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Mitt Romney takes Michigan, Arizona primaries

By John Irwin Staff Reporter

Mitt Romney won the Michigan Republican primary Tuesday night, avoiding a potentially embarrassing loss in his home state to Rick Santorum.

As of press time, Romney won with 41 percent of the vote. Santorum finished behind him with 38 percent. With 96 percent of

40.5 percent to Romney’s 37.7 percent.

Romney also won the Arizona Republican primary and all of its 29 del- Mitt Romney egates.

The former Massachusetts governor won a close contest

the vote counted, Romney had 390,879 votes to Santorum’s 360,769. Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich finished well behind, with 12 percent and 7 percent respectively. Romney won nine delegates and Santorum won seven as of press time.

The 28 precincts from Isabella County reported Santorum as the winner for the county with

between himself and Santorum.

Romney has struggled to connect with Tea Party supporters and evangelicals across the state and has been negatively impacted by his opposition to the 2009 bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.

“It was very important for Mitt Romney to win the Michigan primary,” said Political Science Professor and Chairperson Orlando

J. Perez in an email. “Romney has the money and organization to go forward and Santorum lacks money and organization to compete in all of the states left to vote.

Winning Michigan and Arizona provides Romney some momentum going into next week’s Super Tuesday where 10 states will hold their primaries.”

Much was made of the impact Democrats would have on the

College of Education reverses Deaf student decision

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the gymnastics team were waiting.

The gymnasts introduced themselves to their young audience, and after stretching and warming up, the kids were separated into groups to visit different activity stations.

A proposal to form an ad hoc committee of shared governance between the administration, Academic Senate and Student Government Association won approval Tuesday in A-Senate.

The proposal states that the charge of the committee is to review and recommend changes “in the existing matrix on shared government.”

It will “recommend an ongoing process of evaluation for the continuous improvement of shared government at CMU, review communications at CMU and suggest improvements in getting news on important issues to the campus community.”

A university community survey, funded by the university at a cost of $4,400, will be conducted to gather information on shared governance, Provost Gary Shapiro said.

The committee will be made up of 13 members: four faculty appointed by the A-Senate chairperson, two students appointed by the SGA, four members of the CMU administration appointed by the president and the provost, two staff appointed by the president and the A-Senate chairperson and one appointed board of trustees member.

The proposal’s aim is to “open direct lines of communication to increase more academic and financial transparency for everyone at CMU.” Applause broke out when Jim McDonald, A-Senate Chairman, announced the motion had passed by a 73 percent to 27 percent vote.

“This will be the fifth time we’ve had a committee on shared governance,” McDonald said. “The need to do this is apparent.”

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Connor Tomson, 4, a student at CMU’s Child Development and Learning Lab, lays on the floor while stretching with student assistant Kingsley senior Crystal Boyle Monday afternoon in the Events Center. Students from the learning lab walked from the EHS building to the McGuirk Arena to eat lunch and learn gymnastics from the CMU gymnastics team.

tumbling tots

Pre-schoolers, CMU students relish time spent with gymnastics team

By Phil Pomber | Staff Reporter Children hopped, balanced, tumbled, bounded and leaped around the Events Center along with members of the gymnastics team as part of a Gymnastics Day field trip Monday.

Student teachers from the Child Development and Learning Lab organized and put on the gymnastics event for children ages 3 to 5 years old they teach in Pod B. CDLL teaches students valuable skills and provides them with first-hand experience in child education and care.

The trip started as the eager children donned their coats, hats and gloves and filed out of the classroom with the student teachers.

It was the second week students had taken over the main responsibilities for running the class.

“With this field trip, they’ve been very hyper

beforehand,” said student teacher and St. Louis senior Laura Nash. “Things have been pretty smooth as long as you get the kids’ attention, and throwing a field trip is always interesting on top of everything. They’re preschoolers, so they’re never predictable.”

Once the giggling group

Plymouth junior Emily LaFontaine, a member of CMU’s women’s gymnastics team, works with a child from CMU’s Child Development and Learning Lab on an uneven bar drill Monday in the team’s practice room in McGuirk Arena.

arrived at the Events Center, blankets were laid out on the floor for a picnicstyle lunch to fuel the kids up for the day’s activities.

Following a lunch of sandwiches, apples and milk, singing and a quick cleanup ensued before the group headed down to the gymnasium where members of

Four presidential candidates talk relevance in SGA debate

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

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A-Senate approves shared governance proposal

By Catey Traylor Senior Reporter

After a petition, local media coverage and legislation introduced by the Student Government Association, one student’s degree is no longer at risk.

The College of Education at Central Michigan University has reversed its decision regarding Deaf elementary education student Kelly Laatsch’s use of an interpreter to complete her student teaching requirements.

The original decision, first reported by Central Michigan Life, threatened Laatsch’s student teaching graduation.

“I’m so relieved. It feels like thousands of pounds have been lifted off my shoulders,” the Freeland senior said. “Nobody deserves to have the feeling I’ve had for months. It was absolutely draining, but now I can focus on what most other student teachers are doing during their student teaching experience.”

Laatsch has been Deaf since birth and uses cochlear implants. While she is able to speak in English, her hearing isn’t as good as that of a hearing person, so Laatsch requested the use of an interpreter while completing her student teaching at a Saginaw elementary school.

Upon her request, Laatsch was told by Director of Student Teaching Karen Edwards that if she utilized an interpreter her entire time as a student teacher, she wouldn’t pass her student teaching requirements.

At about 1 p.m. Tuesday, Laatsch was teaching in Saginaw when she received a call from Renee Papelian, director of ProfEd and assistant to the dean of the Center for Student Services in the College of Education and Human Services, saying the decision had been reversed. Papelian also emailed Laatsch a statement.

primary heading into Tuesday.

Democratic leaders had urged Democrats to go to the polls to vote for Santorum. Santorum’s campaign put out robocalls appealing to Democratic-leaning voters to vote for the former senator to send a message to Romney for his opposition to the auto bailouts.

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Romeo senior Kevin Richmond listens to Sparta junior Spencer McKellar’s rebuttal against his ideas during the Student Government Association presidential debate Tuesday evening in Anspach 162.

Student Government Association presidential candidates squared off in a debate Tuesday night in Anspach Hall 161.

Although there are five presidential candidates running, only four participated in the debate.

Moderated by Assistant Professor of Finance and Law Kenneth Sanney, the debate featured Macomb junior Justin Gawronski, Sparta junior Spencer McKellar, Hesperia senior Killian Richeson and Romeo senior Kevin Richmond. After the debate, Warren senior Connor Gallagher said he was unable to attend because of a family emergency.

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said giving SGA increased relevance to the university is one of their most pressing platforms.

Richmond, who is the only candidate without extensive SGA experience, said his involvement in other organizations on campus gave him a significant advantage in communicating to students about student government.

“The fact that I’m not in the SGA benefits my platform, because I can reach people who are not involved in the SGA, who do not know about SGA,” Richmond said. “Because of my involvement and connections to those groups, I can reach RSOs that SGA doesn’t usually reach.”

McKellar rebutted Richmond, and said his involvements in outside organizations does not

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make him unique from the other candidates.

“All of us are involved in organizations outside the SGA, and in campaigning we have all met RSOs outside the SGA,” McKellar said. “It’s not like we all just stay stuck in the SGA and only hear viewpoints from the SGA; we are bringing it from the outside.”

McKellar also said Richmond’s inexperience in the SGA is not an advantage but, rather, a disadvantage.

“All of us have similar platforms; all of us have similar goals,” McKellar said. “But we need someone who knows how to step in and change things right away, and not have to learn the system first.”

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Concerns were raised over a possible lack of balance in choosing the members of the committee. James Hill, professor of political science, submitted a substitute motion which reduced the committee to nine

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“You will be eligible for your Elementary Michigan Provisional Certification upon your successful completion of your student teaching,” the email stated.

“The use of an interpreter in the classroom for the entire student teaching experience will not exclude you from being eligible to apply for your Elementary Michigan Provisional teaching license.”

The Student Government Association proposed a resolution on Tuesday that called on CMU to review the College of Education’s decision to deny Laatsch

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Central Michigan University Griffin Endowed Chair Maxine Berman said the impact of Democratic participation in the Republican primary is slightly overplayed.

