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| footballCMU Chippewas win big against Akron Saturday, 1b
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NEWSw Mount Pleasant Center sees early closure, 2A
w Average CMU debt after graduation is $24,236, 3A
SportSw Field hockey team loses 2-1 in overtime Sunday, 1B
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neil blake/staff photographerSurrounded, Freeland senior Zack Nelson raises his hands to surrender to his fellow cadets during a MOUT exercise Saturday afternoon. Cadets playing the opposition forces wore only a brown t-shirt, while the squads clearing the building wore full uniforms.
By Connor SheridanStaff Reporter
CAMP GRAYLING — Steve Fedewa hopes he never has to use the maneuvers he prac-ticed as an ROTC cadet staff sergeant.
Fedewa, a Hubbardston ju-nior, attended the Field Train-ing Exercise at Camp Grayling this weekend and is planning on becoming a chaplain follow-
ing his graduation from Central Michigan University and the ROTC program.
“I’m going into the Chap-lain Corps. After that, I have to go to three more years at the seminary,” he said. “Then I’ll go wherever they need me.”
Chaplains are sent afield to look after the spiritual and psychological needs of their “flocks,” the group of soldiers in the area in which they are as-signed.
“Besides Sunday services, we do last rites, prayer for a unit be-fore they leave,” he said. “It’s just making sure they’re all right. It takes someone who cares.”
While chaplains must go through all the same training as other troops, they are for-bidden to take violent action against the enemy unless it is in self-defense.
“Chaplains are the only non-combatant in the military,” he said.
But in a worst-case scenario, the last thing any soldier wants
Cadet staff sergeant plans on being military chaplain
A different style of field service
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By Joe BorlikSenior Reporter
One MIP was issued in the student tailgating lot at Sat-urday’s football game against Akron, said Central Michigan University Police Chief Bill Yeagley.
Yeagley said there were no injuries, no arrests and no ambulance runs.
“There were no distur-bances at all,” Yeagley said.
Yeagley said around 300 to 400 people tailgated in the student lot, Lot 63— about the same number as last week.
The attendance at CMU’s 48-21 win over Akron on Sat-urday was 20,032, which in-cluded prospective students visiting for CMU and You Day and high school bands for Band Day.
He said the police would deal with anywhere from seven to 15 incidents per tailgate in previous years, in-cluding injuries and medical runs.
To curb those incidents, the university drafted a tail-gating policy in August that
set a six-beer limit, created an emergency lane and banned external sound systems.
Although Yeagley said tailgating is safer, for Saline sophomore David Fraser, it just is not the same.
“This tailgate and the last one just aren’t as exciting,” he said. “The student side is very lackluster. Before, there was a sea of students ready to go to the game, now it just kind of feels empty.”
Can ColleCting Catastrophe
Fraser helped several stu-dents collect cans around Kelly/Shorts Stadium during Saturday’s football game in an attempt to raise money for registered student orga-nizations.
He said 120 pounds of cans were collected, worth about $175.
Fraser said they would have collected many more cans in the student tailgating lot if it was not for the new tailgating procedures.
Student turnoutsame as last week
By Maryellen TigheStaff Reporterand Brad CanzeSenior Reporter
The two home football games this season have been less than exciting for busi-nesses surrounding Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Changes in university tail-gating policies have drasti-cally reduced the number of people in Lot 63, which has made a dent in sales of nearby stores and restaurants.
The Subway at 1620 S. Mis-sion St. only had half its nor-mal staff working on game day, said supervisor Sarah Schuetz, a Milford senior.
“Usually on a tailgate day, we’ll do 80 to 100 subs per
hour for hours and hours,” Schuetz said. “But (Saturday), we only did that once.”
The university drafted a tailgating policy in August that limited students at Lot 63, south of Kelly/Shorts Sta-dium, to six beers or one pint of liquor each and banned ex-ternal sound systems. In pro-test, many students migrated to Main Street to tailgate.
Chad Miller, manager at The Cabin, 930 W. Broomfield St., said the bar has seen a marked decrease in custom-ers this year compared to years past.
“Everyone’s going down Main Street, so nobody’s com-ing down this way,” Miller said.
7-Eleven, 302 W. Broom-field St., has seen a 15 percent loss of customers on game days compared to 2008.
“I really didn’t think it would be that dramatic of a
Some seeing 40 percent decrease in sales
Businesses affected by tailgating policy
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Police report no disturbances among 300-400
Photos by Paige calamari/staff photographerFrankenmuth senior Justin Bannister performs on stage with two other pianists Sept. 19 at CoCo Joe’s Beach House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road. Bannister performed “Takin’ Care of Business” and “Old Time Rock and Roll,” among other songs throughout the night.
MusiC Major, no needBannister is not a mu-
sic major, and he prefers it that way.
His freshman year in 2005, he auditioned for Central Michigan Univer-sity’s School of Music as a vocal performer. He was not accepted.
With 14 years of piano and 10 years of lessons on his record, he will graduate in December with a bach-elor’s degree in history and
a minor in entrepreneur-ship.
“I’m actually very glad I did not get in,” he said. “It wouldn’t be the same for me, honestly. I want to be able to come home and play, a way to release and unwind. I’m passionate about it, and to just make practice homework is not fun.”
Bannister still wanted
p i a n o m a n
Frankenmuth senior becomes ‘front man,’ dueling pianist
By Jake May | Senior Reporter
His hands sweep through inch-wide white lanes while his fingers jump from one black island to another in a
matter of seconds.A banner-sized smile stretches the span of
the 23-year-old’s cheeks, as if each held up a corner with glee. His stage persona is definite as he sings familiar tunes, though his truly re-served personality is quite different.
He’s no Elton John — that, he admits — but, for CoCo Joe’s Beach House and its bar-goers, Justin Bannister is the “Piano Man.”
“Everybody requests that song,” he said, laughing. “It’s such a heavy crowd favorite, it needs to be in any piano player’s repertoire. I haven’t mastered it yet, but give me some time and I’ll get there.”
Bannister was recently hired as a dueling pia-nist at CoCo Joe’s, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road.
The Frankenmuth senior’s first gig was Sept. 19. He played all genres, from rock and roll to al-ternative and pop-punk, and artists such as Bob Seger, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Weezer and Tom Petty.
No matter the request though, he is taking care of business.
And yes, he sings that too.
Bannister performs on the piano Sept. 19 at CoCo Joe’s Beach House, 4855 E. Blue Grass Road. He has been playing for 14 years and has been formally trained for the past 10.
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to be is dead weight.The rarely walked path of a
chaplain was a natural fit for Fedewa.
“I’ve always wanted to join the military,” he said.
While he at one point in-tended to become a Marine, his brother joined the branch during Fedewa’s junior year of high school.
After that, the only military experience he could convince his mother to approve of was to go off to college and join the ROTC.
While he grew up in the As-semblies of God, he is non-denominational and attends services at His House Christian
Fellowship every Sunday.He said the military is ex-
ploring expanding the ranks of chaplains with representatives for several major religions, but Fedewa is focused on serving, spiritually at least, Christian soldiers.
‘noBodY Messes With the Chaplain’
When Fedewa completes his training, he will be able to attend the seminary of his choice to become a qualified chaplain. He is considering either George Fox Evangeli-cal Seminary in Oregon or Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in California.
Chaplains have chaplain assistants — enlisted sol-diers who serve as chauffeurs, ground crew and bodyguards. They are instructed to take a
bullet rather than let the chap-lain get hurt.
“Nobody messes with the chaplain,” said Cadet Maj. Nick Kroll, a Zeeland senior.
Individual soldiers can speak easily with the more accessible chaplain assistants, who do what they can themselves and report to the chaplain.
“The chaplain is more going to pour into his chaplain assis-tants,” Fedewa said.
Cadet 1st Lt. Andre Mallett, a Holly junior, also is consider-ing becoming an army man of the cloth.
“My dad’s a pastor and I’ve always been very active in my church,” Mallett said. “Well, you know the old saying, ‘There’s no atheists in a fox-hole.’”
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boycott by the students,” said 7-Eleven owner and manager Ryan Chappell. “I guess peo-ple have a new place to party now. Maybe for the next game, we’ve got to do something dif-ferent.”
Ryan Reedy, co-owner of The Grotto, 304 W. Broomfield St., said business has gone down about 40 percent, but the res-taurant will plan specials for Homecoming weekend.
Cabin cook Braden Thomp-son said decreased pedestrian traffic from the tailgating lot is causing a decrease in busi-ness for them and other busi-nesses.
“Typically how it was, is Lot 63 would be filled, and then people would go to the game,
and the people that just came to tailgate would walk to the bar,” Thompson said. “Last Saturday, we were busy, but it wasn’t any-thing like we were used to.”
not MuCh diFFerenCeBrian Lefler, manager at
Menna’s Joint, 1418 S. Mission St., said business was not neg-atively affected by the changes in tailgating.
