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Western game to Ford Field

Administrators announce that rivalry football game against WMU is Oct. 17 in Detroit

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A 19-year-old freshman was arraigned on charges of assault with attempt to murder and carrying a dangerous weapon.

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EDITORIAL Dropping the ball

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Students and local business owners are not happy about the Western Weekend game being moved to Detroit.

SPORTS Wrestling beats MSU Andrew Mullin | Staff Photographer Canton senior Luke Wellman looks at pegmatite through a microscope on Feb. 22, on the third floor of Brooks hall.

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Central Michigan athletics announces Western Michigan football game is being held on Oct. 17 at Ford Field

By Austin Chastain Sports Editor sports@cm-life.com

Central Michigan and Western Michigan will play for the Victory Cannon at Ford Field on Oct. 17.

CMU president Bob Davies, athletic director Michael Alford, Detroit Lions team president Rod Wood and Detroit Sports Commission senior vice president Dave Beachnau spoke at Ford Field in Detroit on Wednesday announcing the game.

The press conference came in conjunction with the Mid-American Conference releasing its football schedule for the 2020 season.

CMU will play three Saturday home games in 2020 and just one conference game at home on a Saturday.

Davies said the decision to play in Detroit is because of the number of alumni who live and work in the area.

“This is much more than a football game,” said Davies, who expects the game to be televised nationally. “Every time I go through (Ford Field), I run into people

who are CMU graduates.”

End zone reserved tickets for the game in Detroit start at $10. For students, 2,000 complementary tickets will be made available in the fall from “sponsor support.” After the 2,000 free tickets are distributed, student tickets are $10.

Ford Field, which has a capacity of 65,000, can certainly accommodate the game. In 2019, in Kalamazoo, the game drew 20,476 – that’s double the crowd that attended the last Western Weekend game in 2018 which drew only 10,097 people due to inclement weather. The 2016 game in Mount Pleasant attracted 30,411 people.

The university is also planning to offer students transportation to the game.

WMU leads the all-time series 50-39-2 including the last two years. Dating back to 1907, the series has not been played outside of Mount Pleasant or Kalamazoo.

The Victory Cannon, the trophy awarded to the game’s winner, was first awarded in 2008 after CMU defeated the Broncos 38-28 in Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

Isaac Ritchey | Photo Editor Central Michigan cornerback Darius Bracy attempts to strip the ball from a Western Michigan wide receiver Sept. 28 at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, MI.

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Freshman, 19, arraigned for assault with intent to murder in Wayside stabbing Staff Reports news@cm-life.com

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Police respond to a stabbing at Wayside Central on Feb. 23, 2020.

A 19-year-old freshman was arraigned on charges of assault with attempt to murder and carrying a dangerous weapon after a fight Saturday at Wayside Central that ended with three people recovering from knife wounds.

Octayvious Sanchez-Lewis, of Farmington Hills, appeared Monday, Feb. 24, in Isabella County Trial Court where he was charged with three counts of assault with intent to murder, which is a lifetime felony charge, and two counts of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. His bond was set at $850,000 by Judge Stuart Black.

Sanchez-Lewis was booked in Isabella County Jail at 4:13 a.m. Feb. 23 by Mount Pleasant

Police Department. He is a freshman at Central Michigan University.

The 19-year-old is accused of wounding three men during an altercation at Wayside Central, 2000 S. Mission St., on Feb. 22. Mount Pleasant police were dispatched to the bar just before midnight.

Police reportedly arrived to find three men with knife wounds, according to a warrant affidavit. Two witnesses identified the suspect to police as “a light-skinned black man wearing a white sweatshirt.” CMU police received a report from an on-campus residential hall of a man who entered wearing a white hooded sweatshirt covered in blood.

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himself as Sanchez-Lewis. The male suspect admitted to police that he was involved in an altercation at Wayside, where he used a knife to defend himself. The officer seized the knife, which reportedly had blood on it.

Sanchez-Lewis told police that three or four people “just started punching him and he had to defend himself.” The 19-year-old complained of jaw pain, although police did not observe and visible injuries on him, according to the affidavit.

The knife police believe Sanchez-Lewis used is a 3-inch kitchen knife with a holding sheath, according to the affidavit. Police also seized a “thin blue razor bladestyle utility knife” from Sanchez-Lewis’ wallet.

A witness told police that Sanchez-Lewis called him Saturday evening and said he had been kicked out of Wayside and needed a ride. Sanchez-Lewis had been covered in blood, the witness said, and reportedly said he “did something bad.” The witness overheard a phone call conversation between the suspect and his father, where he again said he had “done something bad.”

Three people were sent to the hospital with injuries.

CMU officials confirmed that at least two of the victims are students and both were in stable condition on Sunday afternoon.

One man, according to the affidavit, reportedly had his abdomen “sliced open, and his internal organs were visibly hanging out.”

Another injured man was cut in his scrotum and groin area, and had a laceration to his left eye. He told police that he had a verbal exchange with the suspect at

Wayside, who reportedly told him, “You don’t want to do that.” He said he then saw a punch come at him and felt something sharp in his groin area.

The third man injured in the fight reportedly met Sanchez-Lewis that day and rode to Wayside with him.

He told police he did not recall seeing Sanchez-Lewis in the altercation. The witness reportedly did not throw any punches or see any punches thrown, but was cut along his left wrist area. The tendons in his wrist were sliced and require surgery, according to police.

