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By Aaron McMannEditor-in-Chief

University President George Ross moved swiftly Tuesday, appointing former journalist Sherry Knight interim associate vice president of communica-tions following the abrupt res-ignation of Renee Walker.

Knight, 48, has spent the last 16 years running Knight Writers, a Saline-based com-munications firm she founded in 1996. She will be on campus

today through Friday and again next week, meeting a d m i n i s t ra -tors and col-leagues.

“I need to get a good idea of what needs to improve,” Knight said. “We’ll be moving swiftly, with lots of openness and integrity. My entire commu-nications process is through

openness and integrity.”

Walker, as-sociate vice president of u n i v e r s i t y communica-tions since 2008, resigned Friday, two

days after CM Life reported that costs for the redesigned cmich.edu neared $1 million, a num-ber much larger than originally released by university officials.

Roger Rehm, Vice President of the Office of Information Tech-nology, called the wrong num-bers “miscommunication.”

In February, CM Life un-covered documents revealing the university had allocated $10 million from its operat-ing budget to fund the $22.5 million Events Center, a proj-ect conveyed to the public as funded entirely through pri-vate donations.

In an email sent to the campus community Friday afternoon,

Ross said he and Walker came to a “shared recognition that a change in leadership at this time will enable CMU to prepare for the next academic year with a fresh perspective of its commu-nications opportunities.”

CMU Director of Public Rela-tions Steve Smith said Walker announced her resignation Friday afternoon to colleagues, and emptied her office. Walker’s CMU email address was met with an automatic reply: “As of May 25, I am no longer working

for the university.”Walker, who was due to make

$122,570 for the 2011-12 year, will remain on the CMU payroll until June 8.

Smith said he was not al-lowed to release how much severance pay Walker will re-ceive due to the document’s contractual nature. CM Life has submitted a request for the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

Knight named interim PR head after Walker exit

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By Cecilia ErwinStaff Reporter

This year’s Special Olym-pics Michigan Summer Games, Thursday to Satur-day, will feature some new events.

For the first time in SOMI history, a flag football expo will be held Thursday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and Friday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Kel-ly/Shorts Stadium.

Dan Ekonen, manager of

volunteers and coaches’ edu-cation for SOMI, said the expo will introduce flag foot-ball to coaches and athletes as a potential sport in which they can compete.

“It will be the first time anyone from our program at Special Olympics Michigan has seen it,” he said.

Eight teams are coming from all across the state, Ekonen said. Each team can have up to 12 athletes, with five-on-five game play. Ath-

letes participating in the expo will practice flag football skills and drills and then play in actual scrimmages, he said.

SOMI will also introduce a new sport this year: Turbo Jav.

“Turbo Jav (mini javelin) is an official competition this year,” said Kimberly Purdy, senior director of public re-lations and marketing for SOMI.

The mini javelin competi-tion will be held on Friday

from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., south of Bennett Track.

The State Summer Games will also feature appearances from sports celebrities and pageant royalty, including former Detroit Lions T.J. Duckett and Tom Kanka and Miss Michigan Elizabeth Wertenberger. There will be a celebrity autograph signing on Friday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Events Center Atrium.

Elizabeth Viele, the 2011 Inspirational Athlete of the

Year, will run the last part of the Law Enforcement Torch Run. She will light the Flame of Hope at the opening cer-emonies, which begin Thurs-day at 6:30 p.m. in Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

Viele, 27, from Dimondale, will be competing in gymnas-tics.

“I’m really excited to do it in front of people,” she said. “But I’m also nervous about lighting the torch.”

Nicholas Cross, the 2011

Spartan Stores Healthy Ath-lete of the Year, will lead the athlete oath at the opening ceremonies

“I’m a little nervous,” he said. “I haven’t done public speaking well before.”

Cross, 22 of Wayne, will be competing in aquatics. Deb Cross, Nicholas’ mother, said she was proud of her son.

“I am so excited to watch that,” she said. “I can’t wait.”

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By Orrin ShawlStaff Reporter

After 17 years as Director of Admissions and 31 years in the admissions office, Betty Wag-ner decided it was time for a change.

Effective June 11, Wagner has resigned from her position and will become the Assistant Director of Parent Services in the Academic Advising depart-ment.

