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A mission from god

Matt Schantz and his wife of 16 years, Beth, watch the His House Worship Team perform at a gathering Thursday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Au-ditorium.

walk with faithLongtime His House pastor departs fellowship

“I’ve always wanted an op-portunity to influence not only the church,” he said, “but the marketplace as well with faith and spirituality.”

Schantz will continue to follow God’s lessons in the workplace with his new po-sition as the director of or-ganization and development at the National Nail Corpora-tion. With his wife and kids, he’ll move over Labor Day

weekend to Grand Rapids.At his new position, the

campus minister will hire, train and mold the business into one centered around values such as integrity and honesty. He said he’ll work to “bring faith into business.”

Replacing Schantz at His House’s Mount Pleasant lo-cation will be campus min-ister of His House Lake Su-perior State University Scott

Crary. The minister has been a

part of His House for five years. He called Schantz a “great friend,” having served with him on statewide staff for eight years.

“At first, I was shocked and overwhelmed,” Crary said of Schantz’s departure. “How-ever, after taking some time

By Gabi Jaye | Staff Reporter

It’s not easy to pull up roots after two decades, but

Matt Schantz will go where he feels he’s needed most.

Sunday marked the last time Schantz served as the Campus Minister of His House. The Central Michigan University alumnus contributed to the religious group for almost 20 years.

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State politics has been abuzz since Re-publican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder’s recent tap for a running mate.

On Wednesday, the Ann Arbor busi-nessman brought his choice to light and the man behind the mask just happens to be a state Senate candidate for the 33rd district, which in-cludes Mount Pleasant.

State Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, won August’s Republican primary to fill Sen. Alan Cropsey’s seat. Lawrence Sych, associate professor of political science at Central Michigan University, found Calley’s se-lection to be surprising given the advan-tage he had in the 33rd district Senate race.

“I’m surprised that Calley took it be-cause the odds are he was going to get elected to the Senate,” Sych said. “It’s a largely Republican area.”

It is unknown if the runner-up from August’s primary, Michael Trebesh, will replace Calley in November’s election. A meeting will be set by the Michigan Re-publican Party to determine his replace-ment if Calley accepts the nomination.

The meeting will involve the party and the heads of each county’s Republican executive committee.

Calley provides a bit of experience to Snyder’s campaign, something Sych said was lacking. Calley, a former banker in Ionia County, has been a state represen-tative since 2006 and served on the Ionia County Board of Commissioners from 2002 to 2006.

John Porter, vice chairman of College Republicans and a Coleman sophomore, said he feels Calley’s background in bank-ing will be key in turning around Michi-gan’s economy.

“I think it’s a great choice,” Porter said. “I know he’s been involved in a lot of the economic development where he’s from. It’s all about getting Michigan back on track economically.”

Porter said he thinks Calley’s experi-ence in the state legislature should not play a large role because, if Snyder wants experience, he can hire experienced peo-ple for other positions.

College Democrats President Brad O’Donnell said Calley will help Snyder with his support from the right wing.

“There’s a perception that Democrats elected Rick Snyder in the primary,” the Clinton Township senior said. “I think it’s interesting that Rick Snyder decided to pick a politician after railing against them for months and months and months.”

Calley, 33, was picked over other can-didates like state Sen. Jason Allen, who cannot re-run for his position because of term limits. Allen is also campaigning for the first district U.S. Congress seat, after current U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak retires.

Sych said the job could kickstart Cal-ley’s career.

“This will give him kind of a fast track to the governor’s job,” he said.

Sych, Porter and O’Donnell all agreed whoever takes over Calley’s position in the 33rd district race should still have a sizable advantage over the field.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero is still exploring options for his lieutenant governor running mate.

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snyder selects Brian Calley running mateRepublican candidate for 33rd district Senate seat still up in air

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Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish a in-depth piece, ex-amining different issues.

Though the dollars keep shrink-ing, the bottom line for campus programming remains the same.

Program Board, Greek Life and registered student organizations will not have the luxury of in-creased funds for the new school year.

The campus programming fund, which is formed from stu-dent’s tuition, will be $826,000 for

the 2010-2011 academic year; the same amount it was last year.

“We have the same demand for programming but as infla-tion continues to rise those dol-lars don’t go as far,” said Brittany Mouzourakis, Student Govern-ment Association president. “The trends that we are seeing are that, as the years are going by and CPF is not increasing, we’re seeing less and less money left over at the end of the year.”

The CPF provides money to a wide variety of organizations on campus including Program Board, SGA, the Office of Student Life, Greek Life, the Leadership In-

stitute, the Volunteer Center, Uni-versity Recreation and almost all registered student organizations.

Last year, the SGA made a push to increase the CPF to $1 million. Though that effort was unsuccess-ful, Mouzourakis, a Garden City senior, said the SGA put in an ap-plication for a decrease in funding so more money could be freed up for other projects.

“We kept our promise to pro-mote more fiscal responsibility with student’s dollars by asking for about $1,000 less than the year before,” Mouzourakis said. “We also decreased our stipends by 20 percent.”

HistoryThe CPF was created in 2001

and was originally called the Cam-pus Programming Fee, said Tony Voisin, director of Student Life. Voisin said the amount of mon-ey each student contributed to the fund was determined by the amount of credit hours they were taking that semester.

That year Central Michigan Uni-versity’s roughly 18,000 students’ fees resulted in a CPF of approxi-mately $860,000, depending on total credit hours taken that year.

When the CMU Promise was

Campus programming funds put crunch on student groupsCampus Programming Fund

Break downw Program Board - $293,000w Student Budget Allocation Committee - $88,000w Office of Student Life Program - $120,000w Student Government Association - $18,172*w Student Payroll - $4,000w Student Organization Center - $2,000w Greek Life - $25,000w Leadership Institute - $90,000w Volunteer Center - $58,000w Minority Student Services - $58,000w University Recreation - $25,000w Up All Night - $15,000w Coordinator Salary - $40,000

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fOOTBALL | Breakdown of East, West MAC teams, 1B

By Emily PfundSenior Reporter

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Virg Bernero targeted Michigan’s economy and education’s role in its recovery Thurs-day during a surprise visit to Central Michigan University.

The Lansing mayor spoke to students at the College Democrats’ volunteer ral-ly. There, he and his wife mingled with students be-fore making a 20-minute speech focused on eco-nomic development.

“Education is economic development,” he told a group of about 50 people who gathered in the mall between Pearce and Ans-pach halls. “Economy starts with educa-tion.”

Bernero acknowledged the economy’s impact on students’ ability to continue their educations and pledged to help.

“We are going to restore the Michigan Promise scholarship,” he said, eliciting cheers and applause from the students. “We are going to set the right priorities.”

Bernero, who has yet to select a run-ning mate for the November election, said there is a “100 percent chance” one will be selected by Sunday at the Michi-gan Democratic Party State Convention.

Bernero praised Obama’s involvement in bailing out Michigan’s auto industry and promoting green manufacturing jobs in the state.

About half of Bernero’s speech focused on the auto industry and manufactur-ing.

“You have to care about the auto indus-try if you live here in Michigan,” he said.

He also discussed his impact on the growth of manufacturing in Lansing, where jobs have grown each month of 2010, he said.

Brad O’Donnell, president of College Democrats, said he originally planned to speak at the rally,

“I essentially just gave Virg the floor,”the Clinton Township senior said. “He’s a lot more exciting than I am.”

Bernero’s speech was a late addition to the rally. O’Donnell did not know he was coming until late Wednesday afternoon.

“It was a big surprise, but a good sur-prise,” he said.

O’Donnell said the goal of the rally was to recruit volunteers who could register students to vote.

In 2008, College Democrats began a tra-

Bernero makes surprise visitat Dems rally Plans to select running mate by Sunday convention

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Joseph Tobianski/stAFF photogrApherAbraham Ostling, 15, sells lemonade Wednesday afternoon with a friend next to Washington Street outside of Pearce Hall. “We’re broke and looking to make a couple of bucks,” Ostling said.

to pray, talk it through with my wife and some trusted friends it was clear that God opened this door and it was up to us to walk through it. Five days later, we officially accepted the call to minister at CMU and then we began making plans to transition to Mount Pleasant.”

During his time at CMU, Schantz earned a master’s degree in Arts and Com-munication. He is currently working on his doctorate degree in student educa-tional leadership at CMU and has taught communica-tion classes on campus.

His HoUse HistorySchantz’s role at His

House began in 1991 when the group only had 15 to 20 members.

The men and women gath-ered in the living room of what is now the Men’s House on Main Street, where mem-bers give out free hotdogs every Saturday night.

Over time, participation and attendance grew for His House.

