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Volunteers raise $60,000 for Special Olympics Michigan FEB. 19, 2018

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03 Change of rates Trustees vote to extend in-state tuition rates to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students who are U.S. residents.

EDITORIAL 04 Don’t let your charitable flame get doused Mount Pleasant, Isabella County has a longstanding relationship with Special Olympics Michigan that spans more than just the Polar Plunge season.

07 Speaking skills

A new department in the Charles V. Park Library promises to help students and faculty promote public speaking skills.

SPORTS 12 Court vision

Men’s basketball guard Shawn Roundtree discusses how his sports goggles have given him a signature look.

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In-state tuition rates offered to US residents after board meeting PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH ADVISORY COMMITTEE

By Evan Sasiela University Editor news@cm-life.com

Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students who are U.S. residents will qualify for in-state tuition rates starting Fall 2018.

Central Michigan University's Board of Trustees met Feb. 15 for its formal meeting, which also included a discussion on the president search and a reiteration of its sexual misconduct, harassment and discrimination policies.

Barrie Wilkes, vice president for Finance and Administrative Services, said the decision to end charging out-of-state tuition was to help make CMU more competitive and to address some tuition inequities. Global Campus students paid in-state tuition for online classes but were charged out-of-state tuition for classes taught on the main campus.

Wilkes said 85 percent of students from outside of Michigan currently receive the President’s Award.

For years that program has allowed CMU to offer out-of-state students the in-state tuition rate if their high school grade point average was higher than 2.75. The policy change now extends that discount to almost all students who live outside Michigan.

“The amount of money we get from the state is about 17 percent of the budget,” Wilkes said. “That used to be an argument of why there’s an out-ofstate rate — because in-state people were paying taxes that were supporting the institution. While that’s still true today, it’s still a small percentage of what our budget is.”

Trustee Richard Studley was the lone trustee to vote no for the motion, citing unclear language in the resolution.

Trustee Tricia Keith, who serves as vice chair of the board, introduced who will serve on the 13-member advisory committee in the presidential search. President George Ross will step down July 31.

Trustees interviewed five search firms Feb. 15 and plan to hire one of them this week. Keith said forums and online feedback will take place as part of efforts to engage the community in the process that she also described as a "confidential search."

Trustees voted to approve a confidentiality statement and code of ethics for its advisory committee and approve an Affirmative Action statement.

Keith said the board will look for diversity and leadership in the search process.

“We’re committed to sharing a transparent process and bring everyone along the path so that we can ensure a successful transition from President Ross to the new president and continue to move the university forward,” Keith said.

Keith said it is more important to “get the right

• • • • • • • • • Mariah Wilson | Staff Photographer The board of trustees meet to discuss the search for the University’s new president, in and out-of-state tuition and many other issues on Feb. 15 in the President’s Conference Room.

candidate” than trying to make a hire by July 31.

Trustees meet two more times this academic year: April 19 and June 28.

In his report to the board, Ross spoke at length about the university's sexual misconduct, harassment and discrimination policies. The board requested that Ross reiterate the policies after the sentencing of ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar for sexual abuse.

Michigan State University is being investigated

by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette.

Ross praised the work of the Office of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity, the Central Michigan University Police Department and Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates (SAPA) for promoting safety among students, faculty, staff and community members. He said CMU takes all allegations seriously and actions will “not be tolerated.”

“It’s on everyone’s mind,” Ross said of the Nassar case. “I wanted to try to briefly explain what we do at Central to reinforce what we’ve been doing for more than two decades, but also reinforce that sexual harassment does happen. We still have to be vigilant."

The board also approved the following: • Motion authorizing the president to ratify and sign a collective bargaining agreement for 20182019 and beyond with Central Michigan Command Officers Association (CMCOA) • Motion authorizing the absorption chiller replacement project. According to University Communications, the absorption chiller in CMU’s Central Energy Facility is 27 years old and 1,250 tons.

• Motion authorizing to execute contracts to charter two new public school academies in Detroit.

Ross said the public launch of CMU's capital campaign, groundbreaking of Center for Integrated

Health Studies and hiring of a Chief Diversity Officer are expected to be completed this spring as well.

