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New box office a hassle for many

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when I got it,” the Mount Pleasant resident said.

Plans for next year’s scarves are already in motion, said Special Olympics volunteer Belinda Laughlin.

She said volunteers and athletes had a wonderful time looking at the variety of designs.

“The whole idea is very touching,” Laughlin said. “It’s such a wonderful way for people to learn about and help with Special Olympics.”

The relocation of the Central Box Office to the new Events Center has inconvenienced not only students, but some faculty as well.

Virginia Beauchamp said box office location has become a hassle for her because she is required to attend productions at the Bush Theatre for classes.

“When it was a centralized location it was easier to stop by and now it’s so out of the way,” the Iron River senior said.

Beauchamp said it takes her an extra trip now, but because of classes she can’t get there before 5 p.m.

Romulus sophomore De’Shawna Hill said she feels similar, saying the Bovee University Center location of the box office was better because more students gather in there.

“The new location is still a far walk from the Towers,” Hill said. “They could have kept them both open.”

Director of University Theatre Steve Berglund said the timing of the move was bad, but he trusts that it will work out in the long run.

“I wish they would have had a conversation with us prior to the change so we could have made the necessary changes,” Berglund said.

“We were given no notice and so we had to change the publicity mid-season,” he added.

Bob Ebner, director of University Events, said the change of location creates convenience because there is only one place to go.

“The goal has always been to combine the two box offices,” Ebner said. “We designed a larger ticket system right into the Events Center.”

Beauchamp said that she is only by the Events Center for football games, but she is at the Bovee University Center at least twice a week because of the CMU Bookstore and Independent Bank.

“Multiple locations could be a fix and create more jobs,” Beauchamp said.

Beauchamp said that if she didn’t have to go see productions for her classes she would probably buy fewer tickets.

“It makes me angry to have to go buy tickets now,” she said.

Hill said that if she didn’t have a car she would just end up buying tickets at the door instead.

Ebner said it doesn’t look like they will open the location back up at the Bovee U.C. Currently, tickets can be bought online, but costs an extra $4. The cost of tickets being bought online are being worked out, Ebner said.

“I just thought the location that it was at was prime,” Beauchamp said.

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Gabriella Smith, a 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games competitor, celebrates after winning first place in the 75-meter snowshoeing race. “I came in first, woo! I came in first!” Smith said after the results.

A winning winter Athletes travel to Special Olympics state games

Members of Area 15, Oakland County, cheer on their team member while he competes in the speed skatimg event on Thursday at the Howe Ice Arena in Traverse City during the 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games.

The games also held snowshoeing, figureskating, alpine skiing and snowboarding for athletes hailing from all over the state.

By Jordan Spence | Staff Reporter

TRAVERSE CITY — Hugs, smiles and terms of endearment were seen and heard among the competition at the 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games.

More than 1,000 athletes from across Michigan participated in the week’s events including snowshoeing, skiing, speed and figure skating.

The winter games took place between Traverse City, Acme and Bellaire.

Joanna Zang has volunteered as an Area 10 speed and figure skating coach in Huron County for

about 10 years. She was a coach for the winter games this week.

“Our teams are very supportive and help one another,” she said. “They love coming to the games.”

Damon Williams is a member of Area 10’s speed skating team and is still new to the sport. He put his first skate to the ice about a month and a half ago, Zang said.

“I only started practicing in December,” Williams said. “I just love it because it’s fun and I love the dances and my friends.”

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Volunteers gather scarves for SOM athletes

By Jordan Spence Staff Reporter

A knitted red-and-teal scarf hung amongst medals looped around almost every athlete and volunteer’s neck at this year’s Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games.

Kim Purdy, SOM director of public relations, said the idea for the scarves came from Virginia Schultz, a Clarkston resident.

It was the first year the Michigan Winter Olympics did some-

thing like it, Purdy said.

“She contacted us and by early fall we had 1,000 scarves,” Purdy said. “So many people wanted to be a part of this project. In total, we got about 6,000 from 12 different states.”

Purdy said Schultz got the idea for the scarves from an article about the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter games, where American athletes wore hand-knitted white and blue scarves.

Growing Facebook and Twitter communities helped gar-

ner donations from across the country, Purdy said. Groups and events were created to raise awareness of the project.

“Those knitting communities are pretty tight,” said Edie Wirtshafter, SOM southwest and south-central senior regional manager. “They are a group of people with a passion.”

Purdy said the scarves were a great representation of Special Olympics and they created a special shared moment between athletes and volunteers.

Cathy Fresa, a coach for Area

15 in Oakland County, said efforts like the one to provide the scarves bring awareness to the program.

“It allows people to support us who can’t monetarily, or can’t volunteer,” she said. “I noticed that even the hotel workers were wearing them.”

Fresa said one team member’s grandmother hand-knitted 16 scarves for the cause.

Blake Long, from Area 7 in Isabella County, said the scarves were beautiful.

“It put a smile on my face

Entrepreneurial growth sign of economic upturn Sponseller: Owners are city’s ‘greatest champions’

By Maryellen Tighe Staff Reporter

Nine new businesses opened in downtown Mount Pleasant during 2010 — what some call

an encouraging sign of economic growth throughout the region.

Michelle Sponseller, Downtown Development director, said the increase in businesses is the result of years of work by the Downtown Development Authority to create a businessdrawing brand for the area.

“We’ve been reaching this point for a number of years — to have a consistent brand and now we’re seeing a payoff

from it,” she said. “Our best marketing tool for downtown is the other businesses we have downtown. Our business owners are our greatest champions.”

Not only downtown has seen business growth. The Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce did 10 to 15 ribbon cuttings in the last five months, said President Lisa Hadden.

December and January are historically low for new mem-

bers, she said, but this year was an anomaly. The chamber gained 25 to 30 in the last two months.

Four Seasons Floral, 2223 S. Mission St., opened in November.

“It’s a new location of a business we’ve had for a long time,” said manager Katie Ellis. “We decided that it was about time we expanded ourselves and got ... to Mount Pleasant.”

Its new location, near cam-

pus and on Mission Street generates a lot of walk-in traffic, she said.

The time was right for the floral shop, but many other businesses are still delaying capital projects and hiring, Hadden said.

“There’s quite a large continuum of services here for entrepreneurs,” Hadden said.

“I think we will see this trend continue.”

Some of the available ser-

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Another local entrepreneur is Terri Ramon, owner of Salon Blu, 121 S. University Ave. Ramon said she does hair for clients from Gladwin, Alma, Clare, Ithaca and farther.

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“I think Mount Pleasant is doing quite well ... CMU and the casino draw business,” Ramon said. “I enjoy being in the downtown area, I just love the feel of it and the vibe of it.”

While numbers downtown and in the city have inspired hope for economic change, entrepreneurial numbers countywide in years past have suggested a different trend.

Between 2006 and 2009, the number of business names registered with the county clerk fell by 15 percent.

In 2009, 532 new names were registered and 631 in 2006. The numbers for 2010 were not immediately available as of Thursday afternoon.

However, Isabella has consistently had the second- or third-lowest unemployment rate in the state. According to the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth, the county in December recorded a 7.2-percent jobless rate — the second lowest of Michigan’s 83 counties.

Part of the draw to downtown is the guaranteed foot traffic, Sponseller said. There are a variety of businesses in the area so downtown is a destination, rather than just one business.

One effort the DDA is focusing more on is attracting student entrepreneurs, she said.

