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Community Local church
celebrates 125 years, 6A
legaCy Nick Bellore
wraps up career at CMU, 1B
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NEWSw Four Loko, other alcoholic energy drinks could be banned nationally, 3A
w 42 student groups compete in research exhibition, 5A
SportSw Men’s basketball plays at South Alabama Saturday, 1B
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sara winkler/staff photographerCameron D. Wassman, former sergeant and new lieutenant of CMU’s Police Department, has worked on the force since 2000 and is third in command, responsible for enhancing the department’s active shooter plan, an effort to increase safety on campus and within the community.
Emergency Preparedness
file photoVirginia Commonwealth University president Michael Rao speaks at the announcement of his presidency Feb. 20, 2009.
By Randi Shaffer Senior Reporter
Former University President Michael Rao required his Virgin-ia Commonwealth University office employees to sign what in published reports has been deemed an “unusual” confiden-tiality agreement.
On Wednesday, the Rich-mond Times-Dispatch reported the ban bars employees from talking about what they observe of him and his family. According to the agreement, it covers inter-actions in Rao’s office and at his place of residence, banning dis-
cussion among Rao’s employees with office outsiders, including the family and friends of work-ers as well as media outlets.
Rao did have a similar agree-ment while at CMU. Steve Smith, director of public rela-tions, said the incident is strictly a VCU concern.
“It’s a VCU story,” he said. “There were confidentiality agreements (at CMU), but if you want anymore we’re asking that you would file a (Freedom of In-formation Act) request.”
The VCU agreement stated any office official found in viola-tion of the confidentiality agree-ment would face discipline, including employment termi-nation.
Rao had been serving as CMU’s 12th president since 2000, when he took the job at
VCU in 2009.A portion of the agreement
reads: “I further agree, without qualification, that I will main-tain in strict confidence any and all such information to which I have or may have access and I promise and commit that I will not share or otherwise disclose any such personal and/or con-fidential information with any other person... I understand that I may be disciplined, up to and including termination, if I violate this agreement.”
The Times-Dispatch reported several current or former em-ployees of the president’s office at VCU confirmed they had been asked to sign the agreement.
As one of those employees, Rao’s former scheduler at VCU, Kimberley Busch, said she had signed the agreement before
VCU employees sign confidentiality agreements under RaoFormer university president did same at CMU
By Lonnie AllenStaff Reporter
Several police officers were called to the Charles V. Park Memorial Library Thursday afternoon after three students were spotted enter-ing with toy guns.
They will face possible disciplin-ary action from the Office of Stu-dent Life.
Police were called at 1:10 p.m. to investigate the situation. It was ini-tially feared the guns were real, said CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley.
“Seven officers responded to this particular incident,” he said. “Not all seven were visible. Those unseen covered the exits and entrances to Park Library until we contained the situation.”
Yeagley said the three students
were found on the third floor of Park Library in one of the study rooms. When officers confronted the stu-dents, they were dressed in trench coats and a black ski mask was on the table.
“(The Office of Student Life) will review the information to see if there were any violations made to the student code of conduct,” Yea-gley said. “Any disciplinary action will be done by the Office of Student
Police called after students enter library with toy gunsThree face possible disciplinary action from university
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By Lonnie AllenStaff Reporter
A new administrative position has been added to the CMU Po-lice Department to enhance safety
measures in the event of an active shooter on campus.
Lt. Cameron Wassman was pro-moted on Nov. 1, and is now Police Chief Bill Yeagley’s third in com-mand. His duties will include help-ing in the department’s admin-istrative process and enhancing community protection against vio-lent situations.
“We’re going to need some time to plan and organize,” Wassman said. “Meeting with leaders on this campus will be very important to help us determine specifically the
message we communicate.”Yeagley said his department is
comfortable with what they are do-ing. He said they are doing enough internally to keep their skills up in the event of an active shooter on campus.
An example of an active shooter situation would be the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in which gunman Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people.
However, the conversation has turned to what Wassman can do in
CMU Police add new position, improve active shooter plan
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Editor’s note: Every Friday, CM Life will publish an in-depth piece, examin-ing different issues.
By Emily PfundSenior Reporter
Faculty and staff are preparing to evaluate their programs, rank them and determine future funding.
The provost’s office has initiated an academic prioritization process through which programs will be ranked in order of importance and need for funding.
Provost Gary Shapiro said he has asked every academic department to review each of its programs and place them into one of five categories.
“It will be a forced-choice process, so a department can’t put all of their pro-grams into the top category,” Shapiro said.
Departments will be asked to place 10 to 15 percent of their programs in the top category, 25 to 30 percent in each of the following three categories and 10 to 15 percent in the bottom category.
Shapiro will host an open forum to discuss the process on Monday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Charles V. Park au-ditorium. He will give a brief presen-tation about the process and answer questions.
Those unable to attend can view the forum online.
Each department will compile a re-port to send to Shapiro sometime in the spring semester. Shapiro and University President George Ross will evaluate the reports and decide on an action plan.
Shapiro said he aims to have a draft of this plan finished by September.
“There is a possibility that some (pro-grams) might be eliminated. There is a possibility that some (programs) might operate with less support,” Shapiro said.
The goal of the process is not to save the university money, Shapiro said, but to see where it can best utilize resources and target areas to invest in.
Changes because of the final prioriti-zation rankings will not be immediate.
“Don’t expect a total revamping of the university in a month. It’s not going to happen that way,” Shapiro said.
Students in low-priority programs slated to be phased out will be allowed to complete their degrees and gradu-ate.
“We’re not going to terminate that student and tell them they can’t gradu-ate,” he said. “That would be unfair and unethical to the student.”
Shapiro is uncertain which academic programs will be reduced or eliminated, but said the overall effect will be positive for the university.
“We can’t have all programs be of equal priority and importance,” he said.
CMU begins academic prioritization processMedical school added after originally being exempt
By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter
For some students, initiating a conversation with a stranger of the opposite sex can be intimidating.
But thanks to a new social net-working website, www.likealittle.com, students can anonymously flirt with one another in a Twitter-like format.
Evan Reas, an alumnus of Stan-ford University’s Graduate School of Business, co-founded the web-site along with his partners, Shub-ham Mittal and Prasanna Sankara-narayanan.
“Micro-flirting — that’s kind of the way we describe it right now,” Reas said. “It’s a very quick anony-mous flirt with the people that are in your current location. You can communicate with people and flirt with people in ways you couldn’t do before online.”
LikeALittle launched on Oct. 25 on Stanford University’s campus.
Reas said social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter in-spired the creation of LikeALittle. Eager to develop a new site fo-cused on the sharing of real-time, location-based information — with an anonymous and positively flir-tatious twist — Reas and his co-founders created the website.
Once LikeALittle became a success with Stanford’s student population, Reas said, the site was expanded to other universities, including Cen-tral Michigan University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.
“It’s been shocking and humbling actually to see how fast it’s been growing,” he said.
LikeALittle has separate “Walls” for each university on which stu-dents post their current location, the gender and hair color of the per-son with whom they want to flirt, and a positive comment.
The idea is anonymous comments can initiate conversation and pos-sibly form actual relationships and friendships, Reas said.
“I think it’s something that hadn’t been tried before,” he said. “There’s a lot of social situations where, if you can be anonymous, you can be a lot more open with the things you say. The fear of rejection, that bar-rier isn’t there anymore.”
Reas said when a LikeALittle page is created for a university, a small team of administrators and mod-erators is formed to ensure negative comments (or comments that in-clude a student’s actual name) are deleted.
“We’re really spending a lot of time and energy trying to keep it really positive,” he said. “The com-munity has full power over what is allowed to be written on that site, and we love that.”
Fraser junior Cameron Hunt is
LikeALittle a new social experienceWebsite offers anonymous flirting
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w a Siblings Weekend general meeting is sched-uled from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.
w The Big Shot Gaming Fall 2010 LaN Party is from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in Finch Field-house.
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w The “First Book” day is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Finch Fieldhouse 114.
w The Wheatland Music dance Series is from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. at 7251 50th Ave., in Remus. Cost is $5 per person.
w The Festival Chorus performs from 8 to 10 p.m. Warriner Hall Plachta Auditorium.
SUNday
w Turkey Trot 5k starts at 10 a.m. at the Fabiano Lobby. Cost is $10 and pancakes will be provided after the race.
w Prospective 2011-12 ra/Ma staff night is from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Bovee University Center Rotunda.
w Night at the Museum! movie viewing is from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Rowe Hall lobby.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
paige CalaMari/staff photographerBath junior Janel Haddix yells to another student during an installation for ART 318: Ascetics Wednesday afternoon outside Charles V. Park Library. The objective of the protest was to observe passersby reaction to blank signs and “nonsense.”
By Ryan CzachorskiStaff Reporter
A 53-year-old Shepherd man was found not guilty Wednesday on all five charges in an alleged case of criminal sexual conduct in February.
In Isabella County Trial Court, Robin Lynn Heath was acquit-ted of two counts of first-degree CSC, two counts of second-degree CSC and one count of intimidating a witness.
The alleged 13-year-old vic-tim said the incident took place Feb. 20. But discrepancies were found in the testimonies given to the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department and preliminary examinations.
“The jury saw the mother and daughter were very untruthful about what happened here,” said Elias Muawad, Heath’s Bloomfield Hills-based attorney. “The daughter admitted to lying during part of my questions. The mother suddenly had am-nesia and could not remember the answers to my questions.”
The trial ran Monday through Wednesday, although it was ex-pected to continue until Thurs-day. The jury convened to render a verdict Wednesday afternoon, deliberated for an hour and a half and ruled Heath not guilty.
