April 25, 2016

Study addicts No. 26 | Vol. 97

Though some students need them, others abuse prescription drugs in preparation for finals

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CASH for Alex Steele | Staff Photographer Saginaw sophomore Lillian Hendrick catalogs specimens for the Museum of Cultural and Natural History on April 22.

On-campus museum works with new exhibits, students

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A new exhibit featuring a previously undiscovered species of mussel will be debuting in the Museum of Cultural and Natural History in Rowe Hall this fall.

This new collection, monitored by biology professor Kirsten Nicholson, will include several endangered species and a new species of mussel.

Central Michigan University just now discovered the new mussel specimen in the Chippewa River and the Pine River. They were just now found live, and they will be in the museum’s new collection.

“We are very excited about acquiring this new collection, so we can help people conduct similar research in the future,” Nicholson said.

The collection, created by biology faculty member Daelyn Woolnough, focuses on the ecological aspects of mussels in lakes and streams.

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students, have done conservation work with the animals, as mussels filter and clean the water but are declining in population due to factors such as pollution. Their research has a strong emphasis on the Great Lakes.

New exhibits aren’t the only reason students visit to the museum. Students involved in the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences have the opportunity to work handson with the museum.

Saginaw sophomore Lillian Hendrick works in the museum, re-housing dead frog specimens from small jars to larger ones. The museum uses animals like frogs for student research and for teaching.

Hendrick said she enjoys getting the hands-on experience.

“I am currently working with Michigan leopard frogs,” Hendrick said. “I am taking them out of the old jars, which are very small, and putting them all together in big jars, in order to save space.”

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There are many exhibits in the museum, all of which stay on display for six months.

One of the exhibits, Curious Curators, was created by local fifth and sixth grade students.

The children focused on different research and then developed the exhibit.

Another exhibit within the museum was done by the English Language Institute on April 21, called “What Did We Learn as Children?” It shows what different cultures learned as children. It is also interactive, so people can add what they learned as children as well.

The museum also contains several temporary exhibits, including one dedicated to the Great Lakes which has a handson children’s activities.

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CrUNCH-TIME CRUTCH Professor says abusing prescription drugs to study comes at great risk, little reward

By Johnathan Hogan Staff Reporter @jr_Hogan1 | news@cm-life.com

Jordan Bell has a lot of studying to do before finals.

The Hastings junior typically spends 20 hours looking over class material and practicing calculations for his accounting classes.

Several of his classmates have found an easier way to get through all the work, Bell said. Of the five students in his study group, he said three are using Adderall without prescriptions to stay focused.

“I can’t speak from experience about the effects it has, but I don’t think it’s necessary,” Bell said.

As final exams and project deadlines approach, students find themselves busy struggling to juggle demands of college life. Students at Central Michigan University, seeking to keep themselves focused on school work when they’d rather rest, have used prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin in the hopes of improving their grades.

Adderall and Ritalin are amphetamine drugs prescribed to patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Medication is prescribed to help patients focus and control behavior.

Both are classified as schedule II drugs by the U.S. government, meaning they are likely to be abused.

Several students said they know friends who use Adderall without prescriptions, despite the risks, in order to

Photo Illustration | Drew Shornak A posed photo of a pill bottle on April 23 in the Charles V. Park Library. Some students have used prescription drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin in the hopes of improving their grades in the past..

focus before exams.

Petoskey sophomore Travis Johnson said he doesn’t use Adderall or Ritalin to focus on studying, but has friends who do.

“I don’t condone (non-prescribed use) in any way,” he said.

“I think you should have your own work ethic.”

Johnson said he understands the stress finals can bring to students as he prepares for history exams. He said his friend used Adderall to prepare for a test and it helped him stay focused on studying.

“I think everyone is under pressure during finals, and if you don’t have that ability,

people look to other means,” Johnson said.

Counseling and Special Education Professor Larry Ashley said although stimulants might provide some initial benefit to those without prescriptions, drugs alone won’t improve grades in the long run. Ashley researches addiction disorders and is the

project manager of the Counseling and Addiction curriculum.

“It’s like when you cram for a test and a week later you can’t remember anything you’ve studied,” he said.

Adderall and Ritalin use outside of medical purposes can lead to sleep deprivation, he said. Users of the drug

might feel more awake, but their bodies are still exhausted from lack of sleep.

“We’re not designed to go non-stop for days without sleep,” said Lt. Cameron Wassman of the CMU police department.

During the last four years only 3 percent of drug incidents handled by CMU

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10 Out of 316 drug incidents at CMU in the last four years, 10 have involved prescription drugs. Since 2012, there has not been more than 3 incidents per year. Source: CMU police

Police have involved prescription drugs. There have been 10 during this time period.

Thomas Idema, director of the Office of Student Conduct, said he similarly sees very few cases of prescription drug abuse.

“People assume if you have a bottle, it’s your bottle,” he said.

Because Adderall and Ritalin are both Schedule II drugs, possession of 25-50 grams without a prescription carries a penalty of up to four years in prison and up to $25,000 in fines.

Students caught with prescription drugs that don’t belong to them can also be disciplined by the university. They cannot possess, use, manufacture, produce or distribute any controlled substance.

For a first offense, students typically pay $325 in sanctions and are placed on academic probation. A second violation can lead to suspension. Idema said the university can adjust punishment based on the circumstances.

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amount of training they get is 40 minutes. It depends on the medical school, but that’s abysmal — that’s scary.”

Stories of dealers describing symptoms to receive prescription

medications are common.

“I bet you if you go into most doctors and say ‘I’m anxious, I’m nervous’ they’ll write you out a (prescription),” Ashley said.

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The percentage of college students who used Adderall outside of medical reason is 10.7. For Ritalin, it is 3.6 percent. Source: National Institute of Drug Abuse

Despite the legal risks, students find ways to supply prescription meds. Ashley said students have talked to him about going to doctors and describing symptoms for themselves in order to obtain a prescription.

“Most of them are not written by psychiatrists, they’re written by family practitioners,” he said.

Adderall and Ritalin can sell on campus for anywhere from $20 to $30 and more, based on demand, Ashley said. Prescription sales often occur between friends and at parties.

