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Duffey denied admission to CMU, will seek new team Administrators become aware of second sexual assault complaint involving prospective quarterback

By Evan Petzold Managing Editor news@cm-life.com

Jim McElwain was in search of a quarterback with Power Five talent, experience as a starter and immediate eligibility to lead Central Michigan’s football program in the 2020 season.

Texas Tech graduate transfer Jett Duffey seemed to be the answer, but the second-year coach will now have to look elsewhere.

Duffey was denied admission into Central Michigan University. He will not play for the Chippewas and remains in the NCAA transfer portal as a graduate transfer with one year of eligibility remaining.

When requesting comment from president Bob Davies, director of communications Heather Smith responded that Duffey is not enrolled as a student at CMU. “Jett Duffey was not admitted and is not a student at Central Michigan University,” Smith said in an email. “Thus, there is nothing the president or anyone else at the university would be

Courtesy Photo Jett Duffey stands in front of the CMU welcome sign with his family.

able to comment on.”

Athletic director Michael Alford and McElwain declined to comment due to NCAA rules. During his time at Texas Tech, Duffey was hit with two team suspensions.

Duffey was found responsible by Title IX for two counts of sexual assault in 2017 against an incapacitated woman. He was also arrested in 2018 for a disturbance in front of a nightclub in Lubbock and booked on a charge of criminal mischief.

The quarterback was suspended by Texas Tech for the spring and summer semesters for the 2017 Title IX charge. For Duffey’s 2018 arrest, head coach Kliff Kingsbury suspended him from team activities for one week.

A second Title IX complaint against Duffey, which occurred

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while he was at Texas Tech in 2019, was a factor in CMU’s decision to end its dialog with the quarterback. A female student at the university said Duffey sexually assaulted her while she was incapacitated. The case ended in mediation, or as they described it, “voluntary resolution.” Duffey was not suspended from team activities.

The 2017 Title IX case – where Duffey was deemed responsible for rape on two counts – was not prosecuted by a grand jury due to insufficient evidence. Lubbock County Deputy Criminal District Attorney Trey Hill said Duffey’s action that led to his 2018 arrest, punching a hole in the wall of ULofts, was not severe enough to file formal criminal charges, according to KCBD, an NBC-affiliated television station in Lubbock.

The quarterback, who started the last eight games of the 2019 season for the Red Raiders, originally entered the transfer portal on Dec. 13.

Duffey announced his transfer to Tulane on Jan. 10, giving Green Wave coach Willie Fritz a replacement for quarterback Justin McMillan.

However, two days later, Duffey said that he was no longer headed to Tulane.

“I have decided to keep my recruitment open and continue to look for a new home,” Duffey wrote on his Twitter account, which has since been deleted.

Duffey apparently did not meet Tulane’s academic qualifications.

Eight days after Duffey’s academic qualification issues held him back from Tulane, he announced his transfer to Central Michigan.

Duffey visited the CMU Athletic Department in January.

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Siblings of CMU students were invited to campus this weekend to enjoy rock climbing, a treasure hunt, bowling and swimming.

For just $10, students were also able to bring their siblings to the Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum. About 700-800 siblings participate each year. Visit cm-life. com for coverage, videos and more photos.

Aurora Abraham | Staff Photographer Kids get their faces painted during Sibling’s Weekend’s Pancake Breakfast Feb. 1 in Finch Fieldhouse.

Aurora Abraham | Staff Photographer Students dance during Sibling’s Weekend Feb. 1 in Finch Fieldhouse.

Central Michigan Life | File Photo Students play during Sibling’s Weekend Feb. 1 in Finch Fieldhouse.

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Andrew Travis | Staff Photographer A runner finishes the last obstacle of the Man Vs. Mountain 5K, Feb. 1, 2020.

About 350 runners had to embrace the elements as they competed in the Man vs. Mountain 5K and traversed more than 15 obstacles, including monkey bars, Feb. 1 near downtown Mount Pleasant. It was sponsored by Mountain Town Station, Home Depot and Isabella Bank.

Andrew Travis | Staff Photographer A runner finishes the last two obstacles of Man Vs. Mountain, Feb. 1, 2020.

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SGA questions CMUPD ahead of parking reform vote

By Justin Cooper Associate Editor news@cm-life.com

An effort to spur a reform of some parking lots on campus passed in the House but was pushed to next week in the Senate of Central Michigan University’s Student Government Association at their Feb. 3 meetings.

The legislation seeks to make the following changes to parking policy: • Change five parking spots in Lot 29, near Foust Hall, where the student health clinic is located, to patient-only parking spots.

• Allow students to park at North Art Studio, Lot 16, past 2 a.m. When the lot must be plowed, students registered in classes that use the North Art Studio would receive a text message to move their vehicle.

• Allow student employees to park in the non-faculty, non-handicap lot nearest their place of work.

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Ranger and former House representative Josh Wright, the resolution was first presented to SGA in November, but has been repeatedly pushed back and revised.

The House passed the resolution by a vote of 36-20, with 18 abstentions. The Senate opted to wait until next week to vote because the document they’d been reviewing for the week prior was out of date.

CMU Police Chief Larry Klaus and manager of police business operations Stephanie Williams visited both chambers of SGA to answer questions from representatives.

Klaus and Williams told the Senate they have a line of communication with art professors to know which students should be allowed to park at North Art Studio.

“As long as we’re contacted, we have no problem working with any department and having their students parking late or early,”

Justin Cooper | Associate Editor CMU Police Chief Larry Klaus addresses SGA about parking lot reform Feb. 3 in Bovee University Center.

Williams said.

Senate leader Josh Moody questioned whether information

about the appeals process for parking tickets could be printed on the tickets themselves.

