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vibe | cm life starts year-long freshman project, 1b [cm-life.com] Mount Pleasant, Mich. Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Central Michigan Life Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009 | fieldturf Installation in IAC should be done by Oct. 1, 11a no more| Campus Conservatives RSO status revoked for unpaid fees, 3a CMU Bookstore one-stop shop your www. cmubookstore .com Caverly, Brighton se- nior and Laundry Boyz co-founder, said Laundry Boyz offers semester and year packages for laundry service starting this week, following in the footsteps of his father, who was in the laundry business in New York City. He started his business two years ago, and is now in the process of selling it. After transferring to CMU, Caverly realized a pickup and dropoff laundry ser- vice could work at Central. He said he hopes to expand and make a career out of the business, or eventually sell it like his father. Service includes a Laun- dry Boyz laundry bag, dirty laundry pickup Wednes- day nights and delivery of clean, folded clothes Thursdays. Supporting clean clotheS Caverly got the idea to start Laundry Boyz when he was attending school at University of Arizona. Cav- erly’s friend ran a laundry pickup and dropoff busi- ness and Caverly decided to start his own version at CMU. By Amelia Eramya Staff Reporter Robert Kennedy Jr. is com- ing to Central Michigan Uni- versity in November. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy’s nephew, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium about the environment in a speech titled, “Green gold rush; A vision for energy, indepen- dence, jobs and national wealth,” as part of the Speaker Series. “He’s so much into the envi- ronment and it’s such a strong issue now,” said Bob Ebner, director of University Events. “He’s such a well-respected speaker for that topic.” The Speaker Series paid $35,000 to bring Kennedy to CMU. In 2009, he was named one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Agents of Change.” He serves as se- nior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, president of Waterkeeper Al- liance and is a partner in the clean tech work of Silicon Val- ley’s VantagePoint Ventures, according to a biography from the Speaker Series. Speaking up For more than three de- cades, the Speaker Series has given students, staff and the community an opportunity to network with speakers. Al- though the series experienced a three-year hiatus from 2003-06 and another hiatus in 2008-09, the committee is still functioning. “Speaker Series has had the opportu- nity to bring speakers of national and interna- tional note,” said Jill Taft- Kaufman, chairman of the commit- tee and professor of commu- nication and dramatic arts. The most recent speakers were Salman Rushdie, who came to CMU in October 2008, and retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who spoke in April 2007. Rush- die was originally supposed to speak in the spring of 2008, but pushed his speech back to the fall of 2008 because of a book he was promoting. “The Speaker Series is meant to balance the aca- demic part of learning,” said Paul Pridgeon, a Montgomery alumnus who was a student member of the committee in the fall of 2007. The Speaker Series leans more toward individuals with high education and academic background, Ebner said. “The enhancement they’ve offered by not only what they say, but the wealth of richness and experience they provide and demonstrate, have in- spired us to think about the past, present and the future,” Taft-Kaufman said. The committee consists of eight faculty members from various departments and three students. The Speaker Series was funded by regular line-item budget until August 2003, Taft-Kaufman said. The committee was put on sus- pension because of budget issues. Since then, former University President Michael Rao, his office, the office of the Provost and various deans have funded the series. Speaker Series trying to stay afloat after hiatus Robert Kennedy Jr. coming to campus in November a vision for energy By Jake Bolitho Senior Reporter The Central Michigan University Police Depart- ment impounded approxi- mately 100 bicycles this summer. But they will not be sit- ting around the Combined Services Building for long. The department trans- fers any unclaimed bikes to CMU Surplus Sales which, in turn, sells them at auc- tions every month, includ- ing one Friday. Bicycles are impounded if they are unregistered or at- tached to something other than a bike rack, includ- ing meters, light posts and trees, said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley. “We keep them for 90 days minimum,” he said. Bicycles in very poor con- dition are usually disman- tled rather than transferred, he said. Mike Viers, manager of University Stores and Ware- house Operations, helps or- ganize the monthly surplus sale in the Auction Barn in Parking Lot 1, at the cor- ner of Douglas and Bellows streets. The monthly sales also are used to sell other sal- vaged equipment and furnishings that have de- creased in usefulness. Vi- ers said it is a large cam- pus “garage sale.” The auctions have expe- rienced great success in the past, he said, with approxi- mately 100 people showing up and waiting in line at each auction. “Everybody’s welcome to come ... usually, there’s a pretty large enthusiasm for this,” he said. “Typically, people show up pretty early and, at the end, everybody’s happy.” Those interested in pur- chasing a bike can do so by cash or personal check. Some bikes in the past were sold for just a few dollars each, but sales vary. “The condition dictates what the sale price is,” Viers said. Surplus Sales plans to continue selling impounded bikes and other items every month as long as they are available. Each sale starts at noon and runs until 2 p.m. Auction profits are returned to the university’s general fund. Viers said the auctions are a great opportunity to give owners a new bike that would otherwise be left unused or eventually de- stroyed. “It gives them kind of a chance for a second life,” he said. [email protected] Impounded bike auction Friday It’s like a large campus garage sale If you go... w What: Sales Surplus Auction w When: Noon Friday w Where: Lot 1, at the intersection of Bellows and Douglas INSIDE, 4A paige calamari/staff photographer Yoshua Fruh, 4, of Mount Pleasant plays under a water umbrella Tuesday afternoon at the grand opening of the Island Park Spray Park. The park features 100 water activated sprayers and nozzles. surplus sales [INSIDE] CM-LIFE.CoM w Check the Web site for a video on the spray park. NEWS w Man bound over on Warriner Hall burglaries, 3A w EHS Building parking lot opening Sept. 14, 3A SportS w Andrew Stover breaks down the football team’s opportunities, 11A WEathEr w Rain showers High 72/ Low 51 ‘BOYZ’ of LAUNDRY ashley miller/photo editor Brighton junior Stephen Caverly, left, and Brighton junior Tom Anderson began their own business, Laundry Boyz. The two charge per the pound to wash and return customers’ laundry within 24 hours. Student business aims for lemony fresh clothing F or Central Michigan University students, studying and enjoying college life can take priority over laundry. For two students, it is just the opposite. Laundry Boyz, a pickup and delivery laundry service, began this year under two CMU students and aims to take the hassle of doing laundry out of students’ hands. “My mom totally did my laundry growing up. College is a rude awakening,” said Tom Anderson, Brighton senior and Laundry Boyz co-founder. “We want to eliminate one worry (for CMU students).” By Nicole Burdiss | Staff Reporter A SPEAKER | 4A A LAUNDRY | 4A w Get Acquainted Day taking place today, 5A w Art department makes darkroom a computer lab, 7A w MSU professor proposes rutabaga as biofuel, 7A CaMpuS vIbE w South Park co-creator speaking at CMU next month, 1B Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Caverly, Brighton se-nior and Laundry Boyz co-founder, said Laundry Boyz offers semester and year packages for laundry service starting this week, following in the footsteps of his father, who was in the laundry business in New York City. He started his business two years ago, and is now in the process of selling it.
After transferring to CMU, Caverly realized a pickup and dropoff laundry ser-vice could work at Central. He said he hopes to expand and make a career out of the business, or eventually sell it like his father.
Service includes a Laun-dry Boyz laundry bag, dirty laundry pickup Wednes-day nights and delivery of clean, folded clothes Thursdays.
Supporting clean clotheS
Caverly got the idea to start Laundry Boyz when he was attending school at University of Arizona. Cav-erly’s friend ran a laundry pickup and dropoff busi-ness and Caverly decided to start his own version at CMU.
By Amelia EramyaStaff Reporter
Robert Kennedy Jr. is com-ing to Central Michigan Uni-versity in November.
Kennedy, John F. Kennedy’s nephew, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 19 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium about the environment in a speech titled, “Green gold rush; A vision for energy, indepen-dence, jobs and national wealth,” as part of the Speaker Series.
“He’s so much into the envi-ronment and it’s such a strong issue now,” said Bob Ebner, director of University Events. “He’s such a well-respected speaker for that topic.”
The Speaker Series paid $35,000 to bring Kennedy to CMU.
In 2009, he was named one of Rolling Stone’s “100 Agents of Change.” He serves as se-nior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, chief prosecuting attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, president of Waterkeeper Al-liance and is a partner in the clean tech work of Silicon Val-ley’s VantagePoint Ventures, according to a biography from the Speaker Series.
Speaking upFor more than three de-
cades, the Speaker Series has given students, staff and the community an opportunity to network with speakers. Al-though the series experienced a three-year hiatus from 2003-06 and another hiatus in 2008-09, the committee is still functioning.
“Speaker Series has had
the opportu-nity to bring s p e a k e r s of national and interna-tional note,” said Jill Taft-K a u f m a n , chairman of the commit-tee and professor of commu-nication and dramatic arts.
The most recent speakers were Salman Rushdie, who came to CMU in October 2008, and retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who spoke in April 2007. Rush-die was originally supposed to speak in the spring of 2008, but pushed his speech back to the fall of 2008 because of a book he was promoting.
“The Speaker Series is meant to balance the aca-demic part of learning,” said Paul Pridgeon, a Montgomery alumnus who was a student member of the committee in the fall of 2007.
The Speaker Series leans more toward individuals with high education and academic background, Ebner said.
“The enhancement they’ve offered by not only what they say, but the wealth of richness and experience they provide and demonstrate, have in-spired us to think about the past, present and the future,” Taft-Kaufman said.
The committee consists of eight faculty members from various departments and three students. The Speaker Series was funded by regular line-item budget until August 2003, Taft-Kaufman said. The committee was put on sus-pension because of budget issues. Since then, former University President Michael Rao, his office, the office of the Provost and various deans have funded the series.
Speaker Series trying to stay afloat after hiatus
Robert Kennedy Jr. coming to campus in November
a v i s i o n f o r e n e r g y
By Jake BolithoSenior Reporter
The Central Michigan University Police Depart-ment impounded approxi-mately 100 bicycles this summer.
But they will not be sit-ting around the Combined Services Building for long.
The department trans-fers any unclaimed bikes to CMU Surplus Sales which, in turn, sells them at auc-tions every month, includ-ing one Friday.
Bicycles are impounded if they are unregistered or at-tached to something other than a bike rack, includ-ing meters, light posts and trees, said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley.
“We keep them for 90 days minimum,” he said.
Bicycles in very poor con-dition are usually disman-tled rather than transferred, he said.
Mike Viers, manager of University Stores and Ware-house Operations, helps or-ganize the monthly surplus sale in the Auction Barn in Parking Lot 1, at the cor-ner of Douglas and Bellows streets.
The monthly sales also are used to sell other sal-vaged equipment and furnishings that have de-creased in usefulness. Vi-ers said it is a large cam-pus “garage sale.”
The auctions have expe-rienced great success in the past, he said, with approxi-mately 100 people showing up and waiting in line at each auction.
“Everybody’s welcome to come ... usually, there’s
a pretty large enthusiasm for this,” he said. “Typically, people show up pretty early and, at the end, everybody’s happy.”
Those interested in pur-chasing a bike can do so by cash or personal check. Some bikes in the past were sold for just a few dollars each, but sales vary.
“The condition dictates what the sale price is,” Viers said.
Surplus Sales plans to continue selling impounded bikes and other items every month as long as they are available. Each sale starts at noon and runs until 2 p.m. Auction profits are returned to the university’s general fund.
Viers said the auctions are a great opportunity to give owners a new bike that would otherwise be left unused or eventually de-stroyed.
“It gives them kind of a chance for a second life,” he said.
Impounded bike auction FridayIt’s like a large campus garage sale
If you go...w What:Sales Surplus Auctionw When:Noon Fridayw Where:Lot 1, at the intersection of Bellows and Douglas
INSIDE, 4A
paige calamari/staff photographerYoshua Fruh, 4, of Mount Pleasant plays under a water umbrella Tuesday afternoon at the grand opening of the Island Park Spray Park. The park features 100 water activated sprayers and nozzles.
s u r p l u s s a l e s[inside]
CM-LIFE.CoMw Check the Web site for a video on the spray park.
NEWSw Man bound over on Warriner Hall burglaries, 3A
w EHS Building parking lot opening Sept. 14, 3A
SportSw Andrew Stover breaks down the football team’s opportunities, 11A
WEathErw Rain showersHigh 72/ Low 51
‘BOYZ’ of LAUNDRY
ashley miller/photo editorBrighton junior Stephen Caverly, left, and Brighton junior Tom Anderson began their own business, Laundry Boyz. The two charge per the pound to wash and return customers’ laundry within 24 hours.