“We’d love for folks to start their business here and stay in the community after they graduate,” Sponseller said. metro@cm-life.com

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Egypt’s Islamists, caught off guard by uprising, still defining their role

By Hannah Allam MCT Campus

CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood, long relegated to the fringes of Egyptian politics, is playing a growing role in the popular revolt against President Hosni Mubarak but is still defining its goals for the country, according to political analysts familiar with the Islamist movement.

Under the one-party regime that Mubarak ran for three decades, the mostly mainstream Brotherhood was officially outlawed but generally tolerated. Still, it went on to become Egypt’s best-organized political movement, claiming 400,000 members.

The Brotherhood has long opposed Mubarak, yet it was caught unprepared by the uprising, and its leadership initially was reticent to take part in the demonstrations.

Several days into the protests, it began flexing its muscle, joining the loose coalition of opposition groups and reaching out to Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Prize laureate who has claimed the leadership mantle. It also publicly stated its precondition for talks with the government: that Mubarak first resign.

There’s no question that fundamentalist elements persist among the Islamists.

Egyptian liberals, who view the Brotherhood as a risky ally, say the group represents no more than a fraction of the country’s 80 million people.

“The role and influence of the Brother Muslims have been exaggerated intentionally by the Egyptian regime for years, just to send the message to the West that either you accept the dictatorship in Egypt or prepare for another Taliban or Hamas in power. This is not true at all,” said Alaa al-Aswany, an acclaimed Egyptian novelist who supports the anti-government protesters.

Mubarak had demonized the movement as fundamentalist, putting it in the same category as al-Qaida and the Taliban, and Israel has long expressed fears that the de-

mise of Mubarak would open the way to an extremist regime. Leading members of the Brotherhood formulated the Islamist theology adopted

by Osama bin Laden, and one former Brotherhood member, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri, is bin Laden’s closest aide.

Yet the Brotherhood said earlier this week that it would recognize all of Egypt’s international treaties, a thinly veiled reference to the country’s longtime peace agreement with Israel.

To many observers, the reference signaled a willingness by the Brotherhood to negotiate with Western powers. Still, the Brotherhood eventually would like to put Egypt’s pact with Israel on the ballot in a national referendum, which would all but assure its rejection.

“Unfortunately, the Western countries and the United States don’t recognize anything other than their own agendas and interests, and ensuring the safety of the Zionist entity,” said Gamal Nassar, a spokesman for the Brotherhood in Cairo, referring to Israel. “That’s OK. They have to protect their interests, but the problem is that we shouldn’t follow or submit to their agenda.”

The U.S. has long shunned the Brotherhood as a radical anti-Western movement.

It mostly kept silent when Mubarak, its ally, jailed hundreds of Brotherhood members without charges and unleashed thugs on Islamists, the same tactic his regime appears to be using now against anti-government demonstrators in downtown Cairo.

Now, as the Brotherhood moves toward a bigger role in Egyptian politics, the Obama administration has been careful not to exclude it from a future dialogue.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs avoided most questions about the Brotherhood this week.

He said a future democratic government would include “a whole host of important nonsecular actors,” but that the U.S. wasn’t in touch with the Brotherhood.

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Two competencies will be added to curriculum

By Theresa Clift Staff Reporter

Two new competency requirements for graduation will be added to CMU’s curriculum — quantitative reasoning and writing intensive.

General Education Director George Ronan, who is working to implement the competencies, said the goal is to ensure students can write and think critically by the time they graduate.

“Oftentimes we are confronted with more and more numbers in society from politicians, news articles and else-

where,” Ronan said. “Students need to be able to reason through these things.”

This initiative will require small modifications to the curriculum, Ronan said, and will not require students to take numerous additional courses.

“The courses they take will be structured differently,” he said.

These initiatives will help ensure CMU graduates do not fall into the alleged “academically adrift” category.

In “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa as-

sert one-third of undergraduate students fail to develop critical reasoning and writing skills before graduation.

Their study tracked a representative sample of more than 2,000 students who entered 24 undisclosed four-year colleges in fall 2005.

They reported at least 45 percent of students did not improve over a two-year period; 36 percent did not show any significant improvement after four years.

Ronan said the numbers are shocking and they are trying to restructure the curriculum to prevent such results at CMU.

“We’ve been interested in general education for a long time,” Ronan said. “There has been an active study for the past seven years and, last May, the Academic Senate passed revisions that I am just now implementing.”

Ronan and the team want to make sure CMU students have a world-class education.

“The goal is just to change curriculum to fit students’ needs better,” Ronan said. “I am very confident that the changes are going to be good for the student without being overly costly.”

Under the new initiative, each major program will determine if a quantitative reasoning course must be added to the curriculum depending on existing courses. Students will not need to take the class within their major because it can be applied in many different disciplines.

The new writing intensive requirement will replace the writing aspect of the current University Program system.

Currently, all offered University Program classes have to include a certain amount of writing. With the new program, only certain classes will

be labeled as “writing intensive.”

Students must take four writing intensive classes by the time they graduate: Two from UP courses and two from elsewhere.

The existing UP groups will not change. A class will be labeled as writing intensive if the students not only writes, but also receives constant feedback on their writing.

Ronan said students will not have to complete the new requirements within their first two years at CMU. university@cm-life.com

Extra efforts clear campus, city roads

By Emily Grove Senior Reporter

Students may have rejoiced Wednesday morning to the news of class cancellations, but workers with the Isabella County Road Commission and CMU Facilities Management department had their hands full.

FM landscape operations had 20 people working through the storm, including five retirees. Crews worked in shifts Tuesday evening, Wednesday and Thursday.

“Every storm is different, but this is the worst storm since I joined CMU in 2003,” said Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Management.

This week’s storm was more challenging than most because of the high winds and drifting, he said. Also challenging was the reduced effectiveness of salt because of cold temperatures.

The road commission faced those same challenges while maintaining the streets of Mount Pleasant.

“On the primary roads, the blacktop ones, we would plow but two hours later they would drift shut again,” said Tony Casali, county road commission manager.“ The commission worked 10- and 12-hour days during the storm and after, Casali said.

Isabella County plows 16 townships, each with its own truck. The road commission also owns motor graders and a tow truck.

The university maintains fourand- a-half miles of roads, 29 miles of sidewalks and 92 acres of parking lots, Lawrence said.

Though FM does not yet know how much the snow removal operations will cost, it spent $73,267 in labor costs for the winter in the 2008-09 school year. That does not include salt and other expenses.

Casali estimated in one day of the storm, the county spent $12,000 in fuel costs alone.

The road commission’s budget for this year is $900,000, but the budget has to be stretched much thinner with the cost of fuel and salt rising.

“With costs we have to watch overtime and how we tackle the storms,” Casali said. “It’s really critical when positioning ourselves to use manpower wisely.”

The commission felt it had a fairly mild start to winter. Going into this week’s storm, it was on target with its budget, Casali said.

“We had used half of the budget and we’re halfway through winter,” Casali said. “We were looking fairly good, but if this continues we may not be in such great shape.” metro@cm-life.com

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Novi senior and Equestrian Club Team President Ashley Abbruzzi prepares Baby, a thouroughbred horse, for practice Wednesday afternoon. Abbruzzi has been riding with the club for four years. “My favorite thing about riding would be the companionship,” he said.

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Student group lends opportunity for horseback riding

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shley Abbruzzi hopped into the saddle as a 3-year-old and hasn’t stopped riding since.

