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CHARLOTTE BODAK/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMacomb junior Diana Sanchez walks with her friend, Lansing junior Kayla Walker, while holding a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day com-mUNITY Peace March Monday afternoon on the campus of Central Michigan University.

By Anamaria DickersonStaff Reporter

Central Michigan University and the Mount Pleasant com-munity came together for sever-al events on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

The day’s events started with the CommUNITY Peace Brunch which was followed by a march, ending with a candlelit vigil in downtown Mount Pleasant.

The brunch, hosted by the Multicultural Academic Student Services in the Bovee Univer-sity Center Rotunda, included keynote speaker and Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Com-merce President Lisa Hadden,

an oratorical contest and a per-formance by the Christ Central Choir.

The three finalists in the oratorical contest each gave a speech about how they would abolish poverty, a theme of King’s work.

Flint senior Donnesha Blake said she had a lot of desire to give a speech about King because of how he fought for equality.

“I heard about the oratorical contest from my McNair scholar director and I knew I wanted to do it based on the subject,” Blake said. “My ideas for the speech came from race and eth-nicity courses I’ve taken here at CMU and specifically equality,

and that’s what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for.”

The march, which began at Bovee University Center and ended downtown at Mount Pleasant Town Square, was also held by MASS.

Assistant Director of MASS Keisha Janney said she was slightly surprised by the turnout of people who came to show their support of King.

Community observes MLK Day

Krause adapted his ver-sion of the play from the novel “The Three Muske-teers” by Alexandre Dumas. He has choreographed all the fights for the produc-tion and is playing the role of D’Artagnan.

“I love stage combat and I love the story,” he said. “I’m really excited for this.”

The production has had to do with minimal props and costumes. Krause said the cast of 24 members had to find their own costumes and

props and that some of their costumes were borrowed from Midland High School.

“It’s kind of a minimalistic show — we have to do with what we have,” he said.

Krause said there has been a relatively short re-

hearsal period, but the cast has come a long way never-theless.

Although the play is a student production Keeley Stanley-Bohn, associate

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‘ A l l f o r o ne! O ne f o r al l ! ’ Student playwright’s production of

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By Catey TraylorSenior Reporter

Faculty members are shar-ing mixed emotions after the Central Michigan University Faculty Association ratified its new contract Thursday.

While most faculty mem-bers declined to comment Tuesday, the few that made statements were unhappy with the ultimate result of the contract and see a long road ahead before relations on campus will return to normal.

James Hill, a professor of political science, is among those who feel the relation-ship between the union and administration is severely damaged.

“The wounds are very deep,” Hill said. “This will take some positive outreach to the faculty by the administration to begin what I think will be a long healing process.”

Both sides bargained for more than seven months, dating back to the summer, before finally coming to an agreement last week. Under the ratified deal, pay for fac-ulty members remains frozen for this year before increasing 1.25 percent plus $830 for the 2012-13 academic year and 1.5 percent plus $835 in 2013-14. The FA had proposed increas-es of 2.2 percent in the spring semester, 3.7 percent next year and 3.9 percent in 2013-14.

Sociology Department Chairwoman Brigitte Bechtold

said the tension between the faculty and staff is one of many problems left to solve.

“I am disappointed by the outcome,” Bechtold said. “I don’t think this is a good con-tract. I think that faculty and administration relationships still have a lot of issues and the contract is only one of several.”

Katherine Rosier, a profes-sor of sociology, anthropol-ogy and social work, declined comment regarding the na-ture of the contract, but said she has faith in those in charge.

“I support my leadership. I don’t want to say anything contrary to what they are say-ing,” Rosier said. “With that, I trust members of the board and (FA President) Laura Frey to convey the overall feeling of the Faculty Association.”

As outlined in the docu-ment, faculty from the College of Medicine were excluded from decisions made in the contract.

“I think the medical school faculty exclusion is an issue that will come back to haunt the FA in the future,” Hill said. “I cite a colleague’s observa-tion in saying that if this is the best we can get when CMU is relatively flush, I wonder what future contracts will be like when finances are tighter.”

Bechtold said the faculty have to continue the fight if they want to see changes made in the future.

“I think the faculty mem-bers have to make clear to the administration that they will not settle for a bad contract in the future,” she said. “I know that there are plans to work for a better contract in future meetings.”

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New Lothrop junior Josh Schieffr plays as Jussac during rehearsal for “The Three Mus-keteers” Monday evening in the Moore Hall’s Townnsend Kiva.

Although the play he authored, choreographed and is acting in will premiere on Thursday, Chris Krause’s work is far from over.

Krause, a Sanford senior, said he spent about two years writing a script for “The Three Musketeers.” It will be performed starting at 7:30 p.m. Thurs-day through Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday in Moore Hall’s Townsend Kiva. There will be a talk back session with the audience after Sunday’s show to help feed Krause ideas for script revision.

“I really hope people come to the show and give me feedback, because I really want to improve the script,” Krause said.

Several cite bruised relationship with administration

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By David OlteanSenior Reporter

Two departments have en-dorsed the Academic Senate’s vote of no confidence against University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro.

The sociology, anthropol-ogy and social work department and the philosophy and religion department, both in the College of Humanities and Social & Be-havioral Sciences, voted to en-dorse the move this month.

The Academic Senate passed the initiative by a 52-percent

majority on Dec. 7, and faced an abrupt rejection from Board of Trustees Chairwoman Sarah Opperman.

Robert Noggle, chairman of the philosophy and religion de-partment, said no members of the department opposed the endorsement at the first meet-ing of the semester last Friday. Noggle said the department, has attempted to call upon the Central Michigan University Board of Trustees to answer to some of the issues in the Senate resolution.

“A vote of no confidence is a

pretty serious matter and if the board has confidence in the administration, that’s fine,” he said. “But the fact that the board paid no real attention to the concerns in the senate resolu-tion shows a lot about the char-

acter of the board.”The endorsement does not

stem from the bargaining and contract issues, but rather from how the administration has handled shared governance, the development of the College of Medicine and academic priori-tization, Noggle said.

“The problems raised in the senate motion are issues that really have nothing to do with the bargaining situation,” he said. “The reason behind this really has much more to do with shared governance.”

Brigitte Bechtold, chairwom-

an of the sociology, anthropol-ogy and social work depart-ment, said her department’s endorsement stems from a lack of joint governance throughout the university. Of the 45 depart-ment members present at the first meeting of the semester, Bechtold said the endorsement was unanimous.

“Central to all of these (en-dorsements) is the issue that the administration has disregarded and ignored the principle of joint governance that underlies everything we do at CMU and in fact underlies the accredita-

tion of many of our programs,” Bechtold said.

The responsibility lies with the board of trustees to ac-knowledge the different depart-ments’ concerns, she said.

“The board of trustees has basically reaffirmed support of the president and provost,” Bechtold said. “But the ques-tion now is, how many more de-partments now have to express these same sentiments before the board will realize that there is a serious problem?”

