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CMU ranks 9th in MAC in graduating its athletes Six programs top in league; football, men’s basketball, baseball near bottom

By Justin Hicks Senior Reporter

Editor’s note: This story is part of a series about student-athletes’ academics at Central Michigan University. This comparison focuses on the most recent graduation success rate of a four-year cohort from 2002-05, each with a six-year window, concluding with the 201011 academic year.

Central Michigan University ranks ninth in the Mid-American Conference in the most recent NCAA graduation success rate report, graduating 75 percent of its student-athletes — the lowest rate since the 1998 cohort.

The most recent GSR is calculated as a four-year cohort from 2002-05, each class given a six-year window to graduate from their institution.

“We certainly want to be as high as we can be, and we’ve very conscious of the GSR,” Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said. “There are a number of factors as you look at that six-year window and how that can play out.”

Six of CMU’s 14 varsity sports rank first in the MAC, including field hockey, men’s cross country, men’s track and field, wrestling, softball and gymnastics.

Of those programs, field hockey, gymnastics and softball reported 100-percent graduation rates over A ATHLETES & ACADEMICS | 2A

By Lonnie Allen and Cecilia Erwin Staff Reporters

PHOTOS BY VICTORIA ZELGER//PHOTO EDITOR

The CMU women’s basketball won the Mid-American Conference tournament 86-68 against Akron Saturday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. Six players scored in double-figures, including all three seniors; Schroll, Olive and Brandie Baker who each had 14 points. Bradford and Johnson each scored 13 and DiGuilio added 12 points. As conference champion, the Chippewas receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

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Year after falling short, women’s basketball clinches first NCAA tournament berth since 1984

With an 86-68 blowout against Akron Saturday, the women’s basketball team won the Mid-American Conference tournament and clinched a berth in the NCAA tournament.

This is the first MAC title for CMU since 1984 when it beat Toledo 71-55. It’s also the first NCAA tournament appearance since that time.

CMU came 1.5 seconds away from winning the MAC championship last season before rival Eastern Michigan scored a layup to win the game 72-71.

The Chippewas used the heartbreak from last season in this year’s tournament, and they let it be known on their warmup shirts that say “We Want it All.” Now they can wear shirts that say 2013 MAC tournament champions as they await to find out where the tournament takes A WIN | 1B them next.

Junior forward Taylor Johnson, left, hugs Junior guard Niki DiGuilio during the last minute of the MidAmerican Conference championship game on Saturday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. The Chippewas had a dominating win over Akron 86-68.

The Mount Pleasant city manager’s office reported an almost $40,000 budget increase in 2013 listed under “other expenditures” — almost $24,000 more than the previous three years’ expenditures in the category combined.

The legislative division’s budget activity is located on page 44 of the City of Mount Pleasant’s 2013 budget. The “other expenditures” line item is one of five items listed under city manager activity in the budget.

From 2010-12, the money spent in this category was less than $10,000 a year.

Assistant City Manager and Finance Director Nancy Ridley said the large increase was due to ongoing union contract negotiations. Mount Pleasant’s unionized employees include firefighters, police officers, workers in the city’s Division of Public Works and workers in the Technical, Professional and Office Workers Association of Michigan, which includes the city’s clerical staff.

“As the contracts are settled and we know exactly what we’re going to pay, we then amend the budget to take the money out of (“other expenditures”) and move it into the individual departmental accounts, so by the end of the year, we’ve only spent about $7,000 or $9,000,” she said.

Allocating the money to the departments currently under contract negotiations would defeat the bargaining portion between the city and the unions, Ridley said.

“If the money were allocated to those departments, they could claim ‘We are already getting a raise,’” Ridley said.

Money set aside for union contracts is not left in the general fund until negotiations are finished, she said.

“We don’t leave it in the general fund, because it is money that is anticipated to be spent,” Ridley said.

Putting the money for union contracts in the city manager’s portion of the budget is a common practice in Mount Pleasant, Ridley said.

The Division of Public Works and TPOAM are currently negotiating contracts with the city.

Susanne Gandy, the city’s director of human resources, said the city has had two successful meetings with TPOAM. A BUDGET | 2A

Students prepare, party over St. Patrick’s holiday weekend

By Charnae Sanders Senior Reporter

MELISSA BLOEM/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

From left: Munith sophomore Laurel Branstrom, Zeeland junior Kamryn Shaw and Ludington senior Samantha Borashko walk arm-in-arm on their way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day, Sunday on Main St.

Central Michigan University students partied while painting Mount Pleasant green over St. Patrick’s Day weekend.

Some students decided to prepare, rather than party, on Friday and Saturday so they could celebrate all day long on Sunday.

Bloomfield Hills sophomore Anna Grace prepared for the Irish holiday by decorating her house with lots of green and four-leaf clovers.

“I’m also going to the store and picking up the needs for Sunday and the liquor and also making sure I finish all of my homework now because I know that I’m not going to do it on Sunday,” Grace said.

Grace celebrates her Irish heritage every year, and, this year, she figured she would roam around Main Street and see what was going on.

“I’ve been celebrating St. Patrick’s Day every year since I’ve been born, having usually either roast beef or doing

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something involving Irish things, some Guinness beer, good stuff like that,” Grace said.

Midland junior Zachary Kucharek planned to celebrate with his friends on Saturday since the actual holiday fell on a Sunday this year. They planned on going to the beer tent at O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grill, 2000 S. Mission St., before partying on Main Street for the rest of the night.

“We threw a deposit down on a keg,” Kucharek said. “We have a Keystone Light green beer keg. We’re ready to go … We’re going to have a good time.”

Likewise, the boys of Kappa Sigma Fraternity hoped to do just that as well.

Senior and president of Kappa Sigma C.J. Lewis and his fraternity threw a St. Patrick’s Day bash at their house on Main Street. They prepared by setting up a fence and creating a guest list to monitor the size of their party.

“Throughout the day, we’ll try to keep it under 100 in our house,” the Stockbridge native said. “We tried to set it up one guest per one brother.”

However, on St. Patrick’s Day, not everyone was drinking. Goodrich junior Terrance Elizondo said his plans for St. Patrick’s Day involved alternatives to consuming alcohol.

“Well, for me, drinking has never really been that big of an excitement for me,” Elizondo said. “I’ve never been a big drinker.”

Elizondo decided to hang out with his fraternity brothers of Kappa Sigma.

While most of them party, Elizondo made sure they were all staying safe.

As a residence assistant at the Towers, Elizondo said he’s been through the training process of knowing what to do in a situation if people start getting out of control.

“If something is to go wrong, I know what to do,” Elizondo said. “So, I’m not putting it in somebody’s hands who doesn’t have any clue of what to do if a bad situation happens.”

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“It’s a great illustration of the strength of the academic profiles of the studentathletes we bring in,” Heeke said. “And, most importantly, it speaks of the type of head coaches we have that value that in their recruiting process, because that’s what it’s about.”

Three of CMU’s most popular programs haven’t reported such high graduation rates. Its football, baseball and men’s basketball programs each scrape the bottom of the conference.

Men’s basketball ranks the lowest, with a 40-percent graduation rate, followed by football’s 47 percent and baseball’s 64 percent.

For baseball and football, athletes can leave after their junior year for professional leagues, which baseball head coach Steve Jaksa said hurts the sports’ graduation rates.

“Guys can leave early, so when they leave after their third year, they won’t get their degree until after they play,” Jaksa said. “The average guy plays three to five years, and I’m not going to say (students coming back to get their degrees) has been perfect, but it’s been pretty good.”

Basketball forward Zach Saylor said athletes’ ability to leave for the NBA after a year hurts the sport’s gradu-

ation rate.

“With the NBA, there are one-and-done players, whereas in football you’ve got to stay three years,” the Lansing graduate student said. “I’ve heard players say, for the NBA, it’s perform well and go while you’re hot.”

The NCAA made it mandatory for institutions receiving student financial aid to publish their graduation rates in 1990 as a consequence of the Student Right-to-Know Act. “The change in the rules by the NCAA brought more focus and more attention,” Heeke said. “As a result, campuses around the country began to look at their own systems to see how we can enhance our academic assistance for student-athletes.”