“Apparently about 10 percent of voters were Democrats, at least according to some early exit polls,” Berman said. “The last (Republican primary in 2008), it was 7 percent, so it’s not that big of an effect. But in a close race, could that make a difference?

Sure.”

A CNN exit poll indicated 9 percent of primary voters identified as Democrats.

Berman saw parallels between the 1968 Democratic presidential race and the 2012 Republican presidential race relating to party crossovers.

“George Wallace, who was a well-known racist, won the

the ability to earn her teaching degree.

“I am very pleased that the university has made the right decision and reversed the decision about Kelly,” said SGA President Vince Cavataio, a Shelby Township senior. “I wish Kelly the best of luck in continuing her teaching program.”

Laatsch said she is thankful the situation is resolved, but is wary of the good news.

“It’s really hard to trust (the College of Education) now,” she said. “I really hope they learned from this situation and don’t do this again to others. It’s been an experience for everybody involved. I’m just very relieved.” university@cm-life.com

Democratic primary in 1968,” Berman said. “Democrats accused Republicans of crossing over to make us (the Democratic Party) look bad. There was a little bit of that, but if you look at the numbers, it really wasn’t that big of an impact.”

Looking forward to the general election, the fight between the Republican front-runners appears to have damaged the Republican brand in the state.

Once considered a tossup state, President Barack Obama now appears to have locked the state up. An NBC News/Marist poll from earlier this month found Obama opening up an 18 point advantage over Romney and a 26 point lead over Santorum.

“Polls show that a majority of people in Michigan support the bailout of the auto industry and that should provide a big boost to Obama,” Perez said. “This will be a difficult state for a Republican to win.” metro@cm-life.com

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lem,” Garwronski said. “We need a sustainable culture on CMU — we need everyone to feel the same way about the continued from 1a environment as Take Back The Gawronski said his adminis- Tap and the SEA (Student Envitration would work to heavily romental Alliance).”

All of the candidates gave increase student interest in the off-campus recycling, a project SGA. “We want to make it impos- SGA has been working on exsible for you to be apathetic. If tensively for the past two years, you want to be apathetic, you as one of their higher environwould have to work hard for it,” mental priorities. Richeson Gawronski said. “We see it as an said he, out of all the candiSGA-wide initiative to increase dates, had the most ability to bring the plan into action. student interest in the SGA.” “The biggest problem in the Both Gawronski and Richeson signaled interest in SGA is the disconnect from starting an SGA newsletter and year to year. We change comhaving senators personally mittee chairs and all the work meet the students as methods from the previous year is lost,” to gain student relevance, but Richeson said. “I’ll be able to Richeson said even more is continue our work on projects like off-campus recycling from needed.

“You can’t just go out and previous years, and not allow meet people — they have to that work to be wasted.”

Richeson said, if elected, come to meetings, they have to get involved,” Richeson said. increased funding for student “With the experience that I programming would be one of have, I will be able to achieve his focuses. He said university funding for student-initiated this.”

Candidates also shared sus- programs has remained the 2001. as a high priority 12tainability CM Life_Layout 1 2/3/12 1:09inPM same Page since 3 “The economy has changed. their platforms.

“I feel it is a cultural prob- It’s 2012 — the dollar doesn’t go

as far as it used to,” Richeson said. “By increasing funding to things like SBAC funding, the university will be able to bring more events to CMU, better events to CMU and increase student excitement in the university.”

In addressing student excitement, Richmond said one of his main focuses would be the football tailgate scene, which has been heavily regulated by the university.

“I was here before tailgating was changed; I remember what it was like earlier,” Richmond said. “Obviously I won’t be able to change rules which prohibit underage drinking, but by reaching a new middle ground with the authorities on things like no amplified music or no cooking, I will be able to bring new excitement to the scene.”

The SGA will hold their vice presidential debate at 6 p.m.

March 13 in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium.

The general elections will be held from March 12-16; students can vote online. studentlife@cm-life.com

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the A-Senate, communication is not likely to happen with another committee, he said.

“What it’s likely to do is just create another administrator ... it just delays things,” Finck said.

“It’s going to allow the administration to say to the board of trustees, ‘Oh, we’re working on this.’”

she was enthusiastic about interacting with the kids.

“It’s pretty exciting. I like the way they are captivated by trying new things,” Piotrowski said. “For me it seems like the simplest thing, like walking across the beam. But for them, it’s like this huge, impossible feat. When they make it across, they would jump off the end with a huge smile on their face and then they would land. It was the nicest feeling.”

Colorado freshman Taylor Noonan, also a member of the CMU gymnastics team, shared similar feelings.

“I just love their enthusiasm — how much fun they can have no matter what they are doing,” she said. “They always have a good attitude and they always want to do more, so I love doing that.”

The gymnastics team has been involved in the commu-

nity and has donated their time to similar events in the past.

“Obviously to make these kids’ day, it’s worth it,” Piotrowski said.

Once the children visited each station and time was nearly up, they were brought together again to watch a short routine by the gymnasts, have posters autographed and ask questions.

Student teacher Haily Fabish, a senior from Clinton Township, said she was pleased with how the activities of the day went.

“It was a lot of work. A lot of unexpected things came up in the planning beforehand, but I think in the end everything came together pretty good,” Fabish said. “The most important thing is that the kids had fun and I saw a lot of smiles.”

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The children inched across the balance beams with help from the gymnasts at one station. They held hands at the start, but after some convincing, the team members had the kids shimmying to the end all by themselves.

At the tumbling station, children stretched their arms into the air before falling forward and tumbling head over heels down a padded ramp.

Across the gym, the kids bounded and bounced at two more stations, leaping from horizontal bars into a soft foam pit at one station and hopping up and down on a trampoline at another.

Gymnast Samantha Piotrowski, an Illinois senior, said

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City Commission

Backers pack City Hall to support anti-discrimination ordinance

By Jackie Smith Staff Reporter

Many of them said they came for one thing — justice.

More than 150 people filled the meeting room at City Hall, 320 W. Broadway St., on Monday a few minutes before the City Commission to hear a formal presentation on a proposed antidiscrimination ordinance.

Norma Bailey, spokeswoman for the group who drafted the ordinance, had been waiting to make the presentation for months, ever since she and others in the room Monday first showed up to back the idea at a November meeting.

With recognition on Monday’s agenda, Bailey and local United Methodist pastor, Charlie Farnum, came ready with a powerpoint, a review of support data and a few stories of local discrimination to demonstrate need.

“We have come here tonight because we support the basic rights of jobs, housing and accommodations,” Bailey said, momentarily pausing, “for everyone.”

She told commissioners they were to receive a list of 701 people who live or work in Mount Pleasant and support the ordinance. All of it, she said, was collected via an online petition and signed postcards.

“The bottom line is we want you to pass the ordinance,” Bailey said.

Commissioners held a work session with the city attorney earlier this month to discuss the logistics of the proposed ordinance.

Bailey on Monday referenced multiple questions commissioners had and said organizers were prepared to discuss which areas of the draft needed to be changed.

Concerns among commissioners included the benefits of a civil infraction penalty versus private court action each time a discrimination complaint would be filed and alternative parties

aside from the city manager that could be responsible for handling complaints.

The proposed ordinance was drafted to be all-inclusive and prevent discriminatory acts against people of more than a dozen demographics, including sexual orientation and gender identity.

Currently, the state’s ElliottLarson Civil Rights Act does not cover the later two categories, and legislation has been introduced to lawmakers that would aim to prohibit municipalities from adopting regulations that could supersede it.

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Lansing junior Virginia Bernero, front, takes a photo during Monday’s Mount Pleasant City Commission meeting at City Hall. The meeting addressed the proposal of an antidiscrimination ordinance presented by CMU professor Norma Bailey.

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Mount Pleasant residents and non-traditional students Karen Clark, left, and Marilyn Zorn, right, listen to a lecture in their REL 320: Buddhism Tradition class Monday in Anspach Room 168. Zorn, 84, is the oldest student attending CMU.

LIFELONG LEARNING Several senior students enjoy CMU classes for free

By Theresa Clift | Staff Reporter

For more than 20 years, Marilyn Zorn taught English literature and composition at Central Michigan University. Now she’s back in the classroom — this time, as a student.

