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Breakdown CMU’s paychecks for playing various teams in football | LIFE CENTRAL MICHIGAN Bartenders tell stories about daily shenanigans they deal with, 1B [cm-life.com] Central Michigan University Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011 Faith Hope Freedom uses art as form of therapy, 5A [ INSIDE ] w Authors speak about academic problems , 3A 93 Years of Serving as Central Michigan University’s Independent Voice w Aficionados debate boxed, bottled wine, 1B w Hypnotist wows crowd in Anspach show, 3A By Sienna Monczunski Staff Reporter Madison Heights junior Mat- thew Black died this weekend, ac- cording to information released by the Office of Student Life. Black, 22, worked as a lead photographer for Betts Photo Industries according to his Facebook page. Oak Park resident and close friend Peter Weisberg said he at- tended the Center for Advanced Studies and the Arts, 23561 Rosewood St., Oak Park, where he met Black. “He was one of the most warm, friendly and outgoing people I have ever had the plea- sure of knowing,” Weisberg said in an email. “He was the kind of person that would always stay in touch and drop a line just to say hello.” Weisberg said Black was a great inspiration and will be missed. “He was always straightfor- ward and showed a genuine interest in others lives,” he said. “He had a great sense of humor and a sage-like wisdom that was far beyond his years.” According to an obituary from Hopcroft Funeral Homes, Black was the son and stepson of Aileen and Lyle Hnidy and Timothy and Sandra Black. He was the sibling of Cortney and Bill Schmaltz, Timothy and Lindsay Black, Erik Black, and stepbrother Brandon Lang and stepsister Brittany Bryan. The obituary listed Sterling Heights senior Holly Smith as Black’s girlfriend. Visitation was held from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. His funeral ser- vice is today at Hopcroft Funeral Home, 31145 John R. Road, in Madison Heights. [email protected] Student dies; cause unknown NICK DOBSON/DESIGNER Madison Heights junior Matthew Black, 22, pictured in his car in April, 2011 died from unknown causes over the weekend. By Annie Harrison Senior Reporter Three U.S. senators intro- duced a bill last week that would increase the num- ber of Medicare-supported graduate medical education residency slots at hospitals by at least 15,000. The Resident Physi- cian Shortage Act of 2011 would increase the num- ber of residency slots by about 3,000 each year from 2013 to 2017, for a total of 15,000 slots over the five- year period. At least half of the slots each fiscal year will be used for full-time equivalent residents train- ing in a shortage specialty residency program. Senators Bill Nelson, D- Fla., Charles Schumer, D- N.Y., and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., intro- duced the bill to provide for the distribution of addi- tional residence positions across the U.S. As previously reported by Central Michigan Life, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 set a cap on resi- dencies that limits the number of students who can do residencies. The 1997 act did not reduce residency spots, but it did limit the amount of mon- ey Medicare could con- tribute. According to the bill, first priority will go to hospitals in states with new medicals schools that received “Can- didate School” status from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or “Pre- Accreditation” status from the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Ac- creditation on or after Jan. 1, 2000 and are progressing toward accreditation. First priority also includes addi- tional locations and branch campuses established by accredited medical schools on or after Jan. 1, 2000. Dr. Ernest Yoder, found- ing dean of the College of Medicine, said in an email he supports the legislation because it would increase the number of graduate medical education posi- tions. Dean hopeful bill will pass to increase jobs for graduates Ed and Mary Filhart know a little bit about raising everything, from horses to crops to children. On a back country road in Shepherd, their white house sits adjacent to a green pasture where their horses graze. Ed raises and trains Belgian colts and horses and has two colts and four Belgian horses, which he broke to ride in teams and pull wagons for yard work. “The horses used to do everything on the farm,” Ed said. “Now, we use tractors.” Ed trains all of his work horses from birth, never pur- chasing a horse already broken. A swing set, sandbox, small garden and an old apple tree lay behind the home that used to house the Filhart’s 12 children. Now the children are all grown, but most of them have stayed near the Shepherd farm to be close to their siblings, nieces, nephews and in-laws. PHOTOS BY TANYA MOUTZALIAS/SPECIAL TO CENTRAL MICHIGAN LIFE Shepherd resident Ed Filhart sits on a wagon in a barn Sept. 15 at his farm. Filhart raised 12 kids with his wife of 46 years, Mary, on their farm in Shepherd. Now they have 24 grand- children who come to visit frequently. Most days Ed spends his time maintaining the farm and training his Belgian horses to pull wagons and carts for yard work. Filhart’s grandchild Emma, 7, picks raspberries Sept. 17 at the farm. The grandchildren competed to see who could fill their carton of raspberries fastest. Home grown Local farm family continues to work through life changes By Tanya Moutzalias | Special to Central Michigan Life A FARM | 2A By Sammy Dubin Staff Reporter During Tuesday’s Aca- demic Senate meeting, University President George Ross admitted to overstepping his bounds in a statement he made regarding the Faculty As- sociation’s plans to chal- lenge a state law. Public Act 54 prevents all salary bonuses after the expiration of a collec- tive bargaining agreement contract. Since the FA’s contract expired June 30, about 40 to 60 promoted faculty are eligible to receive lump sum payments for this year, FA President Laura Frey said. The FA challenged the law constitutionally with the help of the Michigan Education Association. Associate professor of English language and liter- ature and director of com- position Melinda Kreth questioned Ross on a pre- vious statement he had made about the matter. “President Ross, you stated before that based on your interpretation of PA 54, you disagreed with the new law, but were un- willing to challenge it be- cause the other Michigan A-Senate questions Ross’ statement on state law challenge President says he stated his personal feelings By Matt Thompson Assistant Sports Editor The athletics program is making a significant portion of its revenue off the football team playing road games. On Saturday, the Chippewas will make $450,000 to play at North Carolina State. Athletics needs that revenue to function and much of it comes from away games that are contracted, Athletics Direc- tor Dave Heeke said. “On our best day where we sellout, we’re only making $300,000 at best and that’s just gross revenue, not net reve- nue,” Heeke said. The Chippewas had to pay South Carolina State $300,000 to come to Mount Pleasant, which created a loss of money, Heeke said. That’s why CMU typically only plays one non-conference home game a year. “You have to go on the road to generate revenue,” Heeke said. “Home games are impor- tant and good for our fan base, but in reality, we need to get revenue.” Heeke tries to schedule non- conference games five to 10 years in advance. The contract with Michi- gan for a 2013 game is still be- ing ironed out and although it won’t be for $1 million, Heeke says it will bring in “significant revenue.” “Large schools are able to pay more out,” Heeke said. “Michigan will make $5 million on an average football Satur- CMU gets $950,000 for Kentucky, MSU games A GAMES | 2A A ROSS | 2A A JOBS | 6A TEAM Georgia Kentucky MSU N.C. State Clemson U-M N.C. State YEAR 2008 2011 2011 2018 2011 2014 2013 2013 MONEY $875,000 $450,000 $500,000 $450,000 $500,000 TBA* $250,000 *Being negotiated Five of the Filhart’s grandchildren play in the yard Sept. 17 planting corn in their sandbox and swinging on the tree swing. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE University makes $300,000 on best days at home
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Bartenders tell stories about daily shenanigans they deal with, 1B
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Central Michigan University Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011Faith Hope Freedom uses art as form of therapy, 5A
[INSIDE]w Authors speak about academic problems , 3A
93 Years of Serving as Central Michigan University’s Independent Voice
w Aficionados debate boxed, bottled wine, 1B
w Hypnotist wows crowd in Anspach show, 3A
By Sienna MonczunskiStaff Reporter
Madison Heights junior Mat-thew Black died this weekend, ac-cording to information released by the Office of Student Life.
Black, 22, worked as a lead photographer for Betts Photo Industries according to his Facebook page.
Oak Park resident and close friend Peter Weisberg said he at-tended the Center for Advanced Studies and the Arts, 23561 Rosewood St., Oak Park, where he met Black.
“He was one of the most
warm, friendly and outgoing people I have ever had the plea-sure of knowing,” Weisberg said in an email. “He was the kind of person that would always stay in touch and drop a line just to say hello.”
Weisberg said Black was a great inspiration and will be missed.
“He was always straightfor-ward and showed a genuine interest in others lives,” he said. “He had a great sense of humor and a sage-like wisdom that was far beyond his years.”
According to an obituary from Hopcroft Funeral Homes,
Black was the son and stepson of Aileen and Lyle Hnidy and Timothy and Sandra Black.
He was the sibling of Cortney and Bill Schmaltz, Timothy and Lindsay Black, Erik Black, and stepbrother Brandon Lang and stepsister Brittany Bryan.
The obituary listed Sterling Heights senior Holly Smith as Black’s girlfriend.
Visitation was held from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday. His funeral ser-vice is today at Hopcroft Funeral Home, 31145 John R. Road, in Madison Heights.
Student dies; cause unknown
NICK DOBSON/DESIGNERMadison Heights junior Matthew Black, 22, pictured in his car in April, 2011 died from unknown causes over the weekend.
By Annie HarrisonSenior Reporter
Three U.S. senators intro-duced a bill last week that would increase the num-ber of Medicare-supported graduate medical education residency slots at hospitals by at least 15,000.
The Resident Physi-cian Shortage Act of 2011 would increase the num-ber of residency slots by about 3,000 each year from 2013 to 2017, for a total of 15,000 slots over the five-year period. At least half of the slots each fiscal year will be used for full-time equivalent residents train-ing in a shortage specialty residency program.
Senators Bill Nelson, D-Fla., Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., intro-duced the bill to provide for the distribution of addi-tional residence positions across the U.S.
As previously reported by Central Michigan Life, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 set a cap on resi-dencies that limits the
number of students who can do residencies. The 1997 act did not reduce residency spots, but it did limit the amount of mon-ey Medicare could con-tribute.
According to the bill, first priority will go to hospitals in states with new medicals schools that received “Can-didate School” status from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or “Pre-Accreditation” status from the American Osteopathic Association Commission on Osteopathic College Ac-creditation on or after Jan. 1, 2000 and are progressing toward accreditation. First priority also includes addi-tional locations and branch campuses established by accredited medical schools on or after Jan. 1, 2000.
Dr. Ernest Yoder, found-ing dean of the College of Medicine, said in an email he supports the legislation because it would increase the number of graduate medical education posi-tions.
Dean hopeful bill will pass to increase jobs for graduates
Ed and Mary Filhart know a little bit about raising everything, from horses to crops to children.
On a back country road in Shepherd, their white house sits adjacent to a green pasture where their horses graze.
Ed raises and trains Belgian colts and horses and has two colts and four Belgian horses, which he broke to ride in teams and pull wagons for yard work.
“The horses used to do everything on the farm,” Ed said. “Now, we use tractors.”
