Jan. 31, 2014

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FRIDAY, JAN. 31 , 2014�|�MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH.�|�ISSUE NO. 51 VOL. 95

Lifecm LONGSTREAK

Women’s basketball wins eighth straight with 82-67

victory against EMU�»PAGE 1B

LIFE IN BRIEF

Cranker’s adds microbrewery, planning grand reopening after remodeling »PAGE 5A

LIFE INSIDE

Study Abroad o� ce kicks o� ‘Taste of Culture’ series »PAGE 6A

SMACK TALKJunior guard Crystal Bradford made it clear the Chippewas consider themselves superior to EMU. Find out why the editorial staff stands behind Bradford. w 7B

VOICES

POLITICAL DISCUSSIONStudents let their voices be heard, two weeks after Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State speech at Speak Up, Speak out. w 6A

UNIVERSITY

Men’s basketball prepares for hostile environment at Western Michigan »PAGE 3B

NATIONAL RECOGNITIONGymnastics re-enters the Top 25 nationally ranked teams after scoring a 195.8 against Ball State, only a fraction of a point away from the team goal of 196. w 4B

SPORTS

CMU makes racial inclusion a priorityBy Sean BradleySenior Reporter

In the last decade, Central Michi-gan University’s minority-student enrollment increased steadily, according to diversity statistics com-piled by the O� ce of Institutional Research.

In 2004, the university’s minority students made up 15.4 percent of the population. As of 2012, the popula-

tion increased to 19.1 percent.These statistics refl ect a change in

CMU’s campus culture on student race relations. Aiming to reconcile past incidents involving nooses and neo-Nazi propaganda, CMU has worked hard to move on from the disturbing time in its recent history.

During a presentation given to Academic Senate in 2008, Kevin Williams, senior associate direc-tor of Undergraduate Admissions,

said CMU still had a reputation as a “racist institution” among minor-ity groups, and was considered a “white-fl ight” school among non-minorities for much of its history.

In 2005, before a speech by re-formed neo-Nazi T.J. Leyden, fl iers promoting the movement appeared on the hoods of cars across campus, along with the phrase “This is a free Nazi zone” written on them.

Students ultimately paid little at-

tention to the incident.Years later, in 2007, four hang-

man’s nooses were found hanging in a room located in the Engineering and Technology building.

Mike Zeig, a former Student Government Association president, was concerned at the time as to how this incident might a� ect campus diversity and recruitment.

Taylor Ballek | Staff PhotographerCaro resident Patrick Southworth works as one of nine plant operators testing water samples Jan. 16 at the Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Center.

u n d er pr ess u r eMount Pleasant Water Department works to quench residents’ thirst

Kelly Rocheleau | Staff Reporter

When Malcolm Fox turns on his

kitchen faucet he sees his team’s tireless labor swirling in the crystal-clear water.

As the superintendent of the Mount Pleasant Water Department and the manager of the Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Facility, 4195 S. Lincoln Road, Fox understands why people wouldn’t know much about the water system, let alone how it works.

Taylor Ballek | Staff PhotographerThe board in the Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Plant’s Control room monitors how much water is in the Ranney Collector well, the Water Treatment plant, and the water tanks in the water distribution system.

“Why would they? Fox said. You’re not going to know about the water system unless you’re learning about it.”

Although the inner workings of the city’s water department are not well known to the general public, its contributions to everyday society are countless.

The water department disinfects the water, reduces the “hardness” of water, and ensures its product is safe and pleasant to drink. Workers also monitor the grid of water mains and pipes that are fi ve to six feet underneath the city, known as the water distribution system. Workers are available to test water samples that customers bring in for a $25 fee if they are curious about what comes out of their taps.

All of these functions are per-formed by Fox, water department assistant manager Jim Rabidioux, and seven other plant operators.

The rigorous procedures involved in each process for the nine opera-tors are designed to meet the regula-tions created by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, the latter of which inspects the plant four times a year with the plant itself sending the MDEQ monthly reports.

According to the website for the Environmental Protection Agency, no negative health e� ects from drink-ing hard water have been found. However, Fox said the plant reduces

the amount of minerals in water for aesthetic reasons, and because hard water is di� cult to use with soap, dish washing and laundry.

With a treatment capacity of 8 million gallons a day and a storage capacity of 4.5 million gallons, the plant supplies an average of 1.5 to 2 million gallons of day in the winter, and 2 to 3 million gallons a day in the summer.

Fox, who has been the manager of the water plant since it opened in 1995, doesn’t mind the never-ending work.

“It’s a job that’s challenging, be-cause things change, but it’s fun,” he said. “We play with giant toys. When something breaks, we’re the guys who go in there, dig a big hole, go in and fi x things.”

According to the Mount Pleasant website, raw water with potential bacteria and various minerals, such as magnesium, calcium and iron, is collected from the Ranney Collector Well – a large shallow well close to the Chippewa River – and from vari-ous other wells connected to pipes 200 to 500 feet underground.

After being treated at the plant, the water is pumped through the water distribution system, consisting of almost 100 miles of water mains throughout the city of Mount Pleas-ant, and into the buildings of more than 5,000 water customers. Two elevated water tanks in the city exert stable pressure to the distribution system. The entire process, from the

wells to homes, takes about two to three days.

Despite its complexity, Fox empha-sizes the importance of his work.

“It helps people’s lives,” he said. “People live their lives the way they do without having a thought for it. This is just a part of that.”

Pat Southworth is one of the nine people working at and monitoring the water plant. He also believes his job makes a di� erence.

“Water is the lifeblood of a com-munity, in my mind,” he said.

That lifeblood has a lot of money riding on it. Built for $8 million in 1995, the plant has a yearly operat-ing budget of $2.5 to 3 million, with $200,000 of that going toward utili-ties, chiefl y electricity and gas.

Fox says all of the various compo-nents that are constantly going into the job are enjoyable.

“This is (like) a big moving ma-chine,” he said. “I mean, the whole system. Not just here, but every-where. It’s always moving, always changing and always has to be fi xed, or improved, and thought about constantly, so it’s always a fun thing to do because it’s a complicated job, but it’s fun.”

With the city’s water department being an asset fund, it operates as a business. Everything is paid for by the water bills of the plant’s more than 5,000 customers, not through taxes as is commonly believed.

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WILD WINTERMount Pleasant’s record-setting winter has changed how offi cials have to approach snow and ice removal, taking hours to ensure public safety on campus around Mount Pleasant and Isabella County. w 3A

METROCertifi cate helps students battle lack of domestic jobs

By Mason DoerrStaff Reporter

Losing good jobs to other countries leaves many students wondering what they can do per-sonally to combat outsourcing.

With Central Michigan’s Cultural Competency Certifi cate, which fi rst became available for students during the spring semester in 2013, they might have found a potential solution.