Muawad pointed to an allega-tion where the victim said Heath made her view pornography be-fore the alleged sexual encoun-
ter. They used Larry Dalman, an East Lansing-based computer forensics expert, to prove that point false, Muawad said.
Chief Assistant Prosecutor Risa Scully did agree there were some discrepancies, but said it isn’t abnormal.
“You’re going to have pitfalls and holes in every single case,” she said. “I don’t agree to the ex-tent the defense attorney did.”
Muawad said he found 10 complete discrepancies in the stories of the mother and the daughter.
Heath faced between a mini-mum sentence of 20 to 25 years if convicted, and Muawad said the sentence “would have been his life,” considering Heath’s age.
Scully said she was disap-pointed with the verdict and for the family involved.
“We believed her statements,” she said. “Evidently, the jury feels otherwise.”
Heath plans on expanding his restaurant Robin Hood’s Bar-becue, 1010 W. Broadway St., Muawad said.
“Both myself and Mr. Heath are ecstatic that the jury system worked,” he said.
The prosecutor’s office does not plan on any follow-up cases, although Heath is due back in court on Nov. 29 for sentencing in an unrelated case.
Shepherd man found not guilty of criminal sexual conduct
leaving in October for personal reasons.
On Thursday morning, 12 members of the faculty senate of VCU issued a statement of
confidence.Some members said they
were pleased with his work thus far and the pending investiga-tion should not have been made public, reported the Times-Dis-patch.
Rao |continued from 1A
Life,” Yeagley said.No arrests were made and
no criminal charges are being pressed against the three stu-dents, whose names have not been released.
Yeagley said the students ex-plained they were filming scenes for a video when confronted by the officers. He said the officers confirmed the information by checking the recording device
being used by the students.“There were other scenes
from previous filming on the in-strument they used for filming,” he said.
Yeagley said he was pleased with his department’s perfor-mance during the potentially dangerous situation.
“During our debriefing, train-ing discussions took place on how today was handled,” he said. “We were very happy on how this situation was han-dled.”
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the community to help students and staff be ready in the same situation.
“The whole core of this posi-tion is to make a plan,” Yeagley said. “What are going to do when you are in a violent situation? If you’re at the shopping mall or on vacation in Alaska and con-fronted with a violent situation what are you going to do?”
Wassman, who has been with the CMU Police Department since 2000, has been heavily in-volved in the Freshman Orienta-tion Program and is a temporary instructor at CMU, teaching FYE 101: First Year Experience.
Wassman said nothing has been set in stone since he has taken on the new position. He has looked at what the plan means as he reaches out to
community leaders.“His primary responsibility
is the safety message,” Yeagley said. “Cameron will be leading this message about making a plan and the goal here in the next 30 days is he will reach out to leaders of the CMU commu-nity and discuss what we want to do.”
Yeagley and Wassman are still looking at different ideas and do not want to commit to one thing without meeting with the cam-pus leaders first.
‘The GLaSS BaLL’Yeagley explained the analogy
a dispatcher used of a rubber ball and glass ball when it comes to safety on campus.
The rubber ball is like a park-ing infraction that is overlooked. The ball drops but is bounced back. In the case of a dangerous situation on campus, Yeagley said the glass ball drops, breaks and people get hurt.
The enhancement to the ac-tive shooter plan is happen-ing now because it has been 14 months since Yeagley arrived at CMU, he said.
Yeagley said he has had his focus on safety and keeping the department running effectively and efficiently. He examined current staffing levels and it be-came apparent to him there was the need to for a third adminis-trator.
By creating the position, Yea-gley said the captain could focus more on the special events and activities around campus, while the lieutenant can utilize his skills in dispatch and technologies be-ing used by the department.
“I met with each person in-dividually and did a lot of lis-tening and observing,” Yeagley said. “We needed to reduce the amount of work on the captain’s plate.”
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“We need to decide where to focus our money, time and at-tention.”adMiNiSTraTioN evaLUaTioN
Administrative departments of the university are not exempt from what Ross has dubbed the “Year of Assessment.” Ev-ery office — administrative and academic — is undergo-ing evaluation for importance and efficiency.
The Office of Finance and Administrative Services has contracted higher education research and consulting firm MGT of America, Inc. to evalu-ate the office’s organization and procedures.
“We wanted to get someone from the outside to come and look at us to get objectivity,” said David Burdette, vice presi-dent of Finance and Adminis-trative Services.
A four-person team from MGT, led by MGT partner Nan-cy Stepina-Robison, toured campus, met with university employees and reviewed the department’s procedures Nov. 2 and 3.
MGT will present FAS with a draft of their report in De-cember and a final report in January. Burdette said the con-tract with MGT is for less than $100,000.
“For a quality outside evalu-ation, we know we have to spend some money,” he said.
Stepina-Robison could not discuss the specifics of the team’s findings until they pres-ent their report, but said she had an overall positive impres-sion of the university.
“Everyone here is very up-beat and pragmatic. There is no ‘woe is me’ attitude. They just work to accommodate the situation,” she said. “Especially in times like this, it’s easy to feel negative.”
Stepina-Robison said she observed “a culture of strate-gic planning” which is helpful when facing budget cuts.
CoLLeGe oF MediCiNeThe College of Medicine
was originally exempt from the process, but is now under review as well. Shapiro said the college was not originally in-cluded because it is not yet an existing program.
The university has made a commitment and an invest-ment in the College of Medi-cine and it is a high priority,
Shapiro said.Shapiro said the college is
being included because “there was a belief that we were hold-ing it to a different standard.”
While it is now under re-view, the college will not be able to provide some of the data required by the prioritiza-tion process, such as student demand, number of declared majors and quality of faculty.
“Instead, we’ll look at things like the demand for physi-cians,” Shapiro said.
Five categories for programs
1. Programs targeted for enhancement, which will receive a substantial funding increase2. Candidates for enrich-ment, which will receive a slight funding increase3. Neutral programs to remain at current funding levels4. Programs to continue with reduced funding5. Candidates for significant reduction, consolidation or elimination
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In Monday’s story about CMU stopping paycheck op-tions it should have said for more information to call CMU payroll at 774-3481.
By Maria LeoneStaff Reporter
Students proved their hips don’t lie Thursday night in a belly dancing workshop in Ans-pach Hall.
The event was put on by Open Grove Society, a regis-tered student organization that aims to provide students and members of the community a safe social outlet for members of non-mainstream religions, and other diverse beliefs and their supporters.
Muskegon senior Randi Whipple, public relations chair-woman for the RSO, said it was a featured event and a great way to learn of different cultural backgrounds, such as exotic belly dancing.
“It is something fun to do and
people are getting their exercise in from the dancing,” Whipple said.
Midland junior Jackie Hoyle, an instructor and member of OGS, taught participants sever-al upper body movements with her mother Jill. Both took belly dance classes for four years and are involved in the Pig and Belly Dance Troupe.
Some of the participants demonstrated moves including the “cherry picker,” in which the main action was a movement of the wrist and a hula-hoop-like “hip circle.”
“A lot of belly dancing is just reacting to the music,” Hoyle said.
Saginaw freshman Natalie Young came to the event with her roommate Gabriella Micheloni, a junior from Sterling Heights. Both said they enjoyed it.
Young said she has always been interested in learning the art of belly dancing and was glad to attend the workshop.
“I’d like to continue on from what I have learned today and take another class,” Young said.
Micheloni said she has friends who have tried teaching her some moves in the past, but not like the techniques she was taught in the workshop.
“I really enjoyed learning the different moves, though I don’t remember all of the names of them right now, it was still lots of fun,” Micheloni said.
During the workshop, Hoyle danced while balancing a heavy sword on top of her head.
Jill Hoyle said traditionally the sword and cane are props that are used to represent female power, but others include tradi-tional bells, veils and scarves.
She said it takes a lot of prac-tice and there have been a few times where she has dropped the sword on her foot.
“It’s best to start off small and then learn to build other moves into the dance,” Jill Hoyle said.
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By Theresa CliftStaff Reporter
CMU is looking to get plas-tic bottles and other recycla-bles off of its sidewalks and into special maroon and gold recycling bins across campus.
The new bins are strategi-cally placed around campus and are designed to make
them hard to ignore, said Di-rector of Facilities Operations Jay Kahn.
“We were trying to find something we could use and that was stackable for events,” Kahn said.
Kahn got in touch with Roger Cargill, director of the Kalamazoo-based Schupan recycling company. Cargill handles about 90 percent of the containers in seven state regions, including grocery store deposits.
There are about 100 bins around campus at a cost of
about $100 apiece, Kahn said.Before Schupan, Cargill
used to be the head of recy-cling for Michigan State Uni-versity.
“He helped us figure out which containers to use,” Kahn said.
Last football season, Cargill rented the bins to CMU, but now the recycling program has bought their own.
“He deserves a lot of the credit,” Kahn said.
The new bins come in two styles, but serve the same pur-pose. The bins that are used
for sporting events have the “Flying C” logo on them.
“Basically anywhere south of Broomfield Road is where you’ll see these,” Kahn said.
The bins on the rest of cam-pus are marked with the CMU institutional logo. Most of the bins were placed two weeks ago.
The recycling program had studies to determine where the most heavy traffic was and placed the bins at the top spots.
CMU is expected to recycle approximately 560 tons this
year, Kahn said.Kahn said the bins are con-
venient and are also a form of spreading knowledge of recy-cling.
Students in the recycling program agree the bins are important.
“In the past, we haven’t had a lot of success with recycling bins and we wanted some-thing more noticeable,” said Flint junior Heather Curtis. “We wanted to get the atten-tion of the students and make them say, ‘Oh maybe I should care.’”
