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Students showcase creativity at art exhibition

The Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition presents four students and their original artworks now through May 3 at the Center for the Visual Arts Main Gallery.

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Rockets baseball team to face off against Dayton

UT baseball team will compete against Dayton Wednesday afternoon at Scott Park.

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““How would you feel if you couldn’t listen to your jams in the morning, or groove through a working lunch, or unwind at the end of the day with your tunes?”

IC EDITORIALCan’t stop the music

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FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

UT MEDICAL CAMPUS

Provost 1 of 3 finalists for job in Akron

HUMANE SOCIETY

By IC Staff

University of Toledo Pro-vost Scott Scarborough was announced Tuesday as one of the three finalists for the position of president for the University of Akron.

Each of the finalists will spend a day on Akron’s campus for interviews, ac-cording to the Akron Beacon Journal. They will also meet with seven groups, including trustees, faculty, students and the public.

Scarborough’s interview day is scheduled for next Wednes-day, April 30. His open forum — which the public may attend — is from 3 to 4 p.m. in the UA Student Union Theatre.

The other finalists are Jim Tressel, executive vice presi-dent for student success at the University of Akron, and Ronald Nykiel, provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Md.

Scarborough has been UT’s main campus provost since 2012. He first came to UT in 2007 as a senior vice presi-dent for finance and admin-istration, then in 2010 moved to the University of Toledo Medical Center, where he was senior vice president and executive director.

Adopt-a-Pet to help ease stress of finalsBy Destiny WashingtonStaff Reporter

Students will be given an opportunity to put down their books and pet a puppy April 24 during the University of Toledo’s Adopt-a-Pet Study Break.

This event — which has been a joint op-eration between UT’s Student Government, Commuter Services, and the Toledo Area Humane Society — will be held in Centennial Mall from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.

SG vice president Lauren Jencen believes this event will be both informational and relaxing.

“This Adopt-a-Pet Study Break will give students a chance to learn about fostering ani-mals from the Toledo Area Humane Society, while also giving them a break from study-ing,” Jencen said.

The Humane Society’s website says they are a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve the quality of life for the animals and

people in the community. Their services cater to more than 4,000 animals each year.

Nicholas McCullough, a second-year criminal justice major and SG senator, said he also believes that this event will help ease tension for a lot of students on campus.

“Finals week can be very stressful for anyone no matter what situation they’re in,” McCullough said. “This adopt-a-pet program will allow students to relax and interact with loving and caring animals.”

Jencen said she believes simply being around animals that are carefree and should relieve the stress students are experiencing during this time of year.

“Dogs are so cute and happy,” Jencen said. “How can you be stressed around a loving and perfect animal?”

By Amanda PitrofAssociate News Editor

Carlson Library closed Tuesday – and was to remain closed Wednesday morning – due to flooding.

The flooding in the library basement resulted from failed sewer pumps. Restrooms were rendered unusable and a strong odor permeated the first floor of the library Tuesday evening.

Tamika Mitchell, the Dean for the Student Experience, said there was to be a meeting Wednesday morning with the facilities

team. Both the progress of the cleanup and options for students will be discussed.

“[We are] looking at late hours, computer lab accessi-bility, space for group meet-ings and for students to be able to study individually,” Mitchell said. “This is also a priority because we’re at the end of the semester.”

With finals coming up, there is concern over the li-brary being closed; Mitchell said they will do whatever they can to meet the stu-

Backed-up sewage closes Carlson library

Simulation Center opens

By Joshuah HamptonStaff Reporter

The University of Toledo cut the ribbon Tuesday, April 22, on its three-story, 65,000-square-foot Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center on UT’s Health Science Campus.

The simulation center con-tains a virtual Immersive Reality Center that features the first five-

sided, seamless, LED iSpace in the world, as well as one large 3D interactive wall and two smaller ones.

Executive Director of the Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center Pamela Boyers said the simulation center allows students to practice necessary skills and team training.

“We want our healthcare

professionals to work in teams for quite a bit of time before they graduate, which is why we have virtual hospital environments just for team training,” Boyers said.

The Advanced Clinical Simula-tion Center on the second floor includes simulated hospital rooms, an intensive care unit,

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INSIDE

NICOLE BADIK / ICMisty Sternberg, a volunteer for the Sim Center, and Shuhao Qiu, a fourth-year biology informatics Ph.D. student, practice laparoscopy using new technology. The Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center had the ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, April 22.

NICOLE BADIK / ICAdopt-a-Pet Study Break will take place at Centennial Mall on April 24 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. See Adopt-a-Pet / A6 »

See Sim Center / A6 »

SCARBOROUGH

SAMANTHA RHODES / ICFlooding in the basement of Carlson Library is shown Tuesday night. The library was to remain closed Wednesday morning.

In last week’s story titled “SG votes to back marriage equality,” we incorrectly reported the names of Ronald Tallon and Nicholas McCullough. We also incorrectly reported that Lauren Jencen voted on the resolution. As vice-president she was unable to vote.

In the April 2 story “UTMC to regain family residency program” we incorrectly reported the name of Robert McGinnis. We regret these errors.

CORRECTION

See Flooding / A6 »

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This week in UT history

10 years ago: A black Jeep Wrangler was hit by a train while traveling south from McComas Village toward the Transportation Center. The collision occurred when the Wrangler attempted to beat the train across the railroad tracks. The train was traveling through campus at about 10 mph.

30 years ago: ”Get ac-tive!” was the message from activist Abbie Hoffman on Thursday to an enthusiastic audience of about 300 in the Ingman Room. “We need young people in the United States to shatter complacen-cy,” he said. “Don’t become part of the problem, become part of the solution.” Hoff-man’s record proves that he is willing to fight the system. He was arrested 42 times for miscellaneous reasons. He has 20,000 pages of FBI files.

NICOLE BADIK / IC

Solar powered funStudents from B.O.S.E.F (Building Ohio’s Sustainable Energy Future) stand next to the solar powered golf cart they rebuilt. This was one of the exhibits displayed in Centennial Mall on Earth Day, April 22. This Earth Day marked its 44th anniversary.

STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

J. Reuben Clark Law SocietyPurpose: The J.

Reuben Clark Law Society is a group of over 7,500 at-torneys, law school graduates and law students through-out the world who support religious conviction, public service and profes-sional excellence in the study and practice of law.

Leaders: The University of Toledo chapter of the JRCLS is led by the president: Scott Miller.

Upcoming events: We invite members to join the extensive JRCLS network. As a member you can create an online profile and post your résumé for other members to view, and you gain access to the profiles of registered members, including legal practitioners, judges, public officials and scholars throughout the U.S. These members are usually happy to mentor law students and prospective law students.

Learn more: For more information, contact Scott Miller at [email protected], or visit the JRCLS website at www.jrcls.org.

How are you preparing for finals?

“I have a lot of re-search papers due, and that’s my prima-ry focus. Finals I’m going to worry about after my research papers, book reports and things like that.”

“Getting a good night’s sleep—that always helps so you can be alert and aware during your finals.”

“I don’t really have a bunch of finals. All of my work is done through papers.”

“A lot of studying and going to the library almost every day and night—which requires a lot of Starbucks.”

Alec PerdeauFourth-year

History

Jadale Cummings Fifth-year

Social work

Aleksandr Martinez Fourth-year

Law and social thought Molly ParsonsFourth-year

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IN BRIEF

Student Appreciation Day to take place April 23

The Office of the Se-nior Vice President for the Student Experience will host the third annual University of Toledo Student Appreciation Day April 23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Centennial Mall.

Free food will be provided and a raffle will be held for prizes including free parking for a semester and lunches with UT administrators.

Games and other activi-ties will also take place at the event.

Marcy Kaptur to speak about health care April 23

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur will be at the Uni-versity of Toledo April 23 to speak about the Affordable Care Act.

UT’s Medical Student Eth-ics Club will host Kaptur at noon in the Health Education Building Room 110 on the UT Health Science Campus.

Kaptur represents Ohio’s Ninth Congressional District and will speak about the health-care law and how it will affect students as future clinicians.

Limited refreshments will be provided to students on a first-come, first-served basis.

UT Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society to hold initiation ceremony April 26

The University of Toledo Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi will hold its initiation ceremony for new members Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. in the Student Union.

More than 75 undergradu-ate and graduate students and three UT faculty mem-bers will be inducted into the honor society this year.

In order to qualify for initiation, inductees had to be among the top students as juniors, seniors or in their graduate program.

William S. Messer, UT vice president for research, will present the keynote address.

In addition to inducting new members, the soci-ety will honor three $500 scholarship winners who were selected based upon academic performance, an essay and letters of rec-ommendation from faculty members. These winners include Elizabeth Cummins, a fourth-year majoring in speech language pathology; Samuel Park, a fourth-year majoring in applied math-ematics, and LaVelle Ridley, a third-year double major-ing in English literature and Africana studies.

In addition to the under-graduate and graduate students who will be inducted into the honor society, three UT faculty members will also be inducted. These faculty members include Page Armstrong, a lecturer in the Honors College; Ronald Opp, associate professor of educational leadership; and Susan Purviance, professor of philosophy.

For more information, con-tact UT Chapter Phi Kappa Phi President Wade Lee, associate professor of library administration, at 419-530-4490. UT Mock trial team looking for new members

The UT Collegiate Mock Trial Team, a part of the Legal Studies Program, is looking for members to join.

