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Beauty and obscenity grace the stage

Arts and Life, A6

Quarterback battle wages on this week at Syracuse

Sports, A5

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The $235,000 grant will help UT make the river a more suitable aquatic habitat for fish.

Ottawa River grant to help sustain wildlifeBy Casey CheapIC News Editor

The 3,700-foot stretch of the Ottawa River that runs through Main Campus will have a differ-ent look by August of 2012.

A $235,000 grant from the Ohio Environmental Protec-tion Agency will be used to clean up a large section of the river.

This grant will allow UT to clear out some of the dead trees along the river, making a more beneficial environment for the wildlife.

UT will also make in-stream

habitats using natural stone and tree trunk-like material to create shelters for fish swim-ming in the river and adjust rock placement to alter the flow of the river.

Patrick Lawrence, chair of the Department of Geography and Planning, said one of the goals of construction along the river is to make the water rip-ple more, creating a better aquatic habitat.

“Right now there is not a lot of diversity in the river’s habi-tats,” he said. “We want to rec-reate some of the river’s natu-ral habitats and diversify

species.”Phase one of the grant was

originally to just address a sec-tion of the river near Savage Arena.

“We got a grant from the Stra-nahan Foundation, had plan-ning from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and had addition-al funding from U.S. Fish and Wildlife [Service],” Lawrence.

The annual grant from the Ohio EPA will be used to ex-pand upon a previous grant from the Stranahan Founda-tion awarded two years ago.

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Jazzing up UT

World-renowned trumpet player Wynton Marsalis, the sixth speaker in the Shapiro Lecture Series, spoke about the importance of remembering America’s roots through music. yesterday.

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Dismantled bookshelves are left on the second floor of Carlson Library. The shelves are set to be replaced by study and collaboration areas.

Library renovations underwayBy Sura KhuderIC Features Editor

The renovations happening on the second floor of the Carlson Library have left many students, faculty and staff with unan-swered questions.

According to Benjamin Pryor, vice provost and dean of the Col-lege of Innovative Learning, uni-versity libraries, and learning ventures, the second floor reno-vations are in response to the depressing shape the floor was in when he saw it last January.

“Our library has to be some-thing we can really show off,” he said. “Libraries are things stu-dents look at when they come to an institution; they are things that parents look at when they come to an institution. I wouldn’t go to the University of Toledo if I saw what I saw in January.”

The renovations to the second floor will occur in three phases. Plans in the first phase are final and are set for completion tenta-tively by Spring 2012. The second phase is less set in stone, but will be a center of innovative design and technology according to Pry-or with plans to be completed by the middle of 2013.

The third phase is anticipated to include renovations that will create a balcony overlooking the first floor of the library and a bridge linking the second floor of the library to the second floor of the Student Union Building. Pry-or said the last phase still has many details to be worked out.

“The goal is to be responsive and collaborative and get ideas from people. I can’t, however, go

Author of First Read book encourages persistenceBy Jennifer IsonIC Staff Writer

When author Ron Currie Jr. first took the stage at Doer-mann Theatre, he told the audience, “I am a paid liar,” referring to his career.

Currie Jr. visited the Uni-versity of Toledo Tuesday to

speak to the freshman class.

He discussed his latest book,

“Everything Matters,” as a

part of UT’s annual First

Read program.

He wrote the book based

on experiences from his own

life as an adolescent with

one large exception. Junior,

the main character, knows

when the world will end and

he wonders, “does anything I

do matter?”

He admitted he experi-

enced writer’s block when

preparing for the speech,

saying he couldn’t advocate

the value of higher education

as a college drop out.

“Oh, delicious irony,” he

said.

After going back and forth

between praising higher edu-

cation and bashing it, Currie

Jr. settled on speaking about

the message he hoped the

b o o k c o n v e y e d

-- persistence.

“Junior must persist like I

needed to persist in my own

life,” Currie Jr. said.

Currie Jr. went on to dis-

cuss some of the situations

he found himself in that re-

quired persistence through-

out his life including two

stays in a hospital ward for depression and suicidal thoughts, the death of his fa-ther and the seemingly con-stant rejection of his writing.

“But we persisted, he and I,” Currie Jr. said, referring to

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Lawrence said money from the Ohio EPA is actually fed-eral money that the state dis-perses for local projects.

Lawrence said the work will only take about two week; but because of some of the pre-construction plan-ning, construction on the riv-er will not start until Aug. 2012.

Lawrence wanted to stress that although there would be construction along the river, there would not be rerouting of the river channel because the current bank structure offers flood control.

