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disgraced former professor pleads guilty to child pornography

By Tony Wittkowski Senior Reporter

Former Central Michigan University professor William Lord Merrill, 58, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to receiving child pornography.

According to court documents, Merrill entered into the guilty plea Feb. 20. He faces a minimum of five years in prison, with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years. Sentenc-

ing is scheduled for July 11.

The court must also impose a term of supervised release for a minimum of five years and up to life. Merrill will also be required to regis- William Lord Merrill ter as a sex offender, reporting his name, residence address and the names and addresses of any

place where he will be, among other information.

One of Merrill’s attorneys, Frank Reynolds, said the plea agreement would charge Merrill with one count of indictment instead of the original three.

“He did it because the fact of the matter is he received child pornography,” Reynolds said. “The agreement itself has a maximum amount of 20 years. But, we’re not going to know

not give him the maximum (penalty).”

Merrill’s sentencing is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. July 11 before District Judge Thomas L. Ludington in U.S. District Court in Bay City.

Merrill was arrested for one count of possession of child pornography Dec. 19 but has since been charged with two additional counts in federal court.

that until the sentencing.”

Reynolds said sentencing will depend on the guidelines set by Magistrate Judge Charles E. Binder, who took the plea on Thursday.

“We’re getting ready for his sentencing and (will) explain more about his background, because he has no other criminal background. He got his Ph.D., and he had some particular traumas in the past,” Reynolds said.

“There are a lot of circumstances to

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Varying GPAs dependent on roster size, coach turnover

By Justin Hicks Senior Reporter

Editor’s note: This is the third story in a series about student-athletes’ academics at Central Michigan University.

This story compares and contrasts GPAs among athletic teams at CMU. It’s no secret that academic performances and graduation rates vary across the 14 different athletic programs at Central Michigan University.

Roster size, player demographic, coaching tenure and the thought of professional sports are variables that have impacted the academic world of student-athletes nationally.

Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said roster size has varying effects on academic reports by sport, calling it a numbers game.

Roster size varies between programs from 14 spots on the men’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams to 102 on the football team. “(Football) has a very large roster, which is a lot different than basketball or other small roster sports where you can maintain closer contact and connection with those student athletes,” Heeke said.

Volleyball head coach Erik Olson said having a deeper roster could be deemed beneficial at times, since a small roster increases academic risk.

“A big roster team can hide a bad performance, where someone who really bombs in a year will really affect the team’s GPA,” Olson said. “Each sport has its challenges, but, generally with volleyball, the demographic is high-scoring in the classroom.”

Programs that historically recruit athletes from lower-class backgrounds have produced lower academic numbers, which men’s basketball coach Keno Davis said isn’t meant to be an excuse.

“I think why you’re looking at lower rates in (men’s basketball and football) has to do with the recruiting process and of the sports that have more inner-city recruits,” Davis said.

“That’s not saying it’s good or bad; we just understand those rates are going to be below other sports. I think A ATHLETES & ACADEMICS | 2

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Fair-pay Lilly Ledbetter, plaintiff in the historic employment discrimination case that led to the 2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, speaks Wednesday night at Plachta Auditorium. Ledbetter fought against her former employer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., at the Supreme Court in hopes of putting an end to unfair wages. “My garage would be cleaned out by now, and I would be on retirement, but I’m still not there yet,” Ledbetter said.

Leading the way to fair pay Women’s rights pioneer Lilly Ledbetter just wanted to ‘accomplish the American dream’

By Ryan Fitzmaurice | Senior Reporter Mount Pleasant sophomore Alison Wilson expected Lilly Ledbetter to be a “hardcore law-type.”

After all, Ledbetter had been to the Supreme Court, testified in front of the U.S. Senate and had a piece of legislation named after her. There was little reason for Wilson to expect anything but someone out of the ordinary.

But as soon as what Ledbetter described as her “Southern drawl” hit the stage of Plachta Auditorium in front of about 850 people Wednesday night, Ledbetter made it clear she was just like anyone else. The only exception was that she knew how to put up a fight.

“All I wanted to do in life was to accomplish the American dream,” Ledbetter said. “... I lived up to my end of the bargain. My employer, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., never did.”

Ledbetter served as the plaintiff in the historic employment discrimination case Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. Ledbetter worked at the Alabama Goodyear plant for almost 20 years before discovering she was being paid thousands of dollars fewer per year than men who were doing the same work as she was. While her base pay was roughly $3,727 a month, her male counterparts were making upwards to $5,900.

“I was a second class citizen then, and I am a second class citizen today,” Ledbetter said. “That money is lost for myself and my family forever. It’s gone.”

She later filed a sex discrimination complaint and sued Goodyear for $3 million, which she won in federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court would later overturn the ruling for reasons Ledbetter still struggles to understand.

“Look at Justice Clarence Thomas. He’s a minority. He’s from the South; he should have understood, but he went the other

way,” Ledbetter said. “I’ll never understand his decision.”

Ledbetter continued to fight for pay equality, resulting in President Barack Obama signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act in 2009, his first bill signed into law as president. The act loosened the timeline requirements for filing a discrimination lawsuit.

But, Ledbetter said that despite the small victories that her work and others have achieved for women’s equal rights, women are still far from equality. Women are paid only 77 cents per dollar that men make on average, and she said this statistic has not budged in the last 10 years.

“My story is not unique. I’m just the tip of the iceberg,” Ledbetter said. “There are wives, daughters, mothers, aunts (and) sisters who are still not getting equal pay.”

Ledbetter said the pay gap does more than just affect women.

“Every single person is affected by the pay gap,” Ledbetter said.

“Men, women, entire families.

When women are paid less, whole families suffer.”

Ledbetter said that many companies today still use situations including pregnancy or mothering to pay women less than their male counterparts. Ledbetter said employees today can no longer find this reality acceptable.

“We’ve got to correct this,” Ledbetter said. “There are too many women who are single and haven’t got a family, and there are women who are supporting a handicapped

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NCAA TOURNAMeNT

Buses to women’s game almost full

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Senior Reporter

The Office of Student Life expects buses transporting students to the women’s basketball team’s firstround NCAA tournament game in Columbus, Ohio, to be full upon departure Saturday morning.

By Thursday afternoon, 13 spots on the buses remained. Bus spots were offered on a first-come, first-serve basis to the first 54 students to show up to the Student Life office in the Bovee University Center on Wednesday, and an additional 41 students Thursday. The remaining 13 spots will be distributed today.

No. 11 CMU vs.

No. 6 Oklahoma; Guevara, team ready for NCAA » PAGE 7 Originally, the Office of Student Life, which is supplying both the tickets and the transportation, offered only free transportation.

On Thursday morning, head coach Sue Guevara showed appreciation for CMU students’ continued support for the team by paying the cost for all 108 tickets and is also supplying attending students with a

Rose Rowdies T-shirt and lunch.

Students who bought tickets for the game, scheduled to tip-off at 11:10 a.m. Saturday, will be refunded the $12 ticket price.

“Student Life is always looking to supply opportunities to students such as this one,” Danielle Rossman, Student Organization Services coordinator said. “We are excited to give students the chance to support the women’s basketball team.”

The bus will depart from lot 62, located in front of the Student Activity Center, at 4:30 a.m. and will return at 11 p.m.

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Senior guard Jalisa Olive looks to pass during the first half of the Mid-American Conference championship game on Saturday at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Chippewas had a dominating win over Akron 86-68. Olive finished the game with a total of 14 points, one assist and one steal.

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eVeNts CaleNdaR TODAY w “Island of the Undead: Zombie

Survival Challenge,” a series of six challenges involving brains, puzzles and webs, will take place at Island Park, 331 Main St., at 4:00 p.m. Registration begins at 3:30 and costs $10. Extra “lives” will be given out for $1. Proceeds go to the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen. w The American Sign Language

Society will present ASL performer Trix Bruce at 7 p.m. Bruce will perform improv comedy in the style of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”

TODAY AND SATURDAY w University Theater will present the

second weekend for the Advanced Directing Class One Act Series at the Moore Hall Theater on the Side from 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY w The 24th Annual CMU Pow Wow

takes place this weekend. Doors open to the public at 11 a.m. both days. Grand entries are at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday and at noon on Sunday. Admission is free for students, SCIT members and children under 4, $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and children.

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ledbetteR| continued from 1 individual. There are women working two to three jobs.

We don’t buy those excuses anymore.”

Ledbetter said her cause, ever since the Supreme Court decision, has been trumpeted by the media and American citizens. She said one of her proudest

atHletes & aCadeMiCs| continued from 1 it plays a role when kids are growing up and (professional sports) might be an escape for them. To have a career and see the money potentially there — there’s that outlet that athletics bring.”

Men’s basketball and football are programs also more commonly known for coaching turnover, which Heeke said has been an issue at CMU. “The more consistency you can have in coaching staff, the better you’re going to be — that’s a big part of academic success,” Heeke said. “I think we’ve been very fortunate to have strong consistency in our coaching staffs by large.

