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Wilbur, Heeke say public had access to records

By Catey Traylor Senior Reporter

Among all of the confusion surrounding the $10 million allocation made

by Central Michigan University to the Events Center project, university officials said the public had access to the information all along.

Kathy Wilbur, vice president of development and external relations, said the public could have accessed the breakdown of the funding for the $22 million at any time during the entire construction process.

“I’m sorry people are confused, but the decisions made by the board of trustees are made in a very public setting, so it’s been public since that time,” Wilbur said Tuesday in an interview with Central Michigan Life.

Although the university made an allocation to the Events Center using reserve funds, the project website categorized the project as “privately funded” until the evening of Feb. 14 after the A-Senate meeting. Once the topic was discussed, Wilbur apologized for inaccuracies on the website, left immediately and the site changed within the hour.

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From left, Chelsey Martens of Ohio, Missy Cole of Mount Pleasant and Lakeview sophomore Loni Bean sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the seventh inning stretch Tuesday afternoon at Theunissen Stadium in Mount Pleasant. “Its a beautiful day for baseball, who doesn’t want to be out here?” said Cole. “All three of us love baseball and Nate Theunissen is our friend,” said Martens.

Opening Day Baseball team drops first home game to Madonna

By Kristopher Lodes | Staff Reporter Sunshine, baseball chatter and the ping sound from the bat hitting the ball filled the air in Theunissen Stadium as the Central Michigan baseball season played its first home game of the season.

The Chippewas lost to Madonna 6-3 in front of 289 fans who still seemed to enjoy the weather Tuesday afternoon.

“I didn’t have anything to do so I thought I’d come by see how the team looks this season,” said sophomore Andrew Boerma of Remus. “The weather was pretty nice too, little windy, but nice.”

The Chippewas (6-10) had a 3-1 lead in fifth inning with two outs. But a single, a couple of walks and a wild pitch allowed by CMU freshman starter Jordan Foley loaded the bases for the Crusaders (15-9).

Madonna then hit a two run RBI double down the right field line tying the game at five, after five innings.

Once again with two-outs the Crusaders rallied in the seventh this time with fresh-

man Sean Renzi on the mound.

Renzi only lasted two-thirds of an inning allowing three earned runs on two hits and two walks.

“I thought Foley pitched well. He had a kid struck out

Central Michigan University may join the likes of Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan if the Academic Senate’s recent proposal to start the fall semester after Labor Day is approved.

A recommendation to support the proposed schedule change was passed at the last A-Senate meeting by a 67 percent to 33 percent vote. The new sched-

ule would shorten the fall semester by a week, though it first must face finalization from administration and faculty.

The proposal would be implemented for the fall 2013 semester, though concerns about the schedule were addressed in the A-Senate’s Calendar Committee report.

Concerns included a need to adjust master course syllabi, a shorter time span to cover the same amount of material, maintaining the Thursday and Friday before exams

Shared governance debate raises power concerns

Junior shortstop Jordan Dean attempts to tag out a Madonna base runner stealing second base during Tuesday’s game in Mount Pleasant. Dean had two hits, one run batted in and scored one run during the 6-3 loss.

with the bases loaded and didn’t get it, then he hit one down the line, that was a real tough chain of events,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “Renzi struggled a little bit today, more so than other outings

and we had to bring in Jon (Weaver).”

It looked like CMU would have it easy early on with three runs in the first inning off solo

By Adam Niemi Staff Reporter

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The Academic Senate, with 73-percent support, enacted the fifth shared governance committee in Central Michigan University history on Feb. 29.

The vote came at the tail of a long discussion that cast a hard light on political discourse within the university.

Faculty expressed fear and concern in the ASenate meeting that the new 13-member committee could become a battleground for power.

Political Science Professor Won Paik said the political tension is essential, as long as it’s managed.

“We are talking about

as a study break and overlapping eight-week terms for off-campus students.

The schedule change may also affect activities held before the beginning of the semester such as Leadership Safari and the schedule of groups such as Residence Life, athletics and the marching band, which arrive early.

For the schedule to be altered, the calendar section of faculty contracts would have to be re-opened and amended and the proposal

would require approval from the board of trustees.

Megan Goodwin, chairwoman of the department of human environmental studies, said her department gave overwhelming support in favor of starting the fall semester early. Goodwin said among other benefits, giving students extra time to work over the summer and faculty more time to be with their families were some of the reasons for support.

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Actor Kal Penn keynote for Asian Pacific Heritage month

By Justin Hicks Staff Reporter

The Multicultural Academic Services has invited actor Kal Penn to Central Michigan University as a keynote speaker during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2012.

The Montclair, N.J., native will speak about his acting career at 9 a.m. on March 30 in Moore Hall’s Townsend Kiva.

Penn is also scheduled to speak again six days later at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.

Both events are free.

Penn, 34, is known for his role as Kumar in the “Harold and Kumar” franchise, as well as appearances on “How I Met

your Mother” and “House M.D.” Along with his acting background, Penn has been busy working in politics and teaching. After volunteering for President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he held the title of Associate Director at the White House Office of Public Engagement from 2009 to 2011.

Penn also taught two classes in Asian-Americans pop culture and history of teen movies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nancy Eddy, communications and dramatic arts faculty member, said the event will be free to the public, though she hopes students pursuing

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Opinions mixed on fall semester proposal

By David Oltean Senior Reporter

During a Feb. 14 Academic Senate meeting, Wilbur explained her role in making the allocation from the university a public document.

“We have been very clear that I was responsible for taking those documents to the state — it is called a uses and finances document,” she said to the A-Senate.

“Any time there is a building on your campus, no matter how it’s funded, you have to submit those documents. It was very clear (in those documents) that $11 million would be raised privately and the $10 million would come from the university. I think we have given the history and the record of what happened on this project.

We have documentation to show you that.”

Jim McDonald, A-Senate chairman, said the surprise and confusion from members was to be expected.

“I don’t know that this was intentional, but it wasn’t as transparent as it could have been,” he said. “There are things that could have been done and options that weren’t explored. People were caught by surprise at the A-Senate meeting and were simply reacting to the news.”

acting will find the experience useful.

“The event will be close in the Kiva and relaxing for him and the students involved,” Eddy said. “Students will be able to ask more questions and have more dialogue with him.”

Penn’s visit to CMU is sponsored by the Multicultral Academic Student Services, King/Chavez/Parks Visiting Professor Program, College of Human and Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Communication and Fine Arts and Residence Life. He is the final of three speakers the CCFA has contributed to help bring to CMU this semester, totaling $3,000 according to

the democratic theory,” Paik said about the formation of the shared governance committee. “The committee is a principle of this theory. From a shared government point of view, (the faculty) are seeking a shared point of their views.”

Faculty from a variety of departments serving on the senate expressed conflicting views about the committee. Some made the point that the committee would become a timewaster, while others said it could become a starting point for the university to “heal” from the rifts created in contract negotiations last semester.

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Wilbur said Tuesday university reserve funding is used for the construction of every building on campus and added that the confusion regarding the website isn’t all that uncommon.

“I bet we could go on any website out there and find something inaccurate,” she said. “I apologize for that and I don’t want people having inaccurate information, but I think that’s the challenge of the Web anywhere. Sorry that it was out there; we have tried to correct it.”

Wilbur was asked if the uncertainty from the public regarding fundraising efforts was justifiable, and responded by saying she “didn’t know where all of the confusion came from.”

Director of Athletics Dave Heeke said construction of the

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home run by junior shortstop Jordan Dean, and two runs scored from a dropped pop fly.

CMU failed to get a run the rest of the game.

“Got to give Madonna a lot

Events Center began with full intent to raising all $21 million privately.

“The intent was to secure private funding from the beginning,” Heeke said Tuesday.

“However, the university invests in cash reserves throughout the years to anticipate construction needs on campus.”

The board of trustees initially supported the privately funded Events Center during a Dec. 2007 meeting. On July 17, 2008, planning for the building was approved, and on July 16, 2009, $18.5 million in additional funding was approved, along with the $10 million allocation.

“Pretty early on, there had been some thought and interest that the project would be privately funded, but I think as we began to go out there and talk to people, reality hit and we realized this was an extremely important project to the university,” Wilbur said. “We looked at the cost of the project and de-

cided it was reasonable to expect that we could get to the $11 million mark and that it would be reasonable for $10 million to be used from university funds.”

McDonald said the transparency between units within the university is still a work in progress.

“This is just another example of where things could be clearer and more transparent. More options need to be explored for members of the campus community,” McDonald said.

“Rather (than) all information be communicated toward the end of projects, if things are known, make them known to everybody.

“Put it on the website, announce it at an A-Senate meeting, ask people for their opinions and input. Make sure the word spreads to media outlets, because people get taken by surprise about a lot of stuff.”

of credit they played hard the whole game,” senior catcher William Arnold said. “The weather was awesome and we had a nice turnout from our fans, it just didn’t quite turn out the way we hoped.”

The Chippewas made a threat in the bottom of the ninth, but failed to get anything across the plate.

They’re back in Theunissen Stadium today at 3:05 p.m. against Davenport before they head to Tennessee State this weekend.

“We’ll be fine we’re a good team and we know that, we’ve got to just play nine innings,” Arnold said.

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Christi Brookes, chairwoman in the foreign languages, literatures and cultures department, said how the committee is formed will make all the difference.

“I have some concerns currently about how the committee is to be made up,” she said. “First, the notion of this would be half faculty, half administration. The (professional and administrative) employee would line up on the administration’s side.

(It’s) a similar problem with the board of trustees.

I think they’ve got a limited understanding of what shared government would be. I’m not sure the honest discussions that need to happen will.”

The concerns voiced by faculty and vetted by others ranged from fear of the administration acquiring too much power to student representation becoming too minimal.

The senate acknowledged that many people within the university make up a complicated political landscape. Most of the expressed concerns addressed how the committee would balance the power and equally represent all.

The 13-member committee will include members from faculty, student body, administration, board of trustees and staff.

Relations within the uni-

versity were shaken last semester by the contract dispute between the Faculty Association and CMU, along with academic departments vote of no confidence against University President George Ross and Provost Gary Shapiro.

Many units, including the Council of Chairs, have since endorsed the vote.

As tensions between university employees settle after the controversial contract negotiations, faculty at the senate spoke of a possible power struggle.

