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WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19, 2014�|�MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH.�|�ISSUE NO. 59 VOL. 95
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TO RUN FOR SENATEStudents who desire to be
elected senators no longer have to roam campus looking for signatures to be placed on the ballot.
The Student Government Association made the announcement on its Facebook page and during Monday evening’s general board meeting.
In previous years, students had to collect 250 signatures from students on campus to be placed on the ballot during spring elections. However, this requirement was not in the SGA bylaws.
“We never had to have students get signatures offi cially,” said SGA President Marie Reimers. “It’s not in the by-laws. It’s just the way it was done for the longest time.”
Collecting signatures might have been too discouraging for students who have wanted to run for the Senate, Remers said, recalling past instances of SGA having empty Senate seats.
To be elected as a senator next fall, students must visit the SGA offi ce on the fi rst fl oor of the Bovee University Center and fi ll out an election packet to be placed on the ballot for this spring’s elections.
-Nathan Clark, Student Life Editor
APOCALYPSEPhoto Illustration by Arin Bisaro | Staff Photographer
Students pose as zombies in a religion class called, “From Revelation to ‘The Walking Dead,’” in Anspach on Feb 12.
By Adrianna CoteroStaff Reporter
Daytona Niles | Staff PhotographerTanya Domina, a member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, speaks to the Academic Senate on Tuesday in Pearce Hall.
Master Course Syllabi changes still under scrutiny
From this fascination of an undead end of days, religion professor Kelly Jean Murphy created a course at Central Michigan University that has intrigued students and unexpectedly attracted national attention.
Within the past two weeks, 12 Michigan media outlets and more than 200 out-of-state news publica-tions including, The Hu� ngton Post, Boston Globe, Washington Post and Kansas City Star have shown interest in the class.
“I was caught o� guard by all the news contacts, but it is exciting,” Murphy said. “The students are do-ing a wonderful job with the class. They are asking lots of important questions and becoming involved in
discussions.”Rachel Perkins, university com-
munication associate director of public relations and social media, wrote the original press release.
Beyond the United States, Perkins has noticed publicity for the class has reached a world-wide audience.
“It has been really exciting to see the media pick up the story across the nation,” Perkins said. “We’ve had coverage in Canada, (and) I’ve been contacted by a newspaper in Lebanon and a publication in Hong Kong.”
Murphy pitched the Revelation to “The Walking Dead” course, known as REL397D, to the Religion and Philosophy department.
It became a course this semester, giving students an outlet to interpret the zombie apocalypse contradiction.
“I came up with the class,” she said. “The reason being is because lots of people are teaching about zombies across the country. Zombies are everywhere, and it is interesting to imagine what might happen and how we might respond. I am also interested in ancient apocalyptic lit-erature and wanted to compare them to present literature.”
The course curriculum allows students to compare ancient and contemporary literature and beliefs to interpret why the end of world ideas have changed over time.
As society becomes more obsessed
with the idea of the world coming to an end in the wake of a zombie apocalypse, creating a course exploring the nuances of such a scenario was inevitable.
Revelat ion to ‘The Walk ing Dead’ c lass chews on students bra ins , o f fers apoca lypt ic ins ight
PREPARING FOR THEBOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOT WILL APPROVE COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING FOR FACULTY CONTRACTS
Central Michigan University’s Board of Trustees will likely approve a motion Thursday to begin collective bargaining between university offi cials, the Faculty Association and other unions associated with CMU.
This allows the university to engage in contract negotiations with the FA, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for service maintenance employees, and the Police Offi cers Association of Michigan for police employees.
More than two years ago, contract negotiations became heated between faculty and university offi cials, resulting in multiple protests and threats of a potential faculty strike.
Trustees will also grant tenure to 27 faculty members and will appoint a new director to the CMU Research Corporation.
As part of its quarterly contributions, research and sponsored programs reports, the trustees will also accept $10.7 million in donor contributions and awards.
Trustees will meet at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the President’s Conference Room on the second fl oor of the Bovee University Center.
-Ben Solis, University Editor
By Katherine RanzenbergerSenior Reporter
Global Campus and the Registrar’s O� ce had a chance to weigh in on restructuring the Master Course Syllabi at Tuesday’s Academic Senate meeting.
During the second round of discussions, A-Senate mem-bers were worried restructuring the documents would a� ect how transfer credits are compared to other schools and how faculty members teach online classes.
“We would need some description,” said Registrar Karen Hutslar. “Sometimes it’s nice to have the detail in the syl-labus to help compare the classes.”
A-Senate is trying to compact master course syllabi into an overarching master course description for each class to simplify the documents for professors teaching the courses.
Hutslar said some course descriptions are important, but she wonders how di� erent the proposed course descriptions would actually be.
“Sometimes if it’s less clear, we work with the depart-ment to get a full syllabus,” she said. “I don’t know that I fully understand what goes into a master course description. We would fi gure that out if this does go forward.”
Peter Ross, Global Campus vice president, said the master course syllabi documents are used to license Central Michi-gan University’s online classes in other states. The syllabi documents are also used to determine what is taught in a course and if the course meets state standards.
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“A lot of ancient apoca-lyptic literature was written by people that were being oppressed by other powerful empires, serving as a way of hoping that (days) will get better,” Murphy said. “Today, we have the end of the world interest, but with a more negative outcome — a zombie take over. Zombies are at the end of the day not particular-ly hopeful, so there is a shift of how we think of the end of the world.”
Murphy does not believe the zombie apocalypse will actually happen, but think-ing about it allows us to ask important questions about what it means to be human, by asking what can we tell about society by the way people imagine the end of the world?
“Why are we, as a culture, so interested in this supposed myth of the zombie take
over?” Murphy asked. In four weeks, the class
already has Monroe junior Carl Huber gaining a di� er-ent perspective.
Huber said he enjoys class-es like Revelation to “The Walking Dead” because they help him to not take things at face value, but rather analyze things in popular culture.
“In this class, you are able to realize where a lot of these ideas stem from about the zombie apocalypse,” Huber said. “You learn how the ancient views don’t have any-thing to do with the modern view of what zombies truly are. Society has twisted the meaning and taken writings and ideas out of context and morphed them and compared them to the zombies we view on ‘The Walking Dead.’”
While Huber is a religion and sociology double major, he said there are other stu-dents in the class who are not, and he would recommend it to any students.
“I think it is an interesting class that could be benefi cial
for anybody,” he said. “You get a better understanding of contemporary views of the horror genre and why people are so intrigued with the end of the world being a� liated with zombies.”
Fremont senior Benjamin Schultz said he enrolled because the course name was interesting and accommodat-ed his liking of “The Walking Dead” television series.
“I don’t know much about religion and I thought this would be an interesting way to fi nd out and learn about an aspect of it,” Schultz said. “In the beginning, I thought it would be more about ‘The Walking Dead’ TV show, but it’s actually how the idea of the show relates to apocalyp-tic readings through di� erent religions.”
The three-credit class is al-ready scheduled to be taught next spring, hoping to attract more students.
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“The more detail in the master course syllabi and the more it is followed by the faculty member teaching that course, it is extremely benefi cial,” Ross said. “I can’t really speak for whether the level of detail in the master course description will have an a� ect because we’re not in that situation.”
