT
THIS wEEK’S ToPIc: cENTRAl mIcHIgAN uNIvERSITY
Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
Box office1. “Megamind” $29.1 million
2. “Unstoppable” $22.7 million
3. “Due Date” $15.4 million4. “skyline” $11.7 million
5. “Morning Glory” $9.2
sinGles1. “What’s My name?”
Rihanna feat. Drake2. “like A G6”
Far*East Movement feat. Cataracs and Dev
3. “Just The Way You Are” Bruno Mars
4. “only Girl (in The World)” Rihanna
5. “We r Who We r” Ke$ha
AlBUMs1. “speak now”
Taylor Swift2. “My Kinda party”
Jason Aldean3. “The incredible Ma-
chine” Sugarland
4. “Merry christmas ii You” Mariah Carey
5. “i Am not A human Being” Lil Wayne
ToP FIvES
NEw STuFFhoMe TheATre
1. “Disney’s A christmas carol”
2. “The last Airbender”3. “cats & Dogs: The re-
venge of Kitty Galore”
cDs1. “...featuring norah
Jones” Norah Jones
2. “The promise” Bruce Springsteen3. “Born free”
Kid Rock
ViDeo GAMes1. “Donkey Kong country
returns” (Wii)
2. “need for speed hot pursuit”
(PS3, Wii, X360)3. “nBA JAM” (PS3, Wii, X360)
BooKs1. “Unbroken” Laura Hillenbrand2. “Decoded”
Jay-Z3. “of Thee i sing”
Barack Obama
MUsic“All Day” by Girl Talk
Girl Talk, the erstwhile Gregg Gillis, has been the most talked-about mashup DJ since his 2008 album “Feed The Animals” became a seminal party album.
His new release, “All Day,” takes the formula of com-bining unlikely songs (Mis-sy Elliot’s “Get Ur Freak On” and The Ramone’s “Blitz-krieg Bop,” for example) and tweaks it even further.
Focusing less on the shock and humor value of unlike-ly combinations and even more on making something sublimely new out of exist-ing songs, the slightly more downbeat album remains as much a must-listen and must-dance piece of work as its predecessor.
-Brad Canze
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
This weekend will be a three-day competition for more than 70 gamers.
The Big Shot Gaming Local Area Network Party will be the 10th LAN party hosted by the Student Electronic Gam-ing Association, a registered student organization. It be-gins at 6 p.m. Friday in Finch Fieldhouse and ends at 6 a.m. Sunday. The deadline for reg-istration is 6 p.m. Friday.
“We’re on track to have our biggest LAN party yet,” said Leland Southwell, treasurer of the RSO. “We’ve broken every preregistration record. On average, we usually get about 120 people — we’re expecting to open up anoth-er 50 seats.”
Southwell, a Suttons Bay junior, described a LAN party as an event in which gamers traditionally bring their PCs and monitors into one area to compete in a variety of
games with other players in person.
Students interested in par-ticipating can preregister for $15 on the RSO’s website, www.bigshotgaming.com, or pay $20 at the door.
However, Mount Pleasant graduate student Kate Engel, president of SEGA, said seats are filling quickly — a limit of 150 participants is in place and can only be expanded if enough people preregister.
The entry fee covers tour-nament costs and includes three meals. Participants can expect to compete head-to-head in games like “StarCraft II,” “Team Fortress 2” and “Counter-Strike: Source,” as well as some console games like “Halo: Reach.”
Prizes will be given out to tournament winners.
“Basically it’s just a really great way to get people to-gether who have similar in-terests in gaming non-stop, be it computer or console,” she said. “Really, it’s the atmo-sphere that makes it a whole different experience. You get to actually see the people who you might be beating or who really might be destroy-ing you.”
Engel said people travel
from all over Michigan to participate.
“Everybody really enjoys coming,” she said. “We usu-ally send out surveys to find out what we can do better and what things people didn’t like. Usually we take that in-put and we use it to improve on the next LAN. Everybody has a lot of fun.”
Troy junior Nate Hochstein has attended multiple SEGA-hosted LAN events.
“I’ve gone to every one they’ve had since my fresh-man year,” he said. “It was really a whole new experi-ence for me. It’s really great to see so many people into gaming all together, play-ing together. When you see so many people in a group engaging in what they love, what they have fun with, it’s a really cool sight.”
