[cm-life.com]

Mount Pleasant, Mich.Central Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeCentral Michigan LifeFriday, Sept. 24, 2010

1,000 club Volleyball’s Krupsky records more than 1,000 kills, 4A

photos by Jeff smith/staff photographerDavid Woroniecki preaches to students on campus Wednesday near Moore Hall. Woroniecki said he has no permanent residence and travels throughout the U.S. with a group called Thirsty4Truth. “There’s a whole world out there and I want to reach them,” he said.

Family Values

Saline freshman Chloe Gleichman flips through her Bible while speaking with Christo-pher Nada, a member of Soulwinner Ministries International, as he preaches to students Wednesday at Central Park. “God accepts people where they’re at,” Gleichman said.

CMU could seek return of $750,000 from contractor

Taco Bell closes Sunday for three weeks

Psychology and health fitness top majors

cm-life.com | News, sports, updates and multimedia 24/7

TWITTER POlIcE lOG SPORTS@CMLife

FOLLOW US for regular updates and breaking news

Keep up with area crime and accidents on a map

updated weekly under extras

Check out cm-life.com Saturday for a live chat during the CMU-

Northwestern football game

‘I hope and pray I made an impact on many lives’

Forum focuses on globalization

By Carisa SeltzSenior Reporter

An additional $750,000 will be funneled into the Events Center renovation because of design problems

It’s money CMU is seeking back from the project’s con-tractor. Altogether, the board of trustees on Thursday approved $1.5 million to be allocated to the new structure.

Stan Shingles, assistant vice president of University Recre-ation, events and conferences, said outdated building codes from the 1970s and unknown structural issues with the exist-ing facility contributed to the design problems.

“When we started talking about blending the old with the

new,” he said, “there were so many unknown factors that just popped up.”

Of the $1.5 million, $750,000 will be used to fix the “unfore-seen conditions, design er-rors and omissions.” A total of $100,000 is for internal signage enhancement and $650,000 is for a 30-foot-by-10-foot video board and related video equip-ment.

David Burdette, vice president of Finance and Administrative Services, said design issues be-came apparent as construction progressed on the Events Center during the “ambitious design schedule.”

The list of design errors is quite long, said Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Fa-cilities Management.

“There are many of them that

Board approves $1.5 million total for Events Center renovation

A evenTS | 2A

By Emily PfundSenior Reporter

Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, examining different issues.

It’s a question every college student hears addressed to them dozens of times: “What’s your major?”

The answer defines where many students may be going for the rest of their lives. It helps students classify their peers and find others who share similar interests.

And although it may change several times over four or five years at CMU, statistics show

some majors are especially pop-ular.

The top major at CMU is health fitness, with 549 signed majors as of the spring 2010 se-mester, according to the Office of Institutional Research.

Students with a bachelor’s de-gree in health fitness can enter a career in cardiac or pulmonary rehab, working with high-risk patients.

“It can be a very rewarding job with lots of patient-contact hours.” said Jeff Betts, chair-man of the School of Health Sci-ences.

Many students, however, enter the program with the in-tention of going on to gradu-ate school for nursing, physical therapy or to become a physi-cian’s assistant.

“I’d say about 400 stu-

Leadership serves as most popular minor for students

A MajorS | 2A

By Rachel DybickiStaff Reporter

A well-known destination for late-night meals will close tem-porarily starting Sunday.

Taco Bell, 1201 S. Mission St. will move to to a new location next door. The closing period will provide time for moving the food line grill, cleaning and

making sure the power and wa-ter all work, said shift manager Taylor Ferrante.

“For the time I’ve been here they have been talking about a new Taco Bell and it’s about time we’ve finally got it,” she said.

Some students are uncom-fortable knowing there is no way to go out and get a noctur-nal taco, Ferrante said.

“People will actually be forced to go out and find new fast food places to eat at,” said Saginaw senior John Reardon. “Taco lovers won’t be able to get

their fix for weeks and I can see how that would pose a prob-lem.”

Taco Bell will open home-coming weekend starting Oct. 15.

“It’s going to be hardest for the late night crowd,” said St. Claire Shores senior Sarah Kamlay. “The next closest place to Taco Bell is Taco Boy and the prices are nowhere near as cheap.”

Ferrante said rumors about an insect infestation being the real reason for Taco Bell’s relo-cation are false.

“It’s really funny people would say that, I’ve been here for four years and that is defi-nitely not true.” Ferrante said.

The closing of Taco Bell will be hard on both students and employees, she said.

The old Taco Bell site will be converted into a parking lot, opening up a lot more spaces for consumers and employees, Ferrante said.

The layout will be three times bigger with much more seating and space for guests.

metro@cm-life.com

Chain reopens Oct. 15 to locationright next door

“We go around talking about Jesus’ scriptures and real alternatives,” said Abra-ham Woroniecki. “Faith and law are not the same and in the end it’s all about moral-ity.”

The brothers and sisters of the Woroniecki family don’t have a set religion, they just try to encourage others to think for themselves, Abra-ham Woroniecki said.

The family spoke up for all of their rights and beliefs. They wanted to inspire oth-ers to starting thinking more deeply about what they want from their lives, he said.

“They’re being public spec-

tacles but I do think it’s good for them for getting their word and religion out there,” said Ryan Brooks, Clinton Township freshman.

The family travels the world hoping to spread their ideals. They have visited over 40 dif-ferent countries and plan to continue making their pres-ence known at major univer-sities.

“I hope and pray I made an impact on many lives through my time speaking,” Abraham said.

Abraham’s brother David Woroniecki had no doubts about reaching out to stu-dents.

“I for sure know I inspired people today, if not I know I got many students thinking and taking new ideas into consideration,” he said.

Two groupsWhile the Woroniecki fami-

ly talked about reconsidering religion, another group jock-eyed for students’ attention

Brad Pollack, one of the main speakers for Soulwin-ners, went out of his way to inform students of what was wrong with their ideas on life and how they should change as soon as possible.

“I’m here to warn people about hell,” Pollack said.

“Most people will be going to hell. I truly do care where they are going and I want to help them change. Changing your life in such a way can seem to be hurtful short-term but long-term it’s so worth it.”

The Soulwinners group comes every year to provoke students, Grand Rapids se-nior Kelley MacKinnon said.

“He is being hypocritical,” Mackinnon said. “I believe judgement is a sin and here he is judging others. Person-ally, I’m here to just rattle him up a little.”

studentlife@cm-life.com

Siblings visit campus, while Soulwinners preach to students

By Rachel Dybicki | Staff Reporter

The Woroniecki family get-together was a bit different than most on Wednesday.

The siblings preached outside of Moore, Pearce and Dow halls, carrying signs with phrases such as “Last days, Last Chance, Escape Hell” and handing out homemade pamphlets — earning the attentions of many students and faculty.

InsIdew Board could add graduate student housing, 3A

Leah sefton/staff photographerRich Studley, CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, speaks during the Griffin Pub-lic Policy Forum Thursday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

DRunk DRIvInG Students get a dose of reality in virtual simulator, 3A

By Sherri KeatonStaff Reporter

Marco Nobili feels students should take a detailed look at what is going on with the other side of the world for a better un-derstanding of globalization.

Nobili, consul of Italy in De-troit, was one of six panelists ranging from businessmen to CEOs at Thursday evening’s Grif-fin Policy Forum. The interna-tional conference returned this week under the title “Making Public Management Work in the Global Economy: Lessons from

Europe and North America.” Various topics, including

what globalization means for managers and understanding diverse viewpoints, were debat-ed in front of about 100 people at Warriner Hall’s Plachta Audi-torium.

Nobili discussed several Ital-ian businesses opening up in the Midwestern region.

“This area has always been central and very important for the Italian business,” Nobili said.

A ForuM | 5A

2A || friday, sept. 24, 2010 || Central michigan Life cm-life.com/category/news[NEwS]

ENJOY A NICE ROUND OF GREEN AT ONE OF THESE CENTRAL MICHIGAN COURSES!

Amazing savingsfor schooland more

Sign upfor a Sam’s Club®

Collegiate Membership, and the value

begins instantly with a

$15 Sam’s Club Gift Card.

Visit SamsClub.com/collegiate for details.

Sign up for a Sam’s Club®

Collegiate Membership, and the value begins instantly with a

$15 Sam’s Club Gift Card.

Amazing savings for school and more

Visit SamsClub.com/collegiate for details.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Jake may/photo editorTaylor alumna Shannon Harrell, right, attempts to keep her balance as she slacklines with her friend, Pinckney alumnus Kyle Andrus, Sunday at the corner of Cherry and Oak streets. It was Harrell’s fourth day slacklining, and she said it takes focus and practice.

Today

w an overnight canoe trip will begin at noon at the Wesley Foundation, 1400 S. Washington St.

w a CMu surplus sale is from noon to 2 p.m. in the lot at the corner of Bellows and Douglas St.

w african culture night takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

saTurday

w art in the park is from 12:30 to 4 p.m. in Deerfield Nature Park, 2425 W. Remus Road. There will be art displays, poetry readings, live music, trail walks and a creation station.

w wheatland Music dance series runs today from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the WMO site in Remus.

w woodland Hospice rock-a-thon fundraiser is from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Millpond Park, 607 S. Adams St.

sunday

w “The Last song” is playing at 2 p.m. in the Faith Johnston Memorial Library in Rosebush.

w The 2010 CHIpy awards for the 2009-2010 athletic year is from 8 to 10 p.m. in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

Corrections

© Central Michigan Life 2010Volume 91, Number 15

Central Michigan Life has a long-standing commitment to fair and accurate reporting. It is our policy to correct factual errors. Please e-mail news@cm-life.com.

EVENTS CALENDAR

are very significant, very high cost to repair and correct,” he said to the board, “but abso-lutely necessary to complete the project.”