To accommodate the growing numbers, Schantz and the fellowship pur-chased their hall at 211 West Broomfield St. three

years ago.Derek Collard, an intern

ministry leader at His House, said Schantz is a great mod-el of a man of character who shows a genuine love for people. He said many fac-ulty, staff and students at CMU will miss Schantz.

“I’ve never questioned whether or not (Schantz) is doing is the right thing,” said Collard, a Sterling Heights senior. “He’s been a great example of how I hope to be someday, the way he lives his life with great integrity.”

Schantz has been grate-ful for the continuous sup-port of his family. Because of his leadership role in the group, his duties sometimes required him to stay late nights on campus.

“My wife has been a key person in allowing me to be involved on campus,” he said. “My kids have attended events at CMU with us and have been exposed to a lot of great college experiences.”

Schantz said he measures the success of his minis-try by how the students are doing five years after they graduate — if they are being good husbands and wives and if they still look to God.

“Matt Schantz was a faith-ful and passionate leader of His House,” said assistant campus Minister Josh Chaf-fin. “Matt has never been about doing everything by himself but rather he has

helped thousands of college students gain a vision to reach the world for Christ, by first sharing the love of Jesus with a roommate or classmate.”

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ScHAnTz |continued from 1A

created in 2006, it eliminated all fees. Therefore the name was changed to the campus programming fund and the amount was flatly defined at $800,000, Voisin said.

“The costs for things have gone up dramatically since the fund’s creation, yet the amount of money in it has gone down,” Voisin said. “It makes it espe-cially hard for groups like Pro-gram Board to bring entertain-ment to campus.”

The amount of money placed in the fund changes from year to year. Each July, the main 13 selected organizations that fall under CPF (including the Stu-dent Budget Allocation Com-mittee, which allocates finances to nearly all of the 270 RSOs on campus) present proposals to a committee in July requesting the amount of money they feel will be needed for the upcom-ing school year.

Dean of Students Bruce Ros-coe approves the final list of the amounts each organization will receive.

redUCtioNsVoisin said the Leadership In-

stitute took a large hit this year, losing $15,000 of funding due to a loss of employees. Program Board also endured a budget reduction, from $300,000 to $293,000 this year.

Steve Lewis, president of Program Board, said while the organization hoped to receive about $10,000 more than they did, they also planned on re-ceiving the lower figure.

Despite the decrease in fund-ing, the Allegan junior said they were able to bring musical group We the Kings to campus on Oct. 10.

“We really wanted to focus on getting big name people to campus, but a show like that usually costs at least $100,000 or more,” Lewis said. “I think we’ll still be able to bring good events to campus. We’ll just have to be even more conscious of the budget than normal and more creative with how we use the money.”

Any money leftover in the CPF remains within the fund and is rolled over into the next year. In the early-to-mid 2000’s Voisin said the CPF would sometimes

have around $50,000 left over. Last year, Voisin estimated that number to be around $5,000.

He said each group basically used all of the money allocated to them. While that number varies from year to year, Voisin said it is always their goal to have money left over.

reteNtioNSGA Vice President Dave

Breed, a Muskegon senior, said the CPF can influence the re-tention rate at Central Michi-gan University.

“CPF dollars go toward the events that keep stu-dents around,” he said. “The more that students feel en-gaged on campus, the more likely they are to stay. If there weren’t enough opportunities for them to get involved they could choose another univer-sity.”

Breed said while SGA will continue to push for an in-crease in CPF, they remain re-alistic it may not happen right away due to the current eco-nomic climate.

“The university and the state are in a world of hurt right now,” Voisin said. “It’s going to be a tough task to get (CPF) in-creased dramatically.”

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GrOUPS |continued from 1A

dition of focusing on attract-ing student voters, he said. This year, the group hopes to get 5,000 CMU students reg-istered.

Gwinn senior Ashley Hous-er said she thought Bernero’s message was “pretty posi-tive.”

“It was mostly sound blurbs,” Houser said. “He said he was going to change things but there were no examples of the changes. I

would have liked more de-tails,”

Bernero said his visit was arranged by his daughter, Virginia, a Lansing sopho-more and a member of the Student Democrats.

The visit was “a great break from the campaign trail,” said Bernero, who praised the students in attendance, calling them “phenomenal Democrats and phenomenal Americans.”

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BErnErO |continued from 1A

kaiTLin Thoresen/stAFF photogrApherMichigan gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero helps hand out pizza and shakes hands with Portage sophomore Kelsey Bourbeau Thursday evening in the courtyard between Pearce and Anspach halls at the College Democrats volunteer rally. Bernero met with students and answered questions.

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Central Michigan life

By Maria LeoneStaff Reporter

Grass stained jeans, skinned knees and elbows, an aching big toe and a soaring sense of victory matched only by the spinning flight of a red rub-ber ball were all happening Wednesday night.

Program Board’s annual “Kickball Kick-off” in the field between Finch Fieldhouse and the Health Professions Building let participants tem-porarily relive their days of schoolyard sportsmanship.

The event has been a tradi-tion since 2004, showing new

members Program Board is a great organization to get in-volved in and have fun while doing so, said Steve Lewis, Allegan junior and Program Board president.

“When our kickball event started, people wanted to go back to elementary school re-cess days,” Lewis said.

Milford junior Sean Bergin said part of the reason he en-joys kickball is because it is such a simple and fun game anyone can play.

He fondly remembers time spent playing the sport in the fifth grade, though he didn’t always escape the diamond

uninjured, he said.“When I was little it was my

favorite sport, even though I got hit in the face,” Bergin said.

Crysta Heckman, Program Board vice president and Pin-conning senior, had similar luck in her fifth grade kickball days but still loves the sport.

Heckman recalled an occa-sion when she literally had the wind knocked out of her by a kickball sent soaring straight into her chest.

“Of course the kid that kicked the hardest hit me,” she said.

Madison Heights sopho-

more Emily Panone said she considered herself a “beast on field” when she played it at recess.

“I love kickball,” Panone said. “I didn’t really like sports in school, except for kickball.”

Heckman said having the annual kickball game is a great way to get new people involved and really enjoy the year.

“It’s the everyday play-ground game,” she said. “Peo-ple miss that.”

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“Kickball Kick-off ” gets Program Board’s year rolling

community bonding

Traverse City junior Zack

Lizenby kicks a ball at the Kickball Kickoff held by the Program Board on

Wednesday eve-ning next to Finch

Fieldhouse.

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photos By jEff sMith/staff photographerDearborn freshman Courtney Brefeld, left, holds hands with Ann Arbor freshman Kristina Graham as they jump on an inflatable sticky wall at Get Acquainted Day Wednesday in Warriner Mall. “The (inflatables) are fun because there’s no lines” Graham said.

Petoskey senior Zach Drake does a backflip at Get Acquainted Day Wednesday in Warriner Mall.

“Get Acquainted Day” brings students for fun, free stuff

Denise Green wants stu-dents at Central Michigan University to come togeth-er in more than just the pursuit of a degree.

“Get Acquainted Day,” held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Warriner Mall, in-vited dozens of minority organizations to gather, re-cruit, catch up and get their names out across campus in more focused way.

“It’s a really good chance for Central Michigan Uni-versity’s community to come together. People get to know other people and learn about services and organizations from the city and government,” said Green, associate vice presi-dent of Institutional Diver-sity.

Several sororities, frater-nities, local businesses and volunteer organizations banded together to form a more direct community, providing a less intimidat-ing way for students to get familiar with activities on and off campus.

Kailee Smith enjoyed

the more close-knit atmo-sphere.

“This gives more expo-sure and is a chance to get to know other organiza-tions,” the Jackson senior said.

Toya Lewis, Detroit se-nior and president of the Sophisticated Women of Color sorority, thought of “Get Acquainted Day” as not just an opportunity to increase recognition but also to put her passion for her program to work.

“Our sorority supports each other,” Lewis said. “We’re sisters and I want to make people feel like I’m a shoulder to lean on. We welcome everybody and we don’t turn anyone away.”

As well as showcasing organizations, there were several festival-style attrac-tions including free food, blow up toys, bounce hous-es and some new activities including tarot card read-ings that surprised usual event-goers.

“I had never seen that before anywhere,” said Bay

City senior Sam Razminas.About 2,000 students at-

tended the event, quite a contrast to the 10,000 strong swarm that attended MAINstage.

Lake Orion freshman Sar-ah Donetti was pleased with the more intimate atmo-sphere of the day. She said it made it easier to learn about each individual group than struggling against the com-parative chaos of the MAIN-stage crowd.

“It’s good to get a re-fresher of what’s out there. It’s much less mobbed than MAINstage,” Donetti said.