“We don’t print them ourselves,” Williams said. “We get thousands and thousands of tickets at one time. The cost is enormous, so that would not be something we could do.”

Sen. Taylor Dibble asked whether there could be any solution for students who are comfortable walking during the daytime, but feel safer driving at night, and for whom a full-price parking pass holds less value.

“Right now I don’t see a workaround on that,” Klaus said. “I’m just trying to be up front with you.”

Another piece of parking legislation authored by Ranger and Wright, targeted at lowering the cost of a student’s first parking ticket, was shut down by Parking Services, who refused to back down on the fees. Likewise, as senators questioned Klaus and Williams, their responses tended to explain why policies must be the way they are and cannot be changed.

On-campus drowning, Elliott re-sentencing on court calendar

By Melissa Frick Senior Reporter news@cm-life.com

Two Central Michigan University students – one former and one current – will appear in Isabella County Trial Court this week for separate criminal cases.

Ian Elliott, the former president of Student Government Association, will appear in court Friday to receive a new jail sentence amidst recent revelations in a drawn-out sexual assault case. Elliott’s re-sentencing will take place at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 7 in Court Room 4 before Judge Eric Janes.

Elliott, 25, pleaded no contest to fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct on Jan. 17 after he withdrew a previous no contest plea to a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge.

The plea deal was made in agreement with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel after the lead prosecutor in the case against Elliott, former Assistant Attorney General Brian Kolodziej, admitted to an inappropriate relationship with one of the victims in the case.

Elliott will likely be sentenced to serve four months in Isabella County Jail in addition to his time already served. He also agreed to serve five years probation and complete alcohol and sex offender counseling.

Grace Hunt, 22, will appear in court twice in the next week for hearings related to the drowning of her 14-month-old daughter. She will attend a probable cause conference at 8:15 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, and a preliminary exam at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13. Both hearings will be before Judge Sara Spencer-Noggle.

The 14-month-old child drowned in a bathtub on Sept. 13, 2019, in Kewadin Village Apartments, an on-campus apartment complex for CMU students.

The toddler had reportedly been found underwater in a bathtub and was not breathing.

Hunt, from Midland, was arraigned Jan. 28 on charges of involuntary manslaughter and second-degree child abuse. The maximum penalty for involuntary manslaughter, a felony, is 15 years in prison and/ or a $7,500 fine. Second-degree child abuse is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

Isaac Ritchey | Photo Editor Former Student Government Association President Ian Elliott, 25, pleads no contest to a reduced charge of fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct Jan. 17 at Isabella County Trial Court.

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arlin Borsheim-Black spent years teaching English in white-dominant schools in Michigan.

Throughout her experience, the Central Michigan University English language and literature faculty member struggled to figure out how to teach books that dealt with race and racism to a mostly white class.

“As a white woman talking about race and racism with predominately white students, I realized several things and one was, that I needed to do a lot of work myself to develop my own understanding of race and racism in order to be able to teach it,” Borsheim-Black said. “I hadn’t had that experience in my own K-12 education. We didn’t talk about that and if we did talk about it, it was sort of on a surface level.”

Borsheim-Black partnered with Sophia Sarigianides, Westfield State University English education professor, to research teaching anti-racist literature as a white teacher to a predominately white class. The two professors used their studies to co-author “Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature for White Students.” Central Michigan Life sat down with Borshiem-Black to discuss her book and teaching experiences.

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The book is really about teaching for racial literacy, helping students develop their own racial literacy, especially when we are teaching in white context. This is the book that I needed when I was a high school English teacher teaching in Charlotte, Michigan. I taught 10th grade, drama, creative writing, British literature and all of those things. When I was teaching, I found myself talking about race and racism with my students a lot.

We’d be reading things like “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Huckleberry Finn” and “Of Mice and Men.” I had to do a lot of my own work to get a deeper understanding of racism. I also needed some better strategies for doing that work in my high school classroom, and now in my teacher education classroom. It is not something that commonly gets done in classrooms, there are not a lot of examples of how to do it well. A lot of times we have questions like: “Should I be sharing my personal views on this issue? What if students disagree and things get heated? Is this something I should be talking about in class anyway?”

Sarigianides and I worked for several years to answer some of those questions and develop strategies, which we practice in our own classrooms.

These questions and this work have been my work for the last 15-20 years. It started when I was a high school teacher just trying some things on my own and realizing what the challenges were.

When I went to graduate school, it was the focus of my research. I did a research study where I interviewed teachers and also visited the classrooms of several teachers around the state of Michigan. I observed during discussions of race and racism in literature, that sort of thing, and then analyzed and wrote about what I saw there.

How would you describe the partnership between Sarigianides and yourself?

When Sarigianides and I started working together, nearly five years ago, we formed a reading partnership where we gathered all the existing research in the field. We read a lot of research by scholars of color really developing our own thinking and then she and I developed our own research study into our own classrooms at our universities. I would say we developed the book by 10-15 years, some on our own, on research, teaching, interviews, reading, took a long time.

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What have you learned from this process?

For me, writing this book has been an important journey in learning about my own racial identity as a white woman and a white educator but it is as much a beginning as an ending. I feel like we have developed some answers and offered something valuable in the book but Sophia and I are still in the process of learning more about how to do it better, so we will continue to write about it in the future.

What would you say are the most important strategies your book touches on?

One of the things we are talking about is identifying race concepts to be learned rather than just opinions or beliefs to be discussed. When we do that, teachers can articulate very specific racial literacy objectives that tie to the literature that they are teaching.

This helps teachers think how to build assignments.

We are using very familiar teaching techniques to teach about race and racism, so the strategies aren’t necessarily new to the classroom, but they are new when it comes to teaching about race and racism.