The team offers network-ing opportunities and the ability to practice public speaking and develop pre-sentation skills. Competitive acting opportunities are also available as the team com-petes at other universities.

Members will gain trial procedural experience as well as numerous university involvement experiences.

For more information, contact [email protected] or [email protected].

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Annual event to protest violence against women

FACULTY SENATE

Faculty Senate elects leaders, discusses courses By Torrie JadlockiStaff Reporter

Elections of a new executive board, approval of three new courses and the vice provost’s report were some of the topics covered Tuesday, April 22, at the final Faculty Senate meeting of the semester.

Karen Hoblet, an assistant profes-sor in the College of Nursing, was elected before the meeting to replace Linda Rouillard as president. The remaining positions on the execu-tive board were voted on during the meeting. The results are:

• Kristen Keith, associate professor of economics, as vice president and president-elect.

• Lucy Duhon, university library chairperson and associate professor, as executive secretary.

• Mary Humphrys, associate pro-fessor of business technology, as the University of Toledo representative to the Ohio Faculty Council.

• Fred Williams, associate profes-sor of pharmacy, and Marlene Porter, instructor, director for outreach, and assessment, grants and development liaison, as at-large representatives to the Health Science Campus.

• Scott Molitor, associate professor of bioengineering, and Mike Dowd, associate professor and chair of economics, as main campus at-large representatives.

Faculty Senate later approved three new courses, one education and two English, which may be added to the course catalog by this fall, according to Hoblet.

The new courses include “Think-ing, Knowing, and Learning, “Play-writing” and “Writing in the Com-munity.”

Vice Provost John Barrett also presented a report to the senate that discussed a state initiative to lower the required amount of credit hours to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from 124 to 120.

“It’s not that we don’t have the au-thority to approve the 120 [hours],” Hoblet said. “We haven’t had enough time to analyze the 120-hour minimum to see if that will serve our students well in terms of quality education.”

The wording and content of the report caused a debate within the senate. Barrett’s report laid out the plan to propose this change to the board of trustees. The provost’s of-fice was under the impression the faculty senate “lacked the authority” to make the change.

Faculty Senate also discussed add-ing classes to UT’s core curriculum.

The senate elected to give pro-visional approval to the proposed courses, which the core curriculum council will debate Friday.

According to Hoblet, senate will vote on the new courses in the fall, “to dot the ‘I’.”

By Samantha RhodesManaging Editor

This year’s Take Back the Night, an event that addresses and protests all forms of vio-lence against women, will take place Saturday, April 26, on Scott Park Campus.

Doors will open at 6 p.m. and the main programs will begin at 7 p.m.

TBTN is celebrating its 20th year of raising awareness in the Toledo area, and this event is part of Sexual As-sault Awareness Month, which is sponsored by UT’s Sexual Assault Education and Preven-tion Program.

Alcy Barakat, a TBTN vol-unteer and graduate student in the Department of Pub-lic Health and Preventative Medicine, said that although hitting the 20-year bench-mark for protesting violence against women is good, the fact that the problem still exists in Toledo is the reason why there is still a need for the event.

“We are celebrating 20 years of a collective of women fight-ing for the end of violence against women,” Barakat said. “This also means, however, that there is still a need for this event 20 years later, as domes-tic and sexual violence still plague our city.”

Barakat said that this year’s program focuses on a call to action for the city, to see “where we go from here in addressing this issue going forward.”

Displays during the event will include the Clothesline Project, where decorated shirts are hung for women affected by violence, serving as a testimony to the problem, as well as the Silent Witness Project, which is a global ac-tivist movement commemorat-ing women whose lives were violently ended by a partner or acquaintance.

“This event is a safe and uplifting space for survivors of sexual assault and rape

to come as they are, be ac-cepted, heard, and to receive well over due validation of their journey to survive and thrive,” Barakat said.

Barakat considers this an “electric TBTN season,” as she said many organizing collective members have been doing this kind of work since the very first event as well as students and others who have been active mem-bers for years.

“It is a rewarding and hum-bling experience to be a part of this diverse collective of Toledo women,” Barakat said.

For those who need rides to Scott Park Campus, a free shuttle will leave the UT Trans-portation Center at 5:30 p.m. and will return to Main Campus at approximately 11 p.m. Free child care also will be provided at the event.

Barakat urges every UT

student to check out this year’s TBTN because it is an issue that is important to respect due to the number of women whose lives have been impacted by violence.

“Whether you are a survivor, know someone who is, or just want to see what the event is about, I would encourage ev-eryone to come,” Barakat said. “Like we say, you never know who a survivor is: a mother, sister, friend, neighbor, teacher — anyone. Survivors are thriving all around us, and it is important to respect their stories and experiences, as well as recall the lives lost to such violence.”

For more information about Sexual Assault Awareness Month and Take Back the Night, visit utoledo.edu/stu-dentaffairs/saepp, toledotake-backthenight.org or facebook.com/TBTNToledo.

COURTESY OF ALCY BARAKATStudents from last year’s Take Back the Night event protest violence against women by coming together and holding signs. This year’s event is celebrating its 20th year of raising awareness in the Toledo area.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SG finishes business and elects new members to serve the UT student bodyBy Amanda Pitrof Associate News Editor

Student Government met Tuesday in what was the last meeting with former president and vice presi-dent Emily Kramp and Lauren Jencen at the helm. Among the topics discussed at the meeting were:

• All six candidates for the student trustee position were approved to be sent to administra-tion, which will ultimately send finalists to the governor for a selection.

• Emily Kramp announced that the city council is looking into making SG’s bike share program a

city-wide initiative.• A resolution promoting renovation of the

outside staircase on the south side of Parks Tower passed unanimously.

• A resolution supporting the installation of exercise equipment along the bike path passed.

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at 7 p.m.Sponsored by: UT’s

Sexual Assualt Education and Prevention Program.

Senators for 2014-15• Joel Robbins, senator at large• Smaran Bhaktawara, elected senator • Joshua Breidenbach, elected senator• Ezinwa Omodon (Tracy), senator at large• AnaPatricia Marquez, senator at large• Jacob Torres, senator at large• Robert Worthington, elected senator• Benjamin Lynn, senator at large• Mahbod Pourriahi, senator at large• Nick Stanley, senator at large• Eric Skaggs, senator at large• Michael Peachock, elected senator• Ronald Tallon, elected senator • Shannon Connelly, elected senator• Nick McCullough, elected senator• Samuel Duling, elected senator• Trisha Khambadkone, elected senator• Katie Smith, senator at large

• Eric DiBell, elected senator• Cody Spoon, elected senator• Maria Antonescu, elected senator

Committee chair appointments

• Cody Spoon, Internal Affairs Chair• Trisha Khambadkone, External Affairs

Chair• Maria Antonescu, campus affairs• Eric DiBell, student affairs

Secretaries • Katie Smith, legislative secretary• Shannon Connelly, recording secretary

NICOLE BADIK / ICEmily Kramp stands at the podium for the last time at Tuesday night’s SG meeting.

Lot 10 will be closed Friday through SundayLot 10 will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday through 4 p.m. Sunday due to the Glass City Marathon.Other parking lots will be closed from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, and Lot 4 on Douglas Road will be closed.Traffic will not be allowed on or near Stadium drive, and East Rocket Drive will be closed between Douglas Road

and South Towerview Boulevard. Traffic will be allowed into Lots 25 and 28.

It has taken me some time to realize that I can’t keep putting life on hold in order to continue my education. It is something that I will work hard for, that I want for myself, but not something I should allow myself to use as a way to continue living inside myself. I love the woman I am, and the balance being alone creates for my vibe, but I can no lon-ger use this as a way to avoid relationships with people. I have to be more deliberate in my presence; it ultimately leads to me being delib-erate in who I am.

The event that put ev-erything into focus for me was the Asia Project. It was an event that was put on by Campus Activities and Program-ming and DEEP (Developing Empow-ering Enhancing Poets) Poetry Society, in which we opened for a nationally recognized poet, Asia Samson.

He spoke words that showed adora-tion and appreciation for nature — words that spoke to what love is made for. Most of all, he shared with us a story about his journey into the person he is today.

He shared with us his battle with ter-minal cancer, and the promise he made to himself in surviving this battle. He decided that he had to be happy, that he had to spend the rest of his life being present in the moment, and taking in the blessings that every day brings. He had decided to live “deliberately,” as Henry David Thoreau would say.

With this decision, his life was placed in God’s hands and he was able to be free. Free from the day-to-day routine conventions that life tended to place upon him. Free from conforming and simply existing. He was able to take a step back and realize what life was real-ly made of. He quit his job in corporate America and began to take his words

more seriously, and now he travels all across the country sharing who he is in order to inspire other people.

One of those people happened to be me. He moved me in a way that

I haven’t been moved before. His words gave me life and altered my

complacency. He made me regret my timidity, the way I rationalize myself out of doing things and the way I

approach new rela-tionships. He made me scared of not living, more so than my fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.

I broke down in that theater because it felt

so good to feel something, something refreshing and powerful, a renewed sense of purpose for myself and my path. It had been such a long time since I had been able to feel something other than hurt, anger, or pain. The energy in that place was amazing all around. Everyone felt it.

