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Jake May/Photo EditorLivonia senior Lauren Krupsky stands up and cheers at the front of the student section, better known as “the Rowdies,” during halftime of the inaugural men’s basketball game Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena in the new Events Center. A sold-out crowd of 5,350 people were in attendance.
Senior guard Antonio Weary at-tempts a shot as he drives toward the basket while Temple guard Ramone Moore reaches out for a block Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena. CMU lost to Temple 65-53. Weary recorded four points on 2-of-8 shoot-ing and three rebounds.
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Paige CalaMaru/staff PhotograPhErPennsylvania senior Benjamin Smith collects change from passers by Thursday af-ternoon outside of Charles V. Park Library. Smith, who plans to donate the change he collects to the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, created the project for Art 318: Aesthetics. “What I’m really hoping to do is to engage people,” Smith said.
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, examining differ-ent issues.
With only one week left in the semester, more than 1,400 students have used the entirety of their PrintQ alloca-tion, according to informa-tion from the Office of Infor-mation Technology.
About 1,452 students, 120 graduate and 1,332 under-graduates, had exceeded their $15 and $10 allocations re-spectively by Nov. 30. This is less than seven percent of the 21,386 students that have at least attempted to print in an on-campus computer lab.
Jeff McDowell, associate
director of university services and support at the CMU Help Desk, said the system seems to be performing within its design parameters.
“We wanted to make sure the printing methods matched the needs of the students,” he said. “We based it on real data, and that was printing with no quota, no re-strictions. If you add a quota to that, it lowers everyone’s printing.”
McDowell said more than $70,000 worth of paper is pre-dicted to be saved by the end of the semester as a result of various go-green programs, including PrintQ, adopted by the university.
That is more than 3 million pieces of paper, which equals approximately 46 trees worth of paper in savings, he said.
“I would have to say given the goal we were trying to reach, which was to effec-tively create a solution that works for 60 to 70 percent of students, everything I’ve seen
Less than 7 percent of students have exceeded print quotaOIT anticipates no ‘significant changes’ until fall at earliest
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By Carisa SeltzSenior Reporter
The CMU Board of Trustees granted University President George Ross authority to ne-gotiate a land lease agreement with Lodgco Management LLC Thursday.
David Burdette, vice presi-dent of Finance and Admin-istrative Services, said Lodgco approached him during the summer with a proposal to build a hotel east of Kelly/Shorts Stadium to be complet-ed in time for the 2012 football season.
“I can only describe it as a ‘eu-reka moment,’” Burdette said.
Lodgco’s proposal was de-veloped after a plan approved in July 2008 to build a Holiday Inn and office building com-plex within the Center for Ap-plied Research and Technology
stalled because of a lawsuit with LaBelle Limited Partnership.
General Counsel Manuel Rupe said the trial is scheduled for May 16-24, 2011.
Michael Smith, president of Lodgco, said they will provide a modern-designed project which will blend into existing CMU architecture.
“We’re proposing a 150-room hotel with five or six stories,” Smith said.
The hotel would include in-door and outdoor pools, exer-cise facilities, business center, restaurant, conference space
and more.Also included in the design
package were at least six leas-able stadium suites added onto the stadium and connected to the hotel by a glass atrium. Smith estimated the project would cost $22 to $25 million total. Because it is a private development, university funds will not be used.
New marketLodgco wants to develop this
project because the local mar-
Ross gets OK to negotiate lease for new hotelConstructionwould be complete by 2012 football season
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By Maryellen TigheMetro Editor
Ashley Chaplain did not hesi-tate to give money to a stranger with a sign Thursday afternoon.
“It’s hard out here and every-body needs a little help,” the Wixom junior said. “It’s $346 a credit hour and I take 19 credits, so I know what it’s like to need a
little change.”But the stranger Chaplain
gave money to was not looking for help for himself.
Pennsylvania senior Benja-min Smith was out to dispel stereotypes surrounding home-lessness for his course, ART 318: Aesthetics.
The students had to do an in-terventionist art piece, which re-quired them to interact with the environment, Smith said. Other students chose tasks like asking people to paint with them.
“I kind of wanted to do some-thing more with social change,” he said.
Smith is working with Grand
Blanc senior Nicole Magness-dean and Melissa LaLonde, a Monroe senior, to raise aware-ness about homelessness before the holidays.
The trio has sat around cam-pus and across town dressed up and asking for change.
“Generally everybody’s sur-prised, if they acknowledge it,” Smith said. “You look away because it is outside social norms.”
St. Louis junior Lauren Pen-zien chose not to donate.
She said when she donates, she tends to give to larger or-
Student begs for changeClassmates raise awareness about homeless stereotypes
By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter
CMU’s academic prioriti-zation program has been de-layed from its initial comple-tion deadline.
In his opening remarks dur-ing the Thursday’s board of trustees meeting, University President George Ross said the deadline for a survey of academic programs has been changed to June and may not ultimately be completed until the fall.
The original deadline was set for January, said Stephanie Comai, board chairwoman.
“We are not sure if fall is the
beginning of the semester or the end of the semester,” Ross said of the potential comple-tion date.
Comai said she was very pleased with the president’s performance during his eight months in office, but was hopeful CMU would be en-sured completion of the aca-demic prioritization surveys on deadline.
“It’s a very important stra-tegic initiative,” Comai said. “This is one area we cannot move at ‘university speed’ with — proceed with due haste.”
University speed is an ex-pression Ross coined for the slow moving bureaucracy of large universities.
Ross said he does not want to make excuses for missing the deadline, and fully under-
Academic prioritization process at CMU delayedDeadline for preliminary report in June
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A GOLDEN SHOWINGSellout crowd of 5,350 watches CMU’s inaugural basketball game
Wednesday marked the beginning of a new era.With a crowd of 5,350 packed into the brand new
McGuirk Arena, CMU’s first sellout since 2001, the men’s basketball team hosted Temple.
Students filled the arena donning gold shirts, signs and flags, making their presence known.
“I’ve never played in an arena like that,” said senior forward Jalin Thomas, who led the Chippewas with a game-high 26 points. “Just having all the fans supporting us, I loved it. The new arena is great and it’s real noisy.”
Unfortunately, CMU could not sustain an eight-point half-time lead, allowing the Owls to make a second half run and pull away, winning 65-53.
For the Rowdies, the student section was still the place to be.Wisconsin freshman Jocelyn VerVelde said the venue is gor-
geous. The new look was well constructed and is just great to look at while watching the game.
“It’s sweet,” she said. “So beautiful. I don’t know how else to describe it, but I just hope it’s like this — the crowd, the atmo-sphere — for all sporting events.”
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The yearly Chippewa River District Library card costs $130. Also, the community input meetings will be at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Coe Township Hall in Shep-herd, Wednesday at the Fre-mont Township Hall in Winn and Thursday at the Rolland Township Hall in Blanchard. An error appeared in an 11A article Wednesday.
By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter
An East Tawas woman faces charges for embezzling more than $70,000 over two years from her Union Township em-ployer.
Gwenda Lynn Hayes, 38, al-legedly took the money from Fisher Transportation Inc., 900 S. Bradley St., between January 2008 and September 2010, said Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mio-duszewski.
Hayes was charged with em-bezzlement between $50,000 and $100,000, tampering with evidence and using the Inter-net/computer for communicat-ing with a person while commit-ting a crime.
“She would take sometime thousands at a time,” Miodusze-wski said. “This went on over the course of the two years.”
She was the head of account-ing at Fisher, according to a press release from the sheriff’s depart-ment. Miouduszewski said she believed she was terminated in September for the offense and then a formal investigation was launched by his department.
The charges carry a maxi-mum sentence of 40 years and up to $55,000 in fines. She was charged with using a computer to commit a crime when she ac-cessed bank accounts and other sites online.
“Anytime you commit a crime using the Internet, a computer, a computer network … it’s a crime in itself,” Mioduszewski said.
Hayes turned herself in, ac-companied by her attorney, straight to the magistrate to be arraigned. She immediately posted her bond, which was set at $40,000 or a 10 percent cash surety, and was never lodged at the Isabella County Jail.
A preliminary examination was scheduled for 8:15 a.m. Thursday in courtroom 3.
Woman charged with embezzling at least $70,000Funds allegedly taken from Union Township employer
in the numbers suggests we’re right on target to do that,” said Roger Rehm, vice president of Information Technology. “I think there are still lots of questions as to whether that target is the right strategy, and that’s what we’re looking at: are there ways the system should be tweaked? Right now it seems like it’s really working pretty well.”
The data shows the targeted 60th to 70th percentile range of undergraduate students have printed an average of $4.87 of the allotted $10, well below expectations, McDow-ell said, while graduate stu-dents in the target range have printed an average of $8.14 of their allotted $15.
Rehm said the data shows many students do not print in on-campus computer labs at all.
According to the data, ap-proximately 5,805 students never printed a single page of their PrintQ allocation.
Rehm said despite PrintQ’s apparent success, further analysis must be done to en-sure the program accommo-dates students as effectively as possible.
“Anecdotally, probably everybody knows someone who has a real problem with the system,” he said. “There are certainly people that have gone over.”
Flushing junior Patrick Glas-son said he thinks changes need to be made to the PrintQ system.
