Weekend Scene 12-12-11

[12.12.11] [VOL. 96 ISSUE 27]

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FINALS WEEK

BRONCOS CRUSH BGSU pg. 3

BOOK BUYBACKS AVAILABLE pg. 4

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WMU closes for winter break

By Kelly Mason Staff Reporter

With finals week here, students are only days away from a well-deserved break from the stress of studying. Caught in the rush of anticipation of going home for the holidays, students may forget the closing procedures taking place this week and over break.

Quiet hours will begin on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 11:59 p.m. and will continue 24/7 until the residence halls close. All dining halls will close at 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16 with the exception of Bigelow/ Hoekje, which will close at 7 p.m.

All residence halls will be closed at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16. The rooms will be checked thoroughly, like they were during Thanks-

giving break.

Max Trotz, a resident assistant in the Burnhams, said RAs are required to do room checks before breaks to make sure that no electrical appliances are plugged in, in order to prevent any possible electrical fires.

“We also check the rooms for maintenance issues or health hazards,” he said. “We also make sure that the rooms are all locked after checking them, to ensure that rooms are not vandalized or broken in to. We tell residents to lock their doors before they leave to make sure that there aren’t any robberies or vandalism, because this is the time of year that most vandalism and robberies occur.”

Matthew Rosso, a resident as-

sistant in Henry Hall, said window bars are given to residents who are on the first floor of the halls and those who have roof access as well, in order to avoid break-ins.

“We check rooms to make sure there are not health hazards or contraband such as George Foreman grills, waffle makers, and coffee pots with open heating sources,” he said. “Of course, we look for alcohol, marijuana, paraphernalia, etc.”

All residence hall and university policies are still in effect during finals week. Any policy violations will be documented and students will be required to meet with their hall director when students return in January.

Fans to support WMU

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The Broncos will face off against the Purdue Boilermakers at Ford Field at 4:30 p.m.

Tickets are available to the general public starting at $45 and will be available to students starting at $15.

A fan and student bus will leave the university at 9 a.m. from Lot 16 on campus.

WMU students and fan enthusiasts will be dropped off either at Ford Field or at the Bronco Bowl Bash.

For $10 WMU fans can participate in the pre-game festivities that will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the Motor Casino and Hotel, 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit.

WMU students and fans will be picked up outside of Ford Field 30 minutes prior to the conclusion of the game.

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Broncos bowl over Bowling Green

By Pat Littleton Staff Reporter The Western Michigan University hockey team won both matches in it’s weekend series with Bowling Green State University to move into a second place tie in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

On Friday, the Broncos traveled to Ohio and won a shootout after a 3-3 tie to earn two points.

Netting goals for the Broncos were junior right wing Brett Beebe, senior center J.J. Crew and junior left wing Trevor Elias. Senior forward Kyle O’Kane netted the only goal of the shootout to the Broncos. Freshman goaltender Frank Slubowski made 13 saves to earn the tie and had two stops in the shootout.

The Falcons took the initial lead at the 3:05 mark of the first period with a short handed goal from junior defenseman Bobby Shea, getting an assist from sophomore forward Andrew Wallace.

The Broncos used power play opportunities to tie the game and take the lead in the first and

second periods. Beebe scored at the 9:38 mark of the first period with an assist from senior left wing Derek Roehl and Crew scored at the 10:58 mark of the second period, also with an assist from Roehl and junior defenseman Luke Witkowski. Elias scored an even strength goal at the 17:56 mark of the second period with assists from sophomore center Chase Balisy and junior right wing Dane Walters.

The Broncos squandered a two-goal lead in the final four minutes of regulation. Freshman defenseman Marcus PerKatrina Murphy / Western Herald rier scored at the 16:42 mark Shane Berschbach (24) celebrates with other Western Michigan for the Falcons with an assist University hockey team members after scoring its sixth goal of from Shea, who then scored at the 19:03 mark with assists the night to defeat the Falcons, 6-1. from sophomore forward Ryan Viselli and junior defenreturned to Lawson Ice Arena to put in four points, get in three seman Ryan Peltoma. and won the match 6-1 in regula- goals and an assist, it was just a The Broncos had success on tion with help from a hat trick by fun night.” the power play for the second Walters.

