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SGA proposes fund to offset print costs for some students By Brad Canze News Copy Chief
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President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C.
A Call for
Innovation Obama urges Congress to support higher ed, economy
By Maria Amante Senior Reporter
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday called for reinvention and innovation in order to fix the country’s dire economic state. Obama, in his second State of the Union address, asked Congress to invest in higher education and focus on American ideals in order to become a thriving nation once more. “Investments in innovation, education and infrastructure will make America a better place to do business and create jobs,” Obama said. “But to help our companies compete, we also have to knock down barriers that stand in the way of their success.” Obama urged Congress to make the American Opportunity Tax Credit permanent for every student. The AOTC allows $2,500 annually for up to four years of college. “It’s the right thing to do — higher education must be within reach of every American,” Obama said. “That’s why we’ve ended unwarranted taxpayer subsidies that went to banks and used the savings to make college affordable for millions of students.” U.S. Rep Dave Camp, RMich., said in a statement the president hit positive notes in
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the address, but he was disappointed Obama did not make more compromises on taxes, trade and health care with Republicans. “More concrete plans for getting America back to work were needed in these tough economic times,” Camp said. Maxine Berman, Griffin Endowed chair and aide to former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, said Obama’s speech was different than previous State of the Union addresses. “It was calmer,” Berman said. “It wasn’t meant to be a rousing, stand-up-and-cheer, speech. They thought about it very carefully, and emphasized the economy pretty much throughout.” Obama proposed a freeze of annual domestic spending for the next five years, which he said would reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade. One of the ways the president said he would achieve that reduction was by vetoing any bill that contained earmarks. He said competition for finding a job is difficult both domestically and internationally, but it should not discourage Americans and instead challenge them. “For all the hits we’ve taken these past few years ... America still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world,”
The Student Government Association is planning to start a “PrintQ fund” for students who go over their allotted on-campus printing quota. The fund is still in the planning stages, and would be created in a partnership with the Office of Information Technology, SGA President Brittany Mouzourakis said after the group’s first meeting in the Dow Science Complex Monday night. “We don’t know how much money, what the mechanisms or the guidelines would be,” Mouzourakis, a Garden City senior, said. Currently, undergraduate students are allowed $10 worth of printing each semester, and graduate students are allotted $15. The proposed fund would allot more money to students if they can prove to have an actual need for it. “A lot of the students that were going over the limit were graduate students and RSO presidents,” Mouzourakis said.
By Annie Harrison Staff Reporter
Editor’s note: Every Wednesday, CM Life will publish an indepth piece, examining different issues.
Obama said. “We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business. We need to take responsibility for our deficit and reform our government.” Congress sat together with disregard to parties and Berman said the display of unity was “wonderful,” but it remains to be seen if Congress will be able to work together in the divided houses. “The question is, ‘Can they work together?’” Berman said. “Does it translate into a more civil work relationship across the aisle? I don’t know the answer to that question.” Coleman sophomore John Porter, vice chairman of the
College Republicans, said Obama’s speech made it clear the president has started to recognize there is a lot of wasteful programs in effect and the results of the mid-term election “woke him up.” Porter said, “I thought that he said a lot of very positive things (in terms of) moving forward in the business community ... to keep the wheels turning on what hopefully is a more robust recovery than what we’ve seen so far.” -University Editor Carisa Seltz contributed to this report metro@cm-life.com
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“They would have to show there is a need; something substantive.” Muskegon senior Dave Breed, SGA vice president, said the SGA and OIT are currently determining the best way for students to apply. “Brittany and I are working with (OIT vice president) Roger Rehm to figure out how to best dole out this money,” Breed said. During the SGA meeting, Mouzourakis said 12 percent of students exceeded the print quota during the fall 2010 semester. Mouzourakis expects the money for the fund to come from the OIT’s budget. “It would come somewhere from OIT,” Mouzourakis said. “It would come somewhere from Roger Rehm’s budget, I think.” Rehm was unavailable for comment at time of publication. Sterling Heights senior Charles Coyle has been opposed to the PrintQ system since it was started in 2010.
Merodie Hancock, vice president and executive director of ProfEd, said online registration growth is around 20 percent at CMU, and about 10 percent nationally. Hancock said CMU started online courses in 1997 originally limited to off-campus students. She said there were 22 classes available and 85 course registrations during the first semester. That has all changed. “We really look at online as a tool to reach all students,” she said. CMU now averages more than 6,000 online course registrations per semester, Hancock said. She said there were a total of 7,168 online course registrations during the fall 2010 semester. Hancock said projected online enrollments for the spring 2011 semester are close to 8,000 and registration for spring II is still open. She said this number
is not an unduplicated head count, meaning that students are counted for every online course they are enrolled in. An unduplicated number was not readily available. The number of online courses offerings has also increased greatly since the beginning of the program, Hancock said. She said CMU offers about 330 to 340 online courses each semester. “We now represent over 40 course disciplines,” she said. “Every academic college is involved.” Some of the most popular disciplines online are political science, math, psychology, sociology and masters of science in administration, Hancock said. She said new biology and English classes have recently been offered and are growing in popularity as well. J.J. Boehm, director of media relations at Saginaw Valley State University, said SVSU has 924 students enrolled in online courses for the 2011 winter semester in an e-mailed statement. This number is not from an unduplicated list. Western Michigan University has 2,621 students enrolled in online courses for the spring 2011 semester, Teri Cleveland, office associate of online edu-
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‘Everyman’ morality play opens Thursday night Modernization of 15th-century tale By Mike Nichols Senior Reporter
Someday, everyone will have to face the decisions they’ve made and the ramifications thereof. The newest play at Theatre on the Side, opening tomorrow night, explores that heavy line of thought. “Everyman,” a morality play written by an anonymous monk in the 15th century, was adapted and directed by Neil Vanderpool, associate professor of communication and dramatic arts. He said the Catholic
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What: "Everyman," a play When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday Where: Moore Hall’s Theatre on the Side How much: $5 for students, $7 general admission
Church was trying to teach society about how to live life in a way that would please God. He said “Everyman” has a strong message for all times. “I like taking classic literature and being able to bring it to a contemporary audience,” Vanderpool said. “It’s very sym-
bolic and expressionistic, making it very avant-garde in nature.” “Everyman” has an allegorical storyline wherein the titular character, an everyman, is called by Death to come before God to account for his actions. The play follows him as he seeks assistance from other symbolic characters, such as Fellowship and Goods, but in the end, he must rely on Good Deeds to gain his redemption. “When you die, what do you take with you?” Vanderpool said. “That’s what this play is about.” Utica junior Aaron Picket plays Everyman. It is his third A everyman | 4A
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Utica sophomore Aaron Pickett performs the role of Everyman during a dress rehearsal for “Everyman” Tuesday night in Moore Hall’s Theatre on the Side. Directed by Neil Vanderpool, “Everyman” is a 15th-century allegorical morality play which explores Christian salvation.
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