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A new study on interactions between Native Americans and nonNatives in Isabella County shows systemic issues with racism, bias and harmful behavior between the two groups.

The study was commissioned between 2012-13 by the Isabella County Human Rights Committee and was funded by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. Kevin Daum of the ICHRC presented history on the Tribe and select data from the study to Mount Pleasant officials at Monday’s City Commission meeting.

More than 100 tribal members from the Saginaw Chippewa, Swan Creek and Black River Indian Tribes living in Isabella County were interviewed to collect their experiences with racism. Daum said more than 500 stories of racial discrimination and micro-aggressions emerged in these interviews.

“We can’t dismiss these stories of discrimination as atypical, provoked or misunderstood,” he said. “(Racism and discrimination) is still too pervasive. It leads to distrust and hostility, and we all pay a price as individuals and a community.”

Nearly 35 percent of Native Americans have a negative view of Isabella County based on how non-Natives interact with people of their culture, according to the study. Over 25 percent of tribal members said they had mixed feelings about the county, and less than 15 percent said they had a positive view.

Daum’s presentation included respondent reactions and taped quotes detailing their experiences.

Some said that “Indian was used like a four-letter word,” and that some in the county continually refer the them as “Squaw.” The latter is a well-known and profoundly offensive epithet used against Native Americans.

Respondents — who were given anonymity — in the study also detailed biases and stereotypes flung against Natives in Isabella County. Tribe members said they get a sense that non-members in the county feel they aren’t deserving of what they have; that they are alcoholics, uneducated, lazy or dirty, according to the study.

“As I pulled out of a parking space, (a man in another vehicle) was blowing his horn and said ‘get out of my way, you dirty Indian,” said one respondent. “For someone to judge you like that, it’s frustrating to be looked down upon. It makes me wonder why in such a day and era that we have to live with this.”

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By Malachi Barrett News Editor

A Central Michigan University student teacher is facing felony charges after allegedly sending sexually-charged messages to an underage pupil.

East Jordan senior Benjamin Bolser, 24, is charged with using a computer to commit a crime, a seven-year felony, as well as accosting a minor for immoral purposes, a four-year felony. While working as a student teacher at Boyne City High School, Bolser allegedly sent sexually explicit communications to an underage female student, according to a press release from the Boyne City Police Department.

A judge set Bolser’s bond at $20,000 personal recognizance.

Defendants released on their own recognizance can sign a written promise to appear in court as required. No bail has to be paid, however Bolser is not allowed to use a

Transgender students share stories of challenge, discrimination and adjusting to college life Kate Carlson Staff Reporter

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onnie Smith presented as a man when she first arrived at Central Michigan University.

When she started presenting as a woman, she felt more comfortable and more like a person.

“I was pretty much on the verge of killing myself when I was presenting as a guy,” Smith said.

The Detroit junior started experiencing depression in fifth grade, which was when she said male gender roles were forcefully pushed on her by society, peers and family.

Smith is part of the 41 percent of transgender people who reported an attempt of suicide in their lifetime according to “Injustice at Every Turn,” a report by the National Center for Transgender Equality and The Task Force. In comparison, suicide attempts are self-reported in 1.6 percent of respondents for the general population.

Being incorrectly gendered, professors who don’t use inclusive language, lack of gender-neutral bathrooms and more, are some ways transgender students on CMU’s campus have been

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Gender identity: refers to a person’s innate, deeply-felt psychological identification as a man, woman or some other gender.

Gender expression: external manifestation of a person’s gender identity, which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.

Sex: designation of a person at birth as either “male” or “female” based on their anatomy (e.g. reproductive organs) and/or their biology (e.g. hormones).

Gender: traditional or stereotypical roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

Transitioning: process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. This may or may not include hormone therapy, sex reassignment surgery and other medical procedures.

Gender-nonconforming/non-binary: broad term referring to people who do not behave in a way that conforms to the traditional expectations of their gender, or whose gender expression does not fit neatly into a category.

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“The majority of people don’t have to think about it. The majority of people aren’t trans or gender non-conforming.

Audited attendance numbers for the 2014-15 Central Michigan University football season show an increase in student engagement and less reliance on IMG College ticket distribution to remain compliant with NCAA requirements.

Sent to the NCAA on Feb. 15, the internal audit is conducted by the university and signed by University President George Ross and Athletics Director Dave Heeke. The NCAA Division I requires CMU, as a member

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Two Mount Pleasant men were arrested for assaulting a 24-yearold man in the 3400 Block of E. Deerfield Rd. Sunday.

Everett McClellan, a 20-yearold Central Michigan University sophomore, and 21-year-old Zachary Keehbauch were attending a party in Deerfield Village in Union Township at about 3 a.m. when an argument resulted in the two of them seriously injuring Grant native Guy Gregory.

The incident began with a fight between McClellan and Gregory.

Once they separated, Keehbauch punched the Gregory in the jaw, knocking him unconscious.

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CMU’s report shows its compliance, averaging 15,056 in paid attendance for 2014 home games. For the 2013 football season, CMU averaged 15,333 in paid attendance. This year, students accounted for 40 percent of the overall crowd throughout six home games.

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One female Tribal member’s answer to a study question explained that even the simple act of buying a large amount of groceries triggered

a micro-aggression. She said a grocery store clerk assumed she was on government assistance because she was Native.

When she told the clerk she was not on Welfare, the clerk asked if she got her “per-capita” check in, because she had a cart full of food.

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computer or to have any contact with minors without adult supervision. He also is not allowed to contact the victim.

FERPA prevents the university from disclosing information about Bolser’s current status as a student. However DaleElizabeth Pehrsson, dean of the College of Education and Human Services, said in a statement that prospective teachers at CMU learn about appropriate behavior repeatedly throughout their educational experience.

They study ethics starting in introduction to teaching, their first class of the major. Students are taught about boundaries in class, in groups and with their clinical supervisors.

“CMU is aware of the information that has been reported and the charges against a student. We express our deepest concern for the high school students and families involved, for the district and for the Boyne City community,” Pehrsson said.

“If the allegations turn out to be true, this situation absolutely defies the highest professional ethics that we teach our students to uphold.”

A probable cause conference is scheduled for May 5, with a preliminary examination planned for May 12.

The Charlevoix County Prosecuting Attorney’s office declined to make any additional comments regarding the case.

connection between our staff our student-athletes and our student body,” said Craig Willey, senior associate athletic director of External Operations. “They are our No. 1 customer on any given day.

The students are the largest segment of our audience in that stadium.”

Associate Athletic Director for Corporate Sales and Marketing Nick Williams said there are a variety of factors that influence home game attendance, but this year’s success can be attributed to a favorable schedule and effective student engagement initiatives.

“We opened the season with a Thursday night game against Chattanooga and that’s always a really big student night for us,” Williams said. “Then we followed up with an early-September Saturday game against an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent. The dates and the schedule for us were more favorable in terms of lending us the opportunity to have a good crowd in general.”

Students made up 57 percent of the home crowd in the Aug. 26 game against the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. The Sep. 13 game against Syracuse attracted 10,730 students, the most all season.

These numbers are a measured improvement over the previous season, where students averaged 3,064 in paid attendance, accounting for 20 percent of the total number of fans on game day.

Students did not account for more than 30 percent of the total paid attendance in a single game last season, while this year it averaged over 33 percent in all but one game.

The Nov. 15 Miami Ohio game had the worst turnout of the season, students made up 12 percent of the 10,670 overall attendance number.

Attendance numbers historically decline as the season progresses and the weather gets colder, but the final home game against Western Michigan University was the thirdhighest attended game of the season and attracted students to make up 41 percent of the crowd.

With the Mid-American Conference signing a 13-year television deal with ESPN guaranteeing broadcast coverage of every MAC football game, convincing fans to enter the stadium becomes even more crucial.

Williams said student participation strategies were implemented at the beginning of the year by opening the Kelly/ Shorts Stadium to students get students at Leadership

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Gregory was taken to McLaren Central Michigan Hospital, where he was treated for bilateral orbital fractures, a broken nose and lacerations and abrasions to his head and face.

The men were arraigned Monday. McClellan is lodged in the Isabella County Jail on a $15,000 bond. Keehbauch is held in the Isabella County Jail on a $10,000 bond.

McClellan was charged with assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, a felony charge which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. McClellan was also charged with aggravated assault, a one year misdemeanor, and disturbing the peace, a 90-day misdemeanor.