Sanchez-Lewis has no prior assault conduct convictions, but was involved in two verbal altercations on campus in December. The first, which was reported to CMU police on Dec. 6, 2019, involved a verbal altercation where Sanchez-Lewis was accused of threatening a woman that he would stab her.

SANCHEZThe second incident, on Dec. 3, LEWIS: Charged 2019, involved an incident where two with three counts people reported to CMU police that of assault with Sanchez-Lewis had threatened their intent to murder, families. two counts of A probable cause conference for carrying dangerSanchez-Lewis was set for 8:15 a.m. ous weapon with on March 5. He will appear again in unlawful intent JOHN G. KULHAVI DOORS court OPEN at 9 a.m. March 12 for a preliminary exam. The fight remains under EVENTS CENTER PM investigation byAT city7 police.

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r. Mona Hanna-Attisha traveled to Mount Pleasant on Feb. 25 for a conversation about the Flint Water Crisis and the ongoing challenges of access to clean water.

Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician, scientist and public health activist who has been called before the United States Congress to speak about Michigan’s Flint water crisis. She was awarded the Freedom of Expression Courage Award from PEN America, and has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World.

Hanna-Attisha is the author of “What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City,” a first-hand account of the events of the Flint water crisis.

On Sept. 24, Hanna-Attisha revealed in a press conference at Flint’s Hurley Medical Center that her research in children’s blood levels showed that the presence of lead had doubled since the source of Flint’s water had switched from the Detroit River to Flint River in April 2014.

Hanna-Attisha sat down with Central Michigan Life before her speech to answer a few questions about the Flint water crisis.

Q&A

What problems are still happening with the Flint water Crisis?

That was one of the hardest parts about writing this book. There was no clear “The End.” The work is ongoing in Flint, and you can very much say the crisis is still ongoing.

When it comes to water, we are still under the public health advisory to drink bottled and filtered water because our pipes are being replaced. So our water quality is a lot better, but because we are doing that infrastructure work where we’re replacing our pipes, that has the potential to increase lead release which is why people are taking precautions. That’s one part of the crisis that’s ongoing, is people’s dependence on filtered or bottled water.

The other part of the crisis that’s ongoing is our longterm recovery. This is a crisis that needs a lot of resources not just for a couple years but really for decades to make sure that we can recover and thrive.

That really makes the recovery ongoing.

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How optimistic are you that eventually this problem will be abolished?

I think actually within a few months, sometime in 2020, all of our pipes will be replaced. That’s amazing, and we actually will only be the third city in the country that has replaced all their lead pipes.

However, not everybody is just going to turn on their water and drink again. I think the biggest crisis that has happened is the loss of trust. People don’t trust the government anymore because they were betrayed, and that’s going to take a long time to come back. That trust, when you turn on your tap and it’s safe, was lost because for so long people were told that it was OK when it wasn’t OK.

How has the media coverage affected the Flint Water Crisis?

It has all helped. A big part of my book is the power of team, and a big part of that team is the journalists, so thank you for what you are doing. Thank you for shining a light on stories that are often untold.

Investigative journalists played a huge role in this story.

We are so grateful to them. Media also helped elevate this story to become a national spotlight.

How would you compare Flint’s water crisis to other Michigan cities?

What happened in Flint is probably the signature environmental public health disaster in Michigan, but really also the nation. There’s not much that compares to what happened in Flint in terms of the water crisis, the environmental injustice, the lost democracy, so it’s hard to compare. However, what Flint has been able to do is really shine a light on other issues in our state and in our nation, especially when it comes to water.

Because of Flint, many more communities across the country are realizing, ‘Hey we have problems with our water too!’ Not lead, but now PFAS, PFOA and all these other things are contaminating our water. So the really awesome thing – I call it the positive ripple effect of what happened in Flint is we’ve been able to raise the nation’s consciousness on the safety of our drinking water and how we all have a role to play on making it better.

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What was it like being called before Congress to testify on the Flint water crisis?

Dr. Mona HannaAttisha This pediatrician, scientist and public health activist has spoken before Congress about Michigan’s Flint water crisis.

Tuesday, she spoke at CMU. Katie Hixson ■ Staff Reporter

Awesome! I actually have testified thrice before Congress. The last time was just a couple weeks ago.

I feel like I have been blessed and privileged to have a microphone and a platform to be able to make an impact on the lives of children, not just in Flint, but all over the country. I am fortunate to testify to raise awareness about what happened in Flint and strengthen some of the national rules which are really weak.

It is a privilege, and I am so fortunate to be able to use my voice to hopefully make sure that things like Flint never happen again.

What can we as a community do to help our environment?

Every community has different experiences. The concern with a lot of environmental health issues is that you don’t often experience anything, especially not acutely, right after a potential exposure.

I think the most important thing that communities need to do, which is the biggest lesson from Flint, is stay awake.

The book is called ‘What the Eyes Don’t See.’ Eyes were closed to this issue, to Flint, to the people, to the problem.

A big lesson is that we all need to keep our eyes open, we need to stay curious, we need to ask questions, we need to hold folks accountable, we need to demand that our environment is safe and clean, because that impacts all of us.

There’s a lot that communities can do.

I think another lesson of the story for communities is the importance of working in a team. Find your friends, find your peeps, find other folks who care about this issue too.

Talk to them at the grocery store in line, wherever you are.

I think when we care about something, we think we’re the only people that care about something. But there’s a lot of folks out there that often care about the same things we do. So find them, find your friends.

