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Rockets throttle Charlotte, to host USC for WNIT Title

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Portrait of a UT author

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Championship boundThe Rockets celebrate after head coach Tricia Cullop (right) announces they will host USC in the WNIT Championship game at 3 p.m. on Saturday. UT beat Charlotte 83-60 last night in front of 7,020 fans. There will be 1,200 free student tickets courtesy of the Office of the President. The student tickets are available at the ticket office starting at 2 p.m. tomorrow with a student ID.

SB 5 Awaits Kasich’s signatureBy IC Staff

Senate Bill 5 is waiting for Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s signa-ture in order to become law.

The Ohio House approved the amended bill yesterday after-noon by a vote of 53 to 44.

The senate also approved changes made to the bill by a 17 to 16 vote.

Opponents of the bill are de-termined to gather 230,000 sig-natures to get the measure up for a vote of the people.

If Kasich signs the bill into law before April 6, it will go on the November ballot.

Chairman of the Ohio Demo-cratic Party Chris Redfern said in a press release, “[Yesterday], the Republicans in the legisla-ture defied the will of the people by passing a bill that will weak-en the middle class, kill jobs and destroy communities. But the people –and not John Kasich- will have the final say.”

Moments after the bill was passed, “kill the bill” chants and boos from spectators filled the House chamber.

Kasich has said his $5.5 billion budget plan counts on savings from “lifting union protections” to fill the $8 billion budget gap.

Kasich’s Disapproval Rating Grows

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According to a Quinnipiac University Poll, Gov. John Kasich has seen his dissaproval rating rise from 22 to 46 percent since January.

By Casey CheapIC Staff Writer

The mid-term elections of 2010 were groundbreaking for Republicans, who most notably took back the U.S. House of Representatives and several state governorships.

Republicans claim the big vic-tories occurred in 2010 mostly due to President Barack Obama’s policies, whereas Dem-ocrats are quick to point out the elections reflected an anti-in-cumbent sentiment.

In Ohio, former Gov. Ted Strickland, who was Democrat-ic, was ousted, and Gov. John Kasich was instated as his successor.

But Kasich’s first term has not been as smooth as some Ohio-ans would have hoped.

A Quinnipiac University Poll released March 23 shows the governor’s approval rating at 30 percent, which has remained flat since January.

However, the number of Ohio-ans who disapprove of Kasich has spiked from 22 to 46 percent in the same amount of time.

Some speculate much of the disapproval can be blamed on the Ohio Senate Bill 5, which will take away collective bar-gaining rights from public employees.

Sarah Hallsky, a health educa-tion doctoral student at UT, dis-cussed her feelings on Kasich in an interview with the Indepen-dent Collegian.

“I find it interesting that peo-ple who did vote for him no lon-ger favor him,” Hallsky said. “Where did his supporters go? I just don’t think he was right for the state of Ohio.”

Hallsky said she did not vote for Kasich and does not support him for reasons other than SB 5.

“He is doing things such as privatizing toll roads, and the fact that he does not believe in high-speed rail for Ohio,” Hall-sky said.

Hallsky said she believes a high-speed rail would be good for the state, especially as the price of fuel inches toward four dollars per gallon in Ohio and much of the nation.

Hallsky believes Kasich is not looking out for Ohioans, and his proposed cuts to education might have been too overreaching.

“Everyone is affected by SB 5,” she said. “Who doesn’t have a public service worker, a teacher, a firefighter, a police officer, or other government employee somewhere in their family? No one goes into these professions to get rich. They go into public

service because they feel com-pelled to do so, devoting their livelihood, sometimes giving their lives, and in return they have good pensions and other benefits. Who would want to go into a profession with low wag-es, no benefits and no ability to bargain for better conditions?”

Hallsky said she hopes Kasich only serves for one term.

But Brian Anse Patrick, pro-fessor of communication at UT, has a different take on Kasich.

“I think he knows a lot more than I do,” Patrick said, referring to the availability of budget in-formation. “But this SB 5 is like living in a cartoon world where blame over complicated issues has been arbitrarily assigned to professors, teachers and unions. ‘Administration good! Teachers bad!’ This is not a sensible policy.”

Patrick said Kasich has to ap-peal to his base of political sup-port, and not everyone is going to be happy because of how po-larized politics have become.

“Regardless of what he does, someone is going to be unhap-py,” Patrick said. “If we want to address some of the real prob-lems in education, we should look at the privileges and the many wasteful programs that

— Kasich, Page A4

UT Develops smartphone app

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The UT Center for Creative Instruction designed the “Fruit Expos3D” application.

By Jaimee HiltonIC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo’s

Center for Creative Instruc-tion has created an interac-tive smartphone application for people who want to ex-plore the inside of various fruits.

The app, Fruit Expos3D, was developed by a group of graphic designers, software engineers and a medical il-lustrator at the CCI.

The idea for the app came about when one of the medi-cal illustrators was working with Computed Tomography, or CT, scans and decided to try scanning an apple.

He then tried scanning a pear and a plum.

While performing CT scans on the fruit, he noticed the colors and artistic design in the apple and decided this was something worth pursu-

ing in order to create a mo-bile app.

“We had been working with mobile apps and we wanted some more experience so we decided to work on this,” said Ted Ronau, a research tech-nologist at CCI. “So we got a team together and created a design. The graphic designer put it together, the program-mer wrote the actual applica-tion, and we provided the data for it.”

The app has three compo-nents, Ronau explained.

The first component utiliz-es the CT scans to create a 20-second 3D video that al-lows users to see into the fruit.

The next component has nutritional and interesting facts about each fruit.

The last component is a matching game that shows

— Smartphone, Page A4

Kaptur speaks at UT

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U.S. Rep Marcy Kaptur spoke at the Student Union auditori-um on Monday about the history of women in U.S. Congress.

By Bailey AllenFor the IC

U.S. Rep Marcy Kaptur (D., Tole-

do) paid a visit to the University of Toledo in honor of Women’s History Month.

The congresswoman gave an ad-dress entitled “History of Women in the U.S. Congress” in the Student Union auditorium Monday morning.

Roberta Edgecombe, chair of the Women’s History Month Commit-tee, said Kaptur was chosen to be a guest at UT because she is an “ex-cellent speaker.” She said it was not difficult to bring Kaptur to the university.

“We also knew that she would be able to give us a true picture of the lives of women working in the U.S. Congress and how these women have contributed to our nation,” Edgecombe said.

Raised in a working class family in Toledo, Kaptur is no stranger to women’s struggles.

Kaptur said in the address, she

Songfest rescheduledBy Vincent D. ScebbiFeatures Editor

With the women’s basket-ball team advancing to the WNIT Championship Finals, UT’s second-longest tradi-tion, Songfest, will be pushed back 24 hours to Sunday.