Ashley said physicians need to be trained to understand addiction and drug abuse before giving out prescriptions.

“One of the things I’ve worked on for many years and continue to work on is training physicians about prescribed addictions because they hardly get any training in medical school,” Ashley said. “I’ve seen studies that have shown in the United States, in four years in (medical) school, the average

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Emergency room visits for prescription drug issues age 18-25 increased from 2,131 in 2005 to 8,148 in 2010. Half of these were prescriptions outside of medical reason. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

students with prescriptions to share and sell pills, and students have told Ashley stories of searching a friend’s bathroom looking for prescription medications.

Whitney Brooks, a counselor at the CMU Counseling Center, said students should be aware of how prescription drugs might react with other substances they ingest, particularly alcohol.

“There could be some serious complications with their bodies,” she said.

Students who use Adderall or Ritalin who do not suffer from ADHD might develop an over-reliance on them, Brooks said.

Mixing the drug with other substances can lead to physical and mental problems when the drugs interact.

“Some people, they take too many and don’t like that feeling of being so high all the time, they take depressanttype drugs to bring them down, so you can get in that yo-yo effect,” he said.

The “yo-yo effect” is a pattern prescription drug users fall into when they constantly need stimulants to stay focused and depressants to relax, leading to a cycle of drug use. Ashley said the opposing effects of depressants and stimulants, such as alcohol and amphetamines, can have unintended consequences for the user. Rather than cancelling each other out, the two compete.

“Math is different when you’re talking about drugs,” he said. “One and one is not two. One and one can be 12 because there’s a synergistic effect if you mix one drug with another.”

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and anxiety. Police said he died when his body shut down from the amount of toxins in his system.

Michigan State Police did not identify what amphetamine Justice had taken.

Ashley said because of how “awake” stimulants make the user feel, they might not realize just how drunk they are.

“Drinking alcohol on top of prescription can kill you,” he said. “There’s a reason why (you) don’t drink after you take medication.”

Bell said he will continue to study as final exams approach.

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for exams based on his own work ethic.

“You should be able to study effectively on your own,” he said.

News and notes from around campus

no complaints filed of country-rap Salespeople attacking students City and campus police said they received no complaints about students being chased by men from a country-rap artist’s sales van.

“Reports of aggressive solicitors attacking students on CMU’s campus have been circulating on social media,” the Department of Public Safety posted on Facebook. “However, no official complaints have been filed with the Mt. Pleasant Police Department.”

Radio station 97.5 Lansing posted a story Wednesday saying senior Alisha Starr emailed them claiming she saw two women chased by men attempting to sell CDs of country rap

artist Mikel Knight. The story said authorities were contacted and the women were warned the van was a front for human trafficking.

Officer Jeff Browne of the Mount Pleasant Police Department said city police and the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department responded to incidents of trespassing Monday by the salesmen at several locations, including Walmart, Dunham’s and Speedway. The group had been trying to sell goods in the parking lot.

Police were called when they refused to leave.

Browne said there was no indication the group was involved in human trafficking.

Starr said in an email she did not witness the alleged incident as the story claimed, and one of the women chased was her roommate’s sister. When asked what authorities were contacted and where the incident occurred, she did not reply.

Browne said he received multiple calls Thursday from media and citizens asking about the alleged attacks and criticizing the department for not taking human trafficking seriously.

Browne said as far as police were aware, the van had not been in town since last Monday.

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The dangers of a drInk Long term affects of blacking out can be ‘poisonous’

By Jordyn Hermani News Editor @h3rmani | news@cm-life.com

After a night of drinking during the fall 2014 semester, Lowell native Alex McIntyre was forcibly checked in to McLaren-Central Michigan by his roommates.

McIntyre, who was 19 years old, was admitted to the emergency room with a blood alcohol level of 0.38. Doctors at the hospital told him most alcoholics have a BAC of 0.3 when they black out.

Venturing near 0.4 to 0.5 BAC is almost certain death, doctors told him.

“Throughout the night, I just remember drinking more and more — some of it I knew what it was, some of it was just random water bottles people handed to me,” McIntyre said. “About four hours after we left the dorms, I just blacked out. I don’t really know what happened.”

McIntyre said the rest of the night was recounted to him later after his roommate, Escanaba junior Bryn Beauchamp, picked him up from McLarenCentral Michigan at roughly 5 a.m. the next day.

At several points during the night, McIntyre’s eyes had “rolled into the back of his head,” he had stopped breathing and would mumble incoherently when Beauchamp tried to check on him.

McIntyre’s experience drinking at parties landed him in the hospital, but his case isn’t uncommon in a college town said Dr. Daniel Wilkerson, director of emergency medicine at McLaren-Central Michigan.

The affects of blacking out Periods of heavy drinking around holidays or Welcome Weekend are a “major strain” on the emergency room, Wilkerson said. On a normal day, the ER can support 12 beds worth of patients.

Most “party weekends,” anywhere from 12 to 15 people are taken to the ER at varying levels of intoxication. Some are brought by ambulances pulled from other counties to accommodate the number of calls.

Despite the trouble it causes the ER, Wilkerson said the long-term affects of blacking out for a drinker aren’t “incredibly serious” unless they “make it a continuous habit.”

“Alcohol is a toxin, so you’re essentially poisoning yourself and your brain over time,” Wilkerson said.

“It takes long-term alcohol use, a lot of alcohol over (many) years time, to see major physiological issues with the brain. If someone drinks a fifth of alcohol a day, it’s not going to take as long as someone who rarely drinks. But that’s on top of other factors like vitamin deficiencies or head injuries.”

Factors such as a drinker’s ability to metabolize alcohol, their sex, weight, height and even medication use can affect how quickly or slowly alcohol is “soaked up” by the brain, Wilkerson said.

Alcohol is classified as a depressant and can cause both respiratory and Central Nervous System depression. Air will not be drawn into the body as fast nor as regularly as it is when sober, Wilkerson said, which can lead the drinker to fall into a “drug

At a certain alcohol level, your brain isn’t able to ‘press record’ and keep (memories) so you can remember it at a later time.

Dr. Daniel Wilkerson, Director of Emergency Medicine at McLaren-Central Michigan

induced sleep” if too much is consumed.