“I’m fortunate to be leading this e� ort for the College of Hu-manities and Social and Behav-ioral Sciences,” said Orlando Pérez, director of cultural and global studies programs. “The cultural certifi cate is one of seven certifi cates in the cultural and global studies program.”

The certifi cate will help stu-dents be competitive in the global job market by teaching them cultural sensitivity and allowing them to assimilate into foreign work environments.

These certifi cates consist of 16-to 18-hour programs that are fl exible and are able to fi t into a number of di� erent majors across the university.

“You don’t have to be majoring in a CHSBS major,” Perez said. “These are intended as a way of packaging courses that many students are already taking as part of their UP (credits).”

Having this type of cultural knowledge is something that so-ciology, anthropology and social work professor Tracy Brown said is important for a student’s funda-mental thinking skills.

“The goal for cultural compe-tency is to essentially give stu-dents the experience, or at least reading and thinking critically outside of their particular racial or ethnic group,” Brown said. “You can kind of double-count courses if you’re interested. These are designed to essentially allow students to build them into their majors easily.”

Along with gaining a di� erent perspective on other cultures, adding this certifi cate to a stu-dent’s résumé makes them more employable to international and even local businesses.

“If you listen to employers across the country, one of the things that they keep telling us is that culturally-savvy employ-ees are very important because businesses, whether they are in the private sector or in the public sector, are increasingly having to deal with serving a variety of cul-tures,” Perez said. “We live in an increasingly diverse world, so any type of business is going to have to deal with globalization and diverse cultures, whether it’s in terms of their customers, business partners or where they import/export their products.”

Along with providing an em-ployer with the knowledge that students are well-versed in cul-tural competency, the certifi cate has other benefi ts.

“It doesn’t mean that you’ll get a job, but what it tells employ-ers is that you did well on those courses and achieved certifi ca-tion,” Perez said. “And you can market yourself as having those skills and employers are looking for those skills.”

This type of marketability can often-times give recent graduates who are applying for jobs an up-per hand.

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Ten years after racist incidents, student body diversity increases to almost 20 percent

“I think it is very hard to recruit diverse students if incidents like this happen,” Zeig told Central Michigan Life for a story originally published Nov. 16, 2007. “I don’t know that there’s a specifi c action we (SGA) can take, but I think there’s some dialogue we can have.”

DEPICTION OF ADMISSION MATERIALS

One way the university has increased its diversity of students is through the admissions materials it sends out to prospective students.

Traci Guinn, interim associate vice president of the O� ce of Institutional Diversity, said the materi-als her o� ce sends out to prospective students show-case current students of all ethnicities fairly and in real situations.

“In the publications especially, I know that it is the concern of the admis-sions o� ce to make sure we do not overpopulate brochures with a larger amount of diversity than what we have,” Guinn said. “So they make sure they are not selling pipe dreams, not selling anything that’s not truthful to the student. They make sure that the pictures refl ect what the actual population is.”

Information from the O� ce of Institutional Research indicated CMU’s total headcount of the stu-dent population to be 80.88 percent Caucasian, while 19.12 percent accounted for all other minorities as of the fall 2012 semester.

The Institutional Re-search also broke down the numbers of the di� erent ethnicities on campus. The largest minority enrolled on campus was African-Amer-ican students with 1,092, as of the fall 2012 semester.

Breakdowns for the student population show that 248 Native Ameri-can students, 277 Asian/Hawaiian/Pacifi c Islander students, 478 Hispanic/Latino students were en-rolled during the 2012 fall

semester. A large popula-tion of students – 1,263 – made up the unknown ethnicity category, along with 563 students listed as non-resident aliens.

In addition to domestic diversity levels, the interna-tional student population is increasing every year, Guinn said. Over the last year, 200 more international students enrolled at CMU.

The issue of whether bro-chure materials accurately refl ect the actual diversity of a university became a hot topic after a University of Wisconsin student was made aware that her face was digitally added to an admissions booklet in 2000.

The situation attracted national attention, and in 2013, an Augsburg College professor decided to see if any trends came about from promotional images from other universities.

After analyzing 10,000 di� erent images from uni-versities across the country, the professor found that the more Caucasian students enrolled at a university, the more diverse the pictures in promotional materials became.

“When we looked at African-Americans in those schools that were predomi-nantly white, the actual per-centage in those campuses was only about 5 percent of the student body,” Tim Pippert, the professor con-ducting the study, told NPR. “They were photographed at 14.5 percent.”

PUTTING THE PAST BEHIND US

Student and administra-tion o� cials alike feel this is not representative of CMU.

West Bloomfi eld ju-nior Amarriah Valentine received admissions guides

from the university upon being accepted. Valentine, a multicultural advisor in Robinson Hall, said the materials do their best to showcase the ethnic makeup of the campus.

“I think the ratio of mi-norities to the white popu-lation are as close as they can be,” she said. “To me, their admissions materials are not misleading. It shows you what you’re getting into.”

After taking over as interim associate vice presi-dent for Diversity at CMU, Guinn noticed the pictures in booklets and the actual statistics painted di� erent pictures.

“I don’t think there’s a connection, necessar-ily, with the pictures and how it’s presented with a number,” she said. “One thousand ninety-two, that sounds like a lot. Now let’s look at the 16,583 Cauca-sian students that are here. That’s a huge number. So I think in comparing those numbers to the actual total population of the campus, and 1,092, it’s a lot, but it’s only really 5 percent.”

Students like junior Troy Woodland said the admis-sions booklets tell it like it is.

“It’s not too lopsided here,” the Sterling Heights native said. “It’s not like you don’t see any diver-sity in these pages. If you came here, walking around campus, you’d see the exact same thing or close to what’s in this.”

Kevin Williams said cam-pus diversity has changed for the better since 2008.

“Absolutely, we’re doing a better job,” Williams said. “This is now an institution that students look to come to from people from com-munities of color. Those communities are seeing us as their top choices.”

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The plant plans on spend-ing $3.2 million on various projects using reserves previ-ously earmarked for di� erent programs. One ongoing project is to replace all of Mount Pleasant’s small cast iron water mains with larger, more durable plastic mains.

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Fox said the plant often hires one or two Central Michigan University students for seasonal work.

A water treatment plant manager or operator is almost always needed, Fox said. He also said the water treatment fi eld is fi nancially stable.

“I’ve never not had a job,” he said. “During the recession, we had some fi nancial dif-fi culties. We restructured the (water) department to meet

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Taylor Ballek | Staff PhotographerSherlot resident Malcolm Fox, water department system manager, explains the process of treating the water Jan. 16, at the Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Plant.

Taylor Ballek | Staff PhotographerThe Mount Pleasant Water Treatment Center uses a control panel to regulate the different water pools.

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those di� culties.”Although Fox says he loves

his job and enjoys the chal-lenges of dealing with di� erent obstacles and tasks every day, the job can also be very stressful and long hours are required, with operators often working on holidays.

