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SAC Pool to undergo $2 million renovation

By Kate Carlson News Editor @k8erzz | news@cm-life.com

A $2 million renovation to the Student Activity Center pool might delay the Rose Pool closure past June 30, when it was scheduled to shut down.

“We’re not going to close the Rose Pool until the SAC Pool (renovation is complete),” said Assistant Vice President of University Recreation Stan Shingles. “My initial guess is that I don’t think there is any question it will go into the school year, but it’s all about how we prioritize (construction).”

This will be the largest construction on the SAC Pool since it opened in 1990.

Shingles said planned renovations might not be anything students will immediately notice because it is mainly infrastructure repair. The renovation will include the replacement of tile on the deck of the pool and other mechanical work, like repairs to lighting fixtures.

He said there is not enough information to

estimate how long the project will take.

The renovation was approved by Board of Trustees at its Dec. 17 meeting. No funds were allocated for the project because it was placed on the deferred maintenance budget. University reserve funds will be used to pay for the project.

Reserve funds used for deferred maintenance renovations are budget dollars carried over from prior years, said Associate Vice President and Controller of Financial Services and Reporting Mary Hill. Reserves are created when budgeted funds are not used in a given year. If more investment income is received than what is estimated, the excess funds are put in a reserve account.

Once the Rose Pool was scheduled to close on June 30, the SAC Pool renovation became a priority among other facilities management deferred maintenance, Shingles said.

A committee met on Jan. 12 to begin the early stages of construction planning, Shingles said. Pool maintenance workers, a construction management firm hired to oversee repair work, pool operations workers, and the contractor and construction management firm hired to manage

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Miller-Davis Company was hired to renovate the SAC pool, the same construction management firm which completed construction on the new Soccer/Lacrosse Complex. “(We are) engaging experts, and getting consultant advice on what it is we need to do to manage deferred maintenance,” Shingles said.

A number of issues with both the Rose Pool and SAC Pool were identified during a 2013 Master Plan and Facilities Condition Assessment that was completed on all campus buildings and their systems, said Associate Vice President of Facilities Management Steve Lawrence. An architectural firm was hired to perform a more detailed study of the two pools. From there, a committee comprised of pool workers and people in the community and at CMU who regularly used the pool assessed the use of the pools. The consensus was to close the Rose Pool.

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25 years old. Construction to the SAC Pool will extend its life by 25 years, Lawrence said.

“We’re looking at the big picture and bringing (the SAC Pool) up to 2016 standard from an infrastructure standpoint,” Shingles said. “The goal now is to get ahead of deferred maintenance and preventative strategies.”

New lockers and flooring in the lower level of the SAC were budgeted for summer before renovations were planned, but will now be installed in conjunction with pool maintenance to cause a minimal amount of impact, Shingles said.

“When we close the Rose Pool, it will be the first time since 1974 we don’t have two pools on campus,” he said.

He said this is the reason it is important the SAC Pool functions well.

Pool maintenance is usually performed during summer break because the pool must be drained and closed down to perform most repair work, Shingles said.

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Code enforcement polices trash, parking in M-2 district 24 hours of community service in lieu of ticket fines.

“If you get a violation for waste, community service might be picking up waste,” Dunham said. “It shows that this is what we don’t want in our community.”

By Sydney Smith Managing Editor @SydneyS_mith | news@cm-life.com

If you live between Bellows and High Streets, it’s difficult to avoid a code violation if there is trash on your lawn or your car is parked in the wrong place.

That’s because one of three code enforcement officers in Mount Pleasant was hired to focus on student-populated neighborhoods north of campus.

Kris Crawford, the city’s newest officer, works solely in that area.

“When I was hired, the biggest thing is (the city) wanted partnerships with the Greek community and students, as well as owner-occupied homes,” Crawford said. “They want to try to build a relationship between the students and owners too, so there’s not that butting heads, so to speak.”

Since he started in September, Crawford, who spent most of his career working as a dispatcher for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, has written 196 “corrective notices” north of campus.

As a rule, code enforcement officers first issue a corrective notice — usually a note tacked to the front door of the property — which specifies a time the violation needs to be corrected. If the issue isn’t corrected, a $50 fine is issued as a municipal civil infraction.

Students who receive these fines must appear in court.

