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SGA opposes academic calendar change, Ross wants new discussion VP Richeson: ‘Something insurmountable has just occurred’

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

The Student Government House and Senate both oppose planned Academic Calendar changes that could be coming in the fall of 2014.

The SGA House voted unanimously to approve a motion Monday, declaring SGA opposes the planned academic calendar changes that were put in motion in

the spring.

The SGA Senate also voted to oppose the academic calendar, with 15 for the motion and two against, with one abstaining.

“I think that Matt Serra and Laura Frey said it best when they met with us three weeks ago,” SGA Vice President and Hesperia senior Killian Richeson said. “They stated that this would occur unless something insurmount-

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able occurred. Something insurmountable has just occurred.”

Under the change, the fall 2014 semester would begin on Sept. 2, after Labor Day, effectively eliminating one week of structured class time.

The motion, introduced

by SGA senators Marie Reimers, a Saginaw sophomore; Muskegon junior

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

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Central Michigan University President George Ross said the discussion of the new academic calendar has to come back to the Academic Senate.

In a meeting with Central Michigan Life Tuesday, Ross said with Monday’s Student Government Association’s opposition to the academic calendar,

A-Senate has to recognize the concerns students have regarding the proposed changes.

“The voice of the students is extremely important,” Ross said. “... What happened last (Monday) with the (SGA) House and Senate was a loud voice.”

Ross said he agreed with SGA’s expressed concerns presented in the passed bill.

“I don’t believe we have done enough homework,”

Ross said. “Having a longer summer to work has, of course, been presented as a positive, but what are you going to do about orientation and Leadership Safari?”

Monday night, the SGA House voted unanimously to approve a motion declaring official opposition to the planned academic calendar changes.

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Board of Trustees starting review of Ross through on-campus interviews

By Neil Rosan Staff Reporter

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Fraternity brothers of Kappa Sigma stand on the porch with their banner pinned to the front of their fraternity house Tuesday afternoon on Main Street. Kappa Sigma has been on campus as a colony and will be chartering, becoming a full chapter of their national organization this semester. Pi Kappa Phi fraternity will also be chartering.

Gaining GreekS Pi Kappa Phi, Kappa Sigma set to become full chapters Nov. 17

By Charnae Sanders Staff Reporter

It took hard work and dedication for Pi Kappa Phi and Kappa Sigma to be scheduled to become full chapters on Nov. 17.

In order for any colony to become a chapter, there is a list of requirements.

For Pi Kappa Phi, a few of the necessities included raising $1,000 for their national philanthropy, Push America, having a minimum of 35 members, pay a chartering fee of $2,000 and writing several programs for the fraternity, consisting of scholarship programs, alumni relations programs, and fundraising programs, which junior and president of Pi Kappa Phi Matt Berlin calls “one of the more difficult” requirements to fulfill.

“It is a good feeling,” the Millington native said of finally being granted the right to become a chapter this semester. “We have been working toward this for probably a year and a half now, and it’s been an extreme amount of work.”

For Kappa Sigma, some of the requirements were get-

ting $150 from each member and recruitment. Also, since the colony wasn’t on CMU’s campus at the time, they had to find a house.

“I think the most difficult thing was getting on campus,” Bay City senior and Kappa Sigma member Trent Grzegorczyk said. “That was our first big challenge.

Without getting on campus, we wouldn’t be in the position we are now, because we had to get to 50 guys, and it was really hard to recruit when you’re not recognized by a university.”

Nov. 17 will not only symbolize the official entrance into Greek Life by becoming a chapter, but more of hard work finally paying off for Grzegorczyk.

“We’ve been trying to do this for five years and most colonies don’t take that long to

become a chapter,” Grzegorczyk said.

For over a year and a half, the men of Pi Kappa Phi have been striving for this moment to come. Jeremy Osborne, a Rockwood junior and Pi Kappa Phi treasurer, has been there from the beginning as one of the students in the very first recruitment class.

“I am very ecstatic to see all the hard work pay off,” Osborne said. “This has been my life for almost two years no, and I will never look back at the achievement we are about to obtain … we aimed high at our tasks and succeeded. This has not been a single effort by one person in our chapter. It has been a group of men that I call my brothers who helped build this fraternity from the roots up.” studentlife@cm-life.com

Women’s rights discussed during Tuesday panel

By Alayna Smith Senior Reporter

Women’s health and rights are an imperative topic in November election discussions, and Tuesday’s panel in Pearce Hall made audience members aware of it.

The panel, called “Women and the Election: Our lives, our votes!” consisted of political science professor Joyce Baugh; assistant professor of philosophy Andrew Blom; Chuck Bowden, professor of sociology at Mid-Michigan Community College; and Donna Giuliani, professor of sociology at Delta College.

Philosophy professor Joyce

Henricks moderated.

Henricks began the discussion by talking about the importance of the issues and about how the issues that affect women also affect children, men and society as a whole.

“I don’t know about other elections, but this election is not tweedle dee and tweedle dum,” she said. “There is a clear choice between the issues.”

Giuliani shared statistics to shed some light on the current situation of women in society, including the fact that less than 17 percent of the House of Representatives are women.

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Donna Giuliani, a professor at Delta College, holds up a folder to represent her talk on the upcoming election and the topic of domestic violence on Tuesday night in Pearce Hall.

The Central Michigan University Board of Trustees will be conducting a comprehensive review of University President George Ross this November.

Interviews with 75 people across campus and the larger community will take place the week of Nov. 12.

The stakeholders will consist of academic deans, randomly selected faculty members, student leaders and other important figures across campus. They will be interviewed by the threeperson Presidential Review Committee chaired by Trustee Brian Fannon.

Committee member and Trustee John Hurd said former president Mike Rao went through comprehensive reviews during his time at the university.

“It is part of the board policy that the president receives a board review every three years. This is the end of Ross’ first three years in office,” Hurd said. “It’s my understanding that last time

with Mike Rao, it was done a little differently, asking for input from university stakeholders.

Last time, George Ross it was done by a computer-based survey with stakeholders asked to respond. This time, we asked for face-to-face interviews with stakeholders.”

Hurd and the board see the review as a developmental tool for the president as the university moves into the future.

“It’s an ongoing possible solution for the president, board and university as we together plan for the future,” Hurd said.

“We see it being developmental as we’ll be asking university leaders and stakeholders their perceptions about Ross as a leader, and any advice, comments, recommendations or concerns they may have will be part of the information we will use as we conduct the review of Ross.”

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AP says Enos is on hot seat; coach says program has shown improvement

By Matt Thompson Staff Reporter

Football head coach Dan Enos was listed in an Associated Press story Tuesday for 10 coaches on the hot seat.

Since joining the program, Enos has led the team to two consecutive 3-9 seasons and a 2-5 start this year.

The story by Ralph Russo pointed out that Central Michigan got accustomed to winning the Mid-American Conference under former coaches Butch Jones and Brian Kelly, but Enos has eight wins in three seasons.

After practice Tuesday, Enos was asked if he feels pressure after two straight 3-9 seasons to show improvement.

“No, I think we have (shown improvement),” he said.

Saturday, Enos will try to get his fifth career MAC win against Akron and first conference win this season. Akron is 1-19 in the MAC during the past three years.

No other MAC coach was on the AP list. Among those on it are Gene Chizik at Auburn, who won the National Championship two seasons ago, Derek Dooley at Tennessee, Joker Phillips at Kentucky, Frank Spaziani at Bos-

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His current contract would end Dec. 31 2015. If he were to get fired during this season, he would be paid $700,000 by the university. If he were to get fired after the season, or during the 2013 season, he would receive $400,000. In 2014-15, it would be $300,000 and 2016, he would be paid $200,000.

“We are all-in with Dan Enos and his strong vision for and dedication to rebuilding this program into a perennial championship contender that has a foundation for sustainable success,” Athletic Director Dave Heeke said in a statement after Enos’ contract was extended.

“Continuity, stability and commitment are the critical qualities needed at this point to define the next chapter of Chippewa Football success.”

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EVENTS CALENDAR TODAY w Food Day, an event put on

by Campus Grow, will be held in Brooks 176 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event will include presentations from students, faculty and farmers on healthy diets, canning, local farming and more.

w “America and Islam: Rising

Beyond the Politics of Fear Post-9/11,” presented by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor of Islamic studies Omid Safi, will take place in the Bovee UC Auditorium from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

TOMORROW w Thirsty for Laughs

Thursday, a stand-up comedy event put on by the Program Board, will take place in the Student Lounge in the Bovee UC from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Those interested in performing should contact the Program Board a day in advance to sign up.

w Former adviser to

President Bill Clinton and CNN contributor Paul Begala will speak on the Nov. 6 general election from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Anspach 161. Begala will hold a book signing after the speech at 8:30 p.m.

w Legends of the Dark, the

annual haunted campus tour, will begin at 7:30 p.m. and will continue through 10:20 p.m. Hour-long tours of the campus’ most haunted locations start every 10 minutes from the Down Under Food Court in the Bovee UC. Tickets are $3 in advance and $5 at the door.

w The CMU Orchestra will

perform a free concert at the Staples Family Concert Hall in the Music Building from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

CORRECTIONS Central Michigan Life has a longstanding commitment to fair and accurate reporting. It is our policy to correct factual errors.

Please e-mail news@cm-life.com. © Central Michigan Life 2012 Volume 94, Number 26

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Giuliani also discussed the feminization of poverty, the trend of women and children being disproportionately impoverished. This is due largely to the pay inequality in the workforce, as well as the need to balance home and work life, she said.

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Sara O’Toole and graduate student Binu Prabhakaran, along with Resident Hall Assembly spokesman and Bloomfield Hills senior Scott Cooke, lists 38 reasons why the academic calendar would be detrimental to the Central Michigan University student body.

The motion charged the change with not having enough student support, not being efficiently planned and being detrimental to the quality of academics at CMU. SGA President and Macomb junior Justin Gawronski said he’s confident the passed motion will prevent the planned changes from occurring; Academic Senate officials are unsure what effect this will have.

In an Oct. 10 CM Life article, A-Senate Chairman Jim McDonald said SGA does not have direct control over whether or not the academic calendar would be rescinded. Executive Director of Faculty Personnel Services Matt Serra said even with the passed motion, SGA will have to persuade the A-Senate.

Cooke, who sponsored the motion, said he expected the House’s vote to approve SGA’s opposition to the academic calendar.

