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By Catey TraylorSenior Reporter

In April, the Central Michi-gan University Board of Trust-ees approved a 1.96-percent tuition increase, a number that continues to be the low-est increase among public universities.

The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor just set its tuition increase at 2.8-percent, while

Michigan Technological Uni-versity had a 3.9-percent in-crease, and Michigan State University raised its rates by 3.5 percent.

In April, University Presi-dent George Ross said tuition increases remained low be-cause of sacrifices made by university faculty and staff members.

“Our tuition rates over the last three years have been very

modest. Our faculty and staff have made compromises like taking a year and a half, even two-year pay, freezes,” he said. “That is why we can be so modest (with this increase).”

During debates regard-ing tuition amongst Board of Trustees members at U of M-Ann Arbor as well as MSU, some board members argued against tuition increases.

According to The Detroit

News, regents Denise Ilitch, Laurence Deitch and An-drea Fischer Newman argued against the tuition increase at U of M, saying students were already paying too much.

“Tuition continues to sky-rocket,” Ilitch said before the vote. “The burden on our stu-dents continues to be brutal. ... This is unacceptable. The constant disinvestment in education in this state is in-

excusable and appalling. We must invest in education on all fronts.”

Trustee Diann Woodard, president of the Detroit Public Schools administrators and su-pervisors union, voted against the 3.5-percent tuition increase at MSU, telling The News: “I just, in my heart of hearts, can’t vote for another (tuition) increase.”

CMU’s 1.9% tuition increase lowest among Michigan public universities

By Aaron McMannEditor-in-Chief

Ending months of specula-tion, Central Michigan Uni-versity received word this week that it would receive an expected $30 million from the state for its proposed Biosciences Building.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, appearing at Wayne State University in Detroit Mon-day, signed into legislation a $304 million capital outlay bill that will fund 18 projects at places of higher education throughout the state.

Among them was CMU’s proposed $90 million Biosci-ences Building, a facility that would complement Brooks Hall and house lab rooms and teaching space for bio-technology and medical classes.

“We’re very pleased. Were pleased two years ago, and we’re pleased again,” said Kathy Wilbur, vice president for development and exter-nal relations. “It’s a very im-portant building … the next project on our list. It was im-portant to secure that fund-ing from the state.”

Approval of the $30 million was in limbo for the better part of the last year after for-mer Gov. Jennifer Granholm approved 23 college infra-structure projects in Decem-ber 2010, just before leaving office.

Last August, it was report-ed that Snyder requested preliminary designs for con-sideration, and it was un-known whether CMU would receive the public funds re-quested. $30 million is the most a school can receive from the state for a specific capital project.

In addition to the $30 mil-lion from the state, CMU will now have to come up with $60 million more, through its capital budget and fun-draising efforts. Wilbur said the university submitted a project cost of $89.5 million to the state.

Vice President for Facili-ties Management Steve Law-rence said in February that construction would begin on the building, planned for the space currently occupied by the Washington Court apart-ments, once state funding was secured.

“I’m a big believer that un-til the legislature determines what they are going to do and the governor has signed it, we can’t be doing it,” Wil-bur said.

Snyder OKs $30 millionfor CMUBiosciences

The bill, known as the Michigan Fireworks Safety Act and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder, took effect Jan. 1. It allows for the sale and use of all class C consumer-grade fireworks throughout the state.

Shari Hall of Newaygo is running the Jake’s Fireworks tent on Mission Street.

“I’m just glad they opened it here,” Hall said. “Everyone was just going out of state to buy them anyways.”

Jonah Ratu of Mount Pleasant, a junior at Mid-Michigan Community Col-

lege, was the first customer to Hall’s stand this season.

Ratu said he likes to set fireworks off around the Fourth of July with his friends at their bonfires. He said he always traveled to Indiana to get his fireworks before, but now he’s happy to buy them in Michigan.

“I’m just glad it’s legal now,” Ratu said. “I don’t think it’s dangerous, if you’re responsible enough to han-dle fireworks and you know what you’re doing.”