“I think that something should be done about people overprinting, but I feel like its the wrong way to do it,” he said. “It can be really restrict-ing to certain students. One of my really good friends is a cre-ative writing major so he has to write and print a lot.”
Glasson suggested instruc-tors require students to sub-mit homework and papers electronically instead of a physical copy.
“With the tuition we’re pay-ing, you’d think we could at least print what we needed for free, or at least have a higher allocation in the event we
need it,” he said.McDowell said the Office of
Information Technology will have a discussion about the program at the end of the se-mester, when all the data can be gathered and analyzed.
At that point, all the infor-mation will be brought to the student advisory committee. This committee provides feed-back on a various Information Technology programs, includ-ing PrintQ.
The group was designed to give feedback for exactly these kinds of services, Rehm said.
He said the PrintQ system may see changes in the fu-ture, but at this point he is unsure of what those changes might be.
“There’s nobody that’s op-posed to changing it if we can make it better — the question is, what does ‘make it better’ mean,” Rehm said. “The next big thing is a pretty thorough analysis of the numbers we have at the end of the term. I wouldn’t anticipate any sig-nificant changes until fall at the earliest.”
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ket can support another hotel, Smith said.
“This will be a nice product to bring in, because it’s full ser-vice,” he said. “We don’t feel that need is being met here.”
Smith said the hotel will provide internship opportuni-ties and hands-on experiences for students of business, con-struction management and hospitality.
“We will actually host class-es on a regular basis and then what they learn in that class-room, they will be able to go out live and see that opera-tion,” he said.
Athletics will also benefit from this project, Smith said, by generating more revenue. The stadium suites will be able to hold roughly 40 people each, have sliding glass windows and some will have outdoor gath-ering areas.
Dave Heeke, director of Ath-
letics, said they did research to determine demand for the suites and generated a waiting list.
“There is a strong demand for additional locations inside the stadium,” Heeke said.
Barrie Wilkes, associate vice president of Financial Services and Reporting, said this is a great opportunity.
“It’s a win for the city, it’s a win for the developer and I re-ally think it’s a win for the uni-versity both academically and athletically,” he said.
Wilkes said further drawing and developments will take place to determine the lease price.
“This is the beginning of the process to give Lodgco the as-surance that the university is supportive and therefore they can spend the money to really get the design done to get to the bottom line,” he said.
Ross will report to the board after negotiation. If necessary, a special board meeting will take place to vote on the agreement.
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ganizations, like the Salvation Army.
“I try to help, but I cannot help everyone,” Penzien said.
She was one of dozens of people who chose to walk by the seated students, many without glancing up.
Even community members kept the trend. Wednesday af-ternoon LaLonde sat outside the Empty Keg Party Store, 122 E. Pickard St.
“It didn’t work as well, people didn’t feel sorry for me,” she said. “(They) thought I was go-ing to spend it on booze.”
That stereotype was some-thing their group was trying to dispel. They chose not to specify what they would use the money for on their signs, Smith said.
He said people assume you are going to misappropriate the money, for drugs or other habits. The group plans to give all the money they raise to the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen, 621 S. Adams St.
“I really just liked the premise behind it,” Magness-dean said. “(Changing) the assumptions people make about homeless-ness.”
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stands the pressure to accom-plish things at a quicker pace.
“The provost and deans act in prioritizing programs, and it’s taking more work (than expect-ed), and we will be as transpar-ent as possible,” Ross said.
Preliminary reports will be made and Ross will be in-formed of them, he said in re-sponse to the board.
“I wasn’t happy to say we’ll miss (the deadline) by 8 to 9 months,” Ross said.
Ross said the process is new and thus was difficult to judge beforehand.
“We underestimated what is involved in getting it done, not having done it before,” Ross said. “There are some 327 programs we are evalu-ating.”
New programs do receive a prioritization evaluation, Pro-vost Gary Shapiro said, but it is unlike the current academ-ic prioritization process.
“We wanted to do (the evalu-ations) right, and that required a lot of planning,” Shapiro said. “Also, the timeline we set out for originally, the faculty felt it was too short.”
Shapiro said the current plan is to have faculty evalu-ations for each department completed before the end of spring semester. They will then be sent to each individ-ual college’s dean and then to Shapiro. Shapiro’s decision will be made during the sum-mer.
The board did not give Ross a salary increase during the
meeting because of the poor economic climate.
Comai said the university is not facing prosperous times, especially with cuts to state appropriations. Faculty volun-tarily took a salary cut and Co-mai said it would not be pro-ductive to give the president a raise at such a time.
In other business, Trustee Sarah Opperman was ap-pointed as the board’s next chairwoman, starting in January when Comai de-parts.
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By Maria AmanteStaff Reporter
Synergy Medical Education Alliance will partner with the new College of Medicine to move the college closer to Li-aison Committee on Medical Education accreditation.
The CMU Board of Trustees approved the partnership, ef-fective Jan. 1, at its meeting Thursday. Dr. Ernest Yoder, the college’s dean, called the partnership an “exciting de-velopment.”
The board also approved creation of a non-profit 501c3 corporation, which will oper-ate as Central Health Advance-ment Services. CMU will have two voting members on the board of six.
“LCME was very reassured by our relationship with Syn-ergy,” Yoder said. “This affilia-tion will bring us into perfect compliance with them.”
SMEA also is affiliated with Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, but MSU is not involved in CMU’s partnership.
Yoder expressed desire to work with MSU.
“We are very strongly in-terested in a collaborative re-
lationship with MSU,” Yoder said. “It’s very possible.”
Board chairwoman Stepha-nie Comai said she did not see any pitfalls in the collabora-tion before voting in support of the resolution.
Comai requested confirma-tion from General Counsel Manuel Rupe.
“The partnership will have a tremendous impact for the community,” Rupe said. “I don’t see any downside.”
University President George Ross said the College of Medi-cine’s other affiliations will not be affected by the partnership with SMEA.
“We don’t have to start over,” Ross said. “It will be included with the other affiliations.”
Yoder said SMEA is an en-tity partner of Saginaw-based Saint Mary’s and Covenant hospitals; students will part-ner with the institutions dur-ing years two to four of their
education.“This is a good opportunity
for a true, three-way partner-ship,” Yoder said.
He said the university is pleased with such a short dis-tance between the school and partner hospitals, and that the Saginaw locations will be-come an “east campus” for the College of Medicine.
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Partnership with Synergy progresses CMU toward accreditationAlliance effective this January
By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
Students will soon take on fantastic personas in a distinc-tive dance extravaganza.
Orchesis Dance Theatre will hold their first concert of the year at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium
From hip-hop to instrumen-tal classics, the concert will comprise 16 acts. Yvette Cran-dall, Orchesis director and as-sociate communication and dramatic arts professor, said there is something for every-body to enjoy.
“Members of the company not only enjoy what they are doing, but they aim to please the audience,” Crandall said.
“Their performance level is high, enlightening and interest-ing.”
Crandall founded the compa-ny as the CMU Modern Dance Club 42 years ago and is proud of the growth it has undergone throughout the years.
“Our dancers are coming in with previous experience and an intense commitment to dance,” Crandall said.
Orchesis holds rigorous audi-tions every fall in which danc-ers are asked to demonstrate their passion, physical stamina, discipline and versatility.
Northville senior Kristen Shapero made the cut four years ago and considers her in-volvement to be her best expe-rience at CMU.
“My experience with Orche-sis is probably the reason I did not go crazy living in Mount Pleasant,” Shapero said. “It has allowed me to grow so much
as a dancer and a person and meet life-long friends.”
This year, Shapero co-cho-reographed two of the four dances she is performing in. One of them includes an origi-nal piece with seven dancers, while the other is a trio with Royal Oak senior Tricia Clem-ons and Cassie Burgess, a How-ell junior.
“Choreographing is not like work,” Shapero said. “It comes naturally to me, and it is some-thing that allows me to express my creativity.”
Burgess is part of three acts. The opening act “Addicted To Love” is a lyrical piece which she also choreographed.
“The piece depicts the emo-tions that come with being in love,” Burgess said. “It’s a little different for everyone, but as the dance portrays, all the pieces eventually fall to-gether.”
Each piece tells a story and aims at expressing an emotion in a way that the audience and performers can both relate to, Burgess said.
Newcomer Emilia St. Onge said she is excited for her first performance, in which she has four unique performances — contemporary, ballet, hip-hop and musical theatre.
“I’m not nervous at all,” the Howell sophomore said. “The company has become like a family to me and it will be fun
kaitlin thoresen/staff PhotograPhErThe Orchesis Dance Theater practices one of their routines for the Orchesis Fall Dance Concert Wednesday night in Rose 127. The concert is Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Plachta Auditorium.
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Perry fish/staff PhotograPhErCheboygan freshman Jake Scott sits in line waiting to purchase tickets for the Ke$ha concert Thursday evening in the new Events Center. Scott plans to be waiting in line for a total of 16 hours. “I love Ke$ha and I promised my friends I would get them tickets,” said Scott.
By Kelli AmelingStaff Reporter
Jake Scott planned to wait in line 16-and-a-half hours for tickets to see Ke$ha.
The Cheboygan freshman waited by himself in the CMU Events Center starting at 3:30 p.m., playing games on Face-book to pass away the hours.