“I wasn’t surprised at all,” Cooke said. “I think if you’ve paid attention to student opinion about this calendar in the last few meetings, you would have (seen) this coming.”

Cooke said he agrees with Gawronski’s confidence in the SGA’s ability to oppose the bill, saying SGA represents the student body, who are the most important voice on this campus.

“I think if we present this

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Ross said the review doesn’t have any relation to tensions between the faculty and administration last year.

“I don’t think the review has anything to do with last year at all,” Ross said. “It just has to happen between years three and five, and the board chose to do it this year.”

When the interviews are over, the committee will compile a report that will be submitted at the Dec. 6 Board of Trustees meeting, where Hurd hopes most of the information will be made public.

“We want this process to be as open and transparent as it can be,” he said. “At the same time, it does involve personnel, Baugh read the respective Democratic and Republican official platforms on several issues pertaining to women, including abortion and LGBT marriage rights, letting each party speak for itself on the issues.

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[NEWS] to the right administrators — to the right people — the SGA will be successful,” Gawronski said.

Even though a survey distributed by the A-Senate last November came back with results showing CMU split on the calendar change, Richeson said he was not surprised that the SGA overwhelmingly voted for the motion. “(The more) students have learned about this issue, I think they have become more aware of how the calendar affects them,” Richeson said.

Richeson said the SGA will definitely be able to make an impact in regards to the academic calendar implementation.

Gawronski said now that motion has been passed, the SGA will be able to take steps to oppose the implementation of the academic calendar, including talking to senators in A-Senate, presenting the SGA’s stance to the A-Senate E-board and gaining student support through a Facebook group.

Gawronski said he is excited about the student response the academic calendar debate has received.

“We had a full house today,” Gawronski said. “I had a number of RSOs email me last week and tell me that they are voting against the resolution. We had RSOs who usually don’t show up show up today. … I think there’s finally more interest in campus affairs. I think there’s less apathy.”

Though A-Senate’s response will be what determines the end result, Richeson said the House vote and Senate vote will give SGA even more power in negotiating.

“This is the biggest stamp of approval the SGA can receive,” Richeson said. studentlife@cm-life.com

so there are some elements of it that can’t be entirely transparent. Anything in that area of being a personnel matter that by law would not be subject to public disclosure may not be public. But, I would hope that we make everything public.”

Hurd is ultimately looking forward to the process and the growth that will come with it.

“I, and I know all the committee members, look forward to engaging with university leaders, internal and external, with conversations about the president and what we can do to help him develop and make him and the university more effective,” Hurd said.

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abusive relationships?,’” he said. “It didn’t take long to see that was the wrong question.

The question should be, ‘Why are there so many abusive men to choose from?’”

Bowden commented that many men just never realize that things are so unequal between the genders, and that’s part of the problem.

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endar is a contractual issue between the Faculty Association and university.

“Part of the discussion, procedurally, is what we can do from here,” Ross said.

“There are established paths that we can take.”

Ross said he is planning to meet with A-Senate’s executive board to discuss the future of the academic calendar and how the university plans to proceed now that the SGA legislation has passed.

Ross also plans to discuss the issue in detail with SGA President and Macomb

CONTINUED FROM 1A The SGA Senate also voted to oppose the academic calendar.

Under the change, the fall 2014 semester would begin on Sept. 2, after Labor Day, effectively eliminating one week of structured class time.

Ross also expressed concerns that have been brought to him regarding room and board and whether student fees would change due to the new academic calendar.

Yet, Ross admitted the fate of the academic calendar was beyond his or SGA’s control.

“I’d love to tell you there was a person who could directly change the academic calendar,” Ross said. “I don’t have that authority, the provost doesn’t have that authority.

This was voted in by the Academic Senate and negotiated with the Faculty Association.

We are now prepared to follow the rules of bargaining.”

While Ross said SGA’s voice is an extremely important voice, he said it is limited in it’s ability to prevent the changes from happening because the academic cal-

junior Justin Gawronski this weekend.

Ross hopes A-Senate recognizes the urgency of the issue and doesn’t let procedural norms prevent continued discussion about the academic calender.

“I’m going to talk to the e-board and tell them we have to bring this back,” Ross said.

“I don’t want Robert’s Rules of Order to get in the way of this conversation.” university@cm-life.com

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Middle East at heart of Monday’s final debate between Obama, Romney

By John Irwin elections Coordinator

President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney found common ground but, more often than not, disagreed sharply on foreign policy in the third and final presidential debate Monday night.

Obama came out swinging toward the beginning of the debate, accusing Romney of “reckless leadership.”

“Your strategy previously has been one that has been all over the map and is not designed to keep Americans safe or to build on the opportunities that exist in the Middle

East,” Obama told Romney.

Romney said his strategy in the Middle East is simple and would lead to more peace Barack Obama overseas.

“My strategy is pretty straightforward, which is to go after the bad guys,” Romney said. “But the key that we’re going to have to pursue is a pathway to get the Muslim world to be able to reject extremism on its own.”

On Syria, both candidates cautiously rejected the notion that the United States should

become involved militarily to prevent what is essentially a civil war from spreading further.

“What Mitt Romney I’m afraid of is what we’ve watched over the past year or so, first the president saying, ‘well we’ll let the U.N. deal with it,’” Romney said. “We should be playing the leadership role there (but) not on the ground with military.”

Obama highlighted key differences between a similar conflict tearing Libya apart

last year and the current Syrian conflict, saying American intervention in Libya was possible due to more favorable circumstances for our military. He then took issue with Romney’s criticisms of his handling of Libya. “(We made) certain that we knew who we were dealing with, that those forces of moderation on the ground were ones that we could work with, and we have to take the same kind of steady, thoughtful leadership when it comes to Syria,” Obama said.

On the defense budget, Obama mocked Romney for suggesting a smaller Navy means the president doesn’t

prioritize national defense.

“You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets,” Obama said.

“We have these things called aircraft carriers, and planes land on them. We have ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. It’s not a game of Battleship where we’re counting ships; it’s ‘What are our priorities?’”

Romney responded to Obama’s criticism that adding to the defense budget while cutting taxes across the board would add to the deficit.

“I’m pleased that I’ve bal-

anced budgets. I was in the world of business for 25 years.

If you didn’t balance your budget, you went out of business. I went into the Olympics that was out of balance and we got it on balance, and made a success there. The president hasn’t balanced a budget yet,” Romney said.

Iran’s nuclear program was called a threat to U.S. security by both candidates, and neither took military involvement off the table. Obama called his administration’s sanctions on Iran successful in getting them to begin to think twice about their nuclear capabilities.

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midmichigan Health to match $100,000 in contributions for scholarships to Cmed

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Comstock Park sophomore and Vice President of College Democrats Taylor Gehrcke, left, sits with Traverse City senior and Chairwoman of College Republicans Megan Gill, right, while fielding health care questions from the audience Tuesday evening in the Bovee UC Auditorium. The discussion covered such topics as foreign policy, health care, immigration, same-sex marriages, economics and energy.

Clashing ideas College Democrats, Republicans spark debate on national platforms

By Brianna Owczarzak and Samantha Smallish | Staff Reporters

The audience started to get heated on Tuesday night at the Political Discussion when the issue of women’s health care was brought up.

The event, which featured members of the College Democrats and College Republicans, aimed to better inform students of each presidential candidate’s platform ahead of the Nov. 6 election.

Program Board organized the event, which was held in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

Taylor Gehrcke, vice president of the College Democrats, provided information on Barack Obama’s campaign issues, while Megan Gill, chairwoman of the College Republicans, shared Mitt Romney’s campaign issues.

Both speakers covered six topics, including foreign policy, health care, immigration, same-sex marriage, economics and energy. The speakers were allowed 10 minutes to discuss the first two topics and five minutes for the last four topics.

“Obama has a vision of achieving peace,” said Gehrcke, a Comstock Park sophomore, during the foreign policy discussion.

During Gill’s presentation of Romney’s foreign policy plans, she explained Romney’s objection with Obama’s administration to the response of the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya.

Romney would have acknowledged it as a terrorist attack earlier than the Obama administration did, the Traverse City senior said.

Gehrcke expressed the

Obama administration’s support for the revolutionists in Syria and Egypt, while Gill said Romney wants to keep Egypt as an ally and not start a war with Syria.

Although both speakers’ candidates disagreed on several issues, there were a few topics in which they share the same opinion.

Both Romney and Obama agree the immigration laws in this country need to be strengthened, but they disagree on how to enforce these laws.

“Romney argues that we must protect our legal immigration,” Gill said. “We have 4.5 million people waiting in line to gain citizenship.”

Obama agrees that America needs to protect their legal immigration, but he also engages with the American Dream Act. Gehrcke said the American Dream Act states children of undocumented parents can apply for citizenship if they are brought into the United States before they are 16.

Audience members and

The Central Michigan University School of Medicine strengthened its ties with MidMichigan Health when an endowed scholarship was established between the two groups on Thursday.

The scholarship will provide money to students who show an interest in family practice and serve a clerkship in one of the MidMichigan Health service counties.

MidMichigan Health Services will match up to $100,000 of contributions in support of medical education.

“MidMichigan Health believes in the mission of the College of Medicine and that more dollars are now available for student scholarships,” CMED Dean Ernest Yoder said in an email. “Scholarships help keep student debt down, which has a direct effect on retaining newly graduated physicians in the general specialties and helps to keep them in Michigan.”

MidMichigan Health is a non-profit health system headquartered in Midland that covers a 14-county region, including Isabella County.

The organization hopes the scholarship will allow them to strengthen their recruitment

of physicians.

“We are very interested in a successful medical education program, because there is a physician shortage coming.

The training of more physicians will be better for the well-being of the areas we serve,” MidMichigan Health Senior Vice President Brian Rodgers said. “For us to be able to get more physicians interested in primary care within our service area is a huge asset to us.”

The organization also hopes students who are given the scholarship come back to Michigan after medical school.

“After medical school, students have to go through a residency. We want students who got our scholarship to like the area and come back to MidMichigan Health,” Rodgers said.

Money for the scholarship will be coming from interest earned on an endowment fund established from charitable investments made by MidMichigan Health.

University President George Ross said the scholarship will go a long way to help the new CMED students.

