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No. 18 | Vol. 97
LIFEC e N t r a l M i C h i g a N
After decAdes of forced AssimilAtion, nAtive tribes work to revitAlize culture
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Wide open spaces: The second floor of the charles V. park Library is undergoing $500,000 worth of renovations.
From The courT To The gridiron: senior guard austin stewart’s central michigan athletic career might continue as a wide receiver on the football team.
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recLaiming Their hisTory: We spent the last six months following cultural teachers in the saginaw chippewa indian Tribe.
4 Bill could lower mip punishment
10 ediToriaL: mip bill should be supported and passed 12 sga pushes for increase of student printing funds
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watcH:student on tHe streetsWe asked students what they thought about a new bill that would decriminalize underage drinking.
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By Sydney SmithManaging Editor
@SydneyS_mith | [email protected]
A former 30-year career po-lice officer wants to reduce the punishment for minor in pos-session citations in Michigan.
State Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, introduced Bill 332 which passed in the Michigan Senate by a 36-2 vote on March 3. The bill aims to change first-offense MIPs from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction.
Jones came up with the bill after speaking with parents of students who felt it was harder for their children to obtain a scholarship or job after receiv-ing a misdemeanor charge for underage drinking.
Right now, a MIP is punish-
able by a maximum fine of $100. A second offense carries a fine up to $200 and 30 days in jail.
The charge would be severely reduced if the bill is passed.
The first violation would be no more than a $100 fine. The second violation carries a fine of $200, with possible impris-onment of less than 30 days.
The third violation is a fine of no more than $500 with po-tential jail time of less than 60 days. Only then would the MIP become a misdemeanor charge and stay on a criminal record.
Substance abuse prevention services might also be mandated.
Jones said punishments are enforced inconsistently, de-pending on where the person is charged.
“You could have one
Bill could reduce punishment for minor in possession
another (prosecutor) jail them for seven days,” he said. “It’s too diverse of punishment for a charge from just illegally having a beer.”
At CMU, police say whether a student receives an MIP is largely situational. Lt. Cam-eron Wassman said there are many different factors in play.
“It really depends on the officer’s discretion: What is the situation at hand? Is it someone who is being coop-erative or is it someone who is causing problems?” he said.
The bill would also limit breathalyzer use that can lead to a MIP citation. Police of-ficers would no longer be able to require a breath test.
Officer Jeff Browne of the Mount Pleasant Police Department said it’s not uncommon for people to get multiple MIPs — he once knew a man who racked up more than a dozen.
MIP is among the most common alcohol-related citations given out in Mount Pleasant, with 317 written in 2015. Comparatively, city police cited 222 drunk drivers last year. The last peak in MIP citations was in 2012, at 467.
File Photo | Abbie Robinson Chippewa fans gather in the student tailgate parking lot before a football game on Sept. 12 outside of Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
It really depends on the officer’s
discretion: What is the situation at hand? Is it someone who is being
cooperative or is it someone who is causing
problems?”
Lt. Cameron Wassman, CMU Police Officer
On campus, liquor law violations are referred to the Office of Student Conduct. This is usually a result of minors caught drinking in residence halls, which totaled 473 in 2014.
The bill is with the House Committee on Criminal Jus-tice. The committee receives bills to hold meetings on and listens to testimony for or against what it proposes. Jones hopes it will be brought up in the State House soon.
If it is brought up by the committee, the House will vote.
Chelsea junior Michael Steinhauer said MIP should not be a misdemeanor charge on the first offense, but for subsequent offenses it could be for a certain number of years.
“Maybe for the third of-fense,” he said. “Kids who usually do something to get caught will still be drinking.”
Since it was just referred and the committee schedules about a month in advance, the bill will not reach the House for at least a few weeks.
In a bill analysis done by the Senate Fiscal Agency, an analyst found the bill could reduce incarceration and court costs at the state and local level. According to Michigan State Police data, approximately 40,000 arrests have been made for the con-sumption, purchase or posses-sion of alcohol by minors.
According to the analysis, there were 9,300 convictions for a first offense MIP in Michigan.
The bill could lower court and incarceration costs, while keeping civil infraction revenue the same. This might result in a net benefit to local law enforcement.
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The Office of Institutional Diversity received an additional increase of $75,000 in funding, effective at the start of the 2016-17 fiscal year.
This will be the first time in roughly 20 years the office has received a funding increase.
Funding will predominantly go toward Native American Programs and the Office of LGBTQ Services, said Carolyn Dunn, associate vice president of the Office of Institutional Diversity.
Funding will not be allocated to the different departments until the beginning of July.
Director of LGBTQ Services Shannon Jolliff-Dettore said in the eight years she has worked at the office, LGBTQ Services
has never received a funding increase. While she does not know how much of the funding the office will get, Jolliff-Dettore said it will be used for hiring speakers and hosting events.
“(Getting the funding increase) makes us feel validated, and that the work the office does matters,” she said. “It lets us know providing these educational opportunities to students, faculty and staff matters to the institution.”
Multicultural Academic Student Services the Office of Diversity Education and several grant programs in the office will also receive a funding increase.
-Jordyn HermaniNews Editor
Office Of institutiOnal Diversity receives $75,000 funDing increase
By Rachael ParrottStaff reporter
@RachaelParrott | [email protected]
In an effort to digitize a sec-tion of its collection and provide group study spaces for students to convene and collaborate, the Charles V. Park Library is under-going renovations.
The cost of the second floor renovations will be $500,000, given to the library by donors.
Renovations are scheduled to finish by the start of the fall 2016 semester. Reference shelves on the south end of the library will be replaced with pods — small informal presentation areas.
These areas will potentially
contain white boards and new technology like video screens, said Thomas Moore, dean of libraries.
“In the future, we will continue to have a combined collection (of paper and digital). As time goes on we see that the paper and print are not being used, only the digital (material),” Moore said. “We have digital versions of many paper copy journals, so we’re going to be looking at removing the print versions so we can do good things in that new floor space.”
Some of the reference mate-rial has been discarded, but most has been relocated to other parts of the collection. There
will also be new furniture which students can move around to accommodate the need for a collaborative study space.
Most of these changes are a result of current group study space being hard to come by in the library.
Student opinion played a role in the renovations when more than 1,000 students re-sponded in a survey released last fall which contributed to the development of a master plan the library has for future long-term projects.
These future projects may include renovations to the third and fourth floors, Moore said.
Library undergoes renovations to increase group study space
Chelsea Grobelny | Staff PhotographerCaution tape sections off an area that will become a collaborative learning space on March 22 on the second floor of the Charles V. Park Library.
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By Malachi BarrettEditor-in-Chief
@PolarBarrett | [email protected]
When Eric Isaac was caught speaking Anishinaabe while being forced to attend a Cana-dian boarding school, teach-ers punished him by striking his wrists with a rigid stick.
The language is sacred because it is a gift from the creator, given exclusively to the Anishinaabe people. Despite the punishment he received in the school he was forced to attend known as the “mush hole” — a nickname given by students who were forced to eat mushy oatmeal — he didn’t allow the forbidden language to be taken from him.
Serving as one of six culture and language teachers for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, his grandson Nathan Isaac is one of just a few Native Americans in Mount Pleasant who is able to speak Anishinaabe. Isaac is not entirely fluent in the spiritual version of the language, but as a specialist in traditional stories and language, he is part of a larger revitalization movement in the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal Education Department.
Generations of Native youth across the country were forced into government-sanctioned boarding schools designed to sever the connection to their heritage. During the last 15 years, tribal leaders in Mount Pleasant developed a plan for culture and language staff members to help the community recover from deeply-rooted historical trauma and begin relearning their past.
“It’s not even two generations ago that all of this was inflicted. Families
Native leaders revitalize tribal culture after generations of abuse
Rachel Harrison | Multimedia CoordinatorCultural teacher Cecilia Stevens lectures students on the importance and history of the Round Dance on March 10 at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy located on 7498 East Broadway Road in Mount Pleasant.
are still trying to recover,” Isaac said. “Those generations that were taken and put in the boarding schools, they never learned how to be com-passionate or express love — that was all stripped away. When that generation came back home, they didn’t know how to raise children; there was no example of a parent for them. Even today, you still see people who are lost.”