“(Menna’s is) just as busy, if not busier,” said Lefler, a Livonia senior. “I was more shocked that we were as busy for as long as we were.”
Lefler said Menna’s gave away 200 to 300 “Dubbie” wraps at the alternative tailgate lot and approximately 150 on Main Street to promote the store.
Restaurants in the Stadium Mall, 2212 S. Mission St., were
largely unaffected as well.Quizno’s owner Joe Stevens
said business may be down slightly, but nothing signifi-cant. Jess Cuddie, general manager at Big Apple Bagels, said business has not been hurt by the changes, but the store closes before football games are typically finished on Saturdays.
Coldstone Creamery owner Duane Stott said although the store is seeing decreased pa-tronage, he does not believe the changes in tailgating are responsible.
“I know our sales are down, but I think the economic con-ditions would have done that,” Stott said. “I would imagine that beer and ice cream don’t go together so, if they’re drink-ing less beer, maybe they’re eating more ice cream.”
businesses |continued from 1A
to improve his vocals, so he joined the university’s con-cert choir. After two years, he tried out for the cham-ber singers, a smaller group with more challenging vocal performance.
He was accepted, he said, for the first time because of vocal strength.
‘he’s CoMe a long WaY’“Justin, oh my god. He’s
the nicest person in the world,” said Annie Baker, a 2009 Grand Haven alumna who sang with Bannister in choir. “The most laid-back guy I have ever met. Putting together all of his efforts — striving for perfection and confidence — he’s come a long way.”
Bannister began piano les-sons in second grade, when he and his twin brother, Joshua, were approached by their parents to get involved with music.
Joshua choice voice and Justin, the piano.
“We would set up at the piano for hours, picking songs and figuring them out,” Joshua Bannister said. “It was such a good time. He’s my best friend, my brother, and watching
him perform on stage was amazing. I couldn’t be more proud.”
Justin Bannister still gets nervous before he steps on stage but, after a few drinks, his smile gets bigger and his worries die down.
“It makes it easier, and definitely cuts the edge off,” he said. “I just have to jump
two feet forward, right into the piano on stage. I try not to get embarrassed or shy because now, it’s my job. That’s so cool to hear when I say it out loud. ... Playing piano, I was always in the background contributing to other bands.
“I’ve always wanted to be a rock star. Now I am a front man. It’s kind of nice.”
piano man |continued from 1A
By Hilary FarrellSenior Reporter
The Mount Pleasant Cen-ter will be turned over to the Michigan Department of Management and Budget at the end of the year and sold.
The 119-year-old facility at 1400 W. Pickard St., which closed Sept. 10, was the last facility in the state for people with developmental disabili-ties to offer institutionalized treatment plans.
More than 400 employees lost their jobs when the cen-ter closed.
The Arc of Michigan, a statewide network designed to aid people with develop-mental disabilities, has been working to close institutions such as the Mount Pleasant Center since 1971, said Exec-utive Director Dohn Hoyle.
“This just was not an ac-ceptable place to live,” Hoyle said.
The center was originally scheduled to close Oct. 1, but Hoyle said it closed ear-lier because it relocated or transitioned its 88 residents.
“We were rapidly getting everyone placed,” he said. “Even the staff there were looking for other jobs.”
Approximately 60 resi-dents were transitioned into communities and the remaining residents went to the Caro Center, 2000 Cham-bers Road in Caro.
Michigan is the 11th state to close all its institutional-ized facilities, Hoyle said.
“(Caro) is institution-like on the grounds it is a home,” Hoyle said. “The state has promised that will close as well.”
CostlY operationsCost was a major factor
in the center’s closing, said
James McCurtis, spokesman for the Michigan Depart-ment of Community Health.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm cut funding for state mental health programs, including a $100 million reduction in spending for the MDCH.
The Mount Pleasant Cen-ter was housing fewer resi-dents recently, Hoyle said, driving up the cost of care.
The center also had vari-ous problems in the past, in-cluding a homicide in 2005 and a noncompliance cita-tion from Medicare.
The FutureHoyle said transitioning
residents back into their communities was success-ful.
“It has never been the people that failed,” he said. “It has always been the com-munity system that failed.”
The state has set up a safety net with housing and emergency beds if there are problems, but Hoyle does not anticipate any.
Programs were put in place to check on former residents to make sure the adjustments are positive, Hoyle said.
But residents were not the only ones affected by the closure.
The Michigan State Em-ployees Association rep-resented labor, trade and service workers at the facil-ity, including maintenance, plumbing and fire safety control workers.
“It’s a big impact on mem-bers to have to close a facil-ity,” said MSEA President Scott Dianda. “Everything comes along with that. It’s tough.”
Many of the members were able to find other jobs, he said.
“We would’ve done what-ever it took,” Dianda said.
Disability home closed Sept. 10
Former Mount pleasant Center facility to be sold
Yom Kippur todayToday is the Jewish day of
atonement and repentance. It began at sundown Sunday and is 24 hours of full fasting. Jew-ish people observe this holy day through the period of fast-ing and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days.
Deaf cultureWant to know more about the
hearing impaired? Ever been cu-rious about sign language? An in-formation fair today can answer your questions. The information fair will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Health Professions Building Atrium. Also a part of Deaf Awareness Week, an event called “Deaf World” will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Student Activity Center’s Large Sports Forum. The American Sign Language Society and department of communica-tion disorders will join together to teach sign language at this event. Deaf Awareness Week runs through Friday.
Do you trust me?Trust. It’s easy to say, difficult
to build and simple to destroy. But it is a collaborative effort of teamwork in human relationships. A workshop called “Building a Trusting and Collaborating Cul-ture” will take place from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesday. Facilitated by faculty member Harley Blake, the workshop will explore the nature of trust, discover ways to build trust between team members and view some methods which can be utilized to develop a truly collab-orative atmosphere.
Let the show beginThe history of Michigan’s cir-
cuses and carnivals is nothing to scoff at — in fact, most students probably have a memory or two of the flying swings or a carou-sel ride they hold dear. An ex-hibit called “Rides and Spangles: Michigan Circuses and Carni-vals” explores that history and, on Tuesday night, there will be guest speakers to discuss their research, current research top-ics and collections at the Circus World Museum related to circus history. Erin Foley, a CWM archi-vist at the Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center in Baraboo, Wis., and John Polac-sek, Detroit circus and maritime historian, will speak from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Clarke His-torical Library in the Charles V. Park Library.
Wise investmentHard to balance the check-
book? Tired of living off of Ra-men Noodles? A workshop may be able to help. “A Disciplined Approach to Investing” will re-view different approaches to managing your investments. Topics will include benefits of professional research, selection and monitoring of investments, value of automatic rebalanc-ing to help keep investments in line with the portfolio objective, whether an advisory program might be a good fit for an inves-tor. The event will take place at 5:30 p.m. today at 913 E. Pickard St., Suite K. For more informa-tion, contact Beccy Kennings at 772-9007.
Zumba, zumbaPrepare to exercise to a fast-
paced, traditional Latin beat. It is Zumba Latin Fitness, an aerobic exercise inspired by Latin dance. Participants will experience a full-body work-out with warm-ups beginning at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Student Activity Center Sports Forum track and, at 6 p.m., the Zumba workout will start. “It’s salsa and merengue music and a fitness-based class,” said Jen-nifer Spiegel, assistant director of fitness and wellness. “You don’t have to have extensive background to dance. It allows you to release and it is a good way to celebrate the day.” The event is sponsored by Minority Student Services and University Recreation.
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By Griffin FraleyStaff Reporter
Students have a chance to-day to voice their opinions on what they would like to see in a university president.
The Student Government Association will host an open forum regarding the presiden-tial search at 7 p.m. today in French Auditorium in the Ed-ucation and Human Services Building.
Members of the presiden-tial screening committee will be in attendance, including Trustee Sarah Opperman, for-
mer Chairman of Academic Senate and Interim Associate EHS Dean Ray Francis and Rick Barz, president of Isabel-la Bank and Trust and com-munity member at large.
“Students are, at the end of the day, why we need a presi-dent,” Opperman said. “It is ab-solutely critical that we under-stand the needs of the student. We want to have the president in place for some time. I’m thrilled that the SGA is organiz-ing this and I’m very eager to get the students’ perspective.”
Former University President Michael Rao, who served since 2000, left June 30 to become president of Virginia Com-monwealth University. Kathy Wilbur has served as interim president since.
SGA President Jason Nichol
will mediate discussion today. “The main goal is to get as
much student input as possi-ble,” the Mount Pleasant senior said. “The president obviously has a huge impact on the stu-dents. It’s part of our duty as a member of the university com-munity to provide input. We’re excited about this and we want to get student input now be-cause we’re beginning to review resumes and applications.