Curtis was involved in the design and placement of the bins.
“My goal is just to improve the recycling program as a whole and forward sustain-ability for the university,” Cur-tis said.
So far, the university has not had to empty the bins, but they plan to monitor the bins and empty them when they are almost full.
Recycling bins added to high-traffic campus locationsCMU expected to recycle about 560 tons this year
photos by andrew kuhn/staff photographerJill Hoyle shows how to balance a sword on her head with her daughter Jackie while at the Belly Dance Workshop Thursday night in Anspach Hall. “I enjoy the spiritual aspect of it,” Jill Hoyle said. “Dance is about so much more than the music, and you’re just really free.”
cm-life.comWatch students learn how to belly dance.
By Rachel DybickiStaff Reporter
Fans of Four Loko, Joose and other alcoholic energy drinks will see some changes after the Food and Drug Administration de-clared the drinks unsafe Wednes-day.
The FDA warned four com-panies that add caffeine to their malt beverages it is unsafe and they may be taken off shelves nationwide, according to a press release.
“FDA does not find support for the claim that the addition of caf-feine to these alcoholic beverages is ‘generally recognized as safe,’ which is the legal standard,” said Joshua Sharfstein, Principal Dep-uty Commissioner in the press release. “To the contrary, there is evidence that the combinations of caffeine and alcohol in these products pose a public health concern.”
The press release said adding caffeine to the drinks is associ-ated with “risky behaviors that may lead to hazardous and life-threatening situations.”
It said companies have 15 days to create specific steps to stop the violation and prevent it from happening again.
It also noted the recent actions by Four Loko to take caffeine out of the beverage.
“FDA is aware that on Novem-ber 16, Phusion Projects, LLC, the maker of Four Loko, announced its intention to remove caffeine and other stimulants from its drinks,” the press release said. “FDA views this announcement as a positive step.”
On Nov. 5 the drinks were given 30 days to be taken off shelves in Michigan by the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.
“We were concerned about the popularity increasing with college kids and the increase of underage drinking through these beverages,” commission spokes-woman Andrea Miller said on
Four Loko, other drinks could be banned nationallyCompanies have 15 days to begin addressing issue
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leah sefton/staff photographerAmerican Indian rapper Wahwahtay Benais performs Thursday night in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium. Benais raps about past and present American Indian issues, includ-ing living on reservations and the genocide of his people.
By Chidera OgbonnaStaff Reporter
Rapper Wahwahtay Benais doesn’t think of himself as an American Indian hip-hop art-ist, but as a hip-hop artist that’s native because hip-hop is uni-versal.
The rapper performed Thurs-day night as part of Native American History month to more than 150 people present at Warriner Hall Plachta Audito-rium.
Benais hails from Leech Lake Reservation, Minn., and gener-ally raps about the 500 years of Native American history, par-ticularly their struggles.
“I think what I rap about is
conscious hip-hop,” Benais said. “Issues and things about history, and I use that to educate people.”
Benais did not always know he was going to be a rapper. In-stead, he “stumbled” into it.
He started off freestyling be-cause of the influence of hip-hop and rap on him as a youngster.
To get the crowd ready for the concert, Benais made a $500 bet with one of his friends to divide the crowd in half and see which side was the loudest.
After the bet was over, he told the crowd that he doesn’t believe in division, but in unity and per-suaded the crowd to get as loud as they could and then contin-ued on with the concert.
Toward the end of the con-cert, Benais performed a song he wrote two years ago about American Indians’ history with boarding schools.
This included schools “Amer-icanizing” them and not letting them speak their language and cutting off their hair. Benais said in doing this, schools were try-ing to kill off the Indian nation.
Lansing freshman Kevin Reeves was intrigued by the per-formance because it was a dif-ferent representation of Ameri-can Indians.
“It was interesting,” Reeves said. “I have never seen anyone represent Native Americans in that type of format.”
Native American Programs
brought in Benais to perform.Woodhaven sophomore Jes-
sica Torok was part of the team which organized the concert and was impressed by Benais performance. She thought it was important for Native American History Month.
“I think that it’s good because it allows students to be open to other cultures,” Torok said. “The fact that his songs were about Native American history adds something to the performance.”
Benais was thankful for being chosen to perform at CMU.
“It was cool,” Benais said. “It was a good look from the people that brought me out here.”
Rapper offers perspective to american indian history
Hip to the BeatBelly dance workshop teaches about ‘reacting to the music’
Midland junior Jackie Hoyle instructs a belly dancing class with her mother Jill Thursday evening in Anspach Hall. Hoyle has been dancing for five years.
The site, little more than a combination of Twitter.com and the “Missed Connections” on Craigslist.com, has garnered con-siderable popularity very quickly and displays the evolution of online social media and social interaction.
More than anything else, it ex-emplifies the idea of social inter-
action and the courtship phase of a relationship as entertainment.
The site, like Craigslist’s Missed Connections, is only tenuously effective in actually helping somebody find a person they are attracted to.
If a man leaves a message for a woman on Like A Little, the woman must first be somebody
who reads through the messages on the site regularly, realize it is about her, be interested, single and she then has to reply. With the amount of messages being sent to the site, if she does not see it within the first few min-utes it is up, it becomes highly unlikely she will see the message even if she is looking for it.
Successfully contacting the person you intend to through Like A Little is nothing if not a longshot.
What Like A Little does have going for it, however, is that it is entertaining.
In the voyeuristic environment of social networks like Twitter and Facebook, watching other people’s personal interactions, flirtations and relationships has
become a form of entertainment. Instead of watching television or playing a game, people see who is dating whom, who is attracted to whom and who is angry and for what reason.
Like A Little simply purifies and focuses on this aspect of so-cial networking. It allows people their dubious fascination with other people they can laugh at and make fun of.
Of course, it gets even more entertaining when a connection actually does happen on the site and then people can watch it play out in front of them.
While it may not be the most effective dating or networking tool, Like A Little is here to stay.
Until the next fad website pops up.
“I love the holiday season, so I would say any time after
Halloween is a great time.”
Shateka Casterman,
Grand Rapids senior
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In the several days the flirting website Likealittle.com has been available to CMU students, it has seen a huge
amount of posts and traffic from the campus and has proven to be a great source of entertainment.
EDITORIAL | Wildly popular new social networking site more entertaining than useful
Like it or hate it
Facebook, dating tricky
Editorial Board: Jackie Smith, Editor in ChiEf | Brad Canze, VoiCEs Editor | Eric Dresden, Managing Editor |
Jake Bolitho, UniVErsity Editor | Maryellen Tighe, MEtro Editor | Aaron McMann, sports Editor
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
– The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
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Do transfer numbers from MMCC reflect well on CMU?
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I am thinking about deactivating my Facebook account.
My reasoning is not because it is hurting my grades or taking too much of my time, but it is threat-ening my relationship.
Before I pull the plug on the so-cial networking site that I actually use for social networking, I have to ask, why is Facebook such a threat to relationships in general?
I have seen many couples flaunt their relationships on Facebook through kissy pictures and lovey-dovey statuses, but unexpect-edly these very same couples end up on my home page with that mini-heart and the statement that so-and-so is now single.
Maybe lack of trust or issues already beneath the surface come to light when both parties have a Facebook account.
I have noticed that many people who are in relationships use Face-book as a resource to branch out and secretly talk to other people behind their partners’ backs. Jealousy begins to happen over posts, status updates and picture comments.
Honesty is key in any relation-ship, so to prevent sneakiness, couples can share passwords, but that could backfire and reveal even more unsavory findings than just looking at their account from the outside.
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have revolu-tionized ways of communication. These sites have also seemed to alter methods of cheating in the same way it has altered ways of bullying.
People should stop taking Facebook and Twitter so seriously and if they have something that needs to be expressed it should be expressed in a conversation with their partner and not posted in their status.
The best thing for couples to do is to rid themselves of all insecuri-ties and trust issues before they decide that each person is able to handle a social networking site. Couples should understand that much like the Internet in general, just because something is on Face-book does not mean that it is true.
The fate of Four Loko has been a hot-button topic among college students for several weeks now, and that is not about to stop.
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration told Four Loko parent company Phusion Projects and three other companies that “caffeine added to their malt alcoholic beverages is an ‘unsafe food additive’ and ... that further action, including seizure of their products, is possible under federal law.”
In response, Phusion said they will remove caffeine and other stimulants from their products.
The banning of these drinks was unnecessary and a result of misrep-resentation by the media as well as opponents of the drinks.
This comes as a move praised by many, including Senator Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.) who called the drinks “dangerous and toxic,” claiming that they have led to hospitalizations and even death.
Opponents of the popular drinks have targeted Four Loko, claiming it is unsafe because of an unhealthy mix of alcohol and caffeine — that it contains the alcoholic content of five to six beers and as much as two to three coffee-cups worth of caffeine.
Critics used statistics for alcoholic content of beer to their favor. A 23.5 ounce can of Four Loko has a 12 percent alcohol content, giving it 2.82 ounces of alcohol, while most common beers have between 4.7 to 5 percent alcoholic content, or 0.5 to 0.6 ounces, meaning a can of Four Loko is truly only equal to around 5 cans of beer.
When the caffeine content is ex-amined, it becomes clear that critics consistently used low estimates of caffeine content in coffee. Average content ranges from 80-150 milligrams in an eight ounce cup, while Four Loko has 156 milligrams, according to ABC News. At most, this means Four Loko has the caffeine equivalent of one-and-a-half to two cups of coffee.
Reports of people who have died after drinking Four Loko have sur-faced; however, not one case has been reported in the media where just one can of Four Loko led to a death.
