TWITTER VIDEO PHOTO @CMLIFE FOLLOW US for regular updates and breaking news FOOTBALL Watch the play of the game during CMU’s home opener SLIDESHOW Check out images from the CMU-Hampton game [cm-life.com] FOOTball | Central romps in opener 33-0, 1B 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 Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 Photos by leah sefton/staff photographer A sea of fans in the student section cheer as the CMU football team takes the field for the first time this season during Thursday night’s home opener against Hampton at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. University officials said a total of 17,311 were in attendance at the game. By Carisa Seltz Senior Reporter Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, exam- ining different issues. Non-tenured faculty are on the rise in higher education. Tim Connors, president of the Central Michigan University Fac- ulty Association, calls it “a national trend.” He said 70 percent is the highest estimate he’s ever seen, but he also has seen reports showing es- timates as low as 40 percent. “I was looking at a report very re- cently that estimates that 70 percent of the faculty who work in colleges and universities in the entire coun- try are temporary faculty, either part-time or full-time, which is an astounding number,” the commu- nication and dramatic arts professor said. That “astounding number” can have both positive and negative ef- fects in campus life. Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe said the situation is a disadvantage to the faculty members themselves if they are looking for a long-term ap- pointment. It can be difficult to find a qualified instructor in the area in time for the semester. Bob Martin, associate vice provost for Faculty Personnel Services, said CMU has yet to compile data on the number of temporary faculty this fall. However, reports from 2009 indicate the number of full- and part-time temporaries made up 39.7 percent of total faculty employed at CMU — 424 out of 1067 faculty members. The percent of regular faculty with filled positions at CMU has de- Adjunct numbers rising at CMU, across state Temporary faculty about 40% of instructors in 2009 A ADJUNCT | 2A By Emily Pfund Senior Reporter At least one position in Central Michigan University’s Leadership Institute will be cut, and work to consolidate the program’s staff has already begun. The institute’s half-time office pro- fessional currently handling admin- istrative duties will be eliminated and the job divided between the of- fice of Student Life and the Dean of Students’ office, said Steve Smith, di- rector of public relations. The institute has not experienced a reduction in funding from state ap- propriations but it has been affected by campus programming funding cuts, he said. “I don’t know what the cost sav- ing from the consolidation is,” Smith said. “I know the money will be fun- neled into scholarships and financial aid.” Concerns about the future of the institute arose in early March when the Senior Staff Budget Advi- sory Group recommendations were published. Those involved with the Leadership Institute were informed by university officials that cuts to ex- penses may have to be made, but the program itself will remain. Despite the recent funding cuts, Dan Gaken, interim director of the Leadership Institute, said the pro- gram is not going anywhere. Gaken said the institute is reorganizing and consolidating staff, but is not making Leadership Institute faces reductions, consolidation Money saved to be put toward scholarships, financial aid A LEAD | 2A Joe tobianski/staff photographer An overall look at the first tailgate of the 2010 football season. “We had a top 25 football team and no one comes out, it irritates me,” Detroit senior Maxwell Maher said. By Ryan Taljonick Senior Reporter Wet weather and continued policies kept tailgaters at bay Thursday. Danny Trolz’s first tailgating experience was coming to an end with only 67 minutes left on the countdown clock before the start of the the season’s first football game “I’ve heard that tailgating gets pretty crazy, but I heard last year they had to make it more strict,” the Jackson freshman said. “It’s still fun, I’m still having a good time.” Police Chief Bill Yeagley said he was uncomfortable provid- ing an estimate of the number of tailgate attendants Thursday because he was unable to get a good view of the crowd. The population in lot 63 was “light to medium at best,” he said. Policies added last year in- clude increased security and a six-beer or one pint of liquor limit per person, with no glass bottles. Students must also pur- chase a $6 parking pass prior to stationing their vehicle in lot 63. Last year, attendance at CMU’s student tailgate went from thousands to around 300 for the first game, according to CMU police. Trolz spent his time tailgating in lot 63 outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium, talking with friends and playing ladder golf. His friend Daniel Hughes, also a Jackson freshman, said tailgating was more enjoyable in the past. However, he said students shouldn’t quit sup- porting the football team be- cause of the policies that were implemented last year. “I think people will loosen up and give it a chance,” Hughes said. “I think the weather stopped it this time — that and it’s the beginning of the year and people are still getting situ- ated. It’s a bit rainy, but I think we have some good ones ahead of us.” Owosso alumnus Gary Ridley attended the tailgate with some friends. “It’s disappointing that in a Fewer flock to lot 63 Rain, stricter rules still keep people from tailgate A TAILGATE | 2A “Everyone says be- cause (Dan) LeFevour is gone, we’re going to do bad, but I think we’re going to do great,” said Gladwin freshman Dil- lon Fassett. Fassett covered him- self with maroon and gold paint from head to toe in preparation for the season opener. Even before the game began, students like Lael Johnson expected the best for the Central/ Hampton game and the season as a whole. “I think it’s going to be great, it’s going to be full of great plays and a lot of high numbers on the scoreboard,” the Warren sophomore said. “Last year they lost a lot of leaders, but the team is coming together again and the leaders who have stepped up are do- ing a great job.” Johnson said he doesn’t have any favorite players, just the whole team. “The entire group is our family,” he said, Novi junior Lauren Ko- tylo said she hopes for a good season because the Chippewas still have a strong team. “We’re pumped, we had a good season and we want to keep it up,” she said. She said she thinks the team could work on hav- ing more concentration, Fans FIRE UP Crowd of 17,311 attend first home football game By Rachel Mater | Staff Reporter E nthusiastic students flooded the Kelly/Shorts Stadium Thursday night for the first game of the season, even as rainwater poured onto the field. A team with a different look than what they were used to marched onto the field, ready to take on their opponent, the Hampton Pirates. But despite the loss of several key players, many of those students were still thrilled to be back the stadium for Chippewa football. By Ryan Czachorski Senior Reporter William Smith broke down into tears seconds after being asked to describe his daughter, Emily Eliza- beth Smith. “This is so hard,” he said Thurs- day afternoon. Emily, a Lapeer ju- nior, died Wednesday after falling ill on Tuesday. Her family chose not to disclose any cause for her death or if her ill- ness was related. She was 20. Her sister Andrea Smith, a Cen- tral Michigan University alumna, said Emily enjoyed being funny over being serious. “She was kind of sarcastic, liked to be funny most of the time,” An- drea said. “She had almost a caus- tic kind of wit that could hurt your feelings if you weren’t careful, but that was part of her charm.” She just changed her major to psychology, Andrea said. Emily planned to get her doctorate de- gree from Michigan State Univer- sity and was hoping to go into cou- ples and family counseling. She was a resident of Kesseler Hall and had applied to be a desk worker. She lived in Calkins Hall last year. She was an active member of their hall council and always in the front lobby to socialize, said Cathy Warner, Calkins residence hall di- rector. “She was just a wonderful per- son, very bubbly, smiling all the time,” Warner said. “It’s a terrible loss. My heart goes out to her fam- ily.” Her room was always decorated for each season, and Warner said Emily had a creative soul. Her current RHD, Chad Garland, said he did not know her very well after she moved into the hall about two weeks ago. He said she was out Lapeer student died Wednesday A SMITH | 2A A FAN | 2A cm-life.com | News, sports, updates and multimedia 24/7
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FOOTBALLWatch the play of the game during CMU’s home opener
Photos by leah sefton/staff photographerA sea of fans in the student section cheer as the CMU football team takes the field for the first time this season during Thursday night’s home opener against Hampton at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. University officials said a total of 17,311 were in attendance at the game.
By Carisa SeltzSenior Reporter
Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, exam-ining different issues.
Non-tenured faculty are on the rise in higher education.
Tim Connors, president of the Central Michigan University Fac-ulty Association, calls it “a national trend.” He said 70 percent is the highest estimate he’s ever seen, but he also has seen reports showing es-timates as low as 40 percent.
“I was looking at a report very re-cently that estimates that 70 percent of the faculty who work in colleges and universities in the entire coun-try are temporary faculty, either
part-time or full-time, which is an astounding number,” the commu-nication and dramatic arts professor said.
That “astounding number” can have both positive and negative ef-fects in campus life.
Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe said the situation is a disadvantage to the faculty members themselves if they are looking for a long-term ap-pointment. It can be difficult to find a qualified instructor in the area in time for the semester.
Bob Martin, associate vice provost for Faculty Personnel Services, said CMU has yet to compile data on the number of temporary faculty this fall. However, reports from 2009 indicate the number of full- and part-time temporaries made up 39.7 percent of total faculty employed at CMU — 424 out of 1067 faculty members.
The percent of regular faculty with filled positions at CMU has de-
Adjunct numbers rising at CMU, across stateTemporary faculty about 40% of instructors in 2009
A AdjunCt | 2A
By Emily PfundSenior Reporter
At least one position in Central Michigan University’s Leadership Institute will be cut, and work to consolidate the program’s staff has already begun.