For Fox, it’s just part of the job.“Somebody always has to

be there, and failure is not an option,” he said. “You can’t say ‘Well, we’re not going to make any water today because everyone’s sick.’ or ‘Things are broken’. You can’t just do that. People’s lives are literally depending on this. For health and for safety.”

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in my mind.” Pat Southworth, a plant operator

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The following are the most recent incidents reported by the Mount Pleasant Police Department in the city of Mount Pleasant.

Jan. 2411:36 a.m. – A larceny was

reported at 2000 S. Mission St.

1:39 p.m. – Police investigated a parole absconder at 219 S. Main St. The matter is being transferred to the prosecutor’s office.

7:53 p.m. – Police transported a 22-year-old Midland man from Midland County to the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department on a bench warrant for failure to appear held by the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

Jan. 254:27 p.m. – A 31-year-old

man was issued a citation and consequently jailed for driving without a license at 1225 S. Mission St.

6:18 p.m. – Officers investigated a domestic assault at 1003 Arthur St.

7:45 p.m. – An 18-year-old Mount Pleasant man was arrested for stealing bottles of liquor from Meijer, 1015 E. Pickard Road. The retail value was $14.98. He was also issued a minor in possession.

Jan. 2612:38 a.m. – A Carlton

man was cited for open intoxication at 499 S. University St.

12:50 a.m. – A 22-year-old Twin Lakes man was cited for open intoxication at the corner of Main and Cherry Streets.

1:01 a.m. – A 28-year-old Mount Pleasant man was cited for public urination at 218 Main St.

1:31 a.m. – A 20-year-old Burton woman was cited for open intoxication and minor in possession at 799 E. Michigan St.

2:17 a.m. – Police investigated the theft of a motor vehicle from 930 W. Broomfield St. The vehicle was later found and returned to the owner.

2:19 a.m. – A 24-year-old Clare man was arrested for operating while intoxicated after police pulled him over for erratic driving at 799 N. Mission St.

3:13 a.m. – A 33-year-old Mount Pleasant man was cited for public urination at 399 S. Main St.

4:23 a.m. – A 24-year-old Indiana man was jailed for operating a motor vehicle without a license at 199 W. Locust St. He was also cited for driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

4:45 p.m. – A 21-year-old Mount Pleasant man was arrested for stealing beer from Ric’s Food Store, 705 S. Mission St. The retail value was $11.53.

5:10 p.m. – A larceny from a building was reported at 320 E. Illinois St.

11:03 p.m. – A larceny from a motor vehicle was reported at 1505 Fessenden Ave.

Jan. 2712:03 a.m. – A 33-year-

old Mount Pleasant man was arrested for disorderly conduct at 1221 South Drive.

11:12 a.m. – A 32-year-old Mount Pleasant man was jailed for a parole violation.

11:36 a.m. – A larceny from a building was reported at 1707 S. Mission St. Stolen items included a purse, valued at $30, a jacket, valued at $10 and a wallet, valued at $6.

11:48 a.m. – Police investigated the unauthorized use of a debit card account at 1309 S. Mission St.

2:14 p.m. – A 37-year-old Farwell woman was arrested for retail fraud and illegal possession of narcotics at Meijer, 1015 E. Pickard St.

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By Kevin AndrewsStaff Reporter

Country music legend Kenny Rog-ers is scheduled to perform Saturday at Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.

According to a press release from Webster and Associates, LLC, the country singer has sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, and recorded 65 albums in his 50-plus years in show business.

His long list of timeless classics includes 24 No. 1 hits, accord-ing to the press release. Two of Rogers’ albums, “The Gambler” and “Kenny,” are featured in the About.com poll of “The 200 Most Influential Country Albums Ever,” and his Greatest Hits album has sold more than 24 million copies worldwide to date.

“I really, really love what I’m doing,” Rogers said in the release. “People survive longer if they love what they’re doing.”

Rogers was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville on Oct. 27, 2013, during an official medallion ceremony.

As his music ranges from country to soul to pop, Rogers has attracted many fans.

“I’ve never considered myself a great singer, but I am a great storytell-er,” Rogers told Billboard magazine.

Rogers also shared his views on success and the power his songs have had over the years.

“There are a lot of songs that may have initial success, but don’t linger the period of time those songs have,” he said. “They do take a different value in your heart when they have

that kind of staying power that rep-resents your success and represents a feeling and a thought. A song like that becomes a part of your soul.”

The show begins at 8 p.m. with ticket prices ranging from $22 to $65. Tickets can be purchased online or directly at the box office in front of the Entertainment Hall, open 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. all week.

Quashon Savage, a Flint sopho-more, said the show will mark a proud day for the city of Mount Pleasant.

“I think it’s good,” he said. “It’ll shine some light on Mount Pleasant. A lot of people don’t know about Mount Pleasant and Central Michi-gan, so it’ll put a lot of light on it.”

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Kenny Rogers scheduled to perform this Saturday at Soaring Eagle Casino

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By Katherine RanzenbergerSenior Reporter

Fewer than 100 people from four agencies around Mount Pleasant and Isabella County spend hours each day clearing snow and ice from the streets and sidewalks used by thousands of Mount Pleasant residents.

“We have 16 townships with a driver for each township,” said Tony Casali, directing manager of the Isabella County Road Commission. “Union Township takes a little longer because of all the subdivisions and apartments.”

The road commission uses a combi-nation of salt, brine and sand depend-ing on the snow fall, ice conditions and temperature.

The Isabella County Road Commis-sion takes care of roads that are used by Central Michigan University students and faculty, including parts of Broom-field, Bluegrass and High Streets.

Other roads around Mount Pleasant are cleared by the City of Mount Pleasant, the Michigan Department of Transportation or Central Michigan University.

East Campus and West Campus Drives are first priorities for their plowing crew, said Steve Lawrence, the associate vice president of Facilities Management. Sidewalks are a huge concern as well, with 29 miles of side-walks around campus.

Critical sidewalks get cleared by many people on their 15-person staff, Lawrence said, taking a top priority when the snow starts to fall. Salt is also used to help create a more stable walk-ing path for students and faculty.

Casali said drivers for the county road commission will sometimes work 12 to 16-hour days depending on the forecast and what they have in drifts.

“It’s difficult with the drifts,” he said. “It’s difficult on the driver. Fa-tigue does set in.”

Bob Murphy, the street superinten-dent for Mount Pleasant, said it can be difficult for plow drivers to see cars around them. He recommends taking some time to slow down when drivers see plows ahead of them, and to give the plow plenty of room to work.

“Stay back 30 to 50 feet if you see a plow,” Murphy said. “It helps the driver see you. Slow down. That’s the biggest problem we have.”

Be patient with snow removal, Law-rence advises, which varies by day.

“Every snow fall or ice event is dif-ferent, so the length of time varies for every event,” he said. “The Landscape Operations staff consists of 15 people who are responsible for maintaining the campus streets, sidewalks and parking lots. The campus includes 4.5 miles of roads, 29 miles of sidewalks and 92 acres of parking lots.”