On their own, alcohol and caffeine are both dangerous when consumed in excess, and Four Loko, like any alcoholic beverage should only be con-sumed responsibly. Similarly, alcohol should never be mixed with diet pills, as was the case in one death blamed on Four Loko.
Instead of punishing companies for making these products, young adults should simply be encouraged to drink more responsibly.
If the government truly believed the combination of caffeine and alcohol is so dangerous, it would be taking steps to ban mixed drinks such as Jager bombs, a mixture of Jagermeister and Red Bull.
Phusion should have taken steps to avoid this, such as offer the drink in 12-ounce cans, so that people are not encouraged to drink so much, but ultimately the burden to be responsible lies on those who are drinking.
If you cannot be responsible when you drink, you simply should not drink, and punishing companies for people’s irresponsibility is unacceptable.
Editor’s note: The following com-ments were made on the story “About 900 students transfered to CMU from MMCC last year” on cm-life.com.
CMU_Senior said:1:19 p.m. Nov. 17
Why wouldn’t the university issue “exit surveys” to students leaving for other four year insti-tutions? If CMU is serious about making retention a priority, one would think that the administra-tion would want to know what makes CMU less appealing than another university.
mae said:3:29 p.m. Nov. 17
MMCC is making CMU look bad for a variety of reasons, they have higher technology comput-er system, more success rate in jobs since trades are the future. The amount you pay for classes to have the condescending instructor just show cheap and badly done power points. While some of the instructors I have had at MMCC actually stimulate the brain and generate discus-sion. CMU overall is pathetic and I am embarrassed to be a student with a student body that sits in class like mindless carbon copies
with their Ugg boots and com-puters with their Facebook page on. Not to mention the constant texting you will be subjected too.
CollegeParent said:3:17 p.m. Nov. 18
Transferring can be compli-cated. If you mess up, it can mean extra time and dollars to complete your college education. My son found the Community College Transfer Guide book invaluable. It spells out all the steps and the dos and don’ts.
By Theresa CliftStaff Reporter
The world’s problems can’t be solved without knowledge — and in the case of the Stu-dent Research and Creative Endeavors Exhibition, a little cash can’t hurt either.
Ovid freshman Hillary Nethaway and Saline fresh-man Kirby Herron are trying to donate $2,750 for Women’s Aid Services of Mount Pleas-ant.
The pair was among 42 groups who presented at the seventh annual SRCEE on Wednesday afternoon.
“Domestic violence is a problem that people don’t want to talk about, they want to ignore it,” Nethaway said. “I think it’s something that needs to be talked about.”
Fifteen of the groups are competing to win money they
will donate to their cause. The top five will receive funds from a pool of $9,500, with $2,750 for first place.
The money was raised from several venues. The winners will be announced on Mon-day.
Their hopes were that by giving people the information, the amount of domestic vio-lence will decrease and there will be more hope for people to escape the situation.
“There is a place where they can go if they don’t want to tell someone they know. It’s all confidential,” Nethaway said.
Interim Dean of Education and Human Services Kathryn Koch said SRCEE is important for many reasons.
“The most important thing is that it demonstrates what our students can do beyond the confines of the classroom,” Koch said.
She believes it helps pre-pare students for future jobs because it lets them demon-strate the skills that employers are looking for, such as cre-ativity.
“It’s an all-around good learning opportunity that ben-efits the students, the com-munity and demonstrates the overall quality of the students we have here,” Koch said.
Livonia senior Jennifer Kol-bus and Byron senior Justin Stawara were not competing for the money, but wanted to spread awareness on an issue for their education class.
Their presentation support-ed differentiated instruction, a program they would like to see implemented into general education classes.
“We want to break the ste-reotype that differentiated instruction is just for special education students, because it’s proven to work with all stu-dents,” Kolbus said.
They interviewed 60 mid-tier (K-6) students in the teaching program on how im-portant they feel it is.
“Turns out that 73 percent of them see it in their class-rooms today, so that’s hope-ful,” Kolbus said.
Stawara said their basic goal was awareness, because many
of their peers had heard of it but did not fully understand.
Ray Francis, interim asso-ciate dean of Education and Human Services, declared the event a success.
“I thought it went really
great, there were a lot of stu-dent presentations and exhib-its and a good crowd,” Francis said.
He is optimistic about the future of SRCEE and believes they will continue to get more
students and faculty involved.“It’s one of those things that
continues to peak students’ interest about things,” Francis said. “It’s growing right now.”
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By Annie HarrisonStaff Reporter
Speak Up, Speak Out cel-ebrated its 10th anniversary with cake, balloons and a de-bate about political parties.
The forum, “Have Politi-cal Parties Become Toxic for America?” brought about 140 people to the Bovee Uni-versity Center Auditorium Wednesday night. A panel of six students and faculty mem-bers debated the reasons for the decline in civility between political parties.
Cherie Strachan, an assis-tant political science profes-sor and moderator for the event, began the forum by emphasizing the importance of critical-thinking skills in college education. She said one of the goals of SUSO has been to encourage people to respect different opinions.
“At some point, we have to recognize the legitimacy of the opposition,” she said.
Strachan said part of the problem is that voters are self-selecting news sources that reflect their beliefs.
“We’ve stopped listening to media that informs us and we’ve started listening to me-dia that enforces us,” she said.
Christina Wickham, a Mount Pleasant graduate student and panelist, said the lack of com-munication between the par-ties is harming the democratic process.
“It feels like we’re in a bad marriage in this country,” she said. “When we stop talking, the experiment is over.”
Extremist candidates have an advantage over moderate candidates in political prima-ries because they rile up their base, Strachan said.
“They aren’t reaching out to moderates,” she said.
Nathan Inks, College Repub-licans chairman and panelist, said encouraging more voters to become informed and vote in primaries would improve moderate representation.
“That’s something that the voters have to want to do,” the Lincoln Park senior said.
Southfield sophomore Mor-ris Love asked the panelists if they believed voter impa-tience was an issue. He said he has noticed voters become frustrated when they do not see instant solutions.
“Every two years, a new cy-
cle comes in,” he said. “They’re not giving the Democrats and Republicans enough time.”
Panelist Sterling Johnson, a political science professor, said it is important for people to realize policies take time to create, especially when they involve international political and economic systems.
“We forget that (President
Barack Obama) is not operat-ing in a vacuum,” he said.
Merlyn Mowrey, chairwom-an of SUSO’s organizing com-mittee and associate professor of philosophy and religion, received an award during the forum on behalf of the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences for being a “Free Speech Warrior.”
Mowrey said it is always gratifying to see students ask insightful questions during the forum because it shows they are paying attention to the issues.
“This is really about enrich-ing student experience out-side the classroom,” she said.
SUSO panelists, audience debate political party systemSeries celebrates 10 years
paige CaLaMari/staFF photographerFrom left, Livonia senior Kaitlin Waldecker, Sheridan senior Beth Hodges, Carson City senior JoLynn Todd, Lowell senior Kelsey Ligman and Birmingham senior Marisa Martin speak with one another Wednesday afternoon during the Student Research and Creative Endeav-ors showcase in the Bovee University Center Wednesday. Waldecker, Ligman and Martin showed their research on bullying related to sexual orientation. According to the group, who surveyed a random selection of college students, issues of bullying develop in late elementary school and middle school.
Research exhibition showcases student work
42 groups vie to donate $2,750 prize for first place
andrew Kuhn/staFF photographerSterling Johnson, professor of political science, listens to questions from the audience as serving as part of the panel at Speak Up Speak Out in the Bovee University Center Auditorium Wednesday night. The forum was held to discuss politics in the U.S. and cel-ebrated its 10th Anniversary.
Nov. 5. “(The) Michigan Li-quor Control Commission had to step in and make some changes.”
Business BoomA portion of the drink’s
popularity could be due to its relatively low price.
At $2.29 they’re a bang for their buck when you’re get-ting 4 to 6 beers and a few cups of coffee out of it, said Katie Howland, manager at the Mission Store, 1022 S. Mission St.
“We sell Four Loko every day because it has always been such a popular bever-
age,” Howland said. “People have came in every so often to buy a case rather than just an individual one (Four Loko), but when students get back from Thanksgiving
break there should be a lot more sold.”
Triple Deuce, 222 S. Wash-ington St., does not carry a substantial amount of Four Loko or any other energy al-coholic drinks, said Manager Ngy Taing. He expects the drinks to be sold out by the time the ban starts.
“A salesman tried to con-vince me to add more Four Loko to my variety of drinks and now I think I made the best choice,” he said.
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one of CMU’s LikeALittle ad-ministrators.
“There are people that are putting comments on that are offensive, extremely creepy or use names,” he said. “Our job is to delete those comments.”
Hunt said he deletes five to ten comments a day.
“The community and at-mosphere we’ve created, it’s showing up on the Internet in the same type of manner,” he said. “Its a good feeling to know that’s an environment that I’m a part of. It’s one of those viral things.”
Clarkston junior Kaity Jero-lamon said she found a post about herself on LikeALittle.
“I didn’t know about it
until people started texting me,” she said. “I realized, oh my god, yeah, it is about me. It was kind of creepy but at the same time it was really funny, I got a big kick out of it.”
She said she hadn’t known about the site until her best friend showed her the site.
“I’m so intrigued by it that I can’t stop looking at it, I keep refreshing it to read the posts,” Jerolamon said.
The website offers some-thing new for its users, but she thinks it’s likely a passing fad.
“I think it’s definitely go-ing to die out,” she said. “People just like it because of the shock value.”