I believe that’s unique in our profession and certainly in the Mid-American Conference.”

The women’s soccer program has been a victim of recent turnover, with four different head coaches since 2004.

Despite three different coaches in her college career, junior forward Jennifer Gassman said each coach has stressed academics equally.

“They’re pretty much all the same as far as putting extremely high stress on grades,” the Indiana native said. “If we get below a certain GPA, we can lose part of our scholarship.”

Nationally, the team finished first in GPA for the sixthconsecutive year in the 2010-11 academic year, and all 28 players finished with at least a 3.0.

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The three sports that have produced the lowest graduation rates and fewest academic accolades — football, men’s basketball and baseball — are the same three that have the highest rate of athletes playing professionally after college.

Athletes in these sports are continuously conscious of the possibility of making it to the big leagues, wide receiver and Illinois native Titus Davis said.

“We know that’s the ultimate goal for us, and, basketball and baseball; that’s really what we’ve wanted to do since we were younger,” Davis said.

“If there’s a chance to do that, we’ll probably take that opportunity first.”

Sophomore outfielder Nick Regnier said Major League moments, alongside the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Act, was breaking the Twitter record for most tweets about an event for her speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

“I broke the Twitter record.

I’m very proud of that,” Ledbetter said. “I don’t even tweet; I don’t even know what it is.”

Ledbetter said the future of the fight for gender equality relies on everyday people supporting each other, because

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Baseball’s popularity takes its toll on academics.

“Baseball has the most people who make it professionally, so a lot of people see it as a goal they can reach and don’t take school as seriously as they could,” the Novi native said.

Five Chippewas were taken in the MLB draft in 2012, while 11 are currently on NFL rosters, and one has made it to the NBA since 2003.

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Rankings, standings and statistics are the epitome of athletics, and the academia of student-athletes is no different.

Nine of the 14 athletic programs at CMU reported a cumulative 3.0 GPA and many are competing with each other academically.

“We’re pretty competitive, and actually, this fall, we got together and decided we wanted to compete for the Dick Enberg highest GPA for a women’s sport award,” Gymnastics Head Coach Jerry Reighard said.

In 2010-11, the women’s soccer team posted a 3.71 cumulative GPA — the highest among the eight women’s teams at CMU. On the men’s side, the men’s cross country team finished first at CMU with a 3.15 cumulative GPA. Athletes from each of the 14 athletic programs said academics are the number one priority stressed by their respective

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MeRRill | continued from 1 According to court documents, Merrill knowingly received child pornography on or about July 26, 2003.

The items of the pornographic material had been mailed, shipped or transported by a computer.

The defendant knew the material constituted child pornography as defined by Title 18 in the United States Code 2256.

The FBI seized Merrill’s hard drive from his CMU office, in addition to the hard drive that contained child pornography. Merrill allegedly possessed more than 65,000 images of child pornography.

Additionally, the U.S. attorney agreed Merrill assisted the authorities in his prosecution by notifying authorities in a timely manner that he intended to plead guilty.

CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley complimented the cooperation between the university, his department and the FBI. “I give great credit to the individuals who brought this to light,” Yeagley said. “Especially Detective (Michael) Sienkiewicz on not only how he conducted the investigation, but his partnering with the FBI.” Sienkiewicz was later recognized for the help he provided when he was given a certificate of recognition from the FBI. The FBI had located a video file on a hard drive seized from Merrill’s office at CMU after it was discovered by the IT department.

When a warrant was

bus | continued from 1 Students who are unable to attend the game will be able to watch it on ESPN2.

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The Chippewas won their first Mid-American

issued on Nov. 5 to search Merrill’s Mount Pleasant home and office at CMU, items seized and disposed of included all computers, laptops, iPads, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, hard drives, phones, media storage drives, knives, handcuffs, USB flashdrives, iPods and prescription pills, according to court documents.

As previously reported

by Central Michigan Life, Merrill was charged Nov. 8 in Isabella County with a four-count felony, consisting of one count of possession of sexually abusive material, one count of distributing or promoting child sexually abusive activity and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime, according to court records.

The investigation began when CMU’s information technology staff noticed a large amount of data being transmitted from a single computer on the network.

After tracking the source of transmission, IT disconnected Merrill’s computer from the Internet in hopes that the user would contact IT for support, according to an affidavit. After further inspection of his computer, an IT worker discovered images and videos of child pornography.

Merrill was scheduled for a preliminary hearing in Isabella County Trial Court on a four-count felony relating to child porn, but federal prosecutors served a warrant for his arrest. He was sent to Bay City.

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Conference championship on Saturday when they beat Akron 86-68, earning them an 11-seed in the NCAA tournament against No. 6 Oklahoma.

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“These athletes are here because they want an education.

They want a future; they want a job,” Reighard said. “I think all Division I coaches really understand the emphasis of what a student-athlete is really here for.”

Field hockey head coach Cristy Freese led the field hockey team to the top of the charts in 2012, posting the top team GPA among Division I programs with 3.61 cumulative.

On an individual level, 38 athletes earned Academic AllConference honors, 10 earned Academic All-District honors and three earned Academic All-American honors.

Assistant Director of Athletics Derek van der Merwe said CMU’s student-athletes aren’t taking blow-off majors. Instead, athletes are represented in 67 different majors, most popularly business and health professions majors.

“We’re not trying to marshal the students into one or two areas; we want them to discover where their strengths are, and I think that’s an asset post-grad as well,” van der Merwe said.

As a whole, CMU athletes have finished with a cumulative GPA above 3.0 for 14-straight years, as of 2010-11.

Fifty-one percent of CMU athletes carried at least a 3.0 GPA, in 2010-11. Twenty-seven percent held at least a 3.5, and six athletes held a 4.0.

Junior two-sport athlete and Livonia native Kyle Smith is one of six student-athletes with a perfect 4.0. He is majoring in engineering.

Having experience as a member of both the football and track and field team, Smith said both coaches were strong motivators, and the varying academic results for the programs are circumstantial.

“At CMU, there’s a strong motivation across sports, and I don’t think there’s a lack of motivation or support from coaches,” Smith said. “Sometimes, football takes up a little more of your time, but then again, the coaching staff gives you all the resources you need.

I just try to focus on prioritizing, and everything else falls into place from there.”

The next story in this series will look specifically at graduation rates and GPAs of the football and men’s basketball teams.

not one person can fight for their own personal income equality without support.

She said it also involves having voices heard in Washington.

“There are a lot of good people in Washington,” Ledbetter said. “There are also a lot of people we need to send home.”

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traffic fatalities slightly increase in isabella county, still lower than state

By Tony Wittkowski Senior Reporter

Photos By ChuCK MiLLer/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Northville Township senior Grayson Smith of Phi Alpha Delta acts as a prosecuting attorney during Thursday evening’s mock murder trial at the Isabella County Courthouse, 200 N. Main St. Phi Alpha Delta is an academic pre-law fraternity of students who are interested in careers in law.

Role playing Phi Alpha Delta members host mock murder trial

Bay City junior Kevin Kula, public relations chair for the fraternity, said the group typically holds a mock trial once a semester.

“First, we poll our members to see who would be interested (in participating) and in what positions,” he said. “Once we find who’s interested, the final selection is made.”

Kula said tenure within the

Bikers and walkers will not have any new sidewalks to use in Mount Pleasant in 2013, but there are plans to begin new sidewalk construction in 2014.

Under the city’s five-year Capital Improvement Plan, $100,000 is expected to be budgeted annually for new sidewalks from 2014-17.

These funds will not be taken out of the sidewalk

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conference promotes culture of caring for homelessness Farmington Hills senior Michael Begovic shuffles through his documents during Thursday night’s mock murder trial at the Isabella County Courthouse, 200 N. Main St. Begovic is a member of Phi Alpha Delta, a pre-law fraternity on campus.

fraternity and past experience in mock trials play a role in the selection process.

“We try to give everyone an opportunity to participate, especially our new or younger members,” he said. “I think this is a great opportunity for them to gain valuable experience in an actual courtroom.”

After the selection process, Ohio senior Andy Brockman

and Northville junior Grayson Smith were chosen as the prosecuting attorneys, while Farmington Hills senior Michael Begovic and Chicago senior Shannon Hollenbeck where chosen as defense attorneys.

“I volunteered for this position because I wanted to engage in an opportunity to expand my experience,” Smith said. “I’d never done a mock

murder trial like this before, and it was something new.”

New Baltimore senior Brandon Debus was in charge of organizing the event.

“Once the roles have been determined, it’s my responsibility to determine which case we will cover,” the native A MOCK TRIAL | 6

mount Pleasant to begin replacing sidewalks in 2014

By Ryan Zuke and Kevin Meyer Staff Reporters

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CRasH statistiCs iN isabella COuNtY YeaR

By Jackson Seddott Staff Reporter

Some Central Michigan University students took a night off from studying to convict a murderer.

