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Provost Shapiro resigning in spring; will return to teaching in 2014

By Andrea Peck Staff Reporter

Provost Gary Shapiro announced he will resign from his current position of executive vice president and provost of the university at the end of the academic year after 35 years of service at Central Michigan University.

Shapiro taught in CMU’s soci-

permanent provost.

University President George Ross said he asked Shapiro in 2010 to commit to two or three years as provost. This is Shapiro’s third year in the position.

“Provost Shapiro is a tireless advocate for excellence and has great vision for what CMU is and can be,” Ross said in a statement released Tuesday. “Gary always pursues what he believes

planning in 1993 and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He served as interim registrar and vice provost from 1994-95. At the same time, Shapiro was dean of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences since July 1997. Shapiro acted as interim provost in 2007 and again from July 2009 to August 2010 when he was appointed

ology, anthropology and social work department from 1978 until 1989. He was appointed director of institutional Gary Shapiro research in 1989, assistant vice provost for institutional research and

is right for the university and for students.”

Shapiro, as provost, leads the university’s seven academic colleges, the College of Graduate Studies, Global Campus and other parts of the university including international education and academic affairs.

“Perhaps the greatest factor in my decision ... is the knowledge we now have an academic lead-

ership team that will take CMU to heights we’re just beginning to understand,” Shapiro said in a release. “Thus, after 35 years — the last 22 years in administrative positions — it is time to move forward personally, just like the university moves ever forward. Rest assured, I will A RESIGN 2A

Vote of no confidence was ‘not pleasant,’ says Shapiro

By Tony Wittkowski Staff Reporter

Last year’s vote of no confidence against University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro came as a shock to Shapiro.

During a meeting with Central Michigan Life staff members Friday, Shapiro said he felt he had been doing his best to fulfill his job responsibilities last year.

“I will say it was not pleasant. It was not pleasant professionally, it was not pleasant personally,” Shapiro said. “To have a vote of no confidence where I believed I was acting appropriately and had been fulfilling my job responsibilities to the best

of my ability (and then) having the faculty disagree was disturbing.”

Shapiro said he formed friendships with other faculty members throughout the years and those friendships seemed to dissolve at the end of last year.

“What was disturbing is some of the people that I thought I had friendly relationships with engaged in some of those activities without talking to me about them,” he said.

After the initial vote of no confidence on Dec. 6, a second vote was brought forward in Academic Senate, but was later dismissed.

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Illinois freshman Jamie Payne looks down shortly after lighting her candle during a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Sept. 11 on Tuesday night at Central Park outside Charles V. Park Library. “I wanted to show my care about something that happened in my lifetime,” Payne said.

Never forget Sept. 11 candle light vigil helps CMU students unite, remember

By Emily Burden and Adam Niemi

8:46 a.m. It’s just another day at school.

For some, their days will soon begin, but for people working between the 93rd and 99th floor of the North Tower of the Twin Towers, their days soon will end.

Eleven years later, at 9:00 p.m. on Central Michigan University’s campus, students gather to remember and unite the events that happened on that horrific morning.

The Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center put on the annual Sept. 11 candle vigil last night on the west side of Park Library. Jason Vasquez, a graduate assistant and Volunteer Center coordinator, helped plan the special event.

“Its purpose is to honor and remember the lives that were lost in the events that happened 11 years ago,” Vasquez said.

Troy junior Adam Cable attended the event for his second time since coming to CMU. “I love that (CMU) has this and the community is so great to see the turn out every year,” Troy junior Adam Cable said.

Being in the fraternity Beta Theta Pi, Cable brought along a few of his brothers to join in on the event and to support the sponsors of the vigil. “(The event) blows me away. The volunteer center knows how to put on a great

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event,” Cable said. “It’s great to see everyone come out and support those who gave their lives that day.”

For Alisa Olson, the Sept. 11 attack was a scary day personally.

The Idaho sophomore’s vacation in 2001 began in one world and ended in another: pre-Sept. 11 and post-Sept. 11.

“I was in Anaheim, Calif. at Disneyland,” she said. “I was with my ex-husband and a couple friends from Michigan.”

A friend told her to turn on the TV. She turned it on in time to see Flight 175 crash into the south World Trade Center tower.

“Ever since then I have been afraid to fly,” Olson said.

She had driven with her husband to Anaheim from Las Vegas. On Sept. 15, Olson was back at the airport in Las Vegas to fly home.

“I remember in the airport looking at someone else and wondering if they were going to do something,” she said.

“I wondered if I would make it safely home. I sent a lot of prayers asking to make it home.”

Olson said the day of the attacks was tragic, but each Sept.

11 since has been a positive.

“It’s been something that has united us and brought us together,” Olson said. “I’m so thankful to our military — they keep us safe.”

CMU’s male A cappella group ‘Fish N Chips’ performed a rendition of “Beside You” during the vigil. Students then were silent while remembering those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.

Then, in unity, participants blew out their candles and left the ceremony. studentlife@cm-life.com

Students, faculty say SOS forms aren’t useful

By Alayna Smith Senior Reporter

Student Opinion Surveys have become routine for all Central Michigan University students, but not everyone on campus agrees the scores are truly reflective of student opinion or of teacher effectiveness.

SOS forms are distributed to classes at the end of each semester and are intended to be used to measure the effectiveness of the teaching style of the professor.

Although students use SOS forms as an opportunity to praise or criticize professors and warn future students of what they’re about to face, the information in those surveys doesn’t always benefit the student when registering for classes.

Sociology Professor Mary Senter said providing SOS information at class registration is a disservice to students for several reasons.

“To determine whether any faculty member is an effective teacher, we need to measure that in differ-

ent ways,” Senter said. “The Student Opinion Survey is one way, but it doesn’t make sense for a student to rely on one way to look at teaching effectiveness. And the university, by making that one way available to students just by clicking, is sending students an incomplete picture, and a university shouldn’t do that.”

Senter also said the surveys are based on information that should not decide whether other students should take the course.

“The second problem with making Student Opinion Surveys available at registration is the scores that the faculty receive are affected and influenced by many factors that have nothing to do with whether a student learns,” Senter said. “For instance, faculty receive lower scores when classes are large rather than small.

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International students often greeted with troubles on campus upon CMU arrival

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

He was picked up at the airport and transported to campus.

But when Roberto Herrera Lopez, a second year student from Mexico, reached the residence halls a year ago, he found himself without bedding, Internet connection or even a place to stay.

“I think there was some miscommunication between Residence Life and International Affairs,” Lopez said. “I had to wait an hour before the front desk even assigned me a key.”

This is not a separated incident, according to employees

who have worked with international students throughout campus. International students’ introduction to Central Michigan University is often wrought with difficulty and hardship.

Howell junior Samantha Borashko, who was hired by the Office of International Affairs this past summer to pick up first time international students at the Lansing airport, said she rarely had sufficient information on the international student she was picking up.

“It was often that we had no flight number,” Borashko said.

“We were lucky if you had a time when they were arriving.

We had their name, their age and where they were from. We

only occasionally knew where the student was staying.”

Many first-time international students arrive at CMU to take part in the English Language Institute, which dictates that their English language capabilities are often severely limited, making needed information such as where they are staying hard to attain.

Flights arriving later in the day also present challenges, as international students are unable to check in at later hours.

“Herrig Hall has been very nice about letting students stay overnight,” Borashko said. “But a lot of the time, when flights come in after

dark, we have had students stay overnight in hotels.”

The Office of International Affairs told international students to arrive between the dates of Wednesday, Aug. 15 and Tuesday, Aug. 21. If the students arrive before Friday at 5 p.m., the Help Desk is able to supply the students with a Global Identification allowing them Internet access. While the Help Desk is open to calls all of that weekend, because they have less information on international students, those students often have to arrive in person to get their Global ID set up.

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Twenty-year-old Mexico native and mechanical engineering major Roberto Lopez studies in Campbell hall Monday afternoon. Lopez said transportation is one of the biggest challenges he has faced while being here on campus.

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TOMORROW w The Faculty Center for

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SHAPIRO| CONTINUED FROM 1A The proposed second vote occurred after the provost and president went to different departments to listen to the problems of the faculty in person. At least one department refused to meet with Ross and Shapiro, and others expressed either support or discourse for the situation.

“I found meetings with faculty to be very beneficial in the sense that we could hear their concerns directly rather than being filtered through a spokesperson or the newspaper,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro taught in CMU’s sociology, anthropology and social work department from 1978 until 1989.

He was appointed director of institutional research in 1989, assistant vice provost for institutional research and planning in 1993, and

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STUDENTS | CONTINUED FROM 1A While some international students are able to arrive at that time, on many occasions, students only have access to flights that arrive after 5 p.m. on Friday.

Students who arrive to campus after that time have no access to the Internet until the following Monday, when the Help Desk is open to visitors again.

Netherland junior and Herrig resident Lisa De Haan said while some students have means to contact their family without the Internet, the majority don’t have cell phones that reach internationally and are without resources on campus to communicate with their families.

“I had the problem with the internet as well,” De Haan said. “But I was able to reach my family using my RA’s Internet,”she said. “I have friends in Northwest Apartments, who don’t have any guidance whatsoever. I don’t know what they did.”

Internet is not the only problem international students face when they arrive to campus.

De Haan said the majority of international students arrive without bedding.

Although she went to CMU through an international program, which allowed her

SOS| CONTINUED FROM 1A “Faculty receive lower scores when a class is required rather than being an elective for a student. And faculty receive lower scores when grades students receive in a class are lower. Students shouldn’t choose which courses to take based on factors not related to whether they learn.”

Student Government Association Senator Andrea Thompson said current SOS forms are flawed and is working to push for changes to be made to make them more representative of how students really feel about their classes.

“Last year, in the final meetings of the Academic Affairs Committee, we had discussed the need to make alterations to the current SOS forms,” the Wyoming sophomore said.

