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THE BODY

ISSUE an in-depth look at: athletic training unique tattoos Eating disorders staying in shape

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THE BODY

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s we get closer to summer, it’s the time of year you might be thinking about getting in shape.

Central Michigan Life wanted to examine this idea, so we got up close and personal with CMU’s student-athletes.

These students are required to be in peak physical shape. We realize not every student looks like an athlete, so we spotlighted body image issues and working out healthily, too.

College means a lot of pressure on our bodies.

We’re need time to study, exercise, sleep and eat.

Our bodies carry us through our lives. We hope you take away some appreciation for the students in this special edition of Central Michigan Life. We hope you take some time to appreciate yourself, too.

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Athletes tailor their workouts during the offseason for inseason success

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Athletes show off their tattoos, discuss the meaning

What do you love about yourself? Read what students said.

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Students reflect on recovering

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from eating disorders

Staff Reporter Brianne Twiddy chronicles her experience with an eating disorder

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Women share experiences

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strength training at the SAC

Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor Kavon Frazier poses at Wightman Hall on April 6. Frazier was a defensive back on the CMU football team for the 2015-2016 season.

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Ripped from reps Student-athletes work out year round to prepare for physical challenge of Division I competition

By Austin Denean Staff Reporter @atd023 | sports@cm-life.com

It’s 7:30 a.m. as freshman Deshawn Baker-Williams enters the Indoor Athletic Complex weight room.

Tired and sore from the previous day’s workout and football practice, the offensive lineman gets to work.

In order to achieve the team’s championship goals, Baker-Williams knows he needs to maintain his physical peak each season.

“It’s a sub-motivation thing, and your teammates are motivating you,” BakerWilliams said. “Around here, we’re built on championships and having a mindset of ‘I want to help my team win a championship.’ That’s what gets you through everything.”

During the season, the time athletes spend practicing and in games keeps them out of the weight room.

At the conclusion of the season, more time is spent lifting weights and training.

Photos by Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor DaRohn Scott poses in the Wightman Hall photography studio on March 31. Scott is a forward for the CMU Men’s basketball team.

Building Up Foot ba ll CMU’s strength and conditioning coaches are responsible for training multiple teams at the same time. Each team reports to one trainer. Football, however, has multiple trainers.

Trainers have two roles — enhance athlete performance and prevent injuries.

Because there is a week between games, members of the football team spend the most time in the weight room compared to other sports.

Without the stress of multiple games on their bodies every week, football players are able to spend more time lifting and training.

The athletes will usually be in the weight room four days a week, with each day focused on a different area of the body.

Strength and conditioning coaches give as many explosive lifts as possible to maximize athleticism.

“It helps with every position,” Baker-Williams said. “Say offensive line, they still have to fire off the ball and block into you and get going. Receivers have to have a quick burst off the line to beat the defensive backs.”

Sophomore offensive lineman Derek Edwards said working on explosiveness is especially important for a lineman.

“One of the main things about playing in the trenches is having the technique to get yourself in the right places,” Edwards said. “But the strength that you get from the weight room is what takes you from being in the right place to winning your block and winning the down. You see yourself excel when you’re excelling in the weight room.”

the Daily St ruggles Going through the process of offseason workouts means the athletes have to push through soreness and constant activity.

“It definitely pays off after a while,” BakerWilliams said. “When you’re going to practice, you get beat up and when the workouts build up your muscle and make you stronger, it doesn’t hurt as bad.”

Edwards and Baker-Williams understand that they need to stay motivated to get through their workouts.

“Once you’re done with the workout, you feel like you accomplished something,” Edwards said.

“Your body is a little tired, but it feels like you got a good pump and you go throughout the rest of your day feeling pretty good.”

In addition to the wear and tear on their bodies, athletes have to balance schoolwork with their athletic responsibilities.

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Central Michigan Life y Cm-life.com y APRIL 7, 2016 Recently-graduated football safety Kavon Frazier said balancing time between football and homework required a lot of hard work.

“Even in the offseason, we spend a lot of time with football,” Frazier said. “People don’t understand how hard it is to balance that with school work and a social life. Most of the time we don’t even have social lives.”

Injury Prevention Avoiding injury is a primary focus for the strength and conditioning coaches. Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning Aaron McLatcher said each workout has some form of injury prevention integrated into it. The main areas of focus are ankles, hips and knees.

“We like to do ‘pre-hab’ instead of ‘rehab’. We’ll do a lot of the same stuff that physical therapists do, but use it as preventative measures,” said Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning Taylor Larson.

McLatcher said a majority of the gymnastics team’s training is injury prevention and power and strengthbased exercises.

Senior gymnast Taylor Bolender said the team typically lifts four times a week in the offseason, which includes work with the racks and the kettlebells, running, pushing sleds, ropes and Thera-Band exercises.

After completing its weight training regimen, the team goes to its practice

Karlee Teet and Taylor Bolender pose in the Wightman Hall photography studio on March 23. Both are members of the CMU gymnastics team.

The strength that you get from the weight room is what takes you from being in the right place to winning your block and winning the down.

Derek Edwards Sophomore offensive lineman

facility to work on skills.

“We do new skills and try to keep up on our floor cardio and bar cardio,” said senior gymnast Karlee Teet. “We’re just trying to learn new skills and basically maintain what we did so we don’t lose what we worked for since August.”

Gymnasts’ routines run on an individual basis, since they compete in different events.

“In the summer, we tend to train more than we compete during the season,” Bolender said. “Most people train around four events. You warm up, go to your events, spend about 45 minutes on each event and we start doing the conditioning at the end when everyone is done. It’s way harder in the summer and a lot more intensive because we have to build up for the season.”

