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Screaming fans, cripsy fall leaves and football players can only mean one thing. The new new pep rally event, “Paint the Town Brown,” is here. The event, free of charge, will take place on Friday, October 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Arcadia Creek Festival Place in downtown Kalamazoo. Bronco Transit buses will be transporting students from Valley II to the Arcadia Creek Festival Place free of charge beginning
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Campus Classic runs during homecoming By Jake Adams Staff Reporter Designed to bring attention to Western Michigan University’s homecoming, the Campus Classic will bring almost 1800 people together to participate in one of WMU’s races Saturday morning. The “very festive” event will be the 13th annual Campus Classic since 1999, according to Sue Beougher, administrative assistant at the University Relations office. Beougher stated that the Campus Classic is an annual run that was created to bring attention to WMU’s homecoming back when Elson S. Floyd was President of WMU. “Doctor Floyd believed that WMU’s Homecoming was not up to par,” said Beougher. They were challenged to devise something that would bring attention to the campus. “My boss at the time, [Matt Kruz] said let’s try a run; it worked out so we’ve done it ever since,” she said. College and high school stu-
dents, parents and their kids, alumni and the general public, all come to partake in what Beougher explains as something she didn’t fully understand not being an avid runner herself. “Runners enjoy races and enjoy the opportunity to run in something different. I’m glad we have it on campus,” said Beougher. “They all love it, they have a good time and it promotes a healthy environment.” Beougher explained that although the route has been slightly changed due to the construction at Sangren Hall, the lost distance has been made up for in the parking lot by the business college’s Schneider Hall, resulting in a certified 5k course. The first 1k Fun Run and Walk will be held at 8:15 a.m. Beougher says parents can walk with their kids and warm up before the 5k race that follows. After the 5k, runners that are the overall finishers, male and female, receive awards. Top finishers in each of the four team divisions, and top finishers in specific age brackets broken up
between male and female runners can receive prizes as well, according to the Campus Classic web page. Beginning at 8 a.m. in the Ballroom located on the second floor of the Bernhard Center there will be food and refreshments for volunteers and participants. “There will be a brunch after the race courtesy of… Subway, Biggby’s, and WMU Catering,” stated Beougher, explaining the perks of attending the event. The current male and female record holders are Mike Newkirk with a time of 14 minutes and 50 seconds, and Jessi Davis with a time of 16 minutes and 46 seconds, both of which were recorded the Classic’s first year in 1999, according to Beougher. Beougher explained that injuries are seldom seen, but are treated very professionally. There is an ambulance on site, nurses in tents around the campus, and people attending carts at each section to assist the injured. “The event is open to the public and… I’ve sent out fly-
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ers to over 200 schools in a 50 mile radius,” said Beougher. These efforts are intended to increase participation in record proportions. Although events run all this week, the Campus Classic is regarded as one of the biggest, drawing people from all over to join in what Beougher regarded as “enjoyable and healthy.” Here is a homecoming event, a race, one that Beougher compares to others as “not expensive at all… with all these perks, who wouldn’t try it out? Dave Rosell, a retiree who’s had a heart transplant started running late Western Herald File Photo in life and now runs [the Runners turn in front of Wood Hall in Classic] every year,” said the 2010 Campus Classic. Beougher “People start running everyday day Bernhard Center. Check it out, and say, ‘I’m going to try this.” give it a try, and for more information on the race, other regThe latest time to register is istration times, and the cost to the day of the run, 7 a.m. till 8:30 run visit www.wmich.edu/race/ a.m. in rooms 105 and 106 in the registration.
