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Graduate union rallies supporters Other contracts in bargaining stage at university By Amelia Eramya Senior Reporter
About 60 members of the Graduate Student Union rallied Thursday outside Charles V. Park Library to spread the word about their cause. Supporters from the Faculty Association, The Union of Teaching Faculty and United Auto Workers joined in, advocating for economic proposals including health care, tuition and salary wages. “The point of the rally was to show the administration what matters,” said GSU President and Ferndale graduate student Alyssa Warshay. “We wanted to focus the rally on health care,” said Sarah Lanius, organizer with the American Federation of Teachers of Michigan. “It’s a big issue.”
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Warshay said GSU also wants a tuition waiver for graduate students. She said it is difficult to take classes and work at the same time, especially when it is costing a lot of money. Warshay said graduate students pay $400 to $500 per credit hour and the average salary for graduate students at Central Michigan University is $14,000. CMU waives the tuition for A Union | 2A
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Mount Pleasant resident Maxine Tanner, 81, sits on the porch of her S. Lansing St. house on Wednesday afternoon at the advice of her horoscope, which told her to go outside and enjoy the weather. Tanner retired as the Central Michigan University Football team seamstress four years ago after 25 years. “I have lived life for 80 years.” Tanner said, “We’re all working to be people.”
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Former CMU football seamstress ponders Mount Pleasant memories By Randi Shaffer| Staff Reporter matthew stephens/senior photographer
Graduate Student Union Vice President Matt Igleski, along with other graduate students and faculty, demonstrate outside Charles V. Park Library on Thursday for health care for graduate assistants. “We compete with other state colleges in football and basketball. You think the university would want to be competitive on the academic side, too,” he said.
Pair seeks medical marijuana collective By Carisa Seltz Staff Reporter
Brandon McQueen filed as a medical marijuana service provider on his tax returns because it is his job. But the Mount Pleasant junior and president of the Mount Pleasant Compassion Club said he is “maybe only one in 10” caregivers who actually claim the revenue made off cultivating their patients’ medical marijuana on their taxes. McQueen is teaming with MPCC Treasurer Matt Taylor to establish a medical marijuana collective in Mount Pleasant. The duo hopes to combat the lost revenue for the state and provide a central location in which member-only patients can obtain medical marijuana. McQueen and Taylor said the collective would be a local organization working out of a designated “storefront” and would
provide medical marijuana to patients who are members. They would not, however, cultivate the medical marijuana on site; rather, they would merely store and distribute it to member-patients. “The way we see it, medical marijuana is not for recreational use,” Taylor said. “We’re here to facilitate patients getting their medicine.” McQueen said there are three ways a patient can obtain medical marijuana: grow it, sign a caregiver up to grow it or buy it off the street. “We would like to make that third option a legitimate option,” McQueen said. He said the collective’s ideal role is to be a place where patients can go to get quality-controlled, regulated medicine at an affordable rate as determined by free-market principles.
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axine Tanner slid a pair of glasses up the ridge of her nose and over her misty eyes. Glancing at her lap and the contents of a black envelope titled “Portfolio of Important Papers,” she sighed as she struggled to turn back the pages of time. “Life is very interesting,” the 81-year-old Mount Pleasant resident said. “I will have to admit that. Every day was exciting.”
Co. Jane Ward-Sundberg, currently an office clerk for Mount Pleasant City Hall, worked with Tanner at Beard Oil. “She had a great sense of humor. She loved to laugh,” Ward-Sundberg said. Sometime during her employment at Beard Oil Co., Tanner remarried in the early ‘70s.
southern gentleman and was forced to leave the Air Force. “When you were married, you had to get out,” she said. Tanner had three children and was married for 15 years. One of her sons, Andy Williams, said his father left Tanner when he was five or six years old. She returned to school and took a job working at Montgomery Ward for a short time before she transitioned to record-keeping for Beard Oil
Tanner’s life leading up to retirement was filled with multiple jobs, including seamstressing for the Central Michigan University football team. She also served in the U.S. Air Force and was a bookkeeper for Beard Oil Co. A young start After serving a brief two months and 21 days as a radio mechanic for the Air Force at age 21, Tanner married a
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81-year-old Maxine Tanner reminisces while she looks through old papers on Saturday at her home on S. Lansing St. Tanner worked in the Air Force as a radio technician for a short time, and also as the CMU athletics seamstress until she retired.
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with Beard Oil Co., Tanner found herself in a predicament leading to the opening of her sewing business, Stitch and Stuff, formerly at 925 S. Mission. “I lost my job and I was 51 years old, and nobody else would hire me,” she said. “I was too old so, being out of work for a year, I just decided, ‘What can I do to earn a living?’ I had always liked to
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Student Government candidates upbeat as voting begins Monday By Tony Wittkowski Staff Reporter
Polls open Monday to elect the next Student Government Association president. The new president will be sworn in the day before SGA’s next meeting. “We will know (the winner) by Sunday (April 11) after the polls close,” said Sean Howard, co-chairman of the Elections Committee. The candidates will know
ahead of time after the Elections Committee learns of the results, the Marysville senior said. Troy junior Evan Agnello, Evan Agnello a presidential candidate, said he hopes a lot of voters visit the Web site. “I feel the students know the truth,” Agnello said. “I’m more excited to see how
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many students come out to vote.” Garden City senior Brittany Mouzourakis, also a presidental candidate, said she is excited to see
the results. “(VP Candidate) Dave and I have done a great job campaigning,” Mouzourakis said.
cm-life.com See the recap of the candidates’ livestream interviews. “I think we have a really good chance.” Featured on the online ballot will be the presidential and vice presidential candidates, along with the treasurer and 11 senators qualified to run. Howard said students can
vote for every senator. “There are more than 11 seats, but there are not enough people,” Howard said. There will be a computer in the Bovee University Center on the first floor solely for voting, Howard said. He said a press conference will be held at 6 p.m. April 12 announcing the winner. Voting ends at noon April 11. Students will be asked to
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