Rival Western Michigan University ranks third in the MAC with an 82-percent GSR, while Eastern Michigan University ranks 10th with a 74-percent rate.

Miami University (Ohio) leads the conference with a 91-percent GSR, ranking first in four sports, including football, which ranks 84 percent.

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students even know the true meaning of the holiday.

“Most people don’t even know what St. Patrick Day is really about,” Elizondo said.

“They just go out and think it’s about getting hammered and being Irish when there’s a lot more to it. They should probably research it, look it up. If you’re going to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, you should at least know why you’re doing what you’re doing.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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Department said. “But it will “We’re suggesting to them be coming up shortly; we that it might be a good idea probably will be in negotiato think about replacing tions this summer.” some of them before they start becoming problematic,” Ridley said. “With the way OTHER SPENDING technology’s changed, we’re INCREASES not sure that replacing them Both the City Commiswith just another laptop is sion and the city’s manager’s the right way to go, so we office have reported other might look at purchasing spending increases in this laptops or iPads for them.” year’s budget.

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EDITORIAL | Recruiting finally pays off for Sue Guevara, CMU women’s program

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Back to the Big Dance ue Guevara recalled six years ago when Central Michigan and Akron played, both

teams were considered two of the worst in the Mid-American Conference.

On Saturday, the Chippewas beat the Zips 86-68 to win the MAC championship, their first since 1984, sending them to the NCAA tournament after back-to-back trips to the WNIT. Rewind six years ago, CMU was 11-19 following the 2006-07 season, bringing an end to Eileen Kleinfelter’s six-year tenure as head coach.

She finished with an overall record of 67-99, never finishing better than a

tie for fourth in the MAC West.

Enter Guevara, who posted a 6-23 season in 2007-08, her first season on the job, 18-14 mark in year two, 12 wins in year three and posting 20-win seasons in 2010-11 and 11-12, reaching the WNIT both times.

That 18-win season was big, because CMU ushered in a 6-foot freshman from Flint Hamady High School, Brandie Baker. Guevara had nabbed talent before and did a good

job of it as the head coach at Michigan and assistant under Nell Fortner at Auburn. But this was her first real superstar recruit, and Baker showed it during the 2008-09 season, averaging 12 points and six rebounds as a freshman.

Over the next two seasons, she continued to build a base of talent, including a short but spunky Jalisa Olive, a cagy shooter in Niki DiGuilio and a post presence in Taylor Johnson. Then came the superstar class in the winter of 2011: Crystal Bradford, a highly ranked forward out of Inkster High School, teammate Jas’Mine Bracey and friend Jessica Green.

All three made an immediate impact last season, leading CMU to the MAC tournament championship

before losing at the last second to rival Eastern Michigan. They learned early on how to win and experienced the pain of falling short of reaching The Big Dance.

This year was their year, and it was time for Guevara, a nationally respected coach who had already grown the program by leaps and bounds, to reach the next level.

And despite a late-season injury to Green that could have derailed the team’s season and post-season chances, the team responded — and in an impressive way.

So, congratulations to coach Guevara and her team for finally breaking through and reaching the tourney. While some might question why it took six seasons to do, one must look at the program she inherited (one that had become accustomed to losing) and the facilities she had. Now that she has the players, modern facilities and tools in place to win consistently, there’s no reason CMU can’t continue to reach the tourney for years to come.

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Jessica Fecteau Staff Reporter

High school skinny not a myth Ever have those days where it’s a struggle to get your jeans on?

I’m talking when you jump up and down, throw in some squats and sometimes ask your roommate to get the zipper while you hold the button into place.

Well, when this happens to me, one thing comes to mind: Being highschool skinny.

I grew up hearing my mom and aunts say it all the time: “Oh God, I wish I was high school skinny.”

And I always thought to myself, “High-school skinny? I will never get bigger after high school.”

OK, back to the squeezing into jeans part.

High school skinny is a thing. It is one of the worst things ever, and I blame it on college.

All of the peanut butter sandwiches, pints of beer and nights with no sleep are catching up with me, and, apparently, my butt.

All along, I thought it was a myth.

High school skinny is just something old people say to make themselves feel better about wearing a larger jean size than when they were 16.

But it’s true! You will never be high school skinny again, unless you maintain your diet perfectly or have crazy, awesome genetics. In which case, God bless you.

I think the only thing left from high school that fit are my shoes. OK, and hopefully some sweatpants and faded T-shirts. Everything else can be put into a box labeled “Those were the days” or “Damn, I want that bod back.”

From running at softball practice five days a week to doing pirouette after pirouette in dance class, I was always on the move in high school.

Now, walking across campus to class is a struggle. Especially, if it’s snowing.

With only six weeks left until summer (holy crap, bikini season), my goal is to get back to my high school shape.

It’s time to think more about what I am eating and how I am moving, rather than ordering another pint at the bar and having Jimmy John’s delivered to my door at 2 a.m.

Because the last thing I want to be saying 10 years from now is “Damn, I wish I was college skinny.”

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On a road to redemption The Central Michigan University men’s hockey team would like to apologize for its actions that took place last fall. The hockey team was found in violation of hazing members of its own team and providing alcohol to minors in the incident. The hockey team members realize that the actions of themselves were not the correct ones and would like to apologize for their incorrect behavior. This letter is one part of the sanctions for the hockey team.

As a team, we are truly sorry for our negative actions and realize the impact these actions had on us and the university. As a team, we made the wrong decisions of hazing members of our team and providing alcohol to minors. These mistakes will not be made again. We understand how these mistakes negatively impact us not only from the sanc-

tions that we received from the university but also from the way the public has perceived us after the sanctions were finalized.

Once again, as a team, we can firmly state that we have learned from our mistakes and they will not happen again.

The team already does many positive things around the Mount Pleasant hockey community. The members who were on the team this year currently work once a week with kids in the local youth hockey organization teaching them how to play the game. The team has done many things in the past such as a special needs game and other kid’s hockey clinics. The team also looks forward to continuing these positive events. For the 2013-2014 season, all members of the team will undergo anti-hazing and alcohol awareness training programs that are supervised by the Office of

Student Life. As a team, we take this training seriously and plan on using this to make ourselves better people on and off the ice.

Once again, as a team, we were found in violation by the university of hazing members of our own team and providing alcohol to minors. The team accepts full responsibility for these actions and is sorry for any negative impact these actions have had on the university. We ask that the university and local community can forgive what we have done and look past our flaws and look to the good things that we have done on and off the ice in Mount Pleasant and to the good things that we will do in the future.

Matthew Cinader President, CMU men’s ice hockey

Thanks so much for the wonderful article on my Grandpa. I was thinking at his funeral, there will be no more articles. Today, a co-worker brought me the newspaper and there he was smiling back at me.

-Sherry Landon Thank you so much for sharing.

Grandpa always knew how to make us smile -Tammy Walker Thanks, Tony, for taking time to write this tribute to my buddy, Bill Burden. As I said, he was the first big interview in The Ganiard History Project, and he continually provided information and background history about the West Side of Mt. Pleasant.

Wish you could have met him. Oh, Tony, one thing about the Ganiard History Project Scholarship. As your article said, it is $500 awarded to a Ganiard Student graduating Mt. Pleasant High School. Two (2) scholarships are available, and they are awarded through the Mt. Pleas-

ant Area Community Foundation. As I read the article, it made me wonder if people might think that every person would receive the scholarship.

While I wish that were so, we are honored to give two (rather than the original one) scholarships this year.

We are looking forward to seeing whose names will join Jeremy Quick and Lawrence Chen on the historical plaque.

-Valerie Wolters Online reader reactions to the March 14 “Deaf actress Marlee Matlin talks about overcoming adversity in front of packed Plachta Auditorium“ story I am a deaf woman who grew up in a hearing family, went to mainstream schools and faced many of the same obstacles Marlee described in her talk. If you were there, I was the one nodding at nearly everything she said!

I was especially pleased to see her validate my belief that truly involved supportive parents are necessary to developing a healthy sense of self in a deaf child and that good deaf role models and mentors will help the child see his/her true potential.

I regret my Kindle Every once in a while, I like to masochistically go through a mental inventory of stupid purchases I have made.

