CMU Vice President of Government Relations, Kathy Wilbur will be assuming the role of Interim President on July 1 when Michael Rao steps down. Wilbur told an audience Tuesday that she plans to continue going forward with the plans Michael Rao has made.

            Wilbur told the audience that she would continue fundraising for CMU, something that President Rao continues to do. She also said she supports Rao’s sustainability, or green, initiatives on campus and that everyone should do it despite a lack of interest in Lansing.

            The medical school program will continue as expected under Wilbur, which came under some criticism on Tuesday by students and faculty. However, Wilbur told an audience that she felt it was the right thing to do at this time.

            Wilbur told the crowd that in the past information about the medical school has not been as public as it should have been, but she hopes to correct that and apologized.

            One thing she said was she wants to keep interest in CMU growing and prevent enrollment from going down.

When asked how to keep enrollment growing Wilbur said, “ The elimination of the CMU promise was tough I believed it helped with enrollment.”

She said that it might not be necessary to bring back the CMU promise but maybe something else. Wilbur said that one strategy might be better partnership with community colleges and more utilization of the deans and faculty.

Wilbur confirmed on Tuesday that as the search goes on for a more permanent president that she will stay on and be one of those candidates.

Wilbur, will be the first woman president at CMU and has recently been inducted into the Woman’s Michigan Hall of Fame. She has worked for the state in Lansing for 12 years and has been the head of three different departments.

She graduated from MSU with a bachelor of arts in journalism and a minor in political science.

Clinton working with Israel proposes Palestinian self-government, she proposes a seperate state. Israel Prime Minister, Nenyamin Bentanyahu has said he believes in self-goverance but has not voiced support for the seperate state issue.

Here is my problem, I believe Palestine deserves to be seperated from Israel, I agree with this decision and I support it. I believe Israel has every right to defend their country but I also believe Palestine has every right to want to fight the Israelis as well.

After reading books like Palestine by Joe Sacco and having friends who are Arabic I think I can grasp the situation over their a little bit better than most.

Israel took over a country after World War II, not on their own merits but instead was given it by foreign governments outside the Middle East. However, here lies the problem, upon receiving this land Israel has done nothing but terrorized the people of Palestine.

They have placed unfair trade restrictions on Palestinian goods, attempted to invade Lebanon on several occasions, and have been caught possibly using illegal munitions against Arabs.

Israel has unfairly committed crimes against people simply because they can. That is not to say that Palestine has not done its own fair share of injustices, but much of it seems to largely been in response to the conduct of Israel.

Any country has the right to defend themselves, but perhaps Israel a city-state should look at why an entire region of the world hates them and then look to correct that. A seperation of Israel and Palestine is the best possible solution for the two, yet Israel refuses.

Lives are being lost in Gaza why can’t people put territorial issues to rest and simply agree to this seperation.

Facing an economy that is seeing an all time high in unemployment the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe remains strong and looking to expand their enterprise.

            Public Relations Manager of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Frank Cloutier has big plans for expanding the tribe’s enterprise. With ideas and building projects that include: strip malls, clubs, theme restaurants, sports centers, grocery stores and even a hotel chain, Cloutier believes that the time is right to expand.

            “Were on the cusp right now of going on a major expansion,” Cloutier said.

            However, Cloutier made it clear that the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe is facing it’s own hardships as well and that people can see where the state of Michigan’s economy is at by observing the casinos. Cloutier said that everyone is being affected and people are simply not spending the same amount of money in the Casino as they used too.

            “People are coming through the door with a $20 bill instead of a $100 one,” said Cloutier describing the way the economic crisis has hit the tribe’s casinos.

            But that hasn’t stopped the tribe’s expansion told Cloutier, the Saganing Eagles Landing Casino was opened in Standish back in 2007. Cloutier said the project was supposed to take about 17 months but they managed to get it done in seven.
            Looking to not only create new businesses for the tribe Cloutier has said that the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe has been purchasing smaller businesses as well that can be grown and developed.

            Describing the success of the tribe Cloutier mentioned that there are 22 casinos in the state of Michigan and that to remain number one the tribe has to be ever changing and growing.

            “[It’s] not about bashing the competitor, just doing a better job,” said Cloutier

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Facing an economy that is seeing an all time high in unemployment the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe remains strong and looking to expand their enterprise.

            Public Relations Manager of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Frank Cloutier has big plans for expanding the tribe’s enterprise. With ideas and building projects that include: strip malls, clubs, theme restaurants, sports centers, grocery stores and even a hotel chain, Cloutier believes that the time is right to expand

According to Parker Nanyang Technological University ranks as one of the top 50 best universities in the world, it ranks somewhere between 38-48 Parker told a class of journalism students at Central Michigan University.

Not only do students get an opportunity to study at a elite university they also get a chance to travel all over Asia as well. With cheap plane fair a student can travel to nearby countries Thailand, India and Japan, and if they feel particularly interested can pay $200 to visit Australia.

Students who feel that they may be ‘lost in translation’ need not worry because Singapore has a very technologically advanced society and many of the people there speak English perhaps even better than the students themselves.

” If you want to be embarrassed go somewhere like Singapore where they learned English and you sort of picked it up and have someone correct it. ” Parker told the class

Chapter 4 Summary
Chapter four talks about the importance of verification and what it means. Essentially it is a journalist’s duty to be able to verify the facts that are present and to report truthfully and honestly. If a journalist is questioned about his facts it is important that they know where they got they’re facts and where to go get them at. A journalist is to become objective in they’re reporting as well eliminating all biases that may exist. Modern day journalists think this is next to impossible since everyone has their own individual biases. However, it is these biases that gave way to the idea of objectivity; it was a way to bring legitimacy to a paper and force journalists to be honest in their reporting.