The institute’s half-time office pro-fessional currently handling admin-istrative duties will be eliminated and the job divided between the of-fice of Student Life and the Dean of Students’ office, said Steve Smith, di-rector of public relations.
The institute has not experienced a reduction in funding from state ap-propriations but it has been affected
by campus programming funding cuts, he said.
“I don’t know what the cost sav-ing from the consolidation is,” Smith said. “I know the money will be fun-neled into scholarships and financial aid.”
Concerns about the future of the institute arose in early March when the Senior Staff Budget Advi-sory Group recommendations were published. Those involved with the Leadership Institute were informed by university officials that cuts to ex-penses may have to be made, but the program itself will remain.
Despite the recent funding cuts, Dan Gaken, interim director of the Leadership Institute, said the pro-gram is not going anywhere. Gaken said the institute is reorganizing and consolidating staff, but is not making
Leadership Institute faces reductions, consolidationMoney saved to be put toward scholarships, financial aid
A LeAd | 2A
Joe tobianski/staff photographerAn overall look at the first tailgate of the 2010 football season. “We had a top 25 football team and no one comes out, it irritates me,” Detroit senior Maxwell Maher said.
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
Wet weather and continued policies kept tailgaters at bay Thursday.
Danny Trolz’s first tailgating experience was coming to an end with only 67 minutes left on the countdown clock before the start of the the season’s first football game
“I’ve heard that tailgating gets pretty crazy, but I heard last year they had to make it more strict,” the Jackson freshman said. “It’s still fun, I’m still having a good time.”
Police Chief Bill Yeagley said he was uncomfortable provid-ing an estimate of the number of tailgate attendants Thursday because he was unable to get a good view of the crowd. The population in lot 63 was “light to medium at best,” he said.
Policies added last year in-clude increased security and a six-beer or one pint of liquor limit per person, with no glass
bottles. Students must also pur-chase a $6 parking pass prior to stationing their vehicle in lot 63.
Last year, attendance at CMU’s student tailgate went from thousands to around 300 for the first game, according to CMU police.
Trolz spent his time tailgating in lot 63 outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium, talking with friends and playing ladder golf.
His friend Daniel Hughes, also a Jackson freshman, said tailgating was more enjoyable in the past. However, he said students shouldn’t quit sup-
porting the football team be-cause of the policies that were implemented last year.
“I think people will loosen up and give it a chance,” Hughes said. “I think the weather stopped it this time — that and it’s the beginning of the year and people are still getting situ-ated. It’s a bit rainy, but I think we have some good ones ahead of us.”
Owosso alumnus Gary Ridley attended the tailgate with some friends.
“It’s disappointing that in a
Fewer flock to lot 63Rain, stricter rulesstill keep peoplefrom tailgate
A tAiLgAte | 2A
“Everyone says be-cause (Dan) LeFevour is gone, we’re going to do bad, but I think we’re going to do great,” said Gladwin freshman Dil-lon Fassett.
Fassett covered him-self with maroon and gold paint from head to toe in preparation for the season opener.
Even before the game began, students like Lael Johnson expected the best for the Central/Hampton game and the season as a whole.
“I think it’s going to be great, it’s going to be full of great plays and a lot of high numbers on the scoreboard,” the Warren sophomore said. “Last year they lost a lot of
leaders, but the team is coming together again and the leaders who have stepped up are do-ing a great job.”
Johnson said he doesn’t have any favorite players, just the whole team.
“The entire group is our family,” he said,
Novi junior Lauren Ko-tylo said she hopes for a good season because the Chippewas still have a strong team.
“We’re pumped, we had a good season and we want to keep it up,” she said.
She said she thinks the team could work on hav-ing more concentration,
Fans FIRE UP
Crowd of 17,311 attend firsthome football game
By Rachel Mater | Staff Reporter
Enthusiastic students flooded the Kelly/Shorts Stadium Thursday night for the first game of the
season, even as rainwater poured onto the field.
A team with a different look than what they were used to marched onto the field, ready to take on their opponent, the Hampton Pirates.
But despite the loss of several key players, many of those students were still thrilled to be back the stadium for Chippewa football.
By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter
William Smith broke down into
tears seconds after being asked to describe his daughter, Emily Eliza-beth Smith.
“This is so hard,” he said Thurs-day afternoon. Emily, a Lapeer ju-nior, died Wednesday after falling ill on Tuesday.
Her family chose not to disclose any cause for her death or if her ill-ness was related. She was 20.
Her sister Andrea Smith, a Cen-tral Michigan University alumna, said Emily enjoyed being funny over being serious.
“She was kind of sarcastic, liked to be funny most of the time,” An-drea said. “She had almost a caus-tic kind of wit that could hurt your feelings if you weren’t careful, but that was part of her charm.”
She just changed her major to psychology, Andrea said. Emily
planned to get her doctorate de-gree from Michigan State Univer-sity and was hoping to go into cou-ples and family counseling. She was a resident of Kesseler Hall and had applied to be a desk worker.
She lived in Calkins Hall last year. She was an active member of their hall council and always in the front lobby to socialize, said Cathy Warner, Calkins residence hall di-rector.
“She was just a wonderful per-son, very bubbly, smiling all the time,” Warner said. “It’s a terrible loss. My heart goes out to her fam-ily.”
Her room was always decorated for each season, and Warner said Emily had a creative soul.
Her current RHD, Chad Garland, said he did not know her very well after she moved into the hall about two weeks ago. He said she was out
Lapeer student died Wednesday
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Fridayw a gnome bag awareness event with live music will take place at 7 p.m. at the Kaya Coffee House, 1029 S. University Ave.
w a red Cross Blood drive will run from noon to 6 p.m. at the Comfort Inn and Conference Center, 2424 S. Mission St.
Saturday
w Billy idol and Slash will perform at 8 p.m. at the Soaring Eagle Casino.
Sundayw Judo Club will meet from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Rose wrestling room.
Mondayw university closed for Labor Day.
tueSdayw the art and design exhibition will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the University Art gallery.
w dan austin will speak from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Bovee University Center auditorium. Admission is free.
w Performance of “incorruptible” by Michael Hollinger will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Bush Theatre.
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Joe tobianski/staff photographerMount Pleasant resident Kalan Hubbard, 16, juggles along Preston street in front of the Bovee University Center. “I want to try to inspire other people to go out and perform because there is no use hiding your talents,” Hubbard said.
creased by 1.8 percent since fall 2003 when a steady de-cline began, according to fac-ulty personnel services.
Conversely, the number of full-time temporaries since fall 2001 has increased by 20.6 percent – 222 compared to 184- and the number of part-time temporaries has in-creased by 18.1 percent – 202 compared to 171.
“We have seen, since prob-ably the 1970s, a steady esca-lation in the number of part-time and temporary faculty,” Connors said.
Dean of Students Bruce Roscoe said there are many benefits to having temporary faculty on staff.
“They do provide the uni-versity flexibility, that (way) we can respond just in time when there’s a need in an aca-demic program,” he said. “It does give the administration flexibility to direct resources where they are most needed in a very timely manner.”
Roscoe also said temporary faculty tend to be enthusiastic, seasoned teachers and bring-ing a real-world perspective to the classroom.
reaSonS varyThe reason for the steady
increase in the number of temporary faculty employed at CMU could be credited to a number of reasons, Con-nors said, including replac-ing a tenured faculty member at the last minute because of an illness, retirement or res-ignation. Additional sections of a course being added just before classes began; or a de-partment having chose to of-fer specialized courses none of the regular faculty were qualified to teach.
Because of these staffing trends, some departments have more non-tenured full-time faculty teaching courses
among their ranks than ever before.
Maria Marron, journalism chairwoman, said this is the case for her department.
“Approximately 50 to 60 percent of classes in journal-ism have been instructed by temporary faculty over recent years,” Marron said.
In fall 2009, temporary fac-ulty taught 60 percent of all journalism classes. This fall, temporary faculty are teach-ing slightly more than 70 per-cent of classes, she said.
Marron said 19 journalism classes out of 61 sections are taught by full-time temporary faculty, 24 by part-time tem-porary faculty and 18 by regu-lar tenured-track faculty.
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universities are experiencing a similar trend in adjuncts teaching courses.
Dan Kukuk, an organizer for the American Federation of Teachers Michigan, said the University of Michigan, Mich-igan State University, Wayne State University, Eastern Michigan University, Western Michigan University, Ferris State University and a number of community colleges have also seen dramatic increases.
“An emphasis is being placed on non-tenure track faculty and graduate student instruction,” Kukuk said.
Connors said another draw-back to having less regular faculty on staff is the workload — including serving on com-mittees, advising and research — falls on a smaller pool of faculty.
Regardless of those consid-erations, Connors said tem-porary workers have always been and always will be a part of the university system.
“There isn’t a profession that doesn’t use them,” he said.
Heinze, retired in early Janu-ary, we started a consolida-tion of the program,” Gaken said. “There haven’t been any eliminations yet. (The chang-es are) just a result of retire-ment.”
Gaken, whose title was co-ordinator of student leader-ship development, said he will continue with his cur-rent duties and add those of the director to his job de-scription.
