Carereciever

Lois sits in her chair at the Lifehouse Prestige Center as she talks about her love for puzzles. They helped her pass the time and kept her mind busy and active for a number of a years before her arthritis set in.

Lois chats with the staff about cleaning her room. Lois has been in a number of homes before, but she says she likes this home the most and that the staff are, "good people."

Lois used to knit blankets, such as the one that she is fiddling with here, before her arthritis kicked into full swing. Lois now is incapable of fully opening up her hands.

Lois sits in the dining area with one of her close friends George for dinner. They often times exchange photos and newspaper clippings of their relatives and topics they find interesting.

Lois and her daughter enjoy a quick visit together to catch up on what's happening in each other's lives. Lois doesn't get many visitors so when her daughter comes, it's a real treat.

Photo Illustration

Senior Lauren Williams demonstrates the humanitarian within as she poses for a photo that represents human trafficking.

7 Deadly Sins

Greed

Gluttony

Envy

Lust

Wrath

Pride

The Game of Life

Jake Dupuis of Mount Pleasant finds comfort in his new home with his roommate Josh Carpenter in a game of Life. Jake's roommates are giving him a place to stay for free until May.

Jake purchases a single soda at Wal-Mart with his Bridge Card. At the age of 26, Jake has been living off of food stamps for the past few years.

(From left) Lauren Lee from Gobles, MI, Tyler Baker of St. Johns, MI take Jake shopping for new clothes and a winter jacket at Goodwill. Before shopping, Jake didn't have a winter coat and only one pair of pants.

Theresa Rashid (left) hands Jake an employment application for Little Caesars on Mission. One of the agreements to living in the house for free is that Jake has to have a job so he can move out when his roommates do in May.

Owner of Woody's Barber Shop, Brian Wood gives Jake a hair cut for free. Brian was asked by a member of his church if he could provide a haircut for Jake because he didn't have a way to pay for one himself.

Jake leaves a note on the door of his father's home in Mount Pleasant. It'd been years since Jake had returned to the house and was looking for his birth certificate.

 

The Game of Life isn’t always so easy for each individual. Some go through more struggles than others and Jake Dupuis is no exception to this circumstance. At the age of 26, Jake has gone through many hardships in his life such as losing his older brother in a car accident, sleeping on park benches after being kicked out of his father’s home years ago, no source of income or any money, and having a son who is a year and five months old and not being able to see him due to restrictions by the court. However, there is a light at the end of every tunnel, and sometimes life deals you a sweet card.

Jake stumbled into a His House service in Plachta Auditorium one Thursday evening at the end of September, found himself being baptized that evening, and the next week was no longer homeless but found refuge in a home of nine Christian college men who took Jake in as a tenth roommate. The guys are allowing Jake to live there rent free, so long as Jake finds a job for employment so that he can support himself (and pay child support) when he moves out like the rest of his roommates in May.

The major set-back is that in order to have a job, you need a place of residency and a form of indentification. Jake has one of those things thanks to the grace of his nine roommates, but can’t acquire a form of ID without his birth certificate; which is at his father’s home. Not the most ideal of situations considering his father and Jake have not spoken for years, nor is Jake welcome in or at the home, providing a small challenge for him and his employment. “If I want any chance of repairing things with my father, I can not just show up to his house,” explained Jake.

So in the meantime and in the midst of his struggles, his roommates have taken Jake in providing literally food, clothing, and shelter for him so that he may have a place to call “home” at the end of the day.

Still Life Photos

A pair of Chuck Taylor High Tops from Converse are strung from a strand of Christmas lights.

 

A red delicious apple carved with a skull appearing beneath the skin to mimic the poison apple of Snow White.

 

A pair of Chuck Taylor High Tops from Converse are strung from a strand of Christmas lights.

Painting with Light

 

Self-portrait completed with the use of a blacklight and an iPod touch

The Art of War

 

5th year ROTC Officer and senior at CMU Callie Kiaunis teaches a class on reading maps properly to National Guard cadets before they leave for basic training. “We train for excellence, not on time,” said Kiaunis .