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jeff sMith/staFF photographerMount Pleasant residents Jan Huffman, right, and her mother, Norma Brien, stand in the aisle of Countryside United Methodist Church, 4624 S. Leaton Road, as quilts dating back to 1928 hang from wooden beams Thursday afternoon. The church is celebrating its 125th anniversary. Seven generations of Brien’s family have been members since its founding in 1885. “My parents brought me here, (we) raised our children here,” Brien said.
By sherri KeatonStaff Reporter
Norma Brien’s crinkled, swollen hands that held ba-bies, plunked down on piano keys and raised them in praise to the Lord can no longer fit the wedding ring her husband gave her 70 years ago.
Instead, the 88-year-old Mount Pleasant resident wears her deceased husband’s engagement ring on her left finger, over her hands that reveal blue veins weaving through flesh and time — and memories pumping through her blood.
Brien is the oldest living member at the Countryside United Methodist Church, 4624 S. Leaton Road. The church celebrated 125 years on Nov. 7.
The church has been Brien’s home all of her life.
“My parents brought me here, (we) raised our children here,” Brien said.
The only time she did not attend the church was in 1940 for just less than a year, when
she moved with her husband to Lansing for a job opportu-nity.
The church was originally formed in 1885 by families hailing from Pennsylvania who were originally from the borders of Switzerland and Germany, said church mem-ber and researcher Jan Huff-man, a daughter to Brien. The then neighboring commu-nity of Chippewa Township outreached with other fami-lies and began spreading the Gospel in schoolhouses from 1885-94.
About six families then de-cided to build the church in 1894, Huffman said. The origi-nal church was built from the ground up and called “Chip-pewa Evangelical Church.”
After numerous name changes, they became the Countryside United Method-ist Church about 15 years ago.
“This is the beginning of a church community,” she said. “The connections still last and the generations go on and on, but at the same time there is all this possiblity here of
where do we go?”The about 50-member
church has seven generations rooted in history.
The church covers six acres of land.
“That acreage was given to us by one of the local farmers,” Huffman said. “Seven genera-tions have now planted this church and keep on going.”
Inside of the sunlit church, pews sit under multicolored quilts that drape over the ceil-ing beams. They stretch back eight decades, where women stitched their names into the fabric, forever weaving their histories with each flick of their wrist.
“Much of the quilting was done by my grandmother,”
Huffman said.The current pastor, Mount
Pleasant resident Michael Palmer, has been at the church for only four months and two weeks.
“God got me into the minis-try,” Palmer said.
When he first opened the church doors, he began to understand all of the history
behind the congregation he joined — behind the pulpit and wall panels and under the quilts.
“It’s roots,” Palmer said. “It takes us back to 125 years of tradition and history. It tells us where we come from and that brings us to the present.”
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By Chidera OgbonnaStaff Reporter
Students looking to ditch their old shoes can also help out the environment.
The CMU Volunteer Cen-ter is teaming up with Nike for the “Sole In, Peace Out” initiative and Nike’s “Reuse-A-Shoe” program, which started Thursday and con-tinues for the rest of the se-mester.
People can drop off their athletic shoes at the Student Activity and Volunteer cen-ters, or Residence Life Fit-ness Centers located in the Towers and East Center.
“The drive is being held as a way for students to recy-cle their old athletic shoes, which is environmentally friendly and also gives back to the community, as op-posed to just throwing them away,” said Greenville junior Troy Heffron, a member of the Volunteer Center.
Sole In, Peace Out was created to spread the word of recycling shoes, helping the environment and reus-ing the recycled material to help schools and parks and
other community organiza-tions, Heffron said.
According to Nike’s web-site, “Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe program collects old, worn-out athletic shoes for recy-cling, transforming them into Nike Grind, a material used in creating athletic and playground surfaces as well as select Nike products.”
An incentive for students to participate in the pro-gram is that they will be entered into a drawing for free gift certificates around Mount Pleasant.
Students are entered for every shoe they donate, Hef-fron said.
Stan Shingles, assistant vice president of University Recreation, said he is proud to see CMU taking initiative in making the environment a better place.
“It will be a great sustain-ability effort and CMU is ful-ly engaged in sustainability initiatives,” Shingles said.
Comstock senior Chris
Patterson, campus outreach student liaison for the event, said it is a great opportu-nity for registered student organization on campus to receive volunteer hours or volunteer points.
“We are really encourag-ing people to grab a pair of old shoes when they go home for Thanksgiving,” he said. “It is for a good cause and you have the opportuni-ty of winning in the drawing yourself, so it’s a win-win all around.”
Heffron is confident the event will be successful.
“Our goal is to get over 200 shoes donated by the end of the semester,” Heffron said. “With many students going home for the Thanksgiving Holiday, we expect a large amount of donations after they return.”
CMU joins Nike for ‘Sole In, Peace Out’ initiativeStudents can donate shoes to be recycled
“We are really encouraging people to grab a pair of old shoes when they go home for thanksgiving.
It is for a good cause ...”Chris Patterson, Comstock senior
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Central Michigan Life
SportS WeekeNdWOMEN’s BAsKETBALL | CMU looks to keep momentum going in Iowa, 2B
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By Aaron McMannSports Editor
Three games into the season and the Central Michigan men’s basketball team could very well be undefeated.
Instead it finds itself at 1-2 after losing the final two games of the Rainbow Classic by a combined total of 10 points, including a 65-58 overtime loss against Montana State on Sunday.
CMU looks to start learning how to win when it travels to Mobile, Ala., to play South Alabama at 7 p.m. Saturday.
“It’s a young team learning how to win,” said head coach Ernie Zei-gler. “We watched Hawaii and Mon-tana State film and we had 30 different possessions in each game where didn’t control the things that we could control. When you’re trying to beat good teams and it’s gets down to one-possession games, you can’t have that many mistakes on both sides of the ball.”
Freshman guard Trey Zeigler is leading the team in scoring, aver-aging 18.7 points per game, and was directly involved in the finish of all three games over the week-end.
Zeigler made the game-win-ning assist to senior forward Jalin Thomas, whose three-point buzzer beater Saturday gave the Chippe-was a 70-67 victory in their season opener.
On Sunday, Zeigler’s three-pointer with 46 seconds remain-ing in regulation against Montana State sent the game into overtime. He was quiet in the extra session, however, going 0-for-1 while grab-bing a rebound.
His jumper with less than a min-ute remaining Tuesday against Hawaii brought the Chippewas to within a point. With six seconds to go and a chance to take the lead, freshman guard Derek Jackson’s inbounds pass to Zeigler went off his hands and out of bounds as CMU departed Honolulu 1-2, a far cry from its goal of winning the tournament and going 3-0.
“We got to learn how to close,” Trey Zeigler said. “We had some close games we could have easily won if we closed them right. When you got new guys, it’s about gain-ing experience.”
Senior Jalin Thomas also played well in Hawaii, as he was named to the all-tournament team while averaging 16.7 points per game. Thomas, who averaged 6.2 points per game last season, had a game-high 21 points.
South Alabama is 1-1 and com-ing off a 93-58 loss against South-ern Mississippi on Wednesday. The Jaguars, who boast three players from Michigan on their roster, fin-ished 17-15 last season, including an 8-10 record in the Sun Belt Con-ference.
They are led by sophomore for-ward Martino Brock, who averages 13.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. Senior guard Tim Williams (12 points) and sophomore for-ward Xavier Carter (10) each aver-age double figures in scoring and six rebounds per game.
Ernie said getting consistent leadership from the seniors will be crucial heading into the game.
“It’s not always going to mean offensive production, but leading and making sure we’re carrying out our defensive assignments,” he said.
Injury updateSenior guard Amir Rashid sat out
of practice Thursday after receiv-ing an MRI to examine the extent of an injured knee suffered in Ha-waii.
“We’re being cautious that there’s nothing structurally wrong with the knee,” Zeigler said.
Barring any structural damage, Zeigler said Rashid will play Sat-urday.
Men learning how to win
B A s K E T B A L L
CMU plays at SouthAlabama Saturday after 1-2 Hawaii trip
Trey Zeigler
Football enjoys bye week
By Aaron McMannSports Editor
Practice was not a fun place to be two weeks ago.
Coming off a 17-14 loss against Bowl-ing Green in its annual homecoming game, CMU was riding a six-game los-ing streak and spirits were low.
Two games later, the Chippewas are playing better football. They beat rival Western Michigan on Nov. 5 and took bowl-bound Navy down to the wire, losing 38-37, on Saturday.
“We liked the way we played Satur-day,” said CMU head coach Dan Enos.
“It came down to one play. They are a very good football team going to a bowl game.”
After one of their best offensive games of the season – the team totaled 495 yards of offense, second behind their 52-14 win at EMU on Sept. 18 – they enter a bye week before closing out the year on Nov. 26 at Toledo.
CMU had the day off Sunday before hitting the weight room on Monday and Tuesday. Practice started up again on Wednesday and continues through the rest of the week.
“At this time of the year, with the way the season’s gone, we look for things like how we practice, how we’re competing and (if) we’re getting better, and the lEah SEfton/staff photographer
Redshirt freshman running back Zurlon Tipton rushes down field Saturday at Navy-Marine Corps Me-morial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. Tipton had a career-day, rushing for 62 yards and two touchdowns.
JakE May/photo editorSenior linebacker Nick Bellore is in his fourth year on the Central Michigan football team. The Wisconsin native has played alongside impact players Dan LeFevour, Antonio Brown, Bryan Anderson, Red Keith and Frank Zombo. These names have etched their names in CMU athletics history. With one game left in his career, Bellore is currently third in the school’s all-time tackle list, and making him one of CMU’s best linebackers in school history.
LeAVING A LeGACYRoad leads CMU senior linebacker Nick Bellore to one final game
file photo by aShlEy MillErBellore was a three-sport star at Whitefish Bay (Wis.) High School before deciding on football. He com-mitted to play football following his junior year.