“This committee (and) the whole campus needs healing, not just the faculty and administration,” said Andrew Spencer, professor of music. “There’s a lot of players on this campus and we need their constituency as well.”

Members of the A-Senate said no one wants to be given a minimal or underrepresented role in the restructuring of the political landscape within the university. The committee is seen by some as more of a symbolic body to help unify political divergence.

Paik said the committee would also help the administration establish transparency.

Calls and emails Tuesday to Steve Smith, director of public relations, were not returned by time of publication. university@cm-life.com

“We’re supportive of making the change,” Goodwin said.

“We understand it’s not without some drawbacks, but we believe there are quite a few positives that come with starting later.”

Goodwin said her department was aware significant changes would have to be made for curriculum to adapt to the shortened schedule, though they felt the benefits were worth the transition.

“As we look at the other universities able to accomplish it, everyone knows it’s going to take some adjustments as to how we’re delivering the content,” she said. “But it definitely seems capable of being done without completely jeopardizing the semester schedule.”

Phil Squattrito, professor of chemistry, said the proposed schedule would be difficult for courses with labs and instructors would undoubtedly have to drop one laboratory assignment.

“I wanted to point out when the discussion was taking place that particularly for lab sciences, when we lose a week of class, we lose a lab session,” Squattrito said.

Squattrito, chairman of ASenate when the Calendar Committee was formed, said he acknowledged arguments to start after Labor Day for students to have an extra week of work and for faculty to have more research time. However, Squattrito said restructuring lectures and labs would be difficult.

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Bill signed prohibiting unionization of graduate assistant students

By Melissa Beauchamp Senior Reporter

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation Tuesday morning preventing the unionization of graduate assistant students at Michigan public universities.

The legislation was prompted by graduate assistants at the University of Michigan attempting to form a union and to be recognized as public employees.

The bill, originally proposed Feb. 15 by Majority Leader Randy Richardville, removes the collective bargaining rights and representation of more than 2,000 GSRAs in Michigan. The bill also prohibits GSRAs from being public employees with union representation.

A Michigan Employment Relations Committee ruling in 1981 confirmed graduate assistants as students, a ruling which actions were recently made to overturn. The question handed to legislators was if there were any modifications since the 1981 ruling.

Snyder spokesman Ken Silfven said an important distinction to consider between students and instructors is that students have a primary purpose to learn from professors.

“It’s all continuing with the educational experience,” he said.

The bill, he said, protects the relationship between stu-

dents and teachers. Graduate assistants with bargaining rights could complicate that relationship for many reasons, he said.

“It’s a pro-education message,” he said.

A report from the Detroit Free Press stated Snyder said that while graduate research student assistants provide valuable research efforts, they are still students.

“An individual serving as a graduate student research assistant or in an equivalent position and any individual whose position does not have sufficient indicia of an employment relationship is not a public employee entitled to representation or collective bargaining rights under this act,” the proposed bill stated.

Cedar Springs graduate student Michelle Campbell, vice president of Central Michigan University’s Graduate Student Union, said in a previous report that she was concerned about the wording of the proposed bill and questioned what the equivalent position mentioned in the legislation might include.

“The big problem I have with the proposed wording of the bill that was introduced is that it says ‘graduate research assistants or an equivalent position,’ but they don’t define exactly what that equivalent position is,” Campbell said. metro@cm-life.com

80% of incoming emails on CMU email system are spam

By Adam Niemi Staff Reporter

About eight of every 10 emails on the CMU email server are spam, according to an email from the Office of Information Technology.

Last year, CMU averaged 701,383 daily incoming messages, of which 567,068 of them, about 80-percent, were filtered as spam. That means about 20 million emails are filtered in the CMU email system per year as spam.

However, Roger Rehm, vice president for information technology, said the 80 percent spam rate is congruent with the national average.

Rehm said IT routinely evaluates the email system.

He said the office has known about the 80 percent spam rate all along, among other statistics it analyzes regularly.

The challenge of battling spam is all about walking a fine line, Rehm said.

“We have to strike a delicate balance between offering appropriate security and appropriate access,” Rehm said in an email sent to faculty and administration obtained by Central Michigan Life. “That is to say, we need

to make sure that we’re keeping the bad stuff out while still ensuring that you’re able to receive the legitimate messages intended for you.”

The motives of spam senders are often malicious. Rehm said some spam emails “even qualify as what the government describes as the ‘advanced persistent threat,’ organized by entities that hope to gain and retain access to the technical infrastructure of institutions like CMU.” He sent the email out to faculty and administration to help them use the system more efficiently, and also raise awareness about the increasing ferociousness of spam. He sends an email once a month to faculty and administration.

“A lot of it is stuff that has malware attached to it,” Rehm said. “It’s amazing how advanced it’s gotten the last couple years. It’s scary, really.”

Rehm said adjusting the aggressiveness of the spam filter in the email options page can help reduce the amount of unwanted emails.

“It’s a never-ending battle,” Rehm said. university@cm-life.com

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A severe storm approaches near South Oak Street at 6:25 p.m. Monday in Mount Pleasant. A tornado warning was issued for the area and a watch remained in effect until 11 p.m.

TORNADO TROUBLE CMU police chief says error caused multiple alerts during tornado warning Monday

By Ben Harris | Senior Reporter

Severe weather circumstances such as tornado watches and warnings, brings up the issue of safety for Central Michigan University students and faculty.

And while CMU did not lack any issue notifying the campus community of the severe weather Monday, its Central Alerts emergency notification system caused frequent alerts for those signed up for the service.

A first alert was sent at about 6:15 p.m., as a tornado warning was announced. However, because of user errors, CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley said several extra alerts were sent to those on the system. He apologized about the extra alerts and said CMU Police officials were addressing the matter.

CMU Police uses two different weather services, the National Weather Service and another service called MxVision WeatherSentry.

While the NWS did not call for another tornado warning, WeatherSentry did and Yeagley said the call was made to send another alert through campus at about 7:05 p.m.

“It was in the interest of safety,” he said.

The final text message was sent to users at about 7:45 p.m., an hour after the tornado warning sent out by the NWS expired, saying the warning was canceled. Despite heavy rain and hail, no damage or tornados were reported on campus.

Residences, SAC activate emergency plan Residence hall directors, as well as resident assistants and multicultural advisers,

go through extensive training to prepare for weather emergencies. When they begin their training, members of the residence hall board are given heath and safety guidelines, providing them with information on what to do in emergency situations.

“We recommended everyone stay in their rooms and away from windows, but the majority of students disregarded our warnings,” said Grand Rapids sophomore Ryan Rooney, an RA in Kulhavi Hall.

Southfield senior Dominique Fields, also a Kulhavi RA, said he thought the situation was handled well.

“No disaster situation is ever handled perfectly, but as long as nobody gets hurt, it was successful,” Fields said.

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Michigan Senate Democrats propose free tuition

By John Irwin Staff Reporter

Michigan Senate Democrats have put forward a package of four bills that would give Michigan students a nearly free college education.

Should the package, collectively called the Michigan 2020 Plan, pass, Michigan high school graduates would receive an annual grant worth up to $9,575 to put toward higher education costs.

That amount is the median college tuition for Michigan public universities. The cost of tuition for in-state students at Central Michigan University for the 2010-11 academic year was $9,688.

The grant could be used to cover tuition, books or other

eligible education expenses.

All high school graduates, whether they went to a public school, private school or were home schooled are eligible for the grant if they attend a public university or a community college in the state.

The plan is estimated to cost $1.8 billion. It would be paid for by eliminating corporate tax loopholes and cutting costs within the thousands of state contracts.

State Sen. Judy Emmons, R-Sheridan, has concerns about the plan’s funding. She pointed to the recently cut Michigan Promise scholarship, which provided up to $4,000 to high school graduates who had two years of postsecondary education based on their MEAP scores

as a better way to do things. “(With the Michigan Promise scholarship), if you did well on your MEAP tests, you’d be able to access that money,” Emmons said.

“There was incentive to do well.”

She said giving money to all graduates would make the program run into financial problems.

Some critics of the plan worry that, if enacted, it would decrease the number of applicants to schools like CMU, because going to larger schools like the University of Michigan and Michigan State University would be within financial reach.

Diane Fleming, associate director of client services for the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, said this

would not be an issue for the university.

“We’d actually expect an increase in the number of applicants,” Fleming said, adding that U-M is not a direct competitor to CMU. Fleming said there would be no impact on federal Pell grants or any other forms of financial aid.

“The plan, if it even passed, would not have an impact on Pell grants because it is a federal program,” Fleming said. “The process for other forms of financial aid wouldn’t be impacted either. This is another form of financial aid, and any kind of financial aid would be beneficial to our students.”

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SGA vice presidential canidates debate to capture undecided voters

By Ryan Fitzmaurice Staff Reporter

Student Government Association vice presidential candidates faced off in a debate at 6 p.m.

Tuesday in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium, attempting to persuade undecided voters who have yet to vote in the SGA elections.

For the second consecutive debate, Connor Gallagher’s and Andrew Clark’s ticket did not attend. Both Carleton junior Clark and Warren senior Gallagher were not available for comment.

Moderated by SGA Elections Director and Milford graduate student Christopher Armelagos, the debate featured Alma junior

Anna Dvorak, Fenton sophomore Sean Rositano, Schoolcraft sophomore Shane McGoff and Andover senior Scott Cooke.

As in the previous presidential debate, student relevancy and participation was the major talking point. Rositano, running as the vice president with Sparta junior Spencer McKellar, said the SGA under their leadership will be completely open to the students.

“Our platform has an open door policy, and it is literally an open door policy,” Rositano said.

“The student government office’s door will be open to all students under our administration.”

Cooke, who is running as vice president with Romeo senior

Kevin Richmond, said he believes SGA cannot be relevant if it does not make an effort to reach out to registered student organizations.

“As vice president, I will work closely with the RSO community and make sure that the SGA meets their needs,” Cooke said.

McGoff, who is running with Hesperia senior Killian Richeson, said he believes student participation in SGA has been marred by the recently dropped unicameral proposal and suggested revisions to the proposal, which would require students to get enough signatures to become a member of the house.

“Is it fair to say that you can’t join if you don’t have enough

signatures?” McGoff said. “You are walking a very thin line when you’re telling someone that the SGA is open to the entire student body, and then dismissing them if they can’t get the number of signatures required.”