Ed trains all of his work horses from birth, never pur-chasing a horse already broken.
A swing set, sandbox, small garden and an old apple tree lay behind the home that used to house the Filhart’s 12 children. Now the children are all grown, but most of them have stayed near the Shepherd farm to be close to their siblings, nieces, nephews and in-laws.
PHOTOS BY TANYA MOUTZALIAS/SPECIAL TO CENTRAL MICHIGAN LIFE
Shepherd resident Ed Filhart sits on a wagon in a barn Sept. 15 at his farm. Filhart raised 12 kids with his wife of 46 years, Mary, on their farm in Shepherd. Now they have 24 grand-children who come to visit frequently. Most days Ed spends his time maintaining the farm and training his Belgian horses to pull wagons and carts for yard work.
Filhart’s grandchild Emma, 7, picks raspberries Sept. 17 at the farm. The grandchildren competed to see who could fill their carton of raspberries fastest.
Homegrown
Local farm family continuesto work through life changes
By Tanya Moutzalias | Special to Central Michigan Life
A FARM | 2A
By Sammy DubinStaff Reporter
During Tuesday’s Aca-demic Senate meeting, University President George Ross admitted to overstepping his bounds in a statement he made regarding the Faculty As-sociation’s plans to chal-lenge a state law.
Public Act 54 prevents all salary bonuses after the expiration of a collec-tive bargaining agreement contract.
Since the FA’s contract expired June 30, about 40
to 60 promoted faculty are eligible to receive lump sum payments for this year, FA President Laura Frey said.
The FA challenged the law constitutionally with the help of the Michigan Education Association.
Associate professor of English language and liter-ature and director of com-position Melinda Kreth questioned Ross on a pre-vious statement he had made about the matter.
“President Ross, you stated before that based on your interpretation of PA 54, you disagreed with the new law, but were un-willing to challenge it be-cause the other Michigan
A-Senate questions Ross’ statement on state law challengePresident sayshe stated hispersonal feelings
By Matt ThompsonAssistant Sports Editor
The athletics program is making a significant portion of
its revenue off the football team playing road games.
On Saturday, the Chippewas will make $450,000 to play at North Carolina State.
Athletics needs that revenue to function and much of it comes from away games that are contracted, Athletics Direc-tor Dave Heeke said.
“On our best day where we
sellout, we’re only making $300,000 at best and that’s just gross revenue, not net reve-nue,” Heeke said.
The Chippewas had to pay South Carolina State $300,000 to come to Mount Pleasant, which created a loss of money, Heeke said.
That’s why CMU typically only plays one non-conference
home game a year.“You have to go on the road
to generate revenue,” Heeke said. “Home games are impor-tant and good for our fan base, but in reality, we need to get revenue.”
Heeke tries to schedule non-conference games five to 10 years in advance.
The contract with Michi-
gan for a 2013 game is still be-ing ironed out and although it won’t be for $1 million, Heeke says it will bring in “significant revenue.”
“Large schools are able to pay more out,” Heeke said. “Michigan will make $5 million on an average football Satur-
CMU gets $950,000 for Kentucky, MSU games
A GAMES | 2A
A ROSS | 2A
A JOBS | 6A
TEAMGeorgiaKentuckyMSU
N.C. StateClemsonU-MN.C. State
YEAR20082011201120182011201420132013
MONEY$875,000$450,000
$500,000$450,000$500,000TBA*$250,000
*Being negotiated
Five of the Filhart’s grandchildren play in the yard Sept. 17 planting corn in their sandbox and swinging on the tree swing.
C O L L E G E O F M E D I C I N E
University makes $300,000 on best days at home
In the early morning, the farm is quiet except for the two dogs, Louie and Willie, who loyally follow Ed around the yard.
Late afternoon is when the farm comes to life.
Members of this large family are always coming by the farm to help and bring the 24 grandchil-dren together to play in the yard.
Ed’s sons and son-in-laws come to help him with the heavy labor of farm work. They use corn stacked in the walls of a small barn to mix up feed for the horses. The family comes to the farm to help pick raspberries, apples and tomatoes from the garden. The Filharts also grow large soy bean and corn crops.
When it comes to the fun tasks around the farm, the whole family lends a hand. On a warm, sunny September after-noon, Ed spent time with his daughters and grand-children picking raspber-ries from the patch be-hind their house.
“Don’t eat too many,” Ed said to his family. “You’ll get a stomachache.”
When the family leaves to go back to their re-spectful homes, Ed and Mary are left in their front yard waving good-bye as their grandchil-dren shout farewells from the car windows all the way down the long, dirt drive.
“And then it gets quiet again,” Ed said.
It is hard to get the family together for events and holidays, so this year Christmas will be cel-ebrated mid-November instead of December.
It’s the only time the entire extended family can come together.
“The kids are all very close and supportive of each other,” Mary said.
Their closeness can be attributed to their once close quarters. Before they added an addition to their home, the Filharts only had one bathroom and said there would be a line in front of the bath-room door before school.
Although only Ed and Mary reside in the house now, they said it is still home to the whole family.
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Sunday October 9th 12pm - Campus Chalking (Bovee UC) 5pm - � e Quest for Central Spirit (Finch Fieldhouse) 10pm - Homecoming Medallion Hunt Starts
Monday October 10th 11am - Central Block Party (Pearce Courtyard) 5:30pm - St. Jude’s Letter Sending Campaign (Finch Fieldhouse) 6pm - Chippewa Food Relay (Finch Fieldhouse)
Tuesday October 11th 7:30pm - � e Amazing Race (Rose Center Gym 126) 9pm - Transformers: Dark of the Moon (UC Auditorium)
Wednesday October 12th 6pm - Homecoming Trivia Contest (Finch Fieldhouse)
8pm - Homecoming “Mystery Event” (Finch Fieldhouse)
� ursday October 13th 6pm - Chippewa Field Games (Finch Fieldhouse)
Friday October 14th 7pm - Chippewa Rock Rally (Plachta Auditorium) 10pm - Party @ the Floats (Finch Fieldhouse)
Saturday October 15th 8am - Homecoming 5k Race (Finch Fieldhouse) 11am - Homecoming Parade 3pm - CMU Football vs. Eastern Michigan University 8:30pm - Comedian Chris Tucker (CMU Events Center)
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WEDNESDAYw Let’s Do Lunch: Featuring Mark Cox and a performance of ‘‘Musical Imagery’’ will take place from noon to 1 p.m. at the Art Reach on Broadway, 111 E. Broadway St.
w Poet Aimee Nezhuku-matathil will be performing from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Charles V. Park Library’s Baber room.
w Traveling: New Works on Paper by Bill Hosterman will be on display from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Charles V. Park Library.
w Papa’s Pumpkin Patch Corn Maze, 3909 S. Summerton Road, will open at 10 a.m.
THURSDAYw “Star By Star: Naomi Long Madgett as Poet and Pub-lisher’’ will be shown from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the Charles V. Park Library’s auditorium.
w The University Theatre will present ‘‘The Wrestling Season’’ from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Moore Hall, Theatre-On-The Side.
w Faculty Artist Lindabeth Binkley will perform from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
w A Classroom Response Systems (“Clickers”): Re-sponseWare / iOS Device Us-age workshop will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Charles V. Park Library in room 413.
w The program “Is Joint Re-placement Right for You?” will take place from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Central Michigan Commu-nity Hospital, 1221 South Drive, in the FDJ Conference Room.
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day. That’s why they’re able to pay visiting teams that they’re favored to win. The more com-petitive the game, the lower the price.”
When CMU goes to closer schools, they don’t make as much money simply because they don’t have to pay as much to travel. A bus ride to East Lan-sing and plane trip to Clemson is a big difference.
Heeke said he’s having conversations with multiple schools to make $1 million deals to play road games. He couldn’t disclose those schools since talks are in early stages.
CMU has constructed 2-for-1 deals with N.C. State and Okla-homa State which will bring those schools to Kelly/Shorts Stadium for a game.
Even though CMU is mak-ing $450,000 Saturday at N.C. State, it will only make $250,000 on its next trip in 2013. That’s because CMU will pay back the $250,000 for the Wolfpack to play in Mount Pleasant in 2014.
Neither Michigan State or CMU will pay each other when MSU comes to Mount Pleasant next year or when CMU goes there in 2015. The Spartans will make more off a single game with more seats, but Heeke still sees it as win-win.
Heeke expects the MSU game next year to bring in the largest single-game revenue CMU has seen. The ticket pric-es will be raised significantly for that game as supply will be low and demand high.
If MSU didn’t come to Mount Pleasant for that game next year, instead of making $500,000 in two games with the Spartans, CMU could have made up toward $700,000 on a visit to MSU, according to Heeke.
The most revenue gained from an away game was in 2008 going to Georgia for $875,000, back when the Bull-dogs were ranked No. 1 in the country.
“You got to generate rev-enue to run a program,” Heeke said. “It’s raising a significant piece of our revenue, there’s no doubt.”
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public university presi-dents would not support you,” Kreth said.
Kreth went on to ask Ross why he didn’t choose to support his faculty in challenging the law.
Ross responded by say-ing that he still believes that statement, however overstepped his bounds and was stating his per-sonal feeling of what he believed against the legal realities.
Ross said he told his le-gal counsel they have to adhere to PA 54.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE COMPETITION
A bill that has reached the state Senate would al-low community colleges to offer four-year degrees.
At the A-Senate meet-ing, Vice President of De-velopment and External Relations Kathy Wilbur said such a bill would
have a tremendously neg-ative effect on the state’s universities.
“Community colleges make the argument that this is a cheaper way to offer a four-year degree,” Wilbur said.
Wilbur said initially there would be only four or five programs offered for a four-year degree, but eventually it is the ability to be able to offer any degree of a four-year major.
“We’re working very closely with the governor’s office,” Wilbur said.
Wilbur said there’s a ba-sic misunderstanding of the importance of things like accredited programs, tenure track professors, those with Ph.D.s versus those with masters de-grees.
“It is a delicate dance, because I do believe that community colleges play an important role in this state,” Wilbur said. “But, it is a fine line.”
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“Jim’s presentation is about looking into ourselves and find-ing the positive things in life,” Opalewski said. “With this event, like the rest of the week, we want to make a positive difference and show that CMU really does care about its students.”
Opalewski said Hoke ex-ceeded his expectations during his two-hour show.
“(My goal) is to make people want to live because life is more fun than anything,” Hoke said. “Life is about creating happen-ings, and it’s your life, so do what you choose.”
Hoke appealed to humor for most of his show and said he believes people take things too seriously.
The audience was also able to participate in a relaxation exercise. Hoke used one of his techniques to put participants in a sleep-like state, centered on creating harmony in the mind. As people reached their zones, he emphasized the feel-ing of confidence.
