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Animal lovers submitted photos of their pets for a competition that raised money for the Midland Humane Society.

Inside A5Cardinal Sins unveiled its Winter 2013 issue last Monday, announcing the themes for upcoming poetry and nonfiction contests.

Inside A6Faculty took on the men’s and women’s varsity basketball teams as a fundraiser for the Abou Traore scholarship.

The early-morning fire that damaged parts of the Arbury Fine Arts Center will not only cost the university, but at least one student, as well.

The fire that broke out around 4:40 a.m. Thursday, April 25, in room 119, ruined a $10,000 kiln and one student’s semester-long ceramic project. One of four kilns that were in use caught fire with several final projects inside.

Sarah Clark, studio art technician, said she is fairly confident the fire was caused by electrical issues.

Water damage was sustained to the other three kilns that Clark said will have to be examined to see if they will be sustain-able.

Other kilns can cost between $4,000 and $6,000, depending on the size.

Kochville Township firefighters re-sponded after a custodian smelled smoke while working in the building. The univer-sity sprinkler systems activated and quickly extinguished the fire, according to a univer-sity statement from J.J. Boehm, director of media and community relations.

No one was injured.“My main interest is that students have

the work they want done,” Clark said.For arts senior Jayne Browning, the

damages were devastating.Browning, in her third year of ceramics

courses, had a goal to create a larger piece.“This year I decided to go big or go

home,” Browning said.She placed her five-foot work, sepa-

rated into four segments, in the kiln the day before the incident, discovering Thursday her work had been destroyed in the fire.

“She handled it like a champ,” Clark said.

Browning said she was offered the opportunity to take an incomplete for the course and had until July to recreate and finish the piece. The university offered to re-imburse the cost of clay, but Browning said she would not be able to afford driving to the university to finish the project.

She said she plans to remake the piece in the fall instead.

“I tell my students you can’t fall in love with your work until it’s done,” Clark said. “There are so many things that can go wrong. This is not one of those things we normally anticipate.”

On Saturday, workers cleaned out the building’s air ducts for smoke damage.

Clark said most damages were related to the smoke rather than the fire, and clean-up was more labor intensive than she had thought.

Some classes and offices were relo-cated temporarily on Thursday due to the smell of smoke.

“The smell isn’t an indicator of danger, but the psychological association with that can make things worse,” Clark said.

Clark anticipates classes to be held in respective rooms for finals week.

When Diane Boehm was hired to establish a University Writing Pro-gram in 1995, she wasn’t exactly sure what the end result would be—but that didn’t mean she didn’t know where to start.

“I didn’t have a clear vision,” Boehm said, “but I had a strong sense of need.”

Boehm’s first action in her new

role was to set up a table and two chairs in a back corner of first floor Wickes Hall to begin tutoring. She also hired several students to begin working as tutors assigned to spe-cific classes, surveyed faculty across the curriculum and individually met with department chairs.

“When I interviewed each de-partment chair, there was really a lot of frustration with students’ writing capabilities and no sense of how to

The SVSU community has once again displayed its support for the Special Olympics.

Almost 300 students volun-teered their time at the sixth Area 22 Special Olympics in the Ryder Center last Friday.

“It’s really special to see all these kids getting to do stuff that normally they wouldn’t ever have the opportunity to,” said Alyssa Adams, volunteer and nursing senior. “I think it’s spe-cial for us as college students to be able to give back a little bit.”

The Special Olympics pro-vides the opportunity for people with intellectual disabilities to participate in athletic events. Events at SVSU include swim-ming, walking and running,

along with a craft room and a motor skills room.

SVSU students, high school students and community mem-bers volunteered at the event. Spectators were also welcome to cheer on the athletes.

The event is put on by the registered student organization: Cardinals for Special Olympics. Special education senior and club president, Stephanie Cyrus said she loves having the Special Olympics at SVSU.

“This is a great chance to represent our school and prove that students can be involved in the larger scope and be repre-sentatives for the community,” she said. “I’m definitely proud to say that our school has this because not every university has a Special Olympics hosted on campus.”

Each athlete involved in the Special Olympics has an SVSU student as a buddy to cheer them on and help them navigate throughout the day. This allows individual volunteers to make a difference in the lives of the ath-letes.

“It’s so much fun. The joy in them rubs off on you,” said Claire Turvill, international stud-ies senior. “You’re so happy because you know that they’re happy.”

For many, the reactions of the athletes are one of the most rewarding parts of the day.

“It’s really cool to watch (the athletes) come in. They’re all looking around and they’re so excited to be here,” said Allie O’Hearn, occupational therapy sophomore. “They’re all clap-ping for each other, and it’s really

cool to see them react to getting applauded.”

Debi Slivinski’s son, Thom-as, has participated in the Special Olympics since 2005. She said the event is a rewarding environ-ment for him to be in.

“It’s a very good program for him to meet people, par-ticipate and just feel good about himself,” she said.

Nancy Izzo’s two sons also participate in the Special Olym-pics. She said she was very im-pressed with the volunteers from SVSU.

“Some of the athletes have no communication, no verbal-ization, but the volunteers seem to be able to understand (and) get them where they need to be,” she said. “There’s a lot of fear that goes with special needs. Ac-ceptance is the biggest key for all

of them.”Slivinski was also im-

pressed with the SVSU student volunteers.

“The volunteers here at the college are just wonderful,” she said. “I think when an athlete is paired up with a volunteer, the volunteer needs to be able to relate to how the athlete has spe-cial needs. I see that here with the volunteers.”

Turvill said participating in the Special Olympics reflects fa-vorably on SVSU.

“It shows the community that we care,” she said. “We’re not just a bunch of ignorant col-lege students. We want to help the community and we have fun doing it. I love it.”

Students are being given an opportunity to give back to the university that has given to them.

In honor of the university’s 50th anniversary, Forever Red has organized the Student Giving Campaign.

The goal of the campaign is to raise $50,000 by the end of fall 2013 semester, which will be divvied up and given out to students in the form of scholarships.

Bryan Crainer, associate direc-tor of retention for first year pro-grams, is excited that this program will make it possible to give out more scholarships.

Forever Red provides schol-arships to returning students each year, but Crainer said the Student Giving Campaign will allow for heftier dollar amounts to be given away.

“We hope to make a larger im-pact for a much larger amount of students,” Crainer said.

Registered student organiza-tions (RSOs) are likely to create fundraising teams in the fall and begin working towards the goal amount.

Crainer mentioned how well the university has done raising funds for such events as Battle of the Valleys and Relay for Life in the past. He said he has faith that RSOs will put their best effort for-ward for this campaign, as well.

“This is our way to really be able to put our stamp on the cam-paign,” Crainer said, also pointing out that there will only ever be one 50th anniversary of the university.

The Forever Red team also encourages individual students to donate.

Elyse Ledy, communication senior and Forever Red program-ming chair on the board of direc-tors, said donating is a way for stu-dents to show their appreciation for the university.

“You’re raising money for the university, but look at what the university has done for you in re-turn,” Ledy said.

Crainer said it is possible that the students who donate could reap the benefits themselves.

“You might give to this and turn around and get a scholarship in return,” he said.

The campaign has bronze, sil-ver and gold that depend on the amount students donate.

Each level has prizes, but ev-eryone who donates will get their name on a placard, which will be part of a large glass structure in the shape of cardinal head. This struc-ture was created especially for the event.

The see-through cardinal head will be filled with some sort of red material as money is raised.