Tell us more about your book.

How did you develop those strategies?

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What are some of the books you are trying to help others teach?

We approach it in two ways. On one hand, many of the books that we cite in our book are pieces that are a part of the high school cannon. They are pieces that English teachers end up teaching quite a bit, so you might not be surprised to hear “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Raisin in the Sun.” On the other hand, part of our work is to interrupt that cannon and expand that cannon because it has been predominantly white. What we do is cite lots and lots of examples of very positive, uplifting, celebratory contemporary stories of people of color. Some of the newer novels we discuss in the book are “The Crossover,” “Their Eyes are Watching God” and “One Crazy Summer.”

We are giving teachers examples of some Young Adult and some of that classic literature that formed the foreground voices of people of color.

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Find out why this faculty member decided to write a book about how to teach race and racism to predominantly white classrooms.

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How have you used “Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature for White Students” in your classes at CMU?

First of all, I use different chapters for different classes. For example, I teach the course “Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools” and I use a couple of the chapters from the book to help my students think about how to design an anti-racist unit for “How to Kill a Mockingbird.” In the course “Young Adult Literature,” we use different chapters to analyze and evaluate books, to think about their potential as anti-racist texts, like do they represent people of color in positive empowering ways or as victims, that sort of thing.

I use different chapters in different ways.

What is your next research project?

Our next study is going to focus on when you are having discussions about race and racism in a predominantly white space, there are often a few students of color. We want to explore what is happening for those students of color in that moment or during those discussions and what can we do to support those students of color.

Students of color often tell us that they don’t want to be asked to speak for their race, so that’s one thing we can suggest. But we need more strategies for supporting because that is a difficult position to be in. People need to be able to talk about it and develop their own thinking, but not at the expense of the people of color in the room.

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Central Michigan Life | File Photo Bay City freshman Skylar Anderson volunteers her help stocking the Student Food Pantry in Robinson Hall.

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The Student Care Pantry will be in conjunction to the CMU Student Food Pantry to offer more support to students.

“We are beginning the care pantry with a focus on paper products, hygiene products, and cleaning products,” said Kourtney Koch, Student Food Pantry graduate assistant.

“Some examples include paper towels, toilet paper, soap, shampoo, conditioner, feminine care items, toothpaste and toothbrushes, trash bags, etc.”

The center will also be accepting new and gently-used school supplies and cooking essentials.

Donations are being accepted 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Volunteer Center located in the Bovee University Center Room 106.

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“We are planning for a soft opening of the Student Care Pantry starting at the regular distributions Tuesday, Feb. 11,” Koch said. “A grand opening may follow later in February.”

The Student Care Pantry will be open to all current CMU students, just like the food pantry.

“The Student Food Pantry team has noticed students are in need of a range of items, and if students’ basic needs are not met, that stretches further than just food,” Koch said. “It also includes items such as those we hope to regularly provide in the CMU Student Care Pantry.

“There are great resources in the Mount Pleasant community and we thought starting a similar resource on campus would lead to more success for students.”

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Life alumnus, film critic predicts Oscar winners

By Katie Hixson Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Courtesy Photo Detroit News entertainment writer Adam Graham talks with Lady Gaga in 2018.

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When Adam Graham, now a film critic for The Detroit News, was moving into his freshman dorm at Central Michigan University, he saw an advertisement flyer to be a film critic for Central Michigan Life.

Graham loved writing in high school, so this seemed like a great opportunity. He marched his way down to the newsroom and got the job that day. Graham wrote music and film reviews for CM Life for the next four-and-a-half years.

After graduating in December 2000 with a major in journalism, Graham turned his passion into a career and worked as a film critic for The Detroit News, where he still works on reviews for movies, concerts, and performances.

Every year, Graham does extensive coverage for The Detroit News on the Academy Awards.

His duties include writing briefs about the days’ events, taking notes during the show and writing a story on the highlights of the night – for which his deadline is 30 minutes after the show ends.

Graham’s prediction for this year’s Best Picture winner is “1917.” He said it is currently a three-way competition between “1917,” “Parasite” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

If he had to pick one to win, “1917” is what he would like to see receive the Oscar.

The award for Best Actor and Actress are obvious, Graham said. He thinks Joaquin Phoenix will win for his role in “Joker” and Renee Zellweger will receive an Oscar for her role in “Judy.”

His grading scale for his reviews is based off of emotional impact, directing, script and, most importantly, the feeling in the pit of his stomach.

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“It’s a sense of things coming together,” he added.

Graham gave “Joker” an A when he reviewed it for The Detroit News. He said it is his second favorite movie of the year. The film gained his praise because it didn’t follow the structural norm of comic book movies.

“It made you uncomfortable in a good way,” Graham said. He added that Joaquin Phoenix “crushed it” in the role of Joker.

“Joker” has the most nominations this year, standing at 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The other top competitors, “1917”, “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” have 10 nominations.

Graham’s favorite movie of 2019 was “Marriage Story” which is also nominated for Best Picture.

“It was funny, sharp and heartbreaking,” Graham said. “It knocked me out in a GRAHAM: PICKS way no other movie did.”

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“Frozen 2” was not nominated for Best Animated Film, which Graham was surprised about. However, he gave the movie a B- in his movie review for The Detroit News, but looking back on it, thinks he should have given it a C. “It wasn’t very inspired, and it didn’t compare to the first one,” he said.

The 92nd annual Academy Awards will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9 on ABC.

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‘UP ALL NIGHT’ TO FEATURE FREE LASER TAG, OPEN SWIM, MORE IN MARCH The Office of Student Activities and Involvement will host its annual event, “Up All Night,” from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. March 28-29 at the Student Activity Center.

