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Two marijuana options

Discussion on marijuana legislation has taken over city commission meetings in Mount Pleasant.

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| Isaac Ritchey | Photo Editor A Central Michigan University student poses for a photo Oct. 29 at an apartment building in Mount Pleasant.

TWO STRANDS, TWO OPTIONS STORY BY ANDREW MULLIN | SENIOR REPORTER

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ecreational marijuana businesses will be coming to Mount Pleasant in the near future.

Exactly how they will operate will depend on the outcome of the Mount Pleasant election.

The way recreational marijuana can operate in the city depends on if a ballot proposal passes on Nov. 5 regarding recreational marijuana regulations. If it does, the proposal will replace the recreational marijuana city ordinance that the Mount Pleasant City Commission approved on Sept. 9. If not, the stricter rules of the city’s ordinance will control the marijuana industry in Mount Pleasant.

After Michigan voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2018, the city went into a scramble to start drafting an ordinance in May earlier this year. The city had recently decided on rules for medical marijuana last year and approved business licenses earlier this year.

Since the city wasn’t prepared to start accepting recreational marijuana businesses, City Manager Nancy Ridley said this led to the city temporarily opting out of the rec-

City ordinance and ballot proposal have distinct differences, city explains reational marijuana businesses in June. This was because the State of Michigan indicated that they would want to start issuing recreational licenses in September, and the city’s ordinance wouldn’t have been ready in time.

The opt out would only last until the commission adopted an ordinance, receive state regulations and address concerns the city commission had with these businesses, Ridley said. Some of the commission’s main concerns were deciding where the businesses could be located, what requirements these businesses should have in order operate in Mount Pleasant and making the regulations for recreational marijuana establishments were as close as

possible for the medical locations.

However, all this didn’t sit well with Brandon McQueen, a Central Michigan University student and city commission candidate. He also helped petition for the ballot initiative, which was a response to the city’s ordinance.

McQueen said he owned a medical marijuana dispensary in Mount Pleasant in 2010 ad 2011 that led to a civil case in the Michigan Supreme Court. The court ruled that his business was a public nuisance that led to the Isabella County prosecuting attorney sent his dispensary a cease and desist, which McQueen had to follow.

He formed the petition because he felt the city was going to force their personal agenda into the bill. “(The City) made a mess of opting into medical (marijuana) and they’re trying to do the same thing with recreational,” McQueen said. “Luckily, we have (the proposal) on the ballot and if we get enough votes, we can prevent the city from another disaster.”

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in Mount Pleasant and across the nation

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Nichole Sanborn has spent the last four years working at the Family Video store on Mission St. She provides Mount Pleasant residents and Central Michigan University students with the latest blockbuster movies and video games.

Before her store started selling cannabidiol (CBD) products, Sanborn wanted to make sure her customers were getting what they paid for.

She decided to order a strong dosage to aid her chronic neck and back pain. If what she ordered showed no effect, there was no way she would support it.

The treatment, Sanborn said, was a success.

“As far as pain management goes, this was a huge change in my life,” she said.

Family Video began selling CBD in May. It began with around 70 stores in Michigan and 250 stores nationwide.

Sanborn said the products were an immediate success in the Mount Pleasant branch, selling over $1,000 in the first week.

“We started to get people in the store that we’ve never seen before,” Sanborn said. “Lots of people seem excited and wanted to learn about it.”

While most assume video stores have become obsolete, Family Video has been able to adapt to the digital age by adding these products to their shevles.

WHAT IS CBD? Marijuana, hemp, CBD and THC are words that get thrown into the cannabinoid discussion, although the distinction between terms is blurry.

CBD is one of many chemical compounds found in different species of cannabis plants.

While CBD can be found in marijuana, it’s mainly extracted from a cousin species: the hemp plant. Unlike THC, which produces the psychoactive “high,” CBD’s effects are non-intoxicating.

CBD has recently been praised for its multiple medicinal

properties. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, “(CBD) may be useful in reducing pain and inflammation, controlling epileptic seizures, and possibly even treating mental illness and addictions.”

Dr. Tamara Moutsatson of the McLaren Central Michigan hospital has been suggesting CBD products to her patients with back pain or joint pain and tracking its success.

“Eventually (CBD) may end up rivaling Tylenol or Motrin for pain relief,” Moutsatson said. “I’m surprised how many people are trying it without me even suggesting it.”

LEGALIZATION Previous generations saw all forms of cannabis illegal under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 and strictly criminalized in the 70s.

For decades, federal law did not differentiate hemp and CBD from marijuana and THC. In 2018 hemp growers and CBD manufacturers rejoiced when the federal government struck hemp and its cannabinoids from the list of controlled substances.

Prior to this, the 2014 Farm Bill gave America its first taste of hemp farming. It allowed institutions of higher education and state agriculture departments to grow hemp with permission from the state.

Since then, studies like those from the World Health Organization conclude, “In humans, CBD exhibits no effects indicative of any abuse or dependence potential...To date, there is no evidence of public health related problems associated with the use of pure CBD.” According to Sanborn, CBD sales averaged $800 a week this summer. She predicts that nearly 85% of Family Video’s clientele are CMU students.

REGULATIONS AND WARNINGS Despite legalization by the 2018 Farm Bill, CBD still falls into a legal gray area.

“Law enforcement is learning about CBD regulations as fast as lawmakers come up with them,” Officer Autume Balcom of the Mount Pleasant Police department said. “There are still a lot of unanswered questions.”

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs still classify any substance with a THC concentration above 0.3 percent as marijuana. In order for a CBD product to be sold it must be pure and distributed from a licensed grower and processor.

According to Balcom, Family Video and other retailers are able to distribute CBD products with ease because of the low THC levels. Any higher than the legal limit and it would be classified as marijuana.

The products sold at Family Video comply with the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. However, like all marketed CBD products, they are yet to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

In June, 2018 the FDA approved a treatment for two rare forms of epilepsy called Epidiolex. Aside from this one prescription drug, the FDA has not approved any other products containing CBD. Without FDA approval, some products are being marketed with unproven medical claims. This may lead consumers to put off important medical care and receive a proper diagnosis. Researchers urge people to consult with a healthcare provider before putting a CBD product to use.