“We are not going to move the river channel or any-thing,” he said. “Back in the 1940s and 1950s, the river

used to flood until the river was diked in 1960.”

He said much of the con-struction on the river is going to be carried out by subcon-tractors and professionals, but the department of geog-raphy and planning is in charge of the grant money.

“Some of the people work-ing on this are graduate stu-dents from the department of geography and planning and from the department of envi-ronmental sciences,” he said.

The month of August was selected because it will be a relatively calm time of year before the fall semester starts, fish migration and spawning will be minimal and the river will be relative-ly low.

There has been relatively little work done on the river

since 1960. “There was a de-sign report done in 1981, but there was no follow-up done on that,” he said. “ It wasn’t until former UT President Don Johnson formed the President’s Commission on the River in 2005 that there has been progress.”

The grant also came just in time for the “Celebrate Our River Week” on campus last week.

Lawrence said 196 volun-teers helped clean up the stretch of the Ottawa river that runs through Main Cam-pus and river about 650 peo-ple volunteered to clean the river throughout other parts of Toledo.

“We are working to do our share on campus to address water quality of the river,” he said.

Junior.At 25, Currie Jr. said he

saw himself working as a “lifer” in a restaurant if he didn’t make a change. He promised himself if he couldn’t sell a story by the time he turned 26, he would give up writing.

He then threw himself into his writing with seriousness like never before.

“I spent days and evenings working in restaurants and wrote all night, every night,” he said.

A few weeks before his 26th birthday, his persistence paid off.

He was hired by Carve Magazine, an online publica-tion and shortly after, Pen-

guin Books of New York pub-lished “God is Dead.”

It was the first time Currie Jr. experienced happiness and contentment. He real-ized life was important and things do matter.

He closed the speech by thanking the audience not for coming, but for staying.

“This has been like the aca-demic equivalent to a gun at your back, being forced to attend for a class,” he said.

Nick Mondelli, a freshman majoring in English, said he thought the presentation by Currie Jr. was more down-to-Earth than he expected.

“I thought the book was very good. Pessimistic, I guess in a way. I think from just like a literature aspect, it’s deeper than it kind of

makes itself out to be,” Mon-delli said.

Liz Pickett, a freshman ma-joring in biochemical engi-neering, said she had not read the book prior to Currie Jr.’s speech and only attend-ed the speech because she was required to.

“I actually thought it was going to be something about chemistry so it was surpris-ing,” she said. “I want to read the book now.”

According to the Office of Student Involvement, the First Read Program brings incoming students together to provide a common reading experience. Activities are de-signed to engage students in stimulating and intellectual discussions and strengthen critical thinking skills.

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Author of “Everything Matters” Ron Currie Jr. speaks to students on Tuesday. His book was this year’s selection for UT’s annual First Read Program.

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back to what the library once was,” he said. “We have to look at libraries that have looked towards the future.”

The renovations occurring during the first and second phase are anticipated to cost anywhere from $1 to 3 million. The money will come from the university’s capital budget. The $63 library fee introduced last year to student’s bills will indirectly fund the project, since the money from the fee is pooled into the general fund of the university.

“Libraries are expensive, and at every university, librar-ies are called ‘cost centers,’ not ‘revenue centers,’” Pryor said. “My thinking is that if a library fee allows us to invest in renovation, in new equip-ment for students and elec-tronic resources that faculty need, then the library fee is being well spent.”

First PhaseCurrently the second floor is

undergoing the first phase of renovations. This plan includes

building more group study rooms, learning spaces for col-laboration and study and art centers for student display.

Group study rooms will in-clude flat-screen monitors for projecting work on.

The writing studio on the third floor will be moved per-manently to the second floor

A collaboration center will be created to allow students in different disciplines to collabo-rate on ideas and work on proj-ects together.

“I want to see a place where the student who is interested in sociology or business is en-couraged to work with stu-dents who are in physics or chemistry, which neither of them in their separate world would have a place to do [this in],” Pryor said.

Pryor said he is not under the impression that by building a space, collaboration will magically occur.

“We’ll see. The worst that could happen is we end up with a really nice learning envi-ronment,” he said.

Second PhasePlans for the second phase

are still open for discussion between faculty and students but will essentially involve in-stalling high-tech equipment, including computers and SMART Boards.

“I don’t think we have suffi-cient space at this university where students have access to higher end technologies that they can use for projects that are not classroom specific,” Pryor said.

The eventual amount of funding available towards the second phase will determine the extent of this project.

Third Phase“Imagine a big hole in the

floor where the first and sec-ond floor can talk to each oth-er,” Pryor said.