Vice Presi-dent of Stu-dent Affairs Kaye Patten-Wallace said the plan to po-tentially move Songfest was first proposed when the pos-sibility of the final game be-ing held at Savage Arena arose.

Patten-Wallace said she called in Blue Key and they began looking at alternate dates but the next few Sat-urdays will not be available until the end of April due to

Dance Marathon, a large amount of Greek formals the following week and Eas-ter weekend the week after.

“So we all decided April 3 would be the best date,” Patten-Wallace said. “The question was can we get in-to Savage on the third. We

talked to the students and said ‘let’s shoot for Sunday’ and they agreed.”

Once the date was de-cided, the next step was deter-mining if the Savage Are-na could be cleaned and

the staging and lighting set up for Songfest once the game ends.

Because of the win, Cam-eron Caryer, co-chair of Songfest and a senior major-ing in professional sales and

marketing, said those in charge will be getting in touch with affiliates with the event and finding out all of the times that work for them to set-up.

“The company that is in charge of lighting and the stage needs eight hours to [set up],” Patten-Wallace said. “Our initial plan was to have them work all night. They’re going to get in there at 6 in the morning and re-hearsal will be from 1 to 4 in the afternoon and Songfest will start at 5 p.m.”

Patten-Wallace said be-cause of the combination of the championship and Song-fest, she will be organizing a reception a few hours be-fore tipoff and then every-one will walk over to Savage to watch the game. She called the situation a “win-win.”

“This is huge if the girls

— Songfest, Page A4

This is huge if the girls win the

championship and what we’re encourag-ing to do is to build it into Songfest.

Kaye Patten-Wallace Vice President,Student Affairs ”

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— Kaptur, Page A4

In the Los Angeles school system, incom-ing superintendent John Deasy decided to not take the $50,000 pay raise from deputy superintendent to superintendent, which would take his salary from $270,000 to $330,000. Deasy made this decision during the district’s process of cutting more than 5,000 jobs in the school system. It is this communal consciousness which needs to come about in the minds of our community administrators.

Toledo Federation of Teachers president Fran Lawrence is threatening to turn down a $10.8 million Race to the Top federal grant. This dispute is over the cutting of two programs for Toledo area teachers: the Toledo Plan and the Teacher Review and Alternative Compensation System.

The Toledo Plan was established by Law-rence and her husband meant to “help train new and struggling teachers.” So the presi-dent of the TFT established a $300 thou-sand program within the Toledo Public Schools system. When the school board decided to cut her program, Lawrence used her power as president of the TFT to threaten to decline the $10.8 million grant as an ultimatum to keep her program from being shut down. The two programs which sparked the dilemma jointly cost the com-munity $600 thousand and are but only a small part of the $24.5 million in reductions to try and help balance the some $40 mil-lion dollar deficit in the TPS budget.

The two programs are, financially speak-ing, relatively insignificant compared to the potential loss of the grant funds and what the funds mean for the district’s quality of education. The TFT’s union leaders were never approached for discussion over the cuts before being notified of their impend-ing removal; Lawrence stated in the Toledo Blade this was her greatest concern with the changes. Toledo Public Schools are al-ready annually underperforming in district

performance Grade Cards, the loss of those potential grants will only further damage Toledo’s educational system and subsequently Toledo’s economic future.

The presidency of the TFT will be changing this June to current vice presi-dent Kevin Dalton, an age-old political maneuver of making a final last stand before conveying leadership to a peer. Educators need to remember why they got into their professions: because they wanted to espouse their interest of edu-cation into the children of our communi-ty and to provide the children with the opportunities that only education can bring about.

Unfortunately, now Lawrence will keep a $10.8 million grant from benefiting the education of Toledo children and the fu-ture prosperity of our community be-cause the school board wants to cut her $300 thousand program.

Administrators of our nation have an awesome capacity to sacrifice future prosperity for momentary solace. Though the deductions of pay, benefits, and other accommodations may be disappointing to our professional aspirations, we have to come to terms with current situation. Unfortunately, we have invested too much money into programs that cannot be sustained. To sacrifice that significant amount of federal funding in the hope of retaining two incentive programs for teachers does not balance.

Fran Lawrence and the TFT need to re-evaluate their perspective and acknowl-edge that some aspects of the Toledo area school system need to be changed. The most important characteristic of any com-munity is its future well being; to sacrifice the education of an entire generation of the potential future constituency of Tole-do would be far more detrimental than the removal of those incentive programs.

Although the United States ranks among the elite in terms of its universities, its ear-lier schools lag compared to the world’s leading educational systems. The Organi-zation for Economic Co-operation and Development rated America’s 15 year-olds at 25th in the world in terms of mathematics.

Although reasons as to why the country is falling behind in math are undefined, politicians are trying to throw whatever irrational acts they can in order to turn things around — including some corner-cutting.

One example is HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, which throws Euclide-an math into a state of madness by chang-ing the value of pi (3.14159...) to precisely 3, legally.

The likelihood of this bill actually pass-ing is almost impossible because Presi-dent Obama pledged to veto. In addition, this bill is meeting a large amount of op-position and lack of seriousness. “It’s no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard da-ta, we know our children are struggling with a heck of a lot of the math, including the geometry incorporating pi,” said Con-gresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala) who sponsored the bill. “I guarantee you Amer-ican scores will go up once pi is 3. It will be so much easier.”

Speaker of the House John Boener (R-Ohio) called opposition elitist liberalism.

A bill that overrides thousands of years of mathematics determined by a Greek culture that has major influence on West-ern civilation by trying to improve some test scores that carry no real weight in the real world is frivolous, absurd and just a waste of time in American politics.

If by some odd miracle that this bill passes, our education system will go from mediocre to worse. Pi is an irrational num-ber for a specific reason – not just for a math geek holiday – but because it helps determine the accurate measurement of the circumference of a circle. What does this tell children? That if things are tough, you create a law that cheats the system?

These numbers may or may not improve scores, but what would happen these stu-dents grow up and attend college; chances are calculus professors with tenure won’t change the value of pi, so the American taught to round down to three will have to struggle in calculus while the international counterpart will have no difficulty whatsoever.

Instead of trying to rationalize the irratio-nal and become the laughing stock of global mathematics — instead, we should look to put more funding into the early child math education programs and find ways to improve students’ knowledge of the number.

Besides — 31 days of pie is too much.

- in our opinion -

A whole month of ‘Pi’?

Balancing our sacrifices

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Today was just another day for Jane Doe. She got up on time, went to school, and came back to do her homework. Yesterday was

just an-other day and so will be to-m o r r o w. Jane Doe starts to ask her-s e l f , “where is this jour-ney go-ing?” At

some point in time, the hu-man mind begins to ques-tion its purpose. For many, this question could be a part of the college experi-ence. Wherever you are in life, you will sooner or later ask yourself “where is this peace of mind?”

