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MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014 | MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. | ISSUE NO. 81 VOL. 95

TODAY MARKS THE FIRST OF A THREEDAY SERIES DELVING INTO THE SUSPENDED DELTA CHI FRATERNITY AND CMU GREEK COMMUNITY.

The ‘underground fraternity’ How life has changed for members of suspended Delta chi chapter

By Justin Hicks | Editor-in-Chief

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alking across campus, Jeff LaHaye noticed a woman walking beside him suddenly pick up speed, darting

down the street.

Though the potential reasons for her hurried pace were endless, he couldn’t help but feel uneasy, looking down at the two Greek letters on his chest.

“It’s just something that goes through your head: Was it because I was wearing letters?” the Shelby Township senior said. “I was a little anxious, just because the r-word was thrown around a lot …. I just didn’t know if I wanted to be turning heads on campus walking around with a triangle and an ‘X’ on my shirt.”

LaHaye is one of 30 to 40 members of the suspended Delta Chi chapter at Central Michigan University.

Life hasn’t been the same since being handed a four-year exile by the Office of Enrollment and Student Services finalized Oct. 11, 2013. In January, Central Michigan Life published the findings of a Freedom of

Guilty of silence

At one point, the name Delta Chi meant freedom, character, justice and education.

Today it carries a bit more baggage at Central Michigan University.

Throughout this week, Central Michigan Life will publish stories regarding both the fraternity and the Greek community.

Although some might interpret the series as the newspaper resurrecting old news, we haven’t stopped reporting on this controversy since September 2013.

The delay in follow up is due to a continued lack of cooperation, mostly from members of the fraternity formerly known as Delta Chi. CM Life hosted several meetings with members, the majority of which were off the record at their request. Several answers given by those members, however, contradicted those given by other members and university officials.

Getting the story straight has been a

Information Act request regarding the university’s investigation of the fraternity.

Some Delta Chi fraternity brothers held strong from the beginning, LaHaye said, while others took a few days or weeks to resume wearing their letters in public.

“We had a lot of support from the Greek community; It’s the other people on campus that we were worried about,” LaHaye said. “When you go on campus, you don’t want to be scrutinized for something that was out of your control and you had nothing to do with.”

The Delta Chi house at 1007 S. Main St. was once known for hosting four socials a week. Today, it sits much quieter between its neighboring Greek houses, unable to even display its letters.

Justin Hicks Editor-in-Chief challenge.

Ignoring it would mean failing to inform the community that the student charged by the university with an alleged sexual assault was suspended from CMU for a semester, has since returned to campus, and remains a member of Delta Chi. It would allow people who claim to have “inside information” to continue misleading the community.

It would allow liars to paint prettier pictures than reality would suggest.

Delta Chi was suspended for code of conduct violations involving alcohol. Its pattern of trouble dating back 15 years provided evidence of failed past sanctions and led officials to ask for a more severe punishment.

I understand the violations might have been at the hands of a few, and a group has been punished for those actions. That same group, however, hasn’t publically

DODGING HATE

After CM Life reported the details of CMU’s investigation into the fraternity’s April 19, 2013 party, members of the fraternity received public backlash.

Social media comments offered varying levels of support and repulsion.

“I got used to it. It’s just, when they started throwing around the r-word and the allegations that hadn’t been proven, it was kind of difficult because you can’t really answer back to those,” LaHaye said. “Once they’re out there, they’re out there.”

taken responsibility for the actions of their brothers and continues to defy the university.

No matter how many tantrums lawyer Todd Levitt throws on Twitter, members of Delta Chi are not victims.

They have, however, failed to salvage respect on campus. As far as a public stand, the group hasn’t taken much initiative beyond a letter appearing in CM Life.

Regardless of suggestions that a rape never occurred, one fact is clear: An incapacitated man or woman is incapable of giving consent for sex.

Period.

As a fraternity, Delta Chi was found guilty of an alcohol violation. It is guilty of a troubled past and a failure to learn from previous sanctions.

It is also guilty of silence.

Taking responsibility could have gone a long way to regain trust from the university.

Instead, members of the “underground fraternity” refuse to communicate with the campus community, hiding behind no-comments and their national chapter.

President Zach Ernat met with CM Life staff several times, assuring us of missing details that paint the fraternity brothers

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as the victims, though he never backed his comments with fact.

He denied the students involved in the sickening April 19 accusations were even members of the fraternity — points later denied by university officials and another Delta Chi member.

Members of the group continue to act selfishly. They refuse to acknowledge the sanctions given to them by CMU. They continue to recruit. They complain about having to take down the letters from their house.

I will credit senior Jeff LaHaye for his forthright honesty and willingness to go on record regarding our series.

As the only brother willing to address the fraternity’s problems, he represents a hope that some members do want to do right, but fear the response they might receive.

We would have preferred a one-anddone story in January. Instead, we chased leads and questioned sources, reaching out several times only to have been pushed away.

In this case, the actions of a few have dragged a pair of letters, several brothers and an entire community through the mud, and continue to do so.

SUBJECTIVE JUSTICE Investigating the exile of a renegade fraternity 1A 1A 4A 5A

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Who Do You Run For? ISAAC SMITH My name is Isaac Smith. I’m from Rushville, Indiana where I was born and raised. I graduated from Rushville Consolidated High School in May of 2006, and enlisted in the Army shortly thereafter.

I went to Fort Benning, Georgia and completed Basic and Infantry training, airborne school, and Ranger Indoctrination Program. I was assigned to the 3rd Battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment and stationed in Fort Benning, Ga. I completed Ranger School in May of 2008. I deployed to Iraq twice and Afghanistan twice. I completed my enlistment in December of 2010 and was honorably discharged. I moved to Marquette, Michigan in January of 2011 and began attending college at Northern Michigan University. I transferred to Central Michigan University in the fall of 2012.

I’m currently majoring in Biomedical Sciences and minoring in Chemistry. I’m currently involved in genetics research, and I hope to become a medical doctor in the future. I’m a part of CMU’s Student Veterans of America chapter, an RSO that works to connect student veterans on campus.

We also try to raise awareness of the unique needs that student veterans have in academic life.

I’m also a Peer Advisor Lead in the Peer Advisors for Veteran Education (PAVE) program. The PAVE program is a peer-to-peer mentoring program where upperclassmen student vets are matched with vets who are transitioning from military life into academic life. We help to orient new vets to campus and provide continuing support to vets as they work towards their academic goals.

DAVID BURNEY With only being at CMU for one year, I have taken dedicated myself by investing my time and passions to serving this campus while maintaining my academics. I am finishing up my freshman year at CMU. For Scholastics, I’m a Leadership Advancement Scholar (LAS Cohort) and also a Multicultural Advancement Scholar (MAC Scholar).

I’m currently studying Biomedical Sciences with a minor in leadership. As far as commitments, I’ve currently been in the military for two and half years. I joined the U.S. Army Reserves when I was seventeen, and I’m currently an E-4 (Specialists). In addition, I’m a Cadet in CMUs ROTC Program. For extracurricular involvements, I’ve been involved with the Student Government Association here on campus. I was a Senator for the College of Science & Technology and was also the RSO Growth & Development Committee Chair. In addition, I was a Hall Council President for Troutman Hall and was just elected RHA President for the 2014-2015 school year. Lastly, I’ve been involved with the Student Veterans of America here on campus as the Treasurer. Some of my aspirations is to become a Hall Council Advisor (HCA) and upon graduating at CMU I’m hoping to attend graduate school and commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves. In addition to all my involvements and academics at CMU, some fun activities I like to do outside of school is go bowling, watch comedy, and go to the casino!

KATHERINE KREINER Katherine Kreiner has served as a Contracting Specialist with the Michigan Air National Guard for the past three years. After high school in 2010, Katherine came to CMU and later enlisted in the Air National Guard.

Currently, she studies Human Resource Management with a Minor in Legal Studies, where she anticipates graduating in December 2014. In addition, she is the Vice President of Communications for Student Veterans of America.

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She jointed the National Guard after graduating high school and has served for 3 years. Shen is a junior at Central Michigan University and is a student in the Social Work Program. She currently works works in the Veteran Resource Center. Her passion is to help veterans in the present and the future.