The third phase of the reno-vations will include a patio that will look down on the second floor of the library and is meant to create open space.

The project is expected to include a bridge connecting the second floor of the Carlson library with the second floor of the Student Union Building.

Pryor said many universities across the country deliberately integrate student unions and libraries because both are so-

cial and learning places. Some students interviewed

were not happy with the price of the library renovations.

Brenton Boitse, a senior ma-joring in biology, said it was fis-cal irresponsibility and the uni-versity should not be spending student’s money on this project when tuition and fees went up this year.

“UT needs to act like it’s broke,” he said. “If it has, three dollars it should not spend five.”

Boitse thinks the university has more pressing projects at hand.

“The library doesn’t need to be renovated. If anything [Uni-versity Hall] does; it’s the sym-bol of our university and it’s falling apart,” he said.

Other students said, however, the second floor needs to be renovated.

Erin Nichols, a junior major-ing in mechanical engineering, said she liked the plan, pointing to the walkway leading the Stu-dent Union Building to the li-brary as being helpful especial-ly when it’s cold outside.

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Have you met TED?If you are unfamiliar with the

annual Technology, Entertain-ment and Design conference, or TEDx, then you are missing out on a great organization.

TED began in the 1980s as a conference that invited experts to speak from the three title

fields. To-day, it has grown into something much big-ger — TED has turned into an in-ternational force of good.

TED continually gives me

hope for the future. People from all disciplines and back-grounds come to the annual conference to share their ideas. Speakers range from the well-known such as Al Gore and Bill Gates to the obscure.

Subjects from sustainable ar-chitecture and agriculture, mar-keting and medicine, to war and zoology are fair game.

One talk features John Fran-cis, who witnessed two oil tank-ers collide near the Golden Gate Bridge. He was so disturbed by this experience, he went 17 years without speaking or using motorized transportation.

He earned his PhD in envi-ronmental science, and wrote to the university to let them know that he’d be there in about two years — long walk.

He taught a discussion class entirely through sign language. The horror-struck student got used to his “speaking style,” and it was filled to capacity the next semester. John began writing about oil spills when no one else in the country was.

After the Exxon Valdez oil di-saster, he wrote regulations on oil spills. John now speaks and drives to share his amazing sto-ry, which was one of my favor-ite TED talks.

The annual TED conference is so popular, it costs thousands of dollars to attend, but the talks are available on TED.com for free. A new one is released every weekday.

After religiously watching TED talks for over two years, I

have watched over 500 of the 1000 plus talks available. I made a promise to watch every new talk regardless of the title — I figured even if the subject seemed uninteresting, I would still learn something or gain an-other perspective.

TED strives to make their ideas as accessible as possible. All of the talks get translated into a variety of languages. TED supports independently orga-nized conferences that keep the same format.

While TED tackles global is-sues, TEDx events allow the conference to be focused. There have been TEDx’s on in-dividual topics like health or education and others dedicated to local stories.

Bowling Green State Univer-sity recently hosted their first TEDx event. I was able to

attend and was very impressed with the quality of the conference.

The day consisted of 20 speakers; each speaker was al-lotted 18 minutes to tell their stories. None of the presenters were professional speakers. Some touched on too many ideas, while neglecting to pres-ent any take-away message. Some of the speakers were fan-tastic—they had focused ideas that were engaging and entertaining.

One speaker described her efforts to portray a realistic and healthy image of women by standing in Times Square wear-ing a bathing suit on national television; another shared his happiness of forgetting his de-gree and pursuing a career in comedy.

A local Toledo man talked about his youth-centered urban agriculture program in which teens that have been prone to violence discover nurturing ac-tions can yield better results than bravado and macho-ness.

I left Bowling Green full of thoughts. I could see why TED is often described as a life changing event. I felt resolved to do some good in this world and leave it a little bit better.

I whole-heartedly recom-mend going to TED.com and checking out some of the talks. I cannot wait until Toledo orga-nizes their first TEDx event.

— Braeden Gilchrist is an IC columnist majoring in me-chanical engineering at UT.

If UT’s objective this year was to “go green,” then most of us must have misun-derstood the message. The first assump-tion would be that UT plans to move to-ward a more eco-friendly campus environ-ment. Instead, UT hopes to spend the “green” we thought they didn’t have.

UT has once again revealed a new cam-pus project to throw money at. The sec-ond floor of Carlson Library will eventual-ly be a place for classrooms and collabora-tion for students and faculty alike. Stu-dents can come together to study, work on projects or meet for discussion — in other words, socialize.