Customizing an Athlet e’s Regimen Strength and conditioning coaches also provide athletes with a regimen to improve mobility, flexibility and stability.

The three core lifts CMU athletes perform are squatting, pressing and pulling. Each type of lift comes in a variety of forms, depending on the sport, athlete and time of year.

“I may do some aspects that are different from some of the other guys. Putting a 6’10” basketball player in the same position that is 5’11” is different,” Larson said.

“Sometimes they don’t move the same way. Biomechanics can be changed a little bit just because of the force levers (elbows, knees, etc.).”

McLatcher said deciding an individual’s workout regimen begins with what sport the student-athlete is part of, then broken down by position group and the athlete’s specific needs.

Workout routines can change depending on what system the coach is running.

For example, having an up-tempo offense in

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basketball will change what lifts and conditioning basketball players are doing.

Larson said there are a lot of different measures, so he likes to start at “square zero.”

The trainers send basic workouts to freshmen before they arrive on campus. It includes how to do a proper push-up and how to activate the core, since many freshmen have a weak core and posterior chain, Larson said.

“We work on body weight squats and things like that and then slowly progress,” Larson said.

“I can’t expect them to come here and squat like my juniors and seniors do when they can’t do a body weight squat properly.”

When an athlete arrives on campus, strength and conditioning coaches judge their fundamental weaknesses and then decide how to prescribe workouts to strengthen those deficiencies.

For upperclassmen, the offseason starts with trainers trying to build up their fundamental size. The volume of the exercises increases, but the resistance is lower. After that phase, trainers will try to improve fundamental strength, which decreases volume, but increases resistance.

Building on St rength Freshman lacrosse attack Kaitlin Kimble said the team’s workouts are most intense during fall.

The team’s workouts include squats, benching, body weight exercises and sprinting.

“A lot of the sprinting and core workouts helped me as an attack because you have to do quick spurts and movements,” Kimble said. “You have to be able to have good body movement getting through to the goal.”

Sophomore softball outfielder Lacy Tolfree tries to maintain a similar routine throughout the offseason.

“I’ll do the workout routine or do my own kind of lifting running, agility type things,” Tolfree said. “(I do) the same things we do in the weight room during the fall. Squats, bench, different kettlebell and dumbbell exercises, push-ups, pull-ups, normal weight room stuff.”

Part of Tolfree’s routine that does change during the offseason is her diet. In the offseason, she said she doesn’t eat a lot of bad foods so she doesn’t watch what she is eating as closely.

“During the season I do more, just because it’s easier to say, ‘Hey, let’s go order a pizza.’ But the cafeteria is open for a majority of the day, so I just go and eat there,” she said.

For sophomore forward DaRohn Scott, offseason workouts are about improving his athleticism and skills on the court.

“In the weight room, we get back to lifting heavy, max amounts trying to get our vertical jump higher and get quicker, faster and stronger,” Scott said.

Scott does different kinds of squats, which helps with flexibility in his joints for speed and explosiveness.

“It just helps me get stronger,” Scott said. “I’m naturally strong and athletic but getting in the weight room helps me build upon that. It helps me have more athleticism.”

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Student-athletes symbolize their experiences and beliefs in ink with body art GREG WICKLIFFE | STAFF REPORTER @GregWickliffe10 | sports@cm-life.com

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or several Central Michigan student-athletes, tattoos are more than just a permanent mark on their bodies. They are

symbolic for something greater.

The American tattoo business has grown into a $2.3 billion industry. Thirty-six percent of Americans aged 18-25 have at least one tattoo, according to a Pew Research Center report.

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w Diavonte Smith | TRACK w Senior “(Tattoos are) a way to express my creativity. I suck at music, I can’t sing, I can’t draw. I always had that cool idea to express myself with my tattoos. (Faith over fear) is always a reminder to me that no matter what type of situations I get into, as long as your faith is strong and as long as you have that in you, nothing can stop you.”

w Silas Dekalita | TRACK w Senior “The words hanging on the banner are a running quote from a book called, “Once a Runner.” It’s an attitude toward training. It’s all about getting out there every day and training hard. It takes months and years to get to where you want to be. You have to accept that and be in it for the long haul. I look at it every day and I get reminded of what I have ahead of me, what I’ve done already and why I do what I do.”

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“(The angel tattoo) is more of a memory of all the people who have got me to where I am — kind of like a guardian Angel typething. The scripture reminds me no matter how tough things get, God’s always there and you can always do stuff with his strength. (Tattoos are) a way to express certain things that you can’t say. I’m not very artistic, so it’s kind of a way to show a little bit of art.”

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Basketball w Sophomore “I went through a lot of struggles in high school and I never found God until last year. He’s made a huge impact on my life ever since. I see all of the work. He’s done in my life. I can’t see it, and I have faith in things that I can’t see or things I can’t understand. I can’t see it but I know it’s there.”

“The one I just got on my forearm says ‘in Jesus’ name I play.’ I wouldn’t be in the position I am right now if it wasn’t for God. I got Derrick Nash’s jersey on my ribs. He meant a lot to me when he was here. He was basically my brother. I got a tattoo for my grandma on my arm when she passed away. Another one is for my boy, Andre (Davis) he passed away a few years back.“

w Melvin Harris III | track (jumps) w Junior “All of my tattoos are mainly based on my Native American heritage, so it’s just a way for me to express my gratitude I have for my culture. The chief skull is my favorite right now because it’s my newest one. I’ve always had a dreamcatcher. I had my first dreamcatcher made by my cousin when I was little and I always had it above my head when I was sleeping.”