McGoff was also critical of current President Shelby Township senior Vince Cavataio’s attempt to reform the bicameral system.

“I believe that any reform to the legislative system must be introduced by the legislative branch,” McGoff said. “It is a violation of the executive branch’s power to reform the legislative branch single-handedly.”

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Fenton freshman and SGA vice presidential candidate Sean Rositano answers questions Tuesday evening in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium as part of the vice presidential debates.

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Bob Weick coming to campus Friday in performance of ‘Marx in Soho’

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Author Caitlin Horrocks of Grand Rapids reads a humorous chapter from her new short story book “This is Not Your City” Monday at the Art Reach Center, 111 E. Broadway St., in downtown Mount Pleasant.

More than 35 people hear reading from fiction writer Caitlin Horrocks

By Hailee sattavara Senior Reporter

More than 35 people gathered to hear the work of Caitlin Horrocks Monday night.

Horrocks read fiction at the Wellspring Literary Series at Art Reach, 111 E. Broadway St. Horrocks is an assistant professor of creative writing at Grand Valley State University, and her work has been reviewed in the New York Times.

The crowd was entertained by Horrocks reading her short story inspired by an intoxicated woman harassing animals at a zoo in Phoenix.

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“Most of my stories are inspired by random things that lurk in the back of my brain,” Horrocks said.

Creative writing MA candidate and Green Bay native Saul Lemerond read an abridged story highlighting rugged cowboys and fuzzy teddy bears.

“Saul was quirky, slightly absurd and just what we needed to take our minds off the thunderstorm,” said Amee Schmidt, a Saginaw graduate student.

Siblings Kathleen and Micah Bracken performed music together for the first time with an acoustic guitar.

“I’ve been writing just to keep writing,” Kathleen said.

Kathleen and Micah both

said they have always been playing music together.

Micah said little things throughout life inspire him to write and play music.

Robert Fanning, assistant professor of creative writing, said Horrocks is incredibly humble and talented.

Horrocks read from the short story collection “This is Not Your City.”

Her stories and essay have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories 2011, The PEN/O, Henry Prize Stories 2009, The Pushchart Prize XXXV, The Paris Review, Tin House, One Story and elsewhere.

close to passing. Democrats, who say a well-educated workforce will attract businesses to Michigan, will have a tough time winning over fiscal conservatives in the overwhelmingly Re-

publican state legislature.

The final plan would likely look much different once it reaches the governor’s desk, if that should happen.

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“Forces that make the world such a cruel and violent place for so many people,” he said. “A world my kids did not deserve to inherit.”

He said he wanted to encourage critical thinking and discussion by bringing the play around the country.

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Weick’s presentation of Howard Zinn’s play “Marx in Soho” will give viewers exactly that opportunity.

He has traveled the country sharing the play, but this will be his first visit to Central Michigan University. Friday will be his 224th rendition since he started acting in 1995.

The play will run from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. This event is free.

Detailing some of Karl Marx’s ideals and dreams, “Marx in Soho” is designed to entertain as well as educate.

“It’s not a lecture,” Weick said. “It’s quite funny and passionate and informative, but in an entertaining way.”

Brigitte Bechtold, professor and chairwoman of the department of sociology, anthropology and social work, had the chance to see Weick’s performance at a Michigan Sociological Association meeting in Bay City and said she was very impressed.

“I immediately decided that I had to bring him to the CMU campus for a performance,” Bechtold said.

“Especially during an election year, students will be interested in a play that addresses social issues.”

Weick said he started performing “Marx in Soho” in response to the 2000 presidential election, 9/11

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About 2,000 tickets still available for Rodney Atkins’ concert Thursday

CMU history professor William Bulger remembered for lecture series, passion

By Jessica Fecteau Senior Reporter

By David Oltean Senior Reporter

Country music artist Rodney Atkins is set to perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in the McGuirk Arena as part of Program Board’s first university-funded performance this semester.

The show will open with a performance by special guest artist Tyler Hilton, followed by country band Gloriana.

About 2,100 tickets have been sold and there are roughly 2,000 still available, said Program Board Concert Chair Jordan Benghiat.

Student tickets are $8, $12, $15 and $17 depending on the seat. General public tickets are $20, $22, $25 and $27. All floor seats are sold out and lower bowl seating is now limited. Tickets can be purchased at the Central Box Office located in the Events Center or at centralboxoffice. cmich.edu.

Rachel Reinert of Gloriana said she is always excited to see the fans while touring live.

“We’ve been doing some non-stop touring, going on five years now,” Reinert said.

“We love making new fans and meeting old ones.”

Thursday will not be Glo-

William Thomas Bulger, Jr., a former Central Michigan University professor emeritus of history, died Feb. 16 at the age of 85.

Bulger, a former early American history professor, is remembered on CMU’s campus by former colleagues and students through the Bulger Lecture Series and William T. Bulger History Endowment, named after the professor after decades of contributions to the history department. Bulger taught at CMU from 1957 to 1992 before retiring.

Bulger, a Flint native, attended Kenyon College in Ohio, for his undergraduate studies before he studied at the University of Michigan, where he received a Master of Arts and Ph.D in History. Bulger began teaching at Ohio State University in 1955 before arriving at CMU. History Department Chairman Tim Hall is in charge of the Bulger Lecture Series, and said he remembered Bulger for his passion for his students.

Hall said after meeting some of Bulger’s former students throughout the state, many of them still remembered stories about their former history professor.

“Everywhere I go, when I

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riana’s first time performing with Hilton and Atkins.

Hilton is a longtime friend of Gloriana band members, Tom and Mike Gossin, and is in the band’s new music video for their single “(Kissed You) Good Night.”

“We’re going to play a lot of songs from our first album and songs from our album we’re putting out this year,” Reinert said.

Right now there are no plans for any of the performers to perform together, but Reinert said it could still happen.

Benghiat said artist Jana Kramer was previously scheduled to perform, but will not longer be in the show

because of contractual issues.

“For the most part, people should know she won’t be there unless they bought their tickets super early,” the Southfield junior said. “But she is not being advertised as a performer anymore. “ Although Kramer is not performing anymore, Trenton junior Kelsey Bourassa said she makes sure she attends any country concert that she can.

“I was extremely excited when I heard (Atkins) was coming,” she said. “I love when Central has good events.” studentlife@cm-life.com

“He was always extremely goodhumored, even about grading exams, and was a very friendly and cooperative member of the department.”

David Macleod, Professor of history meet a student who had Bill Bulger, they always ask about him and have a story about him, because he was really well known as a story teller and could get students really excited about history,” Hall said. “He took a real special interest in his students.”

Hall said Bulger’s passion for helping his students and respect from his colleagues are a testament to his character.

“There was a story about one of our alumni who was planning on studying abroad but had to take a test, and apparently Bill actually got him up and took him to the test,” Hall said. “Since he took that test, it qualified him for a study abroad program at

Cambridge and really jumpstarted his career.”

History Professor David Macleod said Bulger was very enthusiastic as a teacher and befriended many students over the years. Macleod said the lecture series is a biography series, because Bulger was particularly interested in history as a narrative.

“His speciality was colonial and revolutionary American history,” Macleod said. “He was always extremely goodhumored, even about grading exams, and was a very friendly and cooperative member of the department.” university@cm-life.com

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Dvorak, who is running with Macomb junior Justin Gawronski, said she would strive to reform the committees.

“Justin and I have talked in great detail about eliminating the historian position and moving it into the Spirits and Traditions committee,” Dvorak said. “We believe that the position would be much more efficient there.”

She also said she would be working with the diversity committee to make crucial changes on campus for the transgender community.

“If you are a transgendered student, you cannot change the gender on your student ID,” Dvorak said. “I feel that for a tolerant campus, that is unacceptable.”

The debate was held in the

middle of an ongoing SGA election. The election, open to the entire student body, will also be electing a new treasurer and 16 new senators to the SGA. Students can vote online at https://vote.cmich.edu until the polls close at midnight Friday.

Armelagos said voter turnout has been remarkably high since the election started Monday.

“The number of students voting is surprisingly high,” Armelagos said. “I am not comfortable giving out any specifics, but I can confidently say that students will be shocked when the numbers are revealed.”

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IN THE NEWS

Senate rejects plan to open Arctic refuge to drilling

By Sean Cockerham McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday resoundingly rejected a sweeping measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other protected areas to oil drilling, as well as to approve construction of the Keystone pipeline project.

Tuesday’s vote was the first time in four years that the Senate has voted on a measure including ANWR drilling, and it failed miserably. The proposal needed 60 votes to pass; it only received 41 votes in favor,

with 57 senators against.

Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts pushed the measure as an amendment to the bill that funds transportation projects across the nation. His amendment, in part a Republican jab at President Barack Obama during a time of high gasoline prices, was packed with so many controversial items that it was bound to fail in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

Still, Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich broke with others in his party and voted for the amendment, saying he did it to back ANWR drilling.

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In Barnes Hall, Whitehall freshman Rebecca Browand said about 75 to 100 people packed into the basement for a half hour on two separate occasions on the recommendation of the hall staff and alerts received by the CMU alert system.

“We got word there was a tornado warning, so we went downstairs. Then it was done, but there was another one 15 minutes later,” she said.

Browand said about 15 to 20 students who could not fit into the basement sought shelter in the community bathrooms on the first floor.

She said people took movies and music to enjoy while downstairs.

“I think we all made the most of the experience,” she said.

Jason Bentley, First Year Experience director, has been well informed on what to do within residence halls in order to enforce the safety of CMU students.

“Each residence hall room has an emergency plan for fires and tornadoes posted on the back of the dorm room doors,” Bentley said. “This plan includes the safest places and exits to resort to.”

Other facilities on campus, such as the Student Activity Center, also have strict protocol they must follow when natural disasters strike.

“When a tornado is issued we immediately announce a warning over the SAC PA system,” said Stan Shingles, University Recreation director. “There are people there who know what to do in the case of a tornado, and who will usher students to lower levels of the facility and away from windows or glass.”

Shingles said the SAC cannot require people to stay within the facility and doors must be kept unlocked during a tornado warning so that all students can seek cover and immediate safety on campus.

