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EVENTS CALENDAR TODAY w From 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the
“Journey Through the Jungle: A Fascinating Look at Life in the Rainforest” exhibit is on display in Rowe Hall through Dec. 14 at CMU’s Museum of Cultural and Natural History. The exhibit will feature a children’s section, photos and plant displays of rainforest inhabitants and live critters. There will also be hands-on activities.
TOMORROW w Chicago Bears offensive
tackle Levi Horn will speak in Warriner Hall’s Plachta Auditorium at 7 p.m. Horn is the keynote speaker for Native American Heritage Month.
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PIRATES | continUeD froM 1 “(Stolzenburg) was talking how he wished he had someone to go out (to California) with, and, at that moment, I realized that that’s always what I wanted to do, and I might as well try it,” he said. “If it doesn’t work it doesn’t work, but at least I can go out there and give it a shot.” Stolzenburg said each would be a boon to the other in California. “I told him that at the end of my college career, I just want to go to California and see what I can do, and he was immediately inspired, and he is now almost even more into the dream than I am,” Stolzenburg said. “We actually have different tastes in movies, but we’re just friendly people, and it would be great to have each other out there. If one succeeds then the other succeeds so we can always have each other by our sides.” From that moment on, Stauber said, he knew he had to try to be in as many movies and do as many things as he could. It was that revelation that motivated him to create and post his YouTube video. He said he hopes it will be noticed by somebody who has high
This is not the first affirmative action case the Supreme Court has heard. The Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003 that the University of Michigan Law School was allowed to use race as a factor in admissions as long as it was not the only factor. After this case, Michigan’s Proposal 2 in 2006 was adopted to prohibit public institutions from using certain affirmative action programs. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Michigan’s ban on affirmative action at public colleges on July 1, 2011, because it “unconstitutionally alters Michigan’s political structure by impermissibly burdening racial minorities.” The court ruled Proposal 2 unconstitutional on Nov. 15, saying it undermines the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Jeannie Jackson, director of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity at CMU, said in an email that Michigan law did not ban affirmative action. She argued those words were used to confuse voters and get them to vote. She said it banned preferential treatment, such as giving students “extra points” for being a minority in order to get into a university. CMU never used this system, she said, so there was nothing to change. “CMU is an affirmative action university because we get money from different federal entities and have to have an Affirmative Action Plan, which we do,” Jackson said. “Affirmative action hasn’t gone anywhere.” CMU recruits students by having representatives in schools with diverse populations help all students obtain admittance to the university, Jackson said. This is handled through CMU’s Office for Institutional Diversity. As for Fisher v. University of Texas, the Supreme Court can’t ban affirmative action because affirmative action is mandated by the president of the United States, she said. No one can eliminate affirmative action but a president. Jackson said diversity is an essential part of education because students should learn about what different people from other races think and learn from them. “Students should care about diversity because we operate in a global market,
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Cody Stauber, Lake Orion senior
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connections in entertainment, and his biggest goal is to get an audition for the potential fifth movie of the series. Chelsea Jacobs, senior from Rochester Hills and Stauber’s girlfriend for the past year and a half, said his personality will enable him to succeed in acting. “He’s very strong in what he believes in. He is extremely outgoing and friendly; he always likes to make people happy and make people feel at home wherever they are, whenever they’re with him,” she said. “He always makes people feel important around him and takes the time to listen to people, and he’s very supportive too, no matter who it is, which is why everyone also does support him in turn.” After he graduates, Stauber said he will move. He has an uncle he can stay with in Simi Valley, Calif., 45 minutes north of Hollywood. He said he hopes to find a talent agent before he moves, and he will send out head shots, resumes and cover letters. Failing that, he said he just wants a job in a studio doing anything he can to meet people and make connections. “Jack Nicholson started off sorting someone’s mail. He was sorting mail, and then he became a huge actor. So you never know where you can come from,” he said.
“if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work, but at least i can go out there and give it a shot.”
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | Reimers said affirmative action is still necessary at universities because students shouldn’t get turned away from a school by factors like race, background, class or ability. She said these students should be allowed the same opportunities other students have. “Everyone deserves the chance for an education,” she said.
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and you can’t be successful in any area unless you know what many people think about, not just one race,” she said.