Writers, philosophers and all the great scholars across time spoke of the pursuit of enlightenment. Many found it in love, suc-cess, marriage, and some even in death. Whether you are a religious person, an atheist or a tree hugger, you are searching for nir-vana. This majestic sense

of enlightenment is unique for everyone. It could come during a hike in the Himalayas or from drink-ing your morning cup of coffee. Enlightenment is tailored to every person’s quirk. It is adapted to ev-ery person’s whim.

Today is another day for Jane Doe. Today Jane Doe gets her big break. She has landed a great job in cor-porate America. Jane Doe is making six digit figures. Did she find enlighten-ment? It could be.

Success brings more money, which equals pow-er, which translates to freedom. The point here is not to limit a person’s peace of mind. Clichés of how money brings unhap-piness or how poverty lim-its happiness are nothing but commercial state-ments coming from some-one trying to sell you something.

Movies such as “Eat Pray Love” define and lim-it the notion of enlighten-ment to Hollywood’s nar-row rendition of insight. While movies like this may prove to be entertaining, its hackneyed dullness

restrict life’s greatness to a simple-minded specta-cle. TV shows that air tri-umphs over illness and disability might be inspir-ing, but still show one fragment of enlighten-ment. Those TV shows de-grade life’s challenges to gaudy pop-corn TV flicks.

My point here is your average Jane Doe and John Doe do not need ex-travagant life events or circumstances in order to find wisdom. If Jane Doe does yoga in order to be seen doing yoga, then she is not doing yoga. Jane Doe does not need to take some art class in order to fill her seemingly vacant creative side if she doesn’t like art.

Do not indulge in trite activities that you have no interest in just because they are advertised to en-rich your soul. This is not saying that Jane Doe should not attempt expand her horizons; it is saying she should do it on her own accord

—Carmen Awad is an IC Columnist and a junior majoring in accounting.

Enlightenment

Managing EditorRandiah Green

To The Editor:About three years ago Crystal

Dixon was fired from her posi-tion as director of HR. She was fired for writing an op-ed piece that ran counter to the opinions

of UT’s President Jacobs. More recently, Professor Walt Olson has written several op-ed pieces that challenged the wisdom of some of President Jacob’s actions.

Dr. Olson, a tenured profes-sor, has just been suspended without pay for 30 days. The claimed infraction for his sus-pension was trivial compared with the penalty. Further, prior to his suspension, he

was granted little or no “due process” by the administration. He will likely appeal this sus-pension through the faculty union’s grievance procedure.

Dr. Jacob’s actions in these two cases have made it increas-ingly clear that open discussion of controversial subjects is dan-gerous for employees of the University of Toledo - even for those with tenure.

Douglas Oliver

Beware of Controversial Speech at UT

To The Editor,Although Ohio faces an $8

billion budget deficit, Senate Bill 5 is neither an adequate nor fair solution to solving the state’s budget issues.

Many of the provisions in SB 5 are insulting to the teachers, policemen, firefighters and oth-er public workers it would af-fect. Under the new provisions of the bill, unions would be given only limited power to ne-gotiate hours, wages, and safe-ty conditions. Healthcare, sick time and pension benefits would be nonnegotiable. Un-der the bill, all public sector workers would also be subject

to punishment for striking, with anything from the loss of their job to a fine and jail time. The right for public workers to strike and negotiate wages and benefits did not cause Ohio’s budget deficit, so why take these privileges away?

Senate Bill 5 fails to put a dol-lar figure on how much money can be saved by decreasing col-lective bargaining rights. If the budget deficit in Ohio is pro-jected to be close to $8 billion, exactly how much money is our state going to save by pass-ing this bill? I believe that this is something that the state leg-islature needs to figure out be-fore further considering a bill that will impact so many people.

Unions as they are now have a lot to offer employers..Unions allow employees to negotiate better pay and benefits, which

allows them to feel like they have a say in the workplace. Why would anyone want to work for less than they feel they are worth? When workers do not feel like they are being fairly compensated, the desire to be productive at work goes down. Employees that feel as if they are treated fairly are more likely to stay at their jobs and be more productive. Collective bargaining makes sure every employee is represented fairly.

Unions may not be perfect, but the right of employees to organize and bargain collec-tively should be a right with which the state government shouldn’t interfere. The leaders of our state should be urged to come up with a solution that can protect the rights of all workers while providing im-provements in the process.

Katelyn Etgen

Senate Bill 5 Won’t Fix Budget Issues

Carmen Awad

The University of Toledo women’s basketball team has had nothing short of an outstanding season. It is a tribute to the excellent coaching of Tricia Cullop, her staff and team of dedi-cated young women that they have moved the Lady Rockets into the elite eight of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament (WNIT). Their success has been felt across our cam-puses and community in the pride we share while watching them demon-strate teamwork, sports-manship and tremendous talent.

It is this value that one cannot place a dollar fig-ure on that is missing from Zach Silka’s March 24 sto-ry “A Losing Gain.” If one chooses to look exclusive-ly at the costs of hosting such an event versus tick-et revenue, they are only seeing part of the equa-tion. The university esti-mates that after conces-sion sales and in anticipa-t ion of another

outstanding crowd for this Sunday afternoon’s game are added into the profit and loss statements, host-ing the event will be, at worst, cost neutral.

However, this does not include real savings achieved by playing at home and not having to travel to an opponent’s arena. But more impor-tantly, it does not account for the reputational bene-fits of frequent and posi-tive media attention from local, regional and nation-al media. To say this cov-erage is worth tens-of-t h o u s a n d s - o f - d o l l a r s would be a fair, if not low, estimate. In fact, as one considers all the factors, it becomes rapidly clear that the value of making a run in the WNIT is significant in terms of dollars and reputation.

College athletics have an enormous impact of the well being of a university. It is well documented that before the famous Doug Flutie pass against Miami, Boston College was con-sidered a hometown com-muter school that was light-years away from the football folklore of a Notre Dame. If it were not for basketball, would we real-ly be familiar with institu-t i o n s l i k e

Gonzaga or Butler? These are examples of the power of athletics in a university environment.

In addition, athletics is certainly a wonderful op-portunity to present the “front door” to a universi-ty. As with any front door, it is what is inside that re-ally matters and leaves the lasting impression. Many times, athletics is the first opportunity for us to visit a college campus, and at UT we are thrilled to have the opportunity to wel-come the world to our campus.

President Lloyd Jacobs, Mike O’Brien, Kelly An-drews, Coach Cullop, the team and UT Athletics staff should be commend-ed for their efforts and for giving our community a chance to see these games first-hand. The civic and university pride it has brought out is truly price-less. It has been incredi-ble. I have attended the games and the buzz has been electric.