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Tornado report turns out to be a fake A little fun spun into a misunderstanding when 263 shares came from Mount Pleasant resident Jeanette Evitts’ photo on her Facebook page she captured of an alleged tornado funnel cloud behind her apartment complex.

In the midst of severe storm warnings, Evitts decided to photoshop a tornado in the picture that wasn’t really there. The convincing picture had people asking where the tornado was spotted.

After going along with it, she came out and said that the tornado in the picture wasn’t real.

She stated in a comment on her Facebook “it made it to the news,” referring to TV news outlet that shared the photo on its Facebook page.

She later apologized on her Facebook wall saying, “I AM SO SORRY EVERYONE. I photoshopped that photo of the tornado. I didn’t really think it would be so big! I’m so sorry! It got way out of control way too fast!”

WNEM-TV reported an EF1 tornado touched down in Midland County.

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EDITORIAL | Picking the wrong fight in higher education

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uesday morning Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law a fasttracked bill denying graduate assistant students at Michigan public universities the right to unionize, while denying collective bargaining rights to those who already have.

The legislation is an unnecessary attempt by the state’s Republican Party to score points with voters. Further, while it is the most significant higher education undertaking made by either Gov. Snyder or the state’s legislature in recent history, it does little to address the issues at the core of the financial crises at state universities.

This fringe issue deserved to

be addressed only after underwhelming funding, slack oversight and skyrocketing student debt.

The fact that a ban on graduate student organization was rushed through both the state House and Senate and is now being touted as part of Snyder’s “pro-education” message makes his startling inaction on other critical fronts loom even larger.

Michigan students at all levels

are in desperate need of solutions for many problems; graduate students potentially organizing to collectively demand better working conditions and compensation hardly qualifies.

While the reputation of unions has been sullied beyond reclamation in many industries, organized labor exists at face-value to defend working groups from exploitation.

There are few non-unionized groups in Michigan that work more for less than graduate “assistants” at our public universities.

For relatively little compensation and at the expectation of long hours spent both in and outside the classroom working on teaching tasks unrelated to their own coursework, graduate students have become a critical piece of the teaching team here at Cen-

tral Michigan University and at universities across the state and country.

To call them students and suggest that they do not fill roles as teachers shows either a disconnect between the assumptions made by state Republicans and the facts on the ground or a willful ignorance prompted by an antilabor ideology.

Either way, the law is unlikely to save significant money. At a time when actions are needed, gestures like this serve only to reinforce the notion that legislators do not understand the state of higher education.

The effectiveness and role of unions can be argued, but when it comes to higher education, much greater problems deserve scrutiny first.

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Vote of no confidence against trustees needed I address this to the CMU community. It appears that the CMU Board of Trustees still is not getting the message.

It is time for the CMU Academic Senate to introduce and approve a vote of no confidence against the CMU Board of Trustees.

The CMU community will experience “healing” only if radical change at the very highest levels of this institution occurs. The very serious issue of our dysfunctional board of trustees and administration devolves on the inherent injustice of about two dozen people claiming for themselves the right to dictate terms to the other 28,000 good and decent people who make up the CMU community. This is intolerable and should not stand.

So, you ask, if the CMU Academic Senate authorized the formation of the Ad Hoc Shared Governance committee at its last meeting, why then do we need a separate board of trustees no confidence vote? In the balance of this letter, I present points of fact that provide justification for the need to do so. These points are as follows: 1. The board of trustees (BoT) has not addressed the vote of no confidence against President Ross and Provost Shapiro passed by the Academic Senate on Dec. 6, 2011. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of the Academic Senate e-board in meeting with the BoT at its Feb. 8, 2012,

meeting. Through its abject failure to address the no confidence vote, the board of trustees serves as enablers of a dysfunctional administration that has long been openly contemptuous of shared governance at CMU. 2. Dr. Sam Kottamasu’s serving as chairman of the BoT constitutes a clear conflict of interest. Kottamasu has been CMED’s chief proponent from its beginning. As a doctor, it stands to reason that Kottamasu will benefit both financially and professionally from CMED. It is likely not coincidental that CMED’s East Campus will be sited in Saginaw, where Kottamasu has his practice. A failure to recuse himself from CMED deliberations during BoT meetings constitutes a clear conflict of interest. If a Michigan municipality allowed a similar conflict of interest during a public meeting, that municipality would be hauled into court and sued. At the Dec. 6, 2011, meeting during which he assumed the chairmanship, Kottamasu did not recuse himself during discussion and deliberation of CMED agenda items. I know: I was there because I spoke at the end of that meeting about the no confidence vote against Ross and Shapiro. Additionally, even if Dr. Kottamasu is more responsible about recusing himself from future deliberations and votes pertaining to CMED, his continuing to serve as the BoT chairman gives to

any thinking person the appearance of a conflict of interest. If it quacks like a conflict of interest, then it probably is.

3. Serious questions regarding the fiscal management of CMED persist.

Concerns over possible malfeasance regarding CMED fiscal details center on a PowerPoint presentation given by Dr. Ernest Yoder before the Academic Senate on Dec. 6, 2011. In this presentation, Dr. Yoder included a slide that was entitled “CMED Financial Uncertainties.” One of the points included under this header was the troubling subheader “CMED East Campus.”

The message of this slide basically was “Hey, we have no idea how much the CMED East Campus is going to cost.”

Thus, while the purpose of Dr. Yoder’s presentation was to shed light on and alleviate concerns regarding CMED’s financial viability, this presentation had for me and many others the exact opposite effect.

In the meantime, the CMED capital campaign continues to be stalled at the halfway mark about two years after its inauguration. If this lame bird quacks like a duck that can’t fly, it most probably is.

4. Finally, the vote of no confidence should be taken because these officers are appointed and not elected. The vote of no confidence should be taken because it will help send the message that the CMU community grows

weary of listening to the dictates and mandates of a dictatorial oligarchy that the real CMU community had no hand in appointed to their positions.

It will send a message that the time has come to provide the mechanism that will ensure the election of duly qualified people to the CMU Board of Trustees. Ideally, future candidates will have long-term and diverse experience in the education field.

For the several reasons adduced above, the time has come for the Academic Senate, acting as proxy for the CMU community, to draft and approve a vote of no confidence against the board of trustees. Given their seeming intransigence and continued refusal to embrace meaningful change, it is time for the CMU community to contemplate and countenance the possibility of the entire board’s removal. The CMU community is eager for appropriate change in CMU governance.

A vote of no confidence against the board of trustees represents a felicitous means by which the CMU community can register its just demand for what is best and right.

The time of reckoning for CMU’s dysfunctional board of trustees and administration has come.

Respectfully yours, Chris Benison Mount Pleasant Senior

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Providing clarity on $10 million for Events Center We welcome this opportunity to provide greater clarity regarding funding for the Events Center. We are very proud of what the Events Center has become and very pleased by the level of public support for this new, state-of-the-art complex serving the academic, athletic and community needs of the university and citizens of central and northern Michigan.

Initially, we had hoped that private donations could cover the full cost of the project. However, the record is clear that the board of trustees has long recognized the importance of investing in this outstanding facility.

Board resolutions in 2008 and 2009 made clear that funding would come from a combination of private donations and university reserves, as did the Use and Finance Statement that was filed with the State of Michigan.

Unfortunately, the Events Center website contained outdated informaCentral Michigan Life, the independent voice of Central Michigan University, is edited and published by students of Central Michigan University every Monday, Wednesday and Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and every Wednesday during CMU’s summer sessions. The newspaper’s online edition, cm-life.com, contains all of the material published in print, and is updated on an as-needed basis.

tion that has been removed.

Specifically, the board of trustees adopted a resolution on July 17, 2008, authorizing the contract for the planning and design phase of the project at a cost not to exceed $2.1 million, with funding to come from donations, a reserve for the Events Center and a reserve for future construction.

A year later — on July 16, 2009 — the board authorized a contract for the construction phase for an additional project cost of $18.5 million. Total project cost was not to exceed $21 million, with funding to be from donations, a reserve for future construction, a reserve for remodeling and the university recreation facility expansion reserve.

One month later, the university provided more detailed information and rationale in the Use and Finance Statement it filed with the State of Michigan: “The project will Central Michigan Life serves the CMU and Mount Pleasant communities, and is under the jurisdiction of the independent Student Media Board of Directors. Neil C. Hopp serves as Director of Student Media at CMU and is the adviser to the newspaper. Articles and opinions do not necessarily reflect the position or opinions of Central Michigan University. Central

be financed with private donations and university capital construction reserve funds. By investing in the Events Center project CMU addresses inadequate infrastructure needs for academic and athletic programs, promotes student recruitment and retention, and allows the university to host a multitude of events that will add to the overall student and educational experience here at CMU.” That document specified that $10 million of the financing — or 48 percent of the estimated cost — would be provided by university capital construction reserves and that the remaining $11 million, or 52 percent, would come from private funds, with the provision that “funds raised over and above this amount will be used to offset University funding.” It also stated clearly that “this project has no impact on student fees or tuition.”

Subsequently, on September 23, Michigan Life is a member of the Associated Press, the Michigan Press Association, the Michigan Collegiate Press Association, the Associated Collegiate Press, College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers Association, the Mount Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce, Central Michigan Home Builders Association, Mount Pleasant Housing Association and the

2010, the board adopted a resolution authorizing a contract for additional work because of unforeseen conditions, design errors and omissions, the addition of enhanced internal signage, and a video and graphics package at a cost not to exceed $1,500,000. Of that, $850,000 was to be from university reserves and $650,000 was to be repaid from future athletics revenues. With that, total project cost was not to exceed $22,500,000.

To date, we have raised more than $8 million toward our $11 million goal, and active fundraising efforts remain under way.

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Words matter We have all heard the phrase, “sticks and stones can break my bones but words cannot hurt me.”

Such a saying could not be further from the truth. In fact, it is the biggest croc I have ever heard in my entire life. The saying should instead say, “sticks and stones can break my bones and words can break a soul.” It may sound a bit corny, but it is true.

I know it isn’t healthy to be heavily concerned with what others say, but as social creatures we cannot help it sometimes.

Social interaction with others is necessary for survival. It starts at birth and continues until we die.

As a student, I care what my professor thinks of me because he or she has the final say on my grades.