Also netting goals for the straight game, going 2-of-7 with “We just came out as a team Broncos were Elias, freshman 12 shot attempts while the Fal- really ready to play the full sixty forward Justin Kovacs and sophocons were 0-of-5 with eight shots. minutes tonight,” Walters said. more defenseman Danny DeKeyThe Broncos outshot the Falcons “I just happened to be the lucky ser. Slubowski (6-2-3) stopped 17 23-16. On Saturday, The Broncos guy, you know? Just happened shots to earn the win.

“Well, we were challenged in that third period last night,” WMU head coach Andy Murray said. “Bowling Green came at us very hard and we didn’t handle it as well as we wanted. Tonight I thought we were a pretty determined group right from the getgo and were pretty relentless for the full sixty minutes out there.”

The Broncos jumped out to an early lead with an Elias goal at the 3:01 mark of the first period with assists from junior defenseman Matt Tennyson and senior right wing Ian Slater. The Falcons tied the game at the 12:27 mark with a goal by senior forward James McIntosh, assisted by sophomore defenseman Jake Sloat and Wallace. Walters scored a power play goal just minutes later (14:44) with assists from Balisy and sophomore left wing Shane Berschbach and the Broncos never looked back. Kovacs scored at the 16:50 mark of the second period with assists from Tennyson and freshman defenseman Garrett Haar. DeKeyser nailed a wrist shot at the 19:46 mark with assists from Balisy and Walters.

Waldo Library offers more hours and pizza

By Sam Stachurski Staff Reporter Now that finals are starting, students are likely to be spending more and more time at the library, trying to cram in a lastminute study session; what few students realize is just how much Waldo Library has to offer.

The Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 12 to Wednesday, Dec. 14, from 8 a.m. to midnight on Thursday, Dec. 15 and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16.

Students may not know but they can request books from anywhere in the world and the library will do its best to get a hold of a copy.

“Students can request things through a library loan and we attempt to get anything they request from wherever they’re located,” said Julie Hayward, library manager. “We certainly try to get things locally first because it takes a lot longer to get something overseas. [Students] request it through the inter library loan with interface. They sign in with their Bronco Net ID and then can place requests for books, articles, book chapters, documents, proceedings or dissertations, etc.”

Students may now use their printing quota at the library and not just the computer labs.

“Students can log in and use their printing quota at the library as well as the computer labs, so

whatever the printing quota is for the student, they can use that here as well,” Hayward said. “This procedure was new this summer.

We finally got the technology worked around so that we can offer that.”

Students who would rather not spend their time in the library have the option of checking out many items and returning to their rooms with them.

“As far as the University Library, I believe the limit might be 50 [items], but there can be special circumstances if they’re working on a dissertation,” Hayward said.

For finals week, there will be more incentive to stay at the library.

“We have rocking chairs and

bean bag chairs for comfort and our wooden burgundy chairs for those who want to stay awake and do some serious studying.

We have an enforced ‘quiet’ area on the third floor in Waldo Library as well as other ‘quiet’ areas on each of the other floors.

Presently these locations are in the east wing along the windows,” Regina Buckner, director of operational services at Waldo Library, said.

Students are also allowed to bring refreshments with them while they study.

“Students can eat in the library. In fact, we’ll be selling pizza by the slice from nine to midnight,” Buckner said.

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Di Gao, statistics graduate student, reads in the library.

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Buyback availability

By Laura Levin Staff Reporter From books to cold, hard cash, book buy back is the time of year that most students anticipate.

“At the end of the semester we’ll buy back students textbooks. If it’s a book that’s been adopted for a future course at WMU, we’ll pay them half of the new price,” Terry Hudson, director of the WMU Bookstore, said. “If it’s a book that has not been adopted for a future class, then we’ll pay wholesale price and that’s whatever the price the book is valued at out there on the market.”

So where do these textbooks come from that students spend so much money on every year?

“We get our used books from students buying back their books, and we’ll get other used books from wholesale companies, and then we go to the publisher for new books,” Hudson said.

Other questions that are raised in college student’s minds are, why are textbooks expensive? And why return books when they only get a little bit of money back?

“I think people compare the price of a textbook with books in a general bookstore. With books that you’d find in a bookstore, the publisher will make millions of copies of them, and the cost is spread out over the millions of copies.”

Students have an advantage from selling their books now, Hudson said.

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Spring changes Broncos charge forward Board of Trustees highlight changes for Spring Semester

By Ociel Torres Staff Reporter The Board of Trustees held its last meeting of the 2011 calendar year on Thursday this week. The 30 minute meeting, which was held at the Bernhard Center, highlighted some features that will be running in the Spring Semester of 2012 here at Western Michigan University.