[ I N S I D E ]w UNIVERSITY: Despite miscommunication, legal clinic to return in fall, 3

w MOVIE REVIEW: “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” enjoyable to those with open mind, 6

w VOLLEYBALL: CMU signs volleyball coach Erik Olson to new 5-year contract, 4

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Denise Green

University must raise $60 million for new building, Wilbur says

2012-13 tuition increasesw CMU: 1.96 percent

w U-M Ann Arbor: 2.8 percent

w MSU: 3.5 percent

w U-M Flint: 3.6 percent

w U-M Dearborn: 3.7 percent

w SVSU: 3.9 percent

w MTU: 3.9 percent

w EMU: 3.95 percent

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Let there be lightFireworks

bring revenue, debate to

Mount PleasantBy Jeff Ketcham

Staff Reporter

Brittini HengesBaCH/staff photographer

Mount Pleasant resident Irene Thrush stands inside the All Seasons Firework stand Monday afternoon in the Menard’s parking lot 4615 Encore Blvd.

Denise Green to pioneer diversity at Toronto’s Ryerson University

A collection of white tents housing small armories of sparklers, 500-gram cakes and mortars have popped up all over Mount Pleasant.

They are here because Michigan has removed its ban on consumer-grade fireworks.

KaitLin tHorne/staff photographer

Shari Hall, left, and her husband Garth Hall ring up fireworks for Mount Pleasant resident Jennifer Pasanski and her daughter Abby, 12, at Jake’s Fireworks stand on Mission Street next to Panera Bread Tuesday afternoon. The Halls set up the stand on Sunday and will be here until July 4.

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By Mike NicholsManaging Editor

Denise O’Neil Green is about to embark on an op-portunity she said comes once in a lifetime.

Green, Central Michigan University’s assistant vice president for institutional diversity since 2007, will be leaving CMU at the end of July for a new position at Ryerson University in To-ronto.

In an email sent Friday morning, Provost Gary Shapiro announced Green

had resigned to accept the position of assistant vice p r e s i d e n t /vice provost of equity, di-versity and inclusion at the Canadian university.

“I am very grateful for Dr. Green’s leadership in cham-pioning cultural change in the areas of equity, diver-sity and inclusion at CMU,” Shapiro said. “We thank her for her tireless efforts and

wish her and her family well as they embark on this new professional endeavor.”

Shapiro said he knew Green had been thinking about this decision for a while. For now, an interim will be hired to fill the role. CMU will begin searching for a new candidate in the fall, he said.

Green said she had always wanted to promote diver-sity and live in a different country. This move will al-low her to do both.

She sees the new job as an opportunity for her to

pioneer a diversity office at a college in one of the most diverse cities in the world.

“It would be one of the first in the country,” Green said. “What is in my future is an opportunity to work with diversity from a very different point of view, from another country.”

Green would not reveal the pay increase amount she would receive at the new school but said it was “a significant increase” com-pared to what she received at CMU. In 2011, Green earned $128,981.

The move is not only profes-sional but personal to Green. In 2010, her son Matthew was the victim of a hit-and-run, drunk-driving accident, which left him a paraplegic. Matthew was sideswiped and dragged more than 1000 feet. Green said in 2010 “the next two years would determine if he ever walks again.”

Now, exactly two years after that tragic accident, her son will be starting over with her in a new country, new school and new life.

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Debate has begun over whether the act, which con-tains a clause barring local governments from relegat-ing fireworks on or 24 hours prior to and after a national holiday, supersedes local noise ordinances.

The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens reports War-ren City Council intends to vote Tuesday to place restric-tions on when and where fireworks may be used.

Warren City Mayor James Fouts told The Macomb Dai-ly, “We’re, in effect, challeng-ing the state law.”

Although Mount Pleasant’s noise ordinance policy does not specifically mention fireworks, it reads as such: “It shall be unlawful for any person to make, continue or cause to be made or contin-ued any excessive, unneces-sary or unusually loud noise or any noise which annoys, disturbs, injures or endan-gers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of others, within the limits of the city.”

Leo Mioduszewski, sher-iff of Isabella County, con-firmed that the Isabella County Sheriff’s department has not yet received any noise complaints due to fireworks since the law was signed in January.

Dennis Kreiner of Alma runs a fireworks tent on the corner of Mission and High Streets. He said people

should be respectful of their neighbors when it comes to fireworks.