University reserves will fi-nance the $750,000 needed to repair the design errors up front.

However, Lawrence said he and his team will work with the design and architectural firm to determine the financial respon-sibility of the repairs through a process of mediation.

“We are going to try and get every penny we can get (back),” he said.

University President George Ross said the university has un-dergone mediation to recover funds from design errors in the past.

He said the architectural team hired to design the Health Pro-fessions Building was required to pay back the university for several costs. The costs were associated with replacing every window in the building after a mediation process found the firm at fault.

“We have built a lot of build-ings on this campus,” Ross said. “Sometimes, there are errors.”

Ross estimated it could take at least a year to get reimbursed by the insurance company.

The board also approved the allocation of additional funds for repairing damages to cam-pus buildings after two floods this summer, including the Events Center.

The Events Center will receive $500,000 for repairs to locker rooms and a storage area that were damaged during a June 3 flood. Another $500,000 is being allocated to transfer rubberized flooring deemed biohazardous

from one landfill to another.A total of $3 million will be

used to repair 39 campus build-ings that were damaged during the Aug. 11 flood.

The exact allocation amount for each building was not avail-able.

VIdeo equIpMenTFuture revenue from the ath-

letics department will fund the video board and related video equipment.

Shingles said the video board and equipment was in-cluded in the original plan for the facility. However, they were omitted as time progressed and it became apparent com-ponents had to be cut to stay within budget.

Shingles said additional fund-ing was requested because they felt the video board and equip-ment would be important assets to the Events Center.

“We realized that we were in a lot of ways not creating the facility that we wanted to create (without the video board and equipment),” he said.

Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said the equipment is not just for the athletics department, but will be used for concerts and graduation ceremonies as well.

“Those pieces will be used for a variety of events,” he said.

Heeke said there is a funding mechanism already in place to repay the reserve account. Re-pairing the flood damage and adding the new equipment will not interrupt the timeframe for completion, he said.

The $100,000 requested for internal signage enhancement will be funded through univer-sity reserves.

Heeke said the signage will be used for helping people navi-gate through the facility and for decoration purposes.

university@cm-life.com

continued from 1A

EvEnTS |

dents are in the program as a way to get into other programs,” Betts said.

Health fitness fulfills many of the prerequisites for pre-medi-cine programs, including anato-my, physiology and chemistry.

“It’s a good major for what I want to do,” said Owosso senior Kayla Latz. “It incorporates a lot of options for after graduation.”

Latz plans to go to graduate school to become a physician’s assistant.

The second most popular major is psychology with 478 signed majors last spring. It is also the second most common minor at CMU with 312 signed.

“It has to do with who you are and why you’re that way, which is something everyone is inter-ested in,” said psychology pro-fessor John Monahan.

If a student goes to graduate school after completing an un-dergraduate degree in psychol-ogy, they could enter a career as a school, clinical or industrial-organization psychologist or do applied psychological research.

Without graduate school, stu-dents usually go into some sort of human service, such as social work, Monahan said.

A psychology degree can also be useful for a career in manage-ment and psychology students “do very well in the business field,” he said.

Sterling Heights senior Jenni-fer Zagorski said she stumbled into psychology and explored the topic in high school.

“Right now I’m working with a professor in legal psychology to get an internship with the FBI,” Zagorski said.

A legal psychologist does re-search on jury decision-mak-

ing, helps with jury selection and may sometimes be called in court as an expert witness, Zagorski said.

Zagorski said psychology is a popular program at CMU be-cause it is a growing field.

MInorClimax senior Ashley Pryor

decided to minor in leadership after becoming involved with other activities at the Leader-ship Institute.

“I figured the minor would complement all the hands-on things I was already doing and it would look really good to em-ployers,” Pryor said.

The leadership minor, a 24-credit interdisciplinary minor, is popular because it can be tai-lored to fit well with any major, said Dan Gaken, interim direc-tor of the Leadership Institute.

The 404 students that have signed leadership minors at CMU come from all colleges and degree programs on cam-pus, Gaken said.

“I think its appeal is that it’s universally applicable,” Gaken said.

Julia Sherlock, director of Ca-reer Services, said a leadership minor is appealing to potential employers.

“It shows you have applied experiences in leadership,” Sherlock said.

Pryor is majoring in human resources management and has already accepted a position as a human resources assistant for the National Football League, where she will start work after graduating in December.

During an internship with the NFL this summer, Pryor said she worked with interns from Yale, Stanford and Harvard and said her leadership minor helped put her on the same level as students from more prestigious universities.

“There were 18 openings and 3,500 people applied,” Pryor

said. “I think the (leadership) minor definitely set me apart with that huge pool.”

CHoosIng a CareerSherlock said students should

choose a career path based on what they are interested in and enjoy doing, not just what will make money.

“Use your freshman year as a year of discovery,” Sherlock said. “Take advantage of uni-versity program classes and stretch yourself to try new things.”

Sherlock said it is better for students to explore their op-tions and test out several differ-ent fields while in school than to graduate and find themselves in jobs they don’t enjoy.

Sherlock said companies are actively hiring in the fields of ac-counting, engineering, technol-ogy, corporate fitness and health care.

“There’s also a big push for sales,” Sherlock said.

university@cm-life.com

majORS |continued from 1A

Signed majors as of spring 2010

w Health Fitness: 549w Psychology: 478w Marketing: 362w Accounting: 329w Biomedical Sciences: 286

eric dresden, managing editor | news@cm-life.com | 989.774.4343

inSide LiFe3A

Central Michigan Life

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter

This story first appeared on cm-life.com Thursday after-noon.

A regional drug enforcement team will not lose a position in Isabella County as some might have feared.

The county Sheriff’s Depart-ment is required to keep its dep-uty on the Bay Area Narcotics Enforcement Team at least two-thirds of the time. It was thought the position would be fully re-moved from BAYANET since the county’s 2011 fiscal year budget did not include funding for the third of the position the county was responsible for last year.

The decision was announced at Tuesday’s Isabella County Board of Commissioners meet-ing.

“I’m glad to see they’re going to keep the deputy in BAYANET,”

said Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. “It’s very important we have someone there full-time. I hope we’ll find the funding.”

County Administrator Tim Dolehanty said that deputy will have to fulfill the responsibili-ties to BAYANET. He said, “Grant funding exists for that purpose.”

The grant comes from Sag-inaw Chippewa Indian Tribe 2 percent allocations, which pays for roughly $50,000 of the posi-tion.

Dolehanty said BAYANET has the money to pay for the $25,750 the board will not

cover. BAYANET held $475,327 in undesignated reserves in 2009, which accounted for 44 percent of their expenses, ac-cording to a press release from Dolehanty.

“I’m suggesting that would be a great place for BAYANET to pull that money from,” he said. “That’s surplus money. We’re not here to bank public money.”

Dolehanty said the 44 per-cent surplus is much larger than most government agencies, which try to stay under a 15 per-cent surplus.

Isabella County provides 57 percent of all local officers to BAYANET. The county diverted another grant — the Byrne Grant — to Clare County so they could have their own officer on the team.

The deputy would have been assigned to road patrol and writ-ing tickets to generate revenue if the position had been returned to the sheriff’s department. The deputy would need to write 15 tickets per day to pay for their salary and benefits, Mio-duszewski said. The plan was scrapped, however.

The sheriff’s department will have to pay for the rest of the po-sition if BAYANET does not and wishes it to remain a full-time position.

Mioduszewski said the situ-ation is better than losing the deputy entirely, but hopes someone funds the rest of the position.

The 2011 budget will be ap-proved after a public hearing at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at the Isabella County Building, 200 N. Main St.

metro@cm-life.com

Drug enforcement deputy remains in Isabella CountySheriff hopes to find funding for position

sara WinkLer/staff photographerTrustee Gail Torreano listens while University President George Ross addresses the Board of Trustees at the meeting Thursday morning. The board approved funding for the Events Center project, granting an additional $1.5 million for repairs and new equipment.

Several students “killed” pedestrians and them-selves through the simulation and many more were “ticketed” for speeding or swerving off of the virtual road.

After providing the simulation operator with a number of drinks “consumed” in a specified time frame, students sat in the driver’s seat of a simula-tion vehicle. Once inside, students were equipped with virtual reality goggles impairing their vision, giv-ing them a view of a virtual road and environment in which to drive.

Alex Basel, an employee of Professionals Encour-aging Educational Reform Statewide, which provided the opportunity, said an average of 200 to 250 stu-dents try the simulation on a typical day.

“Normally they have a little bit of surprise,” Basel said. “Some will say they’ve done it before but they won’t ever do it again. In the long run, we want to save lives and keep drunk drivers off the road.”

He said the simulation vehicle is equipped with sensors on the gas pedal, break, steering wheel and on the goggles themselves, providing an accurate and realistic account of what it’s like to drive under the in-fluence of alcohol.

“I was scared, I thought I was going to hit a kitten or something,” said Okemos freshman Taylor Hall. “I didn’t hit anybody, but I went too far off the road and crashed.”

Hall said people should not drink and drive, even if they don’t feel drunk.

“You think you might be okay, but you’re definitely not,” she said. “I thought I was doing okay, but when I tried to turn a little bit, I swerved right off the road.”

CMU Police Officer Jeffrey Ballard said he hopes students realize the seriousness of drinking and driv-ing.

“We want to show everybody the impact alcohol can have on you without putting alcohol in your sys-tem,” he said. “These are great programs. If we can just educate a few people, it will be well worth it.”

Michelle Veith, assistant director of Residence Life, said this is the second year a drunk-driving simulator has been brought to campus.

