November 30, 2015

No. 111 | Vol. 96

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REGULAR SEASON RECAP: The Chippewas

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Bonamego’s first season as head coach. Read BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER: Junior forward

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Student access to academic advisers is limited

By Emily DeRuiter Staff Reporter @DeruiterEmily | news@cm-life.com

Students are not the only ones taking a hard look at their schedules before the spring semester.

Academic advisers have been in their busy season for the last few weeks, trying to accommodate for last-minute course schedulers.

There are 30 academic advisers, one for every 650 on-campus students. The Academic Advising and Assistance Office Executive Director Michelle Howard said this is their the busiest time of year.

“There are times when it seems like everyone on campus has sought advising, like right now,” Howard said.

The imbalance of students-to-advisers is not uncommon for large universities.

A 2015 survey conducted by the National Academic Advising Association said a ratio of around 600 students per adviser is the median load for institutions similar to CMU’s size.

This fact was criticized by students and an editorial published by Central Michigan Life in spring 2015. The editorial said Academic Advising on campus needs extra hands to help students graduate on time.

Howard has a different view.

She said CMU’s ratio of 650 students to every one adviser does not include faculty advising. Professors take on the role of adviser, helping students sign their majors and course registration because of their familiarity with the students and course content. “(To get an) estimate of our advising ratio, I remove pending graduates from total undergraduate enrollment. Pending graduates will have received final graduation audits, have completed registration and typically do not have high advising needs,” Howard said.

“The pending graduate total between August, December and May graduation is estimated at 3,500 each year which brings us closer to the 1:500 number.”

The survey also does not have a recommended number for institutions.

Howard said the university has resources like major nights and the Advising Workbench. Both are used to aid students in having access to information so they can strive to graduate on time.

There are plans for additional improvements to be made to Advising Workbench.

advising information To schedule an audit, call (989) 774-3504 or visit Warriner Hall 123 to make an appointment.

Appointments for academic advising can be made by calling (989) 774-7506 to determine which adviser is suitable for your degree. This information can also be found by visiting the ​A cademic Advising and Assistance page on cmich.edu.

Howard said academic advisers want to be able to have students compare courses they have already taken to different majors and degree programs.

“It would automate that process that we can certainly do manually,” Howard said. “We would like to give students the opportunity to compare majors, the length of time to graduation, map out what a different degree choice would look like.”

The office is also in the process of hiring another adviser, whose position is filled by a temporary faculty member. Five more academic advisers were added to the staff in 2013.

“Since 2013, we have been able to place at least one professional academic adviser in each of the academic colleges,” Howard said. “Prior to that we only had two college-based programs, one in the college of business and one in the college of education.”

Kaylie Johnson, a senior from Grand Rapids, said she was satisfied with academic advising when she took advantage of the pre-graduation audit service. This service makes sure students have fulfilled all of their degree and university requirements before graduation.

“It went well, they are super fast,” Johnson said. “I didn’t have any trouble. Everything was really easy for them to do because I have most everything done, I just wanted to verify it all.”

Pre-graduation audits are not required, but are considered helpful so students can make sure they are not missing credits or requirements for graduation.

Johnson advises that when someone goes to see an adviser, they do a little planning beforehand.

“I always find doing some of the work ahead of time makes things go easier, it’s faster,” Johnson said. “Write down your questions.”

Stephen McLean | Staff Photographer Ryan Phillips, an academic adviser in the College of Science and Technology, works with a student to help him decide which engineering major to choose on Nov. 24 in the Engineering and Technology Building.

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Calli Morris | Staff Photographer Take Back the Tap, a student organization that focuses on ending the sale of bottled water on campus, set up a life-size Tom Trionfi filled with plastic water bottles Nov. 2 on a bench outside of the Charles V Park Library.

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ore than 46,000 bottles of water were sold in Central Michigan University’s campus stores last year.

Take Back the Tap aims to reduce that number to zero.

“Our main focus is eliminating the sale of plastic bottled water,” said president of the registered student organization Lisa Conine.

Founded as an extension of the Student Environmental Alliance, TBtT has been seeking to rid CMU’s vending machines of wasteful disposable bottles for the past six years.

Tom Rohrer, former adviser to Take Back the Tap and Director of the Great Lakes Institute for Sustainable Systems, tries to educate students and

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Coke’s biggest seller right now is their Dasani water, more than any of their carbonated beverages. The university tries to offer to its students things that they will choose when they come here.

Tom Trionfi, Director of Contracting and Purchasing Services

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Going green is becoming more and more costeffective for Central Michigan University.

Since 2008, the university has saved $10.8 million through energy savings, rebates and other sustainable actions.

Facilities Management’s budget has received no increase since 2008-09. This effort to keep the budget static matches an increasing number of energy-efficient projects on campus.

