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Owens replaces Dantin at QB in 20-15 UT loss to Wyoming.

Sports, B1

Gin Blossoms return with new album.

Arts & Life, B4

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Homecoming High-FiveRocky the Rocket slaps a high-five with 4 year-old Joey Heldmann from Toledo during the Edward C. Schmakel Home-coming Parade on Friday.

By IC Staff

UT’s American Association of University Professors has filed a grievance against UT President Lloyd Jacobs’ reor-ganization plan, citing the pres-ident’s decision was in direct violation of the Collective Bar-gaining Agreement.

The AAUP states Jacobs is in violation of Article 7 of the Tenured/Tenure Track Con-tract and Article 7 of the Lec-turers’ Contract which states, “The Employer will effectively consult with and seek the ad-vice of the Faculty Senate on matters of institutional plan-ning,” and “Decisions made by the administration under this article shall be fully reported and explained to the Faculty Senate in written detail in or-der to allow the Faculty Senate to understand the rationale of a given decision.”

Jacobs presented his recom-mendations for reorganizing the university to the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees on Friday, Sept. 24.

In an email announcement from the AAUP sent out on Friday, the AAUP said Jacobs admitted at the Faculty

Senate’s Sept. 28 meeting that he did not consult with the Faculty Senate on restructur-ing the university before mak-ing his recommendation to the BOT Academic Affairs Committee.

Remedies sought by the UT-AAUP are that Jacobs “consult with and seek advice of the Faculty Senate on the matter related to restructuring the University of Toledo and that President Jacobs fully report and explain the restructuring to the Faculty Senate in writ-ten detail.”

The email also reads, “Fur-thermore, there is to be a stay in the implementation, approv-al and final reporting of any reorganization plan pending consultation with the Faculty Senate and a full written report including financial implica-tions to the Senate.”

The AAUP wants the two remedies to occur before the reorganization plan is submit-ted to the BOT.

Jacobs is scheduled to sub-mit his proposed plan for reor-ganizing UT to the full board on Oct. 11, when the board will decide whether to approve the proposal.

AAUP files grievance

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Family and supporters of the UT Health Science Campus AFSCME union workers attend the Labor Day Parade, displaying signs that ask the UT Board of Trustees to settle a contract with the union.

Union authorizes strikeBy Hasan DudarEditor in Chief

Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union on the University of Toledo Health Science Cam-pus voted on Wednesday to grant their leaders permis-sion to carry out a labor strike.

The vote is the latest devel-opment in more than a year of unsuccessful contract rene-gotiations between the UT ad-ministration and AFSCME Local 2415. Since June 30, 2009, the nearly 2,000 AFSC-ME members on the HSC have been going on day-to-day extensions of their last contract.

During a phone interview, AFSCME Local 2415 Presi-dent Tom Kosek said the union sees a labor strike as a last resort and wants to avoid striking in haste.

“It [striking] is one of those things that you just don’t take lightly,” Kosek said. “You al-ways try to negotiate a settle-ment before you strike. That being said, you don’t wait and fall victim of complacency. At the same time, you have to be aware that your bargaining partner on the other side of the table has to know that the strike is serious.”

Kosek said he and the union leadership have been explor-ing every option before issu-ing a strike notification, but the union is prepared to strike if they feel negotiations are not moving forward.

Union leadership has agreed to wait until Oct. 8 for UT President Lloyd Jacobs to offer a new proposal. If the union leadership accepts Ja-cobs’ new proposal, both bar-gaining units will meet on Oct. 12 for a final agreement. If the leadership does not ap-prove the proposal, Kosek said the union will issue a 10-day notice for a strike.

The union will enter the Oct. 8 negotiations with the state Fact-Finder’s recom-mendation as their preferred contract. The Fact-Finder’s

report includes a 1.67 percent yearly raise over a three-year period — a proposal the UT Board of Trustees rejected on August 28.

During his weekly “Presi-dential Perspectives” video, Jacobs said he was confident that negotiations will continue.

“I’m convinced, first of all, that we will come to agree-ment and that there will be no strike,” Jacobs said.

According to a statement provided by the UT Office of M a r k e t i n g a n d

Communications, a wing of external affairs, the union’s vote on Wednesday is not the end of the bargaining process.

“This vote is largely proce-dural and should not be viewed as any indication of a breakdown in the bargaining process,” the statement said. “We continue to be optimistic about what can be achieved through bargaining and look forward to continuing to do so in good faith.”