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Number of consecutive games starting at linebacker, second-most in CMU history
Number of career tackles through this season, ranking
third in school history
By John Evans | Senior Reporter
Forget about the record books. Forget about the consecu-tive start streak.
All that matters to senior linebacker Nick Bellore is that he did the best he could with the time he had at CMU.
As his last season as a Chippewa comes to an end, there is only one thing that counts and it has nothing to do with breaking records.
“At the end of the day all that matters is that I have the respect of the people that have watched me and more im-portantly the people I have played with,” Bellore said. “I think I have gained that respect as a player and a person and that means the world to me.”
And respect he has earned.Last Saturday’s game against Navy was the first sporting
event Bellore has ever missed in his entire career. He received 16 stitches to his lip, an injury suffered against Western Michi-gan.
High school, middle school, college — it was his first missed game in his life, snapping a consecutive start streak of 51 games, second-most in CMU history.
It all started back in middle school. He was a chubby sixth grader from Wisconsin and one of the bigger kids in his grade. His father, Jim, knew he was going to be an athlete.
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At the time, Jim Bellore was re-ally into hockey but, because of Nick’s size, he knew football was a good sport for him.
So he volunteered his time to be an assistant coach and the ca-reer of Nick Bellore began.
Because he was bigger than most of his peers, Nick played offensive and defensive line throughout middle school. When he got to Whitefish Bay High School, things were just like before.
As a freshman in ninth grade, he earned his varsity letter in track and field, hockey and foot-ball. He continued to play of-fensive line and defensive end under head coach Jim Tietjen. When sophomore year came, everything changed for Bellore.
His body began to change, he gave up on his hockey dream and the workout routine started.
“I started to focus on football because that is what I wanted to do at the next level,” Bellore said. “I have always had a lot of confidence in myself and I knew what I wanted to do. Freshman year I was a decent player but af-ter that is when I started working out a lot harder.”
OwIng a lOt tO Varney That is when Nick met
strength and conditioning coach Chris Varney, who was a strength coach at Kentucky be-fore moving to Wisconsin. He helped coach at Bellore’s high school and started working out with Nick at the team’s 6 a.m. workout sessions.
“When I first met Nick, he was a short, fat kid that could not run,” Varney said. “He had a big heart and a big motor. He just athletically had not blossomed yet.”
Soon enough he would start to work out with Varney, not only in school but outside of school as well. Although he gave up playing hockey, Bellore contin-ued to run track and field in high school his sophomore year. The
summer before his junior year, football became a real priority.
High school head coach Jim Tietjen’s son, Joey Tietjen, came up with a suggestion. Joey helped out his dad with coach-ing and was a former player at Whitefish Bay.
He suggested moving Nick from defensive end to lineback-er before his junior year and the change would turn out to be a big one.
“(He was) the biggest help for me football-wise,” Bellore said. “If I did not work out with him I would not have gotten a Divi-sion I scholarship. He taught me a lot about how it works, not just doing it. I owe a lot to him.”
Colleges soon began to take an interest in Bellore, who was gaining size and speed with each passing year. After his junior year in high school, many schools were showing a greater inter-est in him. But only one school seemed right.
Bellore’s mother, Mary, is a CMU alumna and his father is a Michigan State alumnus so the connections to the state of Michigan were uncanny.
All of the hard work Nick had put forth in high school was about to pay off in a way that he had never believed would hap-pen.
“Everything I did in high school was geared toward play-ing in college,” Bellore said. “(CMU) stepped up and it has been wonderful ever since. I liked it here so much I would not have even considered other MAC or Big Ten schools.”
Nick got the decision out of the way, committing before his senior year of high school, and had a load of stress lifted from his shoulders. After his senior year of football earning first team all-state honors, Bellore left high school early to enroll at CMU. He arrived on campus in the spring of 2007.
learnIng frOm the bestAs a college freshman, he still
had a lot of growing and learn-ing to do. Two teammates, for-mer linebackers Ike Brown and Red Keith, showed Bellore what
it meant to be a Chippewa and helped him at his position.
Little did they know they were mentoring what would come to be one of the best linebackers in CMU football history.
“When you leave that early and are involved at that level, he went through an early matura-tion process with playing foot-ball,” Jim Bellore said. “It was a perfect situation that benefited him in so many ways.”
Bellore broke the freshman single season tackles mark with 102, helping lead the team to the MAC championship and the Motor City Bowl in Detroit. He totaled 11 tackles, an intercep-tion and a fumble recovery in his first career bowl game.
In his sophomore year, Bel-lore’s best year statistically, he totaled 148 tackles and was named CMU defensive player of the year and most valuable line-backer. He was an All-MAC first team selection his sophomore and junior year.
And so this senior from White-fish Bay, Wis., has left his legacy.
With one game remaining in his senior season, he has had a lot to look back on and a lot to look forward to. The numbers can tell you who he is on the field, but his impact off the field has been just as important.
The classic rock loving finance major has set a new standard for CMU football players.
You go hard or you don’t go at all.
Always willing to help, and teaching kids at his old high school are a big part of his life.
“I can’t say enough about how much I am going to miss this place and how much I look forward to being able to come back year after year and see the continual growth,” Bellore said. “I see so much promise in this university and they have given me so much. I like to think I did the best I could here.”
So who is Nick Bellore?The answer is complex, but
the message is simple. A man who has earned re-
spect.
file photo by SEan proCtorSenior linebacker Nick Bellore walks toward the sidelines with blood in his mouth during the first half of the Nov. 5 game against Western Michigan. Bellore needed 16 stitches to repair the gash and had to sit out of Saturday’s game against Navy.
answer to all those questions have been yes,” Enos said.
The extra practices allow freshmen to suit up and get extended reps, something they normally don’t see during the season.
In addition, injured players have the opportunity to heal up.
Senior Nick Bellore sat out Saturday’s game after receiv-ing 16 stitches to repair a torn lip suffered against WMU the week prior. He did not practice
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BYE | Tuesday, but is expected to play against the Rockets next week in what will be the final game of his career at CMU.
“It’s a perfect time for me to get my mouth to heal up,” Bel-lore said. “Everyone has nicks at this point of the year. It would’ve been nice to have it (the bye) in the middle of the year because it’s so valuable for the team.”
The Chippewas have not had a true bye week since 2008, when they had a full two weeks off before playing Temple. Last year, after suffering a loss at Boston College, the team beat Toledo 56-28.
The Rockets are 7-4 and 6-1 in the Mid-American Conference
this season, a half game out of first place in the West Division. Northern Illinois sits atop the MAC West at 6-0 and plays at Ball State on Saturday.
While the seniors prepare for the final game of their col-lege career, Enos said there has not been a problem getting the younger players motivated, de-spite the team not having a shot at becoming bowl eligible.
“They’re very eager, want to please their coaches and build momentum and move on to-ward the offseason and into next season,” he said. “The at-titude’s been great.”
By John EvansSenior Reporter
One week after winning the Winthrop Classic tour-nament, the CMU women’s basketball team will be looking for another cham-pionship.
The Chippewas travel to Iowa City, Iowa, this week-end to compete in the Hawkeye Challenge.
At 3:30 p.m. Saturday, the Chippewas will play North-ern Colorado in the first game of the tournament. UNC is 2-1 overall on the season after beating Santa Clara 65-57 on Wednes-day and Air Force 79-56 on Sunday. It finished 14-16 overall last season, going 6-10 in the Big Sky Confer-ence.
CMU (2-0) has gotten off to a perfect start to the season, scoring more than 100 points in the first two games. Head coach Sue Guevara said that even though things went good last weekend, some chang-es still need to be made.
“Nothing is going to be similar because each team we play is different,” Gue-vara said. “Defensively, there are some things that will change and how we warm up and do things in practice may change a little.”
One thing that will not be changing is the start-ing lineup. Last season, the Chippewas struggled to find consistency through-out the season with a solid rotation. So far this sea-son the team has found a groove early with their starting five.
“One thing last tour-nament helped me fig-ure out is our rotation,” Guevara said. “Our bench contributed and that has to happen day in and day out, I just want to stay consis-tent, if it’s not broken then why do you have to keep tinkering with it? You just have to let it go, oil it up so it runs a little smoother.”
After being named last weekend’s tournament Most Valuable Player, sophomore Brandie Baker was named Mid-American Conference West Division Player of the Week. In her first game back from a season-ending injury a season ago, Baker put up the program’s first ever triple-double en route to beating North Carolina A & T 119-71 last weekend.
The Bears are led by sopho-more forward Lauren Oosy-dyke with 14.3 points and 8.3 points per game. Two other players, junior guard Kaisha Brown (12.3 points) and se-nior guard Courtney Stoermer
(10.7) are also scoring in double figures. Sto-ermer leads the team with 3.7 assists per game.
Depending on what happens with Satur-day’s game, CMU will either play host Iowa or Northeastern on
Sunday. The Hawkeyes are 3-0 and ranked No. 24 in the na-tion.
The Chippewas currently have six players who are aver-aging double figures, includ-ing senior guard Shonda Long with more than 20 points per game. Senior forward Kaihla Szunko said that they are go-ing to be difficult for team’s to stop.
“We just have to keep com-ing out hard, we started the game quickly and they could not stop us,” Szunko said. “We have a lot of weapons and we just need to run on people. Defense and rebounding are keys to winning this tourna-ment.”
Chippewas in Iowa for tourney
file photo by JEff SMithSenior forward Kaihla Szunko leads the way for CMU this weekend when it travels to Iowa City, Iowa, for the Hawkeye Tournament. The Chippewas, who are 2-0 after winning the Winthrop Classic last weekend, play Northern Colorado at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Szunko leads the team in scoring, averaging 20.5 points per game.