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Central Michigan Life | File Photo Central Michigan University Gymnastics Head Coach Jerry Reighard watches a gymnast compete during the CMU vs. Illinois State University meet Jan. 11, 2019 at McGuirk Arena.

Former gymnastics coach suing ESPN for defamation

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

Former Central Michigan University gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard is suing ESPN because of a tweet published during the university’s internal investigation of the coach last year.

In March 2019, Reighard’s attorneys filed a defamation lawsuit in Isabella County Circuit Court. His attorneys, along with lawyers for ESPN, appeared in court Tuesday, Feb. 25, to proceed with the next phase of the lawsuit after spending the past year exchanging documents and information.

The tweet in question was posted a day after Reighard was put on paid administrative leave

by CMU on Feb. 20, 2019, during an internal investigation. Reighard claimed the tweet falsely connected him to the Larry Nassar scandal, despite the fact that the university’s Athletics Department subsequently stated the investigation was not connected to Nassar.

“Michigan’s attorney general announced today her office is taking over an investigation of John Geddert, the 2012 Olympic team head coach and close friend of Larry Nassar. Several gymnasts have publicly [accused] Geddert of physically and mentally harming them,” ESPN reporter Dan Murphy tweeted on Feb. 21, 2019.

“On the same day as the AG’s announcement, Central Michigan said it was putting longtime gymnastics coach Jerry Reighard on leave amid an internal review. No details of the review were shared, but Reighard has a long personal and professional relationship with Geddert.”

Reighard’s attorneys stated the tweet was false and defamatory, harming his reputation and “attempting to deter others from associating or dealing with him.” The attorneys for Reighard said he did not have a personal relationship with Geddert, and that the coach’s placement on administrative leave had nothing to do with Nassar or Geddart.

Reighard’s attorneys also claimed in the lawsuit that the tweet injured the former coach’s trade, business and profession.

“As a direct and proximate result of (Murphy’s tweet), (Reighard) has sustained non-economic damages such as emotional distress, mental anguish, shock, fright, embarrassment, humiliation and disruption of lifestyle,” the lawsuit stated.

Reighard is seeking $25,000 in damages and payment of his legal fees. He is suing both ESPN and Murphy, and is represented by Victor Mastromarco Jr. and Kevin Kelly, from the Saginaw-based Mastromarco Firm.

Murphy and ESPN were represented by Erin Sedmak, of Lansing-based Dykema Gossett PLLC. The former gymnastics coach was fired from CMU April 18, 2019, after nearly two months of internal investigation. His dismissal came two weeks after the university delivered him a 121-page investigation report detailing the allegation that he told a gymnast to lie about an injury in order to compete.

On May 8, pending motions will be heard before Judge Eric R. Janes to consider whether or not to dismiss the case.

If the case is not dismissed, there will be a case evaluation May 12, followed by a pre-trial conference June 12.

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Financial Wellness Center to guide students through finances

By Makayla Coffee Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Financial Wellness Collaborative, a program that aims to help educate Central Michigan University students on finances, opened the doors of its new location Feb. 10 in the University Center.

The new Financial Wellness Center, located in the Bovee University Center, Room 116, is currently open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The official grand opening will occur March 19.

Prior to its new location, the program was operating out of a cubicle in Warriner Hall. Since the move, Financial Wellness Collaborative is “front and center to build awareness for prospective and current students and alumni,” co-director Alex Kappus said.

“The purpose of the space is to make these educational programs and services visible to students in a high traffic area of campus,” Kappus said. “The proximity to the Student Service Court is ideal. We have strong partnerships with the staff in Billing and Financial Aid. They will refer students to us for money-related topics beyond that of billing and financial aid.”

The Financial Wellness Collaborative started in 2017 when co-director Kimberly Wagester worked as interim director of Student Account Services. She worked closely with Kappus, who was then a student service adviser.

“The primary goal (of the Financial Wellness Collaborative) is to educate students on personal financial matters whether it’s credit, budgeting or loan repayment, or various topics like that,” Wagester said.

“Our goal is to inspire confidence in students in their financial matters.”

Wagester noticed some students were unaware of certain financial points when speaking to student service advisers. While she watched advisers work with students, she noticed a common theme.

“They didn’t know what their bill was going to be, they didn’t know how much their tuition was, how much their financial aid was,” she said. “A lot of the very important pieces of information – they didn’t know what they were, or they didn’t know where to find them.”

One project that evolved to tackle these issues was the pre-billing estimate available for students to view their expenses.

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She will earn $220,000 annually, start on June 1

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

Courtney Pedersen | Staff Reporter Jennifer DeHaemers speaks to Central Michigan University students, faculty and staff at the final candidate forum for CMU’s first vice president of student recruitment and retention on Feb. 5 in the Charles V. Park Library Baber Room.

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Jennifer DeHaemers has been named Central Michigan University’s first vice president of student recruitment and retention by President Bob Davies.

Her first day will be June 1.

DeHaemers’ starting salary is $220,000, according to University Communications.

During a candidate forum Feb. 5, DeHaemers stressed the university’s need to appeal to nontraditional students and build resiliency among students.

“What can we do as an institution to try and help to give students the opportunity to

build resiliency and understand that getting a ‘B’ on a test isn’t the end of the world – even a ‘C’ is not the end of the world, a ‘D’ isn’t the end of the world,” DeHaemers said during the forum. “You can recover from these things. There are many students and many alumni across the globe who can attest to surviving those types of things.”

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KARL SMART CHOSEN FOR BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE DEAN The College of Business Administration’s internal search for associate dean has ended as Karl Smart has taken the position, effective Feb. 10, 2020.