At 84, Zorn is currently the oldest student enrolled at CMU. Zorn has been taking religion and history classes ever since 1996, about 29 in total, all for free. She is one of 20 students currently enrolled in CMU’s senior citizen discount program, said Registrar Karen Hutslar. The program allows students 60 and older to take classes free of tuition, earning no credit and no grades.

“It allows people to pursue something that they maybe didn’t have time for in earlier life,” Zorn said. “It’s a good way to keep your mind active and to interact with younger people.”

Zorn began taking classes shortly after her husband died, who was also an English professor at CMU. She has a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and has been a Mount Pleasant resident since 1959. She has three children and five grandchildren.

Zorn introduced the program to her neighbors, including Karen Clark, 70.

Clark is now enrolled in REL 320: The Buddhist Tradition with Zorn, her second class at CMU. Both of Clark’s children graduated from CMU, but she does not have a college degree and said she was thrilled to learn of the opportunity to take classes.

“I never thought I’d be taking classes here in a millions years,” Clark said. “It seems like just yesterday my kids were moving into the Towers.”

Clark, widow and a retired medical bookkeeper, moved to town six years ago from Royal Oak to be closer to her

children.

All classes are open for seniors in the program, as long as there are empty seats after regular students register.

“It’s stimulating, intriguing and we get to take any class we want,” Clark said.

Both women choose to take a more observant role in the class, since they do not pay tuition.

“I do participate, but not overly,” Zorn said. “It’s the students’ class, really, and we’re kind of spectators.”

The women agreed the younger students have been welcoming to them.

“The students at (CMU) tend to be a friendly group, with an informality about learning,” Zorn said.

“They’re very respectful of us, too,” Clark added.

They agreed they were impressed by the younger students they have met, especially within the department of philosophy and religion.

“I thought they’d have disinterest, but they are gung-

“These classes open the world to you in a very real sense. It’s like being an armchair traveler.”

Karen Clark, CMU senior citizen ho in class and ask great questions,” Clark said. “It makes me proud.”

Zorn has taken most of the religion classes offered at CMU, since she has always been interested in it.

“These classes open the world to you in a very real sense,” she said. “It’s like being an armchair traveler.”

They agreed it is important to learn about a culture to become less judgmental.

Zorn said she “has very fond memories” with all of her past professors.

“They don’t treat us any different,” Clark said. “They know Marilyn by name.”

Religion professor Guy Newland, who teaches the class both women are in now, said he enjoys having non-traditional students in class, like most professors do.

“Traditional-age students sometimes do and sometimes don’t know what they are doing, that is, why they are sitting in this particular desk at this particular time,” Newland said in an email.

“But older students always know why they are there in class, so they are always motivated. They bring a store of life experience and perspective that allows them to ask different sorts of questions.”

Both women noticed how much most students utilize technology in learning today.

“You almost need to have a computer to keep up with classes,” Clark said.

Although the grades do not count, Zorn said she enjoys taking tests to keep her memory sharp.

To give back to the community, both women volunteer at Immanuel Lutheran

Church, 320 S. Bradley St. “If you’re lucky enough to have your health, we have all this freedom to open any door you want (with classes),” Clark said. “I think volunteering offsets that because you need to give back, too.”

Similar programs This is the 20th year CMU has offered senior citizen discounts, Hutslar said, but it is not the only Michigan university to do so.

The University of Michigan offers half off tuition for seniors. Michigan State University offers evening courses for seniors for a discount of about $45 each. Eastern Michigan University allows half off tuition for seniors not seeking credit. Oakland University offers free tuition for seniors not seeking credit, and half off to seniors who are seeking credit. Saginaw Valley State University issues listener’s permits for any community member for $85 no matter their age.

At CMU, there is no discount for seniors seeking credit.

Grand Valley State University does not offer a discount.

Zorn said she worries the program may be cut someday.

“We don’t really add any value to the university,” she said.

But Hutslar said there has been no discussion of cutting it.

“I plan to keep taking classes until I am in assisted living,” Zorn said with a smile. studentlife@cm-life.com

Removal of the mini-circle at the corner of Bellows and Arnold streets could be in the city’s plans for this year’s construction season.

On Tuesday, representatives from Orchard Hiltz & McCliment, Inc., a Livonia-based engineering advising firm, submitted to city commissioners a three-phase recommendation of how to alleviate Bellows’ traffic flow problems — something the mini-circle was originally intended to fix when it was installed two years ago.

“It’s fine with me to let other people experiment with them,” said City Manager Kathie Grinzinger. “This one just didn’t do what it was supposed to do.

So it’s about time you just admit you tried something and it didn’t work.”

The circle was constructed in 2010 at a cost of about $75,000, according to previously published reports. However, when it was first tested, it was found not to be accessible for ladder trucks, costing the city an extra $2,500 in adjustments.

Commissioners first expressed interest in removing the circle and seeking more effective options at a meeting last October.

Since then, OHM has considered multiple studies, including Michigan Department of Transportation analyses of

Mission and Bellows streets and Central Michigan University’s Master Plan, as well as some of its own recent collection of traffic data.

Craig Schripsema, senior project manager for OHM Mount Pleasant, said they additionally considered how CMU’s build of graduate student housing and situating the College of Medicine on North Campus would impact future traffic flow.

Based on OHM’s original proposal to conduct the study, Director of Public Works Roger Rousse said the firm cost the city $7,330.

Recommendations The study’s findings concluded that Arnold and Bellows was simply the wrong location for a mini-circle, Schripsema said.

However, he said the narrowed lane size and installation bike lanes the city had in tandem with the mini-circle were of benefit.

OHM Traffic Services Manager Stephen Dearing said several adjustments to Bellows Street were recommended along with the mini-circle’s removal, because drivers have been often recorded traveling more than 40 miles per hour.

“You just have to think of different locations, different treatments to get there,” Dearing said.

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Contracts prevent CMU from ending bottled water sales until 2017

By Lonnie Allen Staff Reporter

Take Back the Tap will not be able to end the sale of disposable water bottles on Central Michigan University campus until the year 2017.

Despite the efforts and the resolution that passed the SGA house, TBTT faces the major obstacle of the Pepsi and Coca Cola contracts.

Thomas Trionfi, CMU director of contracting and purchasing, said CMU would not amend any of the current contracts with Coke and Pepsi.

“If CMU was to end the sale of Aquafina and Dasani on campus, we would not change the current contracts.” he said.

“CMU would wait until 2017 when the contracts come up for renewal.”

Before this could happen, TBTT needs to gain campus support, said Walled Lake freshman and TBTT president Mariah Urueta.

“In order to amend these contracts we need student support,” Urueta said. “To do this we need our resolution to pass the SGA House and Senate.”

Currently the resolution has passed through the

SGA House, but was not able to pass the Senate until the last paragraph of the resolution was changed.

Waterford senior Alysha McClain said that TBTT is currently rewriting the resolution and plan to reintroduce a new version to the SGA. “The original resolution did pass the Senate with an amendment to remove the banning of bottled water sales on campus,” McClain said. “We are kind of working on new resolution so that we can get the sale of bottled water on campus banned. That part of the resolution is important to us.”

Trionfi said he doesn’t believe asking Pepsi and Coca Cola to remove their brands of disposable bottled water from the campus vending machines and stores throughout campus will hinder their relationship with the companies.

“Though we haven’t spoken with these companies about this matter, I highly doubt that Pepsi and Coca Cola would end their contracts with us if we ended the sales of bottled water on campus,” Trionfi said.

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EDITORIAL | City Commission should support anti-discrimination ordinance

Acceptance for all

seen as an attempt to remain in a less-enlightened period of our history.

Commissioners can, in one stroke, do something not only great for the city, but also for students from both CMU and Mid Michigan Community College.

Although business owners have the right to control the atmosphere of their establishments, discrimination against individuals who differ from their preferred worldview is unacceptable. One should have the right to be with their significant other publicly in businesses, no matter their gender or race, without fear of being either harassed or asked to leave.

Residents should not have to

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ity Commission has the opportunity to join in the fight against discrimination, and it should jump at the chance.

More than 150 people attended Monday’s City Commission meeting to hear a formal presentation on a proposed anti-discrimination ordinance.

Spectrum — a Central Michigan University registered student organization representing the LGBTQ community — and the Student Government Association were among the CMU groups to back the measure.

The ordinance, intended to protect the basic rights individuals are guaranteed to live freely in their pursuit of happiness in all Mount Pleasant facilities and businesses, is long overdue.