“People lighting things off too late at night, bothering other people . . . It’s the same thing as honking your horn too late; it’s rude,” he said. “People need to be more aware of where they are.”

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Grandparents U brings together 71 children and 59 grandparentsBy Jeff KetchamStaff Reporter

Senior citizens and children joined Central Michigan Uni-versity students on campus last week as part of the the fifth an-nual Grandparents U event.

Grandparents and their grandchildren stayed in dorms and attended classes for a taste of the college life. Classes ranged from crime scene science, sur-viving the Hunger Games and cultures of the world.

Anne Sanders, assistant direc-tor of Alumni Relations at CMU, said there were 59 grandparents and 71 grandkids at the event this year.

Mark VanderMeulen came to Grandparents U with his grand-son, Mason Osborne. They have been coming to the event for the past four years, VanderMeulen said, because they enjoy the at-

mosphere, the classes and com-ing back to CMU.

“This is a great program for getting the kids here,” he said. “(Mason) knows his way around, as a 12-year-old, better than some adults.”

This was the first year that Joyce Coe was able to bring both her granddaughters, Maddie and Haley Fox. Coe said it was a wonderful experience spent with her granddaughters as they learn what college life is like.

“They’re learning the whole college life,” she said. “I think it’s an entry into what you’re going to be doing; staying in the dorms, eating their food, learning, going to class, trying to make it to class on time, learn-ing the map and how to find where you’re going.”

Fox said she was more excited to be in the college atmosphere than anything else.

“Everything about being in a college is fun,” she said. “I like staying in dorms and get-ting into a different place for a while.”

Sandra Zilinicik and her granddaughters Katie and Sarah Zilinicik have been coming to Grandparents U for years. They said it helps connect them with each other and the school.

“We’ve been having a really good time; every year we come has been something different,” Sandra Zilinicik said.

Katie said she feels more comfortable at CMU, thanks to Grandparents U.

“It seems like a school I would like to go to,” she said. “I think people should try this with their grandparents. It’s fun, and they would have a good time.”

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Brittini HengesBaCH/staff photographer

Mount Pleasant resident Irene Thrush shows off her fireworks Monday afternoon at the All Seasons Firework stand in the Menard’s parking lot.Michigan has removed its ban on consumer-grade fireworks. The bill, known as the Michigan Fireworks Safety Act and signed by Gov. Rick Snyder, took effect Jan. 1. It allows for the sale and use of all class C consumer-grade fireworks throughout the state.

CMU remains the fourth most expensive among public uni-versities in Michigan in terms of tuition rates, behind Michigan Technological University, Uni-versity of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Michigan State University.

The 1.96-percent increase translates to $365 per under-graduate credit hour. Out-of-state students will pay $789 per credit hour.

“We’ve looked forward beyond just the immediate year,” Vice President of Finances and Ad-ministrative Services David Bur-dette said during the Board of Trustees meeting in April. “These numbers reflect that.”

Last year, CMU also had the lowest increase among the 15 Michigan public universities, when tuition was increased for the 2011-12 academic year by 3.47 percent, or $12 per credit hour.

Tuition for the 2012-13 school year at Wayne State University is expected to be determined today.

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KaitLin tHorne/staff photographerClass instructors teach students to tie knots during the “Surviving the Hunger Games” class as part of CMU’s annual Grandparents U event Thursday afternoon in Park Library.

Ian Davison, biology pro-fessor and dean of the Col-lege of Science and Tech-nology, called the building, tabbed to be the most ex-pensive academic facility on campus, “desperately need-ed added space.”

“Brooks Hall is badly over-crowded,” Davison said. “It will significantly improve our educational opportuni-ties. We’re really happy.”

Snyder also approved $30 million for a new science lab, classroom and office build-ing at Grand Valley State Uni-versity and $30 million for a bioengineering facility at Michigan State University.

“These investments allow higher education in Michigan

to stay on the cutting edge,” Snyder said in a released statement. “Our colleges and universities play a critical role in Michigan’s future. I am pleased that we are able to support these worthwhile projects.”

Included in the bill was $8.9 million to Mid-Michigan Community College to unify its Mount Pleasant campus.