“This is all about chang-ing how you feel, not how you think,” Hoke said.
Throughout the show, Hoke selected random audience members to demonstrate hyp-notic abilities. He explained while participants appeared asleep, they were conscious of their surroundings.
The grand finale came when Hoke selected 10 students
to come on stage after a pre-liminary “hypnotic exercise,” where audience members were made to think their fists were stuck together.
For about 30 minutes Hoke entertained the audience by putting hypnotized students in scenarios that led to different actions, unique to each indi-vidual.
For example, he would say it was cold and students would look to cuddle with one anoth-er. He also used the sound of a horn as an indicator to make students believe their neighbor was pinching their butt.
Canton freshman Parker Pakula said he felt “out of it” after the show, but was glad he
was able to be hypnotized.“I’ve wanted to do it since
my senior party and it was crazy,” Pakula said. “I felt like he was in control the whole time and I didn’t care what any-one thought when I was up on stage.”
Using these students’ quick changes to his posed scenari-os, Hoke posed the question, “If you believe your mind can change that quick, why would you die?”
By Sammy DubinStaff Reporter
The professors who found 45 percent of students show no sig-nificant improvement in learn-ing during the first two years of college visited Central Michigan University Monday.
Co-authors and sociology professors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa wrote “Academi-cally Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” when they realized a study on higher edu-cation was necessary.
Arum teaches at New York University and Roksa is from University of Virginia.
Arum said a large number of students are finding ways to get through school with little read-ing and writing asked of them.
“They figured out courses to take, faculty to take and pro-grams to take,” he said.
About 530 CMU students and faculty attended two presenta-tion by the authors. The first was focused on students and the second was about the bigger picture.
The authors stressed the im-portance of taking a reading and writing course each semester, however, according to Dearborn Heights junior and music major Sarah Haidar, that is not always possible.
“We’re kind of in our own little world with classes,” she said. “We have to take between 10 (and) 12 classes just for music a semester.”
The full-time college student in the 1920s to 1960s was spend-ing 35 to 40 hours a week in academic time, Arum said. This breaks down to 15 hours in class and 25 hours studying.
Since then it has dropped in half, from 25 hours to 12 to 13 hours.
They said students studying minimal hours are still getting an average GPA of 3.2.
However, there are some students showing signs of im-provement, depending on their teachers.
“One thing that matters is faculty expectations,” she said. “So when students told us that faculty had a high expectation (is) ... they showed substan-tially higher gains than students (whose professors) didn’t have high expectations.”
Haidar tested out of several reading and writing classes be-fore college. She said she cannot take any extra because it gets costly and prolongs time until graduation.
Arum and Roksa used the college learning assessment in their research, which assesses critical thinking, complex rea-soning and writing.
The study followed 2,341 stu-dents over two years from 2005 to 2007 in 24 diverse four-year colleges.
One part of the study asked students how many courses they took that included more
than 20 pages of writing their fall semester of their freshman year — half of the students said “none.”
They then asked the students how many courses they took with more than 40 pages of reading per week — 32 percent said “none.”
Jason Bentley, director of First Year Experience, conducted a similar study last year focusing only on CMU, finding students/it performed well in the areas of social integration and overall satisfaction. CMU fell short in academic self-efficacy, academ-ic integration, advanced aca-demic behavior and self assess-ments of various skills, where it scored below a 5.5 on a seven-point scale.
Roksa said these findings were similar to those at other universities, since during the last few decades the emphasis has been on keeping students engaged socially.
Most of them have used their resources for non-academic in-
vestments such as building new dorms, new gyms, student cen-ters and creating new meeting areas.
“The student today is a con-sumer and a client, and you
make sure through client sur-veys that they’re happy with the products you’re providing,” he said.
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By Mike NicholsSenior Reporter
Southfield sophomore Kris-ten Bright is a Multicultural Advancement and Lloyd Cofer scholarship recipient — one of many to be placed in Trout-man Residence Hall.
However, she wants her peers to know the scholars are not placed there because of race, but because they are scholarship recipients.
“More people should be knowledgeable of the MAC scholarship,” said Tamika Hawkins, a Detroit sophomore and Bright’s roommate. “A lot of my caucasian friends didn’t know they can get it too.”
It is a common practice by Central Michigan University to group residents based on schol-arship, said Bill O’Dell, Trout-man Residence Hall director.
Emmons Hall houses the health professions scholar-ship recipients, Calkins Hall houses business scholars and Larzelere houses those in the Honors Program.
O’Dell said about 140 of the 260 Troutman residents are MAC scholars — more than half.
However, recipients can request to be placed in other
halls, which has been allowed, O’Dell said.
Saranac senior Richard Gei-ger, the second floor Trout-man resident assistant, said although it’s nice to have MAC students together, sometimes the social interaction with oth-er non-MAC students in the dorms does not happen.
“To some degree they do, but not as much as (non-scholarship) students,” Gei-ger said. “There are never any problems, it’s just getting them to interact more, which is hard because MAC students are pretty busy.”
Trevor Murphy, a Detroit freshman, said he enjoys liv-ing with other MAC scholars. When he sees someone in the hallway, he knows they share something in common.
“They way I see it, we’re all different people,” Murphy said. “So why not get (every-one) together?”
But Murphy does feel there is an uncomfortable distance between the MAC scholars and the non-MAC scholars of Troutman.
“We get along, but they kind of talk amongst themselves,” he said. “It’s kind of a border a little bit, but not a big one.”
O’Dell said he thinks the confusion comes because out-siders see many black students walking into one hall and do
Placement based on scholarship, not race
photoS by victoria zEgLEr/staff photographerHypnotist Jim Hoke of Bloomfield Hills, left, holds Trenton freshman Julia Robinson while she is asleep after being hypnotized Tuesday night in Anspach 161. “If you can see it in your mind you can do it in the real world,” Hoke said. “Your mind runs the show.”
Hypnotist Jim Hoke of Bloomfield Hills hypnotizes the crowd by telling them that each of their hands are stuck together getting tighter with no way of getting them apart Tues-day night in Anspach 161. Hoke graduated from Edison College with a masters in psychol-ogy and is now a hypnosis consultant for an array of people with various disorders.
‘do life’Hypnotist performs in front of about 150 people
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By Ben HarrisSenior Reporter
Spoken word artist and en-tertainer Michael Reyes is com-ing to Central Michigan Univer-sity as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
From 4 to 6 p.m. Friday in the Bovee University Center Audi-torium, Reyes will be address-ing themes of Mexican and Chicano identity and culture.
“Michael Reyes was recom-mended to me by students who saw him perform at the Na-tional Conference on Race and Ethnicity,” said Assistant Direc-tor of Multicultural Academic Student Services Keisha Janney, in an email. “He is nationally recognized as an outstanding slam poet, hip-hop artist and educator.”
Lansing graduate student Michael McArthur, who is in-troducing Reyes on Friday, was one of the students who saw Reyes over the summer and recommended him.
“He’s a pretty strong spoken word artist with a lot of mean-ing behinds his poems,” McAr-thur said.
He said when he saw Reyes, the poet did an improvised piece, taking words that were shouted at him by the audience
and put them into an impres-sive poem within minutes.
“I think everybody should come check him out,” McAr-thur said. “It’s pretty enter-taining and it’ll be a great per-formance. Look out for more events our office will be put-ting on for Hispanic Heritage Month and other heritage months coming up.”
McArthur said Reyes’ work discusses social issues impor-tant to students.
“He’ll be hitting on social is-sues, things that people should be aware of,” he said.
Janney said Reyes uses his skills to educate youth and el-ders about challenges faced by communities of color.
“He illuminates stories, which speaks to the theme of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month, ‘Many Backgrounds, Many Stories, One American Spirit,’” she said. “We hope that students and the community enjoy this amazing artist and educator.”
Saginaw junior Rodney Aus-tin said he thinks Reyes will be a performer who represents di-versity.
“I can’t wait to see him,” he said.
Poet Michael Reyes speaking Friday
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bEthany waLtEr/staff photographerJosipa Roksa speaks to an audience of students and faculty during the presentation of “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses” Monday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
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About 150 people gathered Tuesday night in Anspach 161 to watch and participate in ‘Upgrading Your Emotional Software,’ a show put on by Hoke, a hypnotist.
Hoke’s presentation was part of Suicide Preven-tion Week at Central Michigan University. Hoke previously appeared on shows such as “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Good Morning America.”
David Opalewski, teacher education and profes-sional development adjunct faculty and coordina-tor of the week’s events, said the show was aimed at mind design and positive thinking.
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TRACIE SIVEC AND ERIN BATT [BATTING ZERO]
I like to consider myself a semi-se-rious musician. I study classical and jazz piano here, and I sometimes do gigs for money.
I’ve played the piano for upwards of 10 years now and I see through the narrow-lensed goggles of a young pianist: I love composers who were virtuoso pianists, I love performers who are skilled improvisers and I love melody and harmony and creative chord voicings.
But I also love old-school gangster rap — for two main reasons.
The first is that it allows me to vi-cariously live out my boyish fantasies of violence. I’m a docile dude, but I have them like anyone else. Some people play Grand Theft Auto and some people play football. I don’t play many video games and I’ve nev-er been very good at sports, so I listen to N.W.A.
It’s like listening to a riveting story. When I listen to Wu Tang’s “Bring Da Ruckus” I feel cool because I know that in my entire life, I will never bring the ruckus to anything, ever. I’m too lame for all that.
The second reason is I think there’s real literary quality in a lot of these songs. To rhyme like that takes real talent. To rhyme on the spot like many successful rappers can takes genius. I can’t imagine freestyling the way Biggie did in “Notorious.”
But then again, being able to rap like that has serious negative con-sequences. Biggie Smalls reportedly had to sleep on his stomach every night. He didn’t want to ruin his bed sheets with the techniques that “dripped out his butt cheeks.”
Artists like the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac are poets because of the fluency of their rhymes. Because of the heavi-ness of their content, they’re artists.
They’re urban chroniclers. They speak about the neighborhoods they came from. When Tupac raps about the disappointment in the youth not being warranted because the older generation left them a broken world to inherit in “Ghetto Gospel,” it’s hard not to stop and think about how deep that is. And that’s a universal mes-sage.
It’s brilliant social commentary; Biggie Smalls rapping about how he’s selling drugs to make money to feed his daughter calls into question why anyone should have to resort to that in the first place. He’s certainly not lazy. He’s out hustling, risking his freedom and life to buy food. What’s wrong with that picture?
I think stuff is good if it makes people think and if it’s fun. I find old-school, gangster rap to accomplish those goals.
I know a lot of people don’t agree with me, of course. But haters gonna hate.
“The student today is a consum-er and a client and you make sure through client surveys that they’re happy with the products you’re providing,” Arum said.