“We liked this one because we could do it outside, it’s less intimidating,” she said. “We’ve had a steady flow, we haven’t had a long wait. I think it’s been really successful.”

studentlife@cm-life.com

Daring to drivephotos by andreW kuhn/staff photographer

Illinois junior Paul Barlow gets behind the wheel of a drunk driving simulator Wednesday afternoon in front of the Bovee University Center. “I find it interesting and educational,” Barlow said. “You get to see the possible risks.”

Students’ experience of virtually swerving, crashing aims to deter real accidents

By Ryan Taljonick | Senior Reporter

Robin Malcolm got a sip of

drunk driving without any

taste of alcohol.

After hitting a pedestrian with his

virtual vehicle, Malcolm was relieved

his experience was just a simulation.

The East Lansing freshman was

one of many students to try the Resi-

dence Life-sponsored drunk-driving

simulator outside Bovee University

Center Thursday afternoon.

“If that’s really how it is when

people are driving drunk, they

definitely should not do it,” Malcolm

said. “It was not easy. I was focusing

so hard, trying to correct any

mistakes I might have made. I killed

a person though.”

By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter

Brenda Lawrence is aiming to bring back the Michigan Promise Scholarship and make a tuition freeze for higher edu-cation students.

Lawrence, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant gov-ernor and Southfield mayor, came to Mount Pleasant Thursday afternoon and ad-dressed students as part of a stop in her and gubernatorial

candidate Virg Bernero’s cam-paign.

The proposed tuition freeze would be modeled after the program Eastern Michigan University enacted this year.

University President George Ross made a surprise appear-ance at The Brass Cafe, 128 S. Main St., and greeted the may-or. He introduced her as “Lieu-tenant Governor Lawrence.”

Ten people were in atten-dance as Lawrence spoke, en-

couraging CMU students to get voters registered.

Lawrence said the Bernero campaign’s priorities are eco-nomic development and edu-cation.

“There’s money to build more prisons, but no money for education,” Lawrence said. “Forty percent of prisoners have no high school educa-tion.”

Lawrence wants to work on educating the state’s work-force.

Clean energy is a priority of her ticket, as is increasing us-age and efficiency of public transportation, Lawrence said.

Bryant English, a Jackson ju-nior, asked Lawrence what he can tell people when encour-aging them to vote.

“Using her words, she said they are going to freeze tuition and bring back the promise schol-arship,” English said. “At first, I didn’t know who she really

Lt. governor, court candidates visit city

A viSiT | 5A

East Lansing freshman Robin Malcolm tries to walk a straight line while wearing goggles that simulate being drunk outside the Bovee Uni-versity Center Wednesday afternoon. “It felt like my feet were off to the left,” Malcolm said. “Keeping my balance was hard.”

By Amelia EramyaStaff Reporterand Jake BolithoUniversity Editor

Plans to construct additional graduate student housing on CMU’s north campus have emerged as a serious possibility.

CMU is in the early stages of selecting an architect to help design the new hous-ing. Trustees were briefed on the project at Thursday’s meeting, but a proposal to move forward with it will likely not take place until December’s meeting, said John Fisher, associate vice president of Residences and Auxiliary Services.

He said the housing will possibly be located on the north side of parking lot 8, along Bellows Street.

“It will probably be in the 100-unit range,” Fisher said. “Depending on the demand, it would be open to all grad students.”

Early plans call for units consisting of one, two or four bedrooms with full kitchens, he said.

Until CMU hires an architect and de-termines an exact location, there will not be an estimate of the cost or size of the structure, Fisher said.

Reasons for such a project include the demolition of several units of Washing-ton Apartments in order to make room for the Education and Human Services Building.

“We lost eight units,” said University President George Ross. “There is a short-age of graduate student housing.”

Residence Life and Facilities Manage-ment are working on the project’s devel-opment. The idea has been discussed among university officials for the past few years, Fisher said.

Ross also pointed to the summer of 2012, when the College of Medicine’s in-augral class is expected to begin course-work. The college will add 100 new stu-dents to campus enrollment.

Ross said there are several options on north campus that are being looked at for housing, but the planning process is still in its preliminary stages.

“We needed to advise our board that it was under consideration and get their support to pursue the plan,” he said.

There are 1,922 graduate students en-rolled at CMU this semester, according to statistics recently released by the Col-lege of Graduate Studies.

university@cm-life.com

on-campus grad housing in developmentTrustees approve plan,hiring of architect

“We lost eight units. there is a shortage of

graduate student housing.”

George Ross, University presidentcm-life.comWatch students attempt to use a drunk driving simulator

O n T h E c a m Pa I G n T R a I l

voices[cm-life.com/category/opinion]

4A

central Michigan Life

Friday, Sept. 24, 2010

The board of trust-ees’ approval of plans for on-cam-

pus housing for graduate students Thursday was an encouraging develop-ment and a step in the right direction.

EDITORIAL | early-stage plans for on-campus graduate student housing a step in right direction

Build on ideasAsk, tell,

pass the bill

Editorial Board: Jackie Smith Editor in ChiEf | Brad Canze, VoiCEs Editor | Eric Dresden, Managing Editor |

Jake Bolitho UniVErsity Editor | Maryellen Tighe, MEtro Editor | Aaron McMann, sports Editor

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the

free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

– The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Joe MartinezColumnist

KIM PATISHNOCK [CENTRAL SQUARE]

central Michigan Life

“I saw him a cou-ple of weeks ago. I don’t remember who he is though. I probably don’t know who he is because I’m not

on campus much this semester.”

Daniel Brookhouse, Fremont senior

C M Y O u Do you know the name of the CMU President and would you recognize him walking down the street?

Paige calamari/staFF photographer

“I know that guy. I’ve seen him a

couple of times, but I don’t know his name. Does his name start with an ‘r’?”

Katsuhisa Nagai, Japan senior

EDITORIAL Jackie Smith, Editor in Chief

Eric Dresden, Managing Editor

Connor Sheridan, Student Life EditorMaryellen Tighe, Metro Editor

Jake Bolitho, University EditorChelsea Kleven, Lead Designer Aaron McMann, Sports Editor

Jake May, Photo EditorSean Proctor, Assistant Photo Editor

Adam Kaminski, Video Editor

ADvERTISINg Shawn Wright, Paige Winans,

Carly SchaferAdvertising Managers

PROfESSIONAL STAff Rox Ann Petoskey,

Production Leader Kathy Simon,

Assistant Director of Student Media

Neil C. Hopp,Adviser to Central Michigan Life

E-mail | voices@cm-life.comMail | 436 Moore Hall

Mount Pleasant, MI 48859Fax | 989.774.7805

Central Michigan Life welcomes let-ters to the editor and commentary submissions. Only correspondence that includes a signature (e-mail excluded), address and phone number will be considered. Do not include attached documents via e-mail. Letters should be no longer than 300 words and commentary should not exceed 500 words. All submissions are subject to editing and may be published in print or on www.cm-life.com in the order they are received.

Drug enforcement unnecessary

Central Michigan Life is the independent voice of Cen-tral Michigan University and is edited and published by students of CMU every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and on Wednesday during the summer term. The online edition (www.cm-life.com) contains all of the material published in print.

Central Michigan Life is under the jurisdiction of the independent Student Media Board of Directors. Articles and opinions do not necessarily reflect the position or opinions of CMU or its employees.

Central Michigan Life is a member of the Michigan Press Association, the Michigan Collegiate Press Asso-

ciation, the Associated Collegiate Press, and the College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers Associa-tion.

Central Michigan Life’s operations are totally funded from revenues through advertising sales. Editions are dis-tributed free throughout the campus and community.

Individuals are entitled to one copy. Each copy has an implied value of 75 cents.

Non-university subscriptions are $1 per mailed edition. Copies of photographs published in Central Michigan Life or its online edition (www.cm-life.com) are available for purchase at: http://reprints.cm-life.com.

Central Michigan Life’s editorial and business offices are located at 436 Moore Hall, Central Michigan Univer-sity, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, telephone 774-3493.

[LEttErs]

Sherri KeatonColumnist

Define ‘dictionary’

“I don’t know who he is or his name.”

Lydia Davidson, sterling heights junior

“I could recog-nize him. I don’t remember his

name, though. It starts with an ‘r,’

right?”Katherine van Hese,

rochester senior

I am writing in regard to the edi-torial “Keep Bayanet.” This piece was sorely lacking in many areas, in regard to the “War on Drugs.”

First, the fact that state and local governments are spending millions of dollars to eradicate a plant that has hundreds of dif-ferent functions to society is the real crime. Marijuana has proven itself to be effective in treating a wide variety of medical disorders without the toxic side-effects that come with legal prescrip-tion drugs. Yet it remains illegal because pharmaceutical compa-nies are not able to patent it (and thereby, profit from it). Addition-

ally, marijuana prohibition was propped up by the oil industry, as hemp oil could feasibly eliminate the need for all fossil fuel usage.

Combine that with the fact that prisons are now a private industry, and need the healthy stream of in-mates provided by marijuana pro-hibition in order to keep profits high, and one can see that fighting to keep “weed” illegal is clearly not about curbing drug abuse.

People need to wake up to the fact that the entire reasoning be-hind marijuana/hemp prohibition is a total fraud, and one that does a disservice to everyone, regard-less of whether they get high from

the plant or not.I wonder why the government

and big industries don’t want in-dividuals to be able to grow their own medicine, oil, food, shelter, etc.

Once you wake up to the fact that you are being lied to, the truth becomes clear: The War on Pot is a war on us all. I would hope that the next time you write about drug-related issues, you go beyond reprinting government propaganda. You owe it the public.

Colin HowardGrand Rapids senior

What should have been a mon-umental and historic occasion was reduced to a political ploy for votes and ultimately failed, leav-ing a legal form of discrimination in place.

