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City candidates talk student issues Seven community members are running for three spots on the Mount Pleasant City Commission, as current commissioners’ terms come to an
end. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Student behavior and housing has been a hot topic of city government for years, and the candidates for city commission are following suit. Here is a breakdown of candidates and their views on the “problems” students cause, and how they plan to fix them if elected.
Rick Rautanen Rautanen serves as vice mayor, an elected position within the city commission. His term will soon expire. He wants to work with Central Michigan University, the city and student groups to come to a happy medium of what is acceptable behavior, he said. “We understand students are a huge part of the community, but in recent years we’ve seen a change in behavior,” he said. “Lawlessness has become more acceptable.” Maintaining good reputations as a university and city is something Rautanen said should be a focus of the city and its students. Partying and trash problems residents often complain about are
multi-faceted issues with no easy solution. “How can we have fun but do it in a responsible fashion?” he said. “We need to collectively sit down and talk about it.” Rautanen has previously served on the Mount Pleasant Planning Commission. He is wa general manager at Lodgco Hotels and and a CMU alumnus. Holding students accountable, increasing affordable housing for seniors and maintaining fiscal responsibility are priorities of his campaign.
Keith Cotter Cotter serves on the Planning Commission. He cites a small group of students as the primary source of behavior problems. “The problems are with respect and behavior,” he said. “Fixing it will take a lot of time. It’s a small group of people getting too rowdy that we sometimes let represent the students as a whole.” He said more enforcement from police and code enforcement officers is part of the solution. While city commissioners have cited high-density housing as the problem, Cotter disagrees. “It only takes one person to have a big party,” he said. “There needs to be actual consequences. Policies need to be stricter, with less warn-
ings. Students need to be policed and fined more to eliminate that select group of people.” Cotter has served on the planning commission since 2013 and is the chair. He is a CMU alumnus and owns Douglas Day, a realty office, and several rental homes. The priorities of his campaign are increasing property tax revenue, attracting development within city limits and holding students accountable with additional enforcement.
Lori Gillis Though she is mainly an advocate for Mount Pleasant park systems, Gillis still has opinions on student behavior. She thinks students should utilize power in numbers and do more self-policing. “I believe in the power of the people,” she said. “The students have a lot more power to change this internally rather than us having to resort to force or fines.” Gillis would also like to hold landlords more accountable for the behavior of their tenants, especially north of campus. She suggested landlords take action and check up on their rentals, making sure students aren’t breaking parts of their leases, like having big parties. “When students in rental homes have 50-100
people at a party, they shouldn’t be allowed to live there,” Gillis said. “There are so many venues where students can party in large groups. Saying residents just need to accept it is a cop out. You can’t party in a residential neighborhood, just like you can’t do that in your hometown.” Gillis is a CMU alumna and is an instructor of computer science and business. The platforms of her campaign include encouraging residents to participate on local boards, ensure maintenance of parks and increase revenue for publicly-funded entities.
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Lisa Ferden Ferden is not a fan of generalization. She said when the city government talks about students, it tends to put the vast majority in the problem category. “Students are generalized to be the source of a problem that is really only caused by a small number of them,” she said. “People tend to remember instances like Welcome Weekend more.” Creating more opportunities for students to live and work in Mount Pleasant, including after graduation, is one of Ferden’s goals. She also said pedestrian traffic between campus and downtown is what residents see most often,.
“Students need places to go,” Ferden said. “This should be a safe and welcoming place for them to live.” Ferden is a CMU alumna and co-owner of a company located in the CMU Research Corporation. Her priorities include public safety and reducing traffic and speed north of campus. Ferden has served on the Zoning Board of Appeals and Historic District Commission.
Pet ro To las Tolas believes the city government focuses too much on “problems” cause by students, and not enough on fiscal responsibility. “It’s a small amount of students, and people who aren’t students, who cause problems,” he said. “People move right in the middle of where students live, and then get mad because of how it is there, because they thought Mount Pleasant was changing.” He’s more business-oriented, and believes likeminded people need to be elected to city commission. Unlike other candidates, Tolas said he doesn’t have an agenda. He said he sees too many non-common
sense decisions being made in city government, and that “someone has to do something.” A CMU alumnus, Tolas owns several businesses, including Tolas Oil and Tolas Land. He served eight years on the Zoning Board of Appeals. He said his main priorities are running the city within its budget, making sound business decisions and accommodating and helping new businesses.
Nick Madaj As a research attorney, Madaj said he would be a good fit for city commission. Madaj has lived in Mount Pleasant for three years, and believes there are two sides to actions the city can take to control student behavior. A zoning plan, which would expand the M-2 buffer zone, is one of Madaj’s goals. He’d like to see a larger buffer zone, going from densly-populated student housing near campus to single-family homes. The other side of this, Madaj said, is action, or working with the police to further enforce students. “Affordable housing in between student and residential areas is a way to address both,” he said. “If
you address density, you address behavior.” Madaj said he expects students to be good neighbors and simply be courteous. After graduating from Saginaw Valley State University, Madaj attended law school at Michigan State. He served on city boards in Bay City. His platform points are a responsible city budget, protecting neighborhoods north of campus and a more open and transparent government.
Allison Quast-Lents Quast-Lents grew up in Mount Pleasant, and runs Motorless Motion, her family’s bike shop. Inhabiting a home north of campus, she has seen many cases of students misbehaving in the neighborhood and on her own property. Quast-Lents purchased a condemned fraternity home on University Street, and says students have broken into it numerous times as her family restores the property. “I see garbage, kids peeing in my yard, parking in my yard because they think they can park anywhere,” she said. “They’ve stolen my patio furniture, they drive through my yard
and they’ve stolen my campaign signs.” Quast-Lents’ desire to run for commission came when city planners proposed rewriting the zoning ordinance. She saw this as an opportunity to represent neighborhood interests, where she said there is a growing culture of student misbehavior. This, she said, is a result of highdensity rentals.