“We’ve worked hard at keeping energy costs down,” said Associate Vice President of Facilities Management Steve Lawrence. “This is our seventh year of no increase to the utilities budget and we have completed over 100 energy-optimization projects on campus.”

But what does “going green” mean?

Despite its efforts, CMU’s carbon footprint has increased by 24 percent since 2008. A carbon footprint is a measurement of carbon compounds, such as CO2, that are released when fossil fuels are burned.

The university’s carbon footprint in 2014 was 108,972 metric tons of carbon dioxide. This is an increase from the start of sustainability projects in 2008, when the footprint was only 87,439 metric tons.

Most of CMU’s carbon emissions come from heating, electricity usage and refrigerants. These comprise 70 percent of CMU’s carbon footprint, while purchased electricity and the combined total of travel, commuting, solid waste, paper purchased and waste water make up the remaining 22 and eight percent respectively.

Last year, CMU’s carbon footprint was higher than Ohio, Grand Valley and Western Michigan universities, when compared to the size of their buildings.

CMU was measured as having 18.38 metric tons per 1,000 square feet compared to 14.9 and 16.6 readings of other universities. Ball State University and Temple University were measured at 18.91 and 20.56 respectively, higher than CMU. These increases are due to high energy consumption in academic spaces, according to a report

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On-campus stores sold 480,567 20-ounce beverages. ten percent of these sales were plastic water bottles. complied by the College of Humanities and Social and Behavioral Sciences. This report, released in September and edited by the Great Lakes Institute for Sustainable Systems, details CMU’s sustainability efforts from 2012-15.

Various conservation projects have kept CMU’s energy costs and footprint low despite new developments on campus.

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News and notes from around campus

President Ross to hold conversation on inclusion and diversity President George Ross will address the Central Michigan University community on the topics of diversity and inclusion at noon this Friday in Plachta Auditorium.

The event is hosted by the Office of Diversity Education, titled Conversations on Campus — Walking Together: A Conversation on Inclusion and Our Community.

Space is limited for this event, and students attending will receive free lunch and must RSVP on Orgsync. As of Nov. 29, 221 people RSVP’d.

According to the Orgsync description of the event, it is meant to provide a platform to address the topics

of diversity and inclusion in CMU’s community.

Central Michigan University faculty members, students and Mount Pleasant community members will also take part in the panel discussion, in addition to the university president.

Personal stories and insight will be shared and there will be a Q&A moderated by students with the chance for attendees to ask questions.

-Kate Carlson News Editor

Fowler remains sidelined for men’s basketball While the Central Michigan men’s basketball team went to Estero, Florida for the Gulf Coast Showcase, senior guard Chris Fowler stayed home to rehab his injury.

The team has been without senior guard Chris Fowler for all five regular season games this year due to an undisclosed injury.

“We feel like he’s going to return to us,” said Head Coach Keno Davis after Wednesday’s game. “We do not have a timetable yet, but it’s our hope that we can get him back during the nonconference part of our schedule.”

Fowler has not played since the exhibition game against Ferris State on Nov. 7.

“He chose to not come because he knew that he could continue to get healthier by staying home to rehab,” Davis said. “He’s putting the team first

by staying back, rather than enjoying the warm weather.”

Davis said he could not talk about the nature of Fowler’s injury.

“I can’t talk to any specifics of the injury. We think that he’s going to be returning to our team,” Davis said.

“Obviously that’ll improve the quality of our play, but we can’t use that as an excuse right now. We need to get better as a team, we need to get better individually and not just wait around for Chris to get back.”

CMU missed Fowler during the tournament. The Chippewas went 0-3 during the tournament.

The team will look to bounce back from its three-game losing streak at 7 p.m. Monday at McGuirk Arena against McNeese State.

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Mary Lewandowski | Staff Photographer Livonia junior Bridget Byrne, left, and Armanda senior Vinnie Roncelli, right, host a Take Back the Tap table on Nov. 3 in the Charles V. Park Library.

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TBtT spent the week of Nov. 2 canvassing areas on campus to boost environmental awareness among students.

One event was a poster display in the Fabiano Botanical Gardens. In addition to an array of posters, TBtT volunteers erected a statue of Director of Contracting and Purchasing Services Tom Trionfi. The statue was made of plastic water bottles.

TBtT has repeatedly asked for bottled water to be excluded from CMU’s contracts with Aramark, Pepsi and Coca Cola. Negotiations between students and the university have yielded no results.

“Ever since the campaign started, numerous meetings and conversations have happened, including letters and emails showing student support,” Conine said. “It seems like the conversations always go in a circle. We’re not sure if he is willing to negotiate with us.”

Beverage companies have no incentive to eliminate bottled water from CMU’s

lineup, said Trionfi.