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City Commission weighs pros, cons of implementing income tax, public vote

By Emily Grove Staff Reporter

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Traverse City senior and Chairwoman of College Rupublicans Megan Gill speaks about foreign policy during Tuesday night’s political discussion in the Bovee UC Auditorium. Gill spoke against Taylor Gehrcke, Vice President of College Democrats.

“I’m excited to help people learn more about the two parties,” Gill said.

speakers agreed the way each candidate presented their plan to better the economy will be a major factor in the upcoming presidential election.

“I’d say for the upcoming election that Mitt Romney’s strongest issue is the economy because he has a background in business, and that’s what we need,” Gill said.

Romney’s plans for the economy, include cutting individual taxes by 20 percent and lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent.

Gill said the U.S. corporate tax rate is one of the highest in the world and makes the U.S. less competitive.

Obama’s economic plans revolve around the middle class and intends to provide tax cuts for every middle class working family.

“That’s what he stands for is the middle class,” Gehrcke said.

Gehrcke said Obama believes households that make more than $1 million should not pay less in taxes than a

middle class family.

One audience member, Detroit junior Candace Grooms, agrees with the path America has taken the past four years.

“I agree with what Obama has done the last four years, and I want to see more of it,” Grooms said.

Overall, the audience was pleased with the conversation that the discussion brought.

“I was happy to see people that weren’t afraid to hold back their opinions,” Saginaw junior Henry Wolf said.

Other issues the audience expressed their differing views on included same-sex marriage, economics and energy.

Although the topics were of importance, Gehrcke said some could have been more relevant to college students.

“I always enjoy doing debates and discussions on campus, because it’s exciting to see students get involved, no matter what party they’re part of,” Gill said. university@cm-life.com

City commissioners heard the results of the study on the feasibility of an income tax for Mount Pleasant at a work session on Monday night.

John Kaczor, founder and principal consultant of Municipal Analytics, presented the data his company collected and discussed the limits and guidelines to implementing an income tax.

Kaczor said an income tax has to be approved by the commission, who would draft an ordinance to be put on the ballot for a vote.

“The voters are a big hurdle to implementing an income tax, which might explain why there are only 22 cities in Michigan that have one at this time, although a number of cities are looking at the option now,” Kaczor said.

The city has done three studies on income tax in the last 20 years, all resulting in the commission voting down the option to draft an ordinance.

Michigan’s City Income Tax Act limits the rate a city can levy a resident at one-percent tax and a 0.5-percent tax on non-residents. Corporations and partnerships pay the resident rate, Kaczor said.

The income tax must be withheld by the employers in the city, with salaries, bonuses and other forms of income qualifying to be subject to

the tax. Certain incomes are exempt from taxation, such as unemployment, military pay, pensions and retirement benefits, public assistance and more.

Tax must be withheld by employers for salaries, bonuses, wages and more.

Based on the 2010 numbers, the city would make about $2.7 million in revenue from an income tax, but there is a cost associated with implementation.

“Also based on the 2010 surveys of other communities, we’re looking at about $240,000 to $250,000 in income tax administration, which leaves the city about $2.5 million in revenue from an income tax at the onepercent rate, using the $1,000 exemption,” Kaczor said.

In the first year, the city was estimated to receive 50 percent of what was estimated in the revenue stream, which totaled about $1.1 million.

In the second year, Mount Pleasant would collect about 75 percent, or $1.9 million, because more people would understand and be aware of the tax, Kaczor said.

Kaczor said in the third year of implementation, everything stabilizes, and that’s when the city would generate the $2.7 million by that time, though technically that’s not 100 percent of what is owed.

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Mount Pleasant resident Ed Joslin, co-owner of Halloween Central, 2012 S. Mission St., prepares popcorn for customers Tuesday afternoon at Halloween Central. The family-run business has gotten busier for the upcoming season, he said.

Popular costumes for Halloween this year?

‘Zombies’ a major theme, maybe ‘Avengers’

By Elizabeth Benson Staff Reporter

Mount Pleasant has seen an abundance of temporary holiday stores popping up in the city over the past few months.

Behind orange and blackthemed decor, businesses have been selling everything from costumes to candy to life-sized animatronic renderings of classic horror movie villains.

Kirk Dafoe, owner of the Black Tie Tuxedo and Costume Shop, 1017 S. Mission St., said business has been good, and he expects more traffic in the days up until Halloween.

“I know a lot of the big parties are this weekend, starting Thursday, and then with Halloween being on a Wednesday, people will be out celebrating then, and a few parties might even be on Nov. 2nd or 3rd,” he said.

Further north on Mission, Claudia Joslin, co-owner of Halloween Central, 2012 S. Mission St., said business has been steady, and the store has been “slammed” this week.

“Some days, you’re com-

taxes | continued from 3A “We’ve assumed just for conservative purposes that you’ll (only) collect 85 percent. If you look at a 95-percent collection, you’d generate another half a million a year,” Kaczor said. “This is why a lot of tax administrators say there is a lot of value in doing compliance work to actually get as many people paying as you can.”

In the questions and comments section of the presentation, Commissioner Jim Holton was curious of how to address people not paying the tax.

“Who goes after the corporation or individuals that don’t pay?” he said. “Is it the city?”

Kaczor explained there are numerous options depending on implementation, but the city is one option to go after delinquents.

“Some days, you’re completely overwhelmed, and some days you’re bored to death.”

Claudia Joslin, Co-owner of Halloween Central pletely overwhelmed, and some days you’re bored to death,” she said.

The store, a family-owned and operated local business, opened in mid-September and has no concerns related to selling out of merchandise, Joslin said.

“We’re getting low, but we’re not sold out by any means,” she said.

Bill Harrow, district sales manager at Spirit Halloween Superstore, 2135 S. Mission St., opened on Labor Day weekend and said he has been very pleased with the amount of business in the city.

“We expect this coming weekend to be the biggest one yet,” he said. “We’re prepared for a great weekend and have everything stocked up.”

Harrow said zombies are a major costume theme this year.

“The Avengers (is) supposed to be really popular this year; we haven’t really seen it yet, but they will be most likely,” Dafoe said. “Sexy costumes from DreamGirls are always popular with the girls, and with guys, they either want to be funny or scary.”

Joslin said theme costumes are always popular such as cops, nurses and cats.

Ali Mueler, manager at JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts, 4208 E. Blue Grass Road, said some consumers have been opting out of paying the sticker price of a store-bought costume and, instead, have been making their own Halloween attire.

“Everyone’s being loofahs and making tutus,” she said.

“We’re selling a lot of tulle.”

Mount Pleasant could also do a revenue neutral stream, which would mean replacing the property tax with an income tax so it generates the same revenue as now.

In this case, the millage could be reduced by about 5.8 mills off the nearly 12.2 mill that goes to the general fund specifically, Kaczor said.

Right now, residents pay 54 percent of the total property tax, while businesses make up the other 46 percent. Under an income tax, it would be shifting to residents paying about the same, non-residents picking up about 15 percent and corporations going down to covering 29 percent, Kaczor said.

For implementation of an income tax, the city would need to consider tribal members, college students, the elderly and disabled and other populations, Kaczor said.

In response to another question from Holton, Kac-

zor discussed other cities that have failed to pass an income tax.

Misinformation and opposition were two reasons the measure failed to pass in Ypsilanti, Kaczor said.

“The alternative for us is to either cut things or start raising the millage,” Holton said.

If the city does decide to draft an ordinance for an income tax, Municipal Analytics has put together an income tax calculator that could be on the city’s website so people can calculate the individual impact.

There is no set deadline for when the commission will vote on drafting an income tax to be voted on. However, City Manager Kathie Grinzinger told commissioners on Oct. 8 at a work session for the 2013 budget that they should figure it out “as soon as possible” to plan accordingly going into the next fiscal year.

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CNN contributor Paul Begala will stress the importance of young people participating in the election process when he speaks at Central Michigan University Thursday.

Begala, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, will discuss today’s issues in the 2012 elections and tomorrow’s ramifications with students as part of a talk sponsored by the political science department at 7 p.m. in Anspach 161.

“I want students to take away how important they are in the electoral process,” political science Chairman Orlando Perez said. “They are the future of the country,

debate | continued from 3A “We … organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling their economy,” Obama said. “We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.”

Romney called for even tighter economic sanctions, proposing to halt all Iranian oil imports.

“We need to increase pressure time and time again, because anything other than a solution to this ,which stops this nuclear folly of theirs, is unacceptable to America,” Romney said.

On Afghanistan, both can-

CMED | continued from 3A he said. “Anytime you can minimize the cost of tuition in the form of scholarships and aid, it’s a positive.”

Ross said out of the $25 million needed for CMED, $8 million will be for scholarships and student aid.

Yoder said MidMichigan Health has been a long-time supporter of the CMED program.

“MidMichigan Health has been a supporter of the College of Medicine even before there was a College of Medicine,” Yoder said. “Their organization has provided quality learning experiences for CMU physical therapy, physician assistant, health fitness, health administration, audiology students and more.”

The organization’s support of CMED is much more than scholarships.

“We are already working with MidMichigan on corecruitment of clinical faculty and building the faculty group

and this election is very much about what that future will be.”

Perez hopes students will learn they are just as important as everyone else when it comes to the election process.

“While they may think the candidates are not speaking to their issues, it is still their obligation as citizens to be informed and to be politically active. Students shouldn’t let others decide for them who is going to lead this country,” he said.

Begala is best known for his appearances on CNN’s political debate show Crossfire and for his book “The Third Term: Why George W. Bush (Hearts) John McCain.”

With Begala’s years as a

political adviser and commentator, Perez said Begala will have some good information for students.

“This guy has been an insider. He’s been in the White House, he’s been making political policy, and he’s now a political analyst at CNN,” Perez said. “I think there is nobody better to tell people about the importance of politics and the political process.”

Begala currently advises Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting President Barack Obama.

The discussion is free, and Begala will be available to sign copies of his book immediately following the event.

didates promised to meet the scheduled 2014 withdrawal from the country while continuing to focus on destroying al Qaeda and the Taliban.

On China, Romney repeated his promise to label China a currency manipulator at the beginning of his presidency, rejecting concerns that the moderator brought up that that might cause a trade war with the country. Obama touted his administration’s crackdowns on unfair trade practices as examples of success in pressuring China to work on a level playing field with the United States.

Domestic policy found its way into the foreign policy debate at times. Notably, both candidates spent much of their time talking about the bailouts

of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Romney said claims that he would not assist Detroit were untrue, and Obama did what he proposed all along: managed bankruptcy with federal aid to help them along.