Ross said there are potential negative conse-quences for Global Campus’s licensing in other states. He believes if o� cials change to a master course description, the departments will have to renew those descriptions every fi ve years to keep in compliance with licensing.
“What would be ben-efi cial is date stamping the master course descriptions,” he said. “Revisions will be in line with department reviews every fi ve years. Five or 10 years down the road, it would be benefi cial to have something dated 2020 instead of 2015 to show that we’re up to date.”
Representatives from the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee said they are
By Katherine RanzenbergerSenior Reporter
Long time psychology pro-fessor George Ronan will be stepping down as the General Education Director of the Academic Senate.
After four years serving as the director, Ronan said he was ready to go back to being solely a faculty member. He has been a part of the teach-ing faculty since 1989.
“The administration has been great. I’ve been doing this for four years. It’s time to let someone else carry it on,” he said after the Academic Senate meeting on Tuesday.
Ronan said he believes he has served his time well and did everything he set out to do.
“Di� erent people have dif-ferent philosophies,” he said. “I said I’d carry out commit-tee work — I have. I said I’d help with university program courses — I have.”
Ronan will continue to serve on A-Senate.
Andrew Spencer, chairman of A-Senate, said they will start the search for Ronan’s replacement soon, but there is not a set date or a person in mind yet.
A-SENATE ADDS DOCTORAL DEGREE, DELETES GUESTS SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Academic Senate also voted to delete the Guest Services Administration concentra-tion from its corresponding administration major.
Representatives from the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee recommended getting rid of the concentra-tion, which is available only to global campus students.
There are no students currently enrolled in the pro-gram, according to the Jan. 22 UCC meeting minutes. The program allowed students to receive a Bachelor’s of Science or a Bachelor’s of Ap-plied Arts degree.
Aside from the course deletion, A-Senate voted to add a pathway for a doctorate degree in Education Technol-
ogy (D.E.T.). Representatives from the Graduate Commit-tee recommended o� ering the program.
The program, which exists solely online, would “pre-pare educators in the study of integration of technolo-gies, supporting learning and teaching,” according to the Jan. 29 committee meeting minutes.
The program would re-quire an accredited master’s degree. If students inter-ested in the program lack the required degree, they could receive a master’s degree in Educational Technology from the program instead, but only after completing its required courses.
A-Senate also voted to remove the interdisciplinary status from the Gerontology Graduate Certifi cate. The motion was recommended by members of the Graduate Committee. The program will now be housed in the area of Human Development and Family Studies.
The Gerontology Advisory Council will be dissolved as a result of the removal. The GRN designator will also be deleted.
All current GRN designat-ed classes will be changed to HDF course designators.
A - S E N A T E N O T E B O O K
Ronan steps down as General Education Director of Senate
George Ronan
against changing the master course syllabi.
The committee helps review the master course syllabi docu-ments and returns them to the departments for corrections.
“No master course syllabi has been fl at out rejected,” said Tanya Domina, a member of the UCC. “(A master course description) would further compound the information. Without the course syllabi, we’ll be back to nit-picking.”
Domina said the master course description would add the methodology of faculty back in. She said this is already a common thread throughout the master course
syllabi documents.“(Methodology) was re-
moved in 2009,” Domina said. “(It had) become standard lan-guage. It was meaningless. Why include it if it’s standard?”
Despite multiple discus-sions on the topic, A-Senate did not come to an agreement on restructuring master course syllabi. The group plans to vote on the proposed changes at the March 4 meeting.
A-Senate’s next meetings will be moved to Brooks 176, as opposed to its regular meeting room in Pearce 138.
Daytona Niles | Staff PhotographerVice President Of Global Campus Peter Ross addresses curriculum to the Academic Senate Tuesday in Pearce Hall.
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Taylor, who is the former owner of Compassionate Apothecary, a mari-juana dispensary previously located in Mount Pleasant, said he does not need foreign production to serve his patients with marijuana.
“We don’t really need a Canadian company to produce for us,” said Tay-lor, a caregiver since 2008. “That’s kind of insulting. We’d do it a lot better if we kept it local instead of (through) a Canadian corporation.”
Public Act 268, signed into state law on Dec.30, would allow some Canadian companies to process and provide pharmaceutical-grade marijuana if the federal government decides to regulate the drug for medi-cal use, reclassifying it as a schedule II controlled substance. Weed was previously a schedule I, which means it was, in the past, seen to have no medical value.
Taylor said he believes there are enough local farmers in Michi-gan to produce marijuana for the patients in the state who already have cards through the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regu-latory A� airs (CARA).
“We know how to do it,” Taylor said. “How does this benefi t our economy? (Compassionate Apothecary) did it for two years through taxes.”
Currently, legislation allows dispen-saries to function as long as they are not a public nuisance. It is up to local law enforcement to decide whether the dispensary is a nuisance or not.
Compassionate Apothecary was shut down in 2011 because local authorities believed the business was a nuisance. According to court documents, the dis-pensary used an illegal locker system for patient-to-patient transfers, illegally profi ting from 20 percent of sales.
Taylor and his partner, Brandon Mc-Queen, took the case to the Michigan Court of Appeals in 2011, where they eventually lost the case.
THE POLITICS OF POTThe newly-signed law would give
registered medical marijuana patients the option of getting an enhanced card to let them purchase the controlled substance from pharmacies.
Sen. Roger Kahn, R-Saginaw Town-ship, said the new law would help regulate the potency and quality
of medical marijuana, as well as regulate the growing environ-ments for patient safety.
“Facilities that produced medical marijuana would have to comply with require-ments and similar to the
standards with which current pharmaceutical manufactur-
ers comply,” Kahn said in a November press release. “The product would also be tested for potency, which will help doctors with prescribing and dosing, and the product would be distributed through pharmacies only.”
Kahn said he believes regulation should be standard practice.
As a constitutional right, Kahn said people should have access to medical-grade marijuana, rather than home-grown. He added that this legislation is meant to protect patient rights more than anything.
“As a physician, it worries me that the constitutional provision contains no patient protection standards,” Kahn said, “and in particular, no standards that will protect immune-suppressed patients from molds, pesticides, metals or other contaminates commonly pres-ent in marijuana.”
House Bill 4271, a bill created to regulate dispensaries across Michigan, was the other half of the medical mari-juana legislation being pushed through
New medical marijuana regulations could affect local dispensaries, send production out of Michigan
Growing GreenKatherine Ranzenberger | Senior Reporter
Matthew Taylor, former owner of Compassionate Apothecary, trims one of his plants at his farm in Union Township. The caregiver provides medical marijuana for patients in the area.
By Katherine Ranzenberger | Senior Reporter
Katherine Razenberger | Senior ReporterA small marijuana plant waits to be transplanted to a new planter as it outgrows its current home.
Matthew Taylor is worried about a new law that could send the growth of medical marijuana to Canada.
Katherine Razenberger | Senior Reporter Matthew Taylor, a medical marijuana caregiver for patients in Isabella County, trims the dead leaves from a plant on his farm in Union Township.
congress at the end of last year. The bill received bipartisan support in the house in mid-December.
However, it has reached a stalemate in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, is the chair of the Senate Government Operations committee, where the bill now waits. He was a cosponsor of Senate Bill 660 – a bill Gov. Rick Snyder signed in December. Richardville told the De-troit Free Press he was not a big fan of the legislation that would allow towns to decide if they permit dispensaries in their towns.