Before writing citations, however, Mount Pleasant Fire Lt. Michael Dunham, who oversees code enforcement, said the city is more focused on education for the most common violations: Trash, parking and indoor furniture.

“Tickets are the last thing we want to do,” he said.

“We would rather work with the students to gain compliance through cooperation.”

Common violations Since 2012, the city has issued 2,822 corrective notices for trash, with 1,618 of those in the area north of campus.

“The biggest one is solid waste — trash bags outside

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Kris Crawford points out a code violation on Jan. 8 on Washington street.

of the bins, getting people to utilize their bins,” he said.

Dunham echoed Crawford, adding trash in the yard and on the porch, outside of the designated trash bin will result in a corrective notice. Second, Dunham said, is parking, a multi-faceted issue.

“We have a lot of yard parking by our students,” he said. “They have to be parking on a hard surface. They might park across the sidewalk on a drive.”

He added students have parked on city streets to avoid buying campus parking passes. Many of these students, he said, park in restricted areas. However, some areas are open to park on, like Lansing Street.

But there is no overnight parking allowed on city streets from December until April.

Dunham noticed some students keep indoor furniture outside, whether on the lawn, deck or porch. This is also considered a code violation.

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by $50 per resident. Officers may notify landlords if residents aren’t cooperative, which could tack on extra fees. Infraction fines can go up to $250.

Instead of paying fees, students could opt to do community service instead. If it is a first offense, they can work through the city attorney’s office to complete

A means of communication When the city voted to hire the new code enforcement officer, members of the city commission cited forming stronger relationships between the city and students as a reason, aside from frequent code violations. Dunham said a large part of Crawford’s job is educating the public.

“We started to think that if we had somebody there on a regular basis, they could start making relationships,” Dunham said. “(Crawford) is on a first-name basis with some of those students. I think we are modifying some behaviors.”

For Crawford, who is a self-proclaimed peopleperson, getting out from behind a desk and into the neighborhoods is what he likes about his job. He said he doesn’t enjoy writing infractions, but that is part of his job, too.

“The big challenge for me is if we can gain those partnerships, versus hearing, ‘Code enforcement is coming and they’re going to give me a ticket’ — that’s not what I want.”

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Dave Haynes, owner of Showtime Guns & Ammo, stands at his store counter on Jan. 19.

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The pair showed particular interest in a $650 Smith & Wesson at Showtime Guns & Ammo, the only gun shop in Isabella County. Haynes prompted them to fill out 44.73 forms, which were sent electronically to the FBI for a background check. The two told Haynes they would be back later in the week.

Fifteen minutes later, three Isabella County Sheriff deputies arrived at the shop, looking for one of the men. The department was contacted by the FBI, alerting them that a man with multiple warrants for his arrest had just tried to purchase a handgun.

“I’ve also had instances where somebody has filled out the form and come back denied, and within a minute, my phone rings,” Haynes said.

“It’s the FBI wanting to know what that person looks like, what they were driving, what their address was.”

The 44.73 requires a name, address, date of

birth, place of birth and other general information. It is sent to be e-checked by the FBI, Haynes said. One of three responses comes back: Proceed, delay or deny.

Haynes doesn’t receive a reason for a response.

Though there isn’t much student traffic through his shop, Haynes said traffic from students is increasing. His shop has grown as well.

It opened in 2012 with about 40 guns for sale.

Today, Haynes keeps about 450 handguns and rifles in stock.

Though Michigan’s gun laws are liberal compared to some other states, some students are questioning gun control tactics being discussed in presidential debates and among political pundits.

Where do CMU students fit into the gun control debate? If you ask, you’ll get varied answers.

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There are 89 guns for every 100 Americans Would you feel safer if those with concealed weapons licenses were allowed to bring weapons on campus?

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Hand guns lay in a display case on Jan. 19 at Showtime Guns & Ammo.

Guns aren’t allowed on CMU’s campus. Only members of law enforcement and those participating in approved, supervised university activities can legally carry a gun on campus.

Last year, a 25-year-old student had a handgun while walking into the Veterans Resource Center on campus. While no verbal threats were made, the student placed a bullet on an employee’s desk.

A notice was sent to the student body, reminding them of the university’s weapons policy. CMU Lt. Cameron Wassman said before that, he hadn’t heard of an issue in almost 10 years.

