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A-Senate changes curriculum document regarding degree modifications Samantha Shriber Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Academic Senate passed a new initiative for handling degree revisions.

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Document (CAD) was changed at the Academic Senate meeting Nov. 7 in Pearce Hall. The CAD is Central Michigan University's official guideline to handling curricular proposals.

Modifications and proposals to academic programs will now be directly discussed at official meetings.

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Degree changes will be required to go to the appropriate Senate Review Committee (SRC) before being brought to the senate floor.

An SRC will be reviewing possible creations of concentrations, lists of required courses and deletions of existing majors or minors. Changes made under these revisions will be placed on the Academic Senate website and brought to the bulletin only if objections arise.

Academic Senate will now directly handle the creation or deletion of a designator, changes in degree requirements that affect the number of credit hours and the deletion of degrees.

Changes in the University Program or Competency demands in the General Education Program at CMU will also be brought to the Academic Senate.

Senate Chair Brad Swanson said large scale revisions will now have more of an opportunity to come to the senate and be discussed.

The rationale behind the initiative sprouted from the decrease to 120 credit hours required for undergraduate students.

Swanson said revisions in the credit hour modifications for attaining a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degrees will be discussed soon.

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CMU grad student, senior win Mount Pleasant City Commission

By Greg Horner Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Central Michigan University students won the two contested seats for Mount Pleasant City Commission on Tuesday night.

Following their victories, Graduate student Kristin LaLonde and senior William Joseph will serve three-year terms starting Jan. 1.

They beat four other candidates for the positions and will replace commissioners Jim Holton and Mike Verleger.

LaLonde is a CMU graduate student, a health sciences librarian at Mid-Michigan Health and a member of the Isabella County Human Rights Committee.

LaLonde describes herself as a problem solver who wants to improve the walkability of Mount Pleasant and work to clean the Chippewa River. She said a city commissioner has the opportunity

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to unite people who are often working toward a common goal.

“I was pretty surprised,” she said.

“As soon as the numbers came in I said ‘what’s happening?’”

She thanked the College Democrats at Central Michigan University and

the registered student organization’s president Ethan Petzold for supporting her campaign.

She’s looking forward to working with other city commissioners to improve Mount Pleasant, and said she wants to build bridges among

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the city, university and surrounding communities.

“I hate when people are doing the same things but don’t work together,” LaLonde said. “Having two students on the commission is going to help bring everyone together, and I also know many of the commissioners and people in the community and can’t wait to get started.”

Joseph is a CMU senior from Dearborn, a former Student Government Association member and a current member of the Planning Commission.

Joseph enjoys the job of local government. He’s served on various committees at CMU and said he wants to expand Mount Pleasant’s recycling program, ensure the stability of local infrastructure and bring residents and students together.

“I look forward to meeting with other commissioners and seeing what we can get done,” Joseph said.

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Campus Dining adds new food options for dietary diversity

By Loreal Nix Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Central Michigan University’s Campus Dining is striving to offer healthier choices and accommodate those with vegetarian, vegan or special dietary needs.

Several changes were made this semester to expand the vegan and healthy offerings in residential restaurants, said Nikki Smith, the Campus Dining district marketing manager.

The “Flexitarian” bar, which is new this year, focuses on grains, raw and roasted vegetables and protein replacements, providing mostly plant-based options for students. A “Go Nuts” station offers healthier sources of fat and protein.

Mackenzie Brockman | Assistant Photo Editor The Flexitarian Bar in Robinson Residential Resturant on Nov. 8.

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“While there are vegan and healthy options present in the residential halls, there should be more emphasis on food options for students who are gluten-intolerant or prefer dairy-free foods,” she said.

Campus Dining will feature Plant Forward limited-time only menus that feature various vegetables and plantbased foods in all residential restaurants until Nov. 10, along with interactive, educational display tables.

Plant Forward menus seek to introduce all guests, not just those who choose a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, to vegetables in a way that they don’t feel like they’re missing out on anything as part of the growing trend to incorporate more plant-based foods into their diet.

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eat meat, but eats fish. Of the surveyed dining hall guests, 47 percent stated they are

“somewhat interested in making healthy choices and (are) careful about many of the foods (they) eat.”

When deciding what food options should be brought to CMU, Campus Dining has a menu committee in charge of ensuring the menu addresses current food trends and meets students’ wants and needs.

Many of the new items this year were tested at Robinson Residential Restaurant during the spring semester of last year. The menu committee then evaluated tested items before adding them to the menu, Smith said.

Detroit sophomore Angel Stallings said Campus Dining should focus more on those with other special dietary needs, not just accommodating plant-based diets.

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FIRST PANHELLENIC SISTERHOOD EVENT AIMS TO BRING SORORITY WOMEN TOGETHER Sisterhood among Central Michigan University’s various sorority chapters is the focus of a new event that will take place Nov. 19 at Finch Fieldhouse.

Panhellenic Sisterhood will feature stations related to Panhellenic Council values including service, sisterhood and leadership.

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The event is the first of its kind at CMU, said Tori Mock, vice president of events for the CMU Panhellenic Council (CPC). She came up with the idea while running for her current position.

Greek Week and CPC Recruitment bring women in different chapters together, Mock said, but those events don’t focus on community bonding.

“We are a lot more similar than we think and it’s important that we help each other grow as women,” Mock said. “Being

on Panhellenic Council, you get those relationships (with other chapters) but it’s important for women who might not have the opportunity I have to make those bonds.”

Mock’s goal is to have 400-450 sorority women at the event. Some of the proceeds from T-shirt sales will go to the Panhellenicwide philanthropy, Headbands of Hope, an organization that provides headbands to girls with cancer.

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Students, faculty share thoughts on new Chief Diversity Officer position at open forum

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Central Michigan University is searching for a Chief Diversity Officer and administration officials want to hear what students want from the position.