To learn more about their research process and unanswered questions visit the FDA’s website.

While Family Video was one of the first to sell CBD in the area, the competition has skyrocketed in just a 1-mile radius.

Many local gas stations, pharmacies and tobacco shops have begun supplying the new health craze.

The small store has sat on Mission Street since 2000, making the property older than incoming CMU freshman.

“You hear a lot of companies say they love their customers,” she said. “This is the first place I’ve worked at where I can feel it on a daily basis.”

Family Video receives blockbuster movies nearly 30 days before most streaming services. Their catalog is expansive with a wide selection of movies, video games and now CBD products ranging from $3 to $150.

To an outsider, a video store selling CBD products may seem unusual, but the new market is expected to keep the company alive for many years to come.

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on the Nov. 5 ballot, if it passes, the regulations laid out in the proposal will override how it’s laid out in the city’s ordinance, Ridley said. This is because the ballot proposal passed statewide in 2018 allows citizens to start citizen initiatives regarding local marijuana laws, like the one petitioned by McQueen. Since this is based on state law the process is different than if it was done under the city charter and supersedes anything the city commission passes.

If it doesn’t pass, then the rules that may guide the marijuana policy in Mount Pleasant going into 2020 are pictured in the chart below.

Ridley said since recreational marijuana businesses are new to the city, the city commission wants to start small. She said since it’s a commission ordinance, it can be changed anytime by the commission, unlike the ballot proposal. So, if something is working with the ordinance, they have the ability to loosen some of the rules (like allowing more retailers for instance).

One of McQueen’s biggest problems with the city’s ordinance is limiting event marijuana licenses to being edibles only. With potency of edibles being higher than other marijuana products, he said people who are unfamiliar with marijuana may take in more than they are supposed to and freak out, and call the hospital.

However, Ridley said the commission was concerned about having marijuana smoke outside in a public area and causing a nuisance and second-hand smoke. So, they wanted to start just with edibles and learn from marijuana events and change accordingly.

Another major concern McQueen had was limiting non-retail marijuana businesses to only industrial zones. He said there is only a small amount of industrial properties available for marijuana businesses, both medical and recreational.

There are many vacant commercial lots around the city that he said could be filled by these businesses.

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However, Ridley said the non-retail marijuana businesses are industrial-type businesses and the limitation to industrial zones is consistent with that. Also, there is vacant industrial land in the city, so she said it shouldn’t limit the number of marijuana businesses. She said if the demand of these kinds of businesses exceeds the amount of industrial land available, the city commission can always change the ordinance to reflect the demand.

When it comes to buffer zones, McQueen said that he feels marijuana businesses are no more dangerous to kids then pharmacies that sell opioids. However, he did say that the 1,000 ft. buffer zone is mandated by the state, meaning anyone who wants to apply for marijuana licenses in Mount Pleasant still has to follow that guideline, whether the proposal passes or not.

If the ballot proposal passes, the only parts of the city’s ordinance that will be replaced are the rules laid out in the proposal, Ridley said. For instance, the proposal doesn’t explain how the city should approve the limited number of retailers in the city. This means the city can decide how they want to approve these businesses, even if the proposal passes.

How the city will approve the limited number of applicant slots will differ from how the city did with medical marijuana.

Earlier this year, the city held a lottery to decide which three medicinal retailers could be approved in Mount Pleasant.

However, Ridley said the city can’t decide this in a lottery this time, since the state ballot proposal passed in 2018 doesn’t allow lotteries. Instead, there will be a Marijuana Establishment Selection Committee to help decide what retailers will be approved, based a set of criteria.

In total, there is a potential of having eight marijuana retailers in town —10 if the ballot proposal passes. This is because alongside the retailers, she said the ordinance will allow two micro businesses and the three medical marijuana retailers approved in Mount Pleasant won’t automatically be approved for recreational marijuana licenses. However, the medical retailers will have an advantage with the criteria.

COMPARING OPTIONS Ordinance

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1. Limited growers 2. Three retailers 3. No smoking lounges 4. Event license for edibles only 5. Can be amended

1. Unimited growers 2. Five retailers 3. Unlimited lounges 4. Event license for all marijuana products 5. Cannot be amended

Rosie Bauman | Staff Photographer A student holds 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis Sept. 30 at a Mount Pleasant apartment complex.

Some of the criteria for the recreational marijuana retailers include whether they are an approved medical marijuana retailer in Mount Pleasant, past business ownership experience, residency in Isabella County and current condition of their proposed location.

Ridley said the criteria are sorted into nine categories and have around 100 points allocated to them. The selection committee will review applicants and award points to businesses based on how well they fit the criteria and the ones who come out on top will be the ones approved for the licenses.

Despite three medical marijuana retailers being approved by the city, only one has opened for operation so far. Caleb Carey is the general manager of Consano, a dispensary located downtown at 309 W. Michigan St. and opened on July 8. He said he wanted to open the store in Mount Pleasant because he is from the Central Michigan area.

Carey said business has picked up since school started and he hasn’t been receiving pushback from the community since he got here. He’s even hired some CMU students to work at the dispensary.

He doesn’t have a preference to either the ballot proposal or the city’s ordinance,

as long as he has an opportunity to receive a recreational marijuana license from the city. When asked about the possibility of not receiving a recreational license, he said that could be an issue but the merit based system is better than the lottery system.

“The city is doing the best it can with the merit-based (system),” Carey said.

“It is fair for businesses who are already licensed in the city.”

Mount Pleasant may first see recreational marijuana businesses by 2020, Ridley said. Whether the ballot proposal passes or not, the city will be accepting applications for retailers in January and February of next year and the committee evaluations will be in March. She said the process for approving retailer licenses will take longer this time around, due to the committee process.

However, if the number of retailers applying for the licenses are less than the limit, then they will be approved without the need of a committee.

Carey said his business opened in July after receiving the license in February this year, which means the licenses might be issued in March next year if the recreational marijuana approval process follows a similar path of the medical process.

A day in the life of a full-time bud tender

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A collection of bud trays rests in the glass counter, Ashley Nola discusses the availability of pre-rolled joints and cannabidiol (CBD) lotions over the phone during a 3-9 p.m. shift.