Only a portion of this project will cost $1 to $3 million. The rest of the costs are yet to be determined.

If UT wants to fund our social lives, then so be it — as long as they figure out the educational side first. College students can be social on their own. The universi-ty’s primary job is to provide a place of education and leadership development for students.

Libraries were once the place to go for quiet studying; however, the lines between a library and the role of a student union, where socialization normally occurs, have been blurred.

Socialization is what our generation thrives on. Usually, such things are fine to do outside of the classroom, in places such as Student Union Building.

In the recent years, libraries have be-come the hang out spots for teens and young adults. If you’re not allowed to talk, you can find a group study room. If no rooms are available, you can whisper, or as some people are prone to do, text each other in “quiet” conversations.

Libraries were once the place to go for quiet study or reading sessions. UT could potentially mock the original purpose by creating a scenic location for learning and an easy access tunnel stretching from the

library’s second floor to the Student Union. How can students be taught to focus

more on their studies outside the class-room when so many distractions are around them? Every building on campus has tables or chairs where students can sit to socialize with friends or take a break during their day.

The chances are highly unlikely that ev-ery single chair will be occupied on cam-pus. If so, there are always venues off campus to socialize.

With lives are filled with things to do and people to see, this generation has lost fo-cus on how to study. The last thing the average student wants to do is stick their head in a book for two or three hours look-ing over terms, formulas and theories.

Professors want to encourage students to make studying a more beneficial experi-ence, but that includes taking it seriously. How many students will be focusing and studying to their full potential if people around them aren’t being quiet?

What students should do is buckle down and try to determine what environment is best for studying, whether it’s in a dorm room or in a little corner of Memorial Field House.

If the library is your choice, try to return it back to its former glory — a quiet place to study and work only. Be respectful of your peers in the library and use your time wisely by focusing on what’s in front of you.

Understand that your professional atti-tude in the classroom as well as outside of it says a lot about your character. That in-cludes how you prioritize your time.

With better grades and a more balanced lifestyle, students’ work life and social life will prosper.

Issue 2, if not defeated, would carry dire conse-quences for every person attending the University of Toledo, as well as every oth-er student in the state of Ohio.

It would also have crip-pling effects on the demo-cratic process and econom-ic situation for Ohioans and potentially the entire country.

Issue two, originally forced through the state government by John Kasich as Senate Bill 5, removes the rights of state employ-ees to bargain collectively for their contracts.

Without this ability, em-ployees will be at the mercy of their employers in re-gards to benefits and pay rates.

This attack on our public workers is a two-pronged assault in service of secur-ing Kasich’s far-right vision for the state. The most obvi-ous effect will be the rapid degradation of not only edu-cation, but all public servic-es in Ohio.

Perhaps even more sinis-ter is that with the state unions eviscerated, there will be no counter-balance to the influence of corpo-rate money in subsequent elections, ensuring an un-fair, undemocratic

advantage for Kasich and his corporate allies to con-tinue tightening their grip on control.

The governor and those behind SB5/Issue 2 are not pushing for any kind of pragmatic approach to state budget concerns, as they think us naïve enough to believe.

What they are pushing is a dangerous ideology of ex-treme social and economic stratification--a world where a small handful of the obscenely wealthy live on the backs of the impover-ished masses, and insurance for those at the top against the threat of democratic ac-tion bringing about socio-economic equality.

Unions in the education and service sector are an important line of defense because they are in posi-tions that cannot be easily outsourced to impoverished people in other countries.

If Nike can’t get child la-bor at twenty-cents an hour here in the U.S., they simply move the factory to some-where they can.

If teachers here in the U.S. refuse to work for sub-par wages, they’re not so easy to bypass (though the ongo-ing proliferation of web-based classes is perhaps making some headway on

that issue). There are important long-

term implications here. We risk doing to American pub-lic service what we’ve al-ready done to American manufacturing. It is one thing to subject ourselves to cheap, low quality, manufac-tured products. It’s quite an-other to accept cheap, low quality education and public services.

Anyone who’s been em-ployed in a low wage job understands all too well the kind of work attitude that comes with feeling under-paid and underappreciated.

This is not an acceptable path for one of the finest education systems in the world.

Issue 2 lowers the quality of our education system and diminishes the value of our degrees.

It sells out our students, educators, public servants and the hopes for a fulfill-ing, secure future, the bene-fit of the wealthiest few and stifles the ability for those hoping to ever make better lives for themselves and their communities. Vote “No” on Issue 2.

— Steve Hallock Toledo, OH

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In response to the re-cent article published in the September 19, 2011 is-sue regarding the proposed revisions to the College of Natural Sciences and Math-ematics curriculum, we wish to make the following statement.

