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Exploring in the nation’s capital

Rocket Marching Band reflects on Military Bowl tripBy Danielle GambleCopy Chief

As exciting as it was for marching band members such as mellophone player Megan Fraley to witness the Rockets beat the Air Force first hand, the trip itself was an amazing opportunity.

“I thought it was a good cul-mination of the year in march-ing band,” Fraley, a senior and four-year veteran of the band, said. “It was a lovely final reso-lution… of all my years [in marching band] in one big trip that we got to go to.”

The Marching Band lent sup-port to the Rockets for the 2011 Military Bowl hosted in Washington D.C., and band members stayed in a hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue just a few blocks from the White House.

The members then spent three days in our nation’s capi-tal and were provided with time to sightsee, a provision

many band members were very pleased with.

“I did like exploring,” Fraley said. “The game was nice… but it was nice to see everyone have a good time, go sightsee-ing and coming back to share what they learned.”

Jason Stumbo, director of bands and associate music professor, said this bowl trip was very successful among the band members. He said com-pared to last year’s journey to Detroit for the Little Caeser’s Bowl, this was a much better experience.

“Being an hour from Detroit, most students wouldn’t think that much of the trip. But Washington D.C. – that’s a trip. And I’m sure many of the stu-dents hadn’t been there before, so it was a big deal.”

The band left on Christmas evening to get to Washington D.C. early enough for a pre-bowl performance and to al-low more free time for

students.“We wanted to get there ear-

ly enough so they could do any number of things,” Stumbo said. “I mean, it’s the capital, there are so many things to see and do, and we wanted to make sure they had time to do that.”

Rachel Sullivan, a sopho-more majoring in pharmacy and a clarinet player, was ex-cited to see friends she other-wise would have missed over break.

“We went to a lot of restau-rants actually. We tried a lot of the local cuisine, a bunch of different stuff that we don’t have around here.”

Karen Kolodziej, a junior ma-joring in pharmacy and a Rock-ette, was also excited to see her friends on the dance team.

“We did a lot more touring and sightseeing than I thought we would,” Kolodziej said. “I

Photo courtesy of Nikki Carr

(Left to right) Band members Erin Gordon, Erin Borden, Jessica Nelson and Janessa Reuscher pose for Ohio at the National World War II Memorial while in Washington D.C. for the Military Bowl.

UT football players share experiences from D.C. tripBy Nate PentecostAssistant Sports Editor

For many college students, the latter part of December is meant for gorging on various holiday dishes, reuniting with friends and relatives and in-dulging in the much-anticipated college football bowl season.

But in the days leading up to Christmas, it was business as usual for the University of To-ledo football team. From Dec. 19 to 22, the Rockets were ex-pected to be present on cam-pus to practice and attend team meetings.

On the morning before Christmas Eve, while many of their peers slept in, the players

were preparing to board a flight to our nation’s capital where they were scheduled to clash with Air Force in the Military Bowl.

Winning a 42-41 thriller at RFK Stadium went a long way to make spending Christmas on the road worthwhile for the team, but for senior Desmond Marrow, the victory was partic-ularly special.

The Military Bowl was Dec. 28, Marrow’s birthday. He was able to celebrate his 24th year in style, along with a few dozen of his friends and family who came along to watch the NFL-bound cornerback notch a ‘W’ in his final collegiate game.

“It was a great experience,”

Marrow said. “And most of all we won, so it was definitely worth it. We had a goal to win the game and most of all we wanted to win for Coach Camp-bell [in his first game as head coach]. We as seniors took it upon ourselves to be leaders and get the job done.”

As many American school-children can relate, no trip to the District of Columbia would be complete without sightsee-ing, and the team was afforded ample opportunity for that en-deavor. Partaking in tours of the capital’s historic monu-ments, memorials and govern-ment buildings, in addition to a

Photos courtesy of Bill Claus and Megan Fraley

(Left) Football players Vince Penza, Jeremiah Detmer, Bill Claus and Colin McHugh (left to right) pose in front of the iconic Washington Monument.(Right) Band members Sam Weber and Megan Fraley (left to right) visit the U.S. Capitol Building.

UT to celebrate unity with MLK celebration

File photo by Nick Kneer / IC

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell speaks at last year’s MLK celebration press conference.

By Allison Seney IC Staff Writer

The 11th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Cele-bration will be held at Savage Arena Monday morning.

The theme of this year’s celebration is “Stand!” which is meant to give the commu-nity an opportunity to stand together for a larger cause, according to Bill Stewart, special assistant to Toledo Mayor Mike Bell.

“It means stand to be heard and stand up for someone else,” he said. “The goal is to create an opportunity for people to come together.”

Monday’s celebration will feature a performance from the Toledo Interfaith Mass Choir.

Hari Jones, curator of the African-American Civil War Museum in Washington D.C., will be this year’s keynote speaker.

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Toledo Mayor Mike Bell and UT President Lloyd Jacobs will also speak at the event.

The presentation of the second-annual Unity Award, which recognizes a commu-nity member who was in-volved in the greater Toledo community, will also be part of the event.

Stewart organized the cele-bration with his committee co-chair Shanda Gore, UT associ-ate vice president of equity,

diversity and community en-gagement, along with the Board of Community Inc.

In conjunction with Mon-day’s celebration, the Univer-sity of Toledo scheduled a series of events for Unity Week, which began yesterday.

Events scheduled for Unity Week include the Unity Vigil tonight at 5 p.m. in the Stu-dent Union Building’s T-Section.

Bell and Jacobs came to-gether to kick-off the week with a press conference yes-terday at Driscoll Alumni Center.

“We invite everyone to be a part of the celebration,” Ja-cobs said. “The spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King is still alive. By his set of principals, the world is being made a bet-ter place.”

Jacobs said he is proud of Bell, who has been consistent with uniting the city.

Bell said unity should be celebrated every day, not just once a year.