Once the 2017-18 president of the Student Advocates for the Medical and Responsible Use of Cannabis at Central Michigan University, the 2019 alumna is able to make a full-time commitment to one of her passions: Weed.

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in psychology with a minor in fine arts, Nola now serves as a patient receptionist and CBD bud tender.

“It is most important that each encounter establishes an immediate relationship of respect. It is so critical to perform successfully by listening and being professional,” Nola said. “My first approach is always to allow any excess I have or feelings I’m experiencing to leave so they can open up and feel heard.”

As customers enter, she initiates engagement with key questions: “What are you in for today?

How are you doing? How can we help you?”

Out of nearly 400 applicants to the Consano Marijuana Provisioning Center located in downtown Mount Pleasant, the Cheboygan native was one of 20 people hired. Nola was introduced to the concept of Consano in June 2017, during a meeting for public input hosted by City Hall to analyze the Medical Marijuana Facilities Licensing Act and its possible presence in Mount Pleasant.

“During the meeting, it was difficult to not realize the demographic that was very vocally anti-dispensary. They spoke about their fears of bringing drug money and shady people to the community and of marijuana ending up in the hands of kids,” Nola said.

Consano was one of three applicants plucked via a lottery to be allowed to operate.

“Consano in Latin means ‘to heal.’ (It) fits the business perfectly because that’s exactly what we’re doing, each and every day,” Nola said.

“We’re healing stigma, healing patients and healing each other by treating one another with respect.”

Nola first experimented with marijuana when she was 19 years old while stargazing with a friend.

“In high school, I was devastated by a really bad snowboarding incident. I had completely blew out and dislocated my shoulder, tore my ACL and damaged my left rotator cuff,” Nola said.

When she sought a medical professional three months afterward, she was greeted by a

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ASHLEY NOLA high-dosage Vicodin prescription for the pain.

“From 16 to 17 years old, I have no concrete memories in my brain. I took my high school exams on Vicodin. I took my driver’s training test on Vicodin. It was like all of these key moments in my high school career were defined by a drug,” Nola said.

She attempted to stop using Vicodin near the end of high school, but faced “hardcore depression” and withdrawal symptoms of anxiety, sleep deprivation, suicidal thoughts and sudden alterations in behavior.

“A lot of people say when they smoke for the first time they don’t really feel anything, but I felt something instantly,” Nola said. “I experienced complete relaxation and the next morning, I woke up to complete peace after sleeping throughout an entire night for the first time in years.”

She said she couldn’t believe marijuana stigma had kept her from “such peace.”

As a bud tender, she said one of her responsibilities is to be continually researching about marijuana in all of its form. She said each day is invested into advancing her knowledge, inside the shop and at home. While all uses of marijuana are still illegal on the federal level, Nola said the internet allows for individuals to share personal testimonies and experiments by the masses.

When it comes to dispensaries as a patient and formal advocate, Nola said she’s literally “seen it all.” She said she’s encountered colosseums aspiring to be the pentagon of marijuana and holes in the wall capable of reminding anyone of the basement of “That 70’s Show.”

“I’ve stumbled into some dispensaries that are full of dirty couches and dogs running around.

There’ll be people passing around blunts and actually smoking in the dispensary,” Nola said.

“They’ll have tupperware for their edibles and all of the weed is being sold in ziplock bags.”

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Spencer-Noggle makes history After being sworn-in Sept. 13, alumna becomes first female judge in Isabella County Judge Sara Spencer-Noggle after receiving a robe and gavel during her investiture ceremony Friday, Oct. 18 at the Isabella County Trial Court.

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entral Michigan University alumna Sara Spencer-Noggle is the first woman to serve on the bench in the Isabella County Trial Court.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appointed Spencer-Noggle to the position Aug. 13 after Judge Paul Chamberlain stepped down at the end of July.

“Sara is a well-respected and esteemed attorney,” Whitmer said in a press release.

“Throughout her career, Sara has been advocating for justice as an indigent criminal defense attorney. She will be a great addition to the bench.”

Spencer-Noggle was sworn in and began serving as the first female judge in Isabella County on Monday, Sept.

13. She was officially robed at her investiture ceremony Oct. 18.

“It’s very exciting to be the first female judge, not because I think I’m going to make different decisions than my male colleagues, but because I think it’s important that the court looks like the community that it serves,” Spencer-Noggle said. “I like that my daughters and my son can see a woman on the bench and that becomes a normal thing, so my daughters can think about being a judge and other people’s daughters can think about being a judge.”

Although her three kids are only school-aged, she said she can see them going into law because they are pretty good at arguing.

As a kid, and even when she enrolled at CMU in 1995, Spencer-Noggle never pictured herself becoming a judge.

“When I was a kid I wanted to be an actress and a dancer, but I wasn’t good at either of those things, so it didn’t work out,” Spencer-Noggle said. “I was planning on being a theater major, but that didn’t work out because I wasn’t good.”

After changing her major to political science with minors in Spanish and Latin American studies, she graduated with her bachelor’s degree in 1998. In 2000, she graduated from CMU with

a master’s in political science before heading to Indiana University at Bloomington for her doctorate.

“I thought I was going to do a Ph.D. in political science and travel the world and study Latin American governments, but the more that I did toward that, I realized I was really interested in legal stuff, so I decided to go to law school,” Spencer-Noggle said.

She completed one year at Indiana University and decided to transfer to Michigan State University, where she received a law degree in 2006.

During her last year in law school and following graduation, Spencer-Noggle worked in the legal division for previous Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm before becoming a prehearing attorney at the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Spencer-Noggle said she is excited to be working in Mount Pleasant where she and her family live. Her husband Robert Noggle Jr. has worked as a philosophy and religion faculty member at CMU since 1998.

“The commute became a lot so I came back to Mount Pleasant to try to do good things in the community that I live in and I love,” Spencer-Noggle said.

In Mount Pleasant, she worked in private practice, spent a year in the prosecutor’s office, managed the public defense system and was appointed as the county’s first public defender this year before being appointed as judge.

“I’m really happy where I am,” Spencer-Noggle said. “My primary goal is to be the best judge that I can be. My second goal is to get elected.”