According to a 2014 report compiled by the White House to find solutions to intergenerational and institutional problems that confront Native youth, more than 200 tribal nations have created their own education departments.
Isaac, Joe Sryette, Cecilia Ste-vens, Aaron Chivis, James Day and Matthew Sprague work directly with 150 students in classrooms at
the tribal-funded Saginaw Chip-pewa Academy. Each specializes in an area of study. They also provide cultural support to about 50 stu-dents in the Sasiwaans Immersion School and 750 Native students in K-12 schools in Shepherd and Mt. Pleasant School Districts.
An outdoor teaching lodge serves as a space for cultural les-sons and activities at the academy,
one of the only lodges situated at a school in the state, Isaac said.
“All the culture and language comes from the world around us,” he said. “We built the lodge to go back to traditional roots. You look at the school system historically and how it affected tribal nations across the Great Lakes, that is where a lot of our language and traditional ways were taken away. To have the
lodge behind our school, we can get back to reclaiming all of those songs and ceremonies that haven’t been practiced in a long time.”
This year, students in the acad-emy participated in ceremonies like the spirit feast, honoring the spirits of deceased ancestors. In May, fifth and sixth-grade students will travel to Mystic Lake Camp in Northern Michigan to build
Finding what was lost
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Rachel Harrison | Multimedia CoordinatorParticipants dance around drummers during a Round Dance celebration on March 12. The Round Dance was celebrate students achievements for the school year at the Saginaw Chippewa Academy in Mount Pleasant.
lodges and perform traditional ceremonies.
“The hope is the kids that are coming up will have a strong sense of self and cultural identity but are also educated in how the modern world works,” said Melissa Mon-toya, director of tribal education, “Together, they will be able to get things done and make things better for the ones coming up after them.”
Discovering a lost iDentity
Incorporating Native languages and culture bolsters the identity and self-worth of Native youth, Isaac said. Boarding school teachers renamed many of their Native stu-dents — a procedure that symbol-ized Native children taking a new American identity and discarding their “savage pasts.”
It was illegal to practice Native American religions until 1978, when Congress passed the Ameri-can Indian Religious Freedom Act.
Many families lost their Anishi-naabe names and clans long ago, and have yet to rediscover them. A large part of the revitalization effort centers around each tribal member reclaiming their personal identity.
“We guide students and families to the door of culture,” Montoya said. “It’s uncomfortable and intimidating when you don’t know where to go or who to talk to, and there is a bit of shame involved in that too. It’s like, ‘I’m Anishinaabe and I should know,’ but if we look at our history, there is a reason for that and it is OK.”
There are seven clans, each with several subclans, that serve as a connection to families, the environment and the world. The traits of your family determines what clan you belong to.
Tribal communities cannot be as strong when families do not know their roles, Montoya said.
For example, those in the crane clan are leaders — often the chiefs of tribes and prominent role models. Turtle clan members are mediators — they settle arguments and bring peace, allow everyone to talk and be heard.
Montoya discovered her clan and Anishinaabe name just a few months ago. She had to wait
38 years to learn she belonged to the Nameh, or Sturgeon clan, keepers of cultural knowledge and educators.
“If you don’t know (your clan), you don’t know your purpose,” she said. “You don’t realize that until you get it. When you do it feels amazing. It explains everything you didn’t know about yourself and fills a missing void that a lot of people carry.”
Meanwhile, Montoya said an Anishinaabe name allows ances-tors to find members and provide guidance along their life journey.
Her name is Waabiziikwe, or “Swan Woman.” Swans are said to look gentle and nice on the outside, but are very protective of their young, fitting for the educa-tion director.
Erik Rodriguez, interim public relations director, is still in the process of learning his clan and tribal name.
“As we have grown, so has the hunger for knowledge,” he said. “It used to be almost an embarrass-ment. You would feel guilty and wouldn’t want to be associated with it two or three decades ago. It’s something I have wanted to know for years now, but when the time is right I’ll be ecstatic to know that part of me.”
Revitalization is a two-pronged effort. While cultural leaders take roles to improve the community internally, others communicate with external organizations to develop relationships and make the tribe a traditional part of the Mount Pleasant and Central Mich-igan University communities.
eDucation in the community
City Manager Nancy Ridley said local government has a responsibility to support the tribe and work toward a mutual respect
of their shared history.Ridley said the entities work
together in numerous ways, but highlighted the support of a twice
yearly distribution of gaming profits from Soaring Eagle Casino. The first distribution of 2016 will be made in May.
In 2014, Mount Pleasant became one of many governments
Rachel Harrison | Multimedia CoordinatorNathan Isaac drums and sings at the 27th annual powwow hosted by Central Michigan University on March 19 in McGuirk Arena.
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who chose to recognize the second Monday in October as “Indig-enous People’s Day” instead of Columbus Day. Ridley said the more residents learn and recognize the sins of the past, the easier it will be to heal together.
“Instead of dwelling on the past and using it as a crutch, we’re learning and educating (others in the community) and presenting these issues,” Rodriguez said. “(It’s important) to communicate with external organizations — to develop those relationships outside the tribe.”
One of its biggest challenges is getting Native families to trust institutions and places of learning outside of the tribe, Montoya said. Some are reluc-tant to send their children to be educated off the reservation.
“Even if you weren’t in those four walls (of a board-ing school), you were there if your grandmother was. It carries through your family,” Montoya said. “That is why we are working really hard to build our relationship with surrounding schools.”
According to a 2014 White House report, 22 percent of Amer-ican Indians and Alaskan Natives ages 25 and older have not finished high school. Only 13 percent have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared to 29 percent of the total U.S. population.
This year, 337 Central Michigan University students identified as American Indian or Alaskan Native, up 52 from last year. The number has steadily increased each year since 2010, however the group only represents 1.72 percent of students on campus this year.
Montoya and Rodriguez are both CMU alumni. They said many leadership roles in the tribe are filled by members who have a degree.
Montoya earned her Masters Degree in Administration in 2015.
“My higher education has helped me learn how (to make
change) instead of protesting — and we do (protest) — but to do it in a more organized way,” Montoya said. “There are petitions and systems and those initiatives have helped us do what our ancestors and elders have told us to do — fight for our rights — and how we are doing it in a more academic way. I feel like that is the difference you are seeing.”
CMU’s Native American Programs office helps educate the campus and serves as a liaison with tribal communities. The office organizes cultural events, maintains a Native American resource collection, helps recruit Native American students and provides support services once they are enrolled.
Wilson junior and Student Assistant in the Native Ameri-can Programs office Hannah Bartol, graduated from a tribal school in her Hannahville Po-tawatomi Indian Community near Escanaba. She said her generation has come to the realization that their culture will die with elders if traditions are not passed on.
“(My tribal language) was never written down — it’s passed down orally,” Bartol said. “If all that is gone, who are we? I need to learn what it constitutes to be a Native American — learn my language and the ceremonies behind it. They practiced these traditions hundreds of years ago and we need to keep it going.”
Eric Isaac is 85 years old. Elder members of the tribe are the last chance to preserve their connec-tion to the past. Soon he will also be a part of the tribe’s history.
Each year, Nathan Isaac takes a week off work to visit his grandfather and learn more of the Anishinaabe language.
“Some of the words have very deep connections, it is a spiritual language,” Isaac said. “We are all still practicing our ways our language is still living and being created. We are trying to get that message out (and allow people) to witness the celebrations that are still in existence.”
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THE WAYs OF THE
at the Saginaw chippewa academy in Mount pleas-
ant, a six-member team working is to restore and
teach anishinaabe language and culture to the
youngest generation of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.
culture and language was ripped away during the Board-
ing School era (1893-1934) and had lasting affects on the
Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Nation. With these resources given
to the community and children, it shows a step forward in
the direction of reclaiming the tribe’s heritage.
Saginaw Chippewa Academy takes strides to connect with tribal heritage
The lodge encloses the sacred fire that burns during the round dance on march 11 at Tribal headquarters in mount pleasant.
matthew sprague and his third-grade class play a traditional anishinaabe hand game on march 9 at the saginaw chippewa academy located in mount pleasant.