“The screening committee is very, very interested in what the students have to offer, and I can’t stress that enough.”
Vital for satisfactionDetroit junior Shayna Bur-
den thinks students going to the forum is important for the final outcome.
“I think it’s vital to the stu-
dents’ satisfaction with the choice. For the university to just choose, I wouldn’t say is harmful, but it wouldn’t be beneficial,” she said. “At least if something were to go wrong, we can say we had the input.”
One of the key issues a new president will deal with is the medical school, approved last year and scheduled to open in 2012.
”Specifics like that have not been addressed yet,” Nichol said. “Our goal as the screening committee is to provide the in-
stitution with the best possible president. We’ll be taking into account a broad amount of ex-periences and attributes.”
In addition to the search committee, SGA will be in-volved in this discussion, with representatives and senators in attendance, Nichol said.
“If you’re interested, please show up,” Nichol said. “Whether or not you realize it, this is some-thing that will impact you.”
The president affects the di-rection and vision of the insti-tution, Nichol said.
“If you have a gripe with the med school, you should be there,” he said. “If you have an issue with diversity or anything at all, you should be there giving input.”
Committee, SGA seeking student input
Presidential search forum today in EHS BuildingIf you go...
w What: Student forum on presidential searchw When : 7 p.m. todayw Where: EHS Building, French Auditorium
By Darnell Gardner Staff Reporter
The average student loan debt incurred by someone who graduated from Central Michi-gan University in 2008-09 is $24,236, according to the Of-fice of Institutional Research.
Of the students who gradu-ated with a bachelor’s degree between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009, 70 percent borrowed money.
The average student debt has continued to rise since 2005, with a difference of more than $7,000.
Diane Fleming, associate di-rector of Scholarships and Fi-nancial Aid, said student debt
is rising for a few reasons.“The amount of loans that
we disperse steadily increases from year to year, and students are finding it a necessity to take out loans in order to pay for the cost of attendance,” she said.
For the 2007-08 school year, the average CMU student’s debt was $22,128. In the 2005-06 school year, the amount was $16,537.
national concernNationwide, the number of
students who default on their loans also is increasing.
The U.S. Secretary of Educa-tion Arne Duncan said the 2007 fiscal year national student loan cohort default rate increased to 6.7 percent, up from the 2006 rate of 5.2 percent, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Education.
Fleming said rising costs of attendance are partially to
blame for increasing debt, but also credited the problem to the lifestyle of American fami-lies.
“American families have gotten out of the habit of sav-ing for college, so the only re-maining aid available to them is loans,” Fleming said. “People are living off of credit cards — people are living beyond their means.”
Christopher Bailey, assistant professor of economics, said American families stopped saving in the 1990s because they saw their net wealth in-
creasing and felt like they did not need to save.
little supportMark Kantrowitz, pub-
lisher of FinAid.org and Fastweb.com, said he does not believe families have stopped saving for college and said the blame for rising debt lies else-where.
“The primary drivers of in-creases in debt are an increase in college costs and lackluster federal and state support of higher education,” he said.
According to data from the OIR, 7,228 of the 9,324 under-graduate students determined to need need-based aid dur-ing the 2008-09 school year received need-based scholar-ships or grants.
From 2007 to 2009, the amount of money CMU gave out in need-based scholarships increased by $1,770,853 — to
$9,224,227 from $7,453,374.“Colleges are increasing
their student aid budgets,” Kantrowitz said. “Half of all colleges this year increased their student aid.”
According to the “Growth in Cumulative Education Debt,” a national report by Kantrow-itz, graduating without debt is impossible for students seek-ing degrees in the fields of medicine, business or law who apply for federal student aid.
Kantrowitz said students should use their careers’ start-ing salary to gauge how much money they borrow so they can quickly pay off their debts.
“The key rule of thumb is not to borrow more than your starting salary,” Kantrowitz said. “If you borrow more than your starting salary, you’re at high risk of defaulting.”
Average CMU student debt is $24,236 after graduatingNumber rosemore than $7,500 since 2005
Student debt rising
Average CMU student debt:w 2008-09: $24,236w 2007-08: $22,128w 2006-07: $17,365w 2005-06: $16,537
By Connor SheridanStaff Reporter
Keith Miller has howled with wolves and searched for bears.
Miller, an Armada graduate student, has been on volunteer and wage-based conservation trips to the Andes Moun-tains in Peru, the Alaskan wilderness and Yellowstone National Park.
“This past summer in Yellowstone was amazing. Hiking every day in pris-tine forests. They were untouched,” Miller said. “The experience in this field is something I love to do.”
Grizzly experienceWhile in Yellowstone, he was part of a
crew of eight that tracked grizzly bears throughout the park.
“We followed the day of a bear, most-ly,” Miller said.
The group tracked several bears’ movements, noting where they rested and killed prey. Miller said the crew got to help with collaring.
The collaring process involved trap-ping a bear, anesthetizing it and then placing a GPS tracking collar around its neck.
The collar is only temporary and is designed to disengage and drop off the bear when its batteries run out.
Wildlife societyBut thrilling adventures in the wil-
derness can be found closer to home as well.
Miller, the former president of The Wildlife Society, is still an active mem-ber of the group.
“(The Wildlife Society goes) out to Hiawatha (National Forest) and we do howl trips,” Miller said.
The howl trips involve howling out-side to get attention from wolves. The Hiawatha National Forest is in the Up-per Peninsula and covers more than 20,000 acres of land.
“It was pretty cool because we were communicating with packs of wolves,” Miller said. “One wolf got closer and
closer but, once he got close, he realized we were humans (and left).”
‘aboVe and beyond’The transition back to the everyday
life of a CMU student is not an easy one for Miller.
“The scenery in other places is hard to walk away from. I’m just fortunate to be able to go out to those areas at least for a little while,” he said.
Tom Gehring, Miller’s adviser and an associate professor of biology, is enthu-siastic about Miller’s future in the field.
“He went above and beyond, which is outstanding,” Gehring said.
While most biology majors are ad-vised to participate in at least one of the trips, Miller has done two, not counting the separate Peru trip.
“He did two of them. That’s tremen-dous,” Gehring said. “He’s a great stu-dent. He has a bright future ahead of him.”
Student enjoys tracking wildlife
jakE May/staff photographerArmada graduate student Keith Miller, 22, worked last summer as a research technician in Yellowstone National Park tracking grizzly bears. In summer 2008, he spent time working in Alaska, hiking 55 miles from nearest human contact, where he found the pair of caribou antlers he is holding.
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By Melissa TorokStaff Reporter
A record-breaking convoy drove the roads nationwide — all for the Special Olympics.
A part of “The World’s Larg-est Truck Convoy” raised money for Special Olympic athletes starting at the Sag-amok Shell Station, 2428 S. Leaton Road, Saturday.
Law enforcement and truck drivers joined together to fund and bring awareness to Special Olympics.
Director of the Law En-forcement Torch Run Ken Bennett said police and cor-rectional officers do a lot to earn money for Special Olym-pics athletes.
“The convoy is only one way police and correction officers raise money,” said Bennett, a Mount Pleasant resident. “It is another way law enforcement can help the community and, in Michigan, we’ve raised around $350,000 for Special Olympics, includ-ing other events with police enforcement.”
Bennett said approximately $8,000 was raised for Special Olympics at the convoy. More than $643,000 was raised from the overall national event in 2008, according to Special Olympic Michigan’s Web site. Mount Pleasant has been a host site for the event for the past four years.
Police officials provided an escort for the convoy.
in the record booksThe national convoy holds
a Guinness World Record for the most trucks traveling at the same time from this year’s convoy.
Convoy raises about $8,000
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The Michigan Promise is a $4,000 scholarship for students to attend colleges in Michigan.
The scholarship is awarded to those who pass the Michigan Merit Exam, Michigan’s standard-ized test. All students in Michigan are required to take the test.
The test and the scholarship were created to make sure stu-dents were meeting educational
standards and to encourage post-secondary education.
The Michigan state budget is a mess, and cutting the Michigan Promise was the quick solution. But politicians need to be aware of the long-term effects of such a drastic decision.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Michigan’s unem-ployment rate has hit 15.6 percent
as of July. The days of Detroit being a
major manufacturing powerhouse are over, with skill labor jobs dis-appearing all over the state.
Now more than ever, Michigan needs to educate young minds.
If Michigan is to survive and recreate the strong economy it once had, innovative thinking and lots of imagination will be needed to create new jobs.
The foundation for a more promising future starts with edu-cating students today.
It may not be fiscally possible to bring the scholarship back in full.
