LIFE CENTRAL MICHIGAN
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MONday, SEPT. 15, 2014 | MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. | ISSUE NO. 10 VOL. 96
Life in brief Metro City considering ‘Party task force’ Couch burnings, dumpster fires and break-ins caused Mayor Sharon Tilmann to say enough is enough and she’s looking for options for how to curb the problem. The parties during Welcome Weekend and other times are getting out of hand, Tilmann said. She added it’s a safety issue for residents and other students. “What’s happening with the civil disobedience that’s happening with parties now is unacceptable,” Tilmann said. “We’re trying to figure out what we can do to nip it in the bud.” Tilmann said the parties are getting worse, and city officials like Vice Mayor Jim Holton feel unsafe in the student section Jeff Browne, Mount Pleasant’s public information officer, said they are looking into different options to fix the safety issues. “We want to allow individuals to have fun,” Browne said. “We also want to provide an environment that’s safe and secure. We’re getting more people from out of town, which is a problem. We need to come up with a way to protect our students and our residents.” A time and place of the meeting has not yet been announced. Katherine Ranzenberger, News Editor
STUDENT LIFE Central Review is seeking STUDENT WORK Central Michigan University’s Central Review is accepting submissions for the Fall 2014 edition. The Central Review, an undergraduate literary journal, gives students the opportunity to share their work with peers. Zachary Riddle, Coldwater senior and Central Review editor, explained the Central Review accepts many different kinds of creative works. “We accept any kind of photography, poetry and fiction. For each submission, a student can include the following: five paragraphs, five poems of any length and three pieces of fiction no longer than 3,000 words,” Riddle said. Students can send submissions to cmucentralreview@gmail.com. “We accept one submission a year from students , which includes the five photographs, five poems and three fiction pieces,” Riddle said. “These submissions can be emailed in separate parts so long as the student identifies themselves in the header of the email, indicating the kind of submission they are sending us.” Students should also include a short autobiography, no longer than 300 words, when they email their creative pieces. The deadline for submission for the Fall semester is midnight Oct. 13. No submissions after that time will be accepted. Students with published work in Central Review will attend the Reading and Release party planned for 6 p.m. on Nov. 27 at 6 p.m. in the Baber room. Andrea Peck, Staff Reporter
LIFE INSIDE
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Orange Crush
Meagan Dullack | Photo Editor Sophomore defensive end Joe Ostman is taken to the ground by a squad of Syracuse offensive linemen during CMU’s loss to the Orange Saturday at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.
Chippewas sit Rawls, drop to 2-1 on season after blowout to Syracuse By Dominick Mastrangelo Sports Editor
On a highly anticipated and brisk autumn afternoon at Kelly/Shorts Stadium, the Central Michigan University football team was force-fed a dose of bitter reality by the best team it has taken on this season.
Without senior running back and graduate transfer student Thomas Rawls, CMU (2-1) was pummeled by Syracuse 40-3. Rawls, CMU’s leading rusher this year, was announced as inactive Saturday morning due to “an issue that came to (the program’s) attention Friday,” according to a statement from
the team. Following the game, Head coach Dan Enos refused to answer any questions regarding Rawls’ absence. CMU entered the game with a great deal of momentum following a 38-17 thrashing of Purdue last week and a 16-point comeback win in the Chippewas home opener the week before.
“You’ve got to move on. You can’t let one team beat you twice,” Enos said. “It’s human nature. Guys walk around campus and people tell them: ‘Wow you guys really kicked Purdue’s butts’. I told them not to take any complacency pills. We went from the penthouse to the outhouse pretty quick.” w LOSS | 2
Enrollment reaches 27,069 students Numbers bolstered by freshmen, international students
By Ben Solis Editor-in-chief
An influx of freshmen and international students has helped Central Michigan University raise total enrollment to 27,069, according to finalized enrollment figures released Friday. The new numbers represent the fourth-highest enrollment figure for the CMU community in the past 10 years. Freshman enrollment is up 26.5 percent, bringing in a class of 3,811 students. That number is up from 3,012 last year. Bolstering the increase is a boost in undergraduate and graduate international students. The 39.3-percent increase equates to 1,064 students. More than 2,500 minority students were also added to CMU’s on-campus frame-
work. Graduate students helped raise enrollment numbers with a 12.4-percent increase. Steven Johnson, vice president of Enrollment and Student Services, said the increase in freshmen is impressive because Michigan’s total high school senior class is expected to decline to 90,000 by 2020, compared to 119,000 in 2008. The freshmen have an average high school GPA of of 3.34 and an average ACT score of 22.7, according to a university press release.
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Trustees to hear audit results, discuss CMED Saginaw By Katherine Ranzenberger News Editor
Marking its first meeting of fall 2014, the Central Michigan University Board of Trustees will present the university’s annual fiscal audit at its Sept. 18 meeting. President George Ross will also give a report about the university and his final 2014-15 goals. This includes discussing and ultimately moving to approve new university priorities and initiatives for the next five years, according to the meeting agenda. Plante Moran, a Michigan-based accounting firm, conducted the audit for
the fiscal year that ended June 30. CMU’s overall net position increased by $32.3 million to a yearly total of $673.4 million in 2013. Net position is defined as being the difference in total value of assets and the cost it takes to maintain that value. The calculation is created by looking at increases in CMU’s total assets and non-operating revenues, as well as decreases in total liabilities, account payments and long-term debt. As compared to 2012, the university increased its total net position to $641.1 million. Operating revenues took a $2 million hit as compared to last year’s figure of $321.5 million – total operating
revenues stand at $319.5 million. Operating revenues are comprised of factors such as tuition and fees, federal, state and local grants, as well as “auxiliary enterprises,” according to the audit. Trustees will receive updated 2014 net position figures from Plante Moran at the meeting. Any increases in revenue were brought about by CMU’s non-operating revenues, including state appropriations and increases in investment income. State appropriations grew in 2013 to a total $71.3 million, up from $68.1 million last year. External financial investments rose to $24 million, up from $1.6 million last year.
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Although these figures show signs of growth, the audit shows the university’s physical cash-on-hand is down by $9 million from last year. Trustees will also be discussing contracting for construction, furnishing and equipping of the CMU College of Medicine Phase II building in Saginaw at the meeting. Barton Mallow Company of Southfield was hired as contractor for Phase I of the project. Steve Lawrence, vice president of Facilities Management, said the project has a $25.2 million construction budget. Saginaw’s CMED building is scheduled to be complete by May 2015.