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professor of communication and dramatic arts, is serving as the director. Like Krause, she said she loves fight cho-reography and it was one of the drives to join the play’s production.

Stanley-Bohn said she has known Krause for a long time and another reason she took the position as di-rector is because she knows Krause’s dedication to his work and his projects.

She is also acting in the play, playing Milady de Win-ter.

“It’s the first time I’ve ever directed and acted in a play at the same time,” she said. “It’s exciting, but it’s chal-lenging and exhausting.”

She said this is the first time there has been a stu-dent production in the Kiva.

“As a student play, it’s un-usual for a faculty member to direct it because of the extensive work with reading and rewriting and putting it on its feet — but we should do more of it,” she said.

Utica junior Aaron Pick-ett, the stage manager, said it is valuable to students to work together with faculty to produce the play.

“It’s been very educational to see what the faculty has to offer,” he said. “This is the second or third produc-tion I’ve seen written by a CMU student, but never to this degree. It’s the first in Kiva, and the first in terms of cast size and complexity of show.”

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“I was surprised because I am always humbled by the number of people who show up,” Janney said. “But also (I’m not surprised) because by honoring him, students are showing they value him.”

Marchers carried paper signs with quotes and pictures of King as they made their way downtown where a vigil was held and an opportunity was given to talk about the impor-tance of King’s life work.

After the march and vigil, transportation was provided for those interested in hot chocolate and donuts back at the UC.

Janney said it was amazing to see people come out and support the legacy King left behind and she hopes people continue to do so in the future.

“The student body is so in-clusive and aware of issues go-ing on here,” Janney said. “I’ve even heard talk about gender-neutral housing, which speaks to social issues King stood for.”

There are two more events planned for the remainder of MLK Week.

Lani Guinier will give MLK Week’s keynote speech 7 p.m. today in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. Guinier became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School in 1998.

Guinier was Professor of Law at the University of Penn-sylvania Law School for 10 years before her Harvard ap-pointment. She has lectured at law schools and universi-ties including Yale, Stanford, New York University and the University of Chicago. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and in 2009, she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

She has written and spoken extensively on issues including voting rights and discrimina-tion.

The week’s last event will be a bowling fundraiser held in honor of King to benefit the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, 621 S. Adams. The fundraiser will be held from 6 to 8 p.m at URec in the Student Activity Center. $5 will pay for two games and shoe rental.

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By Justin HicksStaff Reporter

Central Michigan Uni-versity is in the top three of Michigan’s 13 public universities in unrestricted funds.

Central Michigan Life re-ported last September that the funds, deemed “unre-

stricted net assets,” grew by nearly $48 million from 2010 to 2011. The current balance in unrestricted funds stands at just more than $275 million.

The funds include those used for operational activi-ties that are not yet restrict-ed, funds designated by the governing board for spe-

cific purposes and funds committed to goods and services not yet received.

According to a recent report by the Detroit Free Press, CMU is behind the University of Michigan and Michigan State University in unrestricted assets.

The U-M holds $2.6 bil-lion in unrestricted as-

sets, more than the rest of the public universities combined. U-M’s funds increased by nearly 42 per-cent in 2011, leading among schools for growth as well.

CMU gained nearly 21 percent in unrestricted as-sets from 2010 to 2011, placing it sixth for growth in unrestricted funds.

By Justin HicksStaff Reporter

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will give his second State of the State address at 7 p.m. today at the state Capitol in Lansing.

Snyder did not narrow down the topic of his speech, but said it’s more “setting a tone for the entire year,” ac-cording to a story by the De-troit Free Press.

Some potential topics include increasing state police troopers to ensure public safety, improving customer service from gov-ernment workers toward taxpayers and improving laws in reference to cam-paigning ethics.

Public schools and uni-versities are also expected

to be discussed, but Snyder did not go into detail on the range of topics.

The Flint Journal reported the governor will also dis-cuss tax policy, including the Michigan Business Tax, which he and Rep. Paul Scott (R-Grand Blanc) have agreed needs to be repealed.

Snyder took office on Jan.

1, 2011, and gave his first State of the State address 18 days later when he discussed plans for the Detroit River International Crossing.

Students living in the resi-dents halls can tune into WCMU to watch Snyder’s speech tody, while WNEM will be carrying the program for off-campus residents.

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General education re-quirements that have been in place at Central Michigan University for years are un-dergoing drastic changes.

Rather than the current re-quirement of the completion of four competency courses including Freshman Compo-sition, Advanced Composi-tion, Oral English and Math-ematics, students enrolled at CMU beginning in 2014 will have to fulfill expanded com-petency requirements in the areas of Quantitative Rea-soning and Writing Intensive. Students will be required to earn three credit hours in Quantitative Reasoning and 12 credit hours in Writing Intensive — six from Univer-sity Programs and six from classes within their majors or minors.

Pre-existing courses in each major offered, as well as six current University Program courses, are being reworked to earn the des-ignation as either Quanti-tative Analysis or Writing Intensive. Courses in some

departments have already been approved.

Director of General Edu-cation George Ronan said completing the competen-cies will actually be more convenient for students with the new system.

“The Writing Intensive and Quantitative Reasoning courses can be completed at any time during a student’s career,” he said. “Courses will be mixed in with each student’s majors and minors so taking the classes will be beneficial and will have had to be taken anyways.”

The goals is for students to be able to complete the new requirements without adding any courses to their workloads, Ronan said.

“There has been an in-credible sensitivity to make sure we don’t increase stu-dent credit hours,” Ronan said. “That’s the last thing I want to see. Students don’t need to pick up any more work than they already have.”

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External funding provid-ed for research increased over the past year and set a record for Central Michigan University.

According to the Year-End Academic Review, “funding for research increased 44 percent in the 2010-11 fiscal year and topped $20.6 mil-lion, up from $14.3 million one year earlier.” Most of the funding received, about $19 million, went directly to projects sponsored by the academic colleges on cam-pus.

Director of Research and Sponsored Programs James Hageman said the reason funding has increased is largely because of new fac-ulty that have been hired.

“Hiring new faculty with a desire to research sets a tone,” Hageman said. “They bring a desire to learn and push for higher-costing grants.”

A total of 133 research proposals were submitted and reviewed in 2011, com-pared to 116 submitted in 2010.

“This has been a multi-year trend. In 2008, we be-gan increasing our requests and it’s just grown since then,” he said. “I attribute the major increase from last year to this year to a faculty desire to recognize the value of bringing in re-search.”

The biggest grant received went toward the Institute for Great Lakes Research. CMU hired five research-active faculty members to conduct projects and man-age the grant.

“The biggest project at the moment is all of the Great Lakes research going on. We received a multi-million dollar grant and all of the money comes direct-ly to CMU,” Hageman said.

He said he has been involved in cosplay for a little more than a year and he dresses up for conferences and occasionally for anime club meetings.

“Cons (conventions) are probably one of the most inter-esting experiences you’ll ever have,” Dille said. “You meet the nicest people interested in the same things you are.”