The event will feature a wide array of activities, so students can take a safe break from everyday stresses. Attendees will be provided with free food and a chance to win prizes.

“Up All Night” is open to all current CMU students with use of their student ID cards.

Any non-CMU students must pay a $5 fee for access to the event.

Activities for this year’s event include laser tag, roller skating, open swim, sports tournaments and inflatable obstacle courses and games.

If none of those activities sound appealing, there will also be a Pinterest craft station, photobooth, tie-dye station and caricature drawing.

For more information on “Up All Night” 2020 refer to the Office of Student Activities’ Engage Central page.

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FOOD INSECURITY New food insecurity programs in response to student outcry

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fter thousands of students signed a petition and organized protests to demand a meal swipe donation program, Central Michigan University responded by quickly implementing a plan that allows students to help fight food insecurity.

As the spring 2020 semester began, so did the Meal Swipe Bank. The program allows students to request “surplus” meal swipes.

Also introduced was the $1 Meals initiative, which allows students to purchase leftover food from the Down Under Food Court for $1.

The push from students in mid-November caused the university to fast-track and put together a program that was ready in two months.

“Did the student feedback on Twitter and the poll that went out impact our timeline or expedite things? Absolutely,” said Cal Seelye, executive director of Auxiliary Services. “We were working on them. We were hoping for a fall of 2020 launch. We are going out sooner than we anticipated.”

MEAL SWIPE BANK Each on-campus meal plan, regardless of the number of meals per week, comes with six guest swipes to be used by visitors throughout the semester. Since many students do not use all of their guest swipes, several thousand were left over from the fall semester, Seelye said. The leftover swipes from the fall semester will be used to start the pool of free meals for the Meal Swipe Bank.

Students can request meal swipes by filling out the online form on the Student Food Pantry’s Engage Central page. After completing the form, they will receive confirmation. By the end of the next business day, 10 meals will be added their CentralCard.

“We are going to rely on the honesty of the individuals,” President Bob Davies told Central Michigan Life in November. “If someone requests, we are not going to ask questions, we’re not going to second guess. They will be given the swipes.”

Students are only able to request the 10 meal swipes once a semester due to federal law regarding gifts of monetary value.

“If a student receives $300 or more in free swipes, we are required by federal law, to count that amount ($300+) as financial aid,” Kirk Yats, director of the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, said. “Since students will be limited to around $250 or so in free swipes, due to university policy, we do not plan on any students having to count the free meals as financial aid.”

Beginning Feb. 10, when all CMU meal plans are finalized, students who wish to donate their guest swipes to the Swipe Bank can do so by visiting the Campus Card Office in Bovee University Center. The CMU Food Pantry hopes to have guest swipe donation days at other sites throughout the semester.

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An employee swipes a student’s CentralCard on Nov. 20 at the Real Food on Campus dining hall.

STUDENTS PETITION AND PROTEST FOR CHANGE In November, students on Twitter began discussing how the university doesn’t allow students to share their meal plans with others. They were also upset about $25 fine for using someone else’s CentralCard.

Following the tweets, Woodstock, Illinois senior Alexandra Garay created a Change.org petition requesting a meal swipe donation program that allows students to donate unused meal swipes to others, which has received nearly 6,000 signatures.

On Nov. 24, the Central Michigan Student Labor Union organized a protest to assist the cause outside of Real Food on Campus (RFoC) dining hall in the Towers Residence Community.

Although CMU responded to the students by expediting the Swipe Bank, the program relies solely on guest swipes and not regular unused meal swipes.

Garay believes the model the university introduced this semester will allow room for the program to evolve and she hopes it will evolve into what everyone envisioned.

“Truthfully, I don’t think that donating only guest swipes was what myself or other folks envisioned when we said we wanted a program like this at CMU. (But) we must start somewhere,” Garay said. “It is a good start and various administrators have mentioned that their research shows that thousands of guest swipes go unused every semester. Now those students that don’t use them can help support an amazing resource.”

PROGRAM EFFECTS ON CMU BUDGET According to Seelye, donating the unused guest swipes for the base of the Swipe Bank has no effect on the university’s budget.

“We don’t factor (guest swipes) into our budget at all, those are gifts, if you will, that we give students,”

Seelye said. He said the goal of the guest swipes is to allow visitors to see the dining halls and the food options available to students.

“If we are able to use those swipes to start a food bank, then students are able to donate from their six guest passes. It has no impact on our budget whatsoever.”

If the program allowed students to donate their weekly unused meal swipes, there would be an effect on the budget.

“Pricing structures for meal plans are based on absenteeism,” Seelye said. “People go home for the weekend, people don’t wake up for breakfast, we know that there is an absenteeism there. We built that into the pricing structure, and that’s how we can lower the price for our meal plans.”

Seelye said if the university starts allowing students to donate the meals on their meal plan, the absenteeism rate will go down. If the rate goes down, the university will have to look at how to make the expenses work, which would increase the prices of the meal plans, since it is based on how many people they anticipate to use the entirety of their meal plans.

Unlike the Meal Swipe Bank, which is not factored into the budget, the $1 Meals program costs the university money.

ONE DOLLAR MEALS The $1 Meals program consists of leftover food from the residential restaurants that will be packaged and sold between 6-7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday in the Down Under Food Court, located on the lower level of Bovee University Center.

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Courtney Pederson | Staff Reporter Leftover food from the day awaits students for the $1 Meal initiative on Jan. 23 in the Down Under Food Court in Bovee University Center.

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Kourtney Koch said. “If we needed to add more days, we would long term. But we didn’t want to start five days a week and not have enough students use it.”