Associate Director of Admis-sions Kevin Williams will serve as interim director while Cen-tral Michigan University con-ducts a national search for the replacement for the fall semes-ter, Wagner said.

“It’s been a very stimulating, rewarding job,” Wagner said. “I don’t regret any of my time in admissions.”

Wagner said she feels more experienced working with parents to figure out the best options for their kids when de-ciding on a college. Her new re-sponsibilities will include con-tacting parents to see if they are succeeding at CMU, how they feel about their services, work-ing on a website for parents and sending them emails.

“I’ll be working on enhanc-ing the relationship between parents and Central Michigan University,” Wagner said. “It’s an exciting time in their lives coming up to Central and de-ciding whether or not we are the right choice for them in terms of their future educa-tion.”

Executive Director of Aca-demic Advising and Assistance Michelle Howard said Wagner will be recognized as a leader in the department and will give added focus to tremendous

Betty Wagner moving to post inadvising

Brothers in armsWorld War II veterans honored

in Mount Pleasant Memorial Day paradeBy Orrin Shawl | Staff Reporter

By Samantha Hegeman and Phil PomberStaff Reporters

The Central Michigan University graduate stu-dent housing project is near 25-percent completion.

Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Management, said about 50 percent of the block work remains to be completed, along with all of the brick, roofing and interior work.

Lawrence said that no changes to the architectural aspects of the project have been made. However, a few utility connections were de-veloped to adjust for issues unaware of until excavation occurred.

“The expansion of the parking lot is currently un-derway and will be done before school commences in late August,” Lawrence said. “Concrete block and pre-cast concrete deck work continues, chilled water lines were just installed and steam condensate lines will be started in the next few weeks.”

The construction team appreciates everyone’s pa-tience and understanding as the project continues, Lawrence said.

The projected finish re-mains March 2013, with a total cost of $28.5 million.

Joan Schmidt, associate director of Residence Life, said the project is a great in-vestment for CMU.

“I am hopeful it will en-hance the graduates’ expe-rience,” she said.

CMU lost 96 units in Pres-ton Apartments when the music building was built and 128 units in Washing-ton Court apartments when

Progress made on housing, Anspachprojects

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Two heroes rode down cheering Mount Pleas-ant streets in a black Mustang, leading Mon-day’s Memorial Day parade celebrating.

The two World War II veterans, Joe Mc-Cormick and Andy Cascarelli, both received acknowledgements from VFW Post 3033 Com-mander Nicholas Cononico during his ceremo-nial speech at the parade.

McCormick, who fought in the pacific from Pearl Harbor to the end of World War II, had his transport ship was sunk by a torpedo. The attack forced him to float in the Pacific Ocean for 36 hours before being rescued by planes and ships, he said. McCormick continued to participate in the battle for about a week be-

fore being taken to a hospital in the Fiji islands.

McCormick said anyone considering joining the mili-tary should be careful.

McCormick’s nephew, Mount Pleasant resident Scott Martin, said his uncle returned from the war to raise

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the Education and Human Services Building and adja-cent parking lot were added, Schmidt said.

“We have had a number of family and graduate apart-ments torn down over the

years.” Schmidt said. “With the addition of the College of Medicine, it was the ideal time to add new graduate housing for medical stu-dents, visiting scholars and other graduate students.”

The Graduate Housing Complex is not the only con-struction project happening at CMU this summer.

Danger signs were hung, cranes appeared and fences sprang up surrounding An-spach Hall as construction began on the building at the start of the summer.

Anspach will be tempo-

rarily closed, and no classes will be held in the hall this summer as the renovation takes place.

“This project will be done over two summers and be completed in August 2013,” Lawrence said.

A new heating, ventila-tion and air conditioning system will be installed,

along with electrical, plumbing, fire alarm and lighting improvements. Bathrooms will be renovat-ed, and a new west entrance and student lounge will also be constructed.

“A completed strategic plan will be a key for guide for the updating of the cam-pus facilities master plan,” Lawrence said. “We will begin the master planning process in September 2012 after students and faculty return so they can be in-volved in the process.”

Both the $14 million An-spach project and Graduate Housing Project are a part of the facilities master plan, an outline of how the cam-pus will evolve over the next two decades.

