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belly biologist| Assistant professor conducting study on deer stomachs, 3A
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
Central Michigan Life
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Buses available for MAC title game CMU plays Dec. 4 at Ford Field vs. East division winner By Hilary Farrell Senior Reporter
Central Michigan University is offering buses for students looking to attend the MAC Championship football game. The football team clinched its third MAC West title in four years after Northern Illinois
lost 38-31 to Ohio to drop to 5-2 in the MAC. CMU is 7-0 with one week remaining in the regular season. CMU will play against Ohio or Temple at 8 p.m. Dec. 4 at Ford Field in Detroit. Ohio and Temple play each other in Athens, Ohio, Friday in what will decide the MAC East championship Friday. Students also are offered pregame tailgate and lodging options. The bus provides students and alumni an opportunity to
MAC Championship w 8 p.m. Dec. 4, Ford Field, Detroit w Tickets: $10 students, $20 general w Bus: $62 per seat, departs 3:15 p.m. Dec. 4, leaves Ford Field 30 minutes after game’s end. support CMU, said Derek van der Merwe, senior associate athletics director. “We continue to be a uni-
versity that is a point of pride for the entire state,” van der Merwe said. Tickets for the game went on sale Sunday and will continue up until the game. Student tickets cost $10, and the general price is $20. Each student is limited to two tickets. Transportation Mount Pleasant travel agency Maryanke Tour and Travel Inc. is offering a bus that will A MAC game | 7A
Showing love His House delivers care packages to homeless in Detroit
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The students split into groups of about five, each one exploring a different area of the city.
‘A beautiful thing’ Harreyes appreciated the care package, but decided to give it to his friend, Bob Stephens, a 61-year-old who has been homeless for 17 years. “Its a beautiful thing to give to people,” Harreyes said. “If I have something I know someone needs, I’ll give it to them.” Harreyes and Stephens regularly hang out near Peterboro and Third streets. The duo sits on a brick ledge surrounded by grass littered
By Joe Martinez Staff Reporter
photos by jeff smith/staff photographer
Homeless man Travon Ingram, 53, guides a group of volunteers from His House Christian Church to American Coney Island Saturday in Detroit, pointing out landmarks along the way. When they arrived, the volunteers bought Ingram a meal. Volunteers from His House Church spread out across the city, handing out 100 blue bags filled with necessities and food, and hundreds of articles of clothing to the poor and homeless.
with dirty clothes, old newspapers, bits of food and other piles of garbage. Each shared stories of their lives and how they got where they are. Vestaburg resident Alisa McNerney also joined the group. She met a homeless man who claims to have invented helicopters and clothing. “When we gave them things, we prayed with them and they knew we actually cared for them,” McNerney said. She even received a kiss on the hand from the man. Milford senior Jessy Stark met a woman named Linda, who shared stories with her about drug addictions she
cm-life.com See a photo slideshow and a video from this His House trip. struggled with in the past. Linda has been homeless for a few years and said she is moving to Ann Arbor in a few weeks to stay with her aunt. Stark said she will move to Ypsilanti in May and, since the two are so close, they exchanged numbers. “I’m hoping that when I get down there, we can continue the relationship we started today,” Stark said. A giving | 2A
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Editor’s note: Staff Reporter Seth Nietering sat down with U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sunday night before his speech in Moore Hall’s Bush Theater to talk about the national health care bill the Senate voted to proceed in debate on Saturday.
news w Student in Detroit’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, 3A
Seth Nietering: Do you believe the Senate will be able to pass its version of health care legislation?
sports w Athletics say 15,000 expected for Friday’s football game vs. NIU, 1B w Partly cloudy High 52/ Low 37
His House volunteer Karina Carter, a Wyoming sophomore, talks with homeless man Michael Noble, 41, as he ties and smiles at the boots she gave him Saturday in a vacant lot on Third Street in Detroit.
Central Michigan University Public Broadcasting hopes to have WFUM-TV of Flint up and running by the end of the month, said general manager Ed Grant. The acquisition of WFUM, which will extend from Bay City to metro Detroit, will nearly quadruple CMU Public Broadcasting’s audience, he said. Grant said a commercial station with the reach of WFUM is usually valued at around $7 million to $10 million, and the University of Michigan’s desire to keep the station noncommercial is why CMU is getting the station at a discount. Grant said the station will be a recruiting tool as much of as anything. “It gives Central Michigan University access and coverage in southeast Michigan that they’ve not had at this point,” Grant said. Linda Dielman, programming and outreach manager for CMU Public Broadcasting, said broadcasting will still include local issues for the Flint market. “There are cultural issues that have to be addressed,” Dielman said. “But doing live programming from Flint is our intent.” CMU Public Broadcasting is the largest university-liA broadcasting | 2a
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin talks health care
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University wants Flint TV station up by month’s end Ed Grant: Will give CMU bigger recruiting base
By Joe Borlik | Senior Reporter
ETROIT — Marcus Harreyes’ face lit up with joy as he opened a blue bag. He did not find the blue bag on accident — it was given to him by a group of Central Michigan University students. Harreyes, a 36-year-old homeless man, has lived on Detroit’s streets for 15 years. A group of 34 students from His House Christian Fellowship took seven cars Saturday to Detroit and handed out 100 care packages and six garbage bags of winter clothing. “It was really amazing to learn so much about (the homeless),” said Caledonia sophomore Amber Hargett. “It really humbled my heart.” Each care package contained a peanut butter sandwich, a toothbrush and toothpaste, bottled water, socks, gloves, mittens and a copy of the New Testament. The garbage bags were full of sweaters, winter jackets, sweatshirts and boots.
SPORTS w CMU’s clinching of MAC West title diminishes meaning of Friday home finale vs. NIU, 1B
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U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., came to Central Michigan University’s campus Sunday night as the first speaker of the Series for Integrity in Politics in Moore Hall’s Bush Theatre.
Carl Levin: I think it will be changed in many ways, and that was the intent when the debate began. It’s subject to
amendment. Nobody expects that it will be passed in the exact same form it was introduced. The whole argument (Saturday) night was, ‘Let us begin.’ This is a major subject. It’s something that is very much on people’s mind — the cost of health care, the premium increases, the uncertainty, the fact that people will lose their health care when they change jobs, denied health care for pre-existing conditions. There is a lot of concerns of people who have health insurance as well as people who do
cm-life.com Check the Web site for the full Q and A and an event recap.
not have health insurance. It’s a serious subject that can be amended and I’m sure it will be.
SN: Senate Leaders informed the Associated Press that they plan to have the legislation passed by the end of the year. Do you think the Senate will be able to meet this timetable? A carl levin | 2A
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