The meals may include soup, salad, sandwiches, pasta or any other leftover food.

Although there is no eligibility necessary to purchase the meals, they can only be purchased with cash.

“People have asked why do we (charge) $1 at all? Why is it not free? But there are expenses that go with it,” Seelye said. “We have to pay someone to package it, we have to buy the packaging, there are all of these variables that have to go into it.

“But we have chosen to take that $1 and give it back to the food pantry.”

As the process for developing the programs began, the $1 Meals

was the only program scheduled to launch this semester.

CREATING THE INITIATIVES During the spring 2019 semester, the Financial Wellness Collaborative and its subcommittees began looking into student affordability. Seelye said it was not about making things less expensive, but making programs more accessible and available for students.

“As we were doing our research on other institutions, somebody found something that was about food swipes and food anxiety, and how we address that,” Seelye said.

Seelye and Tyson Dubay, director of food operations, began looking into which programs other universities utilize, and presented the research to a food insecurity subcommittee. During their research, they discovered the University of Kentucky, which also contracts with Aramark for campus dining, has a $1 meal program.

The subcommittee decided to implement a $1 meal program to launch in January, as a way to give themselves more time to work on some sort of meal swipe program.

As they brainstormed and researched other university programs, they decided to test a meal swipe voucher program halfway through the fall 2019 semester.

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“(The meal swipe vouchers) was a really a small pilot program to gauge additional meal assistance through dining halls,” Koch said. “Across the Enrollment and Student Services division, different staff members and various offices were given meal vouchers from Campus Dining that they could give to a student that expressed food insecurity issues, housing insecurity issues, financial wellness struggles, all of those types of things.”

During the pilot program, staff members recorded basic information about the students, including class standing and whether they reside on or off campus.

Campus Dining used the information to pinpoint where the need is.

After a large amount students began to request a program, the committees and the Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center worked together with Garay and other student leaders to quickly create the Swipe Bank to launch alongside $1 meals.

The programs are supplemental to the CMU Student Food Pantry, which also works to combat food insecurities.

OTHER CMU FOOD INSECURITY INITIATIVES In fall 2018, the Volunteer Center launched the Student Food Pantry, which is open to all currently enrolled students.

The food pantry is open 5-7 p.m. Tuesdays, 3-5

p.m. Wednesdays and 12-2 p.m. Fridays. It is located beneath the Robinson Residential Restaurant in the North Campus Residential Community.

Students must fill out a form, much like the one for the Meal Swipe Bank, to register at the food pantry and be eligible to receive food. There are no financial need requirements.

“The food pantry is growing and establishing a presence on campus, but the meal swipe initiative and $1 meals will help to reach other students who are experiencing food insecurity but may not be utilizing the pantry,” Koch said. “Having three programs working collectively together can have a larger impact.”

Students who wish to help with these programs can find the available volunteer opportunities on the Food Pantry’s Engage Central page.

“These new programs came to be because many students – and others with various relationships to CMU – used their voice and stood up for something that they believed in,” Garay said. “The student voice is so powerful and has the power to bring about institutional change.

“Collectively we have the power to ask and demand more from the university we attend. It is our right as students.”

$1 Meals are sold from 6-7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday in the Down Under Food Court, located on the lower level of Bovee University Center.

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By Michael Livingston Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

The following incidents were among those handled by the Central Michigan University Police Department from Jan. 20 to Feb. 2.

Jan. 21 A CMU employee resigned after she reportedly made $749 worth of unauthorized transactions on a university credit card. The credit card transactions reportedly were made throughout the fall semester. The female staff member reportedly had embezzled money from the university in the past, but previously claimed it was a mistake, said Lt. Mike Sienkiewicz, of CMUPD. After being interviewed by officers, the woman resigned from CMU and agreed to deduct the charges from her last paycheck. CMU reportedly attempted to press charges against the woman, but the prosecutor’s office declined the case because the stolen money was returned to the university.

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CRIME LOG Jan. 23 University police responded to a case of retail fraud at 3 p.m. after an 18-year-old woman was caught stealing $140 worth of textbooks from the CMU Bookstore, 103 E Preston St. The woman was caught on camera leaving the store with stolen textbooks, and police identified her through a credit card purchase. The woman was charged with a misdemeanor and will appear in court Feb. 11.

Jan. 25 CMU police assisted the Isabella County Sheriff’s Office with a drunk driving arrest at 3:05 a.m. at Jamestown Apartments, 4075 S Isabella Road. A 21-year-old man was found passed out behind the front wheel of a running car in the parking lot and arrested for operating under the influence of liquor.

A 24-year-old man was arrested and charged for trespassing and disorderly conduct after he was found urinating in a sink at 12:20 p.m. at 7-Eleven, 302 W Broomfield St. The man reportedly walked to the back room of the store and began urinating in the sink. Store employees told police that the man had done the same thing less than 24 hours before. The man was not found to be intoxicated.

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Jan. 30 A 22-year-old woman reported several encounters with an unidentified man who made her feel uneasy at the Bovee University Center, 103 E Preston St. The woman called CMU police at 3:41 p.m. to report the man, who could not be identified through video surveillance.

Jan. 31 CMU police are investigating a fraud case reported by a 19-year-old woman at 8:49 a.m. from 300 E Ojibway Ct. The case, which remains open, reportedly involves fraudulent checks the woman received.

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Feb. 2 CMU police were contacted by local hospital staff at 11:45 a.m. to assist a man who reportedly had gotten into a physical fight with his roommate in Trout Hall.

The man did not wish to pursue criminal charges against the roommate, and the incident was referred to the Office of Student Conduct.