About 40 faculty and students shared their thoughts at a forum that took place in the Bovee University Center Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov 8. The CDO is a new position that will report directly to President George Ross to improve diversity at CMU. Representatives from Witt/ Kieffer, an executive search firm helping to find CDO candidates, were present at the forum. Jennifer Bauer, a consultant, said student feedback will help the firm develop requirements for the new position.

“This is the most important part of the search from our perspective,” Bauer said. “It allows us to understand what the issues and challenges students, faculty the institution are facing. It informs our ability to understand what leader it takes to move the needle to where it needs to go.”

On-campus segregation is a major hurdle faced by CMU said Redford senior Shekinah Williams.

She criticized the turnout at the forum, pointing out that roughly five African-American students were in attendance.

“We are segregated,” she said.

“If you walk on campus you will see black people come out of one room and white people come out of another. It’s not that (black students) don’t want to be here, it’s that we don’t feel safe enough in our community to come out.”

Another student said he would like to see the demographics of CMU represent the diversity of the United States. He added the

BY ADDING COURSES AT MID. Brooklin White | Freelance Photographer Oliver Tomlin listens to students concerns at the Chief Diversity Open Forum on Nov. 8 in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

university doesn’t do enough to educate students about the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe or difficulties faced in the Native American community.

Kevin Daum, an application programmer in auxiliary information technology, said many of the diversity programs at CMU are superficial.

“These programs don’t show much faculty support for diversity education than merely tolerating the existence of organizations that promote it,” Daum said. “It’s easy for students to become demoralized when the programs that are there to support them don’t actually do that.”

CMU is often resistant to change said Andrew Blom, associate professor of philosophy and religion. He added a CDO has to be strong and willing to challenge the university.

“It’s important to have a person who has the confidence to shake up the status quo,” Blom said. “We want things to stay the way they are and keep people comfortable.

We don’t want to irritate the Board of Trustees, we don’t want to irritate our alumni and we don’t want to irritate our majority students.

“We need someone with the strength to challenge all of us to change.”

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CDO FROM STUDENTS AND FACULTY • Expand diversity education outside university program requirements and include it throughout each college’s curriculum.

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• Work with Mount Pleasant officials to provide a welcoming atmosphere for students off campus.

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• Make “simple changes” such as offering on-campus food and prayer options for religious students.

• Understand that diversity represents more than race and includes disability, class and age.

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That’s fake news

The rapid spread of fake news is dividing us and stopping us from seeing reality

“Fake news” is more than a term used to dismiss news content someone disagrees with — it’s a serious problem with real world consequences.

It’s distorting reality and dividing America.

EDITORIAL We saw the spread of fake news and its effects on the 2016 presidential election.

It hasn’t stopped. We are still seeing and experiencing its effects.

Take for example this fake story shared more than half a million times on Facebook titled, “FBI Agent Suspected In Hillary Email Leaks Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide.”

NPR investigated the creation and spread of this article and found the man responsible, Jestin Coler.

He said he created the story as a way to infiltrate farright echo chambers and publicly denounce them.

What surprised him was how fast the story spread on Facebook. He was shocked by the number of people who believed it.

The flow of information through social media, and how easy it is to reach people with a share on Facebook or a retweet on Twitter, has made the spread of fake news easy. Social media has created a venue for the exchange of information that removes the traditional duties of a professional news organization — fact-checking, third-party filtering, the scrutiny of trained editors and editorial judgment.

Social media isn’t the problem though. The problem is how we use it, what we rely on it for and our trust in it. A 2017 Stanford University study, “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election” found 62 percent of adults in the U.S. receive their news from social media.

Social media allows us to catch up with family, connect with long-distance friends and react to world events in real time. It can be a good source for news. But we need to be more cautious about which entities we are getting our information and how we tailor our news source preferences on these platforms.

Because we can easily pick and choose informational sources that do little more than reflect our opinions and preconceptions, fake news keeps us in our bubbles. It creates an echo chamber that doesn’t allow alternative voices or opinions.

We might never know if something we are reading is fake news, because it comes from a source we’ve trusted.

A Pew Research study found 64 percent of adults in the U.S. believe “fake news” is causing a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of an event or issue.

Based on this study, you and two other people could discuss the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, but might not agree if 26 people were killed or that the shooter’s name was really Devin Patrick Kelley.

This is the terrifying reality we live in today. A reality where facts are distorted and twisted to the point we can’t agree on what is real or fake.

This distortion turns people away from world events. If we can’t determine what’s truth — what’s the point of being engaged? For us, a generation that has come of age using social media, this might be one of the most dangerous effects. There is too much happening that affects our futures to be disengaged and misinformed.

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Diversify your news sources, don’t only follow Huffington Post, MSNBC and Vox or only Fox News, The Daily Wire and Breitbart.

Seek out other opinions. Read beyond the headlines. If something grabs your attention, read the entire article because sometimes a headline might just be a way to get clicks and likes. As you read an article, always check for sources.

If a claim seems outlandish, research the website because it might be satire or humor.

Sometimes articles do have disclaimers at the bottom of the page stating they are not meant to be taken seriously.

If there is no disclaimer, don’t accept it at face value. Research the claims the author is making.

The Society of Professional Journalists also suggests consulting fact-checkers like Snopes.com, FactCheck.org, Hoax-Slayer.net and Politifact.com.

James Monroe, the fifth president of the U.S., essentially said our nation’s ignorance can become an instrument of our ruin. Fake news is the ignorance Monroe warned us about. It’s not going away any time soon.

Don’t let fake news make you ignorant or apathetic.

Research and stay informed.

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We need to finally act, instead of praying — it’s not too late for gun control The first mass shooting I vividly remember was Aurora, Colorado in 2012.

The gunman opened fire in a movie theater killing 12 people and wounding another 70.

I remember how shocked I was. I couldn’t believe someone could scheme and carry out such a horrendous act.