I care what my father thinks of me because he still helps me out and takes care of me. I care what my friends think of me because they are people I can relate to and I know they would be straightforward if there was something they wanted to tell me.

If words did not matter, young adults and teens would not commit suicide because of constant and harsh bullying. Bullying is by far the best example of the magnitude that words can have. Whether it is done in school or through a social networking site, bullying has gotten to the point where there are laws against it. If words did not matter, heartsick folks would not cry because they were dumped. If words did not matter, people would not buy into false rumors. Words do matter, and as social creatures they can be the difference between life and death, happiness and depression, jokes or insults.

I am extremely sensitive, so I always make sure I never say something to offend anyone else. I am a firm believer in the positive power of kind words, or even non-verbal communication. Flash a smile at a stranger or compliment someone, because something as simple as that is one step we can all take to improve the world.

The most important thing is to think before you say something to someone, because you never know what people could be going through. We all have a story. At the end of the day, I do not know everyone’s life story, but I do know I would not want to be the one to set a person off.

The people who won’t purposely go out of their way to hurt me with their words are the important people in my life. I say care what your loved ones think and say and everyone else’s opinions are expendable. Words do hurt, but we can somewhat control how we react to them based on relationships. I simply choose to watch what I say to others and let forked tongues fall on deaf ears.

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CHARTER SCHOOLS

Schumacher brings experience, team strength to leadership

By Alayna Smith Staff Reporter

The Center for Charter Schools will be seeing new leadership with the appointment of Cindy Schumacher as executive director.

The position opened up when former Executive Director Jim Goenner left last year to become the president and CEO of the National Charter Schools Institute. Mary Kay Shields has been serving as interim executive director and Schumacher will take over Thursday.

She was one of three finalists selected from an initial pool of 50 potential candidates. She has been working with the university for over 13 years, and has recently been serving as the Deputy Director for the Center for Charter Schools. She has overseen many areas of the center throughout her tenure. Her salary will be $156,667 a year, she said.

Shields, who has filled the position since October 2010, said she is excited for the transition and all that Schumacher will bring to the table as the new executive director.

“I think she’s going to be an excellent executive director,” Shields said. “She’s been with the

university (for a long time), and she brings a breadth and a depth of experience that will help bring us to the next level.”

The Center Jeffrey Gray for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University currently oversees 56 schools within the state, with four more in Wayne County to be added soon. Overall, there are more than 200 charter schools in the state.

Last year, the Center for Charter Schools was one of eight model authorizers recognized nationally. Schumacher said that she intends to maintain standards to keep this honor.

“For the long-term, I will continue to work with the team to continue our state and national leadership, looking at opportunities out there from the perspective of the charter schools,” she said.

To do this, Schumacher said that many of the former practices in place will continue as they have been, as they have been shown to be successful.

“A lot of it is our stability,”

Schumacher said. “Maintaining our stable processes and proceeding, that’s what got us our national recognition.”

In a forum that took place Feb. 23 to discuss the position, Schumacher addressed what she would focus on were she to take over the position. “(One problem is) ensuring all our schools are meeting their performance standards with the systems we have to support them,” she said.

Schumacher also emphasized the importance of team strength during the forum, noting that she would not “work on an island” unless necessary.

“From my leadership perspective, I’m always all about the team,” she said.

Under the new leadership, Shields said she does not see huge changes on the horizon.

“Cindy and I and the former executive director, Jim Goenner ... have all worked as a leadership team for a long time,” Shields said. “The vision, direction and business process to get us to our goal has been developed by all of us. The vision we’ve had will continue because we’ve all created it.” university@cm-life.com

IN THE NEWS

CITY COMMISSION APPROVES $5,000 REMOVAL OF BELLOWS STREET MINI-CIRCLE

by Jackie Smith staff reporter

Mount Pleasant residents will see a mini-circle-free Bellows Street in the approaching weeks, just two years after the circle was originally installed to slow down traffic.

City commissioners first expressed interest in removing what was called a “much hated piece of property” last October and instructed city

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staff to employ an engineering advising firm to study the effectiveness of the circle.

At a commission meeting last month, representatives from Orchard Hiltz & McCliment, Inc., recommended alternative ways to guide traffic on Bellows with a potential three-phase plan — the first phase including removal of the mini-circle and installation of a speed table.

Each part of the first phase

was estimated to cost $5,000.

On Monday, commissioners discussed amending the 2012 budget to allocate both amounts, before ultimately rejecting purchasing a speed table and approving only removal of the mini-circle in a 4-2 vote. Commissioner Rick Rautanen was absent.

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REPAINTING | Cleaning up graffiti

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Mount Pleasant resident Mike Custer of Percha Paint, paints over graffiti in an alley in downtown Mount Pleasant during Tuesday’s warm weather. Graffiti was sprayed around downtown in early February.

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LOS ANGELES _ Wal-Mart has unveiled an exclusive arrangement with five of Hollywood’s top studios to convert DVD collections into digital copies.

Beginning April 16, consumers will be able to take their DVDs to about 3,500 WalMart stores and have a digital copy stored in the cloud _ a storage system offering access from a broad array of Internetconnected devices _ for $2 each. Customers will have the option to upgrade standard DVDs to high-definition online copies for $5 each.

Wal-Mart, by far the nation’s largest retailer of DVDs, will be the only store that can offer so-called “disc-to-digital” until its period of exclusivity ends in the fall. The retail giant received exclusive rights from the studios in exchange for an aggressive offer to launch the service first, according to

people briefed on the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The news came as part of an event held in Hollywood on Tuesday announcing WalMart’s support for UltraViolet, the online movie technology backed by most movie studios and a coalition of technology companies. The previously expected news provides a major boost to UltraViolet, which has had a rocky launch and faces a formidable competitor in Apple’s iCloud film service.

As part of the announcement, Wal-Mart’s online video store Vudu is now part of UltraViolet and all movies that it sells will be compatible with that service’s online cloud, which allows consumers to access films they own from a wide variety of digital devices.

Home entertainment executives from 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. at the event said Wal-Mart’s backing was the biggest advance yet for Ultra-

Violet. They were particularly excited about the disc-to-digital option, which they said would acclimate consumers with existing DVD collections to storing their movies online.

Customers can take their DVDs to Wal-Mart photo centers where employees will add digital copies to Vudu accounts. To make sure the same disc is not copied multiple times, store associates will stamp the discs after the conversion is done. They won’t accept DVDs rented from outlets such as Redbox, Netflix and Blockbuster.

Not every movie will be available to convert, however, as studios have not yet created digital copies of all their movies. Universal Pictures, for instance, currently has about half of its library of 1,300 titles online.

Studios are hopeful that the Wal-Mart deal will pressure other retailers that don’t yet back UltraViolet, including Amazon.com and Best Buy, to jump on board.

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Many college football players dream about playing in the NFL, but for most, a dream is all it is.

Nine Central Michigan football players took their first step in making that dream a reality Monday at CMU’s Pro Day. Pro Day gives seniors leaving college an opportunity to showcase their strength and athleticism in front of NFL scouts. Scouts from 11 teams were in attendance.

“It’s the biggest interview of my life,” running back Paris Cotton said. “It’s a dream come true to be able to play in the league. If you don’t believe in yourself, then no one else is going to believe in you.”

He said he was pleased with his performance and hopes it can lead to greater opportunities in the future.

“I think I did great,” Cotton said. “I think I came out and did what I had to do and we’re going to see what happens after today.”

Cotton led CMU in rushing in 2010 and 2011.

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nyhoff has watched every Pro Day since he arrived at Players CMU in 2008 TE, David Blackburn DB, John Carr and knew what FB, Landon Carter RB, Paris Cotton to expect.

WR, Cedric Fraser QB,Brandon Fricke “I had pretty OL, Rocky Weaver high expecta- LB, Armond Staten tions,” he said. Long-snapper Brian Bennyhoff “I’m just glad I had the chance NFL scouts to be here today, Detroit Lions Jacksonville Jaguars and I brought New Orleans Saints Indianapolis Colts my best.”

Green Bay Packers San Diego Chargers He said the New York Jets Carolina Panthers thought of play- Minnesota Vikings ing in the NFL has been a lifelong goal of his.

“Ever since I started going talent to get there.” to football games when I was Blackburn said he has been 2 years old,” Bennyhoff said. training the last two months to “I’ve loved football and since prepare for Pro Day. then my dream has been the “I’ve been doing a lot of NFL.” stretching,” Blackburn said.

Tight End David Blackburn “I’ve been training really hard said he is confident he can just trying to get faster and build off his senior season stronger.” where he posted career highs The rest of the CMU football in every receiving category and team began spring practice was an All-MAC second team Tuesday. It was the first of 15 selection. practices for the Chippewas “It’s definitely something I before the spring game April 14. think I got a shot at doing,” he said. “I think I’ve got enough sports@cm-life.com

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Women’s team back in WNIT, to play Illinois State again Thursday

By Kristopher Lodes Staff Reporter

For the second season in a row the Central Michigan women’s basketball team will be in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament.

And for the secondstraight season the Chippewas (20-15) will head to Normal, Ill. to play Illinois State (18-12) of the Missouri Valley Conference in the WNIT first round.

“It’s good that we can keep playing,” head coach Sue Guevara said. “It’s a good stepping stone, we’ve put together back-to-back 20-win seasons and back-to-back postseason play and there are a lot of teams that would like to be able to do that.”

CMU lost 72-59 to the Red Birds last year, and the two teams will play again Thursday, the time has not yet been released.

“Last year we didn’t play well as a team and I think this year we have a new team and we’re ready to go there and beat them Thursday,” junior guard Brandie Baker said. “We just need to keep playing together and keep our chemistry going.”

The Chippewas should be able to get a good look at Illinois State from this season because the two teams have played five common opponents in Northwestern, Ball State, Northern Illinois, Wichita State and Bradley.

“Right now I’m more concerned about us and getting back on the saddle,” Guevara said. “I don’t care who we’re playing if it’s someone we do know or don’t know just the fact that we get to play again.”

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So how do they and the Red Birds stack up?

Offensively the Chippewas ranked No. 35 in the nation averaging 71.2 points per game, but Illinois State isn’t far behind averaging 68 points per game.

Defensively Sue Guevara CMU has allowed 58.5 points per game in its last eight, the Red Birds allow an average of 62 points per game.