Lawrence also recommends students bundle up before they go to class, and have proper footwear for the season.

“Because of the extremely cold tem-peratures, salt doesn’t work well,” he said, “So be aware of the road, parking lot or sidewalk surface conditions, and plan extra time to travel whether by foot or vehicle.”

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City officials:Snow removal ‘no small task’

“The Landscape Operations staff

consists of 15 people who are responsible

for maintaining the campus streets,

sidewalks and parking lots.”

Steve Lawrence, associate vice

president of Facilities Management

Emily Brouwer | Staff PhotographerShoe prints are seen in the snow outside of Heritage Square Apartments at 628 W. Broomfield St. on Thursday afternoon. After weeks of subzero temperatures walkways all around Mount Pleasant have been icy and dangerous to people walking on them.

SubzeroSnowy, cold weather conditions affecting students, CMU community

By Orrin ShawlStaff Reporter

Caleb Phillips normally gets 350 miles out of a full tank of gas.

During his commute from East Lansing, he said he’s been getting about 100 less due to the intense snow, wind and cold temperatures.

“I’ve noticed that as I drive up here,” said Phillips, a 23-year-old Lansing senior. “It’s really affected my gas bill in my car. My car also hasn’t started a few times.”

Phillips is one of many who have been affected by the severe weather conditions Central Michigan Uni-versity and Mount Pleasant have endured this month. The weather has resulted in CMU canceling their classes, along with the Isabella County Road Commission declaring a snow emergency on Jan. 24.

CMU’s cancelled classes due to dangerously cold temperatures was the first in at least 17 years, if ever, said Steve Smith, CMU direc-tor of public relations.

Tony Casali, ICRC manager, said the road commission declared the snow emergency at 8 p.m. on the

previous Friday before lifting it at about noon on Jan. 25.

Casali said the purpose of the snow emergency was to get driv-ers off the roads so the snowplow trucks could clear the roads easier.

“It was just a short declaration to make sure the drivers knew what (was) going on out there, (and) to stay inside while we got our job done for them,” Casali said. “(Around) 8 p.m. was when the con-ditions really kicked in, which were the high-wind storm and the cold weather. We were able to get a lot of snow plowed through Saturday.”

Many weather-related traffic ac-cidents took place around CMU’s campus during the snowfall. CMU Police Chief, Bill Yeagley, said issues included broken-down vehicles, cars sliding off the roads and collisions.

Yeagley said the cold conditions affect CMUPD officers as much as it affects students.

“It makes it more difficult for anyone whose been in this weather, especially our office,” Yeagley said. “That cold gets to the bone quickly, and it makes every-

thing more difficult. Having it two to four days in a row, I think that’s what wears on people.”

One of the students feeling the effects of the cold is Lindsay Dougherty, a Bloomfield Hills senior. Because the cold caused problems starting her car, Dough-erty had to walk 15 minutes from her apartment to campus in the cold and wind.

She said she had to adjust her night-life and outfit to adapt to the cold.

“That walk is very cold when the wind is blowing. That’s why I haven’t gone out anywhere at all,” Dougherty said. “I’ve been covered from head to toe in warm gear. I actually have to buy new boots because mine weren’t sufficient enough for the cold.”

However, not every student has let the cold stop them from going out. Adam Bruce, a Midland junior, said he dresses warmer to go hang out with his friends. That still doesn’t mean he appreciates the cold weather.

“I don’t really like it,” Bruce said. “I’m over it. I’m ready for warmth.”

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A higher standard comes with the jersey

All Central Michigan University students are not equal.

Jane and John in your physics class share something with CMU point guard Chris Fowler or electri-fying running back, Zurlon Tipton. Within the walls of this university, we are the same as women’s bas-ketball standout Crystal Bradford or 133-pound senior wrestler Joe Roth.

However, a key distinction has to be made.

While we are all students of this university and collectively repre-sent the CMU Chippewas brand ourselves, that brand we share is an unequal burden carried by the athletes at our university.

Should we all be held to the same standards of conduct? No way.

Those who wear the maroon and gold under the spotlight stay in its gaze long after the lights are turned o� in the stadium. The precedent is di� erent for athletes. Their degree of campus fame extends their responsibility to act as a positive representation of the campus com-munity more so than the typical student.

This campus fame is deserved by their tireless e� orts, but through these e� orts they also earn the expectation to be held to a higher standard.

Athletes are not just students, they are a representation of all of us.

If you play a sport here, we don’t cut you any slack. You claim special

Dominick MastrangeloAssistant Sports

Editor

Sportsmanship does not always have to be boring.

One of the best aspects of college sports is the

rivalry. It’s fueled by heated competition on the playing

surface, and good natured trash talk o� of it. Rivalries

are what keep sports fans coming back for more. While

sportsmanship should always be encouraged, there’s

room for honesty and a little personality.

In a recent interview with Central Michigan Life, junior guard Crystal Bradford did just that.

“I don’t like Eastern (Mich-igan),” Bradford said Tuesday. “We all don’t like them. They aren’t our rivals. If they were our rivals, then they would be someone we could contend with. We feel like we are go-ing to dominate in all aspects with Eastern.”

She didn’t let out a Richard Sherman-style, explosive rant or personal attack. Unlike the Seattle Seahawks defensive back, Bradford was calm, cool and collected in calling out CMU’s in-state opponent EMU.

As a leader of the women’s basketball team, Bradford made it clear that CMU’s 7-0 Mid-American Conference record speaks for itself. And justly so.

The Chippewas beat their last three conference foes by a combined 75 points. They have snapped school records, faced some of the nation’s top-ranked teams and are heating up at the right time.

Bradford herself is the fa-vorite for MAC MVP and the emotional and mental founda-tion for the team. Heading into CMU’s game against rival Eastern Michigan, Bradford averaged a double-double in points and rebounds.

Why shouldn’t Bradford and the rest of the Chippe-

EDITORIAL | Bradford lights a fire under opponents

What it meansOur View: When appropriately phrased, pre-game banter can add a competitive edge to the game. It’s something we could use more of in collegiate athletics.Your View:Want your voice heard? To share your opinion on this editorial, or any topics related to published work in CM Life, send your views to [email protected]. More details regarding guest submissions are available on cm-life.com.


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SMACK-TALK

privilege and live your life under the microscope.

Sadly, however, it appears there is a growing trend with CMU Athletics. An expanding number of highly-skilled athletes are lacking the recognition of their duties, or at the very least, basic judgment.

With drunken driving, credit card fraud and domestic violence topping the list of athletic miscon-duct, the spotted history of some of our athletes runs deep.

These people, honored by the ability to play Division I athletics, should be more in-check of their behavior than anyone else.

Athletes are an extension of the campus community and are meant to embody the highest degree of what students should strive for — not a celebrity appearance on the Central Michigan Life crime log.