Following this massacre, I was nervous every time I attended a movie and felt I had to be extra aware of my surroundings. I recall a few times seeing someone come into a movie late and my body instantly tensed up. Sad, right?

Now, in 2017, five years later—my fears have only worsened.

I can’t go to church, a music festival, school, a nightclub or even work without worrying about an active shooter waltzing in and creating the next “mass shooting in x place leaving x dead and

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x injured” headline.

The sad part -- this has become a normal occurrence in the U.S. Hearing about the shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas last Sunday didn’t even phase me. I’m not being inconsiderate or insensitive, but I, like many others, have become desensitized to it. Rather than being shocked, I become instantly angry.

Why do we keep letting it happen?

Before Sunday, the most recent tragedy in Las Vegas left 58 dead and 546 injured, earning the title of the

“deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history”, which we’ve heard many times before. This sparked a call for change with proposing to ban Bump Stocks and one state, Massachusetts, became the first to ban them.

We’ve began to make progress.

But then it happened again.

Here we are, like a broken record spewing forth the same statements, calling for the same change. The same typical shooter profile and questions of “how did we miss the signs?” will appear on news networks but these arguments and speculations will never bring back the victims who’ve lost their lives.

Remember in 2016 after the Pulse Nightclub shooting, when Democrats filibustered on the Senate floor for 15 hours calling for gun regulation? Even

after presenting pictures of young children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting and pleading for change — no reform was put in place.

No matter your stance, whether it be pro-guns, pro-reform, pro-mental health initiatives, it is apparent to everyone that there is an issue with guns in the U.S. contining to fuel these mass tragedies.

I know I’m not a senator or a representative and if you’re reading this, I’m sure you’re not either. So what can we do?

Act. We can all go express our opinions on Twitter and Facebook, but we all know that won’t accomplish anything.

Call your senators and representatives — their numbers are posted on senators.gov and house.gov. It takes

only a few minutes to call and have someone write down your comments.

Join activist groups or campaigns.

Participate in events or protests. Make your voice heard.

Write a letter to your representative in detail — demand a response.

Schedule a meeting with them. Make sure they know how you feel and what you want done.

Start your own campaign, Facebook group or whatever it is to keep the conversation going. But don’t do nothing.

Demand change in a time where giving up seems to be the only option.

I fear the next headline I see will be “deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.”

Be a part of the change, take initiative and make history.

It’s not too late for gun control.

Meeting Tastsos’ parents taught me something about life — be present Ryan Tsatsos and my brother, Nico Stante, met each other. In their senior year, they both lined up on the same football field. Tsatsos playing for Warren De LaSalle and Stante playing for Detroit Catholic Central.

During the game, they might have made contact with each other Both of them walked off the field the day their teams played each other.

The next year, only one would walk away from their car accidents.

Tsatsos was struck and killed by a car, and then two months later, while my brother rolled and totaled his truck.

A few weeks ago, two of my coworkers and I met Tsatsos’ parents before a press conference.

His mother told us how worried she was when he told her he wanted

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to play football and how she tried to keep him from playing. Her eyes lit up as she laughed about how she eventually gave in when she understood how happy playing football made her son.

The light in her eyes faded. The smile on her face turned into a quiver as she held back her tears.

Tsatsos’ father reached over and held her hand in comfort. He proudly added how dedicated his son was.

He was so proud that in one year, his son went from a “string bean” to 185

pounds of muscle and played in the state championship game.

In that moment, I saw my parents.

The night Nico rolled his truck could very well have been the night my family gathered to mourn a lost son and brother.

When I thought back to that day, my brother and I had talked on the phone. We joked about me being lazy at school, our mother living in California — just our average conversation. Before I hung up I said, “OK. See you soon.”

If he had died that night, that would have been the last thing I told him.

“See you soon.”

Would I have constantly relived the moment I hung up, knowing I’d never be able to tell him I loved him? Would I constantly think about

our last conversation? I know those three words would have haunted me, because I’d never have another chance to let him know how much he meant to me.

Meeting Tsatsos’ parents made me realize just how short of an amount of time I have with people in my life.

I’m 22 years old — I don’t think about death. I don’t think about time.

I’m not supposed to.

I’m supposed to worry about if my car is going to make it to campus, how I’m going to pay rent or how I’m going to pay off my student loans.

Now, those things don’t seem so terrifying.

There are so many things I let consume my life that really should be secondary. I know those will be there.

They can always be taken care of.

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If there was only one thing I could take away from meeting Tsatsos’ parents, it would be to know how important the present is. Be less concerned about tomorrow and think more about today.

Don’t be an idiot like me and wait for some chance encounter to slap some sense into you. Tell your family how much they mean to you and be happy you can talk to them.

They won’t be there forever. No matter how young or healthy they are, freak accidents can happen.

It might sound sappy or cliché, but don’t think there will always be tomorrow for loved ones.

Don’t wait to tell them you love them.

I know now I shouldn’t have.

Nico, I love you.

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Alumnus reflects on work with ‘Star Wars,’ time at Disney

By Jordyn Hermani Editor-in-Chief news@cm-life.com

Keith Sintay remembers where he was and what he was doing the day he learned he had been hired by Disney as an animator. He was in his kitchen, on top of a chair, screaming the news at his wife the moment she came home from work.

“Do you know who you’re looking at,” Sintay recalled yelling at her. “You’re looking at the next Disney animation intern.”

This was in 1994. He had bested thousands of applicants for an exclusive opportunity with a handful of other promising animators.

Since then, the 1991 Central Michigan University alumnus has myriad Disney, Dreamworks and Industrial Light and Magic credits to his name including “Mulan,” “Tarzan,” “Shark Tale,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”

Sintay now lives in California with his wife and four dogs, going away for a couple of months at a time to work on 3D animation and

character rendering for movies. Depending on what the film in question needs, this can be anything from a couple of scenes to an entire character — like in “Rogue One” where Sintay was responsible for the animation of the Imperial droid-turned-rebel K-2SO. Central Michigan Life spoke with Sintay in between sketching and animating to shed some light on what the past two decades in the animation field has been like.

