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sara winkler/staff photographerDr. Ernest L. Yoder, founding dean of CMU’s College of Medicine, is part of a team of faculty that will soon head the new medical building which is currently under construction. Yoder’s current plans focus mainly on accrediting the medical school and creating a fitting curriculum. Although he has spent the last 30 years at different levels of medical study, he says being appointed as founding dean was a bit unexpected. “It was for me literally a dream come true,” Yoder said.

By Emily PfundSenior Reporter

CMU is sharing a $900,000 grant with Wayne State Uni-versity to set up an Area Health Education Center serving 19 mid-Michigan counties.

The center is one of five planned for different areas of the state to provide health care resources and educa-tion.

The two-year grant is set-ting up an AHEC program in the Detroit area this year. CMU will begin work on the mid-Michigan center in the second year of the grant, beginning Sept. 1, 2011. Its location has not been deter-mined.

“The idea is to stimulate understanding and develop-ment of health professions in the region,” said Chris In-gersoll, dean of the College of Health Professions.

Monika Wierzbicki, direc-tor of external operation for WSU’s College of Nursing, said CMU will act as a liai-son to the 19-county region. Determining the location of the center, she said, will be apart of the community engagement process, which CMU will facilitate.

CMU will allocate some money to the establishment of the center, which will be matched by the grant, Inger-soll said.

Ingersoll said some of the money will come from the colleges of Health Pro-fessions and Medicine, al-though he was unsure of the exact amount. After the

center is established, it will have to secure its own sourc-es of funding and function without financial assistance from CMU.

The mid-Michigan AHEC will work to improve health care in under-served rural areas, Ingersoll said. This will include serving as a re-source center and commu-nity board.

The center will also focus on improving vocational ed-ucation and primary care in mid-Michigan.

Wierzbicki said the cen-ter will first put together a health assessment and de-termine priorities in the re-gion.

“For the current health professions workforce, the center will address their needs and any barriers

CMU to aid Wayne State in formation of health centerFacility will serve 19 counties

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By Carisa SeltzSenior Reporter

Dr. Ernest Yoder ap-proached the Board of Trust-ees last month to report a key accomplishment for the Col-lege of Medicine.

The college’s founding dean announced the comple-tion of his “dream dean team” after months of searching — a step in the accreditation process for which CMU will allocate a total of $1.37 mil-

lion for salaries.Guidelines from the Li-

aison Committee on Medi-cal Education, the accredit-ing body, mandate medical schools have at least the four associate dean positions. Provost Gary Shapiro said the leadership deans are all extremely critical to the Col-lege of Medicine’s future suc-cess.

“There is a huge amount of work to be done and each of these four individuals brings

a great deal of expertise and a great deal of industrious-ness,” he said. “We are work-ing on all the details that need to be accomplished before we admit our first class.”

Deborah Biggs, associate dean of Administration and Finance, Nehad El-Sawi, as-sociate dean of Medical Edu-cation and Faculty Develop-ment, Dr. Sean Kesterson, associate dean of Clinical Af-fairs and Hospital Relations,

and Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord, associate dean of Student Affairs, make up CMU’s four associate medical college deans.

The $1.37 million in asso-ciate dean and dean salaries would be allocated annually. That total excludes perfor-mance incentives and mis-cellaneous benefits.

Yoder said the salaries are all at or below the 50th per-centile range among similar positions across the country.

“We collected data on com-parable salaries at a variety of institutions for a variety of positions (from professional organizations in colleges of medicine),” Shapiro said.

Shapiro said Yoder recom-mended salaries for each of the deans after they ana-lyzed the data. Shapiro then reviewed the recommen-dations and submitted the amounts to the Office of Hu-man Resources for approval.

“The salaries are very rea-

sonable,” Yoder said.

Comparing salariesShapiro said CMU had

to be competitive because the College of Medicine is a new school. The associate deans at CMU are not paid like those at large and well-known medical colleges, but like medical colleges similar to what CMU will develop into, he said.

College of Medicine salaries will total $1.37 million annually

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By Michael L. HoffmanStaff Reporter

Many college students have found themselves more disenfranchised from the voting process than in the 2008 elections.

Bill Ballenger, editor of Inside Michigan Politics and former Griffin En-dowed Chair, said he ex-pects lower voter turnout for 18-to 24-year-olds for two reasons: Voter apathy and disillusionment with President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party.

“Younger voters ... are the most poorly participating sector of the electorate,” he said.

Sterling Heights senior Mark Regan is not voting in the November election.

“I won’t be voting be-cause I don’t feel I have done enough research on the election,” he said. “I don’t like to vote arbitrari-ly.”

On the other hand, Ash-lee Shelley plans on voting Nov. 2.

The Spring Lake fresh-man said the primary issue for her is the war in Afghan-istan because her brother is serving there. Though she wasn’t old enough to vote in 2008, she’d kept a close eye on the presiden-tial race.

“The national election is more important to me,” she said.

an apathetiC eleCtion?Ballenger said in 2008,

Obama and the Democratic

Party revved up young vot-ers’ support.

“There was marginally more turnout in 2008, but not as large as everyone thought it would be,” he said. “Now, all of that is gone. Things are back to usual if you will — apa-thetic.”

He said he does not ex-pect young people to be as supportive of Barack Obama or the Democratic party in November.

Grand Rapids junior and College Republican Ben Greene said he has seen a distinct shift in the way

apathy may keep some students away from pollsOther college-age voters prepare for election

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jake May/photo editorRachael Furlong, 7, of Mount Pleasant peers through a stack of falling leaves she threw in the air Tuesday evening as she takes a break from raking the front lawn of a Fancher Street residence. Furlong laid down in the pile of leaves for about 15 minutes before stopping to mess up the pile she created. “It’s fun. You can climb inside of them and hide,” she said. “Some feel soft and smooth, and some feel bumpy. When I jumped in, they were hard. Well, the ground was. I can’t wait for winter. It’s my favorite (season).”

they’re facing,” she said.It will provide continuing

education for health profes-sionals and work to get stu-dents interested in pursuing a health-related career, Wi-erzbicki said.

“A big part of the program is K-12 outreach,” she said. “We want to identify disad-vantaged students and get

them interested in health professions.”

The center will also be a resource for CMU students, where they can learn with other students in different disciplines and get con-nected to other resources outside of the university, she said.

Other centers are planned to serve the northern lower peninsula, west Michigan and the upper peninsula.

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“Based upon that, the sala-ries that we established for our associate deans were suitable in terms of compa-rable data and were critical for attracting qualified in-dividuals,” he said. “We are not aiming to be the highest paid, but we’re aiming to be within comparable figures.”

In addition to its two high-est-ranking deans, Michigan State University employs six associate deans for their College of Human Medi-cine. Wayne State University employs 13 associate and assistant deans. MSU pays about $1.8 million annually for their college, while WSU pays about $3.44 million for their school of medicine.

CMU has no further plans to hire additional College of Medicine deans at this time, Shapiro said.

Yoder said he and the asso-ciate deans will work on many projects this semester. They include recruiting faculty, de-veloping curriculum and cre-ating clinical affiliations.

“I want to stop short of the word “overwhelming,” but the workload is huge be-cause this is all about design and start up,” Yoder said.

He said the College of Medicine will complete their accreditation documents in early February in prepara-tion of the LCME committee meeting.

“The reason we have to have them done in February is for a complete and careful review,” he said.

LCME officials will ap-prove the documents and

visit campus in June. CMU will begin recruitment of stu-dents in fall 2011, Yoder said.

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MSU College of Human Medicine

salariesw Marsha Rappley, dean: $378,521w Kevin McMahon, executive dean: $252,750w Six associate deans range from about $163,000 to $273,000w Total about $1.8 million

*A recent salary list for 2010-11 at MSU is not yet available

*Data according to the university’s faculty and aca-demic staff salary List from 2009-10

WSU School of Medicine salaries

w Valerie Parisi, dean: $400,000 w Maryjean Schenk, vice dean of education: $265,675w Kenneth Lee, vice dean of business affairs: $208,275 w Robert Frank, interim vice dean of faculty affairs: $364,700 w 13 associate/assistant deans range from about $88,000 to $245,000w Total about $3.44 million

*Data provided by the univer-sity’s corporate/public affairs office

Republicans are approach-ing the 2010 elections, both nationally and within Mich-igan.

“I think that the Repub-licans were complacent in 2008,” he said. “But in 2010, we are more focused on the goals we want to achieve.”

Greene said the newfound focus of the Republican Party and conservative movement will serve the party well on Nov. 2. He said the most im-portant issue in Michigan is job creation and that is why there seems to be more in-terest in this election than the last.

