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Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
Central Michigan Life
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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board of trustees
Approval of $22 million sought for medical school Brooks Hall renovation, campus improvement budget also on schedule By Jake May Senior Reporter
Building renovations and financial necessities flood the list of responsibilities Thursday for the Board of Trustees. And one building’s expansion will provide space for medical school operations at a higher cost. A proposal of a Health Professions Building expansion asks for an additional $22 million, atop $2 million approved at two previous board meetings.
The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in the President’s conference room in the Bovee University Center. A 62,000 gross-square-foot addition to the building will allot the university a projected budget not to exceed $24 million when added to the initial costs, as proposed by Interim University President Kathy Wilbur. “The (Liaison Committee for Medical Education) sets certain standards for accreditation,” said Sam Kottamasu, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees and ad-hoc medical school chairman. “This would meet those requirements.” The university aims to build a program to meet the LCME standards and qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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w Renew a 10-year-lease for office space on East Campus Drive for Special Olympics Michigan. Rent would be $141,000 for this school year.
silver certification. The design includes an auditorium, small group rooms, classrooms, a simulation suite, anatomy laboratories, clinical skills teaching spaces and a library resource area. If approved, the addition is expected for completion by spring 2012. Other agenda items Also on the Trustees’ agenda is a proposal to approve the campus improvement budget. The budget is proposed for
w Request to negotiate and execute an extension of a contract with Wolverine Power Marketing Cooperative beyond the university’s Dec. 31, 2011 termination date. WPMC anticipates a decline in wholesale energy market costs, and the university looks to purchase a contract at similar or possibly lower rates. w Four rooms in the new Education and Human Services building be named in honor of the following donors: Arlee and Peter Tampas; Judith French Smith and W. Sidney Smith; Myra and Tim Johnson; and multiple smaller donors. $4,563,803, about $200,000 less than the 2008-09 campus improvement budget. After an expected $1.15 million in facility construction and renovation and another $1.4 million on other campus
A family affair
MillerCoors, Anheuser-Busch vague on reason for boost By Jake May Senior Reporter
By Maryellen Tighe | Staff Reporter
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fter more than 30 years of involvement, Sibyl Ellis is helping her daughter, Marcia Tillotson, close the last business owned by a family deeply rooted in mid-Michigan. Someplace Special Hallmark, at 2205 S. Mission St., will close by the end of the year. But the family’s ties were not limited to business.
No business on Christmas The family’s first store was a Someplace Special Hallmark downtown. Tillotson suggested purchasing the store in college — the beginning of the family af-
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Mount Pleasant resident Lena Ludwig shops for her daughter Tuesday afternoon at the Someplace Special Hallmark store, 2205 S. Mission St. The store, family owned since 1979, will close sometime in the next few weeks. “It’s a shame the store is closing down,” Ludwig said.
fair. Tillotson and her brother, Mark Ellis, had all their children work in the stores. In the early 1990s, the family opened a high-end children’s clothing store called “Siblings” that closed five years later because it was more than the family could handle. “The town was a lot smaller and, if you had a local business, you were involved,” Tillotson said. By that time, they purchased the Hallmark on Mission Street and incorporated a floral part into the traditional store. That grew into Four Seasons Floral in Shepherd, owned by Mark Ellis. A hallmark closing | 5A
A college student’s payday helps to square away rent, get groceries, catch up on bills and buy beer. Not necessarily in that order. And because beer prices are on the rise this fall for two brewing giants, students are looking to buy more to pay less. “Buy it now. Stock up,” said Erika Voss, a Grand Rapids junior. “I can’t believe the prices are going up again.” The two largest U.S. beer sellers, MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch, say they plan to increase prices, although they did not elaborate much on the reason. “We feel like we will take a moderate price increase on our portfolio,” said Peter Marino, spokesman for Chicago-based MillerCoors, maker of Blue Moon, Coors Light and Miller Lite. Marino blamed rising expenses, but did not give any specifics on the need to raise prices. The two brewing companies control 80 percent of the American beer market. Brighton senior Ben Harris said students will pay the price to drink, so it is a smart move by the brewing companies. “No matter what they do, we will still go and buy beer,” he said. “It’s a staple in the college lifestyle.”
Marcia Tillotson, owner of the Hallmark store, checks out a customer Tuesday afternoon at the register.
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Ellis family closes its last business in Mount Pleasant
Sibyl was the city’s mayor in 1977, 1979 and 1985 and served on the city commission for nine years. Arthur Ellis served as interim president of Central Michigan University in 1975, again in 1985 and as university president from 1986 to 1991. “When we came here, part of the thing was to get the university and the city to work more together,” Sibyl said.
projects, the budget is anticipated to use $3,163,803 — the same amount as last school year. Another renovation, not included
Only public must pay to attend show in Rose Arena By Eric Dresden Student Life Editor and Brad Canze Senior Reporter
Rapper Fabolous’ show Friday is now free for students, faculty and staff. Scheduled by Program Board, On the Fly Productions and Minority Student Services, the concert will end HipHop Week at 7:30 p.m. in Rose Arena. Tickets originally were
set at $14 to $22 for students, faculty and staff. But Monday, the groups said they would make the Fabolous event free for everyone except the public ($14 to $22). Program Board President David Breed said the decision was made because of dismal ticket sales. “I think the idea behind it was ticket prices were a little bit high, and that was deterring students from buying
tickets,” Breed, a Muskegon junior, said. “We didn’t want attendance to hinder the show, so we decided to make it a free show. We have the budget to afford to do that. That was a collaborative effort between us and On The Fly Productions. We all agreed that was probably the best way to go.” Other reasons Program Board Concert Chairwoman Kirsten Trombly said another thing that factored in was the economy. “We had a lot of people saying it was too expensive with the economic times we were in now, and we can complete-
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ly understand that,” Trombly, a Metamora junior, said. Coordinator of Student Activities Damon Brown said ticket prices and sales had a little bit to do with it, but said other things, such as Central Michigan University’s victory over Michigan State University and the fact the home football game is the day after also were major factors. “Everything factored into the decision. At the end of the day, we thought it was the best decision for the students,” Brown said. Eric Steiner of On The Fly Productions said the groups are expecting a large crowd for
Fabolous. “A lot of people are going to be in town for CMU’s (first home) game,” the Niles sophomore said. Brown said he was not sure about the ticket sales, but said he knew after the first week of sales a couple hundred tickets were sold. Refunds for bought tickets are available by bringing the tickets to the CMU Box Office on the lower level of the Bovee University Center by 5 p.m. Friday. -Staff Reporter Megan Vance contributed to this report. studentlife@cm-life.com
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