The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (CNSM) includes five de-partments--Biological Sci-ences, Chemistry, Environ-mental Sciences, Mathe-matics and Statistics, and Physics and Astronomy-- that were part of the for-mer College of Arts and Sciences.

Currently, students in majors within the CNSM are following the old Arts and Sciences requirements until a new college curricu-lum is developed and ap-proved through the normal faculty processes. As a new college, we have been presented with an op-portunity create a curricu-lum that provides greater flexibility for our students, while still exposing stu-dents to the breadth of knowledge that is impor-tant in our global society.

Our goal in creating this new curriculum is not to

eliminate anything, but rather to build a curricu-lum that best meets the needs of our students and provides them with the best preparation and op-portunity for success in their chosen fields.

In this model, our goal is to minimize the number of college-level requirements imposed upon students who are pursuing a B.S. degree. Many of these stu-dents have intentions of pursuing graduate or pro-fessional degrees.

We believe that our ap-proach will allow individu-al departments and pro-grams within departments, who have specialized knowledge about the route to success in these techni-cal fields, to develop a cur-riculum that best meets the needs and goals of their students.

We have also maintained the option of B.A. degrees within the college, which will be structured to pro-vide students with a more traditional Liberal Arts de-gree, again providing our students with more flexi-bility and choice to prepare for their specific career goals.

We assure you that these changes are not being made without careful thought and discussions by our fac-ulty, including feedback from students who have re-quested greater flexibility to take the advanced cours-es that are important for placement in professional schools--medical, dental and veterinary--and high-quality graduate programs.

By no means does the new curriculum preclude or discourage students from taking any available courses that interest them, including foreign languag-es; and in fact, students will be encouraged to pur-sue areas that will provide them with cultural diversity.

It is our desire to create a strong science and math curriculum that will give students the critical think-ing and analytical skills needed to be competitive in future job markets.

— Karen Bjorkman and Brian Ashburner

Dean and Associate Dean of the College of Natural Sci-ence and Mathematics

BraedenGilchrist

Even after the price of books and rising tuition, the students of UT have big hearts and are not afraid to support charity. Of course, social responsibility encourages citizens to take part in community events. However, some Toledo students had a much larger goal.

Currently, Somalia is in a state of debt and emotional turmoil. The lack of funds has forced many in the country to stay put. In other words, they’re not allowed to leave the country peacefully, so they just don’t leave.

The White House announced last Thurs-day that they were donating $30 million in U.S. currency in order to help the thou-sands of Somali refugees have better ac-cess to health and nutrition at camps they’ve successfully traveled to.

UT students, who feel that it’s unconsti-tutional to force someone to stay in their country wanted to help out. They’ve orga-nized fundraisers to raise money for the country and the refugee camps for Somali people in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Somalia, located on the east coast of Af-rica, has had little to no central govern-ment since 1991, when militia took over the former government parties. Southern Somalia has been in connection with Al Qaeda since late 2007.

Recently, the fearsome Islamic group has stepped back, creating a violent, chaotic mess while leaving everyone wondering who will run the country and return it to a balanced economy. With a drought this past summer and wars raging in the streets, the country is a poverty stricken nation that has lost all humanistic attributes.

Is it okay for students to associate them-selves with a country that had connections with a despised terrorist group? Looking at the big picture, the majority of Somali people are not Al Qaeda related, they were simply taken over by the Al Qaeda.

UT students have come together for worldwide efforts before, such as the di-saster relief in Haiti.

The goal for student organizations should be not only to improve campus rec-ognition and group funds available for “fun money,” but they should also put forth ef-forts to do some good for surrounding areas.

By understanding what their community needs and meeting those needs without asking for anything in return, students will learn the importance of social responsibil-ity and what it means to others in this struggling economy.

Responding to a foreign cry

While TED tackles global is-

sues, TEDx events allow the conference to be

focused.

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www.IndependentCollegian.com Joe Mehling — Editor

We just got to go out there and do what To-

ledo does. We need to make plays to be successful.Terrance OwensUT Junior Quarterback ”“

Quarterback battle wages on this week at Syracuse

File Photos by Nick Kneer

University of Toledo quarterbacks Austin Dantin and Terrance Owens will continue platooning under center as they face off against Big East foe Syracuse at the Carrier Dome this Saturday.

By Nate PentecostIC Assistant Sports Editor

Following back-to-back losses to then No. 18 Ohio State and No. 4 Boise State, the Rockets will close out a grueling non-conference schedule this Saturday when they head to the Carrier Dome to clash with the Syracuse Orange.