The Novi senior said she started riding horses at her aunt’s behest and immediately fell in love with the sport. She bought her first horse, Stitch, at 12 and now owns a second horse named Regis.

Abbruzzi has been a member of the Equestrian Club at CMU for four years and has been president since August 2010.

She said people are usually surprised when she tells them CMU has such an organization.

“Not many people come to college looking for equestrian clubs,” she said. “To me, riding is a stress reliever, (it) keeps me staying active and I love animals.”

Abbruzzi said she spends about three to six days a

week with her horses.

“Up here (the club) requires that members on the team have one-hour lessons once a week,” Abbruzzi said.

The club competes in about four shows a semester and usually ranks fifth out of 20 schools, she said.

They train at Sunset Farms in Shepherd, owned by Su-

san Bellinger who serves as a dressage coach for the team.

Bellinger allows the club to use her barn and 16 horses free of charge, and gives them a discount on riding lessons.

The Equestrian Club at CMU has three types of riding styles: stock seat, dressage seat and hunt seat. Ab-

bruzzi specializes in hunt seat, an English style of riding that involves a lot of jumping.

She said she learned to jump when she was younger, which she thinks was why it never scared her.

Although they have never had any injuries in the club, back home Abbruzzi took a bruising, including a concussion when a horse bucked her and she landed on her head.

“Everything’s going to go wild sometimes,” Abbruzzi said. “It’s an animal — they’re big and they don’t mean to hurt you.”

Waterford junior Jessica Leroux, club vice president, is also a hunt-seat rider. She said riding a 1,200 pound animal is the most humbling sport in the world because riders quickly realize how little control they have unless the animal trusts them.

“The fact that you and a large animal are figuring out out how to get over a big object together is pretty cool,” she said.

The club had a handful of new members this year, said Sturgis junior Kasi Huver. Huver said the team’s shared love for horses helps form tight bonds. She also attributed the close ties to Abbruzzi’s efficient management.

“Ashley does a lot that goes unrecognized,” Huver said. “We appreciate everything she does.”

Abbruzzi is graduating in May. Bellinger said she is a great rider and will be sorry to see her go.

“It’s hard when you see these kids graduate after you’ve been with them for years,” Bellinger said. “I hate to see her graduate.” photo@cm-life.com

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Survey suggests more students receiving grants, scholarships

By Chidera Ogbanna Staff Reporter

This year’s freshman class might be more driven to achieve compared to previous years, though they feel the affects of the ailing economy to a greater degree.

According to an annual national survey by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, 73.4 percent of students received grants and scholarships, more than at any point since 2001.

Goodrich freshman Alicia Carter hoped to complete her college education at CMU, but did not receive enough financial assistance.

“Since I have been here, I thought I was going to get more financial aid,” Carter said. “I started adding up the numbers and I figured out it would be better for me to switch to Oakland University. In the long run, the financial aid package I got was not enough.”

Some students chose CMU over other schools because

they felt it was cheaper.

“Central was cheaper than a lot of other schools that I wanted to go to, such as Spring Arbor University, which is a private school,” said Gull Lake freshman Benjamin Hoeksema.

The economy influenced Indian River freshman Michaela Wright to take initiative by applying for financial aid that was available for her.

“Our economy today influenced me to apply for grants from CMU and local schol-

arships which I received,” Wright said. “It was harder for me because my parents are not paying for my education.”

Some students have reported being heavily stressed prior to leaving their home for an independent life in college.

Wright said she became anxious in her senior year of high school knowing the large financial burden she would soon assume.

The survey also reported that freshmen rate their aca-

demic ability above average, are more likely to attend a college that is within 100 miles from their hometown if they are feeling the economic strain and are more likely to live with a family member.

“I think that my situation is like any other student in other college,” Carter said.

“Our economy is bad and tuition keeps rising which causes financial aid to keep running out.” university@cm-life.com

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CHSBS enrollment increases Rise comes despite liberal arts decrease nationwide

By Annie Harrison Staff Reporter

The idea that fewer students are interested in liberal arts education because of increasing pressure for more technical degrees is a myth, Rick Kurtz said.

“Our enrollments in this college are record enrollments,” said the interim associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences.

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education said fewer undergraduates choose majors in liberal arts because of “waning student interest and unprecedented financial duress.”

But CMU’s CHSBS recently added sections in English composition, psychology, philosophy, religion and Spanish, Kurtz said.

He said these courses are popular both on and off campus.

Kurtz said although the percentage of students with liberal arts degrees have gone down,

the interest in the programs has not. He said the reality is that new technologies have created new career options for students.

Students who are earning technical degrees still need a set of competency skills, he said, and CMU has the “best of both worlds” because it offers both technical and liberal arts programs.

“Some universities mistakenly put focus on technical degrees at the detriment to liberal arts,” he said. “Universities that don’t realize that students who want broader-based education are going to be the ones that suffer,” he said.

Port Huron junior Dan Wiley said he chose to major in political science with a minor in public administration to prepare for law school.

“Political science and pre-law go hand-in-hand together,” he said. “It’s one of the most common degrees that lawyers have.”

Wiley said he is a little concerned about the job market because “not everyone that goes to law school becomes a lawyer,” but he believes his education will keep his options open.

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Suttons Bay senior Matt Riley also chose a major based on employment concerns. He said he originally wanted to major in both information technology and music, but he chose to focus on IT with a minor in music.

“I’m similarly interested in both, but the prospect of me getting a job is a lot higher in IT,” he said.

Negaunee junior Helen Collins is majoring in political science with a comparative politics concentration. Collins said she chose this major because she has an interest in international relations, but is not sure what she wants to do with her degree.

“I’m getting the degree and I’m not really focusing on what I want to do when I graduate,” she said.

Kurtz said there has been an increase of people with minors in CHSBS because students recognize the demands of employers.

“Students respond to what they hear from their potential employers,” he said. “Students respond by having that competency.” university@cm-life.com

Bernanke gives sunny view of nation’s economic recovery

By Kevin G. Hall MCT Campus

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pointed Thursday to “increased evidence” of a self-sustaining economic recovery and strongly rejected suggestions that his policies are driving up global food prices.

The Fed chairman was unusually upbeat on the U.S. economy’s outlook, noting in a speech at the National Press Club that “we have seen increased evidence that a self-sustaining recovery in consumer and business spending may be taking hold.”

Pointing to data from last week showing that households boosted their spending by an annual rate of 4 percent in the final three months of 2010, Bernanke added that “the recent gains in consumer spending look to have been reasonably

broad based.”

The stock market this week also reached levels not seen in more than two years.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 Tuesday for the first time since June 2008 and has not yet closed below that benchmark.

Consumption drives about two-thirds of U.S. activity, so anything that points to consumers picking up their spending is a hopeful sign. Employers have been waiting for firm and consistent signs of increased consumption before boosting their hiring, and monthly employment numbers are slowly improving.

He took care to repeat points he has made in the past: that inflation is well contained and that it will take quite some time for the unemployment rate to fall sharply.

“Until we see a sustained period of stronger job cre-

ation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established,” Bernanke cautioned, a day before a muchanticipated government jobs report for January.

After his speech, Bernanke took questions from reporters, a rare step for him.

His predecessors all shied from the media.

He was pressed on whether the Fed’s ongoing purchase of $600 billion in Treasury bonds — a process called quantitative easing — has had the unintended consequence of raising food costs around the world, and perhaps contributing to the unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East.