“The university has a number of contracts, two are with Pepsi and Coke and the other is with Aramark to run our C-stores,” Trionfi said. “With those contracts, they have the ability to put into their vending the machines and supply to (on-campus stores)w the types of beverages that people are purchasing. Neither one of them are going to put things in there that aren’t selling.”

Almost 500,000 20-ounce beverages were sold in campus stores managed by Aramark from August 2014 to May 2015. Bottled water sales comprised approximately 10 percent of total sales.

“Coke’s biggest seller right now is their Dasani water, more than any of their carbonated beverages,” Trionfi said. “The university tries to offer to its students things that they will choose when they come here.”

In that time frame, sales in Aquafina, Smart Water and Ice Mountain totaled 26,974 bottles, beating out standard Pepsi products by nearly 6,000 bottles.

Trionfi advised TBtT to increase student awareness

to reduce bottled water sales.

While TBtT has been working to increase public awareness, it hasn’t been enough to cause significant change in the sale of bottled water on campus.

“We’ve had this campaign on campus for six years and you always have to keep educating freshmen and keep members active,” said SEA president Audra Flores. “We’re trying to tell as many people as possible to have louder student voices in the future.”

Flores estimated about 300 students showed their support during the week of events through signatures and listening to TBtT’s message.

However, students’ purchasing power remains geared toward bottled water.

“I don’t negotiate on behalf of Tom Trionfi and Take Back the Tap, I negotiate on behalf of the university,” Trionfi said.

Conservation Biology Graduate Assistant Grant Clarkson saw the posters and statue while walking between classes.

Clarkson tries to keep himself and his students educated on the hazards of plastic waste. w water | 12

environmentally-sustainable and cost-effective, Lawrence said. Projects with the greatest return on investment and energy reduction relative to cost are most attractive to facilities. The total invested in these projects as of September 2015 has been $2.9 million.

The return thus far has been $1.8 million and is expected to increase moving forward.

“We’ve added 212,900 square feet to campus since 2008,” Lawrence said. “We’ve consumed 3.68 percent fewer megawatt hours of electricity, despite a 3.82 percent increase in space.”

Heating campus has also become cheaper, going from $1.36 per square foot to $1.20 since 2008.

“We’ve used savings to do

“You have to ask, ‘How do I reduce waste?’ You design the buildings to reduce energy consumption through buying local and recycling waste from construction sites.”

Steve Lawrence, Vice President of Facilities Management

maintenance, solve problems around campus and fix equipment in the Powerhouse,” Lawrence said.

Some of the biggest changes to make CMU greener are small things. Water usage in on-campus buildings and residence halls decreased.

Faucets that don’t use as much water were installed in bath-

rooms across campus. This coincided with the installation of variable toilet flushing systems, which give the user the option to use less water for liquid waste. These reduce the amount of wasted water.

Water usage has decreased dramatically. In 2008, the university used more than 170 million gallons — enough to fill nearly 9,000 in-ground pools — to less than 130 million in 2014. Sewage usage has decreased from 155 million gallons to 111 million last year.

That means CMU has saved $693,342 in both water and sewage expenditures since 2008.

Aside from saving water, several buildings on campus have received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certifications. These rankings are based upon the number of points awarded by w facilities | 12

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entral Michigan defeated Eastern Michigan in dramatic fashion Friday, mounting a 14-point comeback in the second half.

In what should have been a galvanizing moment to cap off Head Coach John Bonamego’s first season and the last home game for seniors who will never again play at Kelly/Shorts Stadium, the victory was diminished by a meager audience who witnessed it.

The CMU Athletics Department announced an unofficial attendance figure of 8,049 fans, the fewest amount for this season.

Kelly/Shorts Stadium holds up to 30,255 people; it was less than a third full on Friday. The next closest game was CMU’s loss to Toledo two weeks prior, a Tuesday game that brought in 13,490 people.

Students left Mount Pleasant on Tuesday and Wednesday for Thanksgiving Break. Residence halls remained closed until Sunday. Historically, few students return to campus to watch what has become a throwaway game that ends each season with a whimper.

This game has consistently been a loser for CMU football and the rest of the conference.

Three other MAC teams hosted games on Black Friday this year. Two of the three had the fewestnumber of attendees compared to the rest of their home games this season. All three teams announced almost twice the amount of fans in attendance than those announced by CMU. Toledo hosted Western Michigan in front of 16,151 people, Kent State traveled to Akron with 16,391 fans and Buffalo hosted UMass with 15,648 attendees.

CMU’s game didn’t benefit from a large TV audience either. It was broadcast on ESPN3, which is only available through online streaming.