CHIPPEWAPHoto and storY BY racHel Harrison
MULTIMEDIA COORDINATOR
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director of Tribal education melissa montoya (center) is congratulated by community members during a special song celebrating her achievement of obtaining her masters degree from central michigan university during the 27th annual powow on march 19 in mcguirk arena.
alexis Trepanier, left, Brandon Wemigawns, center, anthony hunt, center, and gus hinmon, right, play on the jungle gym on march 10 at the saginaw chippewa academy in mount pleasant.
alaina disel smudges herself before a culture and language lesson is taught. “it’s important to smudge yourself daily. smudging is a way to clear your mind, and give you a chance to really relax. smudging is a mixture of sage and sweet grass,” said culture and Language Teacher matthew sprague on march 9 at the saginaw chippewa academy in mount pleasant.
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Editorial BoardEDITOR-IN-CHIEF | Malachi Barrett
MANAGING EDITOR | Sydney Smith
OPINION EDITOR | Dominick Mastrangelo
NEWS EDITOR | Kate Carlson
NEWS EDITOR | Jordyn Hermani
SPORTS EDITOR | Taylor DesOrmeau
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PHOTO EDITOR | Kaiti Chritz
Let us be clear: We do not endorse the consumption of alcohol by people under the age of 21.
However, underage drinking is a reality of university life. Not just here, not just today. It has always been — for generations.
Minor in possession citations are handed out to Central Michigan University students every week. Mount Pleasant police say their department issues between 300 and 400 citations each year.
Each semester, thousands of underage CMU stu-dents drink illegally. Most of them do not get caught.
For some who do, the consequences are steep. Under state law, a first time minor in possession
offender faces a $100 fine and is charged with a misde-meanor. A second is a fine of up to $200 a possible 30 days in jail and another misdemeanor charge.
That punish-ment does not fit the crime.
State Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, has extensive background in law enforcement and introduced a bill that would change first-offense MIPs from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction. Under his revision, a misdemeanor would be given only after a third offense.
On March 3, the State Senate passed Bill 332. We encourage Michigan’s House of Representatives to take the next step, by passing it. Gov. Rick Snyder should then sign it into law.
Jones says the current law is inconsistent and
depends on prosecutor discretion. We agree. There are 83 counties in Michigan. That means
there could be 83 different standards for what the ap-propriate punishment should be for an MIP.
A misdemeanor on your record can affect some-one’s ability to get a job, scholarship or car loan.
It is absurd to leave something as potentially harmful to a young person’s life and reputation up to the mood of a bureaucratic official.
A teachable moment should not be one that follows you for the rest of your college career and beyond.
The House should consider a precedent on an issue closely related to this one. The state’s medi-cal amnesty laws often come into effect when a call for help is made to aid an underage person who has had too much to drink.
We favor a less punishment-heavy approach based in common sense.
We encourage you to e-mail your local state rep, and lobby them to vote in favor of Bill 332. Send your thoughts to [email protected] as well. We’d be happy to publish your letter to lawmakers.
Laws can and should change over time. On the topic of underage drinking, they have — wildly.
Michigan once lowered the legal drinking age to 18 in 1972 before the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984. MIP became a misdemeanor in Michigan in 1995.
Our state’s legislative branch should support a society that favors modernized regulations and laws.
This is a question of fairness. The punish-ment for a minor in possession charge in Michi-gan should fit the crime.
Support decriminalization of minor in poSSeSSion
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File Photo | Kaiti Chritz A beer can lies in the grass during Central Michigan University’s “welcome weekend” on August 28, 2015 on Main Street.
Punishment for violation of minor in possession law does not fit the crime
Editorial
Like many college basketball fans, I have been glued to a television set for the past week.
The National Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament now earns more than $1 billion in revenue for the NCAA.
For fans like me, a NCAA men’s basketball bracket is always within arm’s reach. My productivity at work and school always plummets this time of year.
I was living in upstate New York when Carmelo Anthony and the Syracuse Orange made their NCAA title run in 2003. Those guys were like super heroes to me.
Eleven-year-old me was too naïve to ask a basic question that year. I’m ready to ask it now: What are the players getting out of this insanely popular basketball tournament?
Winning is nice. But a spot in the Sweet Sixteen does not put food in the refrigerator or heat in the apartment.
NCAA student-athletes live well below the poverty line. One ex-ample of this came in 2014, when UConn’s star guard Shabazz Napier told reporters before a game he is so broke “sometimes (he) go(es) to bed starving.”
To me, that is unfathomable. Don’t the athletes that I, and other
sports fans, look up to deserve to be as financially comfortable while representing their universities in a million-dollar sporting event?
As I sit and watch guys like Napier play, I start to feel dirty.
Every advertisement is college basketball-themed. The spectacle is completely branded. Each second is
monetized. The barrage of “media timeouts” is calculated and constant.
It’s starting to make sense. I want to watch entertaining bas-
ketball. The NCAA wants my eyeballs to see the advertisements during breaks in the action.
We both get what we want. But what do the players — whose
skill the entire moneymaking ma-chine depends on — want? What do they get out of this?
They want to get paid. And they should be. They deserve it.
The NCAA calls these young men and women “amateur” athletes, and claims based on that nomenclature, they cannot and will not be paid.
Every student athlete in the NCAA is forced to sign a contract — a por-tion of which has an assumption of amateur status clause. This states they understand they cannot profit in any way from the hours of work they put in to a basketball career.
Meanwhile, high-profile basketball coaches can, and in some cases are encouraged to, sign multi-million dollar sneaker deals and basketball camp contracts.
The revenue paths for these over-paid, testosterone-fueled ex-jocks appear endless.
School administrators, who work for supposed nonprofits, are essen-tially tasked with finding ways to spend money. So pay your coach a fortune, update your facilities every few years and all of a sudden it looks like you are barely breaking even.
This is all to promote a public university, keep the alumni donating money and fans buying sweatshirts in the campus bookstore.
It gives the illusion that paying your student-athletes for the work they do is financially impossible.
So what forces these athletes to consent to participation in a business model rigged against them, is the
unlikely hope of a professional career. The reality is, less than five percent
of NCAA athletes end up playing their sport professionally.
Without the NCAA, basketball players cannot reach the NBA. There’s a rule in place to make sure of that.
Without the basketball players, there is no March Madness phenom-enon that brings in millions of dollars each season.
The NCAA gets to make and keep money. The players become victims in an orchestrated exploitation that America can’t get enough of.
People will never stop watching the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. It’s too exciting to take your eyes off of.
But the governing structure that subjects college students to the in-dentured servitude of the NCAA has developed into a racket.
And that should be something we fans should consider keeping an eye on, too.
NCAA’s exploitation of college athletes is maddening Dominick
MastrangeloOpinion Editor
TO THE EDITOR: Forget what you’ve heard: there is
no such thing as “the veil” in Islam. Given the current political climate
of moral panic, it is a basic responsi-bility of both U.S. and global citizen-ship to learn about actual Islam — not just popular slanders against it — and to make an effort to understand what is important to people who live it.
Many non-Muslims fixate on wom-en who wear head-coverings and treat them as symbols for their religion, or more particularly representations of what is bad about their religion. Like all religions, Islam is diverse in its beliefs and practices and it comes in many versions.
Muslim women around the world and within the CMU community wear a great variety of forms of dress designed to adhere to religious values of modesty, hijab and do so for a great variety of reasons.
The Qur’an, the holy scripture of
Islam, requires modest dress and be-havior from both men and women. In practical terms, the most visible sign of this requirement is special dress for women.
In its simplest and most common form, observing hijab involves a woman covering her hair when in public.
While outsiders often focus on the niqab (a form of veiling that covers the nose and mouth, in addition to the hair) and the burqa (which completely covers the head and body, with a screen to see out of), these are merely the most complete options for veiling and only specific Muslim cultures normalize them.
For some, hijab may simply entail wearing modest, main-stream, West-ern dress. Hijab takes many forms, which are determined by the type of Islam a woman practices, her cultural background, what country she lives in, and her personal style.
Muslim women veil for a great
variety of reasons. Some point to the Qur’an and their
desire to be the type of person that they believe God wants them to be. Hijab can serve as a reminder of core ethical values and commitments, like a wedding ring around your finger.