Members of Phi Alpha Delta prelaw fraternity held a mock murder trial in the Isabella County Courtroom Thursday evening in an effort to provide members with an authentic trial experience.

Isabella County witnessed a decrease in traffic fatalities last year, despite the state of Michigan’s statistics increasing 5-percent.

Jeff Thompson, Mount Pleasant Public Information Officer, was not surprised by the overall outcome from traffic fatalities and injury.

“We have not seen any increase within the city limits from last year,” Thompson said.

Pulled from the Michigan State Police website on county-by-county accidents, Isabella County posted a total of 2,704 crashes in 2012, which is 13 more than 2011, but 164 fewer than in 2010.

Over the past three years, both fatal and injury accidents dropped in Isabella County, which did not go unnoticed by CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley.

He contributed some of the decrease in traffic accidents to one of the main aspects of

driving with focus.

“Every time you take your focus off of driving safely, some of us ... can have a distraction,” Yeagley said.

“Young, old, student and nonstudent can be caught on their cell phones from time to time.”

According to the Michigan State Police website, the state’s fatalities increased 5-percent over 2011 from 889 to 936.

Even though Michigan traffic crashes and injuries were down in 2012, the number of traffic crashes decreased 4-percent, and injuries were down 2-percent from 71,796 in 2011 to 70,519 in 2012.

“Michigan’s increase in traffic fatalities mirrors what has taken place across the country,” MSP director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etve said. “Despite an increase in traffic deaths last year, the long-term picture indicates this is the fifth year in a row Michigan had fewer than 1,000 traffic deaths. Ten years ago, there were nearly

repair budget.

When the City Commission is determining locations for new sidewalks, designated school walking routes and school walking zones are top priorities.

From 1995 through 2005, Mount Pleasant was spending around $100,000 per year on new sidewalks. In 2006, the city’s expenses were exceeding its revenue, so changes had to be made to the budget.

“We had to make some adjustments and decided to

quit building new sidewalks,” Assistant City Manager Nancy Ridley said. “What we are hoping to do next year, one of the buckets (funds) we have is capital improvement. We are hoping the city commission makes the decision to increase the tax rate so we have more money.”

Previously, Mount Pleasant would have its property owners pay around 40 percent of the new sidewalk expenses, while the city would pay the rest of the costs.

But Ridley said it plans on

paying the full amount for new sidewalk construction in the future.

“As you can imagine, the people who were paying (before 2005) did not really like that, because it can add up to be a pretty big bill,” Ridley said. “We are hoping if we start the new program next year, we would just pay the whole cost of it, so we don’t have to have those debates with the property owners.”

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By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

Phillip Tompkins said Wednesday evening he was upset to retire from being a professor because he felt like it was his life calling.

That is, until he started a new journey with volunteering at the St. Francis Center for the homeless in Denver, Colorado.

Now, Tompkins, author of “Who Is My Neighbor? Communicating and Organizing to End Homelessness,” has a new calling, and he said he is an abolitionist with a capital ‘A’ when it comes to fighting for the issue of homelessness.

“In the first year I started volunteering (at St. Francis), seven homeless people were murdered, and that’s what it took for the police to consider it a crime,” he said. “That’s what it took? Seven people were decapitated. If seven cocker spaniels were decapitated, it would had already been taken care of. Homeless people are not treated as equal human beings.”

Tompkins spoke to a full auditorium in the Moore Hall Kiva Wednesday as the keynote speaker in the 14th Annual Communication and Social Action Conference. This year’s

conference topic was “Creating a Culture of Care: Who? Why? How?” The communications and dramatic arts department hosts the event each year, and graduate student Cally Klimczak said homelessness is a pertinent topic in the community.

“The theme of creating a culture of care is something that can interest anyone in the community,” the St. Ignace native said.

Mount Pleasant Mayor Kathy Ling started the presentation by introducing Tompkins, who has volunteered at the homeless shelter in Denver for more than 15 years and is active in the community to work toward ending the challenging issue of homelessness.

Junior Nicolette Cummings said she thinks there should be a homeless shelter in Mount Pleasant, because it’s definitely an issue that is kept silent in the community.

“There is a negative stigma that is associated with homelessness, but it can affect anyone at any time,” the Rapid City native said. “You never know when you might lose your job,or when things can happen. We need to help people in the community.”

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Honors’ Philanthropic Society hosts ‘painting for poverty’ to help hungry

By Charnae Sanders Staff Reporter

Students spent Thursday evening unleashing their artistic abilities in hopes of raising money to fight poverty in the Mount Pleasant area.

Sponsored by the poverty committee within the Honors Program Philanthropic Society, Powers Hall hosted students who paid a fee of $3 to paint either a canvas or flowerpot or $5 for two items or both. There was an additional charge of $2 for any additional items.

“We wanted to do something to help with poverty in the Mount Pleasant area,” Com-

mittee Chairperson Elizabeth Pauly said. “So, we decided we were going to do something like soup bowls and put actual soup in it and paint the outside of those. But we decided painting flower pots and canvas would be a little easier, and it would be fun, too.”

Pauly said she thought this would be an important event to have since poverty is a global issue that hits close to home.

“I think a lot of times you don’t really see the poverty around us,” the Au Gres native said. “But, we went to the soup kitchen, and, when you go there, you can see that there are people right around us that need help.”

Another committee member, junior Danielle Weaver, said she wanted to be a part of the event and learn more about poverty.

“Growing up, I wasn’t around a lot of poverty, but, coming to (Central Michigan University), I wanted to be on a committee that kind of focused on something I wasn’t familiar with, so it’s definitely been eye-opening to be a part of this committee,” the Hessel native said.

The money raised from the event will be going toward the Community Compassion Network to help those at the mobile food pantry in Mount Pleasant.

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Petoskey senior Katelyn Olson, left, and Manton freshman Holly Sucharski paint pots during Paint for Poverty Thursday night at Powers Hall. “It’s good to get away from homework for while and it’s a good cause,” Sucharski said.

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EDITORIAL BOARD | Aaron McMann, Editor-in-Chief | John Irwin, Managing Editor | Kristopher Lodes, Sports Editor | Hailee Sattavara, Metro Editor | Catey Traylor, University Editor

EDITORIAL | Iraq War signified a change in the way Americans view foreign policy

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Ron Paul and his policy of reeling our military presence across the globe. Meanwhile, establishment party members like Rick Santorum and Mitch McConnell continue to fight back, with an attempt to reel in Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a top candidate for 2016.

And the fight amongst Republicans is revealing an even larger shift in the way Americans view foreign policy. With economic conditions slowly recovering and the nation’s debt at an all-time high, Americans are beginning to realize that we need to take a deep breath, step back and think twice before we invade a country.

A war is not something to take lightly, and we found that out the hard way over the past decade.

Too many lives were lost in a war that was not totally necessary. It’s important that we keep that lesson in mind moving forward and not forget it.

Game changer o matter how you feel about the

Iraq War, its costs or its consequences, one thing is undeniable: The war has affected this country in profound ways.

When history looks back on the past decade or so of American history, it will view the Iraq War in the same light as Sept. 11 and the Great Recession: a game-changing event

that altered the way Americans view themselves and their collective role in the world.

The political world we live in has been shaped by Iraq. From the way we approach our everyday life — how many of us still have it in the back of our mind that an attack could happen at anytime? — to noticeable instances like increased security and TSA regulations at airports.

In 2003, Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois. His vocal opposition to the war since its beginning thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a critical advantage over Hillary Clinton, who voted for the war, in the 2008

Democratic primaries. Had the war remained popular, or had Obama even been a supporter of the war, he might not be president right now.

The Republican Party, the party of defense spending, is in the middle of an internal war of ideas. Establishment Republicans from the Reagan and Bush years who are big on national defense are going toe-totoe with anti-spending, isolationistleaning conservatives who have become increasingly prominent in the Obama era.

We’ve seen this in recent weeks, with the rise of tea party darling Rand Paul, who mirrors his father and former GOP presidential candidate

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Tony Wittkowski Senior Reporter

The brackets come marching in It has to be the question I have heard the most in the month of March: “Did you fill out your bracket yet?”

Followed shortly after with the second most-asked question: “Who is in your Final Four?”

April has taxes. February has chocolates. But March has Dick Vitale.

For the past two years, I have persistently avoided March Madness, the second-favorite college holiday after National Sword Swallowers Day. Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy basketball. I enjoy college basketball even more than the NBA, because the team is centered around a narcissistic coach, not a player (I’m looking at you, Calipari).

This is basketball before all of the endorsements, celebrity marriages, celebrity divorces and athletes turned commentators (I’m looking at you, Barkley).

What I don’t understand is the enjoyment that comes from trying to guess which group of men is better fit to cut down the nets toward the beginning of April.