The game is difficult for students and studentathletes. Students working the game, and members of the Chippewa Marching Band and cheerleading squad are forced to stay in Mount Pleasant or drive

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Editorial Board EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | Malachi Barrett MANAGING EDITOR | Sydney Smith NEWS EDITOR | Kate Carlson NEWS EDITOR | Jordyn Hermani SPORTS EDITOR | Taylor DesOrmeau DESIGN EDITOR | Michael Farris

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A Chippewa fan watches the football game against Eastern Michigan University on Nov. 27 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

back after Thanksgiving, and are taken from their families during the holidays.

Sadly, the game also was Senior Day. After sacrificing thousands of hours to training, undergoing extreme stress and gambling with their health, 13 student-athletes celebrated their last home game with empty stands. The team’s senior class deserved a better showing of people.

This game also puts a burden on CMU to stay compliant with NCAA Division I attendance requirements. Each year, the Chippewas must average 15,000 fans at each home game. This becomes more difficult when the final home game of the season is far below that number.

Bonamego said last week that scheduling games

the day after Thanksgiving is not practical.

“I think we should make every effort in the future to try and schedule these things before Thanksgiving, before the students leave to go home,” Bonamego said.

“I made my feelings known at the league meetings.

When we are all kind of struggling for attendance across the board, it just doesn’t make sense to schedule a game when you don’t have anybody.”

Bonamego also proposed hosting future Thanksgiving weekend games at a neutral site with multiple matchups like games in the High School State Playoffs, an interesting solution that several fans agreed with on social media. An event like that might be difficult to organize, but simple alternatives exist.

Moving the game to the Wednesday before

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Thanksgiving Break would create a chance to catch students who have classes that day. Playing on Saturday may bring in students who are returning home early or create a reason to. On Friday, few are willing to drive back after one day of vacation to watch CMU football, especially against a weak opponent like Eastern Michigan.

Even in 2009, when CMU beat Northern Illinois on our way to a conference championship, only 15,113 people were there to watch CMU complete a perfect 8-0 conference record.

It’s clear that this game has no benefit to Chippewa athletics. The MAC should consider the alternatives when making future broadcasting deals with ESPN. It’s time to cook this Turkey of a game.

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OPINION

Water bottles are my worst nightmare I know that being environmentally friendly is not always the most convenient thing to do, but we live in a wasteful society with a short attention span. Most people think “going green” means returning their empty pop cans every month. I am tired of being one of the few who cares about living a sustainable life.

Eco-anxiety — the chronic concern for the environment, or as I like to refer to it, being constantly aware of the eminent peril of the well-being of our planet, is one of the many stressors always in the back of my mind.

Can I recycle this? Should I eat only local food so less gas is used to ship it to the store? Should I stop driving my car and only use my bike from now on? Should I stop eating

Kate Carlson News Editor meat because farming techniques for livestock are not sustainable?

While I’m debating adopting a locally-grown vegan diet and ditching my car for my bike and public transportation, it’s really hard for me to swallow the fact that a lot of my peers regularly buy water sold in a “disposable” plastic bottle. Some people not only pay money for this natural resource that is readily available for free or a fraction of the cost to us as privileged U.S. citizens, but throw away the bottle after just one use.

Recycling helps, but is the lesser of two evils. Recycling the bottle means it probably will be shipped overseas, using energy and fossil fuels where it would take more energy and nonrenewable resources to be recycled.

Some people don’t even recycle their plastic vessel, but have the audacity to throw it in the trash without a second thought. This route inevitably means the water bottle will end up in a landfill where it takes the plastic 70 to 450 years to decompose, or it will arrive god knows where — maybe congealed along with all of the other plastic products in the giant mass twice the size of Texas that is floating around in the ocean.

That is terrifying, because when

plastics break down, they don’t biodegrade, they photodegrade. This means the materials break down into smaller fragments. These readily absorb toxins which contaminate soil, waterways and animals upon digestion.

How anyone can willingly pay money to participate in a practice with so many negative outcomes blows my mind, yet 50 percent of the plastic Americans use is used just once and thrown away. Enough plastic is thrown away each year to circle the earth four times, and only five percent of the plastics we produce are recovered through recycling efforts.

All wasteful behavior makes me angry, but buying bottled water is a mainstream practice that needs to become a thing of the past. Tap water

is more stringently monitored than bottled water and is available for a fraction of the cost. People are going to look back at our generation and wonder why we as a society accepted this activity as normal for so long.

CMU has drinking fountains located in every academic building, most of them even are designed to easily refill water bottles. The university still sells water bottles on campus, but that doesn’t mean we have to buy them. If we stop buying them, they will stop being sold.

For the sake of my eco-anxiety — but more importantly, our planet — stop wasting your money and causing harm to the environment by purchasing bottled water.

High expectations needed for future leaders Since the day we were born, we have grown up in a society that relentlessly preaches and encourages a strong foundational belief in the irrational theory; “time is money.” No wonder it seems absurd to prioritize precious minutes of relaxation to sit down, turn on the news and catch up on current events or devote just a few moments of our daily lives to research political topics to help develop educated opinions.