Student business aims for lemony fresh clothing
For Central Michigan University students, studying and enjoying college life can take priority over laundry.
For two students, it is just the opposite.Laundry Boyz, a pickup and delivery
laundry service, began this year under two CMU students and aims to take the hassle of doing laundry out of students’ hands.
“My mom totally did my laundry growing up. College is a rude awakening,” said Tom Anderson, Brighton senior and Laundry Boyz co-founder. “We want to eliminate one worry (for CMU students).”
By Nicole Burdiss | Staff Reporter
A speaker | 4AA Laundry | 4A
w Get Acquainted Day taking place today, 5A
w Art department makes darkroom a computer lab, 7Aw MSU professor proposes rutabaga as biofuel, 7A
CaMpuS vIbEw South Park co-creator speaking at CMU next month, 1B
Robert Kennedy Jr.
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w the Back to School art exhibit will continue to take place all day in the Bovee University Center’s Multicultural Education Center.
w “lakelight: images from the great Basin” will continue to take place in the Charles V. Park Library Third Floor Exhibition area.
w a red cross Blood drive will take place at 11 a.m. in Kulhavi Hall Room 142.
w the 31st annual get ac-quainted day will take place at 4 p.m. at Warriner Mall.
w Standing in the gap will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the EHS Building Rooms 118/106A.
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w the Back to School art exhibit will continue to take place all day in the Bovee University Center’s Multicultural Education Center.
w the Music School honors convocation will take place at 11 a.m. in the Music Building’s Staples Family Concert Hall.
w the lil’ language Warriors club will take place at 4:30 p.m. at the Ziibiwing Center, 6650 E. Broadway Road.
w “lakelight: images from the great Basin” will continue to take place in the Charles V. Park Library Third Floor Exhibition area.
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IN THE NEWS
CIA SACkED BAgHDAD STATION CHIEF AFTER DEATHS OF 2 DETAINEES
WASHINGTON (MCT) — The CIA removed its station chief in Iraq and reorganized its operations there in late 2003 following “potentially very serious leadership laps-es” that included the deaths of detainees in U.S. custody, according to a newly released document and former senior officials.
The memorandum and other partially declassified documents shed a rare light on the abuse and death of detainees in CIA custody, a subject the agency has long sought to shield from public view.
The CIA’s Baghdad sta-tion chief was reassigned just weeks after two Iraqis, Manadel al-Jamadi and Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mow-housh, died, reportedly while being interrogated in Novem-ber 2003.
The heavily censored docu-ment, in the form of “talking points” for a senior agency of-ficial to brief the House Intelli-gence Committee, doesn’t re-veal the exact reasons for the removal of the station chief. He was one of three station
chiefs in Baghdad in less than 10 months, according to the former officials — an embar-rassing record at a time when Iraq was the top U.S. national security priority.
The May 4, 2004, memo-randum, which describes serious problems in the agency’s Baghdad station — the biggest CIA presence overseas following the March 2003 U.S. invasion — was included in thousands of pages of documents that the Justice Department released late Monday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
The CIA’s Directorate of Op-erations “responded to mis-sions we were given for which in some cases our officers were not properly trained/experienced (i.e. jailers),” the memo says.
Also in May 2004, then-CIA Director George Tenet formed a special Detainee Work-ing Group to coordinate the agency’s response to a grow-ing outcry fueled by revela-tions of sadistic behavior by Army personnel at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
SOuTH CAROLINA LAWMAkERS WILL DISCuSS SANFORD IMPEACHMENTCOLUMBIA, S.C. (MCT) —
South Carolina House Repub-licans will discuss whether to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford when they meet in Myrtle Beach this weekend.
Lawmakers, once reluctant to discuss removing Sanford, will weigh what it would take to force the Republican gover-nor out and how the process would work.
Republicans expect the
meeting — an annual gath-ering to discuss agenda, is-sues and politics, and to play golf — will be dominated by discussion of Sanford’s future and what role the House will play in it.
Sanford has been under fire since secretly leaving the country for five days in June to meet his lover and later ad-mitting an extramarital affair with the Argentine woman.
Since then, Sanford has been under fire for flying in expen-sive business-class seats and his use of state and private planes. All could violate state law or ethics rules.
The state constitution al-lows officials to be impeached for “serious crimes or serious misconduct in office.” It does not define either.
If impeached by the S.C. House, and tried and con-
victed by the Senate, Sanford could be removed from office.
Senate Republicans have asked Sanford to resign, but he has refused. House lead-ers, who have been quiet on whether Sanford should resign, have yet to address whether the House should impeach Sanford, saying only it is unlikely the House will do anything before returning to Columbia in January.
But some House members, including state representa-tives Sanford has targeted in elections, want the governor to go.
House Speaker Bobby Har-rell, R-Charleston, said Sanford will be discussed at the closed-door meeting this weekend. But Harrell said he also wanted to talk about economic devel-opment, health care, the bud-get and other agenda items.
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Know your rightsStudents can learn about their
civil liberties and freedoms with the Mount Pleasant Free School at “Know Your Rights,” a discus-sion focusing on knowing your rights when confronted with the realities of law enforcement and campus living. The event is 7 p.m. today in Powers 200. An organi-zational assembly for the group will occur after the meeting at 9 p.m. in Powers 204.
Theater auditionsAuditions for the Secret Gar-
den take place from 6 to 10 p.m. Monday in the music building room 155 and Tuesday, Septem-ber 1 from 6 to 10 p.m. in the music building’s Chamichian Hall. When auditioning, please prepare for a 1-minute monologue and 16 bars of a song. Accompaniment will be provided. Production dates are from Nov. 11 to Nov. 15 in Bush Theatre. Rehearsals be-gin Tuesday, Sept. 8. Auditions are open to all CMU students. For more information e-mail [email protected]
Volleyball Tournament
Registration is open for a 4 vs. 4 co-recreational sand volleyball tournament organized through Central Michigan University’s University Recreation. Students interested in participating should put a team together and register between noon and 7 p.m. at the Program Desk at the Student Activity Center. Teams are to be made up of two males and two fe-males. The tournament costs $10 per team. Separate tournaments will be held for freshmen and for upperclassmen.
Blood DriveA blood drive today is from 11
a.m. to 4:45 p.m. in Kulhavi 142. This event is being sponsored by the American Red Cross.
Bridge CardsStudents interested in ap-
plying for a Electronic Benefits Transfer (Bridge) card can now apply online by going to https://www.mibridges.michigan.gov/ac-cess. Applicants can e-mail the application, fax it or bring it into the State of Michigan Family In-dependence Agency, 1475 S. Bam-ber Rd. To qualify for the Bridge program, applicants must meet income requirements and display a need for government aid.
Intramurals 101CMU University Recreation is
holding “Intramurals 101,” an in-formational meeting, at 6:30 p.m. today for any student interested in playing university intramural sports. The meeting will be held in the NIRSA room at the Student Activity Center. Information cov-ered will include all sports of-fered, how to sign up a team and how leagues and tournaments work. Attendees are welcome to ask any additional questions. New students as well as students curi-ous about CMU intramural sports are urged to attend.
Tech Tips for Chips“Tech Tips for Chips,” a
monthly podcast about technol-ogy, campus technology and other innovations, is back for the school year. The first episode, “Back-to-School Fall ‘09” was re-leased on Aug. 17 and subsequent podcasts will be released on the third Wednesday of every month. “Tech Tips for Chips” is hosted by Roger Rehm, the Chief Infor-mation Officer for CMU and Jeff Wilson, the manager of Technol-ogy Operations, Residences and Auxiliary Operations. Podcasts can be found at www.cmich.edu/iTunesU.
Brooks & DunnPopular Country music act
Brooks & Dunn will perform at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, 6800 Soaring Eagle Boulevard, on Saturday. Tickets are $90, $75 and $50 and are still on sale through the casino. The show be-gins at 8 p.m. and the casino box office phone number is 1-888-726-9633.
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paigE calaMari/staff photographerState Sen. Michelle A. McManus, R-Lake Leelanau, asks for the Campus Conservatives’ support in her campaign for Secretary of State in 2010 at the group’s first meeting Tuesday night in the Bovee University Center’s Down Under Food Court.
By Brad CanzeSenior Reporter
Campus Conservatives is unable to meet as a registered student organi-zation because of outstanding debt owed to Central Michigan University, officials from the Office of Student Life said.
“Until this debt is resolved, your or-ganization will not be recognized as a registered student organization and granted the privileges that are associ-ated with being a RSO,” said Assistant Director of Student Life Tom Idema in an e-mail dated Aug. 17 to Hart junior and Campus Conservatives president Bryant Greiner.
Without RSO status, Campus Con-servatives is unable to use university resources, including reserving class-rooms for meetings and events.
Campus Conservatives member Dennis Lennox II, a Topinabee se-nior, confirmed the outstanding charges in question are $220 in fees for uniformed police officers acting as security for David Horowitz when the conservative speaker appeared on campus Oct. 14, 2008.
Lennox said Horowitz and his rep-resentation requested additional security because of previous threats and attempts at attacking Horowitz, but Campus Conservatives never au-thorized the security detail or agreed to pay for them.
“We stated very clearly, ‘If you send
the police, we won’t pay for it,’” Len-nox said.
According to a statement released by the Campus Conservatives on Tuesday morning, the group request-ed “full restoration of the registered student organization standing of Campus Conservatives” and a “‘per-sonal apology’ from Idema for his ‘reckless and inexcusable conduct’” with a deadline of 9 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Greiner said Campus Conserva-tives has yet to receive any response from the university.
Lennox said he believes Idema has a “mission” of removing the Campus Conservatives from campus.
“Tom Idema has done this before, and he’s been reversed by his superi-ors in his past,” Lennox said. “He has made it his mission to go against our Campus Conservatives. This is the third time he’s done this.”
Idema denied any such vendetta and said this is a simple matter of the group needing to pay a debt.
“Dennis Lennox doesn’t know me very well,” Idema said. “I have noth-ing against any organization. They just didn’t pay their bill. The minute they pay their bill, they’ll have their RSO status back.”
Lennox said in the past, RSOs in-cluding the Campus Conservatives that required event security in the past have had it provided free of charge.
All members of University Events contacted declined comment on the university’s policies on charging for security.
Charge from last year’s lecture unpaid, Student Life says
Campus Conservatives loses registered status
By Jake BolithoSenior Reporter
The 52-year-old Mount Pleas-ant man charged with the Warri-ner Hall burglaries will appear in circuit court Sept. 4 on six felony charges.
Nine witnesses testified Tues-day in Isabella County Trial Court at a preliminary hearing for Donald Morrison, including the homeowner of his residence and the custodian who told po-lice she saw him twice in Warri-ner Hall.
The homeowner testified she was considering dismissing Morrison from her house. She also said he would sometimes be gone from the house for long periods of time.
“He would go for walks a lot,” the homeowner said. “He would come back with a lot of money sometimes.”
Morrison has been charged with one count of conducting criminal enterprise, two counts of breaking and entering and three felony counts of larceny in a building.
He was arrested in July and charged in July for the crimes, which police say began May 7.
Officers from the Mount Pleasant Police Department questioned the homeowner after his arrest and found cash, foreign coins, keys and a stack of stamps in the house. The keys were turned over to the Central Michigan University Police Department after it was determined they may belong to CMU.
John Dillon, a CMU Facili-ties Management architectural trade supervisor, confirmed the keys were for Warriner Hall when they were presented to the courtroom as evidence.
Other employees in Warri-ner Hall appeared in court and confirmed certain keys that had gone missing belonged to them. Linda Reid, executive secretary for the Office of Institutional Di-versity, told the court some of the stolen stamps belonged to her, in addition to multiple keys.
Mary Bellinger, a custodian, said she encountered Morrison twice in Warriner Hall in late spring. She said she went into one of the offices for routine cleaning and was startled to see Morrison there. She did not see him rummaging through any drawers, however.
“I went in to clean the room and there was this guy in the room,” Bellinger said. “He stood there and looked at me.”
Two police officers from the MPPD and CMU were called to the stand, as was a sergeant from the CMU department and CMU Det. Sgt. Mike Morrow, the chief investigator of the burglaries.
Morrow said Morrison denied entering any CMU buildings. Morrison also told Morrow he has not even been on campus since he went to a concert as a teenager.
By Amelia EramyaStaff Reporter
The parking lot project for the Education and Human Services Building is set to be completed Sept. 14.
“The project is being hampered slightly due to rain,” said Steve Lawrence, associate vice presi-dent of Facilities Management.
The project, referred to as Parking Lot 56, will provide faculty and staff parking for the EHS Building, said Stan Dinius, police chief, who is retiring next week.