On Monday, a provision that would have led to the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the military law that prevents gays and les-bians from serving openly failed to garner the 60 votes needed to block a Republican filibuster in the Senate.

While pundits from both sides will try and lay blame at one specific group, there is plenty of blame to go around here.

We can start with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. Collins, one of the most liberal members of the GOP Senate caucus, is a supporter of repealing the law but refused to vote for repeal in this case because of the Democrats’ refusal to allow any Republican amend-ments to the Defense Authoriza-tion Act that the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal motion was attached as an amendment to.

Nice to know that Collins would let petty political nonsense get in the way of her sense of right and wrong and a chance to be part of history, just to prove a point to the opposing party.

There’s plenty of blame to be laid at the feet of all 41 Senate Re-publicans who killed the measure, with special blame being landed at the feet of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

McCain, the 2008 GOP presi-dential nominee threatened to filibuster any repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which would secure him a spot right next to the late Sen. Strom Thurmond and his 24-hour filibuster of the Civil Rights Act in 1957 as one of the most bigoted acts in Senate history.

There is plenty of blame for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. He failed to court his best chance for a Republican vote in Collins by flat-out refusing any Republican amendments to the bill.

The whole vote was an act of futility anyway. The wording of the motion said “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would only be repealed if a study of all active military person-nel stated that repeal would not hurt military morale, and that study had to be certified by the President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen.

The study has been ordered and is under way, so wouldn’t it be smart to just wait until it’s com-pleted? It just proves that scoring political points is more important in Washington than not wasting time and money.

Since being signed into law in 1993, over 13,000 armed forces personnel have been discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and at a time when the armed forces are stretched as thin as they ever have and national security is of the utmost importance, it is time to end a practice that discrimi-nates against brave men and women who serve this country for only living their lives honestly.

Several weeks ago, my room-mate and I were watching CNN when a report came on discussing the possibility of the third Oxford English Dictionary edition going online and not being printed because of its growing popularity among Internet users.

We looked at each other and our jaws dropped. We were speechless.

A 126-year-old dictionary worth so much history and indescrib-able value may not print because of a growing online community?

The OED’s decision may not come to pass until about 2020, and even though they are cur-rently online, the idea is still unfathomable to me of only being a digital dictionary.

Where would we be today without printed words? That is a question I don’t want to find out, but may have to soon.

Even though arguments can be made that not printing the dic-tionary saves on time, labor, trees and is a “greener” way to help planet earth, what about the im-portance of hand-held literature? And I don’t mean reading with a Blackberry, iPad or anything like that.

I mean books, especially dictionaries. As a journalist, I am constantly looking up words, and my source is mainly dictionary.com, seeing that it is only a key-stroke away.

I still have and value my mini-dictionary in my backpack and in my desk when the computer is not readily available. As a book aficionado, I appreciate the feel of the paper between my fingers as I turn each page on a library couch or in my room.

Granted, you can easily read as well online, but it will never be the same to me.

I know we live in a multimedia-online-digital-never-sleeping world where information is literally at our fingertips, but just imagine in the next couple de-cades the printed dictionary could be never printed again, sitting in a museum behind glass, next to the typewriter and VCR.

The shortage of on-campus housing for non-traditional stu-dents could see a slight reprieve, as CMU is looking to build an

approximately 100-unit build-ing on North Campus, which could house College of Medicine students when the first class of students arrives in 2012.

On-campus housing has been a problem for years, as the Wash-ington Apartments continue to be torn down for campus expansion. While more housing will be need-ed on campus in general, adding more graduate student housing will be important as we start these new graduate programs.

As nothing has been formally proposed, there is no telling what the price of this project will be or

where it will be. It was suggested the building may go on top of lot 8 near the Carlin Alumni House.

Although the decision to create the College of Medicine is still questioned by many, including this publication, the addition of more graduate student housing, aimed particularly at students going into this college, proves the university is at least follow-ing through. This proves they are dedicated to the project and understand the repercussions that bringing an influx of new students will have on this campus.

However, just adding more housing is not a cure-all. The other on-campus housing, such as Kewadin Village and Washing-ton Court Apartments, need to be

renovated farther to make those attractive alternatives to an off-campus apartment.

It is not enough for the uni-versity to build new on-campus housing, for graduate students or otherwise. The university needs to make a case for why students should live there and pay that rent, as opposed to one of the many alternatives elsewhere in Mount Pleasant.

Money should be split in a way that not only makes these new apartments attractive to potential residents, but also does the same for what is already on campus. Putting new furniture in the liv-ing room full of broken, torn-up couches does not fix the problems already there.

cm-life.com/category/news[News]

Central Michigan Life || Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || 5A

By emily GroveStaff Reporter

Zora Walsh said attending her first Into the Light service completely changed her life.

Walsh, a 24-year cancer sur-vivor and chairman of Into the Light Services, became in-volved with the walk at the urg-ing of her son years ago.

She was hesitant to attend and talk about her cancer, but recognized the event’s impor-tance.

“I walked around the track and realized I am a survivor,” Walsh said. “The day is really quite emotional.”

Community Cancer Services of Isabella County will host the 12th annual Into the Light Cancer Walk at 3 p.m. today in Island Park. This year’s ceremo-ny is filled with entertainment,

games, food and a scavenger hunt for children.

Keisha Brown, head women’s basketball coach at Alma Col-lege and two-time cancer sur-vivor, will speak at 7 p.m. in the park, 331 N. Main St.

“These are positive stories,” Walsh said. “Sometimes cancer can be so tragic, but this is up-beat.”

Cancer survivors will lead a walk through the luminary-lit path after the speakers.

Luminaries are purchased and lit for cancer survivors and by family members for people they have lost.

Amy Bourns, member of the Into the Light cancer walk com-mittee, said most of the fund-raising is done ahead of time. There is no pressure to pur-chase a luminary or donate.

“The best way to help is to just come down to the registra-tion booth at Island Park and volunteer,” Bourns said. “We want to make the community aware of cancer.”

This is one of the largest fund-

raisers to support their services. Walsh said 800 to 1,000 people attended last year’s walk.

All proceeds stay in the Isabel-la County Community Cancer Services to help people need-ing funds for gas when going to cancer treatments, experimen-tal chemotherapy medications and cancer research, Walsh said. For the month of October, they will also pay for mam-mograms for women without health insurance.

More than $30,000 was raised last year for Community Cancer Services of Isabella County.

This year the major spon-sors are Isabella Bank, Central Michigan Community Hospi-tal, Morey Foundation, Krapohl Ford and the Saginaw Chippe-wa Indian Tribe.

“This is a wonderful, wonder-ful group that hopes to make the community aware of can-cer,” Bourns said. “Everybody has been touched in their lives by cancer somehow.”

metro@cm-life.com

Cancer walk today to spread awareness

EGG TOSS | Students team up for Celani/Fabiano Olympics

BETHANY WALTER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTeammates react as Jackson sophomore Kim Pety attempts to catch an egg as it breaks in her hand during the Celani/Fabiano Olympics on Wednesday evening in the Fabiano/Emmons/Woldt courtyard. “I came out to represent Fabiano,” Pety said.

Speaker, games to be featured at Island Park event

was, and now, I’m impressed.”

Business-friendly courtLawrence wasn’t the only pol-

itician visiting Mount Pleasant Thursday.

Michigan State Supreme Court Justice Alton T. Davis said he wants to make the high court more business-friendly.

He spoke to 50 Mount Pleas-ant community members in the morning about returning civility and professionalism to the state supreme court at Cheers, 1700 W. High St.

“Private enterprise needs to be reformed, government needs

to be reformed and the bench is not exempt from that,” he said.

Davis was nominated by Gov. Jennifer Granholm in August af-ter Justice Elizabeth Weaver re-signed her position. Weaver was due for reelection this year, so Davis is both serving and cam-paigning.

Local attorney Joe Barberi said he supports Davis because he was impressed by Davis’ tem-perament during a particularly difficult case Barberi argued in front of him.

“He will make good decisions, based on fact,” Barberi said. “The judge brought everyone together, he built a coalition in that courtroom.”

The event was sponsored by the Isabella County Bar Associa-tion and by Barberi.

Mount Pleasant’s economy is stable but the rest of the state has been devastated, he said. He plans to change court commit-ments so people do not need to take time off of work in order to keep court appointments.

metro@cm-life.com

ViSiT |continued from 3A

By Rachel DybickiStaff Reporter

Shots to prevent H1N1 and influenza are now available across Mount Pleasant.

H1N1 became a household name last year because of its severity. Living on a college campus made students more vulnerable to catching H1N1, said Dr. Robert Graham, medi-cal director at Central Michigan District Health Department. He said there are many steps students can take to lower their risk.

“Staying active, getting plenty of sleep, not smoking and eat-ing well are important factors for not getting sick and remain-ing healthy,” Graham said. “Not washing your hands, hanging around sick friends and not be-ing active can result in catching a cold.”

Anyone more than six months old should get their flu shots as soon as possible to prevent flu season colds, he said.

Many students had some

immunity before last year’s flu season, said Amy Errill, phar-macy manager of Walgreens, 1309 S. Mission St.

“H1N1 was blown out of pro-portion,” she said. “People most at risk are college students. For-tunately, many built up immu-nities.”

Walgreens has approximate-ly 50 influenza vaccinations and they are expecting around 1,000 throughout the season, Errill said.

CMU Health Services have a limited number of influenza vaccines available to students, faculty and their dependents age 14 or older. They will be of-fered Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

People around the age of 20 and younger are more likely to get H1N1 because a very simi-lar disease that went around in 1968 which gave many peo-ple some immunity, Graham said. Influenza vaccines from Walgreens or Kroger are both under $30. Jeff Hungerford, Kroger pharmacy manager,

recommends getting a shot now through the end of flu sea-son, which is considered to be April.