Young adults, especially between the ages of 18-20, have consistently produced the lowest percentage of votes in our country’s elections. We constantly ignore our obligation to participate in the democracy our founding fathers spilled blood, sweat and quill ink to attain. We refuse to learn about political affairs that don’t provide a substantial amount of entertainment value.

Living in a country that has such immense political influence, and a world that experiences frequent and violent terrorist attacks, it is vital for

Emily Finn Staff Reporter

all of our country’s citizens to understand the importance of educated and thoughtful participation in the upcoming presidential election.

To meet the high expectation and tradition of an honest role model, it is our jobs as Americans to ensure that whoever is entrusted with these presidential responsibilities is someone who not only has tenacious patriotism, unbreakable love for and dedication to their country, but also determination to enforce domestic policy to put an end to rapidly increasing debt.

Our president needs to promise that enforcing justice will be their utmost priority, that we will continue our unconditional devotion to the protection of the innocent and defenseless, and that we will forcefully send a powerful message to

any terrorist organization seeking to cause chaos.

Without a firm stance against our enemies, high expectations for our leaders and overwhelming voter participation, we will continue to earn the reputation of a generation that isn’t brave enough to stand up for our rights, fight our own battles and protect those who aren’t capable of fighting for themselves.

Nobody owes us the privileges we take advantage of every day: a strong military to protect us, clean water to drink, healthy food to eat, advanced healthcare and medicine, social security benefits when we retire, freedom of speech and religion…the list goes on. We have abundant blessings to be humble and thankful for, yet some members of our generation selfishly demand even more and assume every privilege should be handed to them.

The girl who never shows up to school now expects our country’s taxpayers to pay for her college education. The boy who dropped

out of high school now expects a higher minimum wage even if that means one of his coworkers, a single mother, will lose her job. What happened to the theory of “work and reward?” How did we become so self-absorbed?

As the youth of our nation cowardly hides from the consequences of self-centeredness and unwillingness to take control of their problems, they remain oblivious to the real injustices and tragedies occurring every day. On the other side of the world, there’s a girl who risks her life by sneaking her way into school, because she believes in the benefit and privilege of getting an education. There’s a boy who is publicly executed in the street because he stole a loaf of bread to bring home to his starving mother.

Yet we sit here, scrolling through Twitter feeds on our cell phones during class and throwing away cafeteria food because “we aren’t in the mood for pizza.” We have the nerve to say

we aren’t directly affected by the problems of those who can’t defend themselves against the injustice they face every day. Taking care of humanity is everyone’s problem and is everyone’s responsibility.

With the vast resources available to our privileged generation, there is no excuse for us to shy away from working as hard as we can to make lasting difference in our world. I challenge the youth of our country and the future of the entire world, to grasp these issues with tight fists, and to create coexistence in a global community founded on the principles of love, service and acceptance.

I propose we start live by a new theory, “Work…then work a little harder.” To create a better tomorrow, we have to start with today; let’s plan to leave this world knowing we gave it our best effort, we never gave up, and we always strived to create an abundant, flourishing future. Step aside grandpa, a new greatest generation is in the making.

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Jordyn Hermani | News Editor Recycle bins stand in the Merrill Residence Hall third floor laundry room on Nov. 29.

SGA endorses effort to add recycling bins to res halls

By Jordyn Hermani News Editor @h3rmani | news@cm-life.com

Legislation to install Styrofoam recycling containers for laundry rooms in residence halls was passed in the House and Senate for Student Government Association’s Nov. 23 meeting.

The legislation, endorsed by the Sustainability Committee, supports an effort to make Central Michigan University’s campus more recycle friendly.

“I think it would be very good for the residence halls to have another recycle bin, especially for Styrofoam or to increase CMU’s recycling capabilities,” said Sustainability Committee Chairperson Drake Smarch. “Through this legislation, we could keep unnecessary Styrofoam out of landfills and out of the environment.”

The endorsement does not necessarily mean Residence

Halls will introduce the Styrofoam recycling bins. “(A bill) literally means nothing unless Administration decides to pick it up,” said SGA President Chuck Mahone. “The starting point is for us to go to the university administration, say ‘students want this’ and then open up a point of discussion as to how we can make this happen.”

The legislation could potentially be brought before administration at a later date.

From there, it will be decided whether or not the proposal is economically feasible before being implemented across campus.

SGA brings legislation to different administrators based on the bill, Mahone said.

“This bill, like so many others, is the first step towards doing something especially for raising awareness.” he said. “For this, because it specifically pertains to our residence halls, our Sustainability Committee will probably (benefit by) taking it to ResLife.”

Bins to recycle mixed papers and aluminum or plastic bottles are already present in residence hall laundry rooms across campus.