The internal search for an associate dean was announced in October 2019 by Dean Christopher Moberg. This SMART: 10-member search Accepted offer committee was for business chaired by Kathy administration Irwin, dean of associate dean libraries.

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Smart will assist Moberg by operating and leading the College of Business Administration.

Smart’s previous involvement in the college includes serving as interim associate dean, as well as interim dean from September 2018 to July 2019. Smart held the position of interim dean from the time Charles Crespy retired as dean to when Moberg gained the role.

Smart has a doctorate from the University of Florida, a Master of Arts degree from Utah State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah. Smart is also a member of the CMU business information systems faculty.

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Central Michigan University students in need of a little help to organize their life and push through the school year will find new programs available to them in the Counseling Center this semester.

The Counseling Center, located on the first floor of Foust Hall, has revamped its group session calendar, which features activities such as art journaling, therapy dogs and hour-long presentations about how to overcome procrastination, improve test performance, cope with grief and more.

“Anxiety Busters,” a workshop about reducing anxiety, was rescheduled from early Thursday afternoon to 4 p.m. every Wednesday to fit in better with students’ schedules. The workshop is led by Associate Director Michelle Bigard. “‘Anxiety Busters’ has been designed to help students understand what happens to their body naturally when (they’re) anxious and stressed,” Bigard said. “This is intended to help people recognize when their anxiety and stress reaches a point where they know they’re not coping well, and what they can do for their body to get calm

Central Michigan Life | File Photo Central Michigan University’s new counseling center activity room in on Sept. 7 in Foust 135.

enough, to then say, ‘Alright, what do I need to do?’”

Amy Campbell, a counselor who was hired in late September, is hosting the “Spring It On” series, which offers methods for a sort of “spring cleaning” of your personal life. The workshop

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features sessions on strengthening friendships, a five-step morning routine, tips for changing your mental state and creating positive habits, which rotate throughout the semester.

“Spring It On” is hosted at 4 p.m. every Monday in Foust 135.

Campbell said she began developing the program halfway through the Fall 2019 semester and adapted the material from a workbook which laid out a four-week process for improving and optimizing your life.

Campbell has experience running intensive outpatient group sessions for substance abuse recovery at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Behavioral Health Clinic, where she worked for 10 years. Her transition to developing group workshops for CMU students wasn’t without its challenges, but she said the process is collaborative between all of the counselors to help fine-tune the specifics.

“There are definitely always challenges with something new,” Campbell said. “I would say some things I have to really be aware of is my audience, the students, opportunities to get the word out there, different departments that we could potentially partner with to help promote this, because it is a new group in general.”

Also new this semester is “Keep Calm & Carry On,” a workshop led by counselor Ross Rapaport that focuses on reducing negative thoughts, test anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism and developing healthy coping mechanisms.

“Keep Calm & Carry On” takes place 4 p.m. every Thursday in Foust 135.

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Central Michigan University has announced five finalists for the next chief information officer.

Assisted by search firm Greenwood/ Asher & Associates, the 14-member search committee has selected the final candidates.

Candidate forums will take place during the two weeks before Spring Break in the Sarah and Daniel Opperman Auditorium.

Cathy O’Bryan will kick off the forums at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26. She works at Indiana University as the associate vice president of client services, support and constituent relationship management in university information technology services.

Wendy Woodward will be speaking at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 28. Woodward serves as the chief information officer at

Wheaton College in Illinois.

Forums will continue the next week with Matthew Parks at 10 a.m. Monday, March 2. He is the chief information officer at Northern Illinois University.

Dawn Stoyanoff’s forum is at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, March 4. Stoyanoff is the associate vice chancellor of information technology and chief information officer at the University of Arkansas.

The last forum will feature Jim Bujaki at 1 p.m. Thursday, March 5. He works at BDO USA as the director IT infrastructure and enterprise operations.

The forums are open to all members of the community and campus and will also be livestreamed.

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Environmental Advocacy Conference models a sustainable college campus and city Advocates are pushing the university and community to demonstrate sustainability

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

Life is too short to run out of toilet paper.

That’s one of the central tenets of the Care Store, a Mount Pleasant non-profit which provides personal and household care items, its director, Kim McBryde, said at the third-annual Environmental Advocacy Conference in Central Michigan University’s Biosciences building Feb. 7.

At first glance, it would seem the conference was called to tout the valor of Isabella County’s poverty-fighting non-profit organizations. But poverty isn’t the only thing you can help by reusing and repurposing your old clothes, extra food and household items. It’s also good for the environment.

“The intentional act of giving what we have and no longer want to help others around us is something I think we all want to be doing and are excited about,” said Cedar Springs junior Meredith Wiles, chair of the CMU Sustainability Coalition and the conference’s presenter. “We know that it helps the people around us.”

Advocates at CMU are pushing the university and its surrounding community to demonstrate what a sustainable college town can look like, and it means more than recycling.

The conference’s keynote speaker was Luanne Goffnett, residence hall director for Calkins and Robinson halls. Over 10 years ago, Goffnett established CMU’s end-of-year donation drive, which collects unwanted items left behind by CMU students, sorts them and redistributes them into the community. Goffnett “probably helped invent the word sustainability on this campus,” former assistant director of Residence Life Grant Skomski said.

The drive began as a “small gesture” and grew into a fixture of campus life, Goffnett said.

Originally limited to Barnes Hall, where she was a residence hall director, the drive expanded to Calkins Hall and was reinforced by a variety of city organizations before CMU ultimately supported it through partnerships with Facilities Management and Residence Life.