Keehbauch charged with aggravated assault and disturbing the peace.

The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department was assisted

by Central Michigan University Police, Central Dispatch and a Mobile Medical Response team.

The case remains under investigation by the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department.

change in these interactions in the last 20 years, and that things are getting better.

Mount Pleasant City Commissioner Matthew Sous said the city maintains a strong partnership with the Tribe.

As a member of the Mount Pleasant Area Diversity Council, however, he said the study clearly shows racism is still a problem in the county Safari and MAINStage on the field and familiar with CMU football. He said they have also worked to improve the game-day experience, adding more promotional games and giveaways to involve students.

Junior Santino Vitelli said he attended two home games this season and noticed the focus on more promotions in the student section.

“Giving out free T-shirts helped give me another reason to be there. I went for the shirt,” Vitelli said.

Shelby Township sophomore Nicholas Barton said he attended no home games last year, but went to a few this season based on the success of the team.

“It’s a fun and engaging environment, we had student section leaders on the field creating that fan friendly environment,” Willey said. “All the promotion contestants we chose this year came out of the student section, so every time you came to the game as a student you were there with the team and you get to play a big part in the game.”

Vitelli and Barton attended every tailgate this season, despite entering the stadium in less than half of the games.

Williams said it is important to make the student section have an identity as a shared space that connects students to the action on the field. CMU was 3-3 at home this season but was close in every game, being outscored 130-127 overall.

Previously located from section L to U, the student section was moved to run section U to AA on the east side of the stadium, behind the home bench. Students are on the opposite end of the press box, so when CMU is featured on TV or online, cameras will focus on the students and band. Barton said the student section this year had a “more enjoyable, hyped up atmosphere” during games.

Ticket Sales

Sections L to T were dedicated to general admission seats and visiting fans this season, while season ticket holder seats were not affected. Willey said this opened the opportunity for a focus on selling general admission tickets.

“I think ticket sales in general are important and you can’t just put that premium on season tickets; for us selling that single game ticket is just as important,” Willey said. “We look to attract

and the city.

“Times haven’t been kind to Tribal people in this area for a very long time,” Sous said. “What the study did show is that there is improvement, the study raises awareness that we have a ways to go. I don’t think it’s something we’ve seen organizationally, but individually, with all of those voices speaking

“It goes both ways. To sit and say the micro-aggression is a (racially) one-sided argument (is wrong),” Joslin said. “I would have liked to see a study that address both sides, to show that microaggressions against not just Natives, but blacks or whites is inappropriate. That way we can do what’s best for the entire community.”

together, we see there is still a problem.”

Commissioner and former Mount Pleasant Mayor Jon Joslin had mixed feelings about the survey. He agreed that racism and discrimination does exist against Natives in the county, however, Joslin said the survey doesn’t address the other side’s point of view.

“It’s part of the benefit, through the sponsorship sales and IMG we can help achieve the paid attendance of 15,000. This year we had better attendance and student participation we didn’t need as many of those tickets to hit that threshold.”

Craig Willey, senior associate athletic director of External Operations single game tickets and get them to become season ticket owners.”

Over 8,000 tickets were consistently sold at each home game, coming mostly from general admission ticket sales.

CMU earned $53,043 per game from season ticket sales this year, compared to $88,176 per game last year. The Sept.

13 Syracuse game sold 9,762 general admission tickets to earn $143,422, the most this season.

Last season, CMU was heavily reliant on IMG College distributing 5,500 season tickets to stay compliant with the NCAA. This year, IMG was only given 1,200 tickets to distribute.

“It’s part of the benefit, through the sponsorship sales and IMG we can help achieve the paid attendance of 15,000,” Willey said. “This year we had better attendance and student participation we didn’t need as many of those tickets to hit that threshold.”

Willey said the number of tickets sold to IMG is determined year by year based on how sure CMU is to make the 15,000 mark.

Football is the largest revenue generating sport at CMU. Its $2.1 million accounts for nearly 30 percent of the $7.1 million revenue generated by

the Athletics Department this year.

It is also the most expensive. Football expenses totaled $3.8 million this year.

The next closest sport was men’s basketball, which cost $1.2 million this year.

Methodology

According to the statistics guidelines and policies released by the NCAA, “Attendance figures for official box scores and/or NCAA reports can be calculated by turnstile count, tickets sold or estimates. Schools should make every effort to record an attendance figure on each statistical box score it produces.”

If these figures are not met, CMU would not be eligible to play any postseason game.

CMU subscribes to the paid attendance requirement, which counts tickets sold for at least one-third of the highest established ticket price, regardless of whether they are used for admission.

Tickets sold at less than onethird of that price were only counted if admitted.

This means tickets sold count for bodies in the seats, regardless of if the person physically enters the stadium or not.

No attendees or students performing services at the stadium, such as concession-

aires, ticket takers, parking lot attendants, ushers or groundskeepers, are not included.

However, band members performing at the event are included in the count as any other student.

“15,000 is a requirement, we feel very confident that we will hit that mark year in and year out,” Willey said. “Our focus is to get as many people in that stadium on a gameby-game basis. We’re not as focused on that number as a gauge of good or bad because there are a lot of things that impact attendance.”

Next year, CMU will host two mid-week games and open the conference schedule at home. Before the MAC seasons starts, CMU will face schools from the Big 12, ACC and Big Ten. Willey said it is vital that CMU is hosting four home games before late-October, because it allows fans to take advantage of fairer weather before fall ends. The season begins Thursday, Sept. 3 vs.

Oklahoma State, followed by a Saturday, Sept. 12 game against Monmouth.

CMU takes on Northern Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Buffalo Oct. 17 before ending their season with a Tuesday and Friday game Nov. 10 against Toledo and Nov. 27 against Eastern Michigan.

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INSIDE LIFE Adjuncts demonstrate challenges through street theatre

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Union of Teaching Faculty offers university a lesson in issues surrounding contracts

May commencement speakers announced

By Grant Lefaive Staff Reporter

Fixed-term faculty took to the sidewalk between the Charles V. Park Library and the Fabiano Botanical Garden Tuesday to present “A Day in the Life of an Adjunct,” which used street theater to illustrate difficulties faced by Central Michigan University teachers.

The Spirit of Chaos, played by fixed-term faculty and Vice President of the Union of Teaching Faculty Mark Ranzenberger, introduced students to the disadvantages of being an adjunct, by spinning through categories on the Wheel of Misfortune. These included departmental changes, last-minute additions to workloads and non-renewal of contracts.

Ranzenberger has been a fixed-term faculty member at CMU since 1999.

“Most students won’t realize there is a distinction between tenure and tenure track faculty and fixed-term faculty,” Ranzenberger said. “In a lot of cases, we have the same academic background and we work basically under a state of uncertainty.”

Adjuncts, or fixed-term faculty, as they are called at CMU, are given contracts that range from a single semester to two years. Because of this, job

security is a constant concern among the 348 fixed-term faculty employed by the university.

According the university website, one third of CMU faculty are fixed term.

Adjuncts typically earn $32,000 per year according to PayScale, a compensation analysis site. Teure or tenuretrack professors earn an $87,000 salary with benefits.

Many faculty, such as philosophy and religion faculty Sara Moslener, have qualified for underemployment while working as an adjunct in the past.

“I have worked temporary jobs for the last five years,” Moslener said. “I’ve worked as a pay-for-credit adjunct, which means (I) get paid based on the number of credits I teach, so I made less than $20,000 and qualified for underemployment. The federal government subsidized my income because I wasn’t making enough money as an instructor. That was actually at Western Michigan University.”

Other challenges were reflected in the various scenes of the walkthrough, including a scenario where an adjunct had to get a second job serving food to students in their class.

“We got the idea that we wanted to do a day in the life of an adjunct,”

Claire Abendroth | Staff Photographer Amanda Garrison poses as “The Lecturer” during the Adjunct University Theatre performance called A Day in the Life of An Adjunct on April 14 between the Charles V Park Library and Fabiano Botanical Garden.

Moslener said. “We thought it would be a great way to teach people about the challenges we face.”

Amanda Garrison, president of the Union of Teaching Faculty, spoke as the lecturer of the fictional Adjunct University, shouting the plight of her kind to onlooking students.

“Nobody chooses to be fixedterm faculty,” Garrison said.

“Nobody earns a doctoral degree to become an adjunct.”