It also leads to issues with storing memories, he said.

“Alcohol affects your short-term memory and basically your ability to store new data,” Wilkerson said. “At a certain alcohol level, your brain isn’t able to ‘press record’ and keep (memories) so you can remember it at a later time. There’s no way to get (those memories) back.”

Wilkerson said contrary to popular belief, the brain doesn’t shut down in parts due to alcohol, but is affected all at once — like a sponge soaking up alcohol. Once the alcohol is processed through the body, the drinker will be able to remember “bits and pieces,” Wilkerson said, but recalling memories from the blackout period are impossible.

Unless alcohol use is habitual, long term affects of memory loss to a drinker should not be of great concern Wilkerson said.

Students should look out for not just themselves, but each other as well.

Source: BRAD organization (Be Responsible About Drinking)

See something, do something After his incident, McIntyre said he’s much more cautious with drinking.

“After (the hospital trip) I was more upset with the way I affected other people than what happened to myself,” he said. “My roommates were all freaking out pretty bad (at the time). Having the doctor at McLaren tell me if my roommates hadn’t called (an ambulance) I would have been dead was freaky.”

When faced with a person who is believed to be overly intoxicated, Wilkerson said, it’s important to remove any alcohol from their possession and replace it with water.

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Heavier than ever Board of Trustees will likely vote this week to raise tuition

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n Friday in the President’s Conference Room, the Central Michigan University Board of Trustees will likely vote to raise the price of tuition per credit hour.

It’s a decision that has been guaranteed to repeat each year, dating back to before most undergraduate students were born. In 1993, undergraduate tuition for Michigan residents cost $85.50 per credit hour.

Another increase will likely make tuition more than $400 per credit hour next year.

We encourage you to attend the board meeting on Thursday and express your concerns about the price of tuition to board members directly.

After news of another increase is delivered each spring, students express outrage that slowly fades over the course of a few days. By then it is too late.

We should be angry — each time tuition is raised, more Michigan residents are priced out of an education and returning next year becomes harder for those who are already enrolled. But determining who we should be angry at is complicated, especially since state legislators and university leaders have played a very effective game of “pass the blame.”

Administrators frequently point their fingers toward the state government. However the university is not blameless either. CMU has not

Editorial done enough to reduce expenses paid for by students.

When the university sets its budget each year, it determines a tuition increase that can cover its costs. When Gov. Rick Snyder cut funding to higher education by 15 percent in 2011, tuition dollars became responsible for covering more of CMU’s expenses than ever before.

Tuition comprised almost 60 percent of the operating budget this year, while state appropriations funded only 16 percent. There was a time not long ago when those figures were reversed.

Snyder’s 2017 budget proposal recommends restoring higher education funding for Michigan’s 15 public universities to what it was the year before he took office and cut it. He proposed investing an additional 4.3 percent, or $61.2 million, to support state university operations.

This is encouraging. It’s the least Lansing can do — CMU’s appropriation in 2011 is significantly less valuable in 2016, even if it is more than what it receives now. There remains a $400 million difference between what the state dedicated to Michigan’s universities in 2001 and today. University administra-

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tors have repeatedly said if CMU received the same amount of state appropriations as it did in 2001, it would reduce tuition by $100 per credit hour.

President George Ross has consistently said that the university’s tuition increases are responsible compared to its peers.

Indeed, CMU’s 11.2 percent cumulative five-year tuition increase is the lowest among Michigan public universities. Wayne State is the highest, increasing tuition 26.9 percent since 2011.

From 2005-2006 though the 2007-2008 academic year, CMU implemented the “CMU Promise,” whereby undergraduate students were guaranteed an unchanging tuition rate for five years.

What this lead to is skyrocketing tuition; each year new freshmen were given a large tuition increase to pay for the frozen tuition rates of their predecessors. Tuition increased 110 percent from the year before the CMU Promise began to when it was ended. You can thank President Mike Rao for that — as well as further taxing the university’s resources by launching CMED. The university needs to reduce costs to stay affordable. Instead, university spending has almost doubled in 15 years.

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During the same five-year period Ross cites, spending outpaced tuition, increasing 16 percent. Compensation spending for university employees — CMU’s largest

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While employee compensation in the academic colleges has increased either at, or below, the rate of inflation since 2005, salaries of CMU’s decision-makers have increased at a rapid rate.

Funding for collegiate athletic programs has been increasing for decades.

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dollars. The athletics subsidy has exploded from $12 million to $21 million in 10 years.

Compensation for staff in the Athletics Department alone totals $10 million this year .

At CMU, University President George Ross and Director of Athletics Dave Heeke have said they are committed to keeping up with our competitors’ with no maximum spending limit established.

This is not sustainable.

Part of the blame also lies on paying for basic university functions. Services like counseling, advising, access to functional libraries and clean weight facilities are an essential part of the college experience and life at a university.

When we demand more from our university — justified or not — and that also requires more staff and more money.

Students are caught in the middle of a great hypocrisy — between legislators who talk of the importance higher education and then cut budgets, and administrators who demand the state to ante up for frivolous expenses.

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Vegetarian dining options still lacking in residence halls As I lug my tired butt down from the third floor of Merrill Hall into the dining hall, I realize two things: one — I pay too much money to be here and have my meals consist of soup, salad, soup, salad, ed nauseum. Two — how long is it going to be until there’s always a vegetarian option available at cafeterias around campus, and not just a day of the week devoted to “healthy eating?”

I don’t understand how I’m

Jordyn Hermani News Editor still having this problem after two years on campus.

I’m a vegetarian partly by choice, but also partly because I have a condition. I have a “sensitive stomach,” according to the gastroenterologist .I also have

acid reflux, meaning highly acidic foods and I mix about as well as a freshman with two fifths of vodka at their first frat party.

It’s easier for me to just stay away from most meat.

As a student of Central Michigan University, and one who lives in a residence hall, I should have a reasonable expectation of being able to find food on campus that isn’t either processed or the same thing every day. Part of my room

and board goes into the more than $2 million it costs to run the Merrill Residential Restaurant.

If it’s expected of me to pay for food I can’t eat, it should be expected of meat-eating students to pay for food they might not want to eat too.

