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LIFE IN BRIEF cm-life.com Your Central Michigan University independent news source since 1919 FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 2013|MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH.|ISSUE NO. 35 VOL. 95 Life cm 324 S. Mission St. $ 5 99 plus tax LARGE PIZZA WITH PEPPERONI ALL DAY, EVERY DAY! $ 8 LARGE PEPPERONI HOT-N-READY ® 4-8 OR ORDER ANYTIME! 324 S. Mission St. • (989) 773-1121 YOUR SMART CHOICE GO CMU! By Dominick Mastrangelo Staff Reporter Central Michigan women’s basketball guard Crystal Bradford was charged with drunken driving, Isabella County court records show. Bradford, 20, was arraigned on one charge of first-offense operating while intoxicated on Nov. 12. Her pre-trial conference is scheduled for Nov. 27. Bradford’s attorney, Todd Levitt, did not return phone calls regard- ing Bradford’s arrest as of Thursday evening. Her arrest comes as part of a statewide zero-tolerance policy regarding minors and the consump- tion of alcohol. The Detroit junior’s Chevrolet was pulled over at the corner of Isabella and Remus roads at 1:32 a.m. on Oct. 19. She “admitted to drinking a shot of Hennessey” that night, her citation shows. Police ad- ministered a pre- liminary breath test at the scene, and Bradford’s bodily alcohol content was .07. According to Michigan law, it is a crime for a driver to have a .08 BAC or greater if over age 21 and .02 BAC or greater if under 21. CMU Director of Athletics Com- munications Rob Wyman declined to comment, saying the athletics department has “put the incident behind them.” Bradford served a one-game sus- pension in the Chippewas’ first game of the year, a 105-61 win over UMass, for a “violation of team rules.” It is unclear whether her suspension is related to her arrest. Bradford’s pre-trial date is the day before CMU plays Kansas in the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam Tournament. Bradford has gained national at- tention recently with her 16.1 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during her sophomore year, earning her a spot on the gold-medal winning Team USA in the 2013 World Univer- sity Games in Russia. Earlier this week, head coach Sue Guevara commented on Bradford’s suspension, saying she was “glad to move on.” [email protected] Bradford arrested for drunken driving WMU a must win game for Chippewas »PAGE 7 RIVAL WEEKEND Crystal Bradford By John Irwin Managing Editor New signage, green spaces and roundabouts might soon be a part of Central Michigan University’s campus as it looks to make cam- pus more walkable. Campus identity was the focus of a four-day “charette,” or open meeting, this week by contractor AECOM Technology Corp., hired by CMU for of $310,000 to assess and revamp CMU’s entrances, open space areas and transporta- tion routes. Under the Campus Identity Project, part of the larger master plan process, four heavy-traffic entrances to campus would be given a facelift primarily through new signage. In addition, new green spaces and trans- portation routes would be added to campus. Ian Lock- wood, livable transportation engineer and principal at AE- COM, said creating signage would be the primary focus of these entrances. “We want to make sure that when people go past these en- trances, they know they are at CMU,” he said. “We want these entrances to stand out. We want them to reflect the history and the functions within the university.” Each proposed entrance would include a roundabout, as well as new university signs. Areas on campus slated for landscaping overhauls include the space between Anspach and Pearce halls, Warriner Mall and the green space to the east of the Charles V. Park Library. Under the plan, a walkable, bike friendly “green spine” would run through the center of campus. Meeting reveals plan for entrances, open spaces w MASTER PLAN | 2A MASTER PLAN Micheal Gealt By Nathan Clark Staff Reporter A typhoon that ravaged the Philip- pines last week, killing thousands, stirred remorse in the hearts of every- one around the world, but for Filipino students watching it from the U.S., it hit them even harder. Central Michigan University has only a handful of Filipino students, but each student was affected by the storm. Several have family members who are still in the Philippines — some with family members unac- counted for. There isn’t much they can do right now besides trying to call or email fam- ily members back home, watching the details of the disaster unfold on their TV screens, hoping everyone is OK. “It’s heartbreaking to see pictures and not be able to do anything but pray,” said Livonia junior Carlito Robles, a student from the Philippines with family affected by the typhoon. “It’s encouraging to hear so many people want to help.” Robles said the majority of his family is safe, as they live on the islands north of where the typhoon hit, but his one family member who lives in Tacloban, an area that was hit hard by the storm early on, is still unaccounted for. There hasn’t been much communi- cation coming out of the area hit hard- est by the typhoon. The Philippine government still has most of the area closed off due to the massive amount of damage inflicted by the storm. Philippines typhoon hits home for some students Ryan Lim | MCT An aerial photo shows the scene after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Leyte Province on Sunday. The Philippine government disaster relief agency said Sunday about 4.4 million people have become homeless in areas hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda). Campus Dining increases waste prevention efforts, composted 72 tons of food in ‘12 »PAGE 3 Keynote speaker promotes mentorship, finding purpose »PAGE 5 Life inside Golf team to swing into action for first time since ‘82 »PAGE 7 Court records show women’s basketball guard was stopped by police on Oct. 19 the gray wolf w 1978: Protection guaranteed under the Endangered Species Act. w (Jan) 2012: Michigan wolves removed from endangered status. w (Dec) 2012: Gov. Rick Synder signs legislation designating wolves as game. w 2013: A wolf hunt is approved by the National resources Commission. *Info provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service w TYPHOON | 2 Graduate student James Gasco’s cause of death has been confirmed by the Isabella County Clerk’s office in Mount Pleasant. On Sept. 9, Gasco died of athecosclerotic cardiovascular disease. According to the death certificate, he was pronounced dead at 11:10 a.m., while the causes of his death were deter- mined to be natural. Gasco’s autopsy information has been filed since Sept. 18. “The clerk’s of- fice receives the medical examiner reports on a monthly to bi-monthly basis,” said a clerk’s office representa- tive who requested anonymity. “The office does not receive toxicology reports or forward them to any depart- ments.” Captain Fred Harris of the Central Michigan University Police Department said there has been no notification from the medical examiner regarding the cause of death for Gasco, and that CMUPD generally does not check with the County Clerk’s office for such information. “We still have not received anything from the medical ex- aminer’s office,” Harris said. Chief Medical Examiner for Isabella County E.C. Shurlow handled the cases of Gasco and Holland junior Kelly Markatos, who was found dead by her roommates in their apartment on the morning of Sept. 3. Markatos also has an updated death certificate filed in the County Clerk’s office as of Oct. 15, although her manner of death remains unknown, pending fur- ther medical investigation. Mount Pleasant Public Infor- mation Officer Jeff Thompson said the police department is told to expect a wait of four to six weeks before medical examinations are released, and detectives will check peri- odically if that time period has surpassed. -By Megan Pacer Senior Reporter CAUSE OF DEATH CONFIRMED FOR GRAD STUDENT James Gasco INTO THE GRAY By Adrian Hedden Senior Reporter W ith a single candle in hand, seven-year-old Sarah Sehl fought to protect the legacy of her people and one of their most sacred brethren. Only in first grade, Sehl and her fellow students at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy were ready to combat perceived political injustices and defend the wolf. Local residents, tribal members and other concerned citizens gathered outside the Saginaw Chippewa Academy for a vigil in protest of the state-sanctioned wolf hunt to begin today. “We hold vigils like this for many reasons,” said Nathan Isaac, a cultural teacher at the academy. “Usually it’s tragic. The community really pulls together when we need it. Tonight we are standing here for the wolf. It plays a very important part of our story.” In reaction to wolves being added to the state of Michigan’s list of game animals, opening the hunting season today, Isacc spoke about the historical significance of the creatures and the cultural relationship Native Americans have toward them. “What happens to the wolf, hap- pens to us,” he said. “Our people were once hunted, too. Wolf hunt- ing is not OK with our people. I will not hunt my brother.” Isaac said in the classes he teaches at the SCA, elementary students have been taught the importance and process of peti- tioning, a method he said will be invaluable to ensuring another wolf hunt does not happen in Michigan. w VIGIL | 2A Taylor Ballek | Photo Editor Seven-year-old Sarah Sehl carries a symbolic candle during the Wolf Vigil Thursday outside of the Saginaw Chippewa Academy. The tribe is protesting the state-sanctioned wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula. Tribal vigil protests state-sanctioned wolf hunt “What happens to the wolf, happens to us. Our people were once hunted too. Wolf hunting is not okay with our people. I will not kill my brother.” Nathan Isaac, Cultural teacher at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy
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Central Michigan women’s basketball guard Crystal Bradford was charged with drunken driving, Isabella County court records show.
Bradford, 20, was arraigned on one charge of fi rst-o� ense operating while intoxicated on Nov. 12. Her pre-trial
conference is scheduled for Nov. 27.Bradford’s attorney, Todd Levitt,
did not return phone calls regard-ing Bradford’s arrest as of Thursday evening. Her arrest comes as part of a statewide zero-tolerance policy regarding minors and the consump-tion of alcohol.