I had felt like leaving before my performance, but thankfully stayed. I almost left to the comfort of my own bed to fall into the worries that tend to pick at my confidence when I can’t sleep at night. I was in the bathroom practicing, and all I could think about was things that had gone wrong that week. I felt especially vulnerable that day, and had been going through a series of ups and downs, creating a cloud of depression over just about everything I did. I had felt really anxious and nervous, almost to the point of hiding. It’s not something I go through too often, but sometimes I get to a place emotionally where I need to be away from people, away from any type of interaction. It’s a place that I try to stay away from, where I can only think of the bad and feel life’s pains.

In my quest to be one of the people

who live in the moment and appreciate the things around me, I have set some goals for myself.

I walk a little slower when I’m traveling through campus to enjoy the breeze, feel of the sun or comprehend the beauty of simply being.

I wake and meditate before mov-ing in order to instill some sense of peace and calm within myself as I take on the day.

If at night I get carried away in writing, reading or discovering new music, I let it consume me. I don’t worry about needing to be asleep at a certain time in order to wake up and complete my routine.

I have come to realize that passion is sometimes something that consumes you, and you can use it to create beauti-ful things. So I let it.

I didn’t understand the passion of being a writer until I couldn’t sleep at 5 a.m. because I had a story coursing through my fingertips, until I was able to let myself go with a pen. I had none of the boundaries that the university classrooms tend to impose but, real raw feeling being put down for people to relate to. In writing I have been able to find my balance, my peace, and my freedom. It has opened up so many doors for me that have allowed for me to use my passion to counter the stress that school tends to place upon you.

In coming to this turning point in my life, I feel deeply that we as people are meant to be here to touch one another. We are here to help others, inspire others and love each other. You have not fulfilled your purpose if you haven’t positively affected the life of someone else.

Seeing the Asia Project that night changed my life and shook me out of not just moving, but living. By living I mean deliberately being, intention-ally feeling and ultimately allow-ing myself to leave knowing I have purpose here.

Tiara Green is a fifth-year majoring in English.


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EDITORIAL

COMMENTARY

COMMENTARY

Can’t stop the music

We need to balance life with living

Medicare’s flawed reimbursement structure

Editorials appearing on this page represent the consensus view of the editorial staff. Columns and letters to the editor reflect the opinions

of their authors, not those of The Independent Collegian.

EDITORIAL BOARDSamuel DerkinAmanda Pitrof

Amanda EggertSamantha Rhodes

Jared HightowerMorgan Rinckey

Earlier this month, Medicare, for the first time in its nearly 50-year existence, released compre-hensive data on the compen-sation paid out to health care provid-ers in 2012. The data has shown that nearly 2 percent of provid-ers accounted for about a quarter of Medicare’s non-commercial payments — small clinics and family doctors. That quar-ter figure translates into $15.1 billion, enough to fund the city of Toledo’s 2014 proposed budget 61 times. While these numbers may seem staggering, there are many misconceptions that people can draw from this data. A superficial look at the data

suggests doctors are using Medi-care as a source of personal gain.

There are undoubtedly doc-tors taking advantage of the

system — The New York Times reported on two of them, Doctors Salomon Melgen and Asad Qamar, who both are from Florida. These two topped

the list of Medicare reimbursements issued in 2012, and upon looming fed-eral investigations, both made political contributions, which preceded the ces-

sation of these federal inquiries. However, two rotten apples cannot be used to generalize an entire field. Rather, the target of any belief of Medicare fraud lies more justly on pharmaceuticals.

The New York Times provides an online database where a user can access information on a physi-cian’s Medicare payments from 2012. However, this information is a lump sum figure, reflect-ing total reimbursements, which could include everything from latex gloves used to medication administered during a visit. And while latex gloves represent pen-nies in total cost, some in-office treatments administered during visits can amount to thousands of dollars, from cancer therapy to multiple sclerosis treatment. These are tacked onto the total reim-bursements health care providers receive, which artificially inflate their compensation numbers, while these payments are ulti-mately ending up in the hands of pharmaceuticals.

The problem lies in the design of Medicare; while Medicaid has a rebate program with pharmaceu-

ticals, Medicare Part B lacks this same type of structure. Thus, there is no incentive for pharmaceuticals to develop cheaper drugs. Fur-thermore, using the same drug for different treatments has substantial cost differences.

In the case of the drugs used to treat macular degeneration— Avastin and Lucentis — according to a 2012 Department of Health and Human Services report, there is a dichotomy in reimbursement depending on the drug. Avastin has a reimbursement rate of 53 percent above physician acquisi-tion cost, $55 and $26 respective-ly; while Lucentis has a reim-bursement rate of 5 percent above physician acquisition cost, $2,024 and $1,928 respectively.

What these reimbursement dif-ferences and the overwhelming trove of Medicare data represent is a systematically flawed reimburse-ment structure that inherently

fosters abuse. There is no doubt that our health care system is flawed; however, these flaws typi-cally lie out of Medicare, residing with insurers, pharmaceuticals and large health care systems that collectively outspent “big oil” on the lobbying front over the last decade. The disappointing part is Medicare’s inadvertent fueling of a system that views patients as an income source rather than as people with problems. It should be obvious that the notion of a healthcare overhaul should begin with Medicare. And this over-haul should not be in the form of vouchers or caps; rather, it should be in reimbursement rates, more stringent oversight and incentives. As long as Medicare continues to overcompensate it will remain a target of abuse. Until then, Medi-care only has itself to blame.

Hassan Saleh is a biomedical sci-ence master’s student.

HASSAN SALEHIC COLUMNIST

TIARA GREENIC COLUMNIST

What if the board of trustees banned music? Not just loud music—that's already a nuisance to anyone who isn't listen-ing. What if no devices that could make music were allowed on campus, period—no boom boxes, no radios, not even a handheld MP3 player.

Boom boxes and radios are pretty obvious choices to ban. After all, anyone nearby will hear them whether they're listen-ing or not.

But even the quiet music makers are banned, too. Handheld MP3 players don't bother anyone else when they're used prop-erly. But it doesn't matter. Banned.

How would you feel if you couldn't listen to your jams in the morning, or groove through a working lunch, or unwind at the end of the day with your tunes?

How would you feel if you lived on campus and the near-est place you were allowed to listen to music was across any of four dangerous roads? Would you walk all the way to the corner to cross the street or would you just jaywalk?

The only allowed options would be to either walk a city block off campus just to rock out, or walk around to the back of dorms and sneak it when no one's watching.

Of course you would ignore the music ban and rock out anyway: who's going to stop you? In fact, by even trying to ban music, more people are playing it in protest.

It's not very hospitable to ban something so many people use every day. People live here, and music is part of their lives and their culture. How can we expect residents who like to listen to music to live without music?

This is supposed to be their home. Now they aren't able to live their life in a way that is familiar to them.

The music ban will make it so students are unable to com-fortably follow their lifestyle, so what incentive is there to choose to live on campus?

There would be no reason, no desire to live on campus. Enrollment would almost certainly decline as students who have little choice but to live on-campus choose easier, music-allowing abodes.

If this doesn't sound familiar now, it will soon. Just replace boom boxes and radios with cigarettes, and MP3 players with vaporizers and chewing tobacco.

Some things shouldn’t be over-regulated

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The semesters I have been writing at the Inde-pendent Collegian have been long, but definitely a joyous experience. I graduate this year so I will not be back to write for the IC anymore; however, I am sure other students will step up on campus and keep spread-ing the word.

It’s really kind of funny; I only began to write because I disliked the liberally-slanted opinion columns in the IC, and so I wrote in to refute them. I wrote because if a lie or falsehood is written about, and not publicly denounced, people then view it as true. It’s not the IC’s fault that many of their opinion columnists write liberal columns, but more conservative and libertarian students need to spread their voices on campus.

The IC can only publish columns that are submit-ted and many liberty lovers on campus don’t use their time writing columns. However, the people who choose to use their time writing opinion columns are often Obama fans and big government bullies.

It’s time conservatives and libertarians on this campus stand up and say something because they are in fact the silent majority. The majority of college students are fiscally conservative and want civil liberties, but many college students do nothing about it. Ed-mund Burke said it once like this, “The only thing necessary for the tri-umph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

When good, liberty-

loving men and women do nothing, tyranny prevails and liberty is lost.

This is a call for all you liberty-loving men and woman to do something about it. Everyone should be motivated to submit articles pertaining to freedom and liberty or join the Young Americans for Liberty to show your support.

The great liberty lover Ron Paul is a great ex-ample of a normal person promoting their beliefs. Ron didn’t set out to

become a congressman, and in fact had very little intention of becoming one. He just stood up and spoke his mind. According to his personal account, he ran for Congress to have a larger platform for the liberty message and he wound up winning.

Now we all don’t have to become members of Congress, chapter presi-dents or even politicians, but we do all need to stand up. If we don’t, then we are silenced. It is time the liberty lovers on this campus stand up and say enough is enough with big government.

Please join the liberty movement on campus by joining the Young Ameri-cans for Liberty on cam-pus or by engaging with me directly on Twitter @RonJohnsOH. If you’re willing, I am sure you’ll be able to help.

Ron Johns’ is a fourth-year double majoring in market-ing and entrepreneurship.

RON JOHNSIC COLUMNIST

NICOLE BADIK / ICRon Johns rolls a fake cigarette on Feb. 24 in protest against the tobacco ban. This is just one of the events The Young Americans for Liberty organized on campus this past school year.