The presentations — one at Charles V. Park Library and the oth-er at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Audi-torium — focused on the research-ers’ study, which concluded that standards at colleges have sharply declined in the last four decades.
Roksa and Arum also specifically referenced a similar study done by Jason Bentley, CMU’s director of First Year Experience, that found it lacking in academic self-efficacy, academic integration, advanced academic behavior and self assess-ments of various skills.
The education of people and
preparing people to enter a valu-able livelihood is not a business; it is a social imperative of the highest importance.
It is relatively unimportant to make sure students have a good time in their college experiences, whereas the real goal of a universi-ty education should be to produce successful and productive mem-bers of society.
A university’s measure of success should not be how well students rate professors after a semester ends or how much school spirit they feel. It should, instead, focus on how well alumni are performing five or 10 years after graduation in all aspects of their lives.
Some administrators might ar-gue they are only doing their best
to appeal to the greatest number of potential students, which is un-doubtedly true. But this speaks to a need for a national re-evaluation of what people want from college and why.
A university education is sup-posed to be a beneficial and trans-formative experience of intellectu-al, social and moral standards, not a four-year resort.
We would demand much better service if we were paying to stay at Sandals Resort Mount Pleasant.
A radical reform in education is needed to keep American gradu-ates competitive internationally and there is no reason CMU can-not reprioritize and be at the fore-front of such a change.
CMU officials repeatedly profess the goal of being on a higher level of recognition nationally, so now is the time to make effective edu-cation a priority above profit and expansion.
After all, Ivy League graduates aren’t highly sought after because their classroom buildings are really nice.
Statements on the condition of American higher education made by “Academically
Adrift” researchers Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa Monday could have been specifically about Central Michigan University.
Personally I feel that the House Bill 5000 that state Rep. Robert Genetski, R-Saugatuck, is propos-ing, mentioned in the editorial of Monday’s issue of Central Michi-gan Life, is unnecessary.
Honestly, Central’s adminis-tration and others of the like in Michigan should already feel they are being held accountable to a higher power, us.
The students who pay tuition should be the ones holding the university accountable for what they are spending money on.
We are the higher power they should be held accountable to, not another bureaucratic group at the state level.
They won’t know what it is like to go to a building in need of repairs and watch as terrific
faculty in need of a contract start searching for jobs elsewhere while the Central Michigan Uni-versity Board of Trustees approves $1.5 million for a new Mongolian barbecue. (All the while claim-ing fiscal responsibility.) We, the students, do.
Considering that, I think we should stand up and start exert-ing this power. If there is a need for oversight on higher education I can’t think of any group with more first hand observation and a stronger influence (after all, with-out our money they wouldn’t have much to work with) than us.
I know that I am not going thousands of dollars into debt for a Mongolian barbecue I won’t ever use.
I like to think my money is be-
ing used for repairs such as in An-spach, Brooks and Pearce Halls, which anyone who uses those building can see, are in dire need of some TLC. As well as to pay experienced, intelligent, unique and driven faculty I deserve.
I also like to think I am not the only student who feels this way. This is why I think we should stand up and start addressing a much needed change.
Letters have already been sent and obviously ignored.
We, as students need to rethink our approach and start really get-ting active. It is our turn, and we have the power to make changes here at CMU.
Jennifer Carver,Union City junior
Letter in response to Monday’s editorial
[YOUR VOICE]
Living an authentic life is some-times embarrassing and messy.
I want to be authentic in my en-tire life. However, it’s tough and troubling.
To be honest with myself, I have to ask questions about my behav-ior, about who I am as a person and what I believe defines me.
One thing I’m good at is tell-ing it like I see it. Recently, I went through a break-up. I was crying like an infant child.
This emotional mess played out a bit on Facebook. My friend, Pat, told me that is part of my authen-ticity and what she loves about me.
Whenever I’m dealing with something tough in my life I let it all out, she said. I let the world see me transparently and vulner-ably with nothing to hide. She said she loves the authenticity in my faith and my ability to stand up and own what I am dealing with. She also said that though it is real it also scares some away because of the grittiness of the truth.
It is almost never pretty. Most times my shadows are dark and hard to accept.
One question I constantly deal with, especially when profess-ing my faith, is can a gay man be a Christian too? I know the pas-sages in the Bible that say, no way, especially the passages that call me an abomination to God.
I have done all I could do to rec-oncile this one difference in my life and faith.
I see my faith as being between God and me.
I will not walk away from Chris-tianity just because I have the desire to get my groove on with some dude. It is the only solid foundation in my life.
I will not hide how I feel to be accepted by the church. I have hidden so many times in my past and hiding destroyed me. Hiding led to drugs, parties and self-de-structive behavior. I will not go back when I have come so far.
I started this tough journey in 2004. I was watching TV, and God got my attention and my life changed from that day forward.
I know the experience I had and it was of God. I know for a fact that Jesus Christ is part of my life.
So, I will not hide the fact I trust Christ as my Lord and savior and I will not hide that I am gay, too.
My authenticity starts with my honesty. Being honest allows me to realize I don’t have answers to this revelation. I cannot debate, defend or deny this position.
All I can offer is my story that is still being told today. It is a story that relies on forgiveness, mercy, love, grace and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
That’s how I try to live authenti-cally.
Comments from “COLUMN: Ron Paul, a man to consider”
Is Glenn Beck A Terrorist? — Monday
Ron Paul supporters should ask themselves why, if he’s so electable, he isn’t already presi-dent. It isn’t as if he didn’t run last time.
Having the unwavering sup-port of an insufficient number of noisy lunatics doesn’t outweigh the overall opposition of the ma-jority of voters.
He has some good ideas; he has some terrible ideas. When he fails to secure the Republican nomination yet again, you’ll be the only ones surprised.
TLR3000 — Monday
Thank you for the article. I think, along with millions of others who are running to Paul, that he has a fine chance of winning. Why do articles keep saying that he doesn’t have a chance? He is popular with all races, religions, age groups, in-come levels, political parties, etc. Why aren’t journalists and report-ers writing about this?
Comments from “Alpha Chi Rho suspended until fall of 2014”
FedUp — Tuesday
This frat should not be al-lowed to return at all...they knew what they did was hazing.
I guess that promotes brother-hood right? This sickens me that they would haze some poor kids to be apart of their “fraternity.” The university should look into the other frats on campus as well because this cannot be the only instance of hazing. This instance just proves what is so wrong with frats in general I would tell anyone not to join one because nothing positive comes from be-ing a member if they put kids through stuff like this.
Johns25k — Monday
Alpha Chi Rho has some of the nicest guys on campus. This is a sad time for the Greek Commu-nity and I know I am looking for-ward to Fall 2014!!
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PHOTOS BY PERRY FISH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTOP: Mount Pleasant junior Faith Hope Freedom smoothes the outside of a clay pot during her ceramics class Sept. 20 in the North Art Studio. ABOVE: Mount Pleasant junior Faith Hope Freedom dangles the insides of a pumpkin in front of her son, sophomore Taylor Bowman’s face while carving pumpkins Thursday evening in their Chase Run apartment. Even though Bowman was diagnosed with autism at two-years-old, Freedom said he improved dramatically through intense one-on-one care. “I wouldn’t change him for anything,” Freedom said.
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“I like the idea of having a rewarding job like art therapy because of using it and practicing it with my son when he was little,” she said. “It takes a special, patient person to teach and an even more special person to be a therapist.”
Freedom said her artwork helps her both financially and mentally.
“It helps me think through a lot of prob-lems, if I’m having problems at the time,” she said.
Her art projects include watercolor flo-ral, oil painting, acrylics, pastels and col-ored pencils.
“I might as well be dead if I couldn’t do art,” she said. “I have to create, I just have to.”
Johanna Paas, associate art professor, said it has been a pleasure working with Freedom.
“Faith is inquisitive, ambitious and brings a great energy to class,” she said. “Her interest and positive attitude is con-tagious.”
Paas said students like Freedom bring new and interesting perspectives, as well as an appreciation for the opportunity to focus on their education.
Freedom demands respect, if for no other reason than her unfathomable life experience, said Dennis Gerwin, art and design assistant professor.
“Faith will single-handedly make an en-tire class feel uneasy with stories and sub-jects so personal or abstract to her peers, while in the same moment, her excite-ment and authenticity gather universal appreciation,” he said.
SETBACKS, VICTORIESFreedom said it is safe to say she’s conquered
a lot, but her struggles have made her stronger.
Neck and back problems including sco-liosis, bone spurs and arthritis have not set her behind artistically.
“Sometimes I’m leaning over my easel and I get so into the piece and I’ll forget to mentally think about my back, and then I’m like, ‘That’s it, I pushed it,’” she said.
Freedom also struggled to keep her own identity by changing her last name after her divorce.
“It was just before Sept. 11, 2001, and I didn’t want my name connected with my ex-husband’s because he put me through a lot of junk,” she said. “9/11 hit and I was like, we take our freedom for granted, and I called my attorney and said ‘I want it and I want it right away.”
Though her first name is Faith, she said she is an atheist.
“I announced two things to my fam-ily the morning my dad died — I believe in Euthanasia and I didn’t believe in God anymore,” Freedom said. “I believe in my-self and I’m going to be the one to make the change and the difference in the world. We can’t just go, ‘God will take care of me.’”
Freedom said she reached lows in her life that made her re-evaluate.
“If you cry and feel nothing, or if you can’t laugh at anything, you’re close,” she said. “You’re so close, you’re in danger.”
Her now sunny disposition on life comes from knowing she can never go back to anything as bad as how she once lived.
“Its nice to think you have a second chance at things,” she said. “It’s finally my turn. It’s never too late, you’re never too old and I’m loving every single second of it.”
By Jessica Fecteau | Senior Reporter
Despite past struggles, Faith Hope Freedom uses her art as therapy to never lose her faith, hope or freedom.
The 51-year-old decided to come back to study at Central Michi-gan University when her son with autism enrolled after his 2010 high school graduation.
“I was at this point in my life where I didn’t know what else to do and I thought ‘Why not?’” said Freedon, a Warren junior. “I feel probably 30 years younger, like its rejuvenated everything about me.”
Freedom’s goal is to become an elementary art teacher. She said she is considering getting her master’s degree in art therapy.
Mount Pleasant Junior Faith Hope Freedom turns a crank on a printing press while making a print during her print making class Wednesday in Wightman Hall. Freedom said she hopes to share her work with as many people as possible. Select pieces of her work are currently showing in galleries in Midland and other surrounding areas.
“I might as well be dead if I couldn’t do art. I have to create, I just have to.”