Dille said his favorite part about going to conventions is when someone recognizes the character he is playing and gets excited about it.

“The first time I went as Ex-calibur (and) I wouldn’t go five feet without someone stop-ping and asking to take a pic-ture with me,” he said.

Dille said his Excalibur cos-tume took about 20 hours, over a three-week period, to make. He said he constructed the head out of a bike helmet, cardboard and zip ties. Dille said the best part about mak-ing the costume is doing it with friends.

“Being a guy, I’ve been in Joanne Fabrics a lot more than probably is comfortable,” he said.

Like Palmateer, Dille also has family involved in cosplay. He said his sister goes to con-ventions now after seeing how

much fun he had doing it.“I would suggest everyone

go to at least one con if they’re interested in comic books or anime,” he said.

Dille said four years ago if someone had told him he would be going to conferenc-es and dressing up, he would have given them a funny look. Now he said he dresses up without shame.

“At first I didn’t want people showing pictures of it on my Facebook,” he said. “But after a while, I started thinking, ‘This is what I enjoy doing and if you have a problem with it, I prob-ably don’t want to talk to you anyway.’”

Palmateer said she attends at least one anime convention a year, and recently went to one called Magfest, which was held at the Gaylord National Con-vention Center in Maryland.

“I like it because it’s differ-ent — something out of the ordinary, but it has a wide fan base — it’s something anyone can enjoy,” she said. “Nothing can compare to being at a con-vention and being asked, ‘Can I take your picture?’ because your costume is just that in-credible.”

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By Sean BradleyStaff Reporter

Occupy Mount Pleasant’s most recent general assem-bly meeting brought out a small, but inspired turnout.

Only three people attend-ed the most recent meeting Sunday in the Charles V. Park Library’s Java City.

Traven Michaels, a Peto-skey freshman and one of the attendees, said the local movement helps spread the same messages and issues as Occupy Wall Street and other Occupy movements across the country. The local movement has been in soli-darity with the larger move-ments since being founded last fall.

“We can’t make as much of an impact as NYC, but we can get the word out,” he said. “That’s the main thing.”

He said since the group was founded, fliers have been posted about rallies and direct actions have oc-curred. Michaels said they

have held three or four rallies since forming.

A direct action is a non-violent action or protest to draw attention to a particu-lar movement, Michaels said.

The last one was held on Dec. 10 at Memorial Park, and he said the response was generally positive, but had some hecklers.

Michaels, along with the other meeting attendees, Illinois freshman Stephen Lokos and Marine City fresh-man Blake Cahill, all joined about three weeks into the local movement’s existence.

“Politics got me into the Occupy movement,” Lokos said. “How little control we actually have and how (the politicians) haven’t changed how they do things.”

Cahill said following the political money trail is inter-esting to him.

“As soon as you start learn-ing about the government, it all comes back to money,” he said.

Cahill said the small group,

usually about seven to 10 people every week, have a lot of agreement about the goals of Occupy Mount Pleasant, but differ on the approach as to how to execute them.

The group has a few plans in the works for the early spring. They plan to show the film “Inside Job,” about the 2008 financial crisis sometime in February, but other details are still forth-coming.

Michaels said the move-ment is not going away. This spring it will be back, he said.

As the 2012 presidential election nears, the group agreed they, and the rest of the Occupy movement, will have their work cut out for them to get attention. The lo-cal group agreed they try to make it out to larger events when possible.

“You’re not going to have a presidential candidate sup-port the Occupy movement” Lokos said.

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By Ben Harris | Senior Reporter

Dressing up in handmade costumes is not just reserved for Halloween for some members of the Central Anime Screening Society.

Cosplay, short for costume play, is the act of dressing up like a character and acting that character out. Virginia junior Abby Palmateer has been involved in cosplay since she was 17.

She said the best costumes are handmade. Recently she played Fluttershy, a character from the television show “My Little Pony” and said she liked playing the character because Fluttershy is mostly shy, like Palmateer.

She said her two brothers also like anime.“My mom doesn’t understand it and doesn’t

like it when we ask her to make our crazy costumes, but we still rope her in every time,” Palmateer said.

Shepard senior Luke Dille and his girlfriend, Nikki Ramirez, a Mount Pleasant junior, attend anime conventions together. Dille is the presi-dent of the Central Michigan University Cen-tral Anime Screening Society registered student organization. The RSO meets at 8 p.m. every Wednesday in Anspach 162.

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MIKE MULHOLLAND/PHOTO EDITORPetoskey freshman Traven Michaels talks with Marine City freshman Blake Cahill and Illinois freshman Stephen Lokos at the Occupy Mount Pleasant general assembly meeting in Java City inside the Charles V. Park Library Sunday evening.

Occupy Mount Pleasant persists despite low turnout Sunday

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Following the Thursday an-nouncement that a three-quar-ters vote of FA members was in favor of a contract agreement with Central Michigan University, FA President Laura Frey refused to give details of the voting to media outlets and, more impor-tantly, to FA members.

As tensions erupted between administrators and FA members

following a strike on the first day of fall classes, Frey rightfully spoke out against the university for its lack of transparency.

Too often information has been hidden from the public eye until an outside organization forces the university’s hand. The perfect example is in documents related to the College of Medicine, which weren’t released until Central

Michigan Life, the Academic Sen-ate and the FA all requested the information be made available through the Freedom of Informa-tion Act.

And as the old adage goes, one must practice what they preach. Refusing to release numbers and reveal potential division with the FA’s ranks to its own members makes the leadership lose its transparent righteousness, and instead the union looks just like another organization out to serve its own ends.

While the FA isn’t required to make the numbers public, decid-ing not to release them to union members could cause unneces-sary tension by not knowing how close or far from consensus they

ultimately came.Had the members been in-

formed of the count on Thurs-day, it’s unlikely there would have been much, if any, conflict. Granted, the information would have almost assuredly leaked to the media, but that’s just a reality of maintaining a large organiza-tion.

How much does the FA really benefit by keeping tight control of these figures?

After all, voters would have been none too pleased if the 2008 election was boiled down to a simple “Yep, Obama won!” from the polling places instead of an actual breakdown of where the nation’s choices were made and why.

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Dear Madams and Sirs:I am writing as a student to ex-

press my grave concern over Central Michigan University’s future. I am also writing to revisit the CMU Academic Senate’s no confidence vote against University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro. I also question whether CMED in its current form should be a part of that future.

The no confidence resolution against Ross and Shapiro was introduced be-fore the CMU A-Senate and was passed on Dec. 6, 2011. Bear in mind that: (1) the resolution remains in force; and (2) the vote shows that CMU faculty and students have no faith in Ross and Shapiro. Allowing them to continue at CMU undermines shared governance and will further erode morale within the CMU community. The no confi-dence vote also serves as a referendum on the CMU Board of Trustees.