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By John IrwinStaff Reporter

The Supreme Court Mon-day struck down most of a controversial Arizona immi-gration law in a split deci-sion, while keeping its most hotly contested provision in place.

The Court unanimously upheld the 2010 law’s cen-terpiece requiring that state law enforcement officials determine the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest if there is reason-able suspicion to do so. Crit-ics worry the provision will inevitably lead to racial pro-filing, calling it the “show me your papers” provision.

However, a majority of justices ruled that the law’s three other provisions, which would have imposed penalties on illegal immi-grants for activities such as seeking work in Arizona, interfered with the federal government’s role in immi-gration.

“As a general rule, it is not a crime for a removable alien to be within the Unit-ed States,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the ma-jority.

The ruling is seen by many as a partial vic-tory for President Barack Obama and the Justice De-partment, which opposed the controversial law and sued the state. Obama re-leased a statement Monday praising the Court’s deci-sion while asking for more action from Congress on immigration.

“What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immi-gration reform,” Obama said in the statement. “A patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our bro-ken immigration system — it’s part of the problem.”

Obama, coming off the heels of his recent decision

to stop deportations of il-legal immigrants who came to America as children, also expressed reservations about the law’s upheld pro-vision.

“No American should ever live under a cloud of suspicion just because of what they look like,” Obama said, adding that steps must be taken to ensure Arizona law enforcement officials respect “the civil rights of Americans.”

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a crowd of Re-publican donors in Arizona Monday that he is disap-pointed in the ruling.

“I would have preferred to

see the Supreme Court give more latitude to the states, not less,” Romney said.

Romney also said Obama is to blame for a broken im-migration system.

“He had a Democrat House and a Democrat Sen-ate, but he didn’t (pass im-migration reform),” Rom-ney said. “Isn’t it time for the American people to ask him why?”

This is not the only con-troversial ruling expected from the Supreme Court this week. A decision on the constitutionality of Obama’s signature health care reform law is expected on Thursday.

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of what they look like.”President Barack Obama

“My son is looking forward to coming to Canada and go-ing to school there,” she said. “Drinking and driving is ter-rible and can impact families

in so many different ways. Even though he is a paraplegic now, he is my miracle son, my hero.”

Under Green’s leadership, the diversity department re-ceived more than $1.8 million in grant funding to support low income and first genera-tion college students, opened

the Center for Inclusion and Diversity and established an inner group dialogue compo-nent at CMU.

“I’m very proud of the rela-tionships I’ve established with close partnerships within the departments,” she said.

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By Catey TraylorSenior Reporter

By the end of this week, the Central Michigan Uni-versity Greek community will have left a mark on campus for years to come.

In between Warriner Hall and Grawn Hall, a 12-foot circle will be constructed in the ground, with the let-ters and founding date of approximately 30 fraterni-ties, sororities and multi-cultural organizations on campus.

The circle is expected to be completed by Friday.

Alpena senior and Al-pha Sigma Phi President Nick Stepaniak has been involved with the project since last fall. It all began, he said, as a class project for LDR 200 G: Introduc-tion to Leadership.

“We had to do a project that bettered the Greek community. My group de-cided that bettering the relationship between CMU and the CMU Greeks was something that was very important,” he said. “We wanted to be represented on campus, and this proj-ect worked out since the concrete was going to get redone anyways.”

Since CMU already had

construction plans, the overall cost of construc-tion was covered, but each organization that is repre-sented paid a $200 fee to cover the cost of the en-graving.

“There were 30 spots available in the circle,” Ste-paniak said. “We opened the idea to multicultural organizations as well, and we filled all but four or five spots.”

It is unknown whether future groups will have an opportunity to join the circle.

“I’m hoping that this is a starting point toward a better relationship be-tween Central and the CMU Greeks,” Stepaniak said. “If they’re able to add on, I’d like to see groups that come in the future to be added to the circle.”

Director of Student Life Tom Idema taught the LDR 200 G class, in which the idea was born, and said the

project is a great addition to campus.