Boyne City sophomore Liz O’Donnell said the addition of Styrofoam specific recycle bins would encourage students to think twice before throwing out their trash.

“This is a really good idea.

It just makes sense,” she said.

“A lot of people don’t know you can recycle Styrofoam so they would probably have the tendency to just throw it away, especially if there’s not a receptacle where (Styrofoam) can be conveniently disposed of.”

No amendments were made to the bill before it was passed.

Legislation to install a meditation space for religious students was also passed in the Senate but tabled in the House. Members of the House will take the bill back to their RSO’s for review.

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Student hypnotist plans to open clinic after graduation

By Gabe Porrometo Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

In a shady, empty living room apartment, a man with a thick goatee and long disheveled hair asked his patient to descend the imaginary stairs of their mind.

He stood in front of the hypnotized patient wearing a black kilt, a dark shirt and a calm, reassuring look on his face.

The hypnotherapist, 29-year-old Joshua Dixon, has a double major in psychology and premedicine at Central Michigan University. He said he aspires to open his own hypnotherapy clinic after he graduates.

Dixon described hypnosis as a “window to the soul and to the subconscious mind.”

“I realized (hypnosis) was just as much of an art as playing an instrument or painting a canvas,” Dixon said.

Freshman Anna Krinke said she was skeptical, but wanted to try to try being hypnotized.

At first, Krinke said she felt relaxed and tried to focus on Dixon’s voice, but then she fell into a trance. She woke up after half an hour without remembering anything.

“I thought I was asleep for 10

Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor Bay City senior Joshua Dixon performs hypnosis on Saint Joseph junior Hailey O’Brien on Nov. 25 in the Bovee University Center Rotunda. Dixon has been performing hypnosis for five years.

minutes,” Krinke said. “Needless to say, I was amazed when they told me I was in trance for more than one hour.”

Krinke said her wonder grew more and more when she was told Dixon made her believe he was invisible and made her forget how to count to 10.

“I was relaxed and I didn’t feel any stress at all,” she said. “I

would like to do it another time.”

Dixon’s interest for hypnosis arose several years ago when he concluded his service for the United States Navy. After traveling around the world in a submarine for four years, he enrolled in a hypnosis course with the intention to prove it as a false practice.

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After paying $3,000 to take classes at the Hypnosis Maryland Institute, he became passionate about the practice and got certified in hypnotherapy.

By going into a deeper level of a patient’s mind, the hypnotherapist can talk to them without barriers and explore their unconscious, he said. The

aim of hypnosis is to find what really distresses the patient, which is usually a particular trauma, and produce positive changes in their personalities and behaviors. “(Hypnosis) is used in almost every medical area,” Dixon said.

Dixon gave examples of how hypnosis has been used to change behaviors to help someone quit smoking or to replace anesthesia during surgeries for people with allergies. There’s also a specific technique called “hypnobirthing” used to give birth without pain, he said.

However, the greatest benefit is given to soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, the first effective cure used to fix their anguish, Dixon said.

“And of course, it’s fun to show it during the parties,” Dixon exclaimed with a broad smile.

Whoever wants to study this field has to be respectful, a good listener and show good empathy, adding that the most beautiful part of this work is helping people.

Dixon said many people use hypnotic language patterns daily without realizing it; that’s the case of car salesman. Even people working in the media use it as a strategy, for example in advertisement. However,

the most interesting practice is the one made by politicians, who are usually trained in it.

Donald Trump, Dixon said, is one of them.

“Just try to observe his movements, his speech, his voice and you’ll know what I’m talking about,” he said.

The hypnotherapist said many only use it as a tool for lower objectives, but the true essence of hypnosis can be found in a mixture between magic and science which is devoted to help people.

According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, people willing to own a clinic and practice hypnosis in their profession have to get a specific license as a healthcare worker released by different schools and obtain a master’s degree. Fields of study that include this practice are psychology, psychiatry, clinical social work, medicine, masterlevel nursing, dentistry and chiropractic.

For now, he offers private sessions with a $200 charge for the first time and a $100 per hour charge for follow up sessions.

“That’s what I want to be. I found in hypnosis everything that I need — art, science, realization, empathy and beauty” he said. “This is real magic,”

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“It affects every single person,” he said. “We need to dedicate time to understanding it more thoroughly.”

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the United States Green Building Counsel.

The Graduate Housing Complex has received a Platinum Certification, the Education and Human Services building has received a Gold Certification, Ronan and new additions to CMED have received silver while renovations to the Bovee University Center received regular certification.

“You have to ask, ‘How do I reduce waste?’” Lawrence said. “You design the buildings to reduce energy consumption through buying local and recycling waste from construction sites.”

These efforts extend to the maintenance of buildings as

TBtT’s goals, he was unsure whether or not plastic water bottles would be eliminated from campus altogether.