“I’m going to sit on them for a while,” Richardville said. “We don’t want this ballot initiative to take over. I believe a vast major-ity of people who voted for it believed we were talking about (a) prescription type of marijuana.”
STATESIDE STRUGGLESTaylor said he believes the legislation
is an excuse to get rid of American dis-pensaries and get more money from re-registration through LARA for patients.
“They want to create an enhanced card to let people go to CVS instead of using a LARA card,” he said. “Really what they did was do away with dis-pensaries. It makes it pretty apparent.”
House Bill 4271 is intended to refi ne the law, creating a more consistent in-terpretation as well as higher standards for those operating the dispensaries within towns.
Taylor is in favor of the new laws because he believes he was in the right from the beginning, bringing what he
calls an herbal supplement to those under his care. He said
he is more than willing to pay sales tax and licensing fees if it means he can open up his shop again.
“To what degree do we have a duty to start-up and pay
sales taxes and show that this can be done and has been done?” Taylor asked. “They can do it in
Colorado and Washington. Why not here, too?”There is still more work ahead for
regulation and control of marijuana, Taylor said.
Despite these obstacles, Taylor still believes they are on the right road to bringing medical marijuana patients what they need. He said the next step is making sure the public and others know the rules everyone has to follow to provide care.
“It would help to educate people on this herbal supplement,” Taylor said. “We know local control is the rule.”
The following are the most recent incidents reported by the Mount Pleasant Police Department in the city of Mount Pleasant.
Feb. 13
1:14 a.m. — Police arrested a 30-year-old Mount Pleasant man for driving with a suspended license at the Crawford Road and State Street intersection.
6:19 a.m. — A 28-year-old Mount Pleasant man was jailed on contempt for domestic violence at 1334 E. Gaylord St.
2:41 p.m. — A 30-year-old Flint woman was jailed for retail fraud at Meijer, 1015 E. Pickard St.
4:35 p.m. — Police investigated credit card fraud at 2333 S. Mission St.
6:17 p.m. — Police investigated domestic violence at 605 S. Fancher St.
9:19 p.m. — Police investigated a harassment complaint at 802 S. Main St.
Feb. 14
7:32 a.m. — Police investigated a hit-and-run incident at 1599 Upton Ave. This incident is related to a Michigan State Police stolen vehicle report.
8:37 a.m. — A 27-year-old Mount Pleasant man was jailed for disorderly conduct at 1002 E. Palmer St.
9:38 a.m. — A 36-year-old Mount Pleasant man was jailed due to a failure to appear in court warrant for larceny in a building.
10:35 a.m. — Police investigated a threat complaint at 1415 E. Pickard St.
11:38 a.m. — Police arrested a 21-year-old Sterling Heights man for operating while intoxicated near the Mission Street and East Broomfi eld Street intersection.
Feb. 15
1:54 a.m. — Police arrested a 20-year-old Mount Pleasant man for operating under the infl uence at 1099 S. Mission St.
Feb. 16
1:02 a.m. — Police arrested a 23-year-old Mount Pleasant man for operating while intoxicated at 1299 Watson Road. He was also cited for a stop sign violation.
11:10 a.m. — Police investigated a call for malicious destruction of property at 902 S. Washington St.
Feb. 17
9:32 a.m. — Police investigated a domestic assault at 204 Greenfi eld Drive.
CRIME LOG
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Mid Michigan Community College is seeking a new leader, as the current president is set to retire in June.
Carol Churchill served as president of MMCC for the past seven years. She will be retiring on June 30.
Trustees have begun the nationwide search, beginning the review process on March 20 with plans to interview candidates in May.
Board of Trustees Chairman Doug Jacobson said the position will be fi lled shortly after the interviews.
-Adrian Hedden, Metro Editor
MMCC SEARCHING
FOR NEW PRESIDENT
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Last semester, Central Michigan University
students spent an estimated $2.65 million
on classes without receiving credit. Withdrawing
from courses and wasting your tuition dollars is
both fi scally irresponsible and unnecessary.
EDITORIAL | Extend deadline for dropping courses and assist in academic planning
Additional time, smarter decisions
Students need to make better choices on course registration and we need more time to make them.
The university offers only one week, or two class meetings, to allow students to receive a full refund for dropping a registered course. Students have up to eight weeks to decide to withdraw with no refund.
One week is not enough time for students to make a thoughtful decision, and even less time for students to register for a replace-ment course.
After the deadline for phase one and phase two course regis-tration, students can only register for a class with a bump card from a department chair. Often, by the time students decide to drop a course, it’s too late to join another.
Registrar Karen Hutslar said the current deadlines are ade-quate and her office hasn’t found a reason to change the current drop and withdrawal policy.
In the fall, students withdrew from 2,365 classes on campus. With most classes representing three credits, that’s 7,095 paid credit hours that will not be put
toward completing a degree. That’s reason enough to consider adjust-ing the policy. It’s also a sign of a problem CMU needs to address.
Although the university offers assistance in academic advising, Vice President of Enrollment and Student Services Steven Johnson released a report revealing severe understaffing.
According to the report, the ratio of students to professional advising staff is 1,000:1. In his enrollment management plan, he detailed plans to improve that ratio to 600:1, still shy of the ideal ratio of 300:1.
Our suggestion is simple. Ex-tend the deadline for a full refund and leave course registration open for an additional week.
There are many reasons stu-dents choose to drop a course, with the decision falling into three major categories. Either the course was more difficult than anticipated, students simply dis-liked the instructor or students registered for the wrong class.
Regardless of the reason — especially with a lack of academic advisors — an extra two class periods allows students to make a more informed decision without
fear of wasting their tuition dol-lars.
Michigan State University of-fers a three-week drop deadline for a full refund. Other schools like Grand Valley State University and Western Michigan University have more generous policies than CMU as well.
We encourage CMU to take another look at this policy and to grant students more time to de-cide to drop a course. Until that happens, the responsibility rests on the student to fully research a course prior to registration.
It’s our obligation to ensure that we’re in the courses that are the right fit for us, and although our time to make a decision is short — it’s still possible.
Although the first two sessions of most classes weigh heavily on syllabus review and icebreaker activities, they still serve as a model for how the class will go for the rest of the semester.
The first few days are also very revealing of the effectiveness of an instructor.
With SOS scores available on the course registration appli-cation and with websites like RateMyProfessor.com that give more detailed reviews, students are given the tools to select the courses that are right for them.
Until an adjustment is made — and one does need to be made — we need to begin making smarter decisions on course registration and stop allowing the university to take money for classes that we aren’t attending.
A spring 2013 American College Health Association study revealed that 30 percent of students respond-ed as feeling “so depressed that it was di� cult to function” at some point in the past 12 months.
I wanted to explore the options students have at Central Michigan University when seeking to help treat and prevent mental illness – and what I found out was troubling.
While there are numerous resources for students to receive short-term care, few resources are available for students seeking care on a regular basis.
Short-term services are available at the counseling center in Foust Hall, and students might also receive care from a counselor in their resi-dential area. Listening Ear, a crisis line located in town, is also available 24-7 by phone.
While these resources are impres-sive and show the devotion CMU has for student health, there is a large num-ber of students who go without care.