“It’s nice that each Greek organization gets to have their letters on their cam-pus,” he said. “I think there’s a great appreciation for the Greeks (on campus) and (the circle) is a huge acknowledgement from the university for the fact that when we need to count on a group of students to get something done, there is a huge Greek population that we can count on.”

Stepaniak said this is the first step in forming a stronger bond between the Greek community and the CMU campus.

“This shows Greeks that the university supports us enough to put our letters on campus,” he said. “It’s a stepping stone of what the university and the CMU Greeks could do together in the university.”

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By samantha HegemanStaff Reporter

An ALDI Food Market is under construction at the corner of Bluegrass Road and Encore Drive.

The store will be open Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It is pro-jected to open in the fall.

The discount grocery store has more than 1,000 locations, 53 of which are in Michigan. The closest ALDI to Mount Pleasant is in Saginaw.

CM Life previously re-ported the Union Township approved the construction plans in September as part of the Union Commons shopping development. The store will be 17,800 square-feet with 73 parking spaces.

ALDI only accepts cash, debit and EBT cards. Cus-tomers may rent a shopping cart for a quarter, which will be returned. Customers must bring their own bags.

Calls to ALDI did not re-turn requests for comment.

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By samantha HegemanStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan Uni-versity Pro Bono Legal Clinic will reopen this fall.

Beginning next semester, the clinic will be housed in the Student Organization Center Conference Room in Bovee University Center for four hours, two days a week.

Student Government As-sociation President Justin Gawronski said the specific times for the clinic would be

finalized soon. A miscommunication be-

tween the SGA and former legal clinic director Christo-pher Armelagos led some to believe the clinic would be closed for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year. On the clinic’s website, a message would appear saying the clinic was no longer in operation.

“I think there was just some miscommunication, because we’ve been waiting to have our big media push until the year starts and stu-

dents are around to use it,” Gawronski said.

Last year, students would meet with lawyers in the Center for Profession and Personal Ethics. The clinic, formed by past SGA presi-dent Brittany Mouzourakis in 2011, allows students to receive free legal advice from licensed attorneys.

Mouzourakis modeled the legal clinic off of Eastern Michigan University’s clinic, which has been in operation for more than six years.

“There is no reason why the clinic should ever close as other universities of com-parable size have been able to effectively run their clin-ics for years,” Mouzourakis said. “The drive to provide vital legal services to stu-dents who are in need of help should serve as the driving forces for any ad-ministration to fight, tooth and nail, to keep it in exis-tence.”

Armelagos said moving the clinic was not a good choice.

“The action of remov-ing the clinic from the eth-ics center is breath-taking,” he said. “The new SGA ad-ministration has destroyed the legal relationships de-veloped over the past two years. The future success of the clinic has been greatly jeopardized.”

The attorneys for this year will be CMU faculty mem-bers Todd Levitt, William Shirley and Matthew Coffey and Mount Pleasant attor-ney Lesley Hoenig.

Students may contact sophomore Brittany Wilson, legal clinic director, to make an appointment, or they can walk into the SGA office in the lower level of the UC.

“I think it is great that we have free legal counseling available,” Gawronski said. “When students have issues such as with their lease, the legal clinic can outline their options and prevent them from being bullied.”

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By Cecilia erwinStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan University Journalism Hall of Fame has announced its newest inductees: Brad Flory, Kimberly Clarke, Roger Hart and James Vruggink.

All four are former CM Life staff members. Their induc-tion ceremony will be held on Nov. 10 at the Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel and Conference Center, 2424 S. Mission St.

Flory, a 1980 graduate, said he was shocked by the an-nouncement.

“I’ve never won anything or broken any boundaries, but I’m honored anyway,” he said.

Flory wrote for the Gaylord Herald Times, the Cadillac Evening News and spent 27 years at the Jackson Citizen Patriot.

In 2008, he started Brad’s Lunch Bunch, a charity sup-porting food pantries in Jack-son County. Flory said his charity has raised $333,000 since then.

Flory said he is proud of his role in the Jackson commu-nity, crediting his time at CM Life for preparing him for the work.

“I learned the importance

of making a deadline and staying on top of a beat,” Flo-ry said.

Hart also said his time at CM Life gave him the dedica-tion for a job done right.