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WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF?

By Rich Drummond Staff Photographer

We spoke to students about their favorite thing about themselves.

Answers ranged from physical features to personality traits.

These are the attributes and qualities that your fellow Chippewas admire the most.

“My desire to do things on a whim. I just got back from South Africa so I’m kind of adventurous; it makes life more exciting.”

- Buchanan senior Audrey Funk

“I’d like to congratulate myself on my perseverance, because I’m dumb and I just have to keep trying more than the average bear.”

– Chesterfield junior Garrett Woodside

“I’m a very caring person. I’m willing to put others before myself, but I know when to put myself first.”

- St. Clair Shores junior Alexia Ellison

“I’m a nice person. I get along with most people.”

-Lake Orion sophomore Alex Gaffney

“I’m not really a negative person. I never hold a grudge, or get down on someone. I’m always looking for the positives.”

- Clinton Township freshman Charles Towner

“I love my eyes. I don’t know why.

People tell me I have really small eyes, but I like that aspect a lot.”

- El Paso freshman Jasmine Lyndsey

“Confidence. If there’s something I can do, I’ll do it. I won’t say ‘I can’t. I’ll try my best to do it.”

- Saudi Arabia senior Abdullah Alyousif

“My personality. I’m really friendly and open. I like meeting new people and enjoy new experiences.”

- Jackson senior Katelyn Brosnan

“My hair. It personifies who I am as a person.

It’ll be three years in October (since I’ve cut it), so I’m excited about how big it’ll get.”

- Saginaw senior Brianna Haynes

“I have a happy attitude. I like to joke around and stuff.”

- Holly sophomore Benjamin Konopitski

“My motivation. If I want to do something, I’m gonna go out and do it.”

- Detroit freshman Nicki Maclin

“My perseverance of goals. When I set a goal, I really try to work toward it and I’ll do anything to go ahead and go after it.”

- Brighton junior Tom Diaz

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At peace with herself Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Waterford senior student Claudia Davis poses on Friday, April, 1 in the Fabiano Botanical Gardens.

Students reflect on recovering from eating disorders while transitioning to college

By Sydney Smith Managing Editor @SydneyS_mith | news@cm-life.com

The first time she shoved her fingers down her throat, she didn’t know why.

Waterford senior Claudia Davis remembers after the first time she did it in high school, she told a friend she went home and threw up her food.

She didn’t realize purging was a problem until it became an addiction.

“I kept going back and doing it, and I kept hiding it,” she said.

Davis has been “clean” for three years — but getting there was not easy. She is one of 30 million people in the U.S. who have suffered from eating disorders, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders.

While physical symptoms are usually associated with eating disorders — like bulimia and anorexia —

We do a very good job at hiding it.

When you get to hear it yourself that someone is accepting (of it), it’s something special.

Claudia Davis, Waterford senior Lisa Carpenter, a licensed therapist in Mount Pleasant, wants people to remember the psychological aspects.

“It’s all about the food but nothing about the food,” she said. “They’re not about a person who doesn’t like to eat; it’s not a choice. A lot of people mis-perceive that.”

Davis continued purging for about four years.

When she would get home from school, she would immediately head to the bathroom. She

said there was a lot of “very low moments” where she wouldn’t eat anything, but would take excess amounts of vitamins or laxatives.

From a young age, Davis knew about dieting, but there were multiple factors that she believes contributed to her eating disorder. When she was a child, Davis was verbally and physically abused by a family member.

During the second year, she made a new year’s resolution to quit, only to continue purging for another year.

“Eventually (my cousin) ratted me out and told my mom,” she said. “My mom was like, ‘Why would you do something so stupid to your body?’ It felt like she didn’t understand.”

Davis tried stopping, but nothing worked. During her time at Oakland University, she went to see a counselor, because while dealing with an eating disorder, she developed anxiety and depression.

“That was the best thing for me,” she said.

“Going to someone every week and telling them I didn’t (purge) was a really proud feeling.”

Carpenter said “co-occurring” mental illnesses are common with eating disorders. Typically, she said, it manifests itself in the form of anxiety or depression.

“If a person is more anxious or depressed, that might come first,” she said. “The eating disorder can come as a way to help regulate those emotions.”

Eating disorders most commonly occur in women between the ages of 12 and 25, according to ANAD. Carpenter attributes this to the amount of pressure and change that comes during these times — one of the biggest being the transition to college.

“It’s time of life and the stressors of being in college — taking classes, expectations and deadlines,” Carpenter said. “There’s a lot of pressure to look a certain way, be a certain way.”

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with the symptoms of her eating disorder every day.

“A lot of the time it’s still something I’m working on,” Davis said. “If someone looks at me, I feel like they’re judging me. Once (the eating disorder) is there, it’s whenever you look in the mirror.”

Sandusky junior Lindsay Ball didn’t focus on what she saw in the mirror.

Instead she took others’ comments about her weight very seriously. She developed anorexia in junior high, after she received positive feedback from classmates about her weight.

Though she was always active in high school sports, she started exercising outside of practice. It became an obsession, she said.

“My body didn’t look like I had an eating disorder, but my mind wasn’t healthy,” Ball said. “I was really into restricting. I would wake up before school and run on the treadmill, then after practice I would go back and run through dinner.”

Ball began to wonder how many calories were in toothpaste. Carpenter said restrictive obsession is a common symptom of eating disorders.

“If you become obsessive over the numbers, if that’s all you’re thinking about, if you start not do-

If you need to seek help for an eating disorder, call one of these numbers.