“Instead of just talking the talk, this event takes action,” he said. “We tend to forget how well off we are.”

Bell said he hopes people who attend the unity celebra-tion will leave “uplifted.”

The event is free and open to the public but attendees are asked to donate a canned food item.

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UT professor discusses New Hampshire Republican PrimaryBy Vincent D. ScebbiManaging Editor

After narrowly escaping the Iowa Caucus with an eight-vote victory, Republican Party candidate Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire Primary by a much larger margin Tuesday.

Romney, a Detroit native and former governor of Mas-sachusetts, won approximate-ly 39 percent of the New Hampshire votes, with Ron Paul coming in second with about 23 percent of votes. Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, collected approxi-mately 17 percent of votes and Newt Gingrich won around 10 percent of the votes, putting him narrowly ahead of Rick Santorum.

As of yesterday, Romney has 25 total delegate votes, Paul is in second with 10 and Santo-rum is third with eight. The to-tal number of delegates re-quired to win the candidacy is 1,144.

Professor of Political Sci-ence at UT David Davis said Romney is the clear front-run-ner of Republican nominees aiming to unseat President Barack Obama.

“He looks better than he did

yesterday,” he said. “Winning Iowa, even by eight votes, is a good sign. Winning New Hampshire quite respectably is a good sign.”

Davis said the possibility of uniting behind one candidate is unlikely.

With Romney gaining mo-mentum heading into the South Carolina on Jan. 21, Da-vis said it is still unclear how much of an impact Ohioans will have on Super Tuesday, which is when Ohio and 13 other primaries occur.

“I think the interesting ques-tion for Ohioans is are we go-ing to have any fun on Super Tuesday or will all the excite-ment be gone?” he said. “Rom-ney is marching forward to his coronation, but he is far from having this in the bag. If Rom-ney appears to be the eventual winner, people will back out.”

Andrew Zucker, deputy communications director for the Ohio Democratic Party, said in an email that Ohioans will be better prepared and more knowledgeable about the candidates.

Davis said Romney will re-main the favorite unless all of the other Republicans unite

— Band, Page A2

— Players, Page A2

— Primary, Page A2

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The donations will help ben-efit the MLK Kitchen, located on Vance Street near Down-town Toledo.

“The reason for the canned food drive is to give back to the

community, especially those in need,” said Linda Alvarado, executive director of the Board of Community Rela-tions. “It’s about appreciating who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was and remembering who he was and what he stood for.”

UnityFrom Page A1

didn’t think we were going to have that long, so it was cool. We went everywhere.”

Initially, the decision to leave on Christmas raised concerns among some students.

“It’s hard to leave when ev-eryone’s feeling all close, and then you can’t go to the after party because you have to go back home and pack and then drive to Toledo,” Sullivan said.

Fraley said while her family was disappointed the band had to leave early, they were ultimately very understanding

and supportive.“I thought it was really great

how we got two days before the game to sightsee instead of being like, ‘Okay go to the game, done, go home,’” Fraley said. “You still had some time with your family, which was really nice, and you still had time to pack if you’re a late packer.”

Stumbo said his biggest concern when preparing for the trip was how to get stu-dents together without mak-ing them go too far out of their way.

“The problem we run into with bowl trips is that stu-dents are away, students are

home, and home can be hun-dreds of miles away from To-ledo,” Stumbo said. “I didn’t want [students] to have to drive to Toledo and wave good-bye to their house as we drive past it on busses.”

The staff tried to fix this problem by picking up stu-dents at various stops on the way to Washington D.C., in-cluding Ohio cities like Lima and Dayton.

“I really like that we had bus stops at certain intervals be-fore we got to [Washington] D.C. so that way we didn’t have to drive,” Fraley, a resi-dent of the Cleveland area, said. “I thought that was very

well planned.” Kolodziej, a resident of

Northwest Indiana, had to fly in order to join the rest of the band.

“In order to get to the buses on time, I would have had to leave my house on Christmas day at 5:00 p.m. to get to Tole-do by midnight, so I talked to Stumbo and he scheduled my flight,” she said.

Kolodziej said it was amaz-ing to be on the field, perform-ing at a bowl game.

“You can’t pay for that; you can’t buy that,” she said. “It was just a good experience that I could experience for my life.”

Military Bowl win, the players took home a unique under-standing of what makes our nation great.

“You may have gone there as a kid,” said UT head coach Matt Campbell. “But until you’re there as a young man, 18 to 22 years old, in a point in your life where you’re making decisions on a day-to-day basis, when you see things like the war me-morial – [our team is] playing football, but those young men made sacrifices to make this country what it is today. I think that’s powerful for a young guy, and each kid took something different from the experience.”

Dan Molls can attest to that fact. The junior linebacker re-calls visiting D.C. on a school field trip in eighth grade.

“I definitely didn’t appreciate the trip back then as much as I did this time,” he said.

Molls is part of the team’s Honors Committee, who visit-ed the Veterans Affairs Medical Center during the trip. The cen-ter serves over 50,000 District of Columbia-area veterans and fields over 500,000 outpatient visits annually.

“It was very humbling,” Molls said. “It was hard to see some of the things people are going through, but we were definitely grateful that we had a chance to experience that. Some of the things that those guys did for us are so admirable. To visit a place like that and help make their holiday special, it just meant everything.”

For senior running back

Adonis Thomas, the trip was something of a homecoming. Born and raised in Newark, N.J., Thomas was able to visit with loved ones during the trip.

“[It was] a home game for me because I’m only two hours away and I was injured, so I couldn’t play in the Temple game which was three hours away,” Thomas said. “So my mother and my uncles and ev-erybody [were able to] see me play in my final collegiate game close to home.”

Had the players received their personal preference of bowl bids, a trip close to home would not have been possible for Thomas, or nearly anyone on the team for that matter.

Before the Rockets’ bowl destination was made certain, a number of players voiced their desire to participate in the New Orleans Bowl.