Go Rockets!Lawrence J. BurnsVice President for Exter-

nal Affairs and Interim Vice President for Equity and Diversity

The University of Toledo

A letter to the Toledo Blade from Lawrence J. Burns

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users a 3D image and chal-lenges them to guess which fruit it is.

“I would say it’s more edu-cational, but our intent was to actually try to get several groups interested in this,” Ronau said.

Ronau said the application, available on Android systems and the iPhone, appeals to a variety of audiences.

The CT scans relate to peo-ple interested in radiology, the nutritional values are for the interest of nutritionists, the educational component is for grade school students who might want to learn more and there’s also an artistic compo-nent, Ronau explained.

“I would say it’s less a game,” he said. “It’s not an action game like ‘Angry Birds’ or something like that where you’re doing stuff. You’re more guessing something and if they guess it wrong we have little comments to give them a clue to figure out what it is.”

This is the first app the University has developed and released into the iTunes and

Android markets. Ronau said the app was a

way for the researchers to experiment and learn more about mobile apps so they will have the ability to devel-op more in the future.

The application only costs potential buyers $0.99 and the funds raised from it will initially go back to the uni-versity to pay for the time spent on developing the app.

Ronau said he was unsure as to how much it cost to de-velop the app.

“Part of the problem is the fact that part of this was kind of research,” he said. “This is the first time we’ve actually done this and it was a big educational project as well as a production product.”

The availability of this app is limited, since users can only purchase it if their de-vice is running on the An-droid operating system 2.2.

According to Ronau, no other apps from UT have been developed and sold in stores yet.

“We are looking at the mar-ket and looking at a couple of ideas we want to develop,” Ronau said. “But we are not developing them yet.”

didn’t wish for her gender to be a handicap in her profession.

Kaptur, the first in her family to attend college, earned a scholar-ship to attend the University of Wisconsin and did her graduate studies at the Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology.

She practiced 15 years as a city and regional planner around Tole-do, was appointed as an urban advi-sor to the Carter White House and was recruited by the Democratic Party to run for the U.S. House seat in 1982, a position she’s held for her fifteenth term.

“I love the House because I still think it’s the closest to the people,” Kaptur said.

Raising enough money to be elected and being the first in her family to attend college were some of the struggles Kaptur had to face to get where she is today.

Kaptur said she was taught to endure everything.

“You have to have confidence in

yourself and the education you need,” she said.

Kaptur opened her speech by ad-dressing the lack of women and minorities in Congress. When she first took office, a little over 1 per-cent of the representatives were women.

Recently, the number has risen to almost 2.5 percent.

Kaptur said only five women have ever served for 30 years.

“Women members do have to fight harder,” she said. “Congress is not representative on many levels.”

Ohio has sent 10 women to Con-gress, Kaptur said, and she is proud to be one of them.

Kaptur is the first to be elected from Northwestern Ohio.

Many of the others who have served have also been from this area.

“It isn’t just accidental, it’s really embedded in who we are,” Kaptur sound.

Karen Gallagher, a second year doctorate student in health educa-tion asked what advice Kaptur would give to women trying to pur-

sue a career in congress.Kaptur’s response was simple:

know the place you want to repre-sent well.

“You have to have a feel for the texture of your community,” Kaptur said. “Know the people in your community well and develop those networks.”

Another issue Kaptur spoke about was the homeless population in Northwest Ohio.

Most homeless in the area are veterans of the Vietnam War, ac-cording to Kaptur.

Kaptur also spoke of issues con-cerning Planned Parenthood and abortion, saying the two should be separate in discussion. She talked briefly about trying to keep the ser-vices of Planned Parenthood oper-ating in Toledo for women in need.

Overall, Kaptur said she believes our country is making progress and women are really excelling in things they never thought possible.

“America must restore her inde-pendence,” Kaptur said. “We’re try-ing to pick our strengths and build on them.”

win the championship and what we’re encouraging to do is to build it into Song-fest,” she said.“I will pick up any additional cost as it relates to Songfest, since people are coming in on Saturday and we suggest-ed making it into a big Songfest weekend and all of their guests to come and host a reception. I will pay for the reception.”

Changes in the plan are, as Patten-Wallace said, how life works and the best solution is to always have a backup plan. She is overall satisfied with how all of the organizations in-volved came together to adapt.

“That’s the great thing about being a student lead-er because these things come up and you have to adapt and be able to change. That definitely ends up showing what someone’s true character is as a leader,” Patten-Wal-lace said. “I think it’s a great experience and a great opportunity and we’re the only Songfest to change and it’s been a great success and a great opportunity.”

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are more PR than substance of col-lege and public school administra-tion, such as the bonuses of UT administrators and increasingly top-heavy administration. It seems that the answer to every question around UT is to create new deans, new vice presidents and new bureaucracies.”

Chair of the UT College Republi-cans Jon Sander said he supports Kasich despite his unpopularity.

“I think it will take time for him to turn Ohio around,” Sander said. “The state is such a mess because of previously having several bad administrations.”

Sander believes without a doubt SB 5 is the reason Kasich’s ap-proval rating is so low.

Sander, who supports SB 5, said he thinks very few people have actually read the whole bill.

“I have heard a lot of things about the bill including stuff that

ended up not being true,” he said. Sander said he believes Kasich

is doing the right thing for Ohio. “I don’t know if privatizing things

in the state is popular, but I believe it is the best thing for Ohio,” he said. “Any innovator in Ohio would not want to go through a lot of red tape.”

Sander feels a lot of the anger toward Kasich is displaced.

“[UT President] Lloyd Jacobs seems to be what most faculty and staff at the university seem to be worried about,” Sander said. “They feel that if SB 5 is enacted, it will result in too much power giv-en to the president of the universi-ty and upper level management, while at the same time leaving [the workers] with few options to rec-tify the situation. It is the fear of the unknown and perhaps distrust of President Jacobs that drives people away from SB 5.”

Sander said Kasich is not wor-ried about popularity or getting re-elected; he only wants to do what

he thinks is right for the state. Stacey McPhail, a political sci-

ence major, said she supported Governor Kasich until SB 5 came about.

“I met Kasich twice and worked for his campaign,” McPhail said. “When the issue of the budget was brought up, he said he would nev-er cut public safety such as police and firefighters.”

McPhail, who has multiple fami-ly members who are police offi-cers, said the issue is especially personal to her.

“This will certainly affect every-body in the unions,” McPhail said. “What kind of dollar amount are we willing to put on police and firefighters’ lives? Those people have committed themselves to protect and serve, so can we say that they are not worth an extra five dollars for a bulletproof vest?”

McPhail said she is experiencing “buyer’s remorse” with Kasich.

“I liked his ideas at first,” she said. “But I feel like there are other areas that could have been cut.”

Hispanic population risingBy Allison SeneyIC Staff Writer

The Hispanic population in the United States has passed the 50 million mark, making the group the second largest population among ethnic groups in the United States.