“The policy is pretty straight forward — no weapons allowed,” Wassman said. “That’s what we work off of if someone on campus has a weapon that according to state law they can have, but based on CMU’s policy they can’t.”

Michigan is an open-carry state. Residents who are background checked and complete an eight-hour training class can obtain a concealed carry permit.

There are two places on campus where guns are allowed: CMUPD’s gun locker and the indoor rifle range under Finch Fieldhouse. The range is used by the ROTC. Sgt. Jason Person said it doesn’t have an “open shoot” time and there are no plans to create one.

“We have an arms room at the ROTC and we

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Second Amendment United States Constitution have rifles stored there,” he said. “They’re not military weapons, and we don’t allow people to bring their own personal weapons.”

Because Central Michigan has a large population of hunters, the CMU Police Department opened a gun locker so students who live on campus can have 24-hour access to their guns.

Firearms used for hunting and personal protection are accepted, Wassman said, as well as paintball and airsoft guns. Students who utilize the locker can check out their weapons with a photo ID any time. The locker is located at the police station.

Though students can safely store guns, there are some who would like more immediate access to a

weapon — on their hip while they’re on campus.

Brandon Wright, vice chair of the College Republicans, said he would feel safer if students with concealed carry permits were allowed to carry on campus.

“If someone is going to break the law and kill somebody, having a rule that states you can’t have a gun on campus isn’t going to stop them from doing so,” the Gladwin junior said. “I’d feel better knowing (someone with a permit) had a gun on them.”

Others say they would feel less safe if students, even those abiding by Michigan’s open carry laws, were allowed to carry on campus. That is unlikely to happen, Wassman said, but the police

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department has been approached on the subject.

“Everybody is entitled to their own feeling of safety,” he said. “Some people want to push for weapons on campus because of that. A lot of people want to push for it because it ties directly into Second Amendment rights. That’s what we get the most of. The pushes we see aren’t necessarily tied to safety; it’s more constitutional and philosophical.”

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New mayor emphasizes importance of voting

By Brianne Twiddy Staff Reporter @Brianne_esque | news@cm-life.com

Kathleen Ling believes the quality of local government depends on involvement from its citizens.

After 40 years of being involved in local government, Ling was unanimously elected mayor of Mount Pleasant in January for the second time since 2008. This is her ninth year on the Mount Pleasant City Commission.

She said her main objectives are to during her term is to decide what will happen to the 300 acres of land at the former Mount Pleasant Center bought back from the state in 2010, updating the zoning ordinance and helping the

city adopt a non-motorized transportation plan.

Ling said implementing this plan creates a more walkable and bikeable community.

How will adopting a nonmotorized plan benefit the community?

LING: Mount Pleasant was once identified as one of the most walkable communities because of the size of the city.

We are trying to bring it back to this.We want them to feel like part of the community and see Mount Pleasant as a desirable location and maybe decide to stay here after graduation.

Having a walkable and bikeable community allows the integration of students into the community.

The quality of government you have is entirely dependent on the willingness of citizens being involved in it.

Kathleen Ling Mayor of Mount Pleasant

What do you plan on doing differently than your last term as mayor?

As the chairman of the commission, you want to make sure that all members of the commission get information and equal opportunity to express their views.

My role is to make sure everyone is aware of what is going on and is respected as a member of the commission.

What is the biggest challenge as mayor?

The challenges are deciding as a group what people would like us to do. Politics at the local level is much more accessible to people, and I love it for that reason, but everyone has a different idea of what is best for the community.

The biggest challenge is recognizing that not everyone agrees on how to make this a better community and learn to work together so we can come to a consensus on best policy.

What’s the best part of being mayor or part of city commission?

I know some people say nothing gets done, but things absolutely do get done. For example, the dog park that we spent over three years going from an idea to ultimately it becoming a collaboration.

Many people thought it would never happen. It was a great sense of accomplishment to see it get done.

Why is it important for students to vote?

The quality of government you have is entirely dependent on the

Mary Lewandowski | Staff Photographer Mount Pleasant Mayor Kathleen Ling poses for a picture on Jan. 15 at the Bovee University Center.

willingness of citizens being involved in it. If you’re not involved in the government, it deteriorates.

For me, one of the most discouraging thing is the extent that people get turned off and how

low our voting turnout is.

