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Central Michigan University President Bob Davies held a press conference at CMU on Thursday to address the allegations of racial discrimination regarding the elimination of men's track and field. Men's track and field has been the first sport eliminated in one to two decades, according to Davies. Since the elimination of men's track and field, CMU has added men's golf. Competitive men's track and field costs the university $1 million, competitive golf is half of that, according to Davies..... Davies went on to list the races of the 30 track and field students, three black, three multiracial, two international, and...

Central Michigan quarterback John Keller and another student were shot at an apartment complex near campus and hospitalized in serious condition, according to the Detroit Free Press. Keller and the other student, senior Tyler Bunting, were shot early on Saturday morning, university president Bob Davies said. Bunting was initially listed in stable condition, and Keller was listed in serious condition. According to CM Life, the university’s student newspaper, a fight broke out at a party shortly after “several subjects” arrived. Somebody allegedly then went to a vehicle after the fight broke out to retrieve a weapon, and then started shooting...

MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) — Central Michigan University has decided to add two women's sports, saying it's an effort to strengthen sexual equality in athletics. The Mount Pleasant school's trustees voted Thursday to add women's golf in 2014-15 and women's lacrosse in 2015-16.