CM Life: As a lifetime “Star Wars” fan, you were able to do a chunk of animation on pretty key characters in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — what was that like?

Sintay: The funny thing is, normally I hide from these Star Wars movies before they come out. I don’t watch any trailers, no behind the scenes footage or raw footage — nothing. I hid from these movies. I literally faked sick and left a (raw footage screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) that any fanboy or girl would have given their left arm to see.

But a year or so later, when I was working on “Rogue One,” I had no choice in the matter.

I had to dive in. So I go to my computer and I end up looking at some sequences and going, ‘oh wow here’s the Star Destroyer, the Death Star, TIE fighters’ and my smile was just so big —it was magic.

Being a fan of the movies, being able to work on one — I never set out for this. I was a (2D) Disney animator who was a fan of “Star Wars.”

I saw the first film when it came out in theaters in 1977. And then (those two aspects of my life) just collided.

How did you break into the field of animation?

When I was younger, going to school in Michigan, I would go to the library and pick out books on how to learn how to draw. I was probably eight or nine years old, and I always wanted to make my own animated movie so I started doing flip books — you do one drawing (on a page), then you turn the page and do a slightly different drawing, and a slightly different one and so on.

When I got into (CMU), my first year I didn’t know what my major was going to be. I knew I could draw, but I thought that was kind

of a background. I didn’t draw through high school and it wasn’t until I saw our floor shirt for (the terrace) of Merrill (Residence) Hall that I thought, ‘huh, I’d like to redraw that.

That’s not done very well.’ Well, (my drawing) ended up being chosen for the shirt.

At the same time, my sister was down in Disney(land) doing the college internship program — and they had internships for animation there. My sister somehow came across this book “The Illusion of Life,” by Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas — and that’s pretty much the animator’s Bible. It’s a thick book these two famous Disney animators wrote.

She sent that to me and it was like the proverbial lightbulb just went off. It was like the heavens opened up and I said, ‘why am I studying international marketing? I could be doing this.’

What were you looking forward to animating, if anything?

I really wanted to animate a TIE fighter.

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Did any of your other shots make the final cut?

There’s one I did of the X-Wings shooting at stuff in the movie. I also did a number of animations for the character K-2SO. One shot I did of him also ended up making it into a trailer, where Imperial Soldiers see him walk in and (the officer) says, “may I help you?”

And K2 responds: “That won’t be necessary,” then bonks him on the head.

That got a big laugh in the theater.

In “Rogue One,” you had to digitally create deceased actor Peter Cushing for Grand Moff Tarkin and recreate a 21-year-old Carrie Fisher to play a young Princess Leia. You didn’t work on his digital animation, but did any of your coworkers find it eerie or entering Uncanny Valley territory?

To tell you the truth, when you’re working on something of that caliber, it becomes its own thing. You look at it like a surgeon would look at a nude body or a figure drawing. You’re looking at a nude body, not as a sexual thing, but more like how would I draw the scapula or tibia or something like that.

When it comes to the digital replacement of a face, you just end up thinking of it as your job and your job is to make it as accurate as you can. I know I did it before when I worked on “Tron: Legacy” and “Beowulf.” You’re redesigning a face based on what their (body double) is doing — so if the eyes flick, then so do Grand Moff Tarkin’s.

Really, the whole movie hinged on whether people bought this or not, and I felt like a lot of people really did.

Speaking of Fisher, this was the last “Star Wars” film to be produced before her death.

Did you get a chance to meet her at all in the production process?

I’m sure someone spoke to her about (the digital reanimation), but I never met her. She did have a small line at the end of the film, but (the studio) pretty much just went with old footage to reference her and a stand-in actress played her (body double) on set.

Do you remember how you felt or what you were thinking when Fisher died?

I don’t usually get affected by celebrity death, but for some reason this hit me a lot harder and I did, I got choked up. The only other death that really hit me was Jackie Gleason when he died in the 80s. On a different level, it was interesting too because on social

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Keith Sintay poses with “Star Wars” memorabilia.

media, I was getting a lot of condolences from friends who knew I was a “Star Wars” fan.

They were acting as if (Fisher) was a family member to me.

What surprised you most about working on “Rogue One”?

I had never been on a set this secretive before. If you had any hand in digitalizing (Cushing or Fisher’s) characters, you were not

allowed to talk about it at all. We actually had code names not just for the characters, but for the sequences they appeared in.

So if I was talking about (Cushing’s character) in public he was known as ‘Mr. Hoover.’

Looking back, what would you tell the little kid in the library making flip book animations?

All those cliches about ‘if you can dream

it, you can be it,’ or ‘don’t let anything hold you back’ — all of those felt so corny but they are so true. Every one of them applies to me.

I could have given up so many times. But I’m living proof. I (lived in Livonia) and where I lived, I would tell people I would want to be an animator and they would freak.

It was like sending out a message in a bottle saying ‘hey, I want to do this,’ and fortunately enough, I found my way.

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DC Comics artist talks getting his start at CMU, experiences in the industry

By Mitchell Kukulka News Editor news@cm-life.com

Before his artwork found its way onto the pages of some of today’s most popular comic books, Evan “Doc” Shaner was a mild-mannered student at Central Michigan University, After picking up the pieces of a short stint as a music major, Shaner began working as a cartoonist for Central Michigan Life.

Known for the distinctively “old school” stylings of his art, Shaner has become a rising start in the comics industry — working on titles that blend classic comic book characters with a modern sense of fun. Shaner currently works for DC Comics, coming off of a stint drawing “Future Quest” and preparing to bring to life DC‘s own take on the Fantastic Four, “The Terrifics.”