The goal is for the clear cardi-nal head to end up completely red by the end of fall semester. That will mean the goal has been met.

Crainer said the structure will be placed on display in the Student Life Center, and may move around to be present at orientations and other events.

He said he is pleased with how helpful the university has been with getting the word out about the campaign.

Campus facilities built the cardinal box for no charge, Presi-dent Eric Gilbertson’s office has

Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisParticipants and SVSU student volunteers prepare for race-time during the Area 22 Special Olympics, held this year in the SVSU Ryder Center.

Vanguard photo | Arianna Paver Since 1995, Diane Boehm, right, has worked with five writing center coordinators and 174 student tutors.

Electrical fire destroys Arbury kiln, student work

Writing Center director & founder, Boehm, to retire

Forever Red begins giving campaign to support campus scholarships

Olympians go for gold

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offering assistance and Student Life gave 50 minutes of their end of the year ban-quet over to the campaign.

“It’s definitely being supported by all factions of the university,” Crainer said.

“Now we just have to get the stu-dents on board,” Ledy said.

Although the campaign is really ex-pected to take off in the fall, donations are being accepted.

Email [email protected] for ques-tions and information on how to donate.

Search “50 Reasons: A Student Cam-paign for SVSU” on YouTube to see more about the campaign and learn why stu-dents want to give.

Police briefs are written according to reports from University Police. These indicate preliminary descriptions of events and not necessarily actual incident

Hit and Run• Between 2 and 6 p.m. April 11, a 20-year-

old male student reported that he had parked his car in E-Lot for class and came out to find a dent as well as a long scrape on his car.

Vehicle impound• At 7 p.m. April 22, parking services

alerted officers of an illegally parked vehicle in University Village. The parked vehicle had numerous outstanding, unpaid tickets and was impounded.

Larceny• Between 3 and 6 p.m. April 17, two male

students reported that one of their roommates had left their dorm in Living Center South around 3 p.m. and came back at 6 p.m. to find two laptops and a PlayStation had been stolen. This case is still under investigation.

• Between 5 and 6 p.m. April 18, a 19-year-old male student reported that while playing basketball in the Ryder Center someone had stolen his iPhone.

• Between April 22 and 23, someone had stolen a laptop out of one of the class-rooms in Curtiss Hall. This case is still under investigation.

• Between 6 and 6:15 p.m. April 23, a 23-year-old male student reported that while playing basketball in the Ryder Center, someone had stolen his iPhone.

• Between 1 and 8 a.m. April 23, several students reported missing items from their Pine Grove apartments. A 22-year-old male student reported that jewelry had been stolen from his room. Two additional male students and one female student reported that during this time a laptop, a 30-inch television, DVD player and some clothing had been stolen from their rooms. This case is still under investigation. Some of the property has been recovered, but not all of it.

• Between April 19 and 23, two 20-year-old male students reported that someone had stolen from their University Village apartment. Items stolen included an iPad, textbooks and a drawstring bag to carry the items in. Their room had been unlocked when the items were stolen. This case is still under investigation.

Fraud complaint•On April 11 and 16, a 19-year-old female student reported that someone had been able to access her ATM card and had withdrawn $900 from her bank account. Upon investigation, officers revealed that her roommate had taken her money. A warrant was sought and the suspect has been arrested.

Threats• At 11:50 p.m. April 22, an 18-year-old

female student reported that she has been threatened by a non-student due to an earlier off-campus incident that occurred in 2012.

Property damage• At 5:35 p.m. April 19, a 19-year-old male

student rear-ended a 25-year-old male student while leaving campus on Bay Road and College Drive.

• Between April 19 and 20, a custodian in the Ryder Center reported that while cleaning he noticed that one of the televisions in a classroom had been damaged.

• At 2:40 a.m. April 24, officers were noti-fied by parking services that a car was stuck in the grass between J-1 and J-2 Lots. The vehicle was unoccupied and was then impounded due to its dam-age to the grass. It was discovered to belong to a 22-year-old male commuter student who had been driving the ve-hicle and it is believed that he had been driving under the influence. This case is still under investigation.

Fire• At 4:40 a.m. April 25, a custodian work-

ing in Arbury Fine Arts smelled smoke with a possible fire. Officers arrived and discovered even more smoke. It was discovered a kiln in the kiln room had caught on fire, but the sprinkler system had been activated and had been able to put out the fire. Minimal damage was done to the building and the kiln was heavily damaged.

address that problem,” Boehm said. “What I really had to do was develop for myself a sense of direction of how I thought we could start and then con-stantly monitor the work to see what adjustments needed to be made along the way.”

And on the eve of Boehm’s retire-ment nearly 30 years later, the results of her work are clear to see.

Under Boehm, the University Writing Program has grown to include a writing center that conducts more than 5,000 sessions each academic year, the Faculty Summer Institute for faculty development and annual cross-disciplinary writing awards, among many other components. In addition to directing the writing center and the University Writing Program, Boehm also directs the Saginaw Bay Writing Project and teaches writing courses.

But perhaps Boehm’s most impor-tant contribution has been her influ-ence on the teaching of writing across all disciplines—a skill that stood out immediately to Robert Yien, the former vice president of academic affairs who was responsible for her hiring.

“To have that kind of job is not easy,” Yien said. “Most professors don’t want to be told how to teach writing.”

President Eric Gilbertson charged Yien with the task of hiring someone to start a university writing program, a job that had not previously existed, in 1992, but the position was not filled until 1995.

Yien said that he had Boehm in mind for the job since the beginning, but her appointment was met with re-sistance because she was not full-time English faculty and didn’t have a doc-torate degree. But Boehm possessed all the qualities Yien felt a writing pro-gram director should have.

“I said first, it has to be someone who has the passion to teach people with writing skills across the spectrum, not just good or bad writers. Second, I said it could not be an English profes-sor,” he said. “What I wanted at the time was someone who could kick off

this program and become acceptable to the faculty across the curriculum. The third thing was that this person would have to be able to say, ‘I love this job more than my life.’

It wasn’t long before Yien knew he made the right decision.

“I looked at her and said, ‘Diane, run the show as you see fit. The first year, I might watch you on the sideline, but after that it’s your job,’” Yien said. “And the first year, she hit it all across the curriculum.

“She was welcomed even by en-gineering professors, and when the en-gineering professors were overcome, I knew I had the right person.”

Key in Boehm’s initiatives to de-velop strong writing and writing in-struction across the disciplines was the foundation of the writing center, where tutors from a range of majors tutor all forms of student writing.

Boehm said she was confident from the beginning that SVSU needed a writing center. Having never worked in one before, she attended an institute in 1995 where she met up with direc-tors of the few writing centers that ex-isted in the region.

“Writing centers weren’t a fixture on college campuses then,” she said. “There wasn’t, like I have now, a whole shelf of literature on writing scholar-ship. That didn’t exist back then. We had to invent what we thought met the needs of our campus.”

The writing center was allocated its first physical space in an area called “the fishbowl,” now part of Einstein’s café, and with the support of Yien, current vice president of academic af-fairs Don Bachand and many others, continued to grow. The writing center later moved to the second floor of Sci-ence East, and then to its current spot in Zahnow 308, the third floor of the library, in 2007.

Since 1996, Boehm has worked closely with five writing center coor-dinators—Eric Gardner, Erik Trump, Judy Youngquist, Julie Lynch and Helen Raica-Klotz—and 174 student tutors. Boehm says it is watching the personal growth and development of those tutors that she will miss the most.