“The majority felt that the associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He served as interim registrar and vice provost from 1994-95. Shapiro was dean of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences since July 1997, and served as interim provost in 2007 and from July 2009 until April 2010, when he was named provost.

The tensions caused by events last year did nothing but harm the university, Shapiro said.

“The conflict and discourse that we had last year was harmful to the university. I think our faculty and administration are really concerned about our students, and I don’t think that conflict was helpful to them.

It was distracting and not functional for the purposes of the university,” he said.

Looking forward, Shapiro said unity between the faculty and administration

to order bedding beforehand, a mix-up between the program and the front desk caused her to not receive bedding until the next day.

“I slept without blankets or a pillow; it was one of the most horrible nights of my life,” De Haan said. “I was awake for 40 hours in a row beforehand because of the long flight here, and by the time I got here, I was utterly exhausted. I slept with only a towel.”

Jake Mcpartlin, a Lincoln Park senior and a secondyear peer adviser to international students, estimated that 15 to 20 of 31 international students in Herrig slept without any bedding for at least the first night, and at least 15 of those 31 students were unable to attain an Internet connection that weekend.

Although international students in the residence halls faced problems, the ones who stayed in Northwest Apartments faced greater problems without access to the support of the residence hall staff.

Borashko said the students she dropped off at Northwest Apartments often didn’t even have the bare necessities, and unless helped by a volunteer, often wouldn’t gain certain staples until the Office of International Affairs opened.

“After we take people to

questions on the forms were superficial and that students weren’t able to rate their professors on qualities that mattered. They also said that they much preferred to rate the class as a whole instead of just their professors, as many felt that the university deserved to know a lot more about the course than whether the professor was passionate about their subject.”

St. Johns sophomore Katie Magsig said though she will almost always check a professor’s information before taking a class, this information should be taken with a grain of salt.

“I feel like you either write a response if you really like a professor or if you really don’t; there’s not much middle ground,” Magsig said.

“Bear in mind that everyone learns differently. Even if everyone else really liked a professor, you might not.”

their apartment, I sometimes felt awful, because they had nothing,” Borashko said. “They didn’t even have toilet paper, they have no car to get toilet paper, and they have no bike to get toilet paper. They don’t have anything.”

Borashko said that she didn’t understand why the international office would be closed the first weekend international students arrive.

“How could they not be open the first weekend that students are there,” Borashko said. “It makes no sense to me.”

ADMINISTRATION’S RESPONSE

Jeffrey Mcdowell, associate director of User Services and Support at the Help Desk-OIT, said there is a viable solution to international student’s inability to access the Internet in the form of a guest account.

“The guest account is simply a generic ID,” Mcdowell said. “Anyone can have one. The downside of the guest account is it expires very quickly, but it will allow someone to access the Internet for a limited number of days.”

Tracy Nakajima, director of International Affairs, said although peer advisers have not been informed of the guest account, she plans to inform them in the future.

“Why would we not sup-

RESIGN | CONTINUED FROM 1A continue to watch and support CMU, applauding its progress, its achievements and its evolution.”

Shapiro said he will continue on as provost for the next nine months and will take a transition leave after that. He plans to return to teaching in 2014 and will use his transition leave to figure out which field of teaching he will go back to.

“I’m turning 69 in a few weeks,” he said. “The provost’s position is an extremely intense and busy position, and I’m ready to pass it to someone new.”

Dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts Salma Ghanem said she

ply our workers with all the information needed to do their job effectively?”

Nakajima said. “We will definitely let our student staff know that information in the future.”

Nakajima also said she believed the residence halls were doing an exemplary job with the timeframe they had to complete their job.

“Most students register for their rooms two to three months in advance,” Nakajima said. “They only get that information for international students two to three days in advance.”

Still, Nakajima said solutions when it comes to bedding could be reached.

“I think that resident halls could definitely hold a drive for incoming international students at the end of the year,” she said. “I know that we rent bedding for camps before international students arrive, and renting those for the international students would be a great solution. But we can’t just tell residence halls how to run their halls; that is up to them.”

Herrig residence hall director John Johnstin said he was unaware of any issues and would look into them.

Evelyn Seitz, secretary for the Office of International Affairs, said often the office doesn’t have information from the student due to a

lack of communication on the students’ end.

“It’s hard for some students to contact us through email or by phone,” Seitz said. “And we don’t know some things unless they tell us.”

Nakajima said Provost Gary Shapiro recognized the special needs of students and has granted a new position to take effect next year, with the addition of a dedicated student adviser, who will work solely with international students. She also said that while the university can do a better job at introducing international students to campus, she said the university was still doing an acceptable job.

The first time Nakajima studied abroad in Hong Kong proved to be more of a chaotic experience than for those at CMU. “That year there was a typhoon, and the university locked me and three other girls in a room,” she said.

“One of them was a fellow exchange student, the other two were Japanese, and we sat there for hours waiting out the typhoon. Come to find out that the boys weren’t locked in; they were free to go outside and play in the typhoon. I certainly don’t think we treat our students like that we don’t leave them stranded.” studentlife@cm-life.com

respects Shapiro’s decision and is glad he will still be around.

“I really enjoyed working with Provost Shapiro and am glad he will be around for a year to help with the transition,” she said. A national search for Shapiro’s successor as provost will launch this fall. Shapiro said he will not have direct involvement with the search.

“Provost Shapiro is a strong and powerful leader,” said Charles Crespy, dean of the College of Business Administration. “Shapiro knows pretty much everything there is to know about the university and has been a pillar of integrity and strength in the community. His successor will have enormous shoes to fill.”

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“One of the things that really bothers me is we talk about both sides of the aisle as if that divides us.

We shouldn’t have an aisle between us. We should be committed to the university.

We are one university.”

Open lines of communication, increased transparency and regular meetings with departments and deans are on Shapiro’s list of things to improve this academic year.

“The people I have been talking to have been saying ‘let’s move forward together.’ There’s still distrust on both sides, but the way you gain trust is not by words but by action,” he said. “I can’t just say ‘I’m going to to communicate more’ to make people happy unless my actions follow my words.” university@cm-life.com

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309 students go overseas over summer, Italy top spot

Employees paying 10% more for health care

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By Alayna Smith Senior Reporter

A total of 309 Central Michigan University students chose to participate in a study abroad experience this summer.

Dianne DeSalvo, director of study abroad, said the number is consistent with years past, but the number of first-year students applying to the program has increased.

“In the 2011-12 school year, we had 534 students study abroad through CMU,” she said. “One thing that is really exciting is the fact that we have been experiencing an increase in the amount of first-year students who study abroad.”

This summer, 46 students went to Italy, 44 went to England and 31 went to Mexico; these were the three most popular locations for students, DeSalvo said. These locations have consistently been popular spots for students from CMU to study abroad in recent years.

DeSalvo said she expects there will be new additions in order to focus on cultural and community experiences with regard to the location where students study.

“You have to go in order to know what study abroad can do for you,” DeSalvo said. “Studying abroad is a unique way to gain multicultural understanding and have experiences that are essential to academic and future career success.”

The Office of Study Abroad is always looking to attract more students and encourage them to take the opportunity to go abroad, whether it is in a traditional classroom setting or through an internship, or mid-tier program.

“We try to inform students that sitting in a classroom listening to a lecture isn’t what studying abroad is all about,” DeSalvo said.

“Students who participated in a nutrition-based trip in Ghana were able to go out into the community and receive a hands-on learning experience doing different health and nutrition related assessments.”

Clinton Township junior Danielle Coller experienced her first study abroad trip while taking part in the Global Citizenship Honors program in Bejing, China.

“Traveling has always been an interest of mine; I knew I wanted to study abroad as soon as I came to CMU,” Coller said.

“I believe the chance to

business during football games.

“We had a good weekend. It was a nice push,” he said.

However, with no games to compare this to in the past, Bissell said they didn’t know what to expect.

“We had no idea what to expect. There was not a precedent. I prepared for a lot, but I didn’t have to buy near as much today. I would say it was as good or better than we expected.”

He said there was enough business to be open, but nothing spectacular like business used to be during homecoming.

“We didn’t really get up to capacity until 11-11:30 p.m. Saturday,” Bissell said.

“There was some business in the afternoon. It was slow, but we had some.”

Bissell hopes the change in tailgate rules will bring more alumni back to town and back to his business.

“For about three years now, the games have killed us; we’ve been way down on game day,” he said.

“The alumni quit coming, and it really hurt downtown business.”

He said overall, students behaved themselves and had a good time, but there was one fight that got out of hand.

“I guess we had a few fights. Some of them were a little unruly, but we got through it,” Bissell said.

“There was one fight Friday night that we had to call the cops on.”

A new Michigan law will reduce retiree benefits for public employees enrolled in the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System, including some at Central Michigan University.

Senate Bill 1040, signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday, Sept. 5, is a series of reforms to MPSERS. The bill requires select teachers and administrators enrolled in MPSERS to pay about 10 percent more for health premiums, increase salary contributions toward benefit pensions and reduce a portion of the cost for school districts.

“We have effectively solved a tremendous problem facing our schools,” said state Sen. Roger Kahn, R-Saginaw, a sponsor of the bill. “We had to take action to provide relief from the massive liabilities that were draining resources from the classroom. Schools can now plan their budgets knowing that retirement costs are capped and in check for the future.”

The Benefits Office at Central Michigan University held a workshop for employees on Thursday, Sept. 6 to inform them of the changes and the new options available under the legislation. Another workshop will be held today.

Reforms to the current system include new voluntary elections regarding both retirement healthcare and pension for each employee.

“Your decisions affect what your healthcare and pension benefits provide you in retirement, as well as how much you contribute toward those benefits,” said an announcement on the State of Michigan webpage for the Office of Retirement Services.

According to a document on the Michigan.gov website, there are seven public universities that are members of MPSERS, and only the employees hired before Jan. 1, 1996 are members of MPSERS. Public school academies have the option of joining.