Keisha Janney, assistant director of Minority Stu-dent Services, said the event served not to just embrace and highlight the minority community but to encour-age friendship and connec-tion between all students who decided to visit.

“People get connected and get to know people dif-ferent from themselves,” Janney said.

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By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter

Grants, dissertations and theses — all of these massive documents have Christopher

Honts very concerned.It stems not from difficulty

or time commitment, but from the limited printing allocation he has received from Central Michigan University through its new PrintQ system, which allocates $10 worth of com-puter lab prints for under-graduate students and $15 for graduate students.

Honts, an Iowa graduate student studying industrial

and organizational psychol-ogy, said the new system will greatly affect graduate stu-dents.

“You’ve taken away the graduate students’ right to print off the materials they need,” he said. “I completely understand the desire to go green and what not, and I’m sure there are individuals out there that abuse it, but you trust graduate students with

keys to the buildings and hun-dreds of thousands of dollars of lab equipment, but you won’t trust us with the pages we need to print.”

Eric O’Rourke, a Midland graduate student, also studies industrial and organizational psychology and shares Honts’ concerns.

Many of the grad students in his department print out articles and don’t have tradi-

tional text books, he said. “One journal article can

be upwards of 30 pages,” O’Rourke said. “It’s come down to the point where we can’t really print any journal articles because they’ll drain up the queue so quickly.”

Sean Baker, assistant profes-sor of journalism, said CMU faculty are not provided with a printing allocation through the PrintQ system.

He said the university should consider removing the $15 printing limitation for graduate students, but he is more concerned for his graphic design students.

“I make them print stuff in color,” Baker said. Color print costs, he said, are “kind of steep.”

PrintQ system upsets many, unpopular among graduate studentsNew limitationsallocates $10 forundergraduates

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By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter

Students looking to tailgate during this fall’s football sea-son will see no change from last year’s policies and procedures.

Implemented prior to last year’s football season, the re-strictions on tailgating limit tailgaters to six beers or one pint of liquor per student, with no glass bottles. Additionally, students must purchase a $6 parking pass to station their car in lot 63. The number of law enforcement officials in the tailgate lot has increased from previous years.

Central Michigan University Police Chief Bill Yeagley said the new rules were created in order to limit student injuries.

“In the past we’ve had a lot of folks get cut on the broken glass in the parking lot,” he said. “If no one brings glass in, it can help reduce those inju-ries.”

Though the initial imple-mentation of the new tailgate rules in the fall of 2009 were met with negative student re-action, compromises between students and administration resulted in a lift on an external stereo sound system ban.

“The policy will remain ex-actly the same this year as it was at the end of last year,” said Steve Smith, director of public relations.

Yeagley said after the external sound system ban was lifted, more students showed up to the pre-game festivities.

Macomb junior Steve Pel-letier said he doesn’t think the continuation of last year’s tail-gating policies will affect atten-dance this year.

“Toward the end of the year, it went very well. I hope we pick up right there again where we left off by having a good at-tendance,” he said. “I think the uproar about it is over, so more people will be back.”

Pelletier said if students are concerned on the limit of al-cohol allowed in lot 63, they could always just drink more before heading to the tailgat-ing lot.

Rochester senior Zac Nowels thinks tailgate attendance will increase compared to last year, despite the continuation of last years tightened rules.

“Once people realized what it was, it wasn’t as bad as it seemed,” he said. “Hopefully people go.”

CMU’s first home football game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday against Hampton.

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Central Michigan University’s new PrintQ system and

policy of permitting only a certain amount of printed pages is limiting to stu-dents and should be al-tered or abolished.

EDITORIAL | on-campus printing policy unfair and exclusory to students

Unfair limitations

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Comments on cm-life.com on the opinion col-umn “Tolerance goes both ways”

John Edson Porter said:1:15 p.m. August 25“This has to be one of

the worst editorials you’ve ever written, Jason. You’re drawing conclusions that Islam is in some way a “less tolerable” religion. That’s just nonsense. Islam is a beautiful religion full of many phenomenal people.

You’re just fueling the stereotype when you as-sume that Muslims have to “prove” that they are nonviolent.

What happened to inno-cent until proven guilty?

I’m severly disappointed with how you approached this subject.”

Opheliasviolet said:2:20 p.m. August 26“Your intolerance is

showing.“However, the high

volume of instances of violence or threats by particular Muslims make me view Islam slightly dif-ferently.”

If I were to use your own logic, the actions, both carried out and intended, of Timothy McVeigh, Scott Roeder, the Huratree mili-tia, and pedophile priests would make me think that Christianity is a violent and dangerous religion.

It doesn’t take much effort to paint an entire group of people as violent and dangerous if you only need to find and hand-ful of individuals or small groups that engage in that type of rhetoric and ac-tions. It does take effort to

remain tolerant, thought-ful, and compassionate to realize that there could be more than just their reli-gion to their actions, and that these ugly examples are exceptions to the rule.

You say that tolerance is a two-way street. You too, sir, need to learn the meaning of the word. It is not tolerance if it is obvi-ously tinged with disdain for the other and only offered in an effort to not appear hypocritical.”

Joe M. said:4:47 p.m. August 25“It’s always people who

claim to lovers of the Con-stitution who start squirm-ing rationalizing the mo-ment someone disagrees with their political or religious views. We won’t mention that a Christian

blew up the federal build-ing in Oklahoma City, and that the leader of a Chris-tian nation dropped the only nuclear bombs in the history of warfare. Islam is a very easy wedge issue for Republicans to use in November– that’s all this is or ever was.

I actually disagree that this is one of Beck’s, er, Gillman’s, worse columns. He actually dropped the “At Ground Zero” meme that saturated the media landscape and, though he’s wrong, he doesn’t actually draw the sort of crazy con-clusion that many others on the right are drawing, which is that Muslims should only be allowed to practice their religion in certain designated places, where we can keep a very, very close eye on them.

Religious tolerance disputed

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Mental health

semesterWhen I embarked on the spring

semester of classes this past Janu-ary, I felt completely and utterly drained.

I was depleted of energy, creativ-ity and the slightest bit of motiva-tion to move forward with classes.

The previous semester had brought on a number of unantici-pated challenges: The demise of a relationship, caring for a stray kitten that I took in, said kitten unexpectedly breaking his leg, health complications and a change in living arrangements, all on top of a job and full course load. I can usually roll with the punches, but I was completely overwhelmed.

There was an air about the upcoming semester that was un-like any other. All of the emotional residue from the previous semester seemed like it was there to stay into the next. It went beyond the stress.

Too often during stressful times we’re told to just “get through it” or “tough it out,” but sometimes when life doesn’t go our way, and even goes way, way out of our way, it’s time to re-evaluate and look at our options.

Of course, I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do instead, but whatever it was, school wasn’t an option.

I learned a lot about myself in the following months. I learned that I was capable of commanding a room and making people laugh through a stand-up comedy class I took in Ann Arbor. I learned that I would always be feuding with family members as long as we were all under the same roof, but that at the end of the day we were still a family.

I re-established friendships and did a lot of reflecting in between.

I’m not by any means advocat-ing dropping out at the first sign of a little stress, but I do advocate be-ing smart about recognizing limits and following our intuition.

I wasn’t jumping for joy for this semester to begin, that has never been me, but as I am nearing the end of my undergraduate aca-demic career I am excited to start the next chapter of my life.

I am ashamed to call you people my peers.

This semester I am taking JRN 312: Reporting, and our first assignment was to get student reaction on the governor’s race this November. I was thrilled at the as-signment — politics is my passion and what I get geeked about. I fig-ured it would take me ten minutes to finish the assignment and by the time class was finished, I would already be gone and off to a self-congratulatory Starbucks coffee.

Oh how wrong I was. I polled ten people — admittedly

not a complete representation of the entire student body, but I’m of-fended as a citizen and student of this general university population that not one of these ten people even knew who the candidates were in this election.

The rest of my classmates had similar results.

For the record, Virg Bernero is running for the Democrats and Rick Snyder for the Republicans.

Perhaps my angst toward my peers is unjustified, you may counter that the election isn’t for another two and a half months.

In my humble opinion, now is the time to pay attention. Now is when it’s time to get informed.

Government is something that is consistently altering our lives. My stepfather is seriously affected by the health care reform. As an independent insurance agent, his business is unfortunately crippled by health reform.

When I was in high school, it was considered uncool to be ignorant about politics. We regularly paid at-tention to the news and discussed the goings-on of the world.

Due to this admittedly unusual adolescence, coming to CMU was a complete culture shock to me. This is an educational institution. People should be curious, parched for knowledge.