The $4,000 scholarship may have to be reduced to $2,500 as it was a few years ago.
But reducing the scholarship makes far more sense than sim-ply getting rid of it.
In such a tight economy, stu-dents will take every dollar they earn and use it toward higher education.
Most of the opposition for re-instating the scholarship persists
from lack of funding. “It’s like having your checkbook
all gone and writing something you don’t have — there is no loose $120 million around,” said State Rep. Bill Caul, R-Mount Pleasant, when asked about the proposal.
But the Michigan Senate has to think beyond the present when budgeting.
If the money isn’t present for the scholarship, it needs to find a way to make it present.
If cutbacks in other areas of the budget have to be made in order to bring back the scholarship, then so be it.
Perhaps the full $120 million won’t be needed, especially if the scholarship is reduced from $4,000 to $2,500.
There are a lot of problems Michigan is facing right now, and education is a key factor in find-ing the solution to these prob-lems.
Don’t hinder higher education. Help students who will build a
brighter future and bring back the Michigan Promise.
The state of Michigan needs to keep its Prom-ise. The bill is sitting in Lansing and waiting on
the votes for approval to add $120 million to the state budget in order to restore the Michigan Prom-ise scholarship. This is a no brainer-decision. Stifling the bill any longer will only hurt Michigan and its young population.
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The search for the next Central Michigan University president continues.
The Student Government Asso-ciation is holding an open forum at 7 p.m. today in the French Audito-rium (Room 118) inside the Educa-tion and Human Services building. Students need to attend this event and let SGA know what they expect out of the new university president.
As it stands, a committee consist-ing of the Board of Trustees and SGA President Jason Nichol will choose the next president. Nichol will act as the voice of the student body.
Want to see a president who is more committed to scholarship funding than building a medical school? Go to the forum tonight and let SGA know. Think the university is wasting too much money on one project and not investing enough in another? Tell Nichol so he’ll be aware of it when the time comes to appoint a new president.
Often times, it seems like stu-dents do not have the opportunity to input their own ideas into major decisions happening at CMU. This is an opportunity for students to makes sure they are heard.
It may end up that the next university president elected to lead CMU is unpopular with students. But if students refuse to not par-ticipate in the selection process now, they will have no ground to complain later.
The more ideas expressed in the beginning of the process will result in a greater chance of students see-ing what they want in the end.
The next president will shape how the university is seen in the years to come. Even if you are about to graduate, you should be involved in the process. The next president will reflect what goals and values CMU holds, something that will reflect on resumes and in professional jobs.
Remember, the administration is here to work for the students, not the other way around. Your tuition dollars are paying their salaries.
Make sure you get the most out of your tuition money and education by showing up to the forum.
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The state of Michigan has been uneasy regarding the Michigan Promise Scholarship.
Less than 24 hours after the state Senate and House con-ference committee decided to completely eliminate the $4,000 scholarship for post-secondary education, a House committee reinstated the scholarship.
Education lobbyists across the state rejoiced at the news Friday. But there is still one question that needs to answered: How will the state fund the scholarship?
Talk of taxing soda and water bottles has come up, either by one or five cents. Taxes on enter-tainment and physicians also are proposed to add revenue to the state budget. It still needs to be approved before Thursday, when the provisional budget approved last week will kick in for one month.
All these talks are being pro-ductive, although many people are disgruntled by the fact that taxpayers will “have to pay for other people’s education.”
These arguments are fair up to a point. But if that argument is used, then shouldn’t taxpay-ers be arguing that the proposed cutting of $110 million from the Department of Corrections budget will make them pay for housing criminals that aren’t be-ing productive?
If anything, supporting educa-tion over corrections will benefit the state in the long run, some-thing Michigan desperately needs. A more educated work force will not be as likely to commit crime. If education is funded and more people attain degrees, crimes rates will likely go down. This is not a concrete argument, and cannot be tested unless it is enforced.
If taxpayers want to focus their tax dollars on an entity, wouldn’t education be a great cause to fund?
At this point in Michigan’s his-tory, education is the one thing that needs to funded.
The economy is in shambles; General Motors and Chrysler, two of the Big Three automakers, have filed for bankruptcy in the last year. Education costs have skyrocketed; CMU’s cost of atten-dance has more than doubled in the last decade. Education sure looks like a good investment in the state.
Although $4,000 is not a lot of money in terms of today’s education, it can go a long way at the community college level. At Oakland Community College, the largest community college in the state, a student can take 66 credits with the scholarship over four years, four more credits than required for an associate’s degree.
To some students, the Michi-gan Promise was a way to make themselves more educated.
The state should consider doing what it can to help these students.
I am responding to your recent article on ‘cougars.’ (spet. 23 ).
The first thing I want to say is that a few years ago, I had a four- year relationship with an adult male 14 years younger than myself.
We were very compatible in many ways and we both grew im-mensely from the relationship.
It ended for reasons totally unrelated to age.
I can honestly say it was one of the healthiest relationships of my life and I know he would say the same because I hear from others that he still does.
The second thing I want to say is that there is sizable research in-dicating that the woman being 10
years older than the man is very desirable for at least three signifi-cant reasons:
1) women tend to outlive men 2) men tend to sexually peak 10 years earlier than women and 3) a woman who is older will be harder to control and dominate because she has had more life experience and is typically more assertive than she was when she was younger.
Your statement about a women “getting her claws” into a younger man is absurd.
Does he not have a brain to know if he is being pursued as a love interest?
Does he somehow lose the ability to do what he does with a younger woman he is not at-tracted to?
You make it sound like younger men are sitting, innocent and un-aware, when an older animalistic
predator pounces and bleeds him of his life blood.
Isn’t that what real cougars do to their prey?
You also comment that this is a growing trend.
Did it ever occur to you that it could be due to reasons other than older women being preda-tors?
I can vouch that men my age and older are much more chau-vinistic while younger men have at least the chance of having been raised by feminist-minded parents and are much more likely to be into equality.
Or perhaps women are getting used to being labeled MILF’s and beginning to accept that younger men could actually be attracted to them.
Jan WoodcockCMU alumnus/ Clinical Social Worker
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Michigan hosts three of the national convoys in Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Mount Pleasant. In Mount Pleasant alone, 10 trucks and one bus drove through.
Each year, drivers bid to see who will lead the convoy. A Shepherd school bus won this year with a bid of $125.
Bus driver Arlene Jacobs said being the lead ‘truck’ comes out of the driver’s paycheck.
“The other bus drivers helped pitch in money for the bus to be in the event,” said Jacobs, a Shepherd resident. “I hope to try and get more buses in this next year.”
Buses only cost $50 and trucks $100. Other sales con-tribute to the total money raised for the athletes.
“Selling T-shirts, a 50-50 raffle and silent auction help raise money,” said Heather Fox, administrative secretary for development with Special Olympics Michigan.
Some Special Olympics ath-letes got the chance to ride in
the trucks for a first-hand ex-perience this year.
Truck driver Rob Kelly said he enjoyed getting to know the athletes.
“It’s neat to have that interac-tion and to meet the athletes,” said Kelly, a Dundee resident.
Athletes found the trucks a highlight of the event.
“I really like the semi trucks because of the size of them,” said Special Olympics athlete Nicole Snyder, who competes in hockey and cross-country skiing.
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By Ariel BlackStaff Reporter
The University Art Gallery is showcasing sculptures by New York artist Michael Ferris until Oct. 24.
Ferris answered questions at the opening of the exhibit Thurs-day. His work includes drawings and sculptures of himself and people he knows.
The drawings are the begin-ning steps, which make their way into becoming Ferris’ intri-cate sculptures.
“The drawings are the way I get the ball rolling for the sculp-tures,” he said. “I get motivation to make these sculptures from how I feel about life and from the world we can’t quite see. It comes from a general feel-
ing that has to do with my own spiritual self, not set in any kind of theology.”
Art Gallery Director Anne Gochenour brought Ferris’ work to CMU.
“From my previous job, I had seen Michael Ferris’ work,” Gochenour said. “He sent me a letter saying he was interested in showing and I thought it would be great for the students to see.”
Other artists whose work is on display include assistant profes-sor of art Missa Coffman and temporary art faculty members Marios Liolios and Natalie Wet-zel. Coffman finds great quality in experiencing art in person.
“Seeing art in person is much different than seeing it in books and online,” Coffman said. “You can’t appreciate it the same way.”
learninG from the exhibit
In relation to Ferris’ work, part of the exhibit includes stations set up where gallery visitors
can sit and learn to draw a self-portrait. The stations include a drawing pad, pencil, eraser and mirror.
“We did the teaching station kind of in response to Michael Ferris’ work,” Gochenour said. “We’re teaching visual art and, the more students see, the bet-ter, especially from an accom-plished artist.”