Those 20 hockey jerseys I bought with financial aid refund money back when I was in community college: stupid. The $700 HP laptop I’m typing this on that’s far less reliable than the $300 Toshiba it replaced: also very dumb.

But, by far, the most moronic purchase I’ve made in the last few years is my Kindle.

Now, let me preface my rant by disclosing that I’m an English major, and some of the people in my department view Kindles as evil tools sent by the Devil to eliminate our much beloved and fetishized paper books. I have no special attachment to paper books, though; I hate my Kindle for different reasons.

First of all, the price for Kindle books makes no sense, whatsoever. Quite often, publishers set the prices at $10, or above, and there’s no reason why a digital file would have that high of a production cost. It’s hardly cheaper than an actual paper book that needs materials to be produced. There’s no way the authors are seeing any of this profit, and I feel bad lining the publisher’s pockets.

Also, unless you’re buying only mainstream books you’d find at places like Barnes & Noble, there’s no guarantee you’ll even find a Kindle edition of the book you seek.

For my Contemporary Fiction Seminar, a few of the required novels were from smaller publishers and weren’t available on Kindle; the rest cost $11.99 each. It was far cheaper just to buy used paperback versions of each of these.

And don’t even think of buying poetry books on Kindle. Along with having an unsurprisingly awful selection, the Kindle versions of poetry books are virtually unreadable. Apparently, no one at Amazon has any conception of the importance of line breaks in poetry, so their Kindle books just treat stanzas as glorified, mushed-together paragraphs.

Kindles also make it hard to determine page numbers in books, so you end up fumbling around like an idiot if your professor asks you to read something on a specific page number.

Since I haven’t had time to read any mainstream books for pleasure since Christmas break, my Kindle sits somewhere in my room (most likely under some dirty clothes), holding several books that I won’t get to read until summer.

When I’m finally able to read for pleasure, though, I don’t think I’ll view my Kindle as such an awful purchase.

Having a Kindle does beat carrying around an 1000-page Stephen King book to waiting rooms.

However, while I’m still a broke college student, I wish I would have spent my $79 dollars on more useful things, like a couple more hockey jerseys.

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[ YOUR VOICE ] Online reader reactions to the March 12 “The sidewalk superintendent: 105-year-old Bill Burden remembered“ story

Jeremy Ball Columnist

As Executive Director of V.O.I.C.E, Inc., I have begun a Deaf Children’s Outreach Program designed to identify mainstreamed deaf children, to offer support to their parents, to allow them to meet successful deaf individuals and to provide opportunities for the children to socialize with other deaf children.

-Tammy Scholl Parents or other supportive adults are definitely an integral part in developing any healthy , well-adjusted child. ALL children deserve respect, compassion and love, no matter what!

-S. Casey Online reader reactions to the March 11 “Evangelical preacher shares story of conversion to atheism“ story For the record, people are no more converted to Atheism than they are converted to not believing in Santa or the Easter Bunny. It is just a realization that religion is superstition and not reality.

-Terry Day

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Counseling a useful tool for students with porn addiction

Police hand out fewer tickets over St. Pat’s Day weekend Cold weather cited as factor

By Charnae Sanders Senior Reporter

Romney McDaniel, 2012 GOP presidential nominee and Mitt Romney’s niece, and U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Grand Rapids.

“It’s critical the GOP reach out to women,” Romney McDaniel said. “So, if this is the avenue to do that, then that might be the course I take.”

Many Central Michigan University students struggle with personal issues, although an addiction to porn isn’t an issue often put on the table.

Professional Counselor and Counseling Professor Lisa Donahue-Smith works with several students dealing with a variety of issues. She said students seek out help for issues dealing with pornography; however, many choose not to.

“The shame piece is the biggest thing nobody wants to talk about it,” Donahue-Smith said. “I guarantee you, there are students on this campus struggling who have not discussed it with anybody.”

Donahue-Smith said students would be more open to talk about their progress from overcoming a drug or alcohol addiction rather than pornography in a societal setting because of the humiliation and embarrassment.

“People don’t talk about it, and that’s part of the problem,” Donahue-Smith said. “It’s a much greater issue than anyone is aware of because of the huge shame issue that is attached to it.”

Donahue-Smith attended the Great Porn Debate in February and thought an interesting point was raised.

“What’s happening, unfortunately and actually, was something that they touched on in the pornography debate … sometimes (pornography) is the biggest source of sexual information that teenagers and young adults are getting,” she said.

Donahue-Smith said people between the ages of 12 and 17 are “the greatest largest consumers of pornography” at the moment.

“What makes it an addiction is that a person feels compelled to engage in the behavior even though they really don’t want to,” Donahue-Smith said.

According to projectknow. com, there are several signs of porn addiction ranging from being “angry, hostile or irritable if you are asked to stop using porn” to when “you have lost track of large chunks of time because you’ve been absorbed in porn use.” Students might miss class often and neglect their work obligations due to the addiction.

Donahue-Smith said pornography is available and affordable but is “not a reliable source of what human sexuality is all about.” She said it damages relationships because they may not find women outside of porn attractive or become sexually aroused by them.

“To see those behaviors in that activity and to think ‘Oh, this is what normal sex is’ or ‘This is how I should look or

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Local law enforcement found they were adequately prepared to handle those celebrating St. Patrick’s Day over the weekend.

Central Michigan University Police Department Lt. Cameron Wassman said the cooler weather played a factor in keeping more people indoors.

“On campus, this makes for a big reduction in the groups of people that generally congregate and roam during these big weekends,” he said. “We also like to think that people progressively become more aware of their surroundings in order to keep safe and realize the consequences of poor choices.”

In terms of comparing the increased amount of arrests, Wassman said every situation is different.

“If someone is cooperative, the police are more apt to issue a ticket when dealing with a crime, if they can, rather than making an arrest,” he said. “The severity of the crime also plays a part.”

Overall, CMU police issued 11 minor-in-possession citations Friday through Sunday morning, down from 31 in 2012.

CMUPD also issued two drug violation citations and two disorderly conduct citations.

But, while fewer citations were issued, nine arrests were made over the weekend, up from five made in 2012. Four of the arrests this weekend were MIP-related, one for disorderly conduct, three for drug violations and one for obstructing justice.

CMUPD also worked with the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said his department dealt with no major incidents over the weekend.

“It’s been about the same compared to previous years,” he said.

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Participants begin Saturday’s Undie Run outside Finch Fieldhouse. The Undie Run is a fundraiser for the Salvation Army in which contestants strip their clothes during a one- mile run and donate them to the Salvation Army.

‘LOTS OF STARES’ CMU students brave cold Saturday in first ‘Undie Run’ fundraiser

By Ryan Fitzmaurice | Senior Reporter

Most responded with angry or curious stares.

But one car also honked its horn, and an elderly couple averted their eyes.

Allegan junior Monica Roark and Goodrich senior Marriane Lusty were in the final quarter-mile of their run and were almost nude.

“Yeah, lots of stares, lots of glances,” Lusty said. “We got a lot of weird looks.”

They were participants in the Central Michigan University Undie Run Saturday, an event put on by a group of students for RPL 430: Planning Recreation Programs and Events. They were given the assignment to pick a charity of their choice, develop an event to raise money for that charity and gain support for the event.

The event, modeled after an Arizona State University tradition, challenged students

to run its roughly 1 mile course within campus, while periodically taking off layers of clothes at five separate checkpoints. The clothes taken off will be donated to the Salvation Army.

The Undie Run lasted from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., with new heats of runners beginning every 10 minutes.

The event raised about $300 and acquired about 275 articles of clothing to donate

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Participants begin Saturday’s Undie Run outside Finch Fieldhouse. The Undie Run is a fundraiser for the Salvation Army, in which contestants strip their clothes during a one- mile run and donate them to the Salvation Army.

to the Mount Pleasant Salvation Army with the help of 55 to 60 participants.

However, students were not required to finish the run in their underwear. Students could finish the race in however many layers they felt comfortable in.

Roark and Lusty, though, did finish in their underwear.

They also took their time.

“I walked most of it,” Roark said. “(Lusty) was good,

though. She waited up for me.”

The experience, despite granting them plenty of strange looks, was worthwhile.