Perry senior Lisa Conine, recruitment chair of Student Advocates for Medical and Responsible Use of Cannabis and vice president of Take

Back the Tap, works with faculty but wasn’t sure what the distinction was between fixed and tenure or tenuretrack faculty.

“Today, there are faculty who are engaged and active enough to put on an event like this and get people’s attention,” Conine said. “It’s encouraged me more to collaborate with them and reach out to them more because this is their campus too.”

This is a bargaining year for the UTF, which will seek better salaries and more job security from the university.

A journey through time Clarke Historical Library provides a glimpse into Michigan’s unique past

By Zahra Ahmad News Editor

Norman Clarke was a young boy who collected eggs. He grew up to abandon the egg collection because a rotten egg cracked in his mouth upon retrieving it from a tree. He replaced it with a book collection filled with first editions of Mark Twain novels.

Clarke’s collection grew extensively to 2,160 pieces of historical content, all of which were donated to Central Michigan University in 1954.

“Over time, (Clarke) started collecting more and more, and people found out he was a collector and would offer him things, because when you’re a known collector people know they can sell things to you,” said Bryan Whitledge, reference specialist at the library.

“He had the resources and chose to spend it on books and history.”

Clarke’s donation was the first step in developing the Clarke Historical Library. The special collections library focuses in on three specific collections: The Lucille Children’s Literature Collection, the Michigan Great Lakes Collection and CMU archives.

Lucile Clarke Memorial Children’s Library

The Clarke Historical Library Children’s Literature Collection was started in 1969 in honor of Clarke’s deceased wife Lucile. It has adopted collections from Mary Harbage collection of Arthur Rackham material.

The children’s library also houses resources such as books by and for Native American children, international children’s books, school books and Sunday school books.

“We have a strong collection in 18th and 19th century British and American children’s literature,” said John Fierst, Clarke Historic Library reference librarian. “We’ve added to that so we have more contemporary literature as well.”

The collection originally consisted of 2,300 volumes and now houses 4,500. It includes collections of books printed in the United States prior to 1821.

“We’ve been adding a bit to our international children’s literature,” Whitledge said.” One or two other libraries in the country might have some of the books we have here. These books come from all over the world.”

Clarke is featuring the International Children’s Books exhibit that will continue until August.

The Michigan Great Lakes Collection

Clarke is home to the largest collection of birdseye view maps of Michigan in the state. The specials library has

Photos by Sarah White | Assistant Photo Editor Rows lining the archive room of the Clarke Historical Library are stacked with historical books, newspapers and posters, some of which date back to the early 18th and 19th century.

strong collections within Northern Michigan history.

“Our focus in Michigan is north of Lansing to Mackinac. We have the best collection of Native American materials in the state of Michigan,” said Marian Matyn, reference librarian.

The library houses unique collections on The Great Lakes Native American history, such as the Bingham Family Collection.

“Abel Bingham was a baptist missionary that came to Sault Ste. Marie in the mid 1820s and built an Indian missionary school,” Fierst said. “He kept very extensive correspondence with his board in Boston. He also kept a lot of diaries. He stayed here until the 1850’s, so if you’re going to do any type of history research on the Sault, you really need to consult the Bingham records.”

Clarke also contains a number of original dictionaries that show Ojibway and English languages. It also has original sources that help identify original tribal membership of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.

“We get some use of that. People who try to determine their genealogy will come to the Clarke,” Fierst said.

CMU archives and the Michigan Newspaper Preservation

Clarke is home to all of CMU’s recorded history. The CMU archives house yearbooks, a record of CMU presidents, the history of CMU names, homecoming and graduation ceremonies.

“The archival materials are the most interesting part of the Clarke because they’re unique,” Matyn said. “I think its

University

During four commencement ceremonies for Central Michigan University graduates on May 8 and 9, there will be three different speakers.

The doctoral ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. May 8 in Plachta Auditorium. Joseph S. Francisco, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Elmer H. and Ruby M. Cordes Chair in Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will speak. He will also speak at the 5:30 p.m. undergraduate and graduate ceremony May 9.

At 9 a.m., Melanie Bergeron will speak at the undergraduate and graduate ceremony in McGuirk Arena. Bergeron is the chair of “Two Men and a Truck,” a business which she grew by $198 million after being named president.

Documentary filmmaker Thomas Morgan will address graduates during the 1 p.m. ceremony at the arena.

The CMU alumnus uses his documentaries to increase awareness of social issues.

- Sydney Smith News Editor

public relations

PRSSA to host ‘Behind the Brand’ conference Central Michigan University’s Public Relations Student Society of America chapter will host “Behind the Brand: Global leaders share their secrets to success” on Friday, April 17.

Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the event starts at 9 a.m. in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

Tickets for the conference are $20 for PRSSA members and $25 for students. This fee includes admission and lunch. Tickets can be purchased at cmuprssa.wix. com/behindthebrand.

Behind the Brand aims to bring executives from around the U.S. to share their own branding successes.

Speakers consist of executives from McDonald’s, STARZ Entertainment and the Dow Chemical Company.

Students will be able to choose different sessions, including sports, entertainment, social and digital media, personal, government, corporate and local branding.

- Sydney Smith, News Editor

Metro

City to plant new trees in May

The head of the reference department at Clarke Historical Library, John Fierst, holds the oldest item in the archives, “The Book of Hours” which is a prayer book dated to be from the early 1400s.

fascinating to research in the archives and have someone from the past talk to you through their materials. I also think its amazing that some of these items continue to exist.”

The special collections library has a active digitizing program. This year Clarke will digitize 300,000 newspapers scans. A majority of those are Michigan newspapers which will be placed online through the library’s digital repository, CONDOR. “This is a program we’ve been doing for over 50 years,” said Frank Boles, library director. “For distribution (purposes), everyone wants newspapers to be digital because it’s easier and faster.”

Clarke uses microfilming, a unit that works to preserve newspapers so that

they can be looked at in the future. Microfiliming is used because news print is cheap paper made of pulp.

“We microfilm papers. We have about 10-15 papers we microfilm every week,” Whiteledge said. “These get filmed and preserved onto reels. A reel of it holds about a 1,000 pages and are meant to withstand 500 years. So you’ve got this document that isn’t meant to withstand much time, you have the microfilm which is meant to withstand 500 years, we’ve extended that time by 5,000 times.”

The library scans newspapers such as Central Michigan Life, The Morning Sun and Lakeshore Guardian. The library has filmed approximately 5.7 million pages of newspapers.

Mount Pleasant will plant 20 new trees beginning in May to replace dead and diseased trees around the city. Staff expect the planting and tree-well adjustments to be completed within two weeks.

The 20 new trees included Serviceberry, American Hop Hornbeam, Spring Grove Dogwood, European Hornbeam, Prunus x Incamp “Okame.” Trees in the existing canopy are primarily Ash trees, but have been deteriorated over the last 15 years by the virulent Emerald Ash Borer beetles.

“Because we have been replacing trees over the last few years and know the removal of trees can be a sensitive issue for some community members, we’re trying to be thoughtful on those we remove and to do so only when the tree has reached the end of its lifespan,” said Downtown Development Director Michelle Sponseller.

Aside from withstanding insect attacks, the new trees are expected to thrive better than Ash trees as well.

To learn more about the project, contact Sponseller at 989-779-5348 or msponseller@ mt-pleasant.org.

- Ben Solis Staff Reporter

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Trial court cellphone ban steps on First Amendment rights

sabella County Trial Court instituted a new policy March 9 prohibiting cellphones, cameras and recording devices in the

courthouse. The decision has caused discussion about First Amendment rights in the Mount Pleasant community.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1981 decision, in Chandler v. Florida, allows each state to make its own rules to legislate courtroom use of cameras and recording devices.

While Michigan courts can revoke the ability to use these devices, state law generally allows them in courtrooms.

Community members and students should oppose the Isabella County Trial Court’s new policy. We should be wary of any attempt to stifle our First Amendment rights.

Other than intervening for a legitimate safety issue or to protect courtroom decorum and a defendant’s right to a fair trial, courts cannot place restrictions on proceedings.

The court’s argument that the policy is in place to “maintain the security of the courthouse” is weak. If the court wants to ensure sensitive material is not discussed

outside the courtroom, it is perfectly capable of mandating a gag order. This makes the policy unnecessary.

Undermining the First Amendment is a slippery slope.