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CMU alumna offers service to reduce college costs

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By Mark Johnson Senior Reporter

As the cost of attending college continues to rise, students are seeking more non-traditional ways to cut cost.

That’s where Nina Hegyi, a 2007 Central Michigan University alumna and local career coach, thinks she can help.

“I can save students time and money,” Hegyi said. “Since I reside in the central Michigan area, I can sit down with students and give them one-on-one training in essay writing, interview preparation and scholarship money management.

These areas are all key components to mastering your scholarship success.”

Hegyi is the owner and operator of collegepathwayadvisory.com, which allows students to learn more about available sources of financial aid often overlooked by students every year.

Her services aren’t cheap, costing $275 to $300. The cost, Hegyi said, covers the work she does in searching for scholarships students might be eligible for, as well as the time spent working with students and setting up a viable career path.

She said her price is reasonable compared to other services, which charge nearly $1,000 per student. An example being College Planning Professionals, who have locations in Grand Haven, Troy and Farmington Hills. This organization is larger than Hegyi’s, but it has larger costs with services ranging between $3,000 and $7,500.

“They do a little bit more than what I do, but at a higher price,” Hegyi said.

Hegyi’s experience with financial aid training began when she attended Mid Michigan Community College while working in a financial aid work study program.

When she transferred to CMU, Hegyi said she attended a many of financial aid seminars and read various success manuals, allowing her Nina Hegyi to escape college with a bachelor’s degree in communications, only owing $10,000.

Kirk Yats, director of scholarships and financial aid at CMU, said students should be wary of outside financial aid resources and should not hesitate coming into his office for help.

“When in doubt, we would much rather have students come in and ask questions and make an appointment to sit down with a counselor, than just assume there is nothing we can do,” Yats said.

Yats added that the CMU Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid offers a variety of different, free resources in helping students pay for college.

Many tools are provided on the scholarships and financial aid website, including scholarship information and financial planning calculators.

However, Hegyi said her services can help in ways others cannot.

One of the most important parts of the service she feels she provides is career planning. If students begin working with her early enough, Hegyi said, she can help them set up a college pathway that can often cut the cost of attending college in half or even completely eliminate it.

“Within a few months, the majority of someone’s college education can be paid for, if not all, when clients follow my assistance,” she said.

One of her clients, Audrey Bennett, a senior at North Central High School in Indianapolis, said she can attest to the success of Hegyi’s program So far, Bennett said it has been nice working with a person rather than going through different websites for advice and ideas.

“I was having a really hard time finding scholarships that applied to me,” Bennett said. “She’s been emailing me lists of different scholarships I can apply for and she’s helped me formulate ideas and strategies to writing essays for some of these scholarships.” university@cm-life.com

Andraya Croft | Staff Photographer David Skinner, left, talks about his connection to Potter’s House Family Worship Center with Pastor Ron and Carla Ives. Skinner was once homeless and is now working to become a pastor at Potter’s House.

Words of Worship

CMU student overcomes being homeless, troubled past through religion and rap

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By Kelly Rocheleau and Adrian Hedden Staff Reporter and Metro Editor

avid Skinner Jr. might have a speech impediment, but when he starts rapping, nothing can stop his flow or his faith.

Through his music, the 38-year-old junior at Central Michigan University has been able to solve his troubles with communication brought on by his life-long cerebral palsy battle, with his talent for crafting rhymes.

Prolonged silences and the occasional stutter have been transformed into a confident freestyle as the words pour rhythmically from Skinner’s mouth.

Rap has always helped Skinner overcome his speech problems. His faith in God, he said, brought him out of being homeless and exile from his family.

“It is relaxing, and causes the brain to flow better because talking is a rhythm,” he said. “When I rap, it’s a constant rhythm.”

Skinner learned to rap at age 10. After he lived out of a car, and worked for minimum wage at the Soaring Eagle Casino for several years. He married CMU senior Jennifer Skinner, 41, in 2009.

“He’s a motivational speaker by nature,” Jennifer said. “I really believe in my heart of hearts that he is the next Martin Luther King or Malcolm X.”

Finding faith

David Skinner worships every Sunday at the non-denominational Potter’s House Family Worship Center on 5346 E. Deerfield Road.

Linda Newman, a Mount Pleasant-based piano teacher and frequent Potter’s House attendee has known David for about five years.

She said he is driven by a desire to help, whether it’s talking to someone or jumping at the chance to get water for speakers at the church.

“It’s hard for him to communicate, but that doesn’t stop him,” Newman said of David. “He never guards himself. He always focuses on the other person. That’s the essence of David.”

Potter’s House’s Lead Pastor Ron Ives couldn’t agree more.

Ives, who has known David for 15 years, has come to consider him a “servant of God.” “David has become such an asset to the Potter’s House,” Ives said.

“He’s one of our great servants, and so obviously we’ve interacted a bunch because he’s involved so deeply here as one of our leaders.”

Although he hopes to become a pastor himself one day, David recently took time off his seminary program to focus on his double major in communication and social work, and his minor in leadership at CMU. He still credits his faith for his recent success.

“I’m here, I’m living in a dream right now,” David said. “I am in a position to minister and I’m in a position to help, in a position to serve.

I’m in a position to let God lead me, wherever that is.”

Nothing comes easy

Although David said he is thrilled about his life today, his past is wrought with struggle.

Born in Indianapolis and raised in Flint, David was taught about religion by his parents, David Sr. and Debra Skinner, and his sister DeLicia.

He said he questioned his faith when he had a child with his thengirlfriend in 1998. By the end of the

Andraya Croft | Staff Photographer David Skinner, right, greets Potter’s House Family Worship Center members after service on Sunday. In 2005, Skinner found the church and has since become involved in the community.

“I’m here, I’m living in a dream right now. I am in a position to minister and I’m in a position to help, in a position to serve. I’m in a position to let God lead me, wherever that is.”

David Skinner, student rapper

“I had that shame.

I had that guilt. The moment I found out my kids’ mom was pregnant, I knew I did wrong and that I disappointed people.”

David Skinner, student rapper

year, the couple broke up.

Neither knew at the time that a second child would be born the following year. In a decision he has since come to regret, the birth of his children out of wedlock lead Skinner to avoid his parents for several years.

“I had that shame. I had that guilt,” David said. “The moment I found out my kids’ mom was pregnant, I knew I did wrong and that I disappointed people.”

David moved to Mount Pleasant in June 1999 after living with the mother of his children for about two years.

It was then that he became homeless, working at the casino but living in his 1985 Cutlass Ciera near Northwest Apartments.

He moved in with coworkers from the casino in August 1999, but after about seven months, the men were evicted for being unable to pay rent.

After a brief stint at a group home, David stayed at various friends’ houses for another year.

His life regained stability when he moved to University Meadows in 2001, and then moved to Park Place Apartments after financially supporting himself through multiple jobs in the early 2000s.

He said it wasn’t until he allowed his religion to take a major focus in his life that things started to turn in his favor. Being baptized at the Potter’s House in 2006 was the start.

Fostering hope

One day in 2005, David said God told him the only way he could truly follow a righteous path was by honoring his mother and father – and that meant re-connecting with them after years of separation.

A fateful phone call from his father in 2010 alerted David of a letter from the mother of the children he hadn’t seen or barely heard from in 12 years.

He discovered that his ex-girlfriend and kids were living in Colorado since the break up. David and Jennifer promptly planned a trip to Colorado for their spring break, hoping to reconnect.

He now talks to his children everyday, getting updates on their progress in school. He also mentors Jennifer’s son Quinn Steele, 15, from another relationship.

The three live near Rosebush, and the couple celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary on April 11.

“I look at my relationship with God,” David said. “My life without God is turmoil. It’s fear, it’s condemnation, and it is helplessness and hopelessness. But in my life with Christ - there is restoration.

“Now I am 38 years old at CMU, so close to earning my two degrees from the same college I parked my car in when I was homeless.”

Cranker’s Restaurant and Brewery cannot serve its popular beer.

General Manager Allen Knash said the restaurant hasn’t been able to complete the process of earning its liquor license due to a lack of organization with Michigan’s licensing committee.

He said he’s going down to Lansing today to figure out the situation.

“They’ve been trying to get it all organized when we’ve been doing our big work before,” Knash said. “We just have to get it all organized and situated. Hopefully, it’s very soon that we get this up and running.”