“I’m a son of Detroit,” Romney said. “I was born in Detroit.

My dad was head of a car company. I like American cars.

And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.”

Obama called Romney’s claim false.

“Governor, the people of Detroit don’t forget,” Obama said.

“Anybody out there can check the record. You keep trying to airbrush history here.”

practice,” Yoder said. “Members of their organization are helping with fundraising, not to mention this scholarship sets an example for others.”

MidMichigan Health also assists in the training of physician assistants in the College of Heath Professions and has interns from the CMU health administration program in their system.

As for the future, CMED

and MidMichigan Health will continue to have a close relationship.

“We’ve had this relationship for years, and this makes it stronger,” Ross said.”Central Michigan medical students will be working alongside professionals at Midland and at Alma well into the future.”

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Three candidates will fill vacant seats in Mount Pleasant City Commission

By Emily Grove Staff Reporter

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Mid-Michigan student Jared “Zippy” Shepardson, left, and Brian DeRushia, 26, of Mount Pleasant, right, hand out different colors of knitted hats and scarves to a woman they encountered on the sidewalk on Jan. 29 on Park Street in downtown Detroit.

His House mission trip this weekend to aid Detroit homeless at veteran’s center

By Sean Bradley Senior Reporter

Richmond senior Anna Dunkelberg had a conversation with a woman who would change her life forever while on a mission trip to a downtown Detroit homeless shelter.

What the co-leader of Homeless Outreach Ministry Equipping heard cemented why she wants to help people less fortunate than herself.

“She said, ‘Had I not talked to you today, I planned on going home, taking all my pills and committing suicide,’” Dunkelberg said. “Something like that just helped me realize that I need to be involved in this.”

On Saturday, Dunkelberg and a small group of people from HOME, a group affiliated with His House Christian Fellowship 211 W. Broomfield St., will travel to a veteran’s center in downtown Detroit to distribute clothing and lunches consisting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a cookie and pretzels to local homeless.

“We typically pass out 100 to 200 lunches,” she said. “We have hygiene bags we’ll be distributing, too, including hotel-sized toiletries.”

The group has partnered with Ferris State University in the past and is also attempting to partner with Saginaw Valley State University on upcoming trips.

Dunkelberg said students who go on the trip for the first time usually come back with a different perspective and want to go on a future trip as well.

“It’s neat because they enjoy it after they’ve gone on one and checked it out,” she said.

She said some first-time trip members might be nervous about the trip prior to, but she said she tries to pair those people with those who have had past experiences.

“You have to get the guts to start talking to people,” she said. “By having the lunches and the clothing, it’s a great conversation starter.”

HOME co-leader Jared Shepardson said his Christian faith is a large reason why he goes on the trips.

“When you look at Biblical scripture, it says to help the poor,” the Edmore junior said.

“I love helping people.”

He said when the group travels on the trips and arrives at their destination, they have safety plans in place so

no one gets hurt or lost.

“To ease people’s anxieties about what goes on in Detroit, there’s power in numbers,” he said. “You don’t walk in downtown Detroit by yourself. Go in groups of at least four to six.”

Shepardson, who has been involved with HOME for almost three and a half years and has gone on many of these mission trips in the past, said he is grateful for the things he has in his life and how much the mission trips help him to realize that.

“You realize some of the simplest stuff you have, not everybody has,” he said. “I thank God everyday that I have what I have. It makes me more appreciative that I can eat everyday and take a shower everyday.”

Dunkelberg said trips and stories like the one she described are why she keeps going back, helping her realize how lucky she is in her life.

“All I did was sacrifice a Saturday afternoon, and it impacted me more than I could have imagined,” she said. studentlife@cm-life.com

Superheroes Week starts Monday on campus

By Arielle Breen Staff Reporter

While some students might take offense at being called a comic book geek, Justin Wigard is not counted among them.

He is one of the many on campus working together to bring Central Michigan University the gift of Superheroes Week, which starts Monday.

The week of free superhero-related events on campus is the result of a large collaboration of efforts from the office of Student Life, the Honors Program, Study Abroad, College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences and local business Hall Of Heroes, 316 N. Mission St.. The Houghton Lake senior and others have been working to bring these events to Mount Pleasant since earlier this spring.

Wigard said the event consists of a week-long appreciation of comic books, games and the culture of superheroes. He also said the speakers they have coming in are one of a kind and a mustsee for students.

“We want to share that excitement with others,” he said.

The two speakers are Dr. Naif Al- Mutawa and Michael Uslan. Al-Mutawa is best known for creating the multi-ethnic comic THE 99, which has received a lot of attention partly because it brings new cultural perspectives to the world of comic superheroes. President Obama even mentioned Mutawa’s impact during a presidential summit on entrepreneurship earlier this year.

The other speaker who is sure to bring attention to the events is Michael Uslan, best known for his role as the producer for most of the Batman movies. He was also the first to teach Comic Book Folklore at Indiana University.

Each day of Superheroes Week will have a different event, theme or speaker.

Speakers, game night and even a cosplay are on the docket for the event, which

Wigard said he is sure students will enjoy.

Wigard said the five movies that were picked for Superheroes Week were only the “good ones” and include “Super,” “Kickass,” the 1978 version of “Superman,” “Spiderman” and, finally, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

On Halloween, there is a cosplay event with prizes for male, female and group competing categories.

English language and literature faculty member Joseph Michael Sommers is one of the creators of Superheroes Week and a comic enthusiast.

“You know this is like a dream come true to me,” he said. “Since I have come (to CMU), I was going to do this at my old institution that I taught at prior, but then it got scuttled due to funding (and) other things. I’ve been wanting to bring comics into CMU’s mainstream here since I got here.”

New Baltimore senior Miranda Endres is also a huge fan of superheroes and comic books and said she has truly enjoyed helping to plan Superheroes Week. Endres is the Program Board president and relented about how rare an

opportunity this collection of events is.

“I believe this is the first (time anyone at CMU has) done anything like this, and I think it’s generally something different and it reaches at an audience that generally doesn’t get a draw,” Endres said.

Endres also said she was excited for Superheroes Week and that her classmates might even be lucky enough to see her fully costumed in class Halloween evening.

“I’m probably going to do a Batgirl costume,” Endres said.

“Yeah, I actually have class that night, too, so I might be going to class in my costume and then going straight to the costume contest.”

One common motivator for everyone helping to create Superheroes Week was the desire to unite students and community with similar interests.

“It sounds very hippie, and I’m not a hippie,” Sommers said. “My hair is way too black for that and too short. But it was all about sharing the love of comics for people, or as we call it at CMU, Superheroes Week.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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A new face and two familiar ones will fill three spots on the Mount Pleasant City Commission.

Incumbents Jon Joslin and Rick Rautanen are looking to continue their work with the commission, while newcomer Matt Sous hopes to bring something fresh to the table, Mayor Bruce Kilmer is not running for reelection.

“I’m just running for city commission because I can work to represent some of the voices not represented Jon Joslin currently — the voices of the younger people,” Sous said. “I’ve always been an advocate for getting the younger people to Rick Rautanen participate in politics, and I’ve literally registered hundreds of students to vote.”

Sous has lived in Mount Pleasant since 2005 when he arrived as a Central Michigan University student. He graduated in 2009 with degrees in history and political science.

After graduation, Sous

began working in Mount Pleasant and now works for the American Federation of Teachers, which has two unions at CMU — the graduate student union and the union of teaching faculty.

Sous said he would like to see more graduates staying in the area to find jobs in the city he loves.

“I’ve managed to stay because I found work, but I should not be the outlier,” he said. “It’d be great to get grads to stay, and hopefully we can find jobs for them to stay. We have a lot of opportunities to make this a place where grads can find work.”

Although both Sous and Joslin have degrees from CMU, Joslin has been in Mount Pleasant much longer.

Joslin was born and raised in Mount Pleasant and studied accounting at CMU. He now works at Advance Battery Concepts in Clare and also runs a temporary Halloween store in the fall.

Joslin has been involved with city government for 15 years and has been on the city commission for 12 years.

Staying in Mount Pleasant was always what Joslin wanted for his kids.

“The small-town feel I grew up in was the environment I hoped to raise a family in,” Joslin said. “(Mount Pleasant) still has that small-town community aspect, but it continues to grow. Having the university

adds to the excitement around here, but we will maintain a safe community, and I stay involved to help keep it that way.”

The other incumbent, Rautanen, has been on the commission for less than a year, after taking over mid-term when Erik Robinette resigned in January.

He first ran for a seat on the city commission in 2009 but was not elected and instead worked for two years on the Mount Pleasant Planning Commission.

When a spot on the city commission opened up in February, Rautanen was asked if he was interested in stepping up. “… I actually think I was fortunate I didn’t win the first time,” Rautanen said. “My time on the planning commission really opened my eyes and helped me prepare for now.”

Rautanen manages the Four Points by Sheraton in Saginaw, having been working in hotel management for 20 years.

A genuine care for the community is what drove Rautanen to get involved in local government.

“I’m a resident of Mount Pleasant, I’ve been part of the business community for 20plus years, and I have a vested interest in what happens to the city,” Rautanen said. metro@cm-life.com

CMU hosts first Acapellapalooza Saturday

By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

A capella singers will gather together Saturday night in Plachta Auditorium for the first Acapellapalooza on campus.

A capella music involves solely the vocals of the artists and no instrumental background. The featured groups in this A capella concert are The MountainTown Singers, Ebb N’ Flow, Fish ‘N Chips and 2008 International Quartet champions O.C. Times.

Lake City senior Craig Johnson, a member of MountainTown Singers since 2009, said he has been planning this event, set to begin at 7 p.m., since January and is excited to showcase the unique aspect of A capella music.

“We are a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, and many chapters like ours across the nation host an annual show in their communities. Our organization has been around since 2004 but never have had a true chapter show,” Johnson said.

Fish ‘N Chips member Taylor Remy is also looking forward to the event. He said the group loves to perform at events, and sharing this experience with O.C. Times is going to be fun.

The O.C. Times are a quartet group from California,

which won the 2008 International Quartet Contest.

They have performed in nine countries across the world but have only sang in Michigan once.

“They have really encouraged young people to get involved with music in their communities by being camp counselors at music camps across the country,” Johnson said. “They have tried to combat the negative stereotype of barbershop quartets, which are typically old men in straw hats with pinstripe suits singing boring songs from the early 1900s.”