Board Chair William Weideman was not in attendance.

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A participant jumps into freezing waters to benefit Special Olympics Michigan on Feb. 17 at Wayside Central.

Isabella County has a longstanding relationship with Special Olympics Michigan — let's keep it strong More than 250 people took the plunge for Special Olympics Michigan at the annual Polar Plunge Feb. 17 in the Wayside Central parking lot.

It couldn’t have been a better day: not too cold outside, sunshine and an atmosphere of enjoyment as people dressed as a mix of animals, superheroes and old folks dove into waters in the negative temperatures.

It was a good day, but as the numbers show, it wasn’t a great one.

This year, both funds raised and the amount of people jumping were down. By a lot: almost $20,000 and about 150 fewer participants, respectively.

It’s easy to pat ourselves on the back when the community accomplishes something like this.

Rightfully so — $60,000 is no small amount of money.

But the decline notes a problem, though, which comes after Polar Plunge.

It comes after cute fundraising ideas like Penny Wars and sharing SOMI posts on social media.

While fundraising opportunities like this are amazing in the moment, we shouldn’t use a chance to do one good deed as a reason to lose sight of why our community does this: to support SOMI. Right now, more than 23,000 athletes in Michigan participate in Special Olympics, in 24 different

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sports, at no cost to the Olympians’ families. A staggering 31,606 volunteers keep the organization running with an additional 3,278 coaches working with SOMI to train participants.

The organization might appreciate unskilled labor or well-intentioned volunteers, but like most charities, it appreciates one thing more than that: your donations.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is admit you can’t really do anything. In this case, that means acknowledging while volunteering with SOMI might seem nice on the surface, there’s not a lot that untrained college students have to offer to the organization.

SOMI needs our help, but they need it through funding. As a nonprofit organization, it means

SOMI solely relies on it — financial gifts from corporations or kindhearted people like you — to keep the doors open.

So the next time you’re considering spending a few extra dollars on a video game you might not need or a shirt that looks exactly like the three others already hanging in your closet, consider using that cash for charity.

In the grand scheme of things, every penny does count.

An organization can’t support its athletes if it can’t afford to host competitions.

Thankfully, since it first opened its state headquarters in Mount Pleasant during the early 1970s, SOMI hasn’t been in that dire of a predicament.

Let’s keep it that way.

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Thoughts and prayers are useless We need to talk about gun control before more families, like mine, are ripped apart

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hen I was 8 years old, my dad was shot and killed on Father’s Day. He was working as a security guard at a shoe store. The person who shot him was a 15-year-old boy trying to steal a pair of shoes.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, a national movement made up of more than 4 million Americans working to end gun violence, Americans are 25 times more likely to be killed by a gun than people in other developed countries.

On a typical day in America, 96 people are killed with a gun. For every person killed, two more are injured.

In 2018, so far, there have been 1,752 gun-related deaths in America.

Why is it such a devastating problem here?

When the U.S. is compared to other developed nations in the world, there is a clear and stark difference: the World Health Organization cited for every 100,000 people in the U.S., 3.6 are killed by a gun. This is a huge difference from the other 22 developed countries – those countries range from 0.5 to 0.

The WHO also reports gun violence is the second leading cause of death in Americans 15-24 years old. Compared to 15-24 year-olds in other countries, Americans are 49 times more likely to be the victim of a gun-related murder.

Again, why is this happening?

The answer is clear: our gun laws are not strict enough.

On April 28, 1996, an Australian man eating lunch at a restaurant in Tasmania, Australia took a semiautomatic rifle out of his bag and opened fire. Before he was stopped, he killed 35 people and wounded 23 — it was the worst mass shooting in Australian history.

Twelve days after the massacre, their government enacted sweeping gun-control

Gun ownership and gun deaths The relationship between gun ownership and of firearm deaths is glaring. The graph below shows that relationship for countries that rate highly on the UN Development Program’s Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index.

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measures. Not only were semi-automatic shotguns and rifles banned, but the government bought back more than 600,000 of these weapons. Their new gun laws also prohibit the private sales of firearms.

Australia hasn’t had a mass shooting since.