Knash said thirsty customers have begun to grow impatient without an operational brewery.

“We’ve had some people come in looking for the beer,” he said. “They’ve been a little bit deterred, but they said they’re looking forward to it. As soon as we get it, I’m sure we’ll be slamming busy.”

The restaurant, located at 1207 E. Pickard Road, added a microbrewery in January along with renovations and a paint job.

Cranker’s beer is rated as the 10th best in the state, according to a September Mlive report.

-Orrin Shawl, staff reporter

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CMU receives $375,000 grant from PNC Foundation Central Michigan University has been awarded a $375,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to benefit education programs around campus. A five-year $150,000 grant to support CMU’s Child Development and Learning Laboratory is included in the package.

“CMU’s Child Development and Learning Laboratory is one of the leading programs of its kind in Michigan,” said Tim Salisbury, PNC Financial Services Group regional president for mid-Michigan.

“PNC supports this type of programming because it will greatly impact local families while serving as a national model for pre-K education.”

The grant will also help CMU establish a visiting educator program to bring educators, international artists or scholars to campus, according to a universityissued press release. The program will offer workshops and education opportunities for pre-kindergarten children, as well as students and faculty at CMU. A part of the PNC Grow Up Great program, the grant is also a component of a $350 million initiative to increase early childhood education, according to the press release. PNC Foundation has given $120,000 to CMU in the past for similar programs.

“This award from PNC Bank strengthens our program by providing a unique opportunity for children, their families and the community,” said Margaret Desormes, director of CDLL. “Being able to have a resident artist, Roberta Pucci from Italy, working directly with young children will provide many opportunities for professional development within the early childhood community and help the children express their ideas through art.”

CDLL is a part of the College of Education and Human Services’ Human Development and Family Studies Area. It is a training and research center for students and faculty. The CDLL program enrolls 68 preschool children every year with at least half of the children being participants in national early childhood education Head Start programs.

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-Katherine Ranzenberger, senior reporter

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DELTA CHI MEMBERS, SUPPORTERS BLAME STUDENT CONDUCT FOR

By Ben Solis | University Editor

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ithin the last year, the Central Michigan University community has been divided into two camps: Those who believe Delta Chi did nothing to deserve a fouryear suspension, and those who believe they did.

Surrounding the controversy is the notion that the process the university uses to discipline students is ambiguous to the student body, the groups that are disciplined and the administrators who oversee the proceedings.

The Office of Student Conduct and university officials have offered extensive explanations on why and how they were procedurally allowed to issue the suspension. Members of Delta Chi and their supporters are convinced the board hearing the case and subsequent appeals breached their scope of powers throughout the entire process.

The most vocal among them is Todd Levitt, a Mount Pleasant litigator, CMU instructor and Delta Chi’s academic adviser. Levitt said he served in the role as Delta Chi’s legal adviser during the initial hearing, and served as an attorney for Delta Chi members individually.

“The university is at fault here, not Delta Chi,” he said.

“The (Office of Student Conduct) has tarnished reputations of these young men, and they don’t care.”

Levitt’s chief complaint was that the college levied allegations against Delta Chi that were unfounded. These charges include an allegation of a sexual assault and the use of a 15-year portion of Delta Chi’s checkered disciplinary record as evidence against them in a case regarding the April 19, 2013 party.

Levitt said the fraternity did not receive the necessary notice that the university would use this history when appealing for a more severe sanction. Delta Chi members said not knowing the appeal was coming affected their ability to defend the fraternity.

“In the appeal process, the student code states that you cannot present any new evidence or information into this case but, it’s a fact, on the record, that Tom Idema presented evidence dating back 15 years,” Levitt said. “So my question is this: What happens to them? Who holds them accountable?”

Levitt added that Student Conduct officials did everything they could to prevent him from interacting with his clients during their initial hearing.

However, Tom Idema, director of student conduct, said such claims are preposterous. Idema said his office, the Office of Greek Life and the student disciplinary board, did everything they reasonably could to notify Delta Chi and its members of the charges stemming from the events at the party — particularly in regards to its right to appeal — and the processes involved.

“We had submitted our own appeal, too. The code says that any group or any party can appeal that,” Idema said.

“The decision comes out, and they can appeal their side of it, and we can appeal our side of it.”

Since the code states the university can appeal its own charge at any time, the decision to seek a higher charge should have come as no surprise to the member of Delta Chi present in the appeal.

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by Central Michigan Life contained the letter notifying Delta Chi of their right to an appeal, as well as a second letter acknowledging their request for an appeal hearing. The latter included a notice informing the fraternity that the university could simultaneously appeal its own sanction.

“The Code of Conduct is our only playbook,” Idema said regarding accusations from Levitt and the Delta Chi camp that the student conduct director modified the existing rules subjectively. “Between formal and informal investigations, there’s really no distinction. Ultimately, we look at do we have a violation of the code, or do we not have a violation of the code.”

According to Levitt and Delta Chi President Zachary Ernat, former Delta Chi president Andrew Clark was the

only fraternity brother present during the appeal.

Clark refused to comment on or share details regarding the events of the appeal. Clark directed CM Life reporters to Ernat and the national Delta Chi office for any information regarding the appeal.

Ernat also declined comment on the appeals process, though he insists the group’s rights were violated.

THE FACTS

In late April 2013, Delta Chi held a social function with its paired sorority, Phi Mu, at the end of the annual Greek Week.

During the party, the group was alleged to have violated the CMU Student Code of Conduct, including violations of policies pertaining to alcohol, theft, sexual assault, disorderly conduct and controlled substances, according the office’s first notice of a hearing to the group on July 22.

Out of these allegations, the university charged the group as a whole with three complaints: the alcohol violation (3.2.13), a violation by a registered student organization (3.2.25) and a violation of the fraternity system’s risk management policies (3.2.31), according to a letter sent to Delta Chi on August 8.

Files regarding the violations, the investigations and the appeal process were obtained by CM Life from the university via a FOIA request.

When considering the evidence against Delta Chi, including the alleged sexual assault, Idema said his office looked at the preponderance of the evidence, unlike a criminal investigation using hard evidence gathered by a police department.

All investigations involving Delta Chi and its members were university-led, though one also involved the Mount Pleasant Police Department and Central Michigan Police.

“With the scales being all equal, if it tips to one side, what is more likely to have occurred?” Idema said. “Is it more likely that (a) sexual assault occurred or is it more likely that it didn’t? So the standard of evidence is a lot different. What it comes down to, if we have two students, which one do we believe more?

“And that can be pretty tough to make a determination of those types of things.”

In the case of sexual assault in particular, Idema said

UNDERGROUND FRATERNITY CONTINUED FROM 1A The “r-word” is rape. LaHaye won’t even utter it after Delta Chi received sexual assault allegations following an April 19, 2013 party.

Central Michigan University began investigating the Delta Chi party at its fraternity house on South Main Street after a female student claimed a fraternity member assaulted her.

According to the female student, she was drinking alcohol at the Phi Mu/Delta Chi party and blacked out shortly after midnight. She told university officials she awoke at 4:30 a.m. “with a man on top of her.”

A second woman’s phone disappeared during the party and was used to take photos of a Delta Chi member’s genitalia. The images were later emailed to the woman’s parents and posted to her Twitter account.

A third sorority member contacted Mount Pleasant police after she said a fraternity member slashed her tires following the university’s investigation of the party.

Even after the allegations surfaced, the group’s reputation within the Greek community did not change, according to Delta Chi members who say they still feel supported by their peers.

CMU Interfraternity Council President Casey Lang said opinions of the suspended fraternity differ across the Greek community.

“It varies group to group (and) that probably has to do with relationships those groups had with Delta Chi before they lost their position with the school,” Lang said.

Panhellenic Council President Veronica Meadows said while she is aware of a strict policy of who can interact with members of the fraternity, she did not want to discuss it. She said the Panhellenic community has decided to move forward.

Regardless, members of Delta Chi are determined to stick together.

“WE STILL HAVE A RUSH CLASS, AND WE’RE ADDING NEW MEMBERS THIS SEMESTER. WE’RE STILL ROCKING AND ROLLING. WE’RE STILL OPERATING UNDER OUR NATIONAL RULES AND CHARTER.” JEFF LAHAYE, DELTA CHI SENIOR “At the end of the day, we’re going to do what we’re going to do and we’re going to have fun,” LaHaye said.