Having vegetarian options every day that isn’t soup, salad or pizza isn’t just beneficial to vegetarians either. While CMU isn’t the most diverse campus in Michigan, we

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have a fairly substantial population of students who might not eat meat for cultural or religious reasons.

When Lent rolled around, every dining hall on campus made sure fish was ready to be served every Friday. So why can’t the same courtesy be extended to students who aren’t of the Christian faith?

Or students who just plain old don’t want to, or can’t, eat meat?

What it boils down to is this: as a member of the campus com-

munity, I shouldn’t have to take a backseat or eat less so the dining halls can save money by mass producing sloppy joes. Meanwhile, they spoon out the same wilted salad day after day. I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a vegetarian option to be available every day in the dining halls around campus.

If “healthy eating” every day is really what they’re trying to preach, it would be nice if they’d actually follow through.

EDITOR

Empower young people to talk about mental health TO THE EDITOR: Mental health can be one of the most difficult topics to bring up, but it’s also one of the most important. Given that one in four Americans struggles with mental health issues, and threefourths of all such problems arise between the ages of 14 and 24, it’s crucial that young people know they’re not alone. People should learn to talk openly about mental health and seek help as early as possible.

Some warning signs that may indicate a young person needs help include frequent sadness; changes in mood, behavior and eating and sleeping patterns; not wanting to go to school

or work; fighting with family and friends; drug and alcohol abuse; and feelings of hopelessness, anger or confusion.

When teens and young adults learn to recognize the signs of mental health conditions and have the tools to address them, they can step up, contribute to the conversation and, ultimately, help formulate community solutions to issues of mental health diagnosis and treatment.

With this in mind, the National Institute for Civil Discourse is launching its annual Text, Talk, Act mental health awareness campaign.

The national initiative will host events across the country

on April 19, in collaboration with Active Minds’ Stress Less Week, and May 5, in tandem with National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, using the campaign’s text messaging platform to help participants have candid discussions.

These events are designed to reach young people right where they live, through the use of mobile technology and social media. TTA events encourage open, face-to-face discussions on mental health to reduce isolation and misunderstanding and teach teens and young adults how to get and give help, when necessary.

Here’s how Text, Talk, Act works: Participants gather in

small groups of 3 to 5 people at any time on/around either of the event dates, with one cell phone per group. They text the word “START” to the number 89800 and receive a series of text messages, videos and social media interactions that guide the group through a conversation on mental health.

During that conversation, the group texts responses to questions (such as why talking about mental health is so important and how to help a friend in need) and sends their ideas for action, which are posted to a live website.

As the conversation comes to a close, participants receive links to resources to continue the conver-

sation and/or seek help.

Previous participants have said TTA events helped them better understand mental health and left them feeling more comfortable talking about it.

We learned when given a safe forum, young people are eager to join the conversation and become committed to being part of the solution.

So, let’s make a resolution to talk to each other.

Let’s commit to learning the warning signs and starting the conversation when a young person needs help. As a community, let’s learn our needs, find out about recovery resources, and explore ways to improve.

Join one of our events or organize your own.

Organizers of Text, Talk, Act events can win $1,000 prizes for their schools or community organizations, and the campaign provides all the materials needed to organize an event.

To find an event in your area, sign up for the contest, get materials for your own event, or learn more about mental health, visit http://creatingcommunitysolutions.org/texttalkact.

Raquel Goodrich Text, Talk, Act Director National Institute for Civil Discourse University of Arizona

Americans should support second amendment right to bear arms TO THE EDITOR: The issue of firearm control has been on the world’s mind for the past decade. Many individuals have formed ignorant opinions based on fears and prejudices surrounding the issue of gun control.

Considered a hot topic in the world, Central Michigan University is no exception to the debate.

Gun control on campus is not discussed due to the never ending controversy about the topic and anti-majority opinion.

We, as citizens of the United States will stand up for our right, as free individuals, in the opportunity to defend ourselves and others as “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

With the majority opinion against concealed weapons, it is difficult to advocate for the right to carry.

When a comment about having the right to carry on CMU’s campus is overheard

many people immediately jump to a movie-like scenario of a mad man going on a shooting rampage.

Despite this fear, a total of 634,983 people in the state of Michigan have their concealed permit license (CPL). In Isabella County alone, there is a total of 3,012 individuals who obtained a CPL according to the Michigan State police as of April 1, 2016.

With these statistics, it is not unlikely that an individual can walk into a grocery store and pass

at least two other citizens carrying a concealed firearm.

Under Michigan Statute, individuals are prohibited from carrying firearms, concealed or not, on college campuses.

Central Michigan, falling in line with the state, created policies that prohibits students from carrying concealed weapons. In addition to the violation of citizens rights. Central’s policy on firearms and other weapons is extremely uneven. The campus has a stipulation within their code of conduct that allows

students to carry a blade of at least three inches.

Students possessing a concealed gun permit, having received training, registration of the gun with both the campus, and the police, and undergoing a thorough criminal background check and evaluation, is much safer than any random student carrying a knife.

Our aim is to dissipate the negative stigmas surrounding current perceptions on guns and the constitutional right to legally carry firearms.

Fear surrounding the violence of gun shootings and attacks has sprung from the immaturity and under-educated individuals have been misinformed regarding ownership and handling.

Citizens of America have a right to bear arms in protection in protection of themselves and others around them. Campus policy, and state statute violates this constitutionally given right.

Christine Hays Junior Kelcey Geyer Freshman Avery Barnes Junior

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APRIL 25, 2016 y Central Michigan Life y Cm-life.com

Female students consistently earn higher grade points

By Brianne Twiddy Staff Reporter @Brianne_esque | news@cm-life.com

Kaitlin Lang entered the library, her backpack overflowing with textbooks and snacks. She settled at a table, her headphones playing instrumental music as she prepared for four to five hours of studying.

The Auburn Hills senior is a biology major who earned a 4.0 grade point average last semester. She estimates she studies 35 to 50 hours a week in addition to helping teach a chemistry course twice a week.

The Office of Institutional Research’s annual reports of on-campus undergraduate grade point averages showed overall student grade point average has been slightly increasing since 2011.