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The robotic noise of 30 3D printers could be heard Thursday, Oct. 22 at the grand opening of the MakerBot Innovation Center. “This is an opportunity for students to completely rethink the way they develop garments and accessories for sale to fashion marketing,” said fashion merchandising and design professor, Michael Mamp, who teaches 3D Printing in Fashion (FMD 565). Financial sponsorship and collaboration between the College of Communication and Fine Arts, the College of Education and Human Services and the Provost and President’s office supported the large-scale 3D printing operation located in Wightman Hall room 143. the lab will cost about $350,000 with contributions from both colleges and offices. “It was a neat collaboration between CCFA and EHS, and that doesn’t happen too often, or as often as it should,” said Megan Goodwin, chair of the department of human and environmental studies. “I think all of us realize that no one unit really has the resources to do some of the things we want to do, especially related to technology.” Deans from the two colleges, faculty, staff and a few students were at the grand opening to introduce the new printers to campus. The new 3D printing center at Central Michigan University is the first of its kind in the Midwest, and one of the few in the U.S. to focus on the arts. “This sort of tool is going to help students and faculty innovate faster and collabo-
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rate because it’s not just going to be one or two departments (that use this) over time, this is only the beginning,” said MakerBot account executive Mike Pritchard. Free programs are available to use online to design 3D renderings that can be printed in the MakerBot Innovation Center that is available for public use within the university and community. 3D model files can be created and exported to the printing lab where users will be charged by gram of the piece they are printing. Harbor Springs graduate student, Jennise Thurston, is majoring in apparel product development and merchandising technology, and has been heavily involved with developing fashion pieces on the printer before the lab officially opened to the public. She spent all semester creating a decorative fashion neckpiece. “Merging my engineering mind and artistic mind was the hardest struggle,” Thurston said. Thurston said despite how hard it was to learn the program for 3D printing, she was proud
of how her piece turned out. In terms of fashion design, she said 3D printing is mostly being utilized for jewelry and accessories besides a few famous fashion designers who use 3D printing for clothing and art design. “It’s getting there, it’s still on the starting edge, which is exciting to be a part of too,” Thurston said. In the art and design program, a special course is being offered next semester that also has curriculum based around the 3D innovation center. ART 397M: Creation in 3D will be taught by art and design professor Greg Stahly. He said the focus of the course will be on 3D modeling and printing, but the final project won’t always be straight off the printer. Utilizing the printer to make molds and combine them with other mediums is something Stahly will help students learn in his class. “I don’t view the course I will be teaching as specifically an art course even,” Stahly said. “From apparel to engineering, there are so many things you can do with this.”
A U-Ride taxi driver arrested for fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct is now facing multiple charges after another woman alleged he solicited sexual favors in exchange for cab rides. Sid Tutewiler, 43, was arrested after another U-Ride driver reported to police that Tutewiler touched her inappropriately during a ride on Oct. 19. Another report filed to police on Oct. 13, detailed another instance where Tutewiler solicited sex in exchange for rides. The driver is charged with two counts of fourth degree criminal sexual conduct. He was arraigned Oct. 19, and remains in the Isabella County Jail on a $150,000 bond. The woman reported to police that it was common for U-Ride drivers to give
rides to other drivers to work for free. When Tutewiler picked up Sid Tutewiler the woman for her shift, she said he made a stop behind Meijer, where Tutewiler told her she could either give him a hand job or walk the rest of the way to work. The woman needed a ride, as she didn’t want to catch a cold and be unable to take care of her newborn child. The woman didn’t want to walk, so she decided to do what Tutewiler wanted, the report says. During that time, Tutewiler grabbed her breast twice, so hard to the point where she needed to remove his hand, the woman told police. She also had to
tell the driver twice to remove his hand from inside her pants. When the two arrived to work, the woman said she washed her hands so hard they were bleeding. Her supervisors told her she needed file a police report. The second report came from a woman who said Tutewiler asked for sexual favors in lieu of paying him $20 that she owed him from the night before. The woman told police Tutewiler came to her house to collect, and while there he touched her breast, although the cab driver said he never touched the woman. Tutewiler will appear in court on Oct. 29 for a probable cause hearing. -Sydney Smith Managing Editor
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New CCFA dean plans collaboration across disciplines By Kate Carlson News Editor @k8erzz | news@cm-life.com
With a “big picture” mindset, the new dean of the College of Communication and Fine Arts has plans of collaborating across disciplines, within the community and even internationally. Before she was dean this year, Janet Hethorn was the director of the Delaware Design Institute. Hethorn says she isn’t afraid to cross boundaries to make change happen. The different academic programs that fall under CCFA are Art and Design, Broadcast and Cinematic Arts, Communication and Dramatic Arts, Music, Journalism, Integrative Public Relations, Music Theatre and Media Design, Production and Technology. Central Michigan Life asked Hethorn what she hopes to achieve as a leader of the college. You used to be a professor at Delaware Institute of Design. Do you have any plans of teaching at CMU? “It’s certainly possible. I imagine there will be a point where I can run a graduate seminar or undergraduate workshop, things like that. I was teaching mostly design theory. I taught a really fun class I enjoyed a lot, called ‘Seeing and Being.’ It’s a visual literacy and problem solving (class). It was a large class of students who came from different colleges and worked together in teams to identify and self design problems. So I’m really about process.” The different subsets under CCFA vary a lot. Does this make your job hard, having to manage such a broad field of study? “That’s what attracted me here, to me it all connects. We’re all about telling stories, about creative process and telling stories, it doesn’t matter how it’s actualized. So to me there is a real core, and it’s a very unique core that not many universities have.” What qualities do you have that will help you as dean? “I do think that I have strong leadership and
creative skills and the ability to work with a number of people and perspectives. I think that cross disciplinary experience I have is a draw, (and) sort of underlines my success and potential.” Have you worked directly with CCFA students yet? Do you think that’s important? “I’ve been working on getting up and running but I certainly enjoy working with students and would like to work with them especially as we develop with collaboration and research.” A lot of colleges stress the importance of undergraduate research with professors, is that something you think should be done in CCFA? “I do think that the undergraduate experience can be much broader when it is infused (with) research skills. it’s good for the faculty as well to work with young minds that want to learn how to investigate and whether it’s a creative process, scholarly article or working side by side with a production team, there’s a lot of thought that can happen with undergraduate scholarship and research opportunities and working with faculty.” What are some goals you hope to achieve as dean? “I’m really interested in connecting our students externally, outside the campus, through community engagement kinds of activities. I’d like to see more of our students involved internationally within various programs. Our college has pretty amazing programs that have application and relevance beyond our perceived borders.” Have you faced any challenges so far? “When new ideas (and) ways of doing things are discussed, there’s always that response of ‘we’ve always done it that way.’ However, the people who I’ve been working with, when there’s an excitement about seeing a new vision or new path, seem ready to move in new directions.” Explain your past experiences of working at a university. “We did a whole series of showcases of all of the different design projects going on around campus. We looked at design and social impact, things like
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that. We had contests for students to work in teams to solve problems.” Do you think it inhibits students at all when they have to choose a major? “The problems of today’s world don’t live within disciplines. I think it’s important that students feel a
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Far from pleasant Students, faculty of color say they face racism at CMU, in city By Ben Solis Staff Reporter @bensolis1 | news@cm-life.com
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ortia Brown and Angela Hill relaxed downtown at a Mount Pleasant bar. A man saw the Central Michigan University students from across the room and approached Brown. He smiled. He flirted. Without thinking, or maybe thinking too much, he dropped a bombshell instead of the compliment he intended. “You’re the prettiest black girl I’ve ever seen.” Brown’s face dropped, insulted. “He said he was just giving me a compliment. I had to explain why that was not OK,” said Brown, a Bridgeport broadcast major and on-campus activist. “It’s hard for people to understand because they’re not trying to offend you, but they do anyway.” Brown’s story is all too familiar for students, faculty and staff of color at CMU. According to a 2015 survey of minority students, nearly 50 percent said Mount Pleasant has a problem with racism. Another 40 percent said CMU as an institution has the same problem. The survey’s lead investigator, sociology professor Mary Senter, spent the last eight years gathering data for two campus climate surveys: One for all students and another for students of color. A sampling of faculty and staff responses was published in 2010. “Unfortunately, there has not been positive progress since 2010,” Senter said. “In fact, in some areas, there’s been movement backwards.” All three studies detail diversity challenges facing the university and Mount Pleasant. However disappointing, those experiences are laying the groundwork for what Mount Pleasant police and CMU administrators call real, positive change.