According to an article on CNN’s website, the sources of growth are still being stud-ied, but the birth rate is the largest contribution to the population boost and in the past 10 years the nation has become more racially and ethnically diverse.

Immigration, though, is not entirely ruled out of the equation.

“The most significant trend, however, appeared to be the nation’s new count of 50.5 million Latinos, whose massive expansion account-ed for more than half of the nation’s overall growth of 27.3 million people, to a new overall U.S population of

308.7 million,” the article said.

Data collected in the 2010 Census shows growth is con-centrated in metropolitan ar-eas in the Western and South-ern regions.

“The Spanish-speaking people - in particular, Mexi-can Americans - have the largest increase in popula-tion growth,” said Elias T. Nigem, professor of sociolo-gy at the University of Tole-do. “Now they are considered the largest minority ethnic group in the U.S. By the year 2050, at their current growth, they will reach over 90 mil-lion in population.”

According to Nigem, the U.S. will be heading into a major crises should there be no change in the economic class of many Hispanics.

“It is very likely that they will be aligned with a politi-cal party that will really im-prove their conditions,” Ni-gem said.

Nigem said to expect a large population change in New Mexico, Southern Cali-fornia, Texas, Arizona and parts of Colorado and Nevada.

“Most of these states were historically part of Mexico,” he said.

As America continues its push to becoming more openly diverse, citizens may question the population growth’s affect on education in the areas such as Toledo where the university can ca-ter to more than nationality.

An Chung Cheng, an asso-ciate professor of Spanish and Spanish graduate adviser at UT, said the university of-fers many language and cul-tural courses for those inter-ested in the Spanish language and Hispanic culture.

“There are 40 courses of-fered at UT and more courses are being added,” she said. “Though it takes time to learn to learn a foreign language

and students are encouraged to take placement tests.”

Accelerated programs are offered for students fresh out of high school who have had been exposed to Spanish in their home as a child.

Resources are offered to those students who want to learn a new language.

“We are moving towards adapting better technology like videos and to a greater extent instead of building vo-cal by old text books,” Cheng said.

Integrating a new language inside and outside of the classroom will help propel students interested in learn-ing Spanish.

“To help fit students’ needs in a more unique way, we will also offer a new program in the fall by using ‘heritage speakers,’ or students born in Spanish-speaking countries who immigrated to the U.S. but never had any formal training,” Cheng said.

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Jumping towards the championshipRedshirt-freshman guard Andola Dortch attempts a layup in the second half of last night’s 83-60 win over Charlotte in the WNIT Final Four in front of a UT women’s basketball record crowd of 7,020 fans at Savage Arena. Dortch finished just shy of a double-double with 13 points, a game-high 10 rebounds, seven assits and two steals.

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Arts“I’m so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet” — Rodney Dangerfield andLife

Thursday, March 31, 2011BSectionwww.IndependentCollegian.com DC Guastella – Editor

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todayFrankie’s Innercity—The Air I

Breathe will be headlining at

Frankie’s with Floral Terrace,

This Is Everything and A Violent

Perfection. Doors open at 5p.m.

Tickets are $8 in advance and

$10 at the door, the night of the

show. For more information visit

FrankiesInnercity.com.

Frankie’s Innercity—The

Freakout will be returning to

Frankie’s this Thursday. Ian Di-

vine, Mad Dog Jackson, DJ Bil-

lyclub and UGLYFATWOMAN

will be performing. Doors open

at 9 p.m. Admission is $3 for un-

der 21 and free for 21 and over.

Huntington Center—Bob

Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

will be performing a second

show at the Huntington Center

today. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

For ticket information visit Tick-

etMaster.com.

fridayValentine Theatre—The Tole-

do Opera will be performing Gi-

useppe Verdi’s La traviata on Fri-

day. The show begins at 8 p.m.

Visit ValentineTheatre.com for

ticket information.

saturdayMickey Finn’s Pub—The pub

will be hosting an April Fools

event Saturday. The event will

begin at 8:30 p.m. and feature

punk/hardcore music. Contact

Mickey Finn’s at 419-246-3466 for

more information.

sundayFrankie’s Innercity—Haw-

thorne heights will be headlining

at Frankie’s with Veara, After

Midnight Project, Handguns, Self

Centered, Red Lights @ Dawn

and For What It’s Worth. Doors

open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 in

advance and $15 at the door, the

night of the show. Visit

FrankiesInnercity.com for more

information.

mondayFrankie’s Innercity—There

will be an Auto Tune Karaoke

night hosted by WILDMAN Ian

Thomas on Monday. Doors open

at 9 p.m. Admission is free.

tuesdayValentine Theatre—The

theatre will be hosting two

performances of Grease this

week. Showtimes include

Thursday and Friday at 7 p.m.

For more information visit

ValentineTheatre.com.

Aroundtown

Mar. 31 — Feb. 5

Photo courtesy of Jane Bradley

Jane Bradley, a UT professor of English, is also an accomplished novelist.

Portrait of a Ut author

Catwalk

By Barb E. DahlIC Staff Writer

Glamorous fashion magazines aren’t ashamed to portray top de-signers’ latest pieces of art at the top of their “What’s Hot This Season” lists. From outrageously elegant floor-length dresses to chic leopard-printed purses, there is a consistent stream of beautiful pieces of clothing

and accessories to admire.However, these articles are often

several galaxies out of the price range of the average college student and not to mention entirely impracti-cal. I can only assume that the last time you absolutely had to have that dress in a magazine that resembled a

ball gown with charm comparable to Cinderella’s was… never.

Unless you hold a high position of royalty, there is a scarce occasion that should ever require you buy such items.

There is but one item of dress that is not only full of fashion potential,

but is also invariably useful. And no, I’m not talking socks or undergarments.

Without a doubt, the hit that is al-ways assuredly in season is shoes. That’s right - I mean perfectly fitting,

outrage“”

While I must advise against the man-dal— a certain type of san-dal for guys that re-

semble like that of an explorer— athletic

sandals for men can often be suitable.

UT’s only fashionista

fashion advice from

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By A. SharpeIC Staff Writer

Anyone can write a book or tell a story, but the true art of storytelling is a rare gift granted to those such as Maya Angelou and Zora Neal Hurston who have told stories and written books about love, life and even triumph.

Author Jane Bradley is the epitome of a natural storyteller; she becomes one with the characters in her books and goes into their world.

Bradley leaves readers clutching to the novel des-perate to read what hap-pens next each time they turn the page.

The Chattanooga, Tenn. native is not only a writer but an individual who has harvested feelings about her past and childhood years while growing up in the south that has allowed her to embrace the stories of others and even share a little from her own experiences.

She incorporates south-ern dialect in her writing which can bring a reader right into the scene, mak-ing them feel as if they are there.

Bradley is a professor of English at UT, where she teaches creative writing,

fiction workshops and screenwriting.