“No over-the-counter medi-cines are a substitute for the flu shot,” Errill said. “Taking daily vitamins such as vitamin C can greatly help your immune sys-tem.”

Influenza is one of the most common college colds, Gra-ham said. It can stay in the sys-tem anywhere from four to 14 days.

Vaccines for both H1N1 and influenza are offered at most health stores. Members of Med-icaid or Medicare receive the flu shot for free this year, Hunger-ford said.

Pharmacists around the city urge students to get their shots before the flu could starts to spread around.

“Students should be pushed to get their vaccinations now through flu season,” Hunger-ford said. “It’s easy and well worth the $30 to get a flu shot.”

metro@cm-life.com

H1N1, influenza shots available

Moderator Alex Himelfarb, director of Glendon School of Public and International Affairs at York University in Toronto, asked how people experience globalization.

“What does it mean for how (people) do their work, how they think about their work and how it is changing their experiences?” Himelfarb said.

He said all people are influ-enced by globalization wheth-er they know it or not.

Panelist Mark Gaffney, pres-ident of the Michigan AFL-CIO, said globalization is the post-industrial revolution.

“Globalization is pervasive and the impact is profound,” he said.

Political science associate professor David Jesuit said it’s important students walk away from the event with a better understanding of the role global managers play in the global economy. It also is critical to be knowledgeable of the way public and private sectors work together pro-moting economic develop-ment, he said.

“We focus on the automo-bile industry to begin the discussion. That is why Italy, Canada and Michigan are at the conference tonight,” Je-suit said.

Panelist Frederick W. Hoff-man, former vice president of Government Relations for Chrysler LLC, said globaliza-tion wasn’t always around.

“We have seen many com-panies here for many years that were isolated,” Hoffman said. “All that has blown up; now most of the major com-panies are global players.”

university@cm-life.com

fOrum |continued from 1A

He’s been here, coach-ing music on a practice football field just off East Campus Drive since 2000, when he joined CMU as as-sociate director of bands, replacing Jack Saunders after his retirement.

“It’s been coming back to a place that I know and I love,” he said.

This is a post-anniversary year of sorts for Batcheller who, last year, celebrated both his 50th birthday and 10th consecutive year at Central Michigan, the lat-ter of which he received “a nice little pat on the back for.”

These days, he oversees a band of 275 members, about 50 more than when he started a decade ago.

“We just don’t have any more uniforms,” he said, laughing behind thin-rimmed glasses on a warm and sunny September af-ternoon. “We’re at capac-ity.”

He grew up listening to great music: His mother played the coronet, his aunts and uncles all played instruments, his grandfa-ther was a pianist and his father, well, his father likes to say he was the first guy on his block to have a ste-reo amplifier.

He said his career in mu-sic was a natural fit.

A chAmpionship teAm“Putting a marching

band together, putting any kind of music ensemble

together is very much like putting together a cham-pionship football team,” he said. “There’s a level of dedication from every member of the group, and when you don’t have that, there can be no real suc-cess.”

It’s Batcheller’s job to not only sustain success, but to set the bar higher from year to year.

“Generally, the band gets better every year,” he said. “It’s the motto of the band.”

Which is why on Thurs-day he watched with a close eye with a white whistle around his neck as an army of musicians practiced, played and re-hearsed for a stretch of

performances not unlike the football team’s stretch run.

“Every rehearsal should be better than the last one, every performance better than the last one,” he said. “So every year should be better than the last.”

photo@cm-life.com

6A || Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || Central Michigan Life cm-life.com/category/news[News]

SEAN pRoCToR/ASSiSTAnT PHOTO EdiTORJames Batcheller, director of the Chippewa Marching Band, leads the band Saturday at Eastern Michigan University’s Rynearson Stadium after the CMU football team won 52-14. In the last ten years, the 1986 CMU alumnus has built the program to a 275-member program, 50 more than when he started a decade ago. “Putting a marching band together, putting any kind of music ensemble together is very much like putting together a championship football team,” he said.

Music Man

James Batcheller: Marching band gets better every year

What the heck, he thought.Why not come home to Michigan,

after a healthy cross-country trip to Florida, Montana, Oklahoma and back? Why not come back to his alma mater to direct the same marching band he once marched in?

“So I threw my hat into the ring,” said James Batcheller, a 1986 Central Michigan graduate and director of the Chippewa Marching Band. “And I’ve been here ever since.”

By Anthony Fenech | Senior Reporter

To NominateDo you know someone with a compelling story that needs to be told? We want to know. Please contact photo editors Jake May and Sean Proctor at photo@cm-life.com

Friday, September 24, 2010 | Section B

Central Michigan Life

SportS WeekendBIG TEN NETWORK | CMU to make second national TV appearance, 2B

Volleyball loses MAC opener at EMUBy Brandon ChampionStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan women’s volleyball team opened Mid-Ameri-can Conference play Thursday with a 3-2 loss against in-state rival Eastern Michigan at the EMU Convocation Center in Ypslanti.

The first set was a back and forth affair with no team gaining more than a three-point advantage on the other until the Eagles pushed their lead to 18-13. CMU head coach Erik Olson called a timeout that seem-ingly settled his team down as the Chippewas responded with five con-secutive points of their own to even the score at 18.

From there, the match continued to stay close before EMU won four of the final six points to take the match, 25-21.

For the Central Michigan football team, playing on a national stage is about proving itself and gaining re-spect.

The program has garnered some national acclamation in recent years with Big Ten wins against Indiana and Michigan State and close calls with Purdue.

The next stop on the road for cre-dence is at noon Saturday when the Chippewas travel to Evanston, Ill., to play 3-0 Northwestern at Ryan Field.

The game marks the 13th consecu-tive season CMU has played a Big Ten op-ponent. In addition, it will also be the team’s third appearance on the Big Ten Network, something senior line-backer Nick Bellore said gives the team a little more motivation.

“I know everyone looks to these games,” Bellore said. “We have seen them before (Big Ten opponents) and we have had some great games with them, and we look forward to another one against North-western.”

The Wildcats are 3-0 overall follow-ing wins against FCS teams Vander-bilt and Illinois State and Rice. Junior quarterback Dan Persa leads NU of-fensively, rushing for more than 300 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for a touchdown in its 30-13 win last against Rice. The Wildcats feature a balanced offensive attack, including two running backs that have rushed for at least 170 yards and three receivers with more than 125 yards re-ceiving. Junior Jeremy Ebert currently sits second in the Big Ten with 248 yards receiving.

CMU (2-1, 1-1 Mid-American Con-ference) will be the last opponent the Wildcats face before starting play in the Big Ten Conference.

The Chippewas have had some recent success against Big Ten op-ponents, beating Michigan State 29-27 last season and defeating Indiana 37-34 in 2008. The last time the Chip-pewas won two consecutive games against the Big Ten was 1991 and 1992, defeating Michigan State in both sea-sons.

“This is a championship-caliber football team,” said Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald Monday during the Big Ten coaches’ telecon-ference. “As I watch them on tape, this team knows how to win first and fore-most.”

All three of the Chippewas losses to Big Ten opponents in the past three years have come at the hands of the Purdue Boilermakers.

Entering week four of the college football season, teams really begin to hit their stride. After a win last week against Eastern Michigan, the Chippe-was are hoping that they have found that stride to keep the offense rolling

CMU seeks third straight Big Ten win

Hitting more than 1,000Jeff Smith/Staff PhotograPher

Senior outside hitter Lauren Krupsky, center, stands with sophomore outside hitter Val DeWeerd, left, and junior middleblocker Kaitlyn Schultz, are starters on the CMU volleyball team.

In the second set, with the score 12-9 in favor of the Chippewas, the scoring went streaky. CMU scored four consecutive points to set the mark at 16-9, but the Eagles respond-ed with six straight points of their own to even the score at 16 a side.

The match then went back and forth before CMU pulled away and won it on a Kaitlyn Schultz kill to even the match at 1 set a piece.

However that momentum for the Chippewas did not carry over to the third set. CMU led the match only once — 2-1 — and never re-ally threatened throughout, trailing by four, five and six points multiple times before losing the match 25-16.

“We had a lot of easy plays and even more opportunities, we had too many service errors tonight and that’s got to get better,” Olson said.

Following the set, CMU rebounded

to take the fourth 25-21 and push the match to the fifth.

The set was more characteristic of the match and was a back and forth struggle. Knotted at 19, the Chip-pewas rattled off four consecutive points to make it 23-19 before get-ting the final two to take the set.

The fifth and final set was again close with no team leading by more than three until EMU pushed their advantage to 11-8. CMU battled but couldn’t quite recover from the defi-cit, losing the set 15-11.

Despite taking the match to five sets, Olson said CMU gave the match away.

“I think the whole night was a bit of a lack of execution on our part,” Olson said. “It seemed like Krupsky and Ludwig were a little off tonight. They just didn’t have their timing down, but we will get back at it in

practice tomorrow.” The Chippewas had four play-

ers with double digit kills led by junior Kaitlyn Schultz, who had 15. Lindsey Delude had a great performance as well adding 14 kills of her own to go along with 16 digs and four blocks.

Lauren Krupsky and sopho-more Jocelyn VerVelde, who missed last weekend’s tourna-ment, each had 13 kills as well.

Defensively, the Chippewas were led by senior Lisa Johnson who had 22 digs. Junior Setter Catherine Ludwig had 53 assists and 16 digs of her own.