It was important at my old school, where teachers would constantly remind you betting is wrong while asking the sports guy in the room, “Who do you have as your Cinderella team this year?”

No, it is safe to say I have never had much luck when it comes to picking, except one year when I didn’t care and let the girl I sat next to in economics pick for me.

I thought she was an idiot for picking all one-seeded teams to advance to the Final Four, but, low and behold, she was right on most of them, picking the correct winner, too, as Roy Williams and Tyler Hansbrough smiled over Izzo and Lucas.

After all the research, all the coinflipping, all the praying, I still couldn’t pick a winning bracket to save my life.

Who knows, maybe someday down the road I will muster enough energy to take a walk over to the friendly neighbors and ask their dog to bark once for ‘yes’ and twice for ‘no.’

Because, when it comes down to the selection and I ask people what their trick is, I’m told, “Notre Dame’s jerseys are lemon-lime green. They can’t win in those.”

For the past two years, I mistakenly related shamrocks to basketballs.

When I hear an Irish jig, I hear the opening to SportsCenter.

For everyone filling out five brackets a year, you might as well buy lottery tickets. Waste of paper.

And believe me, I want to hear all the comments about how the Hoosier nation is back or you can’t lose on the hair of Gonzaga.

But if I had to choose a winner, I guess you can’t go wrong with picking the Oregon Ducks. They have a coach who is fast-paced and faithful to his team (I’m talking to you, Chip Kelly).

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Iraq politicization marginalizes veterans If you have read or watched the news lately, you probably have seen several stories about the 10-year anniversary of the initial invasion of Iraq. What you may or may not know is how insensitive such an article can be to a veteran of that conflict due to the polarization of our political system and the new trend in politicization of war. Our society has become so detached from the military over the years as we transitioned to a full “volunteer force” that it seems ignorant, if not malevolent, towards its veterans. These articles or reports can project negativity onto those who have served in the conflict that they seemingly condemn. The common narrative in reporting on the Iraq war as a whole is ostensibly universally negative, as a stain on American history being that it is a conflict based on lies and shady politics that claimed the lives of almost 4,500 Americans, leaving more than 32,200 of us physically wounded and countless more with invisible wounds. When this negative narrative is all that is on the news, radio, in the papers or being discussed in a public forum, the distinction between being anti-war and anti-veteran is not always clear.

As a result, veterans are often left feeling alienated and marginalized.

It is imperative that we as a nation are sure to make these distinctions as lucid as possible, for when we do not, veterans are often treated unfairly due to the unpopular nature of the war. Throughout the entire conflict, the jaded media coverage and politicization of Iraq did a great job of reporting all the pictures of soldiers crying, holding bodies of children and casualties. This was very compelling for showing the

ugly side of the war; however, it is not the full story. What rarely gets reported are all the good things that were accomplished during this time; all the schools that were opened for children to receive a decent education, the hospitals that were established and now provide care for the people of Iraq, the water sanitation facilities that were constructed to supply clean water and all the other provincial reconstruction projects that the men and women of the United States military and other government agencies should hold their heads high and be proud of. We have nothing to be ashamed of, even if our government as a whole does. I know Iraq is a better place because of a lot of what we have done, not the government or some faceless war machine, but the 18-23 year olds who make up the vast majority of our armed forces; your neighbors, students or friends.

These are not robots or other war machines developed by unseen forces, but regular people just like you. Yet, despite this, I occasionally see or hear political views about Iraq from individuals on this campus that are honestly nearly always misguided or adolescent. I often hear or read that approximately 4,500 of my brothers and sisters died for nothing, which is not only offensive but ignorant. Regardless of your personal posture on the political issues, you should never denote the efforts of the men and women who served in Iraq as a waste of time or unjust, so long as a veteran of that conflict still draws breath, as it is particularly disrespectful.

As a veteran of the United States Army and the Iraq campaign, I am extremely proud of my service and

that of all my brother and sisters in arms. These men and women make up less than one percent of the total population of the United States that has served in Iraq since the invasion that made huge sacrifices by leaving their families, careers or college to go to Iraq and do their duty. No one else will fully understand the horrors, but, more importantly, no one else will ever fully understand what it was we accomplished. Was everything copasetic? The answer is a resounding no. However, in war, it never is nor will it ever be, as that is the nature of war… war is hell, and I think the American people who have not served have forgotten that.

War is, and always should be, the last resort of action when diplomacy and all else fails. Every conflict will always eventually be questioned, judged and looked down upon in one way or the other throughout history, as well as into the future. It is consequently a cultural imperative that we ensure that we do not lose our focus in these trials and marginalize the deeds of those who made the sacrifices. Veterans deserve more than platitudes when they return from foreign soil, as we are not the ones who decide to go, we are not the ones who dictate policy, and any man or woman who serves in a war where they are sent by their own government should be treated with the highest honor and respect when they return home. In any case, the ending of American involvement in Iraq for many of those who served in the war, as well as their families, is a bittersweet event that is far more complex than just the political issues.

-Brett Packer

Learn to drive This year is my first time having my car on campus, and I have to say, people need to learn how to drive. I’m writing this with my back hunched over after my friend and I were in a car accident on Tuesday, landing my friend in the emergency room. With that, I’m not even going to hide my bias for how terrible driving is in the Pleasant Mountain.

As someone who’s had a license for a

decent amount of years, I have driven through the city of Grand Rapids a plethora of times without ever getting close to dying…except once when a semi cut me off. This culture of terrible drivers in this town seems innocent…not obeying the rules of the road, not knowing how a four-way stop works…but that innocence could turn into one not yielding and end up totaling another’s car and giving the

driver a concussion. I always told myself that I’d be pissed if a car accident was the way I went out of this world (or into the ground, as I’m an atheist), and I’d make sure to come back as a ghost to haunt the asinine driver that put me there. I should note, that as I am writing this piece, I saw someone run a stop sign. Case and point.

-Brynn McDonnell

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Ryan Fitzmaurice Senior Reporter

March Madness did not harm the quality of this newspaper I have fond memories of March Madness.

It was me in the back row of my Biology 101 class. I was watching Michigan pummel Tennessee. It was one of those freshman requirement classes, which meant literally half of the college was stuffed in an auditorium. I was safe to cuddle up in the back row and disappear.

But, that was my freshman self. I’m more mature now. I pay my own rent now. I’ve got my own car; it barely runs, but that’s beside the point.

I even pass 10 percent more of my classes. I’ve transformed into a responsible adult. I would never watch basketball in an educational setting.

And, I certainly wouldn’t watch it in the newsroom.

The first two days of March Madness will cost businesses at least $134 million in lost productivity, says the Orlando Business Journal.

But, I can personally guarantee you, faithful, captivated newspaper reader, that Central Michigan Life is in no way affected by this so-called March Madness.

We did not have a group of employees who would typically be slaving away all day in a secluded corner huddle like hungry masses in front of a 24-inch television.

Our editor-in-chief, the example of all that is right in journalism, did not, by any means, swing out of his office every three minutes to check the latest score.

And I, certainly, one of the most dedicated, hard-working , and, most importantly, humble student journalists of this generation did not spend my entire day admiring Charles Barkley’s bald head.

No, CM Life is above such paltry interests. We would never be distracted by ...

Holy hell, Memphis almost lost to Saint Mary’s. My bracket was almost ruined. No one ever picks Saint Mary’s.

Oh wait, what was I talking about? I kind of lost my train of thought.

The point is, my dear reader, that CM Life will under no circumstances contribute a single penny to that $124 million of wasted money. It might also be $134 million.

I’m going to have to leave the fact checking to you; Gonzaga is only up two points against Southern, and I can’t afford to take my eyes off the screen.

Which might also be why the top half and the bottom half of this column really don’t match up.

But really, that’s beside the point.

The important thing is that Michigan State won, and what you hold in your hands is the same high-quality newspaper you hold every day, with no future corrections, or spelling errors or clear biases.

What you hold in front of you is a perfect document of journalism, in no ways affected by the plight of college basketball.

After reading this column, I’m sure you have no doubt.

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Detroit-based Happy’s Pizza opens in Mount Pleasant

By Elizabeth Benson Staff Reporter

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Flint junior Christopher Parks runs a mile around the gym in a pair of red high heel shoes provided by Students Against Sexual Aggression during the Heels for Her event Wednesday night at Finch Fieldhouse.

Heels for Her charity event raises awareness for sexual aggression

By Adriana Cotero Staff Reporter

“it takes a real man to walk in heels.”

Men and women alike sported their red high heels with pride Wednesday evening at Finch Fieldhouse.

With women’s history month coming to an end and sexual assault awareness month just around the corner, Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates hosted the fifth Heels for Her event, formally known as “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.”

CMU men and women attended the free and open event to raise awareness for sexual aggression.