• CMU Counseling Center: (989) 774-3381 • NEDA Helpline: 1 (800) 931-2237 • University Health Services: (989) 774-6599

Rich Drummond | Staff Photographer Junior Lindsay Ball poses for a photo on Wednesday, March 30 in the Fabiano Botanical Gardens.

ing social things because you’re worried about what people are going to eat — when it starts to cause a problem in other areas of your life, that’s a clear indicator that something’s going on,” she said.

Ball’s illness followed her throughout high school.

During her freshman year at CMU, she thought she was doing better, but the transition made it easier for her to fall back into old habits. After a while, Ball realized what she was doing wasn’t making her happy.

“I started focusing on health,” she said. “I

needed to work on being balanced. I don’t need to freak out. I worked on being more balanced, and that’s how I got myself back onto a healthy track.”

Ball still sometimes struggles with falling back into disordered eating — but she is thankful to be healthier. Carpenter said recovery from eating disorders, though scary, is very possible with the right treatment, including a medical doctor, a dietician and counselor.

Davis found comfort in getting involved with student groups. Here, she can share her experience with others.

“I feel like it has the potential to help someone and see there is ways to get help, that other people are dealing with it,” she said. “We do a very good job at hiding it. When you get to hear it yourself that someone is accepting (of it), it’s something special.”

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Choosing between an eating disorder and an education

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wo months before I left for my freshman year of college, my doctor made me choose between “an education and a body bag.”

I was 15 pounds underweight. My brain was foggy.

My hair was thin. I felt tired all the time. It was a constant battle of mind, body and control that had been at war since seventh grade, and now my anorexia was threatening to prevent me from moving away to school.

I purged in middle school when a friend said to consider not eating for a week before going to the waterpark during spring break.

I began purging after each meal and obsessively exercising. I pushed myself until I couldn’t tell the difference

between my sweat and tears.

It took my first recovery attempt during my sophomore year of high school to discover purging causes the face and stomach to bloat.

From that discovery came starvation. Starvation left my body thin, but malnourished.

I kept small notebooks in my back pocket with pages of calories consumed. I found ways to make plates appear emptier than they were. I felt jealous when I saw young children playing because of how thin their legs were.

There’s something not many people know when going into recovery for the first time — it’s called the first time for a reason. Part of recovery is relapse.

Remembering to eat isn’t like remembering how to

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ride a bike. It doesn’t come naturally after not doing it properly for a few years. The simplicity of “I’m hungry, I should eat” doesn’t exist for people who’ve had an eating disorder.

Your body becomes used to not eating and rejects large amounts of food. I set reminders on my phone to eat.

Most of the time I could only manage a few bites before I felt sick.

It took about two months to be able to eat a sandwich without having to stop halfway because of my nausea. I worked hard for a few months

and gained a few pounds back.

I relapsed again that summer.

It was then my mother took me to the doctor, who he said if I didn’t gain 10 pounds by the end of the summer, I wouldn’t be able to move away to college.

Recovery isn’t easy. There are good days and bad days.

There are days that begin good and end up being bad.

There are days you want to just give up, even if it means not going to college or even dying.

And there are days that you realize that you just might make it.

For my third attempt at recovery, I gained eight pounds in eight weeks, allowing me to attend college.

It’s now been a year since my last recovery. Not every day is easy. There are days that my anxiety or heavy workload make me want to skip meals to have a better sense of control over my life.

Days where I look in the mirror and hate what I see.

These are the days when I’m lying to myself.

Recovery is hard and frustrating and terrifying and exhilarating. It leaves you sobbing while sitting on public toilet seats looking at your thighs, and cry out of relief when you look in the mirror and don’t hate what you see.

In the United States, 30 million women suffer from a clinical eating disorder at some point in their lives. An eating disorder does not discriminate against gender, race

or body type. I was suffering from an eating disorder when I was 160 pounds and when I was underweight. I was just as self-conscious and depressed at both weights. Weight doesn’t determine your happiness. Your mind and what you love to do does.

There’s no neat ending to recovery. But recovery is possible and makes life much more beautiful than before, since you have the energy to live it.

The mirror and I still don’t always get along. I still am self-conscious about my appearance, but I’m better than before. I have the energy to dance and joke with my friends about it because of the calories I wrote in my notebook.

I burned that notebook years ago.

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Women face discomfort using weight training center

By Paige Sheffield Staff Reporter @paige_sheff | news@cm-life.com

Alexa Suchner used to stay away from the lower level weight room and went straight to cardio equipment when she went to the Student Activity Center.

The weight training center on the lower level intimidated her, especially because she never saw any women there.

Now, the Fremont senior and fitness instructor works out regularly in the downstairs weight room. Suchner said she is starting to see an increase in the number of women there.

Though fewer women go to the weight training center, women are the primary clientele in the fitness center upstairs, said Stan Shingles, assistant vice president of University Recreation. One type of

equipment was “male dominated in its design,” he said, so staff attended expos, did research and tried out different equipment before getting a new line of the equipment this fall.

“We (did research) to make sure we’re buying for a diversity of audience versus the equipment made 10-15 years ago that was made primarily for men with women expected to fit into it,” Shingles said.

Women who use the lower level weight room in the SAC said they are still the minority, but have noticed an increase in the number of women there.

Strong women are receiving more recognition, whether it’s through the Olympics, the CrossFit movement or more representation in mainstream media, said assistant director of fitness and wellness Conner Edelbrock.

Mary Lewandowski | Staff Photographer Mason sophomore Morgan Ekovich lifts weights on Wednesday, April 6 at the Student Activity Center.