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an image of diverse students interacting without social barriers. Senter’s survey paints a slightly different picture. “If you ask students whether they think learning about diverse groups is important, and whether they think they’re better off attending university with a lot diversity,” Senter said, “the vast majority in (2010 and 2015) said they were learning and that (diversity) was important.” Overall, minority students make up a small portion of the total population: Only 3,267 out of 19,549 university students identify as belonging to an ethnic group. Out of nearly 1,000 faculty members, only 190 identify as belonging to a minority group. Students of color are defined by the survey as students identifying as African American, Asian, Hispanic or Native American. International students were not included in the study. Of a sampling of 2,125 minority students surveyed electronically in 2015, 40 percent felt discriminated against, or ignored, because of their racial or ethnic background. At least 60 percent of those students think university officials aren’t doing enough to promote racial and ethnic diversity on campus. The study shows many minority students and faculty consistently hear derogatory comments about people of color on CMU’s campus and downtown — mostly in passing and not directed at any one person. Indirect racism is perhaps the most prevalent race issue on campus, Senter said, and has created a hostile environment for students of color in and outside the classroom. In many of these cases, fellow students and professors don’t know they’re doing anything wrong. At the same time, more than 75 percent of students said they were satisfied with their experience at CMU. Most said the university was far less diverse than they were sold, but were happy just the same. w Racism | 6-9
Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor Mount Pleasant junior Portia Brown, far right, and students gather for a protest against the grand jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting of Michael Brown on Tuesday Nov. 15, 2014 near Park Library.
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ixty percent of students of color surveyed think university officials aren’t doing enough to promote racial and ethnic diversity on campus. Forty percent said they felt discriminated against. Despite these numbers, 75 percent of students of color said they see their experience at CMU as largely positive.
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The same number of minority students said they would reenroll at CMU if they had to. It’s a confusing conclusion, considering half of survey respondents shared experiences with racism. Senter and others believe a hard look at how we treat people of color in town and on campus is an important first step.
a daily struggle On Sept. 17, a red pickup truck sat parked in a Mount Pleasant strip mall. The truck and parking lot are in view of Mission Street in mid-day traffic. The truck was painted to resemble a Confederate Flag, complemented by a large Rebel flag unfurling in the back. Carolyn Dunn, the associate vice president for the Office of Institutional Diversity,
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nity, you’re African American, you’re with the university, you’re intelligent and you don’t fit all of the stereotypes that you hold … then it’s problematic,” said one faculty respondent. “They are very, very uncomfortable with you.” In stores, dirty looks and rude comments are a common occurrence with minority professors and staff. Some respondents said they have been followed by wary store managers – some cashiers have confused them with welfare recipients. One minority faculty member was made so uncomfortable in a place of worship by the congregation’s body language that she fainted in the doorway. A 2013 study conducted by the Isabella County Human Rights Commission found the same problems exist for Native Americans. Nearly 35 percent of Native Americans have a negative view of Isabella County based on how community residents interact with
I don’t understand why I can’t be the girl with the ‘pretty eyes.’ People talk about (Brown) and say ‘oh you mean Portia with the curly hair?’ Why can’t people just be people? Angela Hill, NAACP chapter president
people of their culture. Details about police stops offer another glimpse into the daily struggles of people of color. One professor described a party with other non-white colleagues – a game of cards with some music in the background. An officer was called to the party to address a noise complaint. As the officer approached, the professor stepped outside. “Excuse me, do you live here?” said the officer. The professor said: “Yes I do.” “Can I see your ID?” “My ID? I’m in my own home.” The conversation’s tone became more intense, even as the professor explained that a group of faculty were inside. “I don’t care who they are,” the officer said. “You need to get the party calmed down or, if we have to come back, we’re taking you to jail and you only.” w Racism | 8-9
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said this a disappointing, but typical, sight in Mid-Michigan. “As an American Indian woman, as a native woman who has lived her life outside of my tribal community, that’s the world I’m accustomed to,” Dunn said. “I live in Mount Pleasant and I see the Confederate flags. That is sadly just part of our community. There’s a large part of our community that doesn’t want to see change.” Dunn’s office helped fund the campus climate studies. She is working with Senter to develop solutions. For Dunn, expressions or symbols of hate like the Confederate Flag show how the deck is stacked against people of color in Mount Pleasant. In the faculty study, participants had the option to give open-ended answers. This gave Senter a wealth of personal anecdotes to pair with her data. Responses included stories of police harassment, discrimination from shop owners and intimidation. “When you go outside, into the commu-
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Professors shared similar stories at a Black Lives Matter community dialogue held last month. Emeritus professor Diane Newby said a police officer stopped her at night for a routine traffic stop. The officer then asked her if there were any weapons in her vehicle. Even Newby’s son, who is now 35, dealt with the same type of discrimination – so much so that Newby put him through boarding school to get him out of the predominantly white Isabella County. Newby’s son is not unique, said Joyce Baugh, a political science professor and Civil Rights scholar. “My young black students have told me that some African American students don’t drive down Mission Street. (They) take side streets so they don’t get hassled by police,” she said. However, one-third of students reported having a negative view of local police. Accusations of police overreach are particularly troubling for Jeff Browne, public information officer for the Mount Pleasant Police Department. “If someone felt they were profiled because of their race, they should definitely report it and we will follow up with it,” Browne said. “If we don’t know about it, we can’t do anything about it. We want our interactions with the public to be good, because you can’t operate without public support.” On the other hand, Browne defended the actions of officers reported by the faculty member. In both cases, he said, the officers were simply just doing their jobs. “I’m not discounting their experiences — they felt how they felt. However, from what I read, that isn’t too out of the ordinary,” Browne said. “Traffic stops are the most dangerous things we do. Every situation is different, so we have to ask questions. We use those questions as a way to start a conversation to ascertain if they have something in the car. “I’m going to guess it didn’t start
Monica Bradburn | Staff Photographer Students and community gather to discuss the topic “Black Lives Matter” at the Veterans Memorial Library on Sept. 15.