The Board of Trustees approved the 292-space parking lot in conjunction with the demolition of the western-most area of Washington Apart-ments, t
Many faculty and staff members complained about lack of parking in that area, Dinius said.
Since there are 200 faculty members who will be working in the EHS Building, the parking lot assists in solving the complaints from faculty and staff and welcoming new staff with available spaces, Dinius said.
The budget for the parking lot was set at $1.8 million, and $903,000 of that money was spent or
committed against the $1.8 million at this point, said Carol Haas, director of Financial Planning and Budgets.
The final sTagesThe project was funded by the Reserves for Fu-
ture Construction, a university-wide account. The Board approved the proposal of the parking lot as an addition to the EHS Building, Lawrence said.
Since the EHS Building was a state project and the state decided not to fund the parking lot, the project became a responsibility of the university, she said.
“We decided to continue to do it,” Haas said.The project is now in its final stages.“The site is in final underground material re-
moval and is being graded in preparation for the stone base material,” Lawrence said.
Porous asphalt will be laid on top of the stone layers and will allow rain and melted snow to per-colate through the material into a stone layer.
There will be two such rain gardens within the parking lot, with an additional one on the west edge of the lot.
eHs Building parking lot to be completed sept. 14
chris bacarElla/staff photographerThe west quad of Washington Apartments was torn down on Aug. 12 to make room for additional parking spaces.
Man bound over for Warriner Hall burglaries
By Mara KierenStaff Reporter
A senator campaigning for Secretary of State made a stop at Central Michigan Uni-versity on Tuesday night.
Despite the fact Campus Conservatives is no longer a recognized registered student organization, State Sen. Michelle McManus, R-Lake Leelanau and CMU alumna, spoke at the group’s meeting Tuesday in the Bovee University Center’s Down Under Food Court.
McManus serves as state senator of the 35th district and assistant senate majority leader.
Regular members of Campus Conserva-tives attended the meeting and discussed McManus’ upcoming election and other cur-rent issues, such as the Michigan Promise Scholarship, job losses and concealed weap-ons on campus, which she supports.
“I hope to be able to have a good line of communication with students and I’m a big believer in keeping young people involved in politics, no matter what side of the fence they’re on,” McManus said.
McManus asked for help from the Campus Conservatives to help her get nominated by coming to a delegate convention in Septem-ber on Mackinac Island.
“I think she has a lot of great ideas for Mich-igan and she is fiscally responsible which is important, especially considering the debt we’re in,” said Campus Conservatives mem-ber and Lambertville senior Chase Canning.
After McManus answered questions, Cam-pus Conservatives took a group picture with the senator and continued with their regular meeting.
“We still plan to have regular meetings, even if it means meeting off campus until this gets resolved,” said Hart junior and Campus Conservatives president Bryant Greiner.
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Republican senator McManus speaks at first meeting
Looking for fundsOne of the committee’s
main goals is to obtain a regular line-item budget status. The committee also would like to have a set list of speakers.
“It’s difficult to plan for the year, but it doesn’t necessar-ily hinder what the commit-tee does,” Pridgeon said.
A lot of energy is being put into finding funds for the possible speakers and not for the speakers themselves, so the search has been difficult, Ebner said.
Before the series’ funds were cut, the committee scheduled about four speakers per se-mester. Since 2006, there have only been a few speakers be-
cause of insufficient funds and the increasing prices of speakers, he said.
“Speakers are so expensive
nowadays compared to how they used to be,” Ebner said.
The CMU club hockey team has already started us-ing Laundry Boyz services for team’s jerseys.
“They came to my house, picked up the jerseys and returned them clean and folded the same day,” said Martin Lipar, a Lake Isa-bella senior and captain of the CMU club hockey team. “They saved me a lot of work
and did a great job.”Caverly said they want to
provide a routine to encour-age healthy habits among CMU students.
“You’ll always have clean clothes and a clean room,” Caverly said.
Caverly and Anderson are studying business ad-ministration and said they learned a lot about starting a business while setting up Laundry Boyz.
“Getting the word out is the hardest part,” Anderson said.
Laundry Boyz hopes its services spread by word of mouth among friends and roommates this year and eventually expand to neigh-boring universities, such as Michigan State University.
“I feel excited about start-ing my own company at such a young age and still in college. This is something I can continue to do once I graduate, and knowing that is a great feeling,” Caverly said.
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By Hilary FarrellSenior Reporter
Lots of children, adults and even the mayor sprayed their support Tuesday for the opening of the city’s spray park at Island Park, 331 N. Main St.
Alice Roberson, 5, was se-lected randomly from a city day care program to push the water activation button and begin the fun.
Mayor Jim Holton said the park had been in the works for a long time, crediting fel-low City Commissioner Jon Joslin for ensuring the proj-ect’s creation.
“He was just relentless with that,” Holton said.
The spray park will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mon-day through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The park’s 2009 sea-son will end Oct. 4, weather permitting.
Chris Bundy, director of Mount Pleasant Parks and Recreation, said the park will be open later in the season this year, so residents can en-joy it longer.
Nate Jonaitis, a bartender
at The Bird Bar and Grill, 223 S. Main St., brought his 7-year-old stepson, Sam, to enjoy the fun.
“He was excited,” Jonaitis said.
Nicole Packer, a Shepherd resident, said the park was a pleasant surprise.
“I was actually meeting a friend and happened to stumble on it,” she said.
Packer’s three children enjoyed playing in the park and Packer said she would return.
“We’re always here,” she said. “Next time we’ll bring bathing suits.”
The park was designed by Miracle Recreation of Michi-gan, an Owosso-based com-pany that provides engineer-ing and building of outdoor recreational structures. The “dancing water” area and per-manent canopy for shade and weather protection are the first to be installed in the state of Michigan, Bundy said.
The park has three sepa-rate areas, or “splash pads,” for toddlers, younger kids and older kids, he said.
Interactive elements in the park include spray hoses,
water cannons, flowers that spray water, different water sprays on a timer and “mush-room” water fountains. There are 12 water features, two activation buttons and 100 water-activated sprayers and nozzles inside of the 2,095 square foot park.
The water will cycle for ap-proximately four to five min-utes after an activation but-ton is pushed.
The city is running the water park through a com-puter system to prevent wa-ter waste, Bundy said. Once a water activation button is pushed, the computer will generate the water and will only allow it to flow during open park hours.
The City Commission ap-proved the building of a wa-ter spray park May 26 and decided to place it in Island Park. The idea for a spray park came up a year-and-a-half to two years ago, Bundy said, and the city took action to build the park last De-cember. The city budgeted $200,000 for the park and the project cost $199,000.
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Brighton junior Stephen Caverly
takes his friend’s laundry out of
the dryer Monday from their house
on Franklin St. and hands it to
business partner and Brighton junior Tom Anderson. The Laundry Boyz use
various laundry mats or machines in their own bathroom to complete orders.
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By sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
Jessica Koehn is hoping to become more familiar with Central Michigan University’s campus, students and com-munity.
That is why the Port Huron freshman plans on attending the 31st annual Get Acquaint-ed Day from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Warriner Mall.
“I am thinking about at-tending because I don’t know a whole lot of people here, and it would be a good chance to know about more groups on campus,” Koehn said. “I hope to find things to do on campus because I know there is a lot to do and I’m hoping to join something.”
Get Acquainted Day is an event held to help students understand organizations
better on campus, meet fac-ulty, staff and administrators and promote local commu-nity involvement.
Minority Student Services is sponsoring the event as a way to connect students with everything available at CMU. It is very important to have community connections, the keys to personal develop-ment with each other, said Lester Booker, interim assis-tant director at Minority Stu-dent Services.
“This event allows students to get into the swing of things for a few days and get accli-mated. Everyone should be in attendance – faculty, students, and the community – to come utilize the resources there,” Booker said. “Plus there are great prizes and give-a-ways this year.”
This year, Get Acquainted Day will have interactive ac-tivities like games, a live DJ, music, free food and prizes. Registered student organiza-
tion tables also will make an appearance in case students missed Sunday’s MAINstage at Rose Ponds.
“We have businesses giv-ing food samples and a few restaurants to show students what they have,” Booker said.
Tawas City senior Katie Wa-jda attended Get Acquainted Day in previous years, and she enjoyed the fun and friendly atmosphere. This year, she hopes to join a club.
“The last time I went I con-sidered some of the RSOs, but I didn’t have the time to join. But this year, my schedule is easier, so I might join,” Wajda said.
For newcomers, Wajda en-courages people to come be-cause students can always find something new to do.
“It doesn’t hurt to check it out, because there are always things you might find out by going this year,” she said.
Get yourself acquainted with campus todayDJs, free food at annual event
By Kristyn wollStaff Reporter
The environmental push Campus Dining and the Student Environmental Al-liance enforced Sunday at MAINstage will hopefully spread to the rest of campus this year, SEA officials said.
Jocelyn Jarvis, Campus Dining assistant marketing manager, said SEA was re-cruited to collect aluminum cans, water bottles and po-tato chip bags at the event Sunday.
“We were at MAINstage to help sort the recyclables from the trash. We helped it to go smoothly, but we didn’t plan anything for it,” said SEA National Council Member Sarah Lechota.
Campus dining and SEA collected food bags from Frito-Lay, Nabisco, Kashi, Clif Bar, Luna and Bear Na-ked during MAINstage for a program called Terracycle, Jarvis said.
“The Terracycle pro-gram takes used wrappers
to make reusable bags for money,” said SEA Council member and Clare senior Jenna Hatch.
Campus Dining and SEA incorporated as much local and Michigan-made food as possible into the menu, Jarvis said, a process they plan to transition this year into the dining halls.
“We’re trying to get com-munity gardens going on campus this year, so the cafeterias can buy organi-cally grown produce,” Le-chota said. “In the caf-eterias, it’s hard to feed all those people, but we want the food that they serve to be local.”
SEA was allowed to keep all of the refunds from re-turning the aluminum cans they collected as a fund-raiser, Jarvis said. The group made $275, Hatch said.
She said SEA will be work-ing throughout the year to raise awareness of recy-cling.
“We do demonstrations in busy areas of campus by
sorting out the recyclables from the trash cans,” she said. “We also work with re-cycling centers on campus and maintenance. Every-one is really cool and excit-ed about recycling, which helps us out.”
A professional recycling contractor was brought to MAINstage with designated bins for cans, chip bags and water bottles, Lechota said. During the school year, SEA encourages people to take their recyclables to blue bins around campus or the tanks behind the dining halls.
“For myself, I keep an upbeat attitude about recy-cling. I give people facts and figures while being noncha-lant, instead of being the recycle police,” Hatch said. “We just give people an ex-ample to pick up their pop cans.”
SEA hopes MAINstage recycling push spreads through campus
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By Hilary FarrellSenior Reporter
A new amendment was add-ed to Mount Pleasant’s Zoning Ordinance to offer incentives to local companies on Mission Street that decide to make their businesses more attractive.
The amendment, entitled “Mission Redevelopment Overlay Zone,” applies to properties on Mission Street between Pickard Street and the southern border within the city’s C-3 General Business zoning area.
The amendment is optional and meant to promote devel-opment in the city as well as provide flexibility for business-es who want to redevelop.
Jeff Gray, the director of planning and community de-velopment for the city and the vice chairman of the Planning Commission, said the amend-ment is supposed to benefit businesses.
“The idea is if it doesn’t im-prove the neighborhood, it doesn’t fit these regulations,” he said. “This gives us an op-portunity to test the market. If demand isn’t exactly there, we can adjust.”
The Planning Commission met with business owners, the Downtown Development Au-thority, the Zoning Board of Appeals, other organizations and citizens before the final draft of the ordinance, said City Manager Kathie Grinz-inger. The city also sent a letter to local businesses to inform them of the program.
“Property owners who are interested in building a pre-ferred form of development ... will find flexibility in the con-ventional setback, building height, parking, and use regu-lations in the Mission Redevel-opment district,” Gray said in a
letter to property owners.Included on the list of pre-
ferred development options for businesses are improved building appearances, safe and efficient vehicle circula-tion, “varied and interesting” architectural styles and fea-tures, increased pedestrian ac-commodations and the usage of durable building materials.
The zoning amendment and design guidelines do not change any zoning of any property in the city and will not change any regulations af-fecting properties, either. The business owner must apply for a special use permit and have their plans approved be-fore entering into the incentive program.
The City Commission and Planning Commission en-dorsed a blueprint for eco-nomic development in April 2008. Both commissions and the DDA also completed a study to find strategies to im-prove the look, function and “economic vitality” of the city, according to city documents.