Moving out of a college residence hall produces a lot of trash. Students often accumulate many more items than they came to school with and aren’t able to put it all back in their cars.

Last year, the donation drive filled three conference rooms in Kulhavi Hall with move-in carts

overflowing with surplus items.

These concerns aren’t limited to campus, though. True sustainability takes partnerships with community organizations like those that appeared at the Environmental Advocacy Conference. The organizations largely rely on reusing and repurposing items donated by the community. Some of these organizations included: The Care Store, which redistributes basic necessities not covered by federal aid, such as cleaning items, kitchen supplies, hygiene items and toilet paper. McBryde said the store helps about 100 families each week. Goffnett’s endof-year donation drive is a “big help” in keeping these items in stock, McBryde said.

Community Compassion Network, which provides a food pantry and supplies for caring for infants. CCN board member Sarah Gilbert said the network helps feed about 1,500 households each month with food that costs about 12 cents per pound.

Clothing INC, which provides free clothing by appointment. You can schedule an appointment every four months, and they aim to give out a week’s worth of clothes each time. They often repair brand-new clothing with damage that kept it off store shelves, resulting in like-new pieces from well-known brands, said executive director Kaye Peasley.

Moving forward, one of the chief sustainability goals on CMU’s campus is earning a Gold rating in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS), a program which ranks the efforts of colleges and universities, said Health Professions Residential College Director Pat Cwiek, who helped found the Sustainability Coalition around three years ago.

Currently, CMU has a Silver rating, and its lowest-scoring aspect in comparison to other institutions is its water use.

To improve its score, CMU will have to focus on increasing sustainability awareness on campus by incorporating it into the curriculum and fostering student-led involvement, which is where the Sustainability Coalition comes in, Cwiek said. Initiatives like Green Teams – where volunteer students sweep through six residence halls collecting recycling each week – are facilitated through the coalition.

The CMU Sustainability coalition meets monthly from 3-4 p.m. in the Biosciences building, room 2010. Their next meeting will be on Friday, Feb. 28.

Central Michigan Life | File Photo Sustainability Coalition chair Meredith Wiles presents former assistant Residence Life director Grant Skomski with a plaque and potted plant to celebrate his work making Central Michigan University’s campus more sustainable at the Environmental Advocacy Conference in the Biosciences building, Friday, Feb. 7.

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complete and accurate count.

That’s what local organizers for the United States 2020 Census want from residents living in Mount Pleasant and its surrounding municipalities.

“Our focus and goal are to get an accurate count,” Mount Pleasant city clerk Jeremy Howard said. “Whatever that number is, we want to get an accurate count. We want to count as many people that are living inside the city, students included.”

Census Day is April 1, which means information put on the form should reflect everyone living in their homes on that date. But there will be other dates to fill out the forms. As “Count Day” is fast approaching, precincts across the country are working to achieve the most accurate counts they can.

For Mount Pleasant, a large part of this is targeting off-campus students.

The census will impact the city and state in important ways, which is why local municipalities within the region are working so hard to prepare for it, said Chloe Updegraff Census hub coordinator for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance. The census will shape grants, local programs and other funds for cities throughout the state.

Mount Pleasant officials said they are concerned with a lack of participation from “hard-to-count” populations that are difficult to reach or get to participate in the census. Updegraff said these include highly mobile people, racial and ethnic minorities, non-English speakers, low-income individuals and, for Mount Pleasant, off-campus students.

PROMOTION AND FORMS Mount Pleasant has been preparing for the census by getting the word out.

There are some challenges doing that.

Unlike the 2010 U.S. Census, this year’s census will be conducted through an online-first model, Updegraff said. Census forms will mainly be filled out online this year, with local door-to-door census workers scaled back The hub Updegraff coordinates is a partnership between the Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance and four community area foundations located in Midland, Saginaw, Bay City and Mount Pleasant. They came together to make a fair and accurate count and reach the hard-to-count populations in the region, Updegraff said.

Howard said citizens in Mount Pleasant will receive mail in March explaining how to go online to fill out the census form. Counts will be made from March through July. If someone consistently does not respond to an online form requests, the census bureau will move to paper for those individuals, said Mount Pleasant city planner Jacob Kain.

Half of Mount Pleasant’s population is made of CMU students, Klain said, with half of them living off-campus. Those living in Northwest Apartments,

residence halls and graduate housing will not have to worry about filling out the form since their data will be sent to the Census Bureau by CMU, said Shaun Holtgrieve, interim associate vice president of student affairs.

Kewadin Apartments residents will have to fill out the forms. CMU can’t keep those residents’ information since they can have children in the apartments.

Off-campus residents are another story. Kain fears that students might not feel they need to fill out the forms. He said students might think that their parents will fill it out for them, or that they don’t count for Mount Pleasant since it may not be their hometown.

Updegraff said a person’s place of residence is where they are nine months out of the year. A student living in Mount Pleasant would count. This even includes seniors who are about to graduate, since that’s where they will be living on Census Day. “We want to make sure that (students) are aware that even if they are leaving the state, make sure you are counted for here,” Updegraff said.

Holtgrieve is the CMU representative for the Great Lakes Bay Regional Census Hub. He has partnered with the city, the state of Michigan and student organizations at CMU to help raise student awareness.