Frankly, I blame the lack of knowledge base. There aren’t enough “competency” courses in the practical application of knowledge. In this particular area, politics, if students understand the concepts, then they will show interest.

I encourage the university to make government classes, par-ticularly PSC 105: Introduction to American Government and Politics and PSC 261: State and Local Government compulsory, an additional competency. It may seem boring to some, however it is integral to each and every one of our daily lives to understand this system. Each of us pays taxes, all of us attend a state-funded university.

Each one of us has an oppor-tunity to speak up and voice our opinion — to borrow a phrase from the current president’s 2008 campaign, we have the ability to “vote for change.” Indeed, we also have the ability to vote for the status quo.

However, without that vote, without participation, we are sim-ply bystanders.

For those who have yet to show interest, there’s a fantastic Web site called “The Daily Beast” which publishes each morning a “cheat sheet” of the important news stories. I encourage each of you to get informed.

I beg you to care.

The policy, which permits $10 of printed materials for under-graduates and $15 for graduate students may seem like a reason-

able way for the university to save money. But in reality, it restricts many traditional studying practices and limits writing and research for graduates students, who often have print-heavy curriculum.

This policy, along with the limiting of hours of operation for on-campus computer labs, sends a message to both current and prospective students: A student must own both a computer and printer of their own to get a complete educational experi-ence.

This is restrictive to people with lower income, as well as people who do not have a particular level of tech-

nological know-how.The printed-page limit, approxi-

mately 250 pages, may seem like a high number of pages that not many people will reach. However, the peo-ple that go over that limit and need to pay extra to use campus resources may feel unfairly targeted.

The most reasonable solution may be to abolish this policy and cut spending in other areas to save the same amount of money.

Another possibility would be to alter the current system. There are many students that do not use on-campus printer resources at all.

Giving students an option to claim how many pages they expect to print on-campus may help give more pages to the students that actually need them. If students were to claim usage of less or no pages, the surplus

pages could be redistributed to the students who would use them.

These on-campus computer and printer resources are where a portion of student tuition goes. While costs for resources are constantly rising, questions also have to be raised.

In a year where CMU has the larg-est incoming class in its history and thus more tuition dollars, how can the university not afford appropri-ate amounts of these commodity resources? Are they spending that excessively?

As a learning institution, CMU should be changing policies and as-signing money to make sure students have all the resources they need to complete their classes and learn their necessary information and skills, in-stead of taking these resources away from them.

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KaitLin thoresen/stAFF photogrApherDiamondale senior Hillary Fox laughs as she gets her blood drawn by Jeannie Wright Wednesday afternoon in Kulhavi Hall. “I’ve been donating since high school,” Fox said.

By Mike NicholsStaff Reporter

Summer vacations often en-tail long hours outside in the heat and blazing sun.

But 11 Central Michigan Uni-versity students eschewed the pool side in favor of ten days spent helping to build a library a world away.

The students spent part of their summer in Ghana. Their trip was an Alternative Break, a program of CMU’s Volunteer Center. The team’s purpose was to perform manual labor and experience the culture of West Africa.

The team worked in Jukwa, with the help of Amizade, a vol-unteer coordination organiza-tion. Freeland senior Ashley Ste-phen went as one of the team’s site leaders. Their goal was to help finish the construction of a library.

“Pretty much each day we woke up, went to the work site, and we would do things like mix concrete, paint the library, and rake trash,” Stephen said.

She said what really made the trip for her was the people.

“They are the most friendly people in Ghana,” she said. “I feel like sometimes Americans don’t get portrayed the best in other countries. It’s not the case in Ghana. They love Ameri-cans.”

Albion senior Chris Hopcraft was the only male on the trip. He spent his time making pillars for roofs support.

“It was rewarding,” Hopcraft said. “There was never a time I thought, ‘This sucks, I wish I wasn’t here doing this.’”

After dinner the team would reflect about their day’s experi-ences. Many talked about how surprising it was to see the hap-piness of Ghanaians who live with only the minimal basics.

Erin Monahan, a Grosse Pointe sophomore, felt impact-ed by the culture shock of the third world.

“They had mud houses,” Mo-nahan said. “That’s all they had, that’s all they knew and that’s what they would die in. I don’t know if I could do it.”

When their work was done for the day, the team was taken on excursions to see the coun-try. They visited a rainforest and

took tours of the Elmina and Cape Coast castles that were once used as holding cells for slaves.

Stephen remembered visiting a room used as a death chamber for female slaves who refused to be intimate with their captors.

He said they would have to stay in isolation until they died.

“There were scratch marks on the floor and it still smelled,” she said. “It was strange to think about how awful things could happen in such a beautiful place.”

Hopcraft said the experience was both humbling and horrify-ing, but he appreciated the his-torical aspect of their visit.

“I’m a history major,” he said. “I was thinking, ‘Wow, this is actually where European im-perialism impacted the triangle trade routes.’”

Looking back, Hopcraft feels the team was successful in their mission and hopes to one day do another Alternative Break.

“It’s worth it to go through challenges to give those servic-es,” Hopcraft said.

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By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter

Isabella County could re-move one Sheriff’s Depart-ment officer from the Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team to stimulate revenue.

The idea has been dis-cussed by County Commis-sioners and may be included in the final budget, which must be adopted by Sept. 30, said County Administrator Tim Dolehanty.

The proposal came as a surprise to Lt. Det. Amado Arceo of BAYANET’s North Team, who first heard the news last Wednesday through published reports.

“I don’t have any informa-tion that they’re going to pull it,” Arceo said. “I still have their officer on my team.”

Dolehanty said he has sub-mitted a balanced budget as of now, but much debate will follow and he does not expect his budget to be final.

Department requests for funds were $1.4 million higher than county funds available, and Dolehanty is still waiting on final state revenue sharing figures.

Currently there are seven full-time equivalents from BAYANET tied to the coun-ty. Three are designated to the county as a whole, two are assigned to the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal Po-lice, one to the city of Mount Pleasant and one to Central Michigan University.

The removal of the officer from the sheriff’s depart-ment would remove one of the officers covering the county, Dolehanty said, but would not be a significant

loss to drug-enforcement ef-forts.

“I believe very strongly that would be the case,” he said. “We still have the offi-cer from Mt. Pleasant and a total of six officers. No one else comes close to that.”

BreakdownIsabella County’s seven of-

ficers dwarf other counties. Saginaw County has two full-time equivalents, where local counties like Clare and Gladwin Counties have no full-time equivalents.

Just more than 7 percent of BAYANET’s Isabella Coun-ty arrests happen in rural ar-eas and almost 70 percent of their arrests come from Mount Pleasant and CMU’s campus, which would still have officers dedicated ex-clusively to them.

The Sheriff’s Department officer would be reassigned to traffic operations in this proposal, Dolehanty said. Traffic tickets are down 75 percent in the last five years.

While Dolehanty said he doesn’t think tickets should be written all the time, the loss of revenue is important to the county.

“When I see a revenue source drop 75 percent, it’s

something I have to address as a public administrator,” Dolehanty said. “It amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The drop in ticket issuing is largely because of a drop in tickets written by non-secondary road patrol units. Tickets written by non-sec-ondary road patrol units and secondary road patrol units are near equal now. In 2005, non-secondary patrol units wrote almost 1,300 more ci-tations, according to a public safety budget recommenda-tion provided by Dolehanty.

Ticket numbers have also dropped because Sheriff’s Department personnel have been pulled from traffic concerns to more serious crimes.

Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski declined to comment on the matter for now.

“I’m still waiting on some statistical data,” Miodusze-wski said. “I have not had a chance to delve into the data on whether that’s a good idea or not.”

The recommendation document had other sugges-tions like cutting overtime for the Sheriff’s Department and secondary road patrol.

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Central Michigan Life || Friday, Aug. 27, 2010 || 7A

ashLey MiLLer/stAFF photogrApherBrothers Rudy, left, and Jerry Bendele of Shepherd talk while they watch classic cars drive by Thursday during the Old 27 Tour in St. Louis. “I love (the shows). I hardly ever miss one,” Jerry said.

By sherri KeatonStaff Reporter

Samantha Brownlee recalls multiple instances of standing in long lines to return her text-books, only to receive a few dol-lars in return.

After three years of doing this, the Reed City junior said she is through.

“If it was possible for me to rent, I would always rather rent,” Brownlee said. “It really is frus-trating waiting in the long lines to get books, but I’ve accepted that it’s part of the book-buying process.”

This semester, the option to rent textbooks rather than buy them is catching on, and Brownlee decided to be a part of

the growing number.Barry Waters, director of the

Central Michigan University Bookstore, said the reception of renting books has been positive.

“Up front it is a lower-price al-ternative, even though most stu-dents are still making the deci-sion to buy rather than rent,” he said in an e-mailed statement.