There are plenty of counseling op-tions in the city of Mount Pleasant, however, these services are often too expensive for a college budget.
Although the A� ordable Care Act granted students the ability to stay on their parents’ insurance plan until the age of 26, concern for confi den-tiality might deter students from seeking treatment.
After speaking with a representa-tive from Planned Parenthood, I confi rmed my suspicion about con-fi dentiality rules. The representative clarifi ed that when a student is a dependent under a parent or guard-ian’s insurance plan, the insurance bill will specifi cally list the services received.
For students who do not wish to disclose their mental health status, they would have to pay out-of-pocket for long-term therapy, which tends to be expensive.
A simple Google search of “mental health 48858” led me to several potential sources of treatment. How-ever, many dialed to broken phone numbers or closed businesses.
Is this really the state of mental healthcare in our area?
CMU students account for more than 40 percent of the Mount Pleas-ant population. So where are the adequate resources for those of us who need long-term care?
I have experienced anxiety and depression, and I feel abandoned by my university and my city.
Counseling can be provided for students who only need short-term care or for students who do not have a problem with parental disclosure – but what about those students who do not fi t either category?
We contribute to this university and city for four years or longer, and yet when we ask for a service in return, we are left with unanswered questions and disconnected phone lines.
The mission statement for the university includes CMU as “a national leader in higher education inspiring excellence and innovation.” By failing students with no adequate health treatment, CMU is failing the mission of the university itself.
Although I love CMU and the opportunities o� ered, I am deeply concerned about how students can access the mental care they need.
No one can be their best if they are sick. For a school that emphasizes the slogan, “Take Care” – it seems that there are many of us who just get lost in the crowd.
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More guns ≠ more violence
Letter to theEditor
TO THE EDITOR:In response to the CM Life editorial
published Feb. 7, 2014, regarding the prohibition of fi rearms on campus, the Central Michigan University chap-ter of Students for Concealed Carry would like to set the record straight.
Students for Concealed Carry is a national, non-partisan organization founded as a result of the 2007 tragedy at Virginia Tech. SCC serves two purposes. Our primary goal is to dispel misconceptions about concealed carry on campus. The second purpose is to promote the right to self-defense by the most e� ective means possible.
There are several misconceptions in the CM Life article that we would like to address.
First and foremost, more guns do not lead to more violence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found an inverse relationship between the implementation of right to carry laws compared to the frequency of violent crime. Between 1992-2012, violent crime fell from 758 to 386 incidents per 100,000 people, while the number of states allowing the carry of fi rearms rose from 17 to 41.
There are stringent requirements to obtain a Concealed Pistol License in the state of Michigan.
One must be at least 21 years of age and have successfully completed a rigorous and selective defensive handgun course. One must never have been convicted of a felony in any state,
including domestic violence, driving while intoxicated or possessing an illegal substance. One cannot have been diagnosed with a mental illness or have a personal protective order in place against them. Many various misdemeanors will also disqualify or revoke a CPL.
Historically, CPL holders have been upstanding citizens. For ev-ery felony conviction of a CPL holder in the state of Michigan during 2012, there were 142 convictions of non-CPL holders. For this reason, concerns about CPL holders being irresponsible and not abiding by the law are unfounded and inconsistent with the state’s annual fi ndings.
Another claim pre-sented in this article was that armed students and faculty do not have the time to react to a crime. But who better to respond to a crisis than someone who is trained and already present?
According to the FBI, “the average active-shooter incident lasts 12 min-utes.” “[43%] of the time, the crime is over before police arrive.” In addi-tion, many active-shooter situations have been brought to an abrupt halt when the assailant is presented with armed resistance, either by suicide or surrender.
As stated in the article, “no legislation or policy is going to prevent [criminals] from breaking the law.” Therefore, proclaiming an area a “pistol free zone” will not protect us from those with malicious intent. It simply denies law-abiding individu-als the fundamental human right to defend themselves.
Nearly one hundred campuses across the country currently allow concealed carry on campus, and
have done so for over 800 semesters combined with no instances of a CPL holder using or threatening to use a fi rearm.
It’s time CMU and other Michigan colleges do the same.
-Students for Concealed Carry at CMU
while intoxicated or possessing an illegal substance. One cannot have been diagnosed with a mental illness or have a personal protective order in place against them. Many various misdemeanors will also disqualify or
Historically, CPL holders have been upstanding citizens. For ev-ery felony conviction of a CPL holder in the state of Michigan during 2012, there were 142 convictions of non-CPL holders. For this reason, concerns about CPL holders being
sented in this article was that armed students and faculty do not have the time to react to a crime. But who better to respond to a crisis
As stated in the article,
Is one week enough time to
make a decision on whether or not to
drop a class?
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Nicholas Andrew Visger: Not really. It doesn’t show us what the coursework will be like, which can be a major factor for me.
Avery Banister: No, and even though I have never dropped a class or even thought of it, I always thought it wasn’t nearly enough time.
Ashlea Phenicie: One week is not enough time to fi nd out if there is going to be a signifi cant problem.
Mathew Aubrey: No, it is not. I feel it should be at least two weeks because most professors do not go into lectures until the second week of classes. How can someone get a feel for a class if the fi rst two days are spent playing icebreakers?
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On Friday, Central Michigan University Police were called to Kulhavi Hall at 2:35 a.m., where a Domino’s Pizza driver told them the company’s $150 car topper was gone.
The delivery driver parked in the circle drive near Kulhavi Hall, where she had to go to deliver a pizza. When the driver returned to her vehicle, she noticed the car topper was missing.
CMU Police looked at surveillance videos and talked to the front desk staff of Kulhavi Hall, but found no leads.
“They didn’t see anyone carrying a Domino’s sign,” said CMU Police Lt. Larry Klaus.
STUDENT MISSING SIDE VIEW MIRROR
A $150 side view mirror of a white 1996 Toyota was reported damaged at 2:29 p.m. on Feb. 12.
According to a report fi led by Central Michigan University Police, the incident took place sometime between 4 p.m. on Feb. 7 and 6 p.m. on Feb. 8 in parking lot 47.
The owner of the vehicle went to CMU police. They described the damage as if the person responsible struck the mirror with enough force to break off the entire mirror, leaving a small part of the plastic assembly holding the mirror in place.
The case is closed unless more information is discovered.
There doesn’t seem to be any connection between the two acts of vandalism.
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By Shawn TongeStaff Reporter
A resolution to amend Central Michigan University’s policy on marijuana has been passed by both houses of the Student Government Association.
The legislation changes pen-alties for students who violate the universities controled sub-stance policy regarding mari-juana. If applied, the resolution would make the penalties for possession of marijuana equal to or less than those for alcohol.
Ian Elliott, president of Student Advocates for Medical and Recreational Marijuana and author of the resolution, said the idea of amending the university’s policy began when the registered student organiza-tion formed last fall.
“Back when CMU fi rst evaluated what the penalties would be, they concluded that marijuana was more dangerous than alcohol,” the Cheboygan freshman said. “In 2014, things
have changed and we know that is not the case.”
The resolution passed with a majority vote in its favor in the SGA Senate on Monday. The legislation was previously approved in the House of Rep-resentatives on Feb. 10.
Shortly before voting, El-liott gave a presentation to the Senate to address concerns senators expressed about the resolution.
