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Search begins in November Process may remain a secret to protect current positions By Joe Martinez Staff Reporter
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East Lansing freshman Kyle Hissong draws up a play for quarterback and Chicago freshman Becky Nielsen during halftime of Thursday night’s Powder Puff game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Fabiano/Emmons/Woldt lost 22-0.
East Campus tackles cancer Residence Hall women face off in Powder Puff football to raise funds By Randi Shaffer | Staff Reporter
Dressed in maroon and bright pink, these women were ready to rumble. The bright pink-clad ladies of Fabiano, Emmons and Woldt Halls faced off against the maroon-wearing women of Saxe, Herrig and Celani halls in a Powder Puff match Thursday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium to raise money for breast cancer research. “I’m super amped up,” said Davisburg sophomore Jessica Frick. “I love football and I love SHC.”
Lake Orion junior Lauren Drury catches a pass and runs past the Fabiano/Emmons/Woldt defense Thursday night for the powder puff game at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Saxe/Herrig/Celani won 22-0.
Frick was on the winning team of SHC, who beat FEW 22-0. Cheering for SHC were LaPeer freshman Dante Harris and Dansville freshman Travis Konen. Harris said he came to the game because he loves football and wanted to watch his resident assistant play. Konen had a similar reason for showing up. “The girls on my floor are playing and it’s something to do,” he said. Harris and Konen agreed the game had a good cause. “My aunt has breast cancer, so I should come,” Harris said. “It’s a very important issue with women and men.” Let’s play Springlake freshman Emily Rosencrants said her RA motivated her to take up the quarterback position for the SHC team. “The RA lives across the hall, and she’s like, ‘Hey — like to play football?’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah,’” she said. Rosencrants said having people in her family dealing with this issue really hit home with her, and it was great to be able to show her support by playing at Kelly/Shorts.
cm-life.com Check the Web site for video footage on the Powder Puff game. “It’s a great cause, especially with having all women playing,” she said. John Johnstin, Herrig Hall’s Residence Hall Director and defensive coordinator for SHC, arranged the second annual event. The original idea for a Powder Puff football game came from one of Johnstin’s residents last year, and has since become a tradition. He said he was hoping to eventually open up a similar event to other areas of campus. “We would really like to get something worked out, maybe with South Campus,” he said. “Maybe work out campuswide events open to all residence halls.” Johnstin said he hoped the event would raise as much money as possible, especially since the crowd had to deal with the biting cold. “We’re going to raise as much as we can, hopefully at least $100,” Frick said. studentlife@cm-life.com
A total of 68 candidates submitted applications to succeed Michael Rao as university president. The number increased from 43 after the first soft deadline of Oct. 1. The final deadline was Monday. The presidential search screening committee met Monday to begin a review of all submitted applications. The committee will select a small number of candidates to interview and present two to six semifinalists to the Board of Trustees, said presidential search screening committee chairwoman and
Trustee Stephanie Comai. The Board will then interview and select the next university president from that group of candidates. Comai said interviews will start in November and she hopes to have a new university president announced by Jan. 1, 2010. “When the (Board of Trustees) gets down to a candidate or a group of candidates that they are comfortable with and who are willing to have their names made public, we’d like to have some sort of forum,” she said. “But we don’t expect to have any candidates willing to be made public so they don’t put their current positions in jeopardy.”
A confidential search Comai said students will likely not find out who any of the presidential candidates are. A search | 6A
Rep. seeks to end Bridge Card abuse Legislation would limit who can obtain benefits By Joe Martinez Staff Reporter
Clinton Township sophomore Tamara Young is afraid of losing of her Bridge Card privileges. “If my Bridge Card was taken away, to be quite frank, I would be devastated,” Young said. This problem could become a reality for Young and many other college students. State Rep. Joe Haveman, R-Holland, is looking to severely limit who can obtain a Michigan Bridge Card, or Michigan Electronic Benefit Transfer, to prevent fraud. Haveman, along with state Reps. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, and Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, will introduce legislation to prevent abuse in the state’s
welfare system which, they contend, includes Bridge Card abuse. “Using this resource to buy beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets and even illegal drugs is an obscene abuse of the system,” Jones said in a statement. “Michigan is in a crisis and every tax dollar is very precious. As a state, we cannot afford to allow waste or welfare abuse.” Gisgie Gendreau, director of marketing and public relations for the Department of Human Services, said the alleged fraud found in the 2008 fiscal year was $5.87 million. “We take fraud very seriously and aggressively pursue allegations of fraud and misuse of benefits,” Gendreau said. “In 2008, for example, our Office of Inspector General investigated 3,310 fraud cases in the food assistance program.” A BRIDGE card ABUSE | 2A
[inside] NEWS w City Commission candidates debate issues, 2A w ROTC running game ball to Western today, 6A
sports w Soccer goes for 10th consecutive shutout this weekend, 4B
CM-LIFE.com w Check the site for a video on the Powder Puff football game.
weather w Morning snow High 47/ Low 28
central vs. western
CMU Athletics sells all 850 allotted rivalry game tickets By Aaron McMann Staff Reporter
Central Michigan University sold its allotment of tickets for Saturday’s football game against Western Michigan University. Sports Information Director Jason Kaufman said all 850 tickets given to the CMU Athletic Ticket Office were sold. In 2007, CMU sold all 500 tickets it was given for the game in Kalamazoo. Students and community members who do not have tick-
ets and plan on making the trip to Kalamazoo for the game can still purchase them through WMU. Tickets are $18, $21 and $27 and can be purchased at wmubroncos.com or by calling 1-888-4-WMU-TIX. WMU Director of Ticket Operations Don Beyer said a sellout at the 30,200-capacity Waldo Stadium is not anticipated at this time. About 15,000 tickets have been sold to the general public as of Wednesday afternoon, he said. “We’re expecting around 25,000 this Saturday,” he said.
Need tickets? w Tickets are $18, $21 and $27 and can be purchased at wmubroncos.com or by calling 1-888-4-WMU-TIX. Parking is $10 per vehicle and available in lots off of Oliver Street (south of Waldo Stadium), Stadium Drive, Oakland Drive (northeast of the stadium) and West Michigan Avenue (southwest of the stadium). Handicapped parking is available in Lot 4 off of Oakland Drive and Lot 6 off of
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Stadium Drive. A free shuttle runs three hours before game time to kickoff between Kalamazoo’s Lawson Ice Arena, 1903 W. Michigan Ave., and the stadium, and returns after. ‘Different scenario’ The last time CMU played in Kalamazoo, Nov. 6, 2007, a sparse crowd of 16,952 braved a cold Tuesday night to watch the Chippewas escape with a 34-31 win over the Broncos. Beyer said he is predicting a larger demand this year for
tickets because the game was scheduled for a Saturday. “The last time we played Central was on a Tuesday night, so it was a different scenario,” Beyer said. “I anticipated that it was going to be busy, and it is.” Last year, the rivalry game sparked a Kelly/Shorts Stadium record sellout crowd of 30,302 fans. Kickoff is at 3:30 p.m. and the game can be seen live on Fox Sports Detroit Plus and ESPN GamePlan. sports@cm-life.com
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