MountainTown Singers member Jeff Rayburn refers to himself as an “old guy,” because he has been singing Barbershop music for 37 years.

Rayburn said this year’s group has a great sounding mixture of both seasoned singers and youth in their sound. Rayburn said the older members bring experience and knowledge, and the younger members bring the energy.

“For the show, we will have a great sounding harmony that everyone in the audience will appreciate,” Rayburn said.

Acapellapalooza is $10 for students and $15 for the general public; a portion of the proceeds are donated to Art Reach of Mid Michigan.

“We are a chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society, and many chapters like ours across the nation host an annual show in their communities.”

Craig Jason, Lake City senior

Johnson said he wanted to put a philanthropic angle on the event because of the members having a connection to art in this community.

“It’s going to be a fun time and have great music, so we would love to see everyone there,” Remy said. studentlife@cm-life.com

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EDITORIAL | SGA is fighting right battle against new calendar

Eric Dresden Editor-in-Chief

Academic calendar the wrong move for students There’s considerable irony in the fact that the Academic Senate, Faculty Association and administration are pushing a new academic calendar.

The calendar, which would eliminate one week of school, would allow CMU to start classes after Labor Day. After a tumultuous year between the FA, A-Senate and administration in which all claimed to be working for the students, it seems there is some type of coercion to harm the academics of this school.

This should be clear: The only way students should accept this in any way is if the administration lowers tuition next year, and both the FA and administration take pay cuts.

If this passes without those two things happening, all students that take higher education (and the bills they pay for it) seriously, should walk.

Students should picket and not go to classes.

Why not take a few weeks off?

Future CMU students will be paying inflated tuition to a school that will have proven that academics is not the first priority.

The A-Senate has said at meetings that this could be a good option, considering other universities have done it.

To that, there is only one response that has been reiterated at least five times in the past year by the Central Michigan Life Editorial Board: Why do we have to copy every other university?

We should be striving for academic excellence.

To prove we certainly aren’t striving for excellence with this calendar, take a look at what FA President Laura Frey said about the academic changes behind it.

“The academic calendar committee never intended to have any of the work impede or reduce academic quality,” she said. “We did not address that topic nor did we see it as a concern.”

To get this straight, an “academic calendar committee” didn’t think there would be any problems “academically” if they cut a full week of classes. Furthermore, they didn’t even address it as a concern.

If that doesn’t make you realize this was a cooked-up plan that isn’t going to help students in any way, nothing else will. Academics weren’t even thought about.

This is about right and wrong and what’s best for students.

Right now, the university, FA and A-Senate are putting forward ideas for their benefit, masking it by saying that they only care about students.

The only group asking the ASenate, FA and administration to reconsider is the Student Government Association, led by students.

To add even more irony, groups essentially have talked down SGA’s battle against the new calendar, saying it’s been a very long process and that SGA shouldn’t worry about it.

Education is why students take out five-figure loans for every year. It’s why parents take out loans to help their children get a better education and, hopefully, jobs. It’s the very foundation of what this university is.

But, it’s all right; don’t worry about it, CMU. Go ahead and tarnish the very foundation we stand on.

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hadn’t been enough research into the topic.

A valid question brought up

by Ross was whether students would pay less in a truncated semester in terms of room and board. While he argued the number of credits earned would not change, effectively doing away with the lower tuition argument, he recognized that students would have a point in lowered room and board rates.

And we agree: less education and time spent on campus should yield a decrease in some sort of cost for students.

But it is hard to imagine that they would.

As a result, the fight needs to continue from SGA to try and stop this proposed calendar change. Their work up to this point has been commendable and refreshingly proactive.

Now it’s time to finish the job.

on campus that truly takes what students have to say into consideration: the Student Government Association.

SGA heard the student body’s concerns regarding the academic calendar change and took action as the voice of Central Michigan University’s students.

During Monday’s SGA meeting, a motion declaring their opposition to the academic calendar change was approved.

The next steps in reversing the decision include gaining student support and presenting a case to senators in Academic Senate.

Now that the ball is rolling, it’s time for A-Senate to do their part and take what SGA has to say seriously. Forget Robert’s Rules of Order; forget the initial survey regarding the switch and forget bargaining. Why continue

to fight for something supposedly meant to benefit students if students are overwhelmingly against it?

For once, the student body has unified against something that will impact us all, and if A-Senate chooses to ignore that, they’re setting themselves up for a complete loss of respect from the same students they claim to always have in mind.

University President George Ross called the academic calendar an issue between the Faculty Association and the administration.

In a meeting Tuesday, Ross told Central Michigan Life that he did not support the movement, because he felt there

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Halftime Snub to Veterans Did anybody else notice that at Central’s Homecoming halftime, the band played an anti-war song “in support of the troops?”

The song “Johnny, I Hardly Knew You” is a woman singing about her husband coming home from a war having lost both legs and at least one arm. It’s Irish, originally.

whomever chose the piece? Or were they not expecting anyone in the audience to have a knowledge of Irish folk music?

The last verse is the woman promising her husband that despite the fact that “They’re rolling out the guns again... they never will take our sons again.”

I am not entirely sure that this was the message that the band had meant to convey.

Was this an oversight by

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No on 25 by 25 Proposal 3 is bad for Michigan.

Also known as 25 by 25, this proposal would change our constitution to force Michigan electric customers to pay for 25% of their electric supply from renewable sources by the year 2025.

These unnecessary, unproven and expensive sources are estimated to cost at least $12 billion to implement.

Michigan’s two major electric providers, Consumers Energy and DTE, are regulated utilities.

This means they will be able to raise their rates to ensure investors a stable rate of return on investment.

Rates for residential, commercial and industrial customers are certain to rise until the $12 billion are recovered. In a tough economic climate, why in the

world would we make it harder for businesses to stay here let alone move here?

How can this proposal claim to create jobs when it drives up costs for every business in the state? Advocates of Proposal 3 might argue that rate increases are restricted to 1% per year.

Sound good? Well, think about it.

If the utilities cannot recover their costs in a timely way through rate increases, they will begin cutting investment in existing infrastructure.

This means old poles, wires, equipment, substations, etc. are not upgraded or replaced. In addition, utilities will likely reduce hiring electrical engineers, accountants, business analysts, lineman, etc. Electric reliability is affected when physical infrastructure and human resources

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Now, if you are a business considering moving to Michigan, isn’t it sensible to be hesitant when you see high energy costs and perhaps questionable reliability?

If your business is already in Michigan, wouldn’t your consider relocating if you energy costs are lower elsewhere and reliability is better? This proposal appeals to our emotional desire to have a “clean environment.” Don’t be fooled, though. It is really a $12 billion tax increase you are asked to impose on yourself to subsidize the “green energy” industry. Its passage would be disastrous for Michigan.

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The best years of your life Two years.

That’s it until I am free.

No more being held back by a four-year commitment I put myself into two years ago.

This past summer gave me a glimpse of life after graduating from college. I moved to a new city, knew no one and became an intern at a magazine I wouldn’t mind working for as a career. My roommate was 23 years old, and all of the friends I made were also of a similar age. Although that’s only three years older than I, they all had “big-people” jobs and were looking to date “The One.” Three months of hanging with people three or four years older in a “grown-up” world turned me into someone who wanted to rush through this college thing and get into the real world.

I came back to college in the fall feeling more like 23 than 20, and I was in the mindset of wanting to get out of here as soon as the second week.

But the past two months have shown me the whole “college is the best years of your life” theory that people love to quote.

I’ve been realizing it every time I find myself laughing at how weird college life can be from brewing coffee at 2 a.m. or eating peanut butter by the jar, but it really struck me after a chat with my professor.

I sat in a chair across from him in his office, listening closely to his rambling to pick out the words of advice he usually throws in there.

“You’re on top of the world right now. You can do anything you want.”

I didn’t have to dig to hear that one.

And that’s when it hit me. When am I again in life going to be able to go anywhere, do anything, be anything that I want? When else am I going to be learning as much as I am taking the time to right now?

The nights that seem to roll on into four in the morning having “life chats” with friends and the mornings that come too soon are what college is all about; figuring out what life is all about.

Friends at your side for every heartbreak, bad grades and major meltdowns is not something that will happen after graduation, unless you have a good Wi-Fi connection for Skype.

Every place I walk on campus, I see someone I know and feel part of a community, not just a stranger in a big city.

Opportunities are pouring into my lap every day. I am in a place where I am consistently molding who I am as a person and who I am going to be post-grad by testing out different roles.

I no longer wish to rush through this. Being a college student is something I shouldn’t take for granted, for these next two years might just be the best years of my life.

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By Emily Grove Staff Reporter

Jennifer Gassman only exists on a birth certificate and driver’s license — the full name is merely a formality.

To her family, friends, teammates and coaches, Gassman is just Bea, a name she’s had almost since birth.

“When I was born, I was actually a really fat baby,” Gassman said, laughing. “My mom used to call me bean or jellybean, and my older sister, Kelly, couldn’t say it, so she said Bea, and it just stuck.”

But the thin, 5-foot-5 junior midfielder for the Central Michigan women’s soccer team is anything but chunky these days, looking more like a string bean than a jellybean when she sprints down the pitch.

Soccer has been part of Gassman’s life since she was four years old. With a seemingly endless supply of energy, her parents knew she needed an active hobby.

“She just had so much (energy),” her father, Mike, said.

“We had to get her out and doing something, otherwise she’d be tearing up our house.”

Although she tried other sports, soccer was the one Bea loved and shined at.

Gassman played high school soccer at Carmel High School in Carmel, Ind. and earned first-team all-state honors in 2009. She was named firstteam all-district and all-county by the Indianapolis Star in 2008 and 2009.

Moving to the next level and playing college soccer wasn’t even on Gassman’s radar until her father brought up the possibility.

“My first year of high school, my dad was talking to me, and he said, ‘We’ve got to start thinking about college soccer.

I mean, that is, if you want to play college soccer. It’s all up to you; no pressure,’” Gassman said. “It was just really funny, because he was obviously looking into it before I was. I had never thought of it before that.”

Deciding to come to CMU was really based on the recruitment process, Gassman said “Other schools wanted me, but (CMU) showed a much bigger interest,” Gassman said.

“Plus, it’s far enough away from home where my parents

can’t come visit all the time but close enough that they can come some, because I miss them a lot.”