“We hire students because we really see their potential. They start out and they do good work, but what

they can do by the time they graduate from this place is light years from what they could do when they first started,” she said. “When you think about the number of times a student has had to analyze what’s going on with a stu-dent writer in two years or three years of working in the writing center, that’s hundreds of times that tutor has devel-oped his or her analytical and critical thinking abilities.

“Of the 174 people who have worked here, no two have been alike. Each one has brought something unique to the puzzle, and that’s been a wonderful, wonderful thing to be a part of.”

Jamie Jager, a 2011 graduate and current program associate at the Bay Area Community Foundation, was one of many writing center tutors to benefit from Boehm’s mentorship.

“Diane taught me to trust in my own capabilities, to chase opportuni-ties, and to open myself up to the posi-tive influence of others,” Jager said.

For biology junior Nancy Lackey, Boehm’s guidance stretched far be-yond writing center work.

“When I came to SVSU, I was lost and was I didn’t know how or where to apply myself,” she said. “Diane was the first one who set me on the right path. ”

While Boehm has operated in many different roles at SVSU, she says it all boils down to one thing.

“It’s all teaching,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you are teaching a stu-dent or if you are teaching a colleague who may have things to teach you back, or if you are teaching someone in administration about how a program could meet campus needs—you’re constantly having to communicate to people what you think and understand the needs to be, and then how you can address those needs with new informa-tion and new strategies.”

Boehm plans to move to Liber-tyville, Ill., and hopes to use her retire-ment to read, write, travel and do fac-ulty and professional development in the area.

“It’s always been my experience that in a new context I discover new opportunities,” she said. “I think may-be there are still some things left to be discovered.”

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Criminal Justice Society’s photo competition zooms in on pets to fundraise for Midland Humane Society

Student-designed logo shows university’s evolution

While the university celebrates its his-tory, youth are celebrating the world’s.

The Historical Society of Michigan hosted its Michigan History Day state fi-nals events for the year at the university last weekend.

On Saturday, students from 4th grade to high school seniors competed in three divisions — youth, junior and senior — in categories that included documentaries, exhibits, papers, performance and web-sites.

“It’s like a science fair for social stud-ies,” said Tamara Barnes, assistant direc-tor of the conference.

Coordinators selected the university to host the conference since it was in cen-tral Michigan, and said they saw the high-est number of participants the conference has ever had.

With more than 400 participants from between 50 to 60 schools, students who competed locally and regionally came from as far as the Upper Peninsula to par-

ticipate.Barnes worked closely with Brad Jar-

vis, associate professor of history, in pre-paring for the conference.

Students researched their topics start-ing in September to get ready for the con-ference.

Topics did not have to be Michigan-specific, education coordinator Sara Schultz said.

Entries included this year ’s theme of “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events” with topics including “Civil War Orthopedics: The Birth of a New Surgi-cal,” “The Chicken McNugget: A Turning Point in the Chicken” and “The Living Li-brary of Alexandria.”

Students go as far as dress up as a WWII bomber for the performance por-tion, according to Schultz.

One hundred of the students partici-pating will move on to the national com-petition in Maryland in June, Barnes said.

The national conference began in 1974, with the state conference beginning in the 1980s, according to Barnes.

“The difference with this conference is that between the local, regional and

state conferences, they can improve their entries,” Barnes said. “Some completely overhaul their projects before they attend nationals.”

The event included recognitions in addition to presentations.

Two teachers were honored through the Patricia Behring Teacher of the Year Award: Heather Kronemeyer of Sault Ste. Marie Middle School and John Olvera of Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy.

Special awards were given out for topics such as Michigan women’s history, railroad history and Michigan history.

New awards were introduced this year by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the best entry in African American/people of African descent world history and the best entry in Latino American/Hispanic world history.

In addition to the conference portion, guests were also able to take part in a scavenger hunt in the Marshall M. Fred-ericks Sculpture Museum, as well as go on guided tours of the Cardinal Formula Rac-ing shop and the rest of campus.

The Criminal Justice society decided to put its focus on pets in a photo competition.

This semester members chose to raise money for the group’s community service project involving the Midland Humane Society.

The group’s previous community service projects includ-ed arson watches and adopting a family, where they gave gifts to local families in need during the holiday season. This time they decided to do something new.

“We like to do projects to help people,” said Hailey Kim-ball, the group’s president and political science senior. “But we should not neglect our animal friends too.”

Carol Zimmermann, associate professor of criminal jus-tice, gave the group the idea to do an “awesome pet photo competition” where pet owners could submit images of their pets as well as donate to the humane society.

Zimmermann held a similar competition before and said it was a great success.

Students and faculty submitted photos of their pets for $2 per photo, with no limit on the number of entries, at the CJ Society’s table around Brown Hall and in front of the Zahnow Library.

The group received about 40 entries along with some cash donations, raising about $100 for the humane society.

Kimball said it would be able to provide a good amount of food for the animals.

The executive board of the organization went through all submissions and selected the top eight photos.

The photos were voted on by the general assembly of members in a meeting last Wednesday, April 24, with photos of cats wearing sombreros, cats climbing ladders and dogs rolling around.

Pet names included a dog named Molly and another named Liberty.

Somer Thurman’s photo of her cat Louie was selected as the winner.

Thurman will receive a $50 gift card to PetSmart, which was donated by Zimmermann.

Louie is a 25-pound cat with one tooth and who can re-portedly do back flips.

Kimball said the group will likely continue the competi-tion next year along with the adopt-a-family service as it tran-sitions to the group’s new president, James Walker.

SVSU’s 50th anniversary celebration will include a student-designed logo.

Olivia Nixon, a senior working towards a BFA in graphic design, won the 50th An-niversary Student Design Contest with her logo, which features both the old SVSU car-dinal image and the new one.

“It mostly came off of uniting the past and the present and just trying to show the similarities between the two, but show that they’re super different still,” Nixon said.

Starting in fall 2012, students from Logo and Business Identity Design, a graphic de-sign class, submitted ideas for the logo. The 50th Anniversary subcommittee of Student Affairs, which includes both students and staff, then narrowed the designs down to the top three.

“There were some really good ones out of all those 25, and it was actually chal-lenging to narrow it down,” said Aaron

Mowen, director of campus recreation and chair of the 50th Anniversary subcommittee of Student Affairs. “I loved all three of (the finalists’ designs). They were awesome.”

The three finalists worked with the Uni-versity Communications department to edit the logos to fit the university’s goals. The edited logos were then sent out to a student vote on OrgSync, where more than 400 votes were submitted to determine the winner.

“(When) I found out I was the winner, I was really excited,” Nixon said. “It’s just really nice and kind of validating that I’ve kind of accomplished something over the last four years.”

The selected logo will be used on bul-letin boards around the university. Student organizations can also use it on T-shirts and other merchandise.

Nixon believes student contests bring out the creativity present at SVSU.

“There’s so many talented people here, and there’s so many people who don’t re-ally even realize how talented they are. You can so easily get desensitized to all of the

unique people that are around campus be-cause eventually you get in a routine and you walk your same path to class every day and back,” Nixon said. “I think it’s re-ally important to have the students feel like they’re important on campus, and that we kind of have control over this little bubble of ours.”

Mowen said sending the logo out for student vote was an important step in the process.

“Administrators just can’t make the de-cision. All day long we could send things out the door thinking that students are go-ing to love it, and then they don’t,” he said. “Having students vote on it just makes sense. It’s their logo.”

Nixon said working with the University Communications department was a good learning experience.