“It was a great way to learn, make mistakes and learn from those mistakes,” he said.

Hart, a 1980 graduate, was a photographer for the Asso-ciated Press. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Adri-an Daily Telegram and is ex-ecutive editor of AutoWeek Magazine.

In 2006, he published the book, “Postcards From De-troit: Remembering Formula 1 in the Motor City.”

Vruggink, a 1970 graduate, was a sports writer for the Yp-silanti Press. He has worked as a sports information direc-tor for the University of Mich-igan, Northwestern Universi-ty and Purdue University.

Vruggink is currently the trademark licensing manager for Purdue University.

He helped found the

Northwestern Indiana chap-ter of the National Football Foundation, an organization that uses football to develop leadership in young people. He is also an executive board member of the Gale Sayers Center, which provides after-school programs for inner- city youth in Chicago.

Clarke, a 1982 graduate, wrote for the Cadillac Eve-ning News, the Leader in Corning, N.Y., the Muskegon Chronicle and the Ann Arbor News. She also worked for the University of Michigan in communications and philan-thropy.

In 1998, she started work-ing for Haas & Associates, a public relations firm. In 2001, she returned to the Univer-sity of Michigan, where she is currently the director of ex-ecutive communications.

“I’m looking forward to the dinner this fall,” she said. “It’ll be fun to see those guys.”

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Greeks plan circle for Warriner Mall, foster stronger CMU bond

SaMantha hegeMan/Staff PhotograPherConstruction workers labor on building an ALDI Food Market, which will be on the corner of Bluegrass Road and Encore Drive. The discount grocery store has more than 1,000 locations, 53 of which are in Michigan. It is projected to open in the fall.

“I learned the importance of making a deadline and staying

on top of a beat. ”Brad Flory, Journalism hall of fame inductee

M O U N T P L E A S A N T

“I’m hoping that this is a starting point toward a better relationship between Central

and the CMU greeks .”Nick Stepaniak, alpena senior

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By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter

A conference champion-ship, NCAA Tournament ap-pearance, five-straight ranked recruiting classes and more than 100 victories has earned Central Michigan volleyball coach Erik Olson a new con-tract.

The new five-year deal re-places his old four-year con-tract and will keep him coach-ing the Chippewas through the 2016 season with a base salary of $85,000.

Olson led CMU to the pro-

gram’s first Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2011. He also earned career win No. 100 during the sea-son, which ended with a loss in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to eventual run-ner-up University of Illinois.

The new contract comes off the heels of Olson and his staff’s fifth-straight ranked recruiting class. Olson be-lieves that this incoming class, ranked No. 1 in the MAC, is his best.

During his eight seasons as

head coach of the Chip-pewas, Olson has produced 14 All-MAC s e l e c t i o n s , nine Academ-ic All-MAC s e l e c t i o n s , three All-MAC Freshman se-lections, one MAC Player of the Year and earned MAC Coach of the Year honors once.

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“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” was the movie few ex-pected and even less expected to be good.

However, to audience mem-bers with an open mind, the film was not only entertaining but also visually stunning.

The movie follows Abraham Lincoln throughout his life, from the death of his mother to his own untimely assassi-nation.

Although, there is an odd twist: Lincoln’s mother was killed by a vampire when he was a boy, so he vows to kill that vampire and how-ever many others it takes to avenge his mother’s death.

Oh, and most of the slave owners are actually vampires who took advantage of the opportunity to buy and boss around their own food. So while he’s at it, he might as well end slavery.

Many history buffs are, understandably, turned off by the movie. Lincoln is, after all, one of the most well-known and most loved presidents in United States history. Who are these mov-iemakers to tarnish his posi-tive reputation with the same

scum featured in “Twilight?”Well, not surprisingly, one

of them is Tim Burton.The man has a love for the

supernatural; so, if you don’t, then don’t see his movies. It’s simple movie-going com-mon sense.

However, appreciation should be had for the screen-play writer and author of the novel, Seth Grahame-Smith. He effortlessly wove real-life events into a science-fiction rendition of a major histori-cal event.

For example, in real life, Lincoln’s son Willie died of an illness believed to be ty-phoid fever. In the movie, on the other hand, he was killed by a vampire as a threat to Abraham.