According to an April Central Michigan Life article, Sen. Mark Jansen, R-Grand Rapids, sponsored the Senate bill. Deborah Drick, Chief of Staff for Jansen, said the MPSERS reform was much needed.

“MPSERS has been a system that has been going along, and because the economy kind of took a tank and because of other contributing factors, the MPSERS plan in itself is unsustainable,” Drick said in April. “There’s a lot more liability than there is revenue.”

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Allen Park junior Patrick Bartolo prepares an order at Buffalo Wild Wings, 1904 S. Mission St., on Tuesday afternoon. Buffalo Wild Wings broke its single-day sales record on Saturday, the day Central Michigan played football against Michigan State, earning over $27,000, according to manager David Kramer.

banking on cmu MSU weekend brings in estimated $5.2 million; some businesses say it wasn’t what they expected Staff Reports

Long lines and seas of green were seen around Mount Pleasant this weekend when Michigan State University defeated Central Michigan University’s football team.

While CMU lost, some businesses are considering the weekend a win when it came to revenue.

Chris Rowley, executive director of the Mount Pleasant Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, said using rough figures, the weekend brought in at least $5.2 million to the city.

“We have an economic impact calculator, but I don’t have the exact numbers of who was in town or how long since this brought a lot of people into town for the whole weekend, not just one event,” she said.

Initially, the city expected the weekend’s revenue to total between $7 and $15 million.

“A weekend like this is going to have an economic impact, because people used the hotels, restaurants, shopped at local stores, went to the gas stations in the area and more. That’s certainly a large economic impact,” she said.

Buffalo Wild Wings, 1904 S. Mission St., had a record-breaking sales weekend.

“It was huge,” David Kramer, manager at Buffalo Wild Wings, said.

“We broke our daily sales record. We made over

$27,000 on Saturday.”

Kramer said the restaurant also broke its weekly sales record on Sunday.

“Everybody worked a lot,” Kramer said. “It was stressful, but it went smoothly.”

He said the restaurant did nothing unusual for the weekend besides stocking up for the week. The kitchen was modified for immediate access to food items for preparing orders.

More plastic ware was purchased than usual, because Kramer said there was no way the restaurant could keep up with glassware. It was also a safer option as the restaurant was filled with business.

Barry Waters, director of the Central Michigan University Bookstore, said in an email he was satisfied with the amount of business they received before the big game.

“I knew it was going to be a big day and a big week, and it was all of that and more,” Waters said. “I think our students have been in CMU versus MSU mode every minute since arriving on campus for classes.”

But the CMU bookstore

did run into one problem.

“I wish I had another thousand or so of the official football shirt this year,” Waters said. “That is always a shirt that when it is gone, it is gone.”

The Student Book Exchange, 209 E. Bellows St., had a bit of a different story.

John Belco, owner of SBX, said “I think Saturday wasn’t as busy as I thought it would be, but Friday and Sunday exceeded what I thought would happen.”

While the game was a great time for the area, Belco said business was similar to homecoming or Western Weekend.

Ken Los, co-owner of Bottle and Barrel Party Store, 1635 E. Broomfield St., said “(The impact) didn’t really meet expectations, but I’m satisfied.

We haven’t had this kind of business in three or four years because of the tailgating policies.”

Bottle and Barrel didn’t run into any major problems during the weekend, he said.

“We were really wellprepared; we didn’t run out of anything. We actually have a lot of product left over,” Los said.

Business was a bit different in downtown portions of the city.

Don Bissell, owner of the Blackstone, 212 West Michigan St., said since strict enforcement on tailgate was amped up, business at the Blackstone went down. But with the recent rules, this year has brought an increase in

More than $500,000 spent by CMU on Moore Hall renovations on MHTV, second floor Emma Kinsel Staff Reporter

Central Michigan University spent more than $369,000 to upgrade Moore Hall TV equipment and another $185,000 to make renovations to the second floor of Moore Hall.

Salma Ghanem, dean of the College of Communications and Fine Arts, said underutilized space on the second floor was converted into six offices, a storage space and a conference room.

“The renovations were necessary, because we had additional faculty joining us this year and we didn’t have offices for them,” she said.

Ghanem said the money came from carryforwards, which is money that was not

spent in previous years.

Journalism professor Johnny Sparks said the renovations were desperately needed.

“I arrived early for my new position on the journalism department faculty and did not have an office during my first six weeks on campus. I worked in a conference room. The reallocation of the space was essential.

Apparently, the faculty had outgrown the Moore Hall office space,” he said. “I commend Dean Ghanem for utilizing Moore Hall’s limited space to meet our college’s growing teaching and research needs.”

Introduction to Communications graduate assistant Robert Hinck said the renovations were huge, and the empty room behind Moore

223 was a waste of space last year.

“There was a nasty sink in one of the offices and random closet space that wasn’t being used,” Hinck said.

The Department of Journalism hired three new professors who needed offices, Elina Erzikova, a journalism faculty member, said.

“To me, turning one big room into five small offices was the solution,” she said.

“As for further changes, I would like to see a coffee shop in Moore Hall. Yet, considering the fact that space is limited, it probably will not happen.”

In the future, Sparks would like to see more renovations made to Moore Hall to make the building more state-of-the-art.

“I would love to see a new

state-of-the-art communication and fine arts building that is consistent with the best facilities on the CMU campus,” he said.

Students were unaffected by the changes to Moore Hall because renovations only occurred in the offices, storage rooms and conference rooms, which are used by faculty only.

Peter Orlik, director of the school of broadcast and cinematic arts, said the Moore Hall TV equipment upgrade was much needed. Orlik said it was an analog studio with 17-year-old equipment that was completely redone in high-definition.

A one-time grant from Ghanem helped to finance the cost. The BCA undergraduate program was determined priority one status

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Central Michigan advertising professor Dr. Johnny Sparks works in one of the new offices completed as part of the renovations made to the second floor of Moore Hall.

A conference room and storage space were also new additions.

by CMU’s Program Prioritization Process, raising the budget for equipment. This money was also used to finance the upgrade, which took all summer.

-Staff Reporter Austin Stowe contributed to this report university@cm-life.com

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EDITORIAL | Shapiro’s retirement could bring opportunity

Anamaria Dickerson Staff Reporter

Honey Boo Boo captured my heart She’s the curly-haired blonde girl who we’ve seen compete in pageants on TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras.

But on Aug. 8, we saw “Honey Boo Boo,” also known as Alana Thompson, grace us with her presence elsewhere on her very own television show called “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” When I first saw commercials previewing the series premiere, I thought to myself there is no way I am going to watch it. I thought it looked ridiculous and couldn’t even understand why TLC would create such a show.

However, soon enough, the show premiered, and I couldn’t help but watch at least a snippet of what all the hype was about. Not too long after I started watching, I kept asking myself why hadn’t I changed the channel already.

As I continued to watch, I couldn’t help but find humor in Alana’s family by realizing that this family really is that loud and in your face type. They are unlike any other family on TV or in real life that I have come across, and I think that’s what kept my eyes glued to the channel.

My original opinion was the show was going to be just plain stupid, rather than stupid funny, but it turns out I was wrong.

Watching Alana and her family made it pretty easy to tell they are not your average, everyday family.

They are a family who goes bobbing for pig’s feet at an annual “redneck” festival held near their hometown, had a pet pig named “Glitzy” and even wash their hair in their kitchen sink.

While I can’t say I would find enjoyable the things they do or even understand why they do some of those things, they are a family that has something about them that leaves some people, myself included, wondering and wanting more.

It’s a show I have a lovehate relationship with, but somehow Honey Boo Boo captured my attention and has made her way onto my TV every Wednesday night.

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ast year, 19 units of Central Michigan University declared no confidence in President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro.

The likes of which were not met well by Shapiro. In fact, his feelings were hurt, he told members of the Central Michigan Life Editorial Board late last week. Now, in his third year as provost, Shapiro is stepping down at the end of the year and going back to teaching.

It seems that now, in Ross’s third year as president, changes — both cosmetic and internal — are finally being made to the university’s administration. Renee Walker was replaced by communications expert Sherry Knight over the summer, changing the feel of Ross’ administration, and now Shapiro has announced his resignation a full eight months before the end of the 2012-13 academic year.

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But looking back at his tenure as provost — he was named to the interim post in 2007 and again in 2009-10 before taking over the job full-time in ‘10 — brings up a mixed track record.

In 2005, the CMU Promise — a guarantee that all students would pay a flat tuition rate — was put into effect. By summer of 2008, that promise was no more. Although Shapiro was still fairly new to the provost position at that time, he dealt with much of the backlash from students who just missed the promise.

The decision to open CMED brought a whirlwind of controversy for Shapiro. Despite efforts to pull the project off without a hitch, com-

plaints of hidden agendas, mystery budgets and a lack of communication brought a black cloud over CMED and the cloud still hasn’t passed over.

At the beginning of the 2011-12 academic year, Shapiro was faced with a faculty strike on the first day of classes. Although we didn’t hear much from him at this point, Ross had much to say that offended quite a few people.

Yet, through it all, Shapiro managed to gain approval from deans of some colleges, with comments like “I’m glad he’ll be around for the transition” and “Shapiro is a strong and powerful leader.”

While his track record might be mixed, his resignation should give the university plenty of time to find a replacement. That candidate, who might be looked at from the inside, should also have strong qualifications but also provide a breath of fresh air to the campus community.

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Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

Finding a Happy ‘Medium’ How do we say goodbye to the ones we love? How can we come to grips with never seeing someone we care about ever again?

I have a hard time thinking about death and life after death, because I have been lucky enough to have not yet lost someone that is close to me.

While experiencing what was probably close to the laziest Sunday I have ever had, I got wrapped up on the couch watching a marathon of the show “Long Island Medium” on TLC. It is about a lady who can communicate with the dead. She can be anywhere at anytime, and people that have passed on will talk to her and tell her to let their family and friends know they are OK or handle unfinished business.

