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“We no longer have a choice, either humanity adapts its be-havior to support sustainable de-velopment–meaning it ceases to pollute the environment, allows the renewal of natural resources, and contributes to improve ev-erybody’s well-being–or it signs its own, more or less imminent, death sentence. Education plays a crucial role in training citizens. However, it is not always suited to the needs of future societies, both in developed and devel-oping countries,” according to Koïchiro Matsuura, UNESCO Director General on the UN DESD, 20061. Keep windows and doors shut

tightly. Going in and out re-peatedly will make the fur-nace work harder. Anand Sankey, Director of Engi-neering and Maintenence Services at Western Michigan

University, said that residence halls are maintained between 70-74 degrees Fahrenheit. �ere are sensors located in speci�c locations within each building that modulate the heating water loop. “�e temperature in one room can in�uence what happens uni-versally,” Laura Darrah, as-sistant director of Residence Life, said.

2. Leave the common area how you found it. “In the game rooms and common areas there’s a lot of windows that [the students] open up all the time when they think the room is too hot. What they do is perpetuate the problem. When the cold air comes, in it hits the sensors; kicks more heat into those areas which wastes a lot of energy. If they would keep those windows closed in the winter, we could save a lot of heat,” Doug Car-ney, Associate Director of Residence Life, said.

3. Use blankets. Doug Carney suggests using blankets and bundling up rather than al-lowing appliances to run. Blankets keep students toasty and decrease over-use of ap-pliances. Heating blankets are allowed as well. Use with cau-tion; if you are not using the blanket turn it o�.

4. Arrange furniture to take ad-vantage of natural lighting from windows, and to al-low proper air circulation throughout your room. �is will cut down on the use of electricity for lighting as well as decrease the furnace’s la-bor.

5. Know the procedures for mak-ing a maintenance request. If your room is not the cli-mate you desire, you will be required to �ll out a “Heat Sheet” that can be acquired from your Resident Assis-tant. You will be provided a thermometer and directions. If your room falls between

66-67 Degrees Fahrenheit, you are directed to submit a request to Bronco-Fix-It that will be handled as a 5-day priority. 65 or below are ad-vised to call in the problem as an emergency. Barriers may also be requested to place over your windows if you are feeling a dra�. 6. Aim for a 10-15 minute shower vs. 20 minutes. Also, refrain from making those 10-15 minutes steamy ones. Darrah ex-plained that taking hot show-ers as opposed to warm ones creates a colder exterior. �is causes the appliances to get turned on high to compensate for the body heat lost a�er stepping out of a hot shower into a cold atmosphere.

7. Conserve water and energy. Only wash full loads of laun-dry. With limited assets and many college expenses, wash-ing a full load of laundry is a very practical practice. Col-ors will not run in cool water, so combine those loads and make it one.

8. Minimize the times you open and close your refrigerator. Each time you open it, cool air will rush out and be re-placed with warm air, causing the refrigerator to run more in order to stay cool. Your mini-refrigerator should be set close to 37 degrees Fahr-enheit and your freezer set to 3 degrees Fahrenheit to conserve energy. Also, keep it full. Refrigerators operate most e�ciently when full, so keep yours as full as possible with bottles of water, if noth-ing else.

9. Turn o� lights, TV, etc. when you leave your room or a public area. Use power man-agement tools. Set monitors and computers to sleep mode when idle for more than a few minutes. Turn machines completely o� at a power strip when not in use.

10. Use smart power strips.

Even when turned o�, elec-tronic and other home of-�ce equipment can continue to consume electricity when plugged into the wall. Smart power strips automatically turn o� when idle and elimi-nate standby electricity con-sumption.

11. Use Energy Star appliances and items! ENERGY STAR quali�ed appliances incorpo-rate advanced technologies that use 10-50 percent less energy and water than stan-dard models.

12. Replace Incandescent Light bulbs with compact �uores-cent light bulbs (CFLs). CFLs use 75 percent less electricity and produce 90 percent less heat. �ose incidences when your room is warmer than you prefer, take advantage of CFLs to keep the temperature down and to allow the fan to take a break. Directed light, such as for reading, is more practical than brightly light-ing an entire room to do your homework.