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308,745,538 HOUSING UNITS JULY 1, 2018 138,537,078 OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING UNIT RATE 2014-2018 63.8% MEDIAN SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS WITH A MORTGAGE 2014-2018 $1,558 MEDIAN SELECTED MONTHLY OWNER COSTS WITHOUT A MORTGAGE 2014-2018 $490

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9,883,640 MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME 2014-2018 $54,938 PER CAPITA INCOME IN PAST 12 MONTHS 2014-2018 $30,336 PERSONS IN POVERTY 14.1%

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WHITE 88% BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 2.7% AMERICAN INDIAN & ALASKA NATIVE 4.0% ASIAN 2% NATIVE HAWAIIAN LESS THAN 1% TWO OR MORE RACES 2.5% HISPANIC OR LATINO 5.2%

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PERSONS UNDER 5 YEARS 3.4% PERSONS UNDER 18 YEARS 11.7% PERSONS 65 YEARS AND OVER 8.6% SOURCE: CENSUS.GOV

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the city, township and county.”

He said there will also be tabling events on campus to educate students about the census scheduled for March 26 and April 9 outside the Bovee University Center and Charles V. Park Library.

Organizations in Isabella County will help with capturing other hard-to-count populations. The Isabella County Restoration House, a rotating homeless shelter, will help with counting the homeless population. Howard also said the city will provide a computer at city hall, and some at the Veterans Memorial Library to provide a way for people with low incomes or lack of internet access to fill out the census forms.

The Saginaw-Chippewa Indian Tribe will also be included in the Isabella County census count. Updegraff said it’s important for the members of that community to participate in the census.

Another challenge with this year’s census is a lack of trust in the government, Updegraff said, including from undocumented immigrants. A question of citizenship will not be on the census forms due to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against President Donald Trump’s push for one. She said the hub is trying to let these

populations know that the question isn’t on the form and that the census is confidential.

But with all the talk of how the city is preparing for it, a question people still might not know the answer to is: why does the census matter?

CENSUS EFFECTS ON CITY AND STATE Funding is often a central issue when talking about what can be gained from an accurate census count. Updegraff said Michigan loses $1,800 in federal dollars for every person not counted in the census.

The federal government distributes $675 billion to states, counties, cities and local communities, she said. The state of Michigan depends on the federal government for 40 percent of its funding. This funding is based on census data.

There’s also the idea of representation in Congress. Howard said Michigan lost a congressional seat after the 2010 census and was the only state to do so. The concern is if the population drops in the census again, Michigan could lose another congressional seat.

Of course, Mount Pleasant and Isabella County will be affected by it, too. Updegraff said Isabella County is at risk of losing $104 million in annual federal funding. Mount Pleasant city manager Nancy Ridley said state seats in the Michigan House and Senate are based on population data, and potential businesses use population data to determine where they will locate.

Funding for Mount Pleasant’s roads, distribution of sales tax and grants for the city are also based on population data.

Programs, including infrastructure such as WIC, school lunches, Medicare, highways and energy assistance, all use census data for funding distribution. Many revenue sharing formulas for funds from the state is based on population data, Kain said. He said it’s important to have an accurate census count so all the money Mount Pleasant is entitled to will go back into the community.

With talks of CMU’s declining enrollment of the past few years, there could be effects from it on Mount Pleasant’s population.

Ridley said it is a concern with the overall census numbers.

Holtgrieve, Kain and Updegraff all share one sentiment: students should participate in the communities they live in.

The census count will help maintain local infrastructure. Holtgrieve said students use local resources, so it’s part of their role on campus to participate in it.

“Because you’re a CMU student, you’re also a citizen of the county and the city,” Holtgrieve said. “(Students) use those resources that benefit from the census. Because students benefit from that, it’s blatant self-interest.”

Updegraff said funding from universities comes partially through census data, along with student aid, Pell grants, scholarship programs and student health services. Both her and Kain said voting is a civic responsibili-

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Whatever that number is, we want to get an accurate count.

We want to count as many people that are living inside the city, students included.”

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ty and helpful for the communities they live in.

“Being counted is as important as voting and is a civic responsibility that we should all take seriously,” Updegraff said. “Research shows that students want to be engaged in their communities and care about important community issues.

“Being counted is a way they can participate in our democracy and work to make the community the best it can be.”

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DOES YOUR STUDENT ORGANIZATION NEED FUNDING? Central Michigan Life | File Photo “Journey to Financial Wellness,” a series of lectures, seminars and workshops, takes place April 17 at the Bovee University Center Rotunda. The event was hosted by the Financial Wellness Collaborative.

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about finances.

“Once we started (giving presentations), the volume and the requests just blew up, and we couldn’t handle what was being requested of us,” Wagester said.

Eventually the two took different jobs at CMU, but the shift in their roles did not change their involvement in Financial Wellness Collaborative.

“I actually came back to (my current) job, and Alex took a different job in student services,” Wagester said. “Both of our supervisors saw the value in what we were trying to do, asked us to continue doing it and to put a work group together to make a recommendation on how we could make this go forward.”

Questions asked at the program often involve loan repayments, budgeting and challenges with life after college. What is discussed is often dependent on the age of the person seeking financial guidance.

To offer guidance, Financial Wellness Center uses Money Mentors, who are CMU undergraduate students. Money Mentors are split into three categories: office assistants, peer educators and peer coaches.

Office assistants are responsible for assisting with questions in Financial Wellness Center, while peer educators are students who table or give presentations around campus.

As for peer coaches, these are the individuals who work directly with students to help with budgeting or any other financial subject.