“I do not plan on sleeping (tonight),” Scott said.
Tickets for the Feb. 25 Ke$ha concert at the CMU Events Center went on sale 8 a.m. Friday. He said he loves the hip-hop artist and was excited when he found out she was coming to CMU.
“I was jumping up and down screaming, ‘Ke$ha is coming,’” Scott said.
Not far behind Scott sat Hastings freshman Kayla Bite and Grand Ledge freshman Dan Pelfrey.
The duo brought home-work and computers to en-tertain themselves. They be-gan waiting at 4:30 p.m.
“We had nothing else to do,” Pelfrey said.
Both Bite and Pelfrey said they were excited for the Feb. 25 concert.
At 7:20 p.m. Thursday, Pro-gram Board President Steve Lewis said there were about 42 people already waiting in line.
“We are expecting about 1,000 people (before 8 a.m.),” Lewis said.
Macomb sophomore Mike Greene sat about halfway down the line, playing cards with five of his friends.
“(I’m) having a good time with friends,” Greene said. “We are waiting on two more to get here.”
He said he was surprised CMU is supporting Ke$ha’s visit, especially since it is part of the “Get Sleazy” tour.
Lewis said there was a little concern about Ke$ha coming at first, but both University President George Ross and Stan Shingles, assistant vice
president of University Rec-reation, were ultimately on board with the idea.
He also said the majority of RSO presidents said they would like to see Ke$ha per-form at CMU.
“Ke$ha was the No. 1 choice,” he said.
There are 4,300 tickets to be sold for the concert, Lewis said, and the Program Board plans to sell out.
“We are hoping to be able to sell tickets to the public, but if it is sold out by stu-dents, that’s great too,” he said.
Students wait through night to ‘get sleazy’Program Board expects sellout for February’s Ke$ha show
By emily GroveStaff Reporter
Mountain Town Station and other Downtown Mount Pleasant locales will look a little different in the near future.
A site plan and a special use permit to expand the restaurant, 506 W. Broad-way St., were approved at Thursday’s Planning Commission meeting. The 2,135-square foot addition is proposed to have a quieter, more in-timate atmosphere than the rest of Mountain Town Station.
Owner and Mayor Jim Holton said he is hoping the new room will have a cathedral ceiling, a large fireplace, carpeting and better lighting than the rest of the existing res-taurant.
“I remember when the building was old and beat up in 1994 or 1995,” Commissioner Rick Rau-tanen said. “Mountain Town has been and will continue to be a wonder-ful thing for the down-town area.”
Holton is hoping to be-gin construction in the spring and open the new room by the summer. Al-though approved by the planning commission, Holton is waiting on cer-tain permits and a liquor license.
Two new student hous-ing building initiatives will also move forward. An eight-person dwelling at 1029 S. Main St. and a 12-person registered student organization dwelling at 1029 S. Main St. were approved at the
meeting.The commission ap-
proved both site plans and their request for a special use permit.
The eight-person dwelling proposed by Tim Driessnack will be a split house with four oc-cupants in each unit.
“I think it breaks it up a bit nicer,” Driess-nack said. “As opposed to crowding eight, nine, maybe 10 people into one house.”
Also on the agenda was a request to condition-ally rezone 309 N. Main St. for a restaurant.
Jean Prout is hoping to turn the property into a bed and bistro, but first needed the planning commission’s recom-mendation to rezone. The planning commis-sion recommended the rezoning, so it will now go on to be discussed by the city commission.
Prout is planning to re-vamp the Victorian house by adding new windows, paint and trim. She would also renovate the interior to preserve the historic aspect by deco-rating with furniture to match the character and era of the house.
“The house is charm-ing and I hope to re-es-tablish some of the better qualities,” Prout said.
Commissioners Pete Orlik and Michael Ko-strzewa praised Prout’s idea for bettering down-town, calling the plan “imaginative” and “cre-ative.”
The planning com-mission meeting agenda had scheduled a public hearing for the request of a special use permit for a restaurant and bar/nightclub, but the hear-ing was postponed to a future meeting.
Mountain Town Station soon to be expanded
“Mountain town has been and will continue to be a wonderful thing for the downtown area.”
Rick Rautanen, commissioner
Student housing initiatives also approved by city planners
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By Theresa CliftStaff Reporter
One of few remaining steps in establishing the College of Medicine was taken when the Doctor of Medicine program was approved Thursday.
Students will be able to re-ceive M.D. degrees in 2016 if all goes as planned for the college, the CMU Board of Trustees decided.
There is one more step be-fore the program can be ap-proved. In January, the cur-riculum must be presented to the President’s Council, where all new academic pro-grams must be approved, said Provost Gary Shapiro.
“I feel comfortable that they will approve it,” Shapiro said, “but it’s not certain.”
The President’s Council is
made up of presidents from all 15 of Michigan’s public universities. The decision will be made on Jan. 21.
Shapiro said there were no substantial issues when Oak-land University underwent the same process for its de-veloping medical school.
“I would anticipate a simi-lar response,” he said.
The College of Medicine program will provide a four-year degree that concentrates on providing medical care to rural areas in northern Michi-gan.
Heavy emphasis is on evidence-based practice, patient-centered care, team-based learning and practice and self-directed lifelong learning, according to the board of trustees’ meeting agenda.
The Association of Ameri-can Medical Colleges recom-mends the content and struc-ture of the curriculum.
OtHer bUSINeSSThe College of Business
Administration Foundation
was also established as a new university fundraising body, since its approval at Thurs-day’s board meeting.
CBA Dean Charles Crespy said the new organization will provide an opportunity for finance and accounting stu-dents to develop their skills.
“We’re excited about the opportunity,” he said. “It cre-ates new energy for the col-lege.”
While accounting students will assist in managing foun-dation funds and performing shadow audits, finance stu-dents will make investment recommendations for the foundation and monitor its performance.
“It will also have an impact on student learning,” Shapiro said.
The board will receive up-dates on the foundation and how its funds are performing.
doctor of Medicine program approvedCurriculum to be presented to President’s Council in January
By Andrew PriceStaff Reporter
Mount Pleasant’s major a cappella groups will per-form together under one roof 6 p.m. Sunday in Moore Hall’s Townsend Kiva.
The Sounds of the Season performance will consist of The MountainTown Sing-ers, Central Harmony, Fish N’ Chips, On the Rox, Ebb N’ Flow, Northern Rhapsody and the CMU Brass Quintet.
Admission will be do-nation-based with all pro-ceeds benefiting the Isabella County Soup Kitchen.
“I think it’s really cool that all of the a cappella groups
are doing a show together,” Westland junior Megan Mi-nier said. “All of the groups are really unique. So it will make for a great show. I am looking forward to it.”
Brighton junior Ben Krinke, a member of Ebb N’ Flow, said his group will perform some Christmas songs along with some classic barbershop songs. Krinke also expressed his excitement for playing with all of the other a cappella groups at CMU.
“I think it’s a great way to showcase the variety of talent on campus,” Krinke said. “I think the concert will demonstrate that a cappella music comes in many differ-ent forms.”
Rochester Hills freshman and Central Harmony singer Miranda Sigelko said she is very excited to perform with her colleagues.
“All the groups are really
friendly with each other, and I am really looking forward to hearing the other groups sing their songs,” Sigelko said. “With a cappella mu-sic there are no two groups that sound the same, just one voice can set the sound apart. Different groups will always interpret songs in different ways.”
Sigelko said each group will sing for 15 to 20 minutes and will combine Christmas songs with songs from their usual set lists.
“We have a couple of
Christmas songs planned,” Krinke said. “One that is brand new, in addition to some classic barbershop songs.”
Krinke said he is looking forward to hearing all of the groups sing, but was espe-cially looking forward to hearing Northern Rhapsody perform.
“They are a brand new barbershop youth chorus that will be competing in Las Vegas early next year,” Krinke said. “The group is comprised of young guys from around the state and I’m sure they will impress.”
A cappella groups to unite in Sunday performanceAdmission, donations will benefit soup kitchen
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w What: Sounds of the Sea-son a cappella performancew When: 6 p.m. Sundayw Where: Townsend Kiva in Moore Hallw How much: Donations accepted
By Gabi JayeStaff Reporter
Texting may soon expand its reach from bite-sized conversa-tion to reporting incidents to lo-cal emergency services.
According to a Nov. 23 Federal Communications Commission press release, 21st century emer-gency-reporting, including text messaging and video streaming, is a top priority.
“These new technologies have the potential to revolu-tionize emergency response by providing public safety officials with critical real-time, on-the-ground information,” the re-lease states.
According to the release, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will begin gathering input from the public about how to make the current dispatch system broadband-enabled this month.
This builds on the FCC plan to update their accuracy re-quirements so police forces can quickly locate those who report emergencies on their mobile phones.
“I think society will be using
texting to communicate more each year,” said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley. “I think most police agencies will use texting as a part of their system in about 20 years.”
The FCC said the benefits of the plan are a faster response from police forces, automatic alerts to authorities and the abil-ity to report emergencies which jeopardize a person’s safety if they make a phone call.
Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski said he could see the value of texting during emergencies.
“Any type of communication that would alert law officials would be beneficial,” he said. “I see it as a benefit not only to law enforcement but to the general citizenry as well.”