It seriously blows my mind that she can be in the middle of a public place and feel spirits so heavily that she has to stop people and tell them their loved ones are trying to contact them.

I know, you are probably thinking that this show is crap, and it is a staged show, and I am just gullible. But, she knows things that only that person who has passed would know, and when the loved ones react, it is always tearful and intimate.

Some people think that spirits or souls cannot be seen or heard.

I have always been a believer, but this show made me even more interested in what can happen.

Death is a fear of mine, because the unknown is a scary thought. I am so incredibly close with my family, and it scares me everyday to know that one day I won’t be able to pull out my cell phone or stop over and hear their voices.

The fact that some people have the talent to hear and interpret voices from those who have passed on is truly amazing to me. If you have an extra half hour sometime, I suggest turning on “Long Island Medium” and seeing what it’s all about, because if you’re afraid like me, you might find it reassuring to know that it’ll all be OK in the end.

Central Michigan Life [COMMENTS] Online Reader comments on Sept. 9 “Take Back the Tap continues effort to ban bottled water on campus“ story

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“I swore off bottled water long ago. Never looked back.”

-Scott Urbanowski “I’m not recycling!!! I buy small bottles of water of Ice Mountain at Meijer. I drink the water and then toss away the plastic bottle in the garbage. I’m not carrying stupid water bottles around looking for tap water. College students don’t care about the environmental impact of beer cans and beer bottles and the tremendous harm they’re doing smoking cigarettes, dope, doing drugs. I don’t recycle anything. You think Obama or Biden carry around a water bottle looking for tap water??

Everytime I drink a plastic bottle of water, I dump it and open a new one. Everytime I do that, I keep the plastic bottle workers working!!!! Those

folks have families and need a paycheck. Why do you folks want to put the plastic bottled water out of business?”

-michmediaperson “Literally thousands of products are packaged in plastic. (Which by the way is 100% recyclable where facilities exist) So, why target only bottled water? This student organization should look into what makes up a Coca-cola. It’s main ingredient is WATER plus sugar, food coloring and acid - packaged in a plastic bottle. That being said, why are plastic bottles of acidic sugar water OK to be sold on your campus, but bottles of plain water are not OK? Furthermore, take a look at the difference between a plastic water bottle and a soda bottle. Due to the acidic make up of a soda, it must be packaged in a thicker bottle with a thicker cap in order for the soda to not eat through the container.

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I truly admire college students who are eager to make

changes to our environmental impact, however I feel they are a little misguided.

Instead of trying to ban all of the thousands of products packaged in plastic across the world, why not instead focus on the need and importance of recycling ALL recyclable materials.

The truth is, the bottled water companies are not to blame for plastic bottles that end up in trash cans across this campus. The blame truly falls back on your students - who were too lazy or just didn’t care enough to recycle the bottle.”

-Katie Online Reader comments on Sept. 9 “COLUMN: Keep on staying classy, CMU“ story “I will never forget my experience at MSU in 2009; I don’t want to go into detail, but it was far from “classy” and “humane”. The issue isn’t just within the CMU student population, and you know it.”

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“Although what you say might be true, I think that more credit needs to be given to those that do exemplify the Chippewa Spirit and what it truly means to be an active member of this campus. Although we feel shame for those few who made a poor example of CMU, we must also shine light on those do-gooders i.e. alumni turnout, donors, the Chippewa Marching Band, etc... The Marching Band is there through thick and thin no matter what the circumstances. They represent what it means to be a Chippewa.”

-Derek “Is this a joke? Did you write about how hurt we were when we got pelted with pennies at the last Michigan State game in East Lansing? Are you foolish enough to think that Central was the only one that made racist comments? Have you even BEEN to a Central tailgate? I am ashamed of YOU.” -Kat Brennan

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experience and immerse yourself in another culture is a great way to learn.

It is definitely a unique experience to include in job interviews or on your resumé,” Coller said.

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bailout and the Bush tax cuts for millionaires that sent the deficit skyrocketing,” Stabenow campaign spokesman Cullen Schwarz said in a statement.

Hoekstra revealed the website on Saturday in a speech at the Michigan Republican Party convention in Grand Rapids, where he blamed Stabenow for a tepid economic recovery.

“She has followed (U.S. Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid, she has followed Barack Obama, and they’re leading the worst economic recovery in U.S. history,” the former west Michigan congressman said.

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Republican Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra is launching a new online ad campaign branding Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., as “the worst senator Michigan’s ever had.”

The Hoekstra campaign unveiled a new website Saturday: www.worstsenator. com. The website features a comedic two-minute advertisement that shows a family arguing over the dinner table, aboutwhich reasons prove Stabenow is “the worst senator.”

“She never met a tax increase she didn’t like,” one of the characters says.

The ad also criticizes Stabenow for voting for the Affordable Care Act, raising the debt ceiling and President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan and blames her for wasteful government spending.

The Stabenow campaign called the ad “silly and hypocritical.”

“Hoekstra is the one who voted for the Wall Street

website, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in the early stages. It will eventually expand to television.

Ad campaigns never come cheap nowadays, and Hoekstra’s new ads are no exception. Campaign staffers estimate that the “Worst Senator” campaign will cost up to $100,000.

Hoekstra’s Super Bowl ad featuring a young Asian woman speaking broken English and thanking Stabenow for borrowing money from China was widely criticized as racist and culturally insensitive.

The most recent Stabenow/Hoekstra poll, conducted

by Democratic-leaning poll firm Public Policy Polling, gives Stabenow, seeking her third term as senator, a ninepoint edge among likely voters, 50 percent to 41 percent.

The Real Clear Politics polling average shows Stabenow with a nearly six-point lead, and she has trailed in only two polls dating back to December 2011.

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Brown said the weekend was probably a little busier than expected.

“We had a busy day.

We didn’t break any sale records or anything,” said Todd Gurzick, owner of Todd’s Party Store, 3965 E. River Road. “I guess with the numbers people were saying going in, we prepared for more than we had.”

Gurzick said the store had plenty of beer but did run out of pizza.

“We’ve never ran out of pizza before. There were a lot of hungry kids,” he said.

“I think at best we saw everyone just had a good time around here.”

He said the busiest time he had was late afternoon on Saturday.

On the other side of town, Mission Party Store general manager Peter Shamoun said the MSU weekend was just marginally better than Western Weekend in 2010.

“We anticipated a huge weekend, but it wasn’t what we expected,” Shamoun said. “The actual day of the game was a little better. I was happy but I was disappointed, because it wasn’t what I expected.”

Shamoun said because of the new tailgate rules in effect at CMU, coupled with this season’s home football schedule, he has already seen an increase in business compared to last

“The atmosphere was great, everyone was fired up,” she said. “… It’s pretty much what we expected.

We could have taken in more, but it was fun.”

Germain said there were a few more people coming to eat at Stan’s than normal, but she said many of her regulars didn’t come to eat there this weekend.

“We didn’t run out of anything, and that’s great because on a normal weekend we typically do,” she said. “I think my regulars knew what it was going to be like, so they stayed away.

It was all college kids.”

Saturday and Sunday, business was crowded from open until the afternoon, Germain said.

“We were busy all the way up until about 1 p.m., and then it died down,” she said.

Saturday morning, the CMU football team came in and she got a picture of them.

“We love having the kids here,” Germain said.

Other downtown locations were also keeping busy.

The Brass Café, 128 S. Main St., was a popular location this weekend, said to server Bridgitte Brown.

“We had a pretty busy evening, and we had a lot of alumni from both teams.

It was pretty busy for a Saturday,” she said.

season.

“This year already, compared to last year, I’m doing extremely better,” he said.

Rich Swindlehurst, coowner of the Blue Gator, 106 Court St. and owner of Midori, 105 E. Broadway St., said his businesses remained consistently busy.

“Saturday (at Blue Gator) was terrific. It was busy all day. Once the game started, a lot of people came in until about 2 a.m.,” he said.

He said for the past year, he has been hearing about this game and prepared a lot.

“We heavily prepped and prepared for it, and it was rewarding. Everything lived up,” he said. “I wish that Michigan State would play here every year... Or even every other year like Western. It was a lot of fun.”

“Overall I think it was a great weekend for the entire city,” Swindlehurst said. “We had a very great turnout Friday night (at Midori).”

Swindlehurst said Saturday crowds were lower than normal, and he said he thinks it’s because the restaurant is more fine dining and a lot of people aren’t going out somewhere nicer to eat during tailgate.

He thinks the turnout was what they expected.

“It was kind of how we planned on it being, and it turned out the exact same way,” he said.

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Scouts get good look at baseball talent

By Jeff Papworth Staff Reporter

Ashley Miller/Staff Photographer

Professional scouts from various Major League Baseball organizations hold up radar guns while athletes from the CMU baseball program display their skills during the annual Scout Day Sunday afternoon at Theunissen Stadium. “It’s a great opportunity for the scouts to evaluate the whole team at once,” Clyde Weir of the Detroit Tigers said. “It’s very valuable.”

Weekends in the fall are normally saved for football games, but it was the Central Michigan baseball team taking the field Sunday.

On a bright-skied afternoon, the team held its annual scout day.

Major League Baseball scouts from the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox sat behind home plate, most with a radar gun in one hand, pencil in the other and a clipboard on their laps.

A couple others were lingering around Theunissen Stadium to get a glimpse of the Chippewas.

“Our biggest thing today, obviously, was we wanted to showcase some of our guys to the scouts that were here,”

head coach Steve Jaksa said.

“That’s always a good thing, to give them the opportunity.”

Jaksa would not pinpoint anyone in particular that was impressive. Rather, he spoke about how it was just another day to try to achieve the consistency he wants from his team.

“I’m never going to be the one to single out certain guys,” he said. “I was more interested in the number of quality at-bats we had, how guys took certain pitches in certain locations, and I want guys to understand what I want from them.”

There were a number of activities for scouts to evaluate the players.

They had a 6o-yard dash, which Nick Regnier finished the fastest with a time of 6.71.