Mount Pleasant is behind much of Michigan as its the only college town without any protection like this. Rejecting the plan would inevitably be

feel anxious about embracing or holding hands with their partners just because their relationship is in a minority, just like they shouldn’t have to worry about where they go because of the color of their skin.

Individual rights only end where another individual’s begin, and people deserve to not be discriminated against for irrelevant reasons, and the approval of this proposal by the City Commission would help ensure those rights.

This is not 1955. Senseless discrimination is not acceptable anywhere, no matter the opinions of its proprietors.

As a community, Mount Pleasant could use this directive to focus on acceptance.

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Catey Traylor Senior Reporter

Confessions of a reality TV junkie “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” “Dance Moms,” “Toddlers in Tiaras,” “Wife Swap,” “Khloe and Lamar,” “Teen Mom” … you name it, I love it.

As much as I love wasting my days away watching the people featured on those shows waste their lives away and make complete fools of themselves, I’m not so blinded by my love for reality TV that I don’t recognize how absolutely horrible it is.

Shows involving kids are probably the worst. It’s already bad enough that a lot of celebrity children are exploited since birth because of their parents’ A-List statuses, but when everyday children are subjected to the same lifestyle, I’ll be the first to say it’s gone too far.

Shows like “Toddlers in Tiaras” don’t help, either. These series literally spotlight kids acting like little demons, and nine times out of 10, nothing is done about their behavior. For example, “Toddlers in Tiaras” has a tendency of showing its 4- and 5-year-old stars throwing temper tantrums, exclaiming how much they hate their mothers and bad-mouthing their competition.

Yet, not once has the show featured a parent pulling their child from the competition because of their behavior.

This is absolutely unreal to me. If that had been me as a child, I would have been out of that pageant so fast my head would spin, to use one of my dad’s favorite phrases.

With examples of kids running rampant all over TV, there’s no wonder that my little cousins and my friend’s siblings think they’re supposed to mimic that behavior.

On another note, although it might be a stretch, a small part of me agrees with the people that claim the reality TV I love so much is a contributing factor to the change of our society from respectable to, well, not so respectable.

Watching the rise and fall of Kim Kardashian’s 72-day marriage, seeing husbands trade their wives in for a few weeks to try something else out, and witnessing teen moms Amber and Janelle physically abuse their husbands, leave their children and battle drug addictions are some major contributors to people’s poor opinion of our society.

If this is what we allow to stream through our televisions night after night, we shouldn’t be surprised when this is how people begin to act.

As much as I love reality TV and keeping up with celebrity gossip, I really believe we need to re-think our standards and stop giving our time and attention to people who don’t deserve it.

That being said, don’t go getting rid of all the reality TV at once … those of us who are addicted wouldn’t know what to do with ourselves.

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[comments] Comment in response to “City to consider firm’s recommendation of three-phase project, removal of mini-circle to adjust Bellows traffic flow” David Veselenak, Tuesday I remember going on the tour with the city commish in 2010 when they were looking at putting in that mini-circle.

I thought it was a horrible idea then, but they seemed convinced it would do the trick.

Sad to see money spent on a project that probably shouldn’t have happened.

Selected comments in response to “Efforts continue to ban bottled water sales on campus” not supoorting TBTT, Monday I am very tired of Take Back the Tap. Like I told multiple members in the organization multiple times that I do not support getting rid of every water bottle on campus.

Instead we should cut down to one or two of the top brands that are sold. We have over five different water bottle companies on campus.

Also tried to explain to them that we have way too many people who visit our campus and it’s impossible to get every single one of them a reusable water bottle, one of the snarky girls that’s the head of the club said that we have gas stations all around us and that our friends can just walk to one of them. I then tried to explain that I tend to use my flex for my guest so they don’t have to pay for things and she replied that then they can just drink soda and not complain for getting a free beverage.

I might be more supportive if they thought things out a little

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and had better attitudes. But for now, I shall keep protesting their agenda.

Actuality, Monday TBTT pisses me off. Instead of trying to save money, they decide to waste SGA’s time with their extreme proposal and instead make the campus pay to replace existing water fountains with expensive hybrids that MAYBE 20 people will use.

What a lovely shell game.

Andrea Lewis, Monday I think this is ridiculous. I understand the concept - but you shouldn’t ban it altogether.

Water is the healthiest drink someone can grab and if you eliminate the convenience factor, people will reach toward calorie-filled drinks that are bottled. Instead, promote the use of reusable bottles - offer them at an inexpensive rate at the on-campus food locations and encourage people to go that route.

Florenceschneider, Monday This is a MARKET decision.

Bottled water will disappear when there is no consumer demand for it. However, if there is demand, it should be provided.

Alysha McClain, Monday I would like to comment that all residential markets offer FREE cups of water with straws and ice that guests are always welcome to.

I personally am always willing to sit down an talk to any student with concerns with an open mind, because that is what I’m asking of students- to have an open mind about what we are trying to do on campus.

Seriously, contact me, Alysha McClain at any time with questions I would love to talk to you.

Mariah Urueta, Tuesday In response to “The only thing I don’t like is when people denounce something, even if the purpose is good, when they don’t have a decent grasp as to WHY they are denouncing it.”

We absolutely know why we are denouncing it, because we thankfully live an a city where our tap water is strictly regulated.

As well as the environmental, health, and financial impact. Why pay for a bottle of water when it has just came from the tap anyway, and it is even worse because of the chemicals being leached from the bottle when it undergoes temperature change during transportation throughout the country.

And if those gallon jugs you’re referring to are the big, blue, plastic jugs, those are the worst for BPA, just if you didn’t know!

Comments in response to “College of Education reverses decision on Deaf student’s use of an interpreter to attain teaching degree” Previous Student, Tuesday This makes me wonder about the College of Education at CMU now. They SHOULD know all about the ADA laws and how they apply to education.

This is a prime example of where the school was trying to get around providing an interpreter due to cost. Shame on you CMU. One of the reasons I left was because of the poor services of SDS coordinating with academic departments. I’m glad this got resolved for this student at least.

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The miseducation of Rick Santorum

Among presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s postgraduate degrees is a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. Despite his own education, Santorum recently took aim at American universities in a speech to Americans for Prosperity in Troy, saying, “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob ... Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.”

This is more than the pot calling the kettle elitist; it’s disingenuous and insulting. Each of the remaining Republican candidates earned advanced degrees. Like most American parents, they want their children to do the same.

Santorum is correct about one thing: The president has been a most vocal supporter of higher education. He understands higher education’s indispensable role in today’s economy.

Obama responded to Santorum on Monday, saying, “When I speak about higher education, we’re not just talking about a four-year degree. We’re talking about somebody going to a community college and getting trained for that manufacturing job that now is requiring somebody walking through the door, handling a million-dollar piece of equipment.”

Anti-academicism in its various forms is standard red-meat in today’s mainstream conservative discourse. In truth, pursuing an education from any postsecondary institution has nothing to do with political ideology. Only in the rhetoric of conservative victimhood is a liberal viewpoint the exclusive domain of higher education.

There are plenty of active conservative students, professors and organizations at universities nationwide.

Higher education has everything to do with gaining intellectual fulfillment, skills and economic advantage. For these reasons, thousands of American families struggle tirelessly to afford the skyrocketing costs of higher education.

Santorum’s comments are an outright insult to working families, who deserve better than to be told they are working merely to send their children to institutions of liberal indoctrination.

Meanwhile, the president seeks to help those families better themselves.

Recently, in a speech to the University of Michigan in January, he outlined a plan to increase federal Perkins loan funding by $7 billion.

Many students depend on the Perkins loan’s favorable interest rates.

Obama’s plan would more than double the number of institutions at which Perkins loans are available.

In the same speech, the president also unveiled a plan to correlate federal aid to universities based on the affordability of each institution’s tuition.

Republicans will no doubt decry this plan as price controlling. Few, however, will stoop as low in their criticism of the education system and its participants as Santorum.

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But several people, who spoke Monday during public comment in support of Mount Pleasant’s proposed ordinance, said the local movement isn’t about homosexuality.

By Ben Harris Senior Reporter

Central Michigan University’s professional sales fraternity has been seeing something business people love: results.