She a serving a partial term as a judge. In November 2020, she will run for election.

“The justice system holds a lot of weight in our government and I think it’s the backbone of our democracy,” Spencer-Noggle said.

As a judge, the mandatory age of retirement is 70. Being in her early 40s, Spencer-Noggle has many more years of potential as a judge.

“If I’m very lucky, I’ll have a very long career on the bench, at this point what that means for me is the circuit court in Isabella county,” Spencer-Noggle said. “I’m very happy here, I think there are many things I can do to make progress. I think I’ll be a really good judge, but what the future holds is very hard to predict.”

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COLLABORATION Andrew Mullin | Staff Reporter The Mount Pleasant City Commission discusses city issues at the Oct. 28, 2019 commission meeting.

City talks groundwater and operating budget

By Andrew Mullin Senior Reporter news@cm-life.com

Groundwater contamination testing and the 2020 Operating Budget were among the topics discussed Oct. 28 by the Mount Pleasant City Commission.

The commission had a lengthy meeting with a few topics driving the discussions. Concerns about drilling holes for water contamination testing and goals for downtown infrastructure, fees for the 2020 budget and exemption for sewer line replacement were all discussed during the three-hour meeting.

During the meeting, City Manager Nancy Ridley proposed a bid to the commission for AKT Peerless to test a former landfill area.

This is in response to pipes being discovered earlier this year in this landfill area that were discharging contaminated water into the Chippewa River.

While these pipes were capped earlier this year to stop the flow, the proposed testing would have AKT Peerless drill holes into the landfill site to verify if any leakage is coming out of that landfill into the Chippewa River.

Ridley said the tests were recommended by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and the EPA. Ridley said the testing costs cannot exceed $30,000.

When discussing the bid, Commissioner Petro Tolas voiced some concerns he had about drilling holes into the former landfill area. He had a back and forth conversation with Mount pleasant Director of Public Works, John Zang, about why he feels drilling the holes doesn’t make sense.

Tolas said the tests should be done along the bank of the river and not on the site itself since tests by the banks would show if anything is

leaking into the river. He also said there is clay lining protecting the aquifer underneath the former landfill site from the contaminants.

He said drilling holes into the clay might even make the contamination worse.

“I’m telling you from experience that you’re opening a can of worms,” Tolas said.

Zang said he doesn’t know if the aquifer is below the clay lining and there are Michigan laws that require assurance that there’s not a pathway between contaminated groundwater and the surface water in the river.

After a lengthy discussion, Commissioner Tony Kulick proposed to postpone deciding on the groundwater testing until the next commission meeting, which was passed in a unanimous vote. This was done so the commission could get more information from AKT and EGLE about why drilling holes into the clay lining won’t create future problems, Mayor Will Joseph said.

The commission also worked on the city’s 2020 Operating Budget, which mainly centered around fees and downtown infrastructure. When talking about downtown, there was a lengthy discussion about tree lighting.

Commissioners had various opinions about how long lights should stay up during the year.

They explored various options for how long to keep the lights up, each with varying costs.

Joseph said he likes having lights up beyond the holiday season because it adds an ambiance to downtown. Vice Mayor Lori Gillis said she’s concerned with the lights being paid for by taxpayers since the lights are paid for by the general fund.

Commissioners also discussed replacing lamp poles to improve pedestrian lighting and parking lots downtown. Along with that, they also discussed citizens’ fees for services such as Christmas tree pickup.

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VP candidates share thoughts on campus media Central Michigan Life asked each Vice President for university communications and marketing candidate questions about their thoughts on student media, with the intention to publish the replies in one cohesive article to compare answers.

Here are the replies that candidates gave us: JOHN VEILLEUX “I was a campus media person, a student reporter. I think it’s a great learning opportunity, it’s a living learning lab if you will. You get to go out and report actual news and I think you have a duty. It’s not just a learning tool for you, you get to go out and the living learning aspect of the job (is) to put your work out there in the public. If the work is wrong you are going to get some criticism because it is wrong. If it’s a great story people are going to say (it’s a) great story. There is no better living learning lab than being a student reporter.

I work with student reporters everyday on our campus; I have frankly for the last 20 years. I just met a young lady at an alumni event last week, who was a student reporter.

She came up to me and said ‘Do you remember me?’ and I said ‘can you help me remember?’ and she said ‘when I was a student reporter y’all got the new dean and I came over and I was like in jeans (with holes) and shirts and you lectured me about professional attire.’ So what do I think about student reporters?

I think that you have to remember, not only, it’s a living learning lab and we have an obligation to treat you like real reporters because you are becoming and learning to be a real reporter.

You certainly wouldn’t walk into a deans office in shorts or something like that. She had the opportunity and she said ‘that stuck with me and I never showed up unprepared or underdressed for an interview after that.’”

ROSALEE RUSH “I treat the student newspaper just like if they were a regular media entity. If they’re coming to us, we will pitch stories to them. We also

offer them feedback. At Bloomsburg, we would meet with them on a bi-weekly basis, and we’d say, ‘Hey, we saw you ran this story, here are some things.’ Maybe it was a fact check, maybe not. But we were a resource for them just as much as a source. We were able to say, ‘Hey, here are some things we are hearing, and maybe you want to cover this story.’ I think it’s really critical for the university communications office to have a very good working relationship with the student media on campus.”

RHONDA DELONG “I love student media. My spouse runs the student media operation at the University of Michigan. I have a soft spot for student media. I try to include student media when I can in whatever work we are doing. I consider us to be partners with student media not only in the sense of working together on things but helping students who are going to become tomorrow’s journalists, reporters, communicators and photographers to have a richer and deeper experience.

It’s getting to the point in this country where it’s almost become a public service to be a journalist. It is hard, and you’re going to face adversity and opposition. You’re going to have amazing successes but not everybody respects the way the country is going, and not everyone values or understands it. To me, it’s for a professional communications team to embrace student media and provide support and assistance to them while also respecting their independence. This is one of the challenges that a lot of people face.