The design considerations and the ordinance were initial-ly brought up at the City Com-mission’s July 27 meeting. The amendment was unanimously approved.
Companies get newincentives to improve building appearances
Other businessw The city of Mount Pleas-ant will fix three additional sidewalks in the city’s “Mini Stimulus” plan because of an extra $40,000 in the fund. The city will fix and replace Kinney Avenue from Michigan Street to High Street, Eastwood Drive from Elizabeth Street to Preston Street and Kinney Avenue from Andre Street to Mosher Street.
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central Michigan Life
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
The Michigan Senate recently pro-posed a bill that would allow students with concealed weapon permits to carry weapons on campus. This means the opportunity for a campus shooting has now become easier.
The main argument for letting stu-dents with a concealed weapon per-mit bring a weapon to class is the rise
in campus shootings. The ideology is if people who are trained and pass a screening are allowed to bring guns to campus, campus shootings will de-crease. At the very least, students will be able to defend themselves against a potential shooting.
But this thinking is dangerous. College is a place of academics and
growth. It is a place where everyone on campus should always feel safe. Students, professors, guest speak-ers — they all have a right to step foot onto any university and not feel threatened. The presence of a gun does not make everyone feel safe.
More guns in public creates more fear. The opportunity for a campus massacre becomes much easier with every student allowed to bring weapons to campus, even if they did go through a detailed screening. The main focus of a gun is to kill. One more gun on campus means one more chance for a massacre.
The way to stop shootings starts before anyone brings a gun to campus. The shooters at Columbine High School had planned their attack
months in advance and were notice-ably troubled.
Seung-Hui Cho, the shooter at Vir-ginia Tech, had written very disturbing things in classes before his rampage on campus. And, like the Columbine shooters, he had his attack planned out far before he came to campus. Why didn’t anyone say anything to these individuals? Why didn’t a coun-selor, a fellow student or teacher pull these students aside and ask them what was on their mind?
There are resources open to stu-dents — alternatives that do not have to rely on violence. Counselors are always willing to speak to students about any and every problem they are facing. Pay attention and speak up: it just may save someone’s life.
Imagine students sitting next to you in class with a concealed weapon. Or giving a presentation at the front of the class. Or debating over a grade in a pro-
fessor’s office. As strange as it may seem, this idea is close to be-
coming a reality.
EDITORIAL | More guns on campus does not solve violence
(No) gun control
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Students text too much
Face-to-face convos replaced by screens
HARRY BLISS [CARTOON]
[comments]
I am not a psychologist. I am not a therapist.
But I am a girl with three room-mates who are currently going off the deep end.
Let me start out by saying this: texting ruins lives.
As a non-texter or an anti-texter, I wonder if college students will ever again be able to have a heart-to-heart conversation with-out using a keypad.
Is this really what our lives have amounted to?
Claiming our devotional love for someone through the letters “ILU?”
Night after night, weekend after weekend, they wait.
They wait by their Blackberry and their Motorola Razr for “Read Now. Read Later.”
They wait and wait until finally deciding: “Okay, fine, I will just text him.”
Not only are we constantly reminded how far down on their priority list we fall, but that they really care about us.
Until, of course, at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, after leaving the bar when, once again, we are their last resort.
Is it immaturity or just coward-ice that makes it okay for guys to type and send “Goodnight, baby!” or “Miss you, honey!” rather than to face their emotions and just make the effort to say it in person?
Not that we women are not to blame either.
Texting is an easy way to say what we have to say and be done with it.
Whether it be through a David Archuleta song or acronyms that take longer to understand than to just write out.
Getting into full on arguments just to make up again is easier than ever.
Watching my girls crumble over not getting that text that they have been thriving on or the answer to the question that they asked three days ago is killing me.
And not to mention, I have to consider these boys do not even take a second thought to their in-significant responses that my best friends will agonize over for days.
Perhaps I will never understand the person-to-phone-to-person relationship that has begun to define our generation.
Maybe I will finally see when my first text message arrives in my inbox or when I will be able to break a heart by a simple emoti-con.
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“That’s good. I mean, I think it’s better than Fabo-lous. I’d definitely rather see him.”
Cory Allen, Lexington senior
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“I’ll have to stop by and see what he’s talking about being that he is from a pretty
popular family.”
DeOndra’ Callahan, Lansing freshman
“For all the people who looked up to John F. Kennedy,
having his nephew come is great. he is a role model for
them.”
Devon Petersen, Greenville freshman
“That’s pretty cool, especially for CMU students interest-ed in politics. he’s a pretty big deal. he is a Kennedy.”
Vyctoria Sanborn Warren freshman
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David Veselenak, Managing Editor
Matthew Stephens, Presentation EditorEric Dresden, Student Life Editor
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Here are some comments posted on
cm-life.com on the proposed bill to allow
concealed weapons on campus:
MtP says:
August 24, 2009 at 10:30 am
Allowing weapons on campus, by other than campus police who are trained and psychologically screened to protect us, is com-pletely opposite of what a university stands for. You don’t want to attend a university where students go around equipped to kill each other.
James says:
August 24, 2009 at 7:04 am
I support this 100 percent. This will save lives, if the unexpected should occur. Conceal carry is a strong deterrent for any criminal
intent.
chris jonsson says:
August 24, 2009 at 4:54 pm
It is frightening enough to see Michigan legislators try to enact this law, but seeing university students agreeing with this is not just unset-tling, but rather sad. I was consider-ing applying to CMU for grad school, until I began to read about the central Michigan cultural mindset. I’ll be in New England instead.
WL Merrill says:
August 24, 2009 at 12:40 pm
If this passes, I feel sorry for our police officers. Imagine rushing into a gun situation on campus where multiple individuals are armed and shooting with only one being the
“bad guy!” An untenable situa-tion for the police. I can foresee innocent people being wounded or killed by either the police or, more likely, by the individuals with CWP’s.
BR says:
August 24, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Don’t universities exist to search for facts and truth? The truth is, one out of every 35 Michigan citizens has a concealed weapons permit. This country was founded to be a nation of armed citizens, and CPL holders are armed every day in traffic, librar-ies and supermarkets. The fact that you don’t realize it is proof of the lack of problems they’ve caused. In the six years I’ve had my CPL I’ve used it to stop one robbery, no shots fired.
Taylor HillsColumnist
Readers speak out on proposed weapon bill
Chris SchanzColumnist
Changing curriculumfrustrating
Not only are the changes the journal-ism field goes through on a seemingly daily basis affecting those currently working in the field, they are also affect-ing those who are in school to be jour-nalists. Myself included.
When I decided to become a journal-ist, I envisioned myself working for a newspaper somewhere.
On the verge of graduating, there’s no saying where I will end up working or what medium I will be working for. To add to this confusion, there is no guar-antee if I will even be prepared for the way the field is changing.
I have to decide which classes to take in order to ensure I know the ropes once that degree with my name on it is physi-cally tangible. However, I am at risk of having too many journalism credits.
Too many journalism credits? How can I be punished for attempting to learn anything and everything I can about my chosen field?
Shoot me for wanting to become a convergent journalist; that is being able to take photos, capture video and make Soundslides presentations, in addition to reporting and writing. As a conver-gent journalist, I will be more of an asset to a potential employer.
My first step is to take JRN 340, Intro to Online Journalism, but registration is-sues are delaying that. JRN 102, Intro to Journalism, is a prerequisite for JRN 340 but, since I am a transfer student, I have JRN 101 credit and not 102. I signed up to take JRN 102, but was told I should not take it if I have JRN 101 credit.
After a few days of wondering how I can get into JRN 340 and talking with some people, everything will be okay. But only three days in, I will already be a week behind.
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videoCheck the Web site for a video
on the new Mount Pleasant spray park that opened Tuesday
at Island Park.
blogCheck the Web site for a blog entry on students climbing trees on their first day of classes in
“Campus Encounters.”
By sarah schuchUniversity Editor
Art students will notice something different about one of the darkrooms in Wightman Hall this fall.
It will not be there.One of the two main dark-
rooms is turning into a com-puter lab to accommodate for the photography curriculum’s shift to digital photography.
“It’s going to be a change that we need to make to meet new technology,” said Larry Burditt, interim chairman for the art department.
The new curriculum will fo-cus on what photography ma-jors need to strengthen their skills and increase their job prospects.
The switch from film to digi-tal in introductory photogra-phy courses will help students not majoring in art, said Missa Coffman, professor of photog-raphy.
“It will be much more use-ful than taking one class and it only being in film,” she said.
But darkroom use is not be-
ing completely taken out of the curriculum. Things are just be-ing restructured, Coffman said.
Film and developing in the dark room will be introduced in the 300-level photo classes instead of the first two using strictly film.
“There are a lot of miscon-ceptions that the darkroom is gone. It’s just moved to different courses. These are great chang-es,” Coffman said.
Lake Orion senior Jan Kruszewski thinks the option for more digital photography will open a lot of opportunities for students to learn different skills but, as a photography major, he is upset to see so
much of the darkroom leav-ing.
“I think there’s really some-thing to value on learning with analog (cameras) in black and white,” he said.
While digital photography students might not appreciate all the work, Kruszewski does believe going digital is a needed step these days.
“I do think it’s necessary, be-cause there’s such a demand for it,” he said. “It’s opened a lot of doors for a lot of students.”
Burditt said this transforma-tion also has a practical use. Students were having trouble finding photo equipment for the film classes.
“Now (analog cameras) are becoming antiques,” he said. “The older cameras are becom-ing expensive.”
The project was completed Tuesday, but classes were held in the new lab Monday. In the years to come, the second dark room may also be transformed, but a small darkroom will be added to Wightman Hall Room 153.
Photo students move out of darkroom, into digital lab
paige CaLaMari/sTAff PhoTogrAPhErThe former dark room was transformed into a new computer lab as 21 new Apple desktops were installed on Sunday in Wightman Hall.
Wightman info
Computer labs:w Rooms 135, 149, 159Darkrooms:w Rooms 158, 153Lighting studio:w Room 157Lab hours are not yet known for the computer labs.
By seth NieteringStaff Reporter
Many colleges began to develop alert systems to contact students in case of emergencies in light of the school shootings at Virginia Polytechnic University and Northern Illinois University.
Central Michigan Uni-versity is no different. But despite frequent tests, its system has had very limited use for actual emergencies. In fact, it has only been used once.
In spring 2008, CMU de-veloped Central Alert, which has irritated some students.
Stockbridge freshman Ron Cosper is one who said there is an excessive number of tests.
“I think the Central Alert system is good,” Cosper said. “But there are too many tests. I’ll be home during the weekend and get a message at 9 in the morning. It’s an-noying getting alerts when I’m nowhere near Central.”
However, not all students think the frequent testing is bad. Troy sophomore Rich-ard Yoon said the frequent tests are beneficial.
“The testing is good,” he said. “It helps prepare peo-ple for when there is an ac-tual emergency.”
Regardless of frequent monthly testing, Director of Public Relations Steve Smith said there are rarely any is-sues.
“We really haven’t received a lot of complaints about the system,” Smith said.
If students feel the system is not beneficial, they can remove themselves from the alert list through the CMU Portal.
“Students can remove themselves from the list ba-sically by using the same steps that they used to sign up,” Smith said.
Students can log on to the
Portal, go to University Ser-vices and then to Emergen-cy Information, under the Health and Safety category.
Even with the annoyance of the monthly tests, Smith recommends everyone to sign up.
“It’s a very effective way to communicate,” Smith said. “I would encourage that every-one take a look and sign up.”
Students have option to remove their information
Central Alert system gets limited use, lots of testing
“The testing is good. It helps prepare people for when there is
an actual emergency.”Richard Yoon, Troy sophomore
By emily PfundStaff Reporter
Central Michigan University is welcoming two new deans for the 2009-10 school year.
Salma Ghanem, the Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts, started work at CMU on Aug. 3. Chris Ingersoll, the Dean of the College of Health Professions, began June 1.
Ghanem, a 15-year veteran in academia, comes from the Uni-versity of Texas Pan-American, where she was the chairwoman of the journalism department for eight years.
“I believe the job of the dean is twofold: internal and exter-nal,” Ghanem said. “The dean must handle issues in every department and unit of the college, as well as supporters, the community, alumni and so on.”
Ghanem said the dean’s job also includes getting to know and understanding the depart-ments in the college and serv-ing as the face of it in the com-munity.
She was interested in the po-sition because it was a “wonder-ful opportunity” and she had heard a lot about the CCFA.
Ghanem said she believes in first observing before changing anything in the college, but she aims to make the college “as strong as possible.”