In the West Gallery is the ex-hibit Inviting Voyeurism, created by Coffman, Liolios and Wetzel.
“We’ve been talking about (the exhibit) since last April,” Wetzel said. “After finding out where it was going to be, I designed my piece around the room.”
New York artist displays work at university galleryExhibit includeslearning stationfor self-portrait
AArt Gallery Hoursw Tuesday-Friday: 11 a.m. to 6 p.mw Saturday: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
By Ryan CzachorskiStaff Reporter
Alexis Stoops said she likes the size of Central Michigan University while touring on Saturday.
“I like that it’s a small-er campus, even though I’m having trouble get-ting around,” said Stoops, a Farmington Hills High School senior interested in physical therapy. “At Michi-gan State (University), you have to take buses every-where. You can walk every-where here.”
Prospective students came to campus Saturday to see the best of what CMU had to offer at CMU and You Day.
Students took campus tours, academic presenta-tions, advice from advisers, food at Carey Hall’s Real Food on Campus and free tickets to CMU’s football game against Akron.
As students came from around the state, CMU’s lo-cation was praised.
“I like how close it is to my house, but it’s still kind of far away,” said Jesse Al-len, a high school senior from Okemos interested in environmental studies.
While some were attract-ed by the campus, others
were interested in their po-tential fields of study.
“The business school is a lot more appealing than at Western (Michigan Uni-versity), and everything looks more open and new,” said Jared Zajdel, a high school senior from Rochester.
Zajdel said his interest in CMU was based on repu-tation, and other students echoed his sentiment.
“I just like it. I know peo-ple that go here; they’ve al-ways said great things about it,” said Michelle Pitters, a high school senior from Ro-seville interested in health administration.
complaints, tooStudents were not with-
out complaints, however. The main sticking point for many students was the freshman halls.
“The dorms — it’s not that I dislike them. I can take it for a year,” said Mackenzie Decker, a high school senior
from Bay City looking into the medical field.
Decker was not the only one disappointed with the residence halls.
“When I think dorms, I just think two people in a room,” said Stephanie Cubel, a Milford high school senior. It was Cubel’s sec-ond trip to CMU.
The prospective students and their parents watched presentations from many academic programs and various student support services such as Residence Life and the Leadership In-stitute. Students also had the chance to apply and find out their admission status within 48 hours via Central Express.
After the academic pro-grams and the campus tours, the students had free tickets to see CMU’s football team defeat Akron 48-21 in a rainy game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
CMU and you day brings prospective students to campus
Chris baCarELLa/staff photographerNew York artist Michael Ferris presents his portraits created from wood and colored wood putty Thursday afternoon in Central Michi-gan University’s Art Gallery. Ferris’s exhibit includes wood portraits, as well as the sketch pads he used to brainstorm the ideas for the exhibit’s work.
“I just like it. I know people that go here; they’ve always said great
things about it.”Michelle Pitters, roseville high school senior
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Comstock Park senior Nick Dekorver collected cans to raise money for a Novem-ber conference that his RSO, Universities Allied for Essen-tial Medicines, will attend at Yale University.
After last week’s low tail-gate turnout, Dekorver said he is not surprised by the low number of cans collected.
He said during previous
tailgates, hundreds of dol-lars worth of cans could have been collected.
“Tailgating used to be the pre-game culture and, now, it’s spread out more,” he said. “We would have made at least three times as much in previous years. The new rules limit the number of people and, if you limit the number of people, you limit the number of cans.”
Dekorver said although
creating a safe environment is important, some of the new tailgating procedures are ridiculous.
Walloon Lake junior Stacy Bonnee, a member of the Women’s club softball team, collected cans in an effort to raise money for team equip-ment, including uniforms and a batting machine.
“We’re working long hours and not getting much out of it,” she said. “Nobody’s here.”
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Cadets disembark from a Chinook helicopter Friday afternoon at Camp Grayling, a military training facility. The ROTC cadets took off from Central Michigan University and flew to their field training exercise. Within a few minutes of landing, they began practicing different military skills, such as grenade throwing and hand-to-hand combat.
Cadets pull their fellow cadets into a Zodiac after flipping it during a training exercise. Earlier, each com-pany, two from CMU and one from FSU, competed in a relay, where they had to paddle a course and do fifteen reverse pushups by lifting the Zodiac as a team.
Photos By Neil Blake | Staff Photographer
Cadets wrestle each other to the ground during a MOUT, military operations in urban terrain, training exercise Saturday afternoon. Trenton freshman Carl Head, far left, Farmington Hills freshman Alex Goodroe, center, in uniform, and Spruce sophomore Matthew Gonyea, far right, take down two opposition force members in brown T-shirts during the exercise.
Darkhorse Company takes cover during the approach to a village, where a known high-value target was located during the capstone mission of the field training exercise.
Sagola senior Mark Samuelson laughs after being taken prisoner during a MOUT, military operations in urban terrain, exercise at Camp Grayling Saturday. Samuelson acted as a member of the opposition force while squads practiced clearing buildings.
Traverse City freshman Jakob Russell practices hand-to-hand com-bat techniques Friday afternoon at Camp Grayling. This was Russell’s first field training exercise.
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On a rain-soaked field Saturday, the offense looked like it did in 2007 while the defense made the past few years a distant memory.
In Saturday’s 48-21 victory against Akron, its first Mid-American Conference opponent, CMU out-gained the Zips 523-196 in offensive yardage at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
“I thought we did a great job and we didn’t let the weather control anything with us,” said coach Butch Jones.
Senior quarterback Dan LeFevour, who rushed for 140 yards on 19 rushes and passed for 197 yards, scored six touchdowns (two rushing, four passing).
“I think our offense is in a groove,” LeFevour said. “I don’t worry too much about stats. If we’re moving the ball as an offense and we’re getting things done, then that’s great.”
While LeFevour looked like the player that ran for 1,000 yards and passed for 3,000 in one season (2007), the defense continued to show it might be a strength after struggling the past few years.
By John EvansStaff Reporter
This was a game the field hockey team let slip away, said coach Cristy Freese, as CMU lost to Miami (Ohio) 2-1 Sunday in overtime.
Junior Pam Seufert scored a goal for the second consecutive game, but the lone Chippewas goal was not enough. The loss drops CMU to 3-5 on the season and 1-2 in the Mid-American Conference.
“We are disappointed with it. We played them better than we did a couple of weeks ago, but we know we want to win the game, and a win today would have tied us for first place,” Freese said. “We missed that opportunity, too, so we have got to regroup and get better. But I have seen us get better ev-ery weekend.”
Miami beat the Chippewas 3-1 in Oxford, Ohio, on Sept. 11.
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By Jake BolithoSenior Reporter
Former CMU basketball player Jacolby Hardiman received a sentence of two days in jail and a $500 fine stemming from a June 24 in-cident at O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grill, 2000 S. Mission St.
The former forward was convicted of a high-court misdemeanor, rather than felony larceny in a building and financial transaction device-pos-session.
Hardiman was arrested early in the summer af-ter a woman reported her purse being stolen at the bar.
Hardiman was later found by O’Kelly’s employees in the bathroom with the woman’s purse. Her credit card was also found next to where Hardiman had been stand-ing. Police arrived to inves-tigate and he was jailed on $8,000 bond.
He also will be required to pay an additional $350 for a court-appointed attorney, a $68 state cost fee and a $60 crime victim’s rights fee.
He now plans to attend Robert Morris University in Illinois after losing his bas-ketball scholarship from CMU in July. He will be eligi-ble to play at Robert Morris, a private institution based in Chicago with locations in other parts of the state.
Attorney William Shirley, who represented Hardiman, urged Trial Judge Mark Duth-ie to keep the punishment light and to consider the fact that RMU will be starting its fall term very soon.
He argued that because al-cohol played a role in Hardi-man’s decision-making, and because he has no criminal history, he should not receive too strict of a sentence.
“He’s a very nice young man, who did a very dumb thing in this situation,” he said. “He plans to still have an opportunity to get an ed-ucation.”
Isabella County Prosecu-tor Larry Burdick said his office was originally hoping to have Hardiman placed on probation.
However, Duthie threw the idea out, citing how transfer-ring probation supervision to a different state such as Il-linois would be too difficult.
“We would have preferred he also be placed on proba-tion for a period of time, but I understand he is enrolled to start school in Chicago,” Burdick said.
Last season, Hardiman av-eraged 9.7 points per game in 28 starts. He also logged 4.9 rebounds per game and a total of 45 steals.
He is one of five players to leave the team this offseason, along with Adrian Hunter, Lawrence Bridges, William Eddie III and Jeremy Allen.
The men’s basketball team’s first exhibition game is Nov. 1 against Marygrove.