Because of the economy, the financial aid office is ex-periencing increased pressure from students seeking help to pay for school, Smith said.
“They need a software up-date and need to increase staff,” Smith said.
Smith did not know of any other university departments cutting costs to help Scholar-ships and Financial Aid.
“We’re committed as a uni-versity to maintaining the program with the same ro-
bustness as in the past, and we’ll continue to offer the same opportunities for stu-dents in the program,” Smith said.
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In Wednesday’s story about Phi Mu sorority’s new house, the name of the owner of Olivieri Management, Joe Olivieri, was misspelled. Also, in a caption, the address of the house should have read 802 S. Main St.
year when the CMU football team loses so many great play-ers, the school continues to have policies that keeps fans from coming to the game,” he said. “Central should do what-ever they can to promote a top 25 football team.”
Despite the current tailgate policies, Ridley said students should still support their team.
He said he felt bad for stu-dents who hadn’t experienced tailgates from years past and he wasn’t sure if the low at-tendance was due to weather, classes or the new policies.
“It’s hard to judge what freshmen feel about the pro-gram because they weren’t here last year,” he said. “We had a great team last year, so it’s kind of sad that momen-
tum didn’t carry over.”Grand Ledge junior Kyle
Grost said tailgating is not about drinking for him — it’s about catching up with friends and having fun.
“I wish turnout was higher,” he said. “You should always give it a chance. I might have different motivations for com-ing, but it’d be nice to see more students out here.”
Sgt. Mike Morrow of the CMU Police Department said he has never known weather or class schedules to signifi-cantly impact tailgate atten-dance in the past.
“We didn’t know what to ex-pect,” he said. “We were hop-ing for a better turnout than what we have seen.”
Still, Morrow fully supports the current tailgate policies, saying it’s a personal choice “if people choose not to come because of the rules.”
New website allows betting on grades Come get your ware
judy emmons takes Calley’s spot as candidate
international students protest new CMu health insurance policy
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
Think you’re going to buckle down this semester and boost your GPA? How much do you want to bet?
Ultrinsic.com is a website al-lowing students to wager mon-ey on their academic success and failures. It is now offered at 36 colleges and universities, including Michigan State Uni-versity and the University of Michigan.
But the service is currently not offered to Central Michigan University students, though the website’s founders have plans to expand.
Co-founder Steven Wolf said he and his business partner, Jer-emy Gelbart, created the web-site to motivate students to ob-tain better grades by providing cash incentives.
“We figured out we had to expand it and bring it to col-lege students — that’s Ultrinsic — it’s our attempt to bring our system of motivation and in-centives to all college students,” he said.Wolf said Ultrinsic.com launched last year after three years of development.
The site has received some opposition from educational in-stitutions, Wolf said. Some peo-ple, he said, feel allowing stu-dents to gamble on their grades is harmful.
Provost Gary Shapiro said he is unfamiliar with the site, but does not think students can be prevented from participating in the service if Ultrinsic.com expands to include CMU stu-dents.
“If it’s something that doesn’t take any university action,” he said, “how can one stop univer-sity students from participat-ing in something in their own time?”
After registering on Ultrin-sic.com and providing a class schedule and academic history to the site, students can place bets on their class and semes-ter grades. Wolf said the odds of winning and payouts are based off of a user’s academic history in addition to their bets.
Wolf said students with low GPAs can win more money than those with higher GPAs because they have to put more effort into their studies.
Dearborn freshman Kevin King said Ultrinsic.com sounds like an interesting idea.
“I think it’s kind of unique to be able to bet on your own grades,” he said. “Not only do you get the benefit of receiving an ‘A,’ but you also get money for it.”
King said cash is a great incen-tive for academic motivation.
Clio junior Jimmy Vessell agreed.
“I think it will motivate stu-dents,” Vessell said. “If they’re a ‘C’ or ‘B’ student it would en-courage them to improve their grades.”
However, Ultrinsic.com isn’t about gambling, Wolf said, but about providing learning incen-tives. He agrees that students aren’t learning for the sake of learning, which he said is a criti-cism of the educational system and not the website.
“On the other hand, we do be-lieve (in) our concept,” he said. “The objective is they’ll read the information and develop an in-terest in studying.”
Football pride took a trial run Wednesday night amid legions of businesses, stu-dents and free handouts.
As the Central Michigan University athletics depart-ment spoke from the foot-ball field, students were able to get acquainted with more than 80 of Mount Pleasant’s local businesses stationed around the stadium at Wares Fair and Fire Up Fest.
Though many students dutifully filed through the lanes of free offerings, some took the opportunity to sit down on the bleachers and catch up with the football team.
The cheer team, the CMU marching band and fans across the stadium all shared in excitement for the coming season as the football play-ers introduced themselves.
“It is absolutely fantas-tic,” said Carter Kiogima, a cheerleader and Traverse City senior. “The fest is a great opportunity for Cen-tral to support the team and show outstanding school spirit.”
Kalamazoo freshman Josh Weirik shared in the crowd’s excitement after playing his part in the band’s perfor-mance.
“Being part of the pep band is great,” Weirik said. “The surrounding environ-ment is really sweet, and af-
ter tonight, I’m excited to see the reaction of the fans once we crank it up.”
Businesses offered a vari-ety of freebies as they vied for about 4,000 students’ attentions — from frisbees and food to free member-ships and discount cou-pons.
Matt Jackson, operating partner of Papa John’s, 1504 S. Mission St., was one of many who took the opportu-nity to promote their prod-ucts.
“It’s a great time to hand out coupons and sample pizza,” Jackson said. “People are able to taste our products and it’s a great sales boost.”
Connie Ross, owner of Curves, 1620 S. Mission St.,
came to the celebration hop-ing to interest a few students in the female focused fitness program.
“We’ve been coming here for the past seven years and we absolutely love it,” Ross said. “The students here are welcoming and fun. We usu-ally manage to gain 15 to 20 new memberships after this.”
Other athletic organiza-tions also took the oppor-tunity to introduce fans to their rosters.
The men’s basketball team had a stand where fans were invited to guess a player’s weight in hopes of winning a free towel.
Photos by Jeff sMith/staff photographerTOP: Thousands of people line up to get in to Wares Fair/Fire Up Fest Wednesday outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium. ABOVE: Macomb freshman Brandon Glaub, left, East Lansing freshman Shayne Capone, Battle Creek freshman Aaron Smith and Center Line freshman Chad Horetski yell “fire up chips” during Fire Up Fest Wednesday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Event exposes students to athletics pride, local businesses
By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter
Marijuana is prohibited on Central Michigan University’s campus, despite the state’s le-galization of the substance for medical purposes.
CMU must abide by federal law, which states the substance, whether medicinal or recre-ational, is illegal to use or pos-sess.
“Federal law supersedes state law,” said Joan Schmidt, associ-ate director of Residence Life. “No marijuana is allowed on campus.”
Campus Police Chief Bill Yea-gley said the university policy forbids possession, storage and use of medical marijuana.
But he said Residence Life is willing to work with students who need marijuana for medi-cal purposes.
“If (students) live on campus, they’re not going to say, ‘We’re kicking you out,’” Yeagley said. “If you have an issue, you need to move off campus and it’s a le-git reason to move off campus.”
Schmidt said the first offense of possession or use entails a fine of $100. Second offenses are punished with a possible suspension or $300 fine. She also said police may be in-volved, though whether to take legal action is ultimately their decision.
However, they yield to the
office of Student Rights and Re-sponsibilities.
Maura Casey, White Lake sophomore, said marijuana practices on campus should match the state’s law.
“As long as you don’t smoke on campus, possession shouldn’t be a problem.” Casey said.
Eastern Michigan University recently banned medical mari-juana on their campus, accord-ing to reports from the Eastern Echo.
The penalty on EMU’s cam-pus for a first offense matches CMU’s.
LegaL diSPuteSMedical marijuana has been
a point of contention recently as a Mount Pleasant establish-ment, Compassionate Apoth-ecary, was called to court by Isa-bella County Prosecutor Larry Burdick to dispute whether the dispensary is legal. No judg-ment has been released.
Similarly, in Dryden, the La-peer County Sheriff seized 50 marijuana plants, scales and $3,500 from a dispensary called Compassionate Care.
James McCurtis, a spokesper-son for the Michigan Depart-ment of Community Health, said his department does not regulate dispensaries, nor do they deal with enforcement of the law; it simply decides who is
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India graduate student Harjeet
Kumar holds up a picket sign outside
of Warriner Hall Thursday afternoon in protest of CMU’s
insurance policy for international
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By Kimberly StahlStaff Reporter
Republicans from the 33rd District on Wednesday se-lected Judy Emmons to re-place Brian Calley in the state Senate race.
Rep. Calley, R-Portland, dropped out last week when he accepted the position of Republican governor candi-date Rick Snyder’s running mate. The 33rd district state Senate seat will be vacated by Sen. Alan Cropsey, R-De-Witt, who has reached term limits.