Under the law, there is no difference between a member of the press and a citizen when it comes to filing Freedom of Information Acts requests, recording at a trial or taking a photo at a public event. This policy has effectively placed the media apart from citizens by granting reporters special privileges and allowing them to continue using recording devices.

As members of the press, we do not agree with this separation. Neither should you.

Some might argue that because most of us do not frequent courtrooms, the policy has little effect or causes little harm. Any infringement on First Amendment rights, no matter how directly related to you, is a

step in the wrong direction.

This particular policy was enacted in response to what appears to be an isolated incident. One citizen used his own recordings to comment on court proceedings in an Youtube, and the court retaliated. Why should all Isabella County citizens have their rights trampled because of the court’s displeasure with an individual?

Additionally, courts already keep their own official records of courtroom proceedings. These records are generally open to be viewed by the public and can even be purchased.

What makes the person who takes that official record any more important or valid that the citizens who are no longer allowed to? Further, why should a court make an enemy out of an individual to the point of making a policy change based on his or her actions?

Whether you plan on frequenting Isabella County Trial Court proceedings or not, this policy is a slap in the face to your First Amendment rights.

We hope students and community members will join us in voicing their concerns in the name of free speech.

Whether you exercise them or not, your rights should never be compromised.

If there’s one thing I’ve gleaned from my education — which has included courses on history, archaeology, racism, evolution and social trends — it’s that human beings have never been very good at learning from their mistakes.

As some of you may know, Wendesday evening marks the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Perhaps your professor has something planned to commemorate it. Perhaps not.

This semester, I was required to watch films for my introductory French class. One of these included the most powerful, graphic and vivid documentaries about the Holocaust that I have ever seen. Writing the required reflection after seeing it was difficult, as it literally left me without adequate words to describe what I’d seen.

When any kind of memorial or remembrance day comes around, it is easy to let our first reaction be one of remorse for what transpired. Why else would they put the word “remembrance” right in the title, right?

The danger with this form of remembering is that it treats mistakes or conflicts caused by deep-seated societal problems as memories — or long-gone phenomenons.

A genocide emergency is currently declared in Syria, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia and Burma.

A genocide warning has been declared in six countries. A genocide watch is in effect for another 10.

The International Alliance to End Genocide defines a genocide emergency as a status declared when a genocide is already underway. That means 21 counties in our world are experiencing or are on the verge of being victims of the same atrocities carried out by the Nazis more than 70 years ago.

So what good are we doing by remembering, really?

Obviously, the acts of horror carried out against six million Jews and five million non-Jewish people cannot be overlooked or ever forgotten.

Simply remembering is not enough.

We are not honoring the memory of the millions of dead by allowing genocide to continue under out watch.

We are failing them. What good is remembering our past mistakes if we are willing to ignore that we are repeating them this very second?

In a world so interdependent and technologically advanced, humans still continue to fall apart at the social level.

Rather than just remember, this year I encourage students, as the leaders and change-makers of tomorrow, to educate themselves on the current state of genocide in our world.

To get involved and contribute to campaigns to end genocide, visit genocidewatch.org/getinvolved.

Letter to the editor

Support the fight against human trafficking TO THE EDITOR: According to the Polaris Project, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received 24,062 signals and 5,042 cases in 2014. Additionally, between 2007 and 2014, there were 90,480 signals, 19,724 cases of human trafficking, and 17,345 victims and survivors identified.

These statistics are heartbreaking, and should inspire policy change.

Many people may believe the horror of human trafficking does not take place in Michigan, but in 2012, there were 69 cases. In 2013, there were 118 cases and in 2014, there were 131.

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Not only do these statistics show that modern day slavery occurs in our backyards, but it speaks to the fact that the prevalence of human trafficking is on the rise.

That is the reason I write: I hope to express the necessity of passing Michigan House Bill 4056, which desires to “create the human trafficking notification act; to require the posting of certain notices relating to human trafficking; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local departments and agencies; and to provide a remedy.” If this was passed into law, “the department of transportation shall

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post a human trafficking notice on the premises of each rest stop and welcome facility in this state.”

Each notice would be a flyer, no smaller than 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches, and would read “If you or someone you know is being forced to engage in any activity and cannot leave, whether it is commercial sex, housework, farm work or any other activity, please contact the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or text 20 233733 to access help and services.

The victims of human trafficking are protected under U.S. laws and the laws of this 22 state.”

If rest stops and facilities did not comply with the requests, they would be subject to paying a $1,000 fine. Why is this bill so important? The passage of this bill offers individuals who are forced into

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human trafficking a solution to their problems — an escape that could potentially save their lives. People enslaved might not know where to turn, and by broadcasting a number for people to call, they could have access to help.

If Michigan passes this bill, it makes the statement that we are a state that views human trafficking with disdain, and we recognize the freedom the victims are owed. In addition, this will help prevent future cases of human trafficking and put an end to the rising number of enslaved persons. It is exciting that this number could decrease from a simple bill that only requires putting up flyers. Since the implementation of the bill is very simple and noninvasive, I see no reason why there would be opposition toward its passing.

The Trafficking in Persons Report “encourages states and local officials to adopt victim-centered policies,” and bill 4056 would do exactly that. In 2013, the Immigrating and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigators reported there were 1,025 new cases opened for investigation based on the possibility of sex trafficking. This statistic shows there were 131 new cases investigated compared to 2012, when there were only 894 cases.

Two thousand five hundred and fifteen people represent the number of incidents reported of human trafficking between Jan. 2008, and June 2010. Hopefully, this bill could help put an end to these rising numbers.

ADAM NEWBY, Freshman Iron River

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PRIDE | continued from 1a Especially people who are part of administration doing the decision making,” said Kai Niezgoda, Royal Oak junior and Transcend president, who identifies as transgender and non-binary.

Almost half of the academic buildings on campus lack a gender neutral bathroom, though not every student at CMU identifies as a woman or a man.

“Now that I blend in, I just use the girls restroom,” Smith said. “Before I could figure out how to do things right, I had to walk across campus just to use the bathroom, I would drive home because I just didn’t want to deal with it.”

Certain students feel uncomfortable or unsafe using a gendered bathroom could fall under the categories of someone who identifies as non-binary, a person whose physical appearance doesn’t match their gender identity, a trans person who hasn’t transitioned yet or is in the early stages, people with disabilities or people with small children that aren’t their same gender.

“I’m not advocating all bathrooms be unisex,” Niezgoda said. “I think there is an importance of having safe bathrooms for women too.

Having a women’s and men’s room isn’t really a problem— just having an adequate number of unisex as well I think is a good solution. I would define adequate as more than one in every building, which currently isn’t happening.”

Every time CMU constructs a new building or does major reconstruction on a building, a unisex bathroom is installed.

In terms of restrooms, Director of LGBTQ services Shannon Jolliff said her office is in the process of designing a campaign that will raise awareness of not policing the restrooms on campus.

“We want to start a conversation on our campus around why we shouldn’t police restrooms, why we should just let people pee in privacy,” Jolliff said.

Jolliff said bathrooms are a huge issue on campus, and sometimes when genderneutral bathrooms are added to buildings, they aren’t in convenient locations—like the basement of Anspach. She said it is important to realize there are many other problems transgender students face.

“When we only focus on one thing we forget about all of the other things that trans folks are experiencing,” Jolliff said.

In the classroom

Smith recounts a time she went to class without getting ready and was still addressed as a woman by her teacher.

“Victory! I have blended in,” Smith said, recalling the experience.

She said the majority of her professors have been good about referring to her by her pronouns: ‘she, her and hers,’ and is generally understanding when professors refer to her by her given name, because it appears on the roster. The first day of one of her classes,

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however, one of her professors called everyone ‘Mr.’ or ‘Miss’ before saying their name during attendance.

“I’m just sitting there thinking please don’t say it, please don’t say it…” Smith recalled.

“Really quietly I said, ‘it’s Miss’ and scooted down in my chair and hid under my desk for the rest of the class. I was straight out embarrassed.”

If a student wants to be called a name that doesn’t reflect their name on the roster, they usually have to go to their professors before classes begin. The student will have to come out to them the first time they meet their professors, and hope they remember which pronouns and name to use during class.

“Most faculty have a positive response, but there are some that say ‘Do I really have to do this?’ and the answer is yes, you do because it is a protected group under our nondiscrimination policy, and failure to do so violates that policy,” Jolliff said.