For Gassman, her parents, five siblings, grandparents and numerous cousins have always been a source of constant support, encouragement and love. Each season, her parents, paternal grandparents and 12-year-old brother Matt make the four-hour drive to attend at least two or three game weekends in Mount Pleasant.

Despite the age difference, Gassman said Matt is her best friend, even though she doesn’t often let him in on that knowledge.

“She never tells me that,” Matt said. “…I just like to come as often as I can to her games. I love soccer, and I actually want to play, too. It’s awesome to come and watch Bea play.”

Over the years, there are some things Gassman has come to notice about the habits of her biggest fans on game days.

“My mom is funny. I know she loves me the same (as my dad), but no matter what game it is, she’ll show up at halftime.

She is always late,” Gassman said. “And my dad, I can always hear him. If I’m having a bad game by even one touch, I know it because he tells me.

He’s not afraid to yell at me.”

As the regular season winds down and with MAC tournament play around the corner, Gassman’s father hasn’t had much to yell about from the bleachers.

Gassman leads the team in goals with four this season, including game-winners against Kent State and Akron.

Since arriving at CMU three years ago, Gassman said her mental strength has changed.

“When I came as a freshman, I was extremely mentally weak. Neil (Stafford, head coach) always says he’s going to push to the edge of a cliff, then push you more and then bring you back up,” Gassman said. “Well, he pushed me, and he let me fall a long, long way, but he eventually brought me back up.”

The Chippewas are ready to vie for their third MAC championship in four years when the MAC tournament begins Sunday.

Gassman was able to taste

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Junior forward Jennifer Gassman takes a shot during the game against Kent State on Sept. 21 in the CMU Soccer Complex. The Chippewas won 2-1.

both the sweet taste of victory in the 2010 title win and also the bitter poison of defeat when CMU lost to Western Michigan in the semifinals in 2011.

Losing last year was a huge hit to her team, Gassman said.

“I can’t describe the emotions, because it sits with you ... it stills sits with me today,” she said. “We worked so hard, and one thing goes wrong, and we lose our season. This year, we are out for vengeance a little, even though we’ve just been taking it one game at a time.

Ultimately, we want that title.”

Whether it’s prepping for a MAC tournament or regular season game, Gassman always manages to keep her family and important people close and priorities straight with her pregame rituals.

Before each game, she writes her father’s initials on her one wrist, along with the

name of her high school coach who died after a battle with cancer at the end of Gassman’s senior year.

“He was extremely special to me. He loved me in high school, and I loved him,” Gassman said.

“Whenever I came off the field, he would tell me great job, and he would tell me whenever my attitude got out of check.”

On her other wrist, she writes “TWAG,” which stands for together we are gold.

Togetherness and teamwork are things Gassman said she and her teammates stress for their success.

“You can’t be an individual in soccer. You can’t take on 11 other players by yourself,” Gassman said. “It’s a big teamwork thing.”

Samantha Brenz knows Bowling Green will be hungry for a win when the Central Michigan women’s soccer team meets up with the Falcons on Thursday.

The Chippewas will travel to Bowling Green, Ohio to take on the Falcons at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Going into the last regular season game, the Falcons have not recorded a single conference win compared to the eight racked up by CMU. Despite BGSU’s record, Brenz said the team knows better than to underestimate BGSU. “I think if we were in that position, if that was us playing our last game as seniors, I know we’d give it everything we had,” Brenz said.

To avoid letting their guard down, head coach Neil Stafford said he and the team reflect on past experiences where they’ve miscalculated a team expected to be an easy win.

A team can dominate the game for so long and then lose so quickly, Stafford said.

This season, Stafford said he’s proud of his team.

“I think we’ve evolved this season,” Stafford said. “It’s nice to see us scoring more goals ... it’s a bonus.”

So far, the Chippewas have scored 24 goals compared to just nine tallied by BGSU. Brenz said she’s noticed the growth of her team and the transition from individual to team play.

“We’re coming together at the right time,” she said. “We plan our attack before a game, and we’ve done a lot better of a job implementing what we’ve learned in practice.”

If CMU wins or ties BGSU on Thursday, or Eastern Michigan loses to Western Michigan, the Chippewas would clinch the Mid-American Conference West Division and secure the No. 2 seed in the MAC Tournament.

However, if the Eagles defeat the Broncos, and CMU loses to BGSU, EMU and CMU will share first place in the MAC West, and the Chippewas would be the No. 3 seed in the MAC Tournament.

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Sean Bradley | Senior Reporter The idea of the perfect nuclear family consisting of a mom, dad, two kids and a dog is a thing of the past.

More and more men and women in America, and around the world, are living their lives (and providing for their families) a bit differently.

Roles among men and women are changing. Women are becoming leaders in the political and corporate worlds, which are dominated primarily by men. Men, too, are handling more of the traditionally femaledominated areas of child rearing and household responsibilities than before.

Lynn Sweeney, a graduate faculty member in the psychology department, said this reversal in gender roles has been a slow process throughout the preceding decades.

“Societal ideas and rules change very slowly,” she said.

She said young women still aspire toward traditionally female-associated jobs such as a teacher or a secretary.

“If you look at the kinds of jobs women have, they still favor stereotypes for women,” she said. “There are some stereotypes that still hold.”

Even so, America is seeing more and more women taking on different career paths than they are expected by society to undertake.

Newsweek featured a story about women in the workforce and the issues they face in the familial and career worlds today.

“As of 2012, women account for only 16 percent of partners at the country’s largest law firms and 15 percent of senior executives at Fortune 100 firms,” Debora Spar said in her Newsweek article titled “American Women Have It Wrong.”

As the career paths for women are changing, men are adopting to this change themselves by providing more help in the home.

“The big issue is how the roles in the family change as they devote more time to their careers,” Economics professor Richard Hill said.

Spar said it is not just a matter of who does what work, but how much work each person does in the household.

“Women account for only 50 percent of the population and far less than 50 percent of the decision-making seats in any organization,” she said. “If women want to change the world, men must help.”

One of Lake Orion senior Gabrielle Lawlor’s sisters is a teacher, and Lawlor herself is in school to become a doctor.

“Ever since I was in sixth grade, I wanted to be a doctor, and it was always assumed I would go to college,” she said.

She said men and women taking on careers they aren’t typically associated with is

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“I feel like in the past, it was kind of a stereotype,” she said. “As time has progressed, it’s less of a big deal.”

She said she is glad, as a woman, to be at the point she is and freely be able to do what she wants to do with her life.

“Everybody has plans for what they want to do with their lives,” she said. “To get an education. To get a good job.”

Even though women are branching out to new career paths, their pay is still lower than men in certain fields.

On average, women earn 77 cents to every man’s dollar, Hill said, citing the Newsweek story.

He said this amount should raise as time goes on, but many women still face the notion of the glass ceiling when entering the workforce, especially those in higher level positions such as CEOs of companies.

“There’s a lot more pressure on a woman in a higher level position, because she’s a woman,” he said. “I don’t know that there’s any stigma at the entry-level for women.”

Sweeney, who teaches Psychology of Women, said the pay disparity between men and women is a product of many years of social stagnation in regard to equal pay for men and women who do the same type of work.

“One of them is working harder and being paid less,” she said. “When they get a title like the assistant manager title, they still might not get the same money or the opportunity than men.”

Grand Rapids senior Kevin Lutley said by not talking about the inequality issues among men and women in American society, it helps perpetuate the stereotypes and pay disparity even more.

“A lot of times, people don’t want to talk about it,” he said. “It’s not doing anyone any favors by ignoring it.”

He said he knows he has certain advantages in the workforce and in the home because he is a man but also knows this unequal footing is constantly being perpetuated, whether he is consciously aware of it or not.

“It’s difficult because you know there are inequalities present,” he said. “There’s the fine line between addressing the issues without feeling like you’re perpetuating them.”

He said people are constantly seeing the gender stereotypes being broken in different career and homemaking fields and ways of life.

“We’re constantly subjected to different people in the spectrum,” he said. “Different levels of masculinity and femininity.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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A Fine Frenzy’s third studio album, “Pines,” takes a listener through some more familiarly structured poprock songs while saving some time to launch into the more extended and abstract.

California singer-songwriter Alison Sudol, who goes by the stage alias A Fine Frenzy, released the album Oct. 9.

The album is laden with images of the forest and the sea as Sudol is an ambassador for the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Sudol’s new release amounts to an album packed with a wide variety of styles, from the simple pop-structured piece “Avalanches” to more abstract tracks like “Riversong.”

The most noteworthy piece on the album is “Avalanches,” a simply arranged and mostly uncomplicated

tune with piano, clean electric guitar and Sudol’s signature quavering vocals.

“Now is the Start” takes an edgier turn with heavier guitar, synthesizers and an overall more ‘electric rock’ flavor. “It’s Alive” follows suit with a strong uptempo beat and an ‘80s pop feel, something vaguely between Madonna and Ace of Base.

It would be a mistake to try to characterize the album in terms of older genres, though. Besides the quiet and acoustic tone on the simpler tracks, many of the tunes, from “Pinesong” to “Riversong” to “Winds of Wander,” tend more toward an exploration of loosely related motifs and moods, leaving a listener with music that feels much more abstract than the average modern album.

Case in point: “Winds of Wander” opens with birdsong, before leading into a repeated calling acoustic phrase with similar lyrics;

It’s stitched together with a completely different mood when bass, cello and piano enter to give the tune a more folksy and foreboding tone which eventually shifts to a more fluid set of textures and rhythms.

You get the idea: there’s a lot going on. For listeners with an open mind, this won’t be any issue, though.

It’s almost like listening to classical music, where in ten short minutes, a motley of different ideas and moods pass by. The key for many new to this sound will be to get through it all without feeling lost or overwhelmed, and that’s one of the only drawbacks of the album.

This being said, “Pines” is a reasonably good buy, if for nothing else than some of the less experimental tracks.

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Students opinions differ on opposite sex characteristics

By Charnae Sanders Staff Reporter

We might not always get along, but we are two halves of the same whole.

When asked about what’s the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of the opposite sex, Flint freshman Chase Edwards said a good personality, pretty faces and expensive things.

“I admire some women’s personalities because they’re very chill people,” Edwards said. “They’re not extra loud. They’re not really obnoxious. Some women are just calm, and that’s what I like about them. Just calm, patient women.”

On the other hand, some women just like men who can make them laugh and feel relaxed.