“Jobs are the number one priority,” Greene said. “It’s something that both sides of the aisle understand.”

College Democrats Vice President Michelle Shamaly agreed and said the primary issue within the state is job creation.

“Students are frustrated in Michigan, just like they were with the country in 2008,”

the Clinton Township ju-nior said. “Students are con-cerned with being able to find a job after graduating.”

Shamaly said she thinks some students, especially those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, considered Obama’s election to be the change they desired with-out realizing it would take time.

“If we really want that change we voted for in 2008, we need to continue to elect progressive Democrats,” she said.

More college students are aware of what is happening statewide because educa-tion funding affects all of them, Shamaly said.

Education funding is one of the issues she is most con-cerned with in Michigan.

“I did a lot of research on grants and scholarships and a lot of them weren’t avail-able anymore,” Shamaly said. “It can make paying for college pretty hard.”

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By Emily GroveStaff Reporter

The trend of replacing traditional billboards with digital billboards could soon come to a screeching halt.

A bill proposing a statewide digital billboard moratorium in Michigan is being considered by the state House. If it makes its way through the legislature, the statewide moratorium would be in effect until Jan. 1, 2012.

A study by the Federal Highway Administration regarding digital billboards should be released soon. The study could impact legislation around the country in determining new regulations or bans on digital billboards, said Andy Schor, assis-tant director of state affairs for Michigan Munici-pal League.

He thinks the moratorium is necessary while the federal study is conducted.

“The study is looking to see if these billboards are public safety hazards,” Schor said. “Do they change too quickly? Are they too bright? A variety of things could institute recommended changes or even bans.”

Schor said the league supports the bill, but they are not advocating for bans on digital billboards, just a delay on new digital billboards until their safety has been determined.

The original bill was introduced by state Rep. Re-bekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, on Nov. 5, 2009 to ban billboards except in cities with more than 35,000 people and impose a two-year moratorium on any new or converted digital billboards. The bill has been amended and is not working toward a ban for all digital billboards.

Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, 6800 E. Soaring Eagle Blvd., had rented digital billboards across the state to advertise multiple events at once. The casino stopped renting digital billboards within the last two months, but still uses its own digital signs on M-20 and Leaton Road.

Frank Cloutier, public relations director for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, said these bill-boards allowed messages to be changed often without the hassle of traditional billboards.

“I do know of many comments from individuals who value digital billboards,” Cloutier said. “I also know that community event level of attendance is higher when advertised on digital billboards.”

Though the digital billboards seemed to garner attention, the multiple messages may have been a disadvantage, said Raul Venegas, director of mar-keting and entertainment for the casino and re-sort.

He said they expected exposure, but were miss-ing people as they went by. He doesn’t see the digi-tal billboards as hazardous.

“I don’t think they are distracting,” Venegas said. “I do see them as beneficial.”

In September, the city of Walker established a six-month moratorium on digital billboards within its limits. Numerous cities across the country have adopted similar bans or moratoriums this year, in-cluding St. Louis and Denver.

In an effort to promote tourism and scenic beauty, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have bans on all billboards.

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By Ryan TaljonickSenior Reporter

Several of Facebook’s most popular applications have been transmitting personal information to multiple ad-vertising and Internet track-ing companies

Some applications are transmitting “Facebook ID” numbers, which are assigned to each user on Facebook, ac-cording to a Wall Street Jour-nal investigation.

Anyone can look up a Face-book profile by utilizing the ID number associated with that account, even when users set their profile information to private. Applications are soft-ware programs often made by third-party companies which allow users to play games and share information with one

anotherThe practice of selling user

information is a breach of Fa-cebook’s policies.

“That makes me want to not play those games,” said Sterling Heights freshman Kelli Kulasa. “That’s my per-sonal profile information — it makes me want to make a new profile.”

She said she has been play-ing a game called FrontierVille on Facebook for a couple of months.

FrontierVille is made by

Zynga Game Network Inc., the company that also made the FarmVille and Texas HoldEm applications. With more than 125 million users among just those three, Zynga sells its us-ers’ Facebook ID numbers in addition to information about users’ friends’ profiles, ac-cording to the WSJ report.

“I think (Facebook) should have to increase security, that’s people’s personal stuff,” Kulasa said. “It’s not fair. It’s kind of like cheating — they get special information about

people. If companies can do that, what about stalkers and stuff?”

According to the investiga-tion, 70 percent of Facebook users utilize apps each month. Facebook is cracking down on app companies found to be in violation of policies, the re-port states and Facebook’s top ten most-used apps have been found to sell user information to third-party advertising and Internet tracking companies.

Privacy on Facebook further challenged by user applicationsPersonal info could be mined by tracking companies

Facebook apps

w Top 10 apps (in terms of users), all of which transmit Facebook IDs according to the Wall Street Journal:1) FarmVille - 59.42) Phrases - 43.4 3) Texas HoldEm - 36.34) FrontierVille - 30.65) Causes - 26.76) Cafe World - 21.97) Mafia Wars - 21.98) Quiz Planet - 16.59) Treasure Isle - 15.310) iHeart - 14A privaCy | 4a

Photos by jEff sMith/staff photographerMount Pleasant resident Libby Olson, 5, laughs and looks up at her mother, Crystal Olson, as members of Sigma Sigma Sigma make safety-pin bracelets Tuesday evening during a fundraiser at the sorority house, 430 S. Main St.

On Tuesday night, the pair got a lot of help making bracelets from about 50 members of Sigma Sig-ma Sigma at the sorority’s 430 S. Main St. house.

“We’ve sold at least 300,” Olson said. “We’re just excited to be sup-porting what is an example of true friendship between these girls.”

She said the bracelets are avail-able at Stone Soup Gifts and Ac-cessories, 120 E. Broadway St., for $15 each.

Each bracelet has a outline of a daisy on it. Olson said her and her

daughter’s fingers started bleed-ing from making so many.

The sorority was also joined by Olson’s 12-year-old daughter Emma.

Sigma Sigma Sigma made about 30 bracelets, Olson said.

The sorority came up with the idea after member Chloe Fletcher, an Alpena junior, visited Stone Soup and came across the jewelry.

Fletcher said after she saw them, she talked to the owner and was moved to help the cause.

“It’s just a really inspiring story

and having Libby and Crystal here is inspiring for us,” she said.

Fletcher said she made four bracelets on Tuesday alone.

Grand Rapids junior Jillian Folkerts said she plans to buy one bracelet for each of her family members for Christmas.

She said Sigma Sigma Sigma has referred the products and cause to several people.

“I can only imagine how much money they’re making off these,” Folkerts said.

Hope Foreman said she is in-

spired by how Libby wants to help her friend.

“I like how this little girl is so into helping out other people,” the Clarkston freshman said. “It’s really inspiring. A lot of young kids usually don’t have that much in-spiration.”

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Five-year-old Libby Olson wants to do every-thing she can to help out her best friend Daisy

Higgins.Daisy, also 5, was recently diagnosed with a rare

blood disorder that attacks her right cheek bone, said Crystal Olson, Libby’s mother. She said Daisy needs to go to Lansing every week for chemothera-py.

Olson said she and her daughter started mak-ing and selling beaded safety-pin bracelets to raise money for Daisy and her family.

Sigma Sigma Sigma members Novi senior Bryn Smetana, left, Petoskey sophomore Ra-chel Serafini and Illinois freshman Kim Winzentsen talk as they make safety-pin brace-lets Tuesday evening during a fundraiser at the sorority house, 430 S. Main St.

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By Annie HarrisonStaff Reporter

Maxine Berman believes cooperation between both political parties will be the key to success following No-vember’s election.

“People have become so rigidly liberal or so rigidly conservative and they view compromise as a weakness,” said Berman, Griffin En-dowed Chair and Gov. Jen-nifer Granholm’s director of Special Projects. “This state needs to sit down, Demo-

crats and Republicans, and come up with a new revenue structure.”

On Tuesday, about 150 people attended a Speak Up Speak Out forum, dur-ing which Berman and other panelists discussed the pos-sible outcome of the mid-term elections.

The forum “Elections 2010: What do the Experts Say?” began with a series of cam-paign videos representing Democrats and Republicans at local, state and national levels. After the videos, the panelists gave their predic-tions for the gubernatorial race between Democrat Virg Bernero, Lansing Mayor, and Republican Rick Snyder, an

Ann Arbor businessman.David Jesuit, a political

science associate professor, facilitated the debate.

Panelists besides Berman included former state Rep. Sandy Caul; Bryant English, Jackson junior and advocacy chair of College Democrats; Travis Faber, Battle Creek senior and first vice chair of College Republicans; and Chris Owens, an assistant political science professor.