Sometimes women veil because it is the traditional dress of their cultural group. Others veil because they live in a country that requires it, such as Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Especially in America, women might veil to combat Islamaphobia and use it as a way to positively represent their communities to outsiders. Through veiling, their accomplishments and good deeds reflect well on Islam and counteract stereotypes. Some veil because their families require it.
Women often veil because it reduces sexual objectification, forcing others to focus on their personality and intel-ligence, rather than their appearance.
Some report that they are treated more respectfully, even gallantly, when they veil: men open doors for them, listen when they speak, address them with deference, take them seriously.
Also related, many women veil because it is the way they feel most comfortable in public, the way they dress to feel safe and confident.
To explain this factor to Western-ers, feminist supporters of Muslim women’s right to veil often employ an analogy: imagine how uncomfortable you might feel if required to show up at work or school without your shirt, an item of clothing you wear regularly and feel like yourself in.
You could perhaps go about your day without it, but you would feel self-conscious and awkward. Maybe you’d stop going places that didn’t allow you to wear it.
Perhaps your loved ones would be concerned about people harassing you, becoming uncomfortable with you
going out, attending school or work, visiting government buildings, riding public transportation.
If the practical goal is to support women, hijab can actually be a very useful public tool, allowing Muslim women, and those who care about them, to feel more comfortable with their participation in public space.
When you see a woman who veils, all you know about her is that she veils. That’s it.
You don’t know what type of Islam she practices — and keep in mind that there are cultural traditions through-out the world, outside of Islam, that also promote veiling — you don’t know what her politics are, you don’t know why she chooses to veil. Veiling can mean almost anything.
Until you get to know her, you don’t know her.
LauREL ZwIssLER,Philosophy and Religion Department
Letter to theEDITOR
Stereotypes about female Muslim veiling are inappropriate
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Student-city relations and tickets given out by parking services are just two of the many is-sues Student Government Association presiden-tial candidates promised to tackle should they be elected this April.
Cheboygan junior Ian Elliott and Owosso sophomore Andrew Zyrowski will be competing for president of SGA.
Accompanying Elliott on his ticket as vice president is Lake Orion senior Jazmin Biernat. Austin Blessing, a White Lake junior, is Zyrowski’s candidate for vice president.
Voting will be open from April 4 through April 8 online.
“I appreciate both tickets putting themselves out there,” said SGA President Chuck Mahone. “I truly believe both candidates have the best interest of the student body at heart, which at the end of the day is what really matters. Regardless of who ends up succeeding myself and Maggie (Black-mer), the students will truly have someone who
will put their best interests into action.”Mahone and Blackmer’s last day in office is
April 11. The new president and vice president will take over that same day, after being sworn in by Mahone.
The president and vice president elect will hold their positions until spring 2017.
Zyrowski/BlessingZyrowski, who serves SGA house leader this
semester, said he wants to be president to “make sure the student body’s voice is heard (by univer-sity) administration.”
“I want to fight for the issues that are important for the student body,” he said. “I’m a dedicated and hardworking leader. When I put my mind to an issue, especially when it’s important to the student body, I would do everything in my power to make sure it is accomplished. I think that’s the most important (thing about me).”
Zyrowski and Blessing have three major policy points they hope to accomplish if elected: improving the quality of SGA particularly in the senate, addressing a “parking issue” with ad-ministration regarding over-ticketing students
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for parking on campus and insuring transpar-ency in university decision making.
Prior to running for president, Zyrowski served as the SGA representative for CMU College Republicans and Sweeney Hall. Bless-ing is a senator and vice chair of the govern-mental affairs committee, and has past experi-ence standing in as house leader.
elliott/BiernatElliott said he should be president because he
“fell in love with the campus” and wants to make sure students are properly represented.
“I believe I have the skill set to (represent) not only the community I love, but the people I love and make (life) even better for them,” Elliott said. “I’ve been vocal, active and engaging with the student body in terms of advocacy on different issues since literally my first week as a freshman here. I can tell the student body we will, with pas-sion, represent them and come up with solutions to their problems.”
Elliott and Biernat have four major policy points they hope to accomplish during their time in office: increasing transparency between the university and its students, working on student and city relations, increasing voting registration for local, state and federal elections and education for students and expediting the creation of a Gender Equity Center.
The center, Biernat said, is almost already completed.
“As of now (the bill to create the Gender Equity Center) is sitting on President (George)
Ross’ desk, waiting for his approval,” she said. “We really want to push (university) adminis-tration to get that through. Once it is hopefully approved, we want to get the ball rolling on setting (the center) up.”
Prior to running for president, Elliott created the student organization Student Advocates for the Medical and Responsible use of Cannabis. He is serving as the SGA-appointed liaison between the campus and the Mount Pleasant communities.
Biernat has worked as a reporter and news anchor at News Central 34 and serves as the SGA governmental affairs committee chair.
other positionsCandidates for the treasurer and several senate
seats were also announced.Detroit sophomore Luke Anderson is the only
candidate for treasurer.Those running for senator include junior
Evan Wittenbach, freshman Boomer Wingard, sophomore Sam Bork, freshman Caroline Mur-ray, graduate student Rahul Gopireddy, senior Kaitlyn Oracz, sophomore Shyam Patel and freshman Nick Tyburski.
Mahone said despite pushing back candidate applicant deadlines, the senate still does not have enough members to hold a competitive race. He said it is likely an additional election will be held at the start of the fall 2016 semester in order to allow the senate body to have a quorum, he said.
The senate is typically 23 members large, mak-ing the number of senate members necessary to hold a quorum 16 people.
Brianna Hughes | Staff PhotographerVice President candidate Jazmin Biernat, Presidential candidate Ian Elliott, Presidential candidate Andrew Zyrowski and Vice President candidate Austin Blessing answer question for SGA’s Presidential Debate on Monday, March 21 in Anspach 161.
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Each semester, undergradu-ate students are given $10 for printing on their student accounts meant to last for the duration of each semester. Graduate students are given $15.
In spring 2015 2,115 of the 18,413 on-campus undergraduate population exceeded the allotted printing amount. In fall 2015 semester, only 1,954 of the 19,387 on-campus undergraduates went over their $10 printing allotment.
Based off the fall 2015 under-graduate enrollment numbers, the average student only spends about $4.88 on printing, as calculated by the Office of Infor-mation Technology.
However, Student Govern-ment Association senator, Desirae Massey said $10 is not enough, especially compared to other universities.
She, along with the Academic Affairs Committee, wrote a reso-lution to increase the base allot-ment for student printing services at Central Michigan University earlier last month.
The resolution asks the university for an increase to $15 for of printing at the start of each semester. For undergrads, that initial amount is $10 for 250 black and white pages.
“I’m still working on trying to talk with (those in charge of)
SGA committee to push for increase in student printing funds
Printing Services here on campus so we can show them that this is something students want and this is something (the university) can afford for their student body,” Massey said. “We give students on the Disney College (Program) printing money, which doesn’t make sense because they won’t ever be on campus to use it.”
Kole Taylor, interim associ-ate director for web and custom applications in the Office of Information Technology, said he said he wants to work with SGA to reach an understanding.
“Our goal in determining the right amount was to meet the needs of the vast major-ity of students without going
overboard,” Kole said. “This is in line with CMU’s sustainabil-ity goals to promote thoughtful, responsible printing and reduce waste. Over 80 percent of un-dergraduate students never go over their allocation.”
The $10 allocation for printing and $15 for graduate students has been in place since “the inception of PrintQ” the univer-sity’s student-printing services five years ago.
This was determined by look-ing at “similar sized” universities and data gathered from survey-ing students on how much they print in a semester.
Funds given to students haven’t changed since.
Students can purchase more pages to print online by going under their Central Link account
settings. Students can see how many pages they have left under their account settings, and how much money that equates to.
If a student runs out of print-ing pages, they can purchase 50 more pages for $2. Students can only purchase additional pages in $2 increments.
The additional $2 put on a student account, along with the initial $10 allotted for printing services, does not carry forward into the next semester.