For students, they are part of this community. Things we do affect them, so if they want a say in what gets done, they need to vote.

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Not up for discussion University’s undermining of public opinion on public broadcasting auction is disappointing

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or decades, Central Michigan University’s support for public broadcasting has been a point of pride for everyone associated with the organization and the institution. Its five PBS television stations broadcast educational programming and news across Central and Northern Michigan, reaching 5.13 million people.

As Central Michigan Life reported last week, the FCC is seeking to buy bandwidth on the television spectrum across the country and resell it to wireless carriers in order to accommodate the increased use of mobile devices.

Buried in the board of trustees’ Dec. 17 consent agenda was a motion to approve moving forward with the application process in an auction that could sell off part of CMU’s Public Broadcasting operation, reportedly worth more than $700 million. The university must decide by March 29 if it

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will participate in the auction.

This was the first time the public heard of this major piece of university business. No public forum, and no announcement from the university. Even public broadcasting’s radio station failed to cover a story concerning the organization’s television stations.

CMU should have done more to inform the stations’ viewers — and donors — about potential changes to pubic broadcasting. Its failure to do so is disappointing.

Not seeking public input on a decision that could have an impact on a large university asset is a cause for concern.

President George Ross and the trustees will give $2 million to public broadcasting system

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this year. As far as the Auxiliary Activities Fund, it is third only to Athletics and Computing Support, which will get $21 million and $11 million respectively.

The university’s silence on the topic has caused uneasiness among viewers of public programing and donors alike.

We wonder why the trustees and Ross were unwilling to take a few moments to explain the spectrum auction during the meeting — the obvious place to discuss such matters.

At the same meeting, Ross

was criticized in his official performance review for not effectively communicating CMU’s mission and vision for the future with the campus community more effectively.

If administrators and trustees thought no one was interested in possible changes to public broadcasting, they seriously underestimated what the organization means to the community.

It is unclear if CMU has any plan to hold public discussion about potential sale of the stations. In the meantime, school

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Both options are about the least personal or effective methods of communication we could think of.

CMU’s decision to participate in the auction is nonbinding, so it can back out at any time.

This story is far from over.

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Snyder should not take whole blame for Flint Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State address on Tuesday was filled with grief and regret.

He has been at the center of one of the biggest political controversies this state has had in recent memory.

During his annual address, our governor laid the blame for the Flint water crisis at his own feet. He was contrite as he apologized to the people of Flint and promised them he would do everything he could to fix the problem his administration helped cause.

I believe him.

I also believe Snyder does not deserve the whole blame for the Flint water crisis atrocity.

It is important to remember how Flint got here.

Flint’s economy has been in the gutter since the auto industry went belly up many years ago. Two words have defined the city recently: Unemployment and crime.

The state-appointed emergency manager approach worked in Detroit. So Snyder applied it to Flint.

Seventeen months ago, Flint’s second emergency manager, chosen by Snyder, decided to switch the city’s water supply from the fresh Great Lakes to the Flint River as a temporary cost-cutting fix.

Big mistake.

It appears top executives at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality failed to provide Flint’s new emergency manager with accurate and crucial information regarding the lead

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levels in the Flint River.

This was a systemic failure.

It is unrealistic to expect Snyder to anticipate each intricacy of state government leading up to the catastrophe.

Now, his mission is to fix it.

Snyder asked Michigan legislators for $28 million to help those affected by the crisis and asked the people of Flint to trust him to fix their biggest problem.

All people have the right to con-

sume clean drinking water. Snyder knows that. He is devastated people in Flint don’t have clean water right now.

The people of Flint were robbed of their right to clean water by a colossal and woeful bureaucratic failure.

Snyder has issued public apologies and declared a state of emergency. A federal investigation into the crisis is being conducted by the U.S. Justice Department.

A policy decision has caused this chaos.

To Snyder’s underlings, who often are too concerned with the bottom line, the decision to switch seemed financially responsible.

Now Snyder is being accused of knowingly poisoning an entire city.

What a farce.

Today, Michigan State Police Troopers go door-to-door handing out bottled water to city residents.

The democratic process failed in Flint.

Snyder should have been more aggressive in his vetting of the information he was being fed from his emergency manager in Flint and a major state agency.