Faith Hope Freedom, 51, Warren junior
51-year-old Warren junior uses art as therapy
“This creates the oppor-tunity to expand GME posi-tions to accommodate our graduates and those from other Michigan medical schools,” he said. “The ma-jor benefit to CMED is the improved availability of resi-dency positions in our re-gion, facilitating placement of our future graduates.”
MOVING EXPENSESAccording to documents
obtained by Central Michi-gan Life through the Free-dom of Information Act, a husband and wife team who were recently hired by the College of Medicine are both eligible for moving expenses.
Associate Dean of Medi-cal Education Dr. Linda Perkowski is eligible for a maximum of $7,500 in moving expenses, while her husband, Dr. W. Robert Fleischmann, a professor of microbiology and immunol-ogy, is eligible for a maxi-mum of $5,000 in moving expenses.
Lori Hella, interim associ-
ate vice president of Human Resources, said Perkowski and Fleishmann are eligible for moving expenses be-cause they are both separate employees at Central Michi-gan University and belong to different employee groups — Perkowski is a senior officer while Fleishmann is a faculty member.
However, the employee must have the original re-ceipt to receive reimburse-ment, so only one of them would receive moving ex-penses, Hella said.
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By Sienna MonczunskiStaff Reporter
Suicide Prevention Week be-gan with a presentation by the founders of the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program Monday in the French Audito-rium.
The event, which more than 100 people attended, was led by Dale and Dar Emme, who started the program after their son, Mike Emme, committed suicide.
“We’re both still trying to wake up from the worst night-mare of our lives,” Dar Emme said. “He slipped through our fingers when he died of suicide.”
Mike committed suicide af-ter suffering from various trau-matic events and a broken heart from his first love
Mike’s friends began making and mailing yellow cards with suicide prevention phone num-bers and messages of hope. The cards were mailed to various states across the country.
The Emmes began receiving
phone calls from schools that wanted them to tell their story and spread the message of sui-cide prevention.
“The tears have been in my heart every since I lost Mike,” Dale said. “We feel that we were given a mission in this life to spread Mike’s story and prevent this from happening to others.”
David Opalewski, teacher education and professional development adjunct faculty, planned the week’s events, along with Central Michigan University’s First Year Experi-ence program.
“Suicide is not about death, it is about pain, an intense pain,” Opalewski said. “It is when you get to the point where all you can think about is this over-whelming pain. People who commit suicide do not want to die, they just want the pain to go away.”
Opalewski was one of three recipients of the First Year Ad-vocate Award. The award was created in 2009 to honor faculty who show overwhelming sup-
port for freshmen and under-graduate students.
Opalewski received $3,000 and decided to use the funds for all students. Opalewski used the money to start and fund the up-coming events for Suicide Pre-vention Week.
Opalewski had no training in suicide prevention before suffer-ing the deaths of former students who committed suicide. Opal-ewski said he did not want his students’ deaths to be in vain.
At 6 p.m. Wednesday there will be a symbolic balloon launch outside the Charles V. Park Li-brary, and a candlelight vigil will be held at dusk on Thursday at the same location.
From 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Fri-day in the Education and Hu-man Services Building room 117, Barb Smith, former Michi-gan coordinator of the Yellow Ribbon campaign, will conduct a class for students interested in starting a Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention chapter at CMU.
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CHARLOTTE BODAK/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERDale Emme, one of the founders of the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program, talks to Greenville graduate student Anne Milne and Mount Pleasant graduate student Cherie Lalone after Emme’s presentation Monday evening at the French Auditorium in the Education and Human Services Building.
By Orrin ShawlStaff Reporter
Mount Pleasant law en-forcement agencies all have training and experience deal-ing with suicide attempts and dispatch calls.
Central Michigan Univer-sity Police Chief Bill Yeagley said he only sees about one or two suicides per year with his job. He said the numbers are extremely low, and he cred-its the communication, the intervention and the interac-tion CMU Residence Life staff has with students living in the residence halls.
“They’re able to see if some-one is having some difficul-ties long before it gets to the point of someone feeling like suicide might be the answer,” Yeagley said. “We have a great counseling center here on campus that is available (free) to all of our students. I think all of that contributes to keeping our response to actual suicide attempts very, very low.”
Mount Pleasant Police of-ficers have been trained in conflict-resolution skills early
on in their police careers, said Yeagley, former Mount Pleas-ant director of public safety.
“The officers have a great track record of being able to work with individuals to calm them down (and) help them get to the right resources to deal with it long-term,” he said.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said the sher-iff’s department receives its training for handling suicide situations from Community Mental Health for Central Michigan.
“We have our deputies and corrections officers receive training from Community Mental Health, where they do training from suicidal subjects and how to recognize if there’s a possible suicidal person,” Mioduszewski said.
Public Information Officer Jeff Browne, of Mount Pleas-ant police, said each suicide situation is handled on a case-by-case scenario.
“Our first and foremost con-cern is the safety of all the citi-zens including the individu-als contemplating suicide,” Browne said. “When we get
there, the first thing we try to do is to get the situation under control and to get that person the help they need.”
Yeagley said there are a lot of factors to consider when it comes to dealing with suicide situations, especially when in-volves students.
It’s key to understand what method they are contemplat-ing for their suicide, their loca-tion and if others are near the person, which could dictate a response.
Mioduszewski said good organizations to contact if people do intend to commit suicide include Listening Ear and CMHCM
“They will be able to pro-vide services if you need help. Community Mental Health is another place that has coun-selors available who work with individuals that are contem-plating suicide or feel they can’t get out of a situation,” Mioduszewski said. “We en-courage people to do that when they start feeling that bad.”
Police have training to deal with suicide calls, threats
not know that a diverse range of nationalities live there based on the MAC scholar-ship. As many of them share classes and events for their scholarship, O’Dell said liv-ing in proximity gives them a support group.
O’Dell once had a dad become upset for thinking his daughter would only be living with other black stu-dents, and wanted a more diverse living condition. O’Dell explained that her roommates were actually caucasian and asian.
“If you actually walk through our halls, you’ll see it’s a lot more diverse than you think,” O’Dell said.
Meaghan Maloney, a Lake Forest freshman, lives on the fourth floor of Troutman and is not a MAC scholar.
Putting so many MAC scholars together does risk not mixing students, but since she lives there, she said she has noticed some
mix after all.Maloney said she does not
feel any border between the MAC and non-MAC residents.
“There’s a ton of different people with different views,” Maloney said. “They’re all re-ally cool.”
The Lloyd Cofer scholarhip is only given to students from Detroit public schools, but MAC is not limited by district.
Both are casually referred to as the MAC scholarship.
Up to 10 receive the Cofer per year and up to 44 receive the MAC. Both are worth $4,125 a year. Up to 10 stu-dents receive Multicultural Advancement Awards of Dis-tinction, which are worth $10,500 per year.
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An evening presentation dis-cussed a broader range of topics that attracted a crowd of about 400 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
There, administration’s role in academics was added to the mix.
Arum said the trustees and regents are most concerned with the financial bottom line,
how much money has been raised, how much new faculty and research dollars have been brought in, the graduation rate and entering test scores of stu-dents.
“Notice that nowhere on that list is,” Arum said. “How are stu-dents learning?”
Freeland senior Whitley Col-lier received applause from the audience when she said she did not necessarily need to open a book for an unfortunately high amount of her undergradu-
ate classes yet, still managed to achieved a 3.8 GPA.
“Listening to the presentation engendered an uneasy, yet fa-miliar realization,” she said. “We all schedule our classes based on ratemyprofessor.com and have evaded the task of buy-ing the assigned book for some classes. But now, unfortunately, we may be faced with the conse-quences of short-changing our academic careers.”
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When I awoke in Central Michigan Community Hospital, I was too tired to feel anything.
Once the nurse came and talked to me, I began crying because I was upset that I drank to the point of hospitaliza-tion.
The night before, neighbors from my residence hall found me outside lying on my back with traces of vomit all over me. I could have died by chok-ing on my own puke — that’s not how I want to be remembered.
The fact that I am alive is nothing short of a miracle. I am petite, weigh-ing in at only 113 pounds.
That night I had three mixed drinks, which I thought would be better than shots. However, I over-poured my drinks.
In hindsight, I realize that I poured about four ounces of vodka in each drink. Now let’s use our math skills here — three mixed drinks times four ounces equals about 12 shots.
My BAL was off the charts. A blood alcohol level of .40 causes an
individual’s heartbeat and respiration to slow down to the level of a coma. It is illegal for me to even consume alcohol, but in college environments, underage alcohol consumption hap-pens.
I also understand that some of this information may be a bit too revealing, perhaps even damaging to my reputa-tion, but I think my story is important.
Many of us drink, but another thing we may do that can have dead-ly consequences is to underestimate our issues. We may think getting too drunk, blacking out or throwing up is not a big deal, but it is.
Education is also important. Meaning, if one continues to drink it’s important to understand the proper amount, especially in my case, where I drank too much for my body weight.
Tears stain my face whenever I think of what could have happened to me that night, especially if my friendly neighbors had not run into me outside.
I appreciate the fact that they cared enough to look out for me. Not everyone ends up that lucky. I truly believe they saved my life.
Maybe others’ damaging episodes with alcohol are not as dramatic as mine, but if drinking is causing more harm than good, it is clearly a problem.
I knew of all the possible risks that can come with drinking too much, but did that stop me from doing so? No. I may have dangerously misused that night, and because of that, I am proud to say that I am seeking help so that night will be history and never happen again.
We don’t want to acknowledge that our habits are no good, but it is bet-ter to accept the fact that there may be a problem than to have to learn the hard way — or not learn at all because of 6 feet of dirt.
Alcohol leads to
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JEFF SMITH/PHOTO EDITOR Mount Pleasant resident Ben Breidenstein, co-owner of The Bird Bar & Grill, 223 S. Main St., stands behind the bar on Tuesday showing his ‘talking to customers’ stance. Breidenstein has witnessed many unusual acts during his 10 years working at his bar. “It’s a little frustrating sometimes, but afterward, it’s always a good laugh,” Breidenstein said.
By David OlteanSenior Reporter
It has become routine for Ster-ling Heights senior and bouncer Jim Mitchell to escort unruly drinkers from Wayside Central, 2000 S. Mission St.
Mitchell, who has been bounc-ing at Wayside since 2009, said he also prevents underage drinking and breaks up fights, but he’s still caught off guard every now and then.
Last Friday, an upset guest who
was escorted out hurled a Rock-star energy drink can at Mitchell, forcing his eye to swell shut.
“You always have to expect the unexpected,” Mitchell said.
In a college town where thou-sands of students are fueled by alcohol every weekend, the bar scene has remained prominent. Many bar employees in Mount Pleasant have witnessed some of the most interesting, or frustrat-ing, moments of drunken stupor by many of the young college drinkers in town.