Whether this wish stemmed from the convenience of the bowl’s scheduled date of Dec. 18, or New Orleans’ reputation of providing a college-friendly atmosphere is uncertain. What is clear, however, is that the Rockets took a great deal away from their Military Bowl expe-rience, both on and off the field.

“[The players sacrificed] Christmas with their family, but I think what we gained as a football family was really spe-cial,” Campbell said. “The op-portunity to be in such a great city and have the opportunity to learn about our great coun-try, our military and some of our great leaders was just a re-ally incredible experience for our young men.”

behind one of the other six runners.

“Santorum would be the most logical candidate,” he said. “He doesn’t have prob-lems like the others do. He’s conservative, but mainstream. He was a Con-gressman and he doesn’t have the so-called baggage.”

The second place candi-date in New Hampshire, Paul, declared himself in the Republican Party, but Davis said his political views are Libertarian.

“Ron Paul is not your typical Republican,” he said. “He believes in mini-mal government regulation, the removal of social secu-rity and downsizing the military.”

Davis said it is a “mys-tery” as to why Paul, who was the Libertarian Party presidential nominee in 1988, has attracted a large amount of young voters by winning 48 percent of vot-ers between 18 to 29 in Io-wa and 46 percent of voters 18 to 24 in New Hampshire, according to exit polls on CNN.com.

With the Ohio Primary over seven weeks away, the state Democrats are al-ready taking actions against the GOP favorite.

“When GM and Chrysler were struggling and jobs across Ohio were on the line, Governor Romney said that we should let the auto industry go bankrupt,”

said Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern in a press conference yesterday. “If Mitt Romney were president, we would not have an Ohio auto industry as we know it today. We would not see Chrys-ler increasing Jeep production and adding jobs in Northwest Ohio, as was reported by the Toledo Blade today... Mitt Rom-ney’s idea of free enterprise is to allow Ohio’s auto industry to go bankrupt and abandon our autoworkers when they need leadership the most.”

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Martin Luther King, Jr. died 43 years ago, but the mark he left on the world transcends time. Today, Toledoans can still hear his voice resonating through the racial injustice and discrimination that darkened his era. Since his youth, King challenged how things were, but he went beyond the mere stage of questioning by giving speeches, attending boycotts and organizing other events to forward his goals.

King was a huge proponent of using nonvio-lence to achieve peace. From Albany to Birming-ham, he would organize marches and sit-ins to get his point across. The reaction to his protests would attract media coverage, as police officers arrested and used attack dogs to unsuccessfully maintain control over the city. Eventually, public sympathy was on King’s side, and this boosted support for his tactics. Following the end of his Birmingham campaign, his public reputation im-proved, the Jim Crow signs in Birmingham disap-peared and the area was less discriminatory.

If change could affect Birmingham, it can arise in Toledo. King’s campaigns were proof that non-violent means could be used to stir change. De-spite the threat of attack dogs, being wiretapped by the FBI, sleeping away nights in jail, and regular threats from opponents, King resisted and refused anything but change, saying, “A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.” The life he lived – or didn’t live as a sacrifice to bring about racial equality – was testimony to his words. He wasn’t like most public figures in that he spoke but didn’t take action. He organized events and arranged his life by everything he stood for.

It seems that everything King fought for is being forgotten as crime soars and Toledo becomes comparable to Detroit. What the city really needs is someone that’s willing to commit (not to rip off Obama’s campaign) to the idea of change. Some-one who, like King, is dedicated to their word and

constantly works to overcome what others believe is a pointless cause.

King was not just well-known as a man of inspi-rational word, but a man of action. He never ac-cepted or settled for what he did not believe. Of just blindly accepting things, he said, “He who pas-sively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” How long have Toledo residents stood witness to the failing of Toledo public schools?

In Toledo, shootings occur almost constantly, and the police are open ears to anyone that can provide insight into past crimes. Youth are attract-ed to the gang lifestyle, and few see little opportu-nity or escape from the cycle of poverty. Last month, according to an article by The Blade, an 81-year-old woman mistaken as someone else, was shot while watching television.

The youth in the neighborhoods where this is happening need to know there’s a way out. They need to know there’s something better awaiting their futures, and they need to know there are bet-ter alternatives worth pursuing. They need to fall asleep knowing there’s someone – there’s a com-munity out there – that hasn’t abandoned them. They need not be cradled by the sounds of gun-shots, but by the echoes of words promising hope.

One solution the mayor and chief are requesting to help: more recreational activities. Public pools used to be a form of entertainment, but the last few summers, they’ve been gated and graffiti deco-rates the concrete surrounding them. These rest-less teenagers turn to the streets for something to do, but if there was another opportunity, some-thing else affordable and within distance, then maybe it’d help. King’s events and the speeches he gave all started out as a dream, as a vision. And with a little community outreach, a better Toledo doesn’t have to be a just a dream.

A while ago, I wrote a col-umn pleading with my fellow students to help one another and prevent the inevitable death of our university. Shortly

after its publication, S t u d e n t G o v e r n -ment Presi-dent Matt Rubin men-tioned me by name in one of his blogs, took the words

wrenched forth from my heart and proceeded to use them to further the goals of the SG.

I was told by superiors and peers alike how flattering be-ing mentioned by Rubin is, but I could not help but feel that my words, thoughts, ide-als and aspirations for our university were stolen and perverted.

In truth, I do not see our SG as being legitimate in any capacity whatsoever. The SG of today is a vestige of its former self which once had legitimate authority at our dear UT. It once gave an ac-tual voice to all UT students. At one time, the administra-tion had no choice but to reckon with it.

Today it is plagued with internal quibbles which pre-vent substantial progress from being made. Sadly, I’ve been told this by SG mem-bers themselves. Today, SG is somehow rendered impo-tent. Though they pass legis-lation, they must placate and appease the administration in order. As students, we have known this for some time and have become apa-thetic to an unprecedented

degree — a large majority of students have no idea we have a student senate. This apathy has led our “voice on campus” to be muted and has rendered it into a popularity contest of sorts. In most cas-es, popularity contests in government lead to kakistocracies.