The decision for Calley’s replacement was made by
the 33rd Republican Party Executive Committee, cover-ing Clinton, Ionia, Isabella and Montcalm counties. The committee selected Emmons over Scott Hummel in a 82-37 vote.
Matthew Golden, Isabella County Republicans chair-man, said Emmons would have to leverage her com-munity ties to make up for her late start in the cam-paign.
This could prove to be a dif-ficult task as her Democratic opponent James Hoisington has a 30-day head start.
“She’s known throughout a good chunk of the communi-
ty,” Golden said. “She’s been active in the counties sur-rounding her and has even been seen at Central Michi-gan University events.”
Emmons served Ionia and Montcalm counties for six years as state representative. Most of her votes followed party lines, according to published reports. Some no-table exceptions occurred in 2004 when she supported a 75-cent increase in cigarette taxes and advancing the due date for county tax collec-tions. She followed party lines in 2008 when she voted against a tax increase to fund county zoos.
Travis Faber, first vice chairman of College Repub-licans, said Emmons’s can-didacy could have a positive impact for students on cam-pus.
“I think that the students on campus will very much en-joy Judy Emmons,” the Battle Creek senior said. “As a state representative she fought for jobs and to lower taxes.”
With this in mind, he said, students are always looking for jobs in career force, and the more jobs in the state the easier it will be for students to find a job.
About 25 international students gathered on campus Thursday with one thought in mind — no yearly health insurance.
A new insurance policy intro-duced this fall by Central Michi-gan University will impact about 600 international students on campus, including many who feel it places an unfair burden on them.
Nigeria graduate student Ca-jetan Iheka helped coordinate the effort to bring attention to
the policy. The students marched in front of Charles V. Park Library.
“We came together to look into paying for health insurance per semester,” said Iheka. “They insist we pay for one year right away, which doesn’t make sense for us economically.”
Protesters carried signs asking for semester-based insurance and completely condemning the new policy, among other items. They started from the library and made their way into Warriner Hall, all while shouting, “This is my health, not the university’s.”
Critism began last spring when
it was announced the CMU Stu-dent Injury and Sickness Insur-ance Plan would include all in-ternational students for a year.
“It’s expensive because people pay out of their own pocket,” Iheka said. “Parents could pay for it every semester so we could go home in the summer.”
Angela Smith, assistant direc-tor of business services for Uni-versity Health Services, was not available for comment.
Other students at the protest stressed their concerns even af-ter going through the processes available.
“We have had a petition signed online, but they said they just don’t have the manpower,” said Bethlehem Legesse, an Ethiopia graduate student and Student Government Association repre-sentative.
Among the crowd was Student Government Association Vice President Dave Breed.
“We hoped we could help,” the Muskegon senior said. “Beth tipped us off and we just want to make it not so draining on stu-dents.”
Tuesday night was a watershed mo-ment for America,
as President Obama addressed the nation and announced an end to combat operations in Iraq, declaring “Op-eration Iraqi Freedom is over.”
EDITORIAL | obama’s iraq exit strategy proved more compromise than kept promise
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In the process of ending combat operations in Iraq, President Obama called former President George W. Bush as courtesy or something along those lines.
Call it presidential courtesy an effort to acknowledge the man who was commander and chief when Operation Iraqi Freedom began, and the man who was responsible for the 2007 troop surge, which ultimately proved effective.
But what happened during the call? What words transpired between the two of them? Obama acknowledged he talked to Bush on the phone and left it at that.
I know if I made the call and I would have admitted to Bush I was wrong about the surge.
“Hey man, I was so off base about the troop surge thing. You were right and I just wanted to tell you I am going on TV tonight talk-ing about the end process. Peace, bro,” or something like that.
I do not know the exact plan and decisions made that have lead to this point. All I know from reading news and other reports is that the troop surge of 2007 reduced the levels of violence in Iraq.
Seems to me the surge was key to help end this.
News pundits are talking about the troop surge Bush approved, and how Obama was against it, along with most liberals.
I will admit I did not want a troop surge and I was an opponent of the Iraq war. But that is neither here nor there.
If this is the truth, and the 2007 troop surge worked, then our political leaders should admit they were wrong in their opposition.
Issues like this are simple; it is easy to admit having been on the wrong side. The political ramifica-tions make everything hard.
We may not know all the tactical decisions made behind closed doors. We are not knowledgeable about every aspect of the Iraq war.
The phone call could have been different, perhaps the conversation was more like, “Hey man, this war sucks and it needs to end now.”
Don’t Americans deserve hon-esty from people we elect to office? Why do all sides of the political spectrum try to hurt each other by pointing out the mere human trait of imperfection?
I understand that high standards are set in holding public office, but humans still make mistakes.
Admitting to being human and admitting to mistakes should not be a major political issue of finger pointing and scare tactics. How can this country go forward when its own leaders cannot be honest in a public forum with facing the charge of incompetency?
It the essence of growing from mistakes that makes a person wiser.
I still don’t believe the Iraq war was a good idea. But if the troop surge was responsible for turning this war around then I admit I was wrong about the surge. So should any leader who came out against it.
Admit it and move on.
I am a senior at CMU and am getting a bachelor of science in business admin-istration in May. I’m very excited. CMU is surely a fine institution.
But I fall upon deaf ears and I feel as though CMU could do a better job of hear-ing me.
The decision was made recently to impose a print quota of 250 pages on each student.
Okay fine. I’m a business student, I print my fair share of documents. I would as-sume even more than the average student. I’ll bite the bullet on that because I get it.
But now I’m in a computer science class.
I’m informed that the assignments that I print, and are mandatory to print for the class, go against my quota. This seems unfair. I pay good money for the
class already, why am I being penalized?
I was able to get e-mails back from department chairs in the business and technol-ogy community here at the school. But they lent very poor advice and wished me the best.
I propose that quota prints should be separated from prints in the class room and stricter enforcement on the behalf of the profes-sor to make sure prints are legitimate (it’s obvious that a student is printing from outside sources other than class work). A system should be deployed to allow students free printing when they are in class.
The system would read student schedules and as-sume in good faith that the student is in class, using the computers and printers as they should for the class.
Once the class time is up, the system would flip the switch back to the quota.
Some critics of my propos-al indicate that the student would miss class to print what they need, essentially “using” the system. Con-sider the opportunity costs of missing class vs. printing off PowerPoints.
Maybe students would miss class just to save a few dimes on printing. But I would bet that most students are reasonable and accept the responsibility of going to class rather than getting a few sheets printed off to save a buck. Tuition is much more expensive than a few sheets of paper, after all. Not all students would do that and I imagine with the total amount CMU prints off in one day, it would be insignifi-cant anyways.
I propose a “printing
agreement form” be made where students understand the penalties of abusing the system.
If there’s anything college has taught me, it’s that things can be changed when a deal is struck up — where both parties of the deal feel like they had won something.
I feel like the college that taught me that doesn’t want to negotiate a deal. They are laying down the iron fist on this issue when all the stu-dents want to do is extend a hand and shake on a deal.
Alternatives need to be explored. Let’s take a step back and see if we can’t think of something that would cut back on excessive printing while still allowing students to get the job done.
Keith MaskellAlpena senior
Although Obama declared this a completion of a campaign
promise, the time it took and the money and lives it cost may make this too little, too late.
During his administration, Obama has managed to, on paper, fulfill many of his campaign poli-cies in one capacity or another. There has been an economic stimulus and a health care reform, but they have been weakened and compromised in an attempt to please everybody on both sides of the political aisle, ultimately leav-ing many on both sides displeased with the compromise.
Similarly, those still in favor of military operations in Iraq will see
the move as not completing the job America set out to do, with insurgency and terrorism still major issues in the region. Those in favor of getting out of Iraq will criticize Obama for how long it took, and leaving 50,000 “non-combat” troops in Iraq.
It may be unfair to expect Obama to follow every campaign promise to the letter, particularly when he made so many steep promises of drastic change. It is likely that none of the potential 2008 candidates could have gotten the country out of Iraq any faster, but none of the others promised to.
As more time passes and his policies soften in the shadow of extremist opposition, it seems more clear the brave, hopeful
Obama that was elected is not the Obama currently in office.
If Barack Obama wants to make a strong statement, he needs to do what he says he is going to do, when he says he is going to do it, and not soften it up to try to ap-pease dissenters and not back-track or apologize.
Despite his attempts at bipar-tisanship, opposition will not play ball, and if Obama does not realize this and take a hard stance he could be the first one-term President since George H.W. Bush left office in 1993.
His predecessor, George W. Bush, was unapologetic and unyielding in his efforts to get us into war in Iraq, and that is how Obama should be as he gets us out.
I remember talking to my sister about possibly transferring to another university when I was a sophomore, and she would tell me, “Just finish what you started.”
A few years later, I talked to my then-boyfriend about his post-college plans before he gradu-ated. Ever the optimist, he said, “Well, if anything, my degree will say to employers that I finished what I started.”
Finishing what you start. It seems like such a simple concept, but in practice it’s not easy at all. We start things all the time — be they relationships, books or works of art. But what does it say about us when we don’t finish?