He did something many successful bosses do every day: He trusted the people that work for him.

They let him down. Now Snyder’s legacy is in hot water.

People talk about losing trust in government all the time.

Perhaps it is time we start discussing whether the government can trust itself.

Citizens United waning influence in 2016 Amid raucous blustering on immigration and healthcare, two issues stand to dominate the 2016 general election: campaign finance and the future of Citizens United.

If you don’t know what Citizens United is, don’t worry, you’re in the majority of registerd voters.

Basically, it all has to do with how candidates can raise money. In 2010, many long-held campaign finance laws were superseded by the Supreme Court. The ruling allowed candidates and their proxies to create political action committees, or PACs, to help raise unlimited sums of money.

Donations are often untraceable and offered in huge, unregulated amounts. That’s the difference from the ndividual donations you or I make to candidates of our choosing. To many politicians, including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and some candidates on the right, the ruling is an abomination, allowing a partisan, billionaire class to buy and

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That may be an exaggeration slanted by the left – many of whom have benefitted greatly from PACs –but a lot of Americans agree with the sentiment. A Bloomberg poll published late last year resolved that 78 percent of its respondents felt Citizens United should be overturned. The target on Citizens United’s back has never been bigger.

It could see its final days after its malevolence is hammered into our brains in 2016.

Even without major campaign finance reform or another Democrat in the White House, this year might be the death knell of the Super PAC. To be very clear, Citizens United is as bloated and excessive as it

sounds, but was a necessity for almost all candidates to compete in the elections of the future. That changed this year when three major things happened: Sanders, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush all ran for president.

Hear me out. The first example is easy. Sanders is running a campaign almost exclusively centered on the moral and criminal lapses of Wall Street and their unfettered ability to do what they want with America’s money – his words, not mine. Aside from breaking up big banks and holding them legally responsible for the 2008 economic collapse, Sanders is hell bent on stopping Citizens United.

By virtue of repetition, Sanders has helped drum up some of the discontent against Super PACs, and could be chiefly responsible if the ruling gets overturned during a Sanders presidency. Yet Sanders’ ideological fist isn’t opposed to taking Super PAC money – two Super PACs in his name have donated a

total of $8,795, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Still, that’s a drop in the pail, he’s hardly needed them. Sanders has raised nearly $42 million in private donations alone, and will most likely continue down that path.

Take that into account with Trump’s generally self-funded campaign, and it becomes clear that Super PAC money is not only unnecessary, it’s insolvent.

Two outsiders kicking the political elite to the curb isn’t unheard of, but it is unexpected, especially when Bush and Hillary Clinton are viewed as underdogs. Clinton’s various Super PACs have raised $16.2 million, while Bush is sitting in a far favorable funding position.

Bush’s “Right To Rise” PAC raised a whopping $103 million for the floundering candidate, and still, with all that money, he continues to drop in national polls. Obviously Bush was saddled with disadvantages, including the stain on his family

name. Yet his demise says less about his own failings than it does about PACs. Even with such a strong fundraising arm, money alone will not seal the deal, proving again the insolvency of Citizens United.

Recently, a Bush PAC aimed at Latino voters titled “Vamos For Jeb” shut down, citing its inability to raise even a single dollar. Between the left’s total war on PACs and their new inefficacy, more politicians could be less seduced by the allowances of Citizens United.

Once it is no longer an ingrained in our campaign finance system, it’s death is sure to shortly follow. Removing Supreme Court ordered precedent is a nearly improbable bet in Washington, but it’s not impossible.

All it takes is the right lawsuit, under the right circumstances, backed by an administration that wants Citizens United’s head mounted on its wall, to undo what many consider the greatest threat to democracy in our time.

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Last semester, the organization brought a speaker from the National Rifle Association to campus, and held an event during which they wore empty holsters.

“Our goals in regards to concealed carry is to get CMU to align with national and state laws allowing students to carry concealed on campus, with the exception of dorms and classrooms,” said Keskimaki, president of SCC. For her, it’s about feeling safe as a woman. She witnessed someone attempt to break into her house when she was 12 years old. She has been taught about guns and gun safety from a young age.

“As a woman I just feel safer.

Being able to handle a firearm safely and properly, and know that if ever put in a situation where my life, or the lives of others are in danger, I have the legal right to use deadly force against the threat,” she said.