Rentals have generated about 9 percent of the store’s textbook revenue so far this semester.

Waters said there are up to 650 titles available for rent, or about 25 percent of the CMU Bookstore’s entire 2,500-title list for the fall.

Decatur senior Courtney Lynn bought her books this semes-ter because she wishes to keep them for future reference. But for other types of general educa-tion classes, she would rent.

“I think that renting books for UPs or competency classes would be very helpful and prac-tical,” Lynn said.

When renting books at the CMU Bookstore, there is no lim-

it to the number of books that can be rented during the trans-action, Waters said. However, not all textbooks are available to rent.

John Belco, manager at the Student Book Exchange, said they have not been able to count the numbers yet, but interest in book rentals has been signifi-cant.

“It seems to be well received,” he said. “The only drawback is there is no buyback at the end of the semester.”

Belco said students need to also keep their receipts and re-turn them by the given dead-line. Books must be in similar condition as when they were purchased.

“The best deal in the long run might be to buy a used book and sell it back at the end of the term,” he said. “But I am not a gambler, I like to know what my pocket cost is and renting allows that.”

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By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter

Some eggs in the national salmonella recall were distrib-uted to Northern Michigan, the Michigan Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.

Jennifer Holton, public in-formation officer for the MDA, said eggs produced in the state are not part of the problem. All contaminated product has been traced back to two farms, Wright County Egg and Hillan-dale Farms, both in Iowa.

“We have received confir-mation that contaminated eggs were traced in the Upper Peninsula and Northern Mich-igan,” Holton said.

Holton said concerned shoppers should ask local gro-cers and restaurants where they purchased their eggs. She also recommended consumers information websites such as foodsafety.gov and eggsafety.org.

“Cook your eggs well,” Hol-ton said. “If you make scram-bled eggs, make sure they’re not runny, cook until eggs and whites are firm.”

The Food and Drug Admin-istration is leading a national investigation for the contami-

nation. As of Wednesday, 2,403 cases

of salmonella have been re-ported since May, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Salmonella causes fever, abdominal cramps and diar-rhea once contaminated eggs are consumed, with symp-toms appearing 12 to 72 hours after consumption. Often symptoms disappear after 4-7 days and many can recover without antibiotics, however hospitalization is sometimes required.

Ric’s Food Center, 705 S. Mission St., has seen an in-crease in their egg prices — an additional 40 to 50 cents more per dozen eggs, though none of their eggs were contami-nated.

The grocer’s Dairy Man-ager, Tim Murphy, said the price of eggs differs between ten and twenty cents about every two weeks. The current price increase is unusually high and he expects to see even higher egg prices in the

coming weeks.The eggs from the grocer are

supplied by Maceri Produce, who receive their product from Vande Bunte eggs, who sent Ric’s a letter stating they are salmonella-free.

Tim Vande Bunte, president of Vande Bunte Eggs said he is unsure of Iowa’s health prac-tices but stringent rodent and fly control are important in egg cultivation as both are carriers of salmonella.

Holton said several “egg ba-sics” important for egg safety include washing hands before and after handling and cook-ing eggs well with a food ther-mometer to ensure the item’s temperature reaches 158 de-grees.

“I know that it’s loosely man-aged in those areas,” Vande Bunte said. “Our refrigeration is five degrees cooler than what is required by law. It’s crucial to keep eggs refrigerated prop-erly.”

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Nine percent of CMU’s textbook revenue generated through service

Recalled eggs distributed to areas of Northern Michigan

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PossiBle changesThe PrintQ system will

probably work for most undergraduate students, O’Rourke said, but it makes no sense when applied to graduate students.

“I’ve had to change the way I’m doing my thesis solely because of the print queue,” he said. “It’s defi-nitely changed the way I’ve had to deal with classes and research.”

Jeff McDowell, Informa-tion Technology help desk manager, said the PrintQ system’s allocation was based off of research on printer use and a student focus group. The research evaluated printing numbers for a semester to find how much the average student printed.

He said the data showed approximately 65 percent of students printed less than 250 pages in the semester.

“You’re making sure ev-eryone has got a fair amount and making sure you don’t have people that abuse it,” McDowell said. “We’re re-ally interested in honest feedback. On one side, we do have legitimate print-ing needs out there and we have to accommodate that, no question. But on the oth-er hand we do have a lot of

waste and that’s what we’re trying to stop.”

He said faculty are given free printing at their depart-mental offices, not a part of the PrintQ system.

McDowell said the current PrintQ allocations for under-graduate and graduate stu-

dents are not set in stone.Adjustments may be

made in the future, based on printing data. If students are printing more, an in-crease in allocation will be discussed.

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Judge Alton Thomas Davis will be replacing Justice Elizabeth Weav-er in the Michigan Su-preme Court, according to published reports.

Gov. Jennifer Gra-nholm announced the change at noon Thurs-day, though Weaver’s term was not set to ex-pire until Jan. 1, 2011. Davis’ appointment is effective immediately.

Weaver had planned to seek reelection as an Independent, but re-tired in a letter saying she believed she could be most useful as a citi-zen working to help fur-ther reforms of the judi-cial system.

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At a table brimming with 14 other children, in the midst of the chaos and poverty of a third world nation, a 4-year-old girl sits qui-etly dissecting her sandwich into pieces, giving away two bites for each one she eats.

Her name is Yolette Louis and she lives at an orphanage called My Heart’s Home in Port Au Prince, Haiti.

I met Yolette two and a half weeks ago while documenting a group of eight volunteers on a 10-day mission trip to the orphanage as part of Heart Cry International, a nonprofit based in Mount Pleas-ant. The time in Haiti was one of the most unexpectedly beautiful experiences of my life, but what I’ll remember most is this child

who has nothing, but gives all.Mission trips can really test

your mettle. You sleep little, eat little and have little privacy. En-durance is pivotal, since you must maintain an attitude of service. Ir-ritability is not an option.

I’ve been on service trips be-fore, but for me, Haiti was a new frontier in character building.

One afternoon I was sitting on the floor monitoring a 3-year-old’s descent into a PB and J sandwich when I looked up to see Yolette’s simple act of altruism. She broke her meal into pieces for fellow orphanage children Djoulie and Fedeline, with the remaining third for herself.

Throughout the week, I realized Yolette does this at every meal.

Her selflessness is remarkable in a person so very young. You’ve heard the phrase “ray of sunshine” – Yolette is a whole sun, beaming joy at anyone who makes eye con-tact.

HCI tripper Nichole Osborn re-fers to Yolette as “a little mama.” It’s true. I saw Yolette calm the tears of Kenlie, a constantly fussy 1-year-old. Joshua and Shilore, two of the more robust boys, were often hard to control but quieted when Yolette, clucking like a little hen, shooed them away from smaller boys like Solomon and Jocelyn.

I watched this little girl do things I, at 21, have never done. Yolette has nothing, but she gives constantly for the benefit of those around her. She bursts through clouds like a megawatt, pint-sized

Mother Teresa.When I think of Yolette I’m

forced to ask myself – what have I given? My world is wrought with advantages I take for granted. Yet with all I have, I give less than an orphan under half my age.

If we all shared like Yolette does, wouldn’t we all be better off?

There’s a lot of talk about the desolation and corruption of Haiti. It’s no secret that January’s earthquake rocked an already-broken country almost into dust. Even now the rubble has hardly been cleared, but in the eight short days I was there, I didn’t lose heart – I’d like to think I gained it.

As long as there is selflessness like Yolette’s, I believe there’s hope for Haiti.

And for humanity.

Yolette Louis, 4, laughs in the arms of Nichole Osborn, of Farwell, at My Heart’s Home Orphanage in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Osborn is a volunteer from Heart Cry International, a Mount Pleasant-based nonprofit supporting the orphanage. Osborn’s main project was to assess the 15 children living at the orphanage in order to place them in a homeschool system which will be implemented soon in the coming year. Osborn and seven other members of the HCI team volunteered for eight days in Port Au Prince and completed several building and painting projects, including the construction of seven bunk beds for the children, shelves for the pantry, a desk and shelf for the office room, a large table and benches for the kitchen, a learning center with large worktable and shelves, and the painting of the front hallway and upstairs main room.

Trip to Haiti begs question: What have I given?Photograph and column by Libby March | Staff Photographer More to coMe

w More coverage of Heart Cry International’s trip to Haiti in Monday’s edition.

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Union Township could be looking at a cut of 23.26 per-cent to its budget next year.

The township’s Requested Budget and Five Year Capi-tal Improvement Plan shows the possible decrease from 2010 could set the total bud-get for 2011 at $6,923,057.