— Strike, Page A2

By Randiah GreenNews Editor

Honors students at the University of Toledo will now graduate from more than one college since the Honors Pro-gram was changed into the College of Honors.

The UT Board of Trustees approved the change from program to college at their Sept. 20 meeting.

Director of the Honors pro-gram and professor of Eng-lish Tom Barden said this will not change students’ degrees.

“Let’s say you want to get a business degree. You’d be in the Col-lege of Busi-ness and Ad-ministration and the Hon-ors College,” Barden said. “The student who’s in the College of Arts and Sciences is still go-ing to get their degree from Arts and Sciences.”

Though students in the College of Honors will not graduate with an additional degree, they will receive a diploma-like award showing they completed the rigorous curriculum.

“The degrees are the same; it’s a recognition of a

completed curriculum,” Barden said. “Then you’ll have something else for your wall that will say you got a diploma from the honors college.”

Barden said the honors program was already func-tioning as a college and just needed a name change to re-flect it.

“By staying a program, people think ‘oh, maybe 300 people in somebody else’s building,’” he said. “But we really have been the size and prestige to be a college, and my point to the board was,

let’s call it what it is.”

The Col-lege of Hon-ors has 932 students.

Most of those stu-dents, Barden said, are from the College of Engineer-ing, followed by the CAS,

College of Pharmacy and COBA.

According to the National Collegiate Honors Council’s website, if an honors pro-gram makes up at least five percent of the student popu-lation, has its own academic building and has students write a thesis, the program

College of Honors created

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prestige to be a college, and my point to the board was, let’s call it what it is.Tom BardenDirector,UT Honors Program ”

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host a Jazz Night at Crystal’s Lounge at the Ramada Hotel on Secor Road and Conference Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $3 for students and se-niors and $5 for the general public. Order dinner and a bev-erage or just come for the mu-sic. For more information, con-tact Angela Riddel at (419) 530-2452 or TheArts@utoledo.edu.

National Society of Collegiate Scholars

The National Society of Col-legiate Scholars will be at UT Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Stu-dent Union Auditorium. The Route 66 Tour is a nationwide tour sponsored by The Na-tional Society of Collegiate Scholars. The interactive pre-sentation involves multime-dia, on-stage role-plays, games and prizes to demonstrate that college is a four-year stepping stone for a 40-year career.

Office of Student Involvement

The Office of Student In-volvement will host an inter-faith panel on issues present-ed in the book, “Dead Man Walking” Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Ingman Room. One of the most con-troversial is the complexity of religious beliefs around the subject of the death penalty. Come join student organiza-tions and religious represen-tatives from several areas as they discuss the complexities of their perspectives. For more information, call (419) 530-7221.

International Student Association

The ISA will host I-Village Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium. I-Village is a cultural event providing foods from different organiza-tions and cultural activities.

UT Symphony Orchestra

The UT Symphony Orches-tra will perform a free concert Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Do-ermann Theater. For more in-formation, contact Angela Riddel at (419) 530-2452 or TheArts@utoledo.edu.

Victory 5K run/3K walk

The 4th Annual for Victory 5K run/3K Walk will be Satur-day at 10 a.m. at Swan Creek Metropark off of Airport High-way. For more information, contact Kathy Kaczmarek at (419) 383–6428.

By Bayan Shbat & Vincent J. CurkovIC Staff Writers

Students and faculty alike

congregated for Thursday’s Banned Books Vigil in Sulli-van Hall to celebrate one’s right to think freely.

The 13th annual event fo-cused on the overall censor-ship of books and other types of media.

Paulette Kilmer, professor of communication and coor-dinator of the Banned Books

Week Vigil Committee, said about 420 people signed in to the event, and speakers ad-dressed crowds of about 20 to 60 people at a time.

“I’m very pleased,” Kilmer said. “Each of the events were well attended.”

In one presentation, Assis-tant Vice Provost for Learning Ventures Ben Pryor showed that banning books has never been a successful venture.

“As everybody knows, the single most important piece of data in any discussion of

banning books is that at-tempts to ban books are al-most always pathetically inef-fective, short-lived and coun-terproductive,” Pryor said.

Pryor also discussed the recent controversial issue re-garding the burning of the Quran, and described those who burned the religious text as “having never read the book and in ignorance of the fact that Muslims strive from childhood trying to memo-rize it.”