Last summer, Suchner started weightlifting. She started upstairs and once she became more comfortable with the weights, decided to go downstairs to the weight training center.

“Once you start seeing a few girls there, I feel like other girls

start to see it and it’s like, ‘Oh OK, I see more girls down there, I could start going too,’” Suchner said.

Caro junior Blair Tiseo exercises in the weight training center five to six times per week.

She said she likes how weight-

lifting is not about winning or being competitive — it’s about self-improvement.

“A lot of (women) are taking it seriously now and thinking it’s not just a boys’ sport,” Tiseo said. “They’re happy with what (weightlifting) is doing for their self-esteem and what the outcomes have been.”

Tiseo said people are often surprised to find out she lifts weights.

Escanaba junior Emily Bogaudo said she gets mixed reactions when people find out she lifts.

“Guys will say, ‘Don’t get too huge. It’s unattractive,’” Bogaudo said. “I say, ‘who cares what other people think?’ If it makes you happy, do it. It’s your body.”

During her freshman year, Bogaudo said she was one of a few women who went down to the weight training center. Now, she’s not intimidated by anyone there.

“People I hardly know will come up to me and say encouraging things,” Bogaudo said.

Suchner said she always tries to make a point to talk to other women she sees in the weight training center to make them feel more comfortable.

However, she said women tend go to group fitness classes more often than men.

Often when men attend her yoga classes, they’re required to for class. After trying it, some realize they like it and end up returning.

She thinks it’s a common misconception that yoga is “for women” and men can’t do it.

Tiseo thinks some people are embarrassed to go to the weight training center because they think they will look weak in comparison to the other people there.

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the most popular majors at CMU

17 College of Medicine seeks to become fully accredited 18 EDITORIAL: Administrators should support marginalized student groups

University warns employees of tax fraud

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Senate discusses possibility of adding women’s sport programs or dropping men’s sports

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The Office of Information Technology sent an email on April 6 informing Central Michigan University staff and faculty members that several employees had their taxes filed fraudulently.

“Upon attempting to file taxes electronically this year, a number of employees have discovered their taxes have already been filed by someone else, and their returns are being rejected by the IRS,” said the email.

Chief Information Security Officer Mark

Herron and Travel Services Manager Sara Yonkey have been investigating the issue since the first incident was reported over a week ago.

At least 30 cases of tax fraud have been reported

by CMU employees, Herron said. OIT said they have found no evidence of a system compromise or unauthorized access to CMU systems.

“This problem is not unique to CMU,” the email reads. “A number of universities have reported similar fraudulent activity targeting their employees.”

CMU employees reported learning of the false tax filings when trying to file their own tax information through services such as TurboTax and eFile.

Biology faculty member Brad Swanson said he had his taxes filed fraudulently during an Academic Senate meeting Wednesday.

Anyone who has been a target of tax fraud is encouraged to contact the CMU Payroll Office at (989) 774-3481.

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Psychology continues to be most popular major

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T he top five majors Nationally, psychology has a high enrollment rate. It was fourth in the nation during the 2011-12 school year, awarding 109,000 bachelor degrees to students across the United States, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics.

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Megan Miller is the last undergraduate student who will be able to put a her commercial recreation major on a resume.

The Lapeer senior is registered as a commercial recreation and facilities management major, which is no longer offered at CMU. According to a spring 2016 report by the Office of Institutional Research, some majors are populated by only one undergraduate student, while others have hundreds.

Psychology is the most popular major on campus, with 636 undergraduate students signed. An additional 14 juniors and seniors are majoring in graduate preparation.

Career Services Director Julia Sherlock said some majors

psychology don’t typically get a job within their field of study. Mark Reilly, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, said this is because psychologists and clinical psychologists are required to attend graduate school.

Instead, people with bachelor degrees in psychology commonly go for entry-level jobs relating to human services, like sales or marketing.

Reilly said psychology is still useful with a bachelor’s degree because the field relates to human services and emphasizes skills in understanding why people do what they do.

“Management, human resources — it all involves behavior,” said the undergraduate di-

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might have more students than others, but one career path isn’t necessarily a better choice because of those numbers.

“It is all individually-based,” Sherlock said. “There is no guarantee for success or failure, it all depends on the individual’s motivation and how they decide to leverage their skills to a particular employer.”

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Less popular majors The report by the office of OIR shows 11 majors listed with only a single undergraduate registered.

Some majors, like two types of recreation specializations, are no longer available to new signers and consist only of upperclassmen who signed before the major was dropped from the program.

Others, like speech, a music major in the organ, or earth science for kindergarten through 12th graders, have very few students because the disciplines are more specific in nature and appeal to a smaller pool of students.

Those majors typically have multiple categories, like music,

which has 10 categories for students to choose from, one of which is the organ major.

Sherlock said a student majoring in playing the organ would have a limited market to choose from in orchestras, but could be creative and teach.

“They would have to look at their market niche, see where the demand is,” she said.

Most of the top five are nonspecific, general majors with many different job positions and sub-categories within. Those sub categories are not listed at CMU as specific sub-majors, like music majors are. They fall under the general heading.

Miller, who is her major’s only student, said she chose commercial recreation after originally being an education major. She decided education wasn’t for her and went to an adviser to explore other options.

“I explored what I would think I’d like and what-not, tried out a class and liked it,” she said.

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rector. “Companies are interested in hiring people that have an understanding of psychology.”

Sherlock agreed psychology students can get jobs in multiple fields.

“The science of behavior is going to be applicable in a lot of business situations,” she said.

“You can do almost anything you want because you are considered schooled and educated.”