Elliot clarifi ed that he met with Tom Idema, director of O� ce of Student Conduct, and Danielle Rossman, coordina-tor of student organization services, before the legislation was proposed.
He said they were open to looking into amending the university’s alcohol and con-trolled substances policy once the resolution gained a vote of confi dence from SGA.
“The O� ce of Student Con-duct will not react to this coming to their o� ce,” Elliot said. “They already know it’s coming.”
With approval from both the Senate and the House of Representatives, the resolu-tion will go to SGA President Marie Reimers.
Reimers can either sign, veto or not vote at all on the resolution, which would lead to it being passed automatically. If the Saginaw senior signs the resolution, the proposed action will receive the support of SGA and the student body.
“I’m going to talk to the O� ce of Student Conduct fi rst before I make a decision,” Reimers said. “I want to see what the ramifi cations might be if this goes to them.”
Several other pieces of legislation were passed by dur-ing the meeting. A resolution relocating an o� -campus voting booth to Wesley House and another to make minor amend-ments to the bylaws of the SGA constitution were approved.
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Looking at an object like a pencil can elicit completely dif-ferent meanings for speakers of foreign languages.
Christi Brookes can easily think of four o� the top of her head.
“In French it’s a crayon, in Russian it’s a karandash, in Eng-lish it’s a pencil, and in Spanish it’s a lápiz,” Brookes said.
Brookes, the chairwoman of the Foreign Languages, Litera-tures and Cultures department, is familiar with the benefi ts of knowing at least one other language — especially when it comes to applying for jobs.
“When you have another language, you demonstrate fl ex-ibility and the ability to go be-yond borders and be culturally open-minded,” Brookes said.
Louise Sawaya and Jessica Sharkey, both biochemistry majors and Spanish minors, plan to use a second language in their future careers.
Sawaya, a Westland junior,
hopes to be a physician.“I want to work in or around
an area where there’s a lot of Spanish speakers and also for an international health organi-zation,” she said.
Sharkey, a Sterling Heights sophomore, plans to be able to connect with more people.
“In our society, there’s a growing number of people who don’t speak English, and it’s important to be able to interact with them,” Sharkey said.
At CMU, 1,000 students are enrolled in a foreign language course this semester. Courses
o� ered include Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.
Of the students who are enrolled in high-level foreign language courses, most of them major in the subject.
Best of all, Sharkey said, learning a language also allows you to see simple things, like a pencil, di� erently.
“Seeing a di� erent life and the chance to study abroad are the best parts about studying a foreign language,” Sharkey said.
Foreign language training helps CMU students land jobs
By Katherine RanzenbergerSenior Reporter
Central Michigan Univer-sity o� cials are creating a new policy that would require minors on campus to be accompanied by an adult.
“It’s a trend actually that’s happening at college cam-puses across the country,” said Steve Smith, director of public relations for CMU. “Many of Michigan’s universities have or are working on similar policies right now.”
Mount Pleasant Public Schools partners with CMU to encourage high school students to dual-enroll, taking both high school and college courses. Many of the students who are dual-enrolled are minors.
“We have somewhere between 70 and 100 students who enroll and take classes over (at CMU,)” said Mike Pung, MPPS superintendent. “I would think they would have to allow them on campus to attend their classes. They would need to ac-cess those buildings and classes.”
The school district has yet to communicate with the univer-
sity on the new policy, however, Pung believes if there isn’t a stipulation to allow students who dual-enroll on campus, many will choose Mid-Michigan Community College over the closer campus.
He said the chance to dual-enroll and get college credit is important to students in the area.
“It’s an awesome opportu-nity,” Pung said. “Many already have a start on their college experience. I don’t know who would go with them (to class.)”
The new policy would a� ect campus events as well, includ-ing the Gus Macker tournament and summer math, science and
band camps that are hosted throughout the summer. Smith said he does not know exactly how it would a� ect the children and teenagers who attend those camps because they are still in the drafting stage for the policy.
Smith said the new policy was not a reaction to any specifi c event that happened on campus.
“It’s simply intended to ad-dress the safety and welfare of minors who visit campus, our facilities or participate in our programs,” he said.
There is no set date for the policy’s implementation.
New policy would require minorsto have adult supervision on campus
Tianyu Han | Staff PhotographerHelping cut the ribbon for the the grand opening of First Impressions is Store Manager and Flint senior Tyiesha Hasan, far left, and First Lady and founder of First Impressions, Elizabeth Ross, in the Bovee Uni-versity Center on Tuesday. First Impressions is a non-profi t professional clothing store aimed at providing dress clothing for students in need.
By Megan PacerSenior Reporter
Students need to dress to impress during job inter-views, but professional cloth-ing can be expensive.
The combined e� orts of Central Michigan University Career Services, the o� ce of Enrollment and Student Services, and First Lady Elizabeth Ross culminated in the grand opening of the pro-fessional clothing store First Impressions on Tuesday in the Bovee University Center.
Beginning with a catered social and welcoming re-marks from Steve Johnson, vice president of student en-rollment, the grand opening allowed students to explore the store and merchandise after a ceremonial ribbon cutting.
Located in U.C. room 117 across from the Down Under Food Court, First Impres-sions provides free business attire to students who lack the resources to purchase their own.
“When you hear a student say she has apprehension about taking a job at the state
capital because she doesn’t have the appropriate cloth-ing, or you hear a student (say) his parents bought him a suit for an interview, and the student stu� s the tag in the sleeve so that he can re-turn it after the interview, it’s disheartening and discourag-ing,” Ross said.
Supported by donations, First Impressions provides free clothing to students who make an appointment on its CentralLink website and submit a short essay explain-ing how and why the clothing will benefi t them.
More than a year in the making, First Impressions was met with support from Director of Career Services Julia Sherlock, as well as the O� ce of Enrollment and Stu-dent Services, and President George Ross. After initially pitching the idea, Elizabeth set to work with Sherlock to attain building space and donations from both the university and surrounding Mount Pleasant area.
“I thought it was a great idea,” George said. “For me, it’s like the crown in the CMU education, being able
to walk into an interview, having the look to go with the brains.”
First Impressions has a storage facility for donated clothes in Ronan Hall 240, and is supported by John Burton of Tom James, a prominent custom retail company that caters to more than 100 locations in the U.S. and abroad.
“We see this as an absolute benefi t to CMU,” Burton said.
Pontiac senior Octavia Car-son was among the students who fl ocked through the doors of First Impressions.
Carson discovered First Impressions while walking by after fi nishing work at the Volunteer Center when she happened to spot Elizabeth inside, surrounded by boxes of clothing. After stopping to talk, Carson was impressed by the company and its student-oriented mission.
“My job at the Volunteer Center got more involved by trying to get volunteers to help put things up and get it going,” Carson said.
Students explore First Impressions merchandise during grand opening
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By Seth NewmanSenior Reporter
Ashley Churchill was drawn to cheerleading from the instant she became aware of it.
When the Caledonia junior was in kindergarten, her parents saw an adver-tisement in a phonebook for cheer clinics held at CMU. Years later, those clinics are the reason Churchill can call herself a proud three-year member of the CMU cheerleading squad.