I addressed you at your Dec. 8, 2011 meeting, reminding you of your fiduciary and legal responsibility to CMU. I urged you to deal with this no confidence vote with the seriousness it deserves. To my dismay, the board did not discuss this issue. Instead, Chairwoman Sarah Opperman swept the matter aside, expressing hope that CMU would experience “healing” after the difficult events of 2011. Such a view is a fundamental misapprehension of the situation. “Healing” at CMU will begin only when President Ross and Provost Shapiro are removed because of incompetence with regard to CMED and their inveterate disregard for shared governance.

I would like now to illustrate how the board of trustees has failed in its fidu-ciary responsibility to the CMU com-munity. This failure relates directly to the current CMED initiative. According to Dean Ernest Yoder’s own PowerPoint presentation before the A-Senate on Dec. 6, 2011, the CMED initiative entails many more fiscal uncertainties than cer-tainties. According to Yoder, the overall cost of CMED’s East Campus at Saginaw is a complete unknown. That the pro-jected cost of the CMED East Campus is a complete unknown is but one example of the financial uncertainty that sur-rounds CMED. As CMU trustees who have a fiduciary duty to oversee CMU’s financial affairs, how is this acceptable? In my view, this is not acceptable.

The CMED initiative should be termi-nated because funding it means divert-ing resources from proven departments and programs, many of which have at-tained national prominence. Continuing with this ill-conceived plan jeopardizes the ideal of excellence at CMU. Because of their continued support of CMED, Ross and Shapiro should be removed. Do you really want the failure of CMU, and the failure that Ross and Shapiro are enabling, to be part of your legacy? I would hope not. Please recognize that now is the time for a course correction at CMU. Please do the right thing.

Yours in good faith,Christopher J. BenisonCentral Michigan University

class of 2013

As the provider of transporta-tion services to Central Michigan University, the off-campus apart-ment complexes, as well as the greater Mount Pleasant area and the Isabella County Transporta-tion Commission, I-Ride shuttle services provide more than a quarter of a million rides annually to and from the CMU campus. In addition, these same services con-nect campus to most of Mount Pleasant.

Central Michigan Life’s recent editorial touting the idea that parking permits issued should never exceed the number of avail-able parking spaces on campus is simply wasteful for the reasons given by CMU’s parking services spokesperson. Busing services are the primary methodology used by universities across the country to make the best use of available parking resources.

Additionally, the question of where would a parking struc-ture be built on campus arises. That depends on who you ask and will get you a half dozen or more responses. Cost estimates for building “up,” as opposed to surface parking lots, are close to eight times more expensive, with

many recent estimates as high as $30,000 per parking space. Then there is the need for staffing and policing of an enclosed, tight area like a parking structure to prevent theft, and for personal safety is-sues, add another $150/month/parking space.

If students are complaining now about parking passes, what will be the complaint when more expensive permits for covered parking are not available to all who want them, or when they do arrive to find the ramp is full?

The permanent solution to CMU’s parking problem is already in place! Movement around campus, and from the peripheral parking lots as well as along Main and Washington streets as far as downtown Mount Pleasant is currently available every half hour from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m., Monday through Friday and can be used without charge from many of these locations.

Has there been no recogni-tion, especially here in Michigan, of how we have come to the economy of our state through the singular approach to mobil-ity, where we all feel the need to drive ourselves and the need for a

parking space for every car on the road? What about the future for graduates of CMU? When they find employment, likely in any urban area, are they properly prepared with an attitude that they are going to drive their personal vehicle into the urban center and then com-plain that there is not a parking space for every person working in Manhattan, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas or Phoenix?

Parking ramps may have a place in the long-term future of CMU, but to offer them as an inexpen-sive and simple answer to parking issues at CMU is just wrong. Current shuttle services could be expanded to meet even greater needs on, and off campus, but to suggest that bus transportation is not an immediate answer, and that somehow spending huge sums of money to build a parking structure is, places CM Life edito-rial staff in exactly the position they accuse the administration of being in, wasteful!

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Parking structure not the answer

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RIAL: Cavataio must choose between Student Government President and Facilities Management PR”

gimp1616, SundayA fair number of students who

work for CM Life are involved with, and even work for, the university. Would that cause a conflict of inter-est, using the same argument? This could be a slippery slope here. Michmediaperson, Monday

Big difference gimp.CM LIFE has a process that they

interview and hire their top staff members and all staff members.

What exactly was the process used by the Facilities Management to first get permission to develop this position. Second, when did they post the position. Third, who all got to interview. Fourth, what was the process to hire the top candidate?? All these questions.

Why doesn’t the Facilties Manage-ment people tell us what the process was? Was it the old buddy system?

One other comment: I’m sure CM LIFE is getting enough paid advertis-ing to pay its employees.

Gimp, big difference!

Future chip?, TuesdayDoes CM life have anything to

write about? This is honestly getting ridiculous. Is the next article going to be about how the SGA president should resign because he has black hair and that is a conflict of inter-est? You guys have a great leader in front of you who is trying to help, yet you still question his every move. You should all be embarrassed and ashamed, if this is how you treat your leaders, I’m not so sure I would ever end want to become a future chip.

It’s safe to say everyone with a smart-phone has experienced the hilarity or embarrassment of a text gone wrong, with the assistance from the ever-so-helpful auto-correct function.

As soon as you realize the text read “arouse” instead of “around,” it gets instantly awkward.

According to dictionary.com, auto-correct is defined as an automatic fea-ture in software that corrects common spelling and capitalization errors, and can replace certain designated char-acters with special symbols. I disagree with that definition.

Unfortunately, auto-correct isn’t always “correct” for smartphone users. In fact, the function is to blame for much miscommunication. Although it can be humorous when it turns “songs” into “dongs,” sometimes it is more of a pain than anything. It’s not so humorous when you are a victim of offending your boss.

I don’t understand it. I feel like there’s a little man inside my phone trying to ruin my life.

Even before my fingers are done typing, auto-correct tries to escape into the human brain and figure out what is being said — or maybe it’s just some algorithms and scientific stuff. Either way, it’s usually pretty perverted and often hilarious — depending on the recipient.

The Android auto-correct function allows users to pick from a list of words when texting, although the first option that it defaults to, unless otherwise selected, isn’t always correct. The iPhone, however, tends to have a mind of its own by changing words without the consent of the user. If unnoticed, a conversation can transform into an explicit confrontation rather than a simple texting conversation.

I feel the technological mastermind behind this function and Steve Jobs tagged-team to make our lives less boring.

The purpose of auto-correct is to make our lives easier, apparently. It really does make perfect sense, but it doesn’t work so well when my phone starts swearing at my mom when all I’m trying to do is ask her if she wants food.

Auto-correct incidents have become so popular that a website, damnyou-autocorrect.com has a Facebook page with 277,834 likes. People have the ability to submit their auto-correct mishaps to share with the world. It is sure to cause a few laughs.

The auto-correct function is now even available on the iPad. I can’t help but cringe at the idea that our comput-ers will start spelling or even speaking for us.

Our generation embraces social media and texting as a fast, easy and non-confrontational way of communi-cation. Our way of communication with others is so easy and impersonal; our technology is starting to speak for us.