Chris ingersollIngersoll comes to CMU
from the University of Virginia,
were he was adjunct profes-sor of sports medicine and had previously been the chairman of the Department of Sports Medicine.
Ingersoll applied for the job at CMU because the college has the “right combination of programs for great things” and has a “reputation for pro-ducing great graduates,” a process he would like to be a part of.
Ingersoll is looking to build on excellence at CMU through a collaborative discussion with students and staff where op-portunities arise.
“The people are committed to a student-centered univer-sity,” he said.
And that leads to a very healthy environment, Ingersoll said.
Although Ghanem and In-gersoll said they were con-cerned about the state budget, Ingersoll said that is something
to worry about in the future.
‘The righT ChoiCe’Tom Masterson, the asso-
ciate dean of the College of Health Professions, was the interim dean at the college for two years before Ingersoll was hired.
“It was a good experience,” Masterson said about his time as the interim dean.
He added that “they made the right choice” in hiring Ingersoll for the permanent position.
Masterson said the dean is the leader of an academic unit and handles the budget, cur-riculum and program devel-opment for the college, keep-ing all of the departments working together smoothly and being the “face of the col-lege.”
“It’s like running a business,” Masterson said.
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Deans Ghanem, Ingersoll lookto build internally, externally
Fresh leaders welcomed in two colleges
photos by neiL bLake/sEnIor PhoTogrAPhErSalma Ghanem is the new dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts.
Chris Ingersoll joined the CMU staff in June as Dean of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions.
By sarah schuchUniversity Editor
Roger Coles is entering his third year in his interim posi-tion as dean of the College of Graduate Studies.
By the looks of it, he may be there for a while longer.
With many interim posi-tions springing up all over Central Michigan Univer-sity, Coles’ position will not be one to fill permanently this fall, said Interim Provost Gary Shapiro.
“I prioritize which ones need to be filled more imme-diately than others,” he said. “There’s a lot of movement in higher education. Roger Coles is doing a great job, and I have no doubt he will move the college forward.”
As far as Shapiro knows, no searches have been done for Coles’ position.
Coles jokes about himself being considered a senior
interim. He said people con-stantly ask, “When are you going to get rid of the title?”
But Coles is not too wor-ried about him still wearing the interim title.
“It’s still an interim posi-tion, but there’s no bones about it,” he said. “You can either tread water or move ahead. I know in this office, we have moved ahead.”
Coles has been with the university for 38 years, be-ing department chairman of Recreation, Parks and Recre-ation before.
When and if a national
search is done for dean of Graduate Studies, Coles will not hesitate to apply for the job.
“I will throw my name in the hat,” he said. “ I loved it.”
Shapiro said Coles would definitely be considered when that search comes up in the undetermined future.
This fall, searches will be done for a founding dean for the medical school, dean for the College of Education and Human Services and dean of the College of Business Ad-ministration.
In a May 27 article in Cen-tral Michigan Life, Associate Vice President of Human Re-sources Maxine Kent said the lack of a permanent universi-ty president can affect the re-cruitment of deans, because people interested in the posi-tion want to know who their boss is.
There is a limit to the num-ber of academic searches that can be done, Shapiro said, so those were the top priorities currently. The university is in a transitional period, he said.
Coles probably won’t get replaced any time soon
Some searches under way this fall; others on hold
Positions currently filled by interims
w Roger ColesCollege of Graduate Studiesw Pam GatesCollege of Humanities and So-cial and Behavioral Sciencesw Kathy KochCollege of Education and Human Services w Daniel VetterCollege of Business Adminstration
By sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
Sean Novak is a firm be-liever that people in this country really do care about each other.
Yet some may not always appear to care because of a lack of communication be-tween individuals.
This is where the Human Rights Committee comes in.
Novak, the assistant director of Minority Student Services, is the Central Michigan Univer-sity representative on the HRC, where students can address their concerns to him if they feel they have been treated un-
fairly or with discrimination.“I have been in the (Mount
Pleasant) community for 10 years now (and) I have en-countered many stories of un-derrepresented populations being treated inequitably,” Novak said. “I would say, from personal experience and ob-servations, that we definitely have a long way to go. Many people would like to learn how to interact better, but don’t know how or where to start.”
The HRC’s goals include edu-
cating people on issues that re-late to creating a more inclusive community in Isabella County.
The committee also serves as a mediator between the county and other local diver-sity outlets.
The HRC meets the first Monday of each month at the Isabella County Building, 200 N. Main Street. It reviews complaints and discrepancies that are submitted through a Diversity Coordinator and makes recommendations for the proper action to be taken to the Isabella County Board of Commissioners.
Human Rights Committee seeks a more inclusive community
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By Lonnie AllenStaff Reporter
A recent poll speculates Lt. Gov. John Cherry may not have his party’s nomination locked for Michigan’s 2010 gubernato-rial race.
Contrary to earlier specula-tion, Griffin Endowed Chair Maxine Berman said she does not believe Cherry sees this as an easy win.
“I think the last person tak-ing the Democratic primary for granted would be John Cherry,” she said.
The survey showed Cherry’s decline from higher ratings earlier in the year. The latest poll by Denno Noor Polling has Cherry with just 19 per-cent of the vote and Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, with the favor of 7 percent of the people polled in the 13th and 14th Districts in Wayne County.
State Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, D-Salem, is at 3 per-cent, along with former State Rep. John Freeman.
In March, the Market-ing Resource Group polled Cherry at 26 percent and Dillon at 3 percent in a state-wide poll.
According to the data pro-vided by both firms, Cherry is still ahead in the polls against fellow Democrats, though his numbers are lower than they were in the spring. But Cherry is behind possible Republican candidates.
Cherry is a likely succes-sor for Gov. Jennifer Gra-nholm, but has not officially thrown his hat into the race for the Democratic nomi-nation, said Chris DeWitt,
spokesman for the Cherry campaign.
The Cherry camp is not wor-ried with the poll numbers.
“My understanding is this recent poll was not statewide. It was a couple of congressio-nal districts in Detroit,” DeWitt said. “We still have a lot of work to be done but, once more people get to know John Cher-ry and his vision for Michigan, his support will grow.”
John Porter, vice chairman of the College Republicans, said polls could only speculate what peoples’ opinions are. U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Hol-land, one of the Republicans vying for his party’s nomina-tion in the governor’s race, has a lead over any Democratic candidate in the polls.
“When things go wrong, people blame the party in power,” the Coleman fresh-man said. “People are upset with Granholm and her poli-
cies, but I don’t put much faith in the polls.”
Berman, a supporter of Cherry, does not trust the polls either.
“My take on any poll in Au-gust is it’s totally useless of what will happen in August 2010,” Berman said. “Polling at this time for Republicans and Democrats is just a snapshot in time. I don’t think the field is set on either side.”
DeWitt agreed by saying it is indeed very early to assume who will be the next governor of Michigan.
According to the Michigan’s Department of State Web site, the deadline for candidates affiliated with a political party for the August primary is 4 p.m. May 11, 2010. Candidates without political party affilia-tion have a deadline of 4 p.m. July 15, 2010.
By Joe MartinezStaff Reporter
Central Michigan University is looking toward updating its teaching methods to the 22nd century and beyond as the first decade of this century comes to a close.
The charge for more cutting-edge means of instruction is led by the Faculty Center for Inno-vative Teaching.
FaCIT is the university’s re-source for faculty who wish to implement more digital teach-ing methods in their courses, such as posting lectures in pod-cast form to iTunes U.
“We are aware that students are definitely hip to iTunes U,” said Jim Therrell, director of FaCIT.
ITunes U quickly is becoming one of the more popular mul-timedia teaching methods at CMU, he said.
ITunes U is a free educational service provided by Apple that features more than 200,000 audio and video files and also provides universities with the option to keep the files available to only their students, according
to Apple.com.While FaCIT encourages fac-
ulty members to implement different methods of teaching in the classroom, they are not try-ing to eliminate the traditional classroom lecture, Therrell said.
“Some teachers are very gift-ed lecturers — we encourage faculty to look at their strong suits,” Therrell said. “The bot-tom line is ‘are the students re-ally engaged?’”
Student engagement is the overall goal for FaCIT, said Kelly Preece, a multimedia developer with FaCIT.
“We’re focused on student engagement,” she said. “The goal is to find the most effective educational means with content that’s available. Whether that’s iTunes U, Blackboard, mobile learning, the whole spectrum is available.”
A posiTive responseTherrell estimates more than
700 faculty members have uti-lized FaCIT and he sees the next generation of CMU faculty ea-ger to embrace different teach-ing methods after working with new faculty members during
their orientation this past week.Larry Burditt, interim chair-
man for the art department, has been using iTunes U for two years and thinks it is greatly ben-eficial to all his students.
Burditt teaches graphic design classes and puts instructional videos on iTunes U for students to review after class.
The system of iTunes U is designed for multimedia items and for students to utilize it on their iPods, Burditt said.
“The students really like it,” he said. “You go over things in class and you watch someone do it, and they think they know how to do it, but six or seven hours later, (they might forget).
“I thought I would use it for the more technical classes, but I ended up using them for all my classes. I’ve got an overwhelm-ingly positive response.”
Students can download iTunes U through the iTunes Store.
-University Editor Sarah Schuch contributed to this report.
By Vanessa FayzStaff Reporter
The trend toward going green continues, including the study of new products to produce biofuel.
Michigan State University professor Christopher Benning thinks the rutabaga plant might be the answer.
He believes if his research team can find a way to turn stems, leaves and storage roots of rutabagas into green tissue, they can turn it into biofuel.
Corn, soy beans and other crops that have been common-ly used to produce biofuel have caused shortages in the crops and lessened the amount of biofuel produced because they are used for human and animal consumption, he said.
Since rutabagas are not often eaten in the United States, Ben-ning thinks they have an ad-vantage over common crops.
If his team succeeds in pro-
ducing biofuel, they want to grow rutabagas in larger quantities.
“We have been growing the plant in the greenhouse at Michigan State University and we want to try it out in the fields after that,” Benning said.
Central Michigan University assistant professor of biology Steven Gorsich thinks the proj-ect is viable, especially because it is not a common part of hu-man consumption.
“Anything that doesn’t com-pete with food consumption has a huge advantage … Right now, just using corn starch competes with livestock use and human consumption,” Gorsich said.
Even using a part of the corn plant that is not used in human or livestock consumption could be beneficial, he said.
“This project is a process, and they still have to develop the process of using it and making sure it is efficient, but it could definitely work,” Gorsich said.
Croswell sophomore and bi-ology major Maegan Stewart also believes Benning’s project could be very beneficial.
“I think it’s really cool that they are thinking so far ahead and so in depth about things. I think it’s great that he is focus-ing on what will not create a shortage and what will be effi-cient,” Hall said.
Five years ago, researchers discovered the rutabaga gene Benning has been using for his research the last two years.
MSU students have had the chance to become involved with Benning’s project. His team includes two researchers, two technicians, two under-graduate students and interns.
“I take as many undergradu-ate students as I can, I usu-ally pack them in because it is something they love to do and it is a good, hands on experi-ence,” Benning said.
Cherry’s campaign isn’t worried about survey numbersBerman: Lieutenant governor should not take primary win for granted
FaCIT encouraging professors to use digital teaching methods
MSU professor researching rutabagas as possible biofuel
“We still have a lot of work to be done but, once more people get to know
John Cherry and his vision for Michigan, his support will grow.”
chris DeWitt, Cherry campaign spokesman
By sherri KeatonSenior Reporter
Last year, the Academic Senate approved intergroup dialogue groups for under-graduate students.
This semester, the founda-tion course in intergroup dia-logue is in the developmental stages to become a permanent class next fall.
At three credit hours, the class will be an hour-long course starting in 2010, aimed at increasing students’ cultur-al empathy skills when they interact with others who are of different cultural identities, according to the March 2008 Academic Senate Executive Board Meeting Minutes.
Registrar Karen Hutslar is
supportive of the initiative because it was a successful program at the University of Michigan, she said.
“The main purpose is to challenge students to interact with others who are different from them and to take that knowledge and understand-ing outside of the classroom. I feel these skills are essential in today’s global society,” she said.
This plan was created to ensure inclusion among stu-dents, and encouraging de-velopment of study programs and courses that enhance students’ learning about un-derrepresented groups and global issues.
The Intergroup Dialogue course would possibly replace
SOC 101/ANT 101: Social Jus-tice in a Global Society.
Mary Senter, professor of sociology, said the intergroup dialogue program exists at many U.S. universities and is an excellent program.
“Students here at CMU should look forward to the opportunity of being a part of these dialogues. We should all be very pleased that this op-portunity will be available at CMU,” she said.