While Trionfi uses bottle refill stations in Warriner Hall for his own water bottle, plastic water bottles will continue to be sold until a significant

amount of the campus population can do the same.

“If (Trionfi) had most of the student body behind it, it would be a reasonable goal,” he said. “I’m from near Flint and bottled water was 100 percent necessary for schools when they didn’t have clean water.”

well. According to the report, 87 percent of cleaning products and practices across campus are “green” and custodial staff are required to participate in 24 hours of related training per year.

“Why should we be exposing students and staff to toxic chemicals we can clean safely?” said Great Lakes Institute for Sustainable Systems Director Tom Rohrer.

Rohrer estimates that the microfiber cleaning cloths used by the university save $54,000 annually on paper towels.

Motion-activated light switches are installed in 25 buildings around campus to counteract increasing energy costs. Lights left on overnight are a culprit in CMU’s high energy consumption said Director of Energy and Utilities Mike Walton.

“We could save a lot of energy if lights around the university were used properly,” Walton said. “We need to make people aware of that.”

In the September report, an ongoing goal was established for CMU to produce as much of its own electricity as possible. Since the wood chip boiler was shut off in December 2012, CMU’s Powerhouse now runs exclusively on natural gas. During the last fiscal year, it produced 55.15 percent of the electricity used on campus. The remainder was purchased through Wolverine Power Marketing Cooperative.

The project with the highest return has been the installation of 46 variable frequency drives on electric motors across campus, netting a 400 percent return on investment.

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Warren senior Ben McCord talks to a teammate on the sidelines during the Chippewas’ game against Eastern Michigan on Nov. 27 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium.

FORWARD PROGRESS Chippewas finish season in four-way tie atop MAC West at 6-2, NIU wins tiebreaker to advance to MAC Championship

By Taylor DesOrmeau Sports Editor @TDesOrmeau | sports@cm-life.com

In July, a trip to December’s Mid-American Conference Championship at Ford Field seemed like a fantasy for a Central Michigan football team that was picked to finish fifth in the MAC West.

After beating the eventual MAC champion Northern Illinois and falling to Western Michigan and Toledo by a combined seven points, the only thing keeping the Chippewas from heading to Detroit this Friday is a tiebreaker.

With four teams tied for first, the MAC tiebreaker to determine the champion is the teams’ records against each other. CMU and Toledo were each 1-2 against the other three teams in the tiebreaker while WMU and NIU were 2-1. Because NIU beat WMU Nov. 18, they earn the title.

“We wish we were playing in the MAC title game next week, that was our main goal,” said junior quarterback Cooper Rush. “But 6-2 in the MAC is nothing to laugh at. We didn’t accomplish all our goals, but this team this year played their butts off in every game.” w FOOTBALL | 16

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By Greg Wickliffe Staff reporter sports@cm-life.com | @GregWickliffe10

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his June, redshirt junior Jewel Cotton could only run up and down the basketball court once.

But for her, this was an accomplishment, considering her past six months.

Off to the best start of her collegiate career, Cotton and the Central Michigan women’s basketball team played Oregon on Black Friday last year, Nov. 28.

Cotton contributed only eight points and three rebounds. With 12:33 remaining, she was

fouled under the basket and left the floor with a knee injury. She tore her left ACL. “I was in shock,” Cotton said. “I was really hesitant to attack that game, and the one moment I had a downhill attack, I just came down wrong.”

It was the most severe injury Cotton experienced in her career and it sidelined her for the duration of her sophomore season.

In hindsight, Cotton said the injury was something that changed the way she approaches the game.

“Some people feel like it’s a freak accident,” Cotton said. “I think it was one of those things that needed to happen to help me slow down mentally. I feel like my game has picked up

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greatly from the injury.”

The recovery process was frustrating for Cotton. She had never been away from the court for so long, and it was a difficult transition.

“It was hard, but we got through it,” Cotton said. “It was something new for me, since I had never had surgery. I was doped up on the meds for most of the time.”

Cotton’s best friend, roommate and teammate senior Chelsea Lynn was by her side every step of the way, constantly providing words of encouragement.

“Her recovery was tough,” Lynn said. “I would talk to her everyday like, ‘Hey, you have to keep pushing, don’t ever get down on yourself. If you’re going to work, you’ve got to work because if you take a day off, all it’s going to do is put you back further.’”

Since her return, Cotton has been one of the Chippewas’ most consistent players. She is averaging 10.6 points and eight rebounds per game, helping CMU to a 4-1 record. She’s also played 28 minutes per game, the third-most on the team.

“I’m excited to have Jewel back,” said senior guard Da’Jourie Turner. “She’s improved so much. She’s been out for like over a year, and she’s really hungry to get back out there, and she’s very beneficial to the team.”