The second, third and fourth most popular majors at CMU are all in the College of Business Administration: marketing, logistics management and accounting.

A National Center for Education Statistics report states more business degrees were given out in American universities during the 2011-12 school year than any other, totaling to approximately 367,000 business degrees.

“These three are very popu-

lar majors and very highly recruited at Central Michigan University,” Sherlock said.

The fifth most popular major at CMU in spring 2016 is exercise science: kinesiology, with 320 undergraduate students this semester.

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College of Medicine aims to be fully accredited

By Ruben Juarez Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

When third-year medical student Saavia Girgla first considered attending the College of Medicine in its 2013 inaugural class, the fact that the program was not fully accredited did not deter her.

CMU’s College of Medicine is still striving to achieve full accreditation.

It is preparing for a survey visit next month to determine if the program can move to provisional status, the next step in the process. Presently, CMED holds preliminary status.

“Having that initial accreditation where you get approved to take in medical students to me is the biggest step and the most important one,” Girgla said. “Once they’ve been approved to do that, it speaks to the work ethic of the administration that they are going to meet the subsequent goals and complete them accordingly.”

In December 2009, CMED submitted its application to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the entity that accredits medical schools in the United States. Marie Matte, associate dean of compliance, evaluation and assessments oversees the accreditation process.

“It’s a tremendous amount of work,” Matte said. “It does require the participation of the faculty, staff, administration, and, very importantly, the students of the medical school to achieve accreditation.”

If provisional status is established this year, the final site visit can be expected to take place in approximately two years for the final stage toward full accreditation, Matte said.

The LCME outlines 12 standards for which medical schools must provide evidence of compliance. It indicates a program provides the adequate education and environment to produce competent doctors.

A total of 95 elements are included

under the 12 standards.

Standard seven, for example, deals with educational materials and contains nine other standards, which list and describe the fields that must be covered by the program, from teaching pertinent biology to ethical guidelines.

During the survey visit May 22-25, a five-person group will conduct a series of interviews with faculty, staff administration and students. The team is comprised of one LCME personnel and four other trained auditors from around the nation, Matte said. Accreditors also will audit the facilities, program and personnel.

In 2015, the LCME reviewed the college. In an evaluation sent to President George Ross, the organization identified areas CMED needed to improve upon.

The program was placed in a “warning” phase, which means there were certain areas of noncompliance.

The college was able to recruit and accept applicants for the medical students during this phase.

In its 2015 evaluation, the LCME found there is comprehensive financial aid resources for students. There were instances where the medical school was too new to evaluate, though students expressed concern about the availability of clinician advisers, as well as the size of study spaces.

The LCME also noted initiatives to recruit underrepresented groups were sparse. The report also states opportunities to observe biomedical phenomena are lacking.

By May 1, the program needs to compile documentation to show its compliance with the LCME standards. Matte said these documents are supplemental to the reports CMED submitted to the LCME in February, which illustrated the ways the school is meeting accreditation standards.

In preparation for the survey visit, the College of Medicine requested a pre-survey consultation from the LCME. A representative visited the college last August to provide advice

about how to move through the accreditation process, Matte said.

“Because we’re so new, we don’t have a lot of data to collect from our program, so (we are) asking them what pieces of evidence we could provide to the LCME at this point in our development that would satisfy the standards,” Matte said.

Training sessions are also being conducted for the faculty, staff and administrators who will meet with accreditors next month.

“Some of the people here are relatively new and have not been in front of an LCME site team,” Matte said.

“Part of the training is explaining the process in detail, explaining what the site visit is all about and then conducting “a mock accreditation visit” where I various faculty, staff, students and administration will be asked to provide their perceptions of the program, followed by a debriefing session.”

Managing Editor Sydney Smith also contributed to this story.

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Fund spaces for marginalized groups With core values in mind, university is obligated to support gender center

To achieve our mission, we adhere to the core values of integrity, respect, compassion, inclusiveness, social responsibility, excellence and innovation.

Editorial It is time our university leaders ask themselves an important question: What does Central Michigan University stand for?

According to CMU’s statement of core values, campus leaders should aspire to the values of “integrity, respect, compassion, inclusiveness, social responsibility, excellence and innovation.”

A group of students believe in these core values, too.

They’ve decided to show their commitment to fighting for people who feel marginalized as members of the campus community.

These students started a petition to get the university to build a gender center on campus.

They want funding from the university’s budget to build the center. They will use these funds to renovate and expand in the Bovee University Center, hire full-time staff and pay for speakers, educational workshops and supplies.

The purpose of this center’s creation, supporters say, would be to increase awareness and

--Central Michigan University’s core values, adopted by the Bo ard of Trustees, Dec. 2, 2010

understanding of issues pertaining to gender inequalities.

These include the concepts of rape culture on campus, sexual harassment in the workplace and equal opportunities for advancement for women.

There is a large constituency of students that this center could serve.

The majority of the more than 20,000 on-campus students at CMU are women.

Some question why CMU should support this initiative. It brings to light an important topic that should be discussed. Because of federal gender equality law, CMU

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must remain compliant in the allocation of funds to genderspecific programs and services.

Title IX states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

Supporters of spaces such as the proposed gender equity center hope to have representation not just at the student advocacy level, but also from a meaningful administrative one.

These underrepresented classmates of ours should be

able to express themselves comfortably.

Every student has the right to feel listened to and accepted.

Our university’s leaders has a moral obligation has a responsibility to facilitate spaces on campus where students can go to share their ideas.

Support should incorporate both compliance and innovation.

