Nov. 17, 2014

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LIFE CENTRAL MICHIGAN

Laying it on the line

MONday, Nov. 17, 2014 | MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. | ISSUE NO. 37 VOL. 96

Life in brief Business New entrepreneurship department names chair Kenneth J. Sanney has been appointed to lead Central Michigan University’s new entrepreneurship department as founding chair. Sanney became a faculty member of the College of Business Administration’s finance and law department in 2009. He serves on the CMU Research Corp. board of directors. In collaboration with the Isabella Bank Institute of Entrepreneurship, the new department provides the entrepreneurial program with a curriculum that prepares students to start or take on business opportunities. The institute and the new department will be heavily integrated in order to provide students with the tools they need to be successful entrepreneurs. By Zahra Ahmad News Editor

Engineering Engineering program recognized by Ford

Central Michigan University’s engineering program has been designated one of a select number of universities to be invited to participate in the Ford College Alliance. CMU’s participation in the Ford College Alliance means the Ford Fund will award $10,000 in Ford Blue Oval Scholarships to qualified CMU students. Two College of Business Administration students and three College of Science and Technology students already have been designated Ford Blue Oval Scholars and will each receive $2,000 each. The new initiative is managed by the Ford Motor Co. Fund and supports the company’s U.S.-based Premier and Standard Recruiting colleges and universities. The Ford College Alliance allows CMU students to benefit from vehicle team support and $25,000 in scholarship money as a result of this collaboration. Ford is providing CMU $5,000 in financial support split between two engineering and engineering technology student vehicle teams on campus: the Society of Automotive Engineers Baja team and the Formula One team. Four students have been conditionally approved to receive $2,500 through Ford Blue Oval Vehicle Team Challenge Scholarships. By Malachi Barrett News Editor

LIFE INSIDE Editorial: STEM needs more women     »PAGE 4 Q&A: Madeline Palmer encourages women to study STEM     »PAGE 6

Football uses last-second goal-line to stand to top Miami (Ohio) »PAGE 7

CHSBS changes minors to certificates Program restructuring downgrades American Indian studies minor due to low enrollment By Megan Pacer Staff Reporter

A reappraisal in the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences has caused a restructuring of several programs, including what used to be the

American Indian studies minor. As of the 2014-2015 school year, the American Indian studies minor has been changed to a certification along with several other programs in the college. CHSBS Dean Pamela Gates said every time the college programs

are looked at, they must be ordered and grouped into categories one through five. Programs in category one are considered the healthiest and generally will receive additional funding. Those in category five are considered to

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“The best part of being on the fire department is knowing that at the end of the day you did everything you could to try to help someone else” Jennifer Herrema, volunteer firefighter

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Junior Jennifer ‘Jenni’ Herrema has experienced many intense situations as a volunteer firefighter, but helping revive a patient whose heart had stopped was an experience she will never forget. “I will always remember my first time doing CPR in the back of the ambulance on the way to the hospital with another medical first responder and getting pulses back on the patient,” she said. “There’s no feeling quite like that.” Herrema is a volunteer firefighter and medical first responder for the Custer and Scottsville Fire Department, being the youngest member of both. She has been volunteering at the Custer department for two years, and Scottsville for five months. John Allisonn, Herrema’s father, was also the chief of the Custer fire department, when she joined at 18. He died last year, when he had a

cardiac episode after responding to a trailer fire. “I learned so much from him throughout my life and could not have asked for a better role model,” Herrema said. “Last year he passed away in the line of duty, but he will forever remain my hero, and my inspiration to give whatever I have to try to help someone in need.” Herrema completed her medical response training in her senior year of high school. She has also completed additional medical training in areas such as CPR, bleeding and shock, trauma assessment, febrile seizures and diabetes. w fire | 2

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Be the Match registry draws wide support for Nash By Megan Pacer Staff Reporter

Community support for Derrick Nash made the first Be The Match registry event held in his honor a success. A Saginaw freshman on the Central Michigan University football team, Nash has been dealing with a relapse of his acute lymphoblastic leukemia for about two months and is in need of

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a bone marrow transplant. “I was down at Central being on the football team and going to class,” Nash said. “I’m not going to say I wasn’t mad, but things happen for a reason.” Caitlin Regan, a marrow recruitment specialist for Michigan Blood, said the registry event held outside the Kelly/Shorts Stadium prior to Saturday’s game ended with 30 new

registered donors for Be The Match, which met her goal for the day. “Everyone has been very aware of the situation,” Regan said. “Everyone knew that Derrick was going to be honored today. The awareness has been through the roof.” Regan said a majority of those who joined the registry came from the CMU Athletics tent set up outside the stadium. Several new registered donors were also students, some

of whom had questions about the process of donating, which Regan and her partner Katie McClain, a marrow recruitment specialist, were happy to answer. “I made sure they were aware of what they were signing up for,” Regan said. “I don’t think that all of them signed up, and that’s a win in our book because we don’t want people signing up who aren’t committed.” w nash | 2


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