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Martin and three other children after Martin’s parents died.

“He’s the only dad I’ve ever known,” Martin said. “Every-thing he learned from his ser-vice, he inspired to us. We are very proud of him.”

Cascarelli fought in the Battle of the Bulge in Germany. Den-nis White, friend and member of the honor guard, said Cas-carelli lost a lot of comrades during battle. He was saved when an air drop package float-ed down from the sky to him.

“He won’t talk much about it,” White said. “I didn’t even know he was in that battle until a few months ago.”

White knew Cascarelli from the businesses he owned in Mount Pleasant. White said his first impression of him was that he looked a lot like Dean Martin with his wavy black hair. They would talk about everyday topics, but they would seldom bring up the battles they were involved in.

“A lot of us wanted to have them honored this year,” White said. “It could be both of their last years.”

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stakeholders like parents.“She has an extensive his-

tory and experience level of working with the parents of students and what it takes to be a successful college stu-dent. Her experience trans-lates perfectly into an advising center,” Howard said. “She’s going to be a real asset to our office.”

Wagner said her favorite parts of working in admis-sions were working with the students and working with the hard-working admissions staff to achieve day-to-day and long-term goals in the ad-missions office.

“I think it’s rather rare and unique when I’ve been em-ployed in the same office for almost my entire career,” Wagner said. “It doesn’t hap-pen very often.”

By John IrwinStaff Reporter

A new poll released on Memorial Day by Gallup re-veals that presumptive Re-publican presidential nom-inee Mitt Romney holds a strong lead over President Barack Obama with veter-ans.

Nationally, 58 percent of veterans said they would vote for Romney, compared to 34 percent who said they would vote for Obama, ac-cording to data collected from Gallup’s daily tracking polls from April 11 through May 24. Veterans account for about 13 percent of the national population.

Over the same time peri-od, it was found that Obama has a four-point advantage among non-veterans, 48 percent to 44 percent. Over-all, Obama and Romney were tied with 46 percent support each.

The analysis found even more evidence of a gender gap in presidential politics, showing the president with a seven-point lead among women, while his likely challenger has an eight-

point lead among men.Romney’s advantage with

men exists almost solely be-cause of veterans, Gallup’s Frank Newport wrote.

“It turns out that the male skew for Romney is driven almost entirely by veterans,” Newport said. “Romney leads by one point among non-veteran men, contrasted with the 28-point edge Romney re-ceives among male veter-ans.”

Female veterans favor Obama at about the same rate as non-veteran women.

The two previous Repub-lican presidential candi-dates, Sen. John McCain and former President George W. Bush, both enjoyed large margins of support among veterans. According to exit polls released in 2008 and 2004, respectively, McCain and Bush both beat their Democratic opponents by double digits with veterans.

Though it is clear that veterans tend to skew Re-publican, it is unclear why they do.

“Men who serve in the military may become so-cialized into a more con-

servative orientation to politics as a result of their service,” Newport said, pointing to previous Gal-lup analyses. “Additionally, men who in the last decades have chosen to enlist in the military may have a more Republican orientation to begin with.”

In recent weeks, the Obama campaign has launched an aggressive campaign to win over vet-erans. It debuted a new ad that touts Obama’s foreign policy successes and legis-lation he has signed that he says preserves the “sacred trust” between veterans and the nation.

Despite Obama’s strug-gles with veterans, he ap-pears to be faring better among active-duty military personnel. A recent USA Today analysis of campaign finance reports shows that Obama has received about five times as many cam-paign contributions as Romney among those who list themselves as active-duty personnel or Depart-ment of Defense employees.

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Ross issued a release Tuesday afternoon, calling Knight a “strong commu-nications leader and strat-egist” that will lead “CMU forward with positive en-ergy and integrity.”

Knight said Tuesday she and Ross had a preliminary conversation in late April about “the potential of me helping to expand the uni-versity’s communication ef-forts.”

A 1986 CMU graduate, Knight credits her journal-ism background and previ-ous role at CM Life for her relationship with univer-

sity officials. She served as editor of CM Life in 1985-86 and went on to report for the Jackson Citizen Patriot and (Annapolis, Md.) Capi-tal Gazette.