Compare that to America: • On Dec. 14, 2012, a 20-year-old man, who was known to be mentally unstable, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut with a gun and killed 27 people — 20 of whom were children ages 6 and 7.

• On June 12, 2016, a 29-year-old man on the FBI’s terrorist watch list entered Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida with a gun and killed 49 people, injuring more than 50.

• On Oct. 1, 2017, America experienced its deadliest mass shooting yet when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire into a crowd of 20,000 people at a music festival In Las Vegas, killing 59 people and injuring more than 500.

Forty-seven weapons were found in his home and his hotel room, from where he shot at the crowd. Paddock legally owned all 47 weapons.

• On Feb. 14, Nikolas Cruz, 19, entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida Feb. 14 with a gun and killed 17 people. Fifteen were injured, and five sustained life-threatening injuries, according to hospital officials.

Since the Florida shooting last week, the NRA has remained silent. Senators supported by the NRA have sent out “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims and the community.

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We need gun control, and we need it before more innocent people are killed.

There are also a lot of people who say we should not talk about gun control so soon after the shooting, because it is disrespectful to the victims’ families and the grieving community.

While I can’t speak personally for these people, I can say that the day after my dad was shot, my entire family was devastated, furious and ready to talk about what had to be done to ensure other innocent people and their families

would never have to endure the horror we did.

Gun control is an extremely controversial and difficult conversation to have. It isn’t black-and-white. There are so many different factors and issues to be considered when discussing firearms, I understand why people don’t like having “the gun control conversation.”

But I understand what it’s like to not have a dad because of a trigger-happy teen with a gun.

I understand the pain the families of mass shootings go through — and will continue to go through — unless we act now.

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NEWS AND NOTES FROM AROUND CAMPUS

LIFE IN BRIEF

CCFA BEGINS SEARCH FOR PERMANENT ASSOCIATE DEAN The College of Communication and Fine Arts has announced an internal search for a permanent associate dean.

The search will be conducted by a nineperson committee led

by Betty Kirby, senior associate dean of the College of Education and Human Services.

Andrew Spencer from the School of Music has been serving as interim associate dean since 2016.

Committee members include: • Brian Elder, faculty

member in the Department of Art and Design • Amy Sindik, faculty member in the School of Broadcast and Cinematic Arts • Nancy Eddy, faculty member in Communication and Dramatic Arts • Kent Miller, faculty member in the Department of Journalism • James Fiste, faculty member in the School of Music • Sandy Wilson, manager of business operations in the College of Communication and

Fine Arts • Jon Humiston, special assistant to Provost Michael Gealt • Cali Clark, Human Resources CCFA Dean Janet Hethorn declined to comment on the ongoing search.

According to University Communications, the committee plans to review all candidates with the goal of having an associate dean starting July 2018.

-Melissa Frick Staff Reporter

Quinn Kirby | Staff Photographer Howell senior Austin Waddell (left) and Limerick, Ireland graduate student Tomas Barrett (right) reach for equipment on Jan. 31 in the Health Professions Building. Barrett may dedicate up to 60 hours a week to working in the lab.

Faculty, students work to identify catalyst for Alzheimer’s disease

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Neuroscience program faculty member Kevin Park thinks his work studying Alzheimer’s disease is like examining the aftermath of a car crash.

“Alzheimer’s disease is what you see afterward,” he said. “You have accident investigators trying to figure out what led to this effect. It could have been many things.”

Park and his team of graduate and undergraduate students are the investigators on the scene, trying to initiate Alzheimer’s disease in a mouse model so the catalyst for the disease can be identified.

“By having a model that is quite constrained and systematic, we are trying to figure out whether we can identify a specific mechanism that causes this (disease),” Park said.

The aftermath of Alzheimer’s disease is observed by three characteristics in an affected brain, Park said: plaques, tangles and neuronal loss — otherwise known as cell death.

Plaques are a build-up of pro-

teins between nerve cells in the brain. Tangles cut off nutrients to others cells.

Neuronal loss, Park said, is a little more complicated.

“Typically, neurons (are) post-mitotic, which means they are not going to multiply and divide,” said Ireland graduate student Tomas Barrett.

In a brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease, the neurons are given instructions to do so, which instead causes cell death.