“They’re the 25 best friends I have. How can I not associate with them anymore?”

UNDERGROUND FRATERNITY

Ask any member of the CMU chapter of Delta Chi, and they will tell you they consider the fraternity alive and well.

“We still have a rush class, and we’re adding new members this semester,” LaHaye said. “We’re still rocking and rolling.

We’re still operating under our national rules and charter.”

Students still travel campus wearing their letters. New members even have “Rush class 2014” apparel, despite rules laid out by the Office of Student Life prohibiting recruiting.

Other rules were put in place to dissolve the group and

the university can investigate the matter to its final conclusion if it has neither the consent of the survivor nor the cooperation of the accused, if it finds the evidence of a crime to be strong enough.

For the members of Delta Chi and Levitt, the fact that no physical evidence was brought forward, and that they could not bring forward any evidence, was discouraging.

“You can be there as an adviser, but again, it’s interesting because the entire time when I was there as an adviser, they still did everything they could to interfere with (advising),” he said. “At any time they didn’t like what I was doing as an adviser, they would change the rules. I wanted to stop the preceding and go speak with my client outside about something, and they said no, you can’t do that. We wanted to confront one of the accusers, and they said no, you can’t do that.”

Idema said an adviser can be present in the room during a hearing or an appeal. However, the adviser, whether that person be a parent, a friend or an attorney, cannot speak on behalf of the student.

THE HEARING AND APPEAL

When charges were brought against Delta Chi, and after a formal hearing took place, the university’s disciplinary board found the fraternity guilty of the three violations.

The initial sanction imposed on Delta Chi was the en-

send if off campus quietly.

Members can no longer use the university for fraternity functions. Delta Chi is banned from Greek intramural sports, and was left out of this year’s Greek Week festivities.

Still, members don their letters proudly and answer only to the national Delta Chi headquarters.

To LaHaye, the “underground fraternity” represents the same thing it did when he was adopted by it in 2010. It is more than a home away from home to him; it is his home.

“You have emotional connections with it, the good and the bad times, just like any home,” he said. “I hear a bunch of times from brothers that if they weren’t in Delta Chi, they would have failed out, they would have transferred, they would have been out of here. It keeps people here. It gives them a reason other than school work, which is frustrating and repetitive at times.”

With the exception of Leadership Safari week, LaHaye has been a member of the fraternity his entire collegiate life. He considers his years in the group the best of his life. “(It’s about) great times (and) good people. People that help you out, especially when you’re kicked down,” he said. “That’s how it is now. We just have new obstacles and new adversity to deal with.”

LaHaye was quick to say he doesn’t feel Delta Chi is doing anything wrong by continuing to operate post-suspension.

Fraternity members continue to raise money for the Jimmy V. Foundation and are planning local community service projects to be held this spring.

“I just hope that now we can start correcting (our image) and just make people realize we’re not the terrible people we were set out to be by the university,” LaHaye said. “Overall, we’re students, like everybody else, trying to graduate and trying to have a little fun on the weekends and trying to be ourselves.” editor@cm-life.com

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R ABUSE OF POWERS forcement of a dry house, a suspension on their recruitment activities and a requirement that Delta Chi would host a Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates event with a mandatory 85 percent of Delta Chi members in attendance.

These sanctions were imposed on August 9, 2013, and failure to recognize the sanctions could have resulted in a 10-year suspension.

Delta Chi appealed the decision on August 15.

“We feel that our chapter house being dry is definitely not only too loosely defined, but is also too severe as a punishment,” wrote a member of Delta Chi whose name had been redacted from the appeal letter. “As for the sanction on the suspension of recruitment, I believe that is not a suitable punishment for any Greek organization.”

On August 28, Clark appeared in front of the disciplinary board without Levitt. Clark and Ernat stated Levitt had a prior engagement that day. Both Levitt and Clark did not make requests to move the appeal hearing.

According to university documents, the only request made to move the date was in regards to the first hearing. That hearing was rescheduled.

It was during the appeal hearing that Clark learned of Idema’s decision to ask for a four-year suspension.

The student code states that any party can appeal the sanction at any time, thus Idema said it was his office’s right to appeal. This notice was also sent in a letter to Delta Chi regarding their appeal. He added that the group’s history did factor into the decision to increase the penalty, but focused instead on the way they handled the first sanction as evidence that they needed a stricter reprimand.

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Idema observed the way Delta Chi snubbed the punishment in the same way they had with past sanctions.

In 2006, Delta Chi was charged with a hazing violation, ending in one of the pledges being sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning after they were arrested by police and charged as minors in possession of alcohol. The pledges were taken to a field and told it would be wise if they consumed a certain amount of alcohol before they returned back to the house.

A recruiting ban was placed on the 2006 Delta Chi group, not a suspension, which Idema viewed as extreme at the time.

“Looking back, I think we missed the ball on that one,” he said. “As you work in the Greek Life field, you can pretty much sanction a group any way, but one of the things you don’t do is you don’t take away their right to recruit.

That’s just like the lifeline for the group.

“It was really the first time we have come across one of those sorts of things. If I had to do it all over again, I would have done it much differently. I would have come down much harder because that was a pretty bad situation.”

The appeals board upheld the disciplinary board’s decision and announced the finding in a letter dated August 30, 2013.

Delta Chi members told CM Life they felt bombarded by the appeal, especially since Levitt was not there to counsel them.

Levitt said he doesn’t think his presence could have made a difference — He said he knows this because he was once a member of the disciplinary board when he was a student in 1984-88, as well as a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, which also was kicked off of campus for four years during his time as a student.

“If the university wants to boot you, they’re going to boot you,” he said. “They’re going to kick you out regardless. They’re not lawyers, they’re not judges. Their job is to discipline the Greek system, and in order for them to justify their position, they have to go after students. I liken them to mall cops. It’s wrong.”

For Idema, the procedures his office follows don’t claim to be anything they aren’t, and the rules of the process were simple enough to understand.

“When you go into an appeal, we tell you there are four options: The sanction can stand, it can be reduced, it can be increased, or the appeals board can send it back to another hearing,” Idema said.

“They might not like the outcome, but the process is there and it’s the same for everybody. Whether you’re a student group or not, a student group is treated the same way as a student in the Code of Conduct.” university@cm-life.com

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mong the many charges levied against Delta Chi, the allegations of sexual assault and theft percolated to surface once the campus community found out why the group was suspended.

The information was reported nearly a year later after a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Central Michigan Life.

However, the university was made aware of the allegations within days of the incident. The university never issued a formal notification, nor did campus police issue an alert making the campus community aware that a sexual assault was reported.

Central Michigan University Police Chief Bill Yeagley said an alert was not issued because campus police never investigated the allegation.

Because the alleged assault occurred at an off-campus residence, outside the department’s on-campus jurisdiction, Yeagley said CMU police would not have been involved.

An alert wouldn’t have been required, Yeagley said, because the allegations were brought forward several days after the alleged incident. In order for a timely alert to be enacted, there needs to be an imminent threat of danger.

The length of time between the incident and the report being four days afterward meant the campus community was no longer in imminent danger, Yeagley said.

“One of the things that the Jean Cleary Act is very clear about is, one, we have to know about it,” he said. “That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, I can just tell you that this agency never received such a complaint.”

However, due to the reporting requirements outlined in the Jean Cleary Act, which necessitates college campuses to report both confirmed and alleged sexual assaults, the assault was reported in the CMU police’s Cleary statistics reporting log.

A female student reported the assault occurred at the Delta Chi fraternity house, a registered student organization house, which falls under the university’s Cleary reporting jurisdiction.

Yeagley said the Clearly Act does have flexibility in its reporting requirements. If an incident does not meet the mandated requirements, the incident can go unreported.

The incidents involving the fraternity did not meet the necessary requirements.

A full listing of the Cleary Act reporting requirements can be found online.

Shaun Holtgrieve, executive director of Campus Life, said if a student safety concern happens off campus, much like that of the Detla Chi party, he may or may not be involved in the issuing of a notification.

Due to FERPA guidelines, which protects students’ educational and student discipline rights, and to protect the survivor, a notification was not issued.