This group of students receives “extensive” training on financial aid and student account services, Wagester said. These coaches also work with a local personal fi-

nancial planner who helps them complete some of their coaching.

The program also hosts two graduate assistants that help its operation.

One of the graduate assistants, Sarah Fischer, from Birmingham, knew little about finances when she joined the Financial Wellness Collaborative. However, after seeing how “passionate” the individuals interviewing her were, she knew she was interested in being a part of the program.

“They were very focused on social justice issues and making sure students feel supported and confident,” Fischer said. “I learned the finance piece, which is huge, but really the biggest appeal to me was that we were going to be creating something that was going to be helping students.”

By learning more about finances from the Financial Wellness Collaborative, Fischer has been able to create an impact beyond the presentations she has given.

“We were presenting at IMPACT and a student stayed after,” Fischer said. “It turned out she was a first-generation student. She was really freaking out about her classes and her loans. I stayed with her for 40 minutes after our presentation ended... I got her into the Student Service Court and they got her all taken care of on payment plans. She still sends me a text every now and then just to keep me updated.”

Financial Wellness Collaborative seeks to not only help students now, but also to equip students with resources that can help beyond their time at CMU. “At the end of the day, we need to consider what kind of skills CMU students should (know) when they move across the stage at graduation,” Kappus said. “We know finances can be scary or intimidating, but by speaking with peers about these topics, we have lowered the barrier to access this important education that will have an impact on students’ lives.”

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The resolution, written by Press Secretary Kaitlyn Prebelich, calls for a “university staff position to lead civic engagement work on campus” in the Mary Ellen Brandell Volunteer Center. It was passed by both SGA’s House and Senate, which voted 11-1 with two abstentions.

The position would fulfill many of the roles currently performed by groups like Central Votes, a registered student organization, which seek to drive voter registration, education and turnout.

According to data cited in Prebelich’s resolution, the voter turnout rate among CMU students in 2018 was 10.7 percent less than the national average college turnout. In a comparable New York university, a position like the one Prebelich advocates for led to a 308 percent increase in voter registration.

“What we’re doing now, though it’s good faith and volunteers, is obviously not working as well as we want it to,” House Leader Anna Whitwam said.

Prebelich cited a 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act, which requires public colleges and universities to “make a good faith effort” to distribute voter registration forms to every student. Whitwam said this is currently being done by third parties, such as Central Votes,

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One of Central Votes’ two co-chairs is retired, Prebelich said, and can’t be expected to do the work in perpetuity. Institutionalizing a position dedicated to civic engagement, in addition to the volunteer efforts already in place, would ensure needs are being met regardless of who is currently willing to devote their free time to it, she said.

“It’s the university’s responsibility to ensure that we’re voting,” Prebelich said. “It’s a full-time job. It’s a lot of work, and it is not fair that a university’s putting that on third parties or on volunteers.”

Debate on the resolution in SGA’s House, where members represent RSOs, centered on funding the position when the Volunteer Center is already consolidating its programs, according to some members.

“This is never meant to take away from the Volunteer Center. It’s meant to add that position, add that support and add a little bit of funding as well,” Prebelich said. A position at CMU focused on civic engagement would likely be attractive to donors, she added.

OTHER BUSINESS Voting on a resolution written by sustainability committee chair Kalli Walz, which calls for plastic silverware in the Down Under Food Court to be replaced by compostable and metal silverware, was tabled by the House until next week. The resolution passed in the Senate.

The resolution will likely be tabled each week until March 16, when a representative of Campus Dining will visit SGA to answer questions from its House and Senate.

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Drew Travis | Staff Photographer Granger, Indiana redshirt junior Drew Hildebrandt celebrates after his first-round pin of Michigan State’s Logan Griffin Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 in McGuirk Arena.

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Drew Travis | Staff Photographer MSU’s Christian Rebottaro grapples with Oregon, Ohio redshirt junior Matt Stencel Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 in McGuirk Arena.

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hristine MacDonald has been eyeing the Central Michigan gymnastics team head coaching position for more than 30 years.

On Feb. 16, she finally led her team out of the huddle for the first time.

It was a dream come true. The Chippewas have found their new leader.

MacDonald has been involved with the the Chippewa gymnastics program for 30 years, dating back to when she competed for the Chippewas in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.

She started as a student-athlete from 1988-91 and won two Mid-American Conference team championships before becoming a student coach in 1992.

After that, MacDonald became an assistant coach before being promoted to associate head coach in 2006.

During her tenure, CMU has won 15 MAC Championships and earned 16 NCAA Regional berths.

MacDonald took the head coaching job on May 16, 2019, after serving as an interim role after long-time coach Jerry Reighard was suspended in February. He was fired from the program on April 18, 2019.

While the interim coach, MacDonald led the Chippewas to an NCAA Regional qualifier against Illinois.

Through it all, MacDonald said she’s learned hard work and it has always resonated with her as she passes that knowledge to her student-athletes.

“I’ve always told my athletes this, just like I tell my children — nothing worth having isn’t going to come easily,” MacDonald said. “You’re going to have to work for things and nobody is going to hand you anything, the same thing in sports – you’re going to have to work for it.”

Taking over the role occupied by Reighard for 36 years, MacDonald has brought a mindset of her own into the practice gym, it goes down to the motto MacDonald has utilized with the Chippewas this season —Work hard, stay focused and have fun.

“The hard work comes in the gym, staying focused on what you need to do and hopefully, at the end of the day, you’re still enjoying the moments,” MacDonald said.