Barrett said research has focused on targeting plaques because they appear first, making researchers lean toward hypotheses supporting information suggesting plaques cause the tangles and neuronal loss.

Still, nothing is confirmed.

“There’s research coming out suggesting that may not be the case,” Barrett said.

Park said the goal is to see if they system can be manipulated.

“Then the goal is to identify the pathway so we can pick apart the key pathways that are involved in Alzheimer’s disease,” he said.

The lab is focusing on pointing toward the cell cycle — unregu-

lated asexual cell reproduction as seen in cancers — as a contributor to Alzheimer’s disease.

“We’re looking at whether we can initiate the cell cycle in the mock we have (and if) that will produce Alzheimer’s like in phenotypes.” Barrett said.

Park co-authored “Conditional Neuronal Simian Virus 40 T Antigen Expression Induces Alzheimer-Like Tau and Amyloid Pathology in Mice” in 2007. The scholarly article reports the use of a cell cycle activator commonly used in cancer research, TAg, has been used to create characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease in the lab’s mouse model. “(It) lends credence to the concept that the origin of (Alzheimer’s disease) resembles that of cancer,” the article states.

Eleven years after publication, the research is still a long way away from being provable in a lab environment.

“We’re not saying necessarily that the cell cycle causes (Alzheimer’s disease),” Barrett said. “Because we see it in the human brain at autopsy, we don’t know whether it’s a consequence or a cause.”

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Center provides presentation aid for students, faculty “We are not the sage on the stage, we are the guide on the side. It’s about making sure we’re asking the right questions that help our clients find the answers within themselves.”

Lesley Withers, Presentation Center Director

Skills center sees increase in use, aims toward national certification

By Andrew Mullin Staff Reporter news@cm-life.com

Since opening Oct. 2, the Presentation Skills Center has provided students with a resource to better construct their speeches and presentations.

The center aims to help students, faculty and the Mount Pleasant community with their public-speaking skills.

Students can schedule appointments, but people are also allowed to walk in during the center’s hours of operation, 3-8 p.m. Sunday through Wednesday. The center is on the third floor of the Charles V. Park Library.

Center director Lesley Withers is pleased with how it has been received so far.

“We have had fabulous feedback,” Withers said. “Students find our service to be really helpful — it helps them feel more prepared and more confident.”

Escanaba freshman Maxwell Dagenais, who had six appointments with the center during the Fall semester, said he used the center for COM 357: Introduction to Public Speaking.

Dagenais said he lacked confidence with pub-

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lic speaking and narrowing a topic to speak about.

“The first half hour appointment was spent brainstorming topics and finding what I was passionate about,” Dagenais said.

Withers said more than 150 students have visited the center since it opened. That’s an average of about 15 appointments per week.

About half of the students who visited returned a second time.

The center provides multiple ways to help someone with their presentation. Withers said when students make an appointment and come into the center, they are given a half hour to work with the staff. There, the student plans what will be done in the appointment, based on what they need help with. The center allows students to practice their presentation, record themselves and receive feedback. Staff members can also help with ideas and research.

Helping students with their confidence and organization of speeches is what Withers had in mind for the center, she said.

“We are not the sage on the stage, we are the guide on the side,” Withers said. “It’s about making sure that we’re asking the right questions that help our clients find the answers within themselves.”

Lansing freshman Philip Nguyen said the center helped polish his speech and pacing.

Although he has only visited once this semester, he said he feels much more confident with giving a speech and plans to go to the center more in the future.

It’s not just students who make appointments at the center — teachers will bring entire classes there for lectures or student projects. Withers said last semester the center helped a business class with “Shark Tank” sales

pitches, where groups of students had to present product ideas.

While Withers noted the center has mostly helped with academic-related projects, she said it can help with much more — like sales pitches, job interviews, play auditions or informative speeches.

The center reached an important goal this semester, with the addition of undergraduate consultants. These consultants act as peer mentors for the people who walk into the center. Withers said last semester they only had graduate students helping out in the center.

Now the center offers a class titled Communication Facilitation (COM 495), which is a semester long, three-credit course. Students who enroll in this course will spend three hours a week learning how to work in the center and another three hours a week in the center helping with clients.