“This document in no way binds the board to these kind of purchases,” said township Manager Brian Smith at a board meeting Wednesday night.

Instead, he said the docu-ment was projected to show the board the outlook of ex-penditures in the next five years.

Some of the minor chang-es made to the budget’s first draft include removal of re-cently purchased equipment and a few cost adjustments.

Areas affected by the lowered budget include $800,148 worth of cuts to the general fund budget, be-cause of a decrease in road funding projects within the township.

General fund budget proj-

ects include the mainte-nance and construction of various picnic sites, play-grounds, roads and bridges in Union Township.

Other areas seeing de-creased numbers include general fund property taxes with a 5.93 percent decrease and projected revenue shar-ing with a decrease of 3.42

percent over last year.Additionally, a prospec-

tive $150,000 was budgeted to go toward the completion of the Isabella Road Project, which involves construction between Baseline Road and Pickard Road.

The revised Capital Im-provement Plan is scheduled to be finished by December.

The finished plan will es-tablish a budget for Union Township to follow for the next five years.

Board members were asked to look over the bud-get and bring questions and suggestions for improve-ment to the next board meeting on Sept. 22.

In other business, Union

Township Supervisor John Barker said skystream wind turbines will be installed Friday, Sept. 3. The bases for the turbines were installed in July.

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By Aaron McMannSports Editor

It’s finally official.Sophomore Ryan Radcliff was

named the starting quarterback by Central Michigan head coach Dan Enos Monday for the team’s Sept. 2 home opener against Hampton.

“He’s earned it,” Enos said Wednesday evening. “He did a great job in the spring, con-tinued in the summer and had a very good camp. We feel real confident and comfortable with him, and we think he’s going to be a very good player around here for the next three years.”

Radcliff, expected to fill the role after the departure of Dan LeFevour, took most of the snaps during CMU’s spring practice and and preseason camp.

He started and took every snap for the White team dur-

ing CMU’s spring game in April, while backups junior Derek Rifenbury and redshirt fresh-man A.J. Westendorp split snaps for the Maroon. During the team’s preseason camp, Radcliff took reps with the first team and looked the sharpest.

Enos said Rifenbury and ju-nior college transfer Brandon Fricke remain in a competition for the backup quarterback po-sition. Entering his third season at CMU, Rifenbury has played in one game while not completing a pass. Fricke arrived at CMU over the summer from Gross-mont Community College in El Cajon, Calif.

“I can’t wait to finally get out here and play ball for real again and just get out on the field and just have fun,” Radcliff said.

The 6-foot-2, 212-pound quarterback appeared in seven games last seven, going 10-for-21 for 115 yards and two inter-ceptions.

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By Aaron McMannSports Editor

There’s less than two weeks away from the kickoff of the 2010 college football season across the country.

While most of the state (and country) will be focused on Ann Ar-bor and how Rich Rodriguez does in his third year at Michigan, the three Mid-American Conference schools are all at different stages.

Central Michigan will break in a brand new coaching staff with the addition of former Michigan State running backs coach Dan Enos. To make things more difficult for Enos, the Chippewas are without star quarterback Dan LeFevour and wide receiver Bryan Anderson, both of whom graduated, and An-tonio Brown, who chose to forego his senior season and enter the NFL Draft.

Western Michigan is also with-out its star quarterback as Tim Hill-er, now with the Indianapolis Colts, graduated after last season.

Meanwhile, in Ypsilanti, second-year head coach Ron English still looks for his first win after Eastern Michigan finished a disastrous 0-12 last season, the only Football Bowl Subdivision team to go winless.

CENTRAL MICHIGANCMU is coming off its best sea-

son at the Division I level ever last season, following a perfect Mid-Anerican Conference record and No. 23 AP ranking after its 44-41 overtime win against Troy in the GMAC Bowl.

But first-year head coach Dan Enos has a lot on his plate with inexperienced skill players on of-fense, especially at quarterback. Sophomore quarterback Ryan Radcliff played mop up time in 2009 while junior Derek Rifenbury has only taken a few snaps in one game during his college career.

The offensive line returns four starters, including second-team All-MAC center Colin Miller, and will prove to be a strong suit for Radcliff, who is more of a pocket passer than Dan LeFevour.

“To have guys like Jake Olson and Jeff Maddux back, who missed the entire spring practice due to injuries, those guys have been tre-mendous,” said CMU head coach Dan Enos.

The defensive side of the ball should be solid, despite youth and inexperience at the defensive end positions.

All-MAC selections Nick Bellore and Matt Berning lead a talented linebacker unit, while Vince Ag-new, Bobby Seay and Jahleel Addae bring speed and size to a much-improved secondary.

EASTERN MICHIGANAfter finishing with the worst

record in the Football Bowl Subdi-vision, head coach Ron English is determined not to repeat that in 2010.

That is why English was busy in the offseason hiring a new de-fensive coordinator, defensive line coach and offensive position coaches, looking for improvement and stability in all facets of the pro-gram.

EMU also saw 39 players leave the program after last season, only 14 of which due to graduation.

“I think our players look a lot dif-ferent than last year, even in Janu-ary,” English said in July at MAC Media Day in Detroit. “We have to continue to teach the things that we know to help guys be success-ful and to be consistent in our ap-proach.”

With quarterback Andy Schmitt gone due to graduation, sopho-more Alex Gillett and redshirt freshman Devontae Payne are competing for the starting quarter-back position.

Gillett, a three-sport star at Clyde High School in Green Springs, Ohio, saw some time last season af-ter Schmitt when down with an in-jury, starting the final three games of the season.

But many are high on Payne and English neglected to name a leader for the quarterback position head-ing into preseason camp.

Running back Dwayne Priest returns for his senior season after rushing for 654 yards last season. Expect Priest to get more carries and accumulate more yards this season as English continues to

By Anthony FenechSenior Reporter

Derek van der Merwe has been a part of the Central Michigan community since 1991.

He earned four varsity letters in football, lined up at offen-sive line for a Mid-American Conference championship team and has spent his past 13 years as an administrator in the CMU Athletics Department.

So when the CMU senior as-sociate athletics director was named a finalist for the Ferris State athletics director posi-tion last week, he had some thinking to do.

And when push came to shove, the 37-year-old van der Merwe, one of the point men behind the construction of the state-of-the-art CMU Events Center, decided he would like to be part of that period.

“Take a look around our campus,” he said Thurs-day. “From the Events Center to the creation of a medical school and the tons of students that believe this is a great institu-tion and that

CMU should be a leader, I’m honored to be a part of a pro-gram that shares that same vi-sion.”

A day earlier, on Wednesday, FSU announced the athletics director hiring of Mount Pleas-ant native Perk Weisenburger, who comes to Big Rapids after a five-year stint as associate director of athletics at the Uni-versity of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Weisenburger graduated from CMU in 1979 and served as the school’s associate athlet-ics director for external opera-tions from 1989-1995.

“I think Ferris State hired the right man for the job,” van der Merwe said. “I think he’s an outstanding individual with a vast amount of experience.”

Glen Krupica, Northern Illi-nois deputy director of athlet-ics, was the other finalist out of a nationally-conducted search of 77 candidates to replace retiring FSU athletics director Tom Kirinovic.

Van der Merwe’s official in-terview came on Aug. 17 and CMU Athletics Director Dave Heeke, while excited for van der Merwe’s potential oppor-tunity, is pleased with his deci-sion.

“He has a great passion for Central Michigan,” Heeke said. “He’s also a key member of my leadership and I’m glad to have him. This isn’t the first time someone’s sought him out to be an athletic director.”

And Heeke knows it won’t be the last.

“He’s going to have the op-portunity to have a very good job in the future,” he said.

Van der Merwe is currently serving as the chair of the NCAA wrestling committee, and works directly with the Chippewas top 10 wrestling program, while overseeing the athletic department’s busi-ness, compliance, facilities and event management areas.

He said the chance to partic-ipate in the interview process was good in exploring other opportunities.

“At the end of the day, there is endless opportunity here,” van der Merwe said. “The people I work with, they have invested in me personally. They know it’s something I’d like to do one day, but I’m very proud of the flying ‘C’ and very honored to be a part of it.”

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PHOTO COURTESY OF EMU MEDIA RELATIONSRunning back Dwyane Priest leads EMU’s running attack after rushing for 654 yards in 2009. The Eagles went a FBS-worst 0-12 last season.

PHOTO COURTESY OF WMU MEDIA RELATIONSSophomore quarterback Alex Carder is expected to take over the starting job following Tim Hiller’s successful career in Kalamazoo.

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FILE PHOTO BY ASHLEY MILLERJunior defensive back Dannie Bolden returns on an improved CMU secondary. The unit ranked 66th in the nation last season after finishing 118th in the FBS in 2008.