“I’m not sure I accept the premise,” Bernanke said, noting that weather-related constraints on food supplies may be a factor, as well as growth in demand for food in countries such as Egypt.

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25 received for museum’s first effort

By Sienna Monczunski Staff Reporter

Local elementary school students will get a taste of college life through the “Get a Letter, Write a Letter” exhibit in the Museum of Cultural and Natural History.

“Get a Letter, Write a Letter” was created by Troy senior Kellie DeSchutter and Flat Rock senior Jillian Matthews, student assistants for the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. The Museum Studies program wanted to create an exhibit about campus life outside of the classroom.

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Schutter said. “We think it’s important because there are a lot of students in this area and it’s a way for us to reach out to the community and it gives them an opportunity to start thinking about college.”

DeSchutter and Matthews were inspired by the excitement they felt when checking mailboxes at their residence halls. The exhibit lasts from early January through the summer of 2011.

The program has never been attempted the CMU and its continuation will be determined by its initial success. So far about 25 letters have been received, mainly from alumni.

“I think letter writing is becoming a lost art,” Cadillac alumnus Gary Thurston said. “I wanted to let kids know that college is more than classes. I also love life and CMU helped

shape that.”

The letters brought in from CMU students, staff and alumni will be placed in a mailbox for students to read. The students will be able to respond with paper envelopes and stamps available at the museum.

Letters have a half-page maximum and are required to be appropriate for children of all ages.

“I think it’s a great interactive way to work our way across generations, to connect young people with people who are college students with people who are way beyond college age and that’s a fairly difficult thing to do,” said Jay Martin, director of the Museum of Cultural and Natural History. “There’s always some sort of generational gap and this is our attempt to bridge that.” university@cm-life.com

Christina Weltmer fondly remembers her days of watching mixed martial arts with her father at a young age.

Although she didn’t enroll in MMA classes at Morey Courts, 5175 E. Remus Road, for the specific purpose of learning self-defense, it has been a nice side-effect for the Port Huron senior.

Weltmer has participated in the classes since fall 2010 with her friend Plymouth senior Codi Surowiec.

“I’ve been watching MMA since I was a little kid and always wanted to try it, and it turned out to be a lot of fun,” Weltmer said.

Surowiec is the assistant instructor for the class.

“I think it’s really important for women to know (martial arts), women will never out-power men, but they can learn the technicality to win,” Surowiec said.

Surowiec has been involved in MMA since she was 12

years old. She said learning the techniques helped her in high school.

She was bullied in high school, but said the harassment stopped once she began learning the arts.

Surowiec said she only had to use what she learned once in high school after a boy shoved her against a locker.

“There were no teachers in the hallway, so I did a back kick to the floating rib and he backed off,” she said.

Surowiec said she wants to continue to teach women martial arts wherever she goes in life. Making someone come out and become confident is priceless, she said.

Weltmer said the best thing about the class is the people and stress relief.

“It’s always fun, even if your day sucks,” Weltmer said. “You get to be aggressive as a girl and it’s nice to get that out in a nice legal environment.”

Weltmer, who has never been in a fight, said the class is a stress-reliever for her. She

said it also made her aware of how to use her strength.

Head instructor Daniel Lenhart said the most important part of martial arts is the level of respect people learn rather than losing control — it teaches them to calm down and evaluate each situation.

Lenhart also said it is important for women to learn so they can defend themselves from domestic abuse and sexual assaults.

“I’ve had 75 people pass through and we try to be as welcoming as possible, but some people don’t have the heart to continue,” he said.

About 12 to 15 people show up to the classes and the ages range from 12 to the late 30s.

The class is held from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Morey Courts. The class costs $2.50 per session and students are free to show up and sign up at the front desk.

“You can unleash your aggressive side and learn some self defense,” Weltmer said. metro@cm-life.com

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EDITORIAL | City, county take strides to become a boon for business

The right appetite

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n a state that has yet to recover from a damaged economy, Mount Pleasant is doing something right.

The town primarily sustains its economic appetite on funds coming to and from CMU and Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, both of which employ more people in the region than any other businesses. But these are not the only businesses thriving within city limits.

2010 saw nine new businesses open in the downtown area, helping bring more people downtown to do business.

While this may not be a sign that Mount Pleasant has shaken off recession into fullblown economic recovery, it

is a sign of what could come.

In a town that relies so heavily on just two employers, these new businesses offer not only a new place for residents to spend their income, but also new and diversified employment opportunities — the backbone of a

recovering economy.

Isabella County already maintains a tie for Michigan’s second lowest unemployment rate of 7.2 percent, and if that rate continues to drop it means more cash flowing through the city’s businesses.

Like every town, Mount

Pleasant has its share of small businesses, but these new businesses show people are starting to take the necessary risks required to revitalize economy from a grassroots level.

As reported in CM Life, the number of new businesses opening in Isabella have fallen in years past, dropping from 631 in 2006 to 532 in 2009. The numbers were unavailable for 2010 as of Thursday afternoon. But given the state of Michigan’s economy, this is not unusual. It has been hit harder than most in recent years and has yet to gain the steam needed to pick up the pieces of what was an industry-heavy economy.

The city itself is also taking measures to help make the

town more business friendly, and it is starting with one of its most important thoroughfares: Mission Street.

The road has long been seen as a treacherous journey for pedestrians and motorists alike, and because it is a state highway, Mount Pleasant doesn’t have much control over what happens to the street itself. But the city is working with businesses to make sure that both the city and businesses are having their needs met.

This push by Mount Pleasant is just as good for the local economy as the new businesses are, and if both work congruently, they could form a potent tandem to help propel the local economy into recovery.

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Maryellen Tighe Staff Reporter

Flakes of fantasy I love snow.

Not for its school-canceling potential, but because every time a new layer falls there is another chance to invent an entirely new world from the most mundane moments.

Wednesday morning I took a walk across campus to visit my friend Andrew.

I was pursued by imaginary gunmen on academic building roofs as I made my way across Lot 22.

I made it all the way to Calkins before I was finally apprehended and bled out in a small snowbank. My death could have been avoided if my friend had walked down the stairs just a little quicker.

But, with him at my side, we were the sole survivors of Snomageddon. The last two people left on Earth, trekking down deer trails in Nelson Park.

When we emerged on Broadway, we greeted the cars we saw as little kids greet Christmas, with huge smiles on our faces.

But our first look down the street showed us the largest snow pile we had ever seen in our lives in the middle of the road.

While drivers treated the mound as a roundabout, we were on top of a mountain.

We wandered back to campus as life returned to Mount Pleasant.

As I headed home across the empty lot where I had hours before fled for my life, something was missing.

The imaginary gunmen were still firing, and I was wading in chest-deep snowdrifts along the railroad tracks to stay out of their line of sight, but it didn’t seem as real as three hours earlier.

I think they accidentally plowed up some magic with the snow in lot 22.

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Health care repeal helps companies, hurts people Health insurance companies are excited that U.S. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, and his Republican colleagues voted to repeal the new health care law.

This law tells insurance companies that they cannot deny coverage for children with pre-existing conditions, and they cannot impose lifetime limits on coverage. They also have to allow adult children to stay on their parents’ health plans up to age 26, and Medicare recipients can have a number of preventive and well-care services without being charged a deductible, co-pay or coinsurance.

If you or a family member falls under any of these categories, Dave Camp and the insurance compa-

nies are glad to tell you that you will no longer be covered if they are successful in repealing health care reform. And now that the Senate has decided to debate repeal, there is the possibility that it might pass there too.