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College of Health Professions showcases new $26 million facility

By Michael Livingston Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Faculty of the Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions opened the new Center for Integrated Health Studies for a media tour on Friday, Jan. 31.

The $26 million project was mostly funded by a $19.5 million allocation from the Michigan legislature, and the rest was financed by CMU. Since construction began in 2018, the unfinished building has loomed beside the old facility, piquing the interest of students and faculty.

The facility adds 50,000 square feet of space to the College of Health Professions.

“The university realizes that health care is a huge part of our future,” said Tom Masterson, dean of the College of Health Professions. “This building is now what I like to call a health complex. We have the College of Medicine and the College of Health Professions, and if you want to go into one of those professions in this state, this is where you want to be.”

The result of the five-year approval and building process is a polished, expansive facility.

Natural light pours through the many windows onto studying medical students and a collection of high-tech resources.

Masterson said that the building was designed with student collaboration in mind. Each classroom is fitted with tables for group labs,

Michael Livingston | Staff Reporter One of the new high-tech mannequins used to simulate medical symptoms for the students of the Herbert H. Dow and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions.

and collaborative study rooms are sprinkled throughout the facility.

A new interpersonal study program began with the opening of the building. In many simulations, students play the role of a patient

while their peer practices medical techniques.

Masterson and other faculty pioneered this program to help get students closer to simulating a real-world medical emergency.

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A group from Houghton watched their professor through the television screen in room 1033, answering questions and participating in class discussions.

“It’s nice to finally have our own space,” said Marquette graduate student Allisa Noreack.

“The labs are much nicer than the old ones.

They’re bigger, more spacious. I feel like we’ll be able to excel here.”

Included in the cost of the Center for Integrated Health Studies are multiple high-tech clinical mannequins and eight patient exam rooms. The mannequins can simulate speech, breathing, blinking as well as symptoms for simulations and role-playing medical scenarios. The exam rooms can be redecorated to simulate a hospital room or an average home.

“In today’s world, health care professionals need to be trained in real-life environments,” Masterson said. “That includes learning and working alongside colleagues with different clinical training and using high-definition mannequins and students role-playing as patients.

These experiences help train our students to better respond clinically in real-world situations, which ultimately will improve patient outcomes.”

Classes in the new facility began with the Spring 2020 semester.

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The events begin with a concert featuring Central Michigan University’s Jazz Lab I and The Faculty Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 in the Staples Family Concert Hall.

On Friday, high school bands will be visiting campus to perform for CMU’s music faculty. Activities will take place in various locations across the university, including Staples Concert Hall, Chamichian Recital Hall, Norman C. Dietz Band Hall, Powers Ballroom, Plachta Auditorium and the Bovee University Center Rotunda.

The weekend will end with the final concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 in Plachta Auditorium. This year’s guest artist is Terri Lyne Carrington, a three-time Grammy Award-winning drummer.

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Candidate Anne Monroe discusses retention

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Anne Monroe reflected on her personal experience at Central Michigan University and her hope to give back to her alma mater during a forum in the ongoing search for CMU’s first vice president of student recruitment and retention.

“People having been asking why I am interested in this (institution and position), and it is largely because I am a product of this,” Monroe said. “This was the place that gave me my start, that taught me what I needed to know to be a good professional and good at enrollment, and let me go use those skills at other institutions.”

She discussed retention strategies and marketing as she spoke to faculty, staff and students Feb. 4 in the Charles V. Park Library Baber Room, during the third of four candidate forums. Monroe serves as the vice president of recruitment consulting services at the recruitment consulting and enrollment management service Ruffalo Noel Levitz. She has held positions in student services and admissions in the Virgin Islands and in Michigan, including Northwestern Michigan College, CMU, and Alma College.

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“When we ask returning students what’s important and what’s not going well, they’ll say advising,” Monroe said. “(Second to that) is registering for courses without any difficulty and the third is faculty not providing personalized feedback.”

Monroe focused on the fact that the key to retention is listening to the needs and opinions of CMU students.

“It is not just slapping on programs that seem to work somewhere else, but it’s understanding what the problem is with our own students,” she said.

Monroe concentrated on the importance of tailoring techniques to the specific needs of CMU in order to increase enrollment and retention levels.

Lee Furbeck, CMU’s executive director of admissions, and Dawn Medley spoke at candidate forums within the past week.

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VP candidate Dawn Medley discusses student life at forum

By Courtney Pedersen Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Vice president candidate Dawn Medley addressed student life and recruitment during a forum in the ongoing search for Central Michigan University’s first vice president of student recruitment and retention.

She spoke to faculty, staff and students Feb. 3 in the Charles V. Park Library Baber Room, during the second of four candidate forums.

“This position for me is a return or a culmination of the work that I have been doing for well over 20 years,” Medley said.

Medley is the associate vice president for enrollment management and chief enrollment officer at Wayne State University in Detroit. Before WSU, Medley served in enrollment and retention positions at other institutions, including St. Andrews University, Warren Wilson College, Missouri Valley College, Forest Institute and the University of Arkansas.

Medley used her previous experience at other institutions to bring up effective recruitment strategies.

“I think that going out and getting more freshman is going to be a very difficult task for the entire state of Michigan,” Medley said. “We have 15 public institutions and a number of private institutions... and we cannot all continue to fish in the same pond, there are just not enough fish in that pond.”

She discussed the importance of exploring the best recruitment strategies for specific groups of people, based on programs and demographics.

“I really think the best strategy is a free puppy because I would go to college where I got a free puppy,” Medley said. “I say that facetiously but I also think it’s important. (What is) the best strategy for what type of people you’re trying to bring?”

There is no one way to recruit multiple demographics of students, Medley said, and recruitment cannot be looked at that way.