Other activities included batting practice, an infield session and a couple pseudo-innings to show how the pitchers would do in game action.

Detroit Tigers scout Clyde Weir said college scout days give him a chance, not to hone in on a player, but to look at everyone before the season.

“It’s just a chance to see them repeat their skills,” he said. “A workout like this, they have to repeat the exercise over and over.”

Jordan Adams, who was not satisfied with his performance, played first and third base.

He said practicing with the scouts in the stands wasn’t any different and that the team was just trying to improve.

“I did not perform as well as I would have liked to,” Adams said. “But it’s week one. We’ve got a couple more weeks of fall ball. The season is still a long ways off, so we’ve got a lot of ways to improve.” sports@cm-life.com

Soccer at Purdue today, Boilermakers play a similar style like MAC teams

By Emily Grove Staff Reporter

Facing Purdue today will be the last chance for the women’s soccer team to iron out any remaining kinks before they move on to their Mid-American Conference schedule.

Head coach Neil Stafford said MAC teams will play similar to Purdue, making this week’s game a preview of weeks to come.

“Purdue will play in the shape of what we would see most often in the MAC, so to have this as the last nonconference game is great,” Stafford said. “It’s great to be going against a formation we will learn something from.”

Stafford predicts strong, physical and organized play from the Boilermakers.

“I think Purdue has a solid team,” he said. “I think teams can always surprise

you with set pieces, throwins and corner kicks.”

CMU and Purdue have identical 4-2-1 records going into today’s competition at Purdue.

Purdue is led in scoring by junior midfielder Jordan Pawlik with six of the team’s 15 goals this season. She’s also recorded two assists.

Boilermaker junior goalkeeper Clara Kridler has 26 saves this season – just one more than CMU senior goal-

keeper Stefanie Turner.

Both CMU and Purdue have faced West Virginia this season. The Boilermakers tied the Mountaineers 2-2, while the Chippewas defeated them earlier this season, 2-0.

Purdue often strikes first, gaining early leads this season. They’ve scored six goals in the first 45 minutes of action, while allowing just two.

Sophomore goalkeeper

Grace Labrecque said CMU needs to come out strong offensively.

“As a team, we need to offensively capitalize on opportunities to score,” Labrecque said. “If we can put together a full 90 minutes and stay sharp, we should be OK.” Stafford said he needs the team to be clinical with goal scoring and continue possessing the ball.

Determining the best

Freshman quarterback Cooper Rush doesn’t say much in the locker room.

But on the field, he lets his play do the talking.

Passing-game coordinator Morris Watts said Rush is quiet around his teammates, but that does not prevent them from noticing how well he can throw the ball.

“Coop doesn’t say much, but they really like him,” Watts said. “And our whole football team, when they started seeing him throw the ball, started saying he can really throw it. He just gets the ball there and it’s on target.”

The 6-foot-3-inch, 216-pound quarterback will be redshirted this season, but Watts said it is comforting to know Central Michigan has another young quarterback waiting in the wings.

“It’s always great,” he said.

“Anytime you get a good freshman recruit coming in and you look at him and say, ‘hey, we’re getting what we thought we were getting,’

“We think we rang the bell again with another outstanding recruiting class with not only some talented young players but some very good young men as well.”

Dan Enos, head football coach then it’s a good feeling.”

The Chippewas recruited Rush out of Lansing Catholic High School where he led his team to a 13-1 record and a state runner-up finish in 2011.

He was a three-year starter and finished his high school career with 7,248 passing yards and 80 touchdowns. He also rushed for 1,438 yards and 27 touchdowns.

“He can flat out throw the ball,” head coach Dan Enos said. “I can only imagine four years from now when he’s got his strength and he’s 230-pounds. He’s got great mechanics, great touch; he’s very accurate.”

Rush said he is feeling more comfortable every day and is getting acclimated to the college game.

“I’m just starting to get

the hang of things,” he said.

“As a freshman, just trying to come in and learn and learn and learn, and right now, to keep improving every day is important. And through camp, I definitely think I got better.”

The other quarterbacks have also played a role in his development.

“Those guys have been really helpful,” Rush said. “All the quarterbacks are really good guys, and we all kind of help each other out.”

Enos said Rush has not been the only freshman the coaching staff has been impressed with.

“We think we rang the bell again with another outstanding recruiting class with not only some talented young players but some very good young men as well,” Enos said at CMU media

day. “Obviously, we’re not going to have to have ten of them play this year like we did last year because of where we are as a program, but I’ve been very impressed with the ability that they’ve shown, their ability to learn what we are doing and also their ability to compete.”

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Max and Emily’s as it appeared in 1992.

Max and Emily’s is located at 125 E. Broadway St. in downtown Mount Pleasant.

Some city businesses have withstood test of time

By Sean Bradley | Senior Reporter

Mount Pleasant in the early 1900s was a lot different than the Mission Street-led shopping district students drive by throughout the week.

Surviving the Great Depression due to an oil boom in Isabella County, the area continued on into the latter half of the 20th Century with hard-working businesses and people manning the storefronts.

Jack Westbrook, a Mount Pleasant historian who has authored eight books on the city, said the city’s exports changed quickly from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.

“There was more small manufacturing and farming until the 20s, when an oil field was discovered,” Westbrook said. “A year later, the (Great) Depression hit and there was an oil boom so a lot of people came here. There are a lot of places you’ll see in the present day that show the arrival of the influence of the oil industry.”

Some businesses from that era still stand today in the same location in which they began.

The New Yorker Children’s Shop, 117 S. Main St., currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, has been in business since 1937. Current owner Jack Karr’s mother and father began the busi-

ness. Beginning as a women’s clothing store, it transitioned to carrying children’s clothing and other specialty gifts in 1974. Karr and his wife, Judy, both graduated from CMU in 1970.

“We’re just going to keep going as long as we can,” Karr said. “There’s been a lot of changes in the retail business. We’ve been fighting the trend of larger retail businesses.”

As an influx of larger businesses come to town, students’ attitudes have changed about the downtown, now often favoring Mission Street.

Lowell senior Josh Wallner said he goes downtown for the bar scene but occupies different places for other needs.

“I don’t know anyone who’s down there on a daily basis,” Wallner said. “People are usually more apt to go to

stores on Mission Street or some of the busier areas.”

Some students think there isn’t enough downtown to make them go there.

“I don’t think downtown really has anything to attract students,” Brighton junior Sarah Hayes said. “I’ve never heard anyone say ‘Hey, let’s go downtown.’”

White Lake junior Ashley Tessman, a former Max and Emily’s employee, said she believes the downtown has more to offer than most think.

“It gives CMU students the opportunity to experience college in a fun, artistic way, and it is a great place for shopping, nightlife and job opportunities,” Tessman said.

Even with competition from Mission Street, downtown Mount Pleasant still has a lot to offer and tries to stay involved with the com-

munity and university.

Tim Brockman, owner of restaurant Max and Emily’s, 125 E. Broadway St., said the downtown is clean, vibrant and tries to stay active in the community. Max and Emily’s puts on musical entertainment during the summer with their Summer Concert Series, featuring The Verve Pipe and Jeff Daniels in the past.

“We try and do things as a downtown to keep it active and to keep it alive,” Brockman said.

He said the city’s commissioners and Downtown Development Office have helped to maintain the downtown.

“It all works together,” he said. “We have little businesses that all believe in what we’re doing. It’s not just one of us, it’s all of us.” studentlife@cm-life.com

Downtown Mount Pleasant living offers quiet areas, new experiences, culture

By Melissa Beauchamp Senior Reporter

Living in downtown Mount Pleasant is as close as some students can get to the big town feel they crave in this small town environment.

West Bloomfield senior Daniel Peterman said he took the move from crazy to quaint in November 2011 when he moved into his house downtown on Main Street.

After starting off his freshman year in one of the 22 on-campus residence halls living in close quarters with three other roommates, Peterman needed more space. He lived in the Village of Bluegrass, 4300 Collegiate Way, for a year before making the move downtown.

“It’s the quieter side of Main,” he said. “It isn’t as crazy as living in Deerfield or Bluegrass.”

Peterman said living downtown gives him a newfound sense of independence that doesn’t exist in the dorms or apartments.

“It’s one of the places that have reasonable rent without a roommate,” he said.

The only complaint, Peterman said, is that he is without air conditioning, a garbage disposal or a washer and dryer.

“Besides that, I love it,” he said.

Flint junior Kyle Kenny said he found his downtown bungalow above Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway St., on Craigslist.

Kenny said he is hooked on the downtown atmosphere that allows him to walk to bars, restaurants and stores. He hasn’t taken a cab in years.

“Location is everything,” he said. “It’s nice being able to walk to parks.”

Kenny said he wakes up, and it’s a new breath of fresh air every day.

“There’s always something going on,” he said.

“It’s fun to look out the window and see people walk by.”

Kenny said his vintagestyle apartment is like “Sex in the City, Mount Pleasant style.”

“It’s an entirely different world downtown,” he said.

His walls are painted orange and blue with an old, rustic feel, and his ceilings are 20-feet tall.

Although he pays about $600 a month for his rent, not including utilities, he said the price is worth it.

Wherever Kenny ends up in the future, he wants to be absorbed in the culture and variety downtown living offers.

Flat Rock senior Keith Guyot said living above the Basketree, 112 E. Broadway St., is a new side of Mount

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CMU alum Emma Kidder, left, and Flint junior Kyle Kenny play with Kenny’s cat Marley Tuesday evening in his downtown apartment on Broadway St.

Pleasant that many people don’t hear about.

“There are so many things I wouldn’t be exposed to if it wasn’t right on my front porch,” he said.

Overlooking Broadway,

Guyot said the view is the best he can get for $350 a month.

Living downtown is a better representation of the entire community, he said.

Although there are mostly

students living around him above the various businesses, he has interacted with the community as a whole.