The Detroit junior’s Chevrolet was pulled over at the corner of Isabella
and Remus roads at 1:32 a.m. on Oct. 19. She “admitted to drinking a shot of Hennessey” that night, her citation shows. Police ad-ministered a pre-liminary breath test at the scene, and Bradford’s bodily alcohol content was .07.
According to Michigan law, it is a crime for a driver to have a .08 BAC or
greater if over age 21 and .02 BAC or greater if under 21.
CMU Director of Athletics Com-munications Rob Wyman declined to comment, saying the athletics department has “put the incident behind them.”
Bradford served a one-game sus-pension in the Chippewas’ fi rst game of the year, a 105-61 win over UMass, for a “violation of team rules.” It is unclear whether her suspension is related to her arrest.
Bradford’s pre-trial date is the day before CMU plays Kansas in the
Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam Tournament.
Bradford has gained national at-tention recently with her 16.1 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during her sophomore year, earning her a spot on the gold-medal winning Team USA in the 2013 World Univer-sity Games in Russia.
Earlier this week, head coach Sue Guevara commented on Bradford’s suspension, saying she was “glad to move on.”
Bradford arrested for drunken driving
WMU a must win game for Chippewas
»PAGE 7
RIVAL WEEKEND
Crystal Bradford
By John IrwinManaging Editor
New signage, green spaces and roundabouts might soon be a part of Central Michigan University’s campus as it looks to make cam-pus more walkable.
Campus identity was the focus of a four-day “charette,” or open meeting, this week by contractor AECOM Technology Corp., hired by CMU for of $310,000 to assess and revamp CMU’s entrances, open space areas and transporta-tion routes.
Under the Campus Identity Project, part of the larger master plan process, four heavy-traffic entrances to campus would be given a facelift primarily through new signage. In addition, new green spaces and trans-portation routes would be added to campus.
Ian Lock-wood, livable transportation engineer and principal at AE-COM, said creating signage would be the primary focus of these entrances.
“We want to make sure that when people go past these en-trances, they know they are at CMU,” he said. “We want these entrances to stand out. We want them to reflect the history and the functions within the university.”
Each proposed entrance would include a roundabout, as well as new university signs.
Areas on campus slated for landscaping overhauls include the space between Anspach and Pearce halls, Warriner Mall and the green space to the east of the Charles V. Park Library. Under the plan, a walkable, bike friendly “green spine” would run through the center of campus.
Meeting reveals plan for entrances, open spaces
w MASTER PLAN | 2A
M A S T E R P L A N
Micheal Gealt
By Nathan ClarkStaff Reporter
A typhoon that ravaged the Philip-pines last week, killing thousands, stirred remorse in the hearts of every-one around the world, but for Filipino students watching it from the U.S., it hit them even harder.
Central Michigan University has only a handful of Filipino students, but each student was a� ected by the storm. Several have family members who are still in the Philippines — some with family members unac-counted for.
There isn’t much they can do right now besides trying to call or email fam-ily members back home, watching the details of the disaster unfold on their TV screens, hoping everyone is OK.
“It’s heartbreaking to see pictures and not be able to do anything but pray,” said Livonia junior Carlito Robles, a student from the Philippines with family a� ected by the typhoon. “It’s encouraging to hear so many people want to help.”
Robles said the majority of his family is safe, as they live on the islands north of where the typhoon hit, but his one family member who lives in Tacloban, an area that was hit hard by the storm early on, is still unaccounted for.
There hasn’t been much communi-cation coming out of the area hit hard-est by the typhoon. The Philippine government still has most of the area closed o� due to the massive amount of damage infl icted by the storm.
Philippines typhoon hits home for some students
Ryan Lim | MCTAn aerial photo shows the scene after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Leyte Province on Sunday. The Philippine government disaster relief agency said Sunday about 4.4 million people have become homeless in areas hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda).
Campus Dining increases waste prevention e� orts, composted 72 tons of food in ‘12��»PAGE 3
Keynote speaker promotes mentorship, fi nding purpose��»PAGE 5
Life inside
Golf team to swing into action for fi rst time since ‘82��»PAGE 7
Court records show women’s basketball guard was stopped by police on Oct. 19
the gray wolf
w 1978: Protection guaranteed under the Endangered Species Act.w (Jan) 2012: Michigan wolves removed from endangered status.w (Dec) 2012: Gov. Rick Synder signs legislation designating wolves as game.w 2013: A wolf hunt is approved by the National resources Commission.
*Info provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
w TYPHOON | 2
Graduate student James Gasco’s cause of death has been confirmed by the Isabella County Clerk’s office in Mount Pleasant.
On Sept. 9, Gasco died of athecosclerotic cardiovascular disease. According to the death certificate, he was pronounced dead at 11:10 a.m., while the causes of his death were deter-mined to be natural.
Gasco’s autopsy information has been filed since Sept. 18.
“The clerk’s of-fice receives the medical examiner reports on a monthly to bi-monthly basis,” said a clerk’s office representa-tive who requested anonymity. “The office does not receive toxicology reports or forward them to any depart-ments.”
Captain Fred Harris of the Central Michigan University Police Department said there has been no notifi cation from the medical examiner regarding the cause of death for Gasco, and that CMUPD generally does not check with the County Clerk’s o� ce for such information.
“We still have not received anything from the medical ex-aminer’s office,” Harris said.
Chief Medical Examiner for Isabella County E.C. Shurlow handled the cases of Gasco and Holland junior Kelly Markatos, who was found dead by her roommates in their apartment on the morning of Sept. 3.
Markatos also has an updated death certifi cate fi led in the County Clerk’s o� ce as of Oct. 15, although her manner of death remains unknown, pending fur-ther medical investigation.
Mount Pleasant Public Infor-mation Officer Jeff Thompson said the police department is told to expect a wait of four to six weeks before medical examinations are released, and detectives will check peri-odically if that time period has surpassed.
-By Megan PacerSenior Reporter
CAUSE OF DEATH CONFIRMED FOR GRAD STUDENT
James Gasco INTO THE GRAYBy Adrian Hedden
Senior Reporter
With a single candle in hand, seven-year-old
Sarah Sehl fought to protect the legacy of her people and one of their most sacred brethren.
Only in first grade, Sehl and her fellow students at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy were ready to combat perceived political injustices and defend the wolf.
Local residents, tribal members and other concerned citizens gathered outside the Saginaw Chippewa Academy for a vigil in protest of the state-sanctioned wolf hunt to begin today.
“We hold vigils like this for many reasons,” said Nathan Isaac, a cultural teacher at the academy. “Usually it’s tragic. The community really pulls together when we need it. Tonight we
are standing here for the wolf. It plays a very important part of our story.”
In reaction to wolves being added to the state of Michigan’s list of game animals, opening the hunting season today, Isacc spoke about the historical significance of the creatures and the cultural relationship Native Americans have toward them.
“What happens to the wolf, hap-pens to us,” he said. “Our people were once hunted, too. Wolf hunt-ing is not OK with our people. I will not hunt my brother.”
Isaac said in the classes he teaches at the SCA, elementary students have been taught the importance and process of peti-tioning, a method he said will be invaluable to ensuring another wolf hunt does not happen in Michigan.
w VIGIL | 2A
Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorSeven-year-old Sarah Sehl carries a symbolic candle during the Wolf Vigil Thursday outside of the Saginaw Chippewa Academy. The tribe is protesting the state-sanctioned wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula.
Tribal vigil protests state-sanctioned wolf hunt
“What happens to the wolf, happens to us. Our people were once hunted too.
Wolf hunting is not okay with our people. I will not kill my brother.”
Nathan Isaac, Cultural teacher at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy
Jill Fritz, director of the Keep Michigan Wolves
Protected campaign, said the passage of the law allowing wolves to be hunted in Michi-gan until Dec. 31 was the result of political corruption.
“Everything tribal nations have said about this has been completely ignored,” Fritz said. “Some people really hate wolves and really want to hunt them. There’s a tremendous amount of misinformation, almost a medieval perspective sometimes.”
The campaign is petitioning to put two referendums on the state ballot in November 2014, Fritz said. In January 2012, the wolf was removed from federal protection in the Great Lakes Region. Fritz said the decision-making was left to the states.
In October 2012, Michigan legislature was introduced to add wolves to the list of game species, and Fritz’s group cre-ated a referendum to repeal the law.
Then, in December 2012, a bill was passed to leave the decision to the Department
of Natural Resources, circum-venting the petition process, Fritz said.
The KMWP campaign is now gathering signatures for a second referendum to repeal the December bill.
“The people of the Upper Peninsula lead this campaign,” Fritz said. “Despite what is going on right now, Michigan people do not want wolves hunted here.”
According to a news release from the DNR,
the wolf hunt will be allowed in three designated areas in the Upper Peninsula.
Gogebic County has a target
harvest of 16 wolves, while Baraga, Houghton and Onto-nagon counties have a total target of 19 wolves. Luce and Mackinaw counties have been permitted to kill eight wolves.
Beatrice Jackson, the help-ing healer who assists the tribe’s medicine man, was wary of the invasive nature of man.
“People think just two-legged animals are important,” Jackson said. “The four-legged ones are just as important. What happens to the babies when a mother wolf is killed? We need to keep all life sacred.”