with that (line of questioning). It all goes back to people’s perceptions.” Senter wholly disagrees with the notion that faculty members “misremembered” their interactions with police. “That is exactly why social scientists look for patterns,” she said. “Any one person can misremember. Any one person can have a bad experience. When people share social characteristics like race or gender and you see a pattern of behavior, that’s when one has to take the patterns seriously.” Racially-biased policing is not tolerated by Mount Pleasant Police Department, Browne said. Any officer found acting in a discriminatory way will receive disciplinary action. Discipline can range from a letter of reprimand to termination. Browne also wonders what departments initiated any of those stops. There are five law enforcement departments with stations in Mount Pleasant, including the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, Michigan State Police, Tribal Police, Central Michigan University Police and Mount Pleasant police.
share your story Have you had experiences with discrimination in the community? We want to hear from you. Contact us at news@cm-life.com. Senter’s data shows that faculty and students were unable to discern which police unit initiated a traffic stop. “Because we wear a uniform and a badge, we’re all lumped into one bunch,” Browne said. “That’s what’s difficult for us sometimes. If we know what department was responsible, it gives us a chance to clear our name.”
Singled out for being different According to the climate survey, hostile interactions at CMU were less pronounced, but still present issues for students and faculty of color. In the course of the investigation, students were asked about feeling left out or singled out
because of their race. At least 43 percent of students said this was a common problem. The same goes for faculty and staff. On her office computer, Senter keeps a video interview with a black female student. The video describes an incident involving an in-class group exercise. Students were asked to work out a problem and share their answers. When it was the black student’s turn, she was ignored. The interview ends with the student in tears. “All of us have been in some setting where we weren’t fully appreciated,” Senter said. “But when 43 percent of people who have something like race in common say that about working with peers, I think you have a significant problem.” From the faculty perspective, many reported instances when they were asked to represent their race on university committees. Above all things, Senter said it is important to remember that an opinion from an individual is
just that – an individual opinion, Senter said. “(Students and faculty) have tremendous contributions to make to CMU, but they are not responsible for speaking for an entire race of people,” she said. In rare occasions, students and professors can be much more direct about their attitudes about race. “I’ve got shallow students who make racist comments in class,” responded one professor. “Racial comments, talking about how people in Detroit have all these babies, trying to explain high death rate; (or) why do black men only rape white women…(and) always the affirmative action thing. “It’s crazy. I’ve had it in writing.” Stories like these are why Hill, president for the CMU chapter of the NAACP, thinks the atmosphere on campus is worse than in the city. “You can’t really separate the town from the school,” Hill said. “We spend 85 percent of our lives on campus. The campus is
where we live, even if you live off-campus.” The type of experiences she’s had with Brown downtown follow her everywhere, as she heads to class, or to a meeting with fellow NAACP members. She’s been asked if she’s mixed because of the color and shape of her eyes, or even if she’s black at all. “I don’t understand why I can’t be the girl with the ‘pretty eyes,’” she said. “People talk about (Brown) and say ‘oh you mean Portia with the curly hair?’ Why can’t people just be people?” When she enrolled, Hill was pleased with the diversity she saw in freshman orientation. When she got to CMU, she quickly saw that wasn’t the reality. Hill was prepared to be surrounded by mostly white students, but didn’t think the lack of diversity would be as widespread. “As soon as I got here, everyone was kind of standoffish,” she said. “I was really kind of scared.” As she made friends, she felt more comfortable, but noticed how little white and non-white students interact with each other. They go to different parties, she said. They hang out at different places in town. At university programs, she saw a sharp division of whites and blacks at events celebrating different cultures. “Some people get here and they say ‘I’ve never felt so different before,’” Hill said. “I’ve had girls say to me ‘I’ve never felt so much hate.’” Making matters worse, ethnic groups on campus often judge each other from within their own ranks. Hill and the NAACP held a panel discussion earlier this month to discuss the topic of putting on metaphorical “black faces,” or having to act black for acceptance. Much of the discussion centered around prejudices between dark-skinned and lightskinned African Americans. “Everyone is so cliqued off, and that makes the problem harder to solve,” she said. w Racism | 9
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Rocky Horror Picture Show being performed for Halloween “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” will be performed by a shadow cast three different nights on Halloween weekend by members of Alpha Psi Omega, the National Theatre Honor Society at Central Michigan University. From Thursday, Oct. 29, to Saturday night, Oct. 31, there will be two showings each day at 8 p.m. and midnight at the Broadway Theatre. A shadow cast means actors and actresses will stand in front of a large screen that is playing
the movie and act it out, sometimes adding their own twist. This year there will be a gender-bent cast for one of the performances, meaning women acting out the play will dress as men and male actors will dress in drag. “Rocky Horror” is a participation movie. This means audience members yell back lines at the screen during extended pauses between dialogue, dress up in costume and throw props at certain cues during the film. Audience participation
at “Rocky Horror Picture Show” viewings was observed as early as the film’s first run in 1975. Tickets are being sold in Moore Hall and the Bovee University Center from noon until 5 p.m, Monday — Friday. Tickets can also be purchased at the door and are $7 each. It is an additional $1 to purchase a prop bag, which includes items to throw on stage during the performance. -Kate Carlson, News Editor
Tallgrass Apartments building new workout and sports facility A new workout facility with an enclosed full size basketball court and workout equipment will be open to residents of Tallgrass Apartments soon. Operations manager Jill Simons said the complex is set to open the first week of November this year. The project was planned back in December, but they needed city approval first, she said. The complex will feature four garage doors, one on each wall, that open up
No easy solutions With all of this information at their fingertips, Dunn and Senter are learning how they can help curb systemic racism on campus and beyond. Dunn’s plan is to engage student race relations in a more direct, inclusive way. CMU has traditionally used a multicultural approach, preaching that cultures are distinct and somewhat exclusive. Now, Dunn is promoting inclusion. “Multiculturalism doesn’t address community issues (or acknowledge) that different communities have different (internal) issues,” Dunn said. “Multiculturalism puts everyone in a group under one umbrella and doesn’t allow us to have these valuable, inclusive conversations.” Dunn’s office is championing social justice as a whole, recogniz-
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Martin’s family, visited campus this month, she sent an invitation to Browne for the police to attend. Browne said the experience was informative, and that Rand and the department shared the same views on community policing. “That makes me feel like we’re doing a good job,” Browne said. “I’m not comfortable with one-third of students saying we’re doing poorly. That means we have room to improve. But the programming with CMU is working, and we’re happy to be involved.” Watching these groups find common ground is validation that Dunn’s strategies could have an impact. “People have to be invested in social change; there has to be a reason to make that change,” she said. “That’s why we talk about it as a social issue. We have a good strong cohort in town and at (CMU) committed to these issues. “That’s what’s exciting for me moving forward.”