Withers said the program is like an internship and a class wrapped up in one.

The center is willing to accommodate any clients who need more time, and will schedule them for another appointment, which could even be on the same day, Withers said.

Withers said she would like the center to be open five-to-seven days a week once it has enough staff.

When it comes to the center’s future, Withers said she has a big goal in mind for the end of the semester — being certified by the National Association of Communication Centers, which supports college communication centers around the country. Withers said this would involve ensuring the staff is well-trained and the center provides quality service. Being certified would bring prestige to the center, she added.

“It helps to establish the quality of our center in a national playing field,” Withers said.

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A pair of participants jump together during the Polar Plunge on Feb. 17 outside O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grille and Wayside Central.

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Two men pump up the crowd before their jump on Feb. 17 outside O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grille and Wayside Central.

Polar Plunge brings in 250 jumpers and $60,000, but misses matching its 2018 goal

By Hunter McLaren Staff Reporter

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or its 12th year, Mount Pleasant residents and Central Michigan University students braved cold weather and even colder water to raise money on Feb. 17 for Special Olympics Michigan.

The Polar Plunge fundraiser, which features donors and volunteers jumping into a pool of freezing water, is hosted annually across Michigan.

With more than 250 jumpers and $60,000 raised by the end of the day, the event didn’t quite match last year’s numbers of more than 400 jumpers and an all-time high of $80,000 raised.

Andrea Rachko, senior development director for Special Olympics Michigan, was disappointed the event didn’t reach its $75,000 goal but said the event still went well. w STORY CONTINUES | 10

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Cody Scanlan | Photo Editor Two participants jump into the below freezing water on Feb. 17 outside O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grille and Wayside Central.

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Hunter McLaren | Staff Photographer Two participants make the jump in costume at the Polar Plunge on Feb. 17 outside of Wayside Central.

“It’s still money raised for our athletes, which is the good thing,” she said.

The temperature outside was about 25 degrees, with the water in the pool estimated to be a chilly 5 degrees Fahrenheit. For those lucky enough to be in the last group of jumpers, by the end of the event the pool had warmed up to a toasty 6 degrees.

Registration began at 10:30 a.m. inside Wayside Central, with participants and spectators chatting nervously while in various costumes and outfits — among them were several people dressed as chickens, a pig, a cow, Batman, Elmo and the Cookie Monster.

Jumpers were split into sev-

eral groups in order to keep the event running smoothly, with the first group starting to jump at 11 a.m.

Many spectators in the front row had to back up after getting splashed from cannon-balling plungers.

Garden City junior Joe Pallozzi said he was jumping as a part of the student run radio WMHW's team. He said the walk to Wayside Central was cold enough for him and he wasn't looking forward to getting any colder, but he was glad to help raise money.

"It was my team captain’s idea," Pallozzi said. "I decided to just join along with it. Anything I can do to help any charitable cause is good with me."

Rachko said Polar Plunge and similar events are important because they help raise money for more than 23,000 individuals with intellectual disabilities across the state who participate in Special Olympics Michigan.

Cody Scanlan | Photo Editor A man jumps into the freezing pool water Feb. 17 at Wayside Central.

The Polar Plunge alone is responsible for raising $1.15 million yearly across 28 events in Michigan.

Mount Pleasant resident Teresea Kauppi, a regular volunteer at the Special Olympics, came to watch her fiancé Dustin Looman take the plunge. Kauppi said the Special Olympics is a great organization for helping individuals with intellectual disabilities.

“I work at the summer games," Kauppi said. "Working with the Olympians and seeing how much happiness there is and the inclusion of everyone is amazing."

After the plunge, jumpers changed inside Wayside Central, dried off and ate pizza. Once the last jumpers had taken the plunge at 12:30 p.m., awards were handed out to teams and people who raised the most money and had the best costumes.

For Sterling Heights junior Jacklyn Burnett, this was the

second time being a jumper after participating in last year's event.

She said this year’s jump was a little colder than last year’s, when it was about 60 degrees outside.

“We had a group of 18 (sorority) sisters do the plunge this year,” Burnett said. “It’s really close to our hearts.”

Rachko said the event might be a little different next year.