As part of the insurance companies’ efforts to rally the anti-reform troops, a document supposedly written by a judge in Texas is being re-circulated. The judge was looking at HB 3200 — the “Care Bill,“ and highlighted a number of sections that, frankly, look pretty scary.

The folk who are circulating the document don’t want you to know that it is NOT the law that finally was approved. The document the

judge marked up was just a draft of the law that was obsolete by the summer of 2009. H.R. 3962 was the number of the bill that became law, and it was titled “Affordable Health Care for America Act.” The Better Business Bureau had a catchphrase to alert the public to shady business practices: “If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.“ When it comes to politics, the reverse is true: “If it sounds too bad to be true, it usually is.”

The judge and the folk who are circulating the latest batch of distortions prove the point.

Timothy Caldwell Mount Pleasant

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I fell in love with a band One minute and 50 seconds.

That is how long it took for Jack and Meg White to completely change my attitude toward music.

Wednesday was the day that many fans of the duo, The White Stripes, knew was coming for more than three years. The band announced through www. whitestripes.com that they would no longer record music or perform live.

“Both Meg and Jack hope this decision isn’t met with sorrow by their fans but that it is seen as a positive move done out of respect for the art and music that the band has created,” read the statement on the band’s website.

In that spirit, not out of sorrow but out of fond remembrance, I was driven back to that moment which still means so much to me.

I was fourteen years old, getting ready for another day of eighth grade, with MTV — which still played music videos in the morning — on the TV as I ate my breakfast.

At this point in my life I listened to music, but I never thought about music. I never thought about who was making it, how they were making it or, most importantly, why they were making it.

But as I was sitting there, eating my cereal, the video for The White Stripes’ “Fell in Love with a Girl” came on. I was initially drawn in by the stopanimation video.

But that first time, I hardly even noticed the video as the music came through.

It was raw, messy and crunchy, and its hook grabbed you by the collar and forced you to pay attention. And it didn’t even last two minutes.

This wasn’t a group of pretty guys trying to make a record that appealed to the masses so they could live the Puff Daddy carsand-champagne lifestyle. This was a divorced couple building off their quirks, fascinations and shortcomings, making the music that meant something to them. It was probably the first time a song genuinely made me feel something, and I genuinely understood why.

I got the album with the song on it, “White Blood Cells,” as soon as I could. Over the years I ended up owning and loving every single studio album they made.

To me, this is not just a band breaking up. These songs opened my eyes and showed me both the sonic and emotional potential music had.

For me, that one minute and fifty seconds turned into nine years of listening to and admiring the music of The White Stripes. It may seem shallow or cliché to say that their music changed me and helped to shape my life, but it kind of did, and I wouldn’t trade it away, ever.

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A moment in the

spotlight More than 1,000 athletes compete, interact at 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games

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Dylan Fryman, 11, an Area 12 athlete, high-fives other competitors after completing a speed skating heat on Thursday at Howe Ice Arena during the 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games. The games, which go through today, also included figure skating, show shoeing, alpine skiing, cross country skiing and snowboarding.

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Northville resident Elizabeth Adams, a coach for Area 23, helps Livonia resident Kevin Quinn put on his coat and racer number prior to competing in the show shoe event during the 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games on Thursday at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa. The games, which run through today, also held speed skating, figure skating, alpine skiing and snowboarding for athletes hailing from all over the state. Adams has been helping with Special Olympics for nine years, but this is her first winter Olympics. “My favorite is watching the athletes try their hardest and accomplish their goals and dreams,” Adams said. “Every time I watch them I get goosebumps and cry.”

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Bob Meir of Kalamazoo sits down and takes off his hat while waiting for the bus to take him back to the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa on Thursday, following the conclusion of the games at Schuss Village in Bellaire for the day. Meir, a member of Area 16, won silver in his cross country heat during the 2011 Special Olympics Michigan State Winter Games.

“I’m a special ed teacher, so the winter games are something different and cool for my kids.

They’ve really enjoyed themselves, especially to get away from home and parents.”

Steve Kleczynski, Wayne County resident

Even though Williams has skated a short time, Zang said he’s an amazing athlete and never gives up.

She said he’s a great example of the spirit of the athletes at the winter games.

“It doesn’t matter how many times he falls” Zang said, “he always gets back up and tries again.”

Many athletes spend months practicing for the games. But competition isn’t always the main concern of the people taking part.

Dakkota Brace, 11, competed in all areas of the games. He practiced for the last six weeks to compete in the 50- and 75-meter snowshoe races.

“I love to run,” said Dakkota, a member of Area 33 in Cheboygan County. “I like to go as fast as I can.”

Her coach, Michelle Schoolcraft, said the athletes have practiced hard since November.

“Most of the time we would set up a pretend race in the parking lot,” she said. “We set up cones and just run back and forth.”

The winter games also gave an opportunity for the athletes to have fun with one another and discover new things.

Activities such as dog-sled races were new and entertaining to many athletes, said Area 23 coach Steve Kleczynski of Wayne County.

“I’m a special ed teacher, so the winter games are something different and cool for my kids,” he said.

“They’ve really enjoyed themselves, especially to get away from home and parents.” metro@cm-life.com

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On Sunday, four former CMU football players will take part in Super Bowl XLV. Three players are in just their first season with a professional team, hoping to reach . . .

Andrew Stover Senior Reporter

Zombo defying the odds

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hey just wanted to make the team.

T They didn’t ask to play with the first team, didn’t ask to travel with the team and they certainly didn’t ask

to live out a Super Bowl dream.

No, the preseason goals of Green Bay Packers defenders Frank Zombo and Josh Gordy weren’t too extreme.

“I was just hoping to make the practice team,” Zombo said.

He did.

“My whole goal really was to make the practice squad,” Gordy said.

He didn’t.

But fast forward from preseason to postseason, past all of the injuries that might have opened doors and past all of the cuts that might have closed them; fast forward from Mount Pleasant to Green Bay to Sunday evening at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, where the former Central Michigan standouts will be on the field and part of the biggest spectacle in American sports.

“I’m really blessed,” Zombo said over the phone this week.

“It’s been a blessing to make it this far,” Gordy said.

And the Packers rookie linebacker and defensive back aren’t alone, joining seven-year veteran and teammate Cullen Jenkins and opposing fellow Pittsburgh Steelers rookie wide receiver Antonio Brown to give the Chippewas a power-program presence at Super Bowl XLV. “I won a championship last year at this time with these guys,” Brown said at Super Bowl media day on Tuesday.

“Now, we’re playing in the biggest bowl on Earth.”

The quartet of former Chippewas is tied with perennial college football powers Ohio State, LSU and Tennessee for most in the game, and the 15 players competing from Mid-American Conference schools trails only the

football hotbed of the Southeastern Conference, which sports 18.

“This definitely looks good for Central Michigan and the MAC,” Gordy said. “We all take great pride in our school.”

And the two Packers rookies also take great pride in their journeys, from the bottom of draft boards to playing for the top prize in football and from being on the same team and to not having a team, to having a chance at fulfilling a dream together.

“We’re real close,” Gordy said.

And many a time, they were real close to not having this opportunity.

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Frank Zombo warms up prior to NFC playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 15. Zombo has suffered injuries of late, but said he expects to play Sunday.

Chicago Bears’ Matt Forte is wrapped up by Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Kampman, left, and Cullen Jenkins at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis., on Sept. 13, 2009. Jenkins has spent sevens seasons in the NFL.