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during the summer for warm weather use. “People who lived here, we noticed they were using the basketball court a lot,” Simons said. “We wanted to add an indoor court.” The new workout facility will be available to all Tallgrass Apartment residents at no extra cost. -Kate Carlson, News Editor
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ing that all ethnic groups want to build a better society. “With a social justice umbrella, each community will be able to say how they feel,” Dunn said. “These issues of social justice really are universal across ethnic lines.” Part of that mission starts with more diversity programming, which is a shaky solution based on Senter’s studies – the surveys show that few people attend cultural events. With this in mind, Dunn wants to expand diversity curriculum in University Program courses. Across the board, Hill, Brown, Senter and Dunn believe education is the key to solving racial issues. Browne said he and his law enforcement colleagues are on the same page. The department takes every chance they can to attend diversity training. Even more so, they try to be active members of the community so they know who they serve. When Jasmine Rand, the attorney who represented Trayvon
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hile Title IX is best known for its impact on addressing gender equality in high school and collegiate athletics, the original statute made no explicit mention of sports. Students at Central Michigan University are afforded a multitude of other important rights under the comprehensive federal law. More than 40 years after being signed into law, the extent of Title IX remains largely unknown. It is important for every student to be aware of their rights. The federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in schools that receive federal funding. It addresses discrimination against pregnant and parenting students and women in science, technology, engineering and math programs. It also addresses sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination and sexual violence. The law applies to any person regardless of their biological or perceived gender, including identity and expression. As a student, you are protected under Title IX even if you do not experience sex discrimination directly. Schools must take immediate steps to address any sex discrimination, sexual harassment or sexual violence on campus to prevent it from affecting students further. If a school knows or reasonably should know about discrimination, harassment or violence that is creating a hostile
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environment for any student, it must act to eliminate it. Every school must have a Title IX Coordinator who manages complaints. CMU’s coordinator is Katherine Lasher. She can be contacted at (989) 774-3253 or by email at lashe1km@cmich.edu. It is also important to note that if you decide to file a complaint, CMU must promptly investigate it, regardless of whether you report it to the police. Faculty and staff are required to report information about sexual misconduct to Lasher. Resident assistants and multicultural advisers are considered “responsible employees,” meaning students in these positions would also have to report sexual misconduct. If you are unsure about whether to initiate an investigation, you may speak confidentially to several resources on and off campus about your experiences. These sources are not obligated to report your story to the Title IX coordinator. You can always file a formal Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education or seek legal counsel to enforce your right to education under Title IX. It is your choice how to handle sexual harassment or violence, but realize that you have a right to your education and that CMU must take steps to ensure you can learn in a safe environment.
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ubstance abuse doesn’t just prey on a certain demographic; it reaches across a range of ages and people from all walks of life. This is just one of the things students will learn when minoring in Substance Abuse Education. “The minor has been around for a long time,” said adviser and Health Sciences faculty member Marty Malcolm. “The minor has seen substantial growth, it went from around 50 students to over 120 in just a few years.” Substance Abuse Education is one of the four minors offered through the College of Health Professions. This minor includes 18 credit hours of required coursework and six hours in related electives for a total of 24 semester hours. The minor covers prevention, intervention, treatment and therapy. Malcolm has been the adviser for the program for the last twelve years and has experience as a substance abuse therapist for in and out-patient care for twelve years. He encourages anyone going into something like social work, criminal justice, family issues, psychology, community health or even exercise science to consider having this minor. The program is currently working to make substance abuse education available as a master’s program with licensing for prevention, intervention and peer support. Central Michigan University is working with the Michigan Certification Board for Addiction Professionals to further the certification. It’s one of the only minors offered where students can do class work and get certified. “We have close ties with the 1016 home in Midland,” Malcolm said. “It’s a recovery network right in the area. We work closely with them and other houses near by to help the education process. We’re also trying to get graduate level class where students can get experience in the field and proper training within multiple agencies.” Clare senior Katie Jourdain found her interest in substance abuse education through a co-op program offered in high school. She worked at a pharmacy where she got to see substance abuse first-hand and how it impacts the lives of many. “I decided to major in psychology when I got to CMU,” Jourdain said. “When I was a junior, I still didn’t have a minor and ended up talking to Malcolm. That day I decided to sign as a substance abuse minor and am hoping to focus on that within my psychology career.”