“We really just like this event because it is a more fun way to raise awareness with a unified front. A lot of our events are more somber, because sexual aggression is such a serious issue, but we wanted a way for the organizations to stand together against it.” graduate assistant Megan Scudder said.

A $10 registration fee was required for all participants, and, in return, they were given a pair of red high heels to strut a mile in.

Nicholas Ender had to

Christopher Parks, Flint junior prepare mentally and physically for his first experience walking a mile in heels.

“I like to come out to programs like these to raise awareness and support SAPA,” the Dryden junior said. “As a first time heelwearer, they are not comfortable. I have already lost circulation in my toe,s and I haven’t even started walking.”

As the upbeat music began, so did the walkers. Striving to complete the walk, Flint junior Christopher Parks broke a heel within the first couple of laps.

“I would rather do two-adays for football again than walk in heels,” Parks said. “I took a corner too hard, and the heel broke. I tried to keep walking, but it wasn’t easy ...

All in all, it is a great event, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in SAPA, even as bad as the mile was.

It takes a real man to walk in heels.”

Once the song “Wobble”

by V.I.C. played, a group of participants and SAPA members followed CMU Police Officer Laura Rico in the wobble dance routine.

“I do not know how people can dance in heels; now, the walking doesn’t seem as bad,” Clinton Township senior Walter Springer said.

“I don’t really know the wobble moves, but Officer Rico helped me through. It hurt so bad.”

While the men stumbled along, freshman Madeleine Piotter walked her mile without much effort at all.

“It was a piece of cake. I walked for a cause, and there was no preparation needed,” the East Lansing native said.

“I have had experience with heels, so I did not struggle as much as the men did. It was a great event to raise awareness for women’s empowerment, and I appreciate SAPA for putting it on.”

Happy’s Pizza will open its doors to Mount Pleasant today.

The restaurant plans to hire around 40 new employees at the 1218 S. Mission St. location, Manager Beau Bashi said.

Apart from providing new jobs for the city, Happy’s plans to become highly involved in the community and with the people of Mount Pleasant, he said.

“We thought, you know, it’s a college town, there’s a lot of business here, and it’s a nice area,” Bashi said. “We felt confident that we could do well out here and try to help the community out as well.”

The location will be the first of its kind to include a bar, Bashi previously told Central Michigan Life.

“We’re trying to create a nice atmosphere for people, and like I said, we want to be involved with the town and, with the community,” he

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said. “We’d like to host charity events, partner with the schools and organizations like the Special Olympics and that kind of thing.”

With the amount of bars and pizza joints throughout the city, some have raised concerns as to whether the business will flourish.

“Time will tell,” said Jeff O’Connell, manager at Cottage Inn Pizza, 1639 E. Broomfield.

“Pizza One didn’t last long, but Happy’s is in a good location, they’ve got a larger menu, and they’re serving alcohol, along with being open later.”

While Cottage Inn acknowledges Happy’s will be competition, they are not worried about their loyal customers, he said.

“We knew (Happy’s was) coming, and we welcome them,” O’Connell said. “It’ll be interesting to have some late-night competition, as they’re one of the only other places open as late as we are.

But I think we’ll do fine no

matter what.”

Karley Segula said she is looking forward to the restaurant opening in Mount Pleasant.

“I used to work at the Happy’s Pizza in Battle Creek, and I loved it,” the Battle Creek freshman said.

Middleville freshman Mac Gaikema said Happy’s might struggle in the face of so much competition.

“I personally think they will struggle because there are so many pizza places in this town already,” Gaikema said. “I will probably go there at least once to see how it is.”

Midland sophomore Dani Cowles said she has been to Happy’s before, and, while the pizza was inexpensive, it was not memorable for her.

“If I remember correctly, they were pretty cheap, which might attract college students, but their pizza wasn’t anything special,” she said. metro@cm-life.com

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continued from 3 1,300 people who died as a result of traffic crashes in our state.”

Despite increases in traffic fatalities and alcohol and drug involvement, teen fatalities declined 14 percent, from 99 in 2011 to 85 in 2012.

Thompson suggested the limiting of factors that detract a driver’s attention has attributed to the change in numbers.

“Any conversation in the car should be secondary, what’s on the radio is secondary, and what’s on their phone is way beyond secondary,” Thompson said. “If you limit the hours and the ability for people to drive, then, statistically, drivers have fewer opportunities to be in an accident.” metro@cm-life.com

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SIDEWALks| continued from 3 miles of sidewalk, which accounts for approximately 44 percent of the 147 miles that would be needed to have sidewalks on both sides of every street.

City resident Peter Koper said sidewalks are a vital part of building a community.

“We’re in the older neighborhood (on the corner of University and Maple Streets) by choice, and one of the reasons is the sense of neighborhood you get from sidewalks,” he said. “Our neighbors walk their dogs, their kids play and the sidewalks keep us in contact with each other.”

Photo Courtesy of CMU Leadership Institute

The Leader Advancement Scholar Class of 2012 pose for a photo in the Powers Ballroom with homemade signs in support of Lake Superior State University student Zach Barber, who was diagnosed with stage-three brain cancer over spring break. Despite his enrollment at another university, CMU students are coming together to raise funds and awareness for Barber.

Students band together to raise funds and awareness for student diagnosed with cancer

By Charnae Sanders Senior Reporter

Central Michigan University students are rallying to show support for Lake Superior State University student Zach Barber, who was diagnosed with stage-three brain cancer over spring break.

Despite his enrollment at another university, CMU students are coming together to create a three-step plan to raise funds and awareness for Barber.

Livonia freshman Joshua Palmer met Barber through various organizations, including the Michigan Association of Student Councils and Honor Societies and College Volunteer Facilitator Corps, where they worked and volunteered together. Palmer heard about the news through a phone call.

“Different members of our organization were going around and calling the rest of us, so we were all aware of what was going on, and we immediately began a plan to fight for him,” Palmer said.

Palmer said with the help of MASC/MAHS and CFC, they came up with a three-part plan to help show support for Barber and give him hope. The first part of the plan was about making people aware of Barber’s story.

“Cancer has touched a lot of people in many different ways,” Palmer said. “So, we just want to get the story out there so people hear about it, get inspired by it.”

Afterward, the group decided they could spread the news quicker through social media and created a Facebook page, “Prayers for Zach Barber and family,” which already has 1600 likes, and a

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Twitter campaign.

“We’ve done a big push in social media,” Palmer said.

“There’s a specific hashtag set up. It’s #ZBCTown, and that has really gone crazy.

We had over 100,000 tweets so far, specifically toward that. What we’re doing is having people put emotional messages or jokes, things that Zach can just scroll down and read and get inspired by, be happy about, make him laugh.”

The final step of the plan revolved around fundraising. The campaign, “Buckets for Barber,” allows students and anyone with spare change to donate to Barber to help his family pay the medical expenses.

“We’ve collected $400, just a small group of us,” Palmer said. “Through Leadership Safari, we’ve got some donations from them (and) the students involved.

And, in just our residence hall, Barnes Hall, a lot of people have been donating their spare change. “ The Beta Delta Pledge Class of Beta Theta Pi got involved and chose “Beta for Barber” as their philanthropy event and have been asking other Greek chapters to help by donating any extra change. Palmer said the group is planning to collect all of the proceeds and take them to the 2013 MASC/MAHS State Conference where more than 1,500 students will be bringing in change and sending Barber “warm fuzzies” or small notes.

Sophomore Justin Sutherland met Barber in high school and has been involved in the campaign through sending positive tweets and helping to raise funds. He also understands what Barber is going through.

“Both the fact that he’s a friend of mine and the fact that I’m a cancer survivor really pushed me to do it,” the Riverview native said.

Sutherland said he knows what it’s like to go through chemotherapy and hopes to not only support Barber but spread hope for others with cancer as well.

“The money part of it, obviously, is going to go to Zach and his family to help with the medical costs,” Sutherland said. “The rest is not only to make Zach happy and give him hope but to also spread cancer awareness.”

Palmer said he was surprised at the huge response the campaign has been getting from CMU students and others.

“He’s never been a student here,” Palmer said.

“The fact that CMU has gone above and beyond to become involved is really great, because there’s a lot of students that do go here, are connected to him and really care a lot about him ... There have been tweets from people with this hash tag that go here that have never met him.”

Palmer said students can get involved through donating change in the Greek community or writing a note and dropping it off at Barnes Hall or the Leadership Institute.

“It’s great because you don’t have to financially support (the fundraiser) if you’re not able to or if you don’t want to,” Palmer said. “You can do something simple as one tweet or just telling somebody else the story. Spreading the word really helps.” studentlife@cm-life.com

2013 sidewalk budget

This year, the city will have $92,750 to spend on sidewalk repair, and an additional $40,000 left over from last year’s budget.

Most of the money will be spent on replacing handicap accessible ramps. Under Americans with Disabilities Act regulations, if the city does

any construction on a sidewalk or street, new ramps must be installed.