So what will the Chippewas have to do to get by Illinois State, and not see the year come to an end in Redbird Arena again?

“We have to be able to defend and make sure to do what we have been doing,” Guevara said. “These are things we’ve done well the last couple of weeks and we get to continue to do it.”

In those eight games where the CMU defense has stepped up it has gone 7-1 including the 72-71 loss to Eastern Michigan in the Mid-American Conference Championship game last Saturday.

CMU was 1.5 seconds away from the NCAA Tournament during that loss.

“We’ve let that game go and it’s in the past and now we’re on to Illinois State,” Baker said. “We’re definitely using the loss as motivation in this tournament.”

The WNIT is a 64-team tournament that showcases the top teams in the nation that did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

Seven wrestlers go to St. Louis for NCAA’s

By Jeff papworth Staff Reporter

Central Michigan will be represented by seven wrestlers with varying expectations heading into the NCAA Championships Thursday at St. Louis.

“We’re a little bit younger (than last season),” head coach Tom Borrelli said. “There won’t be a whole lot of pressure on our guys, and we have more guys here to coach, so that makes it more fun.”

Redshirt junior Ben Bennett was anointed the No. 3 seed in the 184-pound bracket. He is the only CMU wrestler who is seeded.

It is his third-straight appearance in the NCAA Championships. He placed eighth last season. He was the fourth freshman in CMU history to

earn All-American status by grabbing sixth-place in his second year in the program.

“My goal is to win the Nationals, so I’m just ready to get out and start wrestling on Thursday,” Bennett said. “I just got to show up, and be ready to compete, and execute well and just really do all the things that we’ve been working on all season long.”

Bennett said he has just as high of expectations this year as he did his previous three tries.

“Every year my goal is to win it, so hopefully sooner or later I accomplish that goal,” he said.

“If things worked out how I wanted them to, I would have won as a freshman.”

To be the second wrestler in CMU history to place first in the NCAA Championships Bennett will most likely have to

beat No. 2 Robert Hamlin of Lehigh, who is credited with two of Bennett’s three losses this season.

“I think he can win a championship, but he also has a really formidable path,” Borrelli said.

Senior Peter Sturgeon and junior Donnie Corby are the only other wrestlers with experience in the NCAA Championships. They lost in the first round in their lone appearance last season. Corby was able to win one in wrestlebacks.

Underclassmen Mike Ottinger, Zach Horan, Scott Mattingly and Joe Roth will wrestle in the NCAA Championships for the first time.

Borrelli said the surroundings will be a surprise to the young wrestlers.

“It’ll certainly be the atmosphere. It’s a pretty neat atmo-

sphere,” he said. “I’m not sure how many tickets we sold, but we’ll have a lot of people here as far as CMU people and family.”

Roth is going to wrestle Purdue’s Camden Eppert in a rematch to begin the tournament. Roth won the first match 4-2 in overtime.

He finished the season 34-7, an improvement from 13 wins last year. He also won the MidAmerican Conference championship in what Borrelli tabbed as one of the toughest weight classes in the conference.

CMU finished tied for thirteenth in last season’s NCAA Championships. Their highest ranking was fifth in 1998.

“I just want our guys to wrestle well,” Borrelli said. “To relax and enjoy the experience and do their best.” sports@cm-life.com

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By Jessica Fecteau | Senior Reporter

Ben Harris Senior Reporter

Let freedom ring One of my roommate’s professors said technology like texting should be allowed in classrooms because it allows students to communicate with each other about material.

This is only half true. If my high school teachers had let me have my phone out during class, I would not have been texting my friends about the material.

I would have been texting my friends about everything but the material. I know this to be true because now, in college, I text openly in most of my classes. It is never about the material.

Professors who give a blanket ban on technology in the classroom, especially in discussionbased courses, are right in a way because no one’s talking when the whole class is posting Facebook statuses about how much it sucks to be in class.

But when I’m not having any of what a class is offering, I’ll bring a book to read or a pillow to pass out on. Technology may be the best distraction in the classroom, but it certainly isn’t the only distraction.

No professor would throw a student out of class for bringing a book. Rather, the textbook is a key component in the education system. A school without books is like a music hall without instruments.

The birth of the internet has been likened to the invention of the printing press. The printing press didn’t go anywhere. Technology isn’t, either.

Students are going to be sneaking texts in class regardless of whether it says not to in the syllabus. People are going to open laptops under the pretext of taking notes and will instead be on Facebook chatting about the weekend.

Technology is engaging. It is stimulating. That’s why it’s so popular. There’s so much to be done with it, and that’s why there’s no room for Luddism.

The Luddites never win.

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The parents of college students can’t be blamed for playing catch-up when it comes to technology, but it doesn’t mean their trial and errors aren’t funny.

Texting is often the most convenient form of communication between busy students and their parents.

Although it’s convenient, it may not be the most effective.

“My mom used to use the period instead of the space because she couldn’t find it,” said Warren junior Lindsey Peters.

Fowlerville junior Emily Hudson said her mom did not understand the medium’s emphasis on brevity.

“When my mom first started texting she would end up sending a few messages in a

row because she’d write it like a letter,” Hudson said. “She would start every message with ‘Dear Emily’ and then end it with ‘Love, Mom.’” Since being introduced to abbreviations, Hudson said her mom’s texts are now hard to read.

“I told her she can use different abbreviations so she

doesn’t have to type everything out, but now she hardly uses full words, because she tries to do it for everything,” Hudson said.

Receiving photos of her dog along with animated captions is often a highlight of sophomore Ashley Foster’s day.

“My mom will send me pictures of my dog and say things like ‘Ava can’t wait for you to come home!’ or ‘Ava’s being a bad doggy today, look how cute she is,’” the Grand Haven native said.

Thanks to whenparentstext. com, a collection of the funny things parents do when they get their hands on a phone can be seen on the blog. Their motto “small keyboard, old hands” celebrates the sometimes hilarious relationship between parents and technology.

Although some parents abuse the right to text, Journalism instructor Betsy Rau said as a mother, she finds it funny that she recommends iPhone apps to her adult children.

“If I find easier ways to upload pictures to Facebook or find cool apps, I will tell my kids about it and there have been times my son goes ‘I can’t believe my own mother is telling me something,’” Rau said.

Even though she is a techsavvy user, Rau said she still sometimes falls to being autocorrected by her phone.

“I texted my son the other day and said ‘I have some stiff in my trunk,’” she said. “And he goes, ‘Mom when did you resort to murder?’ And I was like ‘Stuff! Stuff!’”

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Some professors more strict than others when it comes to classroom technology use

By Sean Bradley Staff Reporter

Texting and laptop use during class time have become the norm among college students at Central Michigan University.

As more and more students have personal laptop computers, it is getting harder for instructors to ignore the fact that other things besides paying attention to a lecture are going on.

Gail Shields, assistant professor of economics, said she catches students doing things other than taking notes on their laptops during her classes, such as Web surfing and finishing work for another class.

“If it becomes a distraction for me or other students, then

I would have to ask the student to stop,” Shields said.

She said if a student is not overly disruptive with her teaching she is fine with texting going on.

Lansing junior Matt Norton said some of his instructors have been very strict about cell phone use, for texting or otherwise, in class.

“I actually had a programming class where the instructor saw if you have a phone or using the computer when she didn’t give you explicit permission to do so, she would kick you out of the class” he said.

Norton said, for him, it’s all a matter of how well he is paying attention in class.

“I guess I can find the limit and stay below that when it comes to using my phone or

computer,” he said.

Assistant Professor of Journalism Ronald Marmarelli said texting and using phones in his classes is not permitted usually, but may be used during certain class activities.

“What goes on in the class ought to be what’s part of the class business and not something else outside of it,” he said.

He said students should pay attention to the instructor, if just for instructions about a particular assignment.

“You like to think that you have something worthwhile to communicate, if only to say ‘Here are some things you need in order to complete the work of some kind of assignment’ and if they’re not listening, how do you know they’re

getting it?” he said.

Brighton freshman Nicole Cothery said she uses her phone in class to send messages to her friends.

“I am constantly texting,” Cothery said. “I text in three out of my five classes and I see a ton of people text in class.”

She, however, doesn’t find it to be distracting to her learning environment.

“I still get the work done and keep up with the class lectures,” she said.

Cothery said keeping up with class material is the students’ responsibility, whether or not they use their phones.

“If they don’t pay attention to class and only to their phone, then it’ll affect their performance,” she said. studentlife@cm-life.com

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Willfully distracted 12:17: Dude, are you coming home for dinner tonight?

12:18: Bro in class can’t text.

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“So, Andrew, what is the example Block gives in the book about the mind-body problem?”

“Uhm, to be honest, I’m not really sure,” 12:23: Totally just embarrassed myself in class. Pretty sure the professor hates me. Save me booze meat.

Technology has made all of us better, faster and obviously much stronger communicators at all places, at all times. My ability to remain jacked in to the fragile web of friends, family and internet weirdos has vastly improved several parts of my life, just not my grade point average.

It’s not that technology and classroom learning are incompatible, but in classes, especially lectures, the urge to drift from typing notes to browsing the interweb can be simply too hard to resist. And by “can be,” I mean “every single time I take my computer out in class I end up staring at videos of Japanese men trying to play soccer with binoculars duct-taped to their head.” Once I found out that’s a thing that actually exists, I was going to keep coming back to it, and I don’t really think that’s my fault.

Things progress quickly from taking notes to Blackboard to email to Facebook to Twitter to YouTube to Google images searches for Danny DeVito as The Penguin in “Batman Returns.” This is the new academic attention span food chain.

Even in classes where professors have wisely banned the use of laptops for purposes academic or otherwise, the cell phone remains too much of a temptation to resist. When I started working at the newspaper I made a difficult deal with myself, I would answer phone

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By Andrew Dooley | Student Life Editor In addition to his duties as Student Life Editor, Andrew Dooley fancies himself something of a psychic. He’s in tune with the alignment of the planets or something. He will be writing horoscopes for the Wednesday’s Vibe section until his paranormal abilities are ruined by a solar flare or he runs out of material.

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Capricorn: December 22 - January 19 - Think about your favorite pair of socks. The brown ones with the orange heel and toe. What a comfortable pair of socks. Head toward people who exhibit the same kind of fuzzy comfortability. Find out if comfortability is a word. Also, find those socks.

calls if they seemed like an emergency.