We join our frustrated classmates in asking for something more tangible and valuable: Support centers designed to encourage acceptance in the campus community.

It is time to move these students up on CMU’s financial

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priority list.

Our university provides many important and appropriate student services used by thousands of students each day — the Charles V. Park Library and Student Activities Center are two prime examples.

While not as widely used, services narrowly tailored to the needs of specific groups of students are important to those who need them.

Similar to universitysponsored counseling services, areas on campus where students can recieve support with gender or social issues could save lives.

No one should have to

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struggle through their college experience. The implementation of these places would improve academic success — something CMU’s leaders talk about often.

We attend a primarily white university.

The implementation of these places would help diversity enrollment and paint our school in a more inclusive light.

Chippewas should be leading the conversation on equality and tolerance.

While it is unlikely that every student on CMU’s campus is going to use a gender or sexual preference-related space during their four or more years in Mount Pleasant, these places are vital to those who do need them.

You are going to share a classroom and residence hall with different kinds of people.

Each of them will have different experiences and beliefs.

CMU should consider how diverse its student population has become when making financial decisions.

Taking care of the people who need resources most is what this university says it stands for.

This is a chance for university leaders to prove they are committed to the message of community and togetherness they call “One CMU.”

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Recognized with rings Athletic teams members receive $225 rings for Mid-American Conference titles

By Justin Lambregtse Staff Reporter @JLambregtse | sports@cm-life.com

The varsity sports teams of Central Michigan put in the work every year to win a Mid-American Conference Championship.

Whenever this goal is met, team members experience the glory that comes with being crowned champions — ­ receiving a ring to signify their accomplishments.

At CMU, any team that wins a MAC Championship earns rings — including Co-MAC Champions, like the 2015 men’s basketball team — said Senior Associate Athletic Director Cristy Freese.

The NCAA limits the price for championship rings at $325.

Central Michigan limits ring costs to $225. Teams can spend more than $225, although CMU will not give past that number.

The athletics department pays for rings for players and coaches.

Freese said sport administrator or athletic trainer may also receive championship rings from athletics.

For the men’s basketball team, CMU Athletics fundraising initia-

Kaiti Chritz | Photo Editor New Jersey senior Adam Bossard shows his MAC Championship ring in Moore Hall on Tuesday. Bossard was one of five men’s basketball team managers to receive a ring for the MAC Championship in 2015.

tives did not pay for championship rings for managers that volunteered with the team in 2014-15.

Head Coach Keno Davis decided to cover the costs for the group of five team managers.

“We do have a lot of managers that are part of the team that don’t get any money, they don’t get any assistance, they’re just volunteering their time,” Davis said. “I made a donation to

make sure to cover those guys because, anything we can do for them (is worthwhile).”

New Jersey senior Adam Bossard was one of five team managers that received a ring for the MAC Championship by the men’s basketball team in 2015. He was a team manager for two years.

“Keno was very gracious, putting his own money toward these rings,” he said. “It wasn’t like he

put half, he put full money for the managers to get their rings.”

Managers for the basketball team are responsible for setting up practice and cleaning up after it is over.

They rebound basketballs and do drills with players. In the office, they put together analytics, statistics and go through tax returns for various expenses, Bossard said.

History of the rings Cristy Freese coached field hockey at CMU from 1986 to 2013 and is now the senior associate athletics director. She still has her ring from her first field hockey MAC Championship in 1990. “(Rings are) a pretty traditional (award) at every school and it has been going on for some time,” Freese said.

CMU is contracted with Balfour

to make championship rings.

After a team wins a MAC Championship, Balfour sends a brochure to the coaches. The brochure contains options in terms of customization, material and size.

“The only thing that we really want (on the ring) as a department is Central Michigan University,” Freese said. “We usually ask for the ‘Flying C’ to be on it.”

Beyond that, it is up to coaches to decide how they want the ring to look prior to customization.

Individuals can choose to put information like the team record or their name on the ring. They can choose the size as well as the material of the ring.

The selection process time frame depends on a variety of factors, but Freese said it takes six to eight weeks to be delivered once ordered.

Once the rings come in, the distribution process is up to the team.

For example, the baseball team received their 2015 MAC Championship rings during halftime of a football game last fall.

After that, all that remains is doing it again.

Athletes, coaches can’t cash in on March Madness brackets

By Von Lozon Staff Reporter @von_lozon | sports@cm-life.com

More than 13 million brackets were filled out on ESPN. com for the 2016 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

CMU men’s basketball Head Coach Keno Davis filled out a bracket with his eight-year-old son for fun — picking North Carolina to win.

Under NCAA rules, studentathletes, staff members of an institution’s athletics department,

non-athletics department staff members and staff members of a conference office are not able to gamble on any intercollegiate or professional sports.

This includes fantasy football, online sports betting and NCAA Tournament brackets.

Davis said he reminds his players “all the time” about not betting on March Madness brackets and other things that could get them in trouble.

“Our Compliance office (talks) with all of the athletes here,” Davis said. “We speak

with them, we put the fliers up there. They can do a free (bracket). So if there was a free one where you could just enter it online and it doesn’t cost you anything. You just can’t put any money into it.”

According to a study by the National Council on Problem Gambling, nearly 30 percent of male college athletes bet on sports. Their study also concluded that athletes are at a higher risk to gamble because of their competitive personalities and sense of entitlement.

“It’s not so much the brackets that they’re worried about,” Davis said. “It’s that, you start that, now you start doing the other things.”

If the gambling is designed to influence an outcome, win/ loss margins or involves an athlete’s own institution, the consequence is permanent loss of all eligibility in that athlete’s sport. If it’s any other type of sports-related gambling, student-athletes lose at least one year of eligibility.