Possible advantagesBerman said the race will

be close, but the Republi-cans have an advantage be-cause Barack Obama’s ad-ministration has faced a lot of criticism.

Caul said it is possible there will be a low voter turnout among students be-cause of voter apathy after the highly publicized 2008 presidential elections.

“There were a lot of prom-ises made and a lot of prom-ises not kept,” she said.

Owens said there are a lot of independent voters who are still undecided, but Bernero would need 80 to 90 percent of undecided voters to win the election.

The biggest issue dis-cussed during the forum was the economy.

Both Faber and English said their candidate would

panel analyzes mid-term election; focus on gubernatorial raceabout 150 attend Speak Up, Speak Out forum

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By emily GroveStaff Reporter

With two open seats and four contenders, the Mount Pleasant City Commission race is getting heated.

Kathy Ling, a retired high school teacher, and Nancy English, Central Michigan Community Hospital busi-ness development liaison, are currently serving on the commission. Todd Gurzick, owner of ToDblD’s Party Store, 104 E. May St, and Attorney Lesley Hoenig are looking to become involved in politics for the first time and give back to their com-munity.

“I decided to run and do what I can to help the city of Mount Pleasant improve and make Mount Pleasant a great place to live,” Hoenigh said. “I know it’s already a

great place, but everywhere could stand to improve.”

Gurzick wants to make the city more hospitable for small businesses. He also wants to be accessible to his future constituents, so they can express their ideas to him.

He said his large city background and small busi-ness experience are valuable tools he could bring to the commission.

“I’m from a large city with several downtown areas and I know Mount Pleasant has been focused on developing their downtown,” Gurzick said. “I would like to assist in that. I feel the town needs more small businesses and I’d like to assist others in starting small businesses.”

One of Hoenig’s concerns is business-resident bal-ance. She wants to encour-age business growth while making Mount Pleasant an enjoyable place to live.

“I hope to help promote a

balance between businesses and residents,” she said. “Sometimes there can be a conflict between the two with where and how to set up businesses.”

Hoenig said her admin-istrative government ex-perience gives her a better understanding of the legal issues that could come up.

IncumbentsEnglish would bring a dif-

ferent type of business back-ground to the commission if elected. She started on the City Commission in June when she stepped up from the planning commission to fill Jeff Palmer’s seat.

She said she will not run on a one-item agenda, but

wants to work to be profes-sional, respectful and do what she thinks is right.

“I have vast experience in a few different areas includ-ing health care, education and business,” English said. “My background and ability to change careers gives me a different skill set.”

Ling brings more govern-ment experience to the race than the other candidates. She was a chairwoman of the Isabella County Com-mission in the late 70s and early 80s and a government teacher for 25 years.

She wants to maintain the level of services and balance financial issues.

“We need to be creative and find new ways to do things,” she said. “Like the recent Union Township and Mount Pleasant agreement for wastewater treatment. These are important things for local government to do.”

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By emily PfundSenior Reporter

CMU President George Ross is not the only univer-sity president in Michigan to add the responsibility of be-ing on the board of a private company to his administra-tive duties.

Western Michigan Uni-versity President John Dunn is on the board of direc-tors for First National Bank of Michigan, in addition to three nonprofits, said Cheryl

Roland, executive director of university relations.

While she does not know the exact time commitment involved in the positions, Rowland said Dunn’s in-volvement in the boards is beneficial for WMU.

“There’s one meeting each month for most of those (boards),” she said. “It allows for great one-on-one con-tact with other people in the community and gives access to a knowledge base about the community’s assets.”

Dunn earns $200 for each board meeting he attends for First National Bank of Michigan. The board meets

once a month, with a second monthly meeting scheduled when “special circumstanc-es” arise, said Mary Jane Bay-lor, an administrative assis-tant for the bank.

Baylor said the board aver-ages 15 to 16 meetings each year.

Ross was appointed to the Furniture Brands Inter-national Board of Directors in September. He will at-tend four annual meetings and could receive an annual $45,000 cash retainer, plus possible stock grants.

Other presIdentsOther institutions — in-

cluding Michigan State Uni-versity and Eastern Michigan University — do not employ a president who serves on the executive board of a for-profit company.

“I don’t believe President (Susan) Martin is on any boards,” said Geoff Larcom, EMU executive director of media relations. “Lord knows she’s busy enough al-ready.”

Allan Gilmour, interim president of Wayne State University, sits on the board of directors for both DTE Energy and Universal Tech-nical Institute, a for-prof-it career college. He also

serves on five nonprofit boards.

DTE Energy paid Gilmour $100,000 for his services in 2009, with $72,000 in re-stricted stock options, said company spokesman Scott Simons.

MSU President Lou Anna Simon is on an advisory board for the Williamston-based company Centurion Medical Products, said Mark Fellows, MSU media com-munications manager.

Mary Sue Coleman, presi-dent of the University of Michigan, is on the boards of two for-profit corporations: Johnson & Johnson and the

Meredith Corporation, a publishing company. She is involved with a long list of nonprofit foundations, as-sociations and boards, ac-cording to the university’s website.

She received $110,000 in 2009 for her services to the Johnson & Johnson board. She also earned $99,978 in stock awards and $20,000 in “other compensation,” ac-cording the company’s proxy statement.

Compensation informa-tion for the other companies was unavailable.

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Other university presidents serve on for-profit boardsMSU, EMU presidents do not

Those applications include FarmVille, phrases, Texas HoldEm, FrontierVille, Causes and Cafe World, among oth-ers.

Alan Rudy, associate profes-sor of sociology, said the sell-ing of personal information will lead to an increase in tar-geted advertising.

“I don’t know if there’s any legal issue involved,” he said. “At the same time, I have a good number of friends who have now not only gotten off FarmVille and other applica-tions, but blocked them.”

Rudy said students should be careful about what infor-

mation they post on social media websites, especially in the event their profiles are ac-cessible to advertising and In-ternet tracking companies.

“If you don’t want your in-formation out there on the Web, don’t put it up there,” he said.

Rochester Hills senior Nata-lie Smith said it is troubling application companies are selling profile information, but she is not surprised.

She said the practice is im-moral and creepy.

“I think it’s bad,” she said, “but it’s something you have to expect if you’re going to use a company that’s about mak-ing profits and not really about protecting your interests.”

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Joe Tobianski/Staff PhOtOgraPherLeft to right, Chris Owens, an assistant political science professor; Maxine Berman, Griffin Endowed Chair and Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s director of special projects; First Vice Chair of College Republicans and Battle Creek senior Travis Faber; former state Rep. Sandy Caul; and Bryant English, Jackson junior and advocacy chair for College Democrats, give opening statements before taking questions from the Speak Up Speak Out audience Tuesday at the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

create jobs in Michigan.“We’ve seen growth in

this economy,” English said. “(Bernero) is for the working man.”

Faber was confident the Republicans will take the state House and possibly the U.S. House, saying “the Re-publican ticket all around is just fantastic.”

Mount Pleasant graduate student Mike Mezei attend-ed and said he is frustrated with the gridlock in Michi-gan’s government. He is con-cerned the government will not be able to make com-promises in order to solve tax issues.

“We have divided govern-ment,” Mezei said. “We’re not solving our problems.”

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By Vikki Ortiz HealyMCT

CHICAGO — Next time your significant other reads a text message while sitting with you at a restaurant, tell him he’s rude. And tell him he’s like a typical American.

Those statements would likely be true, given the results of a recent Marquette Univer-sity study that compared the texting habits of cell phone users in the world’s two largest democracies — the U.S. and India.

In monitoring text messag-es from 137 college students in both countries, the study showed that India appeared to have better “textiquette.” Re-searchers found that 52 percent of the Americans in the study read text messages while in public social settings such as restaurants, shops and movie theaters, compared to only 5 percent of Indian participants who read texts while out. Most Indians (41 percent) read texts while at home or at a friend’s home.

Americans were also seven

times more likely than Indians to send texts from social set-tings (42 percent vs. 6 percent); and almost eight times as likely to text while in the middle of a conversation (31 percent vs. 4 percent).

Still, Robert Shuter, the Mar-quette communication studies professor who led the study, cautioned not to be too down on American texters.

“The truth is, neither Indians nor Americans excused them-selves or took leave when they read or sent a message. They’re both at fault,” he said, adding

that the point of the study was to emphasize how different cultural factors must be con-sidered when developing uni-versal texting rules.

Maybe he’s right. Indians did rudely rank 10 percentage points higher than Americans in using swear words in texts.