That differs from situation to situation. A book could be so painfully boring we don’t want to finish. A relationship could be so tumultuous it seems like the best decision for both parties would be to end things. You can’t always finish what you start.
But sometimes, we don’t finish things just because we’ve grown tired or simply given up without a fight.
For example, at almost 22 I have never finished a book for my own personal enjoyment. Even books that interest me, I can only get so far before I put it down and never pick it up again.
The same goes for romantic relationships. None of them, for one reason or another, have ever exceeded a couple of months. That’s not to say they weren’t meaningful or significant, but the truth is, you can’t truly decide if you like one of the characters in a seemingly promising novel if you haven’t read past the first few chapters.
My best friend is a total bib-liophile, so she picked out a few books from her book shelf that she thought I’d like. One of them, a collection of short stories writ-ten by women in their twenties called “It’s A Wonderful Lie,” is great so far. I am almost done, and am positive I will finish this one.
I think there’s a lot to be said about finishing what you start, even if it is just a 267-page book.
It’s a start.
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Central Michigan Life || Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 || 5A
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
Apple enthusiasts across the nation tuned in to the Apple Special Event Wednesday to sat-isfy their hunger for delicious Apple news.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs pre-sented the launch of a new so-cial networking service called Ping, in addition to a new lineup of iPods and software updates for the iPhone and iPad.
Ping, which Jobs described as a mix between Facebook and Twitter, focuses on the musical interests of its users and is ac-cessed through iTunes instead of a Web browser.
“The social networking thing, that sounds interesting so I’d like to see how that turns out,” said Victor Fitzsimons, a Kentwood graduate student. “I’m wonder-ing how it will compete with the juggernaut of Facebook.”
According to Apple’s website, Ping users can create a profile and follow different musical art-ists or friends. Users can view the songs and bands their friends are listening to at any time and leave comments on their profile pages.
Fitzsimons said Ping could become popular.
“Apple’s got their work cut out for them if they even want to come close to Facebook,” he said.
Alan Rudy, associate professor of sociology, said he did some reading about Ping online to get an idea of what the technology world thinks.
“The sense that I get is most folks don’t really like iTunes, they think it’s too proprietary and too clunky,” he said. “One of the things they say is Facebook is a Web page, Twitter is a Web page, but this is social network-ing through iTunes which looks like it’s going to be far more
cumbersome and especially be-cause Ping doesn’t link up with Facebook or Twitter.”
Rudy said he doesn’t plan on using the service because not many people, friends included, share his taste in music.
New gadgetsIn addition to debuting new
social media, Apple is updating its iPod designs. The iPod Nano will sport a multi-touch iconic display similar to the iPhone and iPad’s design.
The iPod Touch will receive Apple’s “Retina Display,” provid-ing a 960x640 resolution in addi-tion to a front and rear camera, allowing the iPod Touch to uti-lize the FaceTime video calling service.
Shelby Township sophomore Chris Burch said he understands Apple’s desire to improve its products, but he’s disappointed the iPod Classic was removed from the iPod series.
Burch currently owns a 30GB iPod video.
“I do prefer the traditional spin wheel,” Burch said. “I’m sure my iPod will die in the next couple years and I’ll have to get a new one, but I hope it’s not much of a hassle to get used to the new one.”
He said Apple’s announce-ments were not particularly ground breaking.
“I feel like they’re not really moving forward too much,” he said. “If you’re going to make a change and make a big deal about it, you should come up with something inventive that people haven’t seen before.”
Fitzsimons, however, was pleased with the announce-ments.
“As for revamping the product style, I think it’s a wise choice,” he said. “Apple knows how to develop a product people want to buy. They almost have a cult-like following. From a business standpoint, how could you ask for anything more?”
Apple announces new social networkiPod design to be revamped
By Rachel MaterStaff Reporter
Some people might say po-etry is a dying art.
But that didn’t stop a group of students, professors and enthusiasts from gathering to celebrate its creation and performance.
Poetry readings brought in students from all across cam-pus Wednesday afternoon in Central Park. Robert Fanning, assistant professor of English language and literature, even joined the group with some of his own writings.
“Poetry is important be-
cause it puts into words truths that would otherwise remain silent,” he said, “and it celebrates life.”
Fanning read a poem called “The Messiah Complex” — as well as a poem about Face-book. He said Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath are two of fa-vorite poets.
Fanning happens to be one of Foster Neill’s favorite po-ets, as well.
Neill, a Big Rapids resident, is the founder and editor of the Michigan Poet, a publica-tion focusing on poetry from Michigan residents.
He said poetry challenges the world and is a challenge in itself, because it’s harder than taking a picture or paint-ing a picture.
The group plans to meet every first of the month, un-
less it lands on a weekend, then it will be the within the first week of the month, said C.J. Opperthauser, a Farm-ington Hills senior and coor-dinator of the event. Anyone who writes or loves poetry is free to stop by on their way to or from class.
Opperthauser said Wednesday was the group’s first reading in the park and the turnout was better than expected.
He hopes the event will give students a better appre-ciation for poetry and even grow a fondness for it.
“People have the wrong idea of poetry, so it’s good for them to come and discover what it’s all about,” Opper-thauser said.
He said he tries to write honestly when he pens a
poem.“I try to write what I feel
is true, mostly about people or towns,” he said. “I’ll get a thought and run to a com-puter and start typing.”
The love for writing doesn’t always begin with poetry. Neill had other plans when he began exploring the writ-ten word.
“I always wanted to be a rock star, so I would write a song, then I would read it the next day and be like, ‘It’s hor-rible!’” Neill said.
Neill said he still struggled with poetry after moving on from songwriting, but is al-ways improving.
“I wrote lots and lots of bad poems, but eventually I got better at it in my opinion.”
Students, faculty embrace written word during poetry reading in Central Park
sara winkLer/StaFF photographerDaggett senior Dawn Sandahl steps up in front of the crowd and prepares to recite some of her poetry as Cadillac senior Adam Wassil shields her from a light sprinkle beginning to fall outside of Charles V. Park Library. Students gathered on the ground next to Central Park pond for September Words, a student-organized poetry reading event.
Group plans to meet first of every month
By Gabi JayeStaff Reporter
This story first appeared on cm-life.com early Thursday morning.
As soon as Jelon Hudson gets into his car it’s not un-usual for him to text a friend or two.
The former Central Michi-gan University student and Mount Pleasant resident be-gins texting his friends soon into the drive.
“I feel like I’m capable of texting and driving because I’ve done it for years,” he said. “I’m still going to do it anyway despite the law.”
Although many drivers also admit the same thing, Hud-son and others are breaking the law. In July, a statewide act was passed which banned tex-ting while driving, but three local police agencies haven’t written any tickets.
Officers from the Central Michigan University Po-lice, Mount Pleasant Police
and Isabella County’s Sher-iff’s departments have been prepared to enforce the law. However, all agencies agree it’s difficult.
“It’s hard to tell what a person’s doing if you’re not stopped at the side of them,” said Jeff Browne, MPPD pub-lic information officer. “How do you tell if you’re passing a person at 30 mph?”
Hudson said he has the freedom to choose whether or not he texts. Still, Saint Clair sophomore Stephanie Kille-wald said it’s not that simple.
“I don’t think you have a choice to put someone else in danger,” she said.
Traits officers look for are heads down while driving, holding a phone up further and looking preoccupied in-stead of at the road.
“The only way to tell is if you pull someone over and you see them finishing their message,” said Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. “(Or) if some-one gets into an accident and admits texting to be the cause. But other than that it’s very difficult.”
Mioduszewski also said finding a texting driver some-times comes with severe con-sequences.
But Richmond junior Ben-jamin Rygwelski said some other Michigan cities are re-ally cracking down on the new law.
“My sister got pulled over in Anchor Bay when a cop was behind her at 10 p.m.,” he said. “The officer saw the illu-mination from the phone and asked to see it.”
Rygwelski’s sister was not texting. Her phone was il-luminated because of an in-coming call.
Situations like this make enforcing the law tricky for many officers.
“It’s kind of up to each indi-vidual officer how they handle it,” Browne said. “But things like holding your phone up higher and using two hands on a slide keyboard make it pretty apparent.”
Taking a phone for investi-gation is also a troublesome topic for both drivers and of-ficers, said Sgt. Cameron Was-sman of CMU Police.
“We can search a phone with the cooperation of the driver,” Wassman said. “Keep in mind that this is not a fed-eral offense but a civil infrac-tion.”
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able to receive a medical mari-juana card.
“Dispensaries aren’t even mentioned in the law,” McCur-tis said. “That is going to need to be clarified through the legisla-ture or court system.”
Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, introduced a bill to stop consumption of marijuana on the premises of dispensaries.
Jones said the goal of this particular bill is not to make dispensaries illegal. However, he said medical marijuana should be treated like a stan-dard pharmaceutical and given from a prescription by a doctor and brought to a pharmacy for distribution.
“I don’t want dispensaries to become places where they smoke the product and then drive away,” Jones said. “The ballot initiative was written very gray, it’s not clear.”