The eight members of the Board of Trustees, led by WMU President John Dunn, had agreed to a number of plans and policies that can impact WMU in the future.

Part of the meeting was used for respective campus organizations to summarize what they have done over the semester.

Such organizations as Western Student Association summarized on the successful efforts they had done throughout the semester, such as having double busing for Valley Express in the Valley Dorms.

“This double busing is a really great thing that Western has given us. Even though all the buses get crammed, I can still know that the buses will be a valuable tool,” says Drew Spilanki, who lives in Valley 2’s Harvey Hall.

The trustees also reached decisions on many issues that were proposed, though many were successful unanimous decisions. They approved the retirements of five faculty and 11 staff members. Trustees also signed off on four resignations, one promotion and two changes in departmental affiliations for faculty members.

There was also a decision to grant 36 sabbatical leaves for WMU staffers during the 2012-13 academic year. Only Nina Nelson, chair of the Department of Dance, was granted a sabbatical leave for the 2012

fall semester, while the other 35 staff members were granted for both 2012 fall semester and 2013 spring semester. The sabbaticals are mostly doctors who are heads of their respective departments. They range from the Gwen Frostic School of Arts, science, mathematics, social sciences, business and fine arts departments.

Also approved by the board was a regulation on campus expectations of how students, faculty and staff at WMU would report criminal or unethical violations they encounter. The resolution was passed unanimously by the Board. They expect every WMU alumni to be vigilant in the well-being of any fellow Bronco and to report any wrongdoing. The resolution will also be putting in place a website and phone line for anonymously reporting possible criminal or ethical violations.

Many people feel this program is a great step in the right direction for safety on campus.

“This anonymous calling program is really needed and will be very valuable. Due to all the tragedies that have occurred all over college campuses, this method will be instrumental in safety for our fellow Broncos,” says Nathan Schivley, a junior communications major.

After the resolution was passed, the chair of the Board Dennis Archer announced a three person trustee committee to monitor the website and phone calls that will be made unanimously. This resolution was passed due to the many tragedies and incidents that have plagued college campuses all over the United States in recent years.

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By Alexandra Harvey Staff Reporter

Western Michigan University’s women’s basketball team bested Southeast Missouri University 67-34 on their home court of Reed Fieldhouse., marking Broncos’ Head Coach Tasha McDowell’s largest margin of victory in her career with WMU. “I thought we did a fantastic job communicating,” McDowell said. “Just talking through all the different scenarios we were going through. And there were quite a few.”

Shooting 44 percent in the first half, helped the Brown and Gold start out strong. They ended the half at 36-18.

Bronco sophomore forward Corie Buchanan had her first double-double of her career, with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Maria Iaquaniello, senior guard at WMU

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Western Michigan University’s Aurielle Anderson (15) drives to the basket past Southeast Missouri’s Allyson Bradshaw (11).

chalks the team’s success, in part, up to their solid defense.

“Coach is always talking about how our defense sparks our of-

fense,” Iaquaniello said. “We were really excited to get all that going.”

Iaquaniello finished the game with four points and eight rebounds. In the second half, WMU held the Redhawks to 16 points, while the Broncos added 31 points to their total, bringing the final score to 67-34.

WMU junior guard Aurielle Anderson credits the team’s ability to run things smoothly, and take each play one at a time, with their strong finish against Southeast Missouri.

“The close details really helped spark it up,” Anderson said.

Anderson finished the game with eight points and one rebound.

After a week long break for finals, the Broncos head to Long Beach, Calif., for the Beach Classic Dec. 18 and 19. They will first take on host team Long Beach University Sunday at noon.

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Kalamazoo charity helps feed the hungry

By Katie TerBerg Staff Reporter

The Greater Kalamazoo Annual Holiday Food Drive is a yearly effort to help provide hungry families in the Kalamazoo area with food for the holidays.

Each year, more than 100 organizations participate in this food drive, including the Salvation Army,

the Kalamazoo Community Foundation and stores around the area.

The Greater Kalamazoo Annual Holiday Food Drive begins on Friday, Dec. 16. Individuals, organizations, schools and the South Central Food Bank will donate nonperishable food items as well as fresh meats, fruits and breads, to the Hazel-Gray Building

at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds.