13. Use a fan. Western has a ra-diant heat source; thus the air has a degree of humidity to it. In some incidences students �nd their rooms too warm. Eliminate opening windows and roasting everyone else on your �oor. Fans move the air and make the room feel 4 to 6 degrees cooler, and will use less energy than sliding that frosty piece of glass open.

14. Use natural or environmen-tally friendly cleaning sup-plies. Stop buying expensive and toxic cleaning products. Nearly all household cleaning and maintenance tasks can be accomplished with vinegar, baking soda, and boric acid. Homemade recipes can be found at: www.earthjustice.org/cleaningrecipe.

15. Recycle paper, plastic, glass and metal - there are bins in the lobby and large dump-

sters outside of the residence halls or cafe loading docks to empty recyclables in to. It is important to learn where designated dumpsters are and what can and cannot be recycled – i.e. pizza boxes are a no, but if there’s no cheese or grease on the lid, you can cut it o� and recycle the top.

16. Take advantage of the re-sources available. �e caf-eterias allow the use of Eco mugs, and to reduce the use of plastic bags they provide reuseable bags for carry-out. Bronco Transit and Metro Transit transport students around campus and the city of Kalamazoo for free. Cam-pus is a “walking campus” therefore everything is acces-sible by foot and bike. Make each commute a clean one.

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Practical planet-saving pointersBy Alexis LukerSta� Reporter

Thursday, September 29, 2011 3

Long ago, Kalamazoo was known as “�e Boiling Pot” by the Native Americans, accord-ing to Darren Bain, owner of �e Strutt. As a way to promote these rapid growing businesses, �e Strutt and the Kalamazoo Co�ee Company presented their �rst music festival as a non-pro�t idea association called �e Boiling Pot Fest. Last year it took place around July 4 even though it was 90 thousand degrees, according to Bain.

�is year, �e Strutt and �e Kalamazoo Co�ee Company will be hosting the same festi-val Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1, and making it an Oktober Fest, or beer fest for all ages. However, only those of age can drink.

�ere will be many activities other than just music at the fes-tival. Open Roads: Fixapalooza, on Saturday Oct. 1, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., people will have the opportunity to bring their bikes and work with Open Road vol-unteers, and enter in a chance to win a custom designed bike.

Open Roads is a dedicated organization that reaches out to children, and teaches them skills in socializing and bike mechan-ics in hopes of preparing them for the future.

Kalamazoo Nature Center will also be there Oct. 1 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. giving guests a chance to see birds and reptiles, and learn about their local and natural habitats.

Sunset Yoga will also be at-tending �ursday, Friday and

Saturday from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., allowing guests to meditate and sweat their way to peace as the sun descends on the festival. �ere are many other activities in addition to these three.

�ere are many bands at-tending Boiling Pot Festival: Murder by Death, rock ‘n’ roll from Bloomington, Ind.; �e Legendary Shack Shakers, blues, country and rock from Nash-ville, Tenn.; Frontier Ruckus, lyrical folk rock from Ann Ar-bor; Breathe Owl Breath, folk, from East Jordan; Small Brown Bike, post-hardcore from Mar-shall; Mustard Plug, ska from Grand Rapids; Steppin’ In It, Americana, jazz, country and folk from Lansing; Flatfoot 56, Celtic folk-punk from Chi-cago, Ill., Red Sea Pedestrians, Klezmer and Americana from Kalamazoo; �e Go Rounds, Folk, Psych and Rock from Ka-lamazoo and 25 more.

Oktoberfest will feature many di�erent beers from breweries including Magic Hat, Arcadia Ales, Saugatuck Brewing, Miller Lite, Arbor Brewing Company, ABC’s Hoptoberfest, Michigan Brewing Company, Founders Brewing, Shock Top Pumpkin, Frankenmuth Oktoberfest and many others.

In addition to drinks there will be many choices of food in-cluding soup, butternut squash mac and cheese, sandwiches and wraps.

For more information, a full schedule of events or to pur-chase tickets visit http://www.boilingpotfest.com/index.php.

By Alexandra BatsonSta� Reporter

�e Kalamazoo Film Society begins the year on a rather ironic note. �eir �rst �lm of the fall se-mester is called “�e Beginners”. It played at the Little �eatre September 23 through 25.