I place my drink atop the urinal.

It’s mid-July in desolate Mount Pleasant. It’s an O’Kelly’s night, whatever that means.

A massive dude posts up next to me.

It’s Frank Zombo. The same 6-foot-3, 254-pound Central Michigan alum.

Two things run through my head as I cordially say “Hello.”

One: Urinal-to-urinal talk is more prevalent than anyone thinks. Especially if there are drinks involved.

Two: There is no way Frank Zombo goes to training camp in two weeks and makes the Green Bay Packers’ roster.

Don’t care that he signed after the draft as an undrafted free agent. Don’t care that he’s a CMU grad — it’s time to put biases aside.

Take a look at his demeanor that night at the bar. He’s low-key. He’s not flashy. To be honest, it’s reminiscent of his work on the field for four years at CMU. But it doesn’t scream “NFL.” Nothing about Frank Zombo screamed NFL. Not in three years watching as a CMU fan. Not in a year watching him from the press box as a beat writer.

Not his quiet calmness that night in July, at a bar weeks prior to the start of training camp.

Frank Zombo was a very good college player. Ken Dorsey of Miami was a good college player; Craig Krenzel from Ohio State was, too. Sure, those are loftier programs, both are quarterbacks.

But that’s not the point.

Those are guys who excelled in college football. They didn’t translate to the next level.

There are thousands of them in the NCAA. Some well known, others not so much. Some are national champions.

Others suffered on 3-9 teams.

Their skills simply don’t translate.

That’s Frank Zombo.

He doesn’t have the burst or rush skills to be a prototypical right end — the guy supposed to exploit the blind side of the millionaire quarterback. He doesn’t have the run base or violent hands preferred for left end.

Maybe Zombo realized that. He realized it enough to try running routes as a tight end during CMU’s pro day.

Maybe he was just looking for a chance, regardless of where he lined up. After all, he was a wide receiver at Sterling Heights Stevenson during his prep years.

Maybe it was wasted effort.

More than likely, he’d be cut at the end of training camp like a lot of undrafted free agents. If he made the Green Bay roster, he’d stick on the practice squad and waste away his shortlived NFL career until he hung ‘em up.

But something happened between that night at the bar and the start of the NFL season, something about to go on full display.

It’s Week 1, Green Bay at Philadelphia.

Philadelphia’s Michael Vick, the

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Enos fills needs with ’11 class

By Aaron McMann Sports Editor

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Ithaca quarterback Alex Niznak evades a tackle during the MHSAA Division 7 state title game. He was one of 27 high school players introduced as part of CMU’s 2011 recruiting class on Wednesday by head coach Dan Enos.

Last year, Dan Enos played it safe with little time to do much recruiting after taking over.

Two defensive backs. Two linebackers. Three wide receivers.

With a full season under his belt and strong handle on the program’s needs, Enos introduced his 2011 recruiting class Wednesday chock full of high school seniors at those three positions.

“We got to have better athletes, better players, on those teams and provide better depth,” Enos said. “We went in not only looking for wide receiver, (defensive back) and linebackers, but hoping that they could help on special teams.”

Enos emphasized players with size

and skill to play both sides of the ball.

He recruited five wide receivers, including one who also played defensive back in high school.

Titus Davis, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound receiver from Wheaton, Ill., helped lead Wheaton-Warrenville South High School to a 14-0 record and Illinois Class 7A state championship last season. He chose CMU over offers from fellow MidAmerican Conference schools Western Michigan, Bowling Green and Toledo.

“He’s a big receiver with excellent speed,” Enos said. “He’s a difference maker. We really had to battle for him in this recruiting process. He’s a great young man.”

Other receivers include Andrew Flory from Miramar, Fla., Jesse Kroll from Algoma, Wis., Melvindale native Courtney Williams and Jason Wilson of Farming-

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ton.

Enos said the coaching staff looked for receivers with the ability to play defensive back and vice versa, and Williams did just that at Melvindale High School, also returning punts and kickoffs. He was a 2010 Associated Press Division 3-4 all-state first-team selection and will play in the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game this summer at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

With receivers that play defensive back, Enos said, “you see that they can tackle and that they show toughness.”

To compliment his five new receivers, the second-year head coach also received signed letter of intents from four defensive backs, including one that can

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Zombo said. “We’ve had some chances that we’ve had to take advantage of and things have worked out in our favor.�

Even when things didn’t seem that way.

After signing with the Jacksonville Jaguars as an unrestricted free agent in May, Gordy competed for a roster spot throughout training camp, only to be cut loose before the team’s final preseason game. “I was playing with a chip on my shoulder,� he said. “You have to play like that and it paid dividends.�

Green Bay signed Gordy to the practice squad on Sept. 15, where he stayed until being placed on the Packers active roster and making his NFL debut on Dec. 5 against the San Francisco 49ers. “It’s about stepping up when you have to,� he said. “When we have injuries, it’s about stepping onto the field and being productive on Sundays.�

He recorded one tackle in his debut against the 49ers and played a week later in a 7-3 loss to the Detroit Lions at Ford Field.

Just six months after having nary a question asked his way, the 23-year-old Gordy fielded a wide range of questions Tuesday inside Cowboys Stadium. “That’s probably when it hit me the most,� he said.

But that moment still hasn’t hit Zombo. “I think on Sunday, when the fireworks are blasting off and all the people are out there,� he said, “I think that’s when it will hit me.�

The moment might not have come for the Sterling Heights native had he not hit Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning from the blindside in a nationallytelevised preseason game.

The hit caused a fumble, and along with five solo tackles, put the linebacker on the inside track for a roster spot. “That was a big opportunity,� he said of his first preseason start.

And that opportunity might not have come if the Packers

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linebacking core wasn’t battling injuries at the time. “A lot of guys were hurt and I had to step up.�

He stepped up, performed, and earned eight starts during his rookie campaign, recording four sacks and 28 tackles.

Now, along with Gordy and Jenkins, Zombo, who said “It’s looking good,� that he’ll see the field on Sunday, is preparing to contain Steelers wide receiver Brown, who has made big catch after big catch for Pittsburgh this postseason. “I haven’t talked to him yet,�

Zombo said. “I’ll probably mess around with him before the game.�

But Gordy has. “He was trying to get some information out of me,� he said on the phone from Dallas, laughing. “I wouldn’t tell him nothing.�

And if you would have told these two Packers a year ago that they would be playing in the Super Bowl? “I’d tell you that you were crazy,� Zombo said.

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most elusive guy in the game, gets sacked. A video game legend, Vick is corralled and tossed aside.

Packers safety Morgan Burnett is close by, but it’s not him.

It’s No. 58. Zombo. To my disbelief, he’s arrived.

He’s a rush linebacker in Dom Capers’ 3-4 scheme, far from what he played in at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. It’s the first I’ve seen of him on TV or in person since our urinal encounter that I’m sure he has already forgotten.

Frank found his niche.

Now, months later, a firm cog in Green Bay’s defense, he plans to return from a knee injury that has sidelined him since early December.

He said he’s healthy. Healthy or not, this is the Super Bowl. Zombo will play.

Sunday has to be the biggest night of his life.

It has to beat an O’Kelly’s night.

Frank, would you agree?

also play running back.