Putting a twist on gnomes is one of Callie’s current projects, as she places slip coloring onto a garden gnome mold she transformed into a soldier. The name on the helmet is Thayer, the Lieutenant Colonel in Kiaunis ‘ program.

Still in uniform, Callie Kiaunis helps out ceramic professor Greg Stahley in the sculpture studio cut wood to create shelves.

Aside from working with ceramics, as a 3D concentration Callie works with sculpture. Kiaunis inspects her wax sculpture of Xena, the warrior princess after coating it to prepare it for the bronze pour.

Senior Eric Thornton (left) chats it up with Callie Kiaunis (right) in the ceramic area of the North Arts Studio. “I was intimidated when I first met you because I knew you had a bigger penis than me,” joked Thornton.

Callie explains the history and story behind her multiple dogtags tattoo. The one in the foreground was her grandfather’s when he served in Vietnam, whom she never met. Kiaunis had replicas made for the family to remember him by after calling the Military Archives and receiving his information.

The Art of War takes on a whole new meaning when 5th year Army ROTC officer and Central Michigan University B.F.A 3D art student Callie Kiaunis  of Rockford, Michigan comes into discussion. Callie has been an art student  since coming to Central, where you can either find her in the North Arts Studio, or in uniform around Finch. Being “a 5” in the ROTC program gives Kiaunis  a whole different roll in the program. Instead of having to complete drills and tasks as cadets do, Kiaunis now has the responsibility of teaching classes for National Guard cadets prior to basic training as well as evaluating other officers in the classroom. “We train for excellence, not on time,” said Kiaunis.

Callie’s art and her life in the military are very much so intertwined as often her artwork represents the military men and women, and pushing the line of “gender specific artwork”. Callie has a number of wax and bronze pieces of soldiers, and is currently in the process of creating a bronze piece of Xena, the warrior Princess as it is in it’s wax form right now. Aside from that, in the ceramic portion of Kiaunis’ work right now, Callie is creating a series of garden gnomes shaped from a molding she created from her Lieutenant Colonel Thayer’s wife. “She really loves gnomes and asked me to make her a soldier, so I created the mold out of one of her gnomes and made it my boss,” said Kiaunis. She then decided to take it a step further and make the gnomes into a series. Kiaunis started to create an “astro-gnome” within the past week to accompany her soldier. “I really enjoy the pun,” said Kiaunis when describing the piece.

Fashion Assignment

Junior Sarah Milburn of Holland, MI models the color blue in her sundress and cardigan.

Senior Elizabeth Okunrounmu from London, England models her urban wear downtown Mount Pleasant.

Fashion Photo Practice

Victoria Zegler

During class we had more practice with the outdoor lighting equipment to become more familiar with it. Clearly, I was more comfortable with it this time and figured it out a bit more, which was refreshing and encouraging. Not to mention Victoria is a very talented model and really adds to the success of the photograph. The main light used was the strobe with an umbrella and the back light was the sun around 5:20 P.M.

Student Athlete Story

Sophomore Heather Huntley from Rochester, MI cheers at the CMU vs. NIU game on Saturday. This is Huntley's first year on the cheer team.

Huntley gathers around the table in her dining room with her roommates. Huntley lives in The Women's House, a campus house ran through the His House Christian Fellowship for CMU.

Junior Kristen Klenke (left) from Clare, MI chats it up with Heather Huntley at a house dinner Wednesday night. The girls have been roommates for the past two years.

After touchdowns, the cheer squad runs along the side of the field and gives the fans high fives. Heather's boyfriend Senior Joe Vercellino gets painted up for every game in support of Heather and the Chippewas.

Heather's favorite spot for studying is at the UCup, where she goes weekly. Her boyfriend Joe Vercellino joined her this evening and instead of what was to be a study session turned into a Bible study.

Huntley cheers for the Chippewas as the players score a touchdown to add to the final score of the game resulting in a victory for CMU.