One of MacDonald’s many star pupils in her tenure with the Chippewas, sophomore Morgan Tong, was the Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year last season.

Tong said MacDonald’s instruction in leading practice has proved to be beneficial as it has helped her, and sev-

Isaac Ritchey | Photo Editor Central Michigan coach Christine MacDonald watches as gymnasts compete against Kent State Feb. 16 at McGuirk Arena.

eral of her teammates, grow as the season has progressed.

“It’s been really good,” Tong said. “I feel like Christine has made the gym like a home and that we’re all each other’s family. She’s really emphasized the details and I know that pays off in our routines and all her assignments in the gym have helped me and other people a lot. It’s really good having her as a head coach.”

Denelle Pedrick was the MAC Gymnast of the Year in her junior season last year and won individual MAC titles on the vault and the all-around competition. She was also named first-team All-MAC and she was a 2019 NCAA

Regional Championship qualifier in the all-around.

Pedrick, one of the two senior captains of the team, said the atmosphere around the team has improved and her teammates are always looking to put in the work needed to be successful in the practice gym.

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said. “We trust her practice plans and everyone’s bought in. I think it’s shown, the team has improved so much with her and it’s just a positive atmosphere in the gym, everyone’s happy to be there.”

One of the three key pieces of the motto MacDonald uses with her team is fun — she wants her gymnasts to enjoy themselves.

Many have taken the notion of having fun to heart.

In warmups before the Kent State dual, several gymnasts were practicing popular dance moves from the app, Tik Tok, and joking around if — or when — they made a mistake.

Pedrick said having fun is one of the most important aspects of the sport and the competition is the best part.

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Pedrick said. “To watch your teammates succeed as you watch how hard they work in the gym, how much effort they put in, to see it pay off for them to have that great routine or stuck dismount is just an awesome feeling.”

MacDonald said she was happy about the opportunity to take the head coaching role and is proud to lead the program she has been a critical part of for three decades.

After all, it comes down to hard work.

“It’s a great moment when you work for something and you get that opportunity, I’m very fortunate,” MacDonald said.

“It’s a blessing and something I take very seriously and I’m very thankful for the opportunity to continue to represent CMU in a new role and continue to be involved in so many great student-athletes lives and continue to mentor them down the road and be part of their future.

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Administrators took our rivalry game to Detroit.

Students and locals are not happy.

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entral Michigan athletics officially announced Feb. 26 that the storied rivalry football game against Western Michigan is going to be played Oct. 17 at Ford Field in Detroit.

It goes without saying that coaches, players, alumni and students who attend the game are going to have a unique, special experience.

Ford Field, which has a capacity of 65,000 people, is an outstanding venue surrounded by excellent restaurants and bars.

It is a little early to put this decision down as a win for CMU. It would be polite to call the social media response to the announcement “mixed.” Many students and local business owners are flat-out angry.

Central Michigan Life has often published editorials and opinion columns about the football program, and more specifically, the lack of attendance from students and alumni at home games. That’s not a criticism of students or alumni – it’s math. It’s also an indication that overall interest in CMU football is declining.

One of the few home games that is well-attended, however, is the Western Michigan rivalry game. If there was ever a game to not move out of Mount Pleasant, it’s the Western Weekend game. On top of not hosting Western Weekend, we will only have three Saturday football games in Mount Pleasant.

Many students’ best memories come from Western Weekend. It’s more than just a football game. It’s three days’ worth of camaraderie, competition and socializing with friends. That experience is one that many Chippewas will tell you is the best part of their four years here.

That experience will be taken away from seniors graduating next year.

Western Weekend embodies student life and campus culture as much as the colors maroon and gold. We are willingly giving up home-field advantage for a two-hour drive to Detroit to watch the game in what will likely be (at least) a half-empty stadium.

President Bob Davies hadn’t even gotten the opportunity to experience his first Western Weekend at CMU before he allowed it to be moved to Detroit.

As part of a student body that annually subsidizes the Athletics

Department with $20 million of its $30 million budget, we are left wondering, who is this football game really for?

It’s not for students. That’s been made extremely clear with this decision. Is it for recruitment to address our declining enrollment?

Is it for alumni engagement and soliciting donations? We thought homecoming was for alumni.

Is it for marketing? We traded home game attendance for viewers watching ESPN2 (or ESPN3, or worse) and began scheduling midweek games to earn TV revenue. We were told that televised bowl games would help us promote our university’s brand nationally.

The Western Michigan football game was one of the few things that students truly appreciated and participated in. This already feels a loss, and kickoff is still eight months away.

College football is supposed to be about scoring touchdowns, not burning bridges. Logistically, this is a nightmare for students and their friends from Western. Students will have to break the bank to pay for gas and parking and will spend nearly five hours of their Saturday driving to and from Detroit. There are no Safe Rides to transport us from Ford Field to the Towers. Local businesses – many of which advertise in CM Life and also sponsor CMU athletics – are rightfully angry. For the shops, hotels, restaurants and bars, this will be a weekend of lost opportunities and unearned revenue.

Only CMU would invest $32.5 million into its football stadium and then move one of its most important games to a stadium two hours away. It’s a shame that our new videoboard will go unused during one of the biggest games of the year when we could be showcasing the improvements made to Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

Instead of asking us to walk across East Broomfield Street and show our student IDs, CMU is asking us to pay and spend more than four hours on a bus on a Saturday in October. Essentially, CMU is telling students to watch on TV. Maybe, we should stream the game on the new videoboard. At least that way there will be some football in Mount Pleasant on Oct. 17.

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