Students are going to report on things that I don’t like. You might say things about me today that I don’t like. That’s fine, go ahead. I’ve got thick skin. But it’s important that we respect and honor that, even in the spaces where maybe it’s uncomfortable for us. For example, the student media might report about the president in a way that I take issue with. Well, I’m not happy with that, but let’s have a conversation. It’s not the type of conversation where I’m going to call you to the woodshed and say, ‘Don’t do that anymore.’

I’m not going to try to control you. I would just ask, ‘What was your experience? What led you to draw those conclusions? Can we have this conversation?’”

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HORRORBUSINESS ‘Soundcheck’ podcasters share horror-punk recommendations

Podcasters Andrew Mullin, Michael Livingston and Benjamin Ackley spoke about horror punk music in the latest episode of Soundcheck, our music podcast. Here are their thoughts from the horror-themed Halloween episode.

MICHAEL LIVINGSTON: Where punk purists prefer the early low-fidelity “Static Age” and “Earth A.D.” era, I find myself gravitating toward the hyper-horrific and cheesy lyrics of 1999’s “Famous Monsters.” While I can’t deny frontman Glen Danzig built a sturdy foundation for the band with classic tracks like “Last Caress” and “Hybrid Moments,” there’s something about Michale Graves singing about scarecrows and witch hunts that has me revisiting the album every October.

Perhaps, it’s the heavy distortion of Doyle’s guitar tone or the haunting group vocals during the explosive choruses. Whatever it is, it’s no secret that the creativity of The Misfits is one element that elevated horror punk to its current legacy status.

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ANDREW MULLIN: While I’m not an expert on the campy fun of horror punk, I’ve of course always loved The Misfits. How couldn’t I? Glenn Danzig is easily one of the most interesting and unique sounding vocalists of all time and their simple, yet effected melodies always brought a sense of creepy accessibility to their horror. Their single, “We Are 138,” has always been a favorite of mine.

Something I’ve always loved about The Misfits is the fact that they use both campy and realistic horrors in their lyrics. On one record, they might go from singing about Martians and hellhounds to gruesome lyrics about serial killers.

There are bands that specializes in each. The Damned’s more goth rock pieces were usually more focused on more reality-based horrors, such as on their song, “Stranger On the Town.” Other bands like the Lillington’s wrote more silly lyrics based on alien invasions and Russian spies.

While neither of these bands are truly “horror punk,” they both convey elements of the genre that I like.

But perhaps the most truly horrifying band in punk rock is the Dead Kennedys. While they weren’t horrifying in the sense that Jello Biafra sang about ghouls and ghosts (hell, he would probably scoff at that idea), they were scary due to their frightening lyrics based on real-life horrors.

From terrifying, dissonant guitar riffs laid underneath graphic lyrics about police brutality, war and genocide, Biafra has always been an expert on writing poignant political lyrics, while also conveying the real-life horror of these tragedies. And while this might be a cliché at this point, I think it rings very true: What’s more terrifying than the horrors of the real world?

BEN ACKLEY: We talked about a lot of different bands, but for me one band stands out head and shoulders above the rest: The Cramps. On the back of their debut EP “Gravest Hits,” an inscription, credited to American Rock ‘n’ Roll Institute Professor of Rockology Dr. J.H. Sasfy (as if such a person exists) contrasts The Cramps with other punk and new wave bands of the time.

“The Cramps don’t pummel and you won’t pogo,” it reads. “They ooze, you’ll throb.”

Every Cramps song is built upon the backbeat laid down by metronomic drummer Nick Knox, and this beat-up approach to making music gives every song an inherent and unique drive that not a lot of other music has.

Add atop the essential backbeat the dueling guitars of Brian Gregory and Poison Ivy and you have the perfect storm of rockabilly, surf, ‘60s garage and punk music.

Cramps instrumentals are cacophonous cyclones of noise, fuzz, delay and reverb, and the one man who can whip song after song into shape is the mad doctor forever at the helm of the band, Lux Interior. He croons, hiccups and screams his way through every song like the bastard son of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Elvis, Gene Vincent and Frankenstein’s Monster. Horror punk is made up of a delightfully putrid cast of bands and solo acts, but almost all of them pale in comparison to these progenitors of psychobilly.

Listen to any of The Cramps albums, especially “Songs The Lord Taught Us” and “Psychedelic Jungle,” and listen to me go on and on about them on the most recent episode of Soundcheck!

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or some college students, Oct. 31 means it’s time to break out the cowboy hat or cat ears that they’ve worn for the last three Halloween seasons. For Autumn Gold, it is an opportunity to practice her special effects makeup skills.

This year her scary skills earned her the cover of CM Life’s Halloween edition. Gold’s entry was chosen as the best character in our Costume Cover Contest.

Ever since she was in high school, Gold has been conceptualizing costumes and creating them herself. Using prosthetics, makeup and props, she’s been honing her skills as a makeup artist by transforming herself into some of her favorite Halloween characters.

CM Life sat down with the Lincoln Park senior while she put on her costume and asked her about how she came up with this year’s idea.

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I would like to eventually (do it for a living), but I feel like I need more practice before I’ll be at that point. If I was able to do it professionally at some point in the future, I would like to.

For right now, it’s just for fun.

What’s your favorite scary movie?

What do you like about Halloween?

I like the weather a lot. I think summer is too hot and winter is too cold. I really like the fall weather; it seems like everything could be on a 17-year-old girl’s Instagram. It just looks pretty, and there are fall leaves on the ground and it’s cute. It’s just nice, it’s a serene time. Plus, it’s Halloween.

How long does it take for you to get into this costume?

Do you do SFX makeup just for fun or would you like to do it for a living?

There’s a bottom piece and a top piece to it made out of liquid latex. For the top piece, I have a cement mold that I made out of my face a few years ago. I take liquid latex and mix it with baby powder or flour to make a paste that I put on the mold of my face. The little teeth I have I made out of plastic that melts in hot water. So I melt the plastic in hot water, mold them how I want and when they cool I put them in the latex and flour mixture.

My favorite would probably be last year’s; I was Little Red Riding Hood who had been bitten by the werewolf and was halfway through the transformation. So half (of my face) looked normal and the other half was halfway through the transformation into a werewolf.

I made the prosthetic when I decided this was something I wanted to do. I had to plan what I was going to do and then make it on the mold that I have, which probably took about an hour and a half over the course of a few days. But the planning itself probably only took about 20 minutes.