“I fell in love with the cheer program that we have here,” Churchill said. “It was the highlight of the year, all of us girls loved coming. The sta� was amaz-ing. Since then, I have dedicated myself to becoming a CMU cheerleader. Now that I work at the camps, it’s interesting seeing the other side of things.”
Caledonia junior Nick Terpstra was a football and track athlete growing up. It came as a surprise to his family and friends when he told them he made the Central Michigan cheerleading squad.
“My brothers, as you can imagine, still actually give me a hard time for it,” Terp-stra said. “People are pretty caught o� guard by it, but a lot of it is because they don’t know what goes into it. They just think it’s a girl sport. Once I show them what I do, they think it’s pretty cool.”
The two are connected in more ways than being teammates. For one, they have been dating since their senior year in high school.
Both went to Caledonia High School and during their senior year, Churchill went to CMU cheerleading practices, hoping to make the team. Terpstra often made the two-hour drive with Churchill to keep her company.
While Churchill practiced, Terpstra sat on the bleachers with his phone or book, until one day a coach asked him to come down and help.
“One of the guys told me to come down there and try this,” Terpstra said. “I came down and tried it and thought it wasn’t so bad. I was used to football, but each time I came down, I would throw the girls. I ended up really liking it so I tried out.”
While Terpstra was almost assured a spot on the team due to the lack of men, Churchill wasn’t as optimistic.
Cheerleading brings couple together despite varying paths
By Andrea PeckStaff Reporter
Central Michigan University’s O� ce of LGBTQ Services has made strides toward acceptance with the introduction of their social media project, #ChippewasComingOut.
The project features stories from students about their coming out as part of the LGBTQ community. It is featured on the O� ce of LGBTQ Services Facebook page and on their Twitter page as well.
“My intern Zach (Mackowiak), it was his idea,” said Shannon Jolli� , di-rector of the O� ce of LGBTQ Services. “He posted a request for submissions on Facebook and Twitter and asked people to submit their stories.”
Mackowiak posted his coming out story Feb. 3 as the first story of the program.
Since then, students and alumni have submitted stories of their own journeys and moments of coming out.
“I received huge support after posting my own coming out story, so I thought I would try to set up a program here,” the Shelby Township senior said. “Everyone has been sup-portive of the project and everyone writes so well.”
Jolli� said there is not always a platform to discuss LGBTQ issues. She hopes this project could help those who submit their stories become more comfortable. It could also give those reading who have not yet come out some comfort and sup-port they might be looking for.
“It is one of the bigger things we have done,” Jolli� said. “For the people that are submitting their
Students share their tales of coming out on #ChippewasComingOut
Courtesy Photo | Central Michigan University Office of LGBTQ Services The first person to share their “coming out” story on Central Michigan University Office of LGBTQ Services Facebook page was senior Zach Mackowiak, the creator of #ChippewasComingOut.w COMING OUT | 3B
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Gregory Cornwell | Staff PhotographerCaledonia juniors Ashley Churchill and Nick Terpstra cheer on Feb. 9 at the womens’s basketball game in McGuirk Arena.w CHEERLEADING | 3B
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Shaye Lenz does not like the unusually cold winter that Michigan and other parts of the country have experienced.
Lenz, who is the vice president of the student chapter of the American Meteorological Society at Central Michigan University, says she loves storms as long as they do not include snow.
“It’s cool for the first snowfall or the first ac-cumulation, then I’m done with it, so it can go away,” the Fenton junior said. “I’m a summer person so this is not really my thing.”
The student chapter of the American Meteorological So-ciety is a registered student organization with a common interest in the atmosphere and it’s processes at CMU.
SCAMS Treasurer Timo-thy Thielke, a sophomore from Sand Lake, started attending meetings as a freshman and learned about the trends in the weather and found the obscure RSO to be very beneficial.
Coming to meetings, discussing weather and the related maps has helped stu-dents of meteorology apply
knowledge from classes with most of the examples shown in typical class settings from past weather.
“Classes discuss previous weather,” Thielke said. “These meetings are a little more hands on than the classes.”
Assistant professor of me-teorology Ashton Peyrefitte said this winter is similar to what he calls “the great winter of 1976-77.” There is a large high pressure system over the north pole, which is typically not the case.
“This year, and back in 76-77, we had higher pressure,” he said. “What this did was to split the polar vortex, which is the normal low pressure area that exists over this area, into several parts, one of which took up residence over James Bay in Canada.”
He said this very cold area and a great warm ridge on the west coast, which fun-nels colder air into North America from the north pole and Siberia, combined to force very cold air into southeast Canada and the eastern central part of the United States.
But Peyrefitte does not have his hopes up just yet.
“It’s certainly going to be warmer, but how much warmer (is) the answer to
Winter weather woes cause frustration, while one RSO relishes it
By Sydney SmithStaff Reporter
Being professionally dressed and having a knock-out résumé might not be all it takes for students to fi nd work after graduation.
Meeting with recruiters, networking and being able to sell skills as an employee are all equally necessary, but students often don’t know where to start.
To assist students in fi nding jobs, Alpha Kappa Psi and the College of Business Adminis-tration are holding Career Day
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in Finch Fieldhouse, an event that has been held by the fraternity since 1996.
Students are able to meet recruiters from more than 100 organizations. All majors and fi elds of study are welcome, however, students inter-ested in business, engineering, information technology and health professions are highly desired by visiting employers.
“Career Day brings a lot of companies to campus to help students fi nd jobs,” said Ti� any Cioppi, a New York junior. “They are able to fi nd
contacts to get full-time jobs or just build a network that they can refer back to later.”
The fraternity, along with Ca-reer Services, advises students to dress professionally and bring a stack of error-free résu-més to hand out. Central Michi-gan University’s Career Center is having extended hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Thursday to look over résumés and hold mock interviews.
There is no pre-registration required.
Students have the option of an on-campus interview with some companies from 2 to 5
p.m. in Ronan Hall 240 Friday if they register through Ca-reer Central.
“Students will be exposed to so many avenues for net-working,” said Mason senior Jennifer Vandenhaute. “They can get their foot in the door at so many di� erent compa-nies, and are exposed to many options for full-time work and internships.”
Contact Career Services to get more information about career day.
Alpha Kappa Psi to host Career Day on Friday
Gregory Cornwell | Staff Photographer Students walk along a twisty and snowy path near Brooks Hall and Dow Science Building. Frequent snowfalls this year have led to many treacherous walks around campus.
that question,” he said.This year, the United
States has experienced various kinds of inclement weather as Peyrefitte has told his students they are lucky to be around this year.
“You are fortunate to be
here as meteorologists, not because it is humanely com-fortable, but because you can learn a great deal about the atmosphere,” Peyrefi tte said.
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College years are the best of our lives.
Those who are lucky enough to experience it know what I’m talking about. This is where real-ity slaps us in the face and teaches life lessons that cannot be learned any-where else.
Unfortunately, I’ve had many people tell me it’s a waste of time and money here at Central Michigan University. Those particular people are single-minded.
There are many who don’t believe in universi-ties, or really any sort of college for that matter. They think it’s a waste of money that will get you no-where, unless you’re going to be a doctor or a teacher.
I’ve heard it a million times, “you can learn everything they’re teach-ing you by going to the library,” or, “you’re wasting your time with all that pie-in-the-sky nonsense.”
It seems as if they’ve given up on the goals they had growing up just so they can make a paycheck at a job they don’t love.