Intergroup dialogue course in the worksD i v e r s i t y C l a s s
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sports11AWednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
Central Michigan Life
Melinda Curran is doing something very few college athletes get to do.
While she is listed as a senior on the field hockey team’s roster, Cur-
ran needed just three years to obtain her four-year degree in psychology last May.
Despite graduating in May, she will return to play for the Chippewas for her fourth and final year of eligibility.
“I really just wanted to finish what I started,” said Curran, the team’s goalkeeper. “My class is still here and the people I came in with are still here, and I want to finish and take advantage of it.”
Curran recorded seven of CMU’s eight wins last season, and coach Cristy Freese said she knows having her starting goalkeeper for one more year will play a vital role to the season’s outcome.
AShlEy MillEr/photo editorMelinda Curran is returning for her senior season despite graduating in May. She plans on attending graduate school after this year.
By Jacob Lougheed | Staff Reporter
“It is huge for us. It is like Butch (Jones) having Dan (LeFevour).”
Head Coach Cristy Freese
“It is huge for us. It is like Butch (Jones) having Dan (LeFevour),” Freese said. “Goalkeepers are a very important position for a team. There is the leadership fac-tor with her; she has seen a lot of the situations, and that experience will allow her to direct her defense with a lot of confidence.”
Curran, along with Kahla Schwall, make up the senior duo at goalkeeper for the Chippewas again this year. Both players are small by the traditional stan-dards of the goaltender position, but Curran learned some ways to make up for her lack of size.
“One thing Mel does is she comes out a little further and makes herself bigger,” Freese said. “I watched a lot of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and they talked about why Chris Osgood was so good, and that was because he was al-ways coming out and not being caught back in the cage. If you’re small, you can’t be caught any deeper in the cage because you are just making yourself smaller.”
Off the fieldCurran has been a National
Field Hockey Coaches Associa-tion’s All-Academic team selec-
tion each of her three seasons. Her play on the field earned her all-tournament honors in the Mid-American Conference last season en route to a semifinals birth last year for CMU.
After the season, Curran said she wants to go to graduate school and plans to use the time from this season to find the best fit for her.
“I respect her for coming back because I know she could have left and gone to grad school somewhere else,” senior Kim
Erasmus said. “It is very im-portant to be getting her back. I have all the confidence in the world in Mel and I think having her back is the most key factor for our team this season.”
Curran went 7-7 last season with a 2.08 goals against aver-age.
The field hockey team starts its season Sept. 4 against Colgate in Hamilton, N.Y.
The GraduateCurran Profile
Melinda Curran
Class:Senior
Position:Goalkeeper
Year Record2006 0-02007 0-12008 7-7
Degree:Bachelor’sinPsychologyandStatisticswithaminorinmathematics.
Non-conference opportunities
CMU plays three major programs for a chance to shine
Andrew StoverSportsEditor
America is just eight days away from the start of col-
lege football.Central Michigan has 10
days until it plays at Wildcat Stadium against Arizona, the first of four non-conference games. Besides Alcorn State, the other three teams — Ari-zona, Michigan State and Bos-ton College — all come from conferences that automati-cally send its champion to a Bowl Championship Series bowl game.
This is a prime opportunity for CMU. The Chippewas came close to upsetting simi-lar teams in the past. In 2006, Boston College snuck out of Kelly/Shorts Stadium with a seven-point win. Purdue barely beat CMU 51-48 in 2007’s Motor City Bowl and won 32-25 in an early 2008 non-conference game. The combined deficit for the games was just 10 points.
The Chippewas lost by large deficits to other big programs. Georgia, the No. 1 team in the nation at one point last sea-son, beat CMU 56-17. In 2007, Kansas, which peaked at No. 2
in the nation, beat CMU 52-7, and Clemson put up 70 points to CMU’s 14.
But this year could be dif-ferent. All three teams are either marquee programs or in the process of changing to one, a much different case than Indiana, which CMU beat 37-34 last year.
Indiana is a Big Ten team, but that hardly makes the Hoosiers a big-time op-ponent. IU has gone 27-56 (11-45 Big Ten) since 2002 with just one winning season (2007). Its 2007 bowl game loss to Oklahoma State marked the first time IU made a bowl game since 1993. Its last Rose Bowl bid, traditionally given to the Big Ten Champion, was gained in 1968.
The last time the Hoosiers went .500 in the conference was in 2001, when now-NFL WR Antwaan Randle El led the team at quarterback. When you add the fact IU followed its impressive 2007 season with a 3-9 2008 season that saw it also lose to Ball State 42-20, sud-denly CMU’s three-point win does not seem as impressive.
NOt-sO iNdiaNaBoston College, despite
being picked to finish last in the Atlantic Coast Conference by the media this year, has won the Atlantic Division in
Indoor Athletic Complexto install new FieldTurf
A non-ConferenCe | 12a
VictoriA ZEglEr/Staff photographerThe Turf Bay, located inside the Indoor Ahtletic Complex, will be fully funtional by Oct. 1.
file photo
Senior goaltender Melinda Curran is 7-8 in her career at CMU.
By Andrew StoverSports Editor
CMU sports teams will get an upgrade to their experience in the near future at the Indoor Athletic Complex.
With an Oct. 1 target date, the old turf will be replaced with the same turf used on the Kelly/Shorts Stadium field — by FieldTurf.
“It’s the newest generation of artificial surface that’s a very for-giving, more grass-like surface,” said Athletics Director Dave Heeke.
The project will cost between $400,000 and $500,000.
The old turf, mistakenly called Astroturf, a brand name, causes more abrasions and wear and tear on joints.
“For training and the con-stant pounding on bodies and ankles, knees, legs, this surface is much superior to our old sur-face,” Heeke said.
Every CMU team has access to the practice field for train-ing needs. Club sports teams have access to the field after the other teams are finished.
Heeke said it was time to re-place the old turf, installed in 1999 when the Indoor Athletic Complex was built.
MOre thaN fOOtballThe teams Heeke said
would benefit the most are the “weather-sensitive” teams such as baseball and softball, which start their seasons in cold weather.
B a s e b a l l coach Steve Jaksa said he will not change how often the team uses the facility, but how it uses it.
“We’ll still spend the same amount of time in there,” he said. “The difference is the field turf will play better for baseball.”
Commonly, the harder turf elevates the speed of ground balls through the infield and creates bounces more difficult to handle when compared to natural grass or the new turf.
Soccer coach Tom Anagnost said the health of his players will benefit.
“For our program, it’s going to benefit us big time in the injury prevention,” he said. “It’s less impactful on their bodies.”
Anagnost said he was grateful for the facility already.
“We’re lucky to have what we had,” he said. “Many schools don’t have that.”
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Henley brings hurdles experience
petersmeyer leaves CMU, takes similar position at Boise state
New assistant coach competed in Olympics,excelled as athlete at Middle Tennessee State
By John EvansStaff Reporter
Gaining respect from her athletes is something that will not be hard for Dionne Henley, given her resume.
Competing in the 100-meter hurdles for Jamai-ca twice in the Olympics is not something every athlete can say their track coach ac-complished.
A Hall of Fame in-ductee at Middle Ten-nessee State Un i v e r s i t y, the new as-sistant track and field and cross coun-try coach has
competed in the 1992 and 1996 Olympics for Jamaica and coached at Texas, Ten-nessee State and MTSU. She was a national champion in the 60-meter hurdles at Mid-dle Tennessee State, where she earned All-America honors twice and broke six school records.
Recently hired as sprints and hurdles coach, Henley was brought in by track and cross country director Willie Randolph to ease the transi-tion to a new model for the two sports.
“The transition has been
relatively easy and it is excit-ing,” Henley said. “The staff around here is also making it easier for me with finding my way around campus and stuff like that.”
Randolph and Henley have a background together, and Randolph said that was something that made it easy to hire Henley.
While coaching at the Uni-versity of New Orleans, Ran-dolph said he would run into Henley during meets while she coached at Tennessee State University. He said they would talk during and after meets, mostly about track, and they stayed in touch for more than six years.
“Being peers in the same area, with the same associa-tion of quality coaches and quality people, she was one of the first female coaches that I thought about bring-ing on my staff,” Randolph said. “I expect nothing but good from all of my coaches, I expect the best.”
feMale perspectiveRandolph said with track
and cross country being a male-dominated sport, Hen-ley can have a positive effect on all the athletes, especially the women.
“I expect Coach Henley to be a very strong role model for the female athletes,” Ran-
dolph said, “not just on the elite level, but how you carry yourself as a classy person, how you separate yourself from just being there and be-ing recognized.”
Henley started her coach-ing career while volunteer-ing at the University of Texas. She then spent two years coaching at her alma mater, MTSU, winning three con-ference championships and training four all-Americans as an assistant coach.
In 2007, Henley became an assistant coach at Tennessee State University where she coached hurdles, long jump, triple jump and high jump. In her first year at TSU, Hen-ley helped the team to an In-door Championship in 2008.
Randolph said her experi-ence as a coach and an ath-lete should mesh with CMU.
“Once you find a quality coach and a quality person that is really in it for the same reason your in it, you have to give them every opportu-nity to blossom,” Randolph said. “I want her to blossom; once she starts spreading her wings a little more, the ath-letes can look past just being a part of something.”
Henley will join a new coaching staff that has yet to be finalized.
the ACC the last two years before losing in the Cham-pionship game.
MSU, a perennial choke artist of a team down the stretch, may have finally found a coach competent enough to shove them into the upper echelon of the Big Ten.
And Arizona, under Mike Stoops — brother of Okla-homa coach Bob Stoops — made it back to a bowl game last year and had a defense that ranked fifth in the PAC 10 in total defense.
However, all three teams are beatable. Arizona and MSU have intense quarter-back competitions going on, and BC has a former minor league pitcher coming back to school to start at the
quarterback position. All three teams are in transition at the most important posi-tion on the field.
If CMU can manage to win one of the three games, the national respect it has gained in the past few years will significantly increase. And if it can somehow win two of those games, a Top 25 ranking would be in reach.
Last year, Ball State reached as high as No. 12 in the nation. That is a slap in the face to the Chippewas.
Clearly the Mid-American Conference’s overall best team since 2006, CMU will have a chance to prove that.
The 2009 season is a statement year.
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By John EvansStaff Reporter
After initially agreeing to join the track and field and cross country staff, Jeff Pe-tersmeyer will not be com-ing to CMU after all.
Petersmeyer spent the past three years as a track coach at Texas Christian University, where he spe-cialized in the horizontal jumps and multi-events. He was expected to be a part of the Chippewas coaching staff before unexpectedly taking a job elsewhere to work with a mentor of his.
“Jeff Petersmeyer will no longer be with the team be-cause he has been recruited by Boise State University,” said director of track and field and cross country Wil-lie Randolph. “J.W. Hardy is a mentor of his and the head coach, so he won’t be with us, and I am upset about it.”
Athletics Director Dave Heeke said Petersmeyer was already under contract, but
was given permission to leave.
“It was a very unique s i t u a t i o n that doesn’t n o r m a l l y occur,” he said, “but (it was) an opportunity that was right for Jeff.”
Heeke said most contrac-tual terms are non-binding, and they follow faculty-union specifications.
“There are clauses in our faculty contracts that pre-vent them from breaking the contract,” he said.
Football coach Butch Jones, men’s basketball coach Ernie Zeigler and women’s basketball coach Sue Guevara are the only coaches in the athletics department who are non-union coaches.
iNtrOduced at bsuAfter just two days into
his tenure as the head coach
of the Boise State track and field team, J.W. Hardy add-ed Petersmeyer to coach and look over the horizon-tal and vertical jumps.
Petersmeyer brings an accomplished resume to Boise State, coaching 11 Mountain West Conference champions in his time at TCU, along with three cur-rent school record holders.
“I am excited to get a coach of Jeff ’s caliber at this time,” Hardy said in a statement. “He has an im-pressive background and I believe he’ll be an amaz-ing asset to our staff and team.”
Petersmeyer and Hardy worked together when Pe-tersmeyer coached at North-ern Arizona University. He was an assistant track and cross country coach at NAU from 1999-2002. Petersmey-er helped the team win sev-en Big Sky Championships in cross country and track.
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By Brad CanzeSenior Reporter
Nineteen-year-old Inter-net sensation Bo Burnham is performing Friday in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Au-ditorium, and the event’s sponsors could not be more optimistic.
“Oh my gosh, yes, I’m expecting a great turn-out,” said New Boston junior Maria Leone, com-edy chair-woman for On The Fly P r o d u c -tions.