Bradley has been suc-cessful with her early nov-els, such as her autobiog-raphy “Living Dolls.” “Liv-ing Dolls” has been used by therapists and has had a positive effect in the lives of many young trou-bled readers.

When asked how it felt to write such a in depth story of her life, Bradley said “It didn’t feel liberat-ing, it felt like I could fi-nally take the tape off of my mouth and tell the truth.”

Another one of Bradley’s books, “Power Lines,” has been named among the “Most Notable Books” on the New York Times Best-sellers List. “Power Lines” is a collection of short sto-ries about love.

Intense, heavy and grue-some are just some of the words reviewers have used to describe “You Be-lievers.” Bradley’s gift is in giving readers a three-di-mensional look into the lives of the characters of her books.

The characters in “You Belivers” are based on a true story of a young wom-an who was abducted and killed and the mother who

Script Frenzy: April is the month to writeBy Feliza CasanoCopy Chief

Many people say things like “Someday, I’m going to write a movie,” but one na-tional organization is challenging writers to turn that “someday” into “today” as The Office of Letters and Light, a non-profit or-ganization dedicated to creative expression through writing, spon-sors its fifth annual script-writing event.

April 1 marks the beginning of Script Frenzy, a challenge for writers to write a 100-page film or stage script in 30 days.

100 pages in 30 days amount to roughly three and a half pages per day.

Script Frenzy’s web-site, scriptfrenzy.org, offers participants a simple way to check their writing progress with a program that

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statement-making, fully func-tional pairs of shoes.

Considering the unsophisti-cated generalization made in association to grimy feet, there isn’t a staple more ap-propriate to splurge on than footwear. And since side-walks are magically trans-formed into catwalks on a daily basis, this gives yet

another reason to consider your shoe of choice.

Being healthy is always hot. This makes gearing up for the gym or even the brief jaunt to class in a pair of fresh running shoes with comfortable arch supports a fun way to kick up your look to the next level of athleticism.

The best part about tennis shoes is by far their un-matched attitude and un-abashed manner in which

they carry color. Assuredly, a fresh pair of kicks will put an extra spring in your step, and from Nike Shox to colorful Chucks, there are endless options.

Also deemed worthy for college campus wear is the sandal.

There are countless styles to choose from, whether it’s the classic black flip-flop or a bejeweled open-toed work of art, nearly all of them are

ideal for warmer weather. The same can be said about a cute, classic pair of flats.

While I must advise against the man-dal—a certain type of sandal for guys that resemble like that of an explorer—ath-letic sandals for men can of-ten be suitable.

As long as your feet and toes are well groomed, you can freely sport sandals with pride.

Boots are more than likely

the most fashion-forward shoe on the market right now. Allow me to clarify by stating that the term ‘fashion-for-ward’ does not define even the most expensive pair of Uggs. Fashion-forward and fads are two vastly different terms.

Rather, boots with a unique personality and perhaps a small heel so as not to make them uncomfortable are abso-lutely chic. Black, knee-high

heels may be pushing the lim-it, but from sweet ankle boots to neutral-toned, mid-shin shoes, there are countless looks to be created.

In short, when it comes to shoes, be bold. Create new outfits around your shoes and let them do the talking, be-cause there is nothing a fash-ionista has to fear.

Do not hesitate to wear your style and walk with confidence.

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records the participant’s page count each day, measuring progress on a bar graph.

Participants can also have “writing buddies” on the site, allowing them to see one an-other’s progress and keep the challenge competitive.

Writers often use programs such as Scrivener for Mac ($45) or the free and open-source Celtx for their proj-ects, aiding participants to-wards the goal by properly formatting their scripts.

The first Script Frenzy event took place in 2007, in-volving almost 8,000 partici-pants and over 1,000 winners that year alone. Last year’s Script Frenzy included just over 21,000 participants and more than 2,000 winners, ac-cording to the Office of Let-ters and Light.

The Office of Letters and Light also created a compan-ion event for Script Frenzy called the Young Writers Program.

The program, hosted mainly on the site YWP.scriptfrenzy.org, is a resource for teachers

to get their students involved in writing at a younger age.

YWP changes the rules: stu-dents from elementary school to high school simply need to complete the Script Frenzy Boot Camp before the chal-lenge begins and finish one script. There is no page re-quirement for students par-ticipating in YWP.

Last year, about 2,900 stu-dents participated in YWP through both the free educa-tional materials available to teachers and the online YWP site.

Those age 13 and older can

participate in the regular Script Frenzy challenge on the main site, but must ad-here to the 100-page requirement.

While the Office of Letters and Light does recognize par-ticipants who complete the challenge as “winners,” there are no judges and no prizes to be won.

However, the lack of prizes does not deter thousands of writers from participating in Script Frenzy and its sister event National Novel Writing Month in November each year.

Last year, over 373,000 pag-es were written and counted for Script Frenzy.

Part of the event’s success is due to the collaborative na-ture of the project, which of-fers the chance for writers to create groups by regions. The Office of Letters and Light lists hundreds of regions, from Cape Town, South Africa to Tiffin, Ohio – the closest regional group to Toledo.

Regional groups organize meet-ups at libraries, coffee shops and other places to share ideas, set aside time to write and even simply provide

moral support.While there is no Toledo re-

gional area on the Script Fren-zy website, participants can still create their own “regional groups” by planning writing events with friends and classmates.

Sign up for an account on ScriptFrenzy.org. The ac-count, while active, will be valid for both Script Frenzy (April 1-30) and National Nov-el Writing Month (November 1-30). Learn more about the Office of Letters and Light at OfficeofLettersandLight.org.

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led the search team to find her body.

“This book has a mission bigger than any of my books,” Bradley said.

Her sole purpose of writing about this highly publicized novel is so that the charac-ter’s story can be told and to bring awareness of how eas-ily someone can be abduct-ed. The story even takes a twist and goes into the mind of the abductor.

“It shows how we can live and grow from horror and survive from it,” Bradley said.

Bradley wrote “You Believ-ers” over a five year period and surprisingly rationalizes prolonging its release .

“It was the scariest thing I’ve ever written. Its brutal,” she said. “I’ve heard the voice of the killer on tape. I would have nightmares every night so I stopped writing the book for years because it was just too gruesome to write.”

When writing this book Bradley traveled south so she could find inner peace to write, trying to write from

the character’s point of view. “There’s a kind of faith in

the south that inspires me, a lot of sincere faith that makes you believe in a higher pow-er, I’m much more in tuned with my spirit. Once I got down there I had the ability to write the book. I needed the lush nature to soften the horror,” Bradley said.

Even as a shy and timid child, Bradley wrote stories.

One she remembers well was a book she had written about the redemption of love and at a young age she was able to write intuitively.