It’s time to support your political beliefs

COMMENTARY


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dents’ needs.“We have to do that,” she

said. “And we will do that.”Mitchell said important

information from the meeting would be given to the students as quickly as possible.

trauma suite, operating room and a labor and de-livery room. There are also pediatric and ambulatory rooms.

The third floor consists of a Progressive Anatomy and Surgical Skills Center, which features several surgical skills suites with numerous stations and advanced pro-cedural skills training labs.

Boyers said that the center is not just for UT medical students, but is intended as a place for all healthcare pro-fessionals to take advantage of and utilize.

“All of this amazing tech-nology at this center is not limited to studying medi-cine; modeling and simula-tion are used extensively in other industries such as oil and gas, manufacturing and aviation,” Boyers said. “It is a safe place for all healthcare professionals to practice taking care of patients while they are in training.”

Boyers said the main goal and purpose are associated with the training offered by the new center.

“Our goal is to provide the best possible education and training so that patients are the beneficiaries of the safest, highest quality and cost-effective care,” Boyers said. “This goal will help improve patient safety and improve healthcare con-tributions. Simulation has been shown to reduce errors and improve outcomes so this will definitely be great for students.”

UT President Lloyd Jacobs

said students will benefit from having access to this advanced technology and will be able to get ahead in the medical world as a result.

“Academic medical centers are expected to be on the leading edge when it comes to integrating technology into curriculum,” Jacobs said. “Graduates in medicine, nursing, phar-macy, therapy and the other health professions will be far ahead of their peers as they start to treat patients. The result will be fewer medi-cal errors and better patient outcomes.”

Despite the focus on medical students, Boyers said that staff and graduate doctors involved at UT can use the equipment too.

“Although the center is located on the medical campus it can be used by all healthcare professionals, in-cluding pharmacy, nursing, allied health, etc.,” Boyers said. “The center is also for people in practice who need to learn new skills or update their medical skills.”

The center, which has taken over four years in the making, came with an expen-sive price tag, but Boyers said the benefits will outweigh the cost and prove very reward-ing in the long run.

“I am tremendously excit-ed about the new center be-cause we believe it’s building a new world for the medical field,” Boyers said. “We have been planning it now for about four to five years, and it cost about $34 million to build the simulation center so now that it is here, it will be very rewarding to faculty, staff, and students.”

Tasha Brennans, a UT med-ical volunteer, said the new center is “absolutely amazing” and is a sign of improvement in education at UT.

“It is great to look at visi-tors and how they react to something on our campus,” Brennans said. “I know the center will bring more acknowledgement to UT as it already has.”

The tri-concept interpro-fessional simulation center has brought many visitors to UT.

“There are a lot of simula-

tion centers, but the unique part about this center is that it is an interprofes-sional center,” Boyers said. “All of the professions have gathered around to build this work place. There have been many visitors, includ-

ing students coming to view the center.”

According to Boyers, over 500 people attended the simulation center’s open house on Monday, April 21.

“The vision,” Boyers said, “is to create a transformative

learning environment at The University of Toledo that positions UT and the Toledo community as national and global leaders in the educa-tion of health professionals and the advancement of clinical practice.”

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JOSHUAH HAMPTON/ ICA simulation dummy’s blood pressure is being taken during the open house for the new Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center on UT’s Health Science Campus. The center features the first five-sided, seamless, LED iSpace in the world.

Jencen added that there will be an area designated in Centennial Mall for students to interact individually with animals from the shelter.

“When I last spoke to the Toledo Humane Society, they said that students would be able to hang out and play with the puppies in their puppy play pens,” said Jencen.

McCullough said the event should serve as the light at the end of the tunnel for any UT students who’ve had a rough semester.

“I know I’ll participate be-cause I’m an animal lover,” Mc-Cullough said. “It’ll be a good way to relieve the stress I have going on in my own personal life.”

Graduate Assistant for Com-muter Services Matthew Wil-liams said he thinks it is impor-tant for students to make time for leisure during stressful periods.

“I believe students should participate in this event because we all deserve a break and time to enjoy ourselves,” Williams said. “This can be hard to do when preparing for finals.”

McCullough anticipates this event to be a success.

“I really hope this goes well,” McCullough said. “I can see this being a tradition for finals week every spring semester here at UT.”

For more information about how to adopt a sheltered animal from the Toledo Area Humane Society, visit https://www.toledohumane.org.

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“I know I’ll partic-ipate because I’m an animal lover.”

NICHOLAS MCCULLOUGH

SG senator

“I am tremen-dously excited about the new center because we believe it’s build-ing a new world for the medical field.”

PAMELA BOYERSExecutive Director of the

Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center

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COMMUNITYCALENDAR

Wednesday, April 23All day event --

Denim Day, people are encouraged to wear jeans to raise aware-ness of rape and sexual assault. This event is sponsored by SAEPP. Stop by the YWCA Hope Center’s table in the Student Union to learn more about denim day. The table will be in the union from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

12 p.m. -- Give Chic-peas a chance, Come make and taste hummus in Centennial Mall. For more information email drew.saltzstein@rockets.

Friday, April 257:30 p.m -- The Birth

of the Solar System, travel back in time nearly five billion years and watch the birth of our solar system. Learn how the sun and planets formed, and how astronomers have pieced together the clues of our an-cient origins. Stunning graphics and a riveting sound track are bound to captivate everyone in this exciting new program. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students, children and seniors. For more infor-mation, call 419-530-2650 or the 24-hour information hotline at (419) 530-4037, located in Ritter Planetarium.

Saturday, April 261 p.m. -- Zula Patrol:

Under the Weather, explore the solar system with the Zula Patrol. Learn all about weather, both here on Earth and on other planets as well. You will experience a dust storm on Mars, a hurricane on Jupiter and the incredible heat on Venus. Admission is $7, adults; $5 children, seniors and UT commu-nity members, children under 4 are free. It will be held at Ritter Plan-etarium. Doors open 30 minutes before the show to explore the displays in the lobby. For more information call (419) 530-2650 or the 24-hour information hotline at (419) 530-4037.Sunday, April 27

3 p.m. -- UT Spring Choral Concert, featur-ing the UT men’s and women’s choruses, located at the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. For more information contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452 or by email at [email protected] to Friday, April 28 to May 2

All day event -- Spring exams. Monday, May 5

All day event -- Sum-mer break begins.

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ART EXHIBITION

Showcasing creativityThe Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition to present four students and their original artworks

By Sohan Mutha and Lauren BridgewaterStaff Reporters

Students’ imagination and creativ-ity will be showcased in the second phase of the Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition.

Artwork by graduating seniors Eric Broz, Taylor Pasquale, Emily Pohl-man and Jon Wittes will be on display at the Center for the Visual Arts Main Gallery from April 22 to May 3.

Greg Jones, gallery director, said that students are required to do this exhibition as a culmination of their four years of study of arts.

“We all have very different styles in our artwork,” said Pohlman, a graduating senior in new media. “There will be something for ev-eryone to see there. I think it’ll be a good mix and variety.”

Jones said that the exhibition serves as a way for the students to show off their work in a meaningful way so that they can make a statement.

He added that students tell a story through their works of art using all the skills they have learned.

“Eric Broz is what you would call a conceptual artist and his work is going to be really non-traditional,” Jones said. “It’s not going to be like a painting on the wall or a sculp-ture on a pedestal.”

Broz, a graduating senior in 2D studies, experiments around with materials and uses different ways to make art.

“A lot of it has humor to it, there’s a lot of jokes and visual puns. Some of them have more serious sort of un-dertone like handling things through tougher issues by cracking jokes or making art,” Broz said. “Most of it comes from childhood inspirations, like just playing around toys or differ-ent things like that.”

Broz said that he started off as a painting major but wanted to think of different ways people can interact with art. At the exhibition, he has a piece with balloons that will be float-ing around in space.

“Part of it is that the pieces will change, so if you came back every

day, they’ll move around, they’ll come down eventually and the inten-tion is for some of them to come down and be on the ground,” Broz said. “There’s a little bit of mortal-ity in that where it’s kind of like, why should the piece live forever if people aren’t going to?”

Jones said that Pasquale is also a conceptual artist, but his work is more ceramic based, where he repurposes and builds around different objects that he finds in antique shops.

“It is an assemblage kind of style of sculpture that incorporates figurines and bricks and vessels,” Pasquale, a graduating senior in 3D studies, said. “Most of them [figurines] are either found or purchased.”

He said that not a lot of his art has much to do with religion but the figu-rines are religious-based and that’s because religious figurines are more populous than others.

“For instance, there is a piece that was in my grandma’s bathroom for my entire life and she gave it to me because she knew I was looking for figurines. I didn’t really alter it as a figurine except for add stuff on the bottom and play around with candy hearts,” Pasquale said.

He said that he was mesmerized by the process of how ceramic is made, which evolved into an inspi-ration of a more sculptural show-ing of the science.

“I think most of them had to do with the memories we attach to objects where you’ve got your objects and I don’t have any memories at-tached to it, but you do,” Pasquale said. “You’ve got a whole past with them. That’s a big part of why I like the figurine.”

Jones said that Emily Pohlman is a photographer and will be showing off observational photographs and her typewriter series of work.

“[In] my typewriter series, I basi-cally go and take photos and once I develop them in the dark room, I take them home and use an actual typewriter to type on the actual photograph that goes along with

the photo,” Pohlman said.She said her observational series

is about being in the right place at the right time and snapping a photo. From all her shots, the exhibition will feature a select few.