Mount Pleasant Police De-partment Public Information Officer Jeff Browne said he sup-ports the new method if it helps people to report more emergen-cies and crimes.
“Texting may give us more eyes and ears in the commu-nity,” he said.
Browne said the method
could be problematic because it is sometimes harder to articu-late through a text message than vocally.
He said there also may be problems through dispatch. Dispatchers can coach people through CPR and report infor-mation quickly to officers when they receive phone calls.
“Information would depend on how fast you can type,” he said.
Browne said he could see tex-ting slang being a problem.
Yeagley said he is concerned with how an emergency or crime would be handled by dispatch.
“In emergency situations (I) always prefer human-to-hu-man contact,” he said. “I prefer to never use text as the only way to communicate.”
The FCC release found 70 per-cent of 9-1-1 calls come from mobile phones, but now cell phone users are making fewer phone calls and sending more texts and picture messages.
Tragic events like the Virginia Tech shooting could have been stopped faster had dispatch been able to receive text mes-
DREAM WEAVER | Students disassemble installation
Joe tobianski/staff PhotograPhErUnion City sophomore Shelby Miller, left, and Grand Rapids sophomore Janna Ludema take down their installation, “The Dream,” in Wightman on Thursday evening. “Our installation was to show the travel of innocence to corruption of politicians,” Miller said.
Emergency services could be contacted via text message
sages from students on the scene, the release stated.
“The technological limita-tions of 9-1-1 can have tragic, real-world consequences,” the release said.
Yeagley said the CMU com-
munity is very comfortable re-porting emergencies through phone calls or e-mails, but he is supportive of adding texting as a way of reporting emergencies.
“I would like to take a little bit of time to see how differ-
ent agencies use it and see how they work out all of the bugs,” he said. “One of our primary goals is to be easily accessible to our community.”
A C A D E M I C S
By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter
Michael Rao has retracted confidentially agreements with office employees at Vir-ginia Commonwealth Uni-versity since becoming the school’s president in 2009.
Controversy arose in recent weeks for the former presi-dent of CMU when reports surfaced in Richmond, Va., of the “unusual” agreement, which banned VCU employ-ees from talking about what they observe of Rao’s family and him.
“The confidentiality agree-ments have been the sub-ject of recent scrutiny and criticism and, unfortunately, have been misinterpreted in terms of what I sought to be accomplished by these agreements,” Rao said in an e-mailed statement to VCU employees. “I sincerely regret any undue burden or ill will that these agreements may have caused. Therefore, I have decided to withdraw all such confidentiality agreements.”
VCU spokeswoman Pam Lepley declined comment on the matter further, say-ing “the letter will speak on its own.”
Rao’s e-mail stated the agreements were intended to protect the privacy of his family in his home.
LocaL agreements?While serving as CMU
president, Rao required all office employees to sign a similar confidential-ity agreement stating all names, places, dates or in-
cidents that happened in his office were not to be shared with anyone or discussed outside the office.
“I understand that the in-formation and all files, let-ters, projects, telephone calls and anything relating to the work performed in the President’s Office and in my capacity as an employee is highly confidential,” stated the agreement, which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. “I understand that it may not be discussed with anyone out-side this office who does not have a need to know, which includes any other CMU em-ployee, as well as my family members, friends, etc.”
The CMU confidentiality agreement extended past any employee’s tenure at CMU, stating that the contract must not be broken past the term of employment. If an employee were to break the confidentiality agreement past employment, possible consequences included per-sonal liability and potential lawsuits.
CMU General Counsel Manuel Rupe said current University President George
Ross does not require em-ployees, except a working housekeeper, to sign any confidentiality agreements. Instead, he said it is simply expected that employees will not disclose the university’s confidential information.
“In my experience, the expectation that employees who have access to confi-dential information will re-spect the confidential nature of such information is com-monplace in higher educa-tion, regardless of whether or not a written agreement ex-ists,” he said via e-mail.
Rupe was appointed as general counsel in June 2009 and did not work with Rao and was unsure as to whether or not past university presi-dents have mandated confi-dentiality agreements.
“This agreement was in-stated because the employee may have access while in the residence to confidential in-formation regarding the uni-versity or the president’s fam-ily, such as bank statements, protected health informa-tion, and similar private in-formation,” Rupe said.
By Nora NaughtonStaff Reporter
Performing CPR on an apple or spontaneously rapping in front of hundreds doesn’t ap-pear on most students’ agen-das, but Tom DeLuca has a convincing way about him.
DeLuca, a professional hypnotist, said he has come to CMU for several years and has always enjoyed himself. On Wednesday night, he en-tertained students in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
Chesterfield sophomore and special events chairwoman Brittany Martin led Program Board’s effort to bring DeLuca back this year.
“Usually On the Fly does it,” Martin said, “but since they aren’t really around anymore, the Program Board took over and invited him back.”
He opened the show by in-forming the crowd that his show is all about the power of imagination.
“I make up the routines, and that tends to get more out of people,” DeLuca said.
Wednesday’s performance demonstrated how much he can get out of his volunteers. He gave each of his volunteers a special task to coax laughs from the audience.
Ithaca High School senior Seth Miles was one of the vol-
unteers. DeLuca said he used the power of hypnosis to turn Miles into Seniqua, a character portraying a head cheerleader of the CMU squad who hap-pened to forget the school’s mascot.
DeLuca asked Miles who it was, and his response pro-duced an uproar from the au-dience
“We’re the Nicki Minaj’s,” Miles said, after a pause.
He went on to rap Minaj’s part in the Trey Songz song “Bottoms Up” as a cheer.
Miles later claimed to have no recollection of his im-promptu performance.
“All I remember is that I re-ally wanted to dance,” Miles said after the show.
Miles had a group of friends in the audience also from Ithaca High School who swarmed him after the show to
inform him of his actions.“He was hilarious, the whole
show was great,” Ithaca High School senior Kelly Kindel said.
Aside from Miles’ antics, De-Luca also convinced students to give an apple CPR and to be-lieve they were from a different planet and spoke in tongues.
Laughter rang out of Plachta Auditorium by the end of the night.
“I had an amazing group tonight, and it’s really going to be hard to top next year when I come back,” DeLuca said.
Martin was equally pleased with the performance.
“I’m very happy with how tonight went,” she said. “The crowd really seemed to get into it and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.”
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photos by Leah sefton/staFF photographerIthaca High School junior Hannah Cesar dances on stage along with other participants while hypnotized during hypnotist Tom DeLuca’s show Wednesday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium.
Ithaca High School senior Seth Miles sprays himself in the face with a bottle of water while under hypnosis during hypnotist Tom DeLuca’s show Wednesday.
By Ariel BlackStaff Reporter
The Union of Teaching Facul-ty will meet with administrators next week to discuss wages, ben-efits and working conditions.
In preparation for the meet-ing, representatives from the CMU Joint Union Council host-ed a table in Bovee University Center Wednesday to inform the campus community of their challenges.
All the unions on campus have gotten together and col-lected the necessary financial data to inform the public, said English instructor Sue C. Mur-phy.
“Students as well as union members need to know this in-formation,” she said. “They have this idea that we all make over $100,000 a year, but they have a
right to know the truth.”There is enough money to
improve working conditions for everyone on campus, Murphy said.
The Joint Union Council’s presentation included hand-outs detailing evidence pertain-ing to Central’s strength. One of the bullet points indicated CMU has $228 million in unrestricted surplus assets, with $30 million added between 2009 and 2010.
A 3.8 percent increase in stu-dents from last year to this year is also one of the factors listed.
According to information pre-sented, the “CMU administra-tion negotiated with two labor union groups during summer and fall 2010, leading to zero pay raises.”
Karen Bellingar, president of UAW Local 6888 and execu-tive secretary of the School of
Engineering and Technology, said the campus needs to know what bargaining unions repre-sent and what they are dealing with.
“I’ve been on this campus for 19 years and started to get in-volved in the Joint Union Coun-cil when issues arose that inter-ested or affected me,” Bellingar said.
Tobin Hope is a member of AFSCME Local 1568, represent-ing service and maintenance workers at CMU.
Hope’s contract is up in June, and he is staying involved be-cause he said he wants to make sure his contract is fair.
“We are trying to show soli-darity among union groups as well as visibility of what we do,” Hope said.
Members to meet with administratorsU n i o n o f T e a c h i n g fa c U lT y
Hypnotist coaxes humorous stunts
Rao retracts confidentiality agreements with VCU officialsCMU employees not in same circumstance under Ross
Tom DeLuca entertains CMU again Wednesday
Such a facility, which would in-clude stadium suites, will actually generate revenue for the univer-sity through its lease agreement with Lodgco Management LLC. Through the agreement, Lodgco will pay to use the land — pres-ently the current location of the football practice field adjacent to Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
CMU funds are not locked into the construction project. The funding, design and construction will be handled by Lodgco, which will work with University President George Ross in determining a fair market value for the land lease.
Lodgco President Michael Smith said the hotel — about five or six stories — will be designed to blend into existing CMU archi-tecture if the board approves the project. The 150-room hotel would include indoor and outdoor pools, exercise facilities, a business cen-ter, restaurant, conference space
and other features, only boosting CMU’s ability to entertain campus visitors.