Eight members of CMU’s chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon will be traveling from March 13 to 18 to the PSE National Convention in Indianapolis to compete for the awards of Top Silver Chapter, Top Salesperson, Top Sales Project and Top Faculty Adviser.

“It’s a miracle because we’ve only been around for less than three years. It will be three years Labor Day, and to ramp up to the amount these guys have ramped up is really phenomenal,” said Assistant Professor of Marketing and Hospitality Services Administration Ken Cherry, the chapter’s faculty adviser. “There’s nowhere to hide. You look at our trophy case and you see real results.”

Nick Otis, the chapter president, said chapter levels — bronze, amethyst, silver and gold — were based on a point system.

“With everything we do, any social project, any fundraiser, we submit a report to headquarters and they give us points, and then based on all of our points throughout the fiscal year, we get a rating versus every other chapter in the United States,” the Coleman senior said.

Based on the report PSE sent in, it ranked 11 out of 62 chapters in the country, Otis said.

For the Top Silver Chapter Award, PSE will be competing against three other schools: Appalachian State University, the University of Missouri and the University of Toledo, according to the press release.

At the conference, members of PSE will have to give a 25-minute presentation about chapter accomplishments in recruiting, fundraising, volunteering and

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Coleman senior Nick Otis, president of Pi Sigma Epsilon, right, talks with New Boston senior Dan Stocking as he speaks to representatives of AT&T in Grawn Hall Feb. 21. The professional sales fraternity will be competing nationally in Silver Chapter, Top Salesperson and Top Sales Project categories. “We are sales people,” Otis said. “We are in it to win.”

other areas, Otis said.

The top PSE sales project was a collaboration effort with the Detroit Red Wings, and the finalists for the Top Sales Project and Top Salesperson sprung from that effort.

The project was to sell tickets for the Red Wings.

Otis said the chapter was approached by the team’s inside sales manager and asked to sell tickets during the regular season.

“It turned out we did much better than was expected of us and he said we’ve done better than any other university or chapter he’s come across,” Otis said. “We came close to $14,000 in total sales, of which we got $3,000 back to go to nationals.”

Lauren Dworzanin, a Canton sophomore and the chapter’s vice president of professional development, is the nominee for top salesperson.

“I have to prepare a presentation and go down to (the) national debate early to do a 15-minute interview in front of a panel,” she said.

The Top Faculty Adviser award required a written component, so no finalists were announced.

“Our faculty adviser, Professor Ken Cherry, has been

helping to organize and to provide overall leadership to our chapter in the past three years and (has) been helping us become the chapter we have,” Otis said. “As students come and go, he’s been the one constant and he really puts forth much more than would ever be expected of him, and goes personally out of his way to help us as students.”

The sales program at CMU as a whole has 100-percent internship or career placement within three months of graduation and has grown substantially in the past years, Otis said, which is why companies keep returning to hire CMU students.

“I think the best quote would be from one of our managers, who had interviewed an individual going through the process and said, ‘Where do we get more of these people?’ because they’re prepared,” said Lauren Jones, an AT&T recruiter.

“They have hard numbers to talk with, or internships through student organizations that show results in an interview process, but then they come and show that in a training process.” studentlife@cm-life.com

sUppoRt and opposition The Rev. Wayne Nicholson, an ordained priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church of Mount Pleasant, said it is a conversation about human dignity, and affording gay, bisexual or transgender people the ability to “move freely through society” without fear.

“As long as we as a class are not named in anti-discrimination legislation, we can and will be singled out and denied our full humanity,” he said. “My right to receive respect regardless of my perceived sexual orientation must not be questioned in the United States of America, much less in Mount

Pleasant, Michigan.”

More than 10 people lined up to speak in favor of the ordinance. Among them was Union Township Zoning Administrator Woody Woodruff, Laura Gonzales, chairwoman for the Isabella County Human Rights Committee, and Central Michigan University junior Virginia Bernero, a Lansing native who spoke on behalf of College Democrats.

Only one person addressed the meeting strictly in opposition of the ordinance.

Bill Johnson, president of the Fremont-based American Decency Association, who said he had been invited by people he knows in Mount Pleasant to speak against the movement “that insists on promoting gayness as a legitimate lifestyle.”

He said he was also asked to speak in Holland last summer when the city was considering

BELLoWs | CONTINUED FROM 3A

The later of the two phases include two options based on cost: • Phase I would entail removal of the circle and installation of a temporary speed table, which has a shorter elevation than a speed bump.

Estimated cost: $10,000.

• Phase II, first option would install a raised intersection at Fancher and Bellows streets, costing an estimated $85,000.

Second, alternate option would install more than one speed table or raised pedestrian crossing, costing about $38,000.

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water sold on campus is like 3 percent. It is a small percentage compared to the carbonated products Pepsi and Coca Cola sell on campus.”

Currently, Pepsi and Coca Cola give percentages of

• Phase III would install roundabouts where Bellows crosses with Washington Street and East Campus Drive, costing about $400,000. Its second option would construct complete raised intersections where Bellows crosses with Main Street, University Avenue and Franklin Street, with an estimated $800,000 cost.

Most commissioners welcomed the idea of removing the mini-circle, but some expressed concern that the recommended installations could slow traffic down too much

product sales to CMU. Pepsi and Coca Cola gives30 to 46 percent commission on vending sales to CMU, and how these dollars are used depends on each building or department that receives the funds. Pepsi exclusively has a partnership with university athletics for $50,000 annually, which will go up

an all-inclusive anti-discrimination law, in which case, the local movement in favor was unsuccessful.

“It’s a slippery slope …”

Johnson said. “As in Holland, there may be many people that did show up (in support), but they also knew there were many in the community that didn’t show that were opposed to it. I believe they honored those people.”

Mayor Bruce Kilmer said he has received a few emails from people in opposition to the ordinance, though not all were clear on reasons why.

He emphasized to the meeting’s attendees that the City Commission has not endorsed or opposed the draft.

“What we’re going to be doing is study it further and look at it, getting more input, more information (and) working with the people that proposed it,” Kilmer said. “Then it would be decided whether or not to adopt such an ordinance.” metro@cm-life.com

for drivers heading to work or class.

“I want safety but I also want the traffic to move,” Commissioner Sharon Tilmann said.

Dearing said the recommended measures weren’t intended to change traffic volume, but to help change speeds in an efficient manner.

If commissioners want to carry out Phase I this year, Grinzinger said a 2012 budget amendment, which would remove the traffic circle and probably purchase the table, could be presented to commissioners at an upcoming meeting, at which point they can make a decision. metro@cm-life.com

to $60,000 in 2013.

“I know that Athletics has a sponsorship program and Pepsi pays separately for that,” Trionfi said. “The percentage of the vending machines sales goes to the buildings that the machines are in.” university@cm-life.com

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the last, best spring break.

Honors students head to Mexico for study abroad trip over spring break

By Ben Harris | Senior Reporter If 2012 does turn out to be the twilight of humanity, at least the students in HON 321M will have spent their last spring break in warm weather.

The End of the World: Mayan Math is a special topics Honors class that examines the Mayan doomsday prophecy by learning about Mayan mathematics and culture. The class will take a spring break trip to Mexico to visit three sites including Chichen Itza, said Holland senior Will Damian.

“A lot of what we’ll be doing is looking at the ruins, talking about what they might have used different buildings for and getting some of the culture in,” said Professor Donna Ericksen, who co-teaches the class.

In terms of culture, Professor Tibor Marcinek, the class’ other instructor, said the class learned a bit of Spanish. One assignment they will have is to speak to a waiter or waitress in Spanish to practice.

“We talked a lot about the different sites, what they would be used for, why they were used,” Ericksen said. “(We will have them) imagine what the city might have been like at its prime and fully populated.

Part of the trip too is just to relax a little bit. That isn’t going

to be a lot though. They might be disappointed, because it is pretty structured all the time they’re going to be there.”

Whitehall junior Chelsey Colston said she has practiced her Spanish and is looking forward to interacting with Mayan people. She has also learned about Mayan glyphs and numbers.

“When they get to the sites and hear from the tour guides what’s going on, I think they’re going to be able to really fill in all the gaps and bring to it

what they already know, which is a lot,” Ericksen said.

Ericksen and Marcinek agreed there have been challenges to teaching the class.

Each had to learn material beyond the mathematics to be able to get up each week in front of the students and teach.