But it’s important to note that this is not an issue with most ath-letes. We are proud to be home to many great people, specifi cally in the athletic department.

However, the reputation of a few can spread to the group.

If there is anything to be learned, it’s that even amongst themselves, the lowest among them can refl ect on the whole.

The Obama campaign, par-ticularly in 2008, has done an incredible job with developing the political strategy of the “story of self.”

Since then, this process has been used in almost every progressive political training. Obama has mastered the art of telling stories that encompass the American Dream to ignite a passion for hope and change. Through his words, citizens are recognized for their hard work and dedication to the advance-ment of our nation.

Yet, behind his words, Obama forgoes all of his apparent dedi-cation to the individual — sell-ing his soul, not to the American people, but to multi-national corporations.

On Tuesday, Obama did not hesitate to advocate for our addiction to fossil fuels in his address.

“More oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world – the first time that’s happened in nearly 20 years,” he said.

Just a few years ago on his campaign trail, Obama slammed the oil industry and called our dependence on fossil fuels an addiction — yet here we are, five years later, exasperating our most precious resources and “barrel-ing” into a non-redeeming energy crisis.

After covering the economy and education, Obama then went on to slam the pay gap for women.

With his victory with the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, he is free to gloat on his successes. How-ever, Obama drowned out the voices of other female demo-graphics.

Mediocrity of ‘hope and change’

Keep the healthy banter coming

was light a fire under their opponents? Maybe she was hoping to finally see some competition.

The Eagles were the top team in the MAC before CMU recruited Bradford and almost immediately began dominating the conference. Bradford, in a sense, symbol-izes the beginning of an ugly era for EMU, who holds a 2-5 conference record this year.

“Everybody wants our spot,” Bradford boasted. “Es-pecially Eastern.”

Although we don’t believe in personal attacks, obsceni-ties or physical violence on and off the court, Bradford’s comments were accepted with open arms. Too fre-quently we hear coaches and players give the same mundane, sports clichés in reference to their opponents before and after games.

No sports fan buys into such generosities and play-ground etiquette.

Every now and then we’d like to hear a little smack-talk, and it can only help the conference. As CMU fights to fill the seats in McGuirk Arena, the women’s basket-ball team continues to build on its legacy.

Last year, the team compet-ed in the NCAA tournament and they’re making a strong push again this year. CMU is attempting to pull the national spotlight toward its mid-major conference, and calling out its opponents might fi nally catch some local, state and national interest.

These are the aspects rival-ries are made of. This is the type of talk that brings expo-sure to basketball programs, along with future recruits to campus.

As long as CMU’s game speaks for itself, we hope to see more competitive personality from the players. Hopefully it’ll trickle down to the fans, too.

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Women make 77 cents to ev-ery man’s dollar. While Obama should be praised for address-ing this issue, income inequality specifically for women of color was ignored. African-American women make 69 cents to every man’s dollar, and Latina women — 58 cents.

Obama’s disregard for women of color was callous.

I also found it interesting that Obama said nothing in relation to women’s health, but it’s predict-able. He is a weak president. He lets Congress walk all over him. Because of this, instead of ad-dressing women’s issues that are more pertinent, like military-sex-ual assault, he decided to bring up the white-woman’s wage gap.

I thought that for Obama’s second term, he would reveal the progressive policies that he so passionately argued for. However, all he did show was that he is re-ally good at giving speeches and trying to play nice with Repub-licans.

Words of compromise and unity with Congressional Repub-licans saturated the House. The problem is, after five years, the Republicans have shown they are not willing to play nice, nor are they ever going to negotiate.

Obama’s call for unification of the parties was a wasted effort and a sign of his weakness.

Maybe next year we will get to hear another great speech, done by a sensational orator, and not a commander-in-chief.

“If someone is getting trash-talked,

that brings out the beast in them.

I know what gets my teammates going

and gets (opposing players) going.

It’s all part of the game

within the game.”

Crystal Bradford, junior guard

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Adam Niemi | Assistant Photo EditorThe renovated part of Cranker’s Restaurant and Brewery, 1207 E. Pickard Road, on Thursday awaits finalizing of its brewery process before it can serve alcohol.

“Employers consistently tell us that they can provide the job-specifi c skills on the job,” Perez said. “What they don’t have the time to provide and what they can’t do is teach crit-ical thinking skills, analytical skills, writing, communication, language or how to deal with diverse cultures. It would cost them a lot of money and e� ort to train employees in those skills. If our students bring to the table those skills, they are ahead of the game.”

As the U.S. becomes more culturally diverse, this type of understanding and reasoning is becoming more important for students to attain. It’s also a reminder to CMU students that there are di� erent places and people outside of the state.

“Part of this is also a way to bridge or help bring (stu-dents) along to the idea that there is something bigger out there than Michigan,” said George Ronan, director of general education.

Perez said students must accept the threat of job out-sourcing is also a big deal that needs to be stifl ed in order to maintain adequate jobs for col-lege graduates.

“The best immunization against outsourcing is having these skills,” Perez said. “These skills are not going to be able to be duplicated easily and more cheaply by workers in India being paid $1 a day or some-thing like that. If you want to inoculate yourself against be-ing outsourced, these are some of the skills you’re going to need to show your employers.”

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By Orrin ShawlStaff Reporter

Jim Crank has always wanted a microbrewery.

After several years of confi ding his alcohol-serving ambitions in General Man-ager Allen Knash, the grand opening of Cranker’s Restau-rant and Brewery is expected within a week.

“We’ve still got to get the li-censing set on the microbrew-ery,” Knash said. “We fi gure we’ll be ready to go in the next two weeks. We’re going to bring in as many new people as we can. This is something new and di� erent that we haven’t seen here before.”

Cranker’s, 1207 E. Pickard Road, is adding a microbrew-ery as part of many additions to the restaurant. Pending paperwork for Michigan’s li-censing committee, Crank-er’s is just a paint job away from its grand reopening.

The restaurant will feature several beers brewed at Cranker’s Brewery in Big Rapids, including Bulldog Red, Knash’s favorite.

Knash said the brewed beer from Cranker’s is among the best in the state, based on an MLive.com contest.

Cranker’s adds microbrewery, plans grand reopening after remodeling

“We really go out of our way to make sure we brew a product

that people are going to enjoy.”Allen Knash, general manager

“We really go out of our way to make sure we brew a product that people are going to enjoy. We put a lot of e� ort into that, and we’re proud of it,” Knash said.

In addition to the beer, the grand opening will feature a new menu for customers. Some of the foods planned for the new menu include barbecue beef ribs, pizza, salmon and several seafood items, Knash said.

The brewery will be open until 1 a.m., but the restau-rant and the menu options will be open 24 hours a day, along with free Wi-Fi.

“We’re really trying to get some college kids in here,” Knash said. “We’re looking to be a place where you come in and have a beer with your dinner.”