“They all had positive and negative things to say about everyone’s logos, so it kind of shows that there’s a wide variety of opinions for design things and that not everyone’s going to like your design all the time,” she said. “You really have to act pro-fessional, have a tough skin and just know that they’re coming from a positive place. It is stuff you’re going to have to deal with in the real world, so it’s a good way to ease into it.”

Mowen said the selection of a logo is just a precursor to what the 50th anniver-sary celebration will bring.

“It’s only April, and the 50th anniver-sary is already coming alive,” he said. “It’s going to be so much fun to see what hap-pens in August and the fall semester with all these different events and all the excitement for the 50th.”

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Zumba represents not only fun exercise, but also a relief for Parkinson’s.

The Health Science Association is a new or-ganization made for health science majors and any interdisciplinary students who are inter-ested in helping others and gaining leadership qualities. The mission of the organization is to reach out to the community through fundrais-ers and help students network with new people in the same field. This is the first event that has been sponsored solely by the Health Science As-sociation, but they previously took part in the Healthy U run earlier in the semester.

The goal was to raise $500 for the Parkin-son’s Disease Foundation. The goal was a hit, as $504 was raised through the Zumba sessions. But the night was not only about raising money. It was also about spreading awareness.

Health science senior Jessica Ehle has been invested in helping the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation for some time and believes that the issue is as important than ever before.

“Something that people need to know is that Parkinson’s disease has become much more prevalent than most think,” Ehle said. “Every-one seems to know someone who has it, so it’s not rare any longer. People just don’t have the information they need to help and that’s why this event was good. We’re trying to help people figure out how to help their loved ones.”

Ehle added that Zumba is used for more than just exercise and that it is slowly being in-tegrated to help with Parkinson’s.

“Zumba specifically connects to Parkin-son’s because it releases dopamine,” Ehle said. “So a lot of patients are told to use the exercise as a type of therapy.”

“You can burn up to 1,200 calories during one hour of Zumba,” Ehle said. “So when you’re a student and you might only have an hour or so to work out in the day, this is perfect.”

Health science senior, Ebony Briscoe was a participant in the Zumba and feels as if it is the best, fun modern way to exercise.

“It’s something new and exciting,” Briscoe said. “Compared to the traditional workout. It also works out your entire body, even though

it doesn’t really feel like it because you’re danc-ing.”

Briscoe went on to say why Zumba is cur-rent trend, especially with college age students.

“It’s just a popular attraction,” Briscoe said. “It’s the hot thing right now. You see more peo-ple doing it and it makes others want to try it. It’s also a social thing as well.”

The Health Science Association wants to encourage all undergraduate students who are health science majors to join, but also students who are involved with other fields like occupa-tional therapy or biology.

Last Friday night, students nearly filled the Rhea Miller Recital Hall to explore the themes of praise and identity at God’s Children of Integrity’s Celebration of the Gospel event.

This semester’s celebration had the theme of “identity crisis,” and this was the third semester that

God’s Children of Integrity (G-COI) has hosted the event.

Most of Celebration of the Gospel was focused around singing and music. Members sang gospel songs along with a band, which consisted of a drum-mer, keyboardist and bass guitarist.

Alyson Moore, professional accountancy senior and G-COI executive board member, sang during the event and explained that the songs were chosen to reflect the identity theme.

A visiting choir from Central Michigan Univer-sity called Christ Central Choir, or C3, also sang, as well as SVSU’s Valley Voices gospel choir.

The event was very interactive, and students in the audience were encouraged to stand, clap and sing along with the students on stage.

The goal wasn’t just for students to participate in the music and have a good time. Moore said that she wanted people “to walk away knowing that God is real … and that your life can be changed.”

Moore explained that this theme of positive change for the future was very important to the event, and that the experience was meant to help people move on from their pasts.

“A lot of people have held on to their past and they carry it with them every day,” she said. “But God doesn’t really see you for what you did yester-day, but for who you are now.”

In addition to singing, the event featured two spoken word poems, one of which performed by a visiting student poet from Michigan State Univer-sity. There were also two dance performances and a local Christian rapper called B-Webb.

The event concluded with an “altar call,” dur-ing which students were encouraged to come to the front of the room to pray with ministers. Moore stat-ed that this segment is her favorite part.

“We really want (the altar call) to be a big im-pact,” Moore said.

Arielle Wells, a graphic design senior, heard

about the event from social media and from fliers around campus, as well as from friends she knows that are G-COI members.

“I just like seeing so much positivity,” she said. “It’s nice to see something different for a change and see so many people come out and enjoy it.”

Wells contrasted her experience with this event to the ways many college students choose to spend their time.

“A lot of people just want to look for the parties and what’s fun,” she said, “so it’s nice to see so many of us here enjoying something that’s uplifting.”

G-COI became a registered student organiza-tion in October 2011. This semester, it held Bible studies every Thursday evening. In the fall, it plans to have the fourth semi-annual Celebration of the Gospel, as well as continue weekly Bible studies.

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It’s exciting and a little scary realizing that I have been writing for this column for a year

and haven’t even scratched the surface of what I feel like I need to say.

There are so many topics to address! Too many problems to fix! There are countless rants and discussions that could be initiated at any given point in time, but therein lies the conundrum. For most of this year there seemed to be plenty of time to bring up all the rambling ideas in my head, but in reality it’s always dwindling. There was even a chance that this was going to be my last column ever and I’m not sure if I would have been ready for this to be my final hurrah.

Fortunately, I will be back next year, so I do still have opportunities to express my opinions. But that still doesn’t make me forget about all of the concepts that I didn’t write about this time around. It was an extremely eventful couple of semesters for myself and I know it has been the same for the campus com-munity as a whole. I started working in the library, ac-quired/lost a girlfriend and I finally began to take my writ-ing in a direction that I can at least be kinda proud of.

Could you sense my grow-

ing hesitation creeping in by the last couple words of that sentence? Even though this has been a productive year for me, there is so much I wasn’t able to learn, write or accom-plish.

I didn’t send one story out to get published and this might be the thing that I re-gret the most. In a year where I have written more profes-sionally and creatively than ever before I have nothing published to show for it. That makes me a little sad. All I ever talk about is how I want to be the next Stephen King and yet I haven’t sent one story out to even experience that necessary initial rejection.

I didn’t invest in that record player yet. The idea has mate-rialized through research, but with little else to back it up. There are some days when I thrive for music, new or old, just to hear the right song in the right moment. When I was young, I used to pride myself in my (pitiful) batch of CDs and I feel as if start-ing a record collection could strengthen my love for music and give me a new hobby. I desperately need new hob-bies.

I didn’t ask that cute girl out whom I spend so much time around, the one who doesn’t even know I’m anything more than a joke machine with legs. I could have written a column on the debate between asking her on a date and deciding that friendship can be less disas-trous, but I let it slip on by without a peep from me. It has been the opposite of con-structive and depending on the possibilities the summer, I could be changing that real soon. Or I might chicken out like usual, I mean not getting published and not buying a record player are the real

travesties here! But in all seriousness,

looking back over this past year, I’ve really only began to progress towards the man I want to be. Sure I would love own a old-fashioned piece of music history, but, honestly, none of that stuff matters if I don’t have all my ducks in a row when the people who count the rows of ducks come looking. The thing I need to get most serious about next semester is my education and my entrance into the school of education. Nothing is going to make me feel more secure in life than understanding what I need to be to become a great teacher. That is what I came to school for and I am fully dedicated to discover how difficult young students will be because something tells me that they’re not going to just sit there and listen to me speak. My voice is way too monotone.

