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FINALS WEEK

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Western Michigan University fans are encouraged to support the Broncos in the Little Caesar’s Pizza Bowl on Dec. 27.

�e Broncos will face o� against the Purdue Boilermakers at Ford Field at 4:30 p.m.

Tickets are available to the general public starting at $45 and will be available to students starting at $15.

A fan and student bus will leave the university at 9 a.m. from Lot 16 on campus.

WMU students and fan enthusiasts will be dropped o� either at Ford Field or at the Bronco Bowl Bash.

For $10 WMU fans can participate in the pre-game fes-tivities that will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the Motor Casino and Hotel, 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit.

WMU students and fans will be picked up outside of Ford Field 30 minutes prior to the conclusion of the game.

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With �nals week here, stu-dents are only days away from a well-deserved break from the stress of studying. Caught in the rush of anticipation of going home for the holidays, students may forget the closing proce-dures taking place this week and over break.

Quiet hours will begin on Sat-urday, Dec. 10 at 11:59 p.m. and will continue 24/7 until the resi-dence halls close. All dining halls will close at 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16 with the exception of Bigelow/Hoekje, which will close at 7 p.m. All residence halls will be closed at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16. �e rooms will be checked thorough-ly, like they were during �anks-

giving break. Max Trotz, a resident assis-

tant in the Burnhams, said RAs are required to do room checks before breaks to make sure that no electrical appliances are plugged in, in order to prevent any possible electrical �res.

“We also check the rooms for maintenance issues or health hazards,” he said. “We also make sure that the rooms are all locked a�er checking them, to ensure that rooms are not vandalized or broken in to. We tell residents to lock their doors before they leave to make sure that there aren’t any robberies or vandalism, because this is the time of year that most vandalism and robberies occur.”

Matthew Rosso, a resident as-

sistant in Henry Hall, said win-dow bars are given to residents who are on the �rst �oor of the halls and those who have roof access as well, in order to avoid break-ins.

“We check rooms to make sure there are not health hazards or contraband such as George Foreman grills, wa�e makers, and co�ee pots with open heat-ing sources,” he said. “Of course, we look for alcohol, marijuana, paraphernalia, etc.”

All residence hall and univer-sity policies are still in e�ect dur-ing �nals week. Any policy vio-lations will be documented and students will be required to meet with their hall director when stu-dents return in January.

WMU closes for winter breakBy Kelly MasonSta� Reporter

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�e Western Michigan Uni-versity hockey team won both matches in it’s weekend series with Bowling Green State Uni-versity to move into a second place tie in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

On Friday, the Broncos trav-eled to Ohio and won a shootout a�er a 3-3 tie to earn two points. Netting goals for the Broncos were junior right wing Brett Bee-be, senior center J.J. Crew and ju-nior le� wing Trevor Elias. Senior forward Kyle O’Kane netted the only goal of the shootout to the Broncos. Freshman goaltender Frank Slubowski made 13 saves to earn the tie and had two stops in the shootout.

�e Falcons took the initial lead at the 3:05 mark of the �rst period with a short handed goal from junior defenseman Bobby Shea, getting an assist from soph-omore forward Andrew Wallace.

�e Broncos used power play opportunities to tie the game and take the lead in the �rst and

second periods. Beebe scored at the 9:38 mark of the �rst period with an assist from senior le� wing Derek Roehl and Crew scored at the 10:58 mark of the second period, also with an assist from Roehl and junior defenseman Luke Witkowski. Elias scored an even strength goal at the 17:56 mark of the second period with assists from sophomore center Chase Balisy and ju-nior right wing Dane Walters. �e Broncos squandered a two-goal lead in the �nal four minutes of regulation. Fresh-man defenseman Marcus Per-rier scored at the 16:42 mark for the Falcons with an assist from Shea, who then scored at the 19:03 mark with assists from sophomore forward Ryan Viselli and junior defen-seman Ryan Peltoma.

�e Broncos had success on the power play for the second straight game, going 2-of-7 with 12 shot attempts while the Fal-cons were 0-of-5 with eight shots. �e Broncos outshot the Falcons 23-16. On Saturday, �e Broncos

returned to Lawson Ice Arena and won the match 6-1 in regula-tion with help from a hat trick by Walters.

“We just came out as a team really ready to play the full sixty minutes tonight,” Walters said. “I just happened to be the lucky guy, you know? Just happened

to put in four points, get in three goals and an assist, it was just a fun night.”