I’d do it a lot more if I had more time. It’s just kind of whenever I get an idea and have time, or maybe I don’t have time, but I have other things I can put off. Then I usually go and do it. I’m hoping I’ll have more time after I graduate. It’s usually around Halloween because that’s when I have time.

Can you tell us a little bit about how you made the prosthetic?

What’s your favorite Halloween costume that you’ve done?

How long did it take to conceptualize into a costume?

How often do you practice it?

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Banana Laffy Taffy. There was one house on my block growing up that used to give out rolls and rolls of dimes. That was kind of lame.

It’s based on the Harlequin Demon from “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” he’s the demon that makes hats out of things for the children. I think I was literally just scrolling through Facebook and someone had a picture with that demon on it and I just thought that it would be cool to transform into makeup.

Around Halloween when I was a junior in high school I was in technical theater and I was also involved in the local music in Detroit. I had a friend who was doing a music show so I thought I would try something out and I went with tech theater and started practicing more and more.

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What’s the candy that you hope to get when you go trick or treating?

What is this costume you’re putting on, and where did the idea come from?

What got you into SFX makeup?

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I like scary movies, in general, a lot. It’s a TV show, but “The Haunting of Hill House” is really good. I liked both the “It” movies a lot. I really appreciated the makeup and effects they did. I don’t know if I have one solid favorite.

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The first time I put it on it took about three hours because I didn’t know what I was doing, I was just going with the flow.

I’ve probably got it down to a little less than an hour now. This is the fourth time I’ve put it on, and I’ve changed it a little bit every time.

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Autumn Gold Traditional, store-bought costumes won’t do for the winner of CM Life’s Halloween cover contest. The Lincoln Park senior talks about what makes a great costume, moshing in character and her all-time favorite make-up.

Hunter McLaren ■ Associate Editor

A lot of my friends are in local bands, and one of my friend’s bands throws a Halloween party every year. It’s like a house show where people show up to play music and dress up, and it’s gotten bigger and bigger every year. That’s exciting. The second time I put this costume on, it was to go to another Halloween show. The Wonder Years played at Saint Andrews Hall (in Detroit) and I managed to keep the makeup on the entire night even though I was in multiple mosh pits in the front row with crowd surfers falling on my head. It was a fun time. I have pictures from afterward, (the makeup) looks pretty similar to how it did (before the show) except for my hair. A bunch of members of the band came up to me after the show and told me they liked the makeup. One of the guys pointed me out during the show, so that was fun.

What do you think makes a good costume?

I think just having fun with it, honestly. If you see someone wearing a costume and they really get into it and have fun with it, it really makes it a lot better than if they were just wearing it. I like Halloween a lot; it’s fun. I love people who can get into their costumes and do a lot of fabric work and makeup work, but I also love people who have costumes that are stupid and really easy and it’s just funny.

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olunteer scarers had one job the past few days — to strike fear into Legends of the Dark participants.

Legends of the Dark is a Halloween-themed campus tour that allows students and Mount Pleasant residents to take a walk through the horrid grounds of North campus while listening to scary stories told by student volunteers.

Volunteers cover their faces in paint and makeup in the University Center Terrace Rooms before manning their scaring stations.

The haunted campus tours took place Oct. 28-30 this year.

“I called it my triple-threat program: It provides a nice alcohol-free event for the community; it’s a good networking opportunity and we raised funds for local organizations,” said Ann Krzyzaniak, the former coordinator of Legends of the Dark.

The haunted campus tour was organized by Trout Hall Council for 23 years. This year, the event was put on by the Office of Student Activities and Involvement because Krzyzaniak changed positions.

This year, funds raised from ticket sales will pay for supplies for the event. Molly Schuneman, assistant director of Fraternity and Sorority Life, said leftover funds will be donated to a local nonprofit organization.

Student volunteers dress up to scare for Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

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A tour group heads out at the start of the Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

Katelyn Welch, 11, follows the student volunteer tour guides for Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

Forrest Welch, 6, takes a handful of salt to throw over his shoulder Oct. 29 at the start of the Legends of the Dark campus tours to “keep away bad spirits.”

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Right | West Bloomfield freshman Emily Chen holds a phone up for Allegan freshman Taylor Slyker to help her do her makeup Oct. 29 in preparation for Legends of the Dark campus tour.

Bottom Left | Southgate freshman Maddie White gets her makeup done

by Canton freshman Grace Bartos Oct. 29 as they prepare for the Legends of the Dark campus tours.

Bottom Right | Indiana freshman Hannah Ewing works on Romeo senior Sean Dickens’ makeup Oct. 29 in preparation for Legends of the Dark campus tours.

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Right | West Bloomfield freshman Emily Chen holds a phone up for Allegan freshman Taylor Slyker to help her do her makeup Oct. 29 in preparation for Legends of the Dark campus tour.

Bottom Left | Southgate freshman Maddie White gets her makeup done

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Bottom Right | Indiana freshman Hannah Ewing works on Romeo senior Sean Dickens’ makeup Oct. 29 in preparation for Legends of the Dark campus tours.

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A tour guide awaits her next victims during the Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

Decorations are set up around campus as part of the Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

Student volunteers walk through the crowd as they tell a frightening tale about Sloan Hall during Legends of the Dark campus tours Oct. 29.

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Students share their hometown horror stories In this Halloween edition of CM Life, we asked students to tell us their best scary stories from home Beneath the halls and classrooms of Berkley High is a twisted tunnel system, sealed tight by the janitors. Any student who entered the tunnels was sure to face consequences.

However, in his senior year, Brendan Smith had little to fear, even the danger of expulsion.

He and his friend had to pick the locks on the door that led to the furnace room. From there, they entered the tunnels. After crawling through the dusty, narrow passages, Smith and his friend reached a door at the end of the system covered with an ominous message. Smith and his friend had to use all their might to budge the door open.

To this day, Smith doesn’t know why the school had kept the room hidden, but the principal never discovered it was Smith who opened it.

BRENDAN SMITH

Hope Warkoczeski’s hometown of Plymouth was close enough to Northville for the hair-raising tales of the abandoned psychiatric hospital located on Seven Mile to reach her.