There is a noticeable shortage of upscale hotel space in the city of Mount Pleasant, particularly sur-rounding the university.
Lodgco Management reported to the board of trustees its facility will be a full-service hotel, filling a void in the community. The new hotel will help ease frustration for thousands of travelers visit-ing CMU sporting events and the Soaring Eagle Casino year-round who find their visit obstructed by a lack of available lodging.
Also included in the design package were six to eight suites in the football stadium connected to the hotel by a glass atrium. During the winter months, these suites could be used for additional con-ference space. Director of Athlet-ics Dave Heeke said there already is a waiting list of patrons lining
up to use the new suites to enjoy CMU football games from a bird’s-eye view.
The hotel and increased num-ber of suites will prove to pay off when the football team hosts Michigan State in 2012. Heeke has publicly discussed a temporary stadium expansion for the game, and extra suites will help generate more revenue for the athletics de-partment.
Just as importantly, there is an invested academic interest in the proposal. Smith said students will benefit from internship opportu-nities and hands-on learning ex-periences.
Lodgco Management will host classrooms in the hotel for stu-dents in the fields of business, con-struction management and hos-pitality so they can see first-hand what they are learning about.
The move makes sense for CMU, as well as students and taxpayers, who can rest assured their tuition and tax money will not go toward the hotel.
If Lodgco Management is will-ing to invest about $25 million on a structure that will enhance the campus silhouette and improve the experience of visitors at no cost to CMU, then the campus community must give Lodgco the assurance that they are in support of their investment.
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Developing a new on-campus hotel is a win-win for all parties involved and would enhance CMU’s profile without it having
to make a financial commitment.
EDITORIAL |New hotel would benefit CMU without emptying its pockets
UPSCALE STEP
Raise your voice
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Jake Bolitho, UniVErsity Editor | Maryellen Tighe, MEtro Editor | Aaron McMann, sports Editor
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Joe Tobianski/staff photographerUniversity President George Ross reads as the Board of Trustees listen in the President’s Conference Room on Thursday morning at Bovee University Center. The big topic during the meeting was the about building a hotel on campus.
CMU has seen a multitude of chal-lenges, changes and adversity over the last semester.
As Voices Editor, I have been opining as buildings were constructed, sports teams floundered and revelations about the current university president and about his predecessor were made. I have been told, both directly and in-directly by the people I write for and about, that my voice makes a differ-ence.
As I leave this position, I want to make clear that my voice, my opinion, is nothing compared to that of the stu-dents.
The columns and editorials I have written may be able to cause a stir, get people angry or worried or even cause some change, but that is nothing com-pared to when a group of students de-cides they are unhappy and change is needed.
Sure enough, the students of this university have plenty to be unhappy with. Tuition has risen dramatically as that money is siphoned into the Col-lege of Medicine and myriad building projects, the university is accepting more students than they have room to house and benefits and services to the students are cut to the point where even paper is rationed.
The students are the most powerful entity on this campus. The students, as both the majority population of this microcosm we call a university and its primary source of income, have more potential for impact and change on this campus than anybody else.
The reason the board of trustees is able to shape the university to their personal interests, and why the uni-versity is allowed to prioritize profit over quality of education is student ap-athy. Take money from us that we will be paying off for 40 years and spend it however you please, as long as we get to see Ke$ha, we say.
I am not suggesting the necessity of a widespread student uprising or riot, not in the least.
CMU is where we, as students, live, learn, work, spend, shape our futures and the futures of those around us.
What happens at this university, from the boardroom where the trust-ees meet, to the president’s office, to the student activities in residence halls and the Facilities Management staff that cleans up after them, affects ev-ery single student. This is our life, and none of it is unimportant.
All I am saying, all I am asking, is to care.
Read about what happens in this community — and not just in this pa-per. Read what the university sends out, what comes from students and community members and concerned parties. Think critically and intelligent-ly about all of it and come to your own conclusions.
Become involved in causes that are of interest as a free-thinking and in-formed individual. When something happens and it just is not right, speak up. If ignored, speak up louder.
Student empathy and student in-volvement, more than any medical school, football team, classroom build-ing or event center, is what this univer-sity desperately needs, and what could lift it up into greatness.
TSA: Terminally Stupid Admin-istration, Those Stupid A-holes and, my personal favorite, Thou Shalt Abolish.
It should not be any surprise the Transportation “Security” Administration is on my list of federal agencies that should be abolished.
While full body scans and grop-ing had brought the more recent claims that the TSA should be re-formed and made “Don’t touch my junk” the new “Don’t taze me, bro,” there are all sorts of other issues that show why the govern-ment should not be involved in airline security.
A 2007 report that was original-ly covered in USA Today showed private screeners were signifi-cantly more effective at detecting bombs and materials than feder-al screeners. This is even the case in busy airports — San Fransisco, which handles about 37 million passengers per year, is the busi-est of the 16 airports that cur-rently utilize private screeners.
The problem is privatization of screening would only go so far. Private screeners are still re-quired to follow the regulations doled out by the TSA.
There is also the fact that the TSA regulates more than just screening requirements: They regulate things such as the Fed-eral Flight Deck Officer program, which allows select commercial pilots to carry firearms.
Also, passengers are not the only ones that suffer from the government’s incompetence when it comes to airline secu-rity. Airline ground crews and air crews are considerably affected as well.
For example, when I worked for Air Wisconsin (we handled United Express), I could badge through side-doors to the ramp to work a flight. No checks. The air-line does their own background check of employees beforehand.
However, if I wanted to get to the gate area by going through the checkpoint area, or was fly-ing myself, I had to get screened.
Same thing with the actual flight crews. Even though they are in control of the aircraft (just push down on the yoke to crash the plane), they still have to get screened. Unless they are an FFDO of course.
So you have one group of peo-ple that are trusted with unre-stricted access to the aircraft and another group that are entrusted to fly it. Yet they still have to go through security? Brilliant!
I cannot address every single shortcoming with government involvement in airline security, but I think the examples I gave above are a good indicator that security measures both creat-ed and enforced by the airlines would be much preferable, and effective.
Comments in response to ‘Proposal for on-campus hotel to go before board Thursday’ on cm-life.com
CMU_Senior: “I think it’s a great idea, as there will be no cost for CMU, only revenue. The only real concern I have is that it would limit future stadium expansion on the east side should the need ever arise.”
Michael: “This all makes sense. Central Michigan is doing every-thing it can to become a major uni-versity. If you look at the major uni-versities in this state, U of M and MSU, they both have elite medical programs, modern athletic facilities and hotels on their campuses. Why should Central be looked at as a small university when we have so much potential to expand?”
Scott: “Wow...so we’re going through every department and looking to cut academic program funding to save money, but we’re willing to consider building a hotel to “make the school bigger”. That’s quite a mixed message we’re send-ing out.”
transferstudent: WHAT. It’s not like campus needs a hotel ... My family owns a couple in this town.
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STUDenT SecTion | University President George Ross hangs with the Rowdies
jake May/photo eDitorUniversity President George Ross, center, makes a face while hanging out in the student section before the men’s basketball game Wednesday night.
By Odille ParkerStaff Reporter
Not everyone will head home after finals.
About 150 students will travel throughout the coun-try to dedicate the first week of break to a cause of their choice through the Alterna-tive Winter Break Program.
This year, the program is working with 12 different issues. Each issue is ad-dressed by a group of two site leaders and 12 students at an organization assigned by the program’s board members.
Shawna Ross, coordina-tor of Volunteer Center, be-lieves the program is a great opportunity to enhance a student’s experience at CMU.
“It gives students a direct, hands-on experience in ser-vice,” Ross said. “The ability to volunteer side-by-side with communities outside their own allows students to learn skills that are unat-tainable in the classroom.”
More than 12,000 stu-dents participate in alter-native breaks nationwide, but Ross applauded CMU for being one of few schools to offer the opportunity year-round.
The program’s board is broken up into different committees, which each satisfy a specific aspect of the trips.
The fundraising com-mittee is often active year-round. They organize ac-tivities that allow students to raise money to cover the costs. A favorite one is penny wars, which is a pro-gram-wide event.
Groups also get together to raise funds for their as-signed issue, while other students apply for grants and scholarships on their own.
Jennifer Jordan, a Belle-vue senior and chairperson of Alternative Breaks, is ea-ger to embark on her fifth this year.
“My trip to Belize made a huge impact in my life,” Jordan said. “I was able to see the direct impact of our work and realize that even the most subtle work can make a difference.”
Jordan is a site leader for the international issue this year, which will travel to Belfast, Ireland.
The group will work with the Amizade organization in an after school program for teenagers that seeks con-flict resolution in Ireland.
Another issue is home-lessness and hunger. The group will travel to Boston and work with the local res-cue mission and food bank.
Travis Gibler, Buckley junior and site leader for homelessness and hun-ger, said the program gives students an opportunity to work with problems of which they may be un-aware.
“I have been on three oth-er breaks and they have all been a life changing experi-ence,” Gibler said. “It’s great to go out to an area and be able to help those in need.”
Gibler said he hopes al-ternative break participants are able to gain a deeper un-derstanding about the issue and bring back awareness and aid to the community in Mount Pleasant.