“I told them I don’t think I’ve seen so many Mayan movies in my life or read so many Mayan books,” Ericksen said.

Marcinek said he has not taught a study abroad topic

class, nor has he taught ancient culture. He said there would be an exit survey to assess how the class went and possibly to consider teaching it in the future.

“We’re really excited for them to get this experience, and I’m excited to experience it with them,” Ericksen said. “I haven’t probably worked this hard to teach a class in a long time, but it’s been really worth it. It’s been really rewarding.” studentlife@cm-life.com

point

counter-point

Since this year is our last, anarchy is pertinent

Apocalypse never

Ben Harris Senior Reporter There’s no longer any need to deny it: the Mayan calendar said this year is humanity’s last, and there’s a good chance it will be.

Arguing is futile. What the

calendar says goes. What we as a society need to decide next is how to handle the goings-on of the next several months.

Should we file orderly into the inferno with our hands crossed, halos shining, our eyes glinting?

That’s anticlimactic. Humans are dramatic beings.

We can do better than that.

Instead of leaving this planet in a whisper, we should be leaving it with a wallop. Instead of kissing its face, we should be banging its gong with a steel mallet.

Why not have one big Facebook event: “End of the World Party.” Starts: Now. Ends: December 21, 2012. Invited: 7 billion.

Nobody would have to worry about the cops. I can see it now: A single car pulls up to the party and two of them step out.

“Alright, kids, break it up,” they’d say. Seven billion would glance back for a second before getting back to the serious work of dancing.

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Andrew Dooley Student Life Editor We congratulate ourselves for being apathetic in the face of our current dystopia by pretending the apocalypse is right around the corner.

Stockpilers and survivalists, religious or otherwise,

line the walls of their backyard bunkers with endless rows of canned food, sleeping at night with their “bug out bags” sitting atop small arsenals, ready to flee from the hordes of the unsaved, unwhite or even undead they fear are coming to devour their freedoms (and potentially their brains).

Oh, if only we could be so lucky.

A far worse fate than the Four Horsemen, global plague or asteroid impact awaits us: continued, depressing existence.

In 2025, more obese than

imaginable, I will recline in my mobile business bed, snap my perfect veneers into the crispy corn shell of the brand new edible iPad 13S (drenched in Jemi Biebvato’s Fiesta Ranch from McWendy Bell, of course) and wish militant aliens would come and finally take us out of our misery.

In the future I will be able to literally consume information about the shocking affair President Blue Ivy Carter had behind First Lady Chris Brown’s

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Students traveling to The Hague for criminal court conference

By Ben Harris Senior Reporter

A small group of Central Michigan University students will travel to The Hague over spring break to attend and present at a conference about the International Criminal Court.

The International Criminal Court Student Network is organizing the conference to stop and reflect on the lessons learned from the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, who is the first person to have been tried by the ICC, said Caroline Wojtylak, a London lawyer and coorganizer of the conference, in

an email.

Wojtylak said there will be 22 presenters.

According to the website for the ICCSN, Lubanga was tried for conscripting children under the age of 15 into his army and forcing them to fight. Proceedings for the trial ended on Aug. 26, 2011; a verdict has not yet been rendered.

Hope May, a philosophy professor at CMU, is another organizer of the conference.

In an email, she listed some of the other schools sending students to the conference, which included universities in the UK, Australia and Lebanon.

The third organizer of the

conference is Victoria Phan, a Ph.D student at Cambridge.

About the goals of the conference, May wrote: “First, we seek to educate a global group of students and young professionals about the many challenges posed by the Lubanga Trial. Our second aim is to inspire and encourage a global network of students to go back to their communities and engage in activities aimed at educating others about the ICC and international justice.”

Caitlin Cheevers, a Grand Rapids senior and Central Michigan Life staff reporter, will be presenting at the con-

ference. She is one of four CMU students attending the conference. She will be presenting a co-authored paper on how the ICC proves child soldiering is wrong by indicting people who are involved in it. The other author is Randi Shaffer, a former CM Life employee.

Cheevers said she is involved in an organization called Invisible Children, a nonprofit that works to bring public awareness to the problem of child soldiering.

She said although she was only accepted to present about three weeks ago, she has been involved in Invisible Children since 2009.

“I talked to Dr. Hope May about it right before Christmas break and she told me about the conference and how she was helping organize it, and I was originally going to be doing a spring break trip with the Honors Program, and I ended up canceling that because I figured this would be better,” she said.

Cheevers said she hopes the conference and her presentation will educate all of the attendees and work to set up a network of other people interested in working to end child soldiering and other human rights violations.

“Hope May had mentioned

that there’s only going to be 60 to 75 people in attendance.

Normally that might kind of dishearten people that we’re only getting 75 people, but it’s not necessarily about how many people are there now, it’s about that we’re collaborating to get more people involved,” Cheevers said. “If you think about other movements, like the women’s rights movement or the Geneva convention, they all started with small conferences and gained momentum. Even if it seems like it’ll be small, it still can have a huge impact.” studentlife@cm-life.com

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By Jessica Fecteau | Senior Reporter Campus Closet will be a weekly series looking at the style of Central Michigan University students.

The first student featured is Yue Xu, a sophomore from China.

SPOTIFY The first thing I used to do after starting up my computer is immediately click on the little Google Chrome icon on my taskbar. But since Spotify has made its debut, that click has moved to second on my playlist.

Spotify is a musicstreaming service much like Pandora, but with a lot more freedom.

Users can create playlists from a library of pretty much any song imaginable. Those playlists can then be sent to other friends who use Spotify via a message, or they can be shared on Facebook and Twitter.

With the free version, there are annoying advertisements that pop up every couple songs, but unlike Pandora, Spotify allows you to search and listen to whatever you’re feeling. There are also apps within Spotify that list concert schedules and “listening rooms,” where you can hear the same music as other people and chat about it.

My addiction to this music program has grown to make me purchase the premium addition. Now I can listen to any song, any time, on any device, without ads.

Headphones have always been glued to my ears, but since Spotify has come into my life, I can’t seem to be without music, ever.

Jessica Fecteau Senior Reporter

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what makes Ron Paul so darn seductive.

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back, and the technology will leave me feeling emptier than ever before.

Gas prices, tuition rates and the size of a “medium” T-shirt at Wal-Mart will continue to increase exponentially.

We idealize the apocalypse because it’s the tidiest conclusion to the current mess we have made; humanity is shooting for a one-night stand with existence.

Western civilization has come to fetishize the clean break.

Salvation, even a cold, black nothingness, is much preferable to reincarnation, where all of the women I’ve ever tried and failed to flirt with will judge me for infinite generations, often by serving as our elementary school teachers and making us stand up and attempt long division at the chalkboard before confirming to the giggling class that I have, indeed failed to examine my zipper.

Wanting to be sucked into a black hole has never been more appropriate, but instead of wishing for it as an instant fix to pre-teen humiliation, our entire culture has begun to worship the idea of “the end.”

It’s much easier to walk away from a mess than dig in with two hands.

I live this metaphor every morning when I glance at the twin peaks of Mount Laundry that have slowly erupted from my bedroom floor, looking like an homage to classic Madonna lingerie, sharply turn on my heel and close the door behind me, knowing for a fact any untidiness will be wiped out. Thinking that when they bulldoze my house in June, those lightly-worn sweatpants will be in a better place.

But those sweat pants, like our declining empire, will remain, stagnating and stretched out, waiting for meaningful resolution.

Just like this column.

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Although they’d narrow their eyes and say, “try us,” really they would just be thinking about how badly they wanted to join in the festivities.

And eventually, they would. That’s when the party would really start. Once the law is on your side, you can justify anything, no matter how immoral or otherwise illegal.

Next, all there would be to do is see how wild we all can get. With anarchy as the new political system, every

possibility is opened up. Of course, we couldn’t live like that forever, but we’d only have to make it to Dec. 20 before the sun swallows us up.

But wouldn’t this chaotic party be more about giving in to the urges we’ve been fighting for centuries? This is an opportunity to give our collective self-control a much-needed break and let the visceral impulses take control.

Get buck wild. Drop out of school — you won’t need a degree.

Quit your job. Your money’s no good here anymore.

The only thing that should matter anymore is winnertakes-all poker where everybody cheats and everybody wins.