CM Life: What inspired you to become an artist?

All through grade school, all I wanted to do was work in newspaper strips, and

that was just from reading “Peanuts” and “Calvin and Hobbes” and all the stuff that was in the newspapers in the early 90s.

I drew all through high school, but I kinda lost interest in it as a career. For a long time I was pursuing music. I left (music) in my first year at Central, and I went through a bunch of different things, before eventually coming back to drawing. I was back into comics and books at the time, and halfway through my sophomore year the (CM Life) job opened up, and a friend of mine pointed it out to me, so I applied. Somehow I got the job.

Doing that for three-and-a-half years just made me think, “you know this is something I like doing on a regular basis, and something I think I could do as a career.”

What kind of things did you draw as a cartoonist for CM Life?

I worked as the editorial cartoonist all of my three-and-a-half years there.

When I first started working there, they gave me a strip once

editor would feed me what was going on that week and what they wanted to get something on, and I’d go from there.

It was nice to have a cartoon where I could just do whatever I wanted That (strip) was called “Paint Chips,” if I remember correctly.

Courtesy Photo | Evan Shaner Evan Shaner poses in his office.

a week, but that only lasted for a semester. I was still pretty new to everything, and I’ll be the first to admit the writing wasn’t very good. I think my last year-and-a-half was when I ended up doing a one-panel gag strip every week to do whatever I wanted, because I wasn’t that opinionated, at least at the time, about what was going on at the school. A lot of times the

After graduating from CMU, what was your first job as an artist?

My first “real” comic book job was an anthology book for Oni Press called “Jam!: True Tales of the Roller Derby.”

(The book) was full of these stories from actual roller derby players. I really don’t have any strong

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He’s such a great twist on the “Superman” idea, and the whole design and look of him is really pretty charming.

Courtesy Photo | Evan Shaner The cover of Future Quest #1 illustrated by Evan Shaner

feelings about roller derby, but I got pulled in on that gig to adapt and draw one of the stories.

You’re a fan of Captain Marvel/ Shazam— what attracted you to him?

A bunch of things. I tend to be pretty

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Captain Marvel has this great sense of wonder. He embodies so much of that original golden age of comics, but I think he has so much potential – for a long time he was outpacing Superman in sales because kids loved him, and I think

As a fan, are you excited for the upcoming “Shazam” movie?

I think so. We’ll have to see what more comes of it. I think the casting announcement (of Zachary Levi playing Shazam) they made last week is pretty interesting – not one that I would have thought of, but I certainly don’t hate the idea either.

I’m pretty curious — it’s taken so long for them to get (the film)

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rolling that I think it’ll be very interesting to see what happens when it all comes together.

Do you have a favorite project that you’ve worked on?

The “Shazam” book is pretty high up there for me. The “Green Lantern” I did with Tom King also means a lot to me, but weirdly, the first book I did with Jeff Parker back at Dynamite (Entertainment), “Flash Gordon,” is the one that really holds a soft spot for me.

I don’t know if that was because it was relatively early on in my career, or because it was the first comic I worked on with Jeff and (colorist) Jordie Bellaire. Something about that book — we had so much freedom with that book with where we wanted to go and what we wanted to do with those characters.

We only did eight issues, but I’m very proud of those.

Courtesy Photo | Evan Shaner The cover of Convergence: Shazam! 1 illustrated by Evan Shaner.

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A group of cosplayers pose for a photograph at a previous FantastiCon.

by the fans, for the fans From Metro Detroit to Mount Pleasant, two longtime friends are on a mission to keep geek culture fun without breaking the bank

By Mitchell Kukulka News Editor news@cm-life.com

In 2013, two childhood friends and longtime comic book enthusiasts set out to organize a convention for pop culture fans who couldn’t afford to attend more expensive shows.

Now, after five years of successful events across Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, FantastiCon is reaching a new community of fans by coming to Mount Pleasant.

“We wanted to do a show that was more family-friendly and affordable,” said Joe Nieporte, president of Funfest Events and one of the co-founders of FantastiCon. “We still offer everything the bigger shows do, just on a smaller scale and at a more affordable price.”

FantastiCon will take place Saturday, Nov. 11 and Sunday, Nov. 12 at the Soaring Eagle

Casino and Resort Entertainment Hall. Saturday passes cost $7.50 in advance and $12 at the door, Sunday passes are $5 in advance and $8 at the door. Two-day passes are available in advance for $10.

After a “one-time” show in 2009 at the Emerald Theatre in Mount Clemens, Nieporte and his business partner, comic artist and publisher Martin Hirchak, organized the first series of FantastiCon shows in Metro Detroit in 2013, and the show has continued ever since.

Nieporte has worked in the entertainment business his entire professional life. Before becoming president of Funfest Events, Nieporte owned the Emerald Theatre for 10 years, managed the State Theatre in Detroit (now called The Fillmore) throughout the 1990s and managed bands in the 1980s.

In the early days of comic conventions, before “geek culture” developed the mainstream popular-

ity it enjoys today, admission was less expensive.

“Shows went from being $10 like they were 15 years ago, to being $50 just to get in,” Nieporte said. “If there’s somebody from one of the ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Star Trek’ movies, or an actor from ‘The Walking Dead,’ that’s another $40 or $50 to get an autograph and another $50 to get a picture with them.”

A big reason why some comic conventions are expensive is because they focus heavily on getting big-name stars to attend, Nieporte said.

SETTING THE STAGE Soaring Eagle approached the organizers of FantastiCon earlier this year to discuss bringing the convention to Mount Pleasant.

At first, Nieporte said, they were hesitant to bring the show to Mount Pleasant because they’ve never held a convention at a casino before — previous FantastiCon shows were all

held in convention centers.

“I didn’t know what to expect from a casino, though (Soaring Eagle) has been great to work with,” Nieporte said.