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Education and Experience Plymouth senior Brian McCollom is a sociology major and a substance abuse minor. He became interested in this academic path because they both deal with inequalities. “As a teenager I had both mental health and personal substance abuse issues,” McCollom said. “I guess I was drawn to the deviant aspect of the sociology and substance abuse programs. At first, I wanted to do just social psychology, but there wasn’t a good
program for it anywhere; it was too defined.” After choosing the sociology field, McCollom started learning about human culture and social aspects of life, which helped him construct what was going on in his own head about addiction. Eventually he wrote his first book called “Illicit: Life in the Eyes of an Addict,” which has sold internationally. At 11 years old, McCollom was diagnosed with mental health issues and was prescribed anti-depressants. At 13, he started abusing drugs and alcohol. At
18, he first became clean, but relapsed at 20 for four weeks. The Plymouth native is now four years clean and is on a bright path to recovery. “Once I wrote my first book and put everything out there, people seemed to like my writing. It was very vulgar and in your face, just like addiction,” McCollom said. “I wondered, what can I do next? How can I make this available to people?” McCollom and a friend got together and created a website as a way to start blogging about addiction and having other people submit their own posts. No one would have to pay for a book or pay royalty fees to other companies if he put his own book on this site, McCollom said. The two now have a clothing line and resources for people interested in substance abuse or recovering from addiction. Their main focus is free information, McCollom said, which is what he would have liked to have to get him over that “proverbial hump” when he was getting clean. “I kind of let people live my life through these blogs so they don’t make the same mistakes I did,” he said. Along with “Substance For You,” McCollom has yourinneraddict.com, where he first published “Illicit” and has recently partnered with wearenotvoiceless.com. He is a blogger for each of the sites and social media strategy planner. “Substance For You” on Twitter alone has 28,000 followers, Your Inner Addict has around 35,000. They have sold electronic books, paperbacks, and items from their clothing line internationally and have reached every country besides Antarctica. McCollom has also started coming out with guides to recovery, trying to stray away from the 12step programs like Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous. They are trying to publish holistic approaches, going away from the standard way of looking at addiction to appeal to those who are interested in approaches that are more personal and natural. “It’s easy to read about substance abuse in textbooks,” McCollom said. “But it’s hard to apply and treat someone who is going through the woes of addiction. Most of the people in these classes have dealt with it or need training to deal with an addict.” McCollom said the first step to helping an addict recover is to understand their pain and want to help them overcome it. “If you don’t actually know these people’s struggles, you could be their catalyst to relapse instead of recovery,” he said. “In the field of substance abuse education, you have to understand that this is someone’s life, and you have to get to know this lifestyle without being in it yourself. Want it, understand it, put yourself in their shoes; think if you were in that much pain. What would you do to solve it?”
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Team walks for breast cancer research By Chris Stevens Staff Reporter @Cap_Kristoff | news@cmlife.com
After learning her close family friend was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer, Madeline Michels wanted to do something meaningful to help. The Plymouth sophomore and her mother, Kallie Michels, participated in a Susan G. Komen race as a team Aug. 7-9 after their friend, Lisa Massie, a Central Michigan University alumnus from Livonia, was diagnosed with the disease last January. Massie’s daughter, Amy, also joined the team for the 60 mile race. Lisa Massie and Kallie Michels knew each other in high school, but didn’t become the close friends they are today until they lived together at CMU. Madeline considers Lisa a “second mother.” “She’s supported me with everything I’ve chosen to do in life, and I think the least I can do is walk a three day race for her,” Madeline said. The participants completed a 20-mile route
each day of the race, starting in Novi the first two days, and looping back to their campsite. The third day started in Livonia, finishing in Dearborn at Ford Motor Company for the closing ceremonies. Madeline and her mother met a lot of people both at the campsite and at the walk, she said. They took the time to meet other people at the campsite and hear their stories, Madeline said, meeting survivors, people walking for others. Nobody’s story was the same, she said. Madeline and her team received horrible blisters, and a lot of pain from walking, but said, “can’t complain because she’s walking next to someone who has gone through more than she ever has.” To participate in the race, each participant must raise at least $2,300 for the Susan G. Komen foundation, which is dedicated to education and research on breast cancer. To raise the money, their team asked family and friends for foundations. Kallie said she is proud of Madeline and Amy for being committed to the walk. “Before I did the walk, I wasn’t aware of how
much I could actually do,” Michels said. When Lisa was diagnosed she said she was devastated, but the support she received from Madeline, “propelled her forward,” and “broke her out of the darkness,” showing her that she was not alone in her struggle. Lisa is scanned every three months to check her progress is responding positively to her cancer treatment, which travelled to her bones, and is in the “stable-to-improved category.” She plans to “live her life with joy for the next three months,” when the next scan will take place. While she was not a participant in the race, she was still present for part of the event. Lisa visited the Novi campsite on the first night of the race and saw “pink tents as far as the eye can see.” She also went to a cheering station for the runners the next day, and attended the closing ceremonies as well. At the closing ceremonies she saw everyone bandaged up, and she was “moved by the process” and by what people put themselves through for the cause. “There was not a dry eye in the entire place,” Madeline said.
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Head Football Coach John Bonamego talks to a referee during the game against Ball State on Saturday Oct. 24 in Muncie, Indiana. Coach Bonamego lead the Chippewas to their first victory against Ball State in six years.
Chippewas remain in MAC title hunt Football stays one game behind Toledo with Saturday’s 23-21 nail-biter with Ball State By Dominick Mastrangelo Staff Reporter @DomMastrangelo1 | sports@cm-life.com
MUNCIE, Ind. – No style points were gained, but the Central Michigan football team claimed its first road victory of the season and took one step closer to a Mid-American Conference Championship. The Chippewas’ 23-21 victory over Ball State (2-6, 1-3 MAC) on Saturday inside a soggy Schuemann Stadium improved the team to 4-4 overall and 3-1 in MAC competition this year. CMU is tied for third in the MAC West with Northern Illinois, with No. 20 Toledo at 4-0 and Western Michigan at 3-0 in conference play. CMU hosts Toledo Nov. 10 at Kelly/
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Sophomore running back Jay Roberson runs the ball past Ball State’s defense at the game in Muncie, Indiana on Oct. 24. The Chippewas defeated the Cardinals 23-21 to move to 4-4 and 3-1 in the Mid-American Conference.
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John Bonamego emerged from the Central Michigan locker room with a grin stretching from ear to ear. A deep inhale and exhale traveled through the Central Michigan football head coach’s lungs before he greeted reporters with a chuckle. “We’ll take it,” he said. Bonamego knew how close CMU came to fumbling their Mid-American Conference title hopes away on Saturday. And the first-year coach knows how the game got to be such a nail-bitter. “Our defense played well down the stretch,” Bonamego said. “We made the plays we needed to make.” But… “(The penalties) hurt the football team.” Bingo. The Chippewas showed a lot of character on Saturday. Largely under-appreciated defensive coordinator Greg Colby should get credit for rolling the dice on third and fourth down on the potential game-winning drive, calling risky blitz plays that worked. But Saturday’s 23-21 win over Ball State should never have been that close and Colby should never have had to make that call. The Chippewas committed 10 penalties for 55 yards — the most of any game this season. It was also the third time CMU has committed more than eight fouls in a game. Spread over an entire game, 10 flags might not appear alarming, but many of them came during the first half and at the worst times possible. With quarterback Cooper Rush operating well, as he usually does, CMU had several drives stall thanks to bone-headed lapses in technique or judgment.