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Super Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines late last week with torrential rain, high storm surges and wind gusts of up to 235 mph, destroying homes, flooding towns and killing thousands of people.
Local officials in the dev-astated area estimated that there might be more than 10,000 killed in Tacloban alone. However, there has been controversy surround-ing that number, as Philip-pines President Benigno Aquino estimated the death toll closer to 2,500, accord-ing to a report from Reuters.
While thousands were killed in the first few days of the typhoon, thousands more may die from thirst, starvation, disease and ex-
posure if aid does not come soon.
His House, 211 W. Broomfield St., is organiz-ing a charity fundraiser at Hunters Ale House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road, on Nov. 21 from 10 p.m. - 1 a.m to raise money for the victims of the typhoon. All money will go to Christ’s Commission Fel-lowship relief operation.
“I’m really hoping for a big turnout for the fundrais-er, even though the planning is so rushed,” said Caledonia sophomore Kelsey Friberg, international ministry team leader at His House. “I just want to get the money over (there) as soon as possible.”
People may also donate toward the relief effort through the American Red Cross at redcross.org.
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“The identity plan fo-cuses on some of the priori-ties identified through the master planning process, like the entranceways,” Lockwood said.
Lockwood said public input is a key factor in AE-COM’s planning process.
“We’re hoping to get a good idea of where folks would like to see the cam-pus evolve in terms of a broader identity,” he said. “Then, we’d also get more specifics on some of these smaller spaces on campus.”
Vice President for Fa-cilities Management Steve Lawrence said the planning process is designed to give the community a chance to voice their ideas.
“The whole idea of a charrette is to get input from people,” Lawrence
said. “They help in coming up with ideas and plans.”
Provost Michael Gealt said the proposed landscap-ing changes would lead to a better educational atmo-sphere.
“We would like to find ways to use signage and landscaping to add to the environment in a way that helps us manage the people flow,” Gealt said. “In a way, that enhances the educational opportunities by creating more natural spaces for student-student and student-faculty interac-tions.”
AECOM plans to unveil landscape design in Janu-ary and will follow up with feature space design in February and March.
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Taylor Ballek | Photo EditorTribal Council member Steve Pego speaks in a ceremonial lodge about the historical and cultural significance of the wolf, at the Wolf Vigil held outside the Saginaw Chippewa Academy Thursday night.
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Drive is expected to be finished by the end of this week.
Earlier this summer, in coop-eration with property owners on the west side of Mission Street, the city constructed a plan for a cross street that connects Mission Street to East Campus Drive.
The extended Fairfield Drive is now in the final stages of realignment, at a cost just shy of $100,000.
Bill Mrdeza, the director of community services, said the main goal of the road align-ment was to increase safety by reducing the number of indi-vidual trips on Mission Street.
“Basically, the realignment is to alleviate some of the traffic congestions, especially up at Preston Street,” Mrdeza said. “This gives students and other people in the area more than one opportunity to get from Mission Street to the campus community.”
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ACC 597B: Special Topics In Accounting is an accelerated directed-study course in which students prepare for the CPA exam. Those who pass the exam will qualify to be a certi-fied public accountant.
“Students struggle with balancing being a full-time pro-fessional and studying for the CPA exam at the same time,” Accounting Department Chair Chad Stefaniak said.
The course will aid students by reviewing material from ear-lier courses, as well as introduc-ing them to new concepts and ideas that are likely to appear on the exam.
Stefaniak said there will be one course offered this year, and it will likely have between 10-20 students. More are likely to become involved as the course becomes a more estab-lished part of the curriculum.
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Central Michigan Univer-sity named three speakers for the Dec. 14 com-mencement ceremony, commemo-rating the end of the Fall semester in the CMU Events Center’s McGuirk Arena.
A news release from Univer-sity Communications outlines the reasons for selecting three public figures to speak at sepa-rate ceremonies on the day of commencement.
Dr. Jan Pol, a renowned Wei-dman veterinarian who hosts a popular show on Nat Geo Wild, will speak at 5 p.m.
Other speakers are Joseph Anderson, chairman and chief officer of TAG holdings, at 9 a.m., and Edward Christian, chairman, CFO and founder of Saga Com-munications Inc, at 1 p.m.
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Tianyu Han | Staff PhotographerMusic professor Tim Mocny finds time to teach two courses, write music for the drumline, and give free lessons to students at B’s Music Shop, 613 N. MIssion St.
By Stephen CrossStaff Reporter
Tim Mocny doesn’t just educate students, he goes out of his way to make them better musicians.
Mocny first discovered his pas-sion for music through the piano when he was young. After he saw how much fun his brother was hav-ing with it, he decided it was time to get one as well. When Mocny was in the fifth grade, his whole class was sent to their school audi-torium, where people auditioned for the school’s band. He didn’t want to at first, but a friendly face urged him to try.
“My mom asked me, ‘Why don’t you do it?’ and told me to try band for a while, and if I didn’t like it, I could quit,” Mocny said. “Now, here I am today with these music degrees.”
Mocny is both a professor and a musician who can play a variety of instruments including the piano, bass drums and xylophone. He’s been a professor at Central Michigan University for six years, teaches both a listening experi-ence and percussion class. He also writes drum line music for CMU’s marching band.
Mocny also finds time as a teacher at B’s Music Shop. The local music shop, located at 613 N. Mission St., has free, hour-long music clinics every Sunday during which one of their teachers goes through the basics of an instrument with any participants.
The owner of B’s Music Shop, Brian Hansen, has noticed how dedicated Mocny has been to his students.
“Tim is a very knowledgeable and professional teacher who always seems to make people better,” Han-sen said. “Tim, and all of our teach-ing staff, listen to student’s needs.”
Teaching in acTionAt 1 p.m. last Sunday, Mocny
divulged in his weekend hobby.Ten minutes before the clinic
was supposed to start, Mocny frantically scrambled around the small space provided to him in the back of the shop, trying to set up for the clinic.
Then, Mount Pleasant local Tony Vincent walked in through the front doors and sat down in the empty row of chairs. Vincent admitted he was new to drum-playing, and Mocny quickly brought out a prac-tice drum and set it in front of him.
They started with simple rhythm exercises, both playing the same beat in synchronized motions. As they moved onto more complicated exer-cises, Vincent struggled to keep up.
Mocny set up a laptop in front of Vincent so he could watch him-self play. Vincent noticed he kept changing his grip and quickly cor-rected the problem.
As the clinic wound down after an hour of consistent drum playing, Mocny put Vincent through some advanced beat exercises to practice what he had learned. As Vincent began playing, it became clear his rhythm and control significantly im-proved from when he first arrived.
“It was very informative and I definitely improved just in that hour,” Vincent said. “These clinics are such a great service. I just wish more people would take part in them.”
Mocny was glowing with pride after the clinic ended. Having forgotten about the rough start, Mocny was relieved with how well everything went.
“It’s nice to be around people who are interested,” Mocny said. “I enjoy doing this.”
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By Adrian HeddenSenior Reporter
The wellbeing of Central Michigan University’s campus community might soon rest on the shoulders of Dylan Hovis.
When the Clinton Township senior applied for Health Services’ student mentorship program, she was eager to begin a lifetime of health coaching via her fellow students.
“We’re all college students, we know,” she said. “It’s hard taking advice from someone older than you. All you think is, ‘Oh, they don’t know what it’s like now.’ We think their information is not current with the times. But (with) peers your own age and similar status, it’s an easier person to trust.”
Applying as a student mentor for Health Services’ Campus Health Advocate Motivating Peers, or CHAMPS, program this fall, Hovis said she will relate to student issues as a peer and friend.
“I plan on reaching out to my peers with anything that I think would work for me or even my friends,” she said. “Making things hit home and being as realistic as possible always works the best. People need to relate to what is being taught. They need to believe that yes, it could happen to them. Then, they’ll listen. Then, they’ll practice what is preached.”
According to Hovis, the program is aimed at communicating with students struggling with health related issues, in-cluding anxiety and substance abuse. Be-ginning this winter, CHAMPS has been taking student applicants all semester.
“The overall goal is to spread aware-ness of current issues that affect our lives as college students; nutrition, drugs, STIs, physical activity, stress, alcohol, etc.,” Hovis said. “Most people have forgotten over the years what they really learned in their health class. Most people don’t see anything like that becoming a real issue in their life. But, if I can help one person, just one person try to change one of their nega-tive ways, it would be enough for me.”
Led by University Health Services Health Educator Lori Wangberg, CHAMPS is part of a long-term goal of increasing student awareness and participation in CMU’s health services offered to both students and staff.
“There’s a level of trust that comes from a student mentor,” Wangberg said. “Students are more likely to listen to peers, and (CHAMPS) is a great opportunity for students going into the health arena. It’s really important to connect with someone you trust.”
Now under the College of Medi-cine “umbrella,” she said, Wangberg hopes to bolster Health Services total offerings to the campus community. She said Health Services also hosts presentations at orientation and during the MAINStage event at the beginning of the year.
