The Western Michigan football team is looking to get off to a quick start in the 2007 college football season.
But it couldn't begin with a more fierce opponent.
The Broncos will have a sophomore quarterback under center when they face No. 3 West Virginia at 3:30 p.
How could CMU be prepared for a disaster?
“CMU is safe and prepared.”
Xiaojian Yang,
China sophomore
It has taken Mohib Israr three years to get here.
But this week, Israr started his first day of classes - at an American university.
“It is my dream to get education in the United States,” he said.
Israr, who is from Afghanistan, will live that dream at CMU.
“Balls of Fury” is like someone walked into a comedy club and replaced all of the comedians with accountants.
There's not a simpler way to put it: This movie is not funny.
And not just regular not funny, the way, say, “Jeopardy!” is not funny. We're talking sad, humorless shell of a film in which actors awkwardly attempt to be funny, but fail miserably to do so.
When international student comes to CMU, they do more than just take classes.
The university has programs set up to allow students to meet new people and explore new cultures.
“All international students must learn English to get into classes and their knowledge is tested,” said Tracy Lund Nakajima coordinator of international students.
When Butch Jones was introduced Jan. 5 as Central Michigan's 25th football coach, he emphasized his team would be mentally and physically tough.
Apparently he meant it.
“I foresee a lot of our games being more lax than our practices, to be honest,” said junior defensive tackle Andrew Hartline.
Chalked messages have been a long-standing college tradition.
And at CMU, it's a university-approved way for groups to get their messages out.
Now, after months of planning, officials have finalized specific guidelines as to what is and isn't appropriate.
The softball team added another established softball mind to its repertoire as Margo Jonker made Sami Baugh an assistant coach.
Baugh comes to Central as a four-year letter winner at Iowa. She played under Gayle Blevins - one of the winningest coaches in NCAA history.
CMU's Writing Center helps students struggling with the subtleties of rhetoric.
But the university offers nothing similar for students struggling with their checkbooks.
One CMU professor wants to change that.
Plenty of students struggle to understand the nuances of personal finance, said Finance and Law professor R.
Dr. Donald H. Matthews
Philosophy and Religion Professor
Guest column
Almost 20 years ago an African-American Ph.D. candidate from the University of Chicago Divinity School arrived on campus to teach in the Religious Studies Department at CMU. He was no longer the eager student but now he was the arbiter of knowledge and authority in classrooms whose racial and ethnic makeup were different from his own.
If the voice on the other end of the Information Technology Help Desk line sounds like it has heard it all before, it is because it has.
“Anything to do with computers comes to us first,” said Mount Pleasant junior Stephen Schulz.
Schulz is one of many tech savvy undergraduates who man the phones and answer pleas for assistance from students with computer-related problems.
By now many students have used graphing calculators or Blackboard to complete assignments.
However, students may soon find themselves using newer educational developments.
Wimba, a brand new technology at Central Michigan University, operates much like a video chat room using Web cams to facilitate discussion.
The football team's offense largely was based on its passing attack last season.
So it's no surprise Central is concerned about the Kansas secondary, which is led by second-team All-American cornerback Aqib Talib. CMU plays the Jayhawks at 7 p.m. Saturday in Lawrence, Kan.
A Facilities Management staff member cleaned up between 200 and 300 dead fish earlier this week from the shallow pond near Theunissen Stadium.
The pond is one of several shallow ponds on campus, which can sometimes experience low oxygen levels during dry summers, said Steve Lawrence, associate vice president of Facilities Management, in an e-mail to Central Michigan Life.
Central Michigan University (also known as CMU) is a coeducational state university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan. Nearly 28,000 students are enrolled, of which approximately 20,000 are undergraduates, making the university the fourth largest in Michigan. CMU also has off-campus sites located in 15 states and 10 countries. CMU offers students their choice of 27 degrees through eight academic divisions.
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