Because the incident occurred near the end of the school year (April 19, 2013), Holtgrieve added the university thought it would have the allegations investigated by the end of the summer.

Most students were not on campus during that period, which Holtgrieve said could have factored into why the university didn’t issue a notification.

The CMU Office of Student Conduct investigated Delta Chi as a whole after the woman’s report, yet the Office of Student Conduct did not hold the group accountable for the alleged assault, nor did campus police or local police, according to documents obtained from the FOIA. The suspect, a member of Delta Chi, was found guilty of the assault via the Student Code of Conduct. That student was issued a semester-long academic suspension for the charge, according to university officials.

A separate Delta Chi member was investigated for the allegation of theft and transmitting lewd photos, which was handled by campus police. Mount Pleasant police later investigated an allegation of intimidation and stalking, which was reported on Oct. 25, according to police reports.

All of the allegations, except for the intimidation charge, stemmed from a single party at the end of Greek Week in 2013.

According to an email sent by Erica Johnson, the former Greek Life adviser, to Tom Idema, director of student conduct, the survivor of the alleged assault came forward with the allegation on April 24.

Johnson wrote that the survivor told a university official that while she was at the party, she drank liquor from her own water bottle and had not consumed an amount typical for her.

The survivor said she saw the clock around midnight and woke up at approximately 4:30 a.m. in a house she didn’t recognize with a man on top of her. The survivor reported that she did not remember the previous four and half hours of her evening.

Johnson also wrote that the survivor claimed the same thing happened to other women at the party.

Members of Delta Chi have not denied sex occurred between the fraternity member and female student after both were under the influence of alcohol.

Although the allegation was never followed up upon with either police department, the university was aware that a sexual assault was more likely to have occurred, Idema said.

However, he said the needs of the woman outweighed the public’s right to be informed.

“It’s just one of those deals,” he said. “You suddenly become aware of things and you certainly try and be respectful of the survivor or survivors. You try and respect their wishes.

“Had the police been involved, and had we done it all over again, we probably would have looked into an alert.”

Idema said just because the group wasn’t charged with the assault doesn’t mean that an assault didn’t occur.

Holtgrieve said he understands the concern surrounding the lack of the notification, even if his and other university officials’ hands were tied from issuing one to protect the survivor’s privacy.

“When it comes to a sexual assault, and I’m not talking about this case, I’m speaking generally, we always air on the side of the survivor,” he said. “We don’t want them to be victimized a second time.” university@cm-life.com

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FACING CENSORCHIP STUDENT VOICES STIFLED BY SUPERIORS

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he First Amendment should be a no-brainer at a university. Recently,

however, officials have been suppressing the student voice in an attempt to protect them from student media.

Central Michigan Life has dealt with an increase in communication buffers between our reporters and our peers. We have watched student voices suppressed under the umbrella explanation of protecting their privacy.

To fairly and successfully report a story, it is essential we speak to many sources with interest in or knowledge of the topic we are writing about. Not only does this ensure that we’ve covered a broad scope of testimony and opinions, but it allows those involved to have their voices heard and their stories shared.

The biggest culprit of student voice suppression at Central Michigan University is within the athletics department. Regardless of our relationships with specific student-athletes, reporters must gain permission from athletics department administrators to contact them.

In order to gain access to our own student-athletes, reporters have to present sports information directors with a story’s topic during the request. The nature of our requests have sometimes played a role in the department’s decisions to make these student-athlete available for interviews, or not.

When players are made available, the majority of interviews are done with an SID chaperoning the conversation, creating anxiety for both parties.

When athletes are not made available, the most common reason for denial of interview is the best interest of the student athlete — as decided by the department.

Officials have explained the denials as a need to protect student-athletes from the student media.

Here at CM Life, we are students learning a craft, much like our student-athletes.

We are in class with you, walk the same halls and sidewalks as you, and wear the same school colors as you.

We have friends who are athletes, Greeks and students of all departments and career aspirations.

Most of all, we are your peers.

Why is CMU protecting students from other students?

To be fair, athletics isn’t the only culprit.

Last week, CM Life received a letter from the national chapter of Phi Mu after interviewing a member of the CMU Rho Delta chapter. In it, the national president requested all media requests be directed toward the national chapter in Georgia.

The topic of the preceding interview was the benefits of Greek Life and its evolution over time at CMU. By putting up these walls and censoring students — in athletics, Greek Life and other areas of campus — our leaders are failing the students they are supposed to be educating. The new lesson being taught by these officials within and outside the university construct is to shy away from potentially uncomfortable situations rather than act transparently and strategically.

We’re not trying to embarrass or ruin the reputations of any member of our community, but we do want our stories to reflect reality. That includes not having cookie-cutter responses prepared by public relations professionals in replacement of student voice.

Residence halls choose whether to allow reporters to “solicit” their halls door-to-door each year, but each allows student-reporters freedom to canvas in the main lobbies and outside the hall.

Resident assistants receive tips on dealing with reporters. Rather than Residence Life denying access, it teaches staff members how to carry out a successful interview. When staff members aren’t comfortable or familiar with a topic, they have the option of sending a reporter to a higher ranking person for the interview.

This is a better way to handle media requests.

Student-athletes and Greek students should also — and often do — receive media education, but then be allowed to represent themselves as adults.

The false sense of security and protection provided by organization officials is a restraint to the transition from college to the “real world.”

Individual freedom of speech, as protected by the First Amendment, cannot be sacrificed for an organization’s public image. This is a trend that needs to end before it gets any worse.

Reporters cannot continue to provide their community with quality service if the very people we work for aren’t allowed to speak to us.

We’re all adults here, capable of making our own decisions. It’s time that we as students are treated as such.

If you’re good at something, never do it for free It’s a vicious cycle juniors and seniors have been dealing with for years.

You need experience to get a job after you graduate college. In order to get the experience, you need an internship. We are so desperate for this experience that we’d do just about anything to snag one — we will even work for free.

Unpaid internships have become all too common within recent years, and they’re unfair to students.

You work at a job for no money, without any promise of an actual career to follow. The experience you receive from an internship can only provide an introductory level

of experience, and it’s not worth signing up for free labor.

I know first hand the difficulty of unpaid internships.

I wrote for a website that covered a Major League Baseball team, where my job, for the most part, was to cover their minor league affiliate about 40 miles away.

From April to September, I drove 80-plus miles, three times a week. I worked late nights, watched games, wrote the articles, edited them and sent them before driving back home — only to do it again the next day, for free.

Between another job and a full class schedule, my compensation,

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paired with my expenses, was never worth my time.

Don’t do what I did — don’t settle for any internship that is thrown your way. There are many internships out there and a lot of them pay for your work, offer college credit or a combination of both.

My advice is to look for internships that offer both money and

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college credit first. If that doesn’t pan out, find one that only pays, followed by one that only gives college credit. Don’t even consider one that offers neither.

It’s insulting.

You shouldn’t have to go through so much work to get basic experience. You should be getting what you need from your classes, from professors who have either worked in the field or are experts in the field you are pursuing.

Unpaid internships are outdated.

Follow the words that I was once told by an old mentor of mine — if you’re good at something, never do it for free.

This coming Earth Week is going to be the best one yet as it will be accompanied by a series of events such as a “trash art” competition, “eco-talks”, a garden party, documentary screenings, trivia night, and much more! From educational events, to artful activities, it is exciting that there will be a venue for everyone to plug-in to. But I’d like to push the envelope even further. This is a call to action for all students. This Earth Week, don’t just celebrate it, defend it!

The first thing people can do for the Earth is stop buying things they do not need! The generic narrative of Earth Day ads on TV call for individuals to “buy green!” and purchase more “things” that are “sustainable,” Unfortunately, that plastic water bottle made with 75% less plastic in the cap will not be the earth’s saving grace.

That tote bag made out of reusable materials still promotes more of the problem at hand …

Consumerism. Hate to break it to ya’, but green capitalism is still capitalism. As people pursue these avenues in attempt to “go green,” in the meantime, thousands of gallons of tar sands oil just spilled into Lake Michigan.

So, what else do we do?

Over 50 percent of the current species list is predicted to be extinct by 2050. Bodies of water are being contaminated, and the water that is left is being privatized, sold, and bought.