“�e Beginners” tells the story of Oliver, a 38-year-old man who’s parents’ loveless mar-riage seems to have traumatized him. �e movie begins a�er the death of both parents. However a good portion of the story is told through �ashbacks, speci�cally those set a�er his mother’s death, when Oliver’s father, Hal, admits that he is gay.

Four months later, Hal dies, but not before he �nds love, for the �rst time in his life and then encourages his son to do the same. Oliver, however, for a long time does not. He has seen how meaningless his parent’s re-lationship was and struggles to �nd meaning in any relationship,

until he meets a woman named Anna. Together, they struggle to overcome the sadness that life has brought on them and �nd love and meaning within each other.

Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Moulin Rogue) stars as Oliver and is believable in the roles he plays. His take on Oliver var-ied between amusing and heart breaking and did it so smoothly as one scene transitioned to an-other.

Oliver’s father, Hal, is played by Christopher Plummer, who can manage to make the audi-ence laugh, even while his char-acter is on his deathbed. Hal is brave, sharp and comedic to a boot and will surely win audi-ences over almost as soon as he enters the story.

Mélanie Laurent plays the lovely French actress, Anna, she is, however, much more than just a pretty face. Laurent plays her character with the sort of honesty and openness that the �lm itself

commands and her chemistry with McGregor is almost impec-cable.

Mary Page Keller and Goran Visnjic play Hal’s wife Georgia and his boyfriend, Andy. �ey make less frequent appearances, but are both winning, Keller for her spunk and Visnjic for his wonderful awkwardness.

�e mix of subtle, complex emotions and odd, endearing hu-mor made the movie quite good, but did not set it apart from any movies outside of its genre. It was typical of an indie movie in most senses, including the sense that it could occasionally be slow. How-ever, anyone seeking an honest, imaginative, optimistic movie, should surely consider the “Be-ginners”.

�e next movie that will be shown by the Kalamazoo Film Society is called “Tabloid”, and will be shown at the Little �e-atre on the weekend of October 21. Anyone interested can pur-chase tickets at the door for $5.

“The Beginners” debutsBy Sam StachurskiSta� Reporter

Western Herald �le photoThe Kalamazoo Film Society’s �rst �lm of the semester, “The Beginners,” will be shown at the Little Theatre on Sept. 23-25.

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Bernhard Center rooms 208 and 209 were standing room only when the Gwen Frostic Reading Series kicked o� a new season �ursday.

William Olsen, the speaker at �ursday’s event, is the author of �ve books of poetry. At the read-ing, he will read works from his most recent book, Sand �eory. Oleson’s �rst book, �e Hand of God and a Few Bright Flowers, was a winner of the National Po-etry Series.

Olsen is also a recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Nation/Discovery Award, the Texas Institute of Arts Award, a Breadloaf Fellowship, and poetry awards from Poetry Northwest

and Crazyhorse. �e Gwen Frostic series,

which will continue through the rest of the semester, was named a�er Sara Gwendolen Frostic, a member of the Michigan Wom-en’s Hall of Fame.

Each semester, a combination of well-known writers, faculty and alumni read their works of poetry, �ction, playwriting and non-�ction to the community.

“�ese readings are all free and open to the public, but we especially hope to get more at-tendance from WMU students,” said Dustin Ho�man, the assis-tant coordinator of the series.

As with past semesters, this season’s lineup is full of world-renowned writers like Oleson who have won numerous awards throughout the country.

“Our reputation is such that we can attract writers of these standings in four di�erent genres: poetry, playwriting, �ction and creative non�ction,” said Steve Fe�er, associate professor of the-atre and drama, playwriting and performance studies and the co-ordinator of the Creative Writing program at WMU.

�e coordinators of the event said that the Gwen Frostic series is a good way to involve the com-munity in Western and with lit-erature.

“It’s a great opportunity that such remarkable writers with national and worldwide reputa-tions bring to Western and share their work,” said Fe�er.

�e series will continue through the rest of the semester as indicated by the schedule be-low:

October 13, 8:00 p.m., WMU Bernhard Center 157-158

Marie Macari: November 3rd, 8:00 p.m., �e Little �eatre

-los Murillo: No-vember 17, 8:00 p.m., Bernhard Center 157-158

-ing: Elizabeth Knapp, Melinda

-son Skipper: De-cember 1st, 8:00 p.m., Bernhard Center 157-158More informa-

tion about the au-thors and the series itself can be found on the WMU Eng-lish Department Website at http://www.wmich.edu/english/events.