Stefan Armstead goes right along with Enos’ desire for guys that can play both sides of the ball. While at Southfield Lathrup High School, Armstead had 50 tackles and three interceptions on defense while also compiling more than 1,000 all-purpose yards on offense. “(Defensive backs) that play wideout, you see they have the ability to adjust and jump up and make plays like a wideout would do,� Enos said. “We said that right from the get go that we wanted to recruit guys that could do both, and we knew we had a need there.�

Rounding out the defensive backs are Dennis Nalor, who helped lead Miami (Fla.) Central High School to a Florida Class 6A state championship in 2010, and Jarett Chapman (Port Huron).

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Linebacker With the departures of Nick Bellore and Matt Berning, the linebacker position has become the youngest and most inexperienced in several years.

Because of that, Enos signed four linebackers to the 2011 class.

Tim Hamilton joins the program after starting two years at Birmingham Brother Rice High School. He recorded 254 tackles during his prep career and was an AP first-team allstate selection in 2010.

Joining him is Cody Lopez (Plainfield, Ill.), Ryan Petro (Winter Springs, Fla.) and Brett Egnatuk (Rockford High School), who joins the team as a preferred walk-on. All of these players will be expected to play on special teams. “The linebackers that we have are all body types that are going to fill needs,� Enos said. “We gave up two kickoff returns against Toledo in our last game, and that’s unacceptable.� sports@cm-life.com

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Rest will not be an issue for Kent State this weekend against Central Michigan.

The Golden Flashes (14-7, 5-2 Mid-American Conference) had their game Wednesday at Western Michigan postponed until Feb. 21 because of the winter storm.

They have not played since Sunday, a 72-55 win against Toledo.

For the CMU men’s basketball team, rest may be the last thing needed heading into the 5 p.m. tip-off Saturday in Kent, Ohio.

That’s judging from its season-high 91-point offensive outburst in a 91-85 win against Ohio on Wednesday at McGuirk Arena. The Chippewas also shot a season-high 50 percent from the field, including hitting their first eight 3-pointers of the game.

“We need this for the rest of the season,” said senior forward Jalin Thomas, who finished with 22 points.

“This can’t be just one game in which it happens. As long as they keep shooting it and making it, that’s terrific.

That’s just going to help us.

We can’t have any more 40point games. This is what we’re capable of.”

Kent State has played well of late, with a three-game winning streak to date.

They’ve played well at home all season. The Golden Flashes have lost just one game on their home floor, a 60-51 loss to James Madison on Dec. 31.

Junior forward Justin Greene (6-foot-8, 230 pounds) leads the team in points

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Senior forward Jalin Thomas attempts a layup against Ohio Wednesday at McGuirk Arena. Thomas recorded 22 points and three rebounds during CMU’s 91-85 win.

(15.9) and rebounds (7.6).

But KSU has two other players with more than 11 points per game (senior guard Rodriquez Sherman and junior guard Carlton Guyton) and another two (Randal Holt and Michael Porrini) with more than nine points per game.

And if the Chippewas plan to continue their offensive success, they will have to do it against the MAC’s secondbest scoring defense (64 points allowed per game).

‘Offensive explosion’ CMU shot 50 percent from the floor and had five players score in double figures en route to a 91-85 win Wednesday against Ohio before 1,239 at McGuirk Arena.

Freshman guard Trey Zeigler led the way once again, scoring 24 points on 10-of18 shooting from the field.

Senior forward Jalin Thomas, still only about 70 percent healed from a Grade-2 ankle sprain, added 22.

But unlike so many times

before, the scoring didn’t end there.

Freshman guard Derek Jackson contributed 14 points while sophomore guard Finis Craddock continues to show his worth offensively, scoring 12 points and helping light a 3-point fire in the first half.

Freshman Colin Voss also put together his best offensive performance of the season, scoring 10 points and grabbing five rebounds.

“We all know it’s been a long time coming, and we had an offensive explosion,” Ernie Zeigler said. “We’ve talked about playing more confidently offensively and being aggressive, and we saw a lot of our young guys take a strong step forward.”

D.J. Cooper scored 30 points on 10-of-21 for Ohio, which shot 51.9 percent for the game and 60 percent in the second half.

CMU (6-15, 3-5 MAC) won the rebounding battle, 34-29, and had 13 assists in the win. sports@cm-life.com

Central Michigan has a chance to tie its longest win streak of the season.

To do so and win its third consecutive game, it’ll have to beat Ohio in Athens, Ohio, at 12:30 p.m.

Saturday.

The Bobcats (7-15 overall, 3-6 Mid-American Conference) are coming off a 68-59 win at Ball State on Wednesday.

They were led by freshman guard Shavon Robinson. She went well-over her 6.6 points per game average by scoring a game-high 16 points on 6-for-10 from the field. She also hauled down three rebounds, but turned the ball over six times.

Junior guard Tenishia Benson is the leading scorer for OU with 13.6 points per game, but is the only player on the team who averages double figures in points.

The Bobcats have struggled this season, but have even had trouble winning games at home. They are 1-4 in the MAC at home.

CMU looks to round out its weekend road trip with its third win in a row.

It had lost its previous two road games before winning 100-84 against Miami on Wednesday in Oxford, Ohio.

In that game, it was all Kaihla Szunko, a consistent force for the Chippewas this season.

The senior forward had a double-double within the first 13 minutes, and finished with a game-high 26 points and 17 rebounds.

“She’s supposed to be consistent, and she is,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “It helps when our other players find her.”

Freshman guard Niki DiGuilio snapped out of her mini slump in a big way, scoring 25 points on 6-for11 from 3-point range.

Once she acquired the 3-point threat, she began to attack the basket and get to the foul line, knocking down 7-of-8 free throws.

“We got Niki the ball and when she had the deep File Photo by Paige Calamari threat she used her Senior guard Shaonda Long attempts a shot during the first driving (ability) to half of Saturday’s game against Akron. her advantage and she got to the free throw line,” shooting.

Guevara said.

Miami (10-12 overall, 2-7 CMU (14-7 overall, 6-3 Mid- MAC) had five players score American Conference) found in double figures, including 18 itself in foul trouble early on. points and 16 rebounds from Junior forward Skylar Miller sophomore forward Kirsten played just eight minutes be- Olowinski. fore fouling out scoreless.

While they gave up 84 The bench noticed that the points to the RedHawks, the team was in foul trouble and Chippewas want to become stepped it up. a more focused group defenFreshman guard Kylie Welch sively. Guevara said the team saw extended minutes for the didn’t step back on its plan for second consecutive game, giv- a more defensive effort. ing Guevara another reason to “Our guards were giving up keep her in the rotation. She the offensive rebounds, but it scored eight points, with both didn’t help that we got in foul made field goals coming from trouble.” behind the 3-point line.

The Chippewas will play one “I can’t say enough about other cross divisional game, her,” Guevara said of Welch. against Kent State on Feb. 12, “She understands her role and before beginning phase two of is just a solid player.”

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Sprinters, hurdlers at Notre Harbour leads women team Dame for Meyo Invitational into South Bend tournament Randolph: Tough Track & Field

By Kristopher Lodes Staff Reporter

One underclassman having a good season is Tamica Harbour.

The sophomore sprinter and hurdler is No. 9 in the Mid-American Conference listings at the 60-meter hurdles and won the event last weekend at Saginaw Valley after coming off a hip flexor.

“We’re going to win, guaranteed,” Harbour said of the upcoming conference meet.

The hip flexor wasn’t much of an issue for Harbour as she ran away from the field last Friday.

“It felt really good to go out there and try my best and actually get one of my best marks,” Harbour said.