The next time texting turns against you, think about it.

At least you can turn it off, which I would suggest.

“We then give subcontracts to other universities that show interest in the same type of research. It brings all the schools together and expands the research field.”

Students are optimistic about the increase in re-search funding.

“It’s absolutely phenom-enal that the faculty mem-bers are pushing for more re-search because that prepares the students for their futures and their future careers,” said Northville sophomore Neethu Jacob. “It encourages us to participate in things that we’ll have to do in the future.”

Oak Park junior Danielle Cook said students will ulti-mately benefit from the re-search being conducted on campus.

“I think it’ll be great for the school in general because the experts in their field will get to conduct better re-search and it will transfer to the students. Hopefully this will mean classes become more engaging,” Cook said. “I just hope that the funding is spread around to all depart-ments at CMU so all students have the chance to benefit from it.”

Working with faculty

members will give students an opportunity to network and practice in their field of choice, Jacob said.

“This gives us a head start as compared to other under-

graduate students who don’t have the opportunity to re-search with a faculty mem-ber,” he said. “We get to know the faculty and that helps develop great networking

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JAKE MAY/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSaline junior Courtney O’Hara smiles as she talks on the phone in one of the rooms in her apartment Monday night. O’Hara signed a modeling contract with I Group, a model and talent agency, in December. “I’ve been an extra in a lot of movies and have wanted to model ever since,” she said.

By Jessica FecteauSenior Reporter

Some Central Michigan Uni-versity students make hard de-cisions about their education in order to advance in the model-ing world.

Howell sophomore Krissy Salenik said she is transferring to a college closer to home so she can become a signed model.

“I always get emails with people saying, ‘When will you be home next?’” she said. “And with working at La Señorita’s, it’s hard to know when I’m go-ing to have the time off.”

Salenik said modeling is an easy way for her to make money.

“I am paying for my own

school, so everything I can do to make money is a plus,” she said.

Once she finds the time to go home, she said modeling is the only thing she has time to do.

“It takes away from seeing my family, so it’s really stressful that I don’t get to go home enough for it,” she said. “Basically I only get to go home on the breaks and not even once a month.”

Photographer Drew Jablway of Laurel Moon Studios, Ster-ling Heights, said the stereo-type about models has changed drastically over the years.

“Many models now have col-lege educations and prepare for the future,” he said. “They’re not just sitting there looking pretty, they are learning the business.”

Having an education is im-portant for Saline sophomore Courtney O’Hara, who acts as an extra on different movie and television show sets.

O’Hara’s most recent work was as an extra in “The Five-Year Engagement” starring Ja-son Segel and Emily Blunt.

“At first it was kind of shock-ing because you’re around all these famous people and you can’t really talk to them or do anything about it,” she said. “You’re kind of all excited to yourself.”

Under the direction of David Schwimmer, O’Hara also played as an extra in “Scream 4.”

Although all of O’Hara’s work is done in Michigan, booking

is still an issue because of con-flicts with her school schedule.

“(Agencies) kind of under-stand you’re in school so you’ll get less jobs,” she said. “So it’s how much you want to work versus how much you want to do school.”

She said that makes it hit or miss for jobs she is assigned to because school is her first priority.

“School, I feel like is some-thing I have to do and modeling is something I want to do,” the Saline native said. “But I know in the long run school is some-thing I can fall back on if mod-eling doesn’t work out.”

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Brittany Snively, a transfer student from South Lyon, wel-comed the change.

“I can definitely see how (it) would be a lot more con-venient,” Snively said. “Most people that take the classes offered as University Pro-grams take them just for that and have no interest in them. If there was an option to take classes people were interested in, I’m sure they would do bet-ter.”

Negaunee freshman Emma Collins disagrees with the changes and said the system is better off the way it is now.

“The way we have things now helps give us a more well-rounded education,” Col-lins said. “Sure, it’d be nice to have fewer competencies, but I believe we get more out of it because we get to pick from a wider array of classes, and if you plan it correctly, a lot of the classes count for your ma-jor anyway.”

Snively spoke from personal

experience and said fulfilling University Program require-ments sometimes throws off the schedules of students.

“Since I’m taking classes that have labs, I couldn’t fit any Spanish classes in. Span-ish is my minor, but since I’m finishing all my University Program requirements, I’m missing some more impor-tant classes,” she said. “It’d be way more convenient to take classes that relate to both my major and my other require-ments.”

Competencies aren’t the only thing undergoing chang-es. Ronan said future students can expect to see University Program requirement chang-es as well.

“We’re in the process of sub-mitting and reviewing propos-als,” he said. “There will be a re-vamp of all General Educa-tion requirements by the time we’re done.”

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It has taken a team effort for the Central Michigan women’s basketball team to get back on track after a 2-5 start.

But it is no coincidence that the Chippewas are 9-2 since sophomore forward Jordan LaDuke became eligible after sitting out the first semester because of NCAA transfer rules.

“Jordan is a pretty smart bas-ketball player,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “She can shoot the three ball, she is pretty ath-letic, and when you add her size and her ability to go inside and out, it creates another weapon for us.”

In the Chippewas win this past weekend over Ball State, LaDuke was 2-for-2 from the 3-point line, scoring eight points. CMU won 84-66 and is now 3-1 in the Mid-American Conference, tied for first place in the West division with East-ern Michigan.

As an incoming freshman, the Flushing native was a No.

6-ranked recruit in the state of Michigan and was recruited by CMU, but Laduke chose to head south for Fort Myers, Fla. She played for the Florida Gulf Coast University of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Last season the Eagles saw success making an appearance in the WNIT with a 24-8 record overall. But LaDuke was not with the team.

“I wasn’t happy with the coaches and their style of play,” LaDuke said. “I wanted to come back home.”

So she decided to head home and play for another WNIT-qualifying team, the Chippewas.

“I liked the coaching style here and I played with a few teammates on an AAU team,” LaDuke said.

Those teammates were sophomores, forward Lauren Bellamy and Kylie Welch, who played on the Michigan Pis-tons. That travel team went to the state championships in 2008, 2009 and AAU nationals Final Four in ‘09.

Because of her experience with a few current teammates and the style of the team, LaDuke and the rest of the team have bonded well to-gether.

LaDuke has started nine of the 11 games she has been on the team. In four games she scored double-digits. Against Longwood and the College of Charleston she put up 17 points in both games and hit a combined eight 3-pointers

LaDuke will try to continue her success, and the team’s success, against Eastern Mich-igan 7 p.m., Thursday in Ypsi-lanti.

She has contributed 83 points, 42 rebounds, 13 three-pointers, 12 assists, nine steals and a block this season.

“I’ve challenged her because I’d like her to be a little more aggressive on rebounds,” Gue-vara said. “She’s got good size for us and she needs to snatch the ball.”

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By Adam NiemiStaff Reporter

Willie Randolph stood on the track beside Matt Kaczor and the two shouted, waved their arms and encouraged runners passing by.