Also netting goals for the Broncos were Elias, freshman forward Justin Kovacs and sopho-more defenseman Danny DeKey-ser. Slubowski (6-2-3) stopped 17 shots to earn the win.

“Well, we were challenged in that third period last night,” WMU head coach Andy Murray said. “Bowling Green came at us very hard and we didn’t handle it as well as we wanted. Tonight I thought we were a pretty deter-mined group right from the get-go and were pretty relentless for the full sixty minutes out there.”

�e Broncos jumped out to an early lead with an Elias goal at the 3:01 mark of the �rst period with assists from junior defenseman Matt Tennyson and senior right wing Ian Slater. �e Falcons tied the game at the 12:27 mark with a goal by senior forward James McIntosh, assisted by sophomore defenseman Jake Sloat and Wal-lace. Walters scored a power play goal just minutes later (14:44) with assists from Balisy and sophomore le� wing Shane Ber-schbach and the Broncos never looked back. Kovacs scored at the 16:50 mark of the second period with assists from Tennyson and freshman defenseman Garrett Haar. DeKeyser nailed a wrist shot at the 19:46 mark with as-sists from Balisy and Walters.

Monday, December 12, 2011 3Broncos bowl over Bowling GreenBy Pat LittletonSta� Reporter

Now that �nals are starting, students are likely to be spend-ing more and more time at the library, trying to cram in a last-minute study session; what few students realize is just how much Waldo Library has to o�er.

�e Library will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 12 to Wednesday, Dec. 14, from 8 a.m. to midnight on �ursday, Dec. 15 and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16.

Students may not know but they can request books from anywhere in the world and the library will do its best to get a hold of a copy.

“Students can request things through a library loan and we attempt to get anything they request from wherever they’re located,” said Julie Hayward, li-brary manager. “We certainly try to get things locally �rst be-cause it takes a lot longer to get something overseas. [Students] request it through the inter li-brary loan with interface. �ey sign in with their Bronco Net ID and then can place requests for books, articles, book chapters, documents, proceedings or dis-sertations, etc.”

Students may now use their printing quota at the library and not just the computer labs.

“Students can log in and use their printing quota at the library as well as the computer labs, so

whatever the printing quota is for the student, they can use that here as well,” Hayward said. “�is procedure was new this summer. We �nally got the technology worked around so that we can o�er that.”

Students who would rather not spend their time in the li-brary have the option of check-ing out many items and return-ing to their rooms with them.

“As far as the University Li-brary, I believe the limit might be 50 [items], but there can be special circumstances if they’re working on a dissertation,” Hay-ward said.

For �nals week, there will be more incentive to stay at the li-brary.

“We have rocking chairs and

bean bag chairs for comfort and our wooden burgundy chairs for those who want to stay awake and do some serious studying. We have an enforced ‘quiet’ area on the third �oor in Waldo Li-brary as well as other ‘quiet’ ar-eas on each of the other �oors. Presently these locations are in the east wing along the win-dows,” Regina Buckner, director of operational services at Waldo Library, said.

Students are also allowed to bring refreshments with them while they study.

“Students can eat in the li-brary. In fact, we’ll be selling pizza by the slice from nine to midnight,” Buckner said.

Waldo Library offers more hours and pizzaBy Sam StachurskiSta� Reporter

Katrina Murphy / Western HeraldShane Berschbach (24) celebrates with other Western Michigan University hockey team members after scoring its sixth goal of the night to defeat the Falcons, 6-1.

Hao Zhang / Western HeraldDi Gao, statistics graduate student, reads in the library.

Monday, December 12, 20114BuybackavailabilityBy Laura LevinSta� Reporter

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From books to cold, hard cash, book buy back is the time of year that most students anticipate.

“At the end of the semester we’ll buy back students textbooks. If it’s a book that’s been adopted for a future course at WMU, we’ll pay them half of the new price,” Terry Hudson, director of the WMU Bookstore, said. “If it’s a book that has not been adopted for a future class, then we’ll pay wholesale price and that’s whatever the price the book is valued at out there on the market.”

So where do these textbooks come from that students spend so much money on every year?

“We get our used books from students buying back their books, and we’ll get other used books from wholesale companies, and then we go to the publisher for new books,” Hudson said.

Other questions that are raised in college student’s minds are, why are textbooks expensive? And why return books when they only get a little bit of money back?

“I think people compare the price of a textbook with books in a general bookstore. With books that you’d �nd in a bookstore, the publisher will make millions of copies of them, and the cost is spread out over the millions of copies.”

Students have an advantage from selling their books now, Hudson said.