In 2013, the city will overlay Adams Street to High Street and Broadway Street to High Street. All expenses will come from the sidewalk fund.

“It’s a dilemma,” Ridley said.

“We can’t do as much (working on sidewalks) because the ramps are so expensive. But, for people who are physically challenged, it allows them to get around the city a little bit easier.

It’s one of those tough decisions — do you make more for everybody, or do you make what you have good for everybody?”

Sidewalk repair funds are projected to increase to $146,000 in 2014, because the city will have 85 ADA ramps to replace. It is replacing 45 this year.

“In 2014, we realized that we have 85 ramp locations that need to be replaced because of the overlays, which will cost $90,000,” City Division of Public Works engineer Jennifer Flachs said. “If we had our money this year, we would have used almost all of it up in replacing ramps, and we need to

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have more money for complaint locations.”

The remaining funds left over from the ADA ramp construction will be used to repair complaint locations and poorly rated sidewalks. In 2012, the city inspected all of the sidewalks and gave them a ranking between one and 10, one being the worst.

Flachs estimated how much money the department would have left after replacing the ADA ramps.

“We determined with the amount of money left this year, we can repair 17,775 square feet of four-inch (thick) sidewalk, or 1,500 square feet of six-inch (thick) sidewalk,” she said.

Flachs said there has only been one complaint about sidewalk location so far this year, but it is common for most of them to come after winter.

“Our only complaint is at Andre and Franklin,” she said.

“Last year, we took care of a lot of complaints, but I’m sure we will receive more come spring and summer time.” metro@cm-life.com

he has seen major changes in the way things are going in the community.

There has been national recognition for the recently started program Housing First, which is an approach to ending homelessness that centers on providing people experiencing homelessness with housing as quickly as possible, according to the project’s website.

“It’s actually saving our government money, less people in jails, the emergency room and rehab,” Tompkins said. “I am so encouraged.”

Cummings said she would be happy to see a homeless shelter in Mount Pleasant, because she believes it would keep homeless people safer, since they wouldn’t be out on the streets.

“This is definitely something to pay attention to,” she said.

Tompkins said many “guests,” which is what he calls the people of his shelter, are suffering from addiction or mental illness, but not all.

“We are providing a haven for anyone that might need it,” Tompkins said.

Tompkins said he doesn’t necessarily like the term “homeless” because he believes they are actually just “houseless” or, as the people in India refer to the homeless, “roofless.”

“A man once came in and used the shower and asked me for ‘smell good,’ which is after shave or cologne. He said to me, ‘when you put it on, they don’t know you’re homeless,’” Tompkins said.

Troy freshman Brandon Co-

chiaosue attended Tompkins’ speech because he enjoys doing volunteer work and learning more about providing service to those in need.

“It’s good to get involved in the community, and, when I volunteer at the soup kitchen, it really puts it into perspective, which is important,” Cochiaosue said.

Tompkins addressed the fact that Americans are losing social capital, which is a serious contributing factor to the problem of homelessness.

“I’ve heard the important thing in life is switching of pronouns; it’s a matter of going from ‘I’ to ‘we,’” he said.

Since Tompkins has been active toward ending the problem of homelessness in Denver,

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difference.”

Many in attendance appreciated the opportunity to have a different way to raise money.

“It’s different than a lot of other fundraisers,” Walworth said. “It’s not just like another 5k or anything, not that I’m bashing them. It’s a unique event for people

that might not really feel like they are all that involved in other ways.”

Weaver said the goal with the event was not only for people to have fun and raise money, but also to raise awareness that poverty is close to home.

during an actual trial.

“I think, by far, it’s the most complex case we ever had,” he said. “Everyone did a great job preparing, and I’m very happy with the experience.”

Brockman said thorough preparation took place prior to the trial, such as reviewing the case file, constructing opening and closing statements and preparing for how witnesses would respond to their examination questions.

“The coolest part for me, personally, was being in an actual courtroom,” Hollenbeck said. “I think this experience will help prepare me for law school and what it’s like to be a lawyer.”

The honorable Judge William Ervin presided over the case and said he believed all members did an exceptional job and that it was as close to a real trial as one could get.

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“Even just raising a hundred dollars can help feed, I think it’s ten families, for a whole week,” Weaver said.

“So, the simplest amount of money can make such a big

MOCK TRIAL| continued from 3 said. “This time, we selected a murder trial, but in the past, we have also done civil court cases such as wrongful termination.”

Debus said he believes the mock trial was a huge success and served as a great example of the behaviors and procedures that might take place

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No. 11 CMU vs. No. 6 Oklahoma: Guevara, team ready for NCAA

By Mark Johnson Staff Reporter

Women’s basketball will begin its NCAA tournament journey at 11:10 a.m.

Saturday against Oklahoma in Columbus, Ohio.

CMU comes in as winners of eight of its last 10 games and fresh off of a Mid-American Conference championship that made the team tournament eligible.

These past few weeks have shown what the Chippewa defense can do.

In their past five games, including the MAC tournament, they have held their opponents to just 58.8 points per game.

“Our defense has really stepped up,” head coach Sue Guevara said. “Whether we were full-court trapping or half-court trapping. the pressure we’ve been able to put on the basketball and making it difficult for people to receive the basketball … how we’ve been able to execute our game plan defensively, I’ve been very pleased.”

That same intensity on the defensive side of the ball will have to be there

on Saturday against a tough offensive team in the Sooners, one of the best offenses in the Big 12.

Guevara is concerned with containing the entire Oklahoma team, but three players stick out to her: junior shooting guard Aaryn Ellenberg, junior forward Joanna McFarland and 6-foot-6 junior center Nicole Griffin.

“They’ve got McFarland who is a tough rebounder; she’s like a taller Taylor Johnson,” Guevara said.

“And they’ve got a 6-foot6 kid that is a defensive changer in the paint. She can block shots, she can run the floor, she’ll be a little challenging for us, but it’s not like we haven’t seen that kind of size before.”

In addition to their size in the low post, the Sooners also boast one of the best shooting guards in the Big 12 in Ellenberg.

“They’ve got a really nice guard, who’s one of the best three-point shooters in the country,” Guevara said. “She reminds me a lot of Naama Shafir out of Toledo.”

Chippewas go 4-4 after Session 1 at national tournament The eight wrestlers in the NCAA tournament split in Session 1 Thursday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.

Three-time All-American senior and second-seeded 184-pounder Ben Bennett would turn the tide for the struggling Chippewas with a win against Tony Dallago of Illinois. Bennett won 7-3 with over a minute of riding time to gain CMU some tournament points.

Bennett is just the third wrestler in program history to be a three-time All–American since Ryan Cunningham in 1998-2000 and then Wynn Michalak in 2005-08.

He now looks to become the only wrestler in program history to be a four-time All-American.

“Biggest thing with Ben is to just make sure he keeps doing the things he

the last time A look at the 2003 CMU men’s basketball team’s trip to the NCAA tournament

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WRESTLING

By Ryan Solecki Staff Reporter

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Men’s basketball players from the 2002-2003 season celebrate CMU’s last Mid-American Conference championship at Gund Arena, now Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.

does best and to just keep moving on,” head coach Tom Borrelli said.

Of the eight wrestlers, three of them are newcomers to the tournament: Senior Christian Cullinan for the 125-pound championship, junior Craig Kelliher 174-pound championship and redshirt freshman Lucas Smith in the 157-pound championship.

Cullinan was the first Chippewa with a win on the mat in the first round.

He was able to get a 7-2 win against Joe DeAngelo of North Carolina State with 1:39 of riding time. Cullinan will match up against No. 4 Nick Megaludis of Penn State in the second round.

Before Cullinans’s first team victory, sophomore 165-pounder Mike Ottinger was the first Chippewa to hit the mats but would lose his first-round match-up against Ryan LeBlanc of Indiana in a close 5-3 match A WRESTLING | 8

By Jeff Papworth | Staff Reporter

The 2003 men’s basketball season ended in a cruel way the season for every NCAA tournament team but one ends: With a thud.

In the second round of the NCAA tourney, Central Michigan was dominated by Duke in an 86-60 loss. Senior forward Mike Manciel, an unheralded and often overlooked member of the team, went 1-for-9 from the field and finished with five points.

But for Manciel, and CMU, it was a glorious run to that juncture 10 years ago that few expected.

“I felt like I achieved everything I ever wanted, plus some,” Manciel said a decade after the historic season.

“We came so far. Where the expectations from anyone, other those guys that suited up, wasn’t even that high.”

The Chippewas finished the previous season 9-18, and Manciel, the 1999 Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year, had 8.6 points per game in another injuryplagued season.

Manciel had eye and groin injuries that muddled his redshirt junior year after being hampered by a foot injury the previous season.

He said he had an attitude problem as a result of the tumultuous seasons.