“Photography is my one out-let in art that I am legitimately pretty comfortable with doing. I’ve explored a lot of different options here at UT, but photography is the one that I like the most and I find myself most comfortable with and I can get really expressive with it,” Pohlman said.

Jon Wittes is doing a series called “Not My Backyard,” where he takes

large format photographs of current landscapes where different parts of our culture have imposed themselves on people’s property, Jones said.

An artists’ reception will take place Friday, April 25 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the CVA and will be free and open to the public.

Pasquale said that students should come out and support the exhibition as the work presented will be strong and thought-provoking.

“They should go because it’s good to see art; it’s good to chal-lenge what you expect to see when you experience art. It’ll be a good time,” Broz said.

NICOLE BADIK / IC

NICOLE BADIK / ICThe Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition will be showcasing four students and their artworks. Eric Broz, Taylor Pasquale, Emily Pohlman and Jon Wittes are the four graduating seniors being presented. The two pictures above are some of the works that will be at the exhibition.

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PERFORMANCE

Workshop to present students’ personal puppet creations

By Joe HeidenescherStaff Reporter

Eleven University of Toledo students will present their puppet creations of their own design in a puppetry workshop taught by Erica Frank, visiting assistant professor of theater and costume design.

The workshop will present their puppet creations in performance Friday April 25 and Saturday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Center Theatre.

“The workshop performance is a show-casing of the work of students in the Puppet Workshop class,” said Angela Riddel, promo-tions specialist for the College of Communi-cation and the Arts, in an e-mail interview.

“It’s a workshop and a culmination of an entire semester of puppetry in my class,” Frank said.

Frank said students will perform short skits, monologues and sketches with their puppets around a loose framework of a story.

Frank said the working title of the play the workshop has created is “The Immortals.” The performance will be centered on ancient mythologies from around the world.

Students whose work will be featured include: Dale Balister, Andrew Collings, Mackenzi Corns, Crystal Dumont, Zachary Fellhauer, Gina Gass, Clyde Hartley, Victoria Johnson, Jackie Kellett, Richard Quinn and Keely-Rain Battle.

“We are going to tell a brand new story and we’re going to tell the whole thing that we’ve made up on our own and we’re going to tell it through movement of the puppets we’ve created,” Frank said.

Frank said students spent time creating hand puppets throughout the first half of the semester and for the second half of the semester they focused on learning modern Japanese Bunraku Puppetry.

“It’s a new experience for me because I have never worked with puppets before,” said Battle, a third-year theatre major. “We have built multiple hand puppets along with five Bunraku puppets. Each puppet is to be puppeteered by three people. I’m on the team that puppets the little girl, and going on her journey with her is incredible. Thanks to Erica and her passion for puppets, we have put together a rather impressive work of art.”

Battle said throughout the semester she has become closer to her fellow classmates and the characters they have created.

“In a very short time my class has done a lot,” Frank said. “They’ve written their own scripts to perform with these puppets they’ve made each individually and then we’re com-ing together as an ensemble and we are doing a short play using the set that we’ve built.”

Frank said the students have a large role in creating the performance.

“In fact one of the greatest secrets of our department is how hands on the student experience is. Our theatre productions have students involved in every respect including leadership roles,” Riddel said.

Frank said the performance is not a fully functional puppet play; however, she said a story will be told entirely through movement.

“Because it is a workshop, it’s not like a written script,” Frank said. “We are telling the entire story through movement. That’s the very nature of puppetry. You’re animat-ing something that’s not normally animated. You can tell so much through movement without even having to speak.”

Frank said puppetry sculpts the space with movement.

“It [puppetry] can invent entire worlds that can say a lot more than what we can say with words,” Frank said.

Frank engages with this workshop in a different way than the students do.

“I am sculpting with them, alongside them. I am directing them. I am co-creating, dividing the work with them,” Frank said.

Frank said her students are guided through the process of creating the puppet performance.

“Erica Frank is a fantastic costume de-signer who also brings tremendous skill and experience in the creation of puppets, having worked with the Henson Puppet Workshop and several of its projects,” Riddel said. “So we are excited to offer our students yet an-other way to explore all aspects of theatre.”

Frank said her past interest in sculpture only translated into her obsession with her creations moving.

“Even just watching the puppetry in mo-tion you can see the students have done just an incredible job,” Frank said “Even if it’s not a full length play and completely worked out over the course of time, it’s still very fasci-nating. It’s a little bit loose, but that’s good, that’s why it’s called a workshop.”

Frank said the workshop is meant to teach students about the art form of puppetry.

“Most people probably react with uncer-tainty or maybe even discomfort when we talk about using a puppet but the class has opened up not just the students’ minds but also the skills learned can be applicable to work life such as dedication, complete focus and, most importantly, living in the moment as if nothing else but that task matters,” said Gina Gass, a fourth-year theatre major.

Gass said the life-sized puppets require a lot of work to maneuver and animate and that “it’s kind of crazy to watch” the puppets moving.

“The audience is welcome to comment,” Frank said. “… I’m going to talk a lot about our process at this workshop. It’s not a show where you come, sit down and then you leave. It’s a show where you come, sit down and experience and learn a lot about pup-petry.”

Frank said “this is just the tip of the iceberg.” Frank said the fall of 2014 and the spring

of 2015 will include more puppetry classes and a full length, main stage puppet play.

“I’m doing the big stage main puppet pro-duction, in the spring we’re actually doing a big show of puppetry,” Frank said. “Next year we’re not only exploring puppetry for the theater, which is incredible, I’m also doing puppetry for television.”

Frank said she will be co-teaching a class that will be creating a television pilot utiliz-ing puppetry for WGTE.

Frank said puppetry has found its way into all forms of art. She said she is inspired by the level of work and creativity in the imaginative arts field.

“It’s a way of making fantasy and art come real,” Frank said. “It’s an art form that really fits the title of the imaginative arts.”

COURTESY OF ERICA FRANKStudents work on creating their own puppets for the puppetry workshop. The workshop will be held on Saturday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m.

“Even just watching the puppetry in motion you can see the students have done just an incredible job...”

ERICA FRANKAssistant professor of theater and

costume desgin


FASHION

Farewell Fabrics: The ultimate guide to a fabulous goodbye

ISIS DARKSFASHION EDITOR

These last two weeks of school (to some of us), may be the hardest of our entire college career. Many have struggled to make the final stretch to summer with exams, projects and last minute negotiations with professors to drop the minus from that A, or add a plus to that C. Others are crawling to the finish line dubbed “graduation,” hoping that professors didn’t notice the semester-long case of senioritis.

As a graduating senior, I feel the same mix of excitement and dread that came around high school prom and homecoming season. “What dress shall I wear?” “How will my hair be?” “What color lipstick yells perfec-tion?” I realized that I am not alone in this dilemma, and gradua-tion attendees may also struggle with the “ideal” attire of a graduation cer-emony.

Don’t choke up over goodbyes to friends, fam-ily and beloved roommates. Instead, say goodbye to the struggle of finding the perfect parting outfit, as well as old trends that you can bury for the time being.

Rich Sommer said, “I’m very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they’re legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.”

Here are three farewell fabrics that will keep you looking great and

prepared for sendoffs this upcoming week at graduation.

Shift Dresses

Graduation is a seemingly long day, and being comfortable and classy is key.

Stray away from bodycon dress-es, and opt for a loose, less form-fitting dress. This leaves room for

your legs to breathe, and the breeze to

cool your body down whether you are under a graduation

gown or in the crowd. If you are

into accessorizing, a solid color shift dress is great for adding a statement

piece like a clutch, necklace or ear-rings. Spice up

a shift dress with hair accessories such as a beaded headband or a

bright colored hair bow. If you like prints, keep the acces-sories simple with solid color studs — your printed dress will speak for you. As we get closer to summer, try a

tribal print or multicolored

stripe print. For higher qual-

ity fabrics, visit Dillard’s, Macy’s and JC Penney. The length of the dresses will be short enough to look chic with your friends, but the material will be thick enough

to be appropriate for the family.

Button Ups

I think it’s safe to say that the snow has finally left us, and spring is here to stay. As the temperatures rise, men may get hot under a gown or even simply be-cause of having on a long sleeve shirt. For attendees, go for a casual look. Invest in a slim-fit short sleeve button up. Keep things interesting with a print like a multicolored paisley, or simple with a neutral tone. For graduates, ditch the tie and unbutton those top buttons! A slim-fitting long sleeve is still ideal, and with an effortless color like white or peach, and a pair of khakis, you’ll pull off a casual but graduation appropriate look. Think David Beckham meets Pharrell (rugged yet comfortable and at ease).

Now that the seasons are chang-ing, Express and online retailer Topman.com are having sales. Stock up on the button ups.

Paraphernalia

A successful college career isn’t necessarily based on the highest GPA or the amount of organiza-tions you racked up on your resume, it’s about the rela-tionships you built with the organizations you joined and if you made the best out of the resources that the Uni-versity of Toledo has to offer. For graduates, rep your organizations by sporting chords, stolls, pins or rings. The activities and people you met in the past helped shape the person you are today. Say goodbye graciously by paring a max of two stolls together, or a stoll and a chord. Don’t overkill with the representa-tion of five different organizations. For graduation attendees, support your orga-nization with a pin, which will be subtle, and won’t take away from your outfit.

Reach out to your graduate advisor to find out if your organization has anything designated for graduation, and if it needs to be ordered in advance, the earlier the better.