Even though the nondiscrimination policy is meant to protect against micro aggressions, there is no formal required diversity training for professors educating them on how to interact with trans students.

Niezgoda and Smith have both experienced being misgendered by their professors, sometimes by accident, and sometimes in a derogatory way.

Professors use exclusive language frequently in the classroom when they refer to “girls” and “guys,” excluding anyone who doesn’t fall into those categories, Niezgoda said.

“That’s a micro aggression I deal with often,” Niezgoda said. “People like to think we’ve come so far in terms of being progressive about gender and being gender neutral, but people are really not gender neutral in the language they use the majority of the time.”

Contacting classmates, using flex dollars to get coffee at Starbucks and swiping into events on campus are ways trans students are forced to go by birth names that tie them to a gender they don’t identify with.

“Every time I email someone it has my birth name and my middle name, both of which are extremely feminine, so people don’t know who it is,” Niezgoda said. “If I give someone my name and they try to find me in the email system by my first name, they might not be able to find me.”

The school will not change a global I.D., student email or name on an I.D. card unless that person’s name is changed legally.

On almost every form sent out by the university that asks people to give personal information, there is no space for genders outside of the binary, Niezgoda said.

In Residence Halls

If a student wants to utilize gender-neutral housing, they must contact Residence Life and potentially live alone unless they can identify another trans student, which is usually not the case for incoming freshmen.

“The option to live by yourself does impact identity

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Central Michigan Life | cm-life.com | Wednesday, April 15, 2015 | 5A development for college students in general,” Jolliff said.

“I think part of the development we go through is in that first year (of college) when you’re living with people, you learn and grow from them.”

Niezgoda has worked toward making applications for gender neutral housing part of the general application process. This will make it easier to reach out to incoming trans students, but it has yet to be implemented, Niezgoda said.

Transitioning

Not all trans people experience body dysmorphia and decide to alter their body to their gender they identify with, but this is something Smith hopes to pursue when she is financially able through hormone replacement therapy, or HRT. “Getting hormone replacement therapy is just like getting a surgery for your health that’s necessary,” Smith said.

“It’s not like you’re changing your body, it’s still yours.”

Some trans people don’t present as the gender they identify with until they get HRT, but Smith decided to utilize things like stuffing, makeup and changing her voice to a higher pitch to present in a more feminine way in the meantime.

“When I first started presenting as a girl I did feel more comfortable with myself,” Smith said. “Over time that comfort with myself just sort of spread to everything else and now my whole brain is happy because all of my issues from before just seemed to stem from the body dysphoria I was feeling.”

For a trans person to go through with hormone replacement surgery, they must first see a gender therapist and get their approval before they are able to go through with HRT. “There are gatekeeper gender therapists that you go to in order to essentially help you through this very hard time and then help you gain access to the resources you need and then they make it their job to ensure that that never happens.”

Smith said some of her past therapists have accused her of not being transgender, which kept a “gate” on her getting resources like HRT and voice therapy. Her current therapist, however, has given her the goahead for HRT whenever she is able to pay for it.

Deanna Heath is a Licensed Master Social Worker psychotherapist for transgender and questioning people who owns and practices at Mount Pleasant Counseling. She recently formed Transgender Services of Michigan to provide supportive services to the transgender community. Heath has been in private practice for four years and in that time has served more than 150 trans and gender non-conforming clients.

Heath said she provides clients with support and understanding, and tries to normalize their experiences and feelings.

“It is important these services are available locally.

Having services and support available on or near campus is very important to many in the trans community,” Heath said.

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Niezgoda said our society places so much emphasis on gender partly because it is a product of patriarchal and heteronormative ideals.

“While some trans people might not have a gender consciousness in that sense and be critical of misogyny and patriarchy, people are and a lot of trans people are working to deconstruct these ideas around binary gender we have as a society.”

Pride Week is a chance for trans, gender-nonconforming and other queer people to come together and celebrate the diversity of the LGBTQ community.

“For a group of people that so often faces negative social consequences, it’s really important to set aside this positive space of time to just celebrate all of the things we do have,” Niezgoda said.

How to be an ally

Connie’s favorite reaction when she was coming out to her friends as transgender was when she told her best friend and he was completely unfazed by the news.

“There are some people that make it a big deal in a bad way and the ones who are trying to do good and overcompensate,” Smith said.

Niezgoda’s advice to cisgender allies is to work in pronouns you respond to when introducing yourself to someone before asking them what pronouns they respond to.

“People tend to think that if a trans person is around then they would know that they were trans,” Niezgoda said.

“That isn’t always the case— you can’t tell if someone is trans just by looking at them.”

Niezgoda equates judging a person’s gender identity at first glance to thinking you know a stranger’s name just by glancing at them. Jolliff noted the importance of listening to the experiences of trans people.

“Hear these trans voices, here from these folks who are saying ‘this is how this has affected me on campus,” she said.

The struggles of being a feminine lesbian “You don’t look like a lesbian.”

This phrase has become the norm for me, almost the expected response for when I come out to someone as a lesbian. According to an alarming number of people, my looks are just “too feminine to be a lesbian.”

I’ll admit it: I am a femme lesbian to the core.

However, here is some breaking news for all the straight men, women and some of my own family members: my sexuality is not based on how I look.

My sexuality is based on the fact that I am sexually and emotionally attracted women, not men. Afterall, that is the definition of a lesbian.

When I started dating my first girlfriend junior year of high school, I wasn’t judged for dating a girl. However, I was told that my “choice” of a sexuality wasn’t a permanent thing. The whispers of “she’ll end up with a boy, I just can’t see her being gay” echoed between family members and friends alike.

After two years, the girl and I broke up. When I told my mother and best friend at the time that I was sad to be single after so long, they both said “maybe you’ll find a nice boy when you go to college.” This was a punch straight to my stomach, a confirmation that even after two years, my sexuality was still not respected by those closest to me.

An issue I’ve encountered on my hunt to not find a nice boy to date is that some men find it almost offensive when I don’t come out as “Brianne

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the lesbian” the moment we meet. This is not how it should work. Lesbians should not be accused of leading anyone on or “catering to the male gaze” just because we don’t tell you our sexuality the first time we meet.

Feminine lesbians do not have to introduce themselves as a lesbian just because you assumed a default sexuality for us.

Not every short-haired woman is a lesbian, nor is every long-haired girl straight. A majority of the lesbians I know personally actually have longer hair and are very feminine looking. This is because it’s the look they feel most comfortable in.

In addition to this frustration, there is the fact that people refuse to believe your attraction to feminine-looking women because you yourself look feminine. Not every lesbian relationship is femmebutch based. There’s femme-femme, femmebutch, butch-butch. Throw in an androgynous girl in there and it’s a party.

Sexuality is not a challenge to try to change. It’s something that many people have struggled with, worked hard to accept and are now working hard to have other people accept.

Defaulting my sexuality to straight based off my looks and voicing your disbelief doesn’t help.

Sexuality doesn’t have an appearance, only your heteronormativity does.

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Students find freedom and community in game development course “Games are fun to work on. It’s a little bit more interesting than pure software code because you can see it being made instead of just trying to figure out how the data flows from one module to another.”

By Emily DeRuiter Staff Reporter

A cloaked entity is in pursuit as the heroes run for their lives through a complex maze, picking up navigational clues along the way.

This is the vision behind Ethan Coggin’s game design, which will use a virtual reality headset to make the game come alive before the player’s eyes.

Coggins, a junior from Howell, and Midland senior Nicholas Mallonee are designing their own video games for courses taught by Assistant Professor of Computer Science Tony Morelli.

They plan to submit their creations for others to play and judge in the spring 2015 ExtravaGAMEza indie game development competition. “(CMU) had one of these (ExtravaGAMEza competitions) last semester and it was really cool seeing all the projects people were making,” Coggins said. “I was excited to take those (game design) classes and make something of my own.”

The April 25 event will include gaming tournaments in Hearthstone, League of Legends and Pokémon. The ExtravaGAMEza is being put on by three student organizations: the Game Developement and Design Club, CMU League of Legends and

Nicholas Mallonee, Midland senior Pokémon Club.

Morelli said the competition will receive about 40 student submissions and the best will be showcased April 25.

Game submissions for the indie competition are due April 23 and cost $5. All proceeds collected from the event will be used as cash prizes for the winners.