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Waking Upstory by Amelia eramya |
Staff Reporter Student returns to school monthsafter brain surgeryPhotos by Paige Calamari |
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Rockford freshman Madison Mabin last March was diagnosed with a Chiari Malformation, a structural defect in the cerebellum, that led to surgery. She then underwent a second procedure to stop a leak of cerebral spinal fluid. Mabin thought she was having a stroke in her Emmons Hall room prior to her several trips to Central Michigan Community Hospital and a neurologist. “You appreciate a lot of things,” Mabin said.
But now as she returns to Central Michigan University, Mabin has a different outlook on life.
“How often do you wake up and say, ‘Man, I don’t have to get brain surgery today’?” she said. “It gave me a better ap-preciation for my health and just living in general.”
Mabin said the experience was a reality check.
As the numbness took over the left side of her body that day in March, Mabin began to seek a solution. After several attempts and no sign of feel-ing she called her mom, Lisa Mabin.
“My mom told me I was men-tally deteriorating throughout the conversation,” she said. “I was really disoriented.”
At that point, Mabin grabbed her roommate, Rockford soph-omore Brooke Sargent, and headed to the front desk to call an ambulance.
“I can’t even put into words how terrifying it was to see her like that,” Sargent said, holding back tears. “I thought she was having a stroke.”
As she arrived at Central Michigan Community Hospi-tal, 1221 S. Drive, nurses inject-ed fluids into Mabin and took several tests.
“Everything came back fine in the end,” she said. “This en-tire thing was a disaster.”
Mabin left the hospital around 7 a.m., undiagnosed, with her parents and headed to Rockford to see a neurologist.
After meeting with the neu-rologist, she returned to Cen-tral Michigan University. But a message from her Neurologist March 25 urged her to come back and discuss test results.
Chiari Malformation is a structural defect where the cerebellum and brainstem can be pushed downward blocking the flow of cerebrospinal fluid,
Madison Mabin started March 23 like any other
day: Class, lunch with her roommates and a night full of studying for midterms.
Then as the Rockford freshman looked through flashcards around 3 a.m. in her room in Emmons Hall, the left side of her body instantly became numb.
Within days, she was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, a brain abnormality, forcing her into surgery and to take an academic hiatus for the remainder of the spring semester.
or liquid that protects the brain and spinal cord.
On top of being diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, Mabin said she also had a syrinx, a fluid-filled cavity within her spinal cord blocking the flow of fluid.
After being diagnosed, she was scheduled to have Chiari Decom-pression surgery April 5. A four- to eight-week recovery would follow.
Road to RecoveRyAfter the surgery, Mabin woke up
with a bald spot and stitches in the back of her head. She was released five days later.
“There were times I looked at my mom and said it would be more comfortable to be dead than in the
state I was,” Mabin said. On April 29, three weeks after her
surgery, Mabin felt a rush of fluid leak from her stitches.
She was rushed to the hospital where she was taken in to surgery for a second time because of a side effect of the procedure.
This time, Mabin awoke with 18 staples and a tube trailing out of her head to drain the excess fluids.
“It was horrifying to wake up with a tube coming out of your head,” Mabin said.
After a summer of recuperating, Mabin returned to CMU Aug. 9.
“I didn’t miss anything more than being in school,” she said.
Mabin’s mother, Lisa, said she re-ally pulled through and came out
stronger from the experience.“It was one of the most shocking
things we went through,” Lisa said. “It’s the most wonderful thing for a mom to see her daughter stay strong through something like this and have it be a part of the past.”
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Central Michigan women’s soccer head coach Tom Anag-nost was all smiles after prac-tice Wednesday morning, a far cry from his reaction after a pair of wins two weeks ago.
Although his team suffered its first loss of the season against Iowa Sunday, Anag-nost later said he thought CMU was the better team for most of the game.
CMU gave up its first goal of the season in the 1-0 loss against the Hawkeyes, but look to rebound at 7 p.m. Saturday when it travels to Morgantown, W.V., to play the Mountaineers in its third of five consecutive road games.
Anagnost said he still wants to see his team to be more ag-gressive on offense, despite out-shooting opponents 81-26 in four games this season.
“We had no aggression ( a g a i n s t Iowa),” he said. “Our f o r w a r d s played like midfielders. We settled for a lot of shots outside the box.”
Anagnost said his team worked on its aggressiveness this week in practice and hopes it translates to the field against WVU.
“(I expect we”ll) compete real hard and play smart,” he said. “(We need) to be a smarter, more mature team then we were at the end of Sunday’s game.”
Senior goalkeeper Shay Mannino said she agreed that the team needs to be more aggressive in order to take ad-vantage of out-shooting op-ponents.
“This week we focused on being aggressive in practice so it will be different in the game on Saturday,” she said. “We’re really just breaking things down what we need to do to beat West Virginia.”
Mannino has been splitting time in goal with Sophomore Stefanie Turner; something she wasn’t accustomed to af-ter boasting 17 solo shutouts last season. But Mannino said she wants to do what’s best for the team and won’t let the lack of playing time affect her.
“I think it doesn’t really mat-ter how many minutes I get on the field,“ she said. “I’m doing my best, leading my team and helping us get a win.”
Mannino said being on the road is harder for the team, but said she’s not wor-ried about playing a Big East team.
“We always do the best we can,” she said. “They’re a great team but I think we can easily beat them. We just have to do what we do best.”
Earlier this week Mannino was named the 2010 recipi-ent of the school’s Dick En-berg Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. The award is pre-sented annually to a junior student-athlete who excels at the highest levels both ath-letically and academically. Mannino is the fourth recipi-ent in the award’s history. She will be formally recognized at halftime of the Homecoming football game Oct. 16.
Mannino said the award is a great accomplishment espe-cially to start out the year. She said she strives to do as well in the classroom as she does on the field, but said she doesn’t want to focus on individual awards, and wants to focus on WVU.
AndrEw Kuhn/Staff PhotograPherSenior linebacker Nick Bellore tackles Hampton running back Steve Robinson during the first half Thursday night at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Central Michigan beat Hampton in a shuout 33-0. Bellore had a game high of seven tackles.
TOTAL DOMINATIONChippewas score early, beats Hampton 33-0 in home opener
Sophomore wide receiver Cody
Wilson runs the ball in for
a touchdown in the first quarter
against Hampton during CMU’s 33-0 shutout home opener
Thursday night at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Wilson
had four catches for 47 yards.
AndrEw Kuhn/Staff
PhotograPher
SArA winKlEr/Staff PhotograPherSophomore quarterback Ryan Radcliff was 20-for-34 for 242 yards.Radcliff threw one touchdown and scored another on the ground.
By Anthony Fenech | Senior Reporter
A GOALIE FAMILY | Three field hockey players compete for starting position, 3B
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By John EvansSenior Reporter
Quarterback Ryan Radcliff may have found a new favorite target in sophomore wide receiver Cody Wilson during CMU’s 33-0 win over the Hampton Pirates Thurs-day at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Radcliff’s first career touch-down pass came early in the sec-ond quarter on an 8-yard pass to Wilson near the right sideline.
“Ryan and I are good friends we are both pretty spiritual guys and we are pretty tight,” Wilon said. “Yeah, I feel a little chem-istry with him because we are in the same class, so we are pretty close.”
After a bad snap resulted in a safety and two point lead for the Chippewas, Wilson returned the ensuing punt for 81 yards down to the 2-yard line after a personal foul on the Pirates, setting up the first touchdown of the game.
Senior running back Carl Volny would finish the job by scoring on the first play after the return, giving the Chippewas a 9-0 lead.
After a sack from junior Joe Kinville to force fourth down, a bad punt gave CMU good field position early in the second quarter. A few plays later, Wilson was on the receiving end of Radc-liff’s first career touchdown pass, an 8-yard pass to the sideline put the Chippewas in front with a
commanding 23-0 lead.“It was in the middle of January
and this guy comes walking into my office and he said ‘Hey coach I’m Joe, can I come play football?’ and he was our starting defensive end today,” said head coach Dan Enos. “He had never even played defensive end before and you win with guys like Joe.”
With defensive end Kashawn Fraser suspended for the game, sophomore Caeser Rodriguez and junior Joe Kinville stepped up in his absence in a big way. Kinville forced pressure on the opposing quarterback all game especially on third downs.
A WILsoN | 4B
They weren’t glamor-ous, those first two points of the Dan Enos era at Central
Michigan, scored courtesy of a foot-delivered safety from a lost Hampton University punter.
And they didn’t mean much, not in the final score of a season-open-ing 33-0 Chippewas shutout vic-tory, but when Pirates punter Jor-dan Stovall kicked a stray football through Hampton’s end zone early in last night’s first quarter, after a long snap sailed high over his head, the Chippewas could breathe.
“It loosened me up,” said a smil-ing Enos after his first career victory as a head coach. “That meant we weren’t getting shut out.
“I thought it was appropriate,” he continued. “With the way the defense played, they deserved it.”