Guyot said walking downstairs to get Jimmy John’s is a huge temptation

he has to overcome.

“I’ve started cooking more,” he said. “The urge is there, but you can’t (order out) for the sake of money.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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Milford senior Jessie Lincoln, left, talks with her friend Grosse Pointe Woods senior Mary Johnson Monday night at The Bird Bar and Grill, 223 S. Main St.

The exterior of the Blackstone bar, 212 W. Michigan St. in downtown Mount Pleasant. “(The Blackstone is) pretty casual and laid back, which makes for a good atmosphere to let loose,” Coldwater senior Carla Braymond said.

Downtown bars have plenty to offer in ways of food, drinks, entertainment

By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

A trip downtown can lead to a bar crawl if you’re ready to let loose after a long week of classes.

Out of the bars offered in downtown Mount Pleasant, many students seem to choose one and stick to it.

But if you’re looking to try somewhere or something new, check out the offerings of each bar conveniently located in walking distance of each other.

BLACKSTONE BAR

RUBBLE’S BAR

THE BIRD BAR & GRILL

BLUE GATOR SPORTS PUB & GRILL

Blackstone Bar, located at 212 W. Michigan St., is one of students’ favorite places to let go of their busy schedules and enjoy a couple drinks.

“They are pretty casual and laid back, which makes for a good atmosphere to let loose,” Coldwater senior Carla Braymond said.

A favorite among students is the blue fish bowl drink and free pool on Wednesdays.

Right around the block on 112 W. Michigan St. is Rubble’s Bar. Brighton senior Stephanie Brusich said she loves this bar for its entertainment.

“They have a stage and live music with bands often, which is my favorite part,” she said.

This bar is cash only, so if you’re looking for a night out there, make a stop at the ATM on the way.

What seems to be a Chip favorite in downtown Mount Pleasant, located at 223 S. Main St., is The Bird. Fan favorites are $2 doubles on Thursday and happy hour on Friday from 4 to 9 p.m. with 75-cent drafts.

“It’s a popular place, so there are a lot of people there, but it’s still relaxing and it’s a fun time,” Lexington senior Kayla Sullivan said. “Plus, cheap beer.

What’s not to love?”

Make a stop at 106 N. Court St., and you’ll be acquainted with a pub-style bar. Whether you might be interested in a cajun-style entree or a night of drinks and dancing, this place offers both.

“I’ve never had drinks there, but the food is really good,” Brusich said.

“The Gator,” as many students refer to it as, is not open on Monday, but any

For Mount Pleasant townies, a college life is the same setting as high school

By Adam Niemi Senior Reporter

Going to college is a basic three-point acclimation to a new lifestyle: Move away from home, meet new friends and work toward a degree.

Unless you’re a ‘townie.’

For some self-described Mount Pleasant ‘townies,’ the only part of college life that differs from high school is working toward a degree.

Alexia Torres, a 2010 CMU graduate and eighth grade teacher at West Intermediate Middle School, said college was about commuting to the classroom from her childhood home.

She said that she has, however, come across people who have called her a ‘townie’ in a condescending tone. But for Torres, who

teaches the same class she once took in the same school as a young student, staying home after high school and attending CMU was about more than studying for exams in her childhood bedroom.

“I’m really close with my family,” she said.

Stephanie Jackson, a fifthyear senior at CMU, is also a self-described ‘townie.’

She said she tells people, because the term clears any confusion people have as to where she’s from.

“People automatically assume I’m from out-of-town because I go to college here, instead of also being from here,” Jackson said.

The acclimation of college life does not translate with all townies.

Andrew Smith, a Mount Pleasant resident, is not very

particular about the CMU students moving back each fall. During the summer, he said, the traffic is light and easy to deal with, and the parties are quiet, if there are any at all.

“The silence of summer is over,” he said. “But, I make more money at my job.”

Smith said he works for Sound Productions & CrazyTrain party buses based in Clare. The more students in town, he said, the better it is for the local economy. He used last weekend as an example when Michigan State played CMU in football, which brought about 50,000 people to town.

“If they could have State play here every year, that would be the best thing ever for this area,” Smith said.

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“A different crowd goes downtown; it’s a little more mature,” Braymond said.

There is something for everyone with a variety of bars and entertainment, but don’t worry if you’re still looking for that hometown feel, there is something for you, too.

“There is a homey and welcoming vibe that you get downtown,” Brusich said. studentlife@cm-life.com

City Commission hires company to fix sidewalks

By Emily Grove Staff Reporter

Mount Pleasant sidewalks will be getting a makeover starting Sept. 17 as part of the 2012 Sidewalk Replacement project.

At Monday’s City Commission meeting, commissioners approved the contract for Robbin Harsh Excavating, Inc. of Clare to carry out the work at a cost not to exceed $45,000.

The plan is a way to keep sidewalks in overall good condition, City Manager Kathie Grinzinger said.

“Each year, we attempt to manage the complaints people can call in about the sidewalk conditions near their house, such as heaving sidewalks or tree roots pushing the concrete up,” Grinzinger said.

Sidewalks are not going to be constructed in new places; the plan specifically focuses on fixing already existing sidewalks by removing and replacing damaged areas.

Funds are available in the sidewalk replacement budget for the project, which is part of the ongoing Capital Improvement Plan.

A list of sidewalk locations undergoing work is supposed to be posted on the city’s website later this week.

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The commission received funding requests from various city departments for the 2012 Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal two-percent grants.

Commissioners were asked to rank their top five choices by the next meeting. metro@cm-life.com

Post-convention poll bounce leaves President Obama as the favorite for now

By John Irwin Elections Coordinator

A tight presidential race has loosened up a bit as multiple polls show President Barack Obama opening up his lead against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Gallup’s national tracking poll has Obama with a 49 percent to 44-percent lead over Romney as of Monday, a notable jump from the onepoint advantage he had before the Democratic National Convention and the largest lead he has held since July.

The Gallup tracking poll is an average of individual polls conducted over a seven-day period, which means Obama’s lead in that poll might further increase over the next couple days.

Rasmussen Reports, which also does a tracking poll, shows Obama with a 50 percent to 45 percent lead, notable since the president has not held an advantage that large in the poll since March 17.

Additionally, a CNN/ORC poll released Monday puts the president ahead with a six-point lead nationally, 52 percent to 46 percent, a big jump over the 48-48 tie the poll revealed before the DNC. “It remains to be seen whether the bump will last through November, but it does tend to blunt the opposition

arguments,” political science professor James Hill said.

“The Republicans need to make a new argument to get undecided voters’ attention again.”

Romney’s post-Republican National Convention bounce in the polls was small at best.

Most tracking polls showed no statistically significant movement in his favor, but the Romney campaign should not be too anxious right now, political science professor Delbert Ringquist said.

“Obviously, President Obama must be pleased, but

it is far too early to worry about a few percentage-point bounce,” Ringquist said. “It does indicate that you probably are exciting your base ... at this point. Will this bump stick for the president? The debates in three weeks are likely to be major factors.”

The Romney campaign dismissed the polls.

“While some voters will feel a bit of a sugar-high from the conventions, the basic structure of the race has not changed significantly,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said in a memo. “The reality

of the Obama economy will reassert itself as the ultimate downfall of the Obama Presidency, and Mitt Romney will win this race.”

Nevertheless, Nate Silver of the New York Times’ FiveThirtyEight blog, which analyzes polls from around the country and projects what the outcome of the election will be, currently puts the president at roughly 80 percent odds to win the election, the highest number he has ever had. metro@cm-life.com

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Matchbox Twenty’s ‘North’ brings back a lot of band’s old sound

By Sam Easter Staff Reporter

Preppy fall style with Marissa Kisiel

By Anamaria Dickerson | Staff Reporter

Why she chose this outfit: It reminds her of fall and she likes that season.

Troy sophomore Marissa Kisiel dresses for the kickoff of the fall season by pairing a classic plaid shirt and white shorts to balance out for the warm weather while walking on campus.

Favorite accessory and color she likes to wear: Michael Kors watch, earrings and the color gold.

Fashion inspiration: Vogue magazines and the Lauren Conrad collection.

She also enjoys the preppy look of Ralph Lauren.

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Matchbox Twenty’s latest album, “North,” comes after a five-year break from the recording studio and 2007’s “Exile on Mainstream.”

Released on Sept. 4, the album offers listeners the band’s classic no-frills hard rock sound (diehard fans rest assured) but with new musical flavors around the edges.

“She’s So Mean”, the single release from June, is a no-surprises hard rock tune, leading off with an upbeat guitar hook and heavy drum riffs before a high-flying chorus. The overall sound is standard Matchbox Twenty, reminiscent of the guitar-driven feel of 2007’s “Let’s See How Far We’ve Come.”

“I Believe in Everything” has the same classic MB20 feel; it doesn’t sound overproduced, and, if there are extra guitar tracks, they’re hiding pretty well.

There are no fancy tricks, and there’s nothing to hide. It’s just good old 1990s/2000s guitar rock.

While the band spends only a few tracks on developing a new sound, they do restate their old ideas in a new way across many parts of the album.

Although “English Town” has a classic hard-rock chorus, the soft piano texture on the track appears to be Matchbox’s nod to a changing musical environment, a translation of their original 90s sound into a more present-day context.

On no other track is the band’s stylistic experimentation more evident than “Put Your Hands Up.” Moods move toward upbeat and electric, while the chorus’ funk-flavored groove features a sound that wouldn’t be out of place next to Maroon 5’s latest work or even in the

club. The rest of the track relies heavily on electric effects.

The same new ideas can be found throughout the album. “How Long?” has a staccato electric organ and piano throughout and a chorus that lives just next door to modern country — if Rob Thomas sang it with an accent (or played steel guitar), it would almost be a hard country song.

“Radio” feels like a mashup of Little Richard and 90s rock.