“We try to be as involved with the campus community as we can and reach out to all students,” Wangberg said. “(Health Services) is really important, because there are a lot of transportation issues for students here. We’re their doctors away from home. A lot of students are new, and many are homesick. They need to feel at home, feel comforted.”
With a fully outfitted pharmacy and laboratory for blood work and other analysis, Health Services is aimed at providing care that could be gained at any fully-operational clinic.
“We are a healthy population,” Stiff said of CMU. “We service, in general, healthy students. We always like to say that anything you can see a family doc-tor for, you can see us for.”
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health services recruits student mentors, treats campus concerns
By Rachel Schuit Staff Reporter
Campus Dining has made efforts to eliminate waste by composting, total-ing 72.5 tons of composted food items last year.
Nikki Smith, director of campus din-ing marketing, said the commitment to reduce waste will have a positive impact on the environment.
“With these efforts, we can help lessen our impact on the environment, support food safety, quality and consis-tency and reduce food costs for Central Michigan University,” she said.
Smith said switching to different margarine pats and eliminating straws has helped reduce the number of items that cannot be composted. The napkin dispensers in the residential restau-
rants have also been designed to help eliminate waste.
“We use the Xpressnap system on campus for napkins, which features a one-at-at-time dispenser,” Smith said. “It’s had the ability to dramatically cut paper waste by preventing people from accidentally taking more napkins than they intended to.”
Students said eliminating unnecessary waste is a step in the right direction.
“Eliminating straws was a good idea, because using them causes an undue waste and creates and undue expenses,” Franklin sophomore Meghan Marx said.
In addition to making efforts to eliminated non-compostable waste, Campus Dining has also made efforts to reduce food waste.
“Production sheets are kept for each meal to show how much food was fore-
casted, how much was prepared, how much was served and how much was wasted,” Smith said.
The next time the meal is prepared, the sheets are reviewed and efforts are made to only prepare as much food as is needed.
Gary Darnell, a baker in Robinson Residential Restaurant, said campus dining uses batch cooking by cooking less than what a recipe might call for
and then cooking more if needed.In addition to composting, Smith
said some extra food is donated to the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, but due to strict regulations, only certain foods can be donated.
Campus Dining increases waste prevention efforts, composted 72 tons of food
Daytona Niles | Staff PhotographerExtra food is thrown into a bucket in the Fresh Food Company cafeteria on east campus on Sept. 10.
By Wyatt BushSenior Reporter
The homeless of Mount Pleasant will soon have further protection from the frigid cold of winter with the assistance of the Isabella County Restoration House.
The ICRH met Thursday with about 50 local citizens to discuss fundraising, but it primarily wished to inform the community of its plans.
“Homelessness is a very real and complex problem in Isabella County,” said ICRH co-chair Travus Burton.
Burton discussed the three main phases that have been planned for the organization.
The first would be a rotating shelter that starts Jan. 1 and is intended to last potentially as late as March. This shel-
ter would operate seven days a week, include an evening meal and potential-ly provide some form of entertainment for the homeless who stay there.
As of tonight, 10 churches have agreed to assist in the rotation pro-gram, and ICRH said it was confident six more nearby churches would be able to commit.
However, ICRH Treasurer Charlie Burke said the organization and the committed churches are in need of manpower and contemplative college students should not hesitate to help.
“If you spend a week getting to know the people who show up at these shel-ters, many are high school graduates, have had jobs and obviously are not an alcoholic or drug addict,” he said.
The homeless in Isabella County, Burke said, are no different from any other person.
“I once talked with a woman and she burst into tears,” Burke said. “She told me, ‘I’m so embarrassed I have to be here.’ She had lost her job and gotten divorced. She had absolutely nothing. These are the people we are helping, the vast, vast majority here are like that woman.”
ICRH’s rotation program is only set to occur this year.
For the future, the non-profit intends on being able to purchase a temporary facility in order to more efficiently assist the homeless. This phase is currently planned to last one to two years beginning in late 2014.
The end goal of the ICRH is a single facility that could serve as everything from a temporary shelter to a job searching center.
Rotating homeless shelter in the works for Isabella County; will open in January
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorSaginaw resident Mike Stikeleather, 38, cleans the area where construction took place on Fairfield Street on Thursday.
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The decision to pursue the ex-pansion arrives after an intensive master planning effort and the result of a 10-year capital plan. By all accounts the extension sounds beneficial, but was it the right time to seek new a new health and science-related construction project?
The university already has agreed to build a Biosciences Building, scheduled for comple-tion in December 2016.
The College of Medicine is also in the process of realizing a new addition to clinical facilities in Saginaw, adding to a large list of active and planned construction projects.
While an increased focus on the academic core of the univer-sity is a positive mindset, it’s also important to realize that we aren’t covering all areas.
When former CMU President Michael Rao officially opened the Health Professions Building, he cited a campus-wide perspective shift.
“There is a new standard at this institution,” Rao said at the grand opening in 2004. “Clinical practice and research at CMU in the last five years have started to receive national ranking, and now CMU facilities, including this facility, have become international models that are being investigated for duplication. You need to enjoy
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Aside from basic human rights, nobody is entitled to anything.
One can debate what con-stitutes a basic human right, but for the most part, I do not believe anyone will fi nd anything controversial with that state-ment. However, there is always one time of the year where I have to repeatedly mention this fact: Election season.
This past presidential election, I, like 1.2 million fellow Ameri-cans, voted for Gary Johnson.
Because of tactics pulled by the Republican Party of Michigan, I was also one of 7,774 Michigan-ders who had to write his name in.
Now, I obviously did not get away with such an action without a large amount of heckling.
As the election approached, Republicans told me that by vot-ing for Johnson I was complicit in the fi scal destruction of America, while Democrats told me I would be complicit in Romney’s calls for self-deportation and a consti-tutional amendment of what constitutes a marriage.
So, I ignored them and voted third party.
More recently, many indepen-dents and Republicans had to face a similar struggle in the Virginian gubernatorial race.
Several “fi scally conservative” individuals were uncomfort-able with voting for Republican Dan Cuccinelli, who as recently
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Angeline Sawaya is a junior from Westland who is majoring in biochemistry.
CM Life: Describe yourself in three words.
Angeline Sawaya: Motivated, persevering and optimistic.
What is the best part about being a Chippewa?
AS: Knowing you’re a part of a great community where everyone is so friendly and motivated.
Who is your role model?
AS: My mom, because she also pursued a career in health sciences and has a great family life.
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It’s a Friday night.You and your friends are trying
to decide what to do: play “Call of Duty” and kill zombies for the seventh time this week, or catch the hockey game on cable?
You did pay the cable bill this month, right? Or was it Brian’s turn?
You heard about some party happening down the street. It’s supposedly going to be o� the wall, according to one of your supposed friends who sit four rows behind you in that one lecture you swear you go to every week.
“Wait!” you exclaim to your buddies as they hurriedly clean up. Your one friend, let’s call him Daniel, sprays on an obscene amount of cologne because he’s kind of a tool.
“We’re out of booze!”You and the guys scrounge up
some change and happen to fi nd a random $20 bill in Daniel’s car. Jackpot!
Well, the lack of liquor has been remedied, but there is another problem, a major pet
Are you really poor?
What is the best piece of advice you have ever gotten?
AS: Don’t sweat the small stu� .
If you could be any animal what would you be?
AS: A dolphin, because I want to spend my days swimming in Hawaii.
this building knowing you will have helped change CMU for-ever.”
The shift away from a regional, liberal arts school toward health and science intensive research poses some problems, however.
The past two state financial re-quests have been directly related to health and science, effectively neglecting other, more liberal arts-related areas of campus.
It also puts CMU in direct competition with schools already focused in that direction, includ-ing Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
At a time when the university is projecting a continued enroll-ment decline and is already facing a budget deficit from decreased tuition dollars, increasing direct enrollment competition and largely ignoring the humanities and fine arts might not be the best answer.
Although promoting the academic core might promote increased enrollment, large con-struction projects inevitably take a large financial toll on a univer-
sity, especially when further costs have yet to be assessed.
Emphasis, then, must be placed on what projects will benefit the largest amount of students. Huge undertakings such as the College of Medicine or an expansion of the Health Professions Building might be nice, what good do they do for most students, especially at a time when they are pouring in more of their own money to the university than ever before?
When examining the 10-year master plan unveiled over the summer, new undergradu-ate housing and renovations of Brooks and Pearce halls jump out immediately as projects that, while expensive, could benefit a huge number of students.
When choosing what kind of money the university should spend, those projects, and others, should top CMU’s agenda.
CMU must look at what proj-ects will enhance the educational experiences of the most people possible, not niche projects that look nice on paper but only im-pact a handful of students.
peeve of mine I wish to convey to you, dear Central Michigan Life reader.
I’ve just outlined a very prob-able apartment or housing kind of scenario.
However, these people — for the sake of this column let’s as-sume they’re real — and many other college students who are indeed very real are the stereo-typical college student, who in this case is poor.
“Poor” is very subjective, I get that. What I don’t get is all the people in college who say they are poor and how they don’t have any money.