“We’ve never done this before,” Roark said. “But it was a great first.”

It was roughly 30 degrees outside while the run was taking place, meaning students A RUN | 5A

Gary Peters could be gunning for Carl Levin’s Senate seat

By Wyatt Bush Staff Reporter

A familiar face is expected to be a top contender for filling long time U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the longestserving senator in Michigan history.

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, former Griffin Endowed Chair

at Central Michigan University, is regarded as a battle-tested front-runner who has won three highly contended Carl Levin races.

In a recent interview with the Detroit Free Press,

Peters said it is critical for Democrats to hold onto Levin’s seat in order to ensure a majority control and that he would “seriously consider” a run.

“I have been impressed by (Peters’) bipartisan legislative skills and the depth of his knowledge of Michigan issues,” political science professor James Hill said.

“I think he would be an excellent candidate for this job, and his election and reelection skills as a Democrat in a state that has a Republican majority in the House shows he has the ability to win this race if he chooses to run.”

A few Republicans of note potentially gunning for Levin’s seat include Ronna

Panelists share views on shared governance during open forum Friday

By Justin Hicks Senior Reporter

A six-person panel shared insights and reflections on the Shared Governance and Communications Committee’s “moving forward together” concept during an open forum Friday in the Bovee University Center.

University President George Ross was one of 33 people who gathered to hear the panel and ask further questions in regard to moving forward with shared governance.

Shared values, mutual trust and mutual respect were the three areas panel member and assistant professor of English Catherine Hicks-Kennard said were important for a functioning university.

Hicks-Kennard, who was the Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors Chair during the

2011-12 academic year, said the FRCE, a funding committee composed of various faculty and administrators that reviews proposals for research and approve funding rewards to support those endeavors, remained positive even at the worst times at Central Michigan University with these values, proving it can be done.

Despite being on a smaller scale than the university, HicksKennard said it’s important to find where the communication breakdown is happening on a larger scale.

Various audience members were interested in how the SGCC will be able to bridge the gap between faculty and administration when communication is as indirect as it is.

Dean of the College of Science and Technology Ian Davison suggested the use of telephone

rather than email to avoid confusion and build relationships.

“The more people get to know each other, the more they trust each other and the more likely they give the benefit of the doubt that the decision they heard about was not motivated by malice, but based on that individual’s best judgment,” Davison said.

Other board members suggested ways in which faculty and administration can meet to talk or provide opportunities to shadow one another to relieve tension and allow insight on what the other side is dealing with.

Davison also suggested the Academic Senate should be expanded to increase representation, which Ross agreed is important.

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Gaylord freshman Paige Heumann shows off her new look after shaving her head in support of breast cancer awareness Feb. 26 in Trout Hall. Heumann and 24 other staff members and residents of Trout Hall participated in the event after being inspired by the organization Miles of Smiles.

25 students shave heads after being inspired by Miles of Smiles

By Charnae Sanders Senior Reporter

Twenty-five Central Michigan University students shaved their heads before heading off for spring break to show support for children and adults fighting cancer.

In the Trout Hall lobby Feb. 26, 23 men and two women offered each other support as they watched their locks of hair fall to the ground.

The organization Miles of Smiles began when Seth Miles of Anderson University in Indiana decided to send photos of people who shaved their heads to children and adults with cancer. The Ithaca native wanted to show it’s OK to have no hair; that looks aren’t what matter.

“It’s one thing for a normal, healthy teenager to have self-confidence issues,” Miles said. “But for somebody that is fighting something that is literally killing them, they shouldn’t have to worry about something like (appearances).”

Midland junior Josh Finch, a Trout Hall residence assistant, thought Miles’ idea was great and walked around to different rooms in Trout and asked students if they wanted to join him.

“I think a lot of people take their hair for granted a lot of time,” Finch said. “It’s a very

RUN | CONTINUED FROM 3A had to brave the cold. For Battle Creek juniors Mile and Pale Belcher, twins, the cold was of little matter. Finishing fast was more important.

“If you take your clothes off early, then you’re faster,” Mile said. “So, if you strip early, you have more of an advantage.”

The Belchers came ahead of

PORN | CONTINUED FROM 3A how I should behave’ – that can be very damaging,” DonahueSmith said.

A way students can treat their addiction is through counseling. Counseling and Special Education Assistant Professor John Farrar said it is difficult and takes courage for people to come

materialistic thing. You just have hair. It’ll grow back … It really inspired me to give back more, and when I realized I can do this, and I could allow other people to do it all together at the same time, it was just a really awesome moment for me.”

Paige Heumann decided to shave her head because she felt it was the right thing to do, and shaving her head became an inspiration to those around her.

“I get really positive responses,” the Gaylord freshman said. “I’m in a sorority, and all of my sisters are totally proud.

I had people tell me that I’m an inspiration to them. My mom doesn’t have cancer, but she told me that I was her cure.

And when I asked her what she meant by that, she just said for anything, and I was touched by that.”

Once her head was shaved, Heumann wrote ‘bald is beautiful’ on her scalp.

“I think people who have cancer seem to doubt that because they don’t have hair, especially females, that they’re not beautiful on the outside,” Heumann said. “To me, I think people who are brave enough to walk around with no hair are extremely beautiful – not only on the outside, but also on the inside.”

Bay City freshman Matthew Grimmer said as soon as Finch

told him about the idea, he was excited to shave his head.

“It was really like a group experience,” Grimmer said. “Everybody cheering each other on afterwards. Just everyone doing it showed how powerful it can be and how good it can be to other people. It was really inspiring.”

Miles said several people tell him the worst part of having cancer is when they begin losing their hair. With Miles of Smiles, Miles hope his organization grows from sending photos to patients to having volunteers visit patients in hospitals to get their hair shaved alongside them or even shave each other’s heads.

“My complete ultimate goal for this organization is to essentially eliminate ourselves, which means I want to bring in so much money from donations that I can donate it back to research for cancer so that they find a cure and we’re no longer needed,” Miles said. “I want this to be a temporary thing.”

Miles said he’s blown away by the response he’s received and cried when he found out about what the students at CMU did. He hopes more people will be a part of Miles of Smiles and that a cure for cancer is discovered soon.

the pack on their run, but not all students were as interested in winning or stripping.

Team Tie, a group of Saginaw sophomores who all wore ties to the race, included Natalie Hill, Danielle Sova and Gabriella Hoffman, and they were not in the event for the race.

“This is not a competitive sport,” Hill said. “This is like yoga.”

The team, which wore multiple layers to the race, had a specific strategy for ending the race still protected from the cold.

“No, we’re not going to take all our clothes off,” Sova said.

“We’ve had meetings about this.

We’ve done planning. This is all planned out.”

Portage junior Allison Bowditch, who participated in planning the event, said the attendance for the Undie Run reached expectations.

“Arizona State started the tradition over there, and we thought it’d be a fun thing to do locally,” Bowditch said. “I think we’ve raised some excitement.”

to counseling for any addiction.

He trains his students who have an interest in becoming professional counselors on how to help the client feel comfortable and know they won’t be judged.

“You don’t talk about the addiction so much as you talk about the person,” Farrar said. “So, rather than just ‘shame on you,’ because it isn’t about that so much as ‘Let’s see what role this plays,’ ‘What problem is this causing’ … ‘Let’s take steps at fixing it.’”

Students who want to seek

out counseling for any addiction or issue can go to CMU’s counseling center and meet with a counselor for free.

“Eliminating an addiction involves removing something,” Farrar said. “ ... When we remove something, we have to put something in its place. As it relates to pornography, the thing we’re substituting with is presumably more productive healthy relationships.’”

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“There are many staff, faculty members and students … who care about the institution, and we need to think about bringing those people more into this process,” Davison said.

“What are we frightened of in having more people on the Senate?”

Karen Bellingar, panel member and executive secretary of the School of Engineering & Technology, said CMU has lost its community.

“I think it used to be people gathered, and you had a very good feeling

LEVIN | CONTINUED FROM 3A On the other hand, Amash, a self-described opponent of the GOP establishment, is a fiscal conservative and prominent civil libertarian. At the age of 32, he advocates for a more transparent government and is the only U.S. representative who posts all of his votes and the underlying reasoning behind each one on Facebook.