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Clipping. False Start. Pass interference. Even senior team captain Nick Beamish committed a snap infraction, one of two penalties he was tagged with on the day. By halftime, the list of fouls seemed endless and Ball State had taken the lead from the Chippewas who could not get out of their own way. It’s encouraging to hear Bonamego say he and his staff are monitoring how often and which players commit penalties, even though most were just minor infractions Saturday. Bonamego even warned he could be cutting playing time for Chippewas who send a flag into the air more than once in a game. It would be the ultimate punitive measure for CMU’s biggest issue moving forward. It’s Bonamego’s responsibility to get this area of the Chippewas’ game cleaned up. It is the most threatening concern to CMU’s conference title quest. The season is almost two thirds over, and CMU has somehow managed to stay afloat amongst the raging waters of the MAC season. But heavily penalized teams rarely win close games and almost never win championships. The Chippewas escaped Muncie thanks to some stingy fourth-quarter defense and a perfect effort from their veteran field goal kicker. But if CMU continues on the path it is on in the discipline department, next time the Chippewas might not be so lucky.
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ugly, we don’t care.’ We’re just happy we pulled it out.” The Chippewas committed 10 penalties for 55 yards, the second-most in any game this season. Rush called those mistakes drive killers, while Bonamego said he is considering cutting playing time for players who commit multiple fouls. “One of the best ways to get a player’s attention is to take him off the field,” Bonamego said. “We’re close to doing that with some guys because they are hurting the football team.” CMU also gave up its first big kick return of the season and it nearly cost the Chippewas the game. Ball State wide receiver and kick returner KeVonn Mabon brought a kickoff back 89 yards to give the Cardinals the 21-20 lead with 10:24 to play in the fourth quarter. Rush responded by leading an 11play, 55-yard drive capped by a 34-yard field goal by junior kicker Brian Eavey. Eavey’s third field goal of the game would give CMU the lead back, 23-21. His 47-yarder earlier in the contest was a career long. Rush finished Saturday’s game 30-of-38 passing for 316 yards and two touchdowns, but the CMU defense is what helped the team clinch its second consecutive conference game. Ball State safety Dedrick Cromartie earned an interception after junior wide receiver Anthony Rice juggled a pass, giving the Cardinals the ball inside their own 20-yard line with two minutes remaining, trailing by two points, with the wind at their back. With the ball at midfield, CMU defensive coordinator Greg Colby dialed up two consecutive blitz packages, forcing freshman Ball State
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Volleyball confident with tough week ahead
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Junior setter Kathia Sanchez serves the ball at the game against Akron on Oct. 23 in McGuirk Arena. Central Michigan beat Akron 3-1. By Evan Sasiela Staff Reporter @SalsaEvan | sports@cm-life.com
After going 1-1 at home against a pair of teams near the bottom of the Mid-American Conference East Division standings, Associate Head Coach Theresa Beeckman said the Central Michigan volleyball team knows how to win.
Beeckman was confident in her team despite a 3-2 loss on Saturday to Buffalo (5-17, 4-6 MAC) at McGuirk Arena. The Chippewas (10-13, 5-5 Mid-American Conference) dropped the fifth set 15-13 to fall back to .500 in MAC play. Beeckman said the loss was difficult and added the Bulls’ blocking (18 team total) gave her squad problems through-
out the match. “That was tough. We try not to play just for the outcome of the game,” she said. “It sucks that we didn’t get the final score and especially with how tight we played that fifth set, it could have been the other way. It just wasn’t.” The Chippewas will now have to re-group with the two top teams in the MAC West,
Northern Illinois (12-10, 8-2 MAC) and Western Michigan (10-15, 6-4 MAC), travelling to Mount Pleasant next week. Despite the loss, Beeckman took a few positives from the weekend. “In that loss, we got a ton better,” Beeckman said. “They were in it to win it. We weren’t going to play not to lose. This team impresses me
with that loss.” CMU played its second match in a row without senior middle blocker Angie White, who is out indefinitely with a right ankle injury. Senior middle blocker Kalle Mulford recorded 12 kills and Paige Carey added six. Beeckman said Carey did not have the greatest weekend offensively, but the sophomore
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middle blocker stood out. “Kudos to how deep the team is getting,” she said. “(Carey) came in and did a great job. She scored 11 points (on Friday). That’s huge. She had an outstanding week of practice, prepared herself, came in and she was awesome.” w volleyball | page 19
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Binge Yan | Staff Photographer Senior middle blocker Kalle Mulford celebrates with the Chippewa Volleyball team after winning a point at the game against Akron on Oct. 23 in McGuirk Arena.
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Mulford knew her role would continue to expand until White’s return. Her contributions at the net were critical to 25 total team blocks made by the Chippewas this weekend. “I knew going into this weekend that Angie was going to be out,” Mulford said. “We talked together about what I need to do. When she’s out, we just have to step up and do what we can. She’s there for me all the time on the bench. I couldn’t have done it without her.” The Chippewas also had
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double-digit kills in both matches from their top three outside hitters sophomores Jordan Bueter, Jessica Meichtry and Taylor Robertson. Part of their success is due to the sets from junior setter Kathia Sanchez. Sanchez recorded 50 assists on Saturday to total 95 for the weekend, despite saying she was struggling due to “overthinking” different rotations. “I’m just trying to get my hitters in good situations,” Sanchez said. “That’s my goal.” It is part of the process for Beeckman and the Chippewas, who will have to get things straightened out with the Huskies and rival Broncos coming to town.
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Beeckman said when she called a timeout in the fifth set and CMU trailed 13-10, she saw something in her teammates. “Not one of them had any kind of doubt or any kind or hesitation in how they passed and served after that,” she said. “That’s the stuff you’re going to need if you want to come through the MAC tournament.” Beeckman added that her team’s passing and serving is “fantastic” right now and that her team will need to have a good week of practice and rest for NIU and WMU. CMU opened up MAC play with a road loss at NIU but received its first win in Kalamazoo since 2006 the
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RUNNING BACK RUNDOWN Injuries weigh on depth in backfield Taylor DesOrmeau Sports Editor @TDesOrmeau | sports@cm-life.com
Coming out of the spring, Central Michigan Head Football Coach John Bonamego said he thought the running back position was the deepest position on the team. Eight games in, the Chippewas have needed every bit of that depth. With Thomas Rawls graduating and signing with the Seattle Seahawks, CMU was left with nearly a dozen running backs and fullbacks with limited experience. After losing multiple players over the spring, the coaching staff looked to add one more to the stable. “The spring was crazy as far as my running back room,” said Running Backs Coach and Recruiting Coordinator Gino Guidugli. “With Saylor Lavallii being medically disqualified, Maurice (Shoemaker-Gilmore) transferring, and then losing (Jerrod) Davis on the last play of spring football, (it) kind of took a toll on my depth in my room.” The fall hasn’t been any kinder to Chippewa running backs. Multiple injuries have left the team relying on five runners to eat up carries. “I know it sounds cliché and it is, but it really is ‘next man up,’” Bonamego said. “I think the only thing that should separate your starter from your backup is experience.” The rushing attack has slowly become more viable each week, but still ranks last in the MidAmerican Conference with 104.4
rushing yards per game. Here’s the status of the carousel of carriers that make up the 2015 CMU running backs unit.