You can often fi nd these same people somehow having enough money for alcohol, cigarettes or any other number of things many college students indulge in.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, poor is defi ned as “having little money or few possessions.”
Additionally, “not having enough money for the basic things that people need to live properly.”
So, I’m sorry, but if you’re able to cover your rent, eat something that resembles a meal — even if it is something from a fast food joint — and keep relatively healthy, then you aren’t poor.
You might not be living in a castle or a mansion, but then again, isn’t that kind of what college is all about, where you have to sometimes live in an apartment that isn’t the fanciest dwelling around?
So, please, for the sake of my sanity and of correctness, stop saying you’re poor, especially if you’re able to a� ord that $20 bottle of alcohol. I’m sure home-less people and those struggling to make ends meet wouldn’t ap-preciate you saying you’re poor when you clearly aren’t.
as June fi led an appeal with the Supreme Court to uphold an obnoxious anti-sodomy law.
As a result, 6.4 percent of Virginians voted for the “fi scally conservative” and “socially lib-eral” third-party choice, Libertar-ian Robert Sarvis.
In an interesting turn of events, Democratic candidate Terry McAuli� e would win the election by about 2.5 percent of the vote.
Naturally, many Republicans are blaming Sarvis for costing them the election, just as many Al Gore supporters once blamed Ralph Nader for his loss to George W. Bush.
Here is the thing, though. Nader and Sarvis aren’t respon-sible for Gore and Cuccinelli los-ing their election bids. Gore and Cuccinelli have only themselves to blame.
Nothing entitles candidates to a vote.
There is no way in good con-science I could have voted for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney; I was vehemently opposed to both of them on a number of issues.
The thing with Gary Johnson was he and I agreed on most everything.
We agreed upon imminently ending the wars overseas. We agreed upon an end to victimless crimes, including the decriminal-ization and eventual legalization to marijuana. We agreed upon further liberalizing immigration laws. Golly, we even agreed upon the need to reduce government spending and balance the budget in order to prevent screwing over future and my own generation of Americans.
In fact, a number of polls indi-cated that had Americans based their votes solely upon the issues, Johnson, a former two-term gov-ernor of New Mexico, would have been president.
Yet most people probably were not even aware of his existence, let alone willing to vote for him.
I, like some Virginians did for governor earlier this month, refused to vote for a candidate I did not believe in. Unfortunately, most Americans refuse to vote their conscience and choose someone non-mainstream.
Look at what a fantstic govern-ment we have produced today.
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Keynote speaker Rosspromotes mentorship, finding purpose
Tianyu Han | Staff Photographer Gyasi Ross, a Native American entrepreneur and member of the Blackfoot tribe, speaks on the value of mentorship and finding meaning in life Wednesday in Plachta Auditorium as a part of Native American History Month.
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Arin Bisaro | Staff PhotographerMarket on Main has been open for two years, employs six people, and specializes in 60 types of cheese, specialty deli meats, pre-made dinners and Michigan-grown products.
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Students and scholars filled Plachta Auditorium to hear the words of Gyasi Ross, a Native American en-trepreneur and member of the Blackfoot tribe, implore the value of mentorship and finding meaning in life.
Ross took to the stage Wednesday as the keynote speaker for Native Ameri-can History Month. He dis-cussed the value of mentor-ship, knowing one’s purpose in life and the unique chal-lenges our generation face.
“Mentorship is not parenthood, it’s not a get out of jail free card and it’s not career guidance,” Ross said. “Mentorship is proxy-parenthood. A mentor is that person who is willing to have difficult conversa-tions to help you make good choices.”
Ross spoke to the heart of the young audience, saying there is a giant commu-nication gap between his generation and the younger generation. Ross’ genera-
tion wasn’t raised through text and instant messag-ing — they communicated face-to-face and lived in the moment.
“Being in the moment is something a lot of people don’t understand,” said Da-vison junior Shelbe Klebs. “Technology, like smart-phones, don’t help us like they should. People don’t value face-to-face conversa-tions anymore.”
Hearing someone ask why they are here or why they exist is a “first-world problem.” It’s a problem that society’s ancestors didn’t struggle with, Ross said, adding when people woke up and knew that their participation was essential to the survival of their society, they knew why they existed.
“There are too many kids who live through rap videos and pop culture,” Ross said. “The art that used to sustain us is now killing us. They need alternative voices to be able to deflect negative images and ideas that come at them.”
Ross’ speech hit everyone in the audience differ-ently, some in the audience reflected on the idea of how mentorship has an effect on someone.
“It was interesting to give
a different perspective on how (mentorship) should be used as opposed to tradi-tional use,” Saginaw senior Charles Green said.
Mentorship and purpose is how a society functions
effectively. Without it, society begins to suffer or grows beyond its means.
“Mentorship is that sense of longing, the sense to do good and live beyond yourself,” Ross said. “Help-
ing your community is what mentorship is really all about.”
By Derek ThielStaff Reporter
Central Michigan Life’s weekly “Business of the Week” feature highlights notable Mount Pleasant businesses. This week, staff reporter Derek Thiel spoke with Market on Main owners Emma Currie and Susan Paton about what the busi-ness offers and what sets it apart from others.
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The business first opened when owners Emma Currie and Susan Paton realized that there were no specialty grocery stores in Mount Pleasant.Owners on what the restaurant specializes on: The focus is placed on
60 types of cheese and on specialty deli meats such as salami and brochette, as well as pre-made dinners to go, including pasta salad and meat loaf, soups, salads, sandwiches, specialty wine and beer and Michigan grown products.
The most popular item among customers: Brown butter and sea salt rice crispy treats for $1.Owners on what customers should be aware of: There are always new products to try, and they give samples, no more costly than other places, along with cooking lessons called “Chat and Chops.”
By Tyler LangleyStaff Reporter
Beginning in January, Cen-
tral Michigan University will offer a focus in philanthropy and fundraising for students earning a Master of Science Administration degree.
Patricia Chase, director of the MSA program, said the non-profit sector is expected to grow by 27 percent this year due to an upward trend in economic stability.
“People who work in non-profit organizations hold off retirement until things start to look up,” she said. “With things finally starting to look up, many of the people who put off their retirement are retiring now, leaving the non-profit job market wide open.”
The program is predicted to help satisfy this rising trend in the non-profit job market. Originally offered through Global Campus, the program will begin to add on-campus classes in the Spring 2014. The degree will consist of the core requirements of a regular MSA degree, branching off to focus in philanthropy and funding in the second half.
The degree will focus, specifically, on non-profit functions such as managing monetary gifts, writing grants, overseeing donor relations and much more.
“Central is one of the na-tional leaders in starting this program,” Chase said. “We will be one of the first universities to focus on getting jobs in the non-profit sector of the work force.”
According to Chase, the university has received more than 100 inquires after just a couple of weeks of advertising
their new program. For now, however, the university is look-ing to fill a cohort of only 20-30 students for the first run.
“If I were to be running a non-profit organization, I know that I would want my money going to somewhere where the person in charge was not only handling my money correctly, but also using it with integrity,” Chase said, citing the impor-tance of an ethics course within the program.
For the university to initiate its new program, it first had to have a research team collect national data on the trends of non-profit organizations and the needs of these organiza-tions. From there, the univer-sity not only looked at the need, but the student interest level. Chase describes the process as “a huge team effort.”
“The goal is to help students learn to build a strategic plan, learn financial management, human resources and public relations that will help grow a cause,” she said.
A non-profit organization that works closely with many students on campus is the Spe-cial Olympics. Officials say they are ready and looking forward to working with students who will be working within this degree program.
Heidi Alexander, administra-tive assistant at Special Olym-pics Michigan, said she thinks the students who go through the program could have a major impact, but won’t detract from the organization’s main focus.
“Our passion is our cause; the athletes are the most im-portant thing to us,” she said.
By Noam M. Levy & David Lauter
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WASHINGTON — With millions of consumers get-ting cancellation notices for their current health plans, President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will encourage insurance companies to continue offer-ing their customers the same health plans next year.
“This fix won’t solve every problem for every person,” Obama said, saying he would consider legislative action to go further. But he appeared to rule out the sort of legisla-tion that House Republicans are pushing, which would allow insurance companies to continue selling new policies, indefinitely, that would not comply with the law’s new consumer standards.
The move comes amid rising outrage over the cancellation notices, which insurers have sent out to customers nationwide who do not have health plans through an employer. Many of these plans do not comply with the Affordable Care Act, which was supposed to require health plans sold next year to offer consumers a new basic set of benefits.
Obama conceded that the problems with the rollout of Obamacare have hurt his standing with Americans, saying he has to “win back some credibility” on the issue.
“We fumbled the rollout on this health care law,” he said.
But he said that he was unaware that the federal online marketplace – health-care.gov – was riddled with technological flaws before it went live on Oct. 1.
“I was not informed directly that the website was
not working the way it was supposed to,” he said.
The president said the website would be working better by Nov. 30, the ad-ministration’s self-imposed deadline to fix it, but added, “It is not possible for me to guarantee that 100 percent of the people 100 percent of the time will have a per-fectly seamless and smooth experience.”