This is no way to live a life. You have to do what
you’re passionate about and that is what universi-
ties are designed to do.You can get into a
program that suits you, learn what you love, then apply it to the real world. It really helps you find the person you want to be.
Going away to a uni-versity is good for you as a person. You experience so many different types of people, cultures and situa-tions that cannot be had at a community college. Take it from me. The three years I spent in community col-lege, I was lonely, oblivious to the world around me and somewhat depressed.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved saving money and spending time with my family, I just felt trapped. It seemed as if life was pass-ing me by and I was just sitting there watching like it was an IMAX 3D movie.
I transferred to CMU in the fall of 2011 and since then I have learned more about life than I did in the years I spent in commu-nity college. Some good experiences, some bad, but all of them have made me a wiser person in the long run and I wouldn’t trade any of them for the world.
Going away to a univer-sity is a truly wonderful experience for any 18 to 25-year-old. It’s that tip-ping point of becoming an adult where we need to buckle down, but still have fun and experience the world around us.
It’s the last couple years where we can be in-nocent and free. Because of this, we have to cherish every single moment, good and bad.
We might be spending a pretty penny on something we’re not sure will pay off in the end, but at least we are taking that risk just to try to achieve our dreams.
stories, I think it is validat-ing their decision. We’ve had nothing but positive com-ments and responses.”
Social media has played an increasing role in how the office gets the word out about their programs, Jolliff said. Another social media outlet the office has is a live Twitter feed at various events.
“Students really seem to be into social media,” she said. “There has been a trend toward hashtagging.”
The office has organized other projects involving social media and hashtags such as #SameLoveCMU around Valentine’s Day, where people submitted photos of themselves with their significant other.
Jolli� said she believes the o� ce plans to continue to push #ChippewasComing-Out, and possibly similar projects in the future.
Justin Gawronski, a senior and Macomb native, was one of the students who submit-
ted a story with the Chippe-was Coming Out hashtag.
“I do a lot of work in the o� ce, and Zach asked me to submit a story,” he said.
Gawronski said that he feels reading the stories on Facebook could be inspiring to others.
“It’s really hard to draw broad generalizations,” he said. “But I look at it this way: If one person reads the stories, it’s all worth it.”
Mackowiak said he has no plans of cutting the project o� after graduating and is go-ing to keep posting stories as long as they keep coming.
COMING OUT |CONTINUED FROM 1B
Katy Kildee | Staff PhotographerCaledonia juniors Ashley Churchill and Nick Terpstra, hang out before cheerleading practice Tuesday in the Indoor Athletic Complex.
CHEERLEADING |CONTINUED FROM 1B
“When we fi rst tried out, I would go back to the lunch table in high school,” Churchill said. “I would just be so frustrated because I knew he made the team. He was about to be on the team and I had wanted to be on the team my whole life. It was so frustrating that he made it and I was scared that I (wouldn’t).”
Terpstra remembers the frus-trating times for his girlfriend, recalling CMU coaches speaking to him more frequently than her.
“Every time I drove up there the coach would talk to me,” Terpsta said. “He said I needed to do this or do that, but Ashley was upset because he wouldn’t give her one second. She would tell me afterward how mad she was that he wouldn’t talk to her and how I was having one-on-one conversations with him.”
For her perseverance and ef-fort, Churchill made the team.
“I remember when she fi rst got there she didn’t have the strongest stunting skills,” said senior captain Laura Huth. “Her tumbling skills have always been excellent, but her stunting skills improved tremendously. It’s been a joy to watch her improve her skills. She came in being the quiet little freshman and now she has a role as a leader. It’s been astounding to watch.”
Three years later, the pair is still dating and are both consid-ered leaders on the team.
“I was so bad when I fi rst joined and now I’m a two-time national fi nalist,” Churchill said. “It’s amazing how much you grow. One of my assistant coaches said a lot of people don’t
hit their peak until they are done with college cheerleading. It sinks in once your journey is over that you are peaking. I wish I had more years to see how much more I can improve.”
For Terpstra, cheerleading is a new way to challenge himself and combine his two loves.
“There is always something else you can work toward,” he said. “You can get this new skill but there is always something a little harder after that. I’ve been a big sports fan all my life and it’s really cool to be right behind the end-zone for football or baseline for basketball.”
Both juniors keep their goals in mind as the couple’s time at CMU nears its end.
“Our program has been growing since we joined the team,” Churchill said. “For the fl yers, we have’t been able to skill build as much so I really want to improve myself on more elite skills. I think being a three-time national fi nalist would be my ultimate goal.”
Arin Bisaro | Staff PhotographerJoshua Taylor performs slam poetry at SAPA’s first “Food for Thought” event in the Bovee University Center Rotunda on Tuesday. The event offered information for prospective SAPA members as well as entertainment in the form of slam poetry.
SAPA hosts ‘Food for Thought’ slam poetry
By Elizabeth BensonSenior Reporter
Amid white linen table cloths, fancy dinnerware and candlelight, slam poet Pages D. Matam addressed the crowd in the Bovee Univer-sity Center Tuesday night with words of hope in a world of sexual aggression.
“The best way to take care of the world is to take care of yourself,” he said to the hushed crowd of students and faculty at Central Michigan University.
Matam, a self-professed bow tie enthusiast, gummy bear elitist and professional hugger, was the keynote performer at the fi rst “Food for Thought” poetry night held by Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates, a crisis hotline organization on CMU’s campus.
The event was held to raise awareness of the group’s position on campus and to help spread its name among students and administrators.
Most of the poems were focused on sensitive topics
such as sexual aggression, domestic violence and other triggering issues.
“When people talk about top-ics such as these, it’s usually se-rious and they’re nervous about it, because they’re not fun issues to talk about,” said Jackson senior Ellen Francey. “But this poetry adds more expression to the conversation, and I think it makes people think about it more personally, as opposed to just cold hard statistics.”
Francey heard about the event through a friend in SAPA and was excited to attend, she said.
Marie Parker, a freshman from Fowlerville, said she enjoyed how Matam presented on a wide variety of topics.
“They were di� cult topics, sure, but it’s something that needs to be talked about,” Parker said. “It’s always inter-esting to hear someone else’s perspective on issues such as these, when they’re coming from their background and experience.”
From an administrative point of view, the event was
a success and members of SAPA are eager to make it an annual program.
“For it being the fi rst time we’ve ever held an event like this, to see such a turn out, and to see President (George) and Mrs. (Elizabeth) Ross here, and other administrators donating time and money to our pro-gram, it’s really amazing,” said Amanda Revenaugh, a senior from Burton, and the SAPA member who orchestrated the poetry slam. “It really goes to show that an idea, with enough determination and hard work, can be achieved.”
Revenaugh said she was
inspired after seeing a video of Matam’s poem “Pinata” online, and decided an event like “Food for Thought” could be exactly what SAPA needed to get its name out to the community.
“I emailed Pages about it nearly four months ago, so this has been the result of sev-eral months of hard work and planning,” Revenaugh said. “With a lot of help from the Program Board, and the O� ce of Civil Rights and Institu-tional Equality, we pulled it o� and it was phenomenal.”
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Division leaders clash as women’s basketball prepares for road test
By Joe JuddStaff Reporter
The strongest teams in the Mid-American Conference will face each other at 7 p.m. Wednesday for the second time this season.