Last week Toledo found it-self severely overmatched as senior quarterback Kellen Moore led Boise State to a 40-15 trampling of the Rockets at the Glass Bowl. By night’s end the Heisman hopeful torched Toledo for 455 yards and five scores.

“They made the plays,” said UT head coach Tim Beckman. “Their quarterback made the

plays, and our offense and defense did not.”

The Broncos (2-0) defense also shutdown Toledo’s two-headed quarterback attack. Duel-threat Terrance Owens was held to 201 yards on just 17-of-31 passing and only 18 yards rushing.

Austin Dantin was rendered largely ineffective in limited playing time, and in addition to a coughing up the ball in the red zone, he completed just 3-of-8 passes for 50 yards and a touchdown.

“Austin was a little bit off throwing the football,” Beck-man said. “And we knew it was going to be hard to run the football on their front four. We just decided as a coaching staff that T.O. might

give us a little bit more throw-ing the football.”

On the ground, the Rockets finished with just 98 yards on 3.3 yards per attempt. Leading rusher Adonis Thomas (227 yards on 6.1 yards per carry) was held to 65 yards in the contest, though he did rumble his way to pay dirt in garbage time for his third touchdown of the season.

The secondary obviously faltered against Boise State, and they will need a quick turnaround in order to con-tain Syracuse senior quarter-back Ryan Nassib. Nassib has completed over 70 percent of his throws on the season, posting seven touchdowns against one interception.

The Orange were soundly

defeated 38-17 by USC (3-0) last weekend but Nassib man-aged to record impressive numbers against a solid Tro-jans defense, completing 25-of-37 passes for 230 yards and a touchdown.

“He has an extremely strong arm,” Beckman said. “And he’s a very competitive guy.”

That touchdown went to ju-nior wide out Alec Lemon who ended the contest with 72 yards on seven receptions.

With a team-best 24 catches on the year Lemon has emerged as the Orange’s go-to receiver, but the Rockets will also need to account for deep threat Van Chew who is aver-aging 16 yards a catch and leads the club with three touchdowns.

The potent Syracuse pass-ing attack will challenge a banged up Rockets secondary from start to finish.

For a third consecutive game Toledo will be without junior linebacker Dan Molls, the nation’s tenth-leading tackler from last season, but the defensive unit should still have a manageable task in stopping the Orange on the ground.

Leading carrier Antwon Bai-ley has racked up 204 yards on 49 carries (4.1 yards per carry) but Syracuse has rushed for under 80 yards per game on the season, register-ing just three yards per carry in their first three games.

On the other side of the ball, there is no doubt Syracuse

struggled. In week one the Orange were punished through the air by Wake For-est’s three touchdowns on nearly 300 yards passing.

Last week against the Tro-jans, Syracuse was again ill-equipped defensively, finding itself on the business end of quarterback Matt Barkley’s 324 yard, five touchdown performance.

To add insult to injury, the Orange also surrendered 175 rushing yards to USC.

“We just got to go out there and do what Toledo does,” Owens said. “We need to make plays to be successful.”

With both teams relying on the passing game, points should come in bunches this Saturday at the Carrier Dome.

Kirthmon F. Dozier/Detroit Free Press/MCT

Hockey is HerePavel Datsyuk and the Red Wings opened the 2011 preseason last night with a 3-2 loss in Pittsburgh. The Wings play again tonight at 7 p.m. at the Philadelphia Flyers.

ArtsandLifeThursday, September 22, 2011

www.IndependentCollegian.com Megan Aherne – EditorPage 6

ThursdayMickey Finn’s Pub -

Shades of Red (hardcore)

featuring Fight It Out at 8:30

p.m.

Owens Community Col-

lege – Taming of the Shrew.

Shakespeare’s classic with a

Wild West flair at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $20 for general

admission, $10 for students.

FridayHeadliners – Circa Survive

with Maps & Atlases and

States at 7 p.m. Circa Survive

is an American progressive

rock band that has received

critical acclaim and main-

stream success. Tickets are

$17 in advance.

SaturdayFrankies Inner City –

Blood of the Prophets featur-

ing Organism, Vivian Banks,

New Found Element, Killer

Kadoogan and Vanquish the

Populace. Local band Blood

of the Prophets is almost fin-

ished with their new album

and may be playing some

tracks off it at the show. Tick-

ets are $5 over 21, $7 under

21. Show starts at 8:00 p.m.

SundayThe Ottawa Tavern –

Netherfriends will be playing

starting at 10:00 p.m.