This FantastiCon will need to draw more than 2,000 attendees during its two days to be considered successful, Nieporte said.

As of Wednesday, Nov. 8, Nieporte said the

“We still offer everything the bigger shows do, just on a smaller scale and at a more affordable price.”

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CENTRAL MICHIGAN LIFE | CM-LIFE.COM | NOV. 9, 2017 Mount Pleasant show has sold more advance tickets than any previous show, and Funfest Events expects between 2,000 and 3,000 people to show up. Nieporte said he has every intention of bringing FantastiCon back to Mount Pleasant as a yearly show if the demand is there.

Nieporte and the other organizers are expecting a “very good show” for the Mount Pleasant event, he said.

FantastiCon will feature eight special guests from throughout the entertainment industry, including: • Comic book artists Arvell Jones, Scott Rosema and Jason Moore • Michael L. Peters, author, illustrator and publisher of the graphic novel “Crescent City Magick: Welcome to New Orleans” • Joe Cooley, a professional magician from Bay City • Matthew Atchley, a professional artist known for his illustrations of film and television characters • Daniel Philips, a makeup special effects artist who has worked on films like “The Hobbit” and “Oz the Great and Powerful” • Actor Eugene Clark, best known for his role as the zombie ‘Big Daddy’ in “Land of the Dead” • Tugg the Superhero Dog, a celebrity bull terrier who became famous after being rescued from abuse by police officers in Fort Worth, Texas There will also be an appearance from members of the Star Wars 501st Legion, an international volunteer group known for creating and dressing up in screen-accurate replica costumes of villains from the “Star Wars” film series.

Members of the Great Lakes Ghostbusters Coalition, a Michigan-based community of “Ghostbusters” fans, will also be present.

Life-size replicas of the DeLorean Time Machine from “Back to the Future” and KITT, the car from the “Knight Rider” television series, will be featured. A trivia contest will also take place, as well as two cosplay contests — one each for adults and children.

GEEK CULTURE IN MOUNT PLEASANT FantastiCon may be the first convention of its size to come to Mount Pleasant, but the city is already home to a passionate, tightly-knit pop culture fandom.

Alma freshmen Amber Matthews thinks a FantastiCon could bring more attention to fan culture in Mount Pleasant. A fan of science fiction, fantasy and cosplay, Matthews has attended the AlmaCon event in her hometown.

"(Conventions) can be a nice distraction from day-to-day life,” Matthews said.

Michael Travis-Shuler has owned Hall of Heroes, Mount Pleasant’s only comic book store, since 2005. Travis-Shuler believes the “nerd” community in Mount Pleasant is sizable, especially given the city’s size. "(FantastiCon) would be a way to bring awareness to the pop culture community,” Travis-Shuler said.

After The Frozen Orc, a card and game shop formerly located on Mission Street, moved locations in August, Hall of Heroes now shares a monopoly on Mount Pleasant nerd culture with Game On, which came to the city in August 2016.

Luke Bishop, a Harrison native, has been an employee of Mount Pleasant’s Game On since it opened. With two other locations in Michigan, the store’s opening in Mount Pleasant was inspired by the community’s need for a dedicated venue for tabletop games, specifically the collectible card game “Magic: The Gathering.”

“It’s a pretty big community here, a lot more than I thought when I originally moved here,” Bishop said. “It’s a tight-knit community as well.

A lot of people are really helpful when people come in trying to get into newer hobbies.”

Bishop became interested in “Magic” in high school after a professor at a college he was visiting taught him how to play the game. Having attended Grand Rapids Comic Con in the past, Bishop thinks a FantastiCon could be beneficial for Mount Pleasant’s community.

“I went in (to Grand Rapids Comic Con) a little iffy because I wasn’t sure if I would like it, thinking, ‘it’s all nerd stuff,’” Bishop said. “But I liked it — it was a pretty sweet experience. I think its a good thing for the community.”

Though he hasn’t attended similar events in the past, Clinton Township senior Marcel Pigeon is interested in FantastiCon due to its more affordable nature.

“Everybody says they’re a ‘broke college student’ and nobody wants to do something that costs too much money,” Pigeon said. ”($10) seems like a perfect price. How can you say no?”

By bringing shows to smaller communities and markets that don’t often see conventions of this scale, Nieporte believes FantastiCon is a great way to celebrate pop culture fandom.

“We get a lot of support and a lot of ‘thank yous’ from some of the people that come to our shows,” Nieporte said. “They’re are very affordable, and we put on a good show — we have all the elements that you can have in a show.

“What we’re about is making it affordable and bringing these shows to smaller markets that don’t have events like this.”

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Courtesy Photo | Funfest Events From left to right, panelists “G.I. Joe” actor John Armijo, “Land of the Dead” actor Eugene Clark and “The Walking Dead” actor Gregory French speak to a crowd during a past FantastiCon.

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Alumnus, comic artist prepares for launch of graphic novel

By Mitchell Kukulka News Editor news@cm-life.com

Publication of the graphic novel “Bodie Troll” in February 2018 will be a landmark in the journey of an idea that got its start in the pages of Central Michigan Life.

Written and drawn by Central Michigan University alumnus and former CM Life cartoonist Jay Fosgitt, the book will include the entire previously published “Bodie Troll” comic series as well as new material and “never-before-seen” stories created exclusively for the book. "(The book’s) going to be an all-inclusive and perfect collection for old fans and people new to the series,” Fosgitt said.

The comic follows the misadventures of Bodie, a troll that want to scare and terrorize people, but can’t because he’s too cute and cuddly.

The series begin in 2013 with a four-issue run published by Red 5 Comics. After his contract with Red 5 expired this past year, Fosgitt was able to continue the series under Boom! Studios. "(Boom!) is a bigger publisher with a lot more reach and potential,” Fosgitt said. “Working with Boom! has been fantastic. I’ve worked with a number of publishers over the years – some pretty small and some as big as Marvel Comics.