Obama said he understood why consumers who received cancellation notices from insurers were upset. “It’s scary,” he said. But he also noted that the existing mar-ket for individual insurance was flawed. “If you received one of the letters, I encour-
age you to take a look at the marketplace,” he said.
White House officials said Thursday that new plans sold next year would still have to offer the new benefits, which include hospitalizations, mental health services and maternity coverage.
But the officials said insur-ers would be free to offer their customers the option to remain on their current plans rather than switching to the new plans, which in some cases are more expensive.
If insurers offer this op-tion, however, they would be required to notify consumers which benefits their current plans are missing. Insurers would also have to alert their
customers that other options might be available on the new marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act.
It is unclear how many insurers would opt to extend current plans. Industry offi-cials have said that doing that would be burdensome.
The White House move, which officials character-ized as a “transition,” would not allow health insurers to sell current plans to new customers next year. House Republicans have been pushing for this, which most health experts believe would effectively destroy the new marketplaces created by the health law.
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Bringing bullying to light is the Honor Outreach Net-work’s top priority this year.
HON’s “Save the Nerds” campaign works to raise money for a bullying preven-tion program at a local school.
Midland junior and HON President Dani Cowles said although the campaign is to fi ght against all kinds of bul-lying, many honors students relate to being labeled nega-tively for their intelligence.
“This campaign is impor-tant because everyone has been a� ected by bullying in some way, shape or form,” she said. “Especially because we are an organization of honors program students, we can often identify with the term ‘nerd.’”
Cowles said the campaign started after the execu-tive board of the network decided they wanted to be more active.
“Usually, our committee chairs run events all year for the HON and the rest of the executive board doesn’t have as much to do,” she said. “So, we thought we could create an event or campaign that would give us something to do that would involve the en-tire campus and that would get our name out there.”
St. Clair junior and HON Vice President Sean Denny said when coming up with the slogan, he was trying to think of something unique to promote on campus.
“I was trying to think of campaigns that you don’t see as much on campus, and I happened to think of bul-
lying, and for some reason ‘Save the Nerds’ came to me,” Denny said.
HON sponsored a show-ing of the documentary “Bully” on Wednesday to help bring the issue of bully-ing to the table.
St. Johns junior Thomas Jury said he thinks that the campaign is great and bully-ing is an issue that everyone has experienced.
“You should not be ridiculed for being di� erent, especially at a young age,” Jury said.
Ottawa Lake sophomore Susan Currier said she does not necessarily condone us-ing the term “nerd,” because she thinks it can be seen as o� ensive, but she does thinks bullying needs to be addressed in schools.
“Bullying has been and continues to be a huge issue in schools across the coun-try,” Currier said. “It needs to be addressed before things get out of hand and people start taking action against those who have bul-lied them.”
Denny said he thinks the slogan is appropriate because everyone has some “nerdy” characteristics.
“No matter how smart we are, or how much we make fun of nerds, we all can relate at least a little,” Denny said. “Nerds are known for playing video games, doing their homework, not playing sports and not partying. I think that everyone on cam-pus can relate to at least one of these things.”
Honors Outreach Network starts ‘Save the Nerds’ campaign
By Stephen CrossStaff Reporter
The Mission Street 7-Eleven is installing state-of-the-art gas pumps as part of a major store overhaul.
The 7-Eleven, located at 2397 S. Mission St., is going through major remodeling, and the new pumps will be more computerized than the old ones and accept a wider variety of credit and debit cards.
Owner Mike Pittsley is re-lieved renovation is happening.
“The pumps that were here were the ones from when the store was fi rst built about 25 years ago,” Pittsley said. “We couldn’t keep them clean and had problems with them not working, so it’s something
that’s really been needed.”Once the new pumps are
installed, the inside of the store is going to have major remodeling done. The new equipment will allow 7-Elev-en to sell more hot foods, such as pizza and chicken, in the near future.
In August, all of the 7-Elevens in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio were sold to the Southland Corp. Since then, Southland Corp. has brought in new equipment, including bank registers and shelving units, to all the store units in Michigan.
However, the remodeling has cost Pittsley and his store, as no gas is being sold, result-ing in a 30-35 percent drop in store sales.
“You have to put up with
that kind of pain, but it usu-ally pays o� ,” Pittsley said. “It would have been great if the remodeling was done over the summer when all the students weren’t up here, but you have to take it when you can get it.”
Milford junior Alysia Burgio does not think the 7-Eleven renovations are necessary, due to the busy intersection it’s located on.
“I don’t think anyone needs a fancier gas station with high-tech gas pumps,” Burgio said. “A gas station is meant to be a quick in-and-out place, but if they feel the need to spoil the residents and students of Mount Pleasant, then by all means go for it.”
In contrast, Richmond junior Ike Pollari supports the renovations and thinks
it will be beneficial for 7-Eleven’s business.
“The 7-Eleven is a prime spot, since a vast majority of students go that way for groceries,” Pollari said. “I think that the land needed to be renovated to make it more appealing and so more cards can be accepted.”
The renovations are projected to be completed sometime within the next two weeks.
7-Eleven remodel means new gas pumps, store redesign as construction continues
Katy Kildee | Assistant Photo EditorConstruction workers complete the new pavement on Thursday after new piping was installed in front of the 7-Eleven at the Northwest corner of Mission Street and West Campus Drive.
By Mark JohnsonStaff Reporter
Only two undergraduate stu-dents and two graduate students are enrolled in Central Michigan University’s organ music program.
The program gives students the opportunity to learn the or-gan and is largely based around the Casavant organ in the Staples Family Concert Hall.
One of the graduate students is Clarksville native Jay Mi-chaud. This is Michaud’s fi fth year at CMU, where he is fi nish-ing his masters in organ.
He began working with the organ during his undergraduate studies at Huntington College, now Huntington University, located in Huntington, Ind., where he pursued a computer science degree with a minor in music. He had some of his fi rst experiences enrolling in an or-gan class as an undergraduate.
It wasn’t until he began at-tending CMU in Fall 2010 that Michaud knew he wanted to further his studies.
“After a semester of organ lessons, I knew I really liked it,” Michaud said. “That’s when I found out I could stay here and keep studying. That’s when it all came together.”
As part of his program, Mi-chaud also teaches a piano class.
Michaud’s masters degree will be his third, adding to teaching and computer science degrees earned at Huntington College.
With this list, he said he has
many career path options once he fi nishes his graduate studies.
“I’ll be fi nished in May, but after that, I need to fi gure out what I want to do next,” Michaud said. “The masters in organ is a great qualifi cation to be a church musician. It’s my impression that there is a lot of part-time work, but in terms of it being my full-time job, I’m not sure how much work is available.”
Organ professor Steven Egler said students in the program often go on to teach organ nationally.
“My students are being ac-cepted into prestigious graduate programs throughout the coun-try,” Egler said. “They are being hired on to college faculty posi-tions and they are being hired into full-time church positions throughout the country.”
Egler said organs in churches
are slowly disappearing and giv-ing way to di� erent instruments.
“Most people are attracted to the instrument by hearing it in church,” he said. “However, more and more churches are either doing away with organs for use in worship or building new church buildings with other types of musical instruments or ensembles. This limits the young person’s exposure to good or-gans of all shapes and sizes and, as a result, their interest.”
Randi L’Hommedieu, the director of the School of Music, says the lack of interest in the organ also results from the organ not appearing very often in today’s culture.
“It’s not featured as much in popular and broadcast music,” L’Hommedieu said. “But it is still a staple of church music, concert music and you hear it on public radio all the time. The organ is a beautiful instrument and attracts high quality students.”
L’Hommedieu says the organ in Staples Hall has been featured on television and is the center-piece of the organ program.
“It is a 61 rank, three manual concert organ,” L’Hommedieu said. “It has been featured on NPR’s ‘Pipe Dreams’ three times.”
Egler, in addition to teach-ing, has performed and con-
tributed to organ music and is well-known around the world for his work.
“He is a nationally prominent organist,” L’Hommedieu said. “He is also an o� cer in the American Guild of Organists.”
Although the enrollment of organists at CMU is small, Egler says the program is still as strong as ever.
He said the students in the program are very talented and will become very successful.
“The program interests very talented and intelligent musicians who are older and determined to learn the instru-ment, sometimes after many years of delaying study,” Egler
said. “There are fewer organists than in the past, but they come to the instrument with great interest and dedication and are very successful.”
When Michaud fi nishes in May, the degree will signify an end to his higher education ca-reer, but not his love of the organ.
“I like the grandeur of the organ,” Michaud said. “It’s been called the king of instruments. It’s very versatile, it has incred-ible possibilities for di� erent kinds of sound and it’s the only instrument that can really fi ll a concert hall or church.”
Organ program participation dwindles, students show promise
Morgan Taylor | Staff PhotographerGraduate student Jay Michaud practices a piece on the organ on Nov. 4 in the auditorium in the Music Building.
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Volleyball swept by EMU in final home match
By Aaron McMannSenior Reporter
The physicality in practice was amped up, the words a little more vicious.