Knight said she’s done a lot of research on CMU in the last couple of weeks, but considers herself famil-iar with the impending Col-lege of Medicine. McClar-en-Central Michigan has been a client of her com-munications firm for about two years now, Knight said.

Knight is under contract for six months, paying $1,500 per day of work in Mount Pleasant. She may not be at CMU every day of the week, but will do work from her Saline office as needed, she said.

In the release Tuesday, Ross said Knight will be responsible for building strong relationships, both internally and externally, and “building awareness and support of the univer-sity through a full spectrum of communications vehi-cles and opportunities.”

“CMU needs to be top of the mind across the state among students, parents and alumni,” Knight said. “We need to have strong consistent communications to achieve it.”

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By Seth NewmanStaff Reporter

Two athletes will represent Central Michigan University at the NCAA National Cham-pionships in Des Moines, Iowa.

Senior thrower Ryan Mc-Cullough finished 10th out of 48 in the hammer throw last weekend at the NCAA East Preliminaries in Jacksonville, Fla. With a mark of 207 feet, 3 inches, McCullough advanc-es to the next round of the NCAA National Champion-ships June 6.

Director of Track and Field Willie Randolph said there isn’t just one thing that makes McCullough good at the hammer throw.

“Well, there is a lot of good coaching,” Randolph said. “There is a lot of discipline, there is a lot of focus, there is a lot of execution ... all those things he has to go through to make it happen.”

On the women’s side, fresh-man Milica Kulidzan broke her own school javelin record by more than three feet on Thursday.

With a mark of 154 feet, 10

inches, Kulidzan advances to the next round of the NCAA National Championships.

With Kulidzan being a freshman, Randolph is ex-cited to have her on the team another three years as the women’s side progresses.

“It’s a great feeling for our program,” Randolph said. “It continues to show the growth in both our women’s and men’s programs. It’s great growth and good direction for our women’s program.”

One athlete who was hope-ful to advance to the next round was senior hurdler

Branden Post. Post suffered an injury be-

fore the weekend, however, and was unable to compete in the 400-meter hurdles.

Other Chippewas who competed included thrower Alex Rose, hurdler Bridget Doughty, runner Holly An-derson, thrower Kevin Mays and multi-eventer Josh Ket-tlewell.

Rose finished 21st in the discus.

“Considering this is ... the first round of nationals, I think everybody did a great job competing,” Randolph

said. “They should have no regrets, because they gave everything they had. Some-times you come up short; but at the same time, those peo-ple that made it to nationals should celebrate with their teammates.”

The athletes who compet-ed in nationals have the lon-gest season of all of CMU’s athletes.

They have been training since the day after Labor Day, through cross country and indoor track, and finish as the last CMU sports team still competing.

Randolph said they are among “the best of the best.”

“That in itself should be more than enough to say, ‘Wow!’” Randolph said. “It should give you an idea at how much it takes for these athletes to accomplish what they have been accomplish-ing.”

McCullough and Kulidzan will continue to compete against the best of the best when they compete June 6, in Des Moines, at the NCAA National Championships.

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By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter

The Central Michigan baseball team made a strong run; but, in the end, it wasn’t enough to win the Mid-American Conference tournament champion-ship.

After losing the first game of the tournament against Eastern Michigan, the Chippewas rallied to win four straight games and advance to the cham-pionship Saturday in Avon, Ohio, where they lost to Kent State 3-1.

CMU took an early 1-0 lead behind an RBI from senior William Arnold in the third inning, but that’s all the offense it would get in the title game.

The Golden Flashes plat-ed two runs in the fourth inning off starter Pat Ka-minska, enough for them when MAC Pitcher of the Year David Starn entered the game in the fifth in-ning.

Starn gave up four walks and just one hit in his three innings of work, keep-ing the Chippewas off the scoreboard and earning

the win for himself and his team.

Kaminska threw 88 pitch-es in his first start of the tournament on Thursday against Toledo but allowed two runs in four innings to take the loss against KSU.

CMU turned it over to a fresh bullpen after ju-nior Rick Dodridge threw a complete game in the semi-final game against Miami University, and it did its best to keep the Golden Flashes within reach.

Senior Ryan Longstreth threw one and 1/3 innings, allowing one run on two hits and three strikeouts before handing the ball to freshman Sean Renzi who threw two and 2/3 innings, striking out four.