Cranker’s held a grand reopening dinner party for about 80 invited guests

Monday from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Mount Pleasant resident Jon Collin tried several items at the dinner party. He said everything was delicious.

“They couldn’t serve the beer yet because of the licensing issue, but the food was all very well cooked,” Collin said. “The group of people I was with thought their meals were wonderful.”

Mount Pleasant resident Jim Powell, who has eaten at Cranker’s twice per day for the last eight years, said the new atmosphere for the restaurant would add to the food.

“Cranker’s has always had good food and reasonable prices, but the new menu is nice,” Powell said. “I hope (the remodeling) goes good.”

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By Kevin AndrewsStaff Reporter

Noah Kappelman is not a football fan.

But as Central Michigan University students and local businesses are preparing for Super Bowl XLVIII, the Flint freshman can’t help but tune in.

“I don’t usually watch football during the year, but everybody watches the Super Bowl, so I usually just get to-gether with my football-loving friends,” he said.

The biggest football game of the year will air this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on CBS, featuring the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.

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“We have a couple of drink specials and a couple of pitcher specials,” said Danielle Phillips, manager at Freddie’s. “For us, Super Bowl is not un-believably busy. Unfortunately, we’re o� the beaten path so some college students don’t know we exist.”

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Phillips said.Riverwood Resort, located

at 1313 E. Broomfi eld Road, is hosting a bowling event on Sunday. The event, running from 2 to 5 p.m., is titled “Super Bowl” as part of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Following the bowling event, pizza will be served to participants in the VIP bowling room. It costs $45 per lane, which gets custom-ers unlimited bowling for two hours, shoes and a pizza with any choice of topping.

“Reserve a lane,” said Jeremy Lawless, director of operations. “There’s only a few left.”

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Several loads of Michigan’s dirty laundry were aired by students and faculty during Speak Up, Speak Out’s fi rst fo-rum of the semester Wednes-day night in the Charles V. Park Library Auditorium.

The topic, “Reinventing Michigan,” centered around Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State address as well as the Democratic response to his speech. A panel including faculty, alumni and Central Michigan University student addressed the issues presented by Snyder, while fi elding ques-tions and comments from the audience.

Megan Gill, CMU alumna and former president of the CMU College Republicans, now holds a Michigan House Republican constituent rela-tions position in Lansing.

“I was involved with a few panels during my time here,” Gill said. “I always enjoy doing panels because I love seeing students coming out and get-ting involved no matter what side they sit on.”

After segments of both the State of the State and the Democratic response were shown, students directed their comments and questions to the panel. Topics discussed included education reform, the

Detroit bankruptcy, Michigan’s economic surplus, health care and immigration policy.

In response to education reforms, each panelist agreed Michigan does not spend nearly as much in that area as it could.

Nancy White, professor of fi nance and law at CMU, said other, more successful states tend to have a lot invested in the areas of education and infrastructure.

“States that spend a lot of money on higher education do well,” White said.

Panelists were in agreement that the state has turned to charter schools as an alterna-tive educational option, due to the di� culty of investing suf-fi cient funds in existing public school systems.

“They’re giving parents a chance,” said Larry Sych, a professor of political science at CMU. “In some of these places, there are no choices, no viable options provided by the public system.”

While each subject was at least touched on, Detroit bankruptcy dominated the majority of the forum. Panelists and students, while supporting di� erent theories and methods for the city’s revitalization, agreed Detroit presents new opportunities for those who are serious about rebuilding it.

Columbiaville junior Alison

Reed said she enjoys staying well-informed when it comes to politics, and thought the forum as a whole could have done a better job of addressing some issues in more detail.

“There were a lot of di� er-ent opinions, but they were very general,” she said. “We didn’t talk enough about the nitty-gritty stu� , which is what needs to be focused on more.”

Reed said she hoped to hear more about the prospect of a year-round school system – something Snyder brought up in his recent address.

No matter the topics dis-cussed, the “Speak Up, Speak Out” forum is continuing to accomplish its goal of keep-ing students informed and engaged in today’s political atmosphere — something that was lacking before the forum’s creation in 2000, said Merlyn Mowrey, SUSO Chairman and professor of philosophy and religion.

Gill’s appreciation of the forums comes from a desire to have an educated student body.

“As a student, it was always frustrating to me that not more of my peers were interested in state politics,” Gill said. “It re-ally directly a� ects them while they’re in college and especial-ly when they graduate.”

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Katy Kildee | Staff PhotographerGovernor Rick Snyder delivers his State of the State Address to a packed room on Jan. 16 in the Michigan House Chambers in Lansing.

By Kristopher LodesStaff Reporter

Thursday’s opening minutes looked as though junior Crystal Bradford might have to eat her words after downplaying Eastern Michigan this week.

Women’s basketball fell behind 16-3 against the Eagles early and needed a spark. Senior forward Taylor Johnson provided one, scoring nine points, all from 3-point range coming o� the bench in the fi rst half.

The Chippewas went on a 16-0 run following a 15-0-Eagles run and ran away with the 82-67 win in the second half.

“We’re 8-0, but that game is over,” Johnson said. “We can’t think about games in the past, we’ve got Ohio next ... we’ve got to keep working.”

Johnson, who played through a stomach fl u, fi nished with 11 points and 15 rebounds, while Bradford scored 16 points and brought down 17 boards of her own.

“(Eastern Michigan) threw the fi rst punch and we came back at it,” said CMU head coach Sue Guevara. “(Johnson) rebounded, (when) we weren’t getting very many o� ensive rebounds or many rebounds. She came in and gave us everything she could.”

It took some time for the CMU o� ense to click as it shot a horrendous 27.8 percent from the fi eld and 30 percent from beyond the arc in the fi rst half. The Chippewas fi nished the game

37.2 percent from the fi eld and 31.4 percent from beyond the arc.

“How about that, we had to rely on defense,” Guevara said. “(Eastern Michigan) got stuck on 16 for quite a while because we did a good job of keeping them in front of us and limit-ing them to one shot.”

CMU held a 64-48 rebounding advantage with 22 o� ensive boards.

The team battled through o� ensive struggles as junior Jas’Mine Bracey joined Johnson and Bradford on the list of players with double-doubles with 25 points and 16 rebounds. Junior Kerby Tamm added nine points, all from be-yond the arc, and nine rebounds.

“I was staying on the (o� ensive re-bounds) and keeping the o� ense alive,” Bracey said. “We started o� slow, but we came alive in the second half.”

For the second time since 1983, CMU is o� to an 8-0 start in Mid-American Conference play with the win against rival EMU.

The Chippewas have 13 games standing between them and the second undefeated conference season in pro-gram history. The fi rst came in 1983-84 when CMU went 18-0 under head coach Laura Golden.