They’ve all been positive experiences, but Boom! has been the most personal back-and-forth that I’ve had.

“I have a lot of freedom to create Bodie, but I’ve

also had a lot of help in making it the best possible book I could.”

Depending on the reception to the book by fans and critics, Fosgitt plans to continue the series in the future.

The inspiration for “Bodie Troll” dates back to Fosgitt’s time at CMU. Working as editorial cartoonist at Central Michigan Life, one of Fosgitt’s recurring comic strips was “The Epic of Cholly,” about a girl’s daily experiences at college.

Wanting to change the context from college life to a fairytale-inspired fantasy world, Fosgitt continued to developed the idea after graduating in 2004. Fosgitt planned on publishing the series as a syndicated comic strip in newspapers across the country, though Fosgitt put his plans for the story on hold after no publishers stepped forward to pick it up.

In 2011, Fosgitt decided the “time was right” to do something with the original idea for “The Epic of Cholly,” changing the concept slightly to include the character of Bodie, who would replace Cholly as the main character of the story.

Fosgitt took inspiration from both classic fairytales and his own life when creating the character of Bodie.

“It’s a classic archetype within all folklore – the grumpy and put-upon anti-hero, who has his dreams and his goals, but the humor is found in his inability to obtain them,” Fosgitt said. “I suppose we all feel that way, so I wanted to create a character that represented that, and was also kinda biographical to my own personality.”

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Football holds off EMU late to become bowl eligible

By Andrew McDonald Staff Reporter sports@cm-life.com

Central Michigan football has a chance to appear in a bowl game for a fourth consecutive season.

On Wednesday night, the Chippewas downed Eastern Michigan, 42-30, in Kelly/ Shorts Stadium. The Chippewas (6-4, 4-2 Mid-American Conference) topped the Eagles (3-7, 1-5 MAC) to become bowl eligible and earn the Michigan MAC Trophy, given to the team with the best record between CMU, EMU and Western Michigan.

The Chippewas have recovered from a 2-3 start to the season, compiling a 4-1 record in their last five games.

HOW IT HAPPENED The game didn’t start in the Chippewas favor, as transfer quarterback Shane Morris fumbled the ball on CMU’s opening play. EMU’s Maxx Crosby ran it back 14 yards to give the Eagles a 7-0 lead.

The Eagles gave CMU a momentum shift when junior linebacker Alex Briones snagged an interception, setting the Chippewas up on the EMU 15-yard line.

However, they were stuffed on

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a fourth-and-one inside the 10yard line, giving the Eagles back the ball and the momentum.

The Chippewas found an answer.

Morris found senior tight end Tyler Conklin for a

4-yard touchdown, capping a five-play, 62-yard drive and tied the game at 7-7 late in the first quarter.

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For the second straight week, Ward controlled the CMU run game with effectiveness — totaling 159 yards on 19 carries while scoring two touchdowns. However, Ward didn’t play in the fourth quarter for an unknown reason.

EMU scored a pair of late touchdowns to tighten things up late in the fourth quarter, but senior defensive back Amari Coleman sealed the win for CMU with a 33-yard interception return for a touchdown in the closing minute.

Along with Briones, senior defensive backs Josh Cox (1), Coleman (1) and sophomore Sean Bunting (2) recorded interceptions, giving the Chippewas five on the night and 16 on the year.

The Chippewas tallied 328 total yards offensively, while the defense held the Eagles to 332 yards on the night.

With the win for CMU and Toledo’s (8-2, 5-1 MAC) loss to Ohio on Wednesday, the Chippewas are still alive for a MAC West Division championship with two regular season games remaining.

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Volleyball redefining its season heading into MAC Tournament

Women's basketball opens season against Purdue

By Anthony Cook Staff Reporter sports@cm-life.com

With 299 total career wins, women's basketball head coach Sue Guevara is just one victory short of a milestone entering her 11th year at CMU. Her next shot at 300 will come at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10 in McGuirk Arena against Purdue, a team which was playing in the NCAA tournament a year ago.

CMU is coming off a successful season of it’s own, winning the regular season Mid-American Conference championship with a record of 23-9 overall and 15-3 in the conference.

The matchup against Purdue is the first in a two-game home stretch

against Power Five conference teams for the Chippewas. In addition to Big Ten foe Purdue, CMU also faces Southeastern Conference opponent Vanderbilt on Nov. 14.

In the 2016-17 season, Purdue led the Big Ten in scoring defense. They limited opponents to just under 60 points a game and held them to 38 percent from the field.

The Boilermakers finished last season fifth in the Big Ten and earned a NCAA tournament birth before bowing out in the round of 32.

Purdue is led by senior forward Andreona Keys who finished with 21 points, 10 rebounds and six assists in an 88-39 exhibition win against St. Francis on Nov. 5. Keys, a former guard, made the transition to the forward position this past offseason.

A team’s season isn’t defined by how it handles success, but rather how it reacts when faced with adversity.

On Oct. 20, after losing four straight matches, including seven of its last eight, Central Michigan volleyball faced its toughest test.

The team could either let its season crumble, or dig itself out of the bottom tier of the Mid-American Conference at 2-7.

Many people had written off the Chippewas’ chances for a MAC run.

With their backs against the wall facing last-place Akron, CMU swept the Zips to win its first match in over two weeks.

Two days later, the Chippewas defeated first-place Ball State for another win.

Before you know it, CMU picked up its fifth-straight win to move to second place in the MAC West Division.

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red hot heading into the postseason.

Under the leadership of head coach Mike Gawlik, the team is playing at a level needed for a run at the MAC Tournament title.

The Chippewas are finding contributors everywhere, whether it be from a senior or a freshman.

Senior Jordan Bueter has played a critical role in CMU’s five-game win streak.