“I like how laid back guys are,” Romeo sophomore Sarah Phillips said. “They’re easy to be around, easy to hang out with; you don’t have to worry about what they’re going to say about you in the next five minutes after you leave.”

Though women and men are the same species, it sometimes feels as if they came from a different planet.

Brooklyn sophomore Ryan Campbell said something guys find annoying about girls is drama. Edwards agrees and feels many women can be arrogant.

“I really don’t like arrogant women, because they’re worse than arrogant men,” Edwards said. “They really think a lot of the time that they’re just prettier and better than everyone else.

I’ve had a whole lot of runins with women who think they’re better than everyone else, and they can be the ugliest thing on earth.”

Likewise, some women are easily annoyed by arrogant men.

“Cocky, how cocky they can be,” Sparta sophomore Courtney Marble said. “I want them to be nice. I don’t want them to be like ‘I’m just so awesome; I’m going to get all the girls.’”

Though women are looked upon as more vulnerable, Edwards disagrees and says men are just as

vulnerable as well.

“There really is no vulnerability that a woman doesn’t know about a man,” Edwards said. “When someone asks me for something, and I have to tell them ‘no’ and they give me the eyes and be like please … it’s hard to say no.”

Some girls become vulnerable with guys in a relationship, because their biggest fear is that they’ll leave them, Phillips said..

“Maybe that they’ll just not be there,” Phillips said.

“That you’ll get abandoned by someone you really trust.”

Though both genders might be alike in several ways, the differences definitely stand out. There are things that men feel women can do better and things that men are better at.

“Emotional stuff, knowing their emotional feelings and taking to people, communicating with people,” Allendale sophomore Allen Smith said.

On the opposite side, Grayling sophomore Ann Hamlin said guys are better at “winning someone over a little better” after doing something wrong.

Throughout all the differences, what do girls love about guys and vice versa?

“Having someone always

“There really is no vulnerability that a woman doesn’t know about a man. When someone ask me for something and I have to tell them ‘no’ and they give me the eyes and be like please … it’s hard to say no.”

Chase Edwards, Flint freshman there and that you know you can turn to for everything, and they’ll love you just the way you are,” Marble said. “They’ll accept you the way you are.”

For men, some prefer brains to beauty.

“I think brains, (being) smart,” Campbell said.

“You can go anywhere with brains, but good looks will only get you so far.”

As time progresses, some people feel as if the other genders have changed.

Phillips feels men are more generous compared to a the past.

“When I moved in, some guys on the floor actually helped me and my mom carry this big couch up,” Phillips said. “I was totally surprised, because I felt like guys these days would never be willing to offer help.”

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‘Friend Zone’ not bad for some relationships

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By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

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By Anamaria Dickerson Staff Reporter

Lansing sophomore Kris Anderson made sure he was work ready by wearing a blue plaid button shirt, black tie and gray-colored skinny jeans.

Fashion inspiration: I get my fashion inspiration from basically what I see on TV, and I like to look business casual while being comfortable.

Where he got his outfit: I got my shirt

and pants from Target, shoes from Journey’s and tie from Macy’s.

Why he chose this outfit: Because of work, and it’s comfortable and casual.

It’s the inevitable topic that people can’t help but debate: can guys and girls be just friends?

It’s an idea that has been presented through many movies, TV shows and songs that opposite sexes cannot be just friends.

Rachel and Ross from the show “Friends” end up falling for each other, Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart end up together in the movie “Just Friends” and countless other examples all try to prove that relationships start as friendships.

“I don’t understand why some people can’t be just friends. I don’t really get it; sex shouldn’t matter,” junior Michael Rae said.

The Midland native said he has plenty of girl friends that have never come across to him as more than friends.

This has been a common theme for many students.

Having friends from the opposite sex is something that senior Taylor Hammerl has really enjoyed.

“A lot of my best and closest friends are guys,” Hammerl said. “We’ve grown up together and seen each other in the best and worst of times.”

The Lake Orion native said she has friends of the opposite sex and they stay in the friend zone, because they know too much about each other to even consider a relationship.

This portrayal of knowing someone in movies and TV shows gives people the idea that they should be falling for a friend, because they are more understanding of you.

“I think the media gives that hope a friendship can

“There’s an instant attraction there that doesn’t happen when you’re just friends.”

Scott Mattingly, Hartville, Ohio senior turn into something else, but it doesn’t have to be that way,” Hartville, Ohio senior Scott Mattingly said.

Hammerl said she feels that the media has a tendency to sexualize female and male relations in nearly any situation.

“The media shows that friendships always turn into relationships, but it is not impossible to have an opposite sex friend,” Hammerl said.

Mattingly said he knows when he wants to be with friends with someone right away.

“There’s an instant attraction there that doesn’t

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While you must be professional when working, it can’t hurt to strike up a conversation with a customer you find attractive. Even the slightest interest you show her will catch her attention. Whether it’s commenting on whatever item she is purchasing or just simply asking her how her day is going will be enough to strike up a deeper conversation.

Something to keep in mind is because you’re working, and the time you have to talk with a customer is brief: you have to make sure that what you’re talking about with her is interesting enough to gain her attention, yet leaves her with wanting to continue the conversation more in depth later.

If trying to make a connection at work doesn’t sound appealing, try going the usual way and strike up a conversation with the women in your classes on campus.

The key to striking up a conversation in class is making sure to keep it casual.

Ask her what she thought of the video the class watched or how hard she think the upcoming exam will be. Perhaps ask her if she’d like to form a study group of some

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This route isn’t as out of the norm for college students as you might think. I once made an online dating account for fun, just to see what type of people were on there and ended up coming across some people I went to high school with. Give it a try. You might just find other local singles like you.

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‘In Defense of Food’ gives insight on eating habits ‘In Defense of food’

By Arielle Breen Staff Reporter

Author and journalist Michael Pollan thinks it rather odd that humans need a journalist to tell them what to eat, which is more or less what “In Defense of Food” does.

The book does not take a traditional “eat this, not that” approach but does take a more traditional cultural roots approach.

The advice of the book is summed up in one line: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

First, he covers the current food confusion that we, unlike other species, are currently having. Pollan’s traditional advice revolves around a way of life from our roots. By looking at all sorts of food traditions that even go against ‘modern’ nutrition but are natural and cultural, he shows how tradition had it right. He explains that nutritional science is still very young and at the point in time where brain science was when we were prescribing lobotomies like candy. Here we can see his emphasis on eating natural.

“In Defense of Food” covers the many issues, diseases and illnesses that developed after people turned to what is called the western diet.

Here he poses that we can eat virtually any other cultural

By Sean Bradley Senior Reporter

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Rock legends will all be sharing the same stage Saturday as local bands take on different personas for a Halloween tribute show at Rubble’s.

Mount Pleasant bands The Watching Eyes and Newday Dreamers will be appearing, the former performing the entirety of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album and the latter performing as Daft Punk.

Midland band Killer Kong will be performing a Jimi Hendrix cover set.

Guitarist and singer of The Watching Eyes, Nick Hoke, said the band has played Michael Jackson songs in the past, in particular “Billie Jean” and “Thriller.”

“We kind of put our interpretation on it,” Hoke said.

He said some of the songs have been a challenge, but learning them has helped each member’s musicianship and helped them grow as a full band.

“We realized how significant the chord changes are,” he said. “We didn’t expect it to be as complicated as it is.”

Diamond in the Rough promotions founder Corey Densmore, who is putting on the show, said the bands are supposed to dress up in costumes. He said groups like Michael Jackson and Daft

w Author: Michael Pollan w Genre: Non-fiction diet except the western diet and be perfectly fine, but throw in high quantities of real and man-made sugars, highly ubiquitous processed foods, high calories, sedentary lifestyles and more, and you have a recipe for diseases like type-2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, heart disease and others.

Pollan talks about research done on native populations like the Aborigine, who turn from their old ways toward a western diet and how they have raised instances of such issues but put them back in their previous living ways and their bodies heal and revert to good health.

Back with nutritionism, he says Americans place far too much emphasis on the individual nutrients and often overlook the synergistic effects. Not to mention that any other animal eats what it should and doesn’t count calories, grams of fiber, etc., since they know what to eat instinctively.

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kitchen preparing a meal from plants and animals at the end of this shortest of food chains has a great many things to worry about, but ‘health’ is simply not one of them, because it is given.”

Other resounding advice is to prepare foods on your own from real, whole ingredients that you can trust.

“In Defense of Food” covers a lot of ground in 201 pages. It offers much-needed

clarity in a world of chaotic disorientation. He uses research from pages of sources to create a believable and enticing read on how we have lost the ability to know how and what to eat.

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Punk have unique costumes that fans will recognize.

He said many of the bands have been working hard on their cover sets and some even have prior experience playing other bands’ songs, too.

“Newday Dreamers played a similar show in Lansing last Halloween as The Talking Heads, so they have some experience in these types of shows,” Densmore said.

He said the crowd at the show will be more involved than normal and will get a chance to learn about different local bands.

“People like music they know and aren’t as willing anymore to support the up-andcoming bands,” he said. “This type of show will allow new fans to become acquainted with some local bands, even if it has to be done through a covers show format.”

Newday Dreamers singer and guitarist Micah Bracken said his indie rock band playing songs by DJs such as Daft Punk will be a bit of a challenge.

“Obviously they’re DJs and we’re a four-piece band, so I mean, it’s been interesting,” the Mount Pleasant senior said.

Attendees are encouraged to wear a costume to the show.

The show is from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. studentlife@cm-life.com

Students weigh in on significant others having close guy, girl friends

By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

Some say friendship should be the start of a relationship, because you communicate and understand each other better.

But, falling for a friend can sometimes ruin a friendship.

Senior Jenna Tietema said she was put in a situation where two of her closest friends ending up falling for each other, leaving a wreck of emotions and feelings for her to be caught in

between.

The Grand Rapids senior said in high school there was a group of five close friends that would hang out together all the time.

“We started all noticing that the two would hang out alone more frequently, and the rest was downhill from there,” Tietema said.

Tietema said a good way to spot that friends are starting to like each other on a different level is seeing how they react to other potential lovers being

interested in them.

“She got so conscious of other girls flirting with him, and I could tell she was jealous. Then they were apart on spring break and realized they wanted to be together,” Tietema said.

Tietema said she got caught up in the relationship drama when things went sour.