Grade point averages spring 2015

3.03 3.05 2.86 3.20 2.85 3.17

All students

All Greeks

Freshmen

Seniors

Women

Men

Source: Office of Institutional Research

The report also showed female students received a higher GPA than men.

“In order to receive recognition or be taken seriously, I do have to work harder (than men). Any work I turn in or produce, I want to make sure it’s my best work because I wouldn’t feel good if I didn’t put complete effort in,” Lang said. “They critique women harder (in STEM), so you have to make sure you have good work.”

The average GPA of female Central Michigan University

students since 2011 was a 3.17 while CMU men averaged a 2.85.

Frimpomaa Ampaw said this might be because men are often in more difficult majors like science and mathematics.

“One of the biggest things I’ve talked about is math preparation in high school,” said the educational leadership associate professor and interim department chairperson. “A lot of females aren’t socialized well into mathematics.”

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the student’s major and minor, while the other is academic preparation when coming into college, she said.

Greek Lif e While the average CMU student’s spring 2015 cumulative GPA was 3.03, the average fall 2015 cumulative GPA of Greek Life members was 3.05.

Greek Life members have required study hours per semester per week to be completed to keep their GPAs up.

The Office of Student Activities and Involvement requires a 2.50 cumulative GPA to participate in Greek Life. Each chapter typically elects an official who tracks members academic performance and contacts them if it dips below the requirement.

“There is a tendency for the public to scrutinize Greek Life based on negative stereotypes that are perpetuated through popular media, so members of the Greek Community work hard to prove those people wrong,” said Mount Pleasant freshman Katie Zwick.

Delta Phi Epsilon, Zwick’s

Any work I turn in or produce, I want to make sure it’s my best work because I wouldn’t feel good if I didn’t put complete effort in.

Kaitlin Lang, Auburn Hills senior sorority, uses an app called “My Greek Study” to log her required study hours. She turns on the app when she’s in “studious” locations like the library or Kaya Coffee Shop and it automatically begins to log how long she’s been there.

She said the hours required to be completed depend on member GPA. The lower the GPA, the more hours needed to log.

“There are a couple of issues with the practicality of it. How do you know that sisters are actually studying when they have their study hours turned on?” Zwick said. “However, I do think overall it’s the best way to hold sisters accountable for maintaining their grades.”

Zwick has a GPA between

3.0 and 3.4, making her study requirement three hours a week.

Freshman to senior year The average freshman received a 2.86 in spring 2015.

The average senior received an average of 3.20.

Anpaw said the difference could be because upperclassmen are often taking classes specific to their major, peaking their interest, while freshmen are taking standard university classes.

“Freshman year has been explained as a change in learning.

They have to get used to the university and understand what it’s about,” Anpaw said. “When you’re an upperclassman, you’re taking classes that actually interest you.”

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Student starts Dreidel Club, provides cultural experience

By Rachael Parrott Staff Reporter @Rachael_Parrott | news@cm-life.com

Novi freshman Casey Croad is already involved in seven registered student organizations on campus — from statistics club to swing dancing — but that didn’t stop him from creating his own.

Dreidel Club, founded by Croad, is dedicated to teaching students how to play dreidel and create friendships within the campus community.

Members of the club also have the opportunity to make dreidel shaped food, Croad said, which are a combination of marshmallow and Hershey kisses stuck together.

Croad said he never misses an opportunity to go to hall council in Trout Hall to promote the group and hopefully get more members.

Dreidel Club meets at 7 p.m. every Saturday in the Trout Hall terrace.

Why did you start the Dreidel Club?

CROAD: My mom is Jewish and my dad is Christian.

When I was little we would play dreidel on Hanukkah.

When I was in elementary school, my mom would come into my class and teach them how to play dreidel.

I thought it was a good idea to start a club around this relatively simple game so people could come and make friends and get out of their comfort zones.

What happens at your meetings?

After the executive board members talk a little about our goal and introduces ourselves, I explain how to play dreidel. Then we split into four or five group with the older members sitting next to the newer members so they

I would like to get the word out as much as possible and grow to other parts of campus.

Casey Croad Novi freshman

can help them.

After a couple of games we bring out the dreidel shaped food, which gets people pretty excited, and afterwards we just talk.

Is dreidel easy to learn?

It’s pretty easy to learn. By now we have enough people who know how to play, so the veterans kind of help people who are new and don’t know how to play.

It’s a gambling game. You just need to know what the four symbols mean.

Do you have to be Jewish or religious to come to Dreidel Club?

Nope. It says in the preamble of our groups constitution that this is a non-religious affiliated organization promoting a stress-relieving game in a group setting. I think it can help people gain knowledge and a new perspective on life.

I know you’re involved in a lot, but what other groups are you a part of?

I’m involved in Trout Hall’s Hall Council, stats club, SCAMS, which is the meteorology club, Running Club, two bible studies, one with Cru and one with His House, and I go to swing dancing at Wesley Church.

I’m not a member, but I am a (also) a participant of

Alanna Sparks | Staff Photographer

Members of Dreidel Club gather to learn about the game and play it with other students on Saturday, April 23 in Trout Hall’s terrace.

Kappa Mu Epsilon.

What is your favorite thing about Dreidel Club?

Honestly, I like the stuff we do after Dreidel Club. Sometimes we swing dance or play basketball after.

I get to have conversations with people where I can get to know a person and get to see a new perspective.

A lot of us are very outgoing so when we see a new person we try to reach out to them to see how they’re doing, and that’s what I like.

What do you see for the future of Dreidel Club?

I would like to get the word out as much as possible and grow to other parts of campus. Maybe get an auditorium where we could play dreidel with 50 or 60 people.

I want us to grow on social media, promote ourselves online on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. I just want to show people how much fun we’re having.

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APRIL 25, 2016 y Central Michigan Life y Cm-life.com

Fossil replicas to be printed in 3D for scientific research

By Sarah Wolpoff Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Lake senior Jennifer Webb is taking advantage of new technology to conduct scientific research on a newly discovered early human species.

In October, Central Michigan University opened the MakerBot Innovation Center, the first 3D printing lab in the Midwest. While mostly art and design students use the lab, the biological anthropology major will conduct research for her honors capstone project with the 3D printers.