Instead of Betsy Yonkman, LaTanga Cox, Syliva Odum and Jody Beerman coming out of the locker room, CMU’s leaders in scoring, rebounding, steals and assists in 1984-85, it’s Johnson, Bradford, Bracey and Tamm.

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This season, Central Michigan bas-ketball is a tale of two genders.

McGuirk Arena is home to two of CMU’s most esteemed and most embar-rassing varsity sports teams this year.

Midway through the Mid-American Conference schedule the men’s and women’s basketball teams are at polar opposite sides of the spectrum.

The women are undefeated at home and in the Mid-American Conference. Meanwhile, the men are winless in MAC play and have not won a game in nearly a month.

This year, we have two teams wear-ing the same colors but playing at entirely di� erent levels.

While both teams struggle to fi ll McGuirk Arena even halfway, the rest of the conference looks at CMU in two completely dissimilar ways.

THE WOMENCMU’s women are the best of the

best in the MAC right now. A brutal non-conference schedule against teams like Notre Dame and Purdue handed the Chippewas losses early, yet prepared them for the mediocrity of mid-major competition.

The Chippewas have the best 3-point shooting and transition o� ense in the conference. Even more impor-tantly, the women have junior guard Crystal Bradford.

Bradford’s WNBA stock continues to rise as she leads the Chippewas in almost every major statistical category. She has won Mid-American Conference Player of the Week fi ve times this season.

Sharpshooting senior Niki DiGuilio broke the record for most 3-point-ers made in program history earlier this year. Forwards Jewel Cotton and Jas’Mine Bracey give the women a sig-nifi cant presence underneath the rim.

Head coach Sue Guevara was just rewarded a new contract and pay raise last fall. The Chippewas seemingly have all the tools it will take to repeat as MAC Tournament champions in 2014.

But the overall goal for the women is higher than just a conference cham-pionship repeat. CMU wants to win a NCAA tournament game.

The “X” factor giving the Chippewas the best chance to do that is their dynam-ic and unstoppable leader – Bradford.

As Bradford’s ceiling continues to rise, so do the Chippewas expectations. In the meantime, the CMU women remain the crown jewel of Chippewas athletics.

THE MENThere is no way to put this lightly. The

men are awful. The CMU men have lost every conference game they have played and have not won in almost a month.

Wednesday night’s collapse at Ohio might have been the worst of all. CMU held an 18-point second-half lead, but lost it in miserable fashion and fell 71-67 in Athens, Ohio.

This year’s men are young and are only a small pin in the greater tapestry of a “championship culture,” that second-year head coach Keno Davis is trying to create.

But for right now, the CMU men are the laughing stock of the MAC. Still, the Chippewas continue to shrug their shoulders and chalk 2013-14 up to a rebuilding year.

Somehow, midway through the sea-son, the Chippewas are still at square one of whatever it is that they are try-ing to build.

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CMU women win eighth-straight conference game with 82-67 victory against last-ranked EMU

Katy Kildee | Staff PhotographerSenior Niki DiGuilio drives to the hoop during the Chippewas home victory against rival Eastern Michigan, Thursday night. CMU won its eighth-straight game with it’s win against the Eagles.

Daytona Niles | Staff PhotographerSaginaw junior Jas’Mine Bracey pushes through defense and passes the ball to another player Thursday in McGuirk Arena.

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Jan. 22 vs. Miami L, 80-86

Jan. 25 vs. Akron L, 74-82

Wednesday at Ohio L, 67-71

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Wednesday vs. Kent State, 7 p.m.

Wednesday vs. Buffalo, 7 p.m.

CENTRAL MICHIGAN MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM STATISTICSCentral Michigan men’s basketball team’s

stats through the first-half of Mid-American Conference play

SEASON TOTALS CMU Opp Scoring 1411 1367Points per game 74.3 71.9Scoring margin +2.3 -FG-FGA 488-1098 483-1011Field Goal % 44.4 47.83-Pt. FG-FGA 142-458 125-3653-Point % 31 34.23-Point per game 7.5 6.6FT-FTA 293-399 276-376Free Throw % 73.4 73.4Rebounds 623 633Blocks 23 72Assists 230 261Turnovers 210 261Steals 136 108

TEAM LEADERSPOINTS

Chris Fowler, So. G 331 pointsJohn Simons, So. F 203 pointsBraylon Rayson, Fr. G 184 pointsBlake Hibbitts, So. F 174 points

REBOUNDSJohn Simons, So. F 118 reboundsAustin Stewart, So. G 77 reboundsBlake Hibbitts, So. F 70 rebounds

BLOCKSBlake Hibbitts, So. F 6 blocks

STEALSChris Fowler, So. G 30 steals

FOULSChris Fowler, So. G 57 fouls

PAST THREE GAMES

Jan. 22 at Kent State W, 87-53

Jan. 25 at WMU W, 113-87

Thursday vs. EMU W, 82-67

NEXT THREE GAMES

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Feb. 6 at Ball State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 9 vs. Buffalo, 2 p.m.

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WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELDBREANNE LESNAR: She was another automatic qualifier, taking third in the 5K with a personal-best time of 17:02.58

CENTRAL MICHIGAN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM STATISTICSCentral Michigan women’s basketball team’s stats through the first-half of Mid-American

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SEASON TOTALS CMU Opp Scoring 1694 1597Points per game 84.7 79.8Scoring margin +4.9 -FG-FGA 616-1446 577-1340Field Goal % 42.6 43.13-Pt. FG-FGA 191-539 120-3723-Point % 35.4 32.33-Point per game 9.6 6.0FT-FTA 271-433 323-451Free Throw % 62.6 71.6Rebounds 906 838Blocks 53 64Assists 310 346Turnovers 320 343Steals 171 136

TEAM LEADERSPOINTS

Crystal Bradford, Jr. G 381 pointsNiki DiGuilio, Sr. G 278 pointsJessica Green, Jr. G 237 pointsJas’Mine Bracey, Jr. F 219 points

REBOUNDSCrystal Bradford, Jr. G 220 reboundsJas’Mine Bracey, Jr. F 193 reboundsKerby Tamm, Jr. G 87 rebounds

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Katy Kildee | Staff PhotographerJunior guard Crystal Bradford strains to regain possession during the Chippewas 82-67 victory over Eastern Michigan on Thursday in McGuirk Arena. Bradford finished the game with 16 points and 5 assists.

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File Photo | Chuck MillerSenior guard Kyle Randall drives to the basket during Saturday nights game against Western Michigan at McGuirk Arena. Randall finished the game tied for a team high 14 points on the night, but it wasn’t enough as the Chippewas lost, 76-59.

By Seth Newman & Neil Rosan

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The biggest rivals in the Mid-American Conference will take the court Saturday.

Central Michigan will take on Western Michigan at 2 p.m. in Kalamazoo.

Second-year head coach Keno Davis got a taste of the rivalry twice last year. The Broncos won both games.