The Chippewas (7-7) return home at 7 p.m. Saturday to host Ohio University at Finch Field-house.

sports@cm-life.comfILe Photo BY KAtie thOReNSeN

Junior running back Paris Cotton leads the Mid-American Conference in rushing with 343 yards going into the fourth week of play.

fILe Photo BY LeAh SeftON/Staff PhotograPherSenior outside hitter Lauren Krupsky spikes the ball during the CMU Alumnae game Aug. 22 at Finch Fieldhouse.

f O O T B a l l

By John EvansSenior Reporter

Chippewas play 3-0 Northwestern for first time in school history

Nick Bellore

By Nick Conklin | Staff Reporter

It took a text from Lauren Krupsky’s mom to alert her to the milestone she had just reached.

The message congratulated the se-nior outside hitter for reaching 1,000 kills in her volleyball career.

Krupsky, a first-team All-Mid-Amer-ican Conference honoree in 2009, notched her place in CMU history last weekend during its 3-0 sweep against Radford at the Charleston Review In-vitational.

Not only did she not know she had reached that total, she said that it was something she did not pay attention to throughout the first 12 matches of the season. She began the season with 872 kills, almost half of which came last season.

“I didn’t want to know how close I was,” Krupsky said Wednesday after-noon following practice at Finch Field-house. “My mom and dad knew, but I didn’t want to know I just wanted to keep playing and not think about it.”

Krupsky, who coincidentally dons the No. 13 jersey, became the 13th player in CMU history to join the 1,000 kills club. She is the third player to join the group under CMU head coach Erik Olson. Olson said the benchmark is a testament to all of her hard work and desire.

“It’s one of those things where it is just a great accolade,” Olson said. “She has been a great player over that pe-riod of time and she did a great job of getting to it early in her career.”

When Krupsky began her collegiate career in 2007, she made an immedi-ate splash, averaging 10 kills per match and being named to the All-MAC freshman team. She went on to finish the year with 196 kills for a 2.25 kills

per match average.One benefit, Krupsky said, along the

way was the influence that athletes like Whitney Evers (1,204 kills) and Kate Fissel (1,225 kills), both of whom. Both athletes played with Krupksy during the 2007-2008 season until they graduated with the eighth and seventh highest kill totals, respectively, in CMU history.

The next two seasons saw Krupsky’s kills total climb from 263 in 2008, to 413 in 2009. Part of that increase, she said, was due to the model that the two women set for her and the encourage-ment they provided.

“They just helped develop me to be a competitive person and encour-aged me to always take those swings,” Krupsky said.

Although an important statistic, Krupsky has approached the stat in a simple way for much of here career.

“For me, it’s an everyday thing,” Krupsky said. “I love getting kills, it’s what I do. It’s just a bi-product of hard work.”

She currently ranks 91 out of 250 nationally in kills per set with an aver-age of 3.65 per game. She also sits fifth in the MAC conference with a total of 157 kills in 43 games.

Olson said that he has been more than pleased with the performance of Krupsky and he hopes she can contin-ue that high level of play throughout the remainder of the season.

“(Lauren) is just doing a great job for us offensively,” Olson said. “Now we just have focusing on keeping her training low in practice, so she stays healthy.”

sports@cm-life.com

First-team All-MAC honoree Lauren Krupsky leads volleyball team into MAC season

Aaron McMann, Sports editor | sports@cm-life.com | 989.774.5433

A nortHWeStern | 2B

look to relish the opportunity to head into Evanston, not only to give a fairly unexperi-enced team some experience, but for the win.

The opportunity is there, Enos said, but the team knows it will not be easy. The Wildcats are undefeated and averaging 30 points per game, while only allowing their opponents score 12.3 a game.

“Obviously it’s great that they’re 3-0, it gives us a little added motivation to play them,” Bellore said. “It’ll be a great time to play in Chicago, it’ll be nice weather, early in the day and it’ll be a fun time.”

sports@cm-life.com

2B || friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || Central michigan Life cm-life.com/category/sports[SportS]

“This is a championship-caliber football team. As I watch them on tape, this team knows how to win first and foremost.”

-Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald on CMU

Quotable Comment ...

P l a y e r s t o W at c hN o r t h W e s t e r N W I l D c at s

Dan Persa- QB Quentin Davie- LB Jeremy Ebert- WR

c e N t r a l M I c h I g a N c h I P P e W a sRyan Radcliff- QB Paris Cotton- RB Armond Staten- LB

CMU INSIDE |||||||||||| GamE 4

Wildcats OffensePos.No. Name ClassQB 7 Dan Persa Jr.RB 19 Arby Fields So. 25 Stephen Simmons Sr.WR 11 Jeremy Ebert Jr. 5 Sidney Stewart Sr. 8 Demetrius Fields So.TE 9 Drake Dunsmore Jr.LT 75 Al Netter Jr.LG 72 Brian Mulroe So.C 65 Ben Burkett Jr.RG 64 Doug Bartels Jr.RT 70 Patrick Ward So.

DefensePos.No. Name ClassDE 42 Kevin Watt Jr. 94 Vince Browne Jr.DT 98 Corbin Bryant Sr. 90 Jack DiNardo Jr.MLB 44 Nate Williams Sr.SLB 51 Bryce McNaul Jr.WLB 41 Quentin Davie Sr.CB 28 Justan Vaughn Sr. 26 Jordan Mabin Jr. 3 Jeravin Matthews Jr.S 10 Brian Peters Jr. 27 Jared Carpenter So. 21 Mike Bolden Jr. 7 Hunter Bates So.

SpecialistsPos.No.Name ClassP 49 Brandon Williams Fr.K 1 Stefan Demos Sr.PR 7 Hunter Bates So.KR 25 Stephen Simmons Sr.

OffensePos.No. Name ClassQB 8 Ryan Radcliff So.RB 6 Paris Cotton Jr. 29 Carl Volny Sr.WR 11 Cody Wilson So. 1 Kito Poblah Sr. 80 Cedric Fraser Jr.TE 82 David Blackburn Jr.LT 73 Jake Olson So.LG 66 Jeff Maddux Sr.C 63 Colin Miller Sr.RG 65 Darren Keyton So.RT 78 Rocky Weaver Jr.

DefensePos.No. Name ClassDE 93 Joe Kinville So. 56 Kashawn Fraser Jr. 99 Caesar Rodriguez So.DT 54 Sean Murnane Sr. 94 John Williams Jr.MLB 46 Matt Berning Sr.WLB 43 Nick Bellore Sr.SLB 41 Armond Staten Jr.CB 24 LaVarus Williams So. 2 Lorenzo White So. 22 Vince Agnew Sr. 25 Anthony Hollis Jr.FS 9 Bobby Seay Jr. 40 John Carr Jr.SS 4 Jahleel Addae So. 44 Dannie Bolden Jr.

SpecialistsPos.No. Name ClassP 96 Brett Hartmann Sr.K 10 David Harman Sr.PR 11 Cody Wilson So.KR 4 Jahleel Addae So.

ChippewasProfileT h e

6-foot-1, 210-pound quar-terback leads a new Wild-cats offense that lost Mike Kafca to the NFL.

Why to watchPersa is a dual-threat quar-

terback that threw for 2,000 yards and rushed for more than 1,000 yards in high school.

ProfileDavie leads

the defensive unit with 20 tackles and three inter-ceptions in the first three games of the season.

Why to watchDavie and senior linebacker

Nate Williams form a solid unit that will give the offensive line and Radcliff headaches.

ProfileThe 6-foot,

1 9 5 - p o u n d junior is sec-ond in the Big Ten in re-ceiving with 248 yards in three games.

Why to watchEbert is a playmaker who

averages more than 20 yards per catch. Expect Persa to look to Ebert the most. CMU’s sec-ondary must shut down Ebert if it wants to be effective.

ProfileR a d c l i f f

comes off a 254 yard passing per-f o r m a n c e against East-ern Michigan last week.

Why to watchIf CMU wins, it is because

Radcliff has a great day throwing the football. This will be Radc-liff’s biggest test to date and his performance could be a great precursor to how his season fin-ishes.

ProfileCotton is

riding higher than ever af-ter a 209 yard rushing game last week.

Why to watchHis confidence is at the high-

est its ever been after being named MAC West Offensive Player of the Week. Look for Enos to give him some more carries Saturday.

ProfileStaten had

a team-high 13 tackles Saturday and is first in the depth chart at strongside linebacker.

Why to watchNamed MAC West Offensive

Player of the Week, Staten will play a bigger role with Nick Bellore still banged up from an ankle injury.

By John ManzoStaff Reporter

Saturday’s game against a Big Ten opponent provides the Central Michigan football team another chance at expo-sure.

CMU (2-1, 1-1) will travel to Evanston, Ill., to face North-western (3-0), a game that will be televised on the Big Ten Network, CMU’s second na-tionally televised game of the season.

Senior linebacker Nick Bel-lore has been through his share of games on national television, including the loss against Purdue on BTN in 2008 and the 2009 upset win against Michigan State in 2009. Having experienced the bright lights and eyeballs of thousands, maybe millions, of households watching nationwide, Bellore said he remains focused on the game.

Football looks forward to second TV appearanceCMU plays third game on Big Ten Network Saturday

Big Ten Network channel listings

Charter: Channel 81AT&T U-Verse: Channel 693 or 1693 (HD)DirecTV: Channel 612 or Channel 612-1 (HD)DISH Network: Channel 5443 or 9504 (HD)

“I remember when I was a young buck and I’d always look around to where the cam-eras were at, but as you get older that kind of goes away,” he said. “All you see is the field and the other 11 out there.”

Despite an overall Big Ten record of 4-19, the Chippewas are on a two-game winning streak. In 2008, they went to Indiana and defeated the Hoo-siers 37-34. Last year, CMU made the quick drive down U.S.-127 to East Lansing and upset Michigan State 29-27 in front of a national audience on ESPN.

Quarterback Ryan Radcliff, in his second season at CMU, is still adapting to the spotlight, having dealt very little with playing on TV thus far.