“This week I just have to do my best and run my hardest for my teammates.”

The women’s track and field team is ready to start the final stretch for a run at the MAC Indoor Championships as they head to South Bend, Ind., and compete in the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame.

In order to keep the team

well rested, CMU track and field director Willie Randolph sat the sprinters and hurdlers last week. This week is the opposite as they will be the only ones in action as the field event athletes and the distance runners will be resting this week.

CMU will see a plethora of strong competition this week. Not only will host Notre Dame be in attendance, but other big name schools such as Minnesota, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Florida could be there, in addition to conference rivals Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan.

“It is always a pretty big meet, (with) a variety of teams,” Randolph said.

“We’re looking for everyone to start putting some times together to be at the top of the MAC at the level we need.”

Athletes not competing this week will be training in preparation for next week’s meet at Grand Valley State.

But those competing this week are preparing for a huge meet where they will see strong competition and

an opportunity to measure themselves up against top competition.

Randolph, who graduated from CMU in 1998, was an assistant at Louisville, which competed in the Big East Conference against Notre Dame and went back-and-forth with them for Big East championships.

“I have a lot of peers around the country — we always see each other here or there and there is always little bragging rights like my kid beat yours,” Randolph said. “For me, it is exciting to see peers you don’t see anymore and compete at the same level.”

Said Randolph: “Our throwers have gone another level where they haven’t been in quite awhile as coach Jon Ridgway and his group of athletes are putting up good marks with Whitney Johnson going through big transitions. Our young people are starting to compete at a higher level, pushing our upperclassmen.” sports@cm-life.com

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After having last week off, the sprinting and hurdling members of the men’s track and field team will return to action this weekend.

They travel to South Bend, Ind., to compete at the Meyo Invitational hosted by the University of Notre Dame.

The invite is one of the largest meets the team will attend during the indoor season with athletes from some of the top schools from all around the country expected to attend.

“Meets like these make our athletes come out of their comfort zone,” said director of track and field and cross country Willie Randolph.

“I’ve always been a firm believer that to be the best you

have to compete against the best. And these larger meets give our athletes a chance to do that.”

Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Alabama and Arkansas are just a few of the “bigger” schools expected to be represented this weekend in South Bend, and should give Randolph and the Chippewas a pretty good measure of how they match up with some of the top programs around the country.

Randolph hopes that competing against the next level of competition will give his athletes confidence.

“We put meets like these on our schedule to prepare our athletes for a high level of competition,” Randolph said.

“We’re just trying to gain experience for the MAC championships later this month.“ The sprinters and hurdlers will have that opportunity to gain experience this weekend.

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Sophomore all-arounder Britney Taylor performs on the balance beam Sunday afternoon against NIU at McGuirk Arena. Taylor recorded a 9.750 in the event.

“We had certain parts that we had to fix and I feel like we all achieved that,” Petzold said.

That attention to detail will need to be a focus again this weekend as they take on a Minnesota and Illinois squads that average 194.819 and 194.563 total points, respectively.

In order for CMU to match the past weekend’s highs, Reighard said that the mistakes that have plagued them from the beginning, such as landings, need to be constantly worked on and im-

proved in practice.

“Those small things are usually in landings where we need to be just slightly different, but the gymnasts are very concerned obviously about not falling,” Reighard said.

The event that has seen the most growth this season is the balance beam where the Chippewas rank No. 14 nationally with a per meet average of score of 48.538, sitting only .662 points from the No. 1 ranked team Stanford (49.200). sports@cm-life.com

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Following the record-setting event scores last weekend in their home-opening win, the women’s gymnastics team will look to match that against two of the nation’s top teams.

Central Michigan will bring its 8-0 record on the road when the team faces off against No. 13 ranked University of Minnesota and No. 19 University of Illinois at 6 p.m. Saturday.

Minnesota (3-1) is coming off recent wins against Michigan State and Air Force, while Illinois (3-2-1) has defeated Penn State and Iowa.

After reaching their season high total score of 195 last weekend against Northern Illinois, head coach Jerry Reighard said that their score should help with the team’s confidence going into the second half of the season.

“Regionally this is going to be a huge boost for us,” Reighard said. “It is a really big psychological edge that we need to have going into the second half of the season.”

The squad will look to junior Kristin Teubner, who set season highs on the both the vault (9.850) and on the floor exercise (9.925). Teubner also notched a season-high in the all-around category with an event winning 39.250.

Looking for a repeat performance from her season highs last weekend, freshman Brittany Petzold will shoot to build upon her 38.150 all-around performance. Petzold scored higher than a 9.725 in all four events, including a 9.875 on the bars. The reason for the high scores, both team and individually, were because of the attention to detail and the ability to correct minor mistakes.

ter runner Branden Post.

Also looking to step up this weekend are juniors Christopher Thomas, competing in the 400-meter dash, and 60-meter hurdler Charles Stinson.

Randolph also expects big things from underclassmen, like sophomore Renaldo Powell and freshman Ross Parsons in the 60-meter dash.

“I’m just trying to improve in every meet,” Parsons said.

“I’m just trying to get stronger mentally and learning from the older guys on the team.”

The lone field member of the men’s team traveling to South Bend is junior jumper Kevin Bacon, who will be competing in both the long jump and the high jump.

The rest of the team will stay in Mount Pleasant and get some extra training over the weekend before the whole team travels to Grand Valley on Feb. 11.

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Last year, the CMU wrestling team defeated Ohio in an impressive fashion, 40-0. The win was its 12th against the Bobcats in as many meetings.

The No. 12 Chippewas hope to have similar success today when they face the Bobcats in Athens, Ohio, in the first of four consecutive Mid-American Conference matches.

CMU (5-7, 1-0 MAC) comes into the match undefeated in the MAC, with its lone conference win coming by a 21-13 victory against Northern Illinois on Jan 6.

“The MAC is real important to us, but nationals are more important,” said junior Scotti Sentes, who comes in with a 23-6 record at 133-pounds.

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Momentum may finally be on CMU’s side, coming off back-to-back wins for the first time all season, after defeating Old Dominion last Sunday in the Royal Rumble and Tumble at McGuirk Arena.

Sophomore 174-pounder Ben Bennett and junior heavyweight Jarod Trice have been two of CMU’s most consistent wrestlers this season, each picking up decisions over ODU. Together, they have built up a combined 41-7 record, including 20-2 in dual meets.

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Both ranked Chippewas will be challenged today, wrestling the core of the Bobcat lineup. No. 5 Bennett will take on a 22-3 Nick Purdue, and No 2 Trice will wrestle No. 20 Jeremy Johnson, who comes in with a 25-8 record.

“Their better wrestlers are at 141, 174, 197 and they’ve got a pretty good heavyweight,” Borrelli said. “We match up with them pretty good at 174 and heavyweight and we want to continue to improve at 141 and 197.”

OU also brings a 20th ranked Germane Lindsey (21-6) at 141 and a 16th ranked Erik Schuth (16-2) at 197.

The Chippewas have had little success on the road so far this season. They won their last road match against Michigan State but are 3-6 this year away from Mount Pleasant.

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“He hasn’t even gotten back on the mat yet.”

Ohio (6-3, 2-0 MAC) has been successful so far this season, winning four consecutive matches before dropping their last match to American University 30-10.

All-time, the Bobcats are 1622 against the Chippewas.

“Our guys should know that whenever guys from out own conference compete against us,” Borrelli said. “It’s a big deal if they feel like they can beat us based on our past success.”

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