When it comes to texting, U.S. users are rudeness champs

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By Ryan CzachorskiSenior Reporter

Police were no busier than usual this weekend, despite the Homecoming crowds.

Twenty MIPs were hand-ed out by the Mount Pleas-ant Police Department, the Isabella County Sheriff ’s Department and the CMU Police combined. Thirteen citations were handed out last year, according to pre-vious reports.

Still, area police agencies felt the weekend could have

been busier.“It was basically no dif-

ferent than any other week-end,” said Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. “I’m glad it was (tame), but I don’t know what the rea-son would be.”

The MPPD wrote the ma-jority of the MIP tickets with 15. CMU Police wrote four citations and the sher-iff ’s department only wrote one.

There was a decrease in drunk driving tickets. The MPPD and sheriff ’s depart-ment issued a combined to-tal of three citations, down from last year’s eight.

When alumni and former students returned to CMU this weekend lot 63 was full for the first time since the

new regulations were put in place last year, but CMU Police Chief Bill Yeagley did not mind all the extra peo-ple.

“It was a very active, but very reasonable weekend,” Yeagley said. “People made good decisions, seemed to enjoy themselves, and fol-lowed the law.”

The sheriff ’s department broke up 22 parties over the weekend, but only made four alcohol-related arrests.

Area police combined for two drug-related arrests and three assaults over the weekend.

The MPPD was a bit busi-er, handing out 12 open in-toxicant citations, 15 tick-ets for disorderly conduct and 16 tickets for hosting/

attending a nuisance party. Public Information Officer Jeff Browne said 12 of the nuisance party citations were written at one party, however.

“If you just answer the door, it’s so much easier for everyone,” Browne said.

Yeagley said the local agencies had an agreement to be on call for one anoth-er over the weekend to deal with the boost in Mount Pleasant’s guests.

“I know the law enforce-ment (agencies) are work-ing very closely together, putting together preventa-tive programs,” he said. “I’m hopeful that’s had a positive impact.”

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By Joe BorlikStaff Reporter

About 54 percent of CMU’s total revenue from 2009-10 came from tu-ition, David Burdette told student leaders Monday.

During the Student Government Associa-tion meeting, the vice president of Finance and Administrative Services lectured students and an-swered questions about how CMU is funded.

Burdette said CMU is a $400 million per year e n t e r p r i s e with 2,200 e m p l o y e e s , making it the second larg-est employer in Isabella County after the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort.

“Where did the money come from?” B u r d e t t e asked. “Most of it comes from you.”

He showed the students two pie charts, one repre-senting CMU’s total rev-enue for 2009-10 and the other showing its total ex-penditures.

In addition to the 54 percent, the first chart showed 20 percent of CMU’s revenue last year came from state appro-priations and 26 percent from other sources.

Brittany Mouzourakis, a Garden City senior and SGA president, said she appreciated how candid Burdette was with the questions.

“I thought he was very entertaining and informa-tive,” she said.

Michigan is a high-tuition and high-finan-cial-aid state, Burdette said, and CMU wants to increase the amount of need-based financial aid.

He said when five fresh-men leave CMU, the uni-

versity loses $100,000. He also said a family moves out of Michigan every 12 minutes.

“You can see how ev-ery student is important,” Burdette said.

There are many reasons people come to CMU, he said, including the fact that the school had a great football team and the Col-lege of Medicine.

“There’s a fallacy that we’ll let anybody in,” Bur-dette said. “We won’t let anybody in.”

Mouzourakis said SGA plans on bringing many more administrators to speak at its meetings.

One student asked about the university’s PrintQ system and why they are

limited to so few pages.

“I know that in pre-vious years, there was a lot more pa-per being used than they could afford,” Bur-dette said.

A n o t h e r student asked if the CMU Promise pro-

gram would be reinstated and Burdette answered it would not be.

He told students jobs are being created on cam-pus and are looking to be filled, and to head over to Student Services if they need one.

At the end of the meet-ing, a group of students gave a presentation on disability awareness. They showed a Fox News video about a man who claimed he was not allowed to fly on an airplane because he was too disabled.

Saginaw junior John Ketchum said people should be open to more things than just race when talking about diversity.

“A lot of times people only think of multicultural issues when they think of diversity,” he said. “Diver-sity is anything different than how you are.”

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By Maria Amante and Rachel DybickiStaff Reporters

Area voters will have an op-portunity to hear from candi-dates running for both 99th District state representative and the City Commission Thursday.

Helen Thomas, co-president of Mount Pleasant’s League of Women Voters, will moderate the forums held by the group, which begin at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall, 320 W. Broadway St., for Democrat Toni Sessoms and Republican Kevin Cotter. At 7:45 p.m. commission candi-dates will have their turn.

“These are strictly edu-cational and not partisan,” Thomas said. “They do not take part in partisan politics. It is not like the debates you see on television — no nasty cracks. In a forum, you may only speak about your own views and why you are run-

ning for the office. These are extremely civilized.”

Thomas will ask candidates written questions posed by at-tendees of the forum.

The City Commission candi-dates are ToDblD’s Party Store Owner Todd Gurzick; Attorney Lesley Hoenig; Nancy English, business development liaison at Central Michigan Commu-nity Hospital; and retired high school teacher Kathy Ling, who both are currently incum-bents.

Cotter said CMU is critically important to the area, so he absolutely expects it to be a topic of discussion.

“I’m excited about the op-portunity (to) speak to a lot of people and get the message of my campaign get my message out,” Cotter said.

Sessoms agrees the univer-sity could come up because it’s a big part of the district. If it is an issue, she said she will highlight her plans to restore the Michigan Promise, but her main focus is unemployment.

Sessoms said she looks for-ward to informing voters what she can do for mid-Michigan.

“That’s the biggest thing, but

also show some differences,” she said.

Cotter said the economy is a concern of his, even in mid-Michigan’s comparatively sta-ble jobs market.

“When you’re the best of very bad, or the worst state, Isabella county is the lowest (ranked) one or two, we cannot compare ourselves to the state and consider that good,” Cot-ter said. “We are very fortunate because of secure employ-ers — the hospital, casino and university. But we can’t lower our standards to Michigan.”

Cotter said he wants to con-tinually improve jobs in the district and make changes in business taxes because the

area has a very short distance to go before becoming thriv-ing.

Sessoms said the numbers do not tell the whole story of the state’s job situation.

“Unemployment rate does not at all tell the story of people ... underemployed, overquali-fied for jobs they’re at or if they are getting part-time work when they need full-time work.”

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“these are strictly educational and not partisan. they do not take part in partisan politics. It is not like the

debates you see on television — no nasty cracks.”

Helen Thomas, Mount Pleasant’s League of Women Voters co-president

Talk will be freeof ‘nasty cracks,’moderator says

saRa WinkLeR/Staff PhOtOgraPherMattawan freshman Mallory Dorgan lays back in a patient chair while donating blood to the Red Cross in the University Center on Tuesday. Dorgan said although she was nervous about giving blood for the first time, that she would do it again. “We just walked by the sign and decided to,” Dorgan said.

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“I thought he was very

entertaining and

informative.”Brittany

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“It will never happen to me,” that was my motto.

I truly believed it because I have experiences that would back that statement up, but things changed on a recent Wednesday night.

After going to Urgent Care for abdominal pains, I found out that I was pregnant, then was immediately sent to the ER on a doctor’s suspicions of an ectopic pregnancy.

After the discovery that the baby was fine, the shock set in.

I am going to be a mother.The balancing act between

19 credit hours and a 32-hour-a-week job was about to be-come even more complicated.

Some may judge me for get-ting “knocked up,” but the fact of the matter is that it really can happen to anyone. Wheth-er you’re super safe or not, if it’s your first time or 100th, it can happen — and it can happen surprisingly.

The real importance is that it is going to be a lot harder than anyone can imagine. I respect the single parents who still go to school and have a life beyond the classroom and I hope people will hold the same respect for me.

It takes a strong person to raise a child on their own and balance school and work along with it. The people who manage to successfully do this amaze me.

It is not fair to judge some-one just because they are pregnant or have a child. Just because they went out and were doing the same thing ev-ery other college student does and actually had to suffer a consequence because of it does not make them a bad person.

I don’t know how I’m going to balance my motherhood with work and classes, but I have faith that I will figure it out. I only have a little over one year left in school, so I do know that I will be taking advantage of any daycare and pregnancy services.

Some people are not sup-portive of my pregnancy, but that is only a shame for them. They will miss out on being involved in this child’s life. It should be understood that telling a person that they are disappointed in them does not make the pregnancy go away, it only hurts that person.