I am sure there are many things which SG suggests they do for us. However, just by taking a brief look at passed legislative measures, one can see that SG, a stu-dent group which receives a large amount of university funding, consistently passes legislation which benefits very few of us students.

I ask that we all question whether or not our student government is our “voice on campus.” Is what we say, what we ask, what we be-lieve, being expressed with the urgency in which we feel it by the SG? I say no. What good is a voice when the words are lost in translation and are fated to fall on deaf or unreceptive ears? Fur-thermore, what good is a voice if there is no group willing to listen? What are we told by SG? I found out from a willingly deposed SG member the startling statis-tics concerning violent crimes and missing people, mostly young women, from our campus.

No one has told any of us

any of these facts. I under-stand withholding informa-tion for the sake of protec-tion, but doing so makes way for ignorance of the present reality and an inability for all of us students to act in a pro-active manner for the sake of our own well-being and that of our friends and classmates.

Are we so ignorant and in-capable that we need others to speak for us? No. We are

our own voice. We know what problems plague us and we know also how to fix them without compromising the legitimacy of our university.

Are we so fragile and naïve that we must be prevented from knowing what harsh realities surround us? No. We ought to and are capable of knowing clear and pres-ent dangers and proactively acting together to protect ourselves and prevent such dangers in the future.

We are a generation on the frontier of a new kind of world generations before have never seen. We can handle the harsh realities of life because it behooves us to do so, for only when we know what challenges we face can we ever do anything about them. This applies not just here at UT but anywhere and everywhere humanity exists.

I say, with the utmost ur-gency and candor, that we do not need student body representatives like a presi-dent, vice president or sena-tors making vapid state-ments urging us to “Go to the game!” or to have “Rock-et Pride.” I say that we, the students, the ones paying the wages of the administrative

body — many of us going into debt to do so, I might

add — ought to have reason-able dominion over our-selves and our institution. Perhaps then we can give the term “Rocket Pride” ac-tual meaning.

I, with the help of close friends and associates, have developed an alternative to the current SG. It is com-pletely voluntary and com-pletely democratic. We as students must and will have a voice that will be heard by all, even those which refuse to listen.

Anyone can propose legis-lation. It is completely trans-parent. All decisions, all in-formation, all legislation is completely public. There is nothing concerning us that can be kept from us. It is our right, not just as students, but as human beings.

In this model, there is no president, vice president, or

any other representative po-sition. There is only a power-less data enterer that com-piles proposals for legisla-tion, publishes them and col-lects votes.

In order to legitimize this new system, we must first play by the rules of the old system. We must elect a SG president who will put this system in place upon the dis-solution of the current SG and all its offices. It is here that I announce my decision to tentatively run for SG president. My platform is “I do not want to be your Presi-dent.” I want us all to do what only we have the abili-ty and right to do: to have a legitimate voice in the deci-sions that affect our present and our future.

Vote for me and those whom I know will help me in achieving this goal into of-fice and we can put in place a system that works for all of us. The vacuous, vapid, ves-tige of a reprehensive repre-sentative voice on campus, so thoroughly vilified here, will be virulently vivisected if we all wish it to be so.

I do not want power or position of any kind. I simply want to show that there is real alternative to the status quo and, should we all see it as more beneficial, put this alternative in place.

Despite what we may choose to believe or act up-on, UT is a small campus that can only function prop-erly when there is a clear sense of community be-cause, in reality, it is just that – a community. Do you know why having a highly individ-ualized people is so benefi-cial for those with power? Because individuals are forced to act separately. When they speak out of line, they can be dismissed and snuffed out and those with power keep their power. But communities, of which we

are all apart — and never let

anyone tell you otherwise — cannot be ignored. Change must take place.

Imagine if it were publicly

announced that 85 percent

of UT students were unhap-

py with some serious aspect

of UT. No prospective stu-

dent would ever want to

come here, forced to grudg-

ingly spend years of their life

earning a degree in misery

and feeling unsafe, all the

while unheard. We have the

power to take an institution

of 140 years and throw it in-

to a tailspin ending in its de-

struction. No administrator

would allow such a thing to

happen. The only choice for

them is concession.

We are truly powerful

here. Our words and opin-

ions are a fearsome force

which requires the utmost

respect and attention. No

one has ever told you that,

have they?

— Jantzen Ridenour is

an IC columnist and a se-

nior majoring in religious

studies.

On New Year’s Eve, some Ohioans may have found the floors shaking, but it wasn’t from vi-brating music. A 4.0 earthquake was responsi-ble for the trembling, and researchers believe that operations at surrounding well sites in Youngstown, Ohio, are “at fault” for causing the earthquake. If these operations are found to increase seismic activity, then is it really sensi-ble to continue them, especially with the Davis-Besse nuclear power station nearby?

Ohio’s Department of Natural Resources swiftly suspended operations at five sites in Youngstown while they compiled data about the earthquakes, according to an article from Yahoo! News. The well sites use hydraulic frac-turing, a process in which chemically-altered water and sand are injected into the rock to release oil and gas. Researchers are concerned the high pressure injection from the water is what increased seismic activity.

This earthquake was the 11th to occur in the region, which isn’t considered seismically ac-tive. In addition, there are 177 disposal well sites spread across Ohio, and this technique has been used since the ’30s. The timing and location of the earthquake coincides with well operations and was enough for researchers to believe the high pressures from hydraulic frac-turing were the source, despite what critics say. However, if hydraulic fracturing is causing seismic activities now, then the United States needs to reconsider their actions before pursu-ing aggressive well implementation.

As gas prices skyrocket, the United States is looking for alternative ways to increase its in-dependence from oil and gas production. These wells offer a profitable way for the United States to meet that objective, but at what price?