“Frankly, we can’t afford to nominate another unelectable establishment Republican,” Amash told The Detroit News. “History shows they don’t appeal to

POLICE | CONTINUED FROM 3A Sheriff ’s deputies assisted other local law enforcement agencies, as they do on a daily basis, Mioduszewski said.

WEEKEND BUSINESS TRAFFIC

Local bars and restaurants said they experienced a huge rush of business as the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations carried on all weekend long.

Buffalo Wild Wings Manager David Kramer said the rush of business

with people you knew on campus,” Bellingar said.

“Maybe it’s part of getting larger, but I do think we have to think about that and come back together to get that trust and vision back.”

The SGCC is recommending a standing committee to remain proactive rather than reactive every so many years when issues arise.

The SGCC defines shared governance at CMU as “a dynamic collection of best practices for engaging, voicing, listening and

discussing the interests of all groups, admin, faculty, staff, students and trustees when planning and making and implementing decisions for the university.”

Friday’s other panelists included Jeff Hoyle, market & hospitality services administrator, Michelle Campbell, president of the Graduate Student Union, and Christi Brookes, chair of foreign languages, literatures and cultures.

The forum came after shared governance experts Adrianna Kezar and Terrence MacTaggart came to CMU in February to review and give feedback on university history and the SGCC. university@cm-life.com

moderate and independent voters.”

Levin, who has held his Senate seat since 1979, is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he successfully co-produced bi-partisan defense budgets throughout every year of his tenure.

As a vocal supporter of the auto industry and Michigan manufacturing, Levin was in addition arguably the most adamant Senate supporter of the 2008 auto bailouts.

“This decision (to retire) was extremely difficult because I love representing the people of Michigan in the U.S. Senate and fighting for the things that I believe are important to them,” Levin said in a statement. “(My wife and I) decided

that I can best serve my state and nation by concentrating in the next two years on the challenging issues before us that I am in a position to help address; in other words, by doing my job without the distraction of campaigning for reelection.”

Levin said he wished to use his remaining time in the Senate to focus on tax avoidance schemes and investigating secret money contributions of political campaign financing. Additionally, Levin said he is looking to ensure sensible military funding, as well as the transferring of Afghanistan’s security to the Afghan people.

Saturday at the restaurant, located at 1904 S Mission St., was no surprise.

Though the rush was expected for Kramer, he did say the business levels vary from year to year.

“It’s give or take. We’re more of a family restaurant nowadays rather than just a bar, and there’s O’Kelly’s down the street that does the big tent and that pulls a lot of them away. But we do the green beer and stuff like that,” he said.

Cars filled parking lots at bars and pubs as early as noon on Sunday, though Saturday was slated to be the busiest day of the weekend.

Other businesses experi-

enced even more of a rush.

Management at The Bird Bar and Grill, 223 S. Main St., were unavailable for comment because they were busy with customers at full capacity.

Even businesses such as Kaya Coffee and Tea Co., 1029 S. University Ave., were busier this weekend, though that is not always the case, employee Chrissy Waggoner said.

“We usually are less busy on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, because most people are out drinking as opposed to here for coffee,” she said.

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Baker posts ‘workhorse’ performance

Guevara credits defense in tournament

Senior guard comes up big taking over for injured Green

By Mark Cavitt Staff Reporter

By Brandon Champion Staff Reporter

CLEVELAND — Senior guard Brandie Baker isn’t the flashiest player on the women’s basketball team.

In fact, if you look at the statistical leaders on the team, category-by-category, it’s hard to find one where she tops the list, but not all things are measured with numbers.

If you ask her coach, the 6-foot Flint native’s importance to the team is unparalleled by anyone else on the roster. Head coach Sue Guevara couldn’t find enough ways to praise the senior following the team’s win against Akron in the MAC championship on Sunday.

“She’s the strength of Brandie Baker the team,” she said. “She’s the most versatile player on the team; she’s the workhorse of the team.”

Baker committed to CMU before the 2008 season after finishing fourth in Michigan’s Miss Basketball Award at Flint Hamady High School. In her time at CMU, the Chippewas have made three consecutive postseason appearances for the first time in school history.

“Brandie was the first bigtime recruit that committed to us,” Guevara said. “She could have gone to Texas A & M, she could have gone to Michigan State, and, instead, she came to CMU.” This year, Baker is fourth on the team, averaging 8.4 points per game, but Guevara praises Baker on her versatility and toughness, rather than statistical feats.

Baker took over as point guard after sophomore Jessica Green suffered a seasonending torn ACL. She posted 14 points, eight assists and three steals in the quarterfinals win over Bowling Green while scoring a team-high 14 points and six assists in the championship against Akron.

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Head coach Sue Guevara celebrates after winning the Mid-American Conference championship game against Akron on Saturday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Chippewas had a dominating win over Akron 86-68.

‘THIS WAS THE GOAL’ After losing in finals last season, CMU seizes moment, wins MAC tournament

By Brandon Champion | Staff Reporter

CLEVELAND — Last season, the women’s basketball team came within 1.5 seconds of a Mid-American Conference tournament championship and its first berth in the NCAA tournament since 1984.

A year later, the Chippewas had their ticket punched long before the final seconds in a dominating 86-68 win over Akron Saturday afternoon at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

“This was the goal,” head coach Sue Guevara said.

Sophomore guard Crystal Bradford cuts off a piece of the basketball net after winning the Mid-American Conference championship game against Akron on Saturday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. The Chippewas had a dominating win over Akron 86-68.

“To get to this tournament and win it. Last year was such a heartbreaking loss.

Our players remember how they felt this same time last year.”

The Chippewas held a 71-70 lead over Eastern Michigan with nine seconds left in last year’s

MAC championship game, but a missed free throw and a last-second lay up by the Eagles sent CMU home brokenhearted. The loss was still fresh in the team’s head a year later.

“This just shows that hard work pays off,” said sophomore guard Crystal

Bradford, who was named tournament MVP. “I just couldn’t understand why we lost and why things happened last year.

But,after winning today, it just shows that everything happens for a reason.”

CLEVELAND — Women’s basketball has been strong all season long on offense.

But it was the aggressive defense the team displayed during the Mid-American Conference tournament that propelled the team to win the title and claim a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Head coach Sue Guevara said she was happy with the way her team was able to adjust defensively throughout the week and the ability to be effective in the tournament.

“We played a lot of zone for two games,” she said.

“We started out in the zone and trapping (Saturday) … we switched to our switching man-to-man, and it was effective.”

Whether it was forcing turnovers, getting steals at crucial times or playing with a determined focus in not allowing opponents to feel comfortable in their offense, the defense showed up come MAC tournament time.

That strong defense allowed its tournament opponents an average of 59 points, including holding Bowling Green to 48 points in Thursday’s quarterfinal game.

During three games at Quicken Loans Arena, the Chippewas forced their opponents into 64 turnovers, an average of 21 per game, while scoring 45 points off those turnovers. The Falcons had 34 turnovers in the 81-48 victory.

Guevara said the team’s defensive effort was a combination of different players stepping up the last three days of the tournament.

“I just can’t even begin to tell you how proud I am (of ) our team,” Guevara said. “With the defense that they have displayed for the last three days, we talked about this, but defense, free throws and keeping their composure was going to win this tournament, and our team did it. It wasn’t one player; it was our team that won this tournament for us.”

Rebounding was key throughout the tournament, as offensive boards helped CMU to get extra scoring chances inside, and it took advantage.

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Crystal Bradford named tournament MVP

By Mark Cavitt Staff Reporter

CLEVELAND — Sophomore Crystal Bradford has been the star performer all season long for the women’s basketball team.

And during the Mid-American Conference tournament, she didn’t disappoint.

Her Chippewas locked up their first NCAA tournament berth in 29 years after defeating Akron in the MAC championship game, 86-68.

Bradford was just one of many players who performed well and was named tournament MVP Saturday.

“It’s a great feeling; it’s a great accomplishment,” Bradford said. “I didn’t get (MAC) Player of the Year, but MVP of the tournament is a great feeling also, so having the championship is an even better feeling. Words can’t explain it ... I mean, being MVP, that’s cool, but I don’t score every point, I don’t get every stop. It’s a team effort.”