It’s almost time to play.Central Michigan and
Western Michigan meet on the fi eld for the 84th time Saturday (Noon, ESPN+/ESPN3), but not without important ramifi cations for the 3-6 Chippewas.
“Our bowl future’s still at hand,” senior tailback Zurlon Tipton said. “We win these three games, you never know what happens. That’s our goal right now: Win the next game because it’s a very important game, but defi nitely win these last three games.”
Tipton, who made his return last week against Ball State after su� ering a broken
ankle in the season-opener at Michigan, eased o� the smack talk earlier in the week, opting only to take an indirect shot at the city of Kalamazoo rather than the Broncos.
He learned his lesson from last year, after putting up 112 yards rushing but losing to the Broncos, 42-31, in Mount Pleasant.
“I don’t like to talk about it, especially with it being my se-nior year,” Tipton said. “This is my last hurrah, I’m looking to give everything I got.”
CMU head coach Dan Enos opted to downplay Saturday’s game, declining to single this game out as a “must-win.”
“Every game I’ve ever played or coached in is must-win,” Enos said. “If I play in a pickup basketball game, I
think it’s a must-win. That’s how I’m wired. I think they all are.”
Junior receiver Titus Da-vis, though, wants a win. Not only is he playing opposite his brother, WMU receiver Corey Davis, but he’s also 0-2 against the Broncos.
He calls it an opportunity to “get back on track.”
“I’m itching and scratch-ing to get to this game,” Davis said. “We need this win. We haven’t had the cannon here since I’ve been here and this is a great opportunity for us to bring that back and get this win.”
WMU head coach P.J. Fleck, in his fi rst year in Kalamazoo, says he’s put a special emphasis on the game. The season hasn’t necessarily gone the way he wanted, the Broncos enter
1-9, but everything changes during rivalry week.
He knows, having been on the coaching sta� at Ohio State (graduate assistant, 2006) in the past.
“I’m not one of those coaches that downplays the rivalry. It’s another game, yes, but it’s not another game. It’s Central,” Fleck said. “I love to embrace the rivalry, because that’s what college football is about. A lot of other levels don’t have that, and that’s what makes it so special. You bet we’re embracing it.
“You’re playing for some-thing. It really doesn’t matter you’re records, you want to be 1-0 in the Central Michigan week.”
By Dominick MastrangeloStaff Reporter
Central Michigan’s newest varsity sport is set to begin its fi rst season next spring since being rebooted.
Thanks to Title IX legisla-tion, CMU will be able to fi eld a women’s golf team for the fi rst time since 1982 this year. The fi rst CMU golf roster in 30 years is comprised of fi ve players, each with a unique playing style and successful golfi ng history.
Holly Hines, a freshman from Three Rivers High School, earned fi rst-team all-state Division 3 honors during her senior campaign.
Another Michigan native, Amanda Walsh, is a four-time fi rst team Saginaw Valley Con-ference fi nisher and is sure
to make an impact in her fi rst season at CMU.
Arielle Roberts is a native of Hoschton, Ga. and is a two-time Gwinnett County High School Spring Kicko� champion. She is regarded as one of the best golfers in her area’s history.
Natalie Johnson is from Nashville, Ill. and was part of an Illinois State Champion-ship team her senior year. Johnson was apart of the fi fth place Illinois state champion-ship team and was named to the SICA All-State and All-South Girls Golf Team.
Finally, Flint-native Kristen Wolfe joins the Chippewas after earning four varsity let-ters at Flint Powers Catholic High School. Wolfe earned fi rst team division 4 all-state honors and also named Big 9
Conference honorable men-tion and fi rst team honors in back-to-back seasons.
“The fact that we have a lot of young talent is not neces-sarily a bad thing,” head coach Tom Beidleman said. “I think we can be pretty competitive right out of the gate.”
Beidleman says he hopes in a few years CMU is seen as the go-to institution for aspiring female golfers across the state.
“There are so many high schools in the state of Michi-gan with good golf programs,” he said. “We really wanted to focus our recruiting e� ort here in the state.”
Beidleman said he is confident golf will be an ace in the popularity hole with CMU’s students and athletics audience.
WMU a must win game for Chippewas
CMU golf team set to swing into action for first time since ‘82
Andrew Kuhn | File Photo Junior running back Zurlon Tipton breaks through the WMU defense during the second half of the game Nov. 3, 2012 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
File Photo | Charlotte BodakRecently hired women’s golf head coach Tom Beidleman talks about what his plans are for Central Michigna women’s golf on April 18 in the McGuirk Arena Press Room.
Make or Break
By Joe JuddStaff Reporter
In its fi nal home match of the season, volleyball was swept by Eastern Michigan Thursday, 23-25, 13-25 and 19-25 on Thursday.
A win for the Chippewas would have meant a playo� berth in the Mid-American Conference Tournament, but will now have to win on the road on Saturday against Ohio if they want to clinch a spot in the postseason.
Missing from the starting lineup was senior setter Kelly
Maxwell. This was the fi rst match to not feature the team’s starting setter since it lost to Northern Illinois on Oct. 5.
“This was a tough situation for us to be in, not having two healthy setters,” said head coach Erik Olson. “With that considered, I would have wanted to see a better e� ort out of us from start to fi nish.”
Starting in Maxwell’s place was junior Danielle Thomp-son. In Thompson’s fi rst start in more than a month, she compiled 29 assists and 11 digs on the night.
“We miss Kelly (Maxwell)
to death, and we want to get her to get healthy as soon as possible,” Thompson said. “The team has total faith in me and I have total faith in the team.”
The fi rst set started with the Eagles grabbing the lead, and Maxwell’s absence was surely felt on the court. Despite this, CMU was quick to bounce back, mounting a streak of points late in the set, to tie the Eagles at 23. EMU, however, would go on to score the set’s next two points to win the set.
“We certainly sparked
coming out of the locker room and we ran a good race in the second part of the set,” Olson said.
CMU had 12 errors overall in the fi rst set alone, but senior outside hitter Katie Schuette had six kills in the fi rst set and had 11 kills and nine digs overall for the match.
“The season is not over yet,” Schuette said. “Unfor-tunately it was the last home game for us, but I do have faith that we can take it to Ohio.”
Guevara, Chippewas brace for road test at Kentucky Sunday
By Joe JuddStaff Reporter
After reaching the century mark with a win against UMass to start the season, women’s basket-ball faces a much different test this weekend with a 2 p.m. tipoff Sunday at No. 7 Kentucky.
This will be just the first of the many ranked oppo-nents the Chippewas will face this season, but head coach Sue Guevara is keep-ing her team focused.
“I’ve been pleased with the energy and the focus that we’ve had in practice this week,” Guevara said.
Instead of looking up to the Wildcats, Guevara sees this weekend’s meeting as an ideal chance for the Chippewas.
“We have a really good opportunity in front of us,” Guevara said. “We get to play the No. 7 team in the country, but I think it’ll be a fun game; Kentucky puts their shoes on just like we do.”
With so many players achieving success during last Sunday’s game, it is going to be key for CMU to play aggressively against the Wildcats.
“With the pace of the game, I anticipate that I’ll be able to go nine or ten deep, if possible,” Guevara said.
The Wildcats, members of the SEC, are a big and physical team, in addition to being quick up and down the court. If they want any chance of stopping Ken-tucky, the Chippewas will
need to play good team basketball.
“We have to stop (Ken-tucky) in transition, and in order to stop them in tran-sition, we have to control the boards,” Guevara said.
Traveling to Lexington to play will also pose a new element of difficulty for CMU. As Guevara has con-tinuously mentioned, the court is 94 feet and the rims are 10 feet high. The rank-ing of a team or the place-ment of the court doesn’t change the game.
Junior forward Jas’mine Bracey is not concerned or intimidated by the many strengths that the Wild-cats posses. In the victory against the Minutewomen last Sunday, Bracey put up 14 points and 13 rebounds en route to her eighth ca-reer double-double.
“Rankings don’t really mean anything (to us),” Bracey said. “You prove it out on the court and just take it one game at a time.”
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“I’ve been pleased with the energy and the focus
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Gregory Cornwell | Staff PhotographerJunior outside hitter Kaitlyn McIntyre readies to spike the ball against Eastern Michigan Thursday evening at McGuirk Arena. McIntyre had 10 kills in the Eagles rout of the Chippewas.
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Cody Kater, the football team needs you back.
It needs you back badly, with an all-or-nothing scenario ahead of Central Michigan, which has to win to become bowl eligible.
Starting quarterback Cooper Rush has thrown 11 intercep-tions this season, including one at Ball State on Wednesday.
The worst part is he should have many more.
It was evident even in his best drive of the fi rst half when he compiled 45 passing yards and completed three-of-seven
Jeff Papworth
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Football needs Kater
passes, including one to convert a fourth down.
The Chippewas were at Ball State’s 13 on second down and he lofted a pass to Titus Davis, only to have the ball nose dive well short of Davis, who had to swat it away from a defender.
When Rush has more skills to back up his confi dence, teams should watch out. Until then, his confi dence is his weakness.
