Students are recycling with hopes of winning FLEX Dollars and pizza.
Residence Life and Facilities Management are working together to run a recycling contest that began Nov. 1 and ends Dec. 12.
Joan Schmidt, the associate director of Residence Life, said each of the 22 residence halls have been divided into pairs of teams.
Michael Sutton said to students Monday night that despite the stereotype, not all homeless people are lazy.
“There are a number of reasons to be in a shelter,” he said.
Students gathered Monday in Warriner Mall for a candlelight vigil for the homeless to kick off Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
Plays written by two CMU students will be performed Thursday and Friday in Moore Hall’s Theater On The Side as part of the One Act Festival.
The festival is sponsored by the Alpha Psi Omega theatrical fraternity.
The event will feature two plays: “Perfect Little Angel,” by Interlochen sophomore Aaron Wineman, and “The Revolution of Policies and Practices by Artie Dallas,” by Portland senior Andrew Lewis.
Gas prices have been changing wildly this year, but police departments say that regardless of whether the price goes up or down, their patrols are mostly unaffected by them.
CMU Police, the Mount Pleasant Police Department and the local State Police Post 33 all said that patrol cars are too vital to safety to let prices affect much business.
Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are scheduled to hold the first of three presidential debates at 9 p.m. Friday at the University of Mississippi.
The candidates are scheduled to discuss issues of foreign policy and national security. The debate will be aired on CBS affiliate WNEM-TV and NBC affiliate WEYI-TV.
Twenty Central Michigan University students will each have five minutes Thursday to present an entrepreneurial idea for a chance to win $500.
Make a Pitch, a contest run by CMU’s LaBelle Entrepreneurial Center, is a part of the College of Business Administration, will be held at 5 p.