Ben Breidenstein, co-owner of The Bird Bar & Grill, 223 S. Main St., said he has seen it all in 10 years of work at his bar.
Breidenstein said he has wit-nessed many outrageous acts by
intoxicated patrons, including an individual who punched through the front window and a man who fled from the cops, later attempt-ing to hide under Breidenstein’s truck.
“It’s a little frustrating some-times, but afterward, it’s always a good laugh,” Breidenstein said.
Breidenstein said individuals passing out in bathrooms or puk-ing in the bar are occasions that he unfortunately has to handle every now and then. He said be-cause Mount Pleasant has many students who have recently turned 21, he often sees young adults who tend to overdo their drinking.
“A lot of the students come in when they first turn 21, and I
think they sometimes don’t really know how to drink,” Breidenstein said. “I think in a college town, you’re definitely going to see a lot more behavior like that.”
Mount Pleasant resident Terese Fortino has been employed at Marty’s Bar, 123 S. Main St., for three years. Fortino said although rowdy bar patrons can be aggra-vating while working, it makes the job much more interesting.
“We try to keep it under control so that we don’t let people get that drunk to the point where they’re throwing up,” Fortino said. “But we’ve definitely had people pass out behind the dumpster out back and had to get them up.”
By Jamie FavazzaStaff Reporter
Despite claims of bottled wine’s superior quality to boxed, Gary Ga-gnon said he believes the two taste the same.
“I don’t believe there are any dif-ferences in taste whatsoever,” said Gagnon, assistant professor of Mar-keting and Hospitality Services Ad-ministration.
Gagnon teaches HSA 245: Wines of the World, at Central Michigan University.
“A good wine is one you enjoy the taste of and all of the rest is preten-tion,” he said. “The truth is, screw-cap wines are every bit as good as corked bottles, and so are boxed.”
Gagnon said while there are not any high quality boxes of wine, the taste is equivalent to that of bottled wines that are not aged.
The professor said boxing wine lowers shipping costs and is becom-
ing a popular method em-ployed by countries like New Zealand and Australia.
“Boxed wine is lower in cost, easier to ship and lasts longer once opened,” Ga-gnon said. “If you drink half a bottle of wine and put it back in the fridge, half of the bottle is filled with air and the wine deteriorates faster, even with a cap or cork. Boxed wine draws from the bot-tom of the bag so the wine isn’t exposed to the air.”
“College students drink more beer, but if they bought a box of wine, they’d learn it really goes a long way,” said Remus senior Elly Cotton.
Cotton said she thinks boxed wine has the biggest bang for her
buck com-pared to b o t t l e d wine.“My favor-ite wine is the cheapest
one,” she said. “But I’m
partial to reds.”While Cotton said
she thinks boxed wine offers the most
quantitatively, she said bottled wine of-fers the highest qual-ity.
Mount Pleasant se-nior Meghan Borland
agreed with Cotton.“There’s something
about corks that’s just better than a box,” Bor-
land said. “Boxed wine is about quantity over quality. It’s about en-
joying your time while drinking it. Bottled wine is about enjoying what you’re drinking.”
Boxed or bottled, Borland advised against the use of wine in drinking games, but said she enjoys drinking wine year-round.
“Wine in the winter is like an in-stant sweater, but it’s really for any season,” she said.
Gagnon thinks boxed wine will become more and more acceptable down the long road.
Alleah Webb, Livonia senior and a student in Gagnon’s HSA 245 class, said she enjoys the chic feeling of drinking only bottled wine.
“I like to do the whole ritual of unwrapping the foil, uncorking the bottle, sniffing it … it makes me feel classy,” Webb said. “Boxed wine is for people who don’t want to drink Burnett’s (Vodka) and still want to get drunk.”
Aficionados debate boxed wines versus bottled
Mount Pleasant bar employees see wide range of drunk antics
Intoxicating Instances
Sienna MonczunskiStaff Reporter
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Sept. 12, 2011 was the day I had been thinking about for years.
It was a date that taunted me every time I looked at my old li-cense. It determined my fate every time I entered a bar or club.
It was the day I would become an adult.
As a senior, it felt like I should have been able to legally drink a year ago, but having a late birth-day kept me behind friends and classmates when it came to that freedom.
While my friends were cruis-ing down the highway with their new licenses at age 16, I was
still chauffeuring mom and dad around the neighborhood with my brand new permit.
When everyone turned 19 and enjoyed the nightlife in Windsor, I finally earned the privilege to buy tobacco (which isn’t even impor-tant to an asthmatic.)
My 21st birthday seemed like it would never come, especially after the agony of living with eight other students, who were all 21, last school year.
But September 12, 2011 finally came.
Everyone envisions their 21st birthday in a luxurious club, surrounded by an abundance of friends and beautiful strangers with an assortment of top-shelf liquors in front of you.
While a Sunday night at O’Kelly’s Sports Bar & Grill, 2000 S. Mission St., may not have been
the extravagant environment I ex-pected, I was happy to have sever-al of my good friends celebrating with me, and my memory of the night isn’t exactly vivid anyway.
Maybe it’s better not to have an expensive, over-the-top, 21st birthday party, seeing as how it is a night that will inevitably be for-gotten should you partake in the typical college celebration.
Usually, any drinks bought for the birthday boy or girl end up finding their way to the floor with the rest of his or her stomach contents.
I at least made it to the outside of the bar, or so I’m told.
Now that I’ve gotten through my 21-year-old trial and I’m finally able to legally drink, I’m over-joyed.
Many legal drinkers will tell you it’s not as exciting to enjoy an
alcoholic beverage after the thrill of breaking the rules is over, but I’ve yet to reach that stage.
I’m still in shock and awe that establishments will serve me booze despite the fact that I haven’t gained an ounce of matu-rity.
Becoming of age doesn’t make you any better at drinking either. I still make a terrible face as if I’m about to vomit no matter what kind of shot I take and usually spend five minutes staring at the wall hoping I can keep it down.
It’s been less than a month since turning 21, though, and I still have time to become a bar-star.
I’m not America’s best 21-year-old yet, or even Mount Pleasant’s, but I’m working on it.
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By Brad CanzeStaff Reporter
Method Man has rapped about street life, the exis-tence-controlling properties of music and even “Space Jam.”
Now he is rapping about Sour Patch Kids candies.
The song and correspond-ing video, “World Gone Sour (Lost Kids),” sees Mef inter-
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The video works as an an-nouncement for an upcom-ing Sour Patch Kids video game called “World Gone Sour.”
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By Jessica FecteauSenior Reporter
The effects of alcohol poi-soning on students can bring more than a hospital bed for the night.
Brandon, a Central Michi-gan University sophomore who wished to not give his full name, said getting alcohol poisoning his freshman year was a huge life lesson.
“After playing drinking games all day, the next thing I know, my best friend was helping me back to my room and I passed out,” he said. “The most I remember as far as feeling, is my whole body feeling like jello and not be-ing able to walk without as-sistance.”
After he told his friend to call the police, Brandon went to the hospital for about two hours. He said his blood alco-hol content reached 0.33, far
more than the legal limit.“Since I called on myself
and was in the position I was in, I didn’t get in any trouble at all,” he said. “In so many words, being intoxicated was my punishment.”
Nicole Sanders, Central Michigan Community Hos-pital marketing and commu-nicating manager, said the emergency room sees alcohol poisoning incidents on a daily basis.
“It has increased slightly with school being back in session,” she said. “There is also usually an increase when there are big events such as Homecoming, football games and Welcome Weekend.”
Sanders said the hospital deals with the most cases of alcohol poisoning Thursday through Saturday.
The ER staff is required to call the police if the individual in-toxicated is underage, she said.
“We always treat the patient before contacting police,” Sanders said.
Although CMCH has an in-crease on weekends, Lansing senior Emily Nuss said, as a
resident assistant, alcohol poisoning happens anytime.
“Some think that there are certain weekends or days of the week when alcohol poi-soning is more prevalent, but in all honesty, it can happen any day of the week, regard-less if there is a big event hap-pening,” she said.
Nuss said when she sees one of her residents experi-encing alcohol poisoning, she jumps into action.
“I don’t have time to think — my main goal at that moment in time is to make sure they are okay,” she said. “While it is scary to see someone who is experiencing alcohol poison-ing, it makes me feel better to help get them the help they need.”
There is a specific process RAs must follow when their residents are in need of assis-tance.
“We first check in with them and their roommates and col-lect information,” she said. “We are hoping to learn more about how much the resi-dent drank, what they drank, how long it had been since
they drank, if they took any medication before they be-gan drinking and if they had eaten before they began drinking.”
From there, the residence hall director will call the CMU Police and emergency medical services.
“It is necessary that we go through this line of power because each person knows more about alcohol poison-ing than the previous and they will be able to decide if it is necessary for the resi-dent to go to the hospital,” Nuss said.
A sophomore who wished to remain anonymous said she has changed her drink-ing ways since getting alco-hol poisoning.
“You would think that I would stop, but now I know my limit and when not to go over it,” she said. “I took a couple of shots, then it started to escalate into more and more shots and I lost track of count.”
She said the next thing she knew she was in the back of an ambulance in a hospital bed.
“I only remember waking up
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the next morning at the hospi-tal,” she said. “It felt horrible. I couldn’t control my body and the room was spinning.”
Brandon said having a high tolerance for alcohol does not make a difference.
“In the end, if you consume
enough, you could very well end up in the same situation and later wondering what happened,” he said. “Just be responsible, smart and care-ful. It’s not fun at all.”
Students change how they look at drinking
Mitchell said bouncing would be a nightmare if he couldn’t stop to laugh at work every now and then. He said humor is vital for his job and has diffused situa-tions before by joking with guests.
“The two things you need to work at Wayside are hu-mor and patience,” Mitch-ell said. “You just have to look out for the guests and know that many of them are
drunk and not in their nor-mal state.”
Mitchell also emphasized the importance of being pa-tient with guests, whether they follow the bar’s rules or not.
“When we kick people out for underage drinking or breaking the rules, we al-ways make sure guests have a safe ride home,” Mitch-ell said. “We won’t let them walk off or get in trouble with the cops. We just want everyone to get home safe.”
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By Carla RiveraLos Angeles Times
Growing numbers of col-lege students are in school part time, and they face in-creasingly long odds of ever graduating, according to a re-port released Tuesday.
The report, Time is the En-emy, by the nonprofit group Complete College America, includes data on full- and part-time students at public colleges and universities in 33 states, including Califor-nia. It was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda-tion, the Lumina Foundation and others.
“There is a new generation of students who are poorer, more likely to be a minority, working and with families,” said Stan Jones, the organiza-tion’s president. “The gradua-tion rates are very low, so that even though more people are
going to college looking to better themselves and better their economic circumstanc-es, those goals are not being realized because the system is failing them.”