The food will be packed and shipped on Saturday, Dec. 17 and delivered by 10:30 a.m. No registration is necessary to volunteer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The event is all volunteer,â&#x20AC;? said Ann Triemstra, a long-time volunteer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 percent community and individual based.â&#x20AC;?

Triemstra said that she

hopes the community will be interested in helping others by giving them a taste of holiday spirit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kalamazoo Community Foundation became involved in the food drive not long after it began,â&#x20AC;? said Valerie Mitchell, a community investment assistant for the Kalamazoo Community Foundation.

United Way nears its goal

By Lexie Causley Staff Reporter

As the semester is drawing to a close, so is the Kalamazoo United Way Campaign. While the committee has not taken a final count, as of Dec. 7, they had reached 96.7 percent of their goal, or $289,970.58. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do hope that we reach 100 percent of our goal,â&#x20AC;? Joseph Reish, chair of WMU United Way campaign said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The university has raised the goal every year for the past 3 years. Last year our goal was$275,000 and this year we set it at $300,000.â&#x20AC;?

This year the committee sent out 4,185 donation cards. The cards are sent to employees and retirees of the university, and the committee hopes to increase the number of cards that are returned each year. This year, 1356 cards were returned from employees and 227 from retirees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our student participation increased significantly this year,â&#x20AC;?

Reish stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are incredibly grateful to our students for all of their help this year.â&#x20AC;?

The students brought in $936 this year which is double of what students contributed last year.

Our Western employees raised $244,075.58 and retirees raised $44,801. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At our wrap-up ceremony, someone mentioned that there are enough children in Kalamazoo who need support for school meals that they would fill Waldo Stadium,â&#x20AC;? Reish said.

Every year the committee

tries to have more outreach into the community. The committee members make a consistent attempt to talk to more people in apartment complexes, business meetings, and other employees.

There is an incentive for each person who donates $50, and they get entered into a sweepstakes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to create a habit in people,â&#x20AC;? Reish said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We believe that if people truly understand the community in which they were helping, they will continue to donate on a yearly basis.â&#x20AC;?

The next step is taking a moment to send out thank yous to all the donors. Reish plans on creating an individual card and letter to each leadership giver, a donation of $1000 or more, and also an announcement for the other donators. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want to thank the university community for everything they have done,â&#x20AC;? Reish said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Money goes a long way. It still lets me know that people are full of generosity and I am so thankful for every donation.â&#x20AC;?

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harold West, a former detective for the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety, started the event in 1993 and brought together fellow officers to feed 40 hungry families.â&#x20AC;?

The charity project developed into a citywide event. The foundation

strives to help all members of the community and that includes helping out those who may not be as fortunate as we are. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hundreds of organizations, including schools, churches and local businesses all lend a hand,â&#x20AC;?

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From Page 1 He also compliments President Dunn for taking the immediate and appropriate steps on the issue of safety. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want to make sure we do everything appropriate for our students, for our faculty, our staff and employees--everyone connected with this outstanding university,â&#x20AC;?

Archer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I want to thank President Dunn for his quick leadership on this matter.â&#x20AC;?

Another plan that was passed unanimously was the three year strategic plan.

Presented by Dr. Timothy Greene, the provost and president for academic affairs, Greene described the extensive campus involvement and feedback that went into drafting and reviewing the plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were charged with creating a plan that will lead to an exciting future, builds on our historic strengths and is consistent with our mission,â&#x20AC;?

Greene told the eight trustees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We listened to our constituents, and the strategic plan was built around where constituents of this University want to take the University in the coming years.â&#x20AC;?

The plan has three points that

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caters to the vision WMU will be heading towards as an institution of higher learning. The plan also out lines five broad goals and identifies strategies to achieve each goal. Advancing WMU as a leading global research facilityand ensuring WMU as a diverse, inclusive and healthy community are some of the goals Greene hopes will cater WMU as a leading global research university.

Both Greene and President Dunn described the strategic plan as a short working document that is needed and would not be put away after passage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We purposely kept this plan actionable so we can continue to develop, innovate and create as we move forward,â&#x20AC;? Dunn said.

The plan will be monitored annually by the Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Senior Leadership Team and the appropriate Faculty Senate body. There will also be reviews and revisions if needed and conducted every three years from the plan made.

Even though the next Board meeting isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until the 29th of February, the decisions made in this meeting seem to be ones that can have the most impact on our school campuses.