Ohioans may be feeling the earth move under their feet for years to come now. Won-Young Kim, a research professor of seismology, geol-ogy and tectonophysics at Columbia Universi-ty, believes these earthquakes could continue to happen for a few years since it takes the fluid from the fracturing process a long time to leave the rocks.

There isn’t enough research to know how high-pressure liquid injection will affect future earthquakes. A 4.0 earthquake may not seem like much now, but it could escalate, and Ohio has a long history of no earthquakes. Ohio buildings aren’t constructed to withstand earthquakes and any larger ones could endan-ger lives while wiping out community necessi-ties like hospitals and schools. Historical build-ings would crumble in the wake of larger earthquakes; they’re simply not built to with-stand them.

Before Davis-Besse was built, researchers concluded the Oak Harbor area wouldn’t expe-rience an earthquake larger than 6.5. As such, the nuclear power station was built to with-stand an earthquake of that magnitude. Should a larger earthquake occur, said a spokesperson for First Energy, which operates and owns Da-vis-Besse, certain safety procedures would be put into place to help relieve earthquake impact.

However, considering Davis-Besse’s troubled history, people should question the logic be-hind the reassurances. These accidents aren’t always predictable, and it’s not until the after-math that people know how dangerous an event was and that better preventative mea-sures could have been taken. Since nuclear power stations have been implemented, they have been an unprecedented energy power houses with few – but violent – complications arising from them. As such, there’s no room for experimentation or dealing with tragedy when it comes.

While the United States is trying to make a step forward in gas and oil productions, it could be sending us back a few eras – right into that of cavemen – if research isn’t intricately conducted and emergency procedures are not devised for what might happen. These wells are helping many Americans fuel their life-styles right now and could continue to do so without harm if scientists could find a way to decrease injection pressure. Better research could help everyone cover new ground, or at least not crack up the old.

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I think today we played well, they just

made a good play at the end of the game.Dominique BuckleyUT guard ”“

Eric Page will enter 2012 NFL Draft

Campbell will move

Toledo forward

The 2011 season began with a giant expectations and a team full of talent and swagger.

The 2011 season ended in turmoil and confusion.

However, despite Tim Beckman’s p r e m a t u r e d e p a r t u r e from the Rocket foot-ball team in December, the team used that tal-ent and swagger to a c h i e v e s o m e t h i n g that Beck-man never could, win a bowl game.

The team fought val-iantly for new head coach Matt Campbell in the 42-41 M i l i t a r y bowl victory and the Rocket faith-ful should expect more of that come next season.

From the s e c o n d B e c k m a n

told his former players about his decision to join the Uni-versity of Illinois, players wanted one guy and only one guy to take them forward into next season and that was Matt Campbell.

“Everybody wanted Coach Campbell,” said junior defen-sive end T.J. Fatinikun. “We all believe in Coach Campbell. He’s a player’s coach and someone we all can relate to.”

Just 32-years old, Campbell has had an overwhelming amount of success at the col-legiate level, on and off the field. He has been apart of five national championships while at Mount Union, so I would say he knows what it takes to win.

At his introductory press conference, Campbell stood tall at the podium with his family at his side and spoke with confidence and intensity, even sometimes pointing his finger towards his audience.

The Rockets have been tal-ented for many years, they have the right personnel, they need someone to point fingers at them, gather that intensity and put it on the field play in and play out. I believe they found that someone in Matt Campbell.

His task won’t be easy.University of Toledo Athlet-

ic Director Mike O’Brien an-nounced yesterday UT will host Cincinnati for their final non-conference game next season to go along with trips to Arizona and Wyoming be-fore their home opener with Coastal Carolina.

Campbell loses a senior class full of vocal leaders and will need to help the juniors into those leadership roles.

The former offensive coor-dinator has said that not much will change on the offensive side but he must bring some intensity to a defense that showed weakness throughout the season.

Once again the Rockets will come into 2012 talented on paper, but it is Campbell’s job to turn them into champions, something Beckman could never accomplish.

Joe Mehling

It is Camp-bell’s job to turn them into cham-p i o n s , something B e c k m a n could never accomplish.

— Joe Mehling is the sports editor at the Inde-pendent Collegian. He is a junior majoring in com-munication and is a con-tributer to Beatcom.com

File photo by Joseph Herr / IC

University of Toledo junior wide out Eric Page will announce today that he will enter the 2012 NFL Draft this coming April.

UT falls to 8-7 overall after 70-66 loss to Eastern Michigan

Nick Kneer/ IC

Andola Dortch and the Rockets fell to Eastern Michigan 70-66 at Savage Arena last night. Dortch had 11 points in the contest.

By Joe MehlingSports Editor

University of Toledo wide out Eric Page will forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft this April. The NFL Draft advisory board projects him to be a third-to-fifth round draft pick.

Page is the career leader in yards, receptions and recent-ly tied the Mid-American Conference record for most receptions in a career.

At Toledo, Page hauled in 306 catches for 3,446 yards and 25 touchdowns to go along with five touchdowns as a punt and kick returner.

In 2011, Page had 1,184 yards on 125 catches and 10 touchdowns but added one more touchdown on a kick return for a touchdown in the Military Bowl on Dec 28th.

His departure comes just one month after former UT head coach Tim Beckman left the program for the head coaching job at the Universi-ty of Illinois.

“Eric was an outstanding player and role model for To-ledo football,” Beckman said. “I wish him the best in the NFL.”

Page declined to comment after leaking the story to the Toledo Free Press yesterday evening.

He will hold a news confer-ence today at Noon.

By Nate Pentecost Assistant Sports Editor

Despite a second half surge, the Lady Rockets were unable to overcome a steep deficit, falling 70-66 to Eastern Michigan at Savage Arena last night.

Junior Center Yolanda Richardson led Toledo in defeat with 11 points and a game-high 9 rebounds. Sophomore guard Ando-la Dortch added 11 points of her own and dished out a team-high 5 assists, but turned the ball over six times.