Head coach Sue Guevara said she was pleased with how much Bradford has progressed this season, especially throughout this past week in the tournament.

“Crystal has come a long way,” she said. “I think she has become much

more disciplined offensively. I told Crystal, ‘you’re a baller,’ you can hoop with the best of them, but, when you become a student of the game, then watch out.

“She has done a much better job of watching tape and really staying focused. She was focused this whole tournament,” Guevara said. “She has progressed; she still has a long way to go and we get her for two more years, so you’re going to watch her progress.”

In the first game against Bowling Green in the quarterfinals on Thursday, she scored a game-high 23 points to go along with six rebounds, two blocks and four steals.

She followed up that effort with a 20-point performance against No. 1 Toledo in a game where she played for much of the second half with four personal fouls. Bradford was strong defensively as well, contributing with three blocks and three steals.

In the MAC championship game, she saved her most balanced performance for last against Akron. She finished with a double-double coming out strong in the second half on both offense and defense, finishing with 13 points, 10 rebounds, four blocks and three steals.

Following the tournament win,

while cutting down the nets, Bradford became emotional, saying it’s all because of what the team and coaches have accomplished this season.

“I don’t know, it’s unexplainable,” Bradford said. “It just feels good for everyone on my team ... it just feels good for our seniors, give credit to them, and I feel good for our coach and coaching staff. It’s a good feeling for everybody.”

On a team with a lot of depth, Bradford stood out with her ability to score at will, attack the glass and make opponents look silly with performances others could only dream.

She improved this season on the defensive end that she has said in the past has helped open up her offensive game.

Bradford said that seeing what the team has accomplished up to this point is great to see and that all their hard work has helped them achieve continued success throughout the season.

“It felt really good,” Bradford said.

“It just shows that hard work pays off. After winning today, it just shows everything happens for a reason and things will pay off if you keep working hard.” sports@cm-life.com

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Sophomore guard Crystal Bradford was named tournament MVP during the awards ceremony following the team’s MAC championship win Saturday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

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ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme has BAKER | CMU in Norfolk region at No. 12 seed CONTINUED FROM 1B

By Kristopher Lodes Sports Editor

Women’s basketball punched its ticket to the NCAA tournament with a Mid-American Conference tournament championship victory against Akron.

But, now they wait until tonight for the selection show to see where the team will be playing the first round of the big dance.

Fortunately, ESPN created the science of Bracketology with men’s basketball bracketologist Joe Lunardi and women’s basketball’s Charlie Creme.

After the win, Creme updated his bracket to include CMU. He has placed it with the No. 12 seed and moved up in

the Norfolk, Va., region, starting the tournament in Boulder, Colo., against the predicted No. 5 University of Colorado.

The Buffaloes finished 25-6 overall and 13-5 in the PAC-12 and lost, 61-47, to Stanford in the second round of the conference tournament.

The Norfolk region also has first round games in Columbus, Ohio, Knoxville, Tenn., and Durham, N.C. Included in the Norfolk bracket is predicted No. 1 seed Notre Dame, who CMU battled in McGuirk Arena in 72-63 loss.

Duke is the predicted a No. 2 seed and Tennessee, who is in its first season without legendary coach Pat Summit, with the No. 3 seed.

Dayton, who beat Toledo early this season, is at the No.

4 seed and is predicted to play No. 13 South Dakota State, who lost in McGuirk Arena 88-62.

Familiar foe Purdue was given the No. 6 seed, the Boilermakers got revenge against the Chippewas this season 87-71 after they lost in McGuirk Arena last season.

CMU played six games this season against teams that Creme has in the tournament.

The Chippewas split two games with Green Bay, who was listed as a No. 7 seed. They also beat predicted No. 9 seed Saint Joseph’s 98-84.

Overall, CMU was 3-3 against teams predicted to be in the NCAA tournament and that could improve to 5-4 if UT can squeeze into the tournament. sports@cm-life.com

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said. “She played 40 minutes today; she played 40 minutes yesterday. I do not like seeing her on the bench, and I am go-

ing to have a major adjustment next year without her.”

Baker has routinely played entire games this season for CMU. She’s been the face of the program, and, now, as her CMU career is down to a game-to-game basis, it’s easy for her coach to recognize her value.

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BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

CMU goes 3-1 over weekend at Marshall Team goes 2-2 at Hoosier Classic Starting pitcher Jordan Foley continues hot start

Sunday games canceled because of weather

By Emily Grove Senior Reporter

By Malachi Barrett Staff Reporter

The baseball team dropped the finale of a four-game series against Marshall on Sunday after winning the first three of the weekend.

“Obviously, four would’ve been better, but, as I reflect on it, 3-4 coming out of the weekend is really good,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “We were a hit away from winning that ball game.”

The Thundering Herd defeated CMU 6-4, but not before the Chippewas tried to mount their second comeback of the series.

They trailed the entire game, going into the ninth inning down 6-1, but ready to put up a fight.

With two guys on, a double by senior Tom Lally bringing in a run looked like a rally was in the cards.

A wild pitch brought in sophomore Tyler Huntey, followed by freshman Logan Regnier hitting in Lally to make the score 6-4.

The comeback was squashed when sophomore Pat MacKenzie struck out.

Marshall grabbed an early 1-0 lead in the first and a home run in the second inning extended that lead to 3-0. CMU tried to answer in the top of the third with two men on base ready to score, but they were left stranded when senior Jordan Adams grounded out.

It was a bit of déjà vu in the fourth when, again, the Chippewas left two on the bags.

Marshall was able to score another run in the fourth, despite the pitching change from senior Rick Dodridge to freshman Taylor Lehnert.

Jaksa said, despite the team battling back at the plate in the ninth, pitching was a weak spot during the game.

“We came up a bit short, and it was probably by a pitching standpoint,” Jaksa said. “One guy can make a difference, and if we could’ve kept their score to three to four runs, I think it would’ve been different.”

Dodridge pitched three innings, giving up six hits, walking two and striking out two. Lehnert also pitched three innings, allowing seven hits and three runs.

Junior Joe Ucho and freshman Blake Louscher also pitched for the Chippewas.

The sixth was when the Thundering Herd added two more runs, while CMU still was scoreless. As freshman Logan Regnier stole second, CMU scored its first run on an errant throw by the second baseman.

“We just need to be able to compete all nine innings and all

Central Michigan softball swept Day 2 of the Hoosier Classic Saturday in Bloomington, Ind., with wins against Michigan State and Wright State.

The Chippewas dropped both of their games Friday, falling in close contests with Illinois-Chicago and Indiana. Poor weather caused the cancellation of the final day of the tournament on Sunday, ending the weekend 2-2.

The even record maintains a recurring theme with CMU, which is now 12-10 on the season. Consistency is something that is often a struggle to achieve, said head coach Margo Jonker, who was encouraged by the progression her team has shown so far.

“We weren’t as strong on Friday, but we came out the next day and turned it around,” Jonker said. “We had some outstanding defensive plays, and it’s a weekend we can build on.”

In the first game, the

FILE PHOTO BY ANDREW KUHN

Sophomore pitcher Jordan Foley delivers a pitch to home plate Sept. 14, 2012 against the Ontario Blue Jays at Theunissen Stadium in Mount Pleasant.

The Chippewas defeated the Blue Jays 14-3.

the games in a series,” Jaksa said.

FRIDAY

CMU was victorious leading up to the last game, claiming the win in the three of the four games in the series. The team won both games in a doubleheader on Friday, 7-3 and 9-7.

Sophomore starter Jordan Foley pitched the first game for the Chippewas, showing his consistency by picking up another win. Foley pitched six innings, only giving up four hits and one earned run before being relieved by freshman Jimmy McNamara.

Freshman Neal Jacobs had a standout game, producing more than half of the team’s runs with four RBIs. In the fifth, Jacobs homered to center field, earning two of his RBIs for the game.

Sophomore Alec Ornelas also had a home run in the game, hitting his in the third and putting the Chippewas on the board for the first time.

Marshall responded with two runs but couldn’t get another until the eighth.

CMU, however, didn’t have any trouble scoring. Freshman Zack Fields had two RBIs in the sixth from a double, and sophomore Cody Leichman had an RBI single to right field.