The nearly 350-acre complex was opened in 1952 and was closed by the state in 2003.

“There were voices, there were footsteps, there were people yelling at you to get out,” Warkoczeski said.

Warkoczeski recalls her friend’s brother visiting the asylum and wandering the decrepit corridors with a group of friends.

When the group saw a flashlight waving at the end of a hallway, they followed the light believing it was a police officer.

The figure turned the corner. After a short pursuit it was discovered that the figure and its light had disappeared.

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Fraser High School band members found themselves avoiding cabin No. 4 at Michigan Christian Youth Camp at all costs. In 2017, the seniors decided that they wanted to know the truth about cabin number four. On Senior Night, the group, including CMU sophomore Eva Steepe, decided to investigate cabin number four late at night as a part of their prank.

“As we entered, we heard whispering in the far-off room,” Steepe said.

All they saw was an abandoned space with an array of broken furniture, including everything from beds to chairs. After less than a minute in the room, the group chickened and ran out of the cabin.

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Football returns home, faces Northern Illinois

By Austin Chastain Assistant Sports Editor news@cm-life.com

Central Michigan’s football players exited the field at UB Stadium last week similarly to how they did after losing to Western Michigan, heads down and some tears falling.

The 43-20 loss to Buffalo was the first defeat for Central Michigan since that Sept. 28 game against the Broncos on the road.

CMU had won three-straight games — at home against Eastern Michigan (Oct. 5) and New Mexico State (Oct. 12) and a road win over Bowling Green (Oct. 19) — before losing to the Bulls. First-year coach Jim McElwain said that the loss to Buffalo was disappointing. Especially when his team turned the ball over five times and allowed 24 points off of those turnovers.

“You aren’t going to go anywhere and turn the ball over like we did,” McElwain said. “We gave them short fields and they made us have long fields.”

With their record of 5-4, 3-2, the Chippewas are still in the thick of the Mid-American Conference West Division race as they sit in third behind Ball State (4-4, 3-1) and Western Michigan (5-4, 3-2). Both the Cardinals and the Broncos are idle this week as CMU rounds out a grueling 10-game stretch to open the season. Each team in the Football Bowl Subdivision has 14 weeks

to play 12 games, and since the Chippewas will have played 10 games in the first 10 weeks, they have two bye weeks in the remaining four.

The last of those 10 games comes Saturday at home against Northern Illinois.

Meaning, after a tough stretch at the end of the NIU game, Central Michigan will have a week of rest before playing each of its two final games of the season.

“This will end a 10-week stretch and our guys have been playing their tails off,” McElwain said.

In terms of responding to losses, the Chippewas have found intermediate success. Following the Wisconsin loss on Sept. 7, CMU rebounded and defeated Akron on Sept. 14 at home, 45-24.

The next week, the Chippewas fell to Miami (Florida), 17-12 on Sept. 21, then followed with the 31-15 loss at Western Michigan.

After the loss to the Broncos, that’s when CMU beat Eastern Michigan, 42-16, then NMSU, 42-28 and then finally Bowling Green, 38-20. Now, as the season begins to wind down, the Chippewas still have a chance to secure bowl eligibility and have a shot at the MAC Championship Game. McElwain said that finding a steady path will help lead the team to success.

“I think that’s the biggest piece for us as a young program – just understanding the weekto-week and not getting on that rollercoaster,” McElwain said.

Northern Illinois brings a 3-5 overall record

and a 2-2 mark in conference play while having a similar road record as Central Michigan at 1-4 in games away from Huskie Stadium.

Quarterback Marcus Childers completed 26 of 40 passes (65 percent) for 252 yards and four touchdowns, including three last week in the 49-0 win over Akron. Childers threw just nine passes against the Zips.

“They run the stretch play really well,” said defensive tackle Robi Stewart. “They run it well but if we can shut it down, we have a decent shot at everything else.”

Offensively, Central Michigan looks to rebound following its five-turnover performance against Buffalo. Three of those turnovers came from quarterback Quinten Dormady. The senior graduate transfer was intercepted twice and was stripped on a sack toward the end of the first quarter against the Bulls. With the potential for a postseason berth just one win away, the Chippewas need to take care of the football to earn the win they need. They will have three games to complete the task at hand.

“They’ve got some talented guys on defense,” said wide receiver Kalil Pimpleton. “We try not to let that phase us and keep our heads in the playbook and we just go out and execute the game plan.”

CMU and Northern Illinois kick off at noon Saturday in Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The game will be broadcast on the CBS Sports Network.

Evan Petzold | Sports Editor Quarterback Quinten Dormady passes the football against Buffalo on Oct. 26 in Buffalo, New York.

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Dansville redshirt junior Dresden Simon (far) prepares to takedown Tecumseh redshirt sophomore Drew Marten during a scrimmage Oct. 28 in McGuirk arena.

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Isaac Ritchey | Photo Editor Taylor senior Logan Park looks at his opponent during a scrimmage Oct. 28 at McGuirk Arena.

One of Central Michigan’s strongest sports programs is back: wrestling. The Chippewas competed for fans at an intrasquad scrimmage Oct. 28.

The team travels to the Michigan State Open at Jenison Field House for its first competition of the season on Nov. 2.

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Courtesy | CMU Athletics Central Michigan soccer coach Jeremy Groves is in his first season with the Chippewas.

Soccer coach Jeremy Groves addressed his controversial postgame comments during his media availability Tuesday afternoon.

The comments came after a 1-0 loss to Akron on Sunday afternoon. Below is his opening statement following the loss: “Not good. Didn’t show up, didn’t perform, didn’t try. A lot of thoughts that aren’t very good right now. I mean, we’ve talked about it, and this is like the third or fourth week where we’ve tried a different approach. I don’t understand why we’re not getting a performance from people, you know? The first half was probably the worst spectacle I’ve seen on a soccer field in however long I’ve been doing this, as a player and a coach. It’s just so disappointing, how we have young women who don’t want to show up and don’t want to try and and win when we were in such a great position before the game.”

The loss on Sunday dropped the Chippewas to 7-4-4. Since starting the season at 5-0-2, they are just 2-4-2 in their last eight games. In that span, they have struggled mightily on offense, scoring three goals in just one game while being shutout three times, including each of their past two contests.