Among the report’s key findings:
•There is a new majority on U.S. college campuses, with 75 percent of students bal-ancing jobs, school and com-muting to class. Only one-quarter of students attend full time, live on campus and have few work obligations.
•Part-time students rarely graduate: Only one-quarter of them complete a degree, even when taking twice as long as the traditional four years.
•Minority students and those who are poor or older are attending college in great-er numbers, but fewer than one in five earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.
Study finds low graduation rates among part-time college students•In California, 14.8 percent
of full-time and 6.1 percent of part-time students seeking bachelor’s degrees finished in four years. After eight years, about 60 percent of full-time and 41.6 percent of part-time students had earned a degree.
The report, however, in-cludes data only from the California State University system and not from the Uni-versity of California or the state’s community colleges. That information may be in-cluded in an updated study next year, officials said.
A Cal State spokesman said the school system is trying to address the issues raised in the report.
“The data in this report is nothing shocking to us; it identifies our specific student demographic of part-time, underserved students need-
ing remediation,” spokes-man Mike Uhlenkamp said. “There are a host of programs
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By Catey TraylorStaff Reporter
Michigan residents have cut back on unneed-ed expenses in the midst of an economic recession — with one exception.
According to a report by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, the top 16 establishments in Michigan that sell single-serving alcoholic bever-ages each bought more than $100,000 worth of liquor from the state in 2010 alone.
“Even though the econ-omy is pretty bad right now, my money flow hasn’t gotten so low that I haven’t been able to go out on weekends,” said Garrett Taylor Port Huron alumna of Mid Michi-gan Community College, while purchasing alcohol at The Store, 2128 S. Mis-sion St. “Besides, drinks only cost a few bucks.”
Owners of liquor stores in Mount Pleasant said they have not suffered any drastic losses and it is partly due to students in the city.
“The students will al-ways buy, whether they have the money to blow or not. Somehow, they come up with money and come back week after week,” said Kevin, a cashier at Empty Keg Party Store, 122 E. Pickard St., who asked not to have his last name published.
According to the Michi-gan Liquor Council’s website, sales of less-ex-pensive liquor have been increasing as customers attempt to save money because of the economy.
“What we found is that people are definitely still buying liquor, they just weren’t buying any more top-shelf liquor,” said An-drea Miller, spokeswoman for the Michigan Liquor Council. “The cheaper, bottom-shelf, second-
shelf liquors were selling more.”
Taylor said he purchases less expensive alcohol.
“I’ve never even consid-ered buying anything top-shelf. I’m honestly, hap-py with my Burnetts and Smirnoff,” Taylor said. “It’s cheap, yeah, but it gets the job done.”
Kevin said he has noticed a slight dip in sales, but over-all purchases have remained similar to past years.
“The biggest thing I’ve noticed in sales has been people buying more cheap bottles,” Kevin said. “The
thing is though, customers buy multiple bottles of sec-ond or third-shelf liquor and their bill ends up being what it would be had they bought top-shelf.”
Taylor said he thinks stu-dents will continue to drink despite the financial condi-tion of the area.
“The economy is suffer-ing, but I think liquor stores will always be a constant,” Taylor said. “People like their alcohol and are willing to be a little short on cash to buy their favorite bottle.”
Area liquor sales unaffected by Michigan’s poor economy
PHOTOS BY ANDREW KUHN/ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORMount Pleasant resident Kate Bracken, right, daces with Jessica Hutchinson of Ithaca Saturday night during the first Beerfest at Mount Pleasant Brewing Company at 614 W. Pickard St. “I think it’s a wonderful thing to have and it’s an alternative to the standard bar scene. It’s fun and cultural,” Hutchinson said.
By Jordan SpenceSenior Reporter
Workers at the Mount Pleasant Brewing Company left their traditional uni-forms at home and donned lederhosen and dirndl for the first Oktoberfest Friday and Saturday.
The event took place at the company’s Tap Room, 614 W. Pickard St.
Jim Holton, owner of the brewing company, said that for a first year event, the turnout was outstanding.
“Oktoberfest is the best beer tradition ever and we wanted to bring it to Mount Pleasant,” said Manager Erik Bliss. “There’s no better way to support local then by drinking beer brewed right next door.”
About 150 showed up each day of the event, Holton said.
Four MPBC beers were on tap: Oktoberfest, Iron Horse IPA, Railyard Raspberry Wheat and Steam Engine Stout.
‘Best beer tradition’ brings 150 to Brewing Company
Traditional German food was served along with the beer. Smith & Sons Meat Pro-cessing, 5080 E. Broadway Road, soaked 300 bratwurst in the Oktoberfest beer and another 300 in the Steam En-gine Stout.
While people enjoyed brat-wurst and beer, traditional polka music could be heard in the background played by two different bands, Rhythm Billies and The Old Foresters.
Jessica Stroud of Lake Isabella and Dawn
Tanner of Mount Pleasant said they attended the festi-
val because it was something different to do on a Saturday
night.“We like having the
option of drinking a microbrew,” Stroud
said. “I like having the choice (of ) drinking something dif-ferent.”
Holton said the consump-tion of microbrews has grown because customers are looking for more variety.
Kim Kowalski, brewmas-ter for The Mount Pleasant Brewing Company, said peo-ple are wanting to drink good beer consistently and local microbrews are the best way to go.
He began brewing profes-sionally in 1998 and helped open the company in 2008.
“It’s a great way to be cre-ative,” Kowalski said. “It’s art in a glass. When I make a new beer, (I) start with an empty glass, set it in front of me and picture the color and clar-ity, what it smells and tastes like.”
He said one reason micro-brews have grown so fast in popularity is because many of the brewers work together instead of against each other.
Kowlaski said people that drink regular beer are un-
e d u c a t e d a b o u t m i c r o -b r e w s ,
so they keep resort-
ing to what they are familiar with.
“If someone is in the busi-ness to make a quick buck, they won’t last,” he said. “You can’t just do it for fun, you have to put your heart into what you’re creating.”
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By Ben HarrisSenior Reporter
Cathy Warner said rooms that draw attention to them-selves are often the ones that get in trouble for drinking.
If a resident is 21 or older, they are allowed to drink un-less they are in a room that is not theirs with minors, said Warner, Calkins Hall Resi-dence Hall Director.
In the event of an alcohol bust, the RA staff collects in-formation on people in the room and hands it over to the RHD, who then turns the information to the Office of Student Rights and Responsi-bilities to pass judgment, she said.
“We certainly don’t go look-ing for trouble,” Warner said. “But if a room draws attention to itself, we have to check it out.”
If the room is being noisy or
a roommate or someone else raises a concern, she said the staff has an ethical obligation to follow up.
Warner said alcohol inci-dents in her hall are rare.
“In any given year, I may have half a dozen alcohol situ-ations,” she said. “If people have been consuming though, we want them to come back so we know they’re safe.”
A former RA who wished to remain anonymous, but will be referred to as Richard, said he agreed with Warner.
“If you’re in your room drinking and you’re quiet, we’ll probably never know, unless we smell alcohol or if a roommate says something,” he said.
Richard said students who have been drinking should be encouraged to come back to the halls, even if intoxicated.
“You should not be afraid to come back to your home just
because you feel that you’re going to get in trouble or be reprimanded,” he said. “I want my residents home safe, not staying in a random apart-ment because they’re afraid to face me.”
But Richard said the policy bothered him.
“The policy is if there’s al-cohol in the room, everybody there gets included in the re-port,” he said. “RAs go in and report the situation and the RHD makes the decision on what to do. I just don’t like the idea that everybody could get in trouble for it. You’ll get roommates that you don’t re-ally know and that are pushy and stubborn, and for some people alcohol is uncomfort-able. And to have a roommate that won’t get rid of it is not cool.”
Richard said that kind of situation puts the resident in a tight spot because they are
uncomfortable, but do not want to get their roommates in trouble.
“One of the things I always hated about busting rooms was if one of the roommates wasn’t doing anything,” he said. “Sometimes they would be in their rooms alone on Facebook or reading, and I would have to include them in the report anyway.”
However, Warner said the OSRR can choose to find peo-ple not guilty.
“So, the policy isn’t techni-cally that everyone gets into trouble,” she said.
A CMU sophomore, who lives in the dorms and asked to be called Lisa, had a close encounter with getting a vio-lation this semester. She said her RA did her a favor by not writing her up.
“I’m on scholarship, so that’s why I live in the dorms, but if I get written up more
Alcohol policy in dorms straightforward; students still violatethan once I could lose it,” she said. “If my parents would have found out, I would have been in huge trouble. They pay for my schooling, so with-out them I would be screwed.”
Lisa said her RA gave her a major warning.
“She wants us to want to be here,” Lisa said. “She told us
we can go out and drink and come back and be safe, but we can’t do it in the dorms. She told us we should have gotten in trouble, but I’m really glad we didn’t. Now we have to be good because we know we’re being watched.”
By Jordan LaPorteStaff Reporter
The core concept behind “X-Men: Destiny” seems rich with potential to be a fun and inter-esting game.
Players get to choose a brand new mutant created just for the game, with their own back story and motivations. The player then gets to customize the pow-ers they will use throughout the game, along with the suits their mutant will wear. The player also gets to choose if they will align themselves with the X-Men or Magneto’s Brotherhood.
However, a strong concept does not directly translate into a fun game, and “X-Men: Des-tiny” is evidence of that.
The entire game is basically a series of arenas. The player will go into an area alone or with other mutants and have any-where from 10 to around 100 enemies thrown at them. After all the enemies have been de-feated, the player runs until they reach the next arena, then the
process repeats. This gets to be boring after the
first couple hours. It doesn’t help that there isn’t much variety in the enemy types. Smaller en-emies can be taken out quickly, while bigger enemies take a little longer. Neither type really pres-ent any kind of challenge to the player.
The combat is mostly just hitting one button for a normal attack and then hitting another button for a heavy attack to form basic combos. There are also stronger powers that can be used when the “M- meter” fills up, but they were never really
necessary on the normal diffi-culty.
The combat can actually be fun during the rare times ev-erything works properly. The powers created just for the new characters can look cool, but more often than not, the bland graphics take away from the ex-perience.
The environments are pretty boring as well, with few inter-esting things to see. The frame rate is also pretty awful, espe-cially when the fighting picks up. Some of the bigger fights during the second half of the game will slow down to
an almost comical crawl.“X-Men: Destiny” has brief
glimpses where its potential shines through and when the player gets to fight alongside other mutants to execute large combos that take down a bunch of enemies at once without any dips in the frame rate. Unfor-tunately, those moments are quickly buried in technical is-sues and boring missions.
Overall, “X-Men: Destiny” just feels like an unfinished product, and those brief glimpses of a great game just makes it all the more disappointing thinking about what could’ve been.
