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Central Michigan Life
Monday, Nov. 29, 2010
Mount Pleasant, Mich.
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Retail stores will crop up at Mission, Preston corner
Applications to CMU, nationwide could break records
Tenants still sought before planned spring opening
Trends show in-school increase of 49.2 percent since 2001
By Randi Shaffer Senior Reporter
By Carisa Seltz Senior Reporter
Colin Rheingans applied to three universities, but ultimately decided to come to CMU. The Fenton resident chose CMU over the University of Evansville and Saginaw Valley State University because it was close to his hometown and he liked the sports management program. “I figured it would be a fun place to be,” he said. “I liked the campus.” Betty Wagner, director of admissions, said only the University of Michigan and Michigan State University process more applications than CMU. At this point in the recruitment cycle, CMU has received 13,441 freshmen and 797 transfer applications. Comparable data from last year’s recruitment cycle was not available before print, but Wagner said the number of applications received is higher than ever before. “Last year was the record number in terms of application flow,” she said, “but we’re on track for record numbers again.” Of the 18,057 applications received during last year’s record-breaking recruitment cycle, CMU accepted 13,095 applicants and enrolled 4,173 freshmen for the 2010-11 academic year. Wagner said the number of applications at CMU has grown “dramatically” by about 1,000 a year since the onset of the decade. Of the 12,100 applications received during the 2001 recruitment cycle, CMU accepted 9,422 students and enrolled 3,607 freshmen. That is a 49.2 percent increase A applications | 6a
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Scottville sophomore Julie Claveau is in the running for Miss Michigan, a pageant to be held in June in Muskegon. She strongly supports her platform to raise awareness for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. As a music lover and member of the CMU Marching Band, Claveau played “slap bass” on the guitar for the talent portion of the pageant. “It’s about women being independent and hard working,” she said. “We can make a change in the world.”
BEAUTY and the Beats CMU sophomore readies to compete in Miss Michigan competition
By Joe Borlik Staff Reporter
in fundraising events and parades to prepare.
A college student’s life is busy enough without worrying about representing an entire state, but Julie Claveau is eager to go for it. The Scottville sophomore is training to compete in the 2011 Miss Michigan Scholarship Pageant June 18 in Muskegon. “It’s really exciting,” Claveau said. “If I were to win Miss Michigan, it would be a really great opportunity.” Claveau qualified for the competition after winning the Miss Ludington Area Pageant in November. She will compete against 20 other women from all across the state. The winner will receive a $10,000 reward and $50,000 worth of scholarships, she said. Claveau said she trains for about 10 to 12 hours a week and participates
In it to win it Claveau said the Miss Michigan competition is divided into multiple parts: A 10-minute interview in front of the judges, an onstage question and answer session about her platform, the swimsuit and evening gown competitions and a 90-second talent performance. She said she will play bass guitar for the talent portion of her performance. Claveau said she has been in four pageants total. Her father, Dan Claveau, was the one who first encouraged her to compete. Dan Claveau said he had to miss seeing Julie win the Miss Ludington Area Pageant because he was sick with pneumonia and in the hospital. Julie visited him in the hospital after she won, he said.
Claveau is proud to be recognized in the four different categories the Miss Ludington Area Scholarship pageant values: Style, success, service and scholarship. She said she has had much support along the way from her friends as well as her relatives.
Dan Claveau said he will definitely be there this time. “The only thing that will take me down is if I can’t walk,” Dan Claveau said. “I think she will do an extraordinary job.” Julie’s roommate Stephanie Jaczkowski, a Clinton Township senior, said she screamed on the phone with Julie in excitement
after hearing she won the Miss Ludington Area Pageant. “Julie is a really great girl and works really hard,” Jaczkowski said. “I’m excited for her.” Platform a passion Each contestant runs on the platform of an isA beauty | 2A
The intersection of Preston and Mission streets will look different in the near future. The vacant space, and former Pizza King building location, 714 E. Preston St. will be redeveloped into a single story retail building by the end of spring. The property, owned by Bobenal Investments, Inc. of East Lansing, has remained undeveloped since a fire damaged the existing building in 2007. Jerome Fine, general counsel of Bobenal Investments, Inc., said a representative recently appeared in front of the city and submitted a new site plan and a new concept for the vacated corner. Bobenal Investments, Inc. was given site plan approval for the design. “It’s going to be retail,” he said. “We are now moving forward to locate tenants ... to look into construction costs and using those two things to try to gain financing.” The planned building will stand close to Preston and Mission, with the long side facing Preston and parking located south of the finished structure. Jeff Gray, Mount Pleasant director of planning and community development, said the site plan was approved by the city because such a high quality plan was produced. “It’s a little different than a typical strip mall,” he said. The finished building will have multiple entries for the tenants and is expected to be close to 14,500 square feet. Gray said the finished building will not only cater to the city of Mount Pleasant, but also will be advantageous to CMU students because of its proximity to the university. “The city is ... helping us to get a really high quality development on a key intersection in the city,” Gray said. Fine said he is hoping construction is completed by late spring of 2011. Names of potential retailers have not been released. “We’re hoping that the economy will allow us to do this,” Fine said. metro@cm-life.com
Student’s lawsuit helps increase scope of digital rights Amazon.com ordered to change company policy By Theresa Clift Staff Reporter
By the time Macomb freshman Justin Gawronski turned 18, he had won a lawsuit, donated $150,000 to charity and changed an international foundation. Gawronski filed a lawsuit against Amazon.com in July 2009 for digital rights to a copy of “1984” by George Orwell. He purchased the book on Amazon.com the summer after his junior year of high school to read on his hand-held Kindle for his advanced placement English class. After owning the book for less than a month, Gawronski noticed
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that Amazon.com deleted his copy because of a copyright issue. “I felt betrayed as a loyal customer to Amazon for a number of years and ... an early adopter of their flagship product, the Amazon Kindle,” he said. Gawronski told his story in a comment he posted on a New York Times article online. He said he never expected anyone of importance would ever read his comment or care. But a New York Times reporter read his comment and wrote an article about Gawronski’s experience. Lawyers from KamberEdelson, LLC, now Edelson McGuire, saw the article and reached out to him. “What Amazon did was wrong and, more importantly, allegedly illegal,” said Michael Aschenbren-
er, Gawronski’s attorney. “From a broader perspective, I thought it was an important situation to help everyone in the public with the idea of digital rights, digital content and ownership.” Gawronski said he was skeptical about filing a lawsuit at first, but decided to go through with it after realizing his lawyers weren’t looking for monetary gains either. “I thought it would benefit others,” Gawronski said. “The first thing we talked about was donating any money if we won.” Gawronski said he hoped the outcome of Gawronski v. Amazon.com Inc. would “help propel the modern digital rights movement into a more ethical and trustworthy infrastructure.”
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