“I wasn’t the most, friendly guy to be around,” he said. “I wouldn’t say I was cancer to

the team, but I wasn’t a positive leader that was needed.”

But after the 2001-2002 season, things began to look up for Manciel and the team.

A key moment that set the trajectory in the right direction was when then-head coach Jay Smith, a person he did not always see eye-to-eye with, summoned him to his office and gave him a week to ponder whether he wanted to play his senior year, just focus on school or leave altogether.

“Basically, I brought him in because he was miserable and it was going on to teammates,” said Smith, now an assistant coach at Detroit-Mercy. “He was frustrated because he was injured. He was frustrated because he wasn’t playing well.

He was frustrated because he wasn’t making shots.”

Days later, Manciel came back and told him his decision.

“Went in there and said, “hey coach, one year left, it’s been a rough ride. It’s been a rocky relationship between me and you,” he said. “But it’s my last year, and I want to play. I want to play, and I want to do whatever it takes to make it work between me and you.”

Then he promised he would

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be the best leader he could be and leave it all on the floor.

He fulfilled that promise.

“He took off like a jet,” Smith said. “He needed a little bit of a wakeup call, and he woke up in a big way.”

In a move that was contrasting from other seasons, Manciel stayed in Mount Pleasant to work out, instead of working solo in Detroit where his family lived.

He also took a leadership role in the offseason and would later be named captain.

He welcomed it, calling countless team meetings week after week during the season.

“I would call a meeting, just to call a meeting,” he said.

“Knowing it’s my last hurrah, it meant the world to me to just hang out.”

Manciel held one in the offseason with a bonfire, and the team made a pact that they would all commit themselves.

“At that point right there, any thoughts of injuries or anything like that was gone,” he said. “I was fully committed. It was my team to lead.

I’m the oldest guy on the team.

I was going to go out with a bang.”

A bang the unheralded senior made as he helped lead CMU to arguably its most successful season in its history with a school-record 25 wins.

The 6-foot-6 forward doubled his points per game from the previous season, scoring 16.8 by making 53.1 percent of his field goals and 37.7 percent of his three-pointers.

He also grabbed 4.9 rebounds a game, while junior center Chris Kaman grabbed the rest.

“He could post up a guy.

He could pick-and-pop him a little bit on the perimeter. If a big guy comes out on him, he could go by him,” Smith said.

“He was strong, he was tough, and he knew what it took to win.”

Smith, who said prior to Manciel’s senior season that he had “de-energized” them, gave Manciel 32.4 minutes a game, which made him one of only two players to tally over 30 minutes.

Manciel, on CMU’s way to the MAC tournament, had his two best games in wins at Michigan and at Western Michigan as he nearly had double-doubles in each.

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Gymnastics looks for MAC four-peat in Kalamazoo this weekend

By Cody DeBona Staff Reporter

FILE PHOTO BY CHARLOTTE BODAK

Sophomore Taylor Noonan hugs senior gymnast Emily LaFontaine after finishing their final competition together against Bowling Green Saturday afternoon at McGuirk Arena.

Gymnastics will look to defend its three-time Mid-American Conference championship title at 2 p.m.

Saturday when it travels to Kalamazoo for the conference meet.

CMU has won the last three MAC championships and looks forward to making the four-peat a reality.

For the seniors, that would mean a championship each year of competition.

“I don’t think there are more than 12 gymnasts in the whole conference that have the talent to compete on all four events,” head gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard said. “This is what

an olympic gymnast is. It will be quite a feat if Brittany is to defend her title.

Brittany is one-fifth of our team score.”

A key gymnast to watch in the championship is junior Brittany Petzold. Brittany has been to the championships before and has the experience to lead the team to another championship.

She scored a solid 39.3 in the all-around and has worked all year to come back from her surgery and has proved herself week in and week out and has shown the rest of the MAC that she is the all-arounder to beat.

Another gymnast to keep an eye out for is sophomore Kylie Fagan, who has scored a 9.8 or higher on bars

11-times this year, including two 9.9s, one of which was last meet. Fagan and underclassmen, like sophomore Taylor Noonan, look to match their high-scores of the season and give depth to the squad.

The team had a good regular-season, but it has an unfamiliar feeling going into the championships.

“It comes down to mental preparation and physical prowess,” Reighard said. “I’ll put my money on this team hands down.”

The Chippewas are not the favorites this year, however, as Kent State is undefeated in all conference meets and 15-2 overall.

The Golden Flashes were victorious in early Febru-

ary and scored a high-score of 196.050. KSU has scored 196.250 this year, topping CMU’s best 196.125.

“They have set the pace in the conference this season,” Reighard said. “We know what kind of position they’re in, and we know what we are going to have to do to surpass that.”

In this MAC Championship, they have switched from seeds of teams determining where they start and finish to a random drawing.

CMU will begin on the bars to start the championship. sports@cm-life.com

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Jeff Papworth Staff Reporter

Team chemistry was key in 2003 Coaches and players who were a part of a great team are always asked the age-old question.

The question is: what made their team so successful?

Former head basketball coach Jay Smith and forward Mike Manciel reminisced about being a part of the men’s basketball team’s glorious run to the second round of the NCAA Tournament in 2003.

Though it was many years ago, their conclusion was exactly the same.

While an NBA lottery pick in Chris Kaman and depth helped quite a bit, team chemistry was an instrumental piece of the puzzle for Central Michigan.

“The other thing that’s missed in all of this is how our team came together,” Smith said. “It was great team chemistry. It was togetherness. It was playing for your brothers.”

Manciel said he would call team meetings during the season just because he wanted to be around his teammates and soak in his last year of college basketball.

The season before, the team was just as good, coming off a Mid-American Conference regular-season championship and returning Chris Webber’s brother David Webber, a Mid-American Conference Player of the Year, and an improving Kaman.

But it did not work out because of team chemistry.

After losing to CMU in the 2002-03 season, the Falcons’ coach, who many now know from watching Big Ten games on ESPN, said what some were hinting at but were afraid to say.

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[SPORTS] “I’ve never seen a team in my life get helped as much by graduation than Central Michigan,” college basketball analyst Dan Dakich said. “With (former guard David) Webber getting out of here, these guys are passing the ball to each other, cutting and looking inside.”

As far as cutting off the dead wood in recent years, it was slashed as soon as head coach Ernie Zeigler was axed and Keno Davis was brought in.

If you asked a person roaming the sidelines during practices this year what was the one thing that made the team special, they mentioned team chemistry.

And how could they not.

While last year the Chippewas were led by a player who was benched at least two times for violating team rules, this year they were led by senior guard Kyle Randall, who earned a degree in three years at UNC-Greensboro and decided to come to CMU. And just look at the mindset of freshman guard Chris Fowler, who will have Randall’s role next season.

He was not aggressive enough, passing the ball off too many times. Then, he said he was pushed by his team to take more shots, and he took and made them.

Being pushed by teammates, coaches or whomever to take more shots is much better than them having to tell him to take fewer.

Freshman forward Blake Hibbitts, a 37.5 percent three-point shooter and another key piece for the coming seasons, is just another player who seems to have the same indifference about who takes the shot.

He did not even know he was the top-scorer along with Randall with 12 points, making four of six from beyond the arc, when CMU beat Arkansas-Pine Bluff in a 62-45 win on Dec. 23.

“I wasn’t necessarily thinking this is my night to get shots,” Hibbitts said about facing a zone defense. “If I had an open look, I took it.”

As the Chippewas experience growth and talent builds, look for CMU to win with the team chemistry that the most successful CMU team in its history possessed 10 years ago.

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CMU opens conference play against Buffalo in New York

By Brandon Champion Staff Reporter

The baseball team will break out the hat and gloves this weekend when it opens conference play with a three-game series at Buffalo.

Winter hats and gloves, that is.

With temperatures expected to be in the 30s over the weekend, the Chippewas and Bulls will have to play under uncharacteristic conditions for baseball.

“The elements are the elements,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “Both teams have to play in it. It’s going to be chilly; fortunately, we have a turf field to play on so we won’t have a field situation that will be a problem.”

Buffalo moved the series to Monroe Community College in Rochester, N.Y., because of the school’s field turf playing surface.

BASKETBALL| CONTINUED FROM 7 In addition to containing a potent Oklahoma offense, CMU must make sure its own offense is ready.

For that, it will be looking for players like senior guard Brandie Baker, junior forward Taylor Johnson and MAC tournament MVP sophomore guard Crystal Bradford, who all made big contributions in the conference tourney.

One crucial portion of their offense comes at the free-throw line, and Guevara couldn’t stress how important it is that her team makes it to the line early and often.

“We have to make sure that we get to the line; we have to make the officials make a call,” Guevara said.

“For us to stand out and just shoot threes isn’t going to win games for us; we have to get to the free-throw line.”