And after the ensuing kickoff, when sophomore Cody Wilson raced 81 yards on the return, vir-tually untouched in front of the Hampton sideline, the Chippewas could breathe a little easier.
A play later, running back Carl Volny tallied CMU’s first touch-down of the year, on a two-yard run up the middle. Two plays later, the Chippewas special teams unit
forced and recovered a Hampton fumble on the kickoff. And two plays after that, following the short-est of touchdown runs by Parris Cotton, the Chippewas had a 16-point lead, one that would prove to be safe and secure.
“We won,” said Enos. “And that was our entire goal.”
There was no heavy breathing out of the 17,311 in attendance at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Thursday night. No upstart team from Hamp-ton, Va., testing the new-look Chip-pewas in their first game against a NCAA Bowl Subdivision opponent and no blemishes on the report card of a rock-solid CMU defense.
There was business to be taken care of, and in a business-like fash-ion, the Chippewas passed the first test of the 2010 season.
“I was very happy with our effort and the attention to detail,” Enos said. “I know these guys will get bet-ter too.”
In his first collegiate start, sopho-more quarterback Ryan Radcliff guided the offense to five scor-ing drives, threw for a touchdown, rushed for another, and finished with 242 yards on 20-for-34 passing.
“I definitely got a lot more com-fortable out there by just being out there and building game chemistry with the guys,” Radcliff said.
The defense, led by senior line-
backer Nick Bellore’s game-high seven tackles, allowed only 129 Pirates yards, and snuffed out the only Hampton trip into the CMU red zone, three minutes before the half, with a deflected interception by senior safety Bobby Seay.
“That was huge,” said Bellore of the interception. “There was a little adversity there. It was a long drive and we were able to get the pick.”
CMU’s defense forced two turn-overs and allowed less than 50 yards on the ground and fewer than 100 through the air.
“Our defense was able to keep getting the ball back,” said Enos. “They played very well.”
Offensively, Cotton, a junior, had arguably his best game in a Chip-pewas uniform, turning in career bests in both attempts and yards, rushing for 94 yards on 18 carries.
“It was no surprise he looked as explosive as he did,” said Enos.
Complementing him was Vol-ny, who gained 58 yards on 11 at-tempts. CMU totaled 168 rushing yards in the game.
“I told both those guys they should drink about 50 Gatorades tonight,” said Enos. “We’re going to have to run the ball the entire year and manufacture ways to do it.”
The Owls did not play Saturday — they host FCS powehouse Vil-lanova today. Temple, the preseason favorite to win the Mid-American Conference, returns MAC Freshman of the Year running back Ber-nard Pierce.
GAME OVER MOMENT
After CMU forced a botched punt attempt and scored a safety, Cody Wilson’s 81-yard punt return in the first quarter proved to the turning point in the game. One player later, running back Carl Volny rushed two yards to extend the Chippewas’ lead to 9-0. They never looked back after that.
GAME BALL
Ryan Radcliff
2010 SCHEDULE
Sept.2Hampton
W, 33-0Sept. 9atTemple,7p.m.
Sept. 18atEMU,4p.m.
Sept. 25atNorth-western,TBA
Oct. 2BallState,3:30p.m.
Oct. 9atVirginiaTech,1:30p.m.
Oct. 16Miami(OH),noon
Oct. 23atNorthernIllinois,4p.m.
Oct. 30BowlingGreen,3:30p.m.
Nov. 5WesternMichi-gan,6p.m.
Nov. 13atNavy,3:30p.m.
Nov. 26atToledo,TBA
T e s T r e s u lT s
Offense
B CMU fans got their answer on what type of offense the team will display this season. The Chip-pewas threw for 259 yards and rushed for 168 yards, with senior Carl Volny and junior Paris Cotton splitting most of the duty.
Defense
A You can’t ask for much more than holding your opponent scoreless. CMU limited the Pirates to just 129 total yards. More imporantly, the Chippewas forced Hampton into 12 penalties for 74 yards.
Special Teams
B- Senior punter Brett Hartmann av-eraged more than 38 yards a boot. However, freshman place kicker Paul Mudgett went 1-for-4 on field goals. A forced safety off a botched snap and an 81-yard punt return from Cody Wilson helped save the unit’s rating.
Overall
B CMU came out strong on both sides of the ball and finally got to display Enos’ offensive style. The balance is there on the offensive side of the ball, and the defense appears to be strong.
AShlEy MillEr/Staff PhotogrPaherJunior running back Paris Cotton cuts up the middle through Hampton defenders Thursday night at Kelly/Shorts Stadium during the 33-0 victory. Cotton led the team in rushing with a game-high 94 yards and one touchdown.
S o p h o m o r e q u a r t e r b a c k Ryan Radcliff came out in the first start of his college career with a solid performance. Radcliff went 20-of-34 for 242 yards while throwing and rush-ing for a touchdown. He made the necessary short throws when needed and looked comfortable while doing it. The game should serve as a confidence booster heading into Temple next week.
“We won and that was our entire goal in the offseason, summer, everything, was to win the game.”
Dan Enos, CMU head coach
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F i e l d h o c k e y
By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
The quarterback is the lead-ing position in football. In bas-ketball, the point guard and, In volleyball, the setter.
But when it comes to field hockey, the goalkeeper plays a monumental role.
The Central Michigan field hockey team is a step behind its opponents after losing first-team All-Mid-American Con-nference goalkeeper Melinda Curran and backup Kahla Schwall following the 2009 season.
With the starting position still up for grabs, three inexperi-enced candidates are in the run-ning, though they don’t look at their situation as a competition.
“We’re a unit, like a goalie family,” said freshman Carissa Flocken. “I’m going to try my hardest every single day but, honestly, I don’t care if I start. If it means that someone is play-ing better than me, then that’s better for the overall team.”
Junior Anastasia Netto agreed everything they do is for the team.
“We all love field hockey and we all love CMU and we’re trying to find ways to work off each other’s strengths and compete healthily to win a MAC championship,” she said.
Netto had the most experi-ence coming into the 2010 sea-son, clocking 25 minutes, 16 seconds in a relief appearance against Iowa in 2008.
“Anna is a real solid kid on her angles and she’s really good on the penalty corner, (and) I think you saw that Sunday against Louisville,” said CMU head coach Cristy Freese.
Prior to graduating from St. Joseph’s Convent High School, Netto played field hockey there five seasons. She joined Carib Magnolias, the top women’s field hockey club in Trinidad, and joined the Trinidad national team when she was 15 years old.
As a third-string keeper the past two seasons at CMU, Netto was able to learn from Curran and realized the impact that one player could have on the whole team.
“Mel was a very strong willed individual, I looked up to her a lot,” she said. “She had a nick-name of ‘Mad Dog’ and that fighting spirit that she brought into the game made her goal impenetrable.”
Flocken has started in both games this season, recording a .625 save percentage following games against No. 5 Michigan State and No. 13 Louisville.
“Carissa is a quicker goal-keeper on her feet, and can maybe make more of the dra-matic saves, and she has quick reaction time,” Freese said.
Prior to joining CMU, Flocken played at Dex-ter High School, where she earned three varsity letters in field hockey. She was named Dexter’s top defensive player in 2008 and 2009, and earned honorable mention All-State honors in 2008 after rack-ing up a 1.22 goals against average.
“It’s vastly different obvious-ly from high school,” Flocken said. “Everything’s tougher, the speed of the game is a lot harder, but the good thing is we have a big class so we’re all making that transition to-gether.”
The third candidate for the
job is freshman Jamie Cutter, who has yet to see any game time after suffering a leg injury during the offseason. Freese believes she’s back to 100 per-cent and will be competing for the starting job.
“Jamie’s a lot like Anna in the sense that she’s going to be that solid goalkeeper that will step up, be set and cut down on the angles,” Freese said.
At Pequea Valley High School, Cutter lettered three times and finished with a ca-reer .760 save percentage. She was named Pequea Valley Ath-lete of the week during her se-nior season.
Freese talked to the goal-keepers this week about stick-ing in the present, and not dwelling on the past because that brings down your game.
“There is a lot of pressure on that position,” Freese said. “It’s their goal against aver-age, even though it’s our team’s goals against average.”
With a month left of noncon-ference play, Freese expects to give each goalkeeper play-ing time and hopes to have a starter chosen before the first conference weekend, Oct. 1 against Kent State.
“Every game is a learning experience and every game we’re supposed to get better so hopefully an upward climb,” Flocken said.
Carissa Flocken and Anastasia Netto are two of the three CMU’s goalies for the women’s field hockey team.
Photos by Joe Tobianski/staff PhotograPherFreshman Carissa Flocken dives to save the shot during practice on Wednesday at CMU’s Field Hockey Complex.
A goalie familyFlocken, Netto, Cutter agree team comes first
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Central Michigan Life || friday, sept. 3, 2010 || 3B
By Matt HerrodStaff Reporter
The wait to start racing is finally over for the Central Michigan men’s and women’s cross country teams.