I know that it is going to be a rough road for me here on out, but it is not going to stop me from pursuing my dreams. I only wish people would understand that just because I am pregnant does not mean my hopes and dreams are going down the drain. It just means things will be a lot more dif-ficult to accomplish.

I am just lucky that I have a supportive community of friends here, and my heart goes out to the many who do not because I do not know what I would do without them.

Last month was very difficult for the LGBT community and our allies with national at-tention being brought to the suicides of young LGBT individuals Earic Mohat, of New York; Seth Walsh, of California; Asher Brown, of Texas; Tyler Clementi, of New Jersey; Justin Aaberg, of Minnesota; Billy Lucas, of Indiana; and Raymond Chase, of Rhode Island.

All of these youths had faced bullying and

harassment.There have also been

acts of bullying and harassment in our own state, notably against the president of University of Michigan’s student body by a state assistant attorney general.

This string of publi-cized suicides has me, as well as others, concerned for our community.

Such incidents can trigger many emotions and thoughts in our students. I ask that you

be aware of those around you as you are in class, the residence halls or with friends. If you no-tice anyone acting differ-ent than usual or suspect a problem, please help and provide the follow-ing resources.

The Trevor Project operates a 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBT youth, for information go to thetrevorproject.org.

Also, the CMU Coun-seling Center can

provide support services and can be reached at 774-3381.

Finally, the Office of Gay and Lesbian Pro-grams is here to provide support services to LGBT students and allies.

Please know the re-sources available to you and take care of each other.

Shannon M. JolliffDirector of Gay and Les-bian Programs

With the election season in full effect, gender issues and ques-tions of sexism are still at the forefront.

National Public Radio pub-lished the article on www.npr.org Tuesday, called “Candi-dates’ Racy Photos Raise Sex-ism, Privacy Issues,” focusing mainly on Krystal Ball, a Virginia Democratic Party candidate for U.S. Congress. Controversy and criticism have surrounded Ball, due to racy photos released of her from a Christmas party six years ago.

The article got me thinking about the roles America has set for women.

It frustrates me that in 2010, 90 years after women were granted suffrage, that women are still brought down by the gender roles assigned to them, and society’s expectation of their subordination.

As a gay male, I am familiar with secondary citizenship. I have less protection under the law and fewer privileges than my heterosexual friends.

Women are still secondary citizens too. Society has decided that they must be “appropriate” by playing subordinate roles to men, and enforces stricter double standards for women.

Of course, women are very successful within and outside of their traditional roles, but their work is still undervalued.

Society values men as workers, talkers and doers much more than it values women in these roles. Men are paid more for it too.

Last year’s gender pay gap, as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics, was an 80 percent women’s-to-men’s earn-ings. It is not the 62 percent gap in 1979, but it is an outstanding 20 percent pay that women in America are owed.

Times have not changed.It offends me that I still hear

guys in residence halls bragging about how many girls they have slept with, but deplore females who happen to show any signs of sexuality, bombarding them with derogatory names.

It offends me that women in power take more heat than any male in the same position. I re-member female bus drivers and lunch workers in middle and high school being called cruel, obscene names whenever they exercised any authority. Males, on the other hand, were left unscathed.

Ball is reprimanded by the me-dia for suggestive photos from years past, but Massachusetts Republican Sen. Scott Brown posing naked for Cosmopolitan’s centerfold is not as shocking?

It has been 90 years. I think it is time there be a discourse about the sexism and gender inequality that is still at large.

After only seven games with the team, Enos is, at best, untested as a head coach. Furthermore, after CMU lost key players such as Dan LeFevour, Frank Zombo, Antonio Brown and Andrew Aguila, if Enos is not building a team from the ground up, he is at least very close to the ground.

Perhaps more important are the financial repercussions of replac-ing Enos.

If Enos is terminated before the end of the 2011 football season, CMU is contractually obligated to pay him a $900,000 buyout.

On top of that considerable fee, the athletics department would

have to search for a replacement for Enos, which costs money, and then pay the replacement’s salary. Enos’ yearly total sal-ary is $325,000, and few viable candidates to replace him would be likely to take less than that amount. If the coach CMU hired was currently contracted at an-other school, CMU would have to buy out that coach’s contract as well.

The athletics department was appropriated $22,182,796 for the 2010-2011 school year, according to this year’s operating budget.

All told, firing and replacing Enos at this moment would likely cost somewhere between $1.5 mil-lion and $2.5 million.

This is not where the university needs to be putting even more of its money.

As the university finishes con-struction on a costly basketball arena and CMU continues to put money into the College of Medi-cine, the university’s spending patterns have been questionable at best. The new budget under President George Ross looks to tighten this up, and it is a safe bet that such a costly personnel change would not be allowed.

Football fans can continue to call out for Enos’ job on the Inter-net and every other avenue avail-able to them. The smart money is on him keeping it, which is also the correct decision.

Fans should give Enos a season or two to warm up and prove him-self before picking up the torches and pitchforks as they have been doing. They just may end up liking the guy.

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It’s the middle of the season and the volleyball team isn’t exactly where it wants to be.

The Chippewas (9-11, 3-5 Mid-American Conference) sit fifth in the MAC West Division, a game above last-place Toledo in the standings. Despite strug-gling in the beginning of the conference schedule, losing six of seven MAC matches, CMU believes it turned a corner over the weekend with sweeps against MAC East opponents Bowling Green and Miami.

“If we can get the ball roll-ing, good things can happen,” said head coach Erik Olson. “We feel we can still be a MAC championship contender with this group.”

Lengthy matches against league opponents have caused issues for the young Chippewas team. Five-set matches have not been kind to CMU, who is winless in the four matches that have gone to five sets. In matches that have gone to four sets, the team is 2-5.

Olson said many of the

Coach says team ‘turning corner’ after weekend sweeps

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JAKE MAY/PHOTO EDITORFreshman defensive back Avery Cunningham knocks down a pass from Miami quarterback Zac Dysert intended for receiver Nick Harwell Saturday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. The RedHawks beat the Chippewas 27-20. The CMU women’s soc-

cer team is getting hot at the right time.

It won its eighth straight game on Sunday with a 3-0 romp over a formidable Northern Il-linois team.

CMU dominated the ball, outshooting the NIU 29-5. The game should have been more lopsided but the Huskies goalkeeper made several good saves to keep the game respectable.

With the win, CMU re-mains tied atop the Mid-American Conference with Toledo at 8-0 in the conference. The Chippe-was will travel to Toledo on Friday in what will be conference champion-ship game atmosphere.

CMU has gelled a lot lately and become a true team. Soccer is a game that’s all about chemis-try and in the beginning of the season, the team simply didn’t have a whole lot.

Often times, they looked confused and di-sheveled on the offensive end, firing errant shots and not taking advantage of opportunities.

But not anymore. The team is being as-

sertive and dominant. It is beginning to take care of the ball and control the tempo of the game.

It is making opponents play CMU soccer.

The defense is stepping up as well. Anchored by the back line staples, juniors Liesel Toth and Claire Horton, who have started 59 straight games,

the Chippewas defense has only given up three goals in its last eight contests.

The defense also boasts the Defending MAC De-fensive Player of the Year, goalkeeper Shay Mannino. Mannino has been better than anyone in net this year in the MAC with a confer-ence best 0.43 goals-against average.

Head coach Tom Anagnost said the team is beginning to come together as a group. The undefeated record in conference play shows just that.

It couldn’t happen at a better time. With three games to go in the regular season, the team is hit-ting on all cylinders. But it will face two of its tough-est games in the final stretch — Friday against the aforementioned Rockets and Eastern Michigan, also unbeaten in conference play at 5-0-3, in the season finale at home on Oct. 28.

Anagnost continues to preach that his team is very young, fielding a roster al-most entirely with of under-classmen (nine freshman, nine sophomores).

But the team is learning how to win. It hasn’t lost a game in almost a month and has been able to hold on in a few one-goal victories at Bowling Green and Kent State, and at home against rival Western Michigan last weekend.

A month ago, those close games may have resulted in losses. But the team con-tinues to fight hard, and will have its biggest battle Friday.

Toledo is the only team in the MAC with a better over-all record than CMU. The Chippewas need a signature win to hang their hat on. Their biggest win so far this season was a victory on the road against Miami (OH) (11-5-1). It was the Chip-pewas first road win in four games and proved to be a jump start to the rest of the MAC schedule.

A victory over Toledo would give CMU another jump start into the last two games of the season, and into the MAC tournament where they hope to repeat as conference champions.

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team’s opponents were playing with confidence against CMU, which forced several of the matches into five sets.

“Right now teams are in system more than they ever have been,” Olson said, “and we’re leaving the door open for teams when we should slam it shut on them.”