One proposed idea was hosting two plunges, with one taking place in the morning for families and one taking place at night for students. The night plunge would cater more to a student atmosphere, she said.

To those apprehensive about participating, Rachko said that it’s all nerves and it’s definitely worth the experience.

“It’s only five seconds,” she said.

“Once you’re done, you’re glad you did it. It’s something different that not a lot of people do. It’s a great event and it’s something you can say you’ve done.”

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A participant reacts to the fridged waters on Feb. 17 outside O’Kelly’s Sports Bar and Grille and Wayside Central.

Hunter McLaren | Staff Photographer A man jumps into the pool Feb. 17 at Wayside Central.

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Hunter McLaren | Staff Photographer Spectators wait for the Polar Plunge to start on Feb. 17 outside Wayside Central.

The fun doesn’t have to end, even though the article has. For more weekend charity events including Polar Plunge, the Sigma Freeze hockey game and more watch our videos on our Facebook at Central Michigan Life, on Twitter @CMLife or our website at cm-life.com/multimedia.

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NEWS AND NOTES FROM AROUND CAMPUS

LIFE IN BRIEF

NFL-BOUND TIGHT END CONKLIN GIVES BACK TO HOMETOWN COMMUNITY Former Central Michigan tight end Tyler Conklin is giving back to his community in Chesterfield.

At the 2018 NFL Combine, Conklin will represent the Boys & Girls Club of Oakland and Macomb Counties.

“The goal of the club is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens,” according to the fundraiser’s website.

The NFL Combine begins Feb. 27 and runs through March 5. Conklin will compete at the combine on March 3 —

live on NFL Network.

“As I take the next step toward achieving my lifelong dream of playing in the NFL, I would like to take the goal of the Club and make it a mission for myself, utilizing my passion and platform to help young people in every way that I can,” Conklin said.

The donations are set up so every inch of Conklin’s vertical leap at the NFL Combine will be donated to the Club. Those donating can pick to give $5, $2.50, $1.50, $0.75 or a custom pledge amount per vertical leap inch.

“I have always loved being around kids – teaching them

and helping them grow,” Conklin said in the website.

According to Conklin’s estimated total of 35 inches, the $5 donation per inch would come to be $175.

Conklin earned 1,159 yards and 11 touchdowns on 83 receptions during his career. In 2017, he missed the first five games due to an injury.

Conklin aims to raise $3,000 for the Club.

Walter Football ranks Conklin as the No. 9 tight end on 2018 NFL Draft boards.

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n his way home from the gym in sixth grade, Shawn Roundtree lost his court vision.

More specifically, he lost his sports goggles.

“My first pair of goggles were really circular, huge and orange,” Roundtree said. “I ended up losing those. I was so mad.”

Since losing his first pair, the Central Michigan junior guard went through six different pairs before landing on his current eyewear.

Roundtree’s goggles are a combination of orange and black, along with a clear colored eye lens. The goggles have a black top bar, black temple, orange nose pads and orange temple tips. The end piece, which connects the temple to the lens, has a protective clear shield — allowing for maximum peripheral vision.

“The ones I have now are my best pair yet,” Roundtree said.

Roundtree enjoys the black sweat bar for his forehead and the

SHAWN ROUNDTREE: “The goggles are who I am.”

strap connecting both temple tips in case the glasses fall off during a heated in-game series.

“It’s just very convenient the bar keeps the sweat out of my eyes,” Roundtree said. “Other guys without goggles don’t get that.”

Roundtree, a 6-foot, 185-pound starting point guard, was first prescribed glasses as a first-grader.

He started with contacts on the court, but those did not suffice for his quick, gritty style of play.

“I needed something to help me with my eyesight because I was just a step slow,” Roundtree said. “For me, contacts were just uncomfortable and were always bothering my eyes.”

Now, Roundtree is known for his signature look. Over time,

he has embraced them and ditched the dreadlocks he had as a young kid.

“I wouldn’t be who I am if I didn’t have the goggles,” Roundtree said. “I became familiar with them and they became part of me. I embrace my goggles.”

Roundtree started to wear goggles as he got into middle school. He did not know many people who fashioned the eyewear, but now, he said a goggles movement has taken place.