“Get there, get by them,” the director of track and field, Randolph, yelled along with his assistant coach, Kaczor.

That was Friday, when the Central Michigan men’s and women’s track and field teams both finished in first place over Detroit Mercy, Oakland University, Macomb Community College and Aquinas College.

Randolph and Kaczor know it’s another season to aim for a Mid-American Conference championship. They know that the seniors have one fi-nal chance at a title.

For Holly Anderson, it’s her last chance.

Anderson, a senior long-distance runner, said she wants a MAC championship before she leaves CMU in May.

Also a cross-country run-ner, Anderson and the cross-country team came in second place at the MAC champion-ships in the fall for the sec-ond-straight year.

The women’s track and field team finished in fourth during the MAC championships in

May 2010. The last MAC title in either indoor or outdoor was 2004.

The last chance for An-derson, the cross-country runners and the rest of the track and field team has arrived. Anderson is one of four seniors from the cross-country team running track and field.

“I’m really excited,” Ander-son said. “It was a really great winter of training.”

She finished first in the one-mile run Friday with at time of 5:04.86. Senior run-ner Veronica Garcia finished in third place with a time of 5:17.88.

Anderson said running long-distance track and field is a lot different from cross-country.

“There’s not the time (in track and field) like you have in a cross-country race,” she said.

She said the strategy dif-fers between cross-country and distance track because of the shorter amount of time. A mile run in track and field, she said, feels more like a sprint.

Kaczor said the team is progressing, but still saw things he said were “far from

perfect.” He also expected to see some rust in the first meet of the season.

“They ran really well, but it’s the beginning of January, so you have to take it with a grain of salt,” Kaczor said.

Despite the imperfections he and Randolph observed, there’s an overriding reason they cheer on the runners with so much energy.

“These kids pour their heart and soul into the track,” Kaczor said. “How can you not support them when they put so much work into what they do?”

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By Aaron McMannUniversity Editor

An opportunity was missed, and head coach Ernie Zeigler realizes it.

Entering Saturday’s game against 1-13 Northern Illinois, the Central Michigan men’s basketball team had a chance of starting Mid-American C o n f e r e n c e play 3-0 for the first time since 1992. The Huskies only win was against NAIA Roosevelt, a team that con-sidered the game a scrimmage on its schedule. But an uncharac-teristically strong shooting performance, coupled with travel issues before the game, shocked the Chippewas.

Now, CMU is 2-1 in the league and part of a logjam atop the MAC West.

“We’re just really focus-ing on a missed opportunity to be sitting at the top of the heap right now,” Zeigler said following the Chippewas 74-66 loss in DeKalb, Ill. “There’s a lot of basketball left to be played, now we got to go and take care of home.”

CMU welcomes Ball State to McGuirk Arena at 7 p.m. today in what could turn out to be a pivotal point in the season.

Last season, while still in the hunt for a MAC West title, the Chippewas blew a 23-point second-half lead and lost to the Cardinals. The team went on to lose in the first round of the MAC tournament, ending a season they would rather forget.

Heading into tonight’s game, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan and Ball State sit tied with CMU atop

the MAC West at 2-1. The Chippewas play BSU and WMU (in Kalamazoo) over their next two games, and Zeigler said winning at home is going to be key.

“The team that can get the most road wins is probably going to win our side, and get a chance to get one of those seeded births in the tourna-ment,” Zeigler said. “It’s still locked up early.”

The Cardinals boast the best scoring defense in the league, allowing an average of 58 points per game and a conference-best 37 percent defensive field goal percent-

age. Senior forward Jarrod Jones leads the team with 17.8 points per game, second in the MAC.

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Sophomore forward Jordan LaDuke steals the ball during the second half of Saturday’s game against Ball State at McGuirk Arena in Mount Pleasant. LaDuke finished the game with eight points, one assist and two rebounds during the 84-66 win over the Cardinals.

Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012|

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Ben HarrisSenior Reporter

Andrew DooleyStudent Life Editor

w Seeking new relationships in the new year, 4B

w “The Devil Inside” frightless disaster, 2B

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w Fashion trends toward recycling, 3B

3B — Students shop thrift stores to save money

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Your unwillingness to al-low leggings into the noble pantheon of lower-body attire spits in the very face of history.

Some radical members of the working class who rose up during the French Revolution were defined by their unfashionable pants. These sans-culottes, or those “without silk knee-britches,” were identified by their lack of fashionable, large, silk diaper-looking britches.

Their mocked lack of cu-lottes today resemble what many consider fairly nor-mal pants. It’s a bad idea to end up on the wrong side of history; students in leggings could be on the very tip of economic and fashion revolution.

Even in the last 100 years, pants have existed in endless variations. Can painted-on hipster skinny jeans, bell-bottoms and the quickly forgotten foot-wide denim JNCOs really be considered the same article of clothing?

How can you even at-tempt to define “pants?” As it stands now, men feel very little shame wearing loose-ly-elasticated sweatpants to class, work and even some funerals (in-laws, great-aunts and uncles only, but still.)

The jegging blurs the line even further. Jeggings look a lot closer to blue jeans than my incredibly poorly fitting dress slacks do. I recommend some deep and meaningful soul-searching, which should prove much more comfortable than star-ing into the abyss created by lycra clinging to nether-regions of the poor soul walking ahead of you on the staircase in the library.

Take a deep breath ama-teur fashionistas, this tight-clung heresy too shall pass.

The moose knuckles, camel toes and parrot beaks that so disturb your fragile sensibilities will soon go the way of other forgotten trends like the early 2000s thong whale tail or lasting, stable heterosexual mar-riage.

In closing, it’s important to point out an incredible hypocrisy at work here. Often the harshest leggings critics are the very same people who wear yoga pants to class a solid three days a week. To guys, yoga pants are just a significantly less brave, if equally awesome, version of the legging.

Now let me slip back into some shapeless, terrycloth sweatpants. This “Freaky Eaters” marathon isn’t going to watch itself.

Pants are in

the eyes of the

bewearerI can’t speak for anyone else, but all I know is this: no

daughter of mine will ever leave my house wearing leg-gings.

If she so much as tries to slip out of the house wear-ing those stretchy symbols of sin, she’s getting sent to a convent faster than she can say “floozy.”

Leggings aren’t pants. They’re an abomination, a slap in the face to the decency this country was founded on. If leggings weren’t good enough for Thomas Jefferson, then they aren’t good enough for anyone. Not then, not now, not ever.

It makes me sick to think the age of common de-cency is coming to an end. If women are allowed to wear leggings all willy-nilly, what’s to stop them from wearing whatever they want? Where’s the regula-tion?

Chivalry is dead. Leggings killed it. They snapped back and knocked chivalry on its face like a domino. And when one domino falls, so do all the others. With chivalry dead and gone, next comes family values and respect for the law. Be-fore we know it, people will be shooting heroin in the street and marrying their horses. Rick Perry is going to have a heart attack.