But after the pair of weekend wins, he said the tide has be-gun to turn in the second half of the season.

“We have been working hard and we have been train-ing hard,” Olson said. “We just haven’t been rewarded in so many of the close matches.”

Aggressive servingSophomore Val DeWeerd,

who finished the weekend with eight kills behind a .308 hitting percentage, said the last two victories should be a motivator for the team to get back on track after a 1-5 start to the conference schedule. A consistent offense and ag-gressive serving line will be keys in road games against Akron and Buffalo this week-end, DeWeerd said.

“These wins this past week-end definitely established what we already knew that we were a good team and if we can put all the pieces togeth-er, we can play awesome,” she said. “Last time we served quite a few out of bounds, so we definitely need to pick up our serving game.”

Senior Lauren Krupsky, who finished the weekend with 25 kills, agreed with De-Weerd and said that the focus moving forward needs to re-turn to their serving attack that once led the league.

“We need to make sure we keep the serving intensity and the passion,” Krupsky said.

The Chippewas look to continue their winning streak at 7 p.m. Friday when they travel to Akron (13-7), who is tied with Ohio for first place in the MAC East at 5-3. The second test of the weekend will be at 7 p.m. Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y., when the team travels to play the University at Buffalo (14-10, 2-6 MAC).

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Cunningham shakes off mistake

By Aaron McMannSports Editor

Mistakes are bound to hap-pen when younger players are put on the playing field.

And CMU learned just that Saturday during its 27-20 loss against Miami at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

With 19 seconds remaining on the clock, freshman cor-nerback Avery Cunningham, in his first career start, made a split decision and rushed a scrambling RedHawks quar-terback Zac Dysert.

That decision turned out fatal as Dysert found receiv-er Andrew Cruze wide open down the right sideline for a touchdown, handing the Chippewas their fourth con-secutive loss.

“I just didn’t do my respon-sibility to what was needed to

be done,” Cunningham said.Despite the crucial mis-

communication in the sec-ondary, head coach Dan Enos and players were quick to defend Cunningham Tues-day.

“He’s not the reason we lost that football game Sat-urday and he knows the team doesn’t blame him,” Enos said. “It’s going to be a learn-ing experience for him. We got a lot of young guys playing a lot of positions, and some-times it’s going out there and learning under fire.”

Cunningham, listed as one of the two starting corner-backs on the depth chart, will get another opportunity to redeem himself on Saturday against Northern Illinois.

“Guys have just had my back and told me not to let one play define my whole career,” Cunningham said. “They told me to come back and learn from the mistake and move on.”

injuries piling upCMU will be without start-

ing cornerback LaVarus Wil-liams for the rest of the sea-son.

Williams, who appeared in four games, will have surgery soon to repair a mi-crofracture in his left knee. He sat out the team’s games against Northwestern and Ball State before trying to make a comeback against Virginia Tech on Oct. 9.

Starting right guard Dar-ren Keyton is also suffering from a knee injury and will miss the next two games.

Junior running back Paris Cotton is doubtful for Satur-day’s game.

“We’re going to coach whoever’s out there,” Enos said. “When you get into a situation like this in the sea-son, young guys got to step up.”

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fast food funkDespite health risks, many students choose quick meals for convenience

joe tobianski/staff photographerOh My Burgers and Fries employee Shaun Davenport of Alma does an exchange with customers during its grand opening Tuesday afternoon. The restaurant, 1501 S. Mission St., uses fresh ingredients such as hand cut premium Idaho Russet potatoes.

Najat Yahia, assistant professor of human environmental stud-ies, said in an e-mailed state-ment most students eat fast food because it is affordable, tasty and convenient.

Womack estimated he spends about $130 or more per month on fast food.

He said it gets expensive quick-ly, but the convenience is “worth the cost.” He really likes Taco Bell, he said, and eating at Buffalo Wild Wings.

“Just because I go out a lot doesn’t mean I always eat un-healthy food,” Womack said. “I try and monitor calories and I usually avoid eating greasy foods.”

HealtH risksEating fast food on a regular

basis, Yahia said, can lead to in-creased health risks in addition to obesity.

“The fats in fast food are mainly saturated and trans fats, which tend to increase blood choles-terol level,” she said. “High blood cholesterol level is a risk factor for heart disease.”

Additionally, Yahia said fast-food meals are packed with sodium, which increases the risk of hyper-tension or high blood pressure.

Many students drink a lot of soda, Yahia said, which are “empty calories,” providing no nutritional value. An over consumption of calories can lead to the develop-ment of metabolic syndrome and type II diabetes, she said.

“The key is balance food in-take with physical activity,” Yahia

said. “Portion size does matter. Overeating is a major contribu-tor to overweightness and obesity. Eating a well-balanced diet with a physically active lifestyle will prevent risk of developing obesity and other chronic illness.”

Yahia suggests students pay at-tention to nutrition labels when buying food to increase awareness of any unhealthy additives.

An average meal at a fast-food restaurant often far exceeds the fat dietary guidelines for an entire day, she said.

Elway Pegg, a Dearborn gradu-ate student, said he eats fast food three to four times a week.

“I think once a week I’ll go to (Buffalo Wild Wings) or something like that,” he said. “Some weeks I go out more often and some weeks I buy less.”

For on-campus students, he said fast food provides something different from repetitive residen-tial dining.

“I think most students are just so used to eating fast food that they don’t give it much thought,” Pegg said. “It tastes good, it’s in-expensive, but it adds up quickly if you’re not careful. A lot of stu-dents just have a mentality where they don’t worry about long-term health effects.”

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Najat Yahia, assistant professor of human environmental studies,

suggests these choices:w White meat instead of red meat (turkey, chicken are lower in fats than beef)w Baked or grilled vegetable burgers Reduce salt intakew Order lean cuts of meat (skinless chicken, lean meat)w Eat a large bowl of green salad before the main course (with low-fat dressing on the side)w Fresh fruits or fat-free/low-fat yogurt as a dessert w Watch portion sizew Replace white bread with whole wheat breadw Order meals without tartar sauce or other creamy saucesw Add more vegetables to your platew Eat more legumes and less meatw Avoid fried foodsw Increase fiber intake by increasing consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables (in season)w Drink plain water daily (8-9 glasses)

By Ryan Taljonick | Senior Reporter

Matt Womack has learned buying fast food on a regular basis will fill up your stomach and empty your bank account.

The Clio senior said he really enjoys eating fast food because it tastes good and he rarely has time in his busy schedule to cook.

“My fiance and I live in East Lansing,” he said. “I commute to CMU two days a week and have classes all day long. I don’t have time to drive home and cook something. I’d say I prob-ably eat out about six or seven times a week and each meal costs $7 or $8.”

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By Randi ShafferSenior Reporter

Oh My Burgers & Fries opened at 10 a.m. Tuesday to a procession of cars leading out into Mission Street.

The new drive-thru burger joint, 1501 S. Mission St., is in the loca-tion of the former Hot ‘N’ Now res-taurant. Within the first six hours of opening, Oh My had between 300 and 400 cars pass through the drive-thru.

Among the opening day rush were graduate students Kristen Glynn of Farmington Hills and Danielle Bender of Kentwood.

“I saw that Hot ‘N’ Now was get-ting torn down,” Glynn said. “I’ve

never been there because it kind of looked sketchy. Then I saw that this opened and it looked fun.”

Oh My manager John Renz said they’re trying to make fast food business more fresh and modern.

“All of our meat is ground inside the restaurant. All of the fries are hand cut,” he said. “We actually built the front window just so peo-ple could see us do it.

Glynn said Oh My reminded her of a burger joint in Farmington Hills she liked named “Five Guys Burgers and Fries.”

“I just thought I would check it out and get a new fast-food place to go to,” she said.

Homer resident and former CMU baseball catcher Dale Cornstub-ble had the same idea as Glynn to check out Oh My! on opening day.

He said he and his girlfriend had been waiting for weeks to try the new drive-thru burger joint.

“We just wanted to see and check out a new place to eat,” Cornstub-ble said.

Renz has high hopes the rest of CMU’s student population will take advantage of the new drive-thru across from campus.

“I think the price is right in line with the rest of the fast food popu-lation,” he said.

He added, “I know that’s really good college food.”

Renz isn’t worried about compet-ing with similar burger joints on Mission Street.

Oh My offers fresh food as op-posed to frozen, and more variety. Turkey burgers and veggie burgers are prominent features of the new menu.

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Take a walk down Main Street on a Friday or Satur-day night and there is one sound that breaks through and rises above all others: “WOOOOOOOO!”