Activists are being imprisoned while those doing the damage remain free. Quite frankly, we need to act as if our lives depend on it, because they do!

The world is getting scary, and my second piece of advice is to fight where you stand. No need to travel anywhere and fight hunger, or other environmental issues. There is much to be done where you reside. Even little acts of participating in local food initiatives (shout out, Campus Grow) are great ways to get started with localization, and become less dependent of mass agriculture.

My last piece of advice here is to “agitate, educate, and organize!” Get involved with a campus group or RSO that strives for connecting environmental issues to larger social justice issues. Student Environmental Alliance is a great avenue to start with. However, bringing Earth Week to an end will be the “Take Back the Tap Fights Back: Day of Action” — A march across campus where students will be hand delivering letters to the Purchase and Contracting Office to support Take Back the Tap’s initiative of ending the sales of bottled water on campus.

Whether your strength is organizing campaigns, farming, gardening, communicating to others, educating, or anything else, the time is now to plug-in.

“Neutrality means that you don’t really care, ‘cause the struggle goes on even when you’re not there.” — Rise Against

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Health professions students raise $8,500 through charity runs

By Mark Johnson Senior Reporter

Within the last month, three College of Health Professions student organizations have organized 5k races to help raise $8,500.

The Central Michigan University HP Physician Assistant Class of 2015, Physical Therapy Student Organization and Eta Sigma Gamma, a community health education registered student organization, combined their efforts to raise $8,500.

Joey Scherba, president of the PA Class of 2015, said it was challenging to organize the event, but it was worth it.

“For having 24 credits this semester and putting on an event like this as a class, I thought everyone really pulled their own and did a great job,” Scherba said.

Most of the proceeds will be

donated to health and community organizations in Mount Pleasant.

One of the fundraisers, “Going The Distance For Today’s Youth,” helped pay for the group’s graduation ceremonies.

Hosted by the HP Physician Assistant Class of 2015 at Deerfield Park, more than 100 people participated in the race, helping to raise $2,300. Half of the funds helped support the class and the other half was donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Beginning a few years ago, each physician assistant class began hosting fundraisers to raise money for their own off-campus graduation ceremony.

The Physical Therapy Student Organization also organized a successful 5K race, with their “Stomp Out MS 5K Run/Walk with Color.”

Approximately 365 people participated in the race and

raised more than $5,000 for the Michigan chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Eta Sigma Gamma, the community health RSO, was also able to get in on the action and held a race of its own.

Another event, “Out for Blood 5K and Duathlon” helped to raise $1,000 for the American Red Cross.

Renee Castellon, communications and marketing coordinator for HP, said the work done to host these events has been inspiring.

“To be able to go out and raise funds for all of these different organizations, shows how dedicated the students are and how willing they are to give back, not only to this community but around the state,” she said. university@cm-life.com

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Schedule released for Earth Week 2014

By Andrea Peck Staff Reporter

Starting today, students and staff at Central Michigan University can learn more about being environmentally friendly in a fun way during a week-long celebration of environmental awareness.

Throughout Earth Week, events will be held on campus centering around earth friendly activities and informational sessions.

Jacquelyn Baker, a senior and Bay City native, is one of the students in charge of preparing Earth Week for the campus.

“There is one event that runs all week long, which is the e-Waste Collection” she said. “Anything that has a cord can be recycled. The Volunteer Center is serving as the location to drop off those items. Isabella County Recycling w Make your Center will own T-Shirt be picking 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 all of that up p.m. outside at the end of Bovee U.C. the week.”

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The event will involve w ECO Talks competing 8 – 9:30 p.m. groups and Charles V. individuals Park Library making art Auditorium out of recycled, reused Hear local community or salvaged members talk materials.

“We about the encourage environment and anyone to sustainability. submit a piece for that,” Baker said. “It can be an individual or a group, so we’ll have two winner categories for that. The winners will be announced afterward at the ECO Talks program.”

Tuesday’s event, taking place on Earth Day, will be the centerpiece of the week.

A three-hour Earth Day garden party will start at 6 p.m. in the Campus GROW Garden, near Theunissen Stadium.

“We’ll have Circus Club doing performances, samples from local vendors, and live music,” Baker said.

“It will be a very laid back event where people can socialize and learn more about student organizations like Take Back the Tap and Campus Grow.”

At 8 p.m. Thursday, Mountain Town Brewing Company will host “Brew Planet”, which will feature Eco-trivia and the chance to win a gift card and prizes from sponsor Take Back the Tap. The event will also have live music from local band, Kavazabava, and an art and photography exhibit.

“Mountain Town Brewing Company is brewing two beers especially for this event that our committee members hand-selected the ingredients for,” Baker said.

“Take Back the Tap Fights Back: Day of Action” will begin at 2 p.m. on Friday.

Students are invited to join members of Take Back the Tap to sign a letter of support to ban the sale of bottled water on campus, then join the group in delivering the letter to CMU administrators. Students will meet at Rose Pond.

“I’m excited for the week,” said Sarah Fiorillo, a senior from Lake Isabella and committee member for planning the week’s events.

“It caters to students’ many different interests. There’s something for everybody.”

Anyone interested in the week’s events can visit earthweek.wix.com/cmich to learn more.

STUDENTS ADOVCATES FOR MEDICAL AND RECREATIONAL CANNABIS

SAMRC hosting 4/20 week events

By Andrea Peck Staff Reporter

Student Advocates for Medical and Recreational Cannabis are hosting a panel to discuss the truth about the plant.

The panel titled “Tell the Truth About Marijuana,” takes place at 7 p.m.

Wednesday in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

It is part of a series of events planned by SAMRC to celebrate the week of 4/20. While the week is normally used as a protest or recreational week, freshman Ian Elliott, the president of SAMRC, said the registered student organization will use the week as an educational opportunity.

“Our group here is pretty different,” Elliot said. “We like to work with the system. Most of us are going into professional careers, so this is really something we’re passionate about.”

Elliott said the concluding event for the week, the panel, will include Matt Abel, the director of Michi-

gan NORML. Michigan NORML is one of the largest activism groups in the country regarding cannabis.

Heidi Parikh, the president of My Compassion, a patient-based outreach program, will also join the panel, as well as Adam Brook, an activist and NORML affiliate.

“The panelists will be able to tell their own stories, as well as answer a few predetermined questions,” Elliott said. “We have some different perspectives on the issue, as well as different professions that they hold in advancing the cause. Following that presentation, we’re going to have petition signings in the back for Coalition for a Safer Mount Pleasant.”

The Coalition for a Safer Mount Pleasant is a ballot initiative that proposes to amend the Mount Pleasant city code to decriminalize the use, possession, and transfer of an ounce or less of marijuana on private property by anyone 21 and older.

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also feature events in a more informal setting.

Outside the Bush Theater, there will be an “info circle” set up today with flyers and information to hand out to people.

“It’s going to be a very laid back and relaxed event,” Elliott said. “It will be a great way for students that want to find out what SAMRC does here on campus to come and introduce themselves, not in a formal meeting setting.”

Tuesday, at the Fabiano Gardens, SAMRC will hold an event called “Weed is InTents.” Elliott said details for that event will remain a surprise.

“These two events are more just opportunities for us to interact with students as they’re walking around campus and talk with them about why they should be concerned about some of the medical and recreational marijuana issues,” Elliott said. studentlife@cm-life.com

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Moraw just short of first CMU All-American finish Junior ends season .05 away from making gymnastics history

By Taylor DesOrmeau Staff Reporter

Junior Halle Moraw just missed a shot at being the first All-American in program history, but she’s not hanging her head.

She just wants it to be next season already.

“My goal first of all is to be back (to nationals) as a team,” Moraw said. “After watching today and yesterday’s practice sessions, we can definitely make it.”

Moraw scored a 9.850 on balance beam Friday, good enough to tie for 13th in the second session of the NCAA national championships.

Head coach Jerry Reighard said Moraw’s calm demeanor in the midst of the high-pressure situation on a

national stage was key. He wasn’t surprised.

“I just think that’s Halle,” Reighard said. “She has a way about herself of staying level, not getting spiked with anxiety and that was definitely the part that I think really helped her.”

No other competitors performed during Moraw’s routine. She said she loved being the center of attention.