The Chippewas will be losing seven seniors, in-cluding ace Zach Cooper, all-time hit leader Nate Theunissen and other ev-eryday starters like Arnold, Sam Russell and Tyler Hall.

They could also lose junior shortstop Jordan Dean and pitcher Dietrich Enns to the MLB Draft next month.

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To make up for the disas-ter that was “Men in Black 2,” a third installment of the Men in Black saga was cre-ated, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

“Men in Black 3” tells the story of Agents J (Smith) and K ( Jones), who wear black suits and kill aliens. When one extra-terrestrial escapes jail and goes back in time to kill K, J must follow and pre-vent the death of his partner.

He arrives in 1969 and unintentionally meets the younger K, played by Josh Brolin, who helps him hunt down the alien, Boris.

Not Boris the animal. Just Boris.

While many were wary about another MIB movie 10 years after the sequel, the great cast and overflow-ing humor made the movie worth the time.

Being a black man in 1969 was tough for J, but it was communicated humorously, which made the encounters less awkward and more eye- opening. It drove home the point that we have come a long way from the treatment of non-whites in the 1960s.

For example, J is pulled over by two white officers who accuse him of stealing a nice, expensive car. After neuralyzing them, J exclaims that not all nice cars driven

by black men were stolen. However, J had in fact stolen the car to track down Boris.

Another comical aspect of the movie was Boris, played by Jemaine Clement of “Flight of the Conchords”. A villain with a New Zealand accent is unfortunately rare, and Clement is known more as a comedian than a seri-ous actor. He was entertain-ing to watch and did a great job.

However, the movie did have one flaw. Some scenes were clearly geared toward the 3D adaption, which made the two-dimensional version gimmicky and awk-ward.

Two-dimensional movie fans should hope this won’t become a trend in the movie industry, because it left au-dience members feeling like they were missing some-thing.

This should not take away from the overall experience, though, because the humor, acting and sentimental mo-ments of MIB3 clearly made up for the failure that was “Men in Black 2.”

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Gotye’s “Making Mirrors” contains pleasant, diverse surpriseBy sarah DonettiStaff Reporter

Australian alternative art-ist Gotye (real name Wally De Backer) has been making music in his native country since 2003.

However, most Americans have only been recently in-troduced to him through the surprise hit “Somebody That I Used To Know,” sung alongside New Zealand singer Kimbra.

As part of Gotye’s third stu-dio album “Making Mirrors,” “Somebody” joins a collection of songs that make for a good introduction to the artist and bring hope for his future suc-cess in the United States.

The single “Somebody That I

Used To Know” leaves the im-pression that the album would be filled with similarly mini-malist, subdued compositions. While songs like the titular album opener “Making Mir-rors” and “Don’t Worry, We’ll Be Watching You” might fit this bill, the meat of the album shows a surprising amount of diversity.

“Easy Way Out” and “Eyes Wide Open” both feel more like traditional indie rock, and

when they sandwich the simple but powerful “Somebody That I Used To Know,” the three songs seem to stand together as a unique narrative to the con-trasting moods of anger and

calm following the end of a re-lationship.

Meanwhile, Gotye also dips his toes into jazz with “Smoke and Mirrors,” late ‘80s Peter Gabriel influence with “In Your Light” and even Motown with “I Feel Better.”

The easy transition between each of these styles is the high-light of “Making Mirrors.” Not content with faltering into stag-nation, Gotye’s experimenting with various styles seems to make certain a listener will find at least one song to catch their fancy.

The end half of the album seems considerably weaker after listening to such a strong first part. While songs like “Giv-

ing Me A Chance” and “Bronte” are ear-pleasing and fit a rainy-day mood, there’s not much to them that makes them memo-rable.

The album’s latter half also includes an example of just how far Gotye is willing to experi-ment in “State Of The Art.” The highly manipulated vocals and oddball lyrics make it hard to describe the song as anything other than “plain, old weird.” At over five minutes, it overstays its welcome. Its black sheep status, however, calls for at least one listen for anyone buying the al-bum.