A topic of national debat e

Last year there were 330 mass shootings in the U.S., according to Gun Violence Archive. Those deaths forced the issue of gun control onto the national stage. Fifty-two of these shootings were on college campuses across the country.

President Barack Obama outlined a recent executive order to try to keep guns out of the wrong hands by enforcing background checks, increasing mental health treatment and awareness and imposing a grace period between the time someone buys a gun to when they can pick it up.

Tim Minotas, president of CMU’s College Democrats, said his organization’s views on gun control are simple: Keep guns out of the hands of children, criminals and mentally ill people, and limit the purchase of assault weapons.

He said people often cite the Second Amendment as to why they should own any kind of gun. “(The Second Amendment) was to have an armed militia in case the British came back,” said the Rochester senior. “It doesn’t protect against having restrictions, or laws, that

keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people. I think it’s outrageous if you see people on the news carrying AK-47’s into Kroger or something. That’s over the top.”

Wright sees things differently. To him, the Second Amendment represents every person’s right to own a gun — plain and simple. However, Wright doesn’t think “violent criminals” should have the same right.

“I’m OK with background checks, because I wouldn’t want a violent felon owning weaponry,” he said. “Anyone else should have the right to carry.”

The conflicting views between Wright and Minotas represent a national debate that’s been going on between Republicans and Democrats for years. At CMU, policy decides what students can and cannot do.

“I have to go with what the Code of Conduct says,” said Office of Student Conduct Director Tom Idema. “My opinion is irrelevant.

The code and university policy state there can’t be any weapons on campus. I get (students who support concealed carry)’s beliefs, but policy is what it is.”

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New synthetic turf budgeted for Kelly/Shorts Stadium

By Andrew Surma Assistant Sports Editor @Andrew_Surma | sports@cm-life.com

Central Michigan football will play on new artificial turf in 2016.

Facilities Management Associate Vice President Steven Lawrence said Tuesday his department and the Athletics Department are in the process of finalizing designs for the field and hope to have contractors bid for the project on Friday.

Lawrence said the design could possibly include a multi-colored field — alternating dark green and light green colored turf.

MSA Sports, an Ohio based architecture and design company, is being consulted to help develop the design, Lawrence said.

“We’re due. We’re definitely due. I’m excited. It’s going to be great for our program and for recruits. ” John Bonamego Head Football Coach

Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor The sun rises behind Kelly/Shorts Stadium on Oct. 17, 2015 before a home Chippewa football game.

Lawrence said the total cost is not yet known, but will go into the differed maintenance budget, which has $600,000 set aside for the project. New turf was not originally budgeted in the 2015-16 operating budget for deferred maintenance.

Lawrence said construc-

tion is tentatively expected to begin June 6 and end July 30.

The synthetic turf currently carpeting Kelly/Shorts Stadium was installed in 2004 and cost $680,000.

Lawrence and Senior Associate Athletic Director of Internal Operations Brad

Wachler said new turf is needed because the current, 12-year-old turf has tested poorly in its annual Gmax test, which determines how much force the field absorbs and returns back to the athlete. “(The test) doesn’t really look at aesthetics and

playability, but it looks at the overall safety component of the turf itself in terms of hardness, low spots or high spots,” Wachler said.

According to a Dec. 30 USA Today article citing a study called “The Role of Synthetic Turf in Concussion,” 15 percent of concussions occur after players’ heads hit the turf.

The turf at Kelly/Shorts Stadium could be played on another year or two, Wachler said, but recent Gmax test results were “close to falling below appropriate levels.”

Head Football Coach John Bonamego said he prefers being proactive, instead of waiting until the turf is dangerous to play on.

“We’re definitely due,” Bonamego said. “I’m excited.

It’s going to be great for our program and for recruits.”

Bonamego said he has been a part of the collaboration conversation, but would not disclose any specific information about the design.

“It will be something alumni, students and everyone can be proud of,” Bonamego said.

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Track teams prepare for first scored meet of season

By Ryan Warriner Staff Reporter @warriner_ryan | sports@cm-life.com

For the first time this season, the track and field teams will compete against a Mid-American Conference school on Saturday.

Eastern Michigan, CMU and Oakland will compete in the Eastern Michigan Triangular in their first scored meet of the year.