Then I realized I might need to text reporters and editors. Then emails had to be answered. Before long, I was cradling my phone behind my notebook, trying to be very sneaky while enjoying putrefied shark meat’s Wikipedia page. Let’s never go to Iceland.

Part of me wants to think my cell phones and laptops are mine to use however

Aries: March 21 - April 20 - You’re probably going to meet someone who is hopelessly into you. Don’t worry, they come with a great smile, a wonderful career and either a Porsche they don’t like to drive or puppies. They also have a neck tattoo, but for the first time in your life, don’t be discouraged by this.

Cancer: Juny 22 - July 22 - Allergic to gluten is the new allergic to peanuts. Remember that a stylish food allergy can be the ticket to a neurotic dietetic major’s heart. Also, please list your allergies as loudly as possible at restaurants before ordering. Do this before you even look at the menu. We love that little trait of yours.

Leo: July 23 - August 22 - Use pens if you want people to take you seriously, pencils if you want to be sure you get it right and an alarm clock if you want to keep your last job as a horoscope writer. I miss Cleveland.

Virgo: August 23 - September 22 - Be the change you want to see in the world.

Hey, you! Virgo! You need to get off your couch and be somebody. Start by giving severe paper cuts to anyone who talked about “The Bachelor” on Twitter.

Libra: September 23 - October 22 Woah, there is a tremendous amount of money headed your way! This is called a “Federal Tax Return.” Remember to spend it only on shoes, as they can be deducted next year as business expenses. I have never taken an accounting class. I am probably going to prison.

Scorpio: October 23 - November 21 - I am Scorpio. Date me? Really though, this is going to be a hard month with you putting in so much work on both classes and your career. You need to find a relaxing place where you can unwind. I have many kinds of tea, HBO on demand and a comfortable couch.

Sagittarius: November 22 - December 21 - I never realized how exhausting it is to attempt writing 12 jokes in a row.

One time I tripped over a horseshoe pit and ended up doing an inebriated full front flip, landing back on my feet without understanding exactly what had just happened. The only drunk guy looking started clapping, but no one else noticed.

Still, I felt like Nastia Liukin.

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Jordan Spence Staff Reporter “My girlfriend and I have been dating for almost four years and otherwise have a great relationship. But we struggle in one specific area; sex. To give you a quick history, she was sexually abused as a child and has found that in long-term relationships she ends up losing interest in having sex, and it feels like work, although she assures me she is attracted to me.

She also suffers from anxiety.

We have tried several different things including various counselors but to no avail. Lately, she has been motivated to do it more often as she feels her anxiety isn’t in control of her life as much and she has the ability to relax and let it happen so to speak. But now the problem may be me. I think over time, my confidence has been shot because of us not having sex for weeks at a time sometimes.

So now it’s as if I’d just prefer we just get it done and that’s it, while she of course wants to engage in foreplay. So we are at this point now where both of us are sort of struggling with an issue to do with sex and it just makes it harder for it to actually happen. We both know how important it is to have a healthy sex life and want nothing more than to make it happen. We are just unsure how to go about it from here.”

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By Jay Gary Staff Reporter

“Jet Set Radio” needs no coy introduction; no careful stagesetting for an explanation to be laid out, for it is quite possibly one of the biggest cult classics from the days of the Dreamcast.

The series’ last release was “Jet Set Radio Future” back in 2002, and since then the gaming world has sorely been lacking a blindingly-colorful and funky trip through the streets of Shibuya-cho.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Dreamcast era, “Jet Set Radio” is a game about warring graffiti gangs on rollerblades.

The game was highly influential on the industry for pioneering cel-shaded graphics and boasted one of the most counter-culture, effective and mind-shatteringly unique soundtracks ever compiled.

While not a huge commercial success, the game proved to be

a critical and award-winning venture.

On Feb. 22, the YouTube account SegaAmerica released a video called “Guess Who’s Back?” and as the video kicks off with the opening beats to the track “Funky Radio,” it’s suddenly all too apparent who is back. “Jet Set Radio HD” is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 courtesy of XBLA and PSN. For starters, since this is an HD release, we can safely assume some sort of graphical change will be made. The original game boasted some of the most innovative and iconic graphics of the time. Fudzilla. com has actually released that according to their sources, there will be enhanced graphics and better visuals.

This game’s soundtrack is just as vital as the gameplay and graphics and it cannot go down the HD release road of “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” or

“Crazy Taxi” and not have the original soundtrack.

Those games, while also having iconic soundtracks, were mainly nostalgia based; “Jet Set Radio’s” music is stage-specific and is used to set moods.

The teaser trailer plays one of the original songs, which hints that the soundtrack has safely made it in.

For speculations it would be great if the competitive jams against the CPU could be turned into multiplayer modes and the original graffiti swapping over the internet came back. Any sort of multiplayer system would be sweet, but simply is just icing on the cake at this point.

As long as the original soundtrack is fully represented in the HD release, then Sega will have outdone themselves in delivering one of the most original games back to the gamers in high-definition glory.

Since you have gone to therapy, I’m not going to make that my main suggestion. It sounds like you have a solid relationship in other areas, so I would take a different approach.

Since you’ve been together four years there is a certain amount of chemistry you can lose as a couple that would happen without the abuse she has experienced.

Since it sounds like she is starting to discover herself as a sexual being, I encourage you to listen to her wants and needs. Talk to her about what she likes during foreplay, and what she finds attractive about you physically and emotionally.

I wouldn’t get too crazy or kinky in order to find your stride, but you need to start some action. Time spent sitting around talking about being upset could be spent discovering what you like sexually.

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“Syndicate” seemed like it had everything working against it, like its troubled development cycle or fans of the original game who were angry about “Syndicate” being turned into a first-person shooter.

Starbreeze Studios managed to create a game that gives players an incredibly fun singleplayer campaign along with an addictive online co-op mode.

Both are wrapped in a world that features great depth and immersive atmosphere.

The campaign puts the player into the shoes of Miles Kilo.

The year is 2069 and the world is ruled by mega-corporations called Syndicates. These Syndicates create armies used to wage war against one another to enlarge their consumer base.

from the pistol to the minigun has great sound design and tight controls that help the player feel like they are wielding powerful tools of destruction.

Manipulating the environment, along with using DART abilities and guns, gives the game a fast-paced but calculated feel, giving players the sense of being the ultimate weapon.

This all carries over to the online cooperative mode as well. Playing with other people through maps created specifically for the co-op mode is a lot of fun, especially when teammates have to balance their DART abilities to cover any situation.

Leveling up, researching new abilities, weapon attachments and completing challenges make the co-op really fun, even when playing the same level four times in a row.

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‘The Darkness II’ good, not as good as predecessor Developer Digital Extremes has taken the helm from Starbreeze Studios for “The Darkness II,” and it brings new gameplay and art styles to Jackie Estacado’s demonic mobster world.

Fans of the previous game will be happy to know that it is still ridiculously fun playing with “The Darkness.”

The game doesn’t waste any time tossing the player into the action and having them split people in half by throwing car doors, or performing gory executions using their demon arms.

The first game had the player in the role of the ultimate predator, taking out the lights and tearing apart gangsters one-by-one from the shadows. The player in “The Darkness II” is a weapon of brute force. This game has a much faster pace and instead of sneaking around, players will be shooting, slashing and throwing enemies in head-on confrontations.

Players can also upgrade their powers with essence points earned through different types of kills. By the end of the game players will likely feel almost unstoppable, and it’s a great feeling.

More enemies to fight, a difference in powers and a much more linear level design gives “The Darkness II”

a heavier emphasis on action compared to the first game.

“The Darkness II” may have a very different play style from “The Darkness,” but it’s still really fun, just for different reasons.

“The Darkness” had some very powerful story events that still resonate with players today. Unfortunately, the same can’t really be said for “The Darkness II.” The story manages to stay interesting throughout, but it never creates a connection between the player and the characters like the first game did, which leads to some of the bigger moments of the game not feeling very important.

It’s also pretty short; players can easily finish it during a weekend.

There is also a short cooperative campaign called Vendettas that offers a surprising amount of depth. It has different characters and runs parallel to the main story. It’s fun to play with other people and helps extend the value of the game past the initial campaign.

The graphics have been changed to a cel-shaded comic book style. Usually the game looks fine, but there are times when the celshading just makes it look like textures aren’t loading correctly. It’s not bad, but it could’ve been implemented better.

Overall “The Darkness II”

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‘Syndicate’ succeeds despite challenges Kilo is a deadly agent working for the Syndicate called Eurocorp.

Kilo, like most people in “Syndicate,” has a computer chip in his brain. This DART chip allows players to hack things in the environment such as movable cover and automated turrets.

It also allows players to hack into the brains of the many enemies they will encounter.

There are three basic abilities to use in the game: backfire, suicide and persuade. Backfire makes the enemies’ guns malfunction, suicide makes enemies pull out a grenade and detonate it in their hand, and persuade makes enemies fight their own teammates. DART abilities add a really fun twist to the basic shooter gameplay.

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Yes, your confidence isn’t in the best place, but there is a reason you two are still together after four years. Not many college-aged couples can say this. Start with kissing, take it slow, ensure some build-up. I think some lingerie would help her feel sexy and have you appreciate her in a sexual way. Try sex during different times of the day, or different rooms in your place (when you’re alone of course). Those are ways to spice things up and take some pressure off in the bedroom.

Stop the voices in your head telling you that you aren’t good enough. Take enjoyment out of the simplest touches and kisses; it’s usually during those basic moments where good sex sessions can begin.

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Back in my freshman year, I remember how big of a deal it was when my friends and I trekked out to the casino for a night.

Four years later, I feel like Mount Pleasant has shrunk greatly, but I often find that isn’t a bad thing. I’ve explored Mount Pleasant in its entirety and discovered the city was filled with small, local businesses and restaurants that seem to slide under the radar of the typical student. So join me for a newcomer’s guide to Mount Pleasant.

The Low Rider Café is a small diner on Pickard next to the Harley Davidson shop.

The cafe caters to a lot of the local Harley riders in the area.

Pictures of bikers and other Harley Davidson gear adorn the walls as the feeling of a JeFF keTChAM/staff reporter

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myself waiting more than 10 minutes for my food or more than a minute or two before I had a drink refill.

