The proposed utility price hike will finance worthwhile projects.
Detroit Edison and Consumers Energy, the two energy providers who are proposing an 11 percent rate hike on monthly electric charges, service a considerable number of students and Mount Pleasant residents.
The baseball team used two big offensive innings and effective pitching to take two of three games from Buffalo during its weekend series.
The Chippewas scored five runs in the first inning of the series opener on Friday to win 5-2. In the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, CMU scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth to win 7-3.
Central Michigan University will likely settle a sexual harassment lawsuit involving two former women's soccer players and the team's former coach for $450,000 today, said the players' attorney.
Two former players sued the university and former coach Tony DiTucci in February, alleging he engaged in inappropriate communication and conduct during his time at CMU.
Former women's track member Kaelyn Carson died after complications with anorexia nervosa in 2001.
Eight years later, the team still hosts a fundraiser in her name, but not only for Carson's memory. The annual Walk-A-Thon aims to educate students and community members about the illness.
Two businesses were destroyed Sunday morning when a fire raged through 1300 E. Pickard St.
The building housed a John Deere store, 1300A E. Pickard St., and Brandt Agency-Farm Bureau Insurance. The building caught on fire shortly before 6 a.m., according to Mount Pleasant Fire Department Chief Greg Walterhouse.
The wrestling team finished 14th in the NCAA Tournament, won the Mid-American Conference Tournament for the eighth year in a row and was 17-3-1 overall in dual meets this season.
A week after the NCAA Tournament where sophomore 174-pounder Mike Miller finished runner-up in the country, Metro Editor Mike Wayland spoke with head coach Tom Borrelli about the past season, the future of the young team and recruitment.
Whether it was an action-packed blockbuster, four women living their lives in New York City or vampires falling in love with humans, the Program Board has shown them all.
Program Board has been showing films such as “Twilight,” “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight” and “Sex and the City” to audiences for free.
Two men were arrested this week and charged for multiple larcenies from vehicles in four Central Michigan University parking lots.
According to a press release, an 18-year-old Alma man and a 19-year-old Vestaburg man were arrested by CMU Police with assistance from the Alma Police Department.
Editors note: Central Michigan Life's editorial board will sit down with each pair of presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Student Government Association.
Here are some excerpts from the session with the candidates, speaking about topics like tuition and the upcoming presidential search.
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
But what about children who hurt themselves as a result of bullying?
Whitney Applebaum, an East Lansing senior, and her SWK 450: Social Welfare Policies and Services II course are standing up for bullied kids across the state, by pushing for the passage of Michigan Senate Bill 275.
The softball team failed to generate enough offense during the opening weekend of Mid-American Conference play, losing three of four.
“We've got to score runs,” coach Margo Jonker said. “We've got to hit the ball and we did not do well with that.”
The Chippewas split a doubleheader with Ball State on Friday.
The music was contagious.
The blaring, booming and thumping of beats rushed through the audience and into the aisles, bringing the people to their feet.
Saturday evening in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium, the “Battle Grounds 'Michigan' Dance Competition,” stirred up the crowd with its fast- paced tempos and challenging dance moves.
Michigan is not in good shape these days.
And it's not just the habitual dreary early-spring weather that has Michiganders down - it's something else.
It's a feeling that we live in a state that is on its way out.
Every day the news consists of more foreclosures, decreases in government funding, failing businesses and the departure of another company to another state or country - just to name a few.
Before attending CMU, John Waters had not lived a day in Michigan.
But the Georgia senior receives in-state tuition because his father took classes at CMU's satellite campus in Atlanta.
“I wanted to be a teacher and (CMU) has a great teaching program,” Waters said.
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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