Friday lAN party to bring in gamers for frag-filled weekendEntrants will participate in PC, console game tournaments
PIcK oF THE wEEKViDeo GAMe
“Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood” (PS3, X360)
Return to Rome as Ezio Auditore in this direct se-quel to “Assassin’s Creed II.”
With the new ability to recruit a team of assas-sins, Ezio and his broth-erhood are sure to form a face-stabbing force to be reckoned with. For the first time in the franchise, a multiplayer mode is available in which players hunt one another, creat-ing an interesting cat-and-mouse style of game.
Now you can take the assassinations to your friends, which will surely ruin relationships.
-Ryan Taljonick
The final product is a large, rotating shape that looks simi-lar to a black, white and grey Rubix cube. It is titled “the Di-versity Cube.”
Howell sophomore Elly Mi-kula, who lives in Thorpe, said the cube has become a famil-iar and beloved landmark for residents.
“There’re a lot of new kids that go out and see it and they’re like, ‘Oh my gosh! It spins!’” she said. “When you see sculptures you can physi-cally go up to and play with, it’s a lot more interesting.”
Even students from other schools have appreciated his work. Whenever Samantha Domagala, South Lyon fresh-man at Saginaw Valley State
University, comes to visit her sister in Thorpe, she said she always likes to spin the cube.
“It’s cool to interact with the art; it kind of makes me hap-py,” she said. “We don’t have a diversity cube there.”
Anderson hopes to one day work in public art and con-tinue to use bronze sculptures to influence people. He said the most important thing for
an artist to figure out is what style they most enjoy.
“Find an influence and just keep working to fine-tune that in your work,” he said. “Work with different styles to find your medium and stick with the style you like best.”
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By Mike NicholsStaff Reporter
John Adams once said he had been a warrior so that his son could be an artist.
Callie Kiaunis is both. The Rockford senior and 3-D
arts major is also an MS 4 in the ROTC program, ranking at first lieutenant. She joined the ROTC to help pay for school and now loves being involved in both worlds.
“I’m a very physical person,” Kiaunis said. “I like being active and I guess sculpture makes sense, because I always have to learn to focus, otherwise I get ADD.”
Kiaunis mainly works with ceramics. She said the theme of her work is the anxieties people go through in college.
“I contrast the adult world and the childhood world,” she said. “There are certain parts of your perspectives right now that you held onto even as a kid that will no longer be accepted in the adult world. That’s kinda where I get my ideas.”
Kiaunis often uses the popu-lar toy Corduroy Bear in adult
settings like alleys and suicides to reflect on the loss of inno-cence.
Livonia senior Anthony Mar-tinez, Kiaunis’ roommate and fellow art major, said he appre-ciates the way her art has the ability to gets in viewers face, but in a nonaggressive way.
“I think her artwork is light-hearted with a hint of drama,” Martinez said. “Her scenes are challenging because they con-trast childlike figures with real-life events like war and suicide.”
Kiaunis also likes to use wood as a theme.
One piece was a wooden patchwork door Kiaunis made using strips she found in me-chanical rooms, which other-wise would have been thrown away.
“Sometimes people get these degrees they’re never going to use, but at the same time, there’s such a stress to get more degrees and advancement just to get a foot in the door,” she said. “This is my physical interpretation of that door.”
3-D art major Margaret Mcwhirter spent a lot of time with Kiaunis in the North Art
Studio.“She’s always here and I’m
always here,” the Canton senior said. “I think she’s a really deep person and it comes out in her art.”
The two artists have bonded because of their love of the trade and their shared experience.
Mchwhirter said she and Kiaunis stuck together to get through their full faculty cri-tiques.
“We both had to talk to each other about it to calm each other down,” she said. “That’s why we call each other ‘battle buddies.’”
Kiaunis commissions next December and hopes to branch into military police. Originally, she wanted to continue in art but said she will have a hard time choosing over the military now.
“If I go active duty, that’s a job for four years. When I got out I hoped to have saved up enough for my own art studio. That was the initial plan, but I didn’t think I’d like the army as much as I do,” she said. “We’ll see what happens.”
ROTC student combines creativity, reality through her sculptures
Libby MarCh/staff photographerRockford senior Callie Kiaunis holds a “To be or not to be” pose, imitating Hamlet, with one of her favorite sculptures, a bronze cast of her face, which is molded partially into the shapes of pipes and wood texture with a mechanical aesthetic, Wednesday in Wightman Hall. Kiaunis said the piece illustrates the way her brain works, with little processes working.