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Trip will address diverse issuesStudents to give back nationwide, abroad
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Alternative break locationsw Animal Endangerment: Austin Zoo and Animal Sanc-tuary, Austin, Texas
w Children’s Healthcare: Ronald McDonald House, Memphis, Tenn.
w Criminal Justice System Reform: Fortune Society, Long Island City, N.Y.
w Disaster Relief: Operation Helping Hands, New Orleans, La.
w Disaster Relief II: Hope Community Development Agency, Biloxi, Miss.
w Elderly: Mountain Projects, Waynesville, N.C.
w Hunger and Homelessness: Boston Food Bank and Bos-ton Rescue Mission, Boston, Mass.
w Immigration and Refugee Resettlement with Youth: Refugee Family Services and International Community School, Stone Mountain, Ga.
w International: Amizade, Belfast, Ireland
w Persons with Disabilities: Githens Center, Holly, N.J.
w Survivors of Aggression: CrossRoads Group Home, Greenville, S.C.
w Youth: Operation Break-through, Kansas City, Mo.
* Alternative Breaks allows students to get involved with programs involving both national and international issues.
“This (is) what we’ve cre-ated to symbolize the mira-cle,” Hacker said. “There’s one candle for each day, and then there is the servant candle, the ‘shamash’ that you use to light all the others.”
Hacker painted her meno-rah blue and decorated it with gemstones, saying menorahs don’t have to look traditional. She also has a teddy bear-themed menorah, and her mom has one designed like a train.
“It can be anything you want as long as it has 9 candles,” Hacker said. “It’s just some-thing fun.”
Southfield sophomore and Beddow resident assistant Joshua Finn said his favorite aspect of Hanukkah is getting to spend time with his fam-ily. Finn said his family puts out holiday decorations like Christmas lights, but with their own Hanukkah style.
“My dad likes to put a 10-foot electric menorah on our front lawn and every night he lights it up,” Finn said. “And we have a giant bear with a dreidel. I think it’s awesome.”
After briefly lighting the menorah, singing the Hanuk-
kah prayers and a small gift exchange, attendees wind down the night by playing the famous dreidel game. They spun the 4-sided top, each side containing a Hebrew let-ter which makes up the phrase “Nes Gadol Hayah Sham,” or “a great miracle happened there.” Freshman Seth Greenberg of Oak Park said it is a reference to the miracle of Hanukkah and explained how to play.
“You start out with a pod of candies or coins or what-ever you use, and you spin the dreidel,” he said. “I landed on a Nun, so nothing happens. If I had landed Hei, I’d get half the pot.”
Franklin junior Abigail Liep-shutz serves as the President of Hillel at CMU. She said the group meets 8 p.m. Monday every other week in the Down Under Food Court, and plans to keep that schedule for next semester should anyone want to join.
With about 50 members on their e-mail listserv, Liepshutz said the group has grown com-pared to where it was.
Liepshutz said Hillel has been an RSO before but the majority of its members grad-
uated and the group died out, and they restarted it since then.
“I really like Hillel,” said member Michelle Schwartz, a West Bloomfield sophomore. “There are not a lot of Jews on campus and it’s fun to hang out with other people on cam-pus that have the same beliefs as you.”
Liepshutz said she thinks it is important to maintain a Jew-ish identity on campus
“Typically, people are actu-ally really interested in what Judiasm is,” Liepshutz said. “A lot of time I’ll be the first Jew-ish person that someone’s met, and they’re usually more inter-ested than weird about it.”
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If Adam Sandler was here, he might just sing “put on your yamaka” be-
cause Wednesday at sundown it was time for Hanukkah.
At 7 p.m. in Beddow Terrace, about 25 students of Hillel, the Jewish registered student organization at CMU, met to kick off the beginning of the eight-night cel-ebration of the holiday.
Students ate latkes, potatoes and onion cookies fried in oil, and made and deco-rated the traditional menorah candle with fiberwood bases and ceramic candle holders.
Clarkston sophomore Hillary Hacker said Hanukkah is a celebration of the Macca-bees who reestablished the Jewish religion in Israel. The tradition says when they relit their temple light, the small supply of oil miraculously lasted for eight days.
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By John EvansSenior Reporter
Freshmen Niki DiGuilio and Taylor Johnson have made their presence on the women’s basketball team felt early on this season.
They will be looking to continue their strong play this weekend as the team travels to Evansville, Ind., to compete in the Evansville Tourna-ment.
At 6 p.m. today, the Chippe-was will face Coastal Carolina. On Saturday, they will either face
Evansville or V a l p a r a i s o . The team won the Winthrop Classic to start the season but has not won a tourna-ment since. This weekend will be the last chance for the Chippewas to bring home another tour-nament title.
“We just want to end it off right, we want to win this tournament and focus on defense,” said sophomore Brandie Baker. “We are playing with more chemistry and getting used to each other and knowing what we are ca-pable of doing on the court.”
DiGuilio has won the starting job early and has shown she can make plays, while Johnson has provided a spark off the bench averaging 8.7 rebounds per game. Both are averag-ing double figures in points per game this season.
Coastal Carolina is coming off of a pair of wins, including a dominating 78-25 win against Coker College last week. The Chanticleers record cur-rently sits at 4-2 overall entering the Evansville Tournament.
The Chippewas are led by senior forward Kaihla Szunko. Szunko has had a tremendous start to the
The date was Sept. 3, 2009.Brandie Baker remembers it clearly.The CMU women’s basketball team was getting
ready for a new season. Baker was coming off a great freshman campaign after being named Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year.
“We had an open gym and we were scrimmaging,” Baker said. “I went up for a layup and came down off balance. I heard a pop and went down screaming.”
And in that instance, Baker’s life changed dramati-cally.
She tore her ACL. What followed would be the most frustrating and difficult year of her life.
A RIGOROUS RETURNBy John Evans | Senior Reporter In 2008, Baker became just the
second player in CMU history to be named MAC Freshman of the Year. She set a program record with 1,111 minutes played. She set the record with 51 three-pointers made as a freshman and scored 375 points, the second most by a freshman in program history.
Baker was a nightmare matchup for opposing teams. The 6-foot sophomore from Flint was simply, as head coach Sue Guevara put it, a “playmaker.”
And as the team prepared for a run at the MAC championship in 2009, her life was completely turned around.
The first step was reconstruc-tive surgery. Baker had surgery to repair the torn ACL so she could
begin the rehabilitation process as soon as possible. While the team practiced, she had to go rehab her knee, pushing her farther and far-ther away from the team.
Watching from the bench as the team competed night in and night out was the toughest part for Bak-er.
“We tried to have her have a role on the bench keeping some kind of stat,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “It’s hard when you’re injured and such a competitor and contributor to all of a sudden you don’t feel like a part of the team.”
Because the injury was so severe, Baker received a medical redshirt and did not lose a year of eligibility.
By John ManzoStaff Reporter
Freshmen Niki DiGuilio and Taylor Johnson are the founda-tion of the freshmen class of the Central Michigan women’s bas-ketball team.
DiGuilio has the ability to score and that ability has earned her a starting role on a team of of-fensive weapons. She is the only freshmen in the starting lineup
and has stated all six games thus far.
“I don’t have a problem playing freshmen that are producing,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “Niki catches onto things quickly and has the abil-
ity to score.”In her first six games as a Chip-
pewa, the 5-foot-8 guard is av-eraging 11 points per game and sits second on the team in made three-pointers behind senior guard Shonda Long.
Transitioning from high school to college athletics isn’t always smooth for all athletes, but the leaders of this team have taken the freshmen under their wings.
Basketball is a team game and DiGuilio believes her more expe-rienced teammates are the reason for her early-season success.
“They’re constantly pushing me and getting on me in a positive way if I’m not doing what I’m sup-posed to,” she said. “Without my teammates, I don’t have success here because it’s a team sport.”
She came into CMU with an open mind. The main focus for her was to help contribute to the team in any way possible. DiGuil-io is striving to become a better player, but is excited to make an impact.
Johnson, along with DiGuilio, is making herself known, serving as the team’s enforcer on the glass.
“All of the coaching staff has been pushing me like crazy,” the 5-11 forward said. “I try to do what’s best for the team and work as hard as I can.”
Guevara knew these two athletes would make an im-pact for her team, even be-fore they stepped foot onto the CMU practice facilities. She scouted them through high school
Freshmen DiGuilio, Johnson already making an impact
By John ManzoStaff Reporter
Leadership, versatility and hunger. All three possess it.
Senior guard Shonda Long, senior forward Kaihla Szunko and sopho-more guard/forward Brandie Baker want to win and want to win now. For Long and Szunko, this is it.
As seniors there is no looking back and saying “what if.”
Using their leadership and experi-ence, the group plans on leading the Central Michigan women’s basket-ball team to a Mid-American Confer-ence championship in March.
“My expectations are endless this year,” said Szunko, who is averaging a double-double per game, with 17 points and 12.5 rebounds. “We can do anything and our main goal is to get that MAC championship at the end.”
Both Long and Szunko believe that last year’s victory over Louisville, a Top 25 team, was a stepping stone to-ward bigger goals for this program.
And neither crumbled in that game.