During the team’s current win streak, Bueter has recorded 77 kills and 55 digs.

Freshman Kalina Smith has provided a huge spark to the Chippewas, contributing 69 kills and 22 digs during the win streak.

Freshman Grace Butler has set up the CMU offense all season long, but has really found her groove lately. The setter has 215 assists in the team’s last five matches, averaging 43 per match.

With the freshmen improving, and the seniors playing some of their best volleyball of their careers, the Chippewas will be a tough team to beat.

The team proved it could compete nationally after going 8-4 in nonconference, and proved itself again in the MAC by defeating MAC West contenders Ball State and Toledo.

Instead of giving up on their season, the Chippewas dug deep.

Should Central Michigan be the tournament favorite? Probably not.

Would I be surprised if this team came back from Oxford, Ohio as MAC Tournament champions?

Absolutely not.

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Soccer misses postseason for first time since 2014 “The way seasons unfold and how things unwound, overall, I’m proud,” McGasports@cm-life.com hey said. “The outcome is not what we wanted. I think The 2017 season was a you’re always reminded as roller coaster for Central a coach to look at yourself Michigan women’s soccer. first as a leader of the team.

CMU finished 8-8-3 on “As a leader of a team, the season and 3-6-2 in you think ‘do we focus at Mid-American Conference play, missing the postseason the right time, are we recfor the first time since 2014. ognizing our strengths as a “It burns knowing we team consistently, and are could be playing in a MAC we being reminded of the championship,” junior small details that differentiforward Lexi Pelafas said. ate between a win, loss, and “We didn’t make it happen tie?’ It’s the way to stay true and that’s what it comes to your identity.” down to.”

On Oct. 26, seniors From Pelafas breaking McKay Matheson, Jamie a school record for career Rademacher, Savannah goals scored, to a winless Beetcher, Lauren Sherry road record in MAC play, the and Sweeney walked on the Chippewas experienced it all. pitch for the last time. The “I’m proud of the team seniors are a special group in how we responded after to McGahey, as they were the hole was created in the the first players he recruited MAC season,” head coach to CMU when he arrived Peter McGahey said. “We in 2013. ended three or four points “To see them come full short of the playoffs, which circle is pretty special,” Mcis not OK in the sense that Gahey said. “It will always our expectations were to go be a group that believed in further.” the program. They believed While the Chippewas’ in Central Michigan and our playoff expectations failed, mission as a coaching staff.” the response to different cirSweeney understands this is a step cumstances throughout the Krapohl8thPageEdit101617.pdf 1 season 10/13/17 1:39inPMthe process for the Chippewas. season impressed McGahey.

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Coming off a season that featured nine Central Michigan wrestlers in the NCAA Wrestling Championships, head coach Tom Borrelli has nothing but confidence in his veteran team.

“All of our seniors have a really good mindset this year,” Borrelli said. “Our returners have all been really improving even from the heights where they were last year.”

Though none of the nine were named All-American, Borrelli said his program is still in good hands as the new season approaches.

CMU is ranked No. 17 nationally in the preseason NCAA rankings.

“We want to try to get better all year long – just a little bit each day," Borrelli said. "We’ll let the standings sort itself out. I’m sure we’ll do just fine.”

The team had its annual intrasquad meet on Oct. 27, giving Borrelli a final look at his team before the Michigan State Open on Nov. 5.

Four Chippewas made it to the finals Sunday night in East Lansing. Eight wrestlers made it to the semifinals.

Borrelli was pleased with the effort in both meets. Though Borelli is not certain any freshman will start barring injuries, he is optimis-

Ariana Strzalka | Photo Editor Redshirt freshman Dresden Simon, back, wrestles redshirt freshman Deven Perez in the Intrasquad Dual on Oct. 27 in McGuirk Arena.

tic for the future.

One standout for Borrelli was freshman Collin Lieber (174), who went up against senior veteran C.J. Brucki. Borrelli said the freshman showed a lot of toughness, which is a good sign for things to come for the young student-athlete, he said.

“We’re really high on them,” he said. “I think we have a really good group of freshmen, and we’ve also got great veteran leadership to help them out.”

NOTABLE RETURNERS Five of the teams returners from last season are ranked in the top 20 of their weight classes, according to InterMat. The highest-ranked Chippewa to start the season is junior Justin Oliver (149), coming in at No. 6. Oliver

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led the 2016-17 team with 10 falls on his way to finishing second in the Mid-American Conference.

Ranked No. 9 is senior Jordan Ellingwood (184), who finished 24-7 overall and third in the MAC. Seniors Colin Heffernan (157) and C.J. Brucki (174) are both ranked No. 12 in their respective classes. Last season, both ended second in the MAC with seven wins.

Sophomore Mason Smith (141) qualified for the NCAA Championships with a 24-14 overall record in 2016-17 made the rankings at No. 20.

The team will be without senior Corey Keener (133, ranked No. 15) and Brent Fleetwood (125). Keener transferred to Penn State and Fleetwood transferred to North Dakota State this past offseason.

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Along with other graduating seniors, she said she will continue to inspire her teammates even though her time on the field is over.

“We’ve always been talked to about the process,” Sweeney said. “You never think it’s going to happen to you until one day you wake up and it’s over. So, do everything you can while you still have the time.”

Pelafas holds two of the top three single-season scoring records for the Chippewas. She scored 16 goals in 2016 to claim the No. 1 spot and 13 goals in 2017 to take the No. 3 spot.

McGahey believes she is shooting to break her own record.

“Her accomplishment this season and the legacy she’s writing will be inspiring as she builds on the first three chapters in a four-chapter book,” McGahey said. “It will be exciting for our team and fans.”

The 2018 MAC championship game is less than a year away and the Chippewas will be gunning for the title.

“It’s going to take a whole team,” Pelafas said. “Everyone needs to be invested and it starts right now. Not just saying it, but doing it.”

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