“I think it was everything that I had heard of before I got to Central Michigan,” Davis said. “I think it showed through experience the inten-sity that this rivalry has. I know it will be a hostile environment and our guys will be looking forward to it.”

CMU has already played in a few hostile environments this season. Recently, the team traveled to Dayton and played at Ohio.

Those experiences will pay o� in a game where the atmo-sphere will be against CMU, Davis hopes.

“I think we are pretty pre-pared,” he said. “We played at Dayton and they were playing arguably as well as anyone was at the time. What you try and do during your non-confer-ence schedule is play enough games where you are able to test yourself and prepare yourself for what the road will be like in conference with great crowd support.”

Sophomore forward John Simons said the Ohio game was good preparation for heading

Men’s basketball prepares for hostile showdown at Western Michigan

into Kalamazoo. “I think it’s fun to play in. To

go to Western, their students are not going to like Central,” he said. “I’m sure they will be all over us, but we still have to go in, stay focused, and get a win.”

WMU senior guard David Brown averages 18.3 points per game. He will face sophomore CMU guard Chris Fowler who has shown he can score too, averaging 17.4 points per game.

Simons measures 6-foot-8, but he will have his hands full against 6-foot-11 senior center Shayne Whittington who is averaging 14.3 points and 8.9 rebounds per game.

“Any time we play Western, it is always a big game,” said sophomore forward Blake Hibbitts. “You can take the records and throw them out the window. It’s always a big game and everyone is going to get up

for it. Both teams are going to play real hard, so it would be a good game.”

Talking to Davis on his way back from Ohio he said he hadn’t gotten the chance to watch a lot of fi lm on the Broncos, but would use the bus ride to watch six or seven hours of fi lm.

From scouting other Mid-American Conference teams, Davis has a few thoughts on WMU already. The real goal at this point in the season is picking up their fi rst conference victory – the Chippewas are 0-7 in MAC play.

“We’ve been right there at the end of the last four or fi ve games, but we haven’t found a way to pull it out yet,” Simons said. “It would be awesome to go to Western and get our fi rst MAC win.

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By Joe JuddStaff Reporter

McGuirk Arena has seen its fair share of talent run-ning up and down the court over the years.

Ever since Sue Guevara took over as head coach of the women’s basketball team in 2007, that talent has resided amongst her teams. The Chippewas worked their way up the Mid-American Conference ranks and by 2012, her team had a championship.

These wins show the excel-lence of her teams, but there is something else that the coach views as important in this suc-cessful stretch: the fans.

“I absolutely think we have a home-court advan-tage,” Guevara said. “Our crowds have been really good here and if I’m not mis-taken, we’ve been over 1,000 (fans) for every home game.”

Home-court advantage is an aspect of the game that is overlooked by some. In college sports and in college basketball especially, it can make or break a team.

The Chippewas “sixth player” as Guevara refers to it, has been there on the court for all of her team’s dominance in recent seasons. She recognizes the support by paying tribute to them

after each home game via microphone speech to the crowd. A tradition started by a colleague of hers has now become a common sight in McGuirk Arena after both wins and losses.

“I have to give the credit (for the act) to my former as-sistant coach, Kathy McGee. Two or three years ago, we had a really big win and the crowd was really into it and Kathy suggested that I take the arena microphone and address the crowd. That’s how it started,” Guevara said.

With the likes of senior guard Niki DiGuilio and fellow guard, junior Crys-tal Bradford leading the Chippewas to an unde-feated record in MAC play this season, the team’s fans have been just as enthrall-ing as Guevara’s postgame speeches to the crowds.

“Our crowds have been better and I’m loving every minute of it because we feed o� of the fans,” senior Taylor Johnson said. “We love our fans and we love that our fan base keeps growing day in and day out.”

Even with the constant roar that is the team’s crowd, Guevara wants to see as many people as possible make their way to the arena as the sea-son reaches its home stretch. She never underestimates the

value of momentum and team energy in the pivotal points of the game.

“I think our students ap-preciate the style of ball we play and I think the more students we can get in, the harder it is for the other team,” Guevara said.

Students could be respon-sible for a handful of missed free throws from opposing teams so far this year. With a full section of students just a mere 15 feet away from the line, it isn’t too di� cult to see the sixth player in full-e� ect. This advantage was seen even through the team’s last home win against Bowl-ing Green.

“That student section that was down there when we played Bowling Green made a world of di� erence when they were at the free-throw line; they were right in the opponent’s face,” said Guevara. “With what I have seen, our student section is probably one of the best.”

Backed by the sixth player that is the McGuirk Arena crowd, the Chippewas look to continue their home dominance in hopes of bring a second consecutive MAC Championship to Mount Pleasant in 2014.

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By Taylor DesOrmeauStaff Reporter

A win against Ball State on Sunday was enough to propel gymnastics into the Top 25 nationally for the second time this season.

This came on the back of a 195.8 team score. While Central Michigan has won the Mid-American Confer-ence title the past four years, they haven’t scored a 195.8 or higher in January in any of those seasons.

“I think it’s of huge significance for us,” said senior Brittany Petzold. “It just shows all the hard work has paid off. It shows all the other teams out there that we’re a Top-25 team.”

The Chippewas have a 194.75 average score for the season, moving up from where they were last week, at 194.4. They also jumped past Rutgers and Kent State – two teams they will face later in the season.

“We were really excited about (passing Kent State in the rankings) because they’re our biggest rivals in the MAC,” said sophomore Kirsten Petzold. “So to be ahead of them is good.”

Both Petzold sisters said the team’s goal is to make it into the top 12 in the standings.

“The top 12 go to nation-als, so that’s been one of our goals for a very long time,” said Brittany. “I think we can get that.”

Auburn University holds the No. 12 spot in the coun-try with a 195.983 average, with its highest score of the season being a 196.850. CMU would have to score in the high 196s and low 197s to reach the top 12.

The Chippewas have scored above a 196.5 three times in program his-tory, with the record being 197.525 in the 2004 MAC Championships.

The team was able to break the 196 threshold twice in 2013 – a mark the Chippewas nearly broke Sunday against Ball State.

This score is what head coach Jerry Reighard sets as

the standard every week.“We knew what we needed

to do on fl oor to crack the 196,” Reighard said. “I actual-ly thought the performances were there to earn the scores that we needed.”

If the Chippewas are able to score a 196 or higher in this weekend’s quad meet, they will have an average of at least 195, which would have been good enough for No. 20 in this weekend’s rankings.

“I think we’re really

getting back to the CMU gymnastics that we’ve had in the past,” Reighard said. “This team is starting to believe and that’s a big part of the battle.”

CMU’s next meet will be against Eastern Michigan, Illinois State and Illinois-Chicago at 2 p.m. Saturday at McGuirk Arena.

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Petzold scored a 9.925 on vault Sunday in CMU’s vic-tory over Ball State, setting a personal record and tying sixth all-time in CMU vault history.

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