After consistent freethrow shooting in the MAC tournament, it’s no wonder why Guevara wants her team to get there as much as

CMU is coming off of a fourgame series at Marshall where it won three of four games. The Chippewas have been led Nick and Logan Regnier so far this season. Through 19 games this season, the brothers are the top two hitters on the team, batting .333 and .329 with 16 and 11 RBIs respectively.

Last season, the Chippewas won two out of three games against the Bulls. All three games were high-scoring affairs, including a 14-13 CMU win in the series finale.

“I hope we don’t give up 13-14 runs again,” Jaksa said. “Last year, they were a really good hitting club. They kind of caught us by surprise to a certain extent.

They were hot; everything they hit, they hit right on the screws.”

Sophomore pitcher Jordan Foley will start the series-opener today. So far this season, the right-hander is 4-0 with 1.08 ERA. Senior Pat Kaminska will possible. During the tournament, the team missed only five free throws, shooting 87.5 percent from the line.

With CMU offering a free ride for its students to the game Saturday morning, Guevara hopes to see a lot of fans in the stands and said it would mean a lot to the team.

“If we can have a rowdy student section, that would be great,” Guevara said. “It would mean so much to our program, and it would really give us that sixth player in St. John Arena.”

Guevara and her team feel confident that they can pull out the win as long as they stick to some important keys to the game.

“Defense and rebounding are going to be key,” Guevara said. “They’re a big team, but our ability to pressure the basketball and our ability to limit them to one shot, make free-throws and keep our poise, those are going to be the key.”

If the team pulls off the upset, it will play either No. 3 UCLA or No. 14 Stetson on Monday for a chance at reaching the Sweet 16. sports@cm-life.com

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Sophomore outfielder Nick Regnier attempts to beat out a throw to first base in a game against Ontario on Sept. 14, 2012 at Theunissen Stadium.

start Game 2 on Saturday, and sophomore Dylan Rheault will make his third start of the year on Sunday in place of senior Rick Dodridge, who will not be making the trip to New York due to a tweak in his arm.

“I think if we throw the ball

well, we will neutralize some of their hitting,” Jaksa said. “I do think they have the potential to have a team that will score some runs, but it’s not the same team they had last year. “

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Michael Evans of Iowa, who would win 2-0 in the third period.

“I attribute the losses to the opponent Smith had a No. 7 seed and Kelliher No. 3 seed. I don’t think it had anything to do with the environment of the tournament,” Borrelli said. “I expect them to wrestle well in wrestlebacks. They’ll have to win four or five matches to place.”

No. 10 285-pounder senior Jarod Trice (285 lbs) was the last Chippewa on the mat. Trice had a first-round match-up against Daniel Miller of Navy, who Trice would beat in a 2-0 decision.

Trice and Sentes look to join teammate Bennett as the fourth and fifth three-time All-Americans in the wrestling program history.

One of the three newcomers was able to pick up a victory, while the other two fought their way through wrestlebacks. Of the five seniors, four earned victories.

The Chippewas were in 16th place with five tournament points at the end of Session 1 Thursday afternoon.

CONTINUED FROM 7 that ended in overtime.

Veteran senior No. 10 133-pounder Scotti Sentes kept the winning spirit going with a 13-2 major decision victory against Jimmy Morris of Rider, whom Sentes has now beaten three times this year. He will continue to the second round to wrestle Jonathon Morrison of Minnesota.

The Chippewas would hit a rough stretch, however, losing the next three matches. Senior Donnie Corby (149 lbs) had an in-state matchup against Michigan State’s Dan Osterman, which ended with just five seconds left in overtime as Corby was taken down in a 3-1 loss. Corby will now have to wrestle his way back through wrestlebacks.

Luke Smith (157 lbs) was next on the mat for the Chippewas but would fall to No. 7 Jesse Dong of Virginia Tech in 8-0 major decision and join Corby in wrestlebacks.

Craig Kelliher (174 lbs) had a tough test against No. 3

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Shawntoreah Turk, Milica Kulidzan lead outdoor

CONTINUED FROM 7 He scored 28 points and grabbed nine rebounds against Michigan in an 85-78 win, and, with little help from Kaman, because of WMU homing in on him, Manciel made nine of 11 shots to score a team-high 23 points and pulled in nine rebounds to lead CMU to an 80-75 victory.

CMU came into the MAC tournament as the No. 1 seed with a 21-6 record, but the team had reasons to be fearful.

The Chippewas were about as good two years earlier when they finished 20-8 and had the same 14-4 conference record.

As a mid-major, it is almost a requirement to win the conference tournament to gain entry to the NCAA tournament.

And five days after CMU fans stormed the court after clinching the 2001 regular season conference title, the team did not even beat its first opponent, losing to eight-seeded Miami (Ohio) and a chance to go to the NCAA Tourney.

By Cody DeBona and Joe Judd Staff Reporters

Junior sprinter Shawntoreah Turk is leading a group of veteran runners into the women’s outdoor track and field season.

Turk, who was looking to have a stellar indoor season, had the unfortunate fate of not being able to compete again shortly after her record-setting performance back during EMU Open meet, due to personal health-related issues.

Despite her shortcomings in the indoor season, Turk is remaining optimistic for the young outdoor season and is hoping to continue her streak of low times.

“It’s fun,” Turk said. “I went to the USF meet not expecting much, but I hit a lot of the marks. There’s still a lot of work that I have to do, but it was nice to hit a low mark.”

The new outdoor track season, to some, might call for some adjustments to be made, but, for Turk, there has been little change in preparation.

“It wasn’t difficult at all (to adjust),” Turk said. “Running outdoors is a lot better now; I like it.”

Turk is also excited to finally get back on the track alongside her teammates. Having only competed in two indoor events, there was a lot of downtime for the sprinter. In not being able to run, she was still able to motivate her teammates from the sideline.

“It was hard to see my teammates compete at the highest level of competition without me,” Turk said. “I’m just glad to be back now.”

Now that the first outdoor meet is out-of-the-way, she will be looking ahead to this weekend, where she will be traveling to Indiana instead

All in all, they blew past every opponent with ease in 2003, starting with Bowling Green.

Manciel helped his team get over the hump, making seven of seven shots from the field for 15 points in the first game.

“It was, OK, let’s just get this first win and then once we get this first win, get that monkey off our back. Then from there, we would just see where it goes,” he said. “Once we got the first win, it was, OK, let’s finish this thing off.”

In the final two rounds, CMU beat Northern Illinois and Antonio Gates’ Kent State for their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1987.

But just making it to the NCAA tournament was not good enough for the team.

The Chippewas had to get a win in Salt Lake City.

And they got it, 79-72, over sixth-seeded Creighton in a game that the Chippewas let their 26-point lead dwindle after running out of energy because of the high altitude.

Manciel was the one who led CMU to its third NCAA Tournament win in its history.

After three years that

were marred with injuries, he put his finishing touches on a great one for him and his team in a big way.

He outplayed Kyle Korver to score a game-high 29 points, the most points a CMU player has ever scored in the NCAA tournament, shooting nine-of-14 from the field and grabbing eight rebounds in 38 minutes of play.

“We would never have made it to the second round unless Mike plays like he played,” Smith said. “Chris Kaman didn’t particularly play great, while Manciel had the marquee game.”

When Creighton brought it within 72-70 with about one-and-a-half minutes left, it was Manciel who nailed an 18-footer to end a 9-0 run and gave CMU its first win in the NCAA tournament since 1975.

“It felt like a dream come true,” he said. “I praised the lord. Clearly, there wasn’t nothing done on my part. It was literally him putting me in the right position in the right time to do what I did.” sports@cm-life.com

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Junior runner Shawntoreah Turk leads during the women’s 600-meter run as part of the CMU Open on Jan. 11 at the Jack Skoog Indoor Track. Turk won the event with a time of 1:37.46.

“Hopefully outdoor season will give us a little bit of leeway to open up and hit our marks that we’ve been projected to hit.”

Shawntoreah Turk, junior sprinter of Missouri like many of her teammates, to run at the University of Purdue instead the Missouri Relays.

“I’m expecting to get back where I left off,” Turk said.

“Hopefully outdoor season will give us a little bit of leeway to open up and hit our marks that we’ve been projected to hit.”

The field athletes will be traveling to Oklahoma for the John Jacobs Invitational on Friday.

Not all field athletes will be competing, although the athletes who do attend are looking to start their seasons on the right stride.

“I want to do everything that I have been working on in practice,” sophomore javelin

thrower Milica Kulidzan said.

“Fixing the mistakes I made last meet and improving my mark.”

Kulidzan finished first in her event last weekend at the University of South Florida.

She threw a 138-00 to top the competition. Kulidzan is the older of the two javelin throwers attending the meet this weekend.

“I still feel like a freshman, because I am still learning along the way,” Kulidzan said.

“We both teach and look at each other’s throws; I teach her (Kylee Dobbelaere) as much as she teaches me.” sports@cm-life.com

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