Jacolby Hardiman
Chris BACArellA/staff photographerJunior wide receiver Kito Poblah had four catches and scored a touchdown Saturday.
Hardiman charges reduced from felony to misdemeanor
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F o u r D o w n s
CMU 48, Akron 21 - Final statisticsScore by quarters 1 2 3 4 TotalCentral Michigan 13 21 7 7 48Akron 0 7 7 7 21
Scoring summaryQtr Scoring play Score1st CMU- Cody Wilson 27-yard pass from Dan LeFevour 7-0 (7:11)
1st CMU - Kito Poblah 4-yard pass from LeFevour
(PAT missed) 13-0 (5:21)
2nd CMU - LeFevour 1-yard run 20-0 (14:39)
2nd AU - Matt Rodgers 10-yard run 20-7 (9:59)
2nd CMU - LeFevour 2-yard run 27-7 (6:47)
2nd CMU - Antonio Brown 9-yard pass from LeFevour 34-7 (1:02)
3rd AU - Rodgers 1-yard run 34-14 (8:42)
3rd CMU - Brown 13-yard pass from LeFevour 41-14 (3:40)
4th CMU - Paris Cotton 3-yard run 48-14 (9:42)
4th AU - Joe Tuzze 9-yard run 48-21 (6:19)
Team totals CMU Akron First downs 30 15Rushing yards 326 69Rushing TDs 3 3Passing yards 197 127Cmps.-atts.-int 23-31-1 12-19-0Passing TDs 4 0Total offense 523 196Gain per play 6.2 3.5Fumbles (No.-lost) 2-0 2-1Punts-yards 1-16 5-207Third-down conv. 10-14 1-12Fourth-down conv. 0-2 0-2Sacks by (#-yds) 5-29 0-0Penalties (#-yds) 11-110 6-51Field goals 0-1 0-0Possession 35:21 24:39
Game leaders
RushingDan LeFevour (CMU) 19 carries, 140 yards, 2 TD
PassingDan LeFevour (CMU)23-of-31, 197 yards, 4 TD, 1 INT
ReceivingAntonio Brown (CMU) 9 catches, 89 yards, 2 TDJeremy LaFrance (AU) 3 catches, 54 yards
DefensiveBrian Wagner (AU LB) 16 total tackles, 1 INT
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West Division Team MAC OverallCMU 1-0 3-1WMU 1-0 2-2NIU 0-0 2-2Toledo 0-0 2-2EMU 0-0 0-3Ball St. 0-0 0-4
East DivisionTeam MAC OverallKent St. 1-0 2-2Temple 1-0 1-2Ohio 0-0 2-2BGSU 0-0 1-3Akron 0-1 1-3Buffalo 0-1 1-3Miami 0-2 0-4
Saturday’s resultsCMU 48, Akron 21Temple 37, Buffalo 13Kent St. 29, Miami (OH) 19Idaho 34, NIU 31Boise State 49, BGSU 14Toledo 41, Florida Int 31Tennessee 34, Ohio 23WMU 24, Hofstra 10Auburn 54, Ball St. 30
*Home teams in bold
RushingPlayer-team Att-yds-TDw Me’co Brown 63-377-3NIUw Dwayne Priest 63-301 -3EMUw DaJuane Collins 55-360-4Toledo
PassingPlayer-team Cp-att-yds-TDw Aaron Opelt 96-167-1,282-9Toledow Tyler Sheehan 120-181-1,065-5BGSUw Tim Hiller 101-153-1,048-8WMU
ReceivingPlayer-team Rec.-Yds-TDw Naaman Roosevelt 29-445-3Buffalow Eric Page 26-443-4Toledow Freddie Barnes 46-360-2Toledow Juan Nunez 23-341-3Buffalo
TacklesPlayer-team Ttlw LB Noah Keller 48Ohiow LB Archie Donald 47Toledow LB Brian Wagner 46Akronw LB Cobrani Mixon 40Kent St.w LB Aaron Pritchard 40WMU
SacksPlayer Ttlw DT Cody Cilenski 3.0WMUw DE Morris Blueford 3.0Templew DE Robert Eddins 3.0Ball State
RushingPlayer Att-yds-TDw Dan LeFevour 44-177-5w Carl Volny 23-127-2w Paris Cotton 29-124-1w Antonio Brown 10-99-0
PassingPlayer Att-comp-yds-TDw Dan LeFevour 84-120-725-7w Ryan Radcliff 6-11-49-0
ReceivingPlayer Rec-Yds-TDw Antonio Brown 28-215-3w Bryan Anderson 13-169-0w Kito Poblah 15-115-2w Cody Wilson 17-70-1w Paris Cotton 16-70-1
TacklesPlayer Ttlw LB Matt Berning 32w LB Nick Bellore 29w CB Kirkston Edwards 16w S Dannie Bolden 14w DT Sean Murnane 14
SacksPlayer Ttlw LB Matt Berning 2.0w DT John Williams 2.0w DT Sean Murnane 1.5w DE Kashawn Fraser 1.5
Kick returnsPlayer No.-yds-avgw Antonio Brown 11-230-20.9
Punt returnsPlayer No.-yds-avgw Antonio Brown 10-179-17.9
Field goalsPlayer FGM-FGA-Lng.w Andrew Aguila 5-8-49
CMU TEAM LEADERS
MAC LEADERS
AROUND THE MAC
I thought we flew around. I thought we made plays on defense. And we got off the field.”
Who’s next?
at BuffaloSat., Oct. 3
Buffalo, the defending Mid-American Conference Champion, lost its first conference game last Saturday 37-13 at Temple.
Coach Butch Jones
1ST AND TEN
Chris BaCareLLa/Staff photographer
The football team comes out onto the field before Saturday’s game against Akron. The team won 48-21 to open Mid-American Conference play. Senior quarterback Dan
LeFevour scored a combined six touchdowns in the win.
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Dan LeFevour
Offense
ALast week: A
For the first time since 1974, the Chippewas posted scores of 48 points for consecutive weeks. Senior quarterback Dan LeFe-vour tied a career-high with six touchdowns (four passing, two rushing) and led the team with 140 yards rushing.
Defense
ALast week: A
While the starters were in (they were pulled with 10 minutes re-maining), the Chippewas gave up just 85 yards of total offense to Akron. Matt Rodgers faced constant pressure from the front seven and was sacked five times. Junior linebacker Matt Berning led the team with eight tackles.
Special Teams
C-Last week: A
The early blocked field goal saved face, but other than that, the ef-fort was subpar. Senior kicker Andrew Aguila missed a 32-yard field goal and one point-after at-tempt. Kick-off coverage yielded 187 yards and the punt team had two very noticable miscues.
Overall
A-Last week: A
Despite one turnover and a few special team miscues, the Chip-pewas opened their Mid-American Conference schedule with a sound performance. The team dominated the line of scrimmage on the way to a blowout win. It is more impressive against Akron than Alcorn State.
Sophomore defensive end Kashawn Fraser recovered a fumble at the Akron 12-yard line a series after CMU took a 7-0 lead. The fumble was forced by sopho-more defensive tackle John Wil-liams.
Three plays later, senior quarter-back Dan LeFevour completed a 4-yard pass to junior wide receiv-er Kito Poblah for a touchdown.
Senior quar-terback Dan LeFevour got it done through the air and on the ground. He totaled six t o u c h d o w n s (four passing, two rushing) for only the third time in his ca-reer, and rushed for more yards than he has in one game since the 2007 Mid-American Confer-ence Championship against Miami (Ohio). He totaled 337 yards.
Compiled by and Photos by: Dave Jones, Matt Stephens, Andrew Stover and Ashley Miller
cm-life.comCheck the Web site for CMU-Akron post-game analysis.
Sept. 5: at Arizona, 6-19Sept. 12: at Michigan State, 29-27Sept. 19: Alcorn State, 48-0Sept. 26: Akron, 48-21
Remaining Schedule:
Oct. 3: Buffalo
Oct. 10: Eastern Michigan
Oct. 17: at Western Michigan
Oct. 24: Bowling Green
Oct. 31: at Boston College
Nov. 11: Toledo
Nov. 18: at Ball State
Nov. 27: Northern Illinois
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To open the game, Akron returned the kickoff 67 yards to the CMU 33-yard line.
But CMU’s defense gave up just four yards during the three-and-out and forced the Zips to attempt a 46-yard field goal.
Coming off the edge, junior cornerback Vince Ag-new blocked the kick, which was recovered by senior cornerback Kirkston Edwards. The block set up the offense on its own 43-yard line.
After moving the ball 43 yards on their first posses-sion, the Chippewas were forced to settle for a field
goal — a 32-yard attempt which sailed wide right.But on CMU’s next possesion, senior quarterback
Dan LeFevour busted a 53-yard run to the Akron 27-yard line.