She is studying fossilized remains of a newly-discovered species of early human, Homo naledi, found in a South Africa cave. She plans to obtain these fossils by printing them

Photos by Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Lake senior Jennifer Webb compares various types of teeth to determine non-metric characteristics of them on April 8 in Anspach Hall.

on a 3D printer.

“In the research that I’ve seen on Homo naledi, 3D print-

ing has never been used for original research,” she said.

Larry Burditt, chairperson

of art and design, said he encourages students to use 3D printers for projects.

Burditt said he has never seen the printers used to print fossils.

Rachel Caspari, chairperson of the department of sociology, anthropology and social work, is Webb’s adviser. She said the Rising Star Cave site excavation was both interesting and revolutionary.

“The site itself is almost impossible to get into,” Caspari said. “You would have to travel through difficult terrain and crawl through a gap about 8 inches wide.”

For this reason, the excavation team was almost entirely women, which is rare in scientific research.

Instead of sitting on found material and not letting anyone see it — the usual practice with such discoveries — the excavation team decided to make the information open access. They put all the data online so their peers can see it.

The excavation process was documented through video updates on YouTube, Caspari said.

“People around the world were watching and getting really excited about science,” she said.

Caspari said she thinks this idea of open access in the scientific community is groundbreaking.

“Hopefully, this will change the culture, and other scientists will operate with much more openness, she said.

Webb is in this first wave of students who are taking advantage of the changing world of science, technology and openness.

Researchers have had difficulty determining how old the Homo naledi fossils are, Webb said.

Previous research on the new species has been in comparison to earlier Homo species, which are approximately 2 million years old.

“Because it hasn’t been dated, I thought it would be cool to compare the remains to later hominin species, to see which one it could be more similar to, (and) get a better idea of how it could possibly be dated,” she said.

Webb will be comparing her printed Homo naledi fossils to the oldest form of our species, Homo sapiens, aged at approximately 100,000 years old.

“In any of the research I’ve seen, no one has compared Homo naledi to later Homo species like I’ve been doing,” she said.

Utility of the 3D printers is showing to be widespread, Burditt said.

“I’ve been told that a couple of engineering classes now require that students print out 3D projections,” he said. “A lot of natural history collections have started using 3D printers to archive images and information.”

Caspari explained the conflicting characteristics of Homo naledi remains is one of the factors making it difficult to determine the age of the species.

She said the brain size is similar to a chimpanzee, somewhat similar to very early human ancestors. However, the cultural implications evident by the cave sight, and traits held, such as the ability to walk upright, are much more associated with later hominin species.

Webb plans to present her findings at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Minneapolis this November.

After graduating in the December, she said she aims to pursue a master’s degree in forensic anthropology.

“I like being able to tell a story from looking at bones,” she said. “It’s really one of the coolest things.”

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ONLINE: Golf team finishes tenth at MAC Tournament during weekend

Riding the Pine: CMU throwers feature on cm-life.com

meeting measurements Throwers dominate, earning reputation as the program’s strongest event

By Ryan Warriner Staff Reporter @WarrinerRyan | sports@cm-life.com

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istorically, one group of athletes have provided the Central Michigan Track and Field program with consistently dominant performances: The throwers.

In the past four years, CMU has had at least two throwers finish in the top five at the Mid-American Conference Championships. In the 2015 outdoor season, eight athletes — four men and four women — were ranked in the top five in the MAC. All but one of those athletes returned this season.

Through four meets, seven of the 21 athletes have already met the MAC qualifying standards are throwers.

“We are probably looking for 40-46 points out of that group (in the MAC Championship),” said Head Coach Mark Guthrie. “I think we are a team where 100 total points would be a pretty good meet

belaere lead a strong young group of throwers, including redshirt freshman Kevin

for us at the conference meet.

It’s all going to start with the throws.”

In 2015, the throwers scored 37 of the men’s 83.5 points in the MAC Championship meet, where the men placed fifth out of six.

The group is led by seniors Cole Walderzak and Kylee Dobbelaere, both school-record holders in the hammer throw. Walderzak and Dobbelaere set records during last year’s outdoor season. Walderzak advanced to the national meet while Dobbelaere made it to the regional meet in the hammer throw last year.

“I think the throws culture here is very strong,” Walderzak said.

“That was one of the things that attracted me (to CMU). We are always training for bigger things than just a conference meet, or week-to-week competition. We always keep our eyes on the prize at the end of the season.”

Walderzak and Dob-

Weiler, who won Field Athlete of the Year at the Indoor MAC Championships in February.

This group set a school and conference record in 2016 for most throwing points scored in the Indoor MAC Championship. Overall, the men’s team placed fifth and the women’s team placed seventh.

“There’s high expectations for us,” Weiler said. “Even if we throw well at a meet, we still have to come back in the next week and work hard.

There’s always somebody working harder than you. School records are set pretty high, so those are nice goals to try and achieve.”

Those expectations, along with intense

workouts that accompany being a thrower at CMU, have enabled this group to continue to excel.

“We throw heavy things, so we have to lift a lot of weight,” Dobbelaere said. “But we also have to be fit because throwing is a very athletic event, so we do sprints, jumps, all of that stuff.”

The throwers practice the actual throwing, run sprints, do box jumps and medicine ball workouts at the Indoor Athletic Complex in the morning. They come back and lift in the weight room later in the day.

“I try to do my best to keep (younger throwers) aware that it’s not about how good you are now when you come in, it’s about how you progress over the years,” Walderzak said. “I try to keep them focused and in the mindset of ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day.’ Each day you

have to come in and put in work and try to get better.”

With Walderzak and other key contributors graduating at the end of the season, Guthrie said he knows they have to be training the future leaders this year.

“You don’t just walk in and replace an athlete like (Walderzak),” Guthrie said. “Just like the Denver (Broncos) are looking for a quarterback after losing a great one, we are going to lose Cole and we are going to be looking for the next one.”

Personal expectations are high, as Walderzak, Dobbelaere and Weiler are looking to qualify for the NCAA National Championships at the end of the season.

“We are all capable of making it to the first round of the regionals and we’d like to add more to the national w Throwing | 17

Chelsea Grobelny | Staff Photographer Marlette junior Kylee Dobbelaere winds up in the throwing area of the Lyle Bennett Outdoor Track and Field on Wednesday, April 13, 2016.