I’m going into my fourth year and by the time I’m writ-ing my next column I’m going to know exactly where I’m headed. I’m confident that I will be able to figure out some sort of direction if I just put my mind to it and believe that I have the ability.

So there really is no reason dwelling on all of the top-ics I didn’t bring up yet. I’ve got plenty of time. So thanks for listening to someone like me. I’m looking forward to building on my future, while continuing to write about all of the humor and inconsisten-cies along the way.

Campus BeatFinding hobbies, goals to get ducks in a row

By Matt OstranderVanguard Columnist

Matt Ostrander is a secondary education junior. Reach him at [email protected].

Y ou’ve seen these before, right? An editor’s last editorial—they’re maybe a little bit self-indulgent, a little bit therapeutic and a little bit sad (but only for the editor, of course).

I’m supposed to tell you how fast this year has flown by (“Wow, April already! It seems like just yesterday…”), how challenging and rewarding this job has been (“I’ve learned more about myself this year than I ever could have imagined!”) and what a long, hard road it’s been (“It’s been a long, hard road…”).

But don’t worry, I promise I won’t do that to you. I’m not that type of editor.

I won’t begin by telling you it’s all been easy, but I certainly won’t tell you it’s all been difficult, either. I am a writer, first and foremost, and it’s tough to complain about your job too much when you get to work with what you love.

It’s true that an editor is only as good as his staff, but

I certainly would never use this space to tell you how proud I am of my writers, editors and designers, and how much I’ll miss them when I’m gone. It’s true that I am grateful for their skill and their humor—though of course this isn’t the time or place to say that.

I certainly won’t try to reflect on the strides we made this year, though I think there have been a few, and I won’t yammer on about the lessons I’ve learned—both directly and indirectly, positive and negative—from working with administrators and faculty this year.

And finally, the last thing I will not do in this editorial is tell you about my hopes for this paper in the future, because the last thing anyone wants to read about is a whiny editor who won’t let go—but I will tell you that I am hopeful, and that there is still much work to be done.

But I promised I wouldn’t tell you all of that, and of course I’m going to keep that promise—not only because I’m an editor of my word, but also because after all this time and all this work, after all of these editorials, all the football games and faculty profiles and reviews and previews and after all of the small miracles that occur when someone tells you they’ve read and enjoyed something you’ve written, after all of this dialogue, readers, between you and I, between this paper and this campus, between our words and your eyes and your hands and your lives, there is really only one thing to say:

Thank you, readers. Thank you, thank you, thank you—for everything.

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Cardinal Sins has been a presence on SVSU’s campus for more than a decade, but that presence is still evolving today.

The journal has gained an increasing profile in the academic community thanks to Sins’ latest project: a flash fiction contest open to the general public.

The contest had over a hundred submissions, some of which came from as far away as London and Mexico.

Sins fiction editor, Pete Stevens, explained how this all got started with a trip to the AWP conference in Boston.

“We really wanted to push the contest,” he said. “Professors kept telling us they were going to have their whole class submit for it.”

That conference was the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and it was the first time Sins had ever represented there.

What made Sins’ contest so unique and caught many professors’ attention was the fact that it was free.

Stevens said that most contests such as this have an entrance fee, but Sins decided to forego that, believing that the goal was to simply involve as many new people as possible.

Peter Barry, Sins’ faculty adviser and a philosophy professor, praised the group’s pursuit of that goal, as well as its editor, Brandy Abraham.

“It’s very rare when someone does everything they said they would,” he said. “Brandy did.”

Barry said he used to have a much bigger role with the staff, as he was involved in the selection process and details of the journal for a

long time. But now he’s more there for administration details.“I don’t really have a presence anymore, and I’m fine with that,”

he said. “Brandy’s secured a strong, independent, aggressive staff and they just need less than others have.”

But Abraham and the Sins staff aren’t done yet. They plan to continue offering open contests. They will have a poetry contest offered for the fall 2013 semester and a nonfiction contest in the winter of 2014. The themes will be ‘expansion’ and ‘translation’ respectively.

According to Stevens, the idea behind these themes is to create general guidelines for writers to work with.

“We want a theme that will produce interesting works and is open to interpretation, but will funnel the work a bit too,” he said.

Their theme with the flash fiction contest was trespassing. The winning piece was titled “Smashing” by Gra Linnaea with two honorable mentions: “Trellis Passing” by Michael Chaney and “Homelessness” by Patrick Sugrue.

Their website is www.cardinalsinsjournal.com and features a new, professional look as well as a more user-friendly and accessible site.

It also includes back issues from several previous semesters as well as a link to their submissions site so students can get a feel for the journal and enter their own pieces.

On Twitter, readers can follow Sins at @sinsjournal. Marlin Jenkins, Sins’ associate editor, is in charge of the page and puts up reminders for submissions as well as quotes from previously published writers.

“The whole idea is that we’ve got something interesting here and want to share it,” Barry said. “I’m really pleased with everything the staff has done.”

For the past year and some odd days, my team and I have searched for the legendary yogurt yeti, in pursuit of the treasure it is said to protect…thus far, the monster has eluded capture. When any hope of finding it appears lost, it seems to materialize before us, looming out of the very soil to tower mightily above us unimpressive humans. And yet, in spite of its otherworldly power, it looks on at us with its humanoid features to express what can undeniably be called as fear. Then it disappears as quickly as it appears, leaving no trace behind but the occasional smear of frozen yogurt. It’s as though our overwhelming desire to capture it and behold its treasure leads us to collectively hallucinate its presence, manufacturing mirages and stoking our hopes. But I believe we are closer to finding it now more than ever before.

The area’s recent rapid fluctuation in temperature and weather patterns seems to have had negative effects on its health, slowing it down. In the past few days, there have been numerous sightings of the gooey, hairy beast, as well as the occasional set of staggering footprints and trails of yogurt droplets. We have tracked it back to its eponymous business establishment, currently the only open and operating business in the Cardinal View Plaza behind the 7-Eleven at the corner of Bay and Pierce. There is a set of tracks leading into the building and none leading out. The expedition cautiously approaches and enters the yogurt yeti’s sanctuary. The yeti lies sprawled on the building’s floor in the middle of the dining area. Its breathing is strained. The walls are a light lilac and the canopy a plum purple, the mosaic tiles adorning the cashier

counter and back wall pearlescent and the dining area austere in its furnishings. Above the whole scene, a sign reads “Come Build a Dream!” while another sign written in chalk indicates the price of the yeti’s treasure: .45 cents per ounce. The expedition agreed that this seemed a very reasonable price for the yogurt yeti’s frozen yogurt treasure trove. The supine yeti moaned lowly to draw their attention away from the reasonably priced frozen yogurt. The party formed a circle around yogurt yeti, while the expedition’s leader took it upon himself to comfort the beast, kneeling down and to rest his hand on its shoulder. “Will you be OK?” The yeti looked up intelligently and responded, “No. I’m probably going to die…or something.” “Oh. Is there anything we can do?” “Keep my memory alive. Keep my business alive.” “Yes, we can do that.” As the yeti slowly drifted away, so did members of the expedition party to examine more closely the variety of frozen yogurt and what toppings were available. “There are so many!” “And it’s self-serve! It’s like an ice cream buffet!” “Well, frozen yogurt, and not really, no.” “I said, ‘it’s like,’ emphasis on ‘like.’” With his dying breath, the yeti pulled the expedition leader close and whispered in his ear, “Never forget: People love choices.” After this slight exertion, Yogurt yeti’s body went completely limp, its hand falling on its chest. Tears welling in his eyes, the leader stands and withdraws an SVSU flag and plunges it into the establishment’s floor: “I hereby declare the Yogurt Yeti—its 10 flavors of frozen yogurt, its multiple

topping bars containing upwards of 40 toppings, its hot fudge, its whipped topping, its peanut butter cream and so forth-part of SVSU. May it be a welcome addition to the ever-increasing campus.” The members of the expedition stood in silence for some time, staring at him. “I stabbed the yeti.” “Yeah, you did.” “And I kept talking.” “You impaled him with that flag!” With some effort, the leader pulled out the flag and replanted it elsewhere. “Would somebody get rid of the yeti? Take it outside at least?”