Isis Darks is a fourth-year majoring in mar-keting and has a blog at TheNaiive.com.

CONVERSATIONS

Book club fosters dialogue between faculty and provostBy Samuel DerkinNews Editor

The food was plentiful, the atmosphere warm and the conversation light in Scott Scarborough’s kitchen on a recent evening. Hot meatballs sat in a foil dish, next to a veg-gie platter and bottles of wine.

Around the island stood members of the University of Toledo’s faculty, some in stock-ing feet as they chatted in the kitchen of UT’s chief academic officer, enough at home that one went to answer the door and others walked in with no invitation. One profes-sor entered with a six-pack of beer, another in a cowboy hat with a bottle of port. The talk — about March Madness, students, class cancelations — occasionally erupted into laughter. And after an hour, with a nod from their host, the professors refilled their glasses and converged on the living room to begin.

The setting was a book club that’s been meeting once a month for the past year and a half, with the goal of bringing faculty and administration closer together.

“I was just trying to think of a way to bring together, on a regular basis, some of the opin-ion leaders on campus and how to structure that conversation in a way that would be productive — and the book club just seemed like the natural thing to do at an academic institution,” Scarborough said. “And I think, true to form, academics love the idea of read-ing books together and sharing thoughts, and so for that reason I think it’s been a success. It’s a natural part of who we are.”

Each meeting lasts around three hours. During the first hour, faculty members gather in the kitchen of Scarborough’s home to enjoy hors d’oeuvres, drinks and small talk about things ranging from sports to interesting top-ics in their classes. After members of the club

have had their fill, they congregate in Scarbor-ough’s living room where they open up their books and conversation.

“It’s generally a free-flowing discussion,” said Barbara Floyd, UT’s archivist, who has attended the meetings since they started. “Oftentimes it doesn’t seem to be related to the book but related to issues people are having or concerns they are having about the institution, about decisions being made, about faculty concerns overall.”

Brian Patrick, a UT communication profes-sor, who has been attending the book club for around six months said they “exchange things back and forth.”

“We laugh and we eat a few meatballs and some of the books are pretty damn good,” he said.

Scarborough said his first official act as pro-vost was to create the provost’s book club.

“Its intent is to improve communication between the provost’s office and Faculty Sen-ate leadership, and so the individuals that we chose are senior Faculty Senate members, and those who attend are those that accepted the invitation,” Scarborough said.

Faculty members said the meetings help improve their relationships with Scarborough as an administrator and help ease the tension that faculty feels towards administration.

“In this university, the administration and faculty seem to be in conflict often,” Scar-borough said. “So to have an opportunity to break through that ‘we and them’ into a forum that’s kind of ‘us’ is better. I think it’s a way of facilitating discussions and improving relationships.”

Floyd said that although she has little con-tact with the provost, she does feel that he is now more approachable after these book club meetings.

“The advantage of this forum is that two hours, once a month, that disconnect is bro-ken down perhaps, and there’s an opportunity for a better exchange of ideas and issues and discussions of concerns,” she said.

Linda Roulliard, the 2013-14 Faculty Senate president, frequently attends the meetings. She said she feels those who attend make an effort to partake in the discussions and foster a sense of collegiality.

Patrick, who said that the regular meetings

have helped him become more sympathetic toward administration and their goals, also said that he was unsure if the meetings were truly resolving conflicts — but he said that’s not necessarily bad.

“One of the things that is actually very unhealthy in group communication is pre-mature decision-making, actually the absence of conflict,” Patrick said. “If you don’t have enough conflict, then you’ll make bad deci-sions because that means you’re not talking things out; you’re just coming to premature agreements. It’s a paradox, almost – too much conflict and the place is torn apart, but you want a certain, healthy amount.”

Scarborough said that he feels the regular meetings and conversations have improved his personal relationships with faculty members.

“Another demonstrative proof that this has really helped is when I go to Faculty Senate and speak at Faculty Senate, I don’t feel like there is anything personal in the hard con-versations,” Scarborough said. “That doesn’t mean that hard conversations do not take place, but it’s everyone simply trying to get to the best answer. And I think that having that personal relationship and having built that

personal relationship on a common under-standing of what’s going on in public higher education has helped the hard conversations remain on a constructive path.”

Patrick said the book club gives him the chance to look at higher education as a whole.

“It’s nice to be able to take a step back or two and look down from above at what’s going on and say ‘OK, where should we steer this ship?’” Patrick said. “‘Where are the sandbars, what do students need, what do we need?’”

Floyd said the conversations are where, as faculty and administration, members can learn from each other.

“I think that everybody feels very comfort-able there. I think people feel free to speak their minds and I think that’s one of the benefits of the book club … that it’s faculty and the provost freely discussing ideas about higher education,” Floyd said. “And I think that we learn from him, I hope he learns from us, and I think that mostly that has been beneficial to the institution because there is a level of discussion that often doesn’t happen within an institution between faculty and administrators, that sort of one-on-one free flow of ideas.”

SAMUEL DERKIN / ICEight faculty members meet at Scott Scarborough’s house March 18 for a monthly book club gathering to facilitate discussion, exchange ideas, and improve personal relationships as well as ease tensions between the faculty and administration.

“We laugh and we eat a few meatballs and some of the books are pretty damn good.”

BRIAN PATRICKUT communication professor


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50. The Three Tenors, e.g.

52. He is53. Lunch stop55. *Rob to new mom

Kim Kardashian57. *Minnelli’s mother61. One who moves

from place to place65. Bay window66. *Biblical matriarch

Sarah had this many children

68. More capable69. Like a wave caused

by the moon70. Shot ___ in track and

field71. Japanese-American72. Door fastener73. Type of wood often

used for furniture74. Walk loudly

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berry3. Winningest Super

Bowl coach4. Do-re-do-re-do-re-do-

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some6. *Juliet’s mother, ____

Capulet7. Often checked in a

bar8. Warming winter

beverage9. 5,280 feet10. Saudi Arabia’s

neighbor11. Maître d’s list12. *Christian Science

founder, Mary Baker ____

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20. Camelot, to Arthur22. Tom Hanks’ 1988

movie24. “Fragrant” rice25. *Brady mom26. Offer two cents27. Obscure29. *”Mommy Dearest”31. Parks or Luxemburg32. When it breaks, the

cradle will fall33. Permeate34. Plural of “lysis”36. Art style popular in

1920s and 1930s38. Arab chieftain42. Cover story45. Ultimate goal49. Japanese capital51. Liver or kidney, e.g.54. Parkinson’s disease

drug56. Lunar path57. Music style with

gloomy lyrics58. “Tosca” tune59. Purges60. ____ year61. Made in “Breaking

Bad”62. Additionally63. Indian Lilac64. Stumble67. Greek letter N, pl.

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EVENT

WXUT to host hip-hop appreciation night April 27By Samantha RhodesManaging Editor

Jay Z, Justin Timberlake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne — with millions of albums sold worldwide, these art-ists’ music is definitely something to talk about. Or at least the University of Toledo’s student-run radio station thinks so.

In order to celebrate this multimil-lion-dollar music genre, WXUT will host its first ever Hip-Hop Appreciation Night April 27 at 6 p.m. in Rocky’s Attic in the Student Union.

“Hip-hop and R&B is important to students because many students are aspiring to be that singer or that rap-per that makes it big and that creates a name for themself,” said Dominic Strodes, secretary of WXUT. “Even though some hip-hop and R&B figures are looked at as negative figure at times, everyone has a story. Students seeing that some people can come from nothing and make it to the top is inspiring to students aspiring to work in that industry.”

According to Strodes, the event’s purpose is to “honor hip-hop icons and their contributions to the culture of hip-hop.”

Strodes also said the event aims to raise awareness for WXUT and the B.E-Z Show, which is a hip-hop and R&B radio talk show where up-and-coming artists are able to display their talents live on air.

“The event will display a short biogra-phy of the icons provided by the B.E-Z

crew members,” Strodes said. “There will also be a dedication to the icons by chosen live talent.”

With live performers as well as 80s and 90s music playing, the event will highlight student talent as well as iconic hip-hop legends from the past.

Together, hip-hop and R&B make up one of Strodes’ favorite genres of music, a genre he said he admires on a deeper and more personal level than other genres.

“I respect quality hip-hop and R&B, not just the songs that people dance to,” Strodes said. “I like real, lyrical hip-hop and soulful, meaningful R&B.”

Strodes said music plays a large role in his life and is something he knows all students can relate and connect with.

“I know many students can relate due to the amount of people I see in the library with their earphones in listen-ing to music as they do work,” Strodes said. “Music plays a big role in my life because I usually listen to music while walking on campus and also when I study. It’s motivation for activities, like cleaning the house.”

According to Strodes, the perks of having a radio station at UT are numerous for students, as the station can be utilized as a resource for student organizations, promoting events on campus and giving students resume-building experience while working on a live radio show.

“Having a student-operated radio station is special because it bridges a gap with the UT community and the Toledo community,” Strodes said. “The radio station allows students to voice their opinion about school, music and other concerns over radio waves.”

Because WXUT is a non-commer-cial educational station that airs on 88.3 FM, Strodes said all UT students

as well as alumni and professors are welcome to join. Students within the Communication Department can also receive course credit for being a part of WXUT.