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Women open play against N. Colorado
Sue Guevara
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Central Michigan Life || Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 || 3B
By Nick ConklinStaff Reporter
Disappointment and opti-mism.
These were two of the words uttered by CMU volleyball coach Erik Olson following his team’s early exit from the Mid-American Conference tournament Tuesdsay.
“I am disappointed that we lost in the first round,” Olson said. “We were a good team this year, just inconsistent.”
Inconsistencies plagued the squad the entire season, with an up and down streak of wins and losses. At the begin-ning of the season the team went a paltry 0-3 before win-ning their next four matches. This back-and-forth trend continued all season as they finished with a 14-15 overall record, going 8-8 in the MAC.
Olson said the competitive-ness in the MAC is something that was unexpected going into the year.
“We didn’t expect to have such a rough time in con-ference,” Olson said. “The schedule ended up being very challenging for this group.”
Despite their below .500 overall finish, the team re-ceived its highest RKPI rank-ing of 79. This ranking judges a team’s competitiveness in their matches, a number which has steadily risen since Olson came to CMU in 2004.
The Chippewas graduate two seniors this season, with outside hitter Lauren Krupsky and defensive specialist Lisa Johnson parting after four strong seasons. Krupsky will end her career with a team-
high 366 kills on the season, and a total of 1223 for her career. She currently sits in the eighth all-time in CMU’s kills leaders. For Johnson, she ended her season with 327 digs for a career total of 828 and the No. 7 spot all-time in school history.
Junior Kaitlyn Schultz spent the past three seasons playing with both Krupsky and Johnson and was appre-ciative Tuesdsay of the time spent playing with them.
“I think they are the hard-est workers on the team and I’m really going to miss them,” Schultz said. “It’s just been a great experience play-ing with both of them.”
But with the loss of such valuable seniors, Olson said that it will give the juniors on his team time to step up and become leaders.
“They’re going to become the rock of the program and I am very confident about what they can do,” Olson said.
Olson will be able to fix many of the problems the team had with the depth of their roster and is expecting big things from many of his players next season. He looks to shore up play from his set-ter position, one that he was unsure about until pre-sea-son play. Sophomore Cath-erine Ludwig played the ma-jority of the matches as the setter, something Olson said required a learning curve.
“I think Ludwig had a lot of ups and downs this season,” he said. “She certainly got better, but with that said, we have a lot of things we need
to work on that come from the setting position.”
Next seasoNThe play of the middles and
blocking will be key in 2011, with the return of Danielle Gotham and the emergence of Jocelyn Vervelde. Gotham did not see any action this season due to an ankle injury. Vervelde made a few appear-ances throughout the season, and Olson is expecting big things out of her next season.
“Were looking forward to a great off season from Vervel-de, to really shape her up technically,” Olson said.
The addition of Gotham and Vervelde, with the re-turn of Schultz, will aid in the blocking squad that will need to improve vastly if they wish to make a run in the 2011 MAC tournament.
“The biggest area our group needs to work on is blocking,” Olson said. “For as athletic as we are, we have got to control the net much better than we did.”
The team will not return to practice until the first week of school in 2011, when they start offseason workouts in the Events Center.
Although the finish was not what Olson had imagined, he said that it was certainly an interesting season and he is excited for getting back to work in 2011.
“In some respects it is the best season we have ever had,” Olson said. “In other re-spects I am very disappointed that we didn’t get to Toledo.”
File photo by Paige CaLaMariJunior middle blocker Kaitlyn Schultz finished the 2009-10 season with 288 kills and 55 digs.
Olson: ‘We didn’t expect rough time’
Ohio 31, at Temple 23Temple (8-3, 5-2 MAC) lost
its second conference game of the season on Tuesday, 31-23 against Ohio, slipping out of first place in the MAC East. Quarterback Mike Ge-rardi threw for 311 yards and two touchdowns and running back Matt Brown added a touchdown, but the Owls still fell short in the end. Ohio senior running back Vince Davidson scored two touchdowns while the Bobcats had two intercep-tions.
Northern Illinois at Ball State, 1 p.m. Saturday
NIU (8-2, 6-0 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) took sole possession of first place in the West Division after handily defeating Toledo 65-30 on Nov. 9. Running back Chad Spann leads the of-fense with more than 1,000 rushing yards and 15 touch-downs on the season. Quar-terback Chandler Harnish, who accumulated 311 yards of total offense with a pair of touchdowns against the Rockets, leads the confer-ence in passing efficiency at 149.5. Ball State (4-7, 3-4 MAC) is coming off back-to-back wins for the first time this season. The Cardinals beat Buffalo 20-3 on Nov. 12 as quarterback Keith Wen-ning went 18-of-26 for 174 yards and one touchdown. Safety Sean Baker had two interceptions, while also returning a fumble 26 yards for a touchdown.
Eastern Michigan at Buffalo, 2 p.m. Saturday, ESPN3.com
Eastern Michigan (1-9, 1-5 MAC) is once again strug-gling to find a win after los-ing three consecutive games since getting its first win on Oct. 16. In the Eagles’ 45-30 loss at Western Michigan last weekend, quarterback Alex Gillet had 373 total and four touchdowns. Buffalo (2-8, 1-5 MAC) is having a season to forget, riding a five-game losing streak into play on Saturday. The Bulls lost 20-3 on Nov. 12 against Ball State, recording just 144 yards of total offense. Starting quar-terback Jerry Davis, who has recorded 1,263 yards pass-ing, has recently split time with backup Alex Zordich.
Kent State at Western Michi-gan, 2 p.m. Saturday
KSU (4-6, 3-3 MAC) is coming off back-to-back losses following last week’s
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Owls slip out of first in MAC East; U-M to host Badgers
45-28 loss against Army. Golden Flashes quarterback Spencer Keith has 1,868 passing yards and eight touchdowns, but has thrown nine interceptions. Backup Giorgio Morgan went 5-of-9 for 132 yards in Saturday’s game. Junior running back Jacquise Terry leads the run-ning attack with 518 yards and seven touchdowns. WMU (4-6, 3-3 MAC) quar-terback Alex Carder contin-ues to impress, carrying the Broncos to victory against Eastern Michigan with 349 yards and four touchdowns. He ranks second in the con-ference in passing yards with 2,942.
No. 7 Wisconsin at Michigan, noon Saturday, ESPN
After losing three con-secutive games and putting fears into Michigan (7-3, 3-3 Big Ten) fans once again, the Wolverines have bounced back nicely with a two-game winning streak after their 27-16 win against Purdue on Saturday. Quarterback Den-ard Robinson had 176 yards passing but threw a pair of interceptions. Running back Vincent Smith had 99 yards rushing and two touch-downs, helping lead U-M to victory. Wisconsin (9-1, 5-1 Big Ten) won its last game in
extremely lopsided fashion, defeating Indiana 83-20. The Badgers scored a total of 11 touchdowns while quar-terback Scott Tolzien and running back Montee Ball lead the offense with three touchdowns each. Running back John Clay has 929 yards rushing and a team-leading 13 touchdowns.
Purdue at No. 12 Michigan State, 12 p.m. Saturday, Big Ten Network
Purdue’s 27-16 loss against Michigan was its fourth consecutive loss. The Boilermakers (4-6, 2-4 Big Ten) offense, which totaled 256 yards, only accounted for three field goals. Their only touchdown of the day came when Ricardo Allen returned an interception 94 yards for a touchdown. Michigan State (9-1, 5-1 Big Ten) needs to win the rest of its games this season for a shot at the Big Ten title. The Spartans won their last game in convincing fashion, beating Minnesota 31-8. Running back Edwin Baker was unstoppable, running the ball for 179 yards and four touchdowns.
-Compiled by Staff Reporter Matt Firsht
McMann’s pick to watch
Wisconsin vs. U-M A win for the Wolverines will do a lot for head coach Rich Rodgriguez in swaying his detractors.
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File photo by ashLey MiLLerJunior Scotti Sentes wrestles an opponent during the 2009-10 season. Sentes placed third in the MAC Championships at the 133 pound weight class. He moved up from the 125-pound after earning All-America honors.
By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter
Mount Pleasant High School will have its hands full when they go up against East Grand Rapids High School at 1 p.m. Saturday at Top Tag-gard Field in Big Rapids.
A win and it makes its first trip to Detroit’s Ford Field. But first, they must get by the Pioneers, better known around the state as “The D3 Dynasty.” The Pioneers have won the last four Division 3 state titles and own six titles this decade. During their run at the top of Division 3 football, the Pioneers have a record of 65-3 and are cur-rently on a 31-game winning streak.
“They haven’t lost very many games in the last five or six years, they do every-thing right,” said MPHS head coach Jason McIntyre. “They don’t turn the ball over — they play aggressive defense and they’re solid at positions one through 11.”
The Oilers (12-0) are no slouches themselves though as they are unbeaten and have outscored opponents 33-13. They are coming off their second consecutive undefeated regular season. This is the first time, however, Mount Pleasant has made it to the semifinals.
“They’re undefeated and a very good, well coached team and they play disciplined,” said East Grand Rapids head coach Peter Stuursma said. “They run the ball very well and that sets up a very good play action opportunity.”
In last week’s game, the Oilers trailed by a touch-down until a 17-point rally gave them a 17-7 win against Cadillac (8-4) for a regional championship and a trip to the semifinals.
“Our biggest thing at this point of the season is to get everyone healthy and try and tweak some things on of-fense,” McIntyre said. “We’re at the point of the season where things get kind of rou-tine.”