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Tim Windy is an English literature and creative writing senior and Vanguard reviewer. Reach him at [email protected].

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With only a few months of studying left, one theater student looks to leave on a high note.

Senior Cameron Thorp will graduate after the summer 2013 semester with a degree in theater and a gender studies minor.

Though he said he doesn’t have any set plans for what he hopes to accomplish after graduation, he has a few ideas of where he wants to go.

“After I won the award for prop design for the baby in ‘Buried Child’ at KCACTF, I’ve been talking back and forth with this guy in New York, and I’ll be heading there in the fall to hopefully start an internship,” Thorp said. “We’ll have to see where it goes though.”

Thorp was born to parents Ken and Caren on March 1, 1991, and grew up in Vassar. It was there that he would start to develop his love for theater.

His first production was at a community theater, where he acted in a production of “Annie.”

“It was there that I learned to have a lot of fun with these productions,” Thorp said. “If you have fun with it, then you’ll end up going for it.”

The actor worked on productions throughout middle and high school, later enrolling at the university in the fall 2009. At SVSU, there were a few productions that stood out to him.

“‘Maggie Magalita’ was a great production,” Thorp said. “It was during my first year of school. Ric [Roberts] directed it and it was put on during Mexican heritage month. There was a lot that made that production great, but the people I worked with made it stand out.”

With all the productions Thorp has acted in, he said he prefers playing in dramatic roles to comedic ones.

“With dramatic roles, you’re just retelling a story,” he said. “If you can’t make a comedic role to be funny, it’s a lot more difficult.”

He said that once he looked at the roles as telling a story when he play Bernard in “Death of a Salesman,” he was able to get in control of the character.

Another show the actor was excited to be a part of was Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,”directed by theater professor Dave Rzeszutek.

“I had a small role in that play, but it was still a lot of fun,” Thorp said. “To prepare for the role, Dave had us study an animal that represented our character, and move/talk

like that animal. It’s a process that I still use today.”

Thorp was recently a part of “Death of a Salesman,” which would be marked as his

final production at SVSU. Thorp thought the play was a great production to end his university career.

Vanguard photo | Sean DudleySenior Cameron Thorp will graduate in August 2013 with a degree in theater and a gender studies minor. He will be heading to New York City where he hopes to get an internship.

Vanguard photo | Arianna Paver Guests read through the latest edition of Cardinal Sins while published authors read their pieces aloud at the reception.

By Landon DefeverVanguard Staff Writer

By Rachael BlaylockVanguard Staff Writer

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sports

Men’s Lacrosse 2013 Recap

- April 4 - @ Ferris State...............Win...8-6- April 6 - vs. UofM-Flint..............Win..15-7- April 6 - vs. Findlay.....................Win..13-6- April 7 - @ Michigan State......Loss..7-14- April 11 - vs. Delta College......Win..14-5- April 13 - @ Wayne State..........Win..20-0- April 14 - vs. Bowling Green...Loss...4-5- April 16 - @ Northwood...........Win..10-8- April 19 - @ UofM-Flint.............Win..13-7- April 21 - vs. Delta College......Win..14-5

- April 27 - vs. Akron.....................Loss...6-9

Alumni show off skills, beat club team

PROS VS. JOES

Baseball•Wednesday,May1,@HillsdaleCollege,

2p.m.,Hillsdale•Saturday,May4,vs.TiffinUniversity,1

p.m.,UniversityCenter•Saturday,May4,vs.TiffinUniversity,3

p.m.,UniversityCenter•Sunday,May5,vs.TiffinUniversity,

SeniorDay,12p.m.,UniversityCenter

Golf•Monday,May6,@NCAASuper

Regional,Kenosha,Wis.•Tuesday,May7,@NCAASuper

Regional,Kenosha,Wis.•Wednesday,May8,@NCAASuper

Regional,Kenosha,Wis.•Monday,May20,@NCAANational

Championship,Hershey,Pa.•Tuesday,May21,@NCAANational

Championship,Hershey,Pa.•Wednesday,May22,@NCAANational

Championship,Hershey,Pa.•Thursday,May23,@NCAANational

Championship,Hershey,Pa.•Friday,May24,@NCAANational

Championship,Hershey,Pa.

Men’s Track•Wednesday,May1,@GLIACOutdoor

Championships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Thursday,May2,@GLIACOutdoorChampionships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Friday,May3,@GLIACOutdoorChampionships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Thursday,May23,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,ColoradoState,Pueblo,CO

•Friday,May24,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,ColoradoState,Pueblo,CO

•Saturday,May25,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,Colorado

State,Pueblo,CO

Women’s Track•Wednesday,May1,@GLIACOutdoor

Championships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Thursday,May2,@GLIACOutdoorChampionships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Friday,May3,@GLIACOutdoorChampionships,AshlandUniversity,Ashland,OH

•Thursday,May23,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,ColoradoState,Pueblo,CO

•Friday,May24,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,ColoradoState,Pueblo,CO

•Saturday,May25,@NCAADivisionIINationalChampionships,ColoradoState,Pueblo,CO

sportsbriefs

With help from past dodgeball stars, the dodgeball club hosted its first alumni verses students game.

Last Friday, the dodgeball club teamed up with former SVSU graduates who had played on past teams to host a game between alumni and the Cardinals club team. Showing that they still had some skills, the alumni beat the current club team by a score of 2-1 in what club president Max Siler called a very competi-tive game.

“It was a very close and heated battle from start to finish,” Siler said. “It wasn’t just a game where a bunch of people were playing around.

“It was very competitive all the way through.”

Club vice president Lindsay May-nard said that it was no laughing matter on the court, with players on both teams

playing to win.“SVSU takes its dodgeball very seri-

ously,” Maynard said. “And it was nice to see that some of the alumni haven’t lost it yet.”

Players who hadn’t taken the court in

years showed up Friday night and showed that they could still compete at a very high level against some of the best competition.

“There were a few guys I talked to who told me they hadn’t actually thrown a dodgeball in over two years,” Siler said. “And as a veteran on the current team, there were a bunch of people I didn’t even know and didn’t have the honor of play-ing with before.

“We had players coming from years back showing up and playing hard.”

Moving forward, the dodgeball club hopes to keep in touch with its former members and schedule games like this in the future, preferably not near exam week.

“We definitely want to make this an annual event,” Maynard said. “It’s great to have the alumni come back and play the game they love and for some of us seniors who are graduating, we want to come back in the future and show that we

can still play.”Siler said the event was planned in

last-minute fashion, but hopes that in fu-ture years, the student turnout will be bet-ter because of better planning and adver-tising.

“The student turnout wasn’t great for this,” Siler said. “But we planned it last-minute and didn’t really have time to pro-mote it as well as we would have liked.