He said the experience from watching former CMU quar-terback Dan LeFevour last year will be key heading into his first Big Ten game as the start-ing quarterback.

“It was good to see how he handled everything, how he prepared for the game and how he rallied the guys around him,” Radcliff said. “It

was a great learning experi-ence for me, even though I wasn’t able to play.”

As running backs coach at Michigan State, CMU head coach Dan Enos was a part of many televised games and un-derstands the opportunity his team has on Saturday.

“It’s a tremendous showcase for our program to get into all those households,” Enos said. “We’ve got to play well and per-form and we have to do a good job, but it’s a great opportunity for our football team.”

A win against Northwest-ern would not only mark the Chippewas second straight 3-1 start, but it would undoubted-ly get recruits to take a stron-ger look at CMU.

“I think when you can win some of those bright-light games, I think that is appeal-ing to recruiting,” Enos said. “I don’t think it actually gets you a young man or locks somebody up, but I think it heightens the standard and the perception of your overall program.”

Enos said he will have his team ready to perform against Northwestern and his players

courteSY Photo/NU meDiA ReLAtiONSCMU travels to Evanston, Ill., Saturday to play Big Ten Conference opponent Northwestern at Ryan Field. The stadium, which went through a $30 million renovation in 1997, has a capacity of 47, 130.

against Northwestern. “Things are starting to

click offensively, and defen-sively we are getting some guys back healthy that were a little dinged up,” Bellore said. “We have had wins against Michigan State and Indi-ana and some great games against Purdue. We know we aren’t getting into a situation we haven’t seen before, we won’t be overwhelmed.”

Last week against EMU, the Chippewas had 523 yards of total offense compared to just 328 yards for the Eagles. The Chippewas were able to establish the run game behind junior running back Paris Cotton’s career rushing day.

With three games under

continued from 1B

NORTHWESTERN|

his belt and established run and pass game, sophomore quar-terback Ryan Radcliff said he is beginning to become more ac-quainted with the offense.

“Each week we get a little more comfortable with it, but all of that can change in a flash,” Radcliff said. “We just have to keep coming out here preparing and getting in the film room and just keep growing together.”

sports@cm-life.com

S O f T B a l l

By Justin HicksStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan women’s softball team wraps up fall competition at 1 p.m. Sunday against Division II Ferris State in a doubleheader in Big Rapids.

“It will give us another chance to see a lot people in a lot of positions and to finalize our evaluation in a competitive setting,” said CMU head coach Margo Jonker, “(Then) we can start working on developing the skills we think we really need to work on.”

Both teams haven’t played each other in the regular season since 1984, when the Chip-pewas beat Ferris State twice, but both schools meet every year in the fall for exhibition games.

“The team is very excit-ed to play this weekend. The games that we play in the fall are about getting

CMU to play two against FSU Sunday

to know one another,” said senior pitcher Kari Seddon. “We have 10 new people so its all about learning how each individual plays.”

FSU returns 12 letter win-ners, including pitcher Dana Bowler, who finished 8-10 last season with a 2.46 ERA. Offensively, the team is led by senior catcher Rachel Mu-eller, who finished the 2010 season with a team leading 21 RBI’s and two home runs.

While this weekend is FSU’s only fall series of the year, CMU is coming off a 2-2-1 finish at the Traverse City tournament last week-end, where they placed third.

“A couple players I thought did better than expected,” Jonker said. “I thought our defense was pretty strong and we were effective in the circle.”

sports@cm-life.com

CMU vs. Northwestern

Kickoff: Noon EST

TV/Radio: Big Ten Network/95.3 WCFX-FM

Line: Northwestern -6.5

cm-life.com/category/sports[SportS]

Central Michigan Life || Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || 3B

Field hockey hosts New Hampshire, Iowa

File photo by Paige CaLaMari/StaFF photographerJunior back Brooke Sihota sends the ball upfield during CMU’s home opener Sept. 11 against Providence. Sihota has two goals and six shots on the season.

File photo by andrew Kuhn/StaFF photographerCMU forward Nicole Samuel looks to pass the ball to a teammate during the second half of the women’s soccer game Saturday against Detroit-Mercy. The game ended in a 0-0 tie.

Kelly Maxwell is a freshman setter with the CMU women’s volleyball team. She took some time and answered a few ques-tions.

Brandon Champion: Where

did you go to high school?Kelly Maxwell: I actually

went to two different high schools. The first was Royal Oak Shrine, and then I moved and went to Okemos High School.

BC: Why did you choose CMU?

KM: I came for a visit and re-ally liked the girls on the team. Coach Olson was very nice, too — I liked him as well.

BC: What are you studying here at CMU and why?

KM: I am studying english and secondary education. I have just always wanted to be a teacher.

BC: Did you play any other

sports in high school? If so, did you consider pursuing any sport other than volleyball?

KM: Yes, I played tennis in high school as well. I thought about trying to play collegial-ity, but then I moved, so I pur-sued volleyball.

BC: What have you learned from the older girls on your team?

KM: They have helped me a lot. Mostly, they have taught me a lot about responsibility and what it takes to play col-lege volleyball. But they have also taught me how to work hard and still have fun. Vol-leyball is supposed to be fun, after all.

BC: In your opinion, how is college volleyball different from high school?

KM: It’s a lot faster — the competition is at a much higher level. Overall it’s just much more involved on and off the court. Watching lots of film is one of the biggest dif-ferences.

BC: If someone were to look through your iPod. What would they find?

KM: Well, kind of a theme on our team is Justin Bieber. Not really me personally, but he seems to get us all pumped up.

Off the court | Meet volleyball setter Kelly Maxwell

By Justin HicksStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan women’s field hockey team wraps up non-conference play this weekend, hosting New Hampshire at 2 p.m. Saturday and Iowa noon Sunday at the CMU Field Hockey Complex.

“I know our kids like to play at home,” said CMU head coach Cristy Freese. “We get pretty energized playing on our field. That helps us, but we’re still playing two very tough teams and we have to bring our A game.”

NHU is coming off a two-game winning streak, led by junior forward Hay-ley Rausch who earned

Athlete of the Week honors last week.

R a u s c h c o n t r i b -uted a goal and an as-sist in each

of the team’s wins last

weekend, and leads the team in assists (five) and is tied for most goals (four).

All time, CMU is winless against both opponents, with an 0-2 record against New Hampshire and a 0-5 record against Iowa.

“Our strength is going to be our team, not one or two individual players, but how we play together,” Freese said. “That is going to help us be successful this weekend.”

The Chippewas are coming off a 2-1 victory Sunday against Saint Louis University.

Freshman Alexis Gersb-asch put the Chippewas on

the board in 24th minute with her first career goal and SLU answered back in the closing seconds of the half.

The game looked like it was going into overtime when CMU was awarded a penalty corner in the 70th minute, and they capitalized.

Senior Amanda von Leer picked up her first goal of the season, sending the penalty corner shot into the back of the cage.

InjurIesA couple Chippewas were

banged up on the trip to Saint Louis, but Freese expects them to be at full strength to play Saturday.

Freshman Abby Roth twisted her ankle, causing her to miss practice Tuesday, and junior Paulina Lee hurt her hand. Freese said neither were seri-ous injuries and both are ex-pected to play this weekend.

Following the team’s 3-0 loss against UC-Davis Satur-day, Freese changed up the team’s formation, adding an extra defender to the field.

“We felt we were putting our defense under maybe too many stressful situations, so we tried to balance that up a little bit,” Freese said.

The change was made to help the team’s defense, in-cluding the last line of defense, goaltender Anastasia Netto.

In her five games (four starts), Netto recorded 2.96 goals against average, mak-ing 35 saves and giving up 14 goals.

“Anna has established her-self as the starter,” Freese said. “She still has things to learn because this is her first year starting, but what we want to see from her is her learning from the mistakes she might make in a game.”

sports@cm-life.com

Cristy Freese

“our strength is going to be our team, not one or two individual play-

ers, but how we play together.”Cristy Freese, CMU head coach

Field Hockey

vs. New Hampshire: Saturday, 2 p.m.

vs. Iowa: Sunday, noon

*Both games will be played at the CMU Field Hockey Complex

All time CMU winless against both opponents

By John ManzoStaff Reporter

Today begins the 2010 Mid-American Conference season for the Central Michigan wom-en’s soccer team as it looks to regain itself following a winless weekend.

CMU, which lost its last four games, looks to start fresh against Akron (2-5) at 4 p.m. today at the CMU Soccer Com-plex.

The last time the Chippewas played a game at home, they won a 1-0 game against IPFW on Aug. 22nd. Following Akron, CMU will play Ohio (3-3-1) at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

“It’s comfortable to be home because we have our fans and we know our turf a little bit more,” said junior forward Chelsi Abbott.

The match between the two will mark the battle of the fourth-place teams in their re-spective sides of the MAC. Ak-ron won its first meeting of the 2010 campaign, but know find itself in a similar four-game losing streak like the Chippe-was.

A comforting statistic for CMU is the fact that the Zips are 0-2 away from their home field.

Despite the road woes, ex-pect Akron senior midfielder Leigh Cullen and sophomore forward Katie Wise to be heavi-ly involved in the game plan as they look to achieve that first road win of 2010. Cullen and Wise have each recorded three goals, with Cullen earning one extra total point at eight.

After Cullen and Wise on the stat sheet, comes a little drop off with freshman midfielder Kelly DeNiro at three total points.

Regardless of who’s com-ing to play at the CMU Soccer Complex, CMU head coach Tom Anagnost expects his team to come out and take the opportunity to get better.

“Every day is a new challenge and we’re just trying to get bet-ter every day,” he said. “Friday is just another opportunity to get better and be absolutely as competitive as we can be.”