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implement a more pro-style offense.

EMU returns 18 juniors or seniors on defense, includ-ing seven of its top eight de-fensive linemen. Senior free safety Latarrius Thomas will be able to play after transfer-ring from Louisville last sea-son.

“What you hope is that you have enough guys that care about the program,” English said. “When Mike DeBord was there (at CMU), it took him a while to build. If we would have stayed one more year, he would’ve reaped the benefits.

WESTERN MICHIGANWestern Michigan comes

off a disappointing 2009 dur-ing which it finished third in the MAC West Division.

WMU head coach Bill Cubit hired former Hofstra head coach Dave Cohen as the new defensive coordina-tor along with former Hofstra defensive coordinator Rich Nagy to coach the safeties. In addition, Lou Esposita was brought in from Saint Jo-seph’s College (Ind.) to head the defensive line.

“Getting onto the season, it is different,” Cubit said dur-ing the team’s Aug. 13 media day. “There’s a different feel out there because of the de-fensive set of coaches.”

Redshirt freshman Alex Carder beat redshirt fresh-man Tyler VanTubbergen and fifth-year senior Drew Burdi out for the starting quarterback job heading into WMU’s Sept. 4 season opener at MSU. The Broncos’ receiv-ers are an experienced bunch lead by junior quarterback-turned-wide receiver Robert Arnheim, who led the team with 701 yards receiving last season.

Junior running back Aaron Winchester is tabbed to have a big year running the ball in Kalamazoo. Small in stature, he’s listed at 5-foot-6, 181 pounds, Winchester rushed for only 165 yards last season, but returns as the No. 1 back with one of the best offensive lines in the conference.

“I love the kid and the way he works,” Cubit said. “He’s been a little bit of a si-lent leader out there with his work habits.”

Michigan MAC Trophy Winner: With the CMU-WMU game being played in Mount Pleasant this year and EMU still without much depth in talent, I’m going with Central Michigan to repeat.

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Akron ZipsHead coach: Rob Ianello (fi rst year)2009 record: 3-9, 2-6 MACNon-conference sched-ule: vs. Syracuse (Sept. 4), vs. Gardner-Webb (Sept. 11), at Kentucky (Sept. 18), at In-diana (Sept. 25)Breakdown: If you l ike rush-ing-dominated offense, you’ll love Akron. The Zips, under new head coach Rob Ianello, return running back Alex Allen for his sixth year along with junior Dale Mart in, a trans-fer from Louisvi l le. Three of-fensive l inemen who played all 12 games last season come back, making for a strong of-fensive l ine. The defensive l ine is even better, with two juniors and two seniors led by two-t ime All-MAC defensive tackle Almondo Sewell. Quarterback Patrick Nicely, who played in eight games last season, is only a sophomore and should have a better grasp of the game and offense in his sec-ond season.

Ball State CardinalsHead coach: Stan Parrish (sec-ond year)2009 record: 2-10, 2-6 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Southeast Missouri State (Sept. 2), vs. Liberty (Sept. 11), at Purdue (Sept. 18), at Iowa (Sept. 25)Breakdown: After a year in which Ball State started 12-0 and made a case for a BCS berth, the Car-dinals tanked in 2009. They return 17 starters in 2010, including 10 on the offensive side of the ball. Senior running back MiQuale Lewis is back for his fifth year and is less than 700 yards away from setting the BSU all-time rushing record.

Bowling Green FalconsHead coach: Dave Clawson (second year)2009 record: 7-6, 6-2 MACNon-conference schedule: at Troy (Sept. 4), at Tulsa (Sept. 11), vs. Marshall (Sept. 18), at Michigan (Sept. 25)Breakdown: This wi ll be a re-bui ld ing year for the Falcons, who return just eight starters from a year ago. Clawson’s big guns, quarterback Tyler Shee-han, who threw for over 4,000 and 27 touchdowns, and re-ceiver Freddie Barnes (1,770 yards, 19 touchdowns) gradu-ated. The receiver corps is sti l l experienced, with two seniors and three juniors.

Buffalo BullsHead coach: Jeff Quinn (fi rst year)2009 record: 5-7, 3-5 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Rhode Island (Sept. 2), at Baylor (Sept. 11), vs. Central Florida (Sept. 18), at Connecti -cut (Sept. 25)Breakdown: Former CMU as-sistant under Brian Kelly takes over at UB for his fi rst sea-son with youth at quarterback. Zach Maynard, who threw for 2,694 yards last season, transferred to Cal ifornia in the offseason, leaving freshman Rudy Johnson, sophomore Jer-ry Davis and redshi rt freshman Alex Dennison to battle for the start ing job. The Bulls are deep at runnning back with seniors Ide Nduka and Brandon Ther-mi lus combining for more than 1,100 yards last season. An experienced offensive l ine led

by second-team All-MAC selec-t ion Peter Bittner should allow for even bigger rushing num-bers. On the defensive side of the ball, fi rst-team Freshman-All American l inebacker Steven Means is part of an improved l inebacker core. Look out for second-team All-MAC corner-back Domonic Cook and free safety Davontae Shannon, fi rst-team all-conference se-lection, in the secondary. UB will be tough to throw the ball against.

Kent State Golden FlashesHead coach: Doug Mart in (seventh year)2009 record: 5-7, 4-4 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Murray State (Sept. 2), at Boston College (Sept. 11), at Penn State (Sept. 18), vs. Army (Nov. 13)Breakdown: Kent State could turn out to be a surprise this season in the East. The Golden Flashes return sopho-more quarterback Spencer Keith (2,147 yards, 14 touch-downs) and receivers Eugene Jarvis and Kendrick Pressley. Running back Eugene Jarvis re-turns after sitt ing out most of last season with injury. Despite rushing for only 158 yards be-

fore going down, Jarvis ranks fourth on KSU’s career rushing l ist with 3,426 yards. Junior Jacquise Terry rushed for 649 yards last season in Jarvis’ place and could compliment his nicely. Its offensive l ine returns three starts from last season, however Pat Reedy is being moved to tight end. The defensive l ine is without Kevin Hogan and Aaron Hull, who combined for 70 tackles and 10 sacks last season,

Miami RedHawksHead coach: Mike Haywood (second year)2009 record: 1-11, 1-7 MACNon-conference schedule: at Florida (Sept. 4), vs. Colorado State (Sept. 18), at Missouri (Sept. 25), at Cincinnati (Oct. 9)Breakdown: Head coach Mike Haywood enters his second sea-son in Oxford, Ohio, after an ugly 2009. Working in his favor is that 20 starters return, the most of any team in the MAC. Quarterback Zac Dysert put up decent numbers last season, throwing for 2,611 yards and 12 touchdowns. All three of his receivers are back, including senior Armand Robinson, who had 788 yards receiving. The offensive

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By John ManzoStaff Reporter

The first 45 minutes of both games this weekend will be key for the CMU women’s soccer team.

After going scoreless in the team’s pair of games last weekend against Wright State and IPFW, the team looks to reverse that by starting fast at the Iowa Tournament.

Head coach Tom Anagnost said starting fast is more of a mentality, but knows the best team doesn’t always win.

“We examined it a little and will talk about it more,” Anagnost said. “Hopefully, we can start stronger on Friday.”

Anagnost said CMU can still play well and not score goals in the first half. The staff has been working with the players on scoring more goals.

“In this game, which is so unforgiving, you can out play a team and still be down a couple of goals,” he said.

Today, CMU will play in its opening game of the Iowa Tournament at 5:30 p.m. Fri-day against Northern Iowa (0-1).

Despite the Panthers’ 2-11-3 record last season and an 0-1 start to this one, the Chippewas are determined not to take them lightly.

Anagnost preaches a one-game-at-a-time mentality and won’t take any team for granted, and the players are catching on.

“I think every team we play can win on any given day,” said senior midfielder Jenna Hill. “Northern Iowa is a great team and we don’t take their schedule or losses too seriously.”

On the same note, CMU is

solely focused on Northern Iowa, even with Iowa (0-1) two days later.

“We don’t even talk about Iowa, because we are play-ing Northern Iowa,” Anag-nost said. “We’ve been train-ing for Northern Iowa.”

So far, CMU has rotated several players to find the right mix for depth and experience purposes, but Anagnost said anything can change during a game.

The team has a good problem to deal with when it comes to goalkeepers’ this season. Senior Shay Manni-no and sophomore Stefanie Turner have combined for two shutouts as Anagnost has split time between the pair.

“Shay has always been

a great goalie and Turner came in with a great work ethic and attitude,” Hill said. “It’s very comforting knowing they’re up to the task.”