On �ursday, Sept. 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., students will have the opportunity to net-work with companies with the hopes of getting an internship, co-op, or even a full time job. Engineering, integrated supply chain management, chemistry, computer information systems, and other related �eld students (and alumni) are all welcome to come to this year’s career fair at Parkview. For upperclassmen, it’s the return of a great oppor-tunity. For freshmen, the idea of such a large career fair can be daunting.

But putting on a suit, a tie, and a professional smile may not be as scary as it may seem. Anthony Vizzini, dean of the en-

gineering college gave advice for anyone nervous at the prospect of interviews.

“Come and just be yourself; that’s what recruiters are looking for,” said Vizzini.

�e career fair’s 86 companies participating is nearly double last year’s 44.

“It’s a great opportunity to connect with many types of or-ganizations here [at Parkview] on �ursday,” said Christopher Sell, the career development spe-cialist at Western Michigan Uni-versity. Sell specializes in getting students employed, and thus has tons of advice for students com-ing into the expo.

Possibly the most important thing to bring to an expo like this is a resume. It’s an impor-tant tool for businesses to see your skills and accomplishments

in a neat and organized docu-ment- and make sure you bring more than one. Student employ-ment services has set up days for drop-in resume’ help, which can be found at http://www.wmich.edu/career/. But for Parkview-bound students, Monday and �ursday, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Wednesday, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., resume specialists will be on-site to help build a stronger, more employable resume, as well as give tips on how to talk to po-tential employers.

Formal dress is required for the event.

List of companies in atten-dance:

h t t p : / / w m i c h . e x p e r i -ence.com/stu/cf_registered_employers?�nd=5075.

ByAmbrosia NeldonSta� Reporter

By Baxter GillSta� Reporter

Prestigious authors visit WMU

Engineering Expo offers students opportunties

Courtesy PhotoWilliam Olsen will read from his most recent work at the Bernhard Center.


On Saturday, Oct. 1, at the State �eatre on 404 South Burdick Street in Kalamazoo, there will be a laser show.

“Our theatre is a good venue for the best lasers to project o� the ceilings and back walls. It is a really cool setting,” said Tom Kiebbach who works at the State �eatre.

Kelly Graham who also works at the �eatre says the laser show is really neat because this is the �rst time the Laser Show is combining a live video and live Pink Floyd music. It is usually a good size crowd. People enjoy experiencing their fa-vorite music live. �e Laser Show consists of not only of multiple lasers and compel-ling music, but also 3D glasses, so when the glasses are applied the lasers come at you 3D.

“One laser becomes three” says Tom. �e State �eatre works with other big

promoters around the country, Kiebbach said. Pink Floyd Tribune Band contacted Kalamazoo �eatre to rent the perfect size building for their production. �e tribune

band took a few years o�, but used to be in Kalamazoo making exceptional appear-ances with the laser show for about ten years, �nally they are back in town to per-form the laser show. �e laser show is $20 main �oor, $15 balcony, and $25/30the day of the show.

�e State �eatre of Kalamazoo has many other upcoming shows to attend, some so popular that they are sold out or have a waiting list. Kelly Graham said the rap and R&B performances are pretty big. It is the �rst time we have had rap shows here. Rap shows always go well, big crowds, and sell out fast. An artist that is going to be at the theater on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. is Big Sean.

Another approaching event that is al-most sold out is the Trailer Park Boys who are three comedians. �e show is going to be live at the State �eatre Saturday, Oc-tober 8 at 7 pm. In December, there are Christmas shows every week leading up to Christmas, so make sure to check out those forthcoming events. One of the Christmas events will include the country artist John Berry, Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, November 18 to 19 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 20 at 3 p.m., the State �eatre o�ers another performance to attend, Warren Miller’s “Like �ere’s No Tomorrow.” �is Warren Miller Ski Film has been playing every year for many years.

“It’s a tick o� to the skiers out there and is a very good turn out,” said Kiebbach.