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By Ociel TorresSta� Reporter

�e Board of Trustees held its last meeting of the 2011 cal-endar year on �ursday this week. �e 30 minute meeting, which was held at the Bernhard Center, highlighted some fea-tures that will be running in the Spring Semester of 2012 here at Western Michigan University. �e eight members of the Board of Trustees, led by WMU Presi-dent John Dunn, had agreed to a number of plans and policies that can impact WMU in the future.

Part of the meeting was used for respective campus organiza-tions to summarize what they have done over the semester. Such organizations as Western Student Association summa-rized on the successful e�orts they had done throughout the semester, such as having dou-ble busing for Valley Express in the Valley Dorms.

“�is double busing is a re-ally great thing that Western has given us. Even though all the buses get crammed, I can still know that the buses will be a valuable tool,” says Drew Spilanki, who lives in Valley 2’s Harvey Hall.

�e trustees also reached decisions on many issues that were proposed, though many were successful unanimous decisions. �ey approved the retirements of �ve faculty and 11 sta� members. Trustees also signed o� on four resignations, one promotion and two chang-es in departmental a�liations for faculty members.

�ere was also a decision to grant 36 sabbatical leaves for WMU sta�ers during the 2012-13 academic year. Only Nina Nelson, chair of the De-partment of Dance, was granted a sabbatical leave for the 2012

fall semester, while the other 35 sta� members were granted for both 2012 fall semester and 2013 spring semester. �e sab-baticals are mostly doctors who are heads of their respective departments. �ey range from the Gwen Frostic School of Arts, science, mathematics, so-cial sciences, business and �ne arts departments.

Also approved by the board was a regulation on campus ex-pectations of how students, fac-ulty and sta� at WMU would report criminal or unethical violations they encounter. �e resolution was passed unani-mously by the Board. �ey expect every WMU alumni to be vigilant in the well-being of any fellow Bronco and to report any wrongdoing. �e resolution will also be putting in place a website and phone line for anonymously report-ing possible criminal or ethical violations.

Many people feel this pro-gram is a great step in the right direction for safety on campus.

“�is anonymous calling program is really needed and will be very valuable. Due to all the tragedies that have occurred all over college campuses, this method will be instrumental in safety for our fellow Broncos,” says Nathan Schivley, a junior communications major.

A�er the resolution was passed, the chair of the Board Dennis Archer announced a three person trustee commit-tee to monitor the website and phone calls that will be made unanimously. �is resolution was passed due to the many tragedies and incidents that have plagued college campuses all over the United States in re-cent years.

Broncos charge forwardBy Alexandra HarveySta� Reporter

Western Michigan University’s women’s basketball team bested Southeast Missouri University 67-34 on their home court of Reed Fieldhouse., marking Broncos’ Head Coach Tasha McDowell’s largest margin of victory in her ca-reer with WMU.

“I thought we did a fantastic job communicating,” McDowell said. “Just talking through all the di�erent scenarios we were going through. And there were quite a few.”

Shooting 44 percent in the �rst half, helped the Brown and Gold start out strong. �ey ended the half at 36-18.

Bronco sophomore forward Corie Buchanan had her �rst double-double of her career, with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Maria Iaquaniello, senior guard at WMU

chalks the team’s success, in part, up to their solid defense.

“Coach is always talking about how our defense sparks our of-

fense,” Iaquaniello said. “We were really excited to get all that going.”

Iaquaniello �nished the game with four points and eight re-bounds. In the second half, WMU held the Redhawks to 16 points, while the Broncos added 31 points to their total, bringing the �nal score to 67-34.

WMU junior guard Aurielle Anderson credits the team’s ability to run things smoothly, and take each play one at a time, with their strong �nish against Southeast Missouri.

“�e close details really helped spark it up,” Anderson said.

Anderson �nished the game with eight points and one re-bound.

A�er a week long break for �nals, the Broncos head to Long Beach, Calif., for the Beach Classic Dec. 18 and 19. �ey will �rst take on host team Long Beach Univer-sity Sunday at noon.

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�e Greater Kalama-zoo Annual Holiday Food Drive is a yearly e�ort to help provide hungry fami-lies in the Kalamazoo area with food for the holidays.

Each year, more than 100 organizations partici-pate in this food drive, in-cluding the Salvation Army,

the Kalamazoo Commu-nity Foundation and stores around the area.

�e Greater Kalama-zoo Annual Holiday Food Drive begins on Friday, Dec. 16. Individuals, orga-nizations, schools and the South Central Food Bank will donate nonperishable food items as well as fresh meats, fruits and breads, to the Hazel-Gray Building

at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds.