As she sat out, Cotton found a new way to make an impact for the Chippewas. The Harper Woods native spent the rest of last season on the sideline as one of the team’s biggest cheerleaders. That helped gain respect from her teammates.

“It was a new role,” Cotton said. “I cheered my team on, and I was in here as much as I could

be. Just so they knew that, regardless of my injury, I was here to show support.”

Cotton needed help from her teammates when she first returned to practice and scrimmages.

“At first it was a little scary,” Cotton said. “Just the help of my team has me feeling a lot more comfortable on the floor, but it is still a scary thing because you’re scared you won’t come back how you were. It’s kind of a new journey for me.”

Cotton said she has to continue to fight to delete the doubt and fear from the injury out of her mind.

“I’ve talked to so many people that hurt themselves and they always say, ‘I’m stronger, faster and better than I was before,’” she said. “But I (thought), ‘That doesn’t always happen. It could be different for me. I could come back and not be the same. Of course that always happens, and you have to fight through that. That’s what made me stronger mentally, getting through that.”

CMU Head Coach Sue Guevara said Cotton will be one of the Chippewas’ most important players as the season rolls along.

“She’s our most versatile player. She’s our lion,” she said. “I expect her to lead us in rebounding, I expect her to lead us in scoring and I expect to hear her mouth.”

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“I think it was one of those things that needed to happen to help me slow down mentally. I feel like my game has picked up greatly from the injury.”

Jewel Cotton, redshirt junior forward

Lynn said she’s grateful to have her friend back on the court after such a long-awaited return.

“I’ve been waiting for her, I’ve been pushing her and getting in her head,” Lynn said. “She’s on a mission and I’m just glad I’m with her on this mission. She’s going to work.”

Even with 10 underclassmen and only four upperclassmen on CMU’s roster, Cotton said she doesn’t feel any added stress to produce.

“I believe it’s only pressure if you accept it as pressure,” Cotton said.

“I’m accepting it as a challenge.

I would

like to be a stat-filler. I don’t have any specific expectations. I just want to play hard and not play timid because of the injury because I feel better than before.”

As her conditioning continues to improve, Cotton said that moment she was first able to run on the court again is one she’ll cherish for awhile.

“I was only able to go down and back,” she said. “That was probably the best feeling ever, from sitting out almost a whole season. I didn’t do much, but I was able to run up and down. That was the best day.”

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Monica Bradburn | Assistant Photo Editor Charlotte junior Cooper Rush attempts to pass the ball during the Chippewas’ game against Eastern Michigan on Nov. 27 at Kelly/Shorts Stadium. Rush broke the CMU single season pasing record, Friday, eclipsing Dan LeFevour’s 3,652 yards passing in 2007. Rush has 3,703 yards passing this season with one game to go.

Yet, the Chippewas were in the conversation. In his first season as head coach, John Bonamego helped CMU overcome the hump of mediocrity, claiming the team’s best conference record since Butch Jones led CMU to a MAC Championship in 2009 (12-2, 8-0 MAC).

With a 7-5 record, the Chippewas will go to a bowl game. It will be determined Dec. 6 where they will be headed.

“Everybody doesn’t get to play in three bowl games out of their four-year career, so it’s just a blessing to go to a bowl game,” said senior defensive back Kavon Frazier. “There’s always some favorites that we have, like we want to go somewhere warm, but really anywhere we go is just a blessing.”

With at least three weeks to prepare for the final game, Bonamego said the team will use the extra practice time to get a jump on spring practice for the younger players. The starters, meanwhile, will have

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“We can just focus on one game,” said sophomore defensive back Josh Cox. “Everybody can get their bodies healthy and watch a lot of film.”

One thing the Chippewas will be happy with when watching their own film is the passing game.

Rush passed for 391 yards and completed passes to 10 different receivers in CMU’s 35-28 comefrom-behind victory over Eastern Michigan on Friday.

Between a strong passing game and stout defense — which was 0.5 yards per game shy of allowing the fewest yards per game in the MAC — the Chippewas were within a touchdown of every opponent in the fourth quarter this season. That includes national powerhouses Michigan State and Oklahoma State.

“We were in every game, should have won a few more,” Rush said. “We’re excited we’re going to a bowl and get another chance to play with these seniors and another chance to win.”

CMU was eliminated from MAC West contention after its 28-23 loss to Toledo on Nov. 10, but climbed back into a fourway tie with NIU, Toledo and Western Michigan after wins against Kent State and Eastern Michigan and losses from the top contenders.

Western Michigan’s 35-30 victory over Toledo on Friday kept the No. 24 Rockets from taking the title.

“It’s a little bittersweet because of the way it happened,” Bonamego said. “There’s another team (Western Michigan) that won today and we’re never really cheering for them to win.”

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