“Games are fun to work on,” Mallonee said. “It’s a little bit more interesting than pure software code because you can see it being made instead of just trying to figure out how the data flows from one module to another.”

Mallonee is creating two games for his classes. One is

Monica Bradburn | Staff Photographer Howell junior Ethan Coggins works on a video game called “Project Hero,” he plans to submit the game to the spring 2015 ExtravaGAMEza.

a first-person shooter and the other is a virtual model of the Bovee University Center and other buildings. He said he is about halfway done with both of them, and is confident they will be ready for the competition in time.

Coggins and Midland sophomore Molly Rossman have been working together on a two-dimensional combat role playing project and a three-dimensional game that

translating the ideas into code.

“A lot of times there is frustration,” he said. “Translating from a high level train of thought to code can sometimes be challenging. It is like Legos; once you build the basic outline you can start adding in the details. It is trying to get them to fit together that’s the challenging bit.”

Coggins said the best part of making games is doing

requires players to navigate through a maze. Coggins is the programmer and model maker, while Rossman is the concept artist and level designer.

Both Coggins and Mallonee were inspired for their creations by popular games they love to play, sharing a mutual fondness for the Legend of Zelda game franchise. Mallonee said one of the hardest aspects of game creation is

what you love, appreciating the amount of work involved.

He said he is receptive to feedback from players of his games, and enjoys sharing his work with others.

“I have had a couple of my close friends alpha test one of my earlier projects, and the fact that I knew (they) were walking around in something I had created, even though it wasn’t anything special, was overwhelming,” Coggins said.

SGA elects Detroyer as Senate Leader for 2015-16 school year

By Jordyn Hermani Staff Reporter

For the final Student Government Assocation meeting of the year, Senator Rebecca Detroyer was elected Senate Leader for the 2015-16 school year. Nominated alongside fellow senators Maximillian Sarvello, Joe Frey and Desirae Massey, Detroyer won the position with nine votes in her favor.

library once a month to make their faces known and let students know how to utilize SGA to the best of their abilities.

“I would really like for people to see what SGA is and get that presence on campus,” she said.

As Senate Leader, Detroyer will be responsible for holding no less than two senate meetings a month on school grounds, according to SGA

Detroyer, who has been in SGA for four years, said her main goal is to get senators more involved with the student body they represent.

“Senators are never really in touch with their demographic,” Detroyer said. “We don’t go out and we don’t communicate who we are to who we are supposed to be representing.”

To rectify this, Detroyer proposed senators table in the

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“Even though (Detroyer) wasn’t formally put as my mentor, she was the one who explained to me how to write legislation,” Ackerman said. “I know she would help (new) senators understand parliamentary procedures and how (writing) legislation works.”

SGA is be adjourned for the rest of the semester. Weekly meetings will restart Aug. 17 in the UC auditorium.

or show how to properly facilitate projects and be able to balance all of that along with (any extracurriculars) they are doing,” Mahone said.

“One of the hardest things about being Senate Leader is truly working with a big group of diverse people.”

Senator Taylor Ackerman, who was an informal mentee of Detroyer, said she helped guide Ackerman to become active in the Senate.

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Updates to Advising Workbench increases student participation exclude multiple hits from the same account, jumped from 5,297 to 8,552.

“You don’t have to wait for your adviser to tell you that your GPA is too low for your major because you’ll know that already,” Hutslar said. “Then they can work with you on what needs to be done. We’ve heard from advisers that the conversations are more involved because the student already has so much information ahead of time so they can meet in greater depth.”

University Communications released a video last month ad-

By Grant Lefaive Staff Reporter

Student traffic on the Advising Workbench software tool nearly doubled in March, resulting in adviser meetings being able to focus more on career building rather than grade point averages.

All majors and minors in the 2011-12 bulletin and after were added by the end of the fall semester.

The site had 45,215 total student hits last month from the 23,962 in February. The number of “unique hits,” which

vertising the software, which was sent out to students’ CMU email accounts.

Advising Workbench has been an ongoing project since its introduction in 2013, evolving from an online advising tool to a means of interfacing with advisers and examining course and program changes.

“It’s not by any means meant to replace your advising sessions, but to enhance your advising sessions so you have a clear view. When you meet with your advisers, you (won’t) spend half your appointment figuring out where

you’re at,” said University Communications Coordinator of Content Solutions Darryll Stinson. “You can dive deeper into your academic progression.”

The workbench now includes a notes tab, which stores adviser suggestions in lieu of using pen and paper to write students notes. Advisers can also recommend students to specific centers and offices, offering location and other important information through the student’s workbench page.

Faculty advisers can substitute courses for students online instead of sending a form to the Registrar’s Office.

This makes the eventual audit and graduation application process more efficient, Hutslar said.

Advising Workbench recog-

nizes when a particular course fulfills more than one requirement, which can streamline future scheduling.

“We’re reviewing everything that went through the curricular process,” Hutslar said.

Workbench also grants students the ability to take a semester-by-semester look at their academic history and gives an up-to-date list of the courses that are required for the majors, minors and programs that the students are involved in. Students can find their GPA for each semester to evaluate their academic progress or lack thereof.

Students are encouraged to report any bugs or inconveniences to administrators through the feedback link.

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Honors students more likely to utilize study abroad program

By Emily DeRuiter Staff Reporter

Courtesy Photo | Brittany Garcia Frankenmuth senior Brittany Garcia stands in front of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.

When Frankenmuth senior Brittany Garcia traveled to Beijing through the Honors Program, she didn’t expect to catch the travel bug.

Since then, she has been to 10 countries through various study abroad programs.

She said if she had never been apart of the Honors Program, she wouldn’t have studied abroad.

According to a survey taken at the end of Honors 101, 93 percent of Central Michigan University’s Honors Program students plan to study abroad before they graduate, said Judy Idema, associate director of the Honors Program.

“I think the Honors Program really advertises and supports (study abroad), so when I came into Honors as a freshman it was always on my mind,” Garcia said.

Three percent of the total student population studied abroad in the 2013-2014 academic year, according to data provided by the Study

Abroad Office. About 27 percent of Honors students studied abroad in 2013.

According to the Honors Program, 151 of 780 Honors students studied abroad in the 2014 academic year. Twentyone percent of the Honors freshman class will study abroad by the start of their sophomore year, Idema said.

Director of the Honors Program Phame Camarena said the reason students in the program study abroad is a combination of different factors.

“Part of it is that there are extra scholarships available to Honors students, not for all, but for some,” Camarena said. “Another big (reason) is from the time students come here we are telling them having an international experience is important.”

Garcia studied in China, Italy, France and Spain. She said she first decided to study abroad because of an Honors class she took freshman year. Options for study abroad were presented to her in Honors 101.

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Garcia said she loved the opportunities to travel, learn about new cultures and meet people and traveling abroad caused her to gain stronger skills in communication and leadership.

Camarena said the Honors Program encourages studying abroad because of the benefits it can provide.

“It is not whether you are going, it is where are you going and when are you doing it,” Camarena said.

“If we make students think about that from the very beginning, it is possible (for them) to build it into (their) program. We make it an expectation, and then it becomes a norm.”

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The university became involved in Recyclemania through the Health Professions Residential College, located in Emmons Hall.

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Photos By Daytona Niles | Photo Editor Older video games are coming back into style, they have a habit of bringing together a wide range of people who would have not otherwise met.

play with me Retro video gaming still finds an audience in the age of digital downloads

By Deshia Dunn Staff Reporter

Rediscovering old video games brings people together through a mutual nostalgia, something that may be lost as the changing process of buying games raises issues of access and ownership.

Tony Morelli, adviser for the Game Development and Design Club, said it is difficult to dictate what is considered a retro video game in the first place. What may be considered a

modern game for an older-aged group of people may be considered a retro game for a group of younger people, making the archiving of classic video games and who has legal rights to them a grey area.

“People are starting to get into trouble because they’re archiving everything,” Morelli said. “What happens once Nintendo no longer exists or stop supporting those games? How do you play them 20 years from now?

They may not be considered classic games because we might not be able

to play them.”

Buying games used to be a simple matter of purchasing a physical product that was the owner’s forever.

Today, the process is much different due to monthly subscription fees and digital downloads.

Xbox has evolved to a point where some games now require a monthly membership or annual fees. Even PC games that used to be free that have switched to charging players to use their servers.

“What happens when you play a modern game 20 years from now?

Will that be possible to do legally?”