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By Nora NaughtonStaff Reporter
Advertising is so ubiqui-tous in modern life it almost seems to come out of the cracks — but Katie Rae sees the art in each and every piece.
Graphic design is a major component in advertising, and that’s exactly how the Bay City senior got involved in the trade.
“I was always really inter-ested in advertising,” Rae said. “As a kid, I always ap-preciated interesting ways that companies would project themselves.”
Rae has dabbled in many different types of graphic design, but said she pre-fers to work on booklets because they involve both layout design and typogra-phy studies.
As with many other pro-fessions at the moment, graphic design is switch-ing over to digital. Rae said she is still getting used to working with digital graphic designing.
“Just recently, I’ve dis-covered digital graphics like web design and mo-tion graphics which I also find new and challenging,” Rae said. “I’m trying to in-corporate my ideas I’ve used in print works into my digital works.”
Rae’s peers have taken notice to the talent she has for working in all aspects of graphic design.
“I worked with Katie in Design Bureau last semes-ter,” Livonia senior Chris Roy said. “We designed promotional materials for the Department of Art and Design. Our designs were ultimately chosen to be produced, something I’m very proud of. Katie was a huge part of that success.”
The third member of Rae and Roy’s team last semester was Lambertville senior Jackie Blaida.
“I love Rae’s design,” Blaida said. “She seems to come at things from a vari-ety of different angles. She takes boring, overused and
over-rated works, and turns them into something new.”
Rae said she draws much of her inspiration from graphic design websites as well as artists such as Stefan Sagmeister, Paul Rand and, most recently, Simon Page.
She said just searching around produces so many ideas she must write them down “or my brain will ex-plode.”
“I came into this field wanting to advertise,” Rae
said. “It’s fun to make a com-pany look so appealing that people will trip over them-selves for a certain prod-uct.”
Roy was very appreciative of Katie’s talent to balance business and art when he worked with her last semes-ter.
“(Katie Rae) is a very tal-ented, capable and hard-working designer,” Roy said.
Graphic design student melds art, advertising in projects
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
As I stood in line for the mid-night release of “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” I grappled with mixed feelings about what to expect.
Though I enjoyed “Modern Warfare 2,” the previous it-eration of the series, I had con-vinced myself months ago that I would not purchase “Black Ops” — yet there I was, braving the chilly November air with a few hundred fellow gamers.
While I listened to strangers talk about how they hoped this year’s franchise release would improve on the last one, all I could think was, “Man, I just hope it’s different.”
I quickly found myself drawn into the single-player campaign. Developer Treyarch clearly took a narrative-driven approach this time around, focusing on a few key characters.
Even now, days after finishing the campaign, I can still remem-ber their names, which is more than I can say for the previous “Call of Duty” titles.
Yet, Treyarch’s focus this time around is on something new: Cold War covert operations.
While the game’s gunplay and action are not unfamiliar to se-ries veterans, a heavy dose of cinematic narrative and scripted action sequences are sprinkled in to make for a an interesting story, often coupled with the slow motion events made popu-lar in “Modern Warfare.”
Some vehicle sequences were also included to add some varia-tion to the mix — unfortunately, they are clumsy and lack polish.
Throughout the campaign, you’re forced to follow the lead of friendly NPCs who often en-courage you to keep up while contradicting themselves as they dig in and wait for you to clear the next area of enemies.
Overall, the single-player ex-perience is solid and though the ending may be confusing for some, it is enjoyable nonethe-less — especially the post-cred-its scene.
The meat of “Black Ops” is the slew of multiplayer modes to choose from. In addition to tra-ditional game types, new “wa-ger” matches allow players to bet on their performance using in-game currency, with which you can choose which weapons, upgrades and perks you’d like to purchase.
Among the additions is the Gun Game, a mode originally popularized in “Counter-Strike,” in which each player begins with the same weapon. With each kill, players receive a stronger weapon, and the first player to cycle through 20 weapons wins the round and a payout of in-game credits.
With all of the new multiplay-er modes available, this con-tent-rich title will certainly keep fans of the series entertained for months.
After spending a week with “Black Ops” and finishing its campaign, competing in several online matches and falling prey to that pesky RCXD remote-controlled car more times than I can count, this is undoubtedly Treyarch’s best step forward in the series.
But it’s still “Call of Duty.” A new release for a new year. While I had no huge qualms with the game, it just didn’t “wow” me.