After running 100 miles a week over the summer, both teams will get a gauge of where they are at today in the 25th annual Jeff Drenth Memorial at Pleasant Hills Golf Course in Mount Pleasant.
Traditionally, the meet has marked the opening of the cross country team.
Jeff Drenth was a former All-American and two-time Mid-American Conference champion, helping lead the Chippewas to its first team MAC title in 1982.
Drenth ended his career with an individual MAC title in 1983 before passing away
25 years ago while training to compete for Team USA in the Olympics. Drenth’s spirit has lived on with the cross coun-try program to this day.
“It means a lot to our pro-gram,” said senior Melissa Darling, who will sit out the meet. “He was a part of the first really good guys teams. It’s a great thing to see college traditions last this long.”
In addition to CMU, ath-letes from Michigan State, Saginaw Valley State and Alma College will also compete.
Randolph said the meet will serve as a good opportunity to give the freshmen more experience, specifically fresh-man Krista Parks who will run unattached.
Junior Raeanne Lohner also spoke highly of Parks’ train-ing early on.
“Krista has been doing an outstanding job at practice,” Lohner said. “She is able to run with the upperclassmen and that’s what we need, someone who can mix things up.”
On the men’s side, the team is looking to improve upon last year’s third-place finish at MAC Championships.
Despite a slow start to training, junior Wade Buchs said he’s seen an improve-ment with performance and times.
“Coming off of camp we saw some ups and downs,” Buchs said. “We weren’t in as good of shape (as) I thought. We have a lot of work to do, but each workout we see guys coming together.”
Sophomore Tecumseh Ad-ams and freshman Kyle Stacks will run attached for the men. Senior Danielle Dakroub and junior Holly Anderson will highlight the women’s side.
Randolph said he just wants to make sure his athletes are competing, learning how to work together and executing throughout this first meet.
“It is about getting them rolling when it counts the most,” said Randolph.
It’s hard to argue a coach in college football who is under more pres-
sure this season to produce wins than Michigan’s Rich Rodriguez.
Even though the pro-gram is under a tremen-dous amount of pressure this season, he shouldn’t be fired at the end of the season.
For what kind of change he trying to make with the program is going to take some time. Going from a pro-style offense that Mich-igan fans are used to for many years to the spread requires certain athletes to execute it. It’s hard to argue in Rich Rod’s first season he had those athletes. In fact, he didn’t have any. He had to rely on Steven Threet, who is now starting at Arizona State and Nick Sheridan, neither of which could run the spread at all due to a lack of athleticism.
Then in 2009, Rodriguez was able to recruit the play-ers he wanted, specifically quarterbacks Tate Forcier and Denard Robinson. Let’s face it, Tate was asked to do a lot for a freshman quar-terback who enrolled early. Same thing could be said for all the other freshman that played a significant amount of time. Michigan had more underclassman then upperclassman mak-ing them one of the young-est teams in the Big Ten.
Tate was expected to win big games in front of 110,000 fans every week and go on the road to Iowa, Michigan State and Wiscon-sin and win too. I see three games last year that the Wolverines lost that could have turned into wins, giv-ing them an 8-4 record and a trip to a bowl game.
By the end of the year the team was relying on Vincent Smith to run the ball, a fourth string running back and wide receiver Roy Roundtree, another freshman, to catch the ball due to all the injuries at the wideout position.
Then I look at this year’s team. Tate and Denard have another year under their belt, along with the freshmen who played last year.
But the team is still young with 17 freshmen on the depth chart. Yes, the defense will be a weak spot, especially in the secondary because of lack of experience and players lost. The offensive line is probably the most experienced part of the team, lead by captain Stephen Schilling with 26 career starts. The team is still young and inexperienced by some standards, but to let Rich Rod go after this year
would be a mistake. Does this mean the pro-
gram has to start from scratch again? They are already in a rebuilding stage. What kind of coach out there would want to come rebuild the program again? Most coaches want their own players. Plus, I don’t see Les Miles or Jim Harbaugh coming to UM anytime soon.
It wouldn’t be fair to let Rodriguez go. He has proven himself in the past.
By his third at Glenville State and West Virginia, he led both schools to winning records. The years following, his teams continued to win games and reach the top of their conferences.
He needs to develop his first recruiting class before people become so quick to judge.
Notre Dame did it with Charlie Wies, so why can’t an-other highly-viewed program like Michigan do the same?
Jeff Drenth Memorial opportunity for freshmen to gain experienceKrista Parks will run first meet unattached
Don’t fault Rich Rod just yet
Matt HerrodStaff Reporter
4B || friday, sept. 3, 2010 || Central Michigan Life cm-life.com/category/sports[SportS]
By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan vol-leyball team looks to improve upon this season’s slow start when it competes in a three-team tournament this week-end at Youngstown State in Ohio.
Although hampered by a 0-3 start to the season, the Chippewas look to rebound at 4 p.m. today when they take on Niagara. CMU will also play a pair of games at 1:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday against Howard and host Youngstown State, respectively.
Head coach Erik Olson feels that his team is ready for the next step in what he calls the ‘process,’ and is hopeful that his team has improved enough this week to be ready for that step.
“The thing we always em-phasize to our team is the
process and I want to see our process be great,” said Olson. “I am confident that if that process goes well, the by-product will be winning.”
The first team on the tour-nament docket for the Chip-pewas is a 2-2 Niagra squad. The Purple Eagles come into the tournament with wins against Hartford and La Salle. Junior Sam Morgan was named Metro Atlantic Athlet-ic Conference player of the week after recording 63 digs last weekend at the LaSalle Invitational.
The other teams on the schedule, Howard and Youngstown State, are a com-bined 0-7, with YSU fresh off a loss against Mid-American Conference opponent Ak-ron.
Despite an easier schedule than last weekend, sopho-more middle blocker Jocelyn Vervelde said that the team is focused more on improv-ing their own skills instead of worrying about their op-ponents.
“We have been working on keeping the ball alive from
the defensive side and be-ing more aggressive on our blocks,” Vervelde said.
Vervelde will look to main-tain her strong performance from last weekend, in which she helped pace the team of-fensively with 18 kills.
Olson feels like this week’s practice has been very im-portant in correcting some areas of inconsistency.
“(In) practice we’re work-ing on continuing to get bet-ter and better on one- and two-man blocking and play-ing a defense around that,” Olson said.
CMU will also look to im-prove upon a defensive effort that has fluctuated at times, but Vervelde said the prac-tice time has corrected some of those issued and she is confident about the tourna-ment.
“We’re doing well — getting ready for the tournament this weekend,” Vervelde said. “And I am just looking for-ward to some good competi-tion this weekend.”
Weekend tourney in Ohio will give team chance to turn game around There is no “I” in team, so
don’t expect one athlete to carry their school to a
national championship in col-legiate soccer.
Rather, expect a team with depth, experience and a dominant defense to.
Four games into the 2010 women’s soccer season and Central Michigan has had 14 of its 18 players see playing time in games. Three others have played in three of the four and senior goalkeeper Shay Mannino and sopho-more Stefanie Turner have split time in each game.
Coming off a Mid-American Conference championship, head coach Tom Anagnost looks to kill two birds with one stone in 2010. While being favored to repeat, Anagnost appears to be focused on the now and later. The Chippewas are rotating multiple players in every game.
In the near future, the rotation of his players will be
beneficial to repeating as MAC champions. Injuries happen in sports and, as a result, quality minutes will give CMU the option to feel confident with any player substituted into a match.
The goalie rotation between Mannino and Turner may seem fuzzy to the occasional reader due to the fact that Mannino won the 2009 MAC Defensive Player of the Year award, but don’t underesti-mate the talent of Turner.
The 6-foot sophomore from Livonia has a strong upside. She’s been almost perfect, allowing one goal, which was
preventable. After Mannino graduates this season, the experience gained as a sopho-more will prepare Turner for the starting job in 2011.
As the saying goes, offense puts on a show, but defense wins championships. CMU has struggled offensively so far but has performed admirably on the defensive side of the field. The team has only al-lowed 26 shots and one goal, compared to its four goals on an astounding 81 shots. It took IPFW three quarters of the match to record a shot.
This defense has the po-tential to do great things this season and, with the rotation system continuing the cycle of experience will occur. The dominant defense will trans-late into an aggressive offense. If CMU can get their shots into the net, they can be a strong force not only in the MAC, but in the NCAA tournament.
andrew kuhn/staff PhotograPherSophomore linebacker Alex Smith trips up Hampton Steve Robinson during the second half Thursday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Rodriguez recorded two sacks in the game and forced a fumble which set up senior Bobby Seay for an intercep-tion on the very next play. Rodriguez finished the game
with three tackles and two sacks and a forced fumble.
Overall the defense played a complete, solid game and the Chippewas may have found a bright star in Cody Wilson.
Wilson finished the game with four catches for 47 yards and a touchdown.
His touchdown grab in the second quarter was his first
receiving touchdown since the Mid-American Confer-ence Championship Game last December against the Ohio Bobcats.
The Chippewas return to action next Thursday when they travel to Philadelphia, Penn., to play Temple.