By the time we leave this planet, the world should look like a frat house after a Friday night: red plastic cups, toilet paper and vomit strewn on the streets like mud. It looks rough, but in the air we leave behind us a general agreement: Great party, bros.

And if the Mayan prophecy turns out to be wrong?

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Top ten sexy songs

Jordan Spence Staff Reporter Sex and music are two of college kids’ favorite things, and it just so happens they work well together.

After reading a previous article in Central Michigan Life by Mike Drazio, I was horrified by his list and the awful songs he chose. So I’ve compiled a list of songs I find very appropriate for getting busy to, which I consider to make much more sense. I didn’t include anything by Maroon 5 — you’re welcome.

I suggest one should pick and choose from the list depending on the kind of sex you want to have.

Most of my songs are classics, because I’ve noticed my generation hasn’t quite found the knack for making really honest music about doing the deed. So pour a glass of wine, gaze into your partner’s eyes and let some magic happen.

10. Maxwell “Whenever, Wherever, Whatever” (live version) This is a perfect way to get started. It’s a very romantic, sweet song.

9. Jill Scott “Bedda at Home” Scott has a very sultry voice in it and the message she sends of staying faithful because you’ve got the best waiting for you at home is a good one.

8. Rolling Stones “Beast of Burden” Like the song says, after hearing the line “All I want is you to make love to me,” that’s exactly what you’ll want as well.

7. Jimi Hendrix “Voodoo Child” There’s the kind of sex that’s sweet and gentle, then there’s Hendrix. This song makes you want to just have your partner

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon raises $2,741 with Snowfest

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By Eric Stafford Staff Reporter

6. Garth Brooks “Make You Feel My Love” Yes, I know what you’re saying to yourself. “County, say whaaat? What about Adele’s version?” But trust me on this. Look up this version of a Bob Dylan classic and try not making out with your significant other.

Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s eighth annual weeklong Snowfest contest managed to raise $2,741.27 for the Children’s Miracle Network, with Alpha Gamma Delta coming out on top.

The week-long event that started on Feb. 20 and ended last Friday saw sororities compete for points against one another. AGD won the competition in a close battle with Sigma Sigma Sigma, which came in second place.

Alpha Gamma Delta also won the optional pancake creation contest with an enormous, ornately decorated pancake.

Grand Rapids senior Erin Gavigan, philanthropy chairman for Sigma Alpha Epsilon responsible for setting up this year’s Snowfest, said the event was a huge success.

“It was a great turnout as far as Greek Life support and participation,” Gavigan said.

“The energy was very inspiring and I was really proud of everyone.”

The first event, held Feb. 14 in the Bovee University Center, took donations to make Valentine’s Day cards for children in the Grand Rapid’s Helen DeVos Hospital.

New to Snowfest this year was the Pancake Olympics, which took the place of last year’s volleyball tournament.

“I think this year’s Pancake Olympics was something to build on,” Gavigan said. “It’s more unique and meant more to us as a fraternity by creating our own event instead of something generic like a volleyball tournament. I think it’s something that over time people will run with and it’ll become more of a tradition of Snowfest.”

Gavigan said he is extremely passionate about the Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network, especially after volunteering at the hospital with the kids.

Snowfest was originally created by DeWayne Cook,

5. Mazy Star “Fade Into You” If this doesn’t make you want your partner, I don’t know what will.

4. Alicia Keys “Wreckless Love” Take your Lady Gagas and Ke$has and shove it. Alicia Keys is a real woman artist who doesn’t need gimmicks and theatrics to make a statement, and neither does this song. It’s simple and direct. If you’re in a relationship that has lost some spark, listen to this and I think it might be able to help.

3. Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love” One of the greatest opening guitar riffs ever. From beginning to end, this song is sex. It’s raunchy, dirty and kind of weird, but something that you want to get lost in.

2. Al Green “Can’t Get Next to You” The wanting in his voice is so strong it draws you in. There’s a slow buildup in the song until the end where Green sings his heart out. The desperation of his voice mixed with the guitar, horn section and the pacing of the music is perfection.

1. Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get It On” I could’ve gotten creative with my number one choice, but frankly that’s just super annoying. People have tried since Marvin Gaye. Hell, Usher has made a whole career of trying.

But no one, and I mean no one, can come close to the greatness that is Marvin Gaye and this song. Except for, well, the sex you have to it.

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Grand Rapids senior Erin Gavigan, right, Sigma Alpha Epsilon philanthropy chair, and other members of SAE judge the creation portion of the Pancake Olympics, which included artwork along with the best pancake recipe.

an alumnus of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, who currently works for Helen DeVos. He wanted to create something different than a pancake breakfast to raise money for charity. In the past, Snowfest was only held for two to three days, until last year when the event was expanded to its current week-long format.

Cook made an appearance at the Miss Minerva pageant that was held on Thursday, when he spoke for about five minutes before sharing a video explaining the work done by the Children’s Miracle Network.

The support for Snowfest was prevalent throughout the Greek Community and especially on Facebook and Twitter where the hashtag #Snowfest was a permanent resident of many timelines.

Although this will be Gavigan’s first and last Snowfest, he said he was happy and proud of how much Sigma Alpha Epsilon earned. The $2,741 the event brought in was between the goal of $2,000 to $3,000 the fraternity had hoped for.

“Thirty years from now, when I’m still getting emails as an alumni, I would be disappointed if Snowfest wasn’t still happening,” he said. “I want this to be an annual

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MUNCHIES IN MINUTES

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Chicken Nachos

Lonnie Allen Staff Reporter Nachos are one of my favorite munchies, especially when I am at a local pub that does them well. I am not sure exactly how this dish came about, but it is part of the TexMex food craze.

As a military dude, I love this story about nachos. I saw the history of Tex-Mex on The History Channel. Apparently nachos originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Mexico, just over the border from Texas.

It is said that these cheesy, crunchy treats were first made at a restaurant called The Victory Club during World War II.

One day in 1943, the wives of 10 to 12 U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass, Texas were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip. After a busy day, they were famished, and it is said the ladies arrived at the restaurant after the kitchen had closed for the day. Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya had little on hand but wanted to feed his guests, so he took some tortillas and cheese sauce. Anaya cut the tortillas into triangles, added nacho cheese, quickly heated them and added sliced jalapeño peppers before serving. The guests ate the snack and told friends, and I guess from there we have nachos.

This delicious and easy to prepare recipe is sure to satisfy the biggest munchies attack late at night. It is even hearty enough to be a meal. The key is how you prepare the meat. If done right, it also makes a great

filling for tacos and quesadillas. This recipe can be modified to meet your own taste. I recommend serving with sour cream and guacamole.

Start with chicken breast tenders and cook them in a pan with salsa ahead of time, because it gives the meat a great flavor. Grilling chicken is another option for nachos.

Have the veggies diced up ahead of time, which allows for easy toppings. I made this dish with some basic toppings, like onion, tomato and fresh jalapeños.

Arrange tortilla chips on a large baking sheet. Spoon the chicken mixture over tortilla chips. Top with cheddar/monterey jack cheese blend and tomato. Bake or broil in the preheated oven or a toaster oven for 10 minutes or until cheese has melted. Remove from heat and sprinkle with green onion tops before serving.

Movie Review

‘Wanderlust’ is wonderless

By Jordan LaPorte Staff Reporter

“Wanderlust” is a movie with everything necessary to be a great comedy.

It features lead actors who are funny and charismatic, a great cast supporting them and a premise that seems ripe with potential for hilarious events to transpire.

Unfortunately “Wanderlust” rarely delivers on that potential, and when it finally does, the film tends to overuse the material until it is no longer funny or even moderately enjoyable.

The film follows George, played by Paul Rudd, and Linda, who is played by Jennifer Aniston, as they move from their busy New York City lifestyle to a tranquil commune in the countryside full of peaceful hippies.

Rudd and Aniston do fine, but both of them are playing characters they have already played in many other films.

There just isn’t anything of substance to their characters or the relationship between them, so it’s almost impossible to foster any sort of connection with the audience.

The first half-hour or so of the film is mostly just setting up how George and Linda end up going from an apartment in New York City to living in a commune. It progresses pretty slowly and nothing particularly funny happens during that time. The best part of the film early on isn’t George or Linda, but George’s vulgar brother Rick, played by Ken Marino.