Those things accentuate curves on a woman only her husband should see. By traipsing around in public like that, she’s giving the whole world a gift that isn’t hers to give. She’s defiling the sanctity of her marriage. Of all marriage, in fact. Leggings may be the great-est threat to marriage this country has ever seen.

I know if I were a married man and my wife thought it fit to showcase her goods, I would be flaming hot with the wrong kind of passion. Nothing boils my blood like a woman trying to capi-talize on this new “sexual freedom” fad.

A constitutional amend-ment to protect marriage from the dangers of leg-gings might not be such a bad idea. In fact, proposing an amendment of that kind would be the best thing Congress has done since the House impeached Clinton for lying about taking the leggings off of that Lewin-sky girl.

Pants are whatever

I say they are

It was the greatest debate until the dispute over whether Kim Kardashian’s wedding was staged: Do leggings qualify as pants?

Clinging to ladies’ (and some mens’) hips, thighs and other unmentionables in the past

Tight-fitting leggings are the lower-body choice of many CMU students, but are they pants?

“Nobody wants to look at cottage cheese

wrapped up in some leggings.”Michael Gnass, sophomore

By Jessica Fecteau | Senior Reporter

few years, leggings have caused some people to double-take and question their use.

Although few Central Michigan University students complained about the trend, most agree there are special circumstances.

“I hate when bony girls wear them,” said Ferndale junior Kyle Funk. “The girl has to have some curves.”

Byron Center sophomore Michael Gnass agreed if a girl is going to make leggings pants, she has to be of a cer-tain proportion.

“Girls should only wear leggings if they look good in them,” he said. “No-body wants to look at cottage cheese wrapped up in some leggings.”

Even 398,619 Facebook users united in the fight against the use of leggings as pants by liking the “Leggings are NOT Pants” fan page.

But senior Laura Stoeckle said no one is forced to de-cipher.

“If you don’t want to see it, then don’t look,” the Bay Port native said. “If guys can walk around with their pants down to their knees with their butts hanging out, then I can be fully covered and just a little … tighter.”

Sporting leggings as pants isn’t as much scandalous as it is immodest, Department of Human Environmen-tal Studies faculty member Wendy Honey said.

“It was about three years ago I was in the airport with my mother and she couldn’t believe that a girl was only wearing tights and not pants,” she said. “It’s like you go ‘Wait a minute, that person doesn’t have pants on.’”

Honey said seeing leggings worn as pants is so common

now that she’s just used to it.Compared to the 60s, peo-

ple are not that exposed, she said.

“People in the late 60s wore really short miniskirts with just tights or hose,” Honey said. “If you wore your stuff long, you were out of fashion.”

To avoid looking “trashy,” Wyandotte senior Alex Mi-chael said ladies should keep their goods covered.

“I think leggings look okay if a girl wears a long shirt or sweater,” she said. “If they wear a short shirt, it just looks bad.”

Honey takes neither side of the debate, but offers ad-vice for those partial to the tight tights.

“If you’re going to wear them, just be careful,” she said.

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There is no single, con-sistent definition of

“pants.”Those would who like to

persecute the young wom-en (and men!) who cover their legs and groin in a thin layer of legging stand in the face of centuries of pantaloon evolution.

I ask you, leggings naysayers, what should we make of the parachute pant? What of the bell-bot-tom or jort? How would you even begin to classify the rare Zubaz?

Your unwillingness to al-low leggings into the noble pantheon of lower-body attire spits in the very face of history.

Some radical members of the working class who rose up during the French Revolution were defined by their unfashionable pants. These sans-culottes, or those “without silk knee-britches,” were identified by their lack of fashionable, large, silk diaper-looking britches.

Their mocked lack of cu-lottes today resemble what many consider fairly nor-mal pants. It’s a bad idea to end up on the wrong side of history; students in leggings could be on the very tip of economic and fashion revolution.

Even in the last 100 years, pants have existed in endless variations. Can painted-on hipster skinny jeans, bell-bottoms and the quickly forgotten foot-wide denim JNCOs really be considered the same article of clothing?

How can you even at-tempt to define “pants?” As it stands now, men feel very little shame wearing loose-ly-elasticated sweatpants to class, work and even some funerals (in-laws, great-aunts and uncles only, but still.)

The jegging blurs the line even further. Jeggings look a lot closer to blue jeans than my incredibly poorly fitting dress slacks do. I recommend some deep and

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There is a message that appears at the beginning of “The Devil Inside” which states that the Vatican has not endorsed the film, and who can blame them?

“The Devil Inside” is a co-lossal piece of garbage and there is no reason any per-son or entity should ever en-dorse it.

The film follows Isabella Rossi, played by Fernanda Andrade, as she tries to dis-cover what actually hap-pened 20 years ago on the night her mother murdered three people. Her mother, Maria Rossi, supposedly committed the murders while under the influence of a demonic possession.

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ever progress past the use of predictable and boring gags that have been done many times before, such as the scene where a pos-sessed woman contorts into strange, bone-popping po-sitions and then proceeds to climb the walls.

The popping sounds may cause audiences to cringe at first, but gets old extremely quick.

There is also a total lack of tension or suspense running through the film.

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Those parts are strung to-gether so haphazardly that it makes it almost impossible to actually care about what is happening from scene to scene.

The performances put forth in the film don’t do much to raise the overall quality either.

Suzan Crowley does a de-cent job of acting creepy and possessed as Maria Rossi, but it ends up falling flat be-cause the mother-daughter relationship between her and Isabella is completely unbelievable.

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One of the best ideas to revive “American Idol” rat-ings, before producers de-cided to draft Jennifer Lo-pez and Steven Tyler, was to have a season of “Idol All-Stars,” with previous win-ners returning to compete against each other. Though the idea was scrapped, here’s how we think the first 10 winners would rank:

1. Kelly Clarkson: The original “Idol” is still the best. She has a distinctive voice that can handle a va-riety of styles well and is probably still the most lik-able of the group.

2. Carrie Underwood: She comes close to Clarkson on nearly every score (and sur-passes her on sales). Their battle would result in quite the finale.

3. David Cook: He’s the most inventive “Idol,” by far, in terms of arranging and rearranging songs for his radio-friendly voice.

4. Fantasia: When she’s on, she’s hard to beat, and it’s hard to match her pas-

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5. Jordin Sparks: The sweetheart of the bunch has a great voice and per-sonality, but is still strug-gling to find where she fits in the pop scene.

6. Scotty McCreery: “This Big” is destined for big things, as he revives the very specific Garth Brooks-style country star mold.

7. Ruben Studdard: “The Velvet Teddy Bear” is in the midst of a comeback of sorts, tapping into an old-school R&B style with his warm delivery.

8. Kris Allen: He was cer-tainly likable and his Jason Mraz-zy delivery was cer-tainly timely, but he has yet to connect with music fans on a larger scale.

9. Taylor Hicks: His larg-er-than-life persona and big, unusual voice made him unique, if not necessar-ily popular.

10. Lee DeWyze: Being a nice guy with a nice voice hasn’t quite translated into a big following, despite the huge “Idol” platform.

