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MONday, SEPT. 22, 2014 | MOUNT PLEASANT, MICH. | ISSUE NO. 13 VOL. 96

Life in brief OPINION

Women stay perfect at CMU Soccer Comples with win over IPFW  »PAGE 7

Improving international relations Number of international students on campus has doubled since 2007 By Arielle Hines Staff Reporter

Football so far

Sports Editor Dominick Mastrangelo updates you on the state of the football team after losses on the field and in the locker room.       w 7

ENTERTAINMENT Comedian Gary Owens to perform in Plachta Comedian Gary Owen will be performing at 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at Plachta Auditorium. Central Michigan University’s Program Board is hosting the comedian during Hip Hop Week. Owen is an actor best known for his role in Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne.” He has also appeared in the films “Daddy Day Care” with Eddie Murphy and “Little Man” with the Wayans Brothers. More recently Owen headlined the Mike Epps Presents: Live from the Club Nokia show. It airs on Showtime. The stand-up showcase was filmed live at a sold-out Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Tickets for students are $5 general admission or $15 for VIP reserved seating. Public tickets are $15 general admission and $25 for VIP reserved seating. Tickets can be purchased at Ticket Central located in the CMU Events Center or online at Ticket Central’s website. For more information on the show, visit cmich.orgsync.com/ org/cmupb.

Kuwait native Meshari Ahmeed, knows what its like to be a stranger in a strange land. He came to Central Michigan University two years ago to begin his master’s degree in information systems. Before he came to the United States, he got his undergraduate degree in Alexandria, Egypt. Continuing his education in a foreign country hasn’t been easy, but CMU’s uptick in international enroll-

ment shows him that he isn’t alone. “It’s difficult for me to be here,” said Ahmeed, one of the 1,049 international student enrolled at the university this year. “But the international students here are a big community.” The number of international students has doubled since 2007, when only 457 international students were enrolled at CMU. While overall freshmen enrollment at Central Michigan increased by more than 25 percent from 2013-14, the number of international students has increased more than 35 percent.

“Also, the university I came from in Egypt had connections with CMU. CMU has a lot of connections to other universities in places like Africa and even Europe.” Meshari Ahmeed, graduate student Tracy Nakajima, director of International Affairs, said it’s exciting to see the increase in the number of international students. She has been with the office since 2002 and has seen its growth first-hand. “It’s been busy because we have more students and more traffic than we ever had,” Nakajima said. “We have seen the International Stu-

dent Organization take a lead in not only social events, but also learning events to the student.” Administrators increased resources to attract international students in the past few years, Nakajima said, including having two recruiters that specifically target international students. w international | 2

Residence halls full across campus

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. 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 EDITORIAL: Club and IM sports should receive more university funding     »PAGE 4 Improv group readies first show     »PAGE 5

Taryn Wattles | Assistant Photo Editor “We are loaded up with Ramen. We will be good!” laughed Farmington sophomore Sarah Thibideau, right, as she discusses zombie apocolypse plans with roommate and new friend Paige Engerer, left, a sophomore from Howell. The two met during move-in day on Aug. 23 at the Towers.

Larger freshman class impacts number of students in rooms, where they reside By Rachael Schuit Staff Reporter

Almost every room in all residence halls is full of students across Central Michigan University and the university’s uptick in freshman enrollment is mostly to blame, according to university officials. Joan Schmidt, director of Residence Life, said its boom in oncampus living is an improvement from last year. “There are a few women’s spots here and there but the men’s spots are filled,” Schmidt said “Last fall we opened with 5,330 and this fall we opened with 5,975.” In the 2013-14 academic ses-

sion, the top floor of Robinson Hall was completely empty. This year, that floor is full of students, Schmidt said. Resident Assistants and Multicultural Advisors have also noticed a change in their halls this year with the larger freshman class. “Last year there was two to three people in a room, sometimes just one,” said Cody Sapp an MA in Wheeler Hall. “Now it’s consistently four people in a room.” The increase in freshman enrollment hasn’t just added more bodies to rooms, its put them in places they typically don’t reside in, said India Jackson, an RA in Campbell Hall. She’s seen an increase in

freshman on her floor – Campbell Hall hall has been historically an upperclassmen residence hall. “I do have about seven freshman on floor,” Jackson said. “I think I had maybe one or two freshman last year”. Despite having more residents on their floors and in their halls, both Sapp and Jackson agree that having students live on campus is beneficial “The hall is a lot more diverse just because there’s more voices,” says Sapp. Jackson agreed with Sapp, and said the residents are becoming more active in activities around the halls.

“I think the freshman are more willing to do hall council,” Jackson said. “They want to get involved because they are new here,” Schmidt also said that full capacity in the residence halls adds to the community. “Everybody has roommates,” Schmidt said. “It makes programming a lot easier because more people will come out to things like hall council.” Despite increases in enrollment and administrators pushing to keep getting more students, there are no plans in place to increase residence hall capacities. “We don’t anticipate an increase like this again,” Schmidt said.

Parking Services: Additional parking not neccessary By Jordyn Hermani Staff Reporter

When running late and short on quarters, the parking lots of Central Michigan University can seem cumbersome and hard to navigate. At times, it seems that there are more students than parking spaces. CMU’s campus, however, features more parking per students than most other universities. From 2012 to 2013 alone, more than 200 parking spaces were added to university lots. An additional 22 were added in 2014, according to CMU Parking Services. As of the 2009 update to the Campus Master Plan, which in the future proposes moving parking to the edges of campus to make CMU more

pedestrian friendly, the university still has more parking spaces per student than both Eastern Michigan and Princeton universities. The amount of commuter parking permits sold since Aug. 31 is 4836, amounting to more than half of the 7,655 student permits sold this year. The amount of parking spaces available in Lot C, as of 2013, is 4,216. Despite the numbers showing that CMU does have a surplus of spots all over campus, students still believe there to be limited parking. That assertion might have more to do with the consequences of using the parking lots without a permit or not enought change for meters: Expensive tickets. w parking | 2

Central Michigan Life | File Art Parking Appeals Officer Mike Anderson places a parking ticket under the windshield wiper of a car in Lot 27 next to the Music Building.


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