�e food will be packed and shipped on Saturday, Dec. 17 and delivered by 10:30 a.m. No registration is necessary to volunteer.

“�e event is all volun-teer,” said Ann Triemstra, a long-time volunteer. “It’s 100 percent community and individual based.”

Triemstra said that she

hopes the community will be interested in helping others by giving them a taste of holiday spirit.

“�e Kalamazoo Com-munity Foundation became involved in the food drive not long a�er it began,” said Valerie Mitchell, a commu-nity investment assistant for the Kalama-zoo Communi-ty Foundation.

“Harold West, a former detective for the Kalama-zoo Department of Public Safety, started the event in 1993 and brought together fellow o�cers to feed 40 hungry families.”

�e charity project de-veloped into a citywide event. �e foundation

strives to help all members of the community and that includes helping out those who may not be as fortu-nate as we are.

“Hundreds of organiza-tions, including schools, churches and local busi-nesses all lend a hand,” Mitchell said.

As the semester is drawing to a close, so is the Kalamazoo United Way Campaign. While the committee has not taken a �-nal count, as of Dec. 7, they had reached 96.7 percent of their goal, or $289,970.58.

“I do hope that we reach 100 percent of our goal,” Joseph Re-ish, chair of WMU United Way campaign said. “�e university has raised the goal every year for the past 3 years. Last year our goal was$275,000 and this year we set it at $300,000.”

�is year the committee sent out 4,185 donation cards. �e cards are sent to employees and retirees of the university, and the committee hopes to increase the number of cards that are re-turned each year. �is year, 1356 cards were returned from em-ployees and 227 from retirees.

“Our student participation increased signi�cantly this year,” Reish stated. “We are incredibly grateful to our students for all of their help this year.”

�e students brought in $936 this year which is double of what students contributed last year. Our Western employees raised $244,075.58 and retirees raised $44,801.

“At our wrap-up ceremony, someone mentioned that there are enough children in Kalama-zoo who need support for school meals that they would �ll Waldo Stadium,” Reish said.

Every year the committee

tries to have more outreach into the community. �e committee members make a consistent at-tempt to talk to more people in apartment complexes, business meetings, and other employees. �ere is an incentive for each person who donates $50, and they get entered into a sweep-stakes.

“Our goal is to create a habit in people,” Reish said. “We believe that if people truly understand the community in which they were helping, they will continue to donate on a yearly basis.”

�e next step is taking a mo-ment to send out thank yous to all the donors. Reish plans on creating an individual card and letter to each leadership giver, a donation of $1000 or more, and also an announcement for the other donators.

“I want to thank the univer-sity community for everything they have done,” Reish said. “Money goes a long way. It still lets me know that people are full of generosity and I am so thank-ful for every donation.”

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Kalamazoo charity helps feed the hungryBy Katie TerBergSta� Reporter

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He also compliments President Dunn for taking the immediate and appropriate steps on the issue of safety.

“We just want to make sure we do everything appropriate for our stu-dents, for our faculty, our staff and employees--everyone connected with this outstanding university,” Archer said.

“And I want to thank President Dunn for his quick leadership on this matter.”

Another plan that was passed unanimously was the three year strategic plan.

Presented by Dr. Timothy Greene, the provost and president for aca-demic affairs, Greene described the extensive campus involvement and feedback that went into drafting and reviewing the plan.

“We were charged with creating a plan that will lead to an exciting fu-ture, builds on our historic strengths and is consistent with our mission,” Greene told the eight trustees. “We listened to our constituents, and the strategic plan was built around where constituents of this Univer-sity want to take the University in the coming years.”

The plan has three points that

caters to the vision WMU will be heading towards as an institution of higher learning. The plan also out

lines five broad goals and identifies strategies to achieve each goal. Ad-vancing WMU as a leading global research facilityand ensuring WMU as a diverse, inclusive and healthy community are some of the goals Greene hopes will cater WMU as a leading global research university.

Both Greene and President Dunn described the strategic plan as a short working document that is needed and would not be put away after passage.

“We purposely kept this plan actionable so we can continue to develop, innovate and create as we move forward,” Dunn said.

The plan will be monitored an-nually by the President’s Senior Leadership Team and the appro-priate Faculty Senate body. There will also be reviews and revisions if needed and conducted every three years from the plan made.

Even though the next Board meeting isn’t until the 29th of Feb-ruary, the decisions made in this meeting seem to be ones that can have the most impact on our school campuses.