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Official length and weight:

Official weight and diameter:

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Men’s: 102.4 inches, 1.8 pounds

Men’s: 4.4 pounds, 8.5 inches

Women’s: 8.8 pounds, 3.74-5.12 inches

Women’s: 86.6 inches, 1.3 pounds

Women’s: 2.2 pounds, 7 inches

Hammer Official weight and length: Men’s: 16 pounds, 4 foot chain Women’s: 8.8 pounds, 4 foot long chain Source: ncaa.com

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Central Michigan Life y Cm-life.com y APRIL 25, 2016

Alumnus in position to qualify for Summer Olympics

By Ryan Warriner Staff Reporter @WarrinerRyan | sports@cm-life.com

Central Michigan track and field alumnus Alex Rose, who graduated in 2014, could qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics Aug. 5-21.

Rose is the 23rd ranked discus thrower in the world according to the International Association of Athletics Federations’ World List. To qualify for the summer games, Rose needs to remain ranked in the top 32.

While he was born and raised in the United States, Rose will not be competing for the red, white and blue, but rather for his father’s home country of Samoa — a small island to the East of Australia.

Rose is a dual citizen of both the United States and Samoa.

“I’ve always been someone who roots for the underdog,” Rose said.

“I love competing for a smaller country, a developing nation. It’s just a different feeling.”

Rose hopes to accomplish something no Samoan athlete has before.

“I’d love to get to the point where I’m at the Olympics and in the finals, and maybe it’s just for 30 seconds on TV they say ‘And for the first time ever, a Samoan athlete qualified for the Olympic final,’” he said. “I don’t know if a whole lot of people will understand how big of a deal that is, but to me, it’s everything.”

Rose’s father, Ross, emigrated from Samoa to the United States in 1973 when he was 19 years old. The Rose family now lives in West Branch.

Getting started in high school Track and field was not a part of Rose’s life until he was 16 years old, a junior at Ogemaw Heights High School. His primary sports were football

and basketball.

Rose’s chemistry teacher, who was also the track and field coach, proposed the idea of joining the team.

fact I was one of the smallest and weakest,” Rose said. “I saw that as a challenge, I worked hard every day to try and step it up and

“He saw I had long arms, so one day he just set a disc on the table in front of me, and long story short, I ended up winning the state championship in high school,” Rose said. “I actually got into track and field because I wanted to be a jumper, but once I started throwing, I realized that’s where I had the most upside.”

Rose won the state championship in the shot put and was the runner up in the discus in 2009, his senior season. He holds the school record in the shot put at Ogemaw Heights.

Even though Rose was receiving scholarship offers for football — including from Central Michigan — he enjoyed throwing more.

“I started (throwing) my junior year, so it was refreshing in a way.

Football and basketball were always pretty stressful for me,” Rose said. “Once I started competing in track and field, I realized this sport is for me.”

Rose decided to attend CMU — an hour and a half away from his hometown — in the fall of 2009, even though he declined the football scholarship. He chose to compete for track and field as a preferred walk-on.

be (throwing) with the older guys.”

In the 2010 outdoor season, he qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championship in the discus, finishing third among freshmen and 13th overall with his throw of 177’ 2”. He said Throwing Coach John Ridgway, who now an assistant coach at Harvard, was the biggest influencer for his success.

Also in 2010, Rose took second place (188’ 8”) in discus at the USA Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championship, which qualified him to compete at the Indoor Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Junior Championships in New Brunswick, Canada.

It was at this point Rose’s father convinced him to compete at the international level for Samoa.

“The whole time throughout the process, my dad was like ‘You know, you could compete for Samoa,’” Rose said. “I was like, ‘Dad how can I do that?

I’ve never been to Samoa. It’s a huge flight and a very expensive plane ticket.’”

Because Ross was born and raised in Samoa, Alex has dual citizenship automatically.

Rose had great success the next two years, earning All-American Honors and finishing in fifth place in the NCAA Championships in

Success at CMU Despite not being recruited, Rose immediately had success in his freshman season in Mount Pleasant.

“It was a little intimidating starting at the bottom again, realizing I’m not the biggest or strongest. In

pretty good at being self aware and being able to coach myself. That’s when I knew that I could train by myself if I had to, kind of like the current situation I am in now.”

In 2013, Rose — still a student at CMU — competed in the World

Courtesy Photo | Alex Rose

Alex Fine throws a discus at the Oceania Regional Championships in Cairns, Australia May 8-10, 2015.

2011 and was the MAC Champion in discus in 2012.

He redshirted in 2013, allowing him to compete in events unattached and pursue international competition. “(Competing unattached) was kind of my first case of training by myself,” Rose said. “When I was at those meets, I realized that I was

Championships and the World University Games. While the competition lacks name recognition, it is the second largest sporting event in the world.

It was at this point Rose said he realized he had the potential to compete make it to the Olympics.

“Competing in front of all the thousands and thousands of people there, I got all of this adrenaline, I had my season’s best throw and I knew, I just want to be the best I can be,” Rose said. “I want to be one of the guys that people look up to and model technically and try to throw like. That’s kind of when I knew I had to train for the Olympics.”

His plans hit a speed bump in 2014, his senior season, when he tore his pectoral muscle working at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. He had to have surgery if he wanted to throw again and was forced to miss the rest of the season.

“I couldn’t compete in my last MAC Championship or make a run for the national championship. It really was life changing,” Rose said. “I had to ask myself a bunch of serious questions and

figure out what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”

Post graduation After graduation, Rose took a break from throwing and decided to try football again.

“I always wanted to see how far I could make it in football,” Rose said. “Ever since I was a freshman, I thought about being able to do football and track at the same time, but having immediate success as a freshman in track made me push those thoughts aside. After I graduated, I had a perfect opportunity.”

He started working with Bryant Wilson, a CMU track and field assistant coach, to get in shape for Canadian Football League combines. Due to lack of film tape, no teams took a chance on Rose.

To fund his training, Rose worked as a bouncer at Blackstone Bar in Mount Pleasant and pushed carts at Sam’s Club.