“The alumni showed up in impres-sive numbers though and had enough to field a team and even some of them in the crowd were doing plenty of trash talk.”

Maynard said that the club plans on making it a bigger and more attended event in the future and may include other events to bring more students in.

“We hope to make it a much larger event,” Maynard said. “It’s great because it gives the club exposure that it deserves.”

Sixth Pros vs. Joes a slam dunk By Marie NesbittVanguard Staff Writer

Six years ago, Abou Traore died in a canoeing accident. A beloved student and friend, Traore touched many hearts during his short tenure at SVSU.

Traore was involved in many organizations around campus and was training to be a resident assistant when he died. Since then, Residential Life continues to raise money for the Abou Traore Memorial Scholarship in his honor during the annual Pros vs. Joes basketball game.

“It’s a great cause,” said Matt Krevda, associate director of Residen-tial Life and organizer of the event. “Abou was a friend to everyone and was very involved when he was here.”

“It’s lots of fun to go and watch some of the faculty members come out and play some basketball,” he said. “It’s also a great way to culmi-nate the end of the year and have some fun.”

The 6th annual Pros vs. Joes game last Wednesday began with great fan-fare. The night was filled with cheers and excitement. Players on both the men’s and women’s varsity basketball teams and several faculty members entertained the crowd with a friendly basketball game, helping to raise money for the scholarship fund.

The Joes came out strong, putting up several points in the first minute and making some challenging shots. Even though they were able to main-

tain a slim lead in the first half, the Pros came back to win 76-73.

Many students came out to the event and took part in the excitement, laughing with friends and cheering on the players and faculty members.

“I really loved the half-time show,” said Alexa Hickey, a criminal justice junior. “Especially the beat-boxer. I was amazed that one person could be so talented.”

Zigian ‘Big Mike’ Wang amazed the crowd during half-time with his vocal talents, beat-boxing to cur-rent chart topping hits and his own creations.

“The whole game was fun to watch,” said Hickey. “Everyone was just having fun and enjoying them-selves.”

“Half-time was the best,” said nursing junior Erica Capp. “Everyone seemed to be really involved and participating in all the activities. The beat-boxer was amazing and every-one was cheering on the little boy during the lightning round. It was exciting to be a part of it all.”

Residential Life raised $913.35 for the Abou Traore Memorial Scholar-ship, far exceeding its goal of $500.

Res Life members began selling T-shirts and wristbands for a dis-counted price three weeks prior to the game, and continued to sell them at the door. To enter the game, students and attendees could donate $1 or purchase gear and raffle tickets.

Attendees were also encour-aged to donate money to the Penalty Couch, where a player had to draw a dollar amount and raise the money

in order to get back into the game after fouling out. During half-time, audience members could donate $3 to participate in a lightning round of free throws for the opportunity to win an iPad Mini. Attendees also had the chance to win one of the $3000 worth of prizes, including three iPad Minis, a Kindle Fire, several Nooks, as well as T-shirts, cameras and gift cards.

Two students, Majoline Fan-megne Noumi and Kaitlyn Green, beat out 79 applicants for the $500 scholarship.

Although Traore passed away six years ago, his message continues to live on in the SVSU community: “Live simple, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, and leave the rest up to God.”

DODGEBALL

Playoff appearance spoiled by Akron

Coming into Saturday, the men’s lacrosse club knew it had to either win or go home. Following a hot start, the club was unable to overcome Akron University and fell 9-6.

Despite coming out to an early 4-0 lead and carrying a 6-3 lead into the fourth quarter, the club was unable to keep things going. According to club president Patrick Gross, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.

“Nobody really saw it coming when we were going into the fourth with the lead we had,” Gross said. “We had been playing great all game long and thought we had it.”

Assistant coach John Brand said losing the game in that fashion was a shocker for him and the entire team.

“We knew coming in that we had to win or go home,” Brand said. “We came out really hot and our guys were playing very well but I guess Akron was just too much for us in the end.”

While the loss is heartbreaking for the club, both Gross and Brand said that the season overall gave the team many positive things to build upon going forward.

“The season was great,” Gross said. “We got to field the best team we have ever had with the most talent and it got us to an 8-3 record overall.

“It’s strange to see a team with that kind of record not make the playoffs, but we lost a couple of close conference games that we really needed to win.”

Brand said the relationship formed with the athletic department and the team’s overall performance gives club members something to look forward to.

“We have a lot to build on with somewhere around 20 guys coming back,” Brand said. “We had the

opportunity to work with the athletic department and play every home game on the football field, which is something we had never done before.”

Both on and off the field, Gross said that the club made strides that will elevate it above anything it was in previous years.

“We just did so many things for different causes off the field this year,” Gross said. “We did Relay for Life, the fundraiser to raise money for breast cancer awareness and the Bay City Public Schools lacrosse teaching program.”

Going forward, the team had hoped to be playing in the first round of the conference playoffs, but now the club has different goals in mind for summer.

“Now the goal is to just get out and do some major summer work, look for recruits and prepare for the fall part of the season,” Gross said. “We already have some promising freshmen coming in next year that should make next year’s team even better.”

“Pat (Gross) did a great job of recruiting some solid players out of high school to come to SVSU,” Brand said. “Those new recruits plus the guys we have

coming back should make for a great 2014 season.”For Gross, 2013 is his last at SVSU and leading the

lacrosse club. He said that the experiences he had while on campus and with the club are unique and special.

“The club should be under new leadership, but I’m looking forward to hearing what they can do,” Gross said. “I’m going to miss them and I’ve had a ton of fun with these guys.

“It’s a family, and there’s no other family like it.”

By Chris OliverVanguard Sports Editor


“SVSU takes its dodgeball very seriously

Lindsay Maynard

dodgebaL CLub ViCe President

MEN’S LACROSSE

“We have a lot to build on with somewhere around 20 guys coming back.

John brand

LaCrosse CLub assistant CoaCh

Vanguard file photoAlong with pitting faculty versus players from the varsity basketball teams, Pros vs. Joes helped raise $913.35 for the Abou Traore Memorial Scholarship.


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sports

Fickle offense leads to poor home showing

Central Michigan meet provides preparation

By Joey OliverVanguard Staff Writer

By Matt OstranderVanguard Staff Writer

Late game woes spoil defensive play

Vanguard photo | Alyssa EllisSenior right hander Carson Beauchaine has started seven games for the Cardinals this season. He has posted a 2-4 record despite leading the team in strikeouts with 31 in 40 innings of work.

BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

Sunday, the Cardinals came in looking for a win to finish off the series with GLIAC-leading Wayne State University after dropping the first two games of the series.

Freshman right hander Dylan Wisniewski pitched a gem for the Cardinals, limiting the Warriors’ offense to two runs through nine in-nings of work.

“Dylan (Wisniewski) just went out there and threw strikes,” said senior third baseman Andy Orr. “He didn’t struggle to find the strike zone and he just went after guys.”

SVSU jumped out to an early lead, taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Wayne State came back in the fifth by tying the game up off Wis-niewski. That’s all the offense SVSU’s pitching would allow.

Going into the bottom of the 11th inning tied at two apiece, freshman first baseman pinch hit and drove in the winning run for the Cardinals.

The game gave the Cardinals something to smile about after dropping Saturday’s double-header against Wayne State.

“I think overall we played really well as a team,” Orr said. “The pitching was there, we scored some runs early which is uncharacteristic of us and our defense was solid.