Senior guard Tavelyn James torched Toledo for 23 points in the first half as the Eagles jumped out to a 47-33 halftime lead. James (10-of-21 from the field) was held to 7 points in the second half, finishing with a game-high 30 points to go with five rebounds. Forwards Paige Redditt and Natachia Watkins added 13 points each to help lead EMU past the defending WNIT champs.

Beginning the second half on a 16-4 run, the Lady Rockets cut the lead to as few as two on three occasions but were unable to overcome the hole they dug for them-selves early on.

Toledo returns to the court on Saturday when they travel to Northern Illinois.

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The Rockets have sched-uled a home-and-home series with the University of Cincin-nati beginning next fall, UT Athletic Director Mike O’Brien announced yesterday.

“We are very pleased to be adding the University of Cin-cinnati to our 2012 home foot-ball schedule and look for-ward to an exciting series with the Bearcats,” O’Brien said.

The series kicks off with Toledo hosting the Bearcats on Oct. 20th at the Glass Bowl. The Rockets will finish out the home-and-home arrangement with a game at Nippert Stadi-um in Cincinnati on Sept. 13, 2014.

“I’m excited that we are adding Cincinnati to our schedule,” said UT head coach Matt Campbell. “I have a lot of respect for Coach Butch Jones and the Cincinnati program. This will be another challeng-ing series that I’m sure our

players and fans will look for-ward to.”

Campbell, who took over the head coaching position last month after Tim Beckman bolted for Illinois, led Toledo to a 42-41 Military Bowl win against Air Force n in his first game since being handed the reigns. UT finished the season 9-4 with a 7-1 record in the Mid-American Conference.

The Bearcats bested Van-derbilt 31-24 in the Liberty Bowl last month to cap off a 10-3 campaign which included a Big East co-championship and No. 21 ranking in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Just two seasons ago, in 2009, Cincin-nati finished 12-1 and rose to No. 4 in the country before falling 51-24 to No. 5 Florida in the Sugar Bowl.

The Bearcats lead the all-time series with UT 4-2 but the Rockets topped Cincinna-ti 23-16 at the 2001 Motor City Bowl in the two teams’ most recent meeting.

The series with Cincinnati

was made possible when the Bearcats postponed a 2012 showdown with Ohio State.

The Rockets nearly became the first in-state foe to beat the Buckeyes early in the 2011 season, falling 27-22 when their final drive of the game stalled in OSU territory.

As part of a more competi-tive non-season slate, in the years to come Toledo will also host Navy (2013), Missouri (2014), Miami-FL (2015) and Iowa State (2015).

In recent seasons, the Rock-ets have hosted schools in-cluding Boise State, Arizona, Colorado, Purdue, Kansas, Io-wa State, Pittsburgh, Minne-sota, Navy, Syracuse and Indiana.

October’s showdown with the Bearcats completes Tole-do’s 2012 non-conference schedule which begins with a visit to Arizona on Sept. 1 (season opener), followed by a game at Wyoming on Sept. 8 and a home game vs. Coastal Carolina on Sept. 22.

File Photo by Nick Kneer

Toledo will host the Bearcats on Oct. 20 at the Glass Bowl and will travel to Cincinnati in 2014.

Rockets fall in final seconds to Ball St.

By Nate PentecostAssistant Sports Editor

In what has become an all too familiar theme during the Rockets 2011-12 campaign, the Toledo men’s basketball team fell on a buzzer beater Tuesday night in their Mid-American Conference home opener against Ball State.

The loss marks the Rock-ets fifth this season by three points or less.

With the score even at 68, senior forward Jarrod Jones scored the game-winning bucket with 0.6 seconds left to give the Cardinals (11-4, 2-0 MAC) a 70-68 win over Toledo (8-8,0-2) at Savage Arena.

“We’re losing close games because of the little things we don’t do,” said junior guard Dominique Buckley. “Like boxing out, [committing] turnovers and things like that. I think today we played well, they just made a good play at the end of the game.”

“I couldn’t be prouder of our guys,” said UT head

coach Todd Kowalcyzk. “They played with great emo-tion and enthusiasm. We did some great things tonight but we came up a little short.”

Sophomore guard Rian Pearson (7-of-14 from the field) turned in another out-standing performance for the Rockets, posting a team-high 19 points, seven boards, a school-record tying seven steals and three assists. Buckley also reached double figures with 16 points, con-necting on 4-of-6 three-point attempts before fouling out with 1:21 left in the game.

“If Dominique Buckley doesn’t foul out, we win that game,” Kowalcyzk said.

Sophomore Tyler Koch then tied the game for the Cardinals with a three-point-er, his only basket of the con-test. Brown missed a jumper on the next possession, forc-ing the Rockets to foul Jones, who connected on both free throws to give Ball State a 68-66 lead.

Brown found sophomore forward Reese Holliday in the post for a layup to tie the game at 68 with 6.5 seconds remaining before Jones dashed Toledo’s hopes with his game-winning lay-in.

After beginning the season on a 6-1 tear, the Rockets have dropped nine of their last 11 games in a stretch which included contests against nationally recognized Temple and Cleveland State squads and a MAC West Divi-sion favorite in Ball State.

Toledo will attempt to turn the season’s tide and pick up their first conference win this Saturday when the Rockets head to Kalamazoo, Mich. to clash with defending MAC West champion Western Michigan (6-9, 0-1 MAC). Tip-off is schedule for 2 p.m.

“It’s very disappointing but Ball State is a good team,” Pearson said. “We’re going to try to bounce back on Satur-day and get a conference win.”

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Curtis Dennis and the Rockets dropped yet another close game on Tuesday to Ball St. 70-68.

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students. All of the images included

in the exhibit capture a cer-tain aspect of this genera-tion’s college life.

Beginning in late January, the second part of the event is a play written by Main Campus Provost William McMillen.