Long scored a game-high 29 points on 10-of-14 shooting and made 6-of-10 from beyond the arc. Szunko used her versatility to contribute in all fas-cists of the game, scoring 11 points and snatched down 10 boards to earn a double-double. The win marked its first of the season, but more
Sara WinklEr/Staff PhotograPherFreshman forward Taylor Johnson, left, and freshman guard Niki DiGuilio, right, have proved to be bold additions to the women’s basketball team and have already made a large impact this year. Johnson is averaging 10.3 points in scoring while DiGuilio currently holds 11.
CMU travels to Indiana for tourney Evansville last title chance before Dec. 18 home opener
‘Big three’ gunning for nCAAs
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Tourney Schedule
Friday: 6 p.m., CMU vs. Coastal Carolina
Saturday:Time TBA CMU vs. Evansville or Valparaiso
Sara WinklEr/Staff PhotograPherSophomore guard/forward Brandie Baker displays her scar from surgery she had after tearing her ACL in September of 2009. In her first game back after recovering, Baker recorded the first triple-double in program history.
Duo credits upperclassmen for early season success
Sophomore brandie baker works hard for comeback after tearing ACL
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While that year of eligibility was retained, Baker had lost much more.
She had lost her team. She felt disconnected and
rehabbing sometimes twice a day was taking over her daily routine.
“That is what made it even worse for me,” Baker said. “They would huddle up and I would just stay off to the side. I really didn’t feel like a part of the team at all.”
The 2009 women’s basket-ball team made it through the first round of the MAC tournament but lost against Kent State in the quarter-finals and the season was over.
But for Baker, nothing was over.
She continued her rehab, continued to work out and continued to try and come back from the horrific injury.
The comebackToday, Baker continues to
rehab in an attempt to return to full form. Her knee is not yet at full strength and she still suffers from soreness.
“I have seen her struggle through it and I have seen her come back,” Guevara said. “She is very competi-tive and that is what we need, that play maker out of her.”
On Nov. 12, Baker made her debut against North Carolina A & T after missing the entire 2009 season.
Baker scored 12 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and recorded a school-record 12 assists for the first triple-double in program history. She helped the Chippewas score a single-game record 119 points in a convincing win against the Aggies.
“Coming back after a whole year speaks to her ability,” Guevara said. “She has a long way to go yet but that was a good start.”
A good start might not
do justice to what Baker was able to accomplish on that night, and the future is certainly bright for this sophomore. The Chippewas are 4-2 overall and Baker is currently third on the team in scoring with 13.7 points per game, averaging seven rebounds per game.
She is playing 35 minutes per game and has started every game this season. She may not be 100 percent, but when the ball is tipped off, it is just Baker and the court.
Nothing else matters and in that moment the pain in her knee is non-existent.
“I play on it but it gets swollen every now and then,” Baker said. “It’s noth-ing I can’t handle.”
On the surface things seemed to have turned out well for Baker.
But what’s left is a scar.A motivator.A reminder of how quickly
things can change.
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and AAU.Johnson comes off the
bench, but has earned playing time and experience. With the amount of playing time some of the freshmen are getting, Guevara said the freshmen will be sophomores by the time the Mid-American Conference season begins.
“I knew in our system that they would contribute and contribute early,” she said. “Both of them are getting a great amount of experience.”
DiGuilio and Johnson have made the biggest freshmen impact for the team, but the other freshmen and working hard to get better.
Forward Lauren Bellamy and guards Kyra Holiday and Kylie Welch roundup the fresh-men class.
Welch is a walk-on and has totaled nine assists on the sea-son.
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season, leading the team with 17 points per game and 12.5 rebounds per game. She has already collected five double-doubles in the first six games of the season.
While scoring points is something this team loves to do, it is the defensive men-tality that will create success
down the stretch. “I would like our defen-
sive intensity to be sustained longer, I would like to see the consistency off our bench with production from Jalisa (Olive) and Taylor (Johnson),” said head coach Sue Guevara. “I would like to see us put two games back to back with our players following game plans for both games.”
The Chippewas have not posted back-to-back solid per-formances together since the
first tournament of the sea-son. This weekend will mark the fourth and final consecu-tive weekend tournament the team has played in this year.
The team will have one more road game after this weekend before the home opener at McGuirk Arena on Dec. 18 against Ole Miss.
Being on the road so much to start the season has not seemed to have much of an ef-fect on the team. Guevara said the team has really showed
class on the road and has stepped up to the challenge.
“We talked about it (trav-eling) after last weekend in Arizona because quite frankly I was tired, and I’m not play-ing,” she said. “But our players have really risen to the occa-sion of balancing homework and the traveling. We are look-ing forward to coming home and playing, but we know this is what we have to do.”
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importantly it proved some-thing to them.
Now as the leaders of a team that consists of seven underclassmen, they know this team can do it.
Earlier in the season CMU competed until the very end with 22nd ranked Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
“We played Iowa tough and we competed,” said Long, who is second on the team with 16.2 points per game. “I
expect our team to build on last year and also expect to compete for the MAC cham-pionship this year and win it.”
If Long’s expectations hold true, the Chippewas would make their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1984.
Baker is back into the mix this year after suffering an ACL injury that held her out of last season.
She’s averaging 13.8 points and seven rebounds per game.
“It’s great to have Brandie back,” said head coach Sue Guevara. “She’s a nightmare
matchup and she gives us scoring and additional re-bounding.”
The “Big Three” of Long, Szunko and Baker aren’t just causing havoc on the court, but also off it.
Freshman forward Taylor Johnson has looked to Szunko for guidance in her early career and she’s gotten plenty of it.
“It can be hectic as a fresh-man. Different things catch your attention,” she said. “There’s school, basketball, hanging out with friends, and meeting new people, so I just tried to give her advice.”
On and off the court, these
three are bringing the total package together in a push for new program heights. Guevara has noticed their hard work and understands it’s the last shot for Long and Szunko.
“I know they are working very hard to pursue a MAC championship and get into the NCAA Tournament,” she said.
She knows what it takes to get to the spot Long Szunko and Baker are striving for. As the head coach at the Univer-sity of Michigan, she made three NCAA Tournament ap-pearances.
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By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
The CMU wrestling team will head to Las Vegas, Nev., to compete in the Cliff Keen Invita-tional today and Saturday for the first time since the 1991-92 season.
No. 10 Central Michi-gan will be one of nine teams ranked in the Top 25 competing at this two-day event. In total, 36 teams will be competing.
“It’s going to be as good a competition as we’ll see all year other than the na-tional tournament,” said head coach Tom Borrelli. “I couldn’t imagine any other tournament to have nine top 25 ranked teams competing.”
Next to CMU, the tour-nament will also feature No. 2 Boise State, No. 4 Wisconsin, No. 7 Oklaho-ma, No. 12 Arizona State, No. 16 Illinois, No. 19 Vir-ginia Tech, No. 20 Ohio State and No. 23 Hofstra.
“The level of competi-tion is going to be crazy,” said senior Mike Miller. “Being able to see higher ranked teams helps us improve and helps us see where we’re at and where we can improve for the national tournament.
CMU will bring 10 wres-tlers, with the majority of them being the same wrestlers that competed against Minnesota last weekend at the Northern Quad.
The two exceptions will be at the 157-pound and 184-pound classes. Soph-omore Dillon Kern will be the starting 157-pounder
Sophomore forward Brandie Baker averaged
12.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game
in 2008, earning Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year
honors. She missed all of last season after suffering a torn ACL
during a pickup game.
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and redshirt freshman Adam Miller will get the spot for the 184-pound class.
“I think in every weight class at this tournament, our guys are going to have a great test,” Borrelli said. “Placing high in this tour-nament increases our guys chances at getting a wild-card to nationals.”
After being named MAC Wrestler of the Week, soph-omore Ben Bennett will wrestle today ranked sixth among 174-pounders. Ben-nett holds a 6-2 season re-cord, losing twice against No. 1 Mack Lewnes of Cor-nell. Junior Scotti Sentes (133) will look to continue his unbeaten streak, carry-ing an 8-0 record into the weekend.
“(Sentes) has been wres-tling good, but this tourna-ment will be a real good in-dicator of where he stands,” Borrelli said. “I think 133 is a really good weight at this tournament, and I think he’s pretty excited to wrestle some good people.”
Alongside No. 6 Sentes, the Chippewas have three other top 10 wrestlers: No. 6 Bennett, No, 5 Jarod Trice (heavyweight) and No. 8 Miller.
The tournament starts at noon today and will carry over into Saturday, with the semifinals starting at noon and finals set for 6 p.m.
“(Two-day competitions) are more grueling, but I think it’s probably better practice as far as having to make weight two straight days and the competition gets keener the second day,” Borrelli said. “All those things are sort of practice for the NCAA Tournament.”
Miller said fatigue is a fac-tor in two-day events, but that the team needs mental toughness and to trust its training to fight through it. His response when asked of the team’s expectations for the weekend was brief.
“Our expectation is to win.”
CMu in Las Vegas today, Saturday for InvitationalChippewas send 10 to compete in Cliff Keen
McGuirk Arena opened up with a bang Wednesday night.
Lights flashed, fans went crazy. I must say it was a pretty spectacular show. But the Temple Owls finally showed up and shut the party down.
CMU came out with a fire underneath it. Feeding off the atmosphere and the crowd, the Chippewas quickly jumped out to a 12-5 lead early in the game. It seemed for most of the first half that things were sim-ply meant to be.