Western Michigan University gives its undergraduate students 500 “printing tokens” to use over the semester, worth 500 black and white pages. Their graduate students receive 750 black and white pages. At WMU, students are charged three cents per black and white page whereas CMU students are charged four cents.
University of Michigan stu-
dents are given $24, or 400 black and white pages.
Davidson sophomore Sally Crane said she hasn’t used printing services much in the past but anticipates using it more as she gets further into her college career.
“My classes are becoming more paper and project based, rather than online homework,” she said. “Right now, I’m probably printing 10 to 15 pages every other week, so I feel like I’m definitely going to go over that $10 amount.”
Massey met with members of the Office of Information Tech-nology on March 15 to discuss the feasibility of the bill.
“(The representatives) believed this is a good proposal and we could potentially have the increase in allocation take place incrementally over a period of semesters (or) years,” she said.
Chelsea Grobelny | Staff PhotographerDeWitt junior Oliver Yockey prints a document while at the Charles V. Park Library on Tuesday, February 16.
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centurion and those with him
who were guarding Jesus
saw the earthquake
and all that had happened,
they were terrified, and
exclaimed,
‘Surely he was the
Son of God!’
Matthew 27:54
Roman Centurion painting by Nathan Greene
At least 513 eyewitnesses and an empty tomb: The resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the best-attested historical events of antiquity.
Easter is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and rose again that we might have eternal life. We are a group of faculty, staff, administration and retirees who are united by the common experience that Jesus Christ provides the essential answers to life’s most important questions.
Community Good Friday Service at 6:00 pm in Plachta Auditorium as well as worship this Easter Sunday at any of our area churches:
Donna Ahlers Mathematics Dick Allen Communication & Dramatic Arts, Emeritus Jill Almasi-Dole Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Angie Armstrong Government Relations Karen Arthur Business Student Services Elaine Betts Physical Therapy Jeff Betts School of Health Sciences Harley V. Blake Human Resources – Professional Development Programs Melinda Brakenberry Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Rob Bromley School of Accounting Lenora Calkins Office of Research and Graduate StudiesSheila Carroll World Wide Educational Resources Jim Carroll Professor emeritus, Psychology Josh Chaffin His House Christian Church Jeanne Chaffin Human Environmental Studies Cali Clark Human Resources Jaime Clark Campus Dining Services Diane Craven Football Mark Cwiek School of Health Sciences Pat Cwiek Health Professions Residential College Jim Damitio School of Accounting Bob Dvorak Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Administration Trish Fall CMU’s Global Campus Arthur Fountain Custodian, Retired Margie Fountan Secretary, Retired Cindy Gall Journalism Department Suzanne Gareiss Recreation, Parks & Leisure Steve Gill Power Plant Renae Gould Department of Journalism Steve Harrast School of Accounting Gary Hayes School of Accounting Ruth Helwig Systems Librarian - Emeritus Margo Jonker Athletics Mike Jorgensen Music Tobias Keyes Campus Crusade for Christ and Athletes in ActionSue King Athletics Phil Kintzele School of Accounting Larry Koehler Emeritus Professor Biology Rhonda Kohler Director, CMU Printing ServicesJerry Lounsbury Prof. Emeritus, Counseling Center Charlie Mack CF/SF Brenda Mather Student Disability Services Keith Mathieu Student Account Services Donna Mayes International Affairs Debra McGilsky School of Accounting Kara Owens Office of Research and Graduate Studies Renee Papelian Director of Professional Education, Emeritus Fritz Phelps Professor emeritus, Physics Louise Plachta First Lady Emerita Jennifer Quick Center for Clinical Experiences Linda Reid Office for Institutional DiversityRodney Reid CMU Alumni Jerry Reighard Athletics Nancy Reighard Athletics Norma Richardson Foreign Janguages, Leterature & Culture Mary Lou Schilling Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Chad Stefaniak School of Accounting Sherry Sytek Human Resources Kevin Timmons CMU Carpenter DeanWallin Recreation, Parks & Leisure Services Barry Waters Director, CMU Bookstore Tom Weirich School of Accounting Linda & ReedWicander Retired Dru Wilson Engineering & Technology Jim Wojcik Department of Journalism
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Central Michigan Christian Church 3433 S. Lincoln Rd., Mt. Pleasant 10:00 AM Easter Worship Service
Cornerstone Church 2214 S. Lincoln Road 10:30am Easter Worship Service
First Church of the Nazarene Easter Worship “I Deserve Death,1980 South Lincoln Road 10:45 AM But He Gave Me Life” (on the corner of Pickard and Lincoln Roads) First Presbyterian Church Easter Worship Service1250 Watson Rd. 10:30:00 AM & Special Music Grace ChurchTwelve17 Coffee Roasters (1217 S. Mission) 10:00am Easter Worship Service Songs & Scripture will be also be presented in Chinese, Hindi, Bengali & Arabic languages”
His House211 West Broomfield, across from the Towers and Seven-Eleven “ 10am Easter Worship Immanuel Lutheran Church 7:00 AM Easter Sunrise Service 320 South Bradley Street 8:30 AM Easter Breakfast 10:00 AM Easter Festival Service
Mt. Pleasant Community Church1400 West Broomfield Street, Mt. Pleasant “ 8:00, 9:30 and 11am Easter Worship Service Sacred Heart Church 7:00pm Holy Thursday - Mass of the Lord’s Supper302 S. Kinney Ave 12:30 pm Good Friday - Celebration of the Lord’s passion 8:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday 9:00 & 11:00 am Easter Sunday - Mass of the Resurrection Strickland Baptist Church10023 S. Green Road, Shepherd “ 8:30 am Easter Breakfast 9:30am Sunday School 10:45am “Easter - “”The Hope of Easter” The Potter’s House Family Worship Center 5346 E. Deerfield Rd. 9:00 &11:00am The Life of Jesus: Did it Matter?
Pentecostals of Mt. Pleasant 9625 E. Pickard St. 11:00 AM Easter Service
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RISEN.When the
centurion and those with him
who were guarding Jesus
saw the earthquake
and all that had happened,
they were terrified, and
exclaimed,
‘Surely he was the
Son of God!’
Matthew 27:54
Roman Centurion painting by Nathan Greene
At least 513 eyewitnesses and an empty tomb: The resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is one of the best-attested historical events of antiquity.
Easter is the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and rose again that we might have eternal life. We are a group of faculty, staff, administration and retirees who are united by the common experience that Jesus Christ provides the essential answers to life’s most important questions.