DEfiNiNG DiVErSitY
Students say diversity, itself, can be a diverse term, taking on different meanings in different contexts. Imlay City sophomore Terra Volmering said diversity is not limited to race and ethnicity. Gender, sexual orientation, religion and class are other types of diversity among college students, she said. Grosse Pointe sophomore Jen Stratelak said students learn a lot by living and working with other cultures in a university environment. “Then we can grow as a community,” she said. Diversity is important to any social situation, including at universities, Stratelak said. She said she considers CMU a diverse campus. Despite minority enrollment at CMU being at a record high point, the largest racial or ethnic category at CMU is still white students. White students make up 80.88 percent of the oncampus student population in 2012, which translates to 16,583 students. Black and African-American students make up 5.33 percent, or 1,092 on-campus students at CMU; Hispanic and Latino students make up 2.33 percent, or 478 students; Asian, Hawaiian and Pacific Islander make up 1.35 percent, or 277 students; American Indian and Alaskan Native students make up 1.21 percent, or 248 students. A total of 6.16 percent, or 1,263 on-campus students, have their race or ethnicity listed as unknown. Non-resident aliens make
up 2.75 percent, or 563 oncampus students. The National Center for Education Statistics reported in 2010 that white students made up 61 percent of college students in the United States, African American students made up 14 percent, Hispanic students made up 13 percent, and Asian and Pacific Islander students made up six percent. Nonresident aliens made up three percent of students.
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While all college students come from different backgrounds, Stratelak said they are all in the same boat, because everyone is trying to get an education. She said attending a university allows students to have a fresh start in their lives. Volmering said everyone can start off at the same level at a university because they are all working toward a common goal of an education. “You’re here achieving the same thing,” she said. Volmering and Stratelak said they think affirmative action is no longer necessary for university enrollment. Volmering said she teaches English online to students in Russia and China, and her students don’t need to be recruited to universities in the United States. She said she helps prepare foreign students to attend Stanford University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and they already know they will get a better education at American universities. Affirmative action becomes controversial when people from minority ethnic groups or lower-class backgrounds get into a school even though they are not as qualified as other students, Stratelak said. Reimers said some people have a misconception of affirmative action, because
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be sold in the near future,s and van der Merwe said Sunday there were still no plans to do so. Instead, van der Merwe said he hopes bringing back a winning culture will help increase attendance. “I think this a team that has improved, has grown and is putting us in a position to be successful,” he said. “We are playing for bowl-eligibility. Coach Enos is clearly starting to push this program to success and starting to lay down the building blocks.”
continUeD froM 1 should have been there.” She said her and several other friends came at the beginning of the game but left after a few minutes. “We went into the game, and there wasn’t anybody there,” Garbarino said. “It wasn’t fun, so we left.” Rochester senior John Pincura said there needs to be more motives to come to the game. “I don’t think CMU does enough to get people in the stands,” he said. “And
our tickets are free. I feel like we are still feeling the repercussions from three years ago (when CMU went 12-2). Since then, it has not been at that level except for the (Michigan) State weekend.” Pincura suggested selling alcohol at Kelly/Shorts Stadium, which would help draw a larger crowd. But Director of Athletics Dave Heeke told CM Life last October that there were no plans to allow alcohol to
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was very proud in how our team handled the changing facts and legal ramifications; everyone involved handled the incident effectively and professionally.” Broadcasting the potential that CMU has to offer potential students was listed as one of the top priorities for Knight. “Our ‘Discover CMU’ campaign provides an opportunity for prospective students to come to campus and see exactly what CMU has to offer and how we can help shape their fu-
continUeD froM 1 “We have a great social media team spearheading this aspect of our department,” she said. “Just this week, our Facebook page has reached over 50,000 likes.” Crisis response and intervention is also an imperative aspect of communication within the university, she said. “What I saw in our team responding to the crisis last week is exactly what I want to see in my team,” Knight said, referring to the former child pornography charges filed against professor Bill Merrill. “I it doesn’t necessarily mean that an unqualified, poor or minority student is taking the place of a qualified student. Reimers said affirmative action can mean recruiting from poor communities or communities of color that have not been reached out to before, and this aspect of affirmative action isn’t controversial. Affirmative action was important when it was first began in the 1960s, but diversity is no longer a big issue at universities, Stratelak said. She said as long as enrollment follows university policies, it shouldn’t be a problem. “We know what to do in those situations,” she said. “Everyone’s learned how to deal with (diversity) now.” Affirmative action is a complicated issue, Reimers said, and it is difficult to predict what it would mean for universities across the United States if the Supreme Court ruled against it. However, she said it could decrease the amount of diversity in higher education. “I think it could lead to less diverse communities at universities,” she said. university@cm-life.com
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ture,” she said. “Our vision is to see more people who come to CMU saying ‘CMU was my first choice.’” Open forums for the other two candidates, Lori Bauer, former chief marketing and communications officer at Arcadia University (Glenside, Pa.) and Jan Bond, director of communications and marketing at Ashland (Ohio) University took place Nov. 12 and 14, respectively. university@cm-life.com
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