“Over the course of 10 years, I’ve seen more kids wearing goggles,” Roundtree said. “When I started, you rarely saw anyone with them. Now, it’s one little kid per team (with goggles).

“Some kids feel like they will be made fun of if they wear goggles, but the truth is you need them and they work just like glasses.”

For the rest of his life, Roundtree will wear prescription goggles, glasses or contacts. Right now, the goggles will remain a part of Roundtree, as much as he is a part of the goggles.

“Off the court, I wear contacts.

On the court, I can’t,” Roundtree said. “The goggles are who I am.”

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Softball returns multiple starters, defends MAC West Division title outs to 31 walks.

Senior right-handed pitcher Taylor Weaver returns after appearing in six games last year. She recorded a 1.14 ERA and two wins. Junior righthander Laura Vaccaro, who made eight appearances and put together a 3.37 ERA, will also return.

By Andrew McDonald Staff Reporter sports@cm-life.com

Opening Day at Margo Jonker Stadium is still weeks away, but the Central Michigan softball team is already defending its Mid-American Conference West Division title.

The 2018 squad returns 16 players from last season’s team that won the regular season the MAC West title. The Chippewas posted an overall record of 37-15, with an 18-5 conference record.

Head coach Margo Jonker said with all of the experience returning this season, she expects players to grasp every aspect of the game.

“I expect this team to enjoy the process of the game and respect the game fully,” Jonker said. “That means to give 100 percent (effort) and play with passion every chance we have to take the field.”

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CMU is coming off a 4-4 start to the season in the Mercer Invitational and Liberty Softball Challenge.

AT THE PLATE Senior catcher Maison Kalina and junior center fielder Allison Curtis tallied the best hitting percentages in 2017.

Curtis, who started 51 of 52 games, hit the highest percentage on the team with a .377 batting average. She added 20 RBIs, 10 doubles and five triples.

Kalina, who started 47 games, hit .338 and knocked in 24 runs.

In the power category, it was junior first baseman Erika Underwood and junior infielder Rachel Vieira who stood out.

Both players led the team with identical numbers of home runs (five) and RBIs (26).

Underwood said she is working on the mental side of her game this season.

“I’m just trying to learn how to be better with resting myself on every single pitch,” Underwood said. “I tend to overthink a lot of things and beat myself up for it. It takes me out of my rhythm and causes me to not perform well, so it’s something I’m working to change.”

The Chippewas return five players who took more than 100 at-bats with a .260 or higher batting average.

IN THE FIELD Curtis also led the team in fielding percentage on defense.

The Tucson, Arizona native posted a .988 fielding percentage with just one error in 82 putouts.

Redshirt junior Sara Hansen was forced to miss all but eight games last season with a torn ACL. In 2016, she led the Chippewas with 14 stolen bases and was named the MAC Freshman of the Year and made the AllMAC Second Team.

“I’m just ready to be playing again,” Hansen said. “I’m not putting a lot of pressure on myself with goals or certain standards.”

Senior outfielder Lacy Tolfree completes the trio of expected starters in the CMU outfield this season, posting a .975 fielding percentage with three assists.

Underwood led the starting infielders with a .978 fielding percentage. She committed just six errors on 256 putouts at first base. Vieira is right behind her with a .928 fielding percentage from the middle infield and catcher positions.

IN THE CIRCLE Former star pitcher Rachael Knapp put up numbers in 2017 that went noticed around the country.

The 5-foot-7, right-hander

pitched a program record 38 games with 30 starts, while ranking first in program history with 27 complete games.

Knapp was second in the MAC with a 1.44 earned run average. She had a career-high 22 wins and posted 256 strike-

outs — ranked No. 15 among NCAA Division I programs.

The Chippewas must now try to replace Knapp’s production.

Senior right-hander Hanna Warren was CMU’s No. 2 starter last season, going 11-5 with a 2.52 ERA and 61 strike-

OVERALL Jonker said the Chippewas are excited to return veterans from past seasons.

“We have three of our four starting infielders back, two outfielders from last year and Hansen back from an injury, so we’re looking good there,” Jonker said. “I think every team has a different personality and we don’t know ours yet. It should become more evident as we go along.”

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