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By Melissa BeauchampSenior Reporter

Because of a low budget, some students are searching for unique, vintage cloth-ing in Mount Pleasant thrift stores.

Owners Amy Derringer and Karen Bailey opened 2nd Wind Sales, 1237 N. Mission St., in October because they saw the need for a thrift store in the community.

Derringer said the store caters more toward families because they offer children’s clothing, although the name brands draw in college stu-dents.

“I’m surprised,” Bailey said. “I didn’t realize college stu-dents would be interested in a consignment shop … the economy draws them in.”

Students who are inspired by the vintage, bohemian chic look also tend to be in-

terested in thrift stores be-cause of the different vin-tage-like merchandise that isn’t necessarily available at regular stores, Derringer said.

She said college students came in especially during Halloween and Christmas in search for costumes and “ugly sweaters.”

“Then, once they came in and saw what we have, they came back,” Derringer said.

Young people come shop-ping looking for interview clothes or simple fashion staples that would be more expensive in retail stores, she said.

Maureen MacGillivray, professor of apparel mer-chandising and design, said the popularity of thrift stores is emerging from the impor-tance of individuality.

MacGillivray said people desire novelty in their ap-pearance, so they choose

thrift stores to shop at as an alternative from clothes at the mall that come at a high-er price.

“The looks that one can buy at the Gap or Banana Republic are fashionable, but they have commodity characteristics that may not be valued by the majority of college students at the pres-ent time,” she said. “How-ever, fashion is no longer perceived to be a high-cost pursuit.”

MacGillivray said popular stores like H&M and Forever 21 offer good fashion at low prices, which have formed the idea that fashion can come at a low cost.

“The concept of brico-lage, or playfully putting to-gether a look from available resources is alive and well in the college community,” she said.

Gary Derry, manager of

BROOKE MAYLE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERResident Assistants Rochester Hills junior Michael Morrison and Warren senior Opal Randolph look for high heels Tuesday for Morrison to fit into for a battle of the sexes program.

Salvation Army Thrift Store, 1717 S. Mission St., said the economy has little to do with a thrift store being popular among college students.

Before Christmas college

students came to search for the infamous “ugly sweat-ers,” he said.

Derry estimated college students make up 10 percent of the market.

“Most of the market is older people and families,” he said.

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The future of fashion isn’t typically surprising, said Ap-parel Merchandising and De-sign Professor Maureen Mac-Gillivray

“Fashion isn’t a mystery, it’s really very predictable,” she said.

A look through fashion mag-azines or attending a runway show provides vivid flashbacks to past eras because of its pro-duction in an ongoing cycle, MacGillivray said.

“Designers in general have this feeling that they can’t cre-ate anything new and that everything has already been done,” she said. “They always look to the past, and as a soci-ety, I think that’s comforting to us.”

MacGillivray said with the fear of an unknown future, as a population, people are more accepting of recycled fashion rather than anything new.

Popular, modified trends today include high-waisted pants, skinny belts over sweat-ers, boots and hand-knitted items, she said.

The cycle of these items most likely started in Paris, said the professor, who also instructs in the study abroad program.

“It is true that European fash-ions are way ahead of our fash-ion,” MacGillivray said. “You see what’s in fashion there and you know it’s going to follow here.”

Oxford shoes and lace ma-terial were two big trends in Paris in the summer that are now making their way into the states.

“Designers are very well aware of what’s fashionable now and how those fashions evolved from the past,” she said.

Depending on how much risk they want to take and the more revolutionary ideas they come up with, the more risky

Fashion trends continue to recycle, will appear at Threads fashion show

they are with whether or not the population will accept them, she said.

Representation of the dif-ferent eras will be seen in this year’s Threads fashion show.

Director and designer Jason Gagnon said 37 student de-signers are modernizing differ-ent time periods and making designs appealing for people today.

“I wanted designers to re-search fashion history and upon researching fashion history they could pick a time period that they can reinterpret for today,” the Mount Pleasant senior said.

The show will lead with de-signs inspired from ancient Egypt and conclude with the ‘80s era, he said.

“I’ve got my eye on the Victo-rian period,” Gagnon said. “It’s our biggest group of designers and they’re all doing different styles.”

Portage junior Megan Repyak said she chose to design from

the 1800s because of the classi-cal look during the time period.

“I love the idea of taking the elements of a corset and turning it into a bathing suit,” the first-time Threads designer said.

Repyak is designing two bath-ing suits and one dress with ele-ments from the 1800s.

“There will be a lace-up back like a corset, but at the same time, it will be comfortable to wear and swim in,” she said. “Not like a corset in the struc-tural way, but in the visual way.”

Repyak compares today’s style to a melting pot.

“People who are into fashion, whether they know it or not, are reusing the different trends from the past and they are ac-ceptable in today’s society,” she said. “We can take different el-ements from the periods and combine them to wear today, which I think is really quite ex-citing.”

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“It’s been several months now since I’ve been in a rela-tionship or have even been remotely interested in anyone. But it’s a new year, and I feel like I want to start finding something meaningful in my life. I have a great job right

now and am living in Ann Arbor. The problem is that I’m lonely. I love what I’ve seen of this town, and the people seem like my kind of crowd. My problem is I don’t know how to make friends, let alone meet someone special now that I’m out of college.”

If you say you’re quite the romantic, I would steer clear of trying to find some-one. I notice when people purposefully search to find someone, it often doesn’t work. Usually when people stop trying, they meet the right person.

If you aren’t interested in meeting people at the bar, which is understandable, I would try places you do enjoy.

Since you’re new to the town area do some re-search. Explore the city and find which restaurants, cof-fee shops and stores you en-joy. The great thing about Ann Arbor is it’s a great area with a lot to do and see.

Even though you said you don’t like bars, some of them would be a great place to see live music, and wherever there are bands, there are people. Try new

places and things that take you out of your comfort zone. You will not only meet someone, but you will make new friends as well.

The best thing you can do as a single person is stop focusing on not having someone in your life and focus on what makes you happy. It sounds like you’re on the right track by getting a good job and moving to a city that fits your personal-ity.

Discover activities and friends you love and make finding a relationship sec-ondary. By doing this, your

confidence will start build-ing up. Happy, confident people are always the most attractive.

One of the best ways to meet people is simply by getting out of the house. If your hobbies include writ-ing and painting, do that at a coffee shop or park (when it’s warm out). I notice people will talk to complete strangers at these places because it’s a relaxed, open environment.

If someone is talking about a writer or band you enjoy say, “Sorry to int-erupt, but I couldn’t help

but overhearing ...” or find a way to join in the conversa-tion. I’ve done this before and met some really cool people that way.

Whatever you do, don’t settle just to fill a void. People make this mistake way too often and it never makes people happy. Being single is better than being in a bad relationship.

For advice e-mail me at [email protected] or sub-mit a question anonymously to my formspring account at http://formspring.me/Jor-danCSpence.

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