The play, titled “Exhibi-tion,” is an original three-part story about a couple reflect-ing on their lives.

It explores the couple’s re-lationship during three stag-es, first as a young and en-gaged couple, then later in the middle of their lives and as older and wiser.

Directed by Cornel Gaba-ra, assistant professor of the-atre at UT, “Exhibition” will be performed by the Glacity Theatre Collective in front of the photography exhibit.

Holly Monsos, associate dean of Visual

and Performing Arts, is a member of the Glacity The-atre Collective. When ap-proached by McMillen about the opportunity to perform “Exhibition,” Monsos quickly became hooked and the play found a spot in Pond’s gallery.

Monsos said the play is “quite compelling and fun. It looks at relationships from different perspectives.”

Following the play, the third part of “Project Space 2012” will fill the gallery. From Feb. 6 to 12, the “Mea-sure Project, Explorations in Drawing: Large Scale Draw-ings Inspired By Minimalism” will join the exhibit.

According to Jon Wittes, a senior majoring in fine arts, minimalism is a simple form of expressing a complex idea or emotion.

Wittes said he is optimistic about “Project Space 2012” and feels it will be well received.

“There is a lot of talent in

Toledo,” he said. “The Art Department of the Universi-ty, which is attached to the world renowned Art Muse-um, is doing a good job gen-erating public support.”

From the photos to the drawings and the live perfor-mance, “Project Space 2012” is a new event which is sure to be a great experience. If you are unsure about wheth-er to go or not, listen to Wittes: “Most open-minded people would be pleasantly surprised.”

The event, with the excep-tion of the play, is free. “Ex-hibition” will be performed Jan. 27 to Jan. 29 and Feb. 3 to Feb. 5. Admission is $20, except for the Jan. 29 performance, when admis-sion is a pay-what-you-can donation. Student rush tick-ets will be available for $5. The play starts at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. on Sundays. Space is limited.

CPA Film FridaysLooking for something to do on a Friday night?

Come and catch a movie at the CPA!January 20

“The Jazz Singer” (1927)The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy his father in order to pursue his

dream of becoming a jazz singer. Unrated.

January 27 “Madonna: Truth or Dare” (1991)

Documentary following singer Madonna on her controversial Blond Ambition tour in 1990. Rated R.

February 3“Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” (2005)

A mix of Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy and musical interludes, in-spired in part by the 1973 documentary Wattstax. Rated R.

February 10 “Pink Floyd’s The Wall” (1982)

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation. Rated R.

These are the last chances of the semester! Don’t miss them!

All shows will be held in the Lab Theatre in the Center for Performing Arts starting at 10 p.m. Tickets are $3 and include a small soft drink and a small bag of popcorn.

Project SpaceFrom Page B4

Courtesy of University of Toledo Art Department

The CVA Project Space 2012 exhibit will consist of three separate parts, each debuting at different times in it’s duration. Currently, only a photography exhibition is on display.

couraged him to start pre-paring for college auditions.

Ultimately, Border’s goal is to continue his education

for a long while, staying in college until finally receiv-ing his doctorate in piano performance and becoming a piano professor at a uni-versity. Although he will be teaching, he will never stop

improving in his talent.“I feel I have gotten con-

siderably better, but with music the learning never stops,” he said. “There is al-ways something to be improved.”

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ArtsandLifeThursday, January 12, 2012BSection

www.IndependentCollegian.com Caitlin Arthurs – EditorPageB4

Thursday

Huntington Center – Blake

Sheldon is performing his “Well Lit

& Amplified Tour” with Justin

Moore and NBC’s ‘The Voice’ final-

ist, Dia Frampton. The show starts

at 7:30, and tickets can be bought

at the Huntington Center Box Of-

fice or on www.ticketmaster.com.

Friday

Valentine Theatre – Come and

see the timeless classic “The Wizard

of Oz” performed onstage at the

Valentine. The show starts at 8 p.m.

and tickets can be purchased at

http://www.valentinetheatre.com.

Saturday

SeaGate Centre – The Glass City

Rollers face the South Bend Derby

Girls in a roller derby double head-

er. Admission is $11 and the derby

starts at 6 p.m.

Sunday

Frankies Inner City - Trust Me,

I’m A Doctor, Crowns Aside, Emu-

lator, I Envision Apollo, A Violent

Perfection, Don’t Betray The Mes-

siah and In Hell And Fury are all

facing off in the Jamboree 2012

Battle of the Bands. All ages are

welcome, and admission is $10

with doors opening at 5 p.m.

Tuesday

Toledo Museum of Art – There

will be a ceremony celebrating the

TMA’s 100th Anniversary starting

at 1 p.m. Refreshments will be pro-

vided and admission is free.

Wednesday

Fifth Third Field – Come out for

Toledo Mud Hens Fandemonium!

The event starts at 5:30 p.m. and

lasts until 8 p.m. Tickets are $10

and can be bought at the Fifth

Third Field box office, by phone at

(419) 725-4367 or online.

Aroundtown

Jan. 12-Jan.18

Students SpeakOkay, time to cramHonors freshman recalls first encounter with f inals week

Every college student dreads the thought of exam week. Whether it’s a biology exam or the final 10 page pa-per of the semester, it takes a lot out of a student.

For most of us, the stress of finals comes, at a mini-mum, the week be-fore. This is when the all-nighters, eating whenever possible and major cram sessions at the library begin.

For me, the stress began two weeks before actual finals week. In that week alone, I had a lot of stuff to worry about — psychology, math, a three-part Spanish exam, not to mention a final paper due at the end of that week.

The Spanish exam was aw-ful. Learning a foreign lan-guage is hard enough, but hav-ing to be tested on it three separate times is torture.

In the first semester of tak-ing the language, I had to be able to speak, listen, under-stand, read and write fluently in Spanish. This included three tenses, eight chapters of vocabulary and a five minute speech. I had to review over 300 flash cards for these ex-ams alone.