On the next play, he was obviously unfazed by his near-interception and tossed the ball, again to Davis, who was blan-keted by not one, or even two or three, but four defenders.
Luckily for him, it was yet an-other dangerous pass that was not added to his already high interception total, and CMU was able to kick a fi eld goal for its only points of the fi rst half.
On the other side stood Ball State’s Keith Wenning, who showed what a good quarter-back can do for a team, leading the Cardinals to 31 points in the fi rst half.
In a conference that includes Jordan Lynch, Wenning does not bring much fl ash, or exiting plays for that matter. He gets the job done, throwing four touchdown passes and com-pleting 20-of-29 passes for 299
yards in the game.No one is saying Kater is
comparable to Wenning. He might not be half as good as one of the best players in the Mid-American Conference. But he’s better than what CMU is presented with now.
Look, Rush is not all to blame. He was third on the depth chart for a reason, which was his inexperience.
He continues to show glimpses of how good he could be, with a 26-yard run for a touchdown and a 22-yard passing touchdown after the game was decided against the Cardinals.
A change needs to be made after CMU is notifi ed that Kater is healthy and will not risk further injury.
Enough with the swing passes to the running backs, the costly interceptions and also the lousy pocket presence.
Kater should be a fi n-ished product in terms of his acumen at quarterback and knowledge of defensive attacks after going through hoops in his college career.
So, give Kater a chance to fi n-ish what he barely started.
CMU has to if it wants to maximize its shot at another bowl bid.
Central Michigan will travel to Western Michigan this Satur-day to play its rival.
WMU fi rst year coach P.J. Fleck has mouthed o� quite a bit this season, his latest ques-tionable quote includes saying that CMU and WMU are a Top 10 rivalry in college sports.
Really?
SethNewman
StaffReporter
CMU vs. WMU: A
Top 10 rivalry?
Let’s take a look at some of the biggest rivalries in college in no particular order.
Obviously, Ohio State and the University of Michigan comes to mind, as the fans of those schools refuse to even say the name of the other school. When Ohio State and Michigan play, it’s even called “The Game.”
Staying in Michigan, you have Michigan State and Michi-gan, where the trash talking spans all year long, with “little brother” or “big sister” chants echoing on the message boards.
Throw in Michigan State vs. Notre Dame, who have been playing since 1897 against each other and includes the “Game of the Century” that ended in a 10-10 tie in 1966.
Finally leaving the state of Michigan and heading south, you have Alabama vs. Auburn. It’s one of the most heated rivalries, with an Alabama fan in 2010 poisoning Auburn’s famous 130-year old oak trees and being sent to prison.
Just to quickly name a few other rivalries in college sports, you have Texas vs. Oklahoma, Army vs. Navy, Florida vs. Florida State, USC vs. UCLA,
Florida vs. Georgia and Oregon vs. Oregon State.
Why are these rivalries better than CMU vs. WMU?
People outside of the respec-tive cities actually watch them. They have winning traditions. They have huge fan bases. Fans of these schools are raised to hate the other school. The big-gest reason why these rivalries are bigger? Fans actually come to watch the game.
I know a majority of you are going down to WMU to party and tailgate, which is all good and fun, but how many are actually going to pay to get into the game?
Do you guys even care who wins? Is your week going to be ruined if WMU wins? It seems like our biggest rivalry with WMU is to see who can party harder and call each other’s female population “grenades.”
This game is a rivalry, but I don’t think any of us really care about the outcome. We want a fun party atmosphere and an excuse to burn a couch.
P.J. Fleck likes to “row” his boat, but you know what they say: Loose lips sink ships.
Better hope Fleck has some life jackets on board.
Samantha Madar | Staff PhotographerSophomore guard Austin Stewart pushes past Manchester players during CMU’s Nov. 8 101-49 victory at McGuirk Arena.
By Seth NewmanStaff Reporter
The men’s basketball team aims to get back on track at 6:30 p.m. Saturday when it hosts Pepperdine (2-0) in McGuirk Arena.
Central Michigan (1-1) is coming o� a 10 point loss to Bradley, but improvement is starting to show, as CMU lost to Bradley last year by 17.
Sophomore guard Austin Stewart says the team wants to get more physical.
“We can always improve on any area,” Stewart said. “But rebounding, we want to put focus on that. We want to be tough and play good defense.”
The fi rst correction the team is planning to make before taking on Pepperdine is rebounding. CMU was out rebounded by Bradley 50-28.
Head coach Keno Davis said despite poor shooting and rebounding, CMU was in it at the end.
“The big positives coming from that game are we only had six turnovers,” Davis said. “You get out rebound-ed by 20-plus rebounds and you shoot six-for-30, yet it’s
only a 10 point game. I think we need to take better shot selections as well as trying to improve on our defense to rebound.”
Pepperdine pushes the ball up the court fast. Lead-ing the charge for them is sophomore forward Stacey Davis, who averages 23.5 points per game.
“They push the ball really well,” Stewart said. “They like to play 94 feet and quick. They like to shoot the ball quickly and they are good at it, so we’re prepping for that.”
CMU is familiar with Pepperdine, as the two teams played last year. CMU won 80-77.
Davis says since last year Pepperdine has added more talent on the team, making them tough to defend.
“We’re a little bit familiar with them, having played
them last year,” Davis said. “They have a lot of new players who have come in and improved the talent level. They just got a road win. I think you’re going to see a physical team but yet a team that can run in transi-tion. They are an all-around tough team to defend.”
Stewart will be one of the players to be asked to play tough, physical de-fense. According to him, he is up for the challenge and wants to be the spark for CMU this season.
“I really wanted to become an all-around complete player,” Stewart said. “So I could help the team and I also wanted to become that player who kind of brings a spark to the game. I hope I can do that this season.”
Men’s basketball looks to toughen up against rebounding Pepperdine
“I think we need to take better shot selections as well as trying to
improve on our defense to rebound.”
Keno Davis, head coach
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Wrestling will step on the mat for the first time at home at 7 p.m. tomorrow in McGuirk Arena for a dual meet against Utah Valley.
His team, fresh off a strong start at the Michigan State Open, head coach Tom Borrelli is still looking to see improvement out of his lineup each week. He said he is interested in how the young Chippewas will come out on Friday in a drasti-cally different setting than the tournament atmosphere they experienced just last weekend.
“I’m just mostly looking to see improvement and to see that attitude and ag-gressiveness that our guys wrestle with,” Borrelli said. “We’ll see how some of them will compete in a dual meet. It’s different from a tournament in that in a dual, everyone is focused on you.”
Central Michigan will face some tough matchups against a few Wolverines,
which sent three wrestlers to the NCAA Champion-ships last season. Expecta-tions are high for UVU, which placed third in the Western Wrestling Confer-ence and is welcoming back nine of their 10 starters from last year’s 6-4 team.
Seniors Avery Garner at 141, Curtis Cook at 165 and 174-pounder Monte Schmallhaus each placed second at last year’s con-ference tournament. Also dangerous are 125-pound sophomore Jade Rauser and junior heavyweight Adam Fager, both ranked in the Top 20 nationally.
The Chippewas hope to counter with 141-pound sophomore Zach Horan, who took first place in this weight class last week at MSU. He is joined by 125-pound redshirt fresh-man Corey Keener and junior Mike Ottinger at 174, who also placed in the top three over the weekend.
The CMU home crowd will certainly provide ad-ditional support, although Borrelli recognizes being
at home for the first meet could possibly become a distraction.
“I just think its important that we keep our composure and do what we’re capable of doing, as opposed to try-ing to get too caught up in things,” Borrelli said.
Senior Joe Roth is still questionable to put on a
singlet after sustaining an injury in the semifinal match at the 133 pound open. Borrelli said he’s doing well but it’s still up in the air whether he’ll be wrestling this weekend.
Wrestling opens up McGuirk Arena on Friday
Kaitlin Thoresen | File PhotoSophomore 157-pounder Lucas Smith beat Kent State’s Tommy Sasfy in a 6-3 decision on Jan. 27 at McGuirk Arena. CMU beat Kent State 27-8.
“The community is very pumped about it. Golf is a big deal here in Mount Pleasant,” he said. “A lot
of people have played golf but just don’t think about it. Now that (CMU) has a team, they may be a little bit more apt to get out there and get involved in the game.”
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Junior outside hitter Kaitlyn McIntyre had 10 kills to go with 12 digs against the Eagles.
The second set started in similar fashion to the first, with Eastern Michigan jumping ahead of the Chip-pewas. This time, there was no comeback in the works for Central Michi-gan, as they dropped the second set 25-13.
In a much more con-tested third and final set, the Chippewas and the Eagles were neck and neck, trading tie scores and lead changes seemingly every few minutes. Each team showed its resiliency and never backed down
throughout the set. Even-tually, the Eagles came out on top with a score of 25-19.
Having spent a vast majority of the season on the bench behind Max-well, Thompson’s rust was evident early on, but as the night continued, Thomp-son’s confidence level grew.
The Chippewas will be back on the court on at 7 p.m. Saturday to take on Ohio in Athens, Ohio. CMU must win in order to secure a place in the MAC Tournament.
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