When asked specifically about his team’s struggling offense he said: “You guys have seen it. On Thursday night we had three great opportunities.

(Sunday) we had a bunch of great opportunities. We have no desire; the girls have no desire to score goals. I’m not gonna stand here and defend them. We go over stuff in training, you know, for the past month all we’ve done is finish, finish, finish, finish, but you know we had some people in there who were a little tougher than us and wanted the ball. They wanted it more than us and that’s kinda what it boils down to. They wanted to win more than us. You can tell. We didn’t want to win.”

His comments incited backlash from fans and supporters, as many were appalled that he would speak like that about his team.

Some even called for his firing.

On Tuesday afternoon, Groves admitted his comments came out of frustration.

“The things I said on Sunday after the game were out of frustration, kind of an accumulation that has been building over the past couple of weeks,” Groves said.

“The frustrations, for me, are the fact that the team has so much potential, which we’ve shown over the early part of the season. Not reaching that over the past few games is why I was frustrated. I was dis-

appointed on my part on how I said those things.”

The Chippewas’ 5-0-2 start was highlighted by a road win in Lexington, Kentucky against Groves’ alma mater Kentucky in which freshman forward Lauren DeBeau netted the game-winning corner kick. Since then, DeBeau has struggled and found the net just twice while being tied for the team lead in shots with 46.

Defensively the Chippewas have been very good, allowing just 12 goals throughout the season. Senior goalkeeper Zoie Reed has six shutouts on the year. Being a relatively young team, one with just three active seniors, the fast start to the year paired with the solid defensive effort shows just how much potential Groves has on his team.

The struggles offensively have overshadowed the success defensively.

He also held a team meeting Monday in which he apologized to his team.

“I had a team meeting with the girls and apologized, and I explained my frustrations of why, maybe, I said those things, and then I opened up for them to ask me questions,” Groves said.

Groves felt like his players understood where he was coming from once he had a chance to explain himself. Again, he wants to be successful – just like he was at Murray State.

“I think it was a really good and positive meeting,” Groves added.

Groves is in his first season with Central Michigan. Before spending last season as a volunteer assistant at Kentucky, he spent the previous four seasons at Murray State.

While with the Racers, he compiled a record of 50-21-6, highlighted by a span from 2015-17 in which his teams were undefeated in the Ohio Valley Conference.

“I’ve said since day one that I wanna come here and be successful,” Groves said.

“Once I explained my side of it and why I said those things and go back to talking about the potential of this team and how we’ve reached heights this season I think they kind of understood.”

He added that the team still has a goal to win the Mid-American Conference.

Currently, the Chippewas sit in seventh place in the Mid-American Conference standings. The top eight teams qualify for the postseason tournament, with the top four earning home-field advantage for the first round.

If the Chippewas win their season finale, they could jump up as high as fourth place, but a loss could kick them out of the tournament.

Groves and his team will take the field at home for their final regular-season game at 3 p.m. Thursday against Eastern Michigan.

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IF THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PEP TALK, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Two head coaches were rightly criticized for ripping into their teams after losses

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wo head coaches received attention this week after they made negative statements, in press conferences, after their teams lost.

Soccer head coach Jeremy Groves gained some unwanted attention after he showed his frustration following the Chippewas fourth loss of the season. Despite a 7-4-4 record, Groves complained that his players don’t “show up and try and win.”

“That first half was probably the worst spectacle I’ve ever seen on a soccer field in however long I’ve been doing this,” Groves said to reporters. “It’s just so disappointing how we have young women who just don’t want to show up and don’t want to try and win. We were in such a great position before the game.”

The next day, football head coach Jim McElwain apologized to Buffalo’s head coach for the Chippewas 43-20 loss on the road.

“I’m disappointed we couldn’t give (Buffalo head coach) Lance (Leipold) and his guys a better game,” he said. “Like I said before, I apologize to Buffalo for not giving them a game that was competitive. They took it to us.”

The soccer team has had some struggles. They have only won two games in the month of October.

McElwain’s comments seemed to be offered more as humor. The football team has already gotten four more wins than it earned last year and is presumably on its way to a bowl game. Still, McElwain said he wanted his team to “hurt” after the team’s 23-point loss Saturday.

Groves later apologized for his comments. Some fans even called for

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his firing. He addressed his comments in a team meeting on Oct. 28.

“The things I said on Sunday after the game were out of frustration,” Groves said, “kind of an accumulation that has been building over the past couple of weeks.”

Wins are important. We get that. Athletic Director Michael Alford has shown us how much he values winning by replacing nearly every head coach at this university during his short tenure here. In sports, it always comes down to your record; wins and losses matter to players, coaches, students and alumni.

But, let’s keep “winning” in perspective.

Both coaches come from winning backgrounds. However, the pressure to win and be competitive shouldn’t supersede properly, publicly representing Central Michigan University. Our student athletes are here to get an education, not to earn coaches contract bonuses with MAC titles, bowl games and other incentives.

There’s something to be said for giving athletes tough love. However, letting “frustrations” take over and being disrespectful to student athletes is uncalled for and unprofessional. Last we checked, about $22 million in tuition goes to Athletics to subsidize the department while the department raises less that $7 million to support itself.

Our student athletes deserve respect from their coaches. After all, students are the ones paying your salaries.

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(1960s novel) 15. Reebok rival 16. Taking advantage of 17. Himalayan peak 19. ____ of drawers 20. Basic religious belief 21. Nose separators 23. Air quality org.

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57. Antipersonnel explosives 61. Bit of old gold 65. Meaty tomato 67. Thunderstruck 68. Capital of Togo 69. “Climb ____ Mountain” (“The Sound of Music” song) 70. “Unsafe at Any Speed” author 71. Spot 72. Lacey on “Cagney & Lacey”

Down

1. O’er there 2. Hebrides hillside 3. Prefix with bus or potent 4. Parted waters of the Bible 5. Wander aimlessly (about) 6. Holiday cusps 7. Split 8. Republic of China’s capital 9. Where Cozumel is 10. Volcano output 11. Untruth 12. Printers’ measures 13. Rank above cpl.

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