Frankies Inner City –

Thick as Blood with Legend,

The Pilot In You, The Air I

Breathe and Miracle At St.

Anna. This is a hardcore

show starting at 5:00 p.m.

Tickets are $10 in advance.

MondayToledo-Lucas County

Public Library – Film FO-

CUS, An Independent Film

Festival showing the docu-

mentary “These Amazing

Shadows”

Aroundtown

Sept.22-Sept 26

Beauty and obscenity grace the stage

Nick Kneer / IC

Aggie Alt, Angelica Alby-Gabara, Qarie Marshall, Ernest Green and Nikki Solder fighting and tempting in “God’s Ear.”

By Lynnette BatesIC Staff Writer

The accidental death of a young son throws his family into a downward spiral of grief in the Glacity Theatre Collective’s production of Jenny Schwartz’ “God’s Ear,” directed by Irene Alby.

The intimate theatrical space of Studio A at the Valen-tine Theatre lent itself to this production quite well, aside from a few brief moments when visibility was compromised.

The cast of this production was excellent, from profes-sional actors Dave DeChristo-pher and Qarie Marshall to the young daughter of the di-rector, Angelica Alby-Gabara.

“God’s Ear” depicts the vari-ous — and sometimes dan-gerous — ways in which peo-ple try to cope with their own

distress.The show was both heart-

breaking and darkly comedic as Schwartz expertly manipu-lated language to force the audience to think.

Entire conversations were repeated during the play, leav-ing one with the impression that a great indeterminate amount of time was passing in what seemed mere mo-ments. These characters were finding solace in the mundane.

The use of cell phones in the production made it obvi-ous that Mel, played by Aggie Alt, and Ted, played by Mar-shall, were never actually communicating about anything.

Each character would be talking about one thing, while doing something completely different and all the while no

We Came As Romans and left average

Courtesy of www.wecameasromans.comCover art of We Came As Romans’ new release “Understanding What We’ve Grown To Be.” The album is available in stores now.

By Danielle GambleIC Copy Editor

Screamo music is generally an acquired taste.

As a friend of mine says, “You either hate it or it’s the only thing you listen to.”

If this is the rule, then the band We Came As Romans is an exception.

This band from Troy, Mich. released their second album entitled, “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be” Sept. 13. The band has been facing a major upswing this year, as they performed for the entire-ty of the Vans Warped Tour and headlined Scream It Like You Mean It European Tour.

The album opens with “Mis//Understanding”, a slightly mel-ancholy song with edge pro-vided by screaming interludes. These sets up the sound for the rest of the album, making it feel repetitive at times.

‘Drive’ to theaters

Ollivier-Calo-MF/Abaca Press/MCTNicolas Winding Refn, right, and Ryan Gosling pose for portrait at the Winners Photocall of the 64th Cannes In-ternational Film Festival, at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, southern France on May 22, 2011.

By Max PeltierIC Staff Writer

“Drive” follows the every-day life of Driver, played by Ryan Gosling, as he works as a stunt driver, a mechanic and moonlights as a get-away driver for criminals with Bryan Cranston as Shannon, his manager.

In the movie, Driver be-comes emotionally involved with his neighbor Irene, played by Cary Mulligan, and Shannon gets financial-ly involved with two small time crooks, Bernie Rose and Nino, played by Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman respectively.

Due to some bad luck, Driver gets stuck in a situa-tion that rapidly spirals down and tests his calm demeanor.

“Drive” is a minimalist movie in many respects.

There are long takes where it seems that not much is happen-ing, the music is r a t h e r s i m p l e and the story is basic. All of these t h i n g s are com-bined to make a slow, methodical film that does not drag and is far from boring.

The chases, although very short, are masterfully craft-ed and reminiscent of other auto movies such as “Bul-litt,” where cars were cars and not computer gener-ated models.

The cinematographer organized shots so well that any frame of the movie could be printed out and hung as a photograph.

Unlike many movies, “Drive” makes every single action matter.

Whenever a car crashes or a gun is shot, the moment is jarring and feels real.

For example, there is a scene where someone gets shot and everyone

is expecting it. Yet, when it happens it is nearly impossi-ble not to jump.

There is no movie magic in this film that allows charac-ters to be shot and walk away. Because of this, every-one in the movie seems vul-nerable and close to death.

When it comes to the act-ing, there seems to be a slight sense of detachment in some of the characters. This works for the movie, and I would argue that Gosling’s re-served performance is a blank canvas for the audi-ence to project their ideas onto his character. He can be perceived as a shy indi-vidual, but he can also be thought of as confident and calculating.