One uncertainty the Chip-pewas will have is their goal-keeper situation. Sophomore Stefanie Turner has started the past two games, but Anagnost said he’s made no decision on it for the Akron game.

Whether it’s Turner or senior goalkeeper Shay Mannino, CMU just wants to get back to playing a winning brand of soccer.

“We are eager to get back out there and compete, especially on our home field,” Anagnost said.

The Chippewas have strug-gled offensively in their past four contests, mustering only two goals. To counter their struggles, Abbott said the team has been more focused in practice.

“It’s been very frustrating,” she said. “The mood in prac-tice has been somewhat more intense, but we are just more focused.”

On Sunday, CMU play Ohio, which has the same record as the Chippewas. The Bobcats have a balanced team, head-ed by sophomore midfielder Cathryn Rogers and junior Ka-tie Kemen.

sports@cm-life.com

Soccer begins MAC schedule this weekendChippewas playAkron today, Ohio Sunday

cm-life.comRead the rest of the interview with Kelly Maxwell on the website

4B || Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || Central Michigan Life cm-life.com/category/sports[SportS]

By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter

Offense is a crucial compo-nent to winning matches in volleyball.

It’s a less understood but nearly as important stat is that of a team’s hitting percentage. For the Central Michigan wom-en’s volleyball team, its current .233 percentage has earned them the second overall rank-ing in the Mid-American Con-ference.

The percentage is taken by adding the total of kills a player has in a match, subtracting any errors and dividing it by the to-tal number of attempts that a player has at a ball.

This is an important stat when it comes to measuring a team’s offensive efficiency, something sophomore Val DeWeerd said has improved because of some changes they have made on the offensive side of the net.

“Our offense definitely has

changed — we went from a normal outside middle to now were we have our mid-dles who can play right side,” DeWeerd said. “So it has made our offense become more dy-namic.”

Part of that high hitting per-centage is due to DeWeerd’s .309 hitting percentage in the first 43 matches. Junior Kaitlyn Schultz has also contributed a team high .310 effort and said the strength of the team’s of-fense is something that can help carry them through the tough league schedule.

Schultz said that in order to maintain the high percentage, the team only needs to work within its self and continue do-ing the positive things that have gotten them to this point. One of those things is staying in the system of their offense and get-ting good swings in.

“We just have to keep swing-ing,” Schultz said. “(Catherine Ludwig) is doing a good job

getting us open for hits. So it’s all on us and the setter to get good attempts up and get good kills.”

The Chippewas will look to bring a strong offensive at-tack when they playing their home opener at 7 p.m. Satur-day against Ohio University at Finch Fieldhouse.

Patience will be another key to keeping the team in the up-per echelon of hitting teams, and according to Coach Erik Olson, that will be the goal for the remainder of the season.

“We want our hitters to be patient,” Olson said. “ And we want our middles to be able to score on a good set.”

Deweerd said that the team is ready to hold on to that rank-ing against the tough league opponents like Ohio and West-ern Michigan, but, she said the team can’t become distracted by rankings and needs to stay focused on the task at hand.

“We look at a team one week

at a time and we don’t look to far ahead in the future,” DeW-eerd said. “But, we have all the talent to be able to maintain that (ranking).”

sports@cm-life.com

Offense crucial component in volleyball

By Mark CavittStaff Reporter

A challenge awaits the Cen-tral Michigan men’s and wom-en’s cross country teams this weekend.

The 25th annual Roy Griak In-vitational, scheduled for today in Minneapolis, Minn., has been known to host some of the top programs in the country, giving CMU an opportunity to benefit while running against some stiff competition.

The women will run a 6k race at 1:10 p.m., while the men will be compete in an 8k at 12:20 p.m.

There will be 28 other teams competing in the invitational.

Willie Randolph, CMU di-rector of cross country/track and field, said the strategy for the invitational is to make

sure the team runs much better as a pack.

“We have to go against the best to be the best,” he said. “We have been trying to get them to make a name for themselves.”

During the week, as the team prepared for the meet, Ran-dolph stressed the need for both teams to understand one another and stay aggressive in their running styles.

The meet marks the first time this season where the top seven runners will compete for the men and women’s teams.

The men’s team is comprised of Cory Arnold, Jason Drudge, Zach Tranter, Chris Pankow, Nathan Huff, Chris Lotz and Jeremy Kiley.

Running for the women are Raeanne Lohner, Krista Parks, Danielle Dakroub, Kylee Kubacki, Holly Anderson, Sarah

Squires and Brittany Dixon.Anderson said the women

have been working more as a team of late and looks at the meet as a challenge.

“(We’re looking to) get some good experience against some bigger teams,” Anderson said.

Some of the teams competing alongside CMU in the women’s gold race include Duke, Min-nesota, Penn State, Baylor and New Mexico.

“It’s all about confidence,” said junior Wade Buchs. “ To prepare, it’s all about knowing that you can compete and hav-ing trust in your training.”

Two freshmen, includ-ing Huff and Parks, have also proved their worth and will get their chance to compete in the meet.

sports@cm-life.com

CMU cross country travels to Minneapolis for invitational

cm-life.com/category/news [NEWS] Central Michigan Life || Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 || 5B

REACH MORE THAN 32,000 READERS EACH PUBLISHING DAY! ALWAYS OPEN AT WWW.CM-LIFE.COM/CLASSIFIEDS

[ AcceptAnce & cAncellAtion ]CM Life will not knowingly accept advertising which reflects discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and CM Life reserves the right to reject or discontinue, without notice, advertising which is in the opinion of the Student Media Board, is not in keeping with the standards of CM Life. CM Life will be responsible for typographical errors only to the extent of cancelling the charge for the space used and rendered valueless by such an error. Credit for such an error is limited to only the first date of publication. Any credit due can be picked up at the CM Life office within 30 days of termination of the ad. If you find an error, report it to teh Classified Dept. immediately. We are only responsible for the first day’s insertion.

We accept the following credit cards:Ask our Classified Sales Representatives about our special services

www.cm-life.com/classifieds

Online 24/7!

where people connect. 436 MOORE HALL, CMU PHONE: 989•774•3493 FAX: 989•774•7805

@marketplaceclassified

@MiGHtY MiniS

By Steven BirdsleyStaff Reporter

The Holocaust is an object of horror and shame for west-ern civilization — and Alan Jacobs warned that without vigilance it could happen again.

The Holocaust scholar lec-tured about the genocide Thursday in the Charles V. Park Memorial Library Audi-torium.

Jacobs, creator of the award-winning virtual tour of Auschwitz at www.remem-ber.org, gave a presentation on the project before opening up for questions from the au-dience.

“It is important to under-stand that the only way stuff like this can happen is with bystanders,” Jacobs said. “People standing around let-ting this go on without doing anything about it.”

About 100 people attended the lecture. They included people from all ages, from college students to a 95-year-old Jewish man.

Lake Orion senior Me-gan Sulewski said she took to heart Jacobs’ messages

of what had been and what could be.

“It’s important to always have reminders of the world’s past, especially genocide,” Sulensky said.

Jacobs said he has been to Auschwitz nine times.

He ended the presentation by urging his listeners to re-main on guard.

“I can only do so much, this lecture is nothing until people get off their ass and do some-thing about it,“ he said.

Alex Colton, a Livonia se-nior, said Jacobs’ speech moved him.

“(It was) interesting to hear from a man who under-stands genocide the way he does, to hear his feelings and facts towards the issue,” Col-ton said.

Jacobs at one point read a letter from his youth describ-ing his emotions from the holocaust. The audience ap-plauded after he finished the letter.

“The only way to stop genocide is to understand it,” Jacobs said. “Stop it before it gets going.”

university@cm-life.com

Holocaust historian cautions for future

By Sherri KeatonStaff Reporter

Michigan kids may spend more of their time behind the desk instead of by the pool in future summers.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm re-cently proposed Michigan’s K-12 schools have a longer academic year, increasing the current roughly 165-day year to more than 180.

Tom Idema, Vowles Elemen-tary school Parent Teacher Or-ganization president, said some cash-strapped schools may question where the money will come from.

“There are people that would argue kids are in school longer, less vacation and less money being spent in the state,” said Idema, an assistant director of Student Life at CMU. “On the other hand, education is one of the most valuable things you

could have.”Michael Gilbert, chairman of

the department of educational leadership at CMU, said educa-tion is important, but just ex-tending the school year is not a simple answer.

“Just adding more hours and more days with doing nothing different may not necessarily ac-complish anything,” Gilbert said.

He said longer school years will not necessarily help with competing in a global market.

Issues with the proposal could include schools needing to provide more transportation, energy costs and other factors, Gilbert said.

“It is hard to measure a cost benefit because the benefits aren’t going to be seen for years down the road,” Gilbert said.

Rogers City senior Heather Szumila is studying to be a pre-school teacher. She said she thinks children should not have

a longer school year.“Kids should have some kind

of break,” Szumila said. “If they are making more school days they are not going to have free time and they are not with their parents as much.”

Joseph Pius, superinten-dent of Mount Pleasant Public Schools, said some school dis-tricts could make good use of the extra time.

He said the issue he has with the proposition is the schools are not accommodated for hot weather and do not have air conditioning.

Pius said the expanded school year would serve to improve continuity of classes.

“We spend a lot of time get-ting students ready for that next school year,” he said. “I’m okay with the proposition but it is just question of accommodation.”

metro@cm-life.com

Granholm proposes longer school year in Michigan

ON THE FIELD | Mount Pleasant residents toss the ball around

jeff sMith/StaFF photographerMatthew Poindexter, 14, throws a pitch to his friend Gage Phinney, 14, both of Mount Pleasant on Wednesday evening at Vowels Elementary School on Watson Road. “We were bored, so after dinner we went out to play baseball,” Poindexter said.