Community Good Friday Service at 6:00 pm in Plachta Auditorium as well as worship this Easter Sunday at any of our area churches:
Donna Ahlers Mathematics Dick Allen Communication & Dramatic Arts, Emeritus Jill Almasi-Dole Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Angie Armstrong Government Relations Karen Arthur Business Student Services Elaine Betts Physical Therapy Jeff Betts School of Health Sciences Harley V. Blake Human Resources – Professional Development Programs Melinda Brakenberry Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Rob Bromley School of Accounting Lenora Calkins Office of Research and Graduate StudiesSheila Carroll World Wide Educational Resources Jim Carroll Professor emeritus, Psychology Josh Chaffin His House Christian Church Jeanne Chaffin Human Environmental Studies Cali Clark Human Resources Jaime Clark Campus Dining Services Diane Craven Football Mark Cwiek School of Health Sciences Pat Cwiek Health Professions Residential College Jim Damitio School of Accounting Bob Dvorak Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Administration Trish Fall CMU’s Global Campus Arthur Fountain Custodian, Retired Margie Fountan Secretary, Retired Cindy Gall Journalism Department Suzanne Gareiss Recreation, Parks & Leisure Steve Gill Power Plant Renae Gould Department of Journalism Steve Harrast School of Accounting Gary Hayes School of Accounting Ruth Helwig Systems Librarian - Emeritus Margo Jonker Athletics Mike Jorgensen Music Tobias Keyes Campus Crusade for Christ and Athletes in ActionSue King Athletics Phil Kintzele School of Accounting Larry Koehler Emeritus Professor Biology Rhonda Kohler Director, CMU Printing ServicesJerry Lounsbury Prof. Emeritus, Counseling Center Charlie Mack CF/SF Brenda Mather Student Disability Services Keith Mathieu Student Account Services Donna Mayes International Affairs Debra McGilsky School of Accounting Kara Owens Office of Research and Graduate Studies Renee Papelian Director of Professional Education, Emeritus Fritz Phelps Professor emeritus, Physics Louise Plachta First Lady Emerita Jennifer Quick Center for Clinical Experiences Linda Reid Office for Institutional DiversityRodney Reid CMU Alumni Jerry Reighard Athletics Nancy Reighard Athletics Norma Richardson Foreign Janguages, Leterature & Culture Mary Lou Schilling Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Services Chad Stefaniak School of Accounting Sherry Sytek Human Resources Kevin Timmons CMU Carpenter DeanWallin Recreation, Parks & Leisure Services Barry Waters Director, CMU Bookstore Tom Weirich School of Accounting Linda & ReedWicander Retired Dru Wilson Engineering & Technology Jim Wojcik Department of Journalism
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Central Michigan Christian Church 3433 S. Lincoln Rd., Mt. Pleasant 10:00 AM Easter Worship Service
Cornerstone Church 2214 S. Lincoln Road 10:30am Easter Worship Service
First Church of the Nazarene Easter Worship “I Deserve Death,1980 South Lincoln Road 10:45 AM But He Gave Me Life” (on the corner of Pickard and Lincoln Roads) First Presbyterian Church Easter Worship Service1250 Watson Rd. 10:30:00 AM & Special Music Grace ChurchTwelve17 Coffee Roasters (1217 S. Mission) 10:00am Easter Worship Service Songs & Scripture will be also be presented in Chinese, Hindi, Bengali & Arabic languages”
His House211 West Broomfield, across from the Towers and Seven-Eleven “ 10am Easter Worship Immanuel Lutheran Church 7:00 AM Easter Sunrise Service 320 South Bradley Street 8:30 AM Easter Breakfast 10:00 AM Easter Festival Service
Mt. Pleasant Community Church1400 West Broomfield Street, Mt. Pleasant “ 8:00, 9:30 and 11am Easter Worship Service Sacred Heart Church 7:00pm Holy Thursday - Mass of the Lord’s Supper302 S. Kinney Ave 12:30 pm Good Friday - Celebration of the Lord’s passion 8:30 pm Easter Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday 9:00 & 11:00 am Easter Sunday - Mass of the Resurrection Strickland Baptist Church10023 S. Green Road, Shepherd “ 8:30 am Easter Breakfast 9:30am Sunday School 10:45am “Easter - “”The Hope of Easter” The Potter’s House Family Worship Center 5346 E. Deerfield Rd. 9:00 &11:00am The Life of Jesus: Did it Matter?
Pentecostals of Mt. Pleasant 9625 E. Pickard St. 11:00 AM Easter Service
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Three bands from Michigan will be featured on Moore Media Records’ annual sampler CD. The CD will debut during a concert where the bands will perform at 10 p.m. April 2 at Hunter’s Ale House.
The sampler CD, “Sonic Retribution,” and release concert will showcase Virgo, Dead Rover and Air is the Arche.
Each ticket purchased for the 18-and-older show will also include a copy of the nine-track CD. Presale tickets can
be bought for $5 during business hours Monday through Friday in Moore Hall Room 315. Tickets can also be purchased at the door for $8.
“The creation of the CD and production of the show is 100 percent student-run,” said Jack Cafretsas, a Tustin junior and member of Moore Media Records. “It’s definitely something we’re proud of.”
Work began on the CD last year, Cafretsas said.
“We’ve got some really great bands,” said Moore
Media Records president Thibault Ruellan. “I like the flow of the CD.”
Producing the sampler cost about $1,200, Reullan said.
The project is funded by admission to concerts hosted by Moore Media Records, as well as headphones and audio adaptors purchased by students through the university in BCA 222: Audio Production.
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2016
BehindBracket
By Andrew SurmaAssistant Sports Editor
@andrew_surma | [email protected]
The science of picking NCAA Tournament basketball games —
bracketology — is not a new field of study, but one Central Michigan senior has taken the science a step further.
Delton senior Elizabeth Jackson, an actuarial science major, is receiving national at-tention for her honors capstone research project, focused on forming the best mathematical NCAA Tournament bracket.
If she is right, North Carolina will beat Kansas in the National Championship.
Jackson’s formula, which includes over 60 variables based on 30 years of past tournaments, is unlike most other formulas. Jackson said her study changes the variables of the formula as the tournament progresses from round to round, taking new variables into heavier consid-eration.
Her work was featured by USA Today article and The Washington Post asked for a copy of her bracket.
“It’s definitely nerve racking knowing everyone is watching
after (my research) came out,” Jackson said. “Everyone wants to know my picks, so if my picks are wrong, it definitely puts a lot more pressure on.”
Jackson is a sports fan who
plans to work in the insurance industry as an actuary. She said the project was the perfect way for her to apply her area of study to her hobby — sports statistics.
“I grew up in a household
that loves sports. My parents and brothers were huge sports fans,” she said. “When I had to do my capstone project, I knew I wanted to do something with sports statistics.”
With help from Felix Famoye, a statistics professor in the Col-lege of Science and Engineering, Jackson proposed the project last semester. She began the extensive process of gathering
tournament history data from online sources during winter break.
“The number crunching I liked,” she said. “Gathering data was stressful. It was hard to find because it’s not like all the data can be found in one place, espe-cially finding all the RPI rank-ings from 30 years ago. (That’s)a bit of a struggle, but luckily I found some good and consistent data sites that gave me a lot of information.”
Although her bracket isn’t doing as well as she hoped, the experience has garnered more interest than she expected. She predicted 21 of the 32 first round games correctly and nine of her Sweet 16 teams remain after the second round.
“I never really expected (my work) to get this much attention and fame, but it’s been really, really great,” Jackson said. “It’s been really cool to combine something I love and use it aca-demically and also something that can help other people and other people are interested in.”
The formula and resulTs
Jackson estimated she spent
Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Delton Senior Elizabeth Jackson poses for a portrait on Tuesday in Moore Hall.
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More than 9,500 bottles of water collected by the Central Michigan Athletics Depart-ment in January have not yet been delivered to Flint.
Women’s basketball junior guard Jasmine Harris, a Farmington Hills native, an-nounced the initiative on Jan. 23 after the team’s home game against Akron.
She asked the community to bring bottled water to the team’s next home game on Jan. 30.
The men’s basketball team and members of the commu-nity joined the cause, donat-ing 9,591 bottles of water to aid Flint residents affected by the city’s water crisis.
More than a month later, the bottles remain “in storage” according to Associate Ath-letic Director for Marketing and Ticketing Mike Dabbs.
The team plans to hand deliver the bottles “very, very shortly,” Dabbs said, but it experienced logistical issues during the season that with-held the team from making the delivery to Eastern Michi-gan Food Bank.
The department has worked with the Flint-based organiza-tion in the past.
“The Eastern Michigan Food Bank was slammed during that time period when a lot of the celebrities and groups were delivering water,” he said. “It was really, really difficult to match up a time when we were able to get in
there and deliver.”Women’s basketball Head
Coach Guevara said she told Dabbs to wait until the season was over to make the delivery, after a previous scheduled delivery date fell through because Harris was unable to make the trip.
“The plan, I think initially, was to get it delivered earlier than have it sit where it is right now. But because of our schedule, to get everything in, we just couldn’t do it,” Gue-vara said. “I wanted all of our kids to go, but between the hour and 45 minute (drive)
there, then distributing, then coming back, somebody was going to miss class. I didn’t really want that either.”
Guevara said it was impor-tant the team hand-delivered the water to serve as a lesson in giving back to the com-munity.
“When you look in the eyes of somebody you’re helping and see the gratefulness and thanks, I think that makes more of an impact,” she said. “You’re doing something real-ly good and you can feel good about it. We’re still going to be able to help the people of Flint. It’s just going to take us a little longer to deliver than what we anticipated.”
Student-athletes have a unique opportunity and platform to evoke change in
their campus communities, Harris said. She is proud of the team’s efforts despite the delay in delivery.
“I think it’s more impor-tant to deliver the water to Flint as a team, instead of one individual person. The fact that we are taking this down there together is what is most important,” she said.