“My writing style comes from my talent for empathy because I can understand all kinds of characters and then I reveal them,” Bradley said. “That’s a survival mechanism that I learned as a kid. I do think I have a gift for empathy.”

Some writers and storytell-ers have gone through expe-riences they then tell through their novels.

“I don’t think my suffering made me a better writer but I think the struggle made me acquire empathy and intu-ition and I learned to listen and be a good observer and

that has made me a good writer,” Bradley said.

Teaching and writing have always been things Bradley wanted to do as a child .

Now, in her adult years, she is living her dream.

”Education saved my life so I take it very, very seri-ously, education is your way out, I have seen the other way to go, you don’t be lazy about it,” she said.

Bradley described with sin-cerity how strongly she feels about her students and want-ed to leave them with words of encouragement.

“Your life depends on how hard you work right now and that’s why I’m so hard on them. At your age you are ripe and ready for making the choices that are going to affect the rest of your life. Yes, I’m a stickler; I’m trying to make students improve in the little time that I have with them,” she said.

Bradley will read an ex-cerpt from “You Believers” on April 21 in Libbey Hall at 5:30 p.m.

Afterwards she will be available to sign copies of her book.

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By Rick BentleyMcClatchy Newspapers(MCT)

LOS ANGELES _ Plenty of TV shows have dealt with law enforcement agencies. Tom Spezialy’s tried to separate his new series, “Chaos,” from the pack with an offbeat approach to the concept, characters and casting.

“Chaos” looks at four CIA operatives who don’t have high-tech gadgets or cool cars. They work in a more re-alistic world.

“These are the guys that are out traveling the world and sort of functioning on their wits and their ability to impro-vise,” Spezialy says. “Our guys are constantly thrown into challenging and compromis-ing positions. And we enjoy watching them figure out how to get out.”

The challenges are unusual. In the series opener, new CIA hire Rick Martinez (Freddy Rodriguez) must eat a live scorpion to prove he’s tough.

“When I got there and saw it was a real scorpion, I had a slight anxiety attack. After a

while I got over it, and it was fun,” Rodriguez says.

It helped that he was told the stinger had been covered in glue. It’s those kind of mo-ments that made Rodriguez, best known for his roles in “Six Feet Under” and “Ugly Betty,’ want to be on the show.

Spezialy hopes his take on spies vs. spies is different _ but not too silly or too violent.

“Is it funny? I hope it’s fun-ny. You want to root for them and spend time with them,” Spezialy says. “It’s not intend-ed to be a dark view of the CIA or of the world. In fact, I think there’s a way to tell these stories and not neces-sarily have gunplay at the cen-ter of our stories

“These certainly are guys that take life and human exis-tence seriously.”

Spezialy based much of the show on information from the CIA website, including a de-scription of what it takes to be a field operative for job appli-cants. Qualifications include a “need to be flexible” and “a sense of humor.”

The humor element alone

flies in the face of traditional spy shows.

“I think what they’re really good at is they’re gifted charmers, gifted dancers, gift-ed at improv. I think that’s sort of the center of what they do really well,” Spezialy says. “Then, we create situations where most of us would sort of scratch our heads figuring how to get out of it, and they’ll get out of it.”

Along with Rodriguez, Spe-zialy’s merry band of spies will be played by:

_Eric Close, who previously starred on “Without a Trace” and “Now and Again.”

_James Murray, best known for the BBC series “Primeval.”

_Tim Blake Nelson, who’s worked in films like “O Broth-er, Where Art Thou?” and “The Incredible Hulk.”

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Chaos: CIA with a sense of humor

Toledo releases 2011 Volleyball Schedule

The Toledo volleyball team released its 2011 fall sched-ule this week and will host two tournaments along with Big 10 foe Ohio State. The Blue and Gold Invitational will be held Aug. 26 and Aug. 27 as the Rocket Classic will take place on Sept. 9 and Sept. 10.

“It’s great for our program to be able to host

two tournaments in Savage Arena,” UT Head Coach Greg Smith said. “Our fan support was tremendous last season, and we’re hoping to see our level of support increase even more this fall.”

The Rockets will host Ni-agara, Oakland and Wright State during the Blue and Gold Invitational and Ala-bama, Ohio State and Penn-sylvania for the Rocket Classic.

“We want to compete against as many quality pro-grams as possible and being

able to bring a pair of BCS schools in Alabama and Ohio State into our facility is great for our fans and pro-gram,” Smith said. “Our non-conference schedule will be difficult, but I think it’s defi-nitely going to provide us the preparation we need for the competition we face in t h e M i d - A m e r i c a n Conference.”

Toledo (13-16, 6-10) fin-ished last season and lost in the semi-finals of the MAC Tournament to Northern Il-linois on Nov. 20.

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opportunity like that you have to take advantage of it and because Joe was hus-tling we were able to do it.”

The Rockets kept the lead in the seventh after senior shortstop Chris Dudics (1 of 3) made a diving catch and doubled off the runner at second.

“I thought Chris made a few very im-portant plays,” Mee said. “He played re-ally well today and set the tone. That’s what we need him to do being a senior leader on this team.”

Hammer (2 of 3, 2 R) scored twice and alongside Lapikas (2 of 3, 1 RBI) had a game-high two hits. Corfman (1 of 4, 1 R, 1 RBI) drove in a team-leading eighth run of the season.

Lincoln Rassi (0-4) got the start and pitched just two in-nings, allowing one run on four hits with two strikeouts.

The junior allowed six runs in two innings in the Rockets last game in an 8-2 loss last Sunday to Kent State.

“He had a rough outing on Sunday at Kent and we want-ed to get him right back out there,” Mee said. “Hopefully he will be feeling good and ready for this weekend against Akron. I saw some good things from him today.

We need him to get on track and pitch like he is capable of pitching. Hope-fully this was a step in the right di-rection today.”

Junior Alex Ra-don (3-2) picked

up the victory in 1.2 innings of scoreless relief while se-nior Matt Zahel earned his sixth save of the year with a perfect ninth.

The Rockets take on league opponent Akron (5-17, 0-3) in a weekend series beginning Friday at 3 p.m. UT also takes on the Zips at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

UT continues slide with two home losses vs. CSU

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Freshman shortstop Lani Ernst and Toledo dropped their first two games at Scott Park yesterday.

By IC Staff

The Toledo women’s soft-ball team dropped both games of their home opening series against Cleveland State yesterday at Scott Park. The Rockets were outscored 19-2 and fall to 4-19 overall this season.

In game one, freshman-starting pitcher Jen Solanics (1-10) went 5.2 innings giving

up five earned runs on eight hits while striking out four Viking batters. Cleveland State pitcher Tess Sito (13-8) threw all seven innings score-less, striking out 11 in the 8-0 victory.