Overall, the album is a good listen with a good amount of stylistic exploration. However, “North” is very much a “Matchbox Twenty” album in that for all its use of different genres, it stays simple, direct and true to the band’s sound. For those looking for something straightforward, this is for you. For those looking for something more complex, challenging and edgy, there are other albums to be had.

That’s not to say the album isn’t worth a listen;

‘NORTH’

★★★★★ w Artist: Matchbox Twenty w Genre: Rock the classic 90s feel of the band is always pleasant.

“She’s So Mean,” “I Believe in Everything,” and “Put Your Hands Up” are fun and catchy and are sure to engage audiences in just the way Matchbox is looking for.

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Lecrae’s “Gravity” combines faith, rap with diverse range of topics

By Sarah Donetti Staff Reporter

“I pen songs for the perishin’ and the parishioners,” raps Lecrae on the title track of his sixth studio album “Gravity.”

The native Houston hip-hop artist has already been known for several years in Christian rap and hip-hop circles but only recently made a splash in the mainstream music world when his mixtape “Church Clothes” released online in May to over 100,000 downloads within two days. “Gravity” is likewise predicted to show early success by debuting high on the Billboard 200 this week.

Lecrae’s album begins right away with strong orchestral backing, dramatic violins and an electric guitar solo to add to the build-up of power in opener “The Drop (Intro).”

The beats produced here pulsate strength, providing a strong foundation for each track — most notably in the case of “I Know,” “Tell the World” and the Caribbeaninfluenced “Violence.”

Nine of the album’s 15 listed tracks have featured on them, and for the most part hold up and complement, Lecrae’s rapping. From Novel’s soulful feature as the hook for “Walk With Me” to Rudy Currence’s singing and piano matched up on “Lucky Ones,” the features allow for a bigger sense of artistry on the album as a whole.

Lyrically, Lecrae covers a wide range of topics familiar to frequent rap listeners: the risks of fame on “Free From It All” and “Power Trip,” the fruits of destruction in “Gravity” and “Violence,” and calling out rappers for pretending to live a life they don’t in “Fakin’.”

While “Fakin’” manages to be the weakest of the tracklist for lacking that last touch of raw emotion and power that the remaining tracks do, each track will have at least one memorable line for a listener.

Lecrae does not abandon his Christian roots at all on the

album, as his faith and God make many appearances on tracks like “Walk With Me,” in which he seeks divine help when his world is crumbling apart, “Free From It All” where God keeps the rapper grounded from relying too much on fame, and “Tell the World,” which praises Jesus for turning lives around.

Unlike what is often expected on Christian music products, though, there is a sense of sincerity and not triteness when Lecrae makes his faith known. References to God feel natural and in place with the rest of the subject matter he raps about. This is perhaps exemplified in “Mayday,” where the first verse is given to featured artist Big K.R.I.T. as he reminisces about the role faith both has and hasn’t played in his life. Almost in response to concerns more conservative fans might have with sharing the track with a message like this, Lecrae raps about his own imperfection: “When I hear K.R.I.T. confessing I respect him/Cause most of us be lying like our lives don’t need perfecting.”

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Students flock to buy costumes as many of area’s Halloween stores open early

By Jessica Fecteau Student Life Editor

Although the fall season is blooming more and more everyday, some Halloween stores took the initiative to open while people were still in summer vacation mode.

While it is more than a month away until Oct. 31, stores are already open looking to sell decorations and costumes. Spirit Halloween, 2135 S. Mission St., opened last Friday, and manager Jodi Cantu said the store has been busy every day since.

“This is actually our first year in Mount Pleasant,” Cantu said. “We had a lot of great sales that lead to a good turnout, even though Halloween is far away.”

Grand Rapids native Christy Stauffer said she enjoys Halloween stores being open with a lot of time prior to Halloween.

“I don’t think it’s that bad, because I don’t even know what I want to be for Halloween yet,” the junior said. “If I can walk around and look at all the costumes, I can start brainstorming.”

Cantu said Spencer’s Gifts owns Spirit Halloween, and its corporate offices determine where and when its stores open.

“We had a specific age market, so that’s why we decided to open a location here in Mount Pleasant,” she said.

Cantu said compared to other Spirit Halloween locations, people seem to come in at a steady pace to buy Halloween costumes whether it’s in advance or right before Halloween.

“I think we have (many people) at both times,” she said. “I think people come in the minute it opens because they love the holiday, and then there’s the people who wait and bombard us.”

Kate Teneyck agrees and doesn’t find it out of the ordinary for Halloween stores to be open already.

“I usually make my costumes, but I go to the store to get ideas,” the Sault St. Marie freshman said. “The fact they’re open right now offers more ideas before all the costumes are gone.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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Flushing senior Morgan Foshee, left, helps Bronson senior Joe Barone (right) try on a Wonder Woman corset Monday afternoon in the Spirit Halloween store, 2135 S. Mission St. “I’m excited to have the stores open so early; it gives you a chance to get ideas going with your friends,” Barone said.

Program Board readies for Last Comic Standing winner Iliza Shlesinger this weekend in Plachta

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

Central Michigan University’s Program Board will be bringing in stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger to Platcha Auditorium this Saturday.

Shlesinger will be performing at 7 p.m. Saturday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. Admission is free.

Shlesinger is the winner of the sixth season of Last Comic Standing and is distinguished as not only the first woman to win the popular reality TV program but also is the youngest winner of the show.

Shlesinger is also the host of the syndicated dating show “Excused.”

Chelsea Kesller, Program Board public relations director, said Shlesinger’s

position as the youngest winner of Last Comic Standing is especially relatable to students.

“Iliza might have a major impact on students,” Kesller said. “I believe her story tells students to follow their dreams, that their ambitions are possible.”

Kessler said they decided to bring Lliza to CMU because of her unique story.

“We were planning to just show some type of comedy,” Kessler said. “But we decided to broaden that and find someone who students would relate to.”

Although Program Board does not have any specific estimations for the amount of students who will attend, due to student interest, they do anticipate a full house.

“There has been a high

“Iliza might have a major impact on students. I believe her story tells students to follow their dreams, that their ambitions are possible.”

Chelsea Kesller, Program Board public relations director amount of interest,” Kessler said. “We’ve met with a lot of students who have said they are very excited for the event.”

Program Board adviser Damon Brown said the group believes Shlesinger’s experience with Last Comic Standing makes her popular among students.

“She had a successful run on (that show),” Brown said. “We are allowing her to capitalize on that experience, and we feel that

experience makes her wellknown to students as well.”

Brown said Shlesinger is a continuation of the high-profile comedians that Program Board has continued to bring in.

“We always try to bring in comedians that are successful,” he said. “We want to bring in comedians who have big names. We feel that Iliza brings that to the stage.” studentlife@cm-life.com

CMU Science Café starting in October at Kaya Coffee

By Katelyn Sweet Staff Reporter

When most students think about having discussions of scientific matters, they likely picture a dull, stiff classroom lecture taking notes from a professor.

But biology faculty member Andrew Mahon has presented a new way to convey science explorations to students and the public by creating the CMU Science Café.

Beginning at 7 p.m. on Oct. 4, students and residents can join together at Kaya Coffee House, 1029 S. University Ave., to discuss science in a more cozy atmosphere.

This is the first year the Science Cafe is taking place in Mount Pleasant, but the idea is not unique to CMU as it has been developed within a national foundation across the country, guided by people in the field.

“A colleague of mine at another university was doing this sort of informal setting to discuss major science discoveries relevant to the public, so I wanted to give it a try,” Mahon said.

Topics of discussion are not set in stone, but topics expected to be discussed include global warming, genetically modified organisms and first up polarizing research given by Mahon about his travels to Antarctica.

“This is going to be a more comfortable setting, not stuffy science talk,” Mahon said. “I hope people can find it entertaining and ask questions. It’s not going to be a lecture.”

Joining Mahon in leading these discussions is biology faculty member Anna Monfils, who is equally as excited to be helping introduce this new way of conversing about science.

“This is going to be a more comfortable setting, not stuffy science talk.”

Andrew Mahon, Biology faculty “There are so many leaps and bounds in science that are a part of every decision we make, whether it has to do with our cars or the food we eat, and these are big issues that not just the experts should be talking about,” she said.

Deric Learman, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences faculty member, said the group can all share their outlook of bringing science into society.

“People can be trumped by what politics say is happening in science, but they have preconceived ideas,” Learman said. “We want to show the fun side and provide real science data.”

The science-enthused team is ready to bring a

new atmosphere of exciting science facts beyond what the general public might get from the media.

“People only read the headline, but the rest of the article is important, too,” Learman said.

There is no definite outcome for the Science Café or goal that must be reached.

These three science buffs are trying to reach out and show the general public and students that there is a more fun and lively way to learn about what is going on in the science world.

The Science Café will take place the first Thursday of every month at Kaya. university@cm-life.com

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Slow economy, cleaner energy cut into carbon emissions

By Ronald D. White Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — The amount of carbon dioxide emitted from energy production declined in the U.S. in 2011 — the third time in four years and the fourth time in the past six years that has happened, the Energy Department said Tuesday.

As has been the case in previous years, there wasn’t necessarily a lot of good economic news behind the positive result of reduced emissions.

The Energy Department, for example, cited slower economic growth as one factor in the 2.4-percent drop in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions last year.

During the global recession in 2008 and 2009, for example, carbon dioxide emissions from energy production in the U.S. fell by 10 percent. In 2011, high gasoline prices also resulted in Americans putting in fewer miles on the road.

Still, the Energy Department found it noteworthy that the 2011 decline in carbon emissions came during a period of economic growth, with U.S. gross domestic product rising by 1.8 percent that year.

“Because the decline in CO2 emissions occurred in a growing economy,” the Energy Department said.

“The carbon intensity of the economy fell. This was mainly a result of using less energy or, in some cases, using less carbon-intensive energy, to achieve the same economic output.”

The mild winter of 2011 was a factor, reducing the amount of energy needed to warm offices and homes, but the Energy Department also cited a significant shift to less carbon-intensive energy production.