Temple could not buy a bucket, and senior forward Jalin Thomas was knocking down shots from every direction. With nine and a half minutes remaining, freshman Trey Zeigler found Thomas for three-point-er. Immediately, you could tell it would be a special night for Thomas.
He finished the first half with 17 points and shot 3-for-5 from behind the arch. Coming into the game Thomas was 6-22 on the season from three-point range, this was not the same Thomas the team has seen so far this year.
The second half started just like the first half left off, another three from Thomas. A 7-2 run early in the third quarter put the Chippewas up 10 points, and for the moment it seemed that this would be a game CMU could take control of.
But it was just a matter of time. Temple started to knock down shots and its size
down low began to take over. Lavoy Allen, a 6-foot,
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‘THINK TOUGH,BE TOUGH’
OUT-TOUGHEDTemple spoils McGuirk Arena debut
sean proCtor/assistant photo eDitorTemple senior forward Lavoy Allen and junior guard Ramone Moore block a shot from CMU senior guard Antonio Weary Wednesday during the Chippewas first game at McGuirk Arena. Weary, who played 27 minutes, went 2-for-8 with four points and three rebounds.
Sellout crowd keeps CMU in game for first halfby anthony FenechSenior Reporter
The ball left his hand, not unlike the hundreds of times it left his hand
before, from the left wing just beyond the three-point arc.
It left his hand, not unlike the previous 72 three-point attempts in Jalin Thomas’ Central Michigan career, and found the basket, not unlike his previous 23 three-point field goals as a Chippewa.
It was midway through the second half of Wednesday’s McGuirk Arena-opening game against Temple, and Thomas’ sixth triple of the game had just given the Chippewas a four-point lead in front of a sold-out home crowd and its raucous Rowdies.
The senior forward back-pedaled across half-court, not unlike a countless number of times before, and threw his hands in the air - up-and-down, up-and-down - urging a pulsating population to get up and keep it up.
It was an emotion unlike anything he’s experienced be-fore.
“I’ve never played in an arena like that,” he said after-wards, after the four-point lead
disappeared, after a four-point deficit appeared, and after the crazy crowd had quieted and filed out of the first basketball game played at McGuirk Are-na, a 65-53 defeat to the Owls.
“It was great,” he continued. “Just having all the fans there supporting us, I loved it. The new arena is great and it’s real noisy.”
And Thomas did his best to deliver the fans a housewarm-ing win, scoring a game-high 26 points on 9-of-15 shooting from the floor and connecting on six of eight three-pointers.
“I think it affected the tem-po at first,” Thomas said, “We came out and gave them a good run, it’s just disappoint-ing that we weren’t able to fin-ish it off.”
But despite the game’s out-come, the 5,350 in attendance came out, gave it a good run and finished it off as students in two sections stood until the final buzzer, creating a game-day atmosphere that head coach Ernie Zeigler described in one word.
“Electric,” he said. “It was electric. It was something to be a part of.”
It was something, the fifth-
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paige CaLaMari/staFF photographerSenior forward Jalin Thomas fights in the paint against Temple junior guard Ramone Moore and sopho-more forward Rahlir Jefferson. Thomas had a game-high 26 points, but was held scoreless late in the second half.
A learning experience
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HOMESWEET HOME
A sold-out crowd of 5,350 was in attendancefor CMU’s first home basketball game
against Temple at McGuirk Arena
ABOVE: Senior forward Jalin Thomas drives to the basket past Temple forward Rahlir Jefferson during the second
half of Wednesday night’s inaugural game at McGuirk Arena in the new Events Center. Thomas led the team in scoring
with 26 points on 9-of-15 shooting. “We came out with a lot of intensity and a lot of focus, but I think some guys got
tired,” Thomas said. “We started missing defensive assignments and we started missing block outs.”
(Andrew Kuhn/StaFF PhotograPher)
BELOW: Temple forward Scootie Randall attempts a free throw with 2:29 in the first half Wednesday. Randall re-
corded seven points and nine rebounds for the Owls. CMU lost to Temple 65-53, but led going into the half with a
score of 32-24. Despite the loss, a sellout crowd of 5,350 attended the game. “Hopefully we can make a plea to our
student section,” head coach Ernie Zeigler said. “To come out in the same fashion when they come back for the
second semester.” (Andrew Kuhn/StaFF PhotograPher)
ABOVE: Senior forward Will McClure fights for possession of the ball against Temple forward Micheal Eric at
tipoff of the inaugural game Wednesday night on John G. Kulhavi Court. McClure, who won possession, had
four points and nine rebounds. Eric had four points and four rebounds for the Owls.
(JAKe MAy/Photo eDitor)
LEFT: Freshman guard Trey Zeigler attempts a layup during the second half Wednesday night in McGuirk Arena.
Zeigler was limited to five points and two rebounds while playing 36 minutes. Coming into the game, he led the team
in scoring, averaging 18.8 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. “It’s really unfortunate for us that we weren’t able to
give the turnout we had here (a win),” Ernie Zeigler said. “We feel disappointed we weren’t able to sustain the ef-
fort over a 40 minute period. Temple showed their toughness midway through the second half and really just took
momentum.” (SeAn ProCtor/aSSiStant Photo eDitor)
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The student section, now known as just the Rowdies, holds up newspapers as part of a tradition while the announcer introduces the Temple starters. After each name is spoken by the
announcer, the student section chants “Who Cares!”
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Men’s basketball head coach Ernie Zeigler gives players instructions during a timeout Wednesday night at McGuirk Arena. Zeigler,
who has coached the Chippewas since 2006, has a 56-73 record following the 65-53 loss. Temple outscored CMU 41-21 and out-
rebounded it 22-7 in the second half.
JAKe MAy/Photo eDitor
Redshirt freshman Jevon Harden, center, cheers with his teammates on the bench after senior forward Jalin Thomas scored a three-point shot during the game’s second half Wednes-
day night at McGuirk Arena.
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Freshman guard Trey Zeigler attempts to block Temple guard Ramone Moore Wednesday. Zeigler was limited to a season-low five
points on 2-of-11 shooting. Moore recorded 16 points and five rebounds for the Owls.
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year head coach said, that he saw only once before on the Chippewas sidelines, when last year, a senior-laden team departed with an emotional Senior Day win against West-ern Michigan in the final game at Rose Arena.
“That was probably the only other thing that compares,” he said.
After a ribbon-cutting cer-emony, the inaugural game began off the court with a light-cutting introduction that included spotlights, smoke and a student section serenade of “Who Cares” for the five Temple starters.
And on the court, the game began went off without a hitch as the Chippewas stormed to a seven-point lead just two min-utes in and took an eight-point lead into the break.
“I think so,” Zeigler said about the team feeding off the crowd energy early on, “We just weren’t able to sustain it.”
“When we were going well in the first half, even early there in the second,” he said, “There was electricity there.”
But the electricity is some-thing Zeigler hopes to sustain over the duration of the regular season, beginning with a Jan. 9 game against Toledo.
“Hopefully we can make a plea to our student section,” he said, “To come out in the same fashion when they come back for the second semester.”
CMU |continued from 3B
9-inch senior from Temple was too much for the Chippewas to handle. He posted the games only double-double and had four offensive rebounds. Allen and teammate Scootie Randall combined for nine offensive re-bounds in the game.
The Chippewas were sim-ply overmatched with size and strength down low. Temple was pounding the glass and wearing down CMU. Fatigue seemed to set in near the end of the game as a 20-9 run over an 11-minute span gave the Owls a 63-53 lead with just over a minute to play.
The Chippewas were out-rebounded 22-7 in the second half. When that happens, you can’t expect to win.
The offense struggled with minimal ball movement, and at times CMU could not even get into offensive sets because of Temple’s suffocating defense. Zeigler struggled throughout the entire second half and seemed to get de-attached from game at moments, finishing with just five points and two rebounds. Thomas finished with a game-high 26 points on 6-8 shooting from three point range.
But this is a young team. A team that for more than half
of the game, showed a spark and glimpses of what fans can hope to see in the future.
If this team can find that chemistry on both sides of the ball, the rest of the Mid-Amer-ican Conference better watch out.
learning | continued from 3B
jeff sMith/staFF photographerFROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Belleville freshman Chelsea Davis, East Jordan freshman Maribeth Poindexter and Clarkston freshman Justin Orminski cheer on the CMU men’s basketball team Wednesday night as the announcer lists off the starting lineup at McGuirk Arena for the home opener against Temple.
jake May/photo eDitorFreshman guard Trey Zeigler holds his head in his arms following a goaltending call in the second half Wednesday. Zeigler was a non-factor in the game, scoring just five points on 2-of-11 shooting. After the game, head coach Ernie Zeigler called it a “rude awakening” for his son.
andrew kuhn/staFF photographerCMU senior forward Will McClure and Temple junior forward Micheal Eric battle for the first tip at the brand new McGuirk Arena Wednesday. A sellout crowd of 5,350 watched as the Owls survived an eight-point deficit to come back and beat the Chippewas 65-53.
“We came out with a lot of intensity and a lot of focus, but i think some guys got tired. We started missing
defensive assignments and westarted missing block outs.”
Jalin Thomas, senior forward
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