Sophomore Devon Spalding The 5-foot-11, 203-pound Spalding is known for racking up yards with his speed. After a slow first two games of the season, the Westland native took over as the lead back against Syracuse, with 21 carries for 83 yards and a touchdown on top of his 10 receptions for 102 yards. He followed it up with another solid showing at Michigan State. But in his first carry against Northern Illinois, Spalding suffered a season-ending fractured clavicle. “I’m devastated for him,” Guidugli said. “He was just starting to get going. He’s a kid that put so much into it and is so committed and just works so hard that you just want that success for him so bad.” Without Spalding, the Chippewa coaching staff decided to see what they had in the player they brought in after the spring, junior college transfer Jahray Hayes. Junior Jahray Hayes Hayes, who didn’t become a Chippewa until June, came into the season as one of the biggest wild cards of the group. With injuries mounting, the coaching staff decided to add another runner. Hayes had the most rushing touchdowns in the California Community College Athletic Association last season with the City College of San Francisco with 21 scores on 212
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Detroit freshman Romello Ross warms up with his teammates on Oct. 24 at Schuemann Stadium.
“Whoever’s the hot guy, that’s who (Guidugli’s) going to go with, and everybody knows that. Whoever gets it going first or often is going to be the guy getting most of the carries.” Martez walker
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attempts and 1,016 yards. “(Offensive Line) Coach (Derek) Frazier just contacted one day,” Hayes said. “He was like, ‘We’ve been watching you, just letting you know.’ A couple days later, I got a call from Coach (Guidugli), and him and Coach Bono offered me (a spot).” Frazier said the process to adding Hayes was quick, lasting only about two weeks. Guidugli said he liked Hayes because of his physical, downhill running style. (He’s) just a guy who jumped off the film at you,” Guidugli said.
“He was kind of a different back from what we had in the room, being 6-foot-1, 220 pounds.” Hayes got his first shot against Monmouth Sept. 12, with seven carries and 32 yards. His best game of the season was Oct. 3 against Northern Illinois, where he had 29 carries, 78 yards and a score. “He’s a big son-of-a-gun that’s very kind of quiet, but becomes one of those guys who watches and learns and takes everything in,” Frazier said. “In recruiting, there’s no hidden gems out there. We were the lucky ones to get Jahray.”
He had limited carries against Western Michigan after a fumble, and hasn’t played since he slammed his finger in a door a few days after the game. Bonamego said Hayes fractured the tip of his finger and needed his fingernail stitched back on. “He practiced with it (before the Buffalo game),” Bonamego said. “We just felt like it was probably smarter just to keep him out, mainly for ball security reasons and let that thing calm down a little bit.” Hayes traveled to Muncie, Indiana this weekend, but didn’t play against Ball State either, handing the starting duties back to Martez Walker.
Junior Martez Walker Walker, who describes himself as a “scatback” with some
“wiggle” to him, was tweaked up in the season-opener against Oklahoma State. Along with Spalding, Walker was one of the backs to get playing time when Rawls couldn’t be on the field last season. He didn’t carry the ball more than 12 times in a game this season until Oct. 17 against Buffalo. Walker said the running backs try to make each other better, instead of looking at it as a competition. Still, results breed more playing time. “Whoever’s the hot guy, that’s who (Guidugli’s) going to go with,” Walker said. “And everybody knows that. Whoever gets it going first or often is going to be the guy getting most of the carries.” Without Spalding or Hayes w running back | 21
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FIELD HOCKEY: T eam drops pair of games with Mid-American back onto the scene with 20 carries for 60 yards. He followed it up Saturday, with 19 carries for 86 yards and four catches for 52 yards. “(Martez showed) how tough of a guy he is,” said junior quarterback Cooper Rush after the 23-21 win over Ball State. “He stepped up, played unbelievable. The play of the game was probably that (third-and-18) on the screen play and gets the first down.” On that play, CMU trailed 21-20 midway through the fourth quarter. The Chippewas were pinned back when Rush checked down to Walker — who would dodge defenders to scoot for the momentous first down play. Junior kicker Brian Eavey ended up kicking the game-winning field goal later on the drive. Walker might not have been on the field on the third-andlong play if it weren’t for an early fumble on a strong run from Jay Roberson.
Sophomore Jay Roberson The 6-foot-2, 225-pound Belleville native has 15 carries for 50 yards this season, but hadn’t had a breakout run until Saturday. After a 19-yard carry, BSU stripped Roberson of the ball, leading to a Cardinal score and a first-half momentum shift. Roberson wouldn’t see time the rest of the day.
Conference Tournament hopes on the line.
WREST LING: T eam hosts Maroon and Gold Int rasquad Scrimmage to begin the season.
SOCCER: CMU bounces back Sunday after Friday home loss. VOLLEYBALL: Team drops five-set thriller to Buffalo Saturday to finish weekend 1-1.
VOLLEYBALL: Senior middle blocker Angie White sidelined with a right ankle injury.
Kaiti Chritz | Photo Editor Illinois junior Martez Walker tries to escape from three Buffalo players on Oct. 17 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Roberson and Walker are the only two backs to have carries in at least seven games this season, but Roberson’s lack of burst allowed playing time to a be given to a freshman runner, Romello Ross.
True freshman Romello Ross Bonamego said the team originally wanted to redshirt Romello Ross this season. He said the true freshman’s positives are his quickness and strength. “For us to use a redshirt, we felt like if we were going to do that, it would be a conscious decision, not a knee-jerk reaction,” Bonamego said. “We’ll work him in on special teams, as well. We’ve got to make sure that we play him, now that
we’ve used that year.” Ross had 13 carries for 54 yards against Buffalo, most of which coming in the fourth quarter. He carried the ball four times for 13 yards Saturday. “Seeing him during camp this summer, I thought he was a really good runner,” said senior defensive end Blake Serpa. “I think he’s prototypical of a lot of people that run here.” Rush said the 5-foot-10, 189-pound back could be the future for the Chippewa backfield. “He’s inexperienced and young, but he’s got a bright future,” Rush said. “I think he’s a natural runner, he’s kind of got that natural ability that comes easy to him and he’s only going to get better and better.”
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