CMU has been dominant defensively so far, allowing a total of six shots from its opponents last weekend. But the team hopes to capi-talize off practice this week to bring a more balanced of-fense this weekend.

Anagnost has been put-ting his players in attack-ing positions and different scenarios throughout the week.

“I expect the girls to come out and be hungry on Fri-day,” he said.

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Early scoring key for CMU in weekend tournament

By Justin HicksStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan field hockey team will be put to its first test Saturday at the Champions Invitational in East Lansing.

The Chippewas take on in-state rival No. 7 Michigan State at 11:30 a.m. It’s a game head coach Cristy Freese said the team looks forward to every year.

“We’re always excited to play Michigan State,” Freese said. “Our team is al-ways challenged by them, and we’ve had a lot of close games.”

Since 2006, the teams have met on the field four times, three of which ended 2-0 in favor of Michigan State.

The last meeting between

the teams was October 2009, when MSU shut out CMU 2-0. Offensively, the Spartans dominated their opponents, outshooting them 28-9.

The game-winning goal was netted by Floor Rijpma, who now stands beside the opposite bench as an assis-tant coach.

In 2007, CMU upset MSU 3-2 thanks to a late goal by Kim Sihota in the 69th minute. Four members of that team will play this weekend in an attempt to repeat.

Michigan State finished the 2009 season 18-4 and a perfect 6-0 in the Big Ten Conference. They went on to win the Big Ten Tournament, beating Indiana 3-2.

“From a standpoint of teams, I think we’ll be most excited to play MSU because

they’re next on our schedule,” Freese said. “I don’t care who we play, we have to establish ourselves as a team that will work harder than any of our opponents.”

CMU welcomes back five starters alongside the 10 freshmen recruits this sea-son. The team is young, espe-cially their goaltending core made up of junior Anastasia Netto and freshmen Carissa Flocken and Jamie Cutter.

While all three have com-bined for a single collegiate appearance in goal, assistant coach Kim Kinsella doesn’t consider it a negative head-ing into the season.

“For me, it just means I don’t have any bad habits to break,” she said.

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“In this game, which is so unforgiv-ing, you can out play a team and still be down a couple of goals.”

Head coach Tom Anagnost

FIle Photo by Andrew KuhnSenior midfielder Jenna Hill, left, dribbles the ball during CMU’s 4-0 exhibition win against Michigan State on Aug. 15.

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By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter

Beginning the season on the road can be a daunting task, especially during a year when the program is slated to be the top team in the Mid-American Conference.

That is ex-actly the pros-pect the CMU women’s vol-leyball team must manage as it opens its season in the 20th annual Mortar Board tour nament

today in West Lafayette, Ind. Head coach Erik Olson is ex-

cited about his team going into his seventh year at the helm, and has high expectations for his athletes.

“I think we have our high-est expectations this year,” he said. “Because we return a lot of good hitters and we have some good experience at the

defensive specialist position.”The Chippewas begin the

three-match tournament at 5:30 p.m. today against No. 24 Northern Iowa. The Panthers are coming off a season where they finished 31-3 and 18-0 in the Missouri Valley Confer-ence. Returning four players who averaged two kills per set, UNI is expected to pose a tough challenge for a young Chippewas squad.

CMU continues play at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday with a pair of matches against Pur-due and Western Kentucky.

The Boilermakers return 10 starters from last season and come into Saturday’s match with a 4-1 record against CMU. Although finishing 2009 with a 14-17 record, Purdue finished seventh in the Big Ten Confer-ence.

Western Kentucky returns eight athletes to a squad that finished 2009 with a 25-9 re-cord and a second-place fin-ish in the Sun Belt Conference. The Hilltoppers present the

biggest test on the court from their middle blocker Junior Tiffany Elmore who averaged more than 2.3 kills per set last season.

CMU enters this week-end after a successful 3-0 win in their alumnae game on Saturday. The Chippewas return five players from 2009 when they finished 17-13 and 8-8 in the MAC.

The team will look to the veteran leadership of Seniors Lauren Krupsky and Lisa John-son for a successful opening weekend.

Krupsky averaged 3.75 kills per set in 2009 and was rewarded with a first team All-MAC selection.

Krupsky said she’s been pleased with the preseason efforts of the team but knows that some specifics need to be ironed out in the early match-es.

“We expect to play our best everyday, ,” Krupsky said.

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line returns three seniors, while the defense returns three start-ers. MU has the potential to compete for a MAC East crown following its one-win season last year. Look for a much-improved RedHawks in 2010.

Northern Illinois HuskiesHead coach: Jerry Kill (third year)2009 record: 7-6, 5-3 MACNon-conference schedule: at Iowa State (Sept. 2), vs. North Dakota (Sept. 11), at Il-linois (Sept. 18), at Minnesota (Sept. 25)Breakdown: Predicted by many to win the MAC West Di-vision, NIU returns eight start-ers on offense, including junior quarterback Chandler Harnish and senior running back Chad Spann. Harnish threw for 1,670 yards and 11 touchdowns while Spann rushed for more than 1,000 yards. The offense line is stacked with juniors and se-niors on both sides. The de-fensive line took a blow in the offseason with the departure of First-Team All-MAC defen-sive end Jake Coffmann and Second-Team All-MAC defensive end Brandon Bice.

Ohio BobcatsHead coach: Frank Solich (sixth year)2009 record: 9-5, 7-1 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Wofford (Sept. 4), at Ohio State (Sept. 18), at Marshall (Sept. 25), vs. Louisiana-Lafay-ette (Oct. 30)Breakdown: OU looks to compete for another MAC East crown. The Bobcats lost quarter-back Theo Scott, leaving senior Boo Jackson and Iowa State transfer Phil Bates to compete

for the starting job. LaVon Bra-zill, a first-team All-MAC punt re-turner and second-team All-MAC receiver, lead the receiving corp that includes two other seniors. A.J. Strum, Joe Flading and Eric Herman combined to start 31 games last season. First-Team All-MAC linebacker Noah Keller (115 tackles, two sacks, one interception) heads a younger linebacker unit after Lee Renfro (110 tackles, two sacks) gradu-ated following the 2009 season. The offensive lines returns three starters while the defensive line returns four, making OU solid in the trenches and another legiti-mate contender for a MAC East title.

Temple OwlsHead coach: Al Golden (fifth year)2009 record: 9-4, 7-1 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Villanova (Sept. 3), vs. Con-necticut (Sept. 18), at Penn State (Sept. 25), at Army (Oct. 2)Breakdown: Temple has made an incredible turnaround after being kicked out of the Big East in 2004. The Owls had their first winning season in 18 years last year and are the favorites to win the MAC East this season. Junior quar-terback Chester Stewart re-turns, but it really doesn’t mat-ter who’s behind center when you have sophomore running back Bernard Pierce. Named first-team All-MAC and MAC freshman of the year, Pierce rushed for 1,361 yards and 16 touchdowns. The school has even launched an early Heis-man Trophy campaign for him. When Stewart does decide to throw, he’ll have a diverse set returning wide receivers to choose from. Senior Michael Campbell and juniors Joe Jones and James Nixon combined for more than 1,000 yards receiv-ing. The offensive line is loaded with experience with three se-niors and two juniors, includ-ing first-team All-MAC selection Colin Madison. On defense, the

Owls are just as loaded, featur-ing first-team defensive tackle Muhammad Wilkerson and MAC Defensive Player of the Year Adrian Robinson. First-team All-MAC Elijah Joseph leads one of the best linebacker units in the conference, while the safety includes second-team All-MAC kick returner Marquise Liverpool and first-team All-MAC safety Jaiquawn Jarrett. This team is loaded and, barring any significant injury bug, will cruise through the East.

Toledo RocketsHead coach: Tim Beckman (second year)2009 record: 5-7, 4-4 MACNon-conference schedule: vs. Arizona (Sept. 3), at Purdue (Sept. 25), vs. Wyoming (Oct. 2), at Boise State (Oct. 9)Breakdown: The core is built for Beckman, but there are still missing pieces in Toledo. The Rockets return four starters on the offensive line, two on the defensive line and three in the secondary, but are without reli-able skill players on offense. Aaron Opelt, who threw 1,997 yards and 16 touchdowns last season, graduated. Sopho-more Austin Danton and ju-nior Alex Pettee will compete for the quarterback position while sophomore wide receiver Eric Page (1,159 yards, seven touchdowns to earn First-Team All-MAC awards) will be ex-pected to lead a fairly young receivers unit. Senior linebacker Archie Donald had 116 tackles last season.

CM Life MAC Football PicksEast Division:1. Temple2. Ohio3. Kent State4. Miami5. Bowling Green6. Buffalo7. Akron

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