On The Fly is presenting the music-based comedian in conjunction with the Central Michigan Univer-sity Program Board.
“We said, ‘We’d better get him now, before he’s too famous to come here,’” Leone said.
The concert begins at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are free to students and faculty with a CMU identification card, and $5 for the general public, and are available at the CMU Box Office in the Bovee University Center.
Burnham first gained fame in early 2007 on You-Tube.com, posting videos of off-color, politically-incorrect comedic songs he wrote himself. He re-corded a “Comedy Central Presents” half-hour special earlier this year, and ap-peared in Judd Apatow’s film “Funny People” and the upcoming “American Virgin.”
Burnham’s YouTube vid-eos garnered him a large following among college students.
“Over the course of last year, we had a lot of stu-dents come forward and say that he was funny ... so we looked into it and sure enough he fit into our bud-get,” said Muskegon junior and Program Board presi-dent Dave Breed. “I could definitely see us selling out Plachta Auditorium for it.”
Leone said the Facebook.com event page for the con-cert already has 628 people confirmed attending.
“People are really excit-ed, word is spreading pretty fast ... so we’re expect-ing Plachta to fill up,” said Pinconning junior Crysta Heckman, comedy chair-woman for Program Board.
Breed said before the buzz began building for Burnham, he was unfamil-iar with the comedian, but
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By Connor SheridanStaff Reporter
CMU students have a chance to speak next month with Trey Parker, co-creator of the hit show “South Park” and renowned popular cul-ture satirist.
E n g l i s h p r o f e s s o r Jeffrey Wein-stock will host an “in-formal con-v e r s a t i o n” with Parker at 7 p.m. Sept. 21 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
Admission is free and open to students and the public.
Weinstock is asking for questions to be posed to Parker in advance of the event. Inquirers are encouraged to send po-tential questions to [email protected], an e-mail account cre-ated by Weinstock for this purpose.
Students also are encour-aged to ask Parker questions on the spot near the end of the event.
“It’s really informal … There will be an opportuni-ty for Q-and-A with the au-dience directly,” Weinstock said.
This opportunity was presented to Weinstock be-cause of a serendipitous connection in the commu-nications department, he said. Journalism professor emeritus Elliot Parker is a relative of Trey Parker.
“(Elliot Parker) just
flowed the idea past me and I thought it would be great,” Weinstock said.
The event has been in planning since last spring, but gained momentum over the summer when Trey Parker indicated he would be interested in participat-ing.
“It’s an excellent opportu-nity for the CMU campus to go see somebody who’s in-fluencing popular culture,” Weinstock said.
A free showWeinstock said Parker’s
trip to Central Michigan University is unlike most ce-lebrity visits that happen.
“Unlike other celebrities, like comedians, he’s not getting paid anything,” he said.
Instead, Parker is com-ing purely out of interest in discussing his show and meeting some of his fans. He even covered his airline ticket for the flight here.
Weinstock is the author of “Taking South Park Seri-ously” and a regular viewer of the Comedy Central pro-gram.
“My favorite aspect is the topicalness of its humor — its ability to respond quickly to current events,” Wein-stock said.
“South Park’s” immediate response to many events in the news is apparently no coincidence.
“They can put together an episode in a week,” Wein-stock said.
One “South Park” fan is already looking forward to the chance to see a creator of one of his favorite pro-grams.
“I like the multitude of ways (South Park) can make fun of simple things.” said Waterford senior Josh Hunt.
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Following their Journey
Incoming freshmen have a huge number of potential worries at the start of their first college semester.
Will they be prepared for their classes? Will they get along with their roommates? How will living go without the constant support of parents, siblings and old friends?
Freshmen Kaylee Boos and Amanda Green of Shel-by, Carla Raymond of Coldwater and Shelby Miller of Union City are largely optimistic on all counts.
“I’m not really nervous,” said Green, a May graduate of Shelby High School along with Boos. “Just meeting new people is what I’m looking forward to. And not failing any classes would be nice.”
Green and Boos are rooming with Raymond and Miller, who graduated to-gether from Union City High School, in Wheeler Hall.
“Amanda and I were kind of good friends ... and we really didn’t know what to expect picking roommates, so we de-cided to live together,” said Boos, who is planning to study political science.
The two pairs of girls found each other on the Internet and became acquainted over the summer.
“We met up over the CMU Web site and then Facebook, and Carla and I
stayed with them for a few days in their hometown, so we’re pretty much al-ready friends,” said Miller, a member of the marching band’s color guard and a prospective graphic design major.
Living togetherLiving in Wheeler provides the girls
with the specific challenge of sharing one bedroom between the four of them. So far, though, they are all optimistic about the living arrangement.
“I thought we’d be way more cramped than what we are,” Boos said.
The girls did mention closet space is at a premium, and Raymond especially brought a large amount of clothing.
Miller and Green both moved in to the room early: Green to attend Leader-ship Safari and Miller to
jake may/staff photographerFour freshmen roommates enjoy some time together in Wheeler Hall as their first year of college begins.
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Kaylee Boosw hometown: Shelbyw Major: Political Science
Amanda Greenw hometown: Shelbyw Major: Psychology
Shelby Millerw hometown: Union Cityw Major: Graphic Design
jake may/staff photographerMount Pleasant senior Kris Miller slides down the trunk of a tree outside of Moore Hall after climbing as high as he could with his friends on the first day of classes Monday. “I like trees,” he said. “I climb anything I can touch. It just sounded like a fun idea, and we started inviting other people into the tree too.”
CM Life will document a year in the lives of four freshman roommates
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Cool on baking sheet, stir-ring occasionally. Set aside.
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safe bowl with milk and salt. Cook on high for 3-4 minutes, stopping to stir a few times to help the caramel melt. When smooth, fold in toasted coco-nut with a spatula.
Spread topping on cooled cookies, using about 2-3 tea-spoons per cookie.
While topping sets up, melt chocolate in a small bowl. Heat on high in the microwave in 45 second in-tervals, stirring thoroughly to prevent scorching. Dip the base of each cookie into the chocolate and place on a clean piece of parchment paper (I used silicone bak-ing mats instead). Transfer all remaining chocolate into a piping bag or a ziplock bag with the corner snipped off and drizzle finished cookies with chocolate.
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at 7 p.m. sept. 3 at the duFC is small service project, then a trip to doozies for free ice cream for potential pledges.
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at 9 p.m. Tuesday at the duFC is a family game night.
at 6 p.m. sept. 9 at the duFC is a Campus Road Rally.
at 7:30 p.m. sept. 10 at the duFC is Project linus.
While driving around town, I’ve noticed more people are using their high-beams at night. Why?
I know Mount Pleasant, to many students, is in the middle of nowhere, but that doesn’t mean you need the high-powered lights in town. It kills people’s eyes. Driv-ing down Bellows Street on Monday night, at least two cars drove past me with their high-beams blaring in my face. I thought to myself (as I covered my eyes), “Turn off your brights, you moron!”
It’s one thing if you’re driv-ing down Deerfield and Lin-coln Road if you have your brights on. But not Bellows and Mission.
quickly became enthusias-tic about bringing him to campus.
“At first I hadn’t heard of him... so I went on YouTube and looked up his videos, and I think he’s hilarious,” Breed said.
Opening for Burnham is comedian Moshe Kasher.
“He’s opened for Bo Burnham before... and we thought it would be a good idea,” Heckman said. “He’s caught the eye of quite a few people and even though he’s not a big name, he should be a good opener.”
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practice with the color guard.
Green said she enjoyed moving in to her room, be-cause her parents did all the heavy lifting.
“(Moving in was) wonder-ful,” Green said. “I didn’t have to do anything.”
Boos and Raymond moved in Thursday. Boos was ac-companied by her mother, stepmother and father, and Raymond was assisted by her mother.
“My mom’s kind of used to it,” said Raymond, who is planning a major in in-ternational business. “I was the last one to live at home, so I guess she was sad. She cried yesterday and today. I was sad, but I’m excited for a new chapter in my life, I guess.”
FAr FroM HoMEAlthough Raymond has
spent a large amount of time in Germany with extended family, most of the girls have yet to spend an extended amount of time away from home.
“I just got back from Ha-waii,” Boos said. “I was there for two-and-a-half weeks, and that’s the longest I’ve ever been away from home. I’m looking forward to hav-ing my independence, but I’ll miss my sisters, and knowing everyone (back home).”
Miller said she is looking forward to the freedom and new experiences.
“I’ve spent time away from my family, but never a whole year,” she said. “It’s not re-ally sad for me. It’s kind of exciting.”
The girls are optimis-tic about the beginning of year and classes, although not sure exactly what to ex-pect.
“I’m kind of nervous about finding my classes on time,” Boos said. “I don’t know how that’s going to go, ten min-utes to walk across cam-pus.”
Check cm-life.com through-out the semester for updates on the girls of Wheeler 102.
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By connor sheridanStaff Reporter
Is it already time to grab a new gadget for the Nintendo Wii?
Much like “Wii Fit,” and “Mario Kart Wii,” “Wii Sports Resort” is another game pack-aged with new hardware that’s designed to show off the capa-bilities of its debuting periph-eral.
But this new debut has enough meat to keep you sat-isfied until other games arrive to capitalize on the promising abilities “Motion Plus” offers for the system.
While “Wii Sports” was a fun introduction to the novel play styles heralded by Nintendo’s strange new console, its lack of breadth and depth eventu-ally proved it to be more of a technical demonstration than a full-scale game.
“Resort” presents a much wider and more exotic array
of activities that take full ad-vantage of the new sensitivity made possible by the “Motion Plus” add-on it comes with.
In particular, the swordplay, archery and table tennis games all capitalize on “Motion Plus’” higher fidelity motion tracking to great effect.
The impressively-tracked sword swipes, satisfying bow and arrow motions and effec-tive spin shots are all easily and naturally executed with the Wii remote.
However, the title is not universally inspired. Canoe-ing, wakeboarding and power cruising (jet skiing) are only worth one or two plays at most and are little improved with the addition of multiplayer, which requires additional “Motion Pluses” on top of the one in-cluded in the game box.
For as much as they strive
to integrate the new motion controls, there is very little of substance to these modes and they serve only to bolster the activity count.
Bowling is actually some-what improved from the “Wii Sports” version, though not enough to warrant an upgrade by itself.
The golf game, on the other hand, is almost identical to its earlier incarnation and was clearly included as an after-thought (added after Nintendo visionary Shigeru Miyamoto mistakenly mentioned “Re-sort” would have a golf mode).
What should ultimately in-form your purchase is what may have been on your mind when you bought the Wii it-self.
Do you want a fun, original experience that is always better with friends? Are you willing to overlook a few imperfections along the way?
If so, “Wii Sports Resort” will stand as an entertaining game that superbly demonstrates the potential of fully realized motion sensitivity.
By Ben WeissenbornStaff Reporter
On the follow-up to her beau-tiful, breezy debut, Swedish songstress and The Concretes ex-member Victoria Bergsman, a.k.a. Taken By Trees, crafts a unique and foreign atmo-sphere.
All the while she maintains the sense of charm and sim-plicity that made her debut such a treat.
Recorded indoors and out-doors in Pakistan, “East of Eden” is heavily influenced by the traditional music of South Asia. Bergsman even employs a handful of local Pakistani musicians to contribute, giving the record a rich and authen-tic sound. In fact, one track on the album, “Wapas Karna,” is performed entirely by locals without any contribution from Bergsman.
Bergman’s beautiful voice, which listeners may recognize
from Peter Bjorn and John’s infectious and damn-near-impossible-to-escape 2006 super-single, “Young Folks,” is light weight and ethereal, hov-ering just above a whisper at all times, but never failing to cut through the mix.
Produced by Dan Lissvik, member of remarkable Swed-ish space-disco duo Studio, “East of Eden” blends the South Asian influence seamlessly with a more modern beat-driven sound. No track displays this better than “Anna,” easily the strongest song on the album.
“Anna” begins with the sound of Pakistani children chanting and clapping, before a cyclical keyboard phrase finds its way into the mix. Traditional South Asian drums pitter and patter, while one of Dan Lissvik’s trade-mark beats bumps and claps. The chorus and bridge also fea-
ture an excellent guest appear-ance from Noah Lennox, bet-ter known for his solo work as Panda Bear and as a member of Animal Collective, whose angel-ic voice fits the track perfectly.
“East of Eden” also features a cover of Animal Collective’s 2009 indie hit, “My Girls,” though Bergsman cleverly changed the title to “My Boys”. The song is the album’s most whimsical track, never taking itself too seriously, but man-ages to stay faithful to not only the original, but also to the rest of the album’s sound.