Overall, The Low Rider Café is a very unique and delightful diner. The food is delicious and fairly priced and the service has that small-town, personal appeal. If looking to go somewhere a little more interesting than a chain restaurant for lunch, The Low Rider Café is worth a look. metro@cm-life.com

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“as it stands now, ‘You Kids! is a total trip that has some missteps along the way, but makes up for it with uniqueness.” noise with tracks like “Big Woman,” where each instrument just gives it their all for this big, zany dance party. It’s undeniable that when The D.A. wants you to move, they have the chops to do it.

Sometimes all their wackiness can get the better of them. Tracks like “Tigers” sadly just comes off as odd sounding, and lyrics like “I’ll eat toothpaste/And rub it on my face” do not help their cause. “Tenderfoot” also suffers from being a little too strange at times.

The “problem” (quoted because it’s a stylistic choice, not really a problem) is they have all these instruments and are constantly using them; this happens most noticeably with the trumpet, as instead of being used more as a spice, will have lines throughout the entire song.

Once again, sometimes this works, but sometimes it sounds like they are trying to cram so much in such little space.

Sometimes the vocals are just a little on the wacky side.

Much like every other aspect, sometimes they fit the music great and sometimes

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Going back to that chorus change from “We Hungry” (and honestly most of the song) the vocals just sound a little strange; not strange enough to destroy the song or anything, but definitely odd enough to be noticeable.

The D.A. are doing something very crazy and fresh, and while most of the time it works, occasionally you can hear parts that sound zany. If you are looking for something original, The D.A. definitely delivers in spade, but some more polish in songwriting could have been used.

As it stands now, “You Kids!” is a total trip that has some missteps along the way, but makes up for it with uniqueness. studentlife@cm-life.com

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Their music is extremely influenced by the funkier side of British post-punk acts like 23 Skidoo and A Certain Ratio, and at first listen it would be hard to think that this band wasn’t based in London.

With the addition of trumpet and synthesizers into the standard guitar/bass/drums setup, The D.A. craft a very psychotic and eclectic mix of post-punk and funk for their album “You Kids!,” but how much craziness is enough?

The most particular aspect of their music is it’s quite subdued in volume. Rather than sounding like some avant-garde jazz band flying off the handle throwing notes around like it’s going out of style, most compositions actually fall on the more calm and collected side.

This creates a weird dichotomy as the volume is safe and the instrumentation within is crazy. A good example of this is the track “We Hungry,” as it never really gets heavy or biting, but all the progressions (especially the change into the chorus) are just puzzling and hard to wrap your head around at times.

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The modern biker theme makes The Low Rider Café feel original and interesting.

The diner is very clean and a great place to just sit and enjoy a cup of coffee.

There isn’t anything out of the ordinary on The Low Rider menu, but they do have a good selection of breakfast options as well as sandwiches and burgers. Of particular note is an amazing patty melt that is the best I’ve had in Mount Pleasant.

Service may not be the first thing you think about when deciding where to go to eat, but it can make or break your dining experience. In this area, The Low Rider Café shines. Service is quick and the wait staff is very friendly. In the times I have eaten there, I have never found

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The popularity of vehicular-combat games was at its height in the late ‘90s, and “Twisted Metal” was one of the most beloved series representing the genre.

Those heights are long gone, but that hasn’t stopped developer Eat Sleep Play from releasing a game simply called “Twisted Metal,” which integrates classic vehicularcombat into the modern gaming landscape.

The basic gameplay is still the same; players take control of a vehicle and try to blow up other vehicles with various types of weapons like rockets, chain guns and napalm.

The “Twisted Metal” control scheme can take some getting used to, but once players are familiar with the controls, there shouldn’t be many problems.

The game does a phenomenal job creating fastpaced chaos that doesn’t leave players confused about what’s happening.

The player never feels lost, even with 15 other players shooting in every direction and debris falling.

Crazy weapons and destructible environments help add to the jovial madness of “Twisted Metal.”

Want something better than mere rockets? Players can use the Sweet Tooth ice cream truck to transform into a huge robot, or use the Reaper motorcycle and hurl flaming chainsaws at opponents.

Is there an enemy behind a house? No problem; just plow right through the building and continue pursuing the opposing vehicle.

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There is a single-player story mode that is pretty fun, along with a challenge mode where players can fight bots, but everything really comes together with the online multiplayer.

“Twisted Metal” offers many of the basic competitive modes such as deathmatch and team deathmatch, but Nuke Mode is the stand-out, which is basically a combination of capture the flag and assault.

When everything goes properly, the multiplayer is exhilarating. Even players in dead last will be hardpressed to find matches unpleasant.

Matchmaking doesn’t always work properly at the moment, but it’s a testament to how good the game is that it’s worth wading through some of the problems just to find a good 10-minute match.

“Twisted Metal” comes at a time when vehicularcombat games are almost nonexistent, but solid game play mixed with good single-player and phenomenal multiplayer content makes the temporary resurrection of the genre worthwhile. stud entl i fe@c m-l i fe.com

Andrew Stanton is wellknown for his work writing and directing animated films for Pixar Animation Studios, but “John Carter” is his first major foray into directing a live-action film.

The result is a movie that is enjoyable overall, but somewhat of a mixed bag from scene to scene.

The film follows John Carter, played by Taylor Kitsch, on an adventure that begins in America during the late 1800s and ends up on the planet Mars, which is known as Barsoom to its native inhabitants.

Kitsch does a nice job as John Carter. He lends a good amount of charisma and believability to the character, making it easy for audiences to relate and become invested in whether or not he will succeed in his quest.

The best parts of “John Carter” are the beautifully rendered CGI characters, scenery and action scenes.

The first Martian race that viewers will see are the Tharks, a race of extremely tall green creatures that have four arms and tusks that protrude from their faces. The particular tribe of Tharks that Carter becomes acquainted with is led by Tars Tarkas, who is voiced by Willem Dafoe.

The Tharks look good enough, but their fantastic facial animations and subtle body language really help bring the CGI species to life.

The various settings and machines in the film look great as well, along with the action that takes place on them. Zodanga, which is a massive walking city, and the various aircrafts flown by the Martians look absolutely jaw-dropping.

Despite some anticlimactic conclusions, the action scenes combine all the best parts of “John Carter”

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Unfortunately the main story is one of the most lacking things about the film.

Carter’s quest to save a princess from a forced marriage isn’t very interesting, and the same is true for the subplot involving Tarkas’ tribe.

The relationship between Carter and the princess is pretty flat and the pacing of the film is very inconsistent.

Some scenes seem to end too quickly, while others seem to drag on too long.

It may be difficult for viewers to keep track of all the terms being thrown at

them throughout the course of the film like Jeddaks, Tharks and Therns.

Overall, “John Carter” looks phenomenal, but lacks very much substance to keep viewers engaged.

It is far from perfect, but at the very least it should leave viewers excited to see what comes next for the main character. studentlife@cm-life.com

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“SSX” does exactly what a reboot of the highly-regarded snowboarding series should; it takes everything that was great about the previous games and makes that the main focus while also adding to the basic formula.

The same basic gameplay from past “SSX” titles is still present, with some small tweaks. Players try to do huge tricks to build up their combo meter so they can reach Tricky mode and also fill up the boost meter.

The default control setting for “SSX” has players controlling all of their tricks with the two analog sticks. The analog control system can take a little getting used to, but overall it is very intuitive and feels great. It allows players to feel like they are in complete control of the board, intentionally pulling off awesome tricks, as opposed to just smashing a bunch of buttons and doing cool stuff by accident.

There are more than 150 drops in the game for players to conquer, so there is plenty of content to keep players busy for quite a while.

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Nazism is the greatest thing to happen to the movie industry; they’re damnable enough to instantly register as an irredeemable villains.

No other concept has been as malleable or flexible as the Third Reich; the cinematic National Socialists are the ultimate representatives of evil, yet boisterous enough to lend to slapstick comedy, and their randomly placed symbols add mystery to easily spice up any terrible suspense movie.

And often, when a director decides to actually take Nazis seriously, their horrific past can make for incredibly poignant cinema.

There actually isn’t a single Nazi in the entirety of “The Wave,” but their shadow is prominent enough to color the entire film with their presence.

A 2008 foreign film, with the title “Die Welle,” is a movie loosely based off an obscure classroom experiment that took place in a California classroom in the ‘60s. As one of the several film adaptions of the experiment, “The Wave” transports the experiment to a suburban community in Germany, for both a stronger unity with its message, and, no doubt, increased marketability.

When rebel teacher Rainer

Wenger, played by German Actor Jürgen Vogel, is asked whether he really thought Germany would be susceptible to another Third Reich by one of his students, Wenger decides to turn his own classroom into a fascist system. He manages to create a modern version of the Nazi Party, composed entirely of gullible teenagers.

It’s almost humorous how quickly the entire school is convinced that joining a fascist organization is a perfectly great thing to do. After only two days, the majority of the students are dressed in white (the Wave’s official uniform), vandalizing the neighborhood with “Wave” symbols, bullying little kids, having drunken Wave parties and other typical adolescent fascist activities.

Most offensive is the improvised “wave” greeting, which bears a striking resemblance to the Nazi salute ... imagine that.

What the movie lacks in subtlety, it makes up for with initial complexity. The movie works best as a miniature examination of a fascist state, and doesn’t shy away from finding some positive implications of such a state.

The students are almost instantly united, forming strong bonds with each other. The loners and rejects suddenly have friends and the neighborhood gang develops a sense of morality. The movie does a

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remarkable job of embracing all of its controversial subjects, both the positives and the obvious negatives.

Unfortunately, the movie is almost completely derailed by its out-of-nowhere, tragic, hyperbolic ending, which manages to disregard all of the movie’s building complexity, and instead ends with the almost insultingly simple message of “fascism is bad.”

Sure, that’s a perfectly acceptable message for every brainless Nazi movie that Hollywood pulls out of its recycle bin, but for a film which treated the concept so intriguingly, it feels like a waste. What was poignant about the movie was the fact that it challenged the viewer to form their own conclusions on the fascist system, and ask questions about the universally negative perceptions they may have been fed.

In the end, “The Wave” decides to cower back to being art that confirms rather than art that provokes, which is a shame, because provocative is exactly what this film needed to be.

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