In their fi rst meeting, the Chippewas went neck-in-neck with Bowling Green in McGuirk Arena, beating the Falcons 72-68 in overtime. CMU head coach Sue Gue-vara said game two won’t be any di� erent.
“It’s going to be a very competitive game because we’re the two best teams in the MAC going at each other,” Guevara said. “Both teams have good chemistry, so I anticipate seeing pretty much the same as last game.”
All season, the Chip-pewas have had a target on their backs following a MAC tournament championship in 2013. Carrying an unde-feated conference record into Wednesday’s game makes the target even larger.
Both teams are riding win-ning streaks and have similar playing styles. Where CMU has not lost a conference or a home game all season, BGSU will take
a seven-game winning stretch into Wednesday.
Both lead their respec-tive divisions, with Central Michigan leading the MAC West Division and Bowling Green leading the MAC East. Both have had their fair share of good fortune this season, highlighted by senior guards Niki DiGuilio and Jillian Hal� ill winning MAC Player of the Week for their respec-tive divisions.
“I think we have the upper hand but not everybody is willing to say it,” DiGuilio said. “We have six or seven scorers other than me, so we’re going to be locked in.”
DiGuilio was in agree-ment with her coach in the assumption that BGSU will bring all it has to try to hand CMU its fi rst loss.
“It was a very hard-nosed game last time and it’s al-ways physical whenever we play,” DiGuilio said. “(Play-ing in Bowling Green) is always a nasty, competitive environment.”
Tip-o� is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Stroh Arena.
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Neil Rosan
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Neil Rosan
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A win is a win, right?In many single game
cases, this is true. Great teams can have an off day on the court and still leave with the all-important “W.” After the game, they make adjustments to make sure the lackluster performance doesn’t happen again.
Over the past few weeks, there has been an alarm-ing trend with the women’s basketball team: its first half performances aren’t there.
The team seems to be going through the motions and the heart I’ve seen them play with plenty of times before isn’t there.
I’m not the only one to notice. In many post-game statements, head coach Sue Guevara has said her team played “uninspired.”
If this were a one-game occurrence or just a single-week occurrence, I wouldn’t have an off feel-ing. The issue is that this uninspired first half has lingered. First it was Prai-rie View A&M, then North-ern Illinois and Bowling Green, and more recently Ball State and Buffalo.
I’m not saying these are bad teams, I just know CMU is the better team in many of these match ups.
It has gotten to the point where I know going into a CMU women’s basket-ball game, the team will
struggle at the beginning, but turn out all right. The players will see defeat star-ing them in the face from across the locker room and finally click into their im-pressive second gear.
In the start of the con-ference season, this is not a huge issue. As the tropi-cal paradises and atten-tion-grabbing non-confer-ence games melt away into the snowy-doldrums of mid-Michigan and confer-ence play, a little lapse in mindset is bound to happen. Although teams cannot win a game in the first half, they certainly can lose it. So far this team has been able overcome any halftime situation.
As the Chippewas head toward the final goal of March basketball, the mo-ments of uninspired play will become a big problem.
In one-and-done tour-nament situations, a full-game performance is necessary. Giving Bowling Green a 19-point lead come MAC tournament time would be a season-ender. It is not that the women’s team wouldn’t have the firepower to erase such a deficit, but quality teams wouldn’t give them the time to.
Like I said before, from what I’ve seen this season, I know this team is the
best in the Mid-American Conference. It has the most explosive players, incredible coaching and team chemistry like none other. It would just be very frustrated to see this sea-son crumble come March because of one bad half.
With a perfect confer-ence season hanging in the balance and a confer-ence tournament looming in the distance, I hope the inspiration returns to Mount Pleasant because it will bring great things for this team.
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The legacies of Lyle Bennett and Jack Skoog are cemented in place every time an athlete enters the Indoor Athletic Complex.
Central Michigan University added Bennett to the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1985. Proceed-ing his award, CMU named its fi eld “Bennett Track and Field,” located on North Campus, in 1986. Twenty-two years later,
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Skoog, who was a track and cross-country star at CMU, also made his mark with his name at the IAC. Skoog and his wife Dottie made a contribution to the expansion of Kelly/Shorts Stadium as well as the addition to the indoor track, which was fi nished in 1999.
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(MCT)Today’s Birthday (02/19/14). Disciplined efforts bring success wherever applied this year. Creativity bubbles with inspired magic, especially until August. Put your heart into it, and career leaps ahead. Balance this work with downtime, relaxation and healthy practices. Find joy in simple pleasures. Summer and autumn get especially romantic. Build partnership and family teamwork through listening and communication. Grow love in your garden.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 a 9 – Be respectful and don’t hold a grudge or you’ll be hurting yourself. It’s okay not to make changes yet, but prepare for speed. Caring for others is your motivation. Don’t gamble or waste your money.Taurus (April 20-May 20) – Today is a 9 – Something that worked before doesn’t work now. Take it slow. Get set to change romantic direction. Avoid provoking jealousies. Simplify matters. Fall back and re-assess your position. Wait to see what develops. Prioritize health.Gemini (May 21-June 20) – Today is a 9 – It’s not a good idea to spend now. Figure out your next move. Begin a new money-making venture. Track sales closely. Support a loved one emotionally, rather than financially. Don’t believe everything you hear.Cancer (Jun 21 - Jul 22) - Today is an 8 - Set long-range goals. Work in private. A female gives the green light on a project. Don’t get cocky or make expensive promises. Map the pitfalls. Do the extra credit problems. Leave the past in the past.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) – Today is a 9 – A roadblock slows the action. A female helps you find harmony about it. Think it over. A conflict of interests needs to get worked out. Rest up for it. Advance quickly after that. Consider all options.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) – Today is a 9
– The work pace picks up; postpone travel. It’s difficult to reach an agreement and could get intense. Don’t get stopped by past failures. List obvious problem areas. Discuss priorities and responsibilities. Handle the onrush, and invoice later.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) – Today is a 9 – Listen to your partner’s ideas carefully. Hold back your criticism and avoid a conflict. Resist an impulse. Keep costs down. Postpone a financial discussion. Use your own good judgment on how to proceed. Provide leadership.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) – Today is an 8 – Curtail your enthusiasm and avoid a hidden danger. It’s not a good time to travel or start new projects. Make sure you know what’s required before committing. Consult a respected elder. Rest and recharge.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) – Today is a 9 – Give kind words, not expensive treats. Begin a new work project. An important document arrives. New evidence threatens complacency. Take action for home or family. Don’t give in to a friend’s complaints. It works out.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) – Today is a 9 – Keep track of spending, as it could provoke controversy or a domestic disagreement. Organize your infrastructure. Prepare the marketing materials. Handle overdue tasks, and clean house. Manage your work well and an authority approves.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) – Today is a 9 – Make plans and establish the rules. An agreement could be elusive, with a communications breakdown. A great idea on paper doesn’t work in practice. Don’t gossip about work. Let your partner do the talking. Listen for the gold.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) – Today is a 9 – Talk over a possible purchase with someone you love. Don’t put your money down yet. You can get farther faster now. Dish out the assignments, and get into the game. Small, disciplined steps can have big impact.(c)2014 BY NANCY BLACK DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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