The Chippewas tacked on the final two runs when Jacobs singled up the middle to bring in Leichman and sophomore

Nick Regnier.

In the second game, Dylan Rheault had the start, pitching six innings and allowing six hits, four runs and getting three strikeouts.

Marshall held the lead in the first two innings before Fields doubled to score two in the third.

The Thundering Herd responded, scoring three runs, but the Chippewas came right back with five runs of their own in the fifth.

SATURDAY

CMU defeated Marshall 10-8 in a ninth inning comeback in Saturday’s game.

Trailing 8-7, sophomore Nick Regnier set things in motion for the Chippewas, singling to shortstop to get on base.

Regnier stole second, followed by Jordan Adam’s single to join him on the bags and put Regnier in scoring position.

Two runs came in for CMU after an error by Marshall, giving the Chippewas the lead before they added another run for the final 10-8 score.

The team is scheduled for a 3:05 p.m. game Tuesday against Northwood at Theunissen Stadium, serving as the team’s home opener after last Tuesday’s game against Madonna University was postponed. sports@cm-life.com

team faced off against the Spartans, winning 3-0 with a shutout from senior pitcher Kara Dornbos. Dornbos kept MSU down with five strikeouts and surrendered six hits but was able to rely on a strong defensive effort from the Chippewas to get the win.

“I’m not a strikeout pitcher, so I rely on ground balls and pop flies,” Dornbos said. “If the defense plays well, I play well, and they did a great job.”

This makes the second shutout for Dornbos this season and the 17th of her career, which ties her for eighth all-time in program history.

The Chippewas came out of the gate scoring two runs in the bottom of the first to take an early lead. Senior Macy Merchant led off with a triple to right field in her fourth extra base hit of the year. Merchant would finish with two hits on the game.

Senior Summer Knoop reached on an error then stole second base to set up a scoring chance. Sophomore CarolAnn Sexauer answered

The baseball team is working hard to erase its slow start to the season after recent success.

After a 3-8 start, CMU has gone 6-2 in its last eight games.

“I don’t think there’s any magic thing we have done or need to do to keep going this way,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “What we are constantly trying to do is get better, and we have done that.”

The Chippewas first snapped a three-game losing streak on March 6 in a dominant 11-1 win against BethuneCookman.

The momentum continued for the team as it headed to the Snowbird Class in Port Charlotte, Fla., and won two of the three games.

In the last game in the classic, CMU fell 4-3 to Georgetown after going 15 innings.

The Chippewas came out full force this weekend, going 3-1 against Marshall, even managing a successful comeback in

the third game of the series.

Jaksa said much of the start of the season is about identifying roles and figuring out where each person fits to help win games.

To Jaksa and his team, every player is important, and that is a mentality they don’t lose sight of, even when one teammate is having a standout or sub-par performance.

“Different guys show great leadership on any particular day,” Jaksa said. “I’m not going to call out players because that’s something I’ve never done, but, yes, we’ve had some guys play really well for us and also struggle on days. I just want everyone to continue to get better. Everybody complements each other to help achieve the goal to win ball games.”

Sophomore right-handed pitcher Jordan Foley has gotten off to a promising start, playing a crucial role in many of CMU’s victories.

Foley is 4-0 this season and pitched his first career com-

plete game in a 4-1 win against West Virginia for the first game of the Snowbird Classic.

Freshman Logan Regnier and his brother, sophomore Nick Regnier, have teamed up at the plate for the Chippewas, leading the team with the top two batting averages.

Nick holds the No. 1 spot with a .333 average, recording 27 hits in 81 at-bats with five doubles, a triple and three home runs.

The elder Regnier has also racked up 16 RBI. Logan falls just behind his brother, with a .329 average, 23 hits in 70 at-bats, five doubles, three triples and 11 RBIs. While the team is heading in the right direction, Jaksa said they aren’t done progressing.

“This group is hungry,” Jaksa said. “We’re not a finished product yet. We want to see the same kind of improvement in next few weeks, and we hope the record will improve along with it.” sports@cm-life.com

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Pitcher Morgan Yuncker perfect in last three games on the mound

By Malachi Barrett Staff Reporter

Junior pitcher Morgan Yuncker is 3-0 with two complete games in her last three appearances in the circle with 18.1 innings pitched.

Yuncker was recognized for her performance in the South Florida tournament over spring break, being named the Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week.

She pitched 12 innings in Florida, finishing with an ERA of 1.50 and surrendering a total of seven hits before pitching another game on Saturday against Wright State.

Yuncker began with four strikeouts against Wagner on March 8 in a 7-4 victory. Against Quinnipiac on March 10, she gave up only one run in a 9-1 win, ending the game in five innings of play. She had a 2-0 record on the season and a team-best 1.74 ERA in 20.2 innings coming into this weekend.

“We made some really great plays in the field, and credit has to go to the

“We made some really great plays in the field, and credit has to go to the defense.”

Morgan Yuncker, junior pitcher defense,” Yuncker said. “If they don’t play well, the team goes down, and they did their job yesterday.

Honestly, I just go up there and try to do my job, and they do the same.”

This weekend, Yuncker took the mound against Wright State, pitching 6.1 innings. She surrendered six hits and two earned runs but came away with the win, thanks to a lateinning rally to put the Chippewas ahead 3-2.

She certainly has done her job so far this season, leading the team with a 1.56 ERA in 27 innings. Yuncker is also a close second in both runs allowed and hits surrendered, only giving up 23. Hitters against Yunker have fared with a .221 batting average, forcing easy hits to the defense that has been steadily improving this year.

Head coach Margo Jonker has stressed the

Chippewas progressing from slow start

By Emily Grove Senior Reporter

with a double, scoring Knoop and Merchant while also pushing her RBI total to 17.

Up 2-0, freshman Taylor Waters reached first on a walk in the bottom of the fifth and was moved to second on a Merchant bunt.

Knoop sent her home with a single up the middle to put the game at 3-0 where it would stay.

In game two, they defeated Wright State in a close game. Behind by one entering the sixth, the Chippewas took the victory from a tworun double from freshman Katelyn Rentchler.

Knoop started the rally with a double to left and was joined on the bases by a Sexauer single who advanced to second on the throw.

Rentschler sent them home with a double to right-center field, sealing the game 3-2.

Sexauer also hit a solo homerun early in the game, her third of the year.

CMU will be back in action on March 27 with a doubleheader at IPFW.

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development of her defense over the season and was impressed by their production this weekend. The Chippewas pitching staff adds to that, composing a solid battery along with their catcher counterparts.

“Cory (DelLammielleure) works really hard, and she called a great game for us,” Yuncker said. “She does a good job studying the batters and knowing what pitch to throw.”

Yunker said she has a few elements of her game that need more work, saying that she wants to focus on getting ahead in the count more often and reducing her number of bases awarded by walks.

Expect to see Yuncker back in action next week, as Central Michigan heads to Fort Wayne, Ind., for a rematch against IPFW after a 10-6 loss in New Mexico. sports@cm-life.com

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Samantha Stein qualifies for MACs, leads CMU track at Bulls Invite

By Joe Judd Staff Reporter

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Junior gymnast Brittany Petzold leaps on the uneven bars during the final Gymnastics competition of the season in McGuirk Arena Saturday afternoon.

Gymnastics, seniors walk out victors over Eastern Michigan in final meet

The women’s track and field team has shown no signs of rust after the first outdoor meet of the season at South Florida’s Bulls Invite over the weekend.

The team competed to get positive results at USF and were lead by a talented mix of underclassmen and veteran competitors.

Junior Samantha Stein lead her team by finishing in third place in the women’s triple jump with a mark of 5-06. In the process, she also qualified for the 2013 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championships.

Finishing near the top, despite her lengthy travels to Florida, Stein did her best not to let the sudden change of scenery affect her performances over the weekend.

WIN | CONTINUED FROM 1B

By Cody DeBona Staff Reporter

Gymnastics marched by Eastern Michigan on Senior Day Saturday with a team goal of 196 as a final gift for the seniors’ last meet.

“Today was an outstanding day for our entire team; I couldn’t be more thrilled for our team and our seniors,” head coach Jerry Reighard said. “They had such a great day of competition at their last at McGuirk.”