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By Jamie FavazzaStaff Reporter
Leslie Feist is without a doubt one of the most bril-liant modern-day singers and the leader of female chanteuses today.
But the Canadian’s fourth full-length album, “Metals,” is unsatisfying and certainly won’t further her fame previ-ously gained through com-mercials anytime soon.
The once hidden latter main-streamed well-known, airy-pop voice is ever-so beautiful and dynamic throughout the album.
Yet a chorus, like that in “Cicadas and Gulls,” masks the star of the show herself.
Stranger’s voices are often added and build up to noth-ing. They overcomplicate the tunes and detract from the original emotion and splen-dor Feist holds on her own.
“Metals” opens with a jan-glin’ wild west war anthem which lays out dark vibes that continue over the next 50 minutes.
Feist’s well-known, breezy vocals are hauntingly beauti-ful over the melancholy and sometimes angry horns, pi-ano and mallet instruments. Classically gorgeous violins always compliment Feist’s old-time vocals, which make for a friendly reminder of loved Feist.
“Anti-Pioneer” and “Undis-covered First” are full of elon-gated vocals, slow accompa-nying instrumentation and a dash of boredom. “Grave-yard” features repetitious cries to “bring them all back to life” while “How Come You Never Go There” questions why Feist is “so alone there.” If these two songs were the only two of the depressingly beautiful sort on the album, it would be perfect, but the album is sad throughout.
“Woe Be” maintains a distinguishable simplicity which makes it another one of the better tunes. Her vocal abilities and always up-to-par harmonies, plus simple guitar parts equal the classic
greatness of Feist.Despite the unquestionably
beautiful compositions, the album is emotionally weighty without being satisfying. It’s a continuous flow of one melan-choly moment to the next, with the only pause being a moment of silence between tunes.
A bit more optimistic, though, and accepting of her sadness, “Bittersweet Melo-dies” is also a more simple com-position that features a clarinet, bells, a piano, a dramatic violin and calm vocals.
It’s not that the album is bad; Feist can’t be bad. It’s the unex-
pected, sad, rainy day train ride vibe that throws off the scent of the once-swinging Feist belt-ing “My Moon My Man,” and the wishing that singer would return.
Feist’s new sad emphasis in ‘Metals’ weighs her down
M U S I C R E V I E W
By Matt Thompson Assistant Sports Editor
Central Michigan is used to Kelly/Shorts Stadium and it’s capacity of 30,255.
But on Saturday against NC State, it most likely par-ticipates in its third venue of 50,000-plus people this season.
Carter-Finley Stadium, home of the Wolfpack foot-ball team, holds 55,571 seats.
Two weeks ago CMU played in front of 72,119 at Spartan Stadium. Prior to that, it was in Kentucky, dealing with a majority of Wildcat fans that filled 58,022 seats.
However, the Chippewas aren’t worried.
“Our guys have been in tough environments,” said head coach Dan Enos. “We know this will be another challenging environment.”
CMU showed no hesita-tion in its first road game of the season against Kentucky at Commonwealth Stadium. The Chippewas came out firing on all cylinders, lead-ing to a 13-3 lead after the first 20 minutes.
That early success si-lenced the crowd.
“You don’t worry about the 70 or 80 thousand,” CMU quarterback Ryan Radcliff said before the Michigan State game. “When you’re playing, it’s like they’re not even there. You don’t let the big stage intimidate you.”
NC State will be the third Bowl Championship Series (BCS) opponent this year for CMU. If the Chippewas were to win Saturday, it would make it the third time in four years they’ve beat a BCS team.
In 2009, the Chippewas beat MSU on a last-second field goal. They won at Indi-ana 37-34 the season before.
Last season at Northwest-ern, Radcliff looked com-fortable in a BCS stadium, throwing for 347 yards and two touchdowns, but CMU
lost 30-25.Against Virginia Tech in
2010, CMU took the open-ing possession down for a touchdown, quieting the crowd of 66,233.
“Last year at Virginia Tech, we started fast,” said CMU wide receiver Cody Wilson.
“It gets you momentum and silences the crowd.”
Enos and his players might not be getting too intimidated with the crowd because they know how much they have to worry about on the field.
“The big thing is their
players,” Enos said. “They have ACC players ... but our players are ready.”
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By John ManzoSports Editor
The Central Michigan women’s basketball team be-gan practicing Monday for the 2011-12 season.
The team faces a stretch of 30 practices within 40 days as it gears up to face North-western on Nov. 11.
After losing forward Kaihla Szunko and Shonda Long to graduation the team is over-whelmed with youth, but with it, comes talent.
“Talented” was the main word used by head coach Sue Guevara when describ-ing her freshmen class at CMU’s second day of prac-tice.
“It’s a learning curve, but the good thing is that the freshmen get it,” Guevara said. “They’re going to be up and they’re going to be down and we’re throwing a lot at them. I’m trying to just throw bits and pieces (of the system), so they understand what we’re doing, but they’re very talented.”
Crystal Bradford, Kerby Tamm, Jessica Green and Leah Scott fall into this cat-egory. However, Guevara places sophomores Lauren Bellamy and Jordan LaDuke in it as well.
Bellamy suffered a season-ending knee injury last year during preseason workouts. LaDuke transferred to CMU last spring, but must sit out a full season due to NCAA rules.
LaDuke will be eligible Dec. 11 against Purdue.
Despite six first-time addi-tions to the roster, Guevara and her staff bring back the majority of a roster that was 20-11 and 11-5 in the Mid-
American Conference in 2010-11.
Senior Skylar Miller, ju-niors Brandie Baker and Jalisa Olive and sophomores Niki DiGuilio, Taylor Johnson and Kylie Welch all played significant roles on last sea-son’s team.
A rotation of seven or eight took up a majority of the playing time. Guevara be-lieves that this season’s team is much deeper.
“I look at this playing group and we’re in double figures,” she said. “I know I can go in double digits. I really would like to play all 14.”
CMU runs a high-paced offense that plans to quickly move the ball up the court.
“I have to tire these kids out because they can play,” Guevara said. “They’re in pretty good shape and they’ve worked over the sum-mer. If we play the pace that we want to play, I want them tired after two minutes.”
Team captains Baker, Miller and Welch have done a tremendous job of leading by example, Guevara said, but the freshmen allow the team to have the depth that this team needs to run its of-fense.
Guevara said Bracey is a presense that the team has never had and Bradford is her “maverick.”
Bradford was ranked as the No. 39 prospect by ESPN and ninth guard overall.
“She’s very, very talented,” Guevara said. “She’s learning to play within the system. They (the freshmen) all are, but this is a very talented, talented, class.”
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Team not intimidated in large stadiums
By Brandon ChampionStaff Reporter
The Central Michigan women’s soccer team has a good problem on its hands — finding a weak link has been proven to be difficult.
The two-time defend-ing Mid-American Confer-ence champions have a lot of different elements that make them successful, but one of the most important is their depth.
“Our best lineup is al-ways a work In progress,” said head coach Neil Staf-ford. “It’s nice that we can look at somebody on the bench and have the con-fidence to put them into stressful situations.
The Chippewas have a
successful starting lineup, but the players that come in as substitutes and the minutes they get once they’re in the game, is con-stantly changing based on who has the “hot hand.” Balancing minutes with the roster is one of the big-gest challenges Stafford faces.
“I’m going to keep losing more and more hair with some of the decisions we have to make this year,” he said.
In six of the Chippewas 12 games, including Sun-day’s 3-0 victory against Kent State, Stafford has used every healthy player on his roster.
“I get really happy when we can look at each other
after games and say we all contributed today,” Staf-ford said. “Everybody on this team works hard and they all do what’s required of them, so when we can get the whole team min-utes, I get really excited.”
Forward Nicole Samuel saw her first action of the season in Sunday’s win. The sophomore was a MAC All-freshman team selec-tion a year ago and fin-ished tied for third on the team in goals (4).
However, the biggest ad-dition could be the possi-ble return of Laura Twidle. The junior was a first- team All-MAC selection last sea-son and led the team in goals (8).
“We haven’t even had
Laura at all this year,” Staf-ford said. “She’s arguably our best offensive player and one of the top players in the Mid-American Con-ference; she hasn’t even stepped on the field for us.”
The Chippewas depth will play a major factor en route to a third-straight MAC title. As for Stafford, he accepts that it’s a good problem to have.
“It will make my job even harder when these players come back,” he said. “But to see them come back with a smile on their face and enjoying playing soc-cer again will be a good feeling for everyone.”
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Libra – October 5, 2011By Becky Black Tribune Media Services
(MCT) Today’s Birthday (10/05/11). With careful planning and a new perspective, fi nances could change for the better during the year ahead. Trust your instincts, and don’t fall for schemes that seem too good to be true. Your intelligence increases with practice. Make your mantra, “I can do it.”
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) – Today is an 8 – Slow down and breathe deeply. Take time to allow your ideas to ferment a little for greater depth. Don’t worry about how to make it happen (yet). Imagine that future realized.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) – Today is an 8 – New opportunities abound in your career. Don’t worry if results don’t show up immediately, and stay in action. Practice makes perfect. Be especially alert and fl exible.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) – Today is an 8 – Widen the view to consider the big picture. Where do you see yourself? Picture your perfect roles. Don’t give up your day job yet. You have some surprises up your sleeve.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) – Today is a 6 – You can’t over-prepare today. Be willing and open to revelations that go beyond your organization, and you might even enjoy them. Keep your backup plans handy.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) – Today is a 6 – Your partnership plays an important role today. Support your loved one, even if it means saying no to other demands. Don’t bend under pressure. You’re needed today.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Today is an 8 – When was the last time you made a mess in a creative way? Get out some colors, and express your wildest dreams. You can always clean it up later. You’ll love the results.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) – Today is an 8 – Changes at work may seem like more than you can handle. Doing what you really love enhances your creativity and satisfaction. Given a choice, choose with your heart.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) – Today is a 7 – Give in to the urge to be domestic. You’ll fi gure out how to take care of all your obligations. Curtail fl amboyance in favor of simple, home-cooked recipes.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) – Today is an 8 – Thinking it over may be a good idea after all. Get into the books for the next couple of days, and satisfy your curiosity to the fullest. Practice increases ease.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Today is a 7 – The money game is getting more interesting. Resist the temptation to spend it all. Emotions and intuition fuel your motivation. Envision a dream fulfi lled. Then act for that.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) – Today is an 8 – Now you’re coming into your own. Remind yourself of your own power, and it grows. Inspiration feeds it. You’re ready to make changes for the better, especially at home.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) – Today is a 6 – Time lost in your own thoughts serves you well. Surprise friends with a new idea. Might as well keep going for what you want. It’s always good to review that.
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