Millions of bottles of water have been donated to Flint since the city’s man-made water crisis became a state-of-emergency on Jan. 5. The state alone has donated more than 176,000 bottles, while numerous public figures such as Warren native rapper Emi-nem, Detroit native rapper Sean Anderson (Big Sean) and actor Mark Wahlberg have also donated.
Water collected at basketball games yet to be delivered to Flint
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Sports Editor Taylor DesOrmeau and Assis-tant Sports Editor Andrew Surma debate a range of topics, from the CMU football strength of schedule to the future of the men’s and women’s basketball teams.
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more than 100 hours since December analyzing every team and round of every NCAA Tournament game from the past 30 years, Jackson concluded which variables were the most significant as the tournament progressed.
The four main variable cat-egories include:
— Ranking – Seeding and strength of schedule.
— Historical – Team’s success in previous years when advanc-ing to Final Four and champi-onship games.
— Season performance – Number of wins and field goal accuracy percentage.
— Coaching – Team’s coach’s success in previous tourna-ments.
Jackson found a team’s seed-
ing is typically only relevant in predicting games in the first round of the tournament.
To find which teams will advance to the Elite Eight, the Simple Rating System — which considers teams’ average point differential and strength of sched-ule — and total wins become important variables. As for the Final Four, the most important variable becomes the head coach’s
Jackson’s model gives each team a probability of the likeli-hood of advancing to the next round. She picks the teams with the higher probability.
But the formula doesn’t always pick the higher seeded team. Jackson said her model predicted multiple first-round upsets, including No. 11 Gon-zaga over No. 6 Seton Hall and No. 10 Virginia Commonwealth over No. 7 Oregon State.
Her model did, however, show No. 11 Michigan as more likely to beat No. 6 Notre Dame, but the Wolverines lost 70-63.
“That was a very close pick,” Jackson said. “I was sad to see it didn’t come out quite how I planned, but it was definitely interesting to see that.”
As for the second-seeded Spartans loss to No. 15 Middle Tennessee State, Jackson’s research showed the Blue Raiders had less than a five percent chance of winning the game. She had the Spartans beating No. 1 Virginia to advance to the Final Four.
“It was pretty incredible,” she said. “They actually showed it as the third-biggest upset that’s every happened in the tournament. Al-though Michigan State, they say, is probably the best team that’s ever lost in the first round.”
No. 15 Norfolk State’s 86-84 upset win over No. 2 Missouri in 2012 — which Jackson said had a less than one percent chance of happening — is the biggest NCAA Tournament upset of all time.
Jackson’s model didn’t predict upsets like No. 13 Hawaii’s upset of No. 4 California and No. 12 Yale’s upset of No. 5 Baylor.
“I was initially surprised by it, but looking back it seems the Ivy League schools have done well in the tournament, histori-cally,” she said.
The first round took its toll on Jackson’s bracket, but she still has three-out-of-four teams remaining in her Final Four after two rounds.
“It seemed with a lot of these games, either team could have won — there was no clear favor-ite,” she said. “My bracket was really on the downside of a lot of those (close games) — such as the USC vs. Providence game and the Texas vs. Northern Illi-nois game — some of the games that came down to the last shot.”
Jackson plans to publish her work toward the end of the spring semester.
“I’ve just been focusing on the data and, right now, it’s actually my time to sit back, relax and watch (the tournament) unfold,” she said.
Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Delton Senior Elizabeth Jackson poses to fill out a bracket on Tuesday in Moore Hall.
previous tournament success.“Something that’s very
predictive (for the Sweet 16) is the number of Final Fours a team has made it to in the past, as well as the number of Final Fours the coach has made it to,” Jackson said. “The (team’s) total number of wins as well as the SRS rating, those were a few of the strongest variables and predictors for the Sweet 16.”
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Every Tuesday, the Central Michigan Life sports desk releases a new episode of the podcast “Unsportsmanlike Conduct.” Staff reporters Kul-len Logsdon, Evan Sasiela and Von Lozon discuss national sports topics.
In this week’s episode, the trio debates whether college athletes should be criticized for late-game giveaways. In the NCAA Tourna-ment Round of 32, Northern Iowa blew a 12-point lead in 34 seconds to Texas A&M and even-tually lost in double overtime.
Logsdon: Is it fair to call out college athletes for falling apart and giving away a late lead like we would for an NBA player?
Lozon: I think it’s alright. I don’t have a problem with
(Charles Barkley) saying they completely choked that game away. Northern Iowa did. (UNI) was up by 12 with under a minute left and they lost in double overtime.
Let’s put it this way, Ben Simmons just declared for the NBA (Monday). He’s going to be hiring an agent. He can’t drink alcohol, but he’s going to be in the NBA next year. Now let’s say this situation happens to him in the NBA next year, to where he gets the ball, (his team is) up by 10 with under a minute left and they blow it. They will say “Ben Simmons choked.”
Would that be a problem at that point, even though he’s still super young, just because he is in the NBA? It shouldn’t matter.
I don’t have a problem saying
that they choked away a game when they should have won.
sasieLa: We should cri-tique college athletes for (giving games away). Easy answer. There should be no other way.
You look at six and seven-year olds, they are wearing Michigan (and) Michigan State apparel. (Colleges) are building a brand.
(Games are on) national TV. We say they’re in college, (but)
they are grown men. They are all 18 years of age or older.
Some of these guys, like a Buddy Hield or Denzel Valen-tine, they have to be criticized because if you look at college football games, college basket-ball games or whatever, there is a press box with media mem-bers and there are TV cameras.
They are going to get criticized. If you blow a game, people are going to have an opinion about you.
Nobody’s going to forget about you. Everyone is under constant pressure and criticism.
Logsdon: I agree with both of you. I think high school maybe it’s not fair (to criticize as harshly) because they are still students and a lot of them walked on the
team. It’s not as big of a level. The NCAA Tournament gets
more views than the NBA Finals does. These kids work their butts off 365 days a year. They prepare for this stage. Maybe if (UNI) had a five-point lead then it’s not a choke, but a 12-point lead — maybe one of the biggest turnarounds in NCAA Tourna-ment history — that’s a choke. Michigan State blowing it to the 15-seed Middle Tennessee State, that’s a choke. It’s fair to say about these guys.
A lot of them are going to be in professional sports next year. If they can’t handle it now, how are they going to handle it next year?
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Is it fair to criticize college athletes for their mistakes?Unsportsmanlike CondUCt podCast:
Rich Drummond | Staff PhotographerStaff reporters and hosts of Unsportsmanlike Conduct Kullen Logsdon and Evan Sasiela pose at McGuirk Arena in January 2016.
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By Taylor DesOrmeauSports Editor
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Senior wide receiver Jesse Kroll collected more catches (61) and receiving yards (866) than any other Chippewa in 2015. Central Michigan Life caught up with the Wisconsin native after Tuesday’s spring practice.
You were listed as a senior last year. Why are you eligible for another year?
KROLL: I broke my arm my freshman year and it counted as a medical redshirt. Then, my third year I tore my ankle up and I redshirted that year as well. Because they
Kroll enters sixth season as offensive leaderoffense along with the other wide receivers.
You have about two months off in the offseason, does it feel like a long time or does it feel short?
It’s not really two months off. We like to take a little bit of time off and let our bodies heal up, but then as soon as we can, we’re itching to get back out there and run routes. Usually it doesn’t take long until we get back on the field.
What was the highlight of your time off?
I just recently got en-gaged to my girlfriend, that’s definitely up there. I’d have to say that tops it. We just got engaged over spring break. We went to Colorado on a little vacation.
What’s your favorite and least favorite thing about spring practices?
Least favorite, you know you have to wait a long time until you play the game. The anticipation of that is like, you really want there to be a game around the corner. What’s kind of nice is, you still have a lot of time to improve, but the sense of urgency’s still got to be really high. This is a really great time to try to improve as a whole and improve individually.
With Coach Bonamego heading into his second year, do you see more confidence in him than last spring?