She said in order to boost enrollment and retention, the university needs to focus on student life and the fact CMU is a destination institution.

“When you are a destination institution that also means you have a thriving student life here,” Medley said. “You have sports teams here, you have things to keep students busy, engaged and active, not only through the week but also on the weekends.”

Medley mentioned the importance of student life, not only on campus but also in the community. She stressed the importance of the services within the community being able to properly serve the students.

“If you have Muslim female students who are coming to school here, is there a place they can get their hair done where it is purely an all-female salon?” Medley asked.

“Are you having those discussions with the members of your town community and how you can strengthen those relationships? You don’t want to be the destination campus everyone leaves on the weekend.”

The last candidate forum featuresd Jennifer DeHaemers on Wednesday, Feb. 5. Lee Furbeck, CMU’s executive director of admissions, spoke at the first forum on Jan. 28.

Any feedback related to the job can be submitted at the forums by completing the candidate evaluation form or emailing any comments to president@cmich.edu.

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Fisher becomes fifth Chippewa with ring

By Andrew Loveland Staff Reporter

Following Super Bowl 54, Eric Fisher became the fifth former Central Michigan Chippewa to get to the big game and win.

Fisher joined tight end Tory Humphrey, defensive back Josh Gordy, defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins and defensive end Frank Zombo as former Chippewas to win the Super Bowl.

Here’s more on the five players that have earned Super Bowl rings after leaving Mount Pleasant.

Cullen Jenkins, CMU defensive lineman 19992002, Super Bowl XLV with Green Bay Packers Jenkins was an undrafted free agent pick up by the Packers in 2003. Jenkins played a rotational role along the Packers’ defensive CULLEN JENKINS line and recorded statistics to help the team reach the Super Bowl.

Jenkins did not record any stats in the Super Bowl.

Tory Humphrey, CMU tight end 2001-2004, Super Bowl XLIV with New Orleans Saints Humphrey was undrafted in the 2005 NFL draft. After an injury he was cut by the Green Bay Packers before signing with the Saints. Humphrey was active for the regular season, but did not play during the playoffs.

Frank Zombo, CMU defensive end 2006-2009, Super Bowl XLV with Green Bay Packers Zombo helped the Packers win Super Bowl 45 against former teammate Antonio Brown. Zombo went undrafted in 2010. Zombo made some noise during the game recording five tackles and one sack.

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Josh Gordy, CMU defensive back 2006-2009, Super Bowl XLV with Green Bay Packers Gordy went undrafted in the 2010 NFL draft after playing a key role in the 2009 Mid-American Conference Champion Chippewas. Gordy spent much of the 2010 season splitting time between the practice squad and the official roster for the Packers.

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Eric Fisher, CMU offensive lineman 2009-2012, Super Bowl LIV with Kansas City Chiefs Fisher won two bowl games during his time at Central Michigan.

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Assistant coach reflects on Kobe Bryant’s death

By Christian Booher Staff Reporter sports@cm-life.com

Joe “Jellybean” Bryant was the head coach for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks from 20052006 and then again in 2011. During the 2006 season, his roster featured Murriel Page, who now roams the sidelines as an assistant coach at Central Michigan.

Page played the final three seasons of her career in Los Angeles.

Bryant made a name for himself in the basketball realm, playing eight NBA seasons and putting in another nine years overseas. However, Jellybean Bryant is more known for simply being “Kobe’s dad.”

Kobe Bryant played 20 NBA seasons, all with the Los Angeles Lakers. He finished his career at No. 3 on the all-time scoring list.

Bryant died in a helicopter crash Jan. 26 in Calabasas, California. The crash killed him along with eight others, including his 13-year old

daughter Gianna.

Though Page did not have a personal relationship with Bryant during her time in LA, she was aware of his presence and admired his relentless work ethic.

“Every time he stepped into the gym, he gave 110 percent,” Page said. “If there was something he felt he couldn’t do, he worked until he almost perfected it.”

Page recalls numerous occasions where she would arrive to the Los Angeles practice facility to find Bryant an hour into a strenuous work out.

Once the Sparks cleared out after their practice, Bryant would return to continue his work out.

During the WNBA season, Bryant was a spectator at numerous Sparks games. Page considered it a privilege to play in front of the NBA legend.

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Super Bowl matchup between former Chippewas put university on national stage When the Kansas City Chiefs took the field for the opening snap of the 2020 Super Bowl, they were counting on a Central Michigan Chippewa to protect star quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ blind side.

After the Chiefs punted the ball away on the game’s opening drive, San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback Jimmy Garroppolo led the offense onto the field.

Garroppolo also relied on a Chippewa to protect his blind side. Former Chippewa left tackles Eric Fisher and Joe Staley each spent the majority of Sunday battling on the biggest stage in football.

Staley, who finished his 12th season with the 49ers, left the game early in the second half with an injury to his thumb.

After getting four stitches to repair the injury, Staley returned to the game.

Fisher was tasked with blocking the Defensive Rookie of the Year in San Francisco’s defensive end Nick Bosa.

Throughout the game, Fisher fended Bosa off from Mahomes and allowed just one sack. Bosa ranked in the top 10 this season with 11.5 sacks and had 4.0 sacks in the postseason. Second to only Kansas City’s Frank Clark.

Fisher ended the game on top as the Chiefs claimed a 31-20 victory over the 49ers to earn their second Super Bowl victory in franchise history. Fisher became the first Chippewa to win a ring since Cullen Jenkins and Frank Zombo won rings with Green Bay nine years ago.

Sunday was the first time since the 2011 Super Bowl that the game pitted former Chippewas against each other.

That game featured former Pittsburgh

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Steelers receiver Antonio Brown facing off against Jenkins and Zombo for the Packers.