“Electric power generation from natural gas, the least carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels, increased by three percent, while generation from coal declined by six percent,” the department said.

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When you like someone more than they like you The feeling you get when you meet someone and feel a strong mutual attraction beyond just friends can be a thrill.

But sometimes you can later find out what seemed like heavy flirting was really just this person’s way of being nice.

When you begin to have romantic feelings for someone and you’re wondering if he or she feels the same way back, it’s important to be upfront and ask but to also realize and accept the possibility of rejection.

Once you accept the possibility of rejection, it’s up to you to figure out exactly how the other person feels. If he or she feels the same as you, that’s great, but if they don’t, it’s something you have to accept.

If this person rejects you, it’s probably not because he or she doesn’t like you in general but because he or she just might not be into you as anything more than a friend. It could be they are trying to avoid adding romantic feelings into the mix as to not ruin a perfectly good friendship.

After you talk to this person about your feelings stretching beyond wanting to be friends, talk to him or her and find out if a relationship is possible later on down the road. If there isn’t, and you’re the one who likes that person more, accept it, but don’t let it get you down.

It might not be what you

wanted to hear but for the other person, it might be that they see everything as going great by being just friends. If you do feel down about not being liked as more than that, it’s important to keep busy with things that make you happy and to focus on yourself.

There is a possibility this person might just want to see something more out of you than just being someone who wants a relationship with him or her. Being able to be your own person and having separate interests from someone you like is something the other person tends to find attractive.

In time, things could change, especially if it’s a case of the other person wanting to see something more out you. So if he or she didn’t completely turn down the idea of being something more than friends in the future, then try again later and see where he or she stands.

If there isn’t the possibility of a romance happening later, then the best thing to do is to continue being friends. More times than not, friendships aren’t worth making awkward or have ending because one person wants something more out of it than the other.

Sometimes people are just better off as friends.

Someday, when the timing is right and when you find the right person, everything will fall into place. studentlife@cm-life.com

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College Republicans place 3,000 flags for 9/11 Towers, at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania, as well as the emergency responders who lost their lives trying to save others.”

Sept. 11 is not a day of politicking, Gill said.

“It is a day of united remembrance of those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks,” she said. “9/11 is a chance for our group to set aside our election year agendas, join with CMU and the greater Mount Pleasant community and honor those whose lives were unjustly taken 11 years CHUCk MIller /Staff PhotograPhEr ago.”

Jim Therrell, director of the Faculty Center for Innovative Teaching, and his wife Lan Not only has the CR orgasit eating lunch outside the Charles V. Park Library Tuesday afternoon looking at the nization brought this visual 9/11 memorial. “I admire the students who do all this,” Lan said. remembrance to campus, but they have shared it with the local golf community as well.

“Last year, since 9/11 fell on a Saturday, we set up the memorial at the Maple Megan gill, CR Chair and Traverse City junior Creek Golf Club in Shepherd for their annual Veterans and they encouraged their reminds people to take a Memorial Golf Outing,” Gill members and other commuminute and reflect on the said. “This year, we actually nity members to attend the events,” Harris said. “I will expanded our schedule to never forget where I was 11 include both events. The flags 9/11 events sponsored by the Volunteer Center, such as the years ago on Sept. 11.” were at the golf outing SaturCandle Light Vigil. day and next to the library on “The flags are a wonderful studentlife@cm-life.com Tuesday.” presence on campus which This registered student organization made effort to bring together the campus,

By Anna McNeill Staff reporter

Waking up and sticking 3,000 flags into the dew-covered ground of the Charles V. Park Library is a six-year tradition of the College Republicans.

Nearly 3,000 lives were lost due to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, and members of the registered student organization want people to remember.

“We believe it is important to pause and remember those who lost their lives in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,” said Megan Gill, CR Chair and Traverse City junior.

CR Communications Director Rodney Harris agrees with the purpose of the event.

“The event is a great way to honor everyone who was affected by 9/11,” the Canton junior said.

Gill and Harris, along with 14 other CR members, started setting up the flags at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.

“The memorial is assembled for students to see as they head to classes beginning at 8 a.m.,” Gill said. “We would like to remember those who fell in the World Trade

“It is a day of united remembrance of those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks. ”

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new PerForManCe ranKing wiLL HeLP Car SHoPPerS go green

By Debbie Arrington the Sacramento Bee (MCt)

Consumers looking for horsepower with “green” appeal might soon have a way to measure a new car’s performance along with its sustainability.

Unveiled Friday at the Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit at the raceway in Sonoma, Calif., the “Sustainable Performance Ranking Metric” is “designed to create a new standard in vehicle excellence that values both sustainability and performance,” accord-

ing to its creators.

An academic research team from Dominican University of California’s Green MBA program compiled the data used to form the matrix, which is still in its beta version.

Dr. Paul Erickson, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at University of California, Davis provided the engineering review.

For the rankings, sustainability was based on such factors as emissions and fuel mileage.

Performance included horsepower, torque and a

vehicle’s power-to-weight ratio. More factors will be added in as the matrix is refined, say its developers.

The matrix ranks the top-100 selling consumer vehicles, as well as popular hybrid and alternativefuel models. The highest ranking — 8.9 out of 10 — went to the electric Tesla Model S. The Sustainable Performance Summit is a day-long forum devoted to finding new ways to prompt more automotive sustainability, both for consumers and in motorsports.

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Free SeXuaL reSearCH PHone aPP SCrutiniZeD By LawyerS

By Monte Morin Los angeles times (MCt)

LOS ANGELES — Sex: There’s an app for that.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, along with Indiana University, have released a free smartphone application that allows users to anonymously report on sexual and intimate behavior.

The app, which is available to Apple and Android users, is intended to collect previously unreported experiences for the wellknown sexual behavior re-

search institute and make that information available online.

“People are natural observers. It’s part of being social, and using mobile apps is an excellent way to involve citizen scientists,” said Julia Heiman, institute director. “We expect to get new insights into sexuality and relationships today.

What do people notice, what are they involved in and what can they relate to us about their lives and their communities?”

Or at least that’s what researchers hoped to learn.

On Thursday, the institute announced that it was

pulling the plug — at least temporarily — on the project after the university’s lawyer raised concerns.

A note on the Kinsey Reporter website said that while the project had undergone extensive review before approval, a new general counsel wanted to “thoroughly vet the protocols” and ordered the service to be taken down.

“We sincerely apologize for the interruption and hope to have Kinsey Reporter up again very soon,” the announcement said.

It might not surprise some to learn that the idea raised eyebrows among

some school officials.

“Want to be a part of sex research? Now you can with the Kinsey Reporter App,” states a promotional video. “You can report on everything, from sexual activities to public displays of affection, whether it’s you or happening around you.”

After filling out a survey that asks if they are reporting on flirting, masturbation, oral sex, a fetish or other topics, users can log onto the Kinsey Reporter website, where the reports are aggregated and sorted by general geographic location. The surveys,

researchers said, would all be anonymous and would span the globe.

Researchers hoped to collect data on, among other areas, unreported sexual violence in different countries and the prevalence of condom use by region. According to the researchers, the information that app users provided would be transmitted using a secure, encrypted protocol. The only data collected would be a time stamp and a geographic location selected by the user.

These protections, according to researchers, classified the data as “ex-

empt from review,” allowing it to be shared without signed consent forms.

The app was a joint project between the Kinsey Institute and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, or CnetS, which is part of the university’s School of Informatics and Computing.

Both are based in Bloomington, Ind. The Kinsey Institute is named for biologist Alfred Kinsey, who conducted the world’s first large-scale surveys of sexual behavior in the late 40s and early 50s.

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JuDge teLLS twitter: turn oVer oCCuPy waLL Street MeSSageS

uniVerSity oF nortH CaroLina StuDentS Mourn SLain CLaSSMate

By John Riley Newsday (MCt)

NEW YORK — A judge in Manhattan on Tuesday threatened financial sanctions against Twitter if it doesn’t turn over the tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester in a case that has attracted concern from privacy groups.

Acting after an appellate court lifted a stay, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino told a lawyer for Twitter that it would have until Friday to comply with a June 30 order to turn over messages and other data from Malcolm Harris, who is charged with disorderly conduct.

“If you don’t, I will take a look at the last two quarterly earning statements,” Sciarrino said. “I can’t put a corporation in jail.”

“If you don’t, I will take a look at the last two quarterly earning statements. I can’t put a corporation in jail.”

Matthew Sciarrino, Manhatten Supreme Court Judge Prosecutors subpoenaed three months of records from the account of Harris. Sciarrino ruled that the material was relevant to countering an anticipated defense that Harris believed that an Oct. 1 march over the Brooklyn Bridge had been approved by police.

Twitter, with the support of groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has appealed two issues – arguing that Harris should have the right to object the subpoena, and that Sciarrino is allowing prosecutors to go on a fishing expedition. Harris has

filed suit to try to block the release.

Martin Stolar, Harris’ lawyer, said after the hearing that the judge’s order puts Twitter in a bind, because the company’s view is that complying would violate provisions of federal law, and he objected to prosecutors pressing the issue before an appeals court has ruled.

“I think it’s outrageous that the district attorney wants to prohibit Twitter from exercising their rights to appeal,” Stolar said.

A spokesman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment.

By Anne Blythe and Jeanna Smialek the News & observer (raleigh, N.C.) (MCt)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — As University of North CarolinaChapel Hill students gathered publicly to mourn the death of fellow student Faith Hedgepeth, investigators questioned people privately in a search for clues to the homicide.

Hedgepeth, a biology major from Hollister, N.C., was found dead at 11 a.m.

Friday inside an apartment at the View complex, which straddles Orange and Durham counties. Police acknowledged Monday they believe Hedgepeth was killed in a crime that was not random, but they were tight-lipped about the cause of death and whether they had suspects.

On a college campus where students typically are preparing for the life ahead, Hedgepeth’s death and the many unanswered questions about

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