One of the album’s most pleasant surprises is the lilting, just-barely-there closer, “Beka-nnelse,” which finds Bergsman singing in her native Swedish (the song’s title means “confes-sion”). The track floats, drones and hums, bringing to mind the haze of a pink Pakistani sunset. Haunting, peaceful and undeniably gorgeous, “Bekan-nelse” is the perfect closer to an excellent album.
“East of Eden” will be re-leased Sept. 8 on Rough Trade Records.
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By Ashley HullingerStaff Reporter
On Sept. 12, the Ziibiwing Center will host a free Mon-arch Butterfly release from 1 to 5 p.m.
Women wearing bright-colored shawls will show-case a performance of the Butterfly Dance.
The event is open to the public and includes door prizes.
At 6650 E. Broadway St., the Ziibiwing Center offers many opportunities to ev-ery age.
“The center is a distinc-tive treasure created to pro-vide an enriched, diversi-fied and culturally relevant educational experience and hopefully dispelling the many stereotypes people have of American Indians today,” said Yvette Pitawa-nakwat, Visitor Services co-ordinator.
The Ziibiwing Center, meaning, “by the river,” opened May 21, 2004, and is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mon-day through Saturday.
“Anishinabe people have
had many struggles in the past as well as the present to survive as a people while trying to hang on to our lan-guage and culture. The cen-ter is a place of healing for the Anishinabe people by making our story known to the world,” Pitawanakwat said.
The center provides a va-riety of facilities to accom-modate a wide array of in-terests, she said.
“There is a permanent ex-hibit titled ‘Diba Jimooyung’ with an award-winning the-ater on our creation story that takes you on the jour-ney of our ancestors from the past to the present,” she said.
In addition, there is a re-search center, meeting and conference facilities and gift shop with Wi-Fi media lounge.
“We are one of the larg-est suppliers of beads and craft supplies in the area with authentic hand made goods from Great Lakes Anishinabe,” Pitawanakwat said.
Other upcoming events include, the Language An-ishinabemowin Club, an Eagle Feather Honoring Oct. 22 and 23 with a feast on Oct. 23, Spirit Feast Nov. 6 and an artist in residence
workshop on beadwork Nov. 9-13.
Jason Stoken, a Mid-Mich-igan Community College senior, said having a center such as Ziibiwing is essential in a town surrounded by the Native American culture.
“It helps keep the past alive,” Stoken said.
Membership includes free admission to exhib-its for all North American Indian tribes. Discounted admission also is available for schoolchildren, military personnel, college students and educators.
Becoming a member helps support the center in a variety of ways, including the preservation of the ex-hibits, artifacts and collec-tions, ensuring the culture will be preserved for up-coming generations.
General Admission, a self-guided tour, is $6.50 for adults and $4.50 for stu-dents with a valid ID. Guid-ed group tours are available for parties of 10 or more and are $5.25 a person.
If interested, the cen-ter can be found on Face-book by searching Ziibi-wing Cultural Society or by visiting their Web site at sagchip.org/ziibiwing.
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A culturally good timeMonarch Butterfly Release kicks offyear for Ziibiwing
By Jake MaySenior Reporter
Moving into the resi-dence halls blind can make for many awkward situa-tions.
Students do not know anything about their suite-mates, let alone the person who will sleep just a few feet away from them for about eight months.
Some have bad habits: snoring, poor body odor, piling dirty laundry in the corner or under a bed a few days too long and maybe even singing in the shower.
“It takes awhile getting used to someone you don’t know anything about or have even come near talk-ing to on a regular basis,” said Eric Jurecic, a Norton Shores sophomore. “You see people in classes and around your hall, you may even eat with them, but it’s not always going to be a quick-hit friendship.”
That is why Jurecic took a safe route. He rooms with three other students who graduated with him in high school.
He said the reason they decided to room togeth-er was to keep the whole “awkward not knowing your roommate” phase clear from their college experience.
weird introductionsTroy junior Pat Camp-
bell had a choice be-tween two rooms when he signed up for where he would live on campus his freshman year. It was be-tween Thorpe Hall rooms 105 and 301.
Campbell decided on Thorpe 301. When he ar-
rived with his parents in August 2007, he was the last person to enter the room. Upon finding this out, he figured he would receive the smallest room and the top bunk. He did.
His roommate spread a majority of his stuff on Campbell’s bed, thinking the room would be his own. When Campbell introduced himself, his new roommate said hello, moved the items from the top bunk to the bottom bunk quickly, and sat back down in front of his computer, engaged on-line in World of Warcraft — something Campbell would have to get used to over the next year.
“He just kept playing his video game while I moved all of my stuff in. There was no, ‘Hello, my name is Col-lin,’ or anything like that,” Campbell said. “Through-out the semester, we were always clashing with each other. The worst part is, I could have lived in Thorpe 105, and I basically be-came best friends with all of them, and still am to this day.”
Campbell said it just added to what he learned his freshman year.
“I guess you have to live with your choices because you can’t take it back,” he said. “I know I couldn’t. Usually when you move in, you want to get to know each other, to find some common ground or un-
derstanding. I was put off by the first time we met, and it set the mood for the rest of the year, at least for me.”
‘in synch’But not every student is
thrown off by their room-mates. Some make friend-ships fast and find a lot of common ground.
Allegan freshman Bec-ca Baiers moved into her two-bedroom residence hall for Leadership Safari. When she arrived, two of her roommates were al-ready there, each had taken a room.
Baiers had to choose who to live with, but said it was basically a coin toss.
She got lucky.“It’s like I had to judge
them from their Facebook pages,” she said. “I ended up rooming with Kara Wall-decker, and I couldn’t be happier. She and I are so in synch. We are totally com-patible.”
She said they both have the same sense of humor, and are crazy, wild fun girls. The two are decorat-ing their room with purple and pink closet curtains and making paper chain links to surround the ceil-ing.
“It’s like we’re in elemen-tary school again,” she said, laughing. “She really is a great roommate.”
How to get through the first awkward ‘hello’Learn to deal with, get to know new roommates
jake May/stAff photogrApherThe Ziibiwing Center, at 6650 E. Broadway Rd., is a museum and cultural center built to share the history of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan. Its aim is to present a culturally diverse and educational experience of the tribe.
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By Amanda ObozaStaff Reporter
Classes have begun and one great way to escape reality and take some stress off is to see a good movie.
And this fall has plenty to offer.
One of the biggest movie openings this fall is “New Moon,” the second movie from the Twilight Saga.
The first movie, “Twilight,” grossed $70.5 million during its opening weekend, accord-ing to the Los Angeles Times, so “New Moon” has big expec-tations to meet.
Based on the book from Stephenie Meyer, “New Moon” continues where “Twilight” left off, following the fictional vampire Edward Cullen and Bella Swan’s rela-tionship.
The second installment of the saga is sure to have a big opening because it is already gaining hype despite not opening until November.
New Moon has some stu-dents excited, including Clin-ton Township senior Lindsay Job.
“I’m going to the midnight showing,” Job said.
Looking for a scare?Another movie coming out
this fall that students may be interested in is “The Final Destination.”
“The Final Destination” is the fourth “Final Destination” movie and stands out from the others because it is the first film to be set in 3-D.
The mere name recogni-tion the “Final Destination” franchise has also adds hype to the film opening because it is popular with many stu-dents.
“I saw the rest of them — I wanna see this one,” Mayville sophomore Samantha Merz
said.Another positive thing
about “The Final Destination” is it opens this weekend.
So, if the first week of classes do not kill you, you can go see a movie about possible ways to die.
Tim Burton also is coming out with another anticipated movie this fall, “9.”
The film is about the fate of humanity resting in the hands of a creation known as 9. The film opens Sept. 9.
“Twilight” highlights fall openings, “Final Destination” out this weekend
By Rachel MaterStaff Reporter
Ever wonder if you’re reveal-ing too much skin? Or wonder if what you’re wearing is eliciting the wrong response?
Here are some helpful tips to help combat these feelings.
w DON’T reveal everything at once. A revealing top should never be paired with extremely revealing shorts. Leave some imagination to the mind. “If you have a top with an open back, wear it with some jeans,” said Detroit senior Natalie Hicks.
w DO wear something you feel good in. Personal style shouldn’t be painful. “If you don’t feel comfortable in it, don’t wear it,” said Saginaw junior Cameron McDonald.
w DON’T wear your jeans too tight and too low that you give yourself a muffin top. You can still show off your curves by wearing jeans that fit and at the right placement on your hips.
w DON’T be scared to be a higher size. If that size of jeans or a shirt fits on you — wear them! No one knows but you what size you’re wearing. Even then, companies size their clothes differently, so don’t be ashamed if you wear a size 6
in one store and a size 9 in an-other.
w DON’T wear skin tight shirts. “Just because clothes are too tight doesn’t mean they’re cute,” said Canton Senior Jasmine Wil-son.
w DO try on clothes in the store that you think are only some-what cute. You never know — with your complexion and body, you could make that piece beautiful.
w DO accentuate a small waist with a skinny belt. Any belt (worn at the waist) paired with a loose top will help emphasize an hourglass body. Even if you don’t have one, that combination will create the illusion of one.
w DO look at your entire ensem-ble in natural lighting (the sun) before you leave. Sometimes, a dress or your make-up will look good inside but once you step out, your dress could become transparent and your make-up blotchy.
w DON’T be afraid to wear white after Labor Day. That rule has been tossed out of the window long ago.
w DO pair a vibrant printed piece with a neutral piece. DON’T wear a print head-to-
toe, i.e. a leopard print top with a leopard print skirt. You want to show off a sexy side, not look like an actual leopard. Avoid being too matchy, Hicks said.
w DO try to keep your accesso-ries simple and in balance with your outfit. DON’T overacces-sorize, Hicks said.
w DON’T wear Uggs in the sum-mertime, Wilson said. If you’re going for a comfortable look or just want to feel comfortable, throw on a pair of flip-flops.
w DO realize everything fits ev-eryone differently. Hicks said, “Just because it looks good on someone else doesn’t mean it good on you.”
“Even though leggings are in, they’re not for everybody,” Wil-son said.
cLassic Piece of the week
Fall Coats
Pea coats, trench coats, single and double breasted coats are a great for fall. They come in many colors and sizes. Pea coats gen-erally look best with jeans while the longer coats look classy and stylish with a dress or skirt.
They are a great way to be dressy yet casual and easy to dress up with some heels.
Dos and Don’ts of Fashion
Courtesy photo“New Moon” will be out in theatres November 20th. It is expected to be the highest grossing movie of the season.
By Jeffry BartashMCT News Service
WASHINGTON — Sony Corp. on Tuesday said the first wireless version of its electron-ic book reader will go on sale before Christmas, a move that will help the Japanese giant better compete with market leader Amazon and its popular Kindle.
The newest Sony e-reader with wireless connectivity is called the Reader Daily Edi-tion. Set to go on sale in early December, Sony said the de-vice is expected to cost about $399. The Kindle 2 costs $299 after a recent price cut. (Other versions of the Sony e-reader, which lack wireless access, cost as little as $199.)
Although the original Sony e-readers were generally well received, the device lacked the wireless access built into the Kindle. Amazon uses the net-
work of Sprint Nextel Corp. to allow customers to buy books, magazines or newspapers on the fly. Downloads take less than a minute and there’s no need to connect the Kindle to a computer.
While the market for e-books is still quite small, it’s growing rapidly. Amazon has never re-leased sales figures, but analysts calculate the online mega-re-tailer has sold well over 1 mil-lion Kindles since the device was introduced in late 2007. The company has also sold tens of millions of e-books.
Sony will use the network of AT&T Inc., which has pushed to expand the market for wireless devices. Earlier this summer, AT&T said it would provide wireless access for a touch-screen e-reader being devel-oped by Plastic Logic, a Silicon Valley firm.
Plastic Logic, whose device is expected to go on sale in early
2010, recently signed a deal to be the exclusive e-book distrib-utor for Barnes & Noble.
AT&T and Sony did not re-lease financial terms, but AT&T would likely get a cut of revenue based on the sale of each elec-tronic publication. The deal with Sony reflects a concerted effort on AT&T’s part to gener-ate new markets for its wireless business as growth in the mo-bile-voice market slows.
Like Amazon, Sony does not plan to charge customers a re-curring fee for wireless access. The feature is included in the price of the device.
The wireless Sony e-reader has a touch screen and is 7 inches wide. It can be read vertically or horizontally and can store up to 1,000 books, with memory slots for future expansion. Customers can also download Word, PDF and other documents directly to the device.
Electronic book reader to hit stores by Christmas