Rick is extremely crude and mean, but is also one of the funniest characters throughout the entire movie, which is why it’s a shame that he doesn’t really play a huge role.

George and Linda are forced to move in with Rick and his family for a short time, but after that Rick doesn’t show up again until the film is nearly over.

‘Wanderlust’

HHHHH w Genre: Comedy w Rating: R w Score: 2 out of 5 “Wanderlust” is not devoid of humor, but it seems like every time director David Wain found something funny, he felt the need to use it over and over again.

The same approach seems to be applied to the film’s philosophy of “money can’t buy happiness.”

Many viewers may leave the theater not with a smile, but with a concussion from being bludgeoned over the head so many times with repetitious and unfunny material, or from the film’s painfully overt philosophy.

Album Review

‘Giant Orange’ has big sound

By Sean Bradley Staff Reporter

The third time seems to be the charm for Lansing’s Cheap Girls, releasing their newest record “Giant Orange” on Rise Records this week.

Using that phrase, “third time’s a charm,” implies they missed the mark on their first two albums, 2008’s “Find Me a Drink Home” (Quote Unquote records) and 2009’s “My Roaring 20s” (Paper and Plastick records), but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Produced by Tom Gabel, frontman of Florida punk band Against Me!, immediately makes a difference on the band’s signature brand of power-pop.

On their first two albums, everything about the music sounds a bit flat in comparison to the recordings on this new effort.

On “Communication Blues,” guitarist Adam Aymor uses power chords to his advantage.

The single note crawl heard throughout the song sounds

just as crunchy as the power chord barrages during the choruses. Every guitar riff on the album sounds crisp, loud and heavy like a bag of bricks.

The rhythm section, via brothers Ben Graham (drums/ backing vocals) and Ian Graham (lead vocals/bass), is incredibly tight and efficient. Ben uses each hit to push the song forward to its natural conclusion.

The cymbals sound fresh and inviting, and the kick drum and snare add a subtle but powerful punch. The bass is a little low in the mix for my tastes. It’s there, but it’s sneaky — pretty swallowed up by the guitars.

Wordsmith Ian Graham uses a bit too many on this album.

On previous efforts, Graham wrote a lot of shorter verses with shout along choruses that are a blast to belt away to live. Here, the lyrics can be quite a mouthful. The chorus for opener “Gone All Summer” is “I’ve been gone all summer and I think it’s for the great good.” Not necessarily a bad thing, but different

‘Giant Orange’

HHHH w Artist: Cheap Girls w Genre: Power-Pop w Score: 4 out of 5 from Ian’s previous lyrics, which takes a bit or getting used to.

I’ve been listening to the album non-stop for a little more than a week and still don’t have all the lyrics memorized. I will soon though.

All in all, Gabel’s production brings out the best in the power trio. Aymor’s guitar sounds incredibly powerful and is a perfect transition to what they sound like live. The rhythm section is extremely tight, yet has a natural swagger. Ian’s bass is quiet, almost too much so, but it works. His lyrics are a little wordy, but worth the multiple listens to decipher. I highly recommend this.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Apple Inc. is expected to introduce the newest iteration of its popular iPad tablet computer at an event in San Francisco next week, according to an invitation the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant sent to the media Tuesday.

The invitation from Apple has an image of a finger touching an iPad calendar icon displaying the number “7” with the tagline “We have something you really have to see.

And touch.” The event will take place March 7 in San Francisco.

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What to watch over break Matt Thompson Sports Editor

Sophomore forward Taylor Johnson reaches for a rebound in between two Eastern Michigan defenders during Tuesday night’s game at McGuirk Arena in Mount Pleasant. Johnson finished with 10 points for the Chippewas in their 61-46 victory. CMU will host Ball State in the first round of the MAC tournament 2 p.m.

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While most students will go home to relax or travel somewhere exotic on spring break, studentathletes will go all over the country competing.

With students being so busy over break, I wanted to highlight a few interesting matchups to check out at cm-life.com while enjoying your week off.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. BALL STATE SATURDAY For those students staying in Mount Pleasant for break, or even just for the first weekend, you can see the first March Madness action. Central Michigan will attempt to make a Mid-American Conference tournament run starting with this round one game at home.

GYMNASTICS GOES WEST NEXT WEEK After clinching at least a share of the MAC title, CMU takes two weeks off of conference play before facing Western Michigan March

17. March 9 the Chippewas will go to Seattle and face Washington and San Jose State. Two days after they will compete against Sacramento State, UC Davis and Seattle Pacific in Sacramento, Calif.

TRACK AND FIELD HAS NCAA QUALIFIER On Saturday some members of the track and field squad will go to Ames, Iowa to qualify for the NCAA meet. Three CMU athletes won individual MAC titles last week at the conference championship.

SOFTBALL PLAYS IN USF UNDER ARMOUR TOURNAMENT The Chippewas will spend the week in Florida playing in the USF Under Armour Tournament in Tampa, Fla. South Florida, unranked but receiving votes in the USA Today poll, is hosting the tournament and will play CMU March 7. Others in the tournament include Penn State, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, Toledo, Miami (0hio) and Western Michigan.

CMU (0-4) will look to find its first win of the season in Florida.

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BASEBALL TRAVELS TO HAWAII Nothing says spring break like beaches and

baseball. The baseball team will begin break in Louisiana to take on McNeese Stae and Southeastern Louisiana during the first weekend. Then Chippewas will go to Hawaii to take on Hawaii in a fourgame series from Wednesday to Saturday.

CMU (2-5) will be trying to win its first series of this young season.

MEN’S BASKETBALL HOSTS WMU FRIDAY Its been a tough year for CMU. A win tonight at Ball State and Friday at home against WMU will give the Chippewas confidence going into the MAC tournament, but no matter what they will have to travel to a conference opponent for round one.

With only four wins in conference a MAC tournament run seems unlikely, but something to watch if Trey Zeigler can catch fire during March.

WRESTLING GRAPLES MAC TOURNAMENT SUNDAY After failing to repeat the MAC regular season title this year losing to Kent State, CMU will look for revenge at the MAC Championships. The Sunday meet in Akron, Ohio will likely come down to Kent State against CMU once again.

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Across 1 Defense lawyers’ adversaries, for short 5 Otherwise 10 Smidgen 14 Certain 15 Motored 16 Agitate 17 Member of Hook’s band 18 Ear-related 19 Time-half link 20 Shooter of soft confections 23 Gp. that issues canine pedigrees 24 Blue wearer, usually 25 In reserve 26 Satchel __, aptly named dog in the comic “Get Fuzzy” 28 Make fun of 31 Beatty of “Deliverance” 32 Formal coif, perhaps 33 More sleazy 36 Minor motoring mishaps

40 Exercise popularized

by Jim Fixx 41 Tennis do-overs 43 JFK alternative in NYC 46 Certain stove filler 47 In a convincing way 48 Palmer with an army 50 Show about Capote 52 Avenues of access 53 Strains credulity 58 Rock’s partner 59 “... never see __ lovely as ...”: Kilmer 60 Build a tree house 62 Chevy subcompact 63 __ firma 64 Mötley __ 65 Greenhorn 66 Overwhelm, or a relative of the first syllable of 20-, 36-, or 53-Across 67 Overdone publicity Down 1 Obstinate beast 2 Dolt

3 Alaska’s 907, e.g.

4 Clairvoyant 5 Where Moscow is 6 Dowdy dresser 7 Author Ephron 8 Racetrack 9 Tattle 10 Sketched 11 Welcome, as a new year 12 Moniker for Mussolini 13 Hit with a pitch, in a way 21 Academic inst.

22 Seeped 23 Kwik-E-Mart proprietor on “The Simpsons” 27 “And” or “or,” e.g.: Abbr.

28 Overly enthusiastic 29 “I’m all for that!”

30 Pizazz 33 Bell-shaped lily 34 Therefore 35 Depend (on) 37 Fastening pin 38 Oil plant

39 Gets to one’s feet 42 Jun. grads 43 Maze runner 44 Old-style “Cool!”

45 Rod-and-reel wielder 47 Mooch, as a smoke 49 Domed home 50 Heat unit 51 Plot anew 54 Welcome sign for a hungry traveler 55 Eject, as lava 56 When tripled, a 1970 war film 57 Waistline unit 61 Golf bag item