The cast is filled with stars, yet none of them steal

the show. They all give very good performanc-es that fit the picture very well.

The direc-tor, Nicolas Winding Re-fn, is an artist who should be better known at this point in time. Other than “Drive,” he

has directed several great movies such as the fantastic crime trilogy “Pusher” and the shocking and stylistical-ly interesting “Bronson.”

Refn has great aesthetics and cinematography that make his movies distinctive.

I found the way in which “Drive” focuses on master-ing the minimalist style to be really amazing.

It is not the action packed movie that many may expect, but I think that is a good thing. As opposed to having the constant cut-ting and action to keep the viewer’s attention, it focus-es on pulling the audience into the world in which Driver operates.

I would definitely rec-ommend seeing this movie.

DriveRating

Starring

GradeRRyan Gosling, Ron Perlman, Bryan Cranston

A

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one ever spoke truthfully about anything.

This denial of their grief led these characters down a dark path of escapism involving ex-tramarital affairs and possible hallucinations.

The presence of the Tooth Fairy, played by DeChristopher, and a G.I. Joe, Phillip Taylor, may be physical manifestations of Mel’s conscience or perhaps these childish figures were meant to symbolize Mel’s feel-ings about her lost son.

G.I. Joe offered an interest-ing concept. He was buried in the ground and then escaped. It could be that his life after death embodiment represents Mel’s own wish that her son could still be alive.

Whether it was authorial or directorial decisions to have a man play the Tooth Fairy, I do not know, but either way, it was fabulous.

DeChristopher played the part perfectly and was both endearing and a bit foreboding.

Nikki Soldner and Ernest Green had amazing stage pres-ence as the dark forces drag-ging Ted further and further in-to his own sorrow.

An older woman that was seated in front of me was less than thrilled with Act I. After a hushed exclamation of, “The devil wrote this!” during inter-mission, she discretely found her way to the door and never came back.

This woman never got to un-derstand the truth and necessi-ty of the offensive moments in Act I because she skipped out on Act II.

If there is one thing I’ve learned, it is that the most crude, obscene and shocking images can be the most power-ful and even the most

beautiful.Life is not always happy, po-

litically correct or proper. As art is an expression of the hu-man condition, it cannot ignore ugliness and despair.

Act I shows the very fiber of a family torn apart by death and it isn’t until Act II that we begin to truly understand why things in Act I were so extreme.

After the show, I found my-self contemplating the title. God is not exactly a focal point of the show and yet the name is in the title.

Despite barely acknowledg-ing the existence of a god, the characters’ actions and lines seemed prayers in themselves.

The characters were floun-dering about trying to distance themselves from the death of their son and, in effect, they were crying out for something bigger than themselves to lift

them out of their own sadness.In the end, it was the voice of

a small child that brought an ounce of peace to the room full of chaos and created a spark of hope in both her parents and the audience.

Glacity’s production of “God’s Ear” is a must see to anyone--not only those involved in theatre, but those who wish to view life from a different perspective.

This weekend will be the last run of “God’s Ear.” Tickets are available at the Valentine The-atre’s online box office, as well as at the door the evening of the show.

Admission is $22 at the door and student rush tickets are available for $5 with a college ID, five minutes before the show begins. Sundays are pay-what-you-can.

Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sun-day at 2:00 p.m.

Songs like “What I Wished I Never Had” are livelier and help to break up the gloomy atmosphere. The album doesn’t entirely pick up until almost the end. The songs “What My Heart Held,” “I Can’t Make Your Decisions For You” and the title track are the high-light of the album.

Instead of filling the songs with guitar riffs, the drummer has the most creative lines in the music. The songs seem to be rhythmically-driven rather than melodically inventive.

Also, this album seems to be geared toward audio effects, especially reverb. These ef-fects work mostly to the group’s advantage, but some-times the songs sound hazy and over-processed.

According to their website, the band is very proud of their lyrics. They lean toward an upbeat message, something that is more evident in their

first album, “To Plant a Seed.” While the lyrics are decently inventive, this album sounds like the band is trying to stay true to their happy roots but is struggling with inner-turmoil.

Overall, “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be” is an interesting, but unimpressive album. It is an average album with average lyrics and aver-age chord changes. I don’t stress purchasing this album, but if you would like to see the best of We Came As Romans, I suggest you check out “To Plant a Seed.” They might have arrived as Romans, but they left something to be desired.

My Rating: C

“Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be” is available na-tionwide in stores like Hot Topic, Best Buy and FYE, as well as online at the band’s website www.wecameasro-mans.com.