The second game was more of the same for the Rockets as they trailed 4-0 after just two innings. The lead grew to 9-0 in favor of CSU after Vi-king outfielder Jessica Burt

blasted her fourth homer of the day. The Rockets scored two runs in the fifth but that was all as Cleveland State took the game 11-2.

Toledo returns to Scott Park this weekend as they open their Mid-American Conference regular season with doubleheaders against Buffalo and Kent State. The first pitch is on Friday is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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Amber DeWeerdt and the Rockets will host Alabama, Ohio State and Pennsylvania in 2011.

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Sold-out SavageA school record 7,020 fans attended Toledo’s 83-60 victory over UNC-Charlotte in the WNIT Final Four yesterday at Savage Arena. The Rockets host USC on Saturday in the WNIT Championship game at 3 p.m.

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Our players really came out of the gate and

set the tone in this game I thought they handled all the pressure really well.Tricia CullopUT Women’s Basketball Coach ”“

WNIT Championship (24-12) vs. (28-8)Saturday, April 2 in Savage Arena at 3 p.m. First 1,200 Students are Free

Rockets throttle Charlotte, to host USC for WNIT Title

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Junior point guard Naama Shafir’s game-high 16 points and nine assists to lead UT into the WNIT Championship game on Saturday.

By Nate PentecostIC Staff Writer

The Rockets dominated UNC-Charlotte from start to finish, recording an 83-60 vic-tory in the WNIT Final Four on Wednesday night at Sav-age Arena on CBS College Sports Network in front of a Mid-American Conference record 7,020 fans.

“How amazing is that for women’s basketball?” UT Head Coach Tricia Cullop said. “I asked somebody if they could get pictures of a scalper because I have never seen that for a game here. I would like to have that framed on my wall.”

With the win, Toledo (28-8) surpassed its previous record for victories in a season and extended its home winning streak to 17 games, the third most in school history.

The Rockets had a season-low three turnovers compared to Charlotte’s 17 and capitalized with 25 points off turn-overs, including 20 in the first half.

Junior guard Naama Shafir (6 of 13) paced the Rockets with a game-high 16 points and nine assists while red-shirt-freshman Andola Dortch (6 of 10) recorded the game’s only double-double with 13 points and a game-high 10 boards, to go with 7 assists.

“We all survived some ugly shooting nights in the begin-ning of the season,” Cullop said. “It was great to see us continue to get better and for everybody to step to the plate and give their very best.”

Five Rockets reached dou-ble figures for the third time this season. UT shot over 40 percent (25 of 62) from the

field including 30.8 percent (8 of 26) from beyond the arc.

Senior guard Kendria Hol-mes (6 of 13) was the only 49er to crack double figures with 14 points while Shannon McCallum (2 of 7) added eight. Sophomore forward Amanda Dowe pulled down a team-high eight rebounds.

The Rockets took over the game from the opening tip, scoring the contest’s first nine points. Toledo steadily improved its advantage as the half wore on, taking a 43-23 lead into the locker room. The first half effort was pro-pelled by 11 points from se-nior forward Melissa Goodall and nine points from guards Jessica Williams and Andola Dortch.

“Our players real-ly came out of the gate and set the tone in this game,” Cullop said. “I thought they han-dled all the pressure really well.”

The onslaught continued in the second half with the Rockets building a game-high 34-point lead at 79-45 with 5:20 remaining in the contest. Toledo’s reserves entered the game in the latter stages to closeout the 49ers 83-60.

“We have to do the same thing next game,” Shafir said. “We need to keep our compo-sure, relax and play our game.”

Toledo will play Southern California (24-12) in the WNIT Finals on Saturday, April 2 at 3 p.m. in Savage Arena. Tickets will go on sale at the UT Ticket Office begin-ning Thursday, March 31 at 10 a.m. for general admission and 2 p.m. for the 1,200 avail-able free student tickets.

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UT wins home opener

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Alex Radon picked up a victory after 1.2 innings of scoreless relief yesterday against Oakland.

By Zach DavisSports Editor

After losing nine of its last 12 games, Toledo grabbed a 5-3 victory over Oakland in its home opener at Scott Park yesterday. The Rockets opened the season with 22 games away from home before their first home matchup.

“Playing at home is nice af-ter 22 games on the road,” UT Head Coach Cory Mee said. “It is certainly nice to get one in the home opener. I thought our guys did a really good job. A lot of guys contributed to-day, it was a total team effort.”

Down one run in the sixth inning with the bases loaded, Oakland (4-11) shortstop D.J. Jarrad failed to turn an inning-ending double play with an er-rant throw. Juniors Ben Ham-mer and Joe Corfman came around to score the game-win-ning runs as the Rockets (8-15, 1-2 Mid-American Conference) took a 4-3 lead.

“I would have preferred [Jim Vahalik] got a base hit to drive the runs in and that’s some-thing that we need to execute a bit better at that situation and have a better at bat,” Mee said. “Baseball is a funny game and when you get an

Multiple walk-on transfers expectedBy Zach DavisSports Editor

A source close to the UT men’s basketball team told the Independent Collegian yester-day to “expect multiple walk-ons to transfer within the com-ing weeks.”

It is still unclear which walk-ons are considering a transfer. Four different walk-ons played last season for the Rockets in-cluding junior Jay Shunnar and freshmen Jess Chadwell, Zack Leahy and Richard Wonnell.

Shunnar averaged 5.6 points and one assist for the Rockets and started in 20-of-32 games. Leahy started nine games and finished with 4.8 points and 1.03 assists per contest.

Chadwell (1 ppg, 1 rpg) and Wonnell (0.7 ppg, 0.84 rpg) each started just one game and averaged under five minutes per contest.

The news comes on the heels of last Monday’s exclu-sive where the IC was told by a source that leading scorer Mal-colm Griffin and freshman point guard J.T. Thomas were “as good as gone” from next season’s roster.

“I don’t have anything to say about it yet,” said UT Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk on

Sunday upon hearing the news. “We will see.”

Griffin averaged a team-high 12 points, 3.97 assists and 1.35 steals in 31 games this season. If Griffin leaves, it would be the second straight year Tole-do has lost its leading scorer to transfer, after Jake Barnett (12.9 ppg) left for St. Louis af-ter his freshman season in 2010. His loss would also mean just Hayden Humes would re-main as the only player re-cruited by former Head Coach Gene Cross.

Thomas’ season was de-railed after reinjuring the fifth metatarsal in his foot which caused him to miss the begin-ning of the year. He played in just 19 games and averaged 4.5 points, 1.7 rebounds and 1.68 assists for the Rockets.

Thomas was also stripped of his captaincy just 14 games in after being suspended along with Griffin and Reese Holli-day for a game against Ala-bama for “missing curfew and violating a team rule.” If Thom-as leaves, it would mean that of the two times in Toledo his-tory they appointed a fresh-man captain, both resulted in the players transfer at the end of the season (Barnett, 2010).— Opener, Page B3