CMU started shaky on the vault but fought back and achieved its goal by a nearly impeccable floor rotation and a near seasonhigh 49.1 on bars.

Freshman Taylor Boleneder had a strong meet, leading off two events and scoring a 9.85 and a 9.875 to help ease the Chippewas to victory.

“I have the greatest respect for Taylor she has given us exactly what we thought she would deliver,” Reighard said. “She is a very, very accomplished collegiate gymnast now, and she does it with ease.”

Junior Brittany Petzold performed great in the

GUEVARA | CONTINUED FROM 1B Building a championship culture is important and Guevara said that building that culture all starts with rebounding the basketball and being physical on the glass.

“We know that rebounding wins championships and offensive rebounds, I thought in the first half there were some keys times where we were able to go get it and also in the second half,” Guevara said. “When you don’t knock down the shot you better make darn sure the other team doesn’t.”

The Chippewas scored 76 points in the paint in the three tournament games thanks to a strong effort on the offensive glass with 33 rebounds in the tournament.

Senior forward Jessica Schroll said that the team

all-around, scoring her second-highest score yet with a 39.3.

“She (Brittany Petzold) knows how to compete; from my manage point, I can see the whole four inches (beam),” Reighard said. “Most athletes would not have saved what she saved.”

This victory for CMU means more than most, not only because of senior day and the seniors’ last performances at McGuirk Arena, but because a win before the Mid-American Conference championship next week brings confidence to the team.

“This is a real confidence booster for us; the excitement versus the alternative is very, very important,” Reighard said.

Moving into the final event, CMU and EMU were nearly a point away from each other, making it anyone’s meet to win. After the final event, the Chippewas finished nearly three points ahead of the Eagles. The floor rotation took the score to the team goal of 196. All six gymnasts scored a 9.85 or higher to score a season-

high overall score of 49.325.

“It was nice to see them get on what I call the momentum train,” Reighard said. “When we went to floor, it was the first time that I’ve felt confident enough to let my assistant coach do all of the talking and instruction before their routines. We feel really good about floor and where we are at.”

The meet was an emotional one as the seniors watched a video of their last meet of their journey through their four years, with CMU gymnastics following their final meet at McGuirk Arena. They were announced to the crowd, accompanied by their parents. They were treated to flowers and a plaque for their accomplishments by coach Reighard.

The Chippewas get ready for their ultimate test of the Mid-American Conference championship on Saturday in Kalamazoo. CMU is looking to make it a fourpeat and give the seniors a perfect career in the conference.

came together more on the defensive end in the tournament.

“Defense is all about energy. If you have more energy than the person you’re guarding you’re going to do pretty well,” Schroll said. “With this team, in the tournament, we clicked especially, defensively.”

Sophomore guard Crystal Bradford said that with their defense coming on strong when they needed it most, along with the team’s potent offense, she knew they would be hard to stop.

“We have a lot of naturalborn scorers on this team so when we start defending and playing with each other the chemistry is just there,” Bradford said. “Getting stops and helping out defensively, it’s just a good feeling that no one can stop.”

Many players contributed to this effort, including sophomore forward Jas’Mine Bracey and senior guard Brandie Baker.

Bracey had her best game of the tournament in the championship game, recording six points to go along with seven rebounds in 22 minutes on the floor.

Guevara credited Bracey with her ability to match up inside with the other team, allowing her to finish strong in the paint.

“Jas’Mine, she goes fivefor-five yesterday against Toledo. She didn’t play the first time against Akron,” Guevara said. “Her ability to rebound, but also she finished the whole tournament. She caught it and she finished it. That was really big.”

Baker was reliable all tournament long on the defensive end. She had 14 points against Akron in the championship game, while also bringing down six rebounds, six assists and two steals.

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CMU outscored the Zips 47-33 in the second half after holding a slight 39-35 lead at halftime.

The Chippewas opened the half on a 7-3 run to make it 47-40 with 16:47 to go, which forced an Akron timeout.

CMU stretched its lead to 57-44 with 12:53 to go, thanks in large part to a pair of three-point shots by senior guard Jalisa Olive.

“The defender was laying off me and didn’t respect my three,” Olive said.

After Olive left the game with an injury, it was junior guard Niki DiGuilio who kept things rolling from three-point range. She made three in a row from deep to extend the CMU lead to 6850 with 9:46 to go.

The Zips cut the Chippewa lead to 12 with 5:14 to go, but back-to-back baskets by senior forward Jessica Schroll and junior forward Taylor Johnson pushed the lead back to 77-61.

With the CMU contingency chanting Guevara’s name, CMU made its free throws down the stretch, ensuring the championship would not slip away this season.

“There were times in practice throughout the year when someone was at the line and someone would say ‘OK, there’s 1.5 seconds left, what are you going to do.”

Guevara said. “We wanted to win it all this year.”

CMU won three games in three days to win the title.

Entering the tournament as the No. 4 seed, CMU received a bye into the quarter-

Going from the cold of Mount Pleasant to the sunshine of Tampa could provide for various results depending on the athlete.

After few players qualified for championships last month, it was a somewhat bitter and disappointing finish to the indoor season.

The Chippewas knew that they had to go into the Bulls Invitational, raring to go both mentally and physically. This has director of track and field Willie Randolph pleased.

“It was a good meet. Everyone had a good attitude and worked together to help each other,” Randolph said. “I was proud of them.”

Though Stein was leading the charge for CMU, it was certainly still a team effort overall. Her freshman teammate Micaela Conter came in fourth in the women’s pole vault and freshmen Kyleigh

Young and Marsielle McBeam along with sophomore Milicia Kuldizan all earned automatic qualifiers for the MAC Championships.

With McBeam qualifying in the triple jump and Kuldizan and Young qualifying in javelin respectively, CMU worked together to earn qualifiers at South Florida.

Having so many athletes qualify in the first meet of the new season is something that the Chippewas will use to their advantage in the upcoming weeks. They will not be back home for a meet until late April. Until then, they are expecting more travel time than they have been used to in the past.

Stein and her teammates will now look to this week in practice to keep up the momentum for their next meet. sports@cm-life.com

“Six years ago, CMU went to play at Akron, and it was the battle of the bottom. We lost the game on a last second shot, but it just shows how far these programs have come.

Sue Guevara, women’s basketball head coach finals. The Chippewas beat the No. 5 seed Bowling Green 81-48 on Thursday before defeating top-seeded Toledo 66-61 on Friday.

CMU used its defense to pressure the Zips early in Saturday’s championship, forcing Akron to turn the ball over on its first three possessions of the game and led 4-0 early.

“Defense is all about energy,” Schroll said. “If you have more energy than the person you’re guarding, things will turn out well. We started clicking really well on defense today.”

CMU was efficient on offense early, scoring its first 16 points in the paint and led it 18-16 at the 9:59 mark of the first half.

The Zips took their first lead of the game on their next possession when Taylor Ruper made a three-point shot to make it 19-18, which started an 8-0 run for Akron to make the score 24-18 with eight minutes to go.

The game was tied at 30 at the final media timeout, and both teams continued to trade baskets over the final four minutes of the first half.

After playing limited minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, sophomore guard Crystal Bradford returned to the floor for CMU’s final possession of the half and knocked down a fadeaway three with a defender

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in her face to give CMU the 39-35 halftime lead.

Twenty-eight of tCMU’s points came in the paint in the half.

As it has been all year long, the team’s depth was strength in the win. Six players scored in double figures, including all three seniors in Schroll, Olive and Brandie Baker who each had 14 points. Bradford and Johnson each scored 13, and DiGuilio added 12 points.

“Six years ago, CMU went to play at Akron, and it was the battle of the bottom,” Guevara said. “We lost the game on a last second shot, but it just shows how far these programs have come.

To do that, you have to put your hard hat on and go to work; you have to persevere, and you have to get quality kids; that’s what we’ve been able to do.”

As conference champion, the Chippewas receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. CMU will find out its opponent tonight.

“We don’t know anything until Monday night,” Guevara said. “We will meet Monday night and find out who we’re playing and where we’re going, and we’ll start the preparation. The goal is to win all of our games in March.” sports@cm-life.com

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