Following the first part of my Spanish exam, I had my final in psychology. This cov-ered the largest chapters within the book, mental disor-ders and treatments. I had to cram in a wide variety of dif-ferent disorders and the treat-

ments to each disorder.Both my psych exam and

the first two parts of my Span-ish exam were back to back to back in the week prior to

finals. When finals week hit, I was al-ready exhausted, but I still had two exams and an eight page paper due.

When Tuesday rolled around I had my math final. My weekend basi-cally consisted of studying for the exam and attempt-

ing to complete a seemingly endless study guide for it. Without any time to breathe, I had to take on the last section of my never ending Spanish exam right after.

When all my written exams were over, I still had to tackle my eight page paper over “Dante’s Inferno” and “Don Juan in Hell.” Fun, right? I think not. That final paper of the semester took the last bit of energy I had right out of me, leaving me exhausted and completely ready for Christ-mas break.

So, when people ask me how my finals week went, all I can do is stare at them and say, “How do you think?”

The truth is, finals can be different for everyone. But for me, experiencing finals week for the first time was one stressful hell that I am not looking forward to dealing with again.

— Brittany Brest is a fresh-man majoring in psychology.

By Brittany BrestFor the IC

Artist Spotlight: Alan BorderFrom passion to profession

favorite pieces.“His performance was

great,” said Adam Bussell, a freshman majoring in film and fellow ALLC member. “I’d seen him play before, but it never stops surprising me that such talent comes from someone so young.”

According to Border, his musical talent and love for the piano hasn’t always been as strong.

“I first started playing the piano when I was around seven years old,” he said. “Even though I enjoyed play-ing, I didn’t enjoy practicing. Between that and other dreams that I had, I never even considered playing the piano as a future career.”

Border said even after three years of playing, he believed he wasn’t talented enough. He learned that be-coming great was both diffi-

cult and time consuming.Through dedication and

years of work, Border went from dreading practice to planning a future in performance.

At 15, he finally had an in-terest to pursue what he loved. Unsure, he explored completely unrelated paths.

“During the remainder of my high school, I also start-ed taking classes related to computer programming,” Border said. “My other dream throughout childhood was to become a video game programmer.”

As he grew in talent and love for piano, however, he focused on a career in mu-sic, and his parents – who didn’t think their son would consider the piano more than a vague interest — en-

Ut’s ProjectSpace 2012

Art meets science in CVA’s new experimental exhibitBy Benjamin LynnIC Staff Writer

When talented artists, an empty gallery and a new year are thrown together, ex-pect nothing less than brand new experiences.

“Project Space 2012,” a new experimental exhibit hosted by UT’s Center for Visual Arts gallery, will open until Feb. 12.

Started by Ben Pond, the CVA’s Gallery Director, the exhibit is already generating some excitement in those involved.

“Project Space 2012’ is a broad performing and visual arts experience,” he said. “In it you will see student per-spectives, a faculty perspec-

tive and the chance to expe-rience something different.”

According to Pond, the ba-sic idea of the event deviates from normal exhibits. In-stead of a formal setting, the gallery is portrayed more as a laboratory where artists have the chance to experi-ment outside the box.

Consisting of three parts, the “Project Space 2012” event explores different ar-tistic mediums.

The first part of the event is a photography exhibit en-titled “Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next.” Com-prised of student works, “Millennials” is a window in-to the world of college

By Caitlin ArthursArts and Life Editor

For many students, their studies and pas-sions don’t tend to over-lap. But for freshman Alan Border, these things are one in the same.

Border majors in pia-no performance, a pro-gram requiring a tremen-dous amount of talent and dedication to stand out. Many people think of a major in music as easy and less time-con-suming than other ma-jors, but Border said this is not the case at all.

“With music alone, I’m expected to practice about four hours a day on my individual solo pieces, and around two hours for other pieces for other music that I may have to learn for other classes like ac-companying or choral groups,” Border said.

Along with his music courses, music theory, music history, and core courses such as science, math, English and histo-ry have to be factored in. This course load, how-ever, is only a small price to pay to be able to do what he loves.

Border is currently part of the Arts Living and Learning Communi-ty at UT and recently performed at their se-mester showcase. He played Franz Liszt’s Noc-turne No. 3 “Liebe-straum,” one of Border’s

Courtesy of the University of Toledo

Provost William McMillen is premiering his own play, “Exhibition,” as part of the Project Space 2012 exhibit.

From pen to paper

“If Only I Had Three Arms to Hold Down the Untied Ends”

If only I had three arms to hold down the untied ends So they wouldn’t snap up and slash.And twelve-finger room for all my pledged ringsI need a second head to think twice as well,And faster too. But maybe a spare heart will do,When I set my first one to breakIt’ll beat on for a time, until I had noth-ing else to lose. My new body would keep me able,While the little one I’m in, canOnly stretch my skin too tightAcross the throat, and torso So, I hem a seam or two‘Till my thread spool runs bare, and I spill out on the black top, Burning hot to innards’ touchAnd exposed for all to see

Send any form of creative writing to carthurs@In-dependentCollegian.com to be featured in the Arts

and Life section.

Submissions from student literary artists

— Douglas Lutman is a senior majoring in lin-guistics.

“To Let”

A pretty, little plain girl holds her fa-ther’s hand--stooped down with wrinkled hands to meet cradle smooth fingertipsToday, they walk in the park on one of those“perfect days” spring-time Technicolor, and blossoms and blossoms. Its green and sunny and they both squint.

Spotted dandelion tuft bouncing in the breezeHer rose patterned dress bounces be-hind her asshe pulls away in its chase.

By Douglas Lutman

— Project Space, Page B3

— Spotlight, Page B3

Photo courtesy of Alan Border

Border performing Franz Liszt’s Nocturne No. 3 “Liebestraum” at the biannual Arts Living and Learning Community Showcase.