The Eagles are favored over the Chippewas, as the preseason MAC rankings had EMU’s women and men placed first and second respectively while ranking CMU fifth in both polls. Oakland is a member of the Horizon League.

Last year’s meet resulted in a tie between CMU and EMU. “The whole team has to step up,” said Head Coach Mark

Guthrie. “Two athletes score in every event for each school, so it’s those small battles that will take place in each event that are going to come together and give you that team score.”

The first and only meet of the season so far for CMU was the Dec. 4 Holiday Classic at Saginaw Valley State. Saturday’s meet will determine who will travel with the team for larger, more competitive meets later in the season.

“The first two meets of the year, we are doing everything we can to get 100 percent of our runners into the competition,” Guthrie said.

“Those two meets will set up a depth chart. As we get to the more important meets, we will take the athletes who have risen to the top and have shown they can compete at a high level.”

This meet is structured differently than most collegiate track meets today with only three teams participating, something Guthrie said he is excited about. “(This) is what track and field used to be,” Guthrie said. “Track and field when I grew up was head-to-head competition, with a score at the end and the whole event could take (about) two to two-and-a-half hours. Today, you traditionally have unscored meets that last many hours, which is not attractive to the athlete, coach or spectator. This is a great meet that gives our student-athletes a chance to see what (track and field) used to be.”

The Eastern Michigan Triangular in Ypsilanti begins with field events starting at 10 a.m. and track events starting at 1 p.m.

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Cheer team leads MAC schools at national competition Team used winter break to prepare for Orlando-hosted nationals

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Central Michigan’s cheer team finished seventh in the Division I Small Co-Ed United Cheerleaders Association College Nationals in Orlando, Florida last weekend.

Teams are placed in the same division as their football program, which is why the cheerleading team competes against Division I opponents.

The Chippewas had to receive a score higher than 80 during the semifinals in order to qualify for finals. The team scored above an 80 in the semifinals and a 79.5 in the finals.

Scores are out of 100 and are earned in different ways. Points are scored on pyramids, tosses, tumbling and other stunts.

“I thought they did an amazing job overall,” said Head Coach Nicky Van. “This was my first year coming down and they did phenomenal.”

Van was unable to join the team last year due to a death in the family.

“I have a lot of mixed feelings about it,” Van said. “It was definitely an emotional, crazy and fun experience.”

Without having other competitions during the year, Van and his team had to decide if it was worth competing in nationals.

Van had to determine the skill of his team, the level of camaraderie and its chances of placing in the competition. Team members also had to be willing to put in the work to be competition-ready.

“I would only enter if I felt our team was worthy of going,” Van said. “We aren’t just representing ourselves, we are representing our school.”

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“Rookies had to miss time with their families, especially during Christmas and Thanksgiving, which was a huge sacrifice to make in their first year at college,” Van said.

Hofstra University took first place in the Division I Small Co-Ed Division. CMU topped all other Mid-American Conference teams, including Ball State (eighth) and Akron (ninth).

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tumbling into place Students make sacrifices to form club gymnastics team

By McKenzie Sanderson Staff Reporter @ohkenzie | sports@cm-life.com

Three times a week, a small group of women make a 30-mile trek to Midland, to keep their dream of kickstarting a Central Michigan club gymnastics team alive.

Practice began in November for the group, now just 19 members that makes up the team.

Students have attempted to start a club gymnastics team for years, but could not overcome the barrier of finding a place to practice.

There is a gymnastics room in the Rose Center on campus, which is used by the varsity team, CMU gymnastics classes and children’s recreation classes. University Recreation’s Director of Programs Jen Nottingham said the club is not allowed to use the facility due to an incident in 1993, which resulted in a lawsuit against the university.

According to a 1996 edition of Central Michigan Life, freshman Brian Sheridan broke his neck on Nov. 7, 1993 “when he attempted a backflip on the Tumbl-Trak” in the gymnastics room. The accident left Sheridan with permanent injury to his spine. He was later diagnosed as a quadriplegic.

Sheridan filed a lawsuit against the former director of campus recreational services, the former faculty adviser who was present during the accident and the former athletics director for gross negligence. The lawsuit was dismissed and a second suit was filed against them in 1996.

Although the university said it was not responsible for the accident, CMU

“(The club members were) willing to meet, willing to put the hard work and time in. Using their network really helped them to get the club going.”