LeFevour found freshman wide receiver Cody Wilson on the left side for LeFevour’s first touchdown, giving CMU a 7-0 lead.
Trailing 7-0, Akron was on its own 22-yard line.Matt Rodgers was sacked by sophomore de-
fensive tackle John Williams, who forced a fum-ble, which was recovered by sophomore defense end Kashawn Fraser on the 12-yard line.
Senior quarterback Dan LeFevour then found junior wide receiver Kito Poblah for a four-yard touchdown pass to give the Chippewas a 13-0 lead.
With Akron down 27-7 in CMU territory on the 27-yard line and facing a third-and-one, the
CMU defense forced an imcomplete pass.On fourth-and-one, CMU’s defensive line stopped
an Alex Allen rush up the middle, giving the Chippe-was the ball back with just more than five minutes to go in the half.
It led to another LeFevour touchdown, when he found junior wide receiver Antonio Brown for nine yards, giving CMU a 34-7 CMU lead.
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Central Michigan life || Monday, sept. 28, 2009 || 3B
Chris BACArellA/staff photographerFreshman linebacker Kyle Zelinsky had two tackles in Saturday’s 48-21 victory against Akron at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Ashley Miller/photo editorSenior quarterback Dan LeFevour ran 140 yards and threw for 197 in Saturday’s 48-21 win.
LeFevour returns to 2007 formQuarterback runs, throws for 6 TDs
CMU held Akron to one yard offensively at the end of the first quarter and was 11-for-12 on stopping the Zips on third downs (2-for-2 on fourth downs).
“I thought we flew around. I thought we made plays on defense,” Jones said. “And we got off the field — that was critical.”
Akron (1-3, 0-1 MAC), start-ing quarterback Matt Rod-gers in place of a dismissed Chris Jacquemain, started the game with good field position, returning the opening kick-off to the CMU 33-yard line. However, the defense held the Zips to just two yards on the drive and junior Vince Agnew blocked the ensuing field goal attempt.
“I think that kind of set the tone for the rest of the day,” Jones said. “That was a great effort on Vince’s part, but also a great job of our defense again of stepping up.”
CMU scored first on a 27-yard pass from LeFevour to redshirt freshman Cody Wil-son. The previous play, LeFe-
vour scrambled for a career-long 53 yards.
The defense again set up the offense less than two minutes later when it forced a fumble and recovered it on the Akron 12-yard line. LeFevour con-nected with junior wide re-ceiver Kito Poblah three plays later to make the game 13-0 (missed point after attempt).
CMU scored two more touchdowns before the half, one on a LeFevour two-yard run and another on a 9-yard pass from LeFevour to junior wide receiver Antonio Brown, to make the score 34-0.
Special teamS woeSAkron opened the scoring
in the second half, capital-izing off a shanked punt that put it on CMU’s 40-yard line. The Zips scored three plays later to make the score 34-14.
CMU controlled much of the clock in the second half after that score, however. The team’s next drive lasted for 6:30 and went 76 yards, cul-minating in a 13-yard touch-down pass from LeFevour to Brown. Sophomore running back Paris Cotton scored on a 3-yard run on the team’s next drive before the first string was taken out.
Cotton finished with 75 yards rushing and one touch-down. CMU outgained Akron 326-69 in rushing yardage.
While the offense and de-fense played well, the special teams struggled besides the early field goal block. CMU missed a field goal and had two punt plays go array. Both punt mishaps resulted in touchdowns for the Zips.
“We take great pride in our special teams and we’ll get that corrected,” Jones said. “The mishap on the punt is in-excusable ... We spend way too much time and invest to much time to perform on some of those things that we did and we’ll get that corrected.”
Junior linebacker Matt Bern-ing led the defense with 8 tack-les and 1.5 sacks. Junior defen-sive lineman Sean Murnane also finished with 1.5 sacks.
The game also featured a total of 162 yards in penalties. CMU had 11 penalties, result-ing in 110 yards.
CMU has not lost an open-ing MAC game since 2003.
CMU (3-1, 1-0 MAC) plays Buffalo (1-3, 0-1) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at UB Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y.
akron | continued from 1B
Defense stifles akron offenseBy Dave JonesSenior Reporter
After the first play of the Mid-American Conference sched-ule, the Chippewas looked like they might be in trouble.
Akron senior wide receiver Dashan Miller took the open-ing kickoff from his own goal line and returned it 67 yards to the Central Michigan 33-yard line before CMU senior kicker Andrew Aguila tackled him.
But CMU’s defense halted any offensive threat, forcing the Zips to attempt a field goal after three plays resulted in four yards. Akron was still primed to score on the drive as kicker Igor Iveljic lined up for a 46-yard field goal.
But off the edge came ju-nior cornerback Vince Ag-new, blocking the kick for senior cornerback Kirkston Edwards to recover.
“I thought that was a big start to the game,” said coach Butch Jones. “We talked about wanting to start fast.”
Jones said the field goal block set the tempo with the defense maintained the tone the rest of the way. It held Ak-
ron to 196 total yards in the game, most of which came after the first string was taken out and the game was out of reach.
“Anytime you can force a team to go three-and-out and give you great field position, you feed off of each other and I thought (the defense) gave a great effort today,” he said.
GettinG off the fieldWith little time left be-
fore the half, CMU’s de-fense found itself deep in its own territory. Akron faced a fourth-and-one at the CMU 34-yard line with just more than five minutes remaining in the half, down 27-7.
The Chippewas won the battle at the line of scrimmage and stopped the short rush for a loss, giving the offense the ball. The ensuing drive re-sulted in a 9-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Dan LeFevour to junior wide receiver Antonio Brown.
“Our defensive line did a tremendous job on the in-side,” said junior linebacker Matt Berning. “With those guys digging hard and play-ing with great effort, it made
it easy for (junior line-backer Nick Bellore) and I to stand free and clean up, if there is anything to clean up.”
B e r n i n g said it was a point of empha-sis in the week leading up to Saturday to establish the run defense early.
The team took it further by holding Akron to 85 yards of total offense before the CMU starters were pulled with 10 minutes remaining.
CMU allowed just one third down conversion, stopping the Zips on 11-of-12 attempts.
It did, however, allow two touchdowns when the first string was in. Both touch-downs came when Akron started the possession inside CMU territory.
“I can’t say enough about our defense,” Jones said. “They were flying around and running to the ball, and that’s critical. Akron’s a very good football team.”
Matt Berning
By Andrew StoverSports Editor
Senior quarterback Dan LeFevour was a sophomore the last time he rushed for as many yards as he did Saturday against Akron.
It in the 2007 Mid-American Conference championship win against Miami (Ohio) when LeFevour ran for 170 yards. That year, LeFevour became just the second person in NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision his-tory to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in a season, joining Vince Young, who accomplished the feat in 2005 with the Texas Longhorns. LeFevour passed for 3,652 yards and rushed for 1,122 yards in 2007.
In the team’s first conference game of the year, LeFevour car-ried the ball 19 times for 140 yards and two touchdowns. He also completed 23-of-31 passes for 197 yards, four touchdowns and one interception.
It was the third time in his career LeFevour totaled six touchdowns. The other two times came in back-to-back weekends in 2007 against Ball State and Army.
“You didn’t see me break too many tackles,” LeFevour said. “You got to credit those guys up front for pushing those guys back and being able to block that defense.”
LeFevour said the offensive line has erased any early con-cerns it had leading up to the season.
“The offensive line, it starts out with them,” he said. “They’ve been playing great
ball, and that allows us to do some things offensively.”
After his 2007 performance, LeFevour rushed for just 592 yards last year. He also missed the Western Michigan and In-diana games because of a nag-ging ankle injury. But Saturday, coach Butch Jones said his quarterback ran the way he was accustomed to seeing him run.
“He wasn’t tentative at all,” Jones said.
creatinG a GameplanJones said it was part of the
gameplan to let LeFevour beat Akron running the ball. After having early success, the for-mula was repeated.
“It was a gameplan, but also the flow of the game,” Jones said. “He ran north and south. He also made a couple plays on his own on big third downs or scramble situations.”
The biggest play LeFevour made on his own happened in the first quarter. With the game
scoreless, the Chippewas faced a third-and-two from their own 20-yard line. Facing pressure, LeFevour evaded the rush, ran toward the right sideline and found open space. And 53 yards later, he was tackled at the Ak-ron 27-yard line. It was the lon-gest run of his career.
But step-ping aside from indi-vidual praise, LeFevour said he does not care how it is done, as long as the offense continues to produce.
“I think that our offense is in a groove. I don’t worry too much about stats,” he said. “If we’re moving the ball as an offense, and we’re getting things done, then that’s great. If we’re not, we got to correct something.”