Morelli said. “There are games that people have converted to use on other consoles, where the original console no longer supports that game. So technically, having those games are illegal. But is it really hurting anybody?”

In addition to officially licensed downloadable games, there are online software emulators available for almost every major game console for free. Many of the emulated games

are only available this way, though it’s legality is questionable.

“Twenty years from now, talking about this generation of games is going to be strange because it’s unclear of who owns it and there are so many rules,” Morelli said.

Despite the increased avenues for buying retro video games, there is still a market for the physical cartridges and equipment beloved by many.

Sandy Halasz, owner of Main Street Audio/Video, said students often come in her store looking for old games and electronics.

“We sell all sorts of electronics here, and the game consoles that we have are the older ones like the Sega and the first Playstation,” Halasz said.

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Quadruple amputee veteran coming to speak in Plachta auditorium

By Kate Carlson Staff Reporter

Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills is one of only five surviving quadruple amputees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mills will give a talk from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 17 in Plachta Auditorium in Warriner Hall as part of the third annual Veterans on Campus Speaker Series.

Seating is limited for the free event. Tickets can be picked up at Ticket Central or emailed and printed for $2.

Originally from Vassar, Mills was injured from an improvised explosive device on his third tour of duty in Afghanistan. He now gives inspirational talks around the country and has spoken at the Michigan Legislature.

“It’s a wonderful story in resilience and a good message for anyone to hear, whether you’re a student, veteran or community member,” said Veterans Resource Center Director Steve Rellinger.

Rellinger helped organize the Veterans on Campus Speaker Series.

“It’s part of our awareness strategy,” Rellinger said. “What we try to do is help not only the campus community but the community as whole to understand what it’s like to be in the military and make that transition to civilian, or in our case academic environment.”

Rellinger has not seen Mills speak in person, but has spoken with his team and is confident he will be a great speaker on campus.

“Staff Sgt. Mills has an incredible story of resilience and getting up every day with a positive attitude and moving through life as best he can facing the particular obstacles he has,” Rellinger said.

Military Science Professor Major Jason Cornett was disappointed to hear that Mills was speaking the same weekend that hills class was having a field exercise.

“I know the cadets would love to go and see this,” Cornell said. “It just really puts it into perspective about your life and being fortunate. Myself, I have gone to three

Courtesy Photo | Lacee McClendon Photography

Travis Mills, a veteran and quadruple amputee, will speak at 7 p.m.

April 17 in Plachta Auditorium.

tours in Iraq as well and never have had anything happen to me.”

The event is able to be offered for free because of its funding from the President’s office,

Central Michigan Veteran’s Fund and the Mid Central Michigan Area Health Education Center in partnership with the College of Medicine at CMU.

Excited to have Mills on campus for his inspirational talk, Rellinger said it also will show the public how as a nation ‘we are still at war and our soldiers are still in harm’s way.’

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Half way through Greek Week Angel Wings Fund touches Greek Life and kicks of week-long events

By Emily DeRuiter Staff Reporter

Abbie Robinson | Staff Photographer Gaylord senior Jason McArt, left, and Livonia freshman Allison Wozniak, right, cheer for their team during the Greek Week Athletic Games April 14 in McGuirk Arena.

Abbie Robinson | Staff Photographer Members of the sorority Alpha Chi Omega and fraternity Sigma Pi compete in a tug-of-war competition during the Greek Week Athletic Games April 14 in McGuirk Arena.

Greeks battle in McGuirk Arena

By Andrew Surma Staff Reporter

Central Michigan University’s Greek community took over McGuirk Arena Tuesday as they put their skills to the test in the Greek Week athletic games.

Eleven teams competed against one another in a relay race, tug of war, lightning and dodgeball games.

Alex Iovan, Sigma Chi member and Greek Week representative said the athletic games is one of the most exciting events of the week.

“It’s one of the most fun moments of the week just because everyone is going nuts,” Iovan said. “Everyone is having a good time. It’s always my favorite event.”

Sigma Kappa member and Greek Week coordinator Megan Isabell said all the participants were good

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The games themselves connect students at Central Michigan University, like those in the Game Development and Design Club, who meet every Tuesday to appreciate games together.

“I didn’t know any of the

sports — win or lose.

“Even though some of the teams got knocked out, their enthusiasm was still there for each other,” Isabell said.

“I think they supported each other well. No one was poor sports about anything. We are here for Angel Wings.”

Karly Wilczewski, a freshman Sigma Kappa member, said she enjoyed the games and the competitiveness, but Angel Wings Fund is the main focus of the week.

“It means a lot for Angel Wings that everyone is here together right now,” Wilczewski said. “It’s really good getting the Greek community all together as one.

It’s once a year so it really means a lot to all of us.”

The top eight winning pairs from the relay race advanced to the tug of war.

From there, the top five teams advanced to the game

of lightning.

The last two teams standing after the game of lightning earned the floor for a dodgeball match, which required a sudden death match to produce a winner.

Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Sigma Tau and Zeta Phi Beta claimed overall victory of the games, earning 100 points.

Phi Kappa Tau, Alpha Sigma Alpha and Alpha Phi Alpha took second earning 80 points.

Tau Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Gamma Rho came in third earning 60 points.

Phi Sigma Phi, Sigma Kappa and Phi Beta Sigma and Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Kappa Alpha Psi took fourth and fifth place earning 40 points each.

The remaining six pairs receive 20 participation points.

people that I know in college as kids, but I can play a game with someone that they might have played when they were 5 and that I played when I was 7,” said Southgate sophomore and president of Game Development and Design Club Joshua Simms. “It brings our childhoods together, even though we never knew each other.”

Stumbling upon retro video games is like recovering collecting memorabilia for Smith.

He owns 16 different gaming

consoles and an extensive collection of games.

“Going into old game stores just make me drool,” Simms said. “It’s as if nostalgia is its own drug. I love it.”

Traverse City freshman Alyah Nadij said playing older games reminds her of family competition, mashing controls to be the best in the house.

“When I was younger, video games created a competitive edge in my house; an intense but fun one,” Nadij said.

After telling the story of his wife’s battle with cancer, Damon Brown, director of Student Activities and Involvement, received a standing ovation as the guest speaker for Central Michigan University’s 2015 Greek Week.

“I never thought I would be the one talking about cancer,” Brown said. “That was not me, I didn’t like talking about cancer. (My wife) Keisha was different, she never had a problem sharing her story.”

Brown’s wife is the founder of the Angel Wings Fund, a local fund Greek Week is sponsoring this year.

He fired up the Greek community about the purpose of supporting Angel Wings.

“I am always amazed by the passion and drive that our Greek community has to serve others,” Brown said.

“Do you realize over the past three years the CMU Greek community has raised over $80,000 during Greek Week alone? I am so proud that our community can come together and have such an impact on the lives of others

in just one week.”

Brown said Angel Wings was started by his wife because she wanted to help children achieve their dreams, just like their daughter Angel Brown. The foundation provides college scholarships to children who have lost a parent to cancer.

Danielle McIlrath said Brown’s message refocused her on the purpose of Greek Week.

“Friendly competition is fun, and it is fun seeing all of the Greeks about, but our purpose this week is to help this foundation,” said the Olivet sophomore.

Keisha Brown loved basketball, and after a successful professional career in Finland she coached at the high school the collegiate level. A group she affectionately called her “boys” was the junior varsity Sacred Heart basketball team of 2002 and 2003.

Brown was diagnosed with cancer for the first time in 2007 and was diagnosed again three more times before it claimed her life in April 2014. Brown’s urged students to emulate Keisha Brown and tell their own

stories, leaving a worthy legacy behind.

“Each of you has the opportunity to share your own story, don’t wait for somebody else to tell it for you,” Brown said. “I can guarantee you you won’t like the outcome.”

Chase McGill said what touched him the most was Keisha Brown’s life story.

“The struggles she went through is definitely what is inspiring, and through it all she put her faith first,” said the Olivet freshman.

The night wrapped up with applause and announcements before Greek Life students left to practice for the mock rock.

With two days left of money wars, it was announced that loose change is allowed for the remainder of that portion of the fundraiser so that as much money as possible can be raised.

While onstage, Chicago junior Brighton Ferris said her hope for the week ahead.

“While we are deciding what our legacy is going to be, let’s (come) together and make this Greek Week the best one we have had so far,” Ferris said.