Other listings for shows, performances, or events this year held at the State �eatre include Rap Artist J Cole, �ursday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. and comedian Lisa Lampanelli, Oct. 7, at 8 p.m. �e following weekend, songwriter Tinsley Ellis will be here, Sat-urday Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. Family friendly on Oct. 30 at 3 p.m., “Halloween Spooktacu-lar Magic and Illusion Show” with magi-cian Alan Kazam and Alan Smola. Special guests include: Pete Mcleod, Gordo the magician, and Trino Schincarioll. Finally, the rock jam band, Umphrey’s Mcgee is going to be at the theater Friday, Nov. 4 at 8 p.m.

To �nd out more information and to buy tickets check out the website for sev-eral other events. �e link to the State �eatre’s website is www.kazoostate.com

which provides a direct link for ticket mas-ter. Tickets can also be purchased at the box o�ce Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Pink Floyd laser show lights up State TheatreBy taline TopouzianSta� Reporter

Danny Bartholomew and Chelsea Burrows set up the stage for a rare event in the Biggby Café on Stadium Drive, just west of campus.

�e stools, speakers, stands were aligned so that when Mr. Bartholomew opened the acoustic set that night, he would be facing all the customers, family, and friends that were either lucky enough to catch the event when they walked in to get their day’s dose of ca�eine, or were there to sit and watch the free concert thought up, planned and advertised by Burrows herself.

“It’s usually a perfect studying environment,” said Bur-rows about the café’s atmosphere. “We don’t usually have loud music playing.”

�e music was coupled with deals on co�ee unique to the shop and event.

“We had a similar event during a grand opening we had a�er we renovated,” said Burrows.

�e café almost doubled in size when they added on to the shop in order to not only compensate for the amount of customers but also to make it more student friendly.

“We have an area that we can close o� purely for study-ing,” said Burrows, motioning towards a heavy sound-proof curtain, “Sometimes we have people in here till ten, especially around when �nals are going on.”

�e event itself consisted of deals on co�ee, and three

musical acts between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.“We had a great turnout!” said Burrows. “To be able to

produce that in your own shop feels amazing.”A customer and a family friend of Bartholomew, the

opening act, said, “He’s great to listen to, we love it, but we may be a little biased.”

He continued to explain how Bartholomew just got back from Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied music.

“Audio engineering,” clari�ed Bartholomew. “Music is my main passion, I wish I could always do this.”

Burrows herself accompanied guitarist and close friend Mike Powell during the second act, which was also their �rst public performance.

“I thought it went pretty good,” said Burrows a�er her performance. “It was awesome.”

Powell is a 29-year-old former employee of Biggby who has been playing the guitar on and o� for 14 years.

“You get to know the regulars like family,” said Powell regarding his history with Biggby café.

Naomi Nakken, a seventh grader came with her family to watch her cousin, Burrows, play.

“When I can drive I’m totally coming here all the time,” she said.

“It’s calming in here… I really like it,” said Naomi’s brother, Jermiah Nakken.

As people strolled in and sat down to enjoy the free performance, children stared wide-eyed at the music playing, moms stared at their children, and others seemed to soak in the whole thing.

“We hold an event every last weekend of the month,” said Burrows. “We want to start doing poetry readings and that’s probably what we’ll do [for October].”

Burrows said she is open to new acts and new ideas. She explained how it is a completely open venue.

“I do a lot of advertising through my personal Facebook,” she said, adding that that’s the best way to get recent information about upcoming events.

�e night ended with “Sixth String Samura,” with each artist playing electric guitars and singing songs they wrote themselves.

A�er the artists �nished and the café was about to close, the family-friendly atmosphere ideal for studying revealed itself when the faint sound of slow jazz trickled into the background.

Bartholomew le� saying, “Why wouldn’t you come to the place you get co�ee when there’s free music?”

Biggby becomes a hot spot for good tunesBy Jake AdamsSta� Reporter

Kallie Strazdas/Western HeraldThe State Theatre displays its lineup for October, including Pink Floyd.


Opening last �ursday in York Arena �eatre, “References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” le� the crowd with an odd feeling and question of what love in a relationship truly means when put to the test.

“References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” is a four act production telling the story of the erratic life of an army wife who has become estranged from her husband. However, their di�erent ideals while reaching for each other push them into two completely separate worlds of fantasy and reality.

A�er opening night, audiences con-clude that this show is completely rel-evant to today’s society and is acted so well that as an audience member, one feels the true anger, love, and tears these actors produce to make this production standing ovation material in which they certainly deserved, and earned.