“I just went out, I had fun and I did my gymnastics,” Moraw said.

“The excitement in that building was

unreal and I just wanted to get out there and compete.”

The top four from each session advanced to Sunday’s individual event championships and were named first-team All-Americans while the next four in each session were named second-team All-Americans.

Reighard said it was one small mistake that kept Moraw from scoring the 9.9 she needed to advance to the finals.

“She did the exact routine that we wanted her to do, except in one

place,” Reighard said. “She lost her balance slightly, lifted her leg about waist-high and these officials take the most severe deductions when you offer that to them.”

Senior Emily Heinz and junior Taylor Noonan also competed on beam for the Chippewas on Friday.

Neither reached the 9.85 level they hit at regionals, but Reighard said all three performances were something special. w NATIONALS | 2B

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Take your pick: Rush or Kater

Kyle Wilson | Staff Photographer The Central Michigan Chippewas pump up before the start of the spring game Saturday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The gold squad beat the maroon squad, 20-17.

Kyle Wilson | Staff Photographer Central Michigan quarterbacks Cooper Rush (center) and Cody Kater (right) meet with offensive coordinator Morris Watts after the 2014 CMU spring game.

Tianyu Han | Staff Photographer Junior wide receiver Connor Howard makes a reception thrown by sophomore quarterback Cooper Rush. The Gold team beat the Maroon team, 20-17.

Cody vs. Cooper Kater, Rush battle for starting quarterback spot during Maroon vs. Gold game

By Dominick Mastrangelo Assistant Sports Editor

Central Michigan’s starting quarterback position is no closer to being filled after the 2014 Maroon vs. Gold scrimmage than it was before the spring game.

Senior quarterback Cody Kater, who missed almost all of last season with a collarbone injury, finished 16-of-23 passing for 257 yards and three touchdowns in his first action since being sidelined in the Chippewas season-opener at Michigan.

The only other quarterback on the CMU spring roster, sophomore Cooper Rush, passed for 23-of-33, with 232 yards and two touchdowns.

Head coach Dan Enos said while Saturday’s game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium gave little indication of who the 2014 starter will be, Rush holds a slight advantage.

“Cooper started a lot of games for us last year,” Enos said. “Cody is an extremely proud kid. They both are really competitive. Our team has confidence that if either one of them is in the game, they both give us a good chance to win.”

One CMU football player who looked extremely confident on Saturday was tight end Ben McCord, who caught five passes for 78 yards and all three of Kater’s touchdown tosses.

“Cooper is (a) pretty smart kid,” he said. “We aren’t like best buddies, though. We definitely do not hate each other, either.”

Cody Kater, senior quarterback Cody Kater

Cooper Rush

“I’m just trying to be a playmaker this fall and this today helps me think of myself that way,” McCord said Saturday. “Both guys (Rush and Kater) do a good job of helping us (receivers) get open. I trust both of them.”

Rush said he has been waiting all offseason for an environment like the one he and his teammates were thrown into Saturday.

“The whole team was excited for this one,” Rush said. “We want to play the game. That’s what we do.

This is the closest thing we can get to that right now.”

Rush said he is thankful for the experience he gained as a starter in 2013 and was impressed by Kater’s speedy recovery and noteworthy performance on Saturday.

“He made more plays than I did today,” Rush said. “The competition is good for us. It makes both

of us better than we would be otherwise.”

Meanwhile, Kater suggested there is no bad blood between the two quarterbacks on the 2014 spring roster.

“Cooper is (a) pretty smart kid,” he said. “We aren’t like best buddies, though. We definitely do not hate each other, either.”

In the backfield, sophomore rusher Maurice Shoemaker-Gilmore stood out most of all running backs, orchestrating several quality runs and catching Rush’s first touchdown of the afternoon.

Enos said Shoemaker-Gilmore could be one of two or three tailbacks that see the majority of the touches for the Chippewas in 2014.

“We have a lot of really good backs,” Enos said. “Maurice is one of those guys that does not need to slow down when he makes his cuts

up the field. That’s valuable. We don’t want to play more than two running backs because we want the guys that are our regulars to develop a rhythm.”

Enos gave insight into the “closeness” of the potential 2014 team. He said leaders emerged as he and his coaching staff split the team in half for Saturday’s game.

“It was interesting to see which guys would step up and take those leadership roles the past couple of days,” Enos said. “It’s good to have some guys that are more established and others that saw their first action today. Today was a lot of fun.”

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Competition is natural.

Ford is in competition with Toyota. Tom Brady is in competition with Peyton Manning. Starbucks is trying to beat Dunkin’ Donuts.

After Saturday’s CMU spring football game, sophomore quarterback Cooper Rush is in competition with senior Cody Kater for the starting job.

An odd situation has developed: The senior, who was one of several key offensive players beat up during CMU’s trip to Ann Arbor last season, now has to win back the top varsity sports position on campus all over again.

Kater was spot-on Saturday.

His pocket presence and confidence throwing the deep ball shouted “Hey everyone! This is my job, remember?!”

Meanwhile, Rush threw the eventual scrimmage-sealing interception in what many called a “glorified practice.”

Besides his one mistake, Rush looked just as capable of leading this team as he ever has.

His career at CMU is a work in progress. Hopefully fans take that into consideration as coaches pick which guy they want calling the signals this fall.

Head coach Dan Enos said Rush holds a “slight,” advantage over Kater for the job by virtue of starting the majority of the Chippewas 2013 games.

But can we so easily forget Rush’s record in those games - or even worse — his passer rating and turnover ratio?

Would Rush have even started a single game last year if Kater had not been injured?

Enos called Kater “a proud guy.”

I’m going to call him confident, because that is what a quarterback is supposed to be.

Charismatic, well spoken and understanding of his importance and worthiness. Kater emulated all of those things, Saturday.

We will likely never see the unedited rapport between Rush and Kater; two men in close daily proximity vying for the same prize: The reins to a team with a large upside heading into the fall.

Kater insists there are no ill feelings between the two. But fans can see the chip on the obviously-superior senior’s shoulder from a football field away.

The Chippewas favorable schedule and relocated student section at Kelly/Shorts is sure to provide an exciting yet overwhelming atmosphere for CMU’s starting QB in 2014.

It will require a great deal of poise and levelheadedness to lead this team to success as the numerous headlines surrounding the department and program swirl.

CMU’s season opener is four and a half months away. With plenty of days to speculate which quarterback will earn the starting spot, let’s remember a few things.

Kater has more experience.

Kater has the stronger arm.

Kater carries himself more like a leader.

In a head-to-head battle between the two signal callers, Kater is the most qualified candidate. sports@cm-life.com

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Kyle Wilson | Staff Photographer Junior wide receiver Ryan Hansen, left, and junior tight end Ben McCord, right, celebrate after McCord caught his first touchdown of the 2014 CMU football spring game. McCord finished the day with five catches for 78 yards and three touchdowns as the gold squad defeated the maroon squad, 20-17.

Three touchdown spring game gives tight end McCord confidence

By Seth Newman Senior Reporter

The football went up into the sunlight as two players fought for position under it near the goal line.

Both players reached up and caught it simultaneously, continuing the fight for the ball.

Tight end Ben McCord broke away with possession and reached the end zone, scoring six points.

In breaking away from his defender, the junior might have also pulled away as the primary tight end for Central Michigan next fall.

“It was good but it was more about just winning and having fun,” he said. “We have been working hard all spring, so it was nice to have fun in front of the fans and my family. Everything turned out well. It was a good day.”

McCord had five receptions, for 87 yards and three touchdowns.

After the annual spring football game Saturday, he credited his breakout day to the new addition of tight end coach Sherrone Moore.

“Coach Moore is new and he

came from Louisville,” McCord said. “All spring we worked on releases and picking points to get off the line of scrimmage.

We want to catch the ball and be a factor.”

Throwing all three touchdown passes was senior quarterback Cody Kater.

Kater witnessed the hard work McCord has put in this offseason and said he was glad it paid off.

“He is a big strong kid,” Kater said. “He worked his butt off in the offseason and he has definitely played well all spring. It showed today when he went out and had three touchdowns. It’s really nice to see it pay off. It looks like he is going to get stronger throughout the season.”

When McCord came to CMU, he wasn’t the intimidating force he is now on the field.