The B.E-Z Show airs Mondays from 6-8 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10 p.m. to midnight on 88.3 WXUT, but does not air during the summer. WXUT does, however, air year-round.

The WXUT office is located in Student Union Room 2515.

According to Strodes, all students and faculty are welcomed to the free event.

“We want everyone to come out and

enjoy themselves,” Strodes said.Strodes said Rocky’s Attic will only

allot 150 people entrance to the event, so seating will be reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. He said WXUT does plan to fill all 150 seats and urges students to get there early.

In an effort to help other student organizations promote themselves to the student body, WXUT will allow reservations for tables at the event.

Strodes said sandwiches from Jimmy John’s will be provided.

For more information or to contact WXUT, call 419-530-4172 or email [email protected].

RecycleMania results for this Spring semester’s competition are in

The results are in.The friendly competition, RecycleMania, surpassed

the set goal for this year.UT placed fifth out of seven Mid-American Con-

ference schools in the Gorilla Division, which is for overall recycling.

The event took place from Feb. 3 to March 28. All of the campuses were involved in the national competi-tion, and the residence halls were involved in an internal competition.

The event takes place over an eight-week period each spring. Colleges across the U.S. and Canada report the amount of recycling and trash that they have collected each week. The schools are then ranked into various categories according to the amounts that they have recycled.

According to the RecycleMania website, the event is a “benchmarking tool for college and university re-cycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities.”

The winning schools received a reward made out of recycled material and earn the right to host that category’s traveling trophy for the coming year.

Those involved in RecycleMania on campus were Rocket Recycling, a SEED Initiative program within Facilities & Construction, Residence Life, Environ-mental Services (custodial), Facilities & Construction and AIM Recycling (partner for electronics).

“We did better than last year and past years. As for the residence hall competition, the results were comparable to past years,” said Brooke Mason, LEED Green Associate.

The winners of the residence hall competition were Carter East and West. Coming in second was Ottawa East and West. Third place was Academic House and MacKinnon Hall.

UT came in 67th place in the overall recycling in the Gorilla Division.

UT improved from 42 to 26 in the paper category, 95 to 57 in corrugated cardboard, and 111 to 92 in the Gorilla Division.

Mason said that the goal for this competition is to do better than the years before, which they did this year.

“The event was created back in 2001 and was just a competition between a few schools,” Mason said. “Now it includes several hundred schools. We participate in the event because we try to use it as a way to build excitement around recycling, to re-energize the community. We hope that the UT community is more conscious about recycling during the competition, and that those newly formed habits carry on beyond the end date of the competition. Overall, we want it to increase our recycling rates, reducing what we send to the landfill.”

First on-campus car show to be held on May 24

The first on-campus car show will be held on May 24 and will be hosted by The University of Toledo Student Veteran’s Association.

The event will be from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Tickets are $5 per person and children 10 and under are free. To register a car to be exhibited in the show, it is $20 with a surcharge that increases as the show date nears.

Joshua Ortiz, vice president of UT’s Student’s Veteran Association and a coordinator for the event said, the car show is a fundraiser type venue and half of the pro-ceeds will go towards the Wounded Warrior Project.

According to Ortiz, the Wounded Warrior Project is an organization that helps service members that may be disabled or injured.

The other half of the proceeds will go toward the Student’s Veteran Association.

Papa John’s, Great Clips, Jimmy John’s, Huntington Bank, Red Robin and Applebee’s will provide various donations and prizes to be raffled off at the event. Fa-mous Dave’s BBQ will be catering the show and there will also be a DJ and live music.

“I realize many students will be home, work-ing or on vacation during the summer but for those staying in the Toledo area at that time, this is a great way to spend a morning and after-noon checking out classic and muscle cars right here in our own backyard while supporting a great cause and possibly win some raffle prizes,” Ortiz said.

IN BRIEF

“Having a student-oper-ated radio station is spe-cial because it bridges a gap with the UT commu-nity and the Toledo com-munity,” Strodes said. “The radio station allows students to voice their opinion about school, music and other concerns over radio waves.”

DOMINIC STRODESWXUT secretary

“I respect quality hip-hop and R&B, not just the songs that people dance to...I like real, lyri-cal hip-hop and soulful, meaningful R&B.”

DOMINIC STRODESWXUT secretary

If you goWhat: Hip-Hop Appreciation Night.Where: Rocky’s Attic in the Student

Union.When: Sunday, April 27 at 6 p.m.Sponsored by: WXUT.

STUDENT ORGANIZATION

Students travel to compete in a debateThe University of Toledo Model United Nations (UTMUN)

traveled to Chicago, Illinois this past weekend to compete at ChoMUN XVII.

Model UN is a simulation of the official United Nations, an in-tergovernmental organization established to promote international cooperation. The actual UN is headquartered in New York City.

Hanan Zaki, a second-year English major and member of UTMUN, said that during conferences such as ChoMUN XVII, students are given a crisis or topic in which they debate and compose resolutions to solve the issue at hand.

According to Zaki, UTMUN arrived in Chicago April 1, where they were split into different committees which collaborated with other delegates from different universities around the nation.

The Jesup Scott Honors College helped fund the team’s trip. Zaki said UTMUN has been a student organization on

campus since 2011 and is dedicated to a simple principle: “ev-eryone can learn about the world, its issues and its cultures.”

“In doing so, they believe that everyone can help develop ways to solve problems and help other people on a local, nation-al and international level,” Zaki said. “UTMUN accomplishes this by studying current events, developing debate skills, finding service opportunities of all kind and much, much more.”

According to Zaki, UTMUN usually meets every Tuesday from 7:30-9 p.m.

For more information about participating in Model UN, contact the team for more information at [email protected].

COURTESY OF HANAN ZAKIStudents from UT’s Model United Nations traveled to Chicago, Illinois to compete in debates and compose resolutions to solve the issue at hand.

Oh, what a year it has been at the University of Toledo.

We survived grueling class work and exams, fought over tobacco bans and parking spaces and shivered through one hell of a long, cold winter.

In between all of that, it

was business as usual for Toledo’s sports teams.

Some of the programs found success, while others only found heartbreak (see the men’s basketball team for example of that last one). Through it all, fans cheered, booed and just plain showed up to sup-port each and every Toledo team.

And as a member of the media, it was my privilege to witness it all firsthand.

When I sat down to recap and reflect upon all of the different athletic seasons that have taken place this school year at UT, I quickly realized I wasn’t going to do any of the teams justice if I tried

to summarize it all in 1000 words or less.

Or maybe I tried to sum-marize it all, got to about 350 words and successfully bored myself into a stupor.

Either way, that won’t be what you read here because as I was figuring out what to really write, I started thinking about the state of collegiate athletics in general.

The image that I painted in my head was not a pretty picture.

Universities are getting rich off of student athletes, who are now fighting for compensation. Character concerns and red flags are ignored when success is constant. As a result, play-ers and coaches are get-ting arrested and removed from schools on an almost weekly basis.

Administrators and league presidents argue

over everything from rules of the game to the hefty contracts of coaching staffs. Nothing seems to be improving, and the entire system seems to be hanging on by a thread.

Sometimes I think the best answer is to take a pair of scissors to that thread and start all over.

You don’t have to look any further than this year’s NFL draft to see what sports have become on the collegiate level. The Johnny Footballs and Jadeveon Clowneys of the world are ready to cash in on their physical abilities before one of the 32 professional teams


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IN BRIEF

Men’s tennis loses to WMU in regular season finale

The University of To-ledo men’s tennis team closed out its regular season with a 6-1 loss last Saturday to Western Michigan at the UT Var-sity Tennis Courts.

“We put some extra pressure on ourselves today,” said head coach Al Wermer in a school statement. “Stjepan (Sisko) was spectacular and Nick (Wong) played a great match. But we’re already focused on a championship at next weekend’s MAC Tournament.”

Sisko earned the Rockets’ only win, posting a 6-2, 6-0 vic-tory in No. 1 singles. The freshman player improved to 15-8 on the year in singles play, with a 2-4 record at the top singles spot.

Toledo fell behind early, losing two doubles matches, and was unable to gain any momentum in singles play.

Wong lost a match in three sets in the No. 3 singles spot, and the Broncos won every other match in straight sets.

The Rockets now look ahead to the MAC Championships, which will begin Friday, April 25 in Muncie, Ind. To-ledo is the No. 2 seed in the tournament.

UT softball team tops Buffalo 6-2 in extra innings last Sunday

The University of Toledo softball team put an end to a nine-game losing skid with a 6-2 victory over Buffalo on Sunday at Nan Harvey Field.

Rocket freshman 1B Celeste Fidge led Toledo offensively, going 4-for-4 with two home runs and four RBI. Fidge opened the scoring with a solo shot in the top of the second inning to give UT an early lead.

The Bulls managed to come back, scor-ing one run in both the third and fourth innings off RBI singles to give them a 2-1 advan-tage, but the Rockets recovered late in the game to take home the victory.

Toledo will play one non-league road game Wednesday at Oak-land before returning home to Scott Park for a six-game homestand, beginning with a double-header against Eastern Michigan on Friday. First pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.

WOMEN’S GOLF

Women place seventh at Lady Buckeye Invitational last weekend in ColumbusBy Austin HenrySports Reporter

The Rocket women’s golf program hit the road last weekend and finished seventh in the final tour-nament before the 2014 Mid-American Conference Championship.