Junior Ali Shea and senior Cornelius Davidson, who play Gabriella and Benito in this show, put on a performance which sincerely tears the audience into two sides based on which character’s ideals of a re-lationship are correct. Because of this,

the audience begins to place themselves in Gabriella and Benito’s shoes and this begins to stir the question and thought of what love truly means.

In addition to and support of this, the entire cast, which includes Charles-Cur-tis Sanders as Coyote, MacGregor Arney as Moon, Andi Foster as Cat, and Nathan Sabo as Martin, bring this show to its ab-solute fullest potential producing a phe-nomenal production.

Guest Director and WMU alum, Tara Matkowsky, was driven to share Jose Rivera’s show with audience members to portray what is happening on the in-nermost part of people’s heart and soul in times of a struggling relationship, es-pecially in the type of relationship that is relevant to so many people in today’s society.

�e cast, crew and the director of this production truly captured the essence and emotions of Jose Rivera’s writing in this phenomenal and must-see produc-tion of “References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot.”

“References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot” continues its production this upcoming �ursday thru Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Good start to ‘Dali’ runBy Cody JanczewskiSta� Reporter

Western Michigan University’s impro-visational comedy troupe, the Worklight Improv Team, will be holding auditions this Sunday for the 2011-2012 season.

“Auditions for the team are a super laidback process,” said WIT Chairperson Emily Scott. “An auditioner first comes in we’ll have them fill out a short form with their contact information, and then the rest of the time will be spent play-ing improv games that we will teach you. A couple of us will be walking around taking notes during this time, but not in an intimidating way, it’s a really fun and non-judgmental experience.”

The group, which is going into its second season, was awarded “Best New Registered Student Organization” in the Office of Student Activities & Leader-ship Programs’ Golden Broncos award

ceremony last spring. The troupe has performed several shows on campus, as well as held open improv lessons and jam sessions.

Fans are invited to attend all WIT’s events as well. “WIT plans on hosting a minimum of 2-3 shows per semester, and all of our shows are free so bring friends!” said Scott. “WIT is available to perform for other events as well, and have performed for a variety of audi-ences including the University Theatre Guild, First Year Experience Programs, and multiple residence halls.”

Auditions will be Sunday, October 2nd from 8:00-9:30 p.m. in the Bern-hard Center Room 205. The cast list will be posted the following Monday online and at the Gilmore Theatre Complex. For more information or to schedule al-ternate audition arrangements, contact Emily Scott at [email protected].

By Joe StandoSta� Reporter

Wanted: funny people


�e Western Michigan Uni-versity football team will travel to the east coast this Saturday to take on last year’s Fiesta Bowl and Big East Champion, the Uni-versity of Connecticut Huskies.

�e Broncos (2-2, 1-0 MAC) will face the Huskies (2-2, 0-0 BE) for only the second meeting in the school’s history and the �rst time since the 2003 season. WMU football has a 2-8 all-time record against Big East schools. �e game marks the �rst against a Big East opponent since open-ing day of the 2007 season at the University of West Virginia.

“I knew this was gonna be a really hard stretch,” said WMU head coach Bill Cubit. “UCONN is a tough-nose team with 16 starters back from a BCS team that was in the Fiesta Bowl. We gotta go out there and get our-selves ready to go because it’s a long season. We’ve got our work cut out for us, but I like our team.”

UCONN will be the last non-conference school that the Brown and Gold face this season. Next week the Broncos will be home at Waldo Stadium for homecom-ing and will begin the meat of its

Mid-American Conference West Division schedule.

WMU record sits at .500, but both losses have come against na-tionally ranked Big Ten schools. A win on Saturday at UCONN could propel the Broncos to season that will assure them the MAC Championship game and a respectable bowl game.

It can also be argued that the Brown and Gold beat themselves in both losses by mental errors and untimely penalties and turn-overs.

“We’re a play away when you look at the mistakes,” Cubit said. “A play here a missed kick there, an overthrow here and a blown coverage there. We’ve gotta �x them, if we’ve got a blown cover-age than they’ll try to exploit it. �at’s how we game-plan too. It’s the �ne points that decide these games.”

A lot of times big name con-ference schools tend to overlook the “weaker” MAC opponent and not take them seriously. Il-linois almost did that a second consecutive time last Saturday.