“Since I was friends with both of them, they would come to me for advice about each other. Constant calls and texts got so annoying, because it was

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unfair to me and put a huge damper on the friendship,” Tietema said. “I felt like I had to choose; it was just awkward.”

Not all relationship and friendship drama is solely the problem of falling for each other.

Sterling Heights senior Kara Kinsman said her boyfriend of over two years has a girl best friend that drives her nuts.

She said the two used to have a thing and have been friends since they were little.

“She is always texting him and wanting to hang out,” Kinsman said. “She calls him little pet names like ‘babe’ and says ‘love you;’ I hate it.”

Kinsman said she hasn’t expressed to the girl or her boyfriend that it annoys her, because she just tries to be friendly and ignore it. She avoids having a guy best friend, because she knows how much it bothers her that her boyfriend has a girl best friend.

“I think it’s crossing the line

and inappropriate to act that way to someone else’s boyfriend or girlfriend,” Kinsman said.

On the other end of the spectrum, sophomore Connor Bardo said he thinks it is perfectly acceptable to have a best friend of the opposite sex. His best female friend is his best friend’s girlfriend.

“We just stay in the friend zone, and I can talk to her about anything.” Bardo said. studentlife@cm-life.com

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Student experiments with heart rates when talking about significant other

By Melissa Beauchamp Senior Reporter

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Woman in a man’s world I walked into the “manly men only, hardcore” weight room downstairs of the Student Activity Center, wearing my pink Nike tank top, yoga pants and lime green kicks.

I initially got a few stares, and a couple unwanted winks, but I kept my focus on the prize (getting jacked or ripped or whatever guys call it).

“Where the heck is an elliptical?” I thought to myself.

I glanced down at my scribbled “workout routine” one of my guy friends eagerly wrote for me. Apparently men don’t utilize cardio in their regular exercise routine, because nowhere on the sheet had “burn as many calories as possible on the elliptical.” That’s my idea of a workout.

I looked around, and big shocker, I was the only female in the vicinity. The rest of the women were upstairs in the “normal” gym using the elliptical, stair master and working their abs. But today, I was going to try something different – the man workout.

First things first – the arm bench. I didn’t have someone to spot me, and I wasn’t going to go through the awkwardness and embarrassment of asking a guy to spot me a fourth of what he is used to doing. Instead, I decided to take it light to risk the entire bar crashing down and puncturing my chest.

The guy next to me had a total of 300 pounds he was reppin’ out like a champ, with some obnoxious grunts in between repetitions. The guy standing above him was motivating him in a very deep voice yelling, “Come on, dude; you got it, let’s go baby.” Eh, here I go.

I grabbed two 10-pound plates and slid them on each side of the bar, making my bench a total of 65 pounds. I picked it up, and, to my surprise, it wasn’t that bad. My note card read “three sets of 7, 65 pounds each.” With a few grunts in between – just to see the reaction of the men around me – I completed my first task.

To my surprise, a woman walked in, but she didn’t get as many stares as I did. She fit in the scene a little better with her six-foot frame and muscles popping out of her shirt. It just made this experience entirely more awkward. Maybe I should have considered not wearing the pink shirt.

Time for squats. I remember in high school being told I had really good form when I hit the weight room for basketball practice. I banged out three sets of five repetitions, at 135 pounds. Although the guy next to me was squatting about double, I was still proud of myself.

“There you go,” the guy next to me said.

Next on the list was working on the biceps with some curls.

Normal girls like me do this all the time. I grabbed the 12 pounders and was on my way to bulging biceps.

Now I was almost done. Next on the list was triceps using the pull-down machine. I considered just skipping that one since I didn’t even know where to find that or how to do it, but I couldn’t let myself down. I looked for a nice looking guy and asked him about it. He was very nice and showed me just how to use it but then went over to his friends and had a few laughs.

Although my body felt like Jell-O, I had to work my back, apparently. I grabbed the pull-up bar and tried for three sets of six repetitions. I made it through one repetition and called it quits. It just wasn’t going to happen. I picked up my water bottle and was out the door.

My 30-minute workout at the downstairs gym was quite the experience. I would not recommend any girls going down there, unless they know what they are doing. I get the whole physics thing, girls aren’t as strong as guys, but the stares made me feel like I didn’t belong there.

To top off the experience, I walked into my apartment, grabbed a Coors Light and turned on SportsCenter.

A student is putting the popular phrase “You make my heart skip a beat” to the test.

Mount Pleasant sophomore Brooke Scribner sat in the main hallway of the Charles V. Park Library Tuesday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. to monitor participants’ heart rates as they talked about a significant other or a person in which he or she is interested.

As a project for her BIO 500: Biological Statistics class, Scribner said this is a fast, easy to way to find quick results for a popular question.

She first started the experiment by asking participants a mundane question such as, “What did you have for breakfast?”

Brighton junior William Joseph stopped by the table, and, as Scribner took his pulse, he described his calculus class.

At this point, his heart Brooke Mayle /Staff Photographer rate was 72 beats per min- Lansing sophomore Kody Alton, left, tells Mount Pleasant sophomore Brooke Scribner, right, about his girlfriend of a year-and-a-half during a Biostatistics experiment Tuesute. day afternoon in the Charles V. Park Library. Scribner conducted the experiment to observe the increases of heart rate in boys versus girls when discussing their significant When Joseph started other. “It’s been pretty consistent so far, but I’ll know more by the end,” Scribner said. talking about Katie, a girl a significant correlation different for everyone, usuhe is interested in, his pulse between heart rate and the ally around 56 to 104 beats increased by eight beats a amount of time a participer minute,” she said. minute. pant has been in a relationAccording to her data, “I’m not surprised,” he ship. the average rate of change said. “I imagine it’s typical.” per minute is 14 beats. Most “A participant that Twenty-five people parhas been married for 10 people thought it would ticipated in her experiment, increase, but not as drastiBrooke Scribner, Mount Pleasant sophomore years had a heart rate that and 22 people had a heart “When I started talking increased by 24 beats per cally, she said.

“I guess that answers the rate that increased per about how he’s tall, his dark question,” she said. “He minute,” she said. “The Males’ heart rate per minute. One person’s heart hair and blue eyes, I could results are sometimes not minute increased by an does make my heart beat rate stayed constant, and feel my heart beat faster,” what you expect.” average of 17.2 beats, while faster.” two people had a decreasshe said.

Ubly sophomore Laura females increased by 10 ing rate change.

Warner said she expected Warner’s heart rate inbeats. studentlife@cm-life.com “The starting pulse rate is creased by 12 beats a minute. it to increase.

Scribner said there is not

“A participant that has been married for 10 years had a heart rate that increased by 24 beats per minute.”

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Long phone calls bring out worst in man According to popular myths, the average woman has the natural ability to stay on the phone for anywhere from four to six hours.

An insufferable amount of time. Longer than the typical NASCAR race, the average UN meeting, even a standard Bill Clinton speech.

Being the perfect image of masculinity that I am, the longest I have ever stayed on the phone was 15 minutes. Long enough for us to divulge necessary information, then hang up before we happen to talk about something important and share an emotional moment or something equivalently awful.

Until now.

In an attempt to better understand the other gender, I attempted to stay on the phone for at least two hours.

Five minutes in: My friend, who is in the Navy, doesn’t even take three minutes to remind me how much more money he makes than me. It always comes up before we hit the 10-minute mark, but the fact that it didn’t even take him three minutes signifies that he just got his paycheck. We also talked about our schedules, how busy we are, and just to keep things appropriately cliché, I also brought up the weather.

Ten minutes in: We are dangerously approaching the period where small talk just won’t cut it. One can’t just talk about nothing for longer than 15 minutes, unless you’re two middle-aged women who just ran into each other in the market.

Then you can talk about nothing for hours. Unfortunately, we were not

two middle-aged women in the market.

Fifteen minutes in: What do women talk about past the small talk period? Granted, I’m at the 15-minute mark, this is all uncharted territory for me.

Probably relationships.

Problem is that men generally have a very limited scope when it comes to talking about attractive females. We start with a short description of how hot they are, generally composed of just “she’s really hot,” and then we jump straight into wanting to have sex. Repeat that process eight to 10 times, and you have a typical male conversation about females.

Twenty minutes in: How do women do this? They probably go into specifics, like smell. Apparently it’s really crucial that you smell good. I sat next to a pretty girl with really nice perfume on the bus. I didn’t enjoy it. It made the whole bus smell like chemicals.

Gasoline and chemicals.

Which I guess is just chemicals and chemicals.

Thirty minutes in: Or at least I wished we talked about scents. Instead, I’m being interrogated about every detail of my sex life.

Only an hour and half left to go. This is terrible.

Forty minutes in: Now that my friend knows who I’ve done it with, and what positions, it’s time for a new topic. Thank God. I retreat to my typical rant about politics, economical realities and fiscal cliffs.

Forty-five minutes in: But wait, women don’t talk about economics, they talk about other important things. Like the latest episode of Gilmore Girls. What exactly is a Gilmore?

One hour in: Unfortunately, the fact that we don’t watch any of the same TV shows brings that topic to a quick end. Now all our conversation consists of is long pauses dictated by stretched out pronunciations of the word “so.”

One hour and 20 minutes in: He attempts to finish the conversation, saying he’s got some place to go.

A classic excuse to leave a conversation. I have no choice but to blurt out “but I have something really important to tell you.” I have nothing even slightly important to tell him.

One hour and 25 minutes in: He’s quickly figuring out I have nothing at all important to tell him. Neither am I creative enough to think of something legitimately pressing on the spot. I am committed to the cause, though. I am not against breaking into tears and dramatically exclaiming “but I’m so lonely without you!”

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Two hours: In the 11th century, St. Thomas Aquinas presented the cosmological argument to prove the existence of God. Very compelling argument.

Equally compelling is the fact my alarm clock has just dictated that my two-hour phone call is finally over.

Hallelujah. Praise Jesus. I wonder if it would be rude to just hang up?

modern woman and sexual ethics, I completely lost track of time. It could have been because the conversation was so fascinating that I couldn’t help but be completely engrossed. In reality, I found myself completely jealous of primordial soup. Four billion years ago, we weren’t humans or even primates. We were primordial soup. We got to float around and do nothing. Most importantly, we didn’t have to take phone

employ a stratagem slightly less drastic. Even though I was unaware of it five minutes before, I now have a new crush. I met her in the...um...coffee shop. She has blondish-reddish-brunnetish hair. She might be bi.

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