Thinking back to that cold midnight release, I should have just stayed inside.
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Welles, Kubrick and Spielberg all had to get their start some-where.
F1rst Post Entertainment gets its own on YouTube.
Established two years ago, F1rst Post Entertainment is a student group that creates vid-eos and short films about vari-ous topics.
The group was founded in an attempt to fill a void in the Broad-cast and Cinematic Arts depart-ment as far as film and movie focus goes, and co-founder and treasurer Sam Ventimiglia said F1rst Post has only grown.
“It started off with a couple of guys wanting to make films and
turned into something greater than we could have ever imag-ined,” the Grosse Point Woods senior said. “Now, it has become a place where students can learn and teach each other to become filmmakers.”
Since its establishment, F1rst Post has worked with MHTV and has established a show, which is aired every weekday at 6:30 p.m. They also participate in the Na-tional Broadcasting Society 48 hour film competitions and are making efforts to become a co-curricular program.
Thus far this semester, the group has done an in-group practice 48 hour film and con-tributed four previous works to MHTV as well. They are also working on several new short
films.Pat Hoban, a Pinckney sopho-
more and member of F1rst Post, said the group has high aspira-tions.
“First, we would like to be-come a co-curricular,” Hoban said. “We also want to work on more feature-length films to be more film-focused and more professional.”
The team welcomes any new additions. Due to the complexi-ty of filmmaking, varying talents and skills are needed. From act-ing and directing to writing and lighting, everyone can contrib-ute something different.
Each member is also encour-aged to learn and try new parts of production.
“Senior members help train
the new ones, and through ex-perience and working together we make some pretty sweet stuff,” Hoban said.
The group aims to provide students with a cinematic focus. They feel it is the lacking factor compared to the TV, news and sports already available.
They also emphasize the im-portance of incorporating the community and obtaining ap-proval by appealing to various groups and interests in their productions.
“The whole process is hard work, but it’s rewarding in the end,” Ventimiglia said. “We have all kind of become a family that works together.”
KaitLin thoresen/staff photographerHolt sophomore Dylan Clauson crosses his fingers as he waits for the vote totals for the public relations position on the e-board for the F1rst Post Entertainment RSO Thursday night in a Moore Hall classroom. “It would be really sad if I didn’t get this,” said Clauson, who ran unopposed.
F1rst Post Entertainment offers filmmaking start to students
Everybody knows “Halo,” “Call of Duty” and “Rock Band.”
But how many know, or care, about the people behind the games they have poured so many hours into?
The hardcore gamers out there could quickly protest: “Bungie, Infinity Ward and Harmonix, respectively!” But it doesn’t change the fact that there is just not enough recog-
nition of the faces behind these hits.
Especially since, in the case of the first two, the people who made those titles such great successes made their final con-tributions to the series within the past year.
Infinity Ward all but dissolved after disputes with publisher Activision drove out its lead designers and Bungie’s contract to produce “Halo” games for Microsoft ended with “Reach.”
Harmonix is being sold by parent company and publisher Viacom, though the develop-ers say they will continue to produce “Rock Band.”
It has never been more true that players should know more about their games’ pedigrees than the numbers after their titles.
It may seem silly to care so much about the creators of
what ultimately becomes a corporate product.
Just because developing big-budget games is always a col-laborative process, individual talents can contribute heavily to the final product.
In BCA 288: History and Ap-preciation of Cinema, I learned about the auteur theory: A single creative force is often the best way to produce a truly meaning-ful and creative product.
While my professor was referring to directors like Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick, it can be just as easily applied to game developers like Shigeru
Miyamoto, Tim Schafer and Hideo Kojima.
If you can’t tell the difference between a Schafer title (“Grim Fandango,” “Brütal Legend”) and a Kojima production (“Metal Gear Solid,” “Zone of the Enders”), you’re not paying enough attention.
Schafer’s signature humor and penchant for creating bi-zarre but believable characters and worlds is evident in every title he touches and Kojima’s love for overwrought dialogue and strong anti-war messages make his games unique.
And who else but Shigeru
Miyamoto could have pulled off the perfectly intuitive world of overgrown mushrooms and ty-rannical lizards that is “Mario”?
The men and women behind these games dedicate not only thousands of hours (and millions of dollars) into these games, but also their love and inspiration — just as much as any other artist.
So next time, don’t pound the “Start” button as soon as the credits begin to roll.
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