Yeah, I definitely think being in the system a little bit longer (makes it) more comfortable. He was going through a lot of really hard stuff last year. He
didn’t show it to us that it was affecting
him, but for any human being going through
something that difficult, it’s going to take a toll on
you. It’s really good to see him now. He has a ton of energy. It’s amazing that he was able to have as much energy as he did last year going through cancer, but now you can definitely see that he’s a fiery coach. His heart’s in it. He wants to be out here with us and he loves CMU.
Looking at the wide receiver corps, who are the players that are going to be the most dangerous next year?
I think the strong point as the wide receiver group is,
we have a ton of depth. Corey Willis, Anthony Rice, Mark Chapman, Eric Cooper. And then we have some young guys stepping up — Brandon Childress — that we might see a little more of. We just brought in Austin Stewart, the basketball player. We have a lot of different dimensions and just a lot of talent.
For you, what are some specific goals you have enter-ing your final season?
My number one goal is a (Mid-American Conference) Championship. Being here six years, I’ve come to realize how challenging and how rare that is. There really isn’t anything else except for a MAC Championship.
Jesse KrollSenior Wide receiver
“It’s not really two months off. We like to take a little bit of time off and let our bodies heal up, but then
as soon as we can we’re itching to get back out there and run routes.”
were both medically-related redshirts, that’s why I could get two of them. If I wouldn’t have been injured for the first one and I’d have just regular redshirted as a freshman, then I couldn’t have gotten the second one.
What are some of the big-gest changes from when you
started in this program in 2011 to where it is today?
I’ve gone through a few dif-ferent wide receiver coaches. It’s really nice because we’ve had Coach (Mose) Rison for awhile now, so I’ve got to build a really good relationship with him, be comfortable in the same system for awhile and learn the ins and outs of the
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Senior wide receiver Jesse Kroll runs into the end zone on a 46-yard touchdown on Oct. 17, 2015 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
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Senior guard Austin Stewart’s Central Michigan athletic career seemed to be over March 16 when the men’s basketball team lost to Tennessee-Martin in the CollegeInsider.com Post-season Tournament/
The day after the loss — in which he had two points in nine minutes off the bench — Stewart sat down with football Head Coach John Bonamego.
He practiced with the football team for the first time on Tuesday as a wide receiver.
“He came to me, he had men-tioned something to me I believe at the end of last year that he want-ed to tryout once basketball was over,” he said. “I said to him, ‘Just
focus 100 percent on basketball and then we’ll have a discussion as soon as basketball’s over.’”
The 6-foot-6, 215-pound Stewart played wide receiver at Illinois’ Normal Community West High School.
“We’re glad to have him,” said Running Backs Coach/Recruit-ing Coordinator Gino Guidugli. “I’ve seen him out here working with Dan LeFevour a couple days, but didn’t really put two and two together until seeing him in practice.”
Bonamego said Stewart is not guaranteed a spot on the team. He would have one year of eligibility.
“All of that stuff is really up in the air,” he said. “This is really only his first practice. We’ll evaluate him and find out if he has a role and can have a role with us.”
Bonamego said he and his staff
decided to give Stewart a shot be-cause of the skill set he possesses.
“He’s big, he’s athletic, he’s got length, he can run,” he said. “He looks like he catches the ball very well. We’ll continue to train him and evaluate him as it goes.”
Stewart finished his CMU basketball career averaging 3.9 points and 2.4 rebounds per game in 13.6 minutes a game in 2015-16 — all the lowest since his freshman season.
Two-sporT aThleTesGuidugli said very few high
school athletes get recruited for multiple sports at Division I schools.
At CMU, incoming freshman quarterback Tony Poljan was recruited by multiple Division I schools for football and basketball, while incoming transfer running
back Berkley Edwards has already participated with the track team.
“When you get to the col-legiate level, it’s tough to be a two-sport athlete,” Guidugli said. “Some guys can do it. I played on a college team with (Philadelphia Eagles defensive end) Connor Barwin, who started off playing basketball and played football as well, but he’s a lot better football player obviously than he is a basketball player. I think that’s always going to be the case when you get to this level.”
Junior defensive back Gary Jones tried to do football and track at one point, Guidugli said.
Outside of football, senior Blake Hibbitts spent multiple years as a pitcher on CMU’s baseball team and a forward on the basketball team, before deciding to focus on basketball this season.
Stewart looks to join football team
Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Senior guard Austin Stewart dunks during the game against Western Michigan University on March 4 at McGuirk Arena.
By Taylor DesOrmeauSports Editor
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Since graduating from Central Michigan University in 2003, defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins has done plenty of traveling.
Jenkins played with NFL Europe in 2004 and has played in 169 NFL games with three teams in 12 seasons.
But until Tuesday, Jenkins hadn’t come back to Mount Pleasant.
The New York Giants line-man watched most of football practice and spoke to the team after practice.
Jenkins has ties with Head Coach John Bonamego from when the two were with the Green Bay Packers from 2003-05 when Bonamego was the special teams coordinator.
“From day one when I got
up there, Bono found me and let me know he was a for-mer Chip,” Jenkins said. “We always had a relationship with each other just from that.”
Jenkins was at CMU for the day, before heading back to New Jersey on Wednesday.
“I’ll be interested to drive around and see what the city still looks like,” Jenkins said. “Time flies. I’ll be interested to see some of the old res-taurants I used to like, see if they’re still there.”
Bonamego said Jenkins has accomplished a lot in his career, going from a player who didn’t earn up a scholarship until after signing day, to an undrafted free agent to a 12-year veteran.
“Having been in the league for 16 years, guys who make it past three years is pretty rare,” Bonamego said. “Guys that make it to five years, 10 years
is really, really rare.”Jenkins shared his message
with the football team as they kneeled in a semi-circle around the 6-foot-2, 305-pound Jenkins after practice. He talked about “appreciating the process,” trust-ing the coaches and creating good memories.
After watching a few hours of practice, Jenkins said he believes Bonamego is leading CMU in a positive direction. Jenkins said he observed Bonamego throwing passes to players and watched the offensive and defensive lines use techniques he didn’t learn until going into the NFL.
“I really saw him interacting with the kids,” Jenkins said. “(As a) player, you watch how the coaches interact with the kids. A lot of times, if a coach has a good relationship with the play-ers, players will play harder. I think they’re doing a great job.”
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Staff Predictions
Softball at Kent State
Matchup of the Week: Baseball (4-17, 0-0 MAC) vs. Kent State (14-5, 0-0 MAC) in a three-game set Friday through Sunday
Lacrosse vs. Robert Morris
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RECORD: 29-10 RECORD: 25-14 RECORD: 26-13 RECORD: 28-11RECORD: 27-12While these two teams were predicted to win their respec-tive divisions, CMU’s season hasn’t gone as planned. KSU is 14-5 and I expect them to win two of three in Mount Pleasant.
CMU finds its footing for the first time this season if the defense shows up, taking two of three from the Golden Flashes at Theunissen Sta-dium this weekend.
CMU will continue improving during the season, but I can’t see it winning more than one game against KSU. The Golden Flashes has more than tripled CMU’s win total.
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Kent State has too much for the Chippewas to overcome. CMU has struggled all season long and although it was favored to win the conference, things don’t look too good as of now.
CMU has lost five straight and is playing against the only team in the MAC that is above .500. I’m predicting a weekend sweep.
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Park Place Apartments1401 E. Bellows St., Building E7 • [email protected] • 989.772.4032
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3 BR, 2 STORY HOUSE ONFRANKLIN ST. 1 block from cam-pus! New carpet, new kitchen, dish-washer, washer and dryer, and deckin back yard! 775-8919
1 BR APARTMENT 1 BLOCK FROMCMU campus! Available July orAugust 2016. 775-8919
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SEASONAL POSITIONS:
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SUBLEASER NEEDED ASAPFemale roommate preferred. Largebedroom & closet, large yard, quietneighborhood 2 miles from CMU.$375/pm, plus electric & gas. LeaseJanuary-June. (989)412-0019.
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The City of Mt. Pleasant is seekingresumes from enthusiastic andreliable individuals who are knowl-edgeable about special event coordi-nation and interested in developingcareer skills. Schedule flexibilitiyoffered; 20 hours per week. Payrate is $9.00/hour. To apply, visitwww.mt-pleasant.org and follow theapplication instructions. Positionopen until filled EOE
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