Butch Jones
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ViCtoriA Zegler/staff photographerAthletics Director Dave Heeke joked that the renovations will give Rose Arena a “front door” while speaking Saturday during the groundbreaking of the CMU Events Center.
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file photos by ashley MillerFreshman Bailey Brandon has four points this season. She was held without a shot during Sunday’s 1-0 double overtime win.
Events Centerground broken
By DJ palomaresSenior Reporter
Volleyball coach Erik Ol-son said he was not happy with the play of his team over the weekend.
But CMU was still able to salvage a conference win.
The Chippewas split two Mid-American Conference matches, beating Eastern Michigan on Friday before being swept in three sets against Ohio on Saturday, to start conference play 1-1.
“We didn’t play very well this week,” said coach Erik Olson. “We need to get back and put it together in the gym this week.”
The weekend brings the team to 8-4 overall and 1-1 in the Mid-American Con-ference. Central’s confer-ence record puts it one game behind in-state rival Western Michigan, which opened 2-0.
Ohio outside hitter Ellen
Herman hit for 20 kills in the 3-0 sweep over CMU. The defend-ing MAC Player of the Year had only one service ace, but her aggressive jump serve had Central on its heels.
Outside hitter Lauren Krupsky said CMU’s serves were not nearly as aggres-sive as the team would like.
“We need to work on keep-ing up the aggressiveness of our serving,” Krupsky said. “We can’t let the other team dictate how we are going to play.”
cloSe winCentral traded sets with
the Eagles throughout the match before shutting them down in the fifth set to earn its first MAC victory Friday.
“It was good that we were able to get a win out of our
first MAC weekend,” said se-nior middle blocker Kaitlyn Hurt. “We didn’t play the way we wanted to, but at least we can put it behind us now.”
Krupsky totaled 28 kills on the weekend and led the team in both matches. Hurt had 20 kills.
“I don’t really think about how many kills I have during the match,” Krupsky said. “I just go out there and try to keep my teammates pumped up the whole time.”
The volleyball team has the week off before hosting its first matches of the sea-son against Ball State on Fri-day and Toledo on Saturday.
“We are going to be okay,” Hurt said. “We still have a long season. We will put this weekend behind us and we can become something great next weekend.”
Both of this weekend’s matches begin at 7 p.m.
volleyball splits weekend in ohio
CMU wins in double ot
By Aaron McMannStaff Reporter
Several people took a good look at Rose Arena on Satur-day as the groundbreaking for the CMU Events Center took place.
Because for better or worse, the building soon will get a makeover.
The ceremony for the reno-vation and beginning of the events center was held out-side the current Rose Arena, featuring a number of univer-sity and community officials.
Air conditioning, new re-strooms, a 7,500 square foot atrium lobby, upgraded sound and lighting, new practice fa-cilities, a standalone wrestling facility and a 6,000-square-foot addition to the Student Activity Center are among the features in the $21 million project.
“The time has come to take the next step in a bold future,” said 1992 CMU graduate and Fox Sports Detroit anchor Mick-ey York to kick off the event.
Work is set to begin over the next few weeks and is sched-uled to be completed by next November. Exterior work will be done first, allowing winter sports teams a venue to play in during the upcoming sea-son, and will be followed up by work on the interior over the summer and into the fall of 2010.
Women’s volleyball will be the only team displaced and play their home games in Finch Fieldhouse next fall, Athletics Director Dave Heeke said.
Interim President Kathy Wilbur stressed the need for strategic building upgrades in a time when a lot of compe-tition is out there for college students.
“This Events Center is going to dramatically transform not only what we look like on this
part of cam-pus, but also what we rep-resent to the m i d - M i c h i -gan area and the surround-ing areas,” Wilbur said.
The new facility will help bring big na-tional music and entertain-ment acts, adding jobs and increased revenue to the area, while competing for MHSAA basketball, volleyball and wrestling championships, said former CMU Trustee John Kulhavi..
recruitinG in mindWith other Mid-American
Conference schools, such as the University of Toledo, re-cently going through a reno-vation and Bowling Green State University in the stages of one, Heeke said the Events Center is a necessity for ath-letic recruiting.
“For our basketball, gym-nastics and volleyball pro-grams, to compete in a venue that is comparable, and if not better, than most around the country, that’s a huge boost,” he said. “There’s no question that our facility is outdated
from an athletics perspec-tive.”
Men’s basketball head coach Ernie Zeigler said the new facility will not only help his recruiting, but the overall student atmosphere.
“It’s going help us im-mensely, because when you have a state of the art facil-ity and you look around our campus, when we bring perspective student ath-letes here, they see all of the growth and commitment to excellence,” Zeigler said.
The new CMU Events Cen-ter also is expected to make a positive economic effect on Mount Pleasant, something that excites Mount Pleasant Mayor Jim Holton.
“What that’s going to do for business is bring in large at-tractions, such as entertain-ment groups, concerts and bigger sporting events. All the hotels fill up, all the restau-rants fill up, shopping contin-ues,” he said.
Kathy Wilbur
stop on an open Miami (Ohio) forward with seven minutes re-maining in regulation.
Curran made multiple key stops as the RedHawks pres-sured the Chippewas through-out the entire second half, out-shooting them 9-2.
“I just tried to stay focused on where they were with the ball — just keep myself cen-tered on the ball and just make the save,” Curran said. “This one definitely slipped away. Any conference game is win-nable and, to have it go into overtime, we had the chances, we could have put it away, but we didn’t.”
late-Game experienceCurran said the team can
benefit from the high-pressure atmosphere overtime brought.
“I think the overtime pressure early on will help us build from this and learn from it,” Curran said. “Later on, if we face the
same situation, we will be better prepared for it.”
Freese said it is close games like Sunday’s that will help the team in the future.
“As you get into October games and, as you get to-wards the tournament, this is what MAC field hockey, to me, is about — these overtime battles,” she said. “And this will really help us as we move along.”
CMU won its first conference game of the season Saturday, beating Ball State 4-1. Seufert scored her first two games of the season.
The Chippewas will stay home this weekend to contin-ue their MAC schedule Friday against Kent State and Satur-day against Ohio.
The game against the Zips begins at 2 p.m. and 1 p.m. against the Bobcats.
The home games will be the last until Oct. 28 against Big Ten opponent Michigan.
The team went 3-5 at home last season.
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Sophomore Liesel Toth and CMU won their first two conference games Friday and Saturday.
By Matt ValinskiStaff Reporter
In the end, mistakes hurt the Akron Zips.
The CMU soccer team earned its second victory of the weekend, defeating Akron 1-0 off the Zips’ own goal in the second overtime.
Central outshot Akron 22-5 for the game, but could not get a shot off in the first overtime. However, one minute into the second overtime, the ball found the back of the net after a CMU deep throw-in that deflected off an Akron player without touching a CMU player.
It marks the first time since 2005 CMU won its first two Mid-American conference road games after also defeat-ing Ohio 4-0 on Friday.
“It is very important to start the first MAC week-end with two wins,” said senior for-ward Molly Gerst.
S e n i o r m i d f i e l d e r
Stephanie Martin said the win was important because of the team’s struggles on the road in past seasons.
“It’s critical, especially on the road,” she said. “In the past, we might win at home, and then we played on the road and we would fall apart.”
Martin led Central in shots with eight, but said with a little more practice and game time, she will be playing at her peak.
“I thought I played pretty well,” she said. “I just didn’t finish my chances.”
Junior Shay Mannino turned away the only shot on net dur-ing the game for the Zips early in first half to record her fifth shutout of the season. The win also is Central’s fifth straight shutout.
Martin said she credits the team’s determination for be-ing able to win a game that could have easily gone the other way.
“I thought we play with a lot of heart,” she said. “We played well and we grinded through it.”
The win also gave Central a 2-0 start in MAC play for the second consecutive season. A year ago, CMU started 2-0, then went on to win its next
three games until tying Buffalo 2-2 on Oct. 12.
hat trick for GerStOn Friday night, the seniors
showed why they are impor-tant to the team in the 4-0 vic-tory over Ohio.
Senior forward Molly Gerst scored three goals for a hat trick, and Martin tied the school’s record for career points on a goal from fellow senior Amanda Waugh, her first of the season.
Gerst started the game off quickly with her first goal coming just 2 minutes and 11
seconds into the game with an assist from junior Valerie Prause.
In a first half where Central outshot Ohio 7-5, CMU added two more goals when Gerst scored in the 23rd minute. Waugh scored less than nine minutes later.
Ohio managed to stay even with CMU in shots in the sec-ond half, with each team hav-ing eight.
Central plays at 4 p.m. Fri-day against Kent State at the CMU Soccer Complex.
Deep throw-indeflects off Akron player and in
Molly Gerst