Five years ago, a song like “Somebody That I Used To

Know” wouldn’t have made it into American music’s top 40, let alone reach #1 on the Bill-board Hot 100. That feat alone is enough to make one hope Gotye’s versatility can keep him from becoming a one-hit won-der.

Whether his next hit is one of this album’s more commer-cially appealing tracks (“Eyes Wide Open” and “I Feel Better” seem to be the best candidates) or will await listeners on his next album, Gotye deserves his newfound attention, and “Mak-ing Mirrors” lives up to the hit single it has produced.

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‘What to Expect’ a fun but entirelypredictable chick flickBy Caitlin CheeversStaff Reporter

The new chick flick “What to Expect When You’re Expect-ing” wasn’t what I was, well, expecting.

While entirely predictable, it proved to be a cute and enjoy-able movie that kept me laugh-ing.

The film follows a new style made popular by “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve”: tell the stories of several couples, while loosely tying them to-gether in one setting.

And by “loosely tie,” I mean they were really stretching it.

One passed another while driving down the street, and another happened to be in the same bar as another.

Luckily, the best jokes were left out of the preview. The audience laughed throughout most of the movie, thanks to one-liners that made us forget the pitiful trailer.

Sure, some scenes were disturbing. I really didn’t have to see the innocent dad from “The Parent Trap,” Den-nis Quaid, play an arrogant ex-racecar driver married to someone younger than his son.

But, that added to the fun of the movie. The son was entirely uncomfortable, and the audience sympathetically laughed along.

I also appreciated the vari-ous aspects of starting a fam-ily that were addressed in the movie.

One couple was infertile. Another tried unsuccessfully for months.

There was an adoption and a miscarriage.

One woman had an easy pregnancy. Another was mis-erable the entire time.

However, my main com-plaint is the message the film gave about unmarried couples having a child. I’m not against it, but a more accurate depic-tion would have been better.

In both cases, the fathers had an active role in the preg-nancy. This is not always the case, and it can give an incor-rect message to young girls: If a girl gets pregnant, the guy will stay around and help out.

There have been many cas-es where this doesn’t happen. Sure, the movie showed the emotional turmoil the girl can go through, but it still seemed to be too perfect to happen in real life.

Although, it is a Hollywood movie we’re talking about.

All in all, the movie was en-joyable. It wasn’t the type of movie I had to think deeply about in order to understand. It was the perfect escape from reality we all sometimes need.

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Mount Pleasant native Billy Myler leaves CMU football teamBy Justin HicksStaff Reporter

S o p h o -more Billy Myler made his deci-sion in Janu-ary to leave the Central M i c h i g a n football team following the 2011-12 season.

“It wasn’t about the coach-es or players – I loved being around all of them,” Myler said. “I just wasn’t happy do-ing it.”

The once three-sport ath-

lete at Sacred Heart Acade-my joined the team as a pre-ferred walk-on in 2010 and redshirted his first season.

Myler appeared in 10 games during the 2011-12 season and caught two pass-es for 27 yards, including a 16-yard reception against Ohio on November 10.

“The big stadiums and be-ing a part of something big-ger was great, don’t get me wrong, but I still wasn’t hap-py,” Myler said. “I’m much happier doing things on my own terms and not having to be somewhere all the time for football.”

The 5-foot-10 wideout said he chose to leave the team on his accord, and, while it was a good experi-ence for him, he felt it was time to move on.

“(Head coach Dan Enos) was surprised but under-standing and let me know I was always welcome back,” Myler said after he broke the news during a phone con-

versation with Enos.The Mount Pleasant na-

tive is a commercial recre-ation major, working as a building maintenance work-er for CMU.

“I’m still not entirely sure what I want to get into, but I like where it’s going with recreation,” Myler said.

He leaves behind a wide receiver group led by seniors Cody Wilson and Jerry Har-ris. Sophomores Titus Davis and Courtney Williams also have big shoes to fill after combining for 61 catches for 1,136 yards and 13 touch-downs.

“I love the wideout crew, and they’re all really tal-ented and hard-working,” Myler said. “There’s also a lot of good chemistry in that group, so I think they will do well this year.”

CMU athletics chose not to make Enos available for comment on “a walk-on that left in February.”

The 2012 season kicks off against Southeast Missouri State Aug. 30 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

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“The big stadiums and being a part of something bigger was

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