While many lovers of Grahame-Smith’s novel are disappointed by the dras-tic changes made on the big screen, the story is still incred-ibly entertaining. In addition, many parts of the novel would be dull in a film adaption. The two versions seem to simply be two different adaptations of a world in which Abraham Lincoln fought vampires.

While the storyline might be a disappointment for some, the special effects and acting are sure to impress audience

members across the spectrum.Director Timur Bekmam-

betov of “Wanted” fame has an eye for angles that few others would think to shoot from. Scenes effortlessly slide from one to another through subtle transitions. An axe whizzing through the air becomes a quill with which Lincoln writes “vampires.” A pocket watch sliding across a map on a desk becomes the real-life train chugging by in the dead of night.

In addition, Benjamin Walk-er, who plays Lincoln, commits to the role in a way that makes audience members truly be-lieve they are watching the 16th president of the United States.

While the movie isn’t for ev-eryone, those who go with an open mind and enjoyment of supernatural adaptations are sure to enjoy a new take on a classic story.

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Central Michigan Univer-sity spent $10,000 less on football recruiting costs in 2011 than it did in 2010, ac-cording to a recent ESPN.com report.

Last season, CMU’s foot-ball recruiting budget came in at $174,715, ranking it sixth in the Mid-American Conference.

That number is a five percent decrease from the $184,809 spent in 2010, ac-cording to the report. The university spent $497,926 in 2011 on recruiting across all of its 14 sports, slightly down from the $502,000 spent in 2010.

Derek van der Merwe, chief operating officer and deputy director of athletics, said the recruiting budget accounts for everything from travel for coaches and recruits to cell phone bills.

In 2011, $13,000 was spent

on lodging for Dan Enos and his coaching staff, while an-other $7,000 was spent on meals, van der Merwe said. About $24,000 was allocated for transportation by car.

Another $35,000 was spent on bringing recruits to Mount Pleasant, some of which was used for plane trips.

The university also spends about $10,000 for recruiting services per year, van der Merwe said.

“Most of those dollars are sunk into hotel, gas and other expenses with being physically out there trying to make contact,” he said.

Coaches spend most of the fall off campus recruiting players in high schools. Once November and December rolls around, the focus shifts to bringing recruits who have given coaches a verbal commitment to campus for a visit. These trips can be a bit costly, depending upon the number of students and

their geographical location. “A lot of recruiting is vari-

able based on the size of the class,” van der Merwe said. “It could be up and down depending on if football is bringing in 25 scholarship kids instead of 15 or 20. Also, the regional focus can have a big impact from year to year based upon where talent is pooling from or what posi-tions everyone is chasing.”

Van der Merwe said the amount for recruiting is bud-geted each year but includes flexibility to move money around as needed. Coach-es are also encouraged to spend less than the average per diem and often are reim-bursed less than the national rate for gas.

Miami led the MAC in foot-ball recruiting costs, spend-ing $242,792 in 2011. East-ern Michigan followed with $230,141, almost $100,000 more than it spent in 2010.

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By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter

All Central Michigan ath-letic programs passed the test, clearing the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate for the 2010-11 season.

All 16 teams scored above the 925 benchmark set by the NCAA, with women’s cross country (995), softball (991) and field hockey (984) leading the way for the athletics program.

Men’s basketball (940), foot-ball (941) and wrestling (943) came the closest to the mark. Football and wrestling both took a fall compared to 2009-10, while men’s basketball ac-tually went up from the 923 posted.

CMU ranks No. 9 in the Mid-American Conference in foot-ball and No. 8 in men’s basket-ball. The football team faced an immediate penalty following the 2008 season, resulting in a loss of scholarships for the foot-ball program, for their 922 APR rating for the 2006-07 school year.

Every team in the MAC passed the benchmark except for one: Toledo’s men’s basket-ball team, which is ineligible for postseason play next season af-ter posting an APR of 869.

The Rockets have been

marked with two historical penalties, which puts them on public notice and practice re-duction. They also face Level 1 and 2 penalties, which hands them in- and out-of-season re-strictions, including a postsea-son ban.

With the practice reduction, UT must use that time for “aca-demic activities.”