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Track and field attempting to use momentum, heads to Indiana State

By Evan Sasiela Staff Reporter

Fresh off a performance during where they claimed 18 first-place finishes at Oakland University last weekend, the Central Michigan University track and field teams will attempt to keep the momentum going as the home stretch of the season approaches.

The Chippewas will compete in the Gibson Invitational Thursday through Saturday at Indiana State University.

Thursday’s action will begin at noon, Friday will start at 5 p.m. and Saturday will commence at 11 a.m.

Mark Guthrie, director of track and field, said it will be important to carry the firstplace finishes in Rochester to Terra Haute, Ind. as the competition will become tougher.

“It’s one step a time,” Guthrie said. “We’re a month out of (Mid-American Conference Outdoor Championships) right now. You want to try and keep everything going in the right direction. It is one foot in front of the other.”

The Chippewas will compete at the Sycamores’ brandnew facility.

The meet will feature several mid-major schools including Eastern Illinois University, Southeast Missouri State University, the University of Northern Iowa, St. Louis University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Detroit Mercy and the University of Dayton.

Courtesy Photo | CMU Athletics Communications

Mark Guthrie, the Central Michigan University director of Track and Field, speaks with members of the team during the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships at the Indoor Athletics Complex Feb. 28.

“You want to try and keep everything going in the right direction. It is one foot in front of the other.”

Mark Guthrie, director of track and field “These are all good midmajor teams. This will be a good test,” Guthrie said.

Athletes to watch

Junior throwers Cole Walderzak and Devene

Brown, senior 400-meter dash runners Emma Fishnick and Bridget Doughty, senior distance runner Abbey Kelto, freshman sprinter Lorenzo Wells and freshman hurdler Shane

Moffo should excel this weekend.

Senior leadership, including Fishnick, Doughty, and Kelto, has been a reason for the Chippewas’ most recent success.

“There is an expectation to be great,” Guthrie said. “Until everybody buys in and understands that expectation, it’s going to be a little bit of a struggle.

Things are going in the right direction.

Guthrie said that the team is lacking in some of areas, such as the 4x100meter relays on both the men’s and women’s sides.

“Both of our short relays have to get way better,” Guthrie said. “The talent is there, but we’ve got to run. If the weather gets warmer, your speed events will be better.”

Championships loom

The Chippewas are taking measures to gear themselves

up for the MAC Outdoor Championships. Guthrie said he will remove players from the weight room and let their bodies heal up.

Their decreased workload is expected to be a three-tofour week process.

“They’re starting to believe what we’ve been talking about for two years,” Guthrie said.“We want to go there and put in our best effort to give ourselves a chance to win the meet.”

Bradford awaits selection in WNBA Draft

By Mark Cavitt Staff Reporter

Crystal Bradford, one of the most successful women’s basketball players in Central Michigan University history, has entered the WNBA Draft which takes place at 7 p.m. in Uncaseville, Conn. at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Bradford will be at home in Inkster during the draft, spending time with her family.

“I’m very stoked,” Bradford said. “Coming from Detroit, this has always been (an) ultimate goal of mine. I wasn’t invited to the draft but I’m so excited that I get to go home and be with my family. They will keep me at ease as the draft goes by.”

If Bradford is drafted, she will be the second women’s basketball player from the Mid-American Conference ever drafted. Ball State University’s Tamara Bowie in 2003, 36th overall in the third round was the first.

Bradford is projected as a top ten pick by many WNBA experts. Most of those projections have her being selected anywhere from picks sixth through eighth overall.

The San Antonio Silver

Stars hold the sixth pick, the Los Angeles Sparks have the seventh pick and the WashingCrystal Bradford ton Mystics hold the eighth overall pick. Bradford said four teams have contacted her showing interest in drafting her.

“I don’t get too excited about it because it’s just a waiting game, Bradford said.

“Everybody is playing poker right now, nobody is showing their hand.”

CMU Head Coach Sue Guevara said Thursday’s draft has been a constant topic of conversation between her and Bradford.

“I’ve talked to almost every WNBA coach and she is going to be drafted,” Guevara said.

“It’s just going to be a matter of when. I think it’s great. It’s good for her and it’s good for our program.”

For the last four seasons at CMU, Bradford has dominated in almost every phase of the game.

“This week has been extremely long,” Bradford said.

“Monday was the longest

day of my life. I was thinking, how am I going to make it to Thursday? Thursday morning I’m going to get up. I have two classes. I have to then go home after my classes, pick up my best friend and get dressed. Until the draft starts I’m just going to be with family, spend time with them and laugh.”

The Detroit native leaves CMU leading in four major offensive categories including points (2,006), rebounds (1,140), field goals made (805) and blocks (177).

On the defensive end she ranks third in career steals with 278.

In 2011-12 Bradford was named to the MAC AllFreshman Team. She was an All-MAC First Team selection in her sophomore and junior years while being named All-MAC Second Team last season.

Her final season saw her being named as a WBCA Region 4 All-American nominee.

She is one of two players from a mid-major university projected to go in the first round this season.

When camp starts with a WNBA team Bradford said she will rely on the veteran players for help and guidance

on how to be the best.

“When I get to camp with a team I’m going to walk up to the hardest working player and say. I want to shadow you and work with you so I can be at the peak of my game,” Bradford said.

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Gymnastics season comes to a close Almost every 2015 senior finds herself in the Chippewas’ record book for individual scores ranking in the Top 10 in program history.

The group put up a team score in eighth place all-time, ninth for vault team score and the knocking off several teams in the NCAA Top 25 in the process.

The 2015 campaign was full of surprises. Some were not so pleasant.

Senior Taylor Noonan, a national qualifier and MAC Champion suffered a dislocated kneecap in the early stages of the season. Out for eight-weeks, Noonan returned immediately to her champion ways, scoring a 9.9 in every event during the week she returned to the regular season, and again during the MAC Championships.

By Cody DeBona Staff Reporter

Overcoming adversity through a slow start to the season, injuries and a MidAmerican Conference Championship loss at the hands of their rivals, the Central Michigan University gymnastics team never gave up.

The Chippewas failed to win the MAC title for the first time since 2011, falling short by the smallest margins of defeat possible: 0.1.

But the loss was just a small hiccup in an intense and passionate season.

Head Coach Jerry Reighard had a veteran team on his hands for the first time in many seasons.

Reighard’s previous season featured only two senior gymnasts, both of whom broke multiple records in their final seasons.

CMU won the MAC regular season title for the first time since 2012, ending the six seniors on the team’s careers the way they started them.

The ‘Super Six’, as they became known, lead the Chippewas and their “sisters” through a regular season championship season.

Compared to the 2014 MAC Champions

On season averages, the maroon and gold were 3 percent less effective on scoring. The average scores fell below the 2014 campaign in vault, beam, floor and team score.

In high scores, the 2014 team scored better in four of five categories.

Abbie Robinson | Staff Photographer Illinois freshman Miranda Wieczorek poses on the balance beam during a meet versus Northern Illinois Feb. 6 in McGuirk Arena.

Both teams bowed out of the NCAA Regional Tournament in third place and both drew the toughest competitions possible, competing against No. 6 and No. 7 in the nation, respectively.

The difference

The difference in the 2015 season was the beam inconsistency. Reighard explained his teams beam routines as “complex.”

“I can tell you for sure that the difficulty of our balance

beam routines compared to anyone in our conference or anyone ranked near us. It’s not even close,” Reighard said.

“That’s why we took three people to NCAA Nationals on beam last year.”

The Chippewas season average beam score dropped 0.474 points since last season.

Looking ahead

The recruiting of Reighard and his staff has been stellar in the last few years aided by CMU’s MAC Champions and

national qualifiers.

The Chippewas will have another veteran team for the 2016 season, with championship experience and quality leading the way.

Taylor Bolender, floor specialist who hit a 9.925 in her sophomore season and a 9.9 at the MAC Championship will be a player to watch.

Kirsten Petzold, competed in every meet on vault and floor and was an anchor for CMU in the vault with a high score of 9.925.

Karlee Teet, known for her bars routine made a name for herself this season with her vaulting consistency, scoring a 9.85 or better in her last five meets including the MAC Championship and the NCAA Regional Championship.

“Overall, (it was) not the outcome we wanted but we still had a great season,” senior Tori Garcia said. “I’m proud of all the girls and everything we accomplished this season. I know next year and years to come we are going to look really strong.”

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