Online sports betting, which is illegal in the United States.

It is illegal for people to engage in wagering through the use of wired communication — including through the internet — making bracket pools involving online monetary bets illegal.

The Central Michigan Student-Athlete Handbook also prohibits student-athletes from making bets on NCAA Tournament brackets. They can create brackets for fun.

CMU baseball sophomore shortstop Zach McKinstry is one student-athlete who made a bracket for fun.

“I have a pretty good bracket right now,” he said. “I fill one out every year and put it in a group with one of my friends. We don’t really do any money thing.”

Romello Ross, football freshman running back, doesn’t mind the strict rules against gambling — even if it includes making an NCAA basketball tournament bracket.

“I’m not really a fan of gambling,” Ross said. “I’ve got a couple family members who do some hard gambling and it’s not really my thing.”

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Academic Senate considers changing number of women’s, men’s sports

By Taylor DesOrmeau Sports Editor @TDesOrmeau | sports@cm-life.com

In an effort to remain Title IX compliant, the Academic Senate agreed Tuesday to look into the possibility of cutting men’s sports or roster counts as an alternative to adding women’s sports.

Academic Senate members approved a motion at the end of the meeting to create two reports for the Board of Trustees, with one considering adding two women’s sports and one considering reducing the number of male athletes at CMU. Multiple senate members suggested the possibility of eliminating the football program or swapping it with a soccer program because of the large number of male athletes on the team. Athletics Director Dave Heeke dismissed the inquiry, adding that the decision goes past the

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purview of the gender equity committee.

“Without football, we would no longer be a member of the Mid-American Conference,” Heeke said. “We could not participate at the Mid-American Conference level as a full member. You must have football, you must have basketball on the men’s and women’s side and volleyball on the women’s side. That’s a minimum requirement that you must offer those sports.”

Athletics Committee Chair Liz Brockman said the Office of Civil Rights frowns upon cutting men’s sports to remain Title IX compliant, as “the point is to provide opportunities for women, not to cut programs for men.”

Cutting roster sizes for men’s sports instead of cutting an entire sport or sports is a likely solution, Heeke said.

No specific sports were mentioned for limiting participant numbers for men or for adding new sports for women.

Campus Habitat

The total number of women on campus enrolled at CMU was 10,739 undergraduate and graduate students in 2014, which made up 54 percent of the total 19,858 on-campus student population.

Female students have made up a majority of the student body as far back as 1980, when 9,430 female students and 7,482 male students attended the university.

The section of Title IX CMU complies with requires an equal number of men’s and women’s participants in athletics.

One option is to add two more women’s sports — as CMU decided in 2012 with adding lacrosse and golf — or adding one larger women’s sport, like rugby.

The operating budget is $220,000 for lacrosse and $175,000 for golf, which doesn’t include salaries, benefits, scholarships and new facilities, Heeke said.

In a January interview, Heeke said CMU is seeing a recent spike in female enrollment, which will require CMU to have

a larger proportion of female athletes.

To be fiscally responsible, Director for the Center for Applied Research and Rural Studies Mary Senter said CMU should cut two men’s sports instead of adding two for women.

“The advantage of that is, the athletic budget would be much less and as a consequence, there would be more money for other things,” Senter said. “The idea that there is just a blank check for athletics is just extremely disturbing.”

Heeke said CMU is not able to cut two men’s sports. He added the athletics department looks deeply at all these possibilities to be most financially responsible.

“There is a minimum number. You could not cut two sports and remain sanctioned by the NCAA on the men’s side,” he said. “We would be below the minimum. We would not be sanctioned by the NCAA to compete.”

CMU’s six men’s sports are football,

basketball, baseball, wrestling, track and field and cross country. The 10 women’s sports are basketball, volleyball, track and field, cross country, softball, gymnastics, field hockey, soccer, golf and lacrosse.

Athletics is looking at six to eight potential women’s sports to see which would fit best at CMU, based on the local high school recruiting base, the number of other close schools with the program, if the Mid-American Conference sponsors the sport and other factors.

The only women’s sports sponsored by the Mid-American Conference that CMU does not participate in are swimming and diving and tennis.

Other NCAA-sponsored women’s sports CMU does not participate in are beach volleyball, bowling, fencing, ice hockey, rifle, rowing, skiing and water polo.

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For EVERY FRIEND YOU REFER TO CAMPUS HABITAT, YOU GET $100!

806 w. Broomfield st. (989) 317- 0214

Monday & Saturday Pizza & Pitcher Order a 2 item pizza and a pitcher of beer and get $4 off Order a second pitcher and get another $1 off Wednesday $2.50 domestic bottles 9-12am Thursday $3 off a bottle of wine

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HOUSES CLOSE TO CAMPUS AVAILABLE 2016-2017 school year: 1-5 bedrooms 989-773-8850, ext 204 or email nicole@labellerealty.net www.labellerealty.net PART-TIME TECHNICIAN FOR Audio/Video store. Repair experience required: Game consoles, laptops, tablets, audio equipment. Resume to Main Street Audio/Video, 701 N. Mission, Mt. Pleasant.

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2-8 Person Houses & Townhouses Available starting Spring 2016 (989)779-9099 3 BR, 2 STORY HOUSE ON FRANKLIN ST. 1 block from campus! New carpet, new kitchen, dishwasher, washer and dryer, and deck in back yard! 775-8919 2 PERSON/2 BEDROOM DUPLEX Main St. Walk to class/convenient to downtown www.qualityapts.com (989)772-3894

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