The first time I heard that sound, I thought it was some sort of creature, native only to the region of Mount Pleas-ant. Perhaps, it is a noctur-nal creature that waits in Island Park to pounce on unsuspecting prey.

But alas, I was wrong. It was not some creature en-demic to Mount Pleasant, but a phenomenon found on college campuses around the nation — the Woo Girl.

The Woo Girl can be identi-fied by a few characteristics. First, she is usually leaning

back with one drink-filled hand raised into the air, as if toasting to some great tri-umph (and maybe she is).

Second, she can pro-duce a sound that haunts my dreams and bellows through the streets of down-town Mount Pleasant (and the Wayside), the dreaded “WOOOOOOOO!”

This sound is usually ac-

companied by ear-piercing laughter and cackles. It is like they are on the war-path.

What does this sound sig-nify?

There are theories that it is an ancient mating call. There are other people who suggest that it is in fact the way a “Woo Girl” announces either (a) “Here I come!” or (b) “Bye!”

Regardless of the meaning of said noise, it is an epidem-ic that plagues the streets of college towns everywhere.

I long for winter, because like bears, the Woo Girl of-ten goes into deep hiberna-tion come the first snowfall.

HOFFMAN’S HARANGUE

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TOp FiVES

HOME THEATER1. “Predators”

2. “Agora”3. “Night of the Demons”

CDS1. “Speak Now”

Taylor Swift2. “The Incredible

Machine” Sugarland

3. “The Union” Elton John, Leon Russell

VIDEO GAMES1. “Fallout: New Vegas”

(PC, PS3, X360)2. “Pro Evolution Soccer

2011” (PS3, PSP, Wii, X360)

3. “Vanquish” (PS3, X360)

BOX OFFICE1. “Jackass 3-D”

$50.4 million2. “Red”

$21.8 million3. “The Social Network”

$10.3 million4. “Secretariat”

$9.3 million5. “Life as We Know It”

$9 million

SINGLES1. “Just The Way You Are”

Bruno Mars2. “Like A G6”

Far*East Movement feat. Cataracs and Dev

3. “Just A Dream” Nelly

4. “Teenage Dream” Katy Perry

5. “DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love”

Usher feat. Pitbull

ALBUMS1. “Bullets In The Gun”

Toby Keith2. “Hemingway’s Whiskey”

Kenny Chesney3. “Doo-wops & Hooligans”

Bruno Mars4. “Recovery”

Eminem5. “You Get What You Give”

Zac Brown Band

VIDEO GAME“Costume Quest” (PS3,

X360)

You’ve got to fight for your right to trick-or-treat.

The newest release from “Brütal Legend” and “Psy-chonauts” developer Double Fine hits Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network to-day and it’s bringing classic role-playing game style bat-tles, costume-based classes and progression-based candy collecting to the Halloween season.

Players advance through sleepy neighborhoods and shopping malls as they battle horrible monsters dedicated to stealing their cherished confections.

Though the game has an adorable art style and features little kids for protagonists, gamers of all ages should be able to find something sweet in this goody bag.

-Connor SheridanStudent Life Editor

MUSIC“Limit to Your Love” by

James Blake

The most recent tune from 21-year-old UK resident and musical wunderkind, James Blake, is “Limit to Your Love,” a cover of Feist’s song of the same name and the first track to be released from Blake’s upcoming full length.

For the first time, Blake’s

soulful and beautiful vocals are pushed to the front of the mix.

A sparse beat and dry-as-a-bone piano make up the in-strumentation, though Blake makes liberal and masterful use of silence at different in-tervals. Minimal and heart-breakingly gorgeous stuff that’s not to be missed.

-Ben WeissenbornStaff Reporter

pick OF THE wEEk

By Sarah Lundy(MCT)

ORLANDO, Fla. — Second-year medical student Lynn McGrath knows the iPod touch he carries will help him be-come a better doctor.

McGrath, 25, can quickly research a patient’s symptoms on the device and learn how to treat them in minutes.

“The first year as medical students, it helps us figure out what’s going on, but as you be-come more familiar, it’s more of a confirmation,” he said.

Starting this semester, the University of Central Florida’s College of Medicine, which in its second year, is giving every medical student an iPod touch to help in their training.

The Central Florida col-lege has joined other medi-cal schools across the country that provide mobile devices to medical students. Florida State University also gives iPod touches to medical students, and Stanford University in Cal-ifornia is distributing much-larger Apple iPads to its future doctors.

The UCF iPod, which costs around $600 with medical applications, gives students instant access to look up dis-eases, medications and symp-toms. It also allows them to listen to lectures and view dia-grams.

The Ohio State University College of Medicine was the first to hand out iPod touches to each student, in 2007.

“Like many things, the students are the ones who brought forth the idea,” said Dr. Catherine Lucey, the Ohio college’s interim dean. “It can be used to really help explain things to students.”

Nadine Dexter, who is the health sciences library director, said the iPods help students to learn on their own and to know how to find the most recent in-formation.

“We want to teach them that good up-to-date knowledge is what all good physicians need to make good point-of-care decisions,” she said. “We don’t want them to make a decision based on a 10-year-old text sit-ting on a shelf.”

Some doctors on the UCF staff have also embraced the iPod.

“It used to be that you would read every journal that came to your mailbox,” said Dr. Bethany Ballinger, direc-tor of clinical informatics and an emergency room doctor. “Now, there is no way. ... You are not looking at how much you can cram into your mem-ory. You are looking selectively at what you need to learn to stay up to date and to manage this patient.”

Before making its decision to distribute the iPods, UCF sur-veyed more than 150 medical schools in United States and Canada, Dexter said. Of those, two dozen schools incorporate a hand-held device into the curriculum and most either used or suggested iPods.

Medical students get ipods to bolster training

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sara winkLer/staff phOtOgrapherMount pleasant resident Ashley Beltinck, left, seeks help of employee Mindy Findley, right, as she searches among the racks for a themed costume at Halloween central, 207 w. Broadway St. Beltinck plans on dressing up when she attends the upcoming production of “The Rocky Horror picture Show” at the Broadway Theatre, 216 E. Broadway St.

HALLOWEEN HUNT | Students search for the perfect costume

By Maria LeoneStaff reporter

College students go without a lot of things — sunlight, veg-etables, money and sleep.

But skipping too much noc-turnal rest can be very harm-ful to a student’s career, said Carl Johnson, a professor of psychology.

“Lack of sleep is more of a problem than drinking and that is what our federal gov-ernment is concerned about,” Johnson said.

He said a survey of self-re-ports taken from 75 different universities showed sleep de-privation as their third highest major problem.

A person will have one drink and it hits them like they have had four because of the body’s exhaustion, he said.

“All you need is one drink and you look like a drunk driver when you’re sleep de-prived,” Johnson said.

When students do not get enough sleep, he said it makes concentrating in class much harder and leads to poor over-all academic performance.

MAKING UP FOR ITJohnson said students will

try to get by with four to five hours of sleep and then sleep in for around 10 hours on Sat-urday on Sunday, but the hu-man body does not work that way.

Steve Lewis, Allegan senior and president of Program Board, said Mondays through Wednesdays he is lucky to get five to six hours of sleep. He usually tries to make up for it on Thursdays with eight to ten.

“It really doesn’t help that I am a morning person and can’t really stay asleep past 9:30 a.m., no matter how tired I am,” Lewis said.

Adults should get six to eight hours of sleep per night and when this does not hap-pen, it can have some major effects on the body.

“Sleeping too much after not sleeping enough puts the body on jet lag, like California time,” Johnson said.

Trying to make up for a week’s worth of sleep can be like starving yourself all week and then gorging on food Sat-urday and Sunday, he said.

Novi senior Andrea Kramer

said she gets about six to seven hours of sleep in a school week and eight hours on weekends. However, her sleep schedule depends on the noise levels around her.

“If my neighbors decided to have a random party late at night,” Kramer said, “my sleep schedule is definitely going to be off.”

Some students find naps to be helpful. However, Johnson said they do not and cannot make up for lost sleep.

Commerce sophomore Ryan Hoger said he naps very frequently throughout the day.

“Sleep for five hours, go to class, sleep for three hours, eat and repeat until college degree is achieved,” Hoger said.

Johnson said though taking naps can feel refreshing, it is much more important to have a routine sleep schedule that the body can get used to.

“Power naps only mask the effects and do help,” he said, “but you cannot get by with just napping all the time.”

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By Mike NicholsStaff Reporter

Not everybody wants fries with that.

Many CMU students are avoiding fast foods and find-ing that cooking their own food can be a healthy and enjoyable practice.

Rochester junior Jacob Randall cooks almost all of his meals because fast food doesn’t sit well with his pal-ate.