Toledo participated in Ohio State’s Lady Buckeye Invitational at the Ohio State University Golf Club’s Scarlet Course in Colum-bus. Each team played 36

holes on Saturday, and the following 18 were finished on Sunday.

Ohio State claimed the title of their home-course event by seven strokes, finishing with a 29-over par team score of 893.

Sophomore Sathika Ruen-reong and junior Stephanie St-Jean led the Rockets, placing 24th and 27th with 54-hole scores of 17-over par 233 (77-75-81) and 18-over par 234 (78-79-77), respectively.

Sophomore Morgan Salm, who matched St-Jean for UT’s best run of the day with a five-over par 77, tied for 48th place at 23-over par 239 (79-83-77).

“We were just happy to be able to compete against some of the larger schools in the country, and our girls hung with them,” said head coach Nicole Hollingsworth. “Sathika and Stephanie had an amazing weekend. Placing

24th and 27th at such a large tournament is amaz-ing.”

Bringing up the rear of the Rocket lineup were sophomore Manisa Isavas (T-57th/79-85-78=242), junior Jennifer Elsholz (T-60th/86-79-81=246) and senior Kate Hoops (T-65th/92-76-81=249).

Kent State’s Jennifer Ha shot two-over par 218 (72-

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SPORTS EDITOR

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COMMENTARY

Nothing seems to be improving, and the entire system seems to be hang-ing on by a thread. Sometimes I think the best answer is to take a pair of scissors to that thread and start all over.

“We were just happy to be able to compete against some of the larger schools in the country, and our girls hung with them.”

NICOLE HOLLINGSWORTH

UT women’s golf coach

BASEBALL

NICOLE BADIK / ICSophomore RHP Caleb Schillace, pictured above, hopes to help the Rockets hand Dayton a defeat on Wednesday. Toledo will host the Flyers at 3:05 p.m. at Scott Park.

Rocket baseball team to face off against Dayton this WednesdayBy Blake BachoSports Editor

The University of Toledo baseball team will have to contend with a fierce group of pitchers when they face off against Dayton Wednesday afternoon.

But they’ve already done it once.

Toledo handed UD an 11-6 defeat under the lights of the Athletes in Action Sports Complex back on March 19.

UT finished with 10 hits, six walks and two hit-by-pitches against six Dayton pitchers during that first contest. Fresh-

man OF Jordan Kesson and sophomore INF Tyler Baar paced Toledo’s of-fensive attack with multi-hit efforts during the last contest against Dayton, and Toledo will be hop-ing for a similar outcome Wednesday at home.

This marks the sec-ond non-league game of the week for Toledo. The Rockets were hosted by Michigan State on Tuesday, falling 4-2 to the Spartans at McLane Stadium in East Lansing.

UT allowed MSU to score

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three of their runs in the first inning, which turned out to be the difference maker in the contest.

Michigan State came into the match having been swept at Indiana in a three-game series last weekend, while Toledo was hoping to build off of winning two-of-three against Ohio.

MSU’s Cam Gibson went 3-for-4 against the Rockets Tuesday, and the Spartan’s Blaise Salter put up a pair of runs.

Toledo managed to put in an RBI in the sixth to cut into Michigan State’s lead, but the Spartans were able

to exit the inning maintain-ing a 4-2 lead.

UT freshman LHP Steve

Calhoun was credited with the loss. Calhoun gave up three runs off two hits in two innings of work on the mound.

MSU pitcher Jake Lowery retired all seven Rocket hitters that he faced Tuesday. Jeff Kinley took over for Lowery with two outs in the eighth. He ended the inning with a groundout, and pitched a per-fect ninth to earn his seventh save of the season.

MSU’s Joe Mockbee made his first career start against the Rockets, going 3.33 innings and allowing one run off two hits with two strikeouts and two walks.

The loss drops Toledo to 15-23 heading into Wednes-day’s matchup with Dayton.

75-71) to capture medalist honors by one stroke over

Michigan State’s Kelly Grassel (78-71-70=219), but their performances were not on Hoop’s mind when asked about the tournament and the team’s season.

“It’s strange to think that this is possibly my last year playing golf at Toledo,” she said. “I have had so many great memories with these ladies and it is going to be weird to not see them every day.

“With the season com-ing to a close, I hope my younger teammates learned from me.”

Toledo’s performance as a team bodes well for next weekend’s MAC Tourna-ment, according to Hol-lingsworth.

“We have plenty of outstanding athletes,” she said. “After hanging with some of the more elite teams in the coun-try, I hope we bring the same enthusiasm and

work ethic this upcoming weekend.”

The Rockets’ head coach isn’t the only one hungry for a good showing next week-end, but her seniors will still be viewing the tournament a little differently.

“This is my last shot at bringing home a MAC Championship to Toledo with my awesome team,” Hoops explained. “It is going to be bittersweet.”

even hands them a hat and jersey.

While the jury is still out on Clowney’s charac-ter, Johnny Manziel has already proven that he is not the type of student athlete a university should hold up as a role model or hero.

The colleges these play-ers spent the last few years attending will continue to profit off of their former students for years to come as long as those students start even a couple games at the pro level.

And it won’t even matter if these players left their schools without a degree.

This format is becom-ing the rule instead of the exception for universities across the country, but it is only the tip of the iceberg. Look no further than the issues at Penn State a few years ago to see what can happen when win-loss records and revenue is valued above all else.

But what does any of this have to do with Toledo?

Believe it or not, our school should actually be an example for other universities.

UT has featured some very successful athletic programs in recent years. Even more impressively, those same programs have continued to feature successful students.

A lot of the credit for these accomplishments

should go to the coach-ing staffs that continue to stress academics just as much as they seek im-provement on their play-ing fields.

Here in Toledo, these coaching staffs have found a lot of both over the past year. No program was per-fect, but many records were set for both athletic and academic achievements.

The programs here are set up for long term suc-cess in both areas. UT con-tinues to retain successful coaches who are also posi-tive faces for the commu-nity, and those coaches in turn continue to do good things for their players, the school and the city.

This isn’t some sort of ad campaign for Toledo. Parking still sucks and it still snows way too much. Things aren’t perfect on any level, and there will be plenty of new things to complain about and there will be plenty of changes to hope for next year.

But let’s hope, for at least our sports teams, that it will be business as usual.


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“It’s strange to think that this is possibly my last year playing golf at Toledo. I have had so many great memories with these ladies and it is going to be weird to not see them everyday. With the season coming to a close, I hope my young-er teammates learned from me.”

KATE HOOPSUT senior golfer

The programs here are set up for long term success in both areas. UT continues to retain successful coaches who are also posi-tive faces for the community, and those coaches in turn continue to do good things for their players, the school and the city.

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What is next for UT women’s golf

The University of Tole-do women’s golf team will compete in the season-ending Mid-American Conference Tournament next weekend, and will spend the week preparing for the event.

The tournament will begin Friday, April 25, in Fishers, Ind., and will end Sunday, April 26.

Toledo’s remaining scheduleThe University of Toledo baseball team will travel to Oxford following this week’s two

non-league matches. The Rockets will face Miami in a three-game series beginning Friday, April 25, at

McKie Field. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. for that first game. Toledo will travel to face Central Michigan in another three-game matchup the follow-

ing weekend before going up against Eastern Kentucky and Cincinnati in another bout of non-league matchups.

The Rockets will have two more three-game series at home, broken up by a road game at Youngstown State, before kicking off the season-ending Mid-American Confer-ence Tournament on Wednesday, May 21.

MSU’s Cam Gib-son went 3-for-4 against the Rockets Tuesday, and the Spar-tan’s Blaise Salter put up a pair of runs. The loss drops Toledo to 15-23 heading into Wednesday’s matchup with Dayton.

By IC Staff

The winners of The Uni-versity of Toledo College of Business and Innovation’s fourth-annual Business In-novation Competition were announced last week, with $17,000 in prize money being distributed to the winners.

“We congratulate all the

participants from the entire university for the extremely high-quality proposals they submitted,” said Sonny Ariss, professor and chair of the UT Department of Management. “These technologically innovative ideas clearly demonstrate creative thinking within the UT campus, which is exactly

what this competition strives to foster. We are pleased to see this competition, now in its fourth year, continue to become a critical step in developing an innovation ecosystem that fosters the creation of legitimate new products and services for our society.”

“The College of Business and Innovation again clearly demonstrates our support for advancing entrepre-neurship by being the sole sponsor of this University-wide competition this year, and we stand ready to offer guidance to help these teams emerge beyond the univer-sity into the community. We want to see these ideas and business plans effectively implemented, creating jobs and enhancing the economic growth of the region.”

The winning proposals, the entrant’s name and a brief description of the win-ning entries are:

• First place, $10,000, Kyle Wasserman — Day-to-Day Independent Prosthetic, a device designed specifi-cally to help double amputee victims with limited use of their hands to gain their in-dependence back to perform normal day-to-day tasks.

• Second place, $5,000, Ted Otieno, An Aguyen and Mohammad Elahinia — Minimally Invasive Throm-bectomy Device, a universal-ly minimally invasive blood clot removal device.

• Third place, $2,000, Tom Burden and Bryan Heiser — Grypshon, a rubberized material used to keep me-chanics’ tools from sliding off aircrafts.

• Honorable mention, $500, Kyle Wasserman, Shawn Kluck and Kyle Keiser — Whitetail Mow-ing LLC, an independent attachable string-trimming device that is mounted on a zero-turn mower.


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