In the case of Sunday’s game, the matchup put the university on the national stage. Throughout the week, the connection between each team’s starting left tackle was a talking point within local and national media, including a story in The New York Times.

Both Fisher and Staley were former first-round picks, the only two first-rounders in Central Michigan’s history. In Fisher’s case, he’s the only top overall pick in the history of the Mid-American Conference.

In a year where Central Michigan’s football program completed the country’s best turnaround, going from a 1-11 campaign in 2018 to winning the MAC West in 2019, it was fitting to see the highest-drafted Chippewas battle on national television for the game’s greatest honor.

Matchups like the Super Bowl serve as recruiting boosters as well, as it allows potential future Chippewas a glance at what their future could look like should they choose CMU. Having not one, but two, former offensive lineman in the Su-

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Though the two weren’t close, Page added that she was motivated by his presence in the facility.

“Being in the facility and knowing you’re in the place where one of the greatest of all time is, it motivates you as a player and as a person,” Page said. “Not only was he a great basketball player, he was a great human.”

Bryant’s influence goes far beyond his time on the court. Since retiring following the 2016 season, Bryant began to serve as an ambassador for both men’s and women’s basketball. He often attended WNBA and NCAA women’s basketball games, including taking trips to watch top teams Oregon and Connecticut with his daughter Gianna.

He became a leader in promoting the women’s game, something Page appreciates as both a former player and a coach. “(Seeing) the relationship with his daughter,

per Bowl can drive a message to recruits.

After all, both Staley and Fisher were once in their shoes, high school kids looking for a potential home.

They both chose to come to Mount Pleasant, walked the same halls that students do now, took the same exams and tests and, as a result, spent Sunday night representing their university in one of the greatest spectacles in sports.

Not every student-athlete at Central Michigan will play professionally, just as not every student will earn a comfortable job in their dream careers. However, the matchup between two teams featuring Chippewas on their rosters goes to show that talent can come from anywhere.

This wasn’t the first time Chippewas faced off on the national stage and likely won’t be the last. However, it serves as a reminder of how success isn’t judged by where you start, but where you finish.

Thousands of student-athletes have played football at more prestigious universities than Central Michigan but have less success to show for it.

Before Staley and Fisher took the field in their respective NFL uniforms, they wore the maroon and gold for the Chippewas. They worked to become great at what they do and as a result, played in the Super Bowl in front of millions of fans.

Seeing two Chippewas face off on the biggest stage of their profession can be inspiring to all students. It shows that if they work hard enough, they too can get to the biggest stage. Even though there are programs and universities out there that may be considered more prestigious.

just seeing how big of an ambassador he had become for women’s basketball, was really huge,” Page said. “Seeing him going out and seeing him in stadiums, seeing him not just watching the professionals but seeing him in college arenas and knowing the players by name was huge.”

Page, who played collegiately at Florida and is currently the program’s leading scorer, noted that an endorsement of women’s basketball from “one of the greatest players to have ever played basketball” is valuable to promoting the women’s side of the basketball spectrum.

“When you have one of the greatest players to ever play the game of basketball to give respect not only his colleagues who he played against every night but to the women’s game, that speaks volumes,” she said.

Bryant won five NBA championships, played in 18 All-Star Games and scored over 33,000 points.

However, his value to basketball goes far beyond his exploits in games in front of sold out crowds.

Just ask Page.

Courtesy Photo Eric Fisher plays against the Cleveland Browns in 2013.

Courtesy Photo Joe Staley plays against the Detroit Lions at Levi’s Stadium in 2018.

Courtesy Photo Washington Mystics forward Murriel Page, now an assistant coach at Central Michigan, passes the basketball to her teammate.

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ews broke last week that Wale and Social House would be performing at Program Board’s annual spring concert, after the organization elected not to have a show in the fall.

This year’s show will feature a Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist who is still making new music in Wale (pronounced WAH-lay), and Social House, a Grammy-nominated pop duo which has more than eight million monthly listeners on Spotify.

We are thankful to have an artist coming to campus that doesn’t just trigger the student body’s nostalgia but will hopefully draw a large crowd and put on a great show.

Scheduling these concerts are not easy. Program Board has to account for act costs, production costs, scheduling, hotels, flights and gauge prospective student interest on top of that. For example, Program Board tried to avoid country music, for example, because that genre of music is so polarizing to students.

Program Board might have caught both acts at just the right time, too.

Social House just released an EP which featured Ariana Grande on a track.

Since creating the duo in 2015, they have produced and written for Grande, Meghan Trainor, Jennifer Lopez and Chris Brown.

The duo’s most popular song, “Magic in the Hamptons,” has more than 100 million listens on Spotify. They are also featured on Ariana Grande’s Grammy-nominated “boyfriend,” which has more than 250 million listens

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Wale just released his sixth studio album, “Wow... That’s Crazy,” which features Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Megan Thee Stallion and more popular hiphop artists. He also has more than eight million monthly listeners on Spotify.

“Lotus Flower Bomb,” a single released in 2012, was nominated for Best Rap Song Grammys.

With a pop opening act and hip-hop main artist, students are able to see two different music types live despite only paying for one ticket.

Even if these aren’t your favorite artists, the chances of Program Board choosing you favorite artists for a concert are nearly zero. The point is, this is a good concert, so students should show their support, buy a ticket and enjoy the show. And if we want to continue having concerts on campus, it’d be a good idea to show Program Board how willing we are to spend money on an experience.

Thanks for giving students the opportunity to see two great artists from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, April 24 at McGuirk Arena. Tickets are on sale Monday, Feb. 10 at Ticket Central for students at $10-20 each and for the public at $15-25 each.

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