Broncos resume MAC play for homecoming By Chris Willis Staff Reporter
The Western Michigan University football team will kick-off the meat of its Mid-American Conference schedule this Saturday at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo for WMU’s 88th annual Homecoming game. The Broncos (3-2, 1-0 MAC) will host the Bowling Green University Falcons (3-2, 1-0 MAC) in a battle of first place teams of the MAC East/West Divisions. WMU is coming off of the school’s biggest win since the Illinois game in 2008. The Brown and Gold went into UCONN last Saturday and defeated the Huskies, 38-31, to assure an above .500 record heading into MAC play. “It was a huge win,” said WMU
head coach Bill Cubit. “We made it a little more exciting than we probably should have with a couple dropped interceptions, but I just liked the resiliency of the kids and I thought they did a great job.” Last season UCONN won the Big East and was selected to play in the Fiesta Bowl which is a Bowl Championship Series game. UCONN was ranked as high as No. 8 in the nation last season, and wins like this against big name schools give a boost to coach Cubit’s recruiting in upcoming years. “They had 16 starters back from the Fiesta Bowl,” Cubit said. “It’ll be interesting to see how the finish out. I think that was the first time they’ve tried to open it up, because I don’t think that they thought that they could
stick with us.” WMU quarterback Alex Carder was named MAC Offensive Player of the Week, after his school-record 479 yards through the air and five touchdowns last week at Illinois. Carder’s award marked the third straight week that a WMU player was named to that honor this season (Jordan White previous two weeks). Last week, three different WMU receivers eclipsed the 100-yard plateau for only the third time in school history [J. White -173, R. Arnheim -113, C. Ravenell -123]. All are seniors, but Ravenell is an unfamiliar name to most Broncos fans and is now making his presence felt in a big way after surpassing Ansel Ponder on the depth chart. “When it’s man coverage we do kind of light up our eyes a
little bit,” said 5th-year senior Chleb Ravenell. “It’s basically a guaranteed touchdown if you break one tackle. It feels great to be back and just help my team and get us to a MAC Championship.” WMU has faced two ranked Big Ten Schools and one Big East school thus far into the season. A record of 3-2 is respectable in that span and those successes against larger conference athletes could help propel the Broncos down the stretch. WMU will only face MAC opponents for the rest of the 2011 season. “We we’re wearing down a little bit with physical games against [Michigan] and [Illinois], [UCONN],” Ravenell said. “Coach kinda slowed it down in practice and made it more mental.
MAC East leading BGSU invades Waldo Stadium this Saturday at 2pm. WMU beat BGSU, 41-7, last season on the road and coach Cubit is 2-0 against them in his tenure as Bronco head coach. Cubit is 4-2 in homecoming games at WMU, and BGSU is the seventh different opponent he’s faced in as many years at head coach. “This week we’ve got Bowling Green who’s a good football team right now,” Cubit said. “They have an outstanding quarterback and a couple of good wideouts, and defensively a totally different team than we finished up against last year.”
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WMU goes big By Kelly Mason Staff Reporter
After months of planning and scheduling, Homecoming week has arrived and everyone involved has been working non-stop to make this year’s homecoming bigger and better than before. The coordinators for Homecoming 2011 are Danielle Werle and Brian Donahue; the supervisors are Lynnae Stankus and graduate assistant Sarah Hurd. “We have a weekly meeting at the beginning of the week during which we assess what needs to be accomplished that week,” Werle said. “Some weeks are heavier on things like obtaining sponsorships, others include reviewing our competition rules and packet revisions, and others are advertising heavy.” For Homecoming 2011 there is an event for every day of the week. Monday is Qdoba kickoff, Tuesday is the “Yell like Hell,” improvisational skit, Wednesday is WSA Western Wednesday, Thursday is CAB presents: Comedienne Tracey Ashley and Friday consists of the RHA Western Games, the Soapbox Derby and the “Paint the Town Brown” Pep Rally on Friday Night. Saturday consists of The Corral Pep Fest, The Flag Run and the football game against Bowling Green State University to conclude the week. “How could a week dedicated to WMU pride be dull?” Werle said. This year the coordinator and supervisors also attended numerous meetings with Alumnus Relations, as well as other organizations in downtown Kalamazoo in preparation for the Pep Rally Friday Evening.
