Central Michigan Life

Speaking up

After years and years of teasing students by listing the classes in the schedule books but never allowing registration, CMU finally added Chinese language classes to the curriculum. CMU first offered Mandarin (or, as Chinese call it, standard Chinese) in fall 2001 and stopped in May 2002.

Wealth

Large chunk of budget money goes toward students' financial aid

As the nation's wealthiest universities find themselves under fire from legislators, CMU seems to have a fair amount of money going to those who need it most - students. The Senate Finance Committee is dangling a mandate requiring 5 percent of university endowments to go toward financial aid.