Oilers look for trip to Ford FieldThe Pioneers are coming off a
couple of close games, beating Grand Rapids Christian 49-48 for a fifth consecutive district title and Zeeland East 17-13 get-ting their fifth consecutive re-gional title.
“We need to continue to get better on the little things,” Stuursma said. “We had some breakdowns with passes over the top we didn’t convert on third downs when we needed.”
When it comes down to this late in the playoff schedule, little mistakes become amplified. McIntyre said the Oilers will have to control the football and be more wide open with their offense.
“We have to move the ball
consistently, and importantly, we need to make stops on de-fense,” he said.
This isn’t the first time both teams have played in the post-season. The two schools played each other in the 2008 district championship and 2007 re-gional championship, with East Grand Rapids winning both games in blowouts.
The winner will go to Ford Field and play in the state cham-pionship game at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 27. They will play either Or-chard Lake St. Mary’s (10-2) or DeWitt (11-1), who are playing at Fenton High School at 1 p.m. Saturday.
By Josh BerenterStaff Reporter
Normally if a Mid-American Conference team faces a No. 1 nationally ranked team, it would be an overwhelming underdog.
That won’t be the case today when the CMU wres-tling team travels to Ithaca, N.Y., to face the nation’s No. 1 seed Cornell.
The Chippewas go into their first dual meet of the sea-son ranked fifth nationally on InterMat’s team ranking and ninth on the NWCA/USA To-day Coaches’ Poll.
Although CMU has compet-ed three times this season, this will be the first scoring match and the first time the Chippe-was will feature most of their primary starters.
Head coach Tom Borrelli, now in his 20th season, said he is excited to see what his team can do this weekend.
“It should be a good way to start the season,” he said. “Our goal is to go in there and com-pete really hard and see how good they are, and how good we are.”
Last weekend, Cornell competed in the Bingham-ton Open, and Borrelli said because the Big Red wrestled most of their starters, they will have a slight advantage.
“Most of our starters haven’t competed yet,” he said. “We still have some things we’re trying to figure out in a few weight classes”
CMU boasts the No. 2 ranked heavyweight in the nation in Jarod Trice. Trice was an All-American selec-tion a year ago and will make his season debut Friday. Although the Chippewas feature veterans like Trice, Borelli said he is looking for-ward to the performances of three inexperienced wres-tlers.
“I’m looking for big things out of Chad Friend, Donnie Corby and Adam Miller,” he said. “I think those guys are in some pretty important matches.”
Friend is a junior who can wrestle in either the 184- or 197-pound weight class. Corby is a sophomore in the 149-pound class, and Miller is a redshirt freshman seeing his first true action in the 157-pound class.
Another wrestler that will see his first real action this weekend is redshirt fresh-man Craig Kelliher. Kelliher will compete this season in the 197-weight class after competing unattached twice last year in the 184-pound class. He said he is looking forward to facing Cornell.
“(There will be) a big crowd and anytime you get a lot of people in an event it’s nice,” he said. “With wres-tling, anytime you get a lot of people to come to an event,
you can feel the energy.”
Body Bar INvIteAfter the meet against Cor-
nell, CMU will stay in Ithaca to compete in the Body Bar Invitational. Among the 11 teams competing in the invi-tational, CMU will face MAC opponents Buffalo and No. 18 ranked Kent State.
Borrelli said the invitational will be a good way for CMU to see a lot of other teams early in the season.
“I think our guys will get some good quality competi-tion, even the guys who don’t wrestle in the dual meet,” he said. “We’ll have some extra guys that will get some match-es in and we’ll be able to eval-uate them. We’re trying to take those evaluations and decide who our starters will be.”
Borrelli said he doesn’t think anyone on his team will be in-timidated by facing the No. 1 team in the country.
“I don’t think we have any-thing to lose. There’s no pres-sure on us,” he said. “We’re underdogs in the match and we should just go out there and make it happen.”
Kelliher agreed, saying that there isn’t a whole lot of pres-sure on the team.
“(Their ranking) doesn’t mean anything,” he said. “It’s a number. If you look back, how many times does the guy ranked first end up winning at the end of the season? Things are going to change.”
Fifth-ranked Chippewas meet No. 1 Cornell in first dual meet of season
W r e S t l i n g
Match will feature most of team’s primary starters
By Justin HicksStaff Reporter
The early signing period has proved to be useful to the Cen-tral Michigan softball team.
On Tuesday, head coach Margo Jonker announced three players that signed letters of intent to join the program for the 2011 season.
“It’s an excellent class that will continue to push our current players and certainly fight for some starting spots for next year’s team,” Jonker said.
As one sister pair departs with Brittani Merchant’s fourth year of eligibility expir-ing at the conclusion of the 2011 season, another will take its place.
Chelsea DeLamielleure will join her sister, freshman catcher Corey DeLamielluere, next season. Chelsea pitches and plays the infield at Can-ton High School.
“The two of them are very close and wanted to play for the same collegiate team,” Jonker said. “Their person-alities are very different, but their passions for the game are very similar.”
Chelsea, named team MVP following the 2010 season, was named first-team All-State by
both the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News in 2010.
“(Chelsea) pitched in high school, but we don’t anticipate her pitching at (CMU),” Jonker said. “She has good power and is an excellent player.”
The program prides itself on a strong pitching core and will add Sparta native Tricia Graham to that group. Her multiple strong pitches have Jonker excited.
“Tricia Graham is a great pitcher,” Jonker said. “She has excellent ball movement and excellent poise in the circle. I expect she’ll be very effec-tive.”
Graham set all sorts of records at Rockford High School in 2010, including most strikeouts (435), bat-ters faced (934) and wins in a season (29). She earned OK Red All-Conference pitcher honors, and reached the 1,000-strikeout milestone in the same season.
The third player added in the signing period was Can-ton native CarolAnn Sexau-er. The shortstop was named All-District, All-Conference, and All-Observer in 2010 at Canton High School.
“(Sexauer’s) a good-sized athlete who demonstrates being able to make the ad-justments to play Division I quickly, and being able to contribute immediately,” Jonker said.
The program relies on its youth and expects big things
from those players. Fifteen of the 22 players on the cur-rent roster are freshmen or sophomores. Four players are finishing up their last year of eligibility this sea-son.
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Three sign letters of intent to play for CMU in 2011Chelsea DeLamielleure joins sister
2011 Softball Signing Class
Tricia GrahamPitcherSparta, Mich./Rockford HSRockford Sports Booster Athlete of the YearFirst-team all-state by the Detroit Free PressHad 1,000 career strike outs at Rockford
Chelsea DeLamiel-
leure Second baseSaint Clair Shores, Mich./Regina HSFirst-team all-state by the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News
CarolAnn SaxuerShortstopCanton, Mich./Canton HSAll-district, all-conference by Observer newspapersAlso played four years of basketball
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Central Michigan Life || Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 || 5B
By Jeff LaHayeStaff Reporter
The CMU club hockey team is coming off one of its best weekends of the sea-son.
Filled with mediocre play, their slow season lead them to a No. 11 ranking. Now, the
team’s true colors are begin-ning to show on the ice.
CMU split games against rival Michigan State last weekend. In the first game, the team came back from a five-goal deficit but came up short in the end, losing 8-6 on Nov. 12.
They rallied in game two Saturday to score two min-utes into overtime, capping off a thrilling 4-3 victory.
“We played quite well on the defensive end of the ice, though there is still work to
be done on the semi-new defensive system we are working with,” said head coach Mike Willett. “(It was) a great come from behind win for us.”
This weekend, CMU turns it attention to Illinois State University, the No. 6 ranked team in the Central Region. The game, set to begin at noon, will be played at the Mount Pleasant Ice Arena. Illinois State is 12-4-1, scor-ing 65 goals for while allow-ing 54.
“We feel really good com-ing off a split against with rival MSU,” said senior cap-tain Jordan Jakubik. “It was our best weekend so far and the team hopes to continue it with another big game against Illinois State.”
The team looks to contin-ue to improve their defen-sive play and made strides of improvement during the games against MSU. The team is carrying a lot more confidence into this weekend after the strong
performance. “We know it’s another big
game and we seem to have some more confidence after last weekend,” Jakubik said. “Hopefully, we can just con-tinue to play our game and pick up another big win.”
The players cohesionis beginning to show.
“We are starting to be-lieve in each other and in the system, Willett said, “We are looking at this game against Illinois State as a real opportunity to prove our-
selves. The team is playing with a chip on our shoulder, with something to prove.”
After a win against Michi-gan State, a win against Illi-nois State would guarantee that CMU would rise in the rankings before the second ranking period on Nov. 29. This Tuesday, the team had its highest energy-filled practice since the season started and hopes to ride the momentum into Sunday.
C l u b h o C k e y
Team plays weekend game against Illinois State CMU split pair of games against MSU last weekend
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Fill your apartment, receive a 42” flat screen TV & Netflix package*
• Waive $50 application fee• Rates start at $379• Private Bedrooms & Bathrooms• Fully furnished
Visit villageatbluegrass.com or our onsite sales officeto learn more.
* Offer applies to new Village at Bluegrass residents only.Valid on 12-month leases. Expires December 18, 2010. Application fee must be paid within 14 days of signing.
Friday, November 19th9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Lexington Ridge OfficesJoin us for free food and these special offers:
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In House Leasing Party
No Application Fee ($50 Value)
Sign a lease and get either:• $25 TARGET Gift Card • $25 Gas Card
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UNION SQUARE
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773-38903700 E. Deerfield Rd
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FREE• laundry• high speed internet• expanded cable• shuttle service to campus
• basketball court• sand volleyball courtNEW
Rent starting at $245/mo.
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Bedrooms
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