Including the Rockets, 15 teams are facing postseason bans for the 2012-13 season. Of those 15, 10 are men’s bas-ketball programs, including the 2011 national champions Uni-versity of Connecticut.

Eleven MAC schools posted perfect scores of 1000, includ-ing Kent State baseball, which is currently in the College World Series.

The APR rating is a term-by-term measure of eligibility and retention, originally designed to be an early indicator of graduation rates. The score is determined by every scholar-ship athlete earning a point for staying in school and another for being eligible. The points are then divided by the total points possible and then multiplied by 1000.

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w Baseball: 968w Men’s Basketball: 940w Women’s Basketball: 950w Men’s Cross Country: 969w Women’s Cross Country: 995w Field Hockey: 984w Football: 941w Gymnastics: 965w Soccer: 965w Softball: 991 w Men’s Indoor Track and Field: 967w Men’s Outdoor Track and Field: 976w Women’s Indoor Track and Field: 968w Women’s Outdoor Track and Field: 968w Volleyball: 966 w Wrestling: 943

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CHICAGO — As it turns out, the Big Ten wasn’t the only league to compromise on terms of the four-team playoff that the BCS presi-dential oversight commit-tee formally approved Tues-day night.

The SEC and Big 12 both wanted the semifinals to be played outside the bowl sys-tem, according to a source

from the BCS meetings.Bidding out all three

games — the semifinals and championship — would have maximized revenue but relegated bowl games, to use a basketball analogy, to NIT status.

The Big Ten wanted to protect the Rose Bowl, which likely will have a semifinal game every third year. The Pac-12 and ACC also didn’t want to adopt a system that felt so corpo-

rate and could be easier to lead to an eight-team play-off.

The source was optimis-tic that the committee of university leaders, includ-ing Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman, would ap-prove the four-team seeded model and perhaps the formation of a 15-member selection committee at its meeting that is expected to conclude Tuesday night in Washington.

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6 || Wednesday, June 27, 2012 || Central Michigan Life cm-life.com/category/news[VOiCes]The U.S. bi-party political

system is about as Ameri-can as apple pie.

The last president to be anything but a Democrat or a Republican was Millard Fillmore, a Whig whose time in office ended more than a decade before Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.

The current Senate is two percent independent, and the House enjoys zero per-cent deviation from the tra-ditional red and blue.

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after months of debate and discussion.

The world “polarization,” consistently slung around over the past few months, doesn’t begin to describe the problem.

Politicians will be poli-ticians. It’s obviously un-realistic for us to imagine there’s much to cure politi-cal debate.

But when we look at the way the bi-party system puts voters in a two-choice bind, we have to wonder if there’s not a better solution.

Imagine you’re a Catho-lic who favors government welfare; a vote for a Demo-crat might also implicitly endorse abortion.

Imagine you’re an eco-

nomic conservative favor-ing a reduction in defense spending; a vote for Re-publican leaves you tacitly funding the military.

Government is not a black and white (or rather, a blue and red) affair, so why does our system pretend it is? Our citizens are not all lib-eral or conservative to the core, but, in the coming No-vember election, the most hard-line Republican and the most mild fiscal conser-vative will probably both be voting for Mitt Romney.

Ours is a system with power to unify but with power to oversimplify as well.

Proportional representa-tion is an electoral system

that encourages voters to support party platforms. The more votes the plat-form receives, the more seats the party receives in their legislative body. In many countries supporting this method, there’s a mul-titude of political platforms for voters to choose from. Israel’s legislative body cur-rently seats a broad plural-ity of political parties, as does Italy’s.

The result for the voter is a broader array of choices; instead of voting left or right, you can vote for an important issue.

Of course, problems arise in this system. What hap-pens when a fringe party holds a tie-breaking vote?

In a system that encourages the legislature to appoint the government leader-ship, do voters lose execu-tive power? Isn’t American simplicity, with its system of primaries, sometimes the better option?

Good points all. A two-party system is usually more stable and reliable. But does that stability translate into deadlock?

I’m not ready to turn the system upside down. I point to Israel and Italy not as models to follow but as proof that our current way isn’t the only way. It’s up to us to change what we have for the better.

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