“Well guess what? We won a lot of battles in there,” Cu-bit said. “I mean Drew Nowak, who blocked him? Who blocked [Paul] Hazel, Who blocked Tra-

vonte Boles? You gotta set your sights higher. �at’s what I keep preaching to these kids.”

�e line of scrimmage was dominated by WMU on both sides of the ball last week at Il-linois. UCONN will be in for a long day if team “train-wreck” can keep the same pressure on the UCONN o�ensive line this week.

“Defensively we’ve gotta be faster,” said defensive tackle Tra-vonte Boles. “�ey kind of look down on a MAC school, and they don’t really expect us to play as physical as they do. We’ve got each other back.

�e Broncos are sitting where many fans and experts expected them to be a�er four games. �is week is a great chance to achieve some the national recognition for beating a BCS from last year.”

“It’d mean a lot,” Boles said. “�en you can look at the rest of your season as how you expected it to be coming out with a BCS win. Many people wouldn’t ex-pect a MAC school to go down and beat an Illinois or a UCONN. For us to go down and play them and show them we’re not some MAC school you can push over meant a lot. We let them know early that we weren’t up for that.”

A�er the UCONN game, the Broncos will return home to Waldo Stadium next Saturday to face the University of Bowling Green Falcons for homecoming week.

�is past week, WMU re-ceiver Jordan White was named the MAC O�ensive Player of the week for the second consecutive week for his 14 catch, 132 yard

performance last week at Illi-nois.

Nothing could give the Bron-cos season a better boost than a win this week.

“Going into our MAC sched-ule the following week with a win would make it just that much easier to play,” Boles said. “We wanna go into the MAC schedule and try to get a championship.”

WMU Broncos in for a tough �ightBy Chris WillisSta� Reporter

WMU hockey ranks high in the preseason

Last season, the Western Michigan University hockey team took substantial strides forward in the Central Colle-giate Hockey Association, com-ing within one game of being the CCHA Champion.

�e season was arguably highlighted by a huge upset win over University of Michigan in the CCHA Semi�nals, defeating the team that was then ranked fourth in the nation by a 5-2 margin.

�is season, the Broncos are

being rewarded for their e�ort, as College Hockey News has named WMU the eighth best team in the nation going into next week’s regular season opener.

�ough the Broncos lost lead-ing goal scorer Max Campbell at the end of last season, the team is returning twelve players who had double-digit scoring a year ago.

Led by sophomore Chase Bal-isy—who was recently named to the All-CCHA team—the Bron-cos are the third-highest ranked team in the CCHA, behind only Miami and Notre Dame.

Along with the loss of Camp-bell, the Broncos also lost head

coach Je� Blashill, who le� Ka-lamazoo to join the Detroit Red Wings in Hockeytown

�e team did, however, pick up Andy Murray, who has years of NHL experience in his reper-toire, including a trip to the Stan-ley Cup playo�s.

Murray’s experience is con-sidered a boost to a Broncos team that is relatively young, especially from a defensive standpoint.

�e CHN named Miami col-lege hockey’s top team to start the season. �e Broncos will see Miami twice in the regular sea-son in a two game series on the road. Last year, WMU took one win and a tie away from Miami

in four regular season contests, before taking a 5-2 loss against the number one team in the CCHA Finals.

In the CCHA coaches poll, which only takes CCHA teams into account—the Broncos were picked to �nish fourth, behind Notre Dame, Miami and Michi-gan.

Michigan, who is ranked ninth in the CHN poll, is �gured to have a tight race with WMU throughout the regular season, as both teams are pretty evenly matched.

�e Broncos were also picked to �nish fourth in the CCHA media poll, and is the highest

ranked team in both polls to not receive a single �rst place vote.

Surprisingly, both polls have Notre Dame as the top squad in the conference, though many be-lieve that the division is Miami’s to lose.

�e Broncos were predicted to �nish tenth last season in both polls, though they greatly ex-ceeded that expectation.

�e Broncos have one exhibi-tion game this season, a neutral-site game in Muskegon against University of Toronto.

WMU begins regular season play in Kalamazoo on October 7, facing Alabama-Huntsville.

By Matt BuckSports Reporter

Western Herald File PhotoWMU’s Brian Fields (20) scores his �rst touchdown of the evening. Fields �nished the night with a total of 54 yards on eight carries for two touchdowns.


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