McCord showed up to CMU weighing 215 pounds. Now he weighs in at 250, something head coach Dan Enos is happy about.

Enos believes McCord has the ability to be one of the best tight ends in the league.

“We always want to utilize those guys,” Enos said. “They

have to get open though. They have to create opportunities for themselves. Last year they all caught passes. There wasn’t one guy that caught 50; they were all (at) about 10 (catches).

This year, Ben has that type of ability where if he continues to block and mature, he can be one of the better tight ends in the league.”

McCord will likely create mismatches this season. Enos said he hopes he creates them in the red-zone.

“When you have a tight end that can jump and the body control that he does, you can try and get them on a smaller safety and have mismatches that create problems for the defense,” Enos said. “He would be the guy that we do it with.”

McCord also thinks he can have an impact on this team, but he isn’t settling for just the team.

McCord wants to have an impact in the Mid-American Conference.

“I just have to fight to keep my hand strength and work on and off the field,” he said. sports@cm-life.com

“The performances that we saw yesterday from each of the girls were excellent moments with just a few seconds of imperfection,” Reighard said.

Noonan recovered from an early bobble to finish 32nd with a 9.725.

“Taylor Noonan had what I would term an adrenaline rush, and that’s not what you can do on balance beam,” Reighard said. “She exploded with some big skills, but her biggest jump in the whole routine comes right at the beginning and she just overdid it. After that, she got it back and you could tell that she was then really locked in and focused.”

Making a mistake on balance beam can be much more costly than on other events because the gymnasts are performing on a four-inch wide beam. Falling off the beam is an automatic half point deduction.

“I just think I got ahead of myself a little bit and if

“We fought hard, all of us.

I would’ve liked to do better, but it’s over and I’m glad I got to experience it.”

Emily Heinz, senior co-captain you’re a little bit off, it’s a big deduction on the beam,” Noonan said. “It’s not a thing you can cover up very well.”

Heinz’s 9.575 placed her 39th of the 45 competitors.

While she said she was disappointed with her result, finishing her career at nationals is something she never thought would happen coming in as a freshman.

“We fought hard, all of us.

I would’ve liked to do better, but it’s over and I’m glad I got to experience it,” Heinz said.

Heinz, Noonan and Moraw are three of 10 Chippewas to ever advance to the NCAA championships and the first since 2004.

“As a senior, that’s the way to go out, to make it to this level,” Reighard said. “The juniors, they have a memory that they’re going to be able to take with them through their

senior year and I think it’ll certainly inspire them and our team for the next year.”

While the three were the only Chippewas competing, they weren’t the only Chippewas in Birmingham, Ala. A group of their teammates drove down to Alabama Friday morning to cheer on their team.

“It made a big difference and it means the world to me that they came down here to support us.” Noonan said.

“They did it without any question or without any hesitation because that’s just the type of team that we have.

“I think that’s what’s going to make our team very special next year with six seniors that are willing to do anything for one another.” sports@cm-life.com

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Tianyu Han | Staff Photographer Junior Jordan Foley pitches March 30 against Miami. On Sunday, Foley threw a complete game in a 3-2 victory against Northern Illinois.

Foley continues tear, Deeg bounces back during 2-1 Easter weekend

By Seth Newman Senior Reporter

While it was Easter weekend for most students, the baseball team went to work at Northern Illinois.

Central Michigan took two of three games from the Huskies to stay in first place of the Mid-American West Division.

On Friday, junior Jordan Foley pitched for Central Michigan, throwing a complete game, striking out five and giving up two earned runs in a 3-2 victory.

Head coach Steve Jaksa saw improvement from Foley during the game.

“He really competed well,” Jaksa said. “I thought our whole pitching staff pitched well this weekend but the way he took it upon himself to close out the game was really fun to watch. I give him a lot of credit for that, and I saw him grow within himself.

Overall, he kept them offbalance.”

In the second game Saturday, the Chippewas rallied and scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning to win 5-3.

It all started when Alex Borglin walked and Tyler Huntey singled, moving Borglin to third. Adam Col-

lins grounded to third, to score Borglin, while Collins reached safely at first when the Huskies forced Huntey out at third.

Neal Jacobs hit a ground ball, but the throw to first was wild, scoring Collins from first base.

Tim Black closed out the game while escaping a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the ninth.

To Jaksa, believing in the team starts with each player believing in themselves.

“They just think the next guy is going to get it done,” Jaksa said. “We put pressure on them and they made a mistake and we got the lead run.”

In the third and final game of the series, it was a pitchers’ duel between CMU’s Nick Deeg and NIU’s Alex Klonowski.

The two pitchers combined to throw 17 innings, allowing four runs and walking three. They also tallied a collective eight strikeouts.

Jaksa said he thought he saw some flashes of the dominant Deeg that has shown up from time to time this season.

“Deeg threw extremely well,” Jaksa said. “They got a couple of bloops on him.

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Their third run came on a two-out bloop single to center. Nick Regnier made a diving effort but he just couldn’t get it. He threw extremely well and looked like the Deeg of old, so that was encouraging.”

With the series win over NIU, CMU has yet to lose a series to a MAC opponent.

It all starts with preparing for a series, one game at a time.

“At the end of the day, that’s what you have to do to compete for a championship,” Jaksa said. “We still have four weekends to go.

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Greg Cornwell | Staff Photographer Junior Trista Cox gets a hit Saturday afternoon at Margo Jonker Stadium. The Chippewas split the weekend series against Western Michigan.

Softball splits Easter weekend series with rival Western Michigan

By Joe Judd Staff Reporter

Central Michigan softball had more to celebrate than Easter this weekend.

Freshman pitcher Rachael Knapp allowed CMU to take the second game in a weekend series against WMU, beating the Broncos 4-1. The victory at Margo Jonker Stadium came one day after the Chippewas lost a defensive contest to WMU in extra innings Saturday After failing to score a run throughout the entirety of Saturday’s defensive struggle, CMU wasted no time by scoring in the bottom of the first inning Sunday on an RBI double to left-center field by senior catcher Cory DeLamielleure. The first inning run was backed by another run in the fifth and followed by two more insurance runs in the sixth inning to put the Broncos away.

Posting nine hits in the game,

the Chippewas offense bounced back after being shut out on Saturday, but it was Knapp’s pitching that kept CMU from getting swept in a brief two-game series with WMU. Knapp turned in a one-hitter against the rival Broncos, earning a win on the mound. She gave up her only hit in the top of the first inning and did not look back. In her seven innings of work, Knapp struck out four batters. She also walked six Broncos.

Her control issues came to a head in the third inning, where the Broncos were able to score their only run of the game after Knapp walked the leadoff hitter. She was able to calm down and delivered four more hitless innings.

Knapp’s win improved her season record to 9-2 and keeps the Chippewas in second place in the Mid-American Conference’s West Division behind Ball State.

Freshman catcher and infielder Danielle Marlink accompanied Knapp’s performance on the mound with a pinch-hit two-RBI double to right-center field. The hit proved to be the final nail in the coffin for a WMU team that could not get anything going at the plate for a vast majority of the game.

The win improves CMU’s record to 28-15 and 7-5 in MAC games this season.

The Chippewas will be on the road for the remainder of the season and will play next at Michigan State on Wednesday. Then, they’ll hit the road to Ohio for a double-header against Bowling Green on Friday and a two-game series against Toldeo starting Saturday.

CMU players and coaches were unavailable for comment after their 1 p.m. game until press time.

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She earned her ninth win against WMU on Sunday, pitching her seventh complete game this season.

Knapp has been one of the premier freshman players in the Mid-American Conference. She received her first conference award for MAC West Player of the Week on March 10.

During conference play, Knapp has improved rapidly, helping the team win game two against Western Michigan this weekend.

Knapp threw a one-hitter in the Chippewas 4-1 victory.

She allowed one run for WMU, while her pitching opponent Erin Binkowski allowed nine hits and four runs.

After expectations of competing alongside seniors Morgan Yuncker and Chelsea Sundberg, Knapp has been training hard and receiving help from her teammates and coaches. The training has allowed Knapp to adjust to intercollegiate athletics quickly.

Knapp pitched her eighth win against Buffalo by striking out seven Bills players and allowing three hits on April 11.

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