Currently, Rose works as the throws coach at Aurora University in Illinois while studying to get his MBA, all while training for the upcoming Olympics.

“I always feel like I’m one step behind,” Rose said. “I’m still in the learning stages of juggling everything, so I feel like I’ll be a little bit more prepared for when I actually have children. I definitely have to stay in the moment. If I have an exam coming up in school, I need to stop thinking about discus for a second and focus.”

Training independently Training for the Olympics is much different than training in college, Rose said.

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Spring sports teams fight for postseason bids

By Andrew Surma Assistant Sports Editor @Andrew_Surma | sports@cm-life.com

With one week of classes remaining this semester, spring has arrived in Mount Pleasant. But Central Michigan’s spring athletic teams are in the hunt to punch a bid to conference tournaments.

Three of CMU’s teams — softball, baseball and lacrosse — are all on the bubble, fighting for a spot in the post season.

Here’s where each team stands and what to watch for in the coming weeks:

Soft ba ll The Chippewas picked up a crucial series win over the weekend in Muncie against Ball State and have won five

of their past six games.

Head Coach Margo Jonker’s team took a 1-0 victory in Friday’s series opener with the Cardinals, dropped the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, but won the nightcap 9-2.

The weekend-series win keeps CMU’s Mid-American Conference Tournament chances alive, moving its record to 20-22-1 overall and 7-9-1 in MAC play.

CMU is in ninth place in the conference standings with seven games remaining on its schedule. Only the top eight teams advance to the May 1114 MAC Tournament.

The team has two conference series’ to go, one against Eastern Michigan (18-26, 8-9 MAC) — who CMU trails by a half game — on April 29

Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Junior infielder Alex Borglin looks in a pick off throw during the game against Toledo at Theunissen Stadium, Friday, April 22, 2016.

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However, CMU’s loss to UT and EMU’s extra-inning win over Western Michigan Sunday drops CMU into fifth place in the standings — the top eight advance to the postseason.

The team’s 16 remaining games include four conference series — two on the road and two at home.

Lacrosse After a 13-9 loss Friday at Kennesaw State and 11-7 loss at Mercer, CMU lacrosse finds itself the odd team out of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament with two games remaining this season.

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CMU’s loss on Sunday at Mercer solidifies CMU’s seventh-place position in the A-Sun standings, essentially eliminating the Chippewas from making the A-Sun Tournament in the program’s inaugural season.

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Alex Rose poses in China for the Beijing 2015 World Championships Aug. 22-30.

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Chelsea Grobelny | Staff Photographer Standish senior Cole Walderzak throws a discus on Aprl 13 at the Lyle Bennett Outdoor Track and Field Complex.

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meet,” Dobbelaere said.

Walderzak is the only CMU athlete in position to compete at the national meet.

He is ranked ninth in discus and 24th in the hammer throw after competing in three meets this season.

The top 48 athletes in each event across the nation compete in the NCAA Championship meet, which are June 8-11 in Eugene, Oregon.

“I want as many of my teammates to score a lot of points and go and compete at regionals (as possible),” Walderzak said. “Hopefully

(many of our throwers) make it to nationals to get greater depth at the national level with CMU track and field.”

Walderzak and Dobbelaere’s connection with sports will not end after graduation. Walderzak is majoring in exercise science with plans to be a strength and conditioning coach, and Dobbelaere is studying sports management.

Raised in a family of coaches and athletes, Walderzak said he is comfortable with the training and athletic atmosphere.

“I like working with people and helping them achieve their goals in athletics. That is sort of where I mesh the best,” Walderzak said. “I like to push myself in the weight

room. I like to push (the other throwers) in the weight room. Watching them grow and develop just motivates me more.”

Dobbelaere said she struggled transitioning from being a high school athlete to life as a collegiate athlete, which pushed her in the direction of sports management.

“My freshman year, it was a hard adjustment because I was just so overwhelmed.

(Athletics) take so much of your time and it’s such a big jump from high school,” Dobbelaere said. “I really like working with studentathletes who are struggling trying to balance school and sports. I’ve been there so I can help them.”

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Connecting to Samoa By competing with Samoa, Rose hopes to establish a much closer relationship with his father’s home country — a place he has only been to twice when he visited last summer — and help in the development of the small nation.

“I told him about how most of the kids there don’t have the opportunity that we have here in the states,” Ross said. “Samoa is not a rich country. Most of my family (from Samoa), lives off the land.”

Rose believes competing for Samoa has helped him grow not just as an athlete, but also as a person.

“I really do feel a strong connection to the nation,” Rose said.

“Just being over there and learning their way of life, It just makes you realize the things you take for granted. Being connected to that culture has changed me. I feel like I’m a better person now and I’m more understanding. I see things

everywhere that make me realize why my dad acts the way he does.”

Rose had an opportunity last summer to meet members of his dad’s side of the family when he visited Samoa.

“I met my Aunt for the first time in my life and all my cousins there (in Samoa),” Rose said.

“These are people that my dad hasn’t seen in 35 to 40 years. It really does mean a lot to him that I can go experience these things and see where he grew up and do the things he can’t really do today, just because it’s so expensive to fly back and see everyone.”

Making it to the Olympics Rose has to stay in the top 32 discus throwers and to qualify in the Olympics this summer.

“I am very, very happy and we are so proud of him,” Ross said.

“He does his best all the time. He works hard and I believe there are many good things coming for him in the future.”

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“I don’t really trust many coaches outside of myself and a couple other guys, so I wanted to make sure that if we were going to invest in him as an athlete, that he had a good training background,” Miller said.

Miller began coaching Rose, and continues to write all of his workout and training programs, despite being states away from each other. Miller said they understand each other well.

“He knows I’m putting the time in, and he’s going to give it back to me,” Miller said. “I’ve only ever met him once, but he and I can talk for an hour as though I’ve known him for 20 years. He knows what I expect from and he expects a lot from himself, so he holds himself accountable. That’s why I think he will go to the Olympics.”

Miller said it doesn’t matter to him that Rose is competing for Samoa instead of the United States.

“I care about helping people accomplish their dreams, that’s what I care about,” Miller said. “I don’t care about political boundaries or countries or shit like that. I care about helping people feel good and helping people accomplish things that no one would ever have imagined

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