Jen Nottingham, University Recreation Director

agreed to pay Sheridan a $1.3 million settlement in 1998.

Nottingham said the past lawsuit is the primary reason previous attempts to start a club gymnastics team have been unsuccessful.

“Based upon the lawsuit, (the gymnastics room) is pretty much restricted to the Athletic Department,” she said. “Students sometimes don’t want to travel, especially when there is a facility here, but we have clubs that travel all the time for a practice facility (like) the equestrian team (and) bass pro fishing.”

Club gymnastics signed a contract in November requiring them to pay rental fees at the Midland Gymnastics Training Center for their practices for an entire year.

The facility in Midland is the nearest gym

Chelsea Grobelny | Staff Photographer Marysville sophomore Alyssa Wood practices on the beams during practice at the Midland Gymnastics Training Center on Dec. 2, 2015.

the club can use for training. Driving to and from Midland three times a week for practice makes the experience pricey and time consuming, senior club co-founder and president Morgan Taylor said.

“I want this to last so badly,” she said. “I don’t know if it will if people have to drive that far.”

On Tuesday, Thursdays and Sunday nights, the team meets at her apartment and drives about 40 minutes to Midland. They practice from 9 to 11 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday and 6 to 9 p.m. on Sunday.

“We (spend) almost as long (driving) to and from practices as we (actually) do practice,” said junior team member Tayler Hebenstreit.

Adding the drive time, each practice is about a four-to-six-hour commitment. Taylor said only about six of the original 15 members are able to attend any given practice.

“It’s an expensive sport to begin with,” she said. “It would make it so much easier if we could practice on campus.”

The new club hopes to start competing as early as February. They have been training on all events, which includes bars, vault, beam and floor events.

Get ting of f t he ground Taylor hasn’t been able to compete in gymnastics since her junior year of high school due to a back injury which seemingly ended her competitive career. She said she is not nervous about another injury and feels more confident this year because her back is no longer in pain.

“I’m hoping this can be my closure,” she said.

Taylor and senior Maggie Hammond met in a gymnastics class at CMU in fall 2014 and began the process of co-founding the club last spring.

Past students have been discouraged because of how long the process of starting a new club can be. Nottingham said clubs have to start with at least three members, write and have a constitution approved, find competing schools, create a work-

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Senior Gymnast named MAC specialist of the week Central Michigan senior Taylor Bolender was honored as this week’s Mid-American Conference Specialist of the Week in gymnastics.

Bolender, the defending MAC floor exercise champion, scored CMU’s first 9.9 of the season on her floor routine during Friday’s 194.775-193.575 victory against Brigham Young. The 9.9 is .25-points

away from her career best on floor.

Bolender is one of two MAC gymnasts to score a 9.9 in an event this season — along with Kent State’s Rachel Stypinski. Bolender is ranked 39th in the nation on the floor routine.

CMU freshman Kasey Janowicz was a nominee for MAC Gymnast of the Week after winning the allaround last week, recording

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Chelsea Grobelny | Staff Photographer Missouri senior Erika Lofton pushes a mat off the trampoline during practice at the Midland Gymnastics Training Center on Dec. 2 in Midland.

ing budget and plan a place and time to hold practices.

Time, interest and commitment are needed to start a new club, but Nottingham also stressed the importance of networking. Involvement with other clubs on campus and having connections with gymnastics clubs at other universities have been key factors in getting CMU’s team started.

Hammond was helped in the process because of her experience with the running club.

The combined experience of Taylor and Hammond helped the club get off the ground after years of attempts. “(They were) willing to meet, willing to put the hard work and time in,” Nottingham said. “Using their network really helped them to get the club going.”

Nottingham also mentioned how the two founders collaborated with other schools’ club gymnastics programs.

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! 1, 2, & 3 Person 4 units remaining for 2016/2017 Duplexes & Apartments www.qualityapts.com (989)772-3894

1-5 BEDROOM RENTALS. Now leasing for 2016/17. Check availability: www.rentMP.com. Douglas Day Property Group, LLC. 3 BR, 2 STORY HOUSE ON FRANKLIN ST. 1 block from campus! New carpet, new kitchen, dishwasher, washer and dryer, and deck in back yard! 775-8919

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