“It was just a good team win.”Throughout most of the season, defense has

been a weakness for the Cardinals, often giving up late leads due to defensive miscues on rou-tine plays. Following the Wayne State series in which SVSU committed no defensive errors, Orr said the team’s biggest weakness is becoming a strength.

“The weather as of late has let us actually practice outside on grass which has been really helpful in improving our defense on ground balls,” Orr said. “Practicing in the gym and tak-ing ground balls off that kind of surface is very different than grass or turf.

“Outdoor practices help us see ground balls in a different way.”

Game one of Saturday’s doubleheader had the Warriors coming out swinging, scoring a run

in the second and third innings to take an early 2-0 lead. SVSU responded in the fourth inning, scoring three runs of its own. Sophomore short-stop Chris Perkovich drove in Orr before junior outfielder Michael Craig drove two runs in for the Cardinals.

The momentum-building rally was not enough. In the fifth inning, Wayne State tied it up at 3-3 before driving in three more runs in the sixth to take a 6-3 lead.

Senior right hander Carson Beauchaine picked up his fourth loss on the year, giving up six runs on 11 hits over his six innings.

The second half of the doubleheader started well enough for the Cardinals, who came out to an early 3-1 lead. Senior right hander Michael Schaaf went 5.1 innings while giving up two runs on six hits and two walks. He also had two strikeouts. He was in line for the win following a two-run blast from Orr in the fifth inning.

Following Schaaf’s exit from the game, the bullpen again could not hold onto the lead.

The Warriors roared back in the seventh in-ning to score three runs and give SVSU its sec-ond loss of the day.

“We should have won both games on Sat-urday,” Orr said. “We played solid defense and we hit well, but the pitching wasn’t completely there.

“But the fact that we lost close games shows we can play with anyone in the conference.”

The series leaves SVSU at an overall record of 12-20 on the season, far below the goals set by many of the senior players coming into 2013. For Wayne State, it was another notch on its long streak of success in the GLIAC this season, push-ing the Warriors’ record to 29-12 overall.

Currently, the Cardinals sit in fifth place in the GLIAC. With the top six going to the GLIAC tournament, there is a good chance that SVSU will make the postseason.

“Once we get into the tournament, it’s basi-cally a whole new season,” Orr said. “Anybody can beat anybody and sometimes the best teams win, sometimes others win.

“Last year Ashland beat us four times in the regular season and we beat them in the tourna-ment.”

After its doubleheader against Ashland was canceled due to weather, the SVSU soft-ball team had to prepare for a two-day home-stand against Ferris State and Lake Superior State on Thursday, April 25, and Friday, April 26, respectively.

The Ferris state doubleheader resulted in a sweep in favor of the Bulldogs. Game one was a pitching duel that featured senior hurler Jillian Williamson at the top of her game. The right hander pitched a full seven innings, sur-rendering seven hits while striking out three and walking four. She allowed just two runs, both unearned. A 2-1 final saw the Cards’ of-fense manage just four hits.

Williamson was on the hill once again for game two. Her second performance of the day was not as efficient as her first as she al-lowed six runs (five earned) on 10 hits over six innings pitched. Offensively, the SVSU bats were slowed and scored just three runs on four hits in a 6-3 defeat.

The Cardinal bats finally woke up when Lake Superior State visited Saginaw for a doubleheader on Friday. Junior first baseman

Lindsay Hayward and freshman catcher Kari Knight combined to knock in four runs on the day. The offense tallied eight hits and scored nine runs, seven of which came in the final in-ning.

SVSU’s manager Todd Buckingham cred-ited the victory to his team’s determination and resilience.

“We came out underestimating them and they flat out put it to us early on,” he said. “For whatever reason, we couldn’t figure out how to hit their pitcher until our backs were against the wall, but then we came alive at the right time.”

Pitching wise, command seemed to have gone astray for the Cardinals’ staff. Freshman pitcher Sarah Vrabel started the contest and lasted just one inning before another fresh-man, Sarah Appold, came in from the ‘pen to walk five batters over 2.2 innings. Freshman Chelsea Davis got the decision and the win out of the bullpen in the 9-7 Cardinals victory.

Game two of the doubleheader vouched for the team’s offensive turnaround.

In a 6-0 victory, sophomore third baseman Amanda Kimes came up huge, going two-for-two with both hits being triples. William-son and Davis paired up to pitch the shutout

while scattering three hits. SVSU left the comforts of their home field

to travel to Northwood for another two-game set. Game one saw the Cards stretch their small win streak to three games with a 6-5 victory over the Timberwolves. After getting behind early, the Cards had to rally to take the lead late. Their offensive attack was once again led by a combined four RBIs from Hayward and

Knight. Williamson pitched a complete game against Northwood and got the win, increas-ing her season win total to six.

Buckingham liked his team’s energy over the course of the first game.

“We played with a lot of emotion and en-

ergy in that first game,” he said. “Our girls refused to lose in that first game.

“Northwood is probably the best hitting team we have faced all year, but every time they scored we were able to come right back and answer.”

Game two saw a turn for the worst for the team on the field.

Once again, the Cardinals dug themselves in an early hole. This time, however, the hole was too deep to climb out of. Williamson sur-rendered four runs in the top of the first. The Timberwolves’ bats would stay hot as they would finish the game with 11 runs to match SVSU’s one. The Cards’ defense allowed three errors.

As much as Buckingham was pleased with his team’s performance to start the day, he was just as much disappointed with their performance in the series finale.

“The second game we came out flat and played perhaps the worst defensive game we could,” he said.

With the conference championships only a week away, the men’s and women’s track teams look to put their best effort forward.

SVSU’s men’s and women’s track teams competed at the Lyle Bennett Open last Sat-urday which was held at Central Michigan University. While the meet was really a warm up for the conference champions starting next weekend, both men and women fared well in the events.

Junior Jacob Lauka finished in first place in the 3000-meter steeplechase event with a time of 9:45:39. Freshman Tori Gillespie got first place in the javelin throw, with a dis-tance of 100 feet 3 inches. Sophomore Tony

Peel earned second place in the 3000-meter run with a time of 8:55.

Criminal justice junior Ricky Griffin ran the 100-meter in Saturday’s meet and is look-ing forward to working hard for the champi-onships coming up in less than a week. Even though a lot of runners did not race, it was still good practice for more serious upcoming meets.

“We didn’t have our entire group today,” Griffin said. “But the people who did come out had good performances. It was partly because of the great weather we had today.”

Not only was the meet good warm up for the conference championships, but it was also a return back to form personally.

“The meet went good,” Griffin said. “For me it was better because it was my first race

being back. It felt good to be back out there.” Exercise science junior Lee Chiatalas ran

the 4 by 100 meter relay, but is already fo-cused on the championships that lay so soon ahead.

“We know now what we need to work on for next week,” Chiatalas said. “All this did was put us in a better position for confer-ences.”

He also was coming off of a period of not running, because of a minor injury that kept him out of racing for a while.

“It was good for me because I just came back from an injury and I’ve shown myself I can work on the leg well,” Chiatalas said.

He discussed his favorite part about track championships and the thing that came up the most was the competitive nature of

the events. “My favorite part about it is the compe-

tition,” Chiatalas said. “Where everyone is trying to do their best. It’s really an inspir-ing environment, with all the energy, and the crowd always cheering you on during the relays.”

The men’s and women’s track teams will be back in action Wednesday, May 1, through Friday, May 3, when they compete at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships hosted by Ashland University in Ashland, OH.


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sVsu softbaLL Manager

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