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Local artists featured at Art Hop a brochure of the event and a map of all the sites can be downloaded online by visiting the Art Hop, an event that is free following webpage: http://www. and open to the public, will be kazooart.org/calendar/pdf/ taking place in downtown Kala- ArtHop_Oct11_web.pdf. mazoo this Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 “Plenty of art varieties will from 5 p.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. de- be on display at this month’s Art pending on business hours. Hop,” Marks said. “From photogThe Arts Council of Greater raphy and paintings to jewelry, Kalamazoo puts on Art Hop four textiles, and even pop-up books times a year in March, June, Oc- on display at the Kalamazoo tober, and December. Art Hop is Book Arts Center, everyone who usually held on the first Friday comes out to this event is sure to of each month. Adrienne Marks, find something of interest.” the artistic coordinator for the Marks said that Kalamazoo Arts Council of Greater Kalama- is well suited for art and thus zoo, said that October’s Art Hop defined as an arts community. “Phenomenal and outstanding artists are put on display through Art Hop, further showing the thriving industry that we have locally. Art Hop also gets people downtown, which is a big business boost for the downtown businesses,” Marks said. A variety of local businesses and surrounding organizations will welcome the people of the community by hosting this year’s Art Hop. These valued commodities will share with visitors the works of local artists as they operWestern Herald File Photo ate business. Jeff Abshear, the director of the Kalamazoo Book is the second largest event; the Arts Center, said that a guest largest event takes place in June. artist from Chicago will have Marks elaborated on how Art letterpress broadsides and popHop collaborates with Down- up books on display during Art town Kalamazoo Ink. “Tradi- Hop. “Shawn Sheehy has a national sites are combined with tional representation as a pop-up retailers downtown to display book artist and having him here lots of artwork, essentially we for Art Hop gives us the chance take over downtown with art,” to bring in more interesting peoMarks said. ple and provide people with perThere will be 56 sites partici- spectives that we don’t necessarpating in Friday’s Art Hop, all ily have locally,” Abshear said. of which will be located in the Abshear also mentioned that downtown area. Marks said that
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Sheehy will be lecturing at Waldo Library in the Special Collections Edwin and Mary Meader Room, Thursday, Oct. 6 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Abshear said this event will further allow the people, specifically the students of Kalamazoo, to gain a perspective on the different varieties of art. The Kalamazoo Valley Museum will feature the Country band Bill Bynum & Co. who will perform from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the first floor lobby. Jen Austin, special events coordinator for the Kalamazoo Valley Museum said that Bill Bynum & Co. was awarded the opportunity to perform because they were the winners of this year’s Fretboard Festival. “Bill Bynum & Co. is a local band, so we’re supporting the locality of Art Hop through keeping it Michigan based with this great band.” Austin said that those who are interested in the Fretboard Festival contest that the museum holds each year will be able to find out more at the museum during Art Hop on Friday. Newman’s Bookshoppe and People’s Co-op of Kalamazoo are two local downtown Kalamazoo businesses that will also have art on display. Sue Jeska, the communications director for Newman’s Bookshoppe said that the store
will have watercolors by local artist Karen Garavali on display. “There will be about 6 to 8 pieces on display throughout the store during Art Hop, and we will be open from 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. for this event.” People’s Food Co-op of Kalamazoo will also be celebrating the works of local artists, because local work has been rendered as a part of their new store. Four pieces will be on display by local artists Lesley Serri, Ladislav Hanka, Gerren Young, and the Open Roads Bike program. “There’s a piece that is a set of bike racks made out of
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By Nathan Palcowski Staff Reporter The first Corral Entertainment Village, held on Sept. 17, was a huge success. Consisting of games, entertainment, and fun for the whole family will happen all over again. The Corral offered events such as free performances by Western Michigan’s best. Free samples of food from Kalamazoo’s five-star restaurants and the Meijer virtual playground for the kids is doing it all over again, on Oct. 8, 2011 during Western Michigan University homecoming football game against Bowling Green.
“The entertainment was great, the food was delicious, and the games and attractions proved to be a hit for all ages,” said Catherine VanDerMaas, the coordinator of the Corral. “We realized that this brand new tradition is one that has the potential to really catch on and become an event that people look forward to when they think about going to a Bronco football game,” said VanDerMaas. The Corral will be coming back on Oct. 8 with some new events to go and see. The department of music and theatre will be putting on a special performance of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Also, the ROTC
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Haunting the D. Terry Williams Theatre for a two-week run, Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” opens the University Theatre Simply Classic Series, Thursday, Oct. 6. Blithe Spirit is a production centered around novelist Charles Condomine who gets more than he bargained for after arranging a séance to gather material for his new book. Director James Daniels is excited to show the audience the amount of laughter and fun this show produces. “[Coward] is a brilliant writer with incredible language and a sense of humor that is absolutely fantastic,” Daniels said. “It is the type of thing you hope that would never happen to you, and it happens to this guy which turns into an entertaining hilarious adventure for the audience.” Unfortunately for Charles Condomine, the spirit of his first wife, accidently summoned by the eccentric Madam Arcati, is determined to sabotage his current marriage, resulting in a comedic and chaotic mess. WMU senior Nora Ulrey plays Ruth Condomine, a very organized and put together character, and thinks this show is definitely one to see. “This show is a funny, classic, faced paced comedy that we do not have right now in society and it is a show that keeps up with our attention span, especially those of students who have a thousand things on their mind,” Ulrey said. “You’re in for a surprise…a hilarious, improbable farce that you definitely need to see” Seating for “Blithe Spirit” is general admission. Tickets are $20, $15 for senior citizens and WMU employees, $5 for WMU students and $10 for all other students and are available by calling (269) 387-6222, online at wmutheatre. com, or by visiting the Gilmore Theatre Complex or Miller Auditorium ticket offices.
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