“When I eat fast food, I just feel awful the next day,” Ran-dall said. “When I eat my own food, I feel great all day.”

Livonia senior Gloriann McDonald also cooks most of her meals.

She said she picked up the practice from her childhood.

“I was brought up eating mostly natural and organic foods,” McDonald said. “My mom wouldn’t let us drink pop or have hydroge-nated oils even before that was popular.”

Randall said eating af-fects every aspect of his day. He usually starts with a big breakfast, skips lunch and then finishes the day with a big dinner. He eats mostly organic foods and avoids anything pro-cessed.

“I try to avoid as much meat as I can, especially processed meat,” Randall said. “I’m not a vegetar-ian, I just don’t like pro-cessed foods. It grosses me out.”

McDonald has cooked for herself for the past four years. Although she some-times eats out, she said she prefers to cook because she enjoys it and it allows her to have control over her nutri-tion.

She said her meals are simple and easy to make.

“At least 75 percent of the produce I eat is frozen,” McDonald said. “If I’m go-ing to do rice or a pasta dish, I just cook a bunch before I head out or I just keep frozen veggies and throw them in a frying pan with oil.”

Both McDonald and Ran-

dall have shopped at Green Tree Cooperative Grocery, 214 N. Franklin St. Green Tree sells products that are all natural and organic.

“To be labeled organic, foods have to be certified,” said store keeper Sydne Co-nant. “Foods can only be labeled if 95 percent is or-ganic.”

Conant said about a quar-ter of their business is from CMU students. Every Friday is Student Appreciation Day where students receive 5 per-cent off purchases.

“The last few years I’ve seen a steady increase of stu-dents coming in here,” said Joshua Johnson, a Green Tree employee and CMU alumni.

Johnson said organic foods are healthier because, unlike processed foods, they are not sprayed with harmful chemi-cals that can hurt not only the environment but also the body.

“Organic should never have even have to be in-vented,” he said. “Foods were made this way hundreds of years ago.”

“My basic advice is to stay aware and ask ques-tions about where your food comes from, because it does matter.”

-Photographer Victoria Zegler contributed to this report.

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Home-cooked meals a healthy alternative for many studentsOrganic food often first choice for some

“Organic should never have even have to be invented. foods

were made this way hundreds of years ago.”

Joshua Johnson, green tree employee

By Rachel MaterStaff Reporter

The common idea of gain-ing the freshman 15 is actually not true to many students.

People who gain weight tend to eat more junk food and comfort food, said Najat Yahia, assistant professor of human environmental stud-ies.

“The freshman 15 is myth because if you follow a healthy lifestyle, (students) will actu-ally lose weight,” she said.

Layne Davis, fitness and wellness assistant director, said most students won’t gain 15 pounds their freshman year — they will more likely gain around 5 pounds.

“It’s such a big lifestyle change,” Davis said. “They are used to parents cooking din-ner and being active in high school sports. Then when they

get here, they usually don’t get involved in sports.”

Yahia also said the environ-ment change is a big factor, and stress and loneliness can cause weight gain.

“They eat for some kind of comfort, from juggling with their courses, being away from home and not eating home-cooked food,” she said.

Davis said the key to avoid gaining freshman weight is to start building healthy habits with daily exercise and pay-ing attention to what you eat. She said the problem for most students is they don’t realize the amount of calories they consume.

There are also other ways to develop healthier habits, Ya-hia said.

Walking 60 minutes five days a week is good way to start getting active.

“Eating with friends does help as well, because you eat less,” she said.

Preparing snacks at home will also help with avoiding unhealthy options on the go. Yahia said eating breakfast is

extremely important and cor-relates with a healthy Body Mass Index.

Monroe junior Koren Burns said the freshman 15 was not something she had a problem with.

“It really depends on the person and how active they are,” Burns said.

Burns said she only gained about three pounds, mostly due to her inactivity.

She has since found several ways to combat college life-style-related weight gain.

“I’ve found that not eating as many carbs, drinking water and not pop or juice is a good way to be more healthy,” she said.

Burns said she had some advice for incoming freshmen to enjoy similar success.

“Eat salad at every meal in the dining hall, don’t drink pop or overindulge in food, walk and ride your bike to class and go to the Student Activity Center,” she said.

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By Ben WeissenbornStaff Reporter

Animal Collective member Avey Tare makes his solo debut with “Down There,” a bizarre and swampy psychedelic pop record.

In the works for roughly two years, “Down There” is Avey Tare’s (Dave Portner) first solo venture from Animal Collec-tive, not counting 2007’s col-laboration with past Mum vo-calist and Avey’s then-wife Kria Brekkan.

Their only album, entitled “Pullhair Rubeye,” was a col-lection of intimate folk songs released in reverse, inspired in part by David Lynch’s film “Inland Empire,” which was in theatres at the time.

Here, with Tare all on his lonesome, his contributions to Animal Collective become far more obvious and they manage to stand on their own two feet quite well.

Recorded by fellow Animal Collective member Deakin (Josh Dibb), “Down There” has a very squishy, swampy and

murky sound. Most of the in-strumentation is electronic and much of Avey’s vocals are pro-cessed heavily, sometimes to the point of incoherence.

Perhaps the most immedi-ate difference between “Down There” and much of Animal Collective’s output, 2009’s mas-terful “Merriweather Post Pavil-ion,” in particular, is how dark it is.

In a recent video interview with his sister, Avey mentioned the album came from a very emotionally dark place, de-vised after his grandmother passed away, his older sister was diagnosed with cancer and his marriage began to dis-integrate.

This darkness is reflected both lyrically and musically, especially in the hypnotic opener, “Laughing Hiero-glyphic.” The track begins with a squishy and sputtering elec-tronic beat before a wheezy, percussive accordion melody enters the fold.

Avey’s voice is processed, sounding distant and quite sad. “Hold me, I’ve been sad for days,” Avey pleads in the song’s chorus, desperate and intense.

“Down There” is an incred-ibly subtle, low-key record, not nearly as immediate or as outwardly infectious as Ani-

mal Collective’s output, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Repeat listens reveal layer upon layer of sounds, tex-tures and lyrics.

“Cemeteries,” perhaps the album’s most subtle track, is a haunting and gorgeous ambi-ent piece, beatless and lilting but packed tight with interest-ing sounds and textures giving the piece life.

The song conjures up images of a nighttime stroll through its namesake, both slightly scary and beautiful in a melancholy way.

Long-time fans of Animal Collective will be delighted to find Avey delivering a solid and delightfully bizarre album, though its not likely to be one to win over a slew of new fans. Swampy, melancholy and sub-tly scary, “Down There” is a perfect album for this time of year.

Put it on at night and let it take you into its bizarre and en-chanting world.

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“Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock” feels like a clas-sic band’s comeback tour, hoping to recapture the magic of days gone by.

But it instead illuminates more of the reasons why the “Guitar Hero” franchise has fallen off of a prover-bial cliff.

The game chooses to fo-cus on its story mode, of all things, over the actual track list. In the musically-inspired narrative, tradi-tional “Guitar Hero” char-acters must rock out to release their true warrior powers.

Those powers combine to release the Demigod of Rock for an eventual battle with the Beast.

It’s all pretty needless. The story is emphasized, but it does nothing to ac-tually revitalize the game. It features some short cutscenes with Gene Sim-

mons and a fun section in the middle with Rush’s en-tire “2112” album, but it’s largely forgettable.

The only significant gameplay addition comes from the warrior powers. They have a range of effec-tiveness, from completely filling the star power me-ter to protecting your note streaks. After beating the game, players can combine all eight powers and earn up to 40 stars on a song.

But it’s confusing to switch the scoring format in the sixth game, and it makes playing traditionally less fulfilling.

Credit has to be given to the song selection, howev-er. Along with all the Rush songs, there’s a great mix of classic rock bands like Queen and Jethro Tull and newer songs by bands like Muse and Them Crooked Vultures. There are some obscure songs, but that’s par for the course for this sort of game.

The core gameplay is ex-actly the same as entries past — play the notes and the music plays. At this point, it’d be pretty hard to mess that portion up.

Developer Neversoft didn’t tamper much with

the gameplay and for good reason, but it’s a little un-derwhelming compared to the changes to come in its competitor “Rock Band 3.”

There’s nothing wrong with the game itself. The changes don’t add much to the product, but they don’t subtract much either. This is the 10th “Hero” game to appear on the Xbox 360 since 2007, so the genre is a bit worn out.

“Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock” took another shot at relevance and the attempt is mediocre overall.

Just expect the franchise to emulate the Rolling Stones and have another similar comeback tour next year.

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