In terms of literature, Pryor

also mentioned the banning of books such as Harry Pot-ter, which has been banned based on claims of the books promoting “witchcraft” de-spite being fictional.

“Perhaps the problem is that the banners do their work with such a lack of imagination,” he said.

During another presenta-tion, Renee Heberle, an asso-ciate professor of political science, discussed censor-ship in the penal system, such as how letters from prisoners

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Carter Wilson, professor of political science and law and social thought, gives his presentation during Banned Books Week called “Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and the Two Faces of American Culture” in Sullivan Hall on Thursday.

UT holds Banned Books Vigilare censored.

Heberle, who has a long career of working in prisons, said she feels that writing let-ters is a mode of expression for prisoners and that they should not be censored be-cause much of the historical facts we know today come from prisoners’ letters.

One student in the audi-ence said censoring letters takes away from the reason the letter was written.

The event was planned by the Banned Books Week Vigil Committee, which consists of Kilmer, Linda Smith, senior lecturer in the honors pro-gram, Glen Sheldon, associ-ate professor in the honors program, Melanie Dusseau, Academic Adviser for the College of Arts & Sciences, and Cynthia Ingham, associ-ate professor of history.

According to Kilmer, the committee begins meeting in November to start planning the following year’s event.

“A lot of the discussion is how we can make the next event better,” she said. “It’s amazing how long it takes to make something like this last all day. I think Thursday went really smoothly.”

Food at the event was pro-vided by Kroger’s and New Sins Press. Books and other items given away as door prizes were donated by other sponsors.

“You can see we have all different people from over campus,” Kilmer said. “We have people who give us things every year.”

The vigil was planned to coincide with the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week, an annual na-tional event.

“All of us take time during the past week to celebrate the right to read and think freely,” Kilmer said.

can be considered a college.The NCHC, which is a national

professional association of un-dergraduate Honors programs and colleges, also lists an ACT score requirement of 25 to 28 and high school grade point average of at least 3.75 in their criteria for the best Honors Colleges.

UT’s Honors College requires students to have a high school GPA of 3.92 and an ACT compos-ite score of 28.

“We’re pretty much right on,” Barden said. “We have our own building, and just about five per-cent of the student population is in the honors program. So, ex-cept in the name, we were al-ready an Honors College.”

Besides having an Honors Col-lege making UT look more presti-gious, Barden said, graduating from the college is a good thing

for students to have on their resume.

“Mostly a student always wants to have a resume and it’s a very good thing to show in a resume,” he said. “An honors college shows that it’s more work the student is doing and it’s more rigorous.”

Barden will become dean of the college.

“It’s in the proposal,” he said. “I’ve been called a director all along, but once the provost gets around to it, my position will be changed to dean.”

Barden said he is excited for the change.

“All the deans get to come to-gether and talk about their col-lege with each other, but I was never included in those discus-sions because I was only a direc-tor,” he said. “Now, I’ll be able to talk to other deans of other col-leges and keep them on the Col-lege of Honor’s radar.”

Despite a cursory meet-ing with Jacobs’ adminis-tration on Sept. 24, Kosek said he felt that the ad-ministration has not been in a hurry to reach a deal with the union.

Kosek said the authori-zation to strike might open new lines of discus-sion since UT was not faced with a potential strike in previous negotiations.

Chair of UT’s Board of Trustees Bill Fall said he hasn’t noticed any signs that the union leadership will call for a strike.

“I’ve been given indica-tion that there still are very strong, earnest ef-forts on both sides’ part, regarding a settlement

and resolution of this so that we can avert that eventuality,” Fall said.

Fall said he would not be able to provide details about UT’s strike contin-gency plan and how quickly the administra-tion will move to fill the patient-care positions at the UT Medical Center if AFSCME strikes.

“It’s a pretty multi-phased approach. It would be dependent upon a lot of different contin-gencies — a lot of ‘what if this, what if that’ situa-tions,” Fall said. “Depend-ing on the nature of any sort of work-stoppage there would be, there are a number of different op-tions at our disposal, and we would certainly work to do that in as quick a fashion as possible.”

Kosek said the adverse

effect a strike will have on the community is one consequence the union leadership has seriously considered.

“It [negative conse-quences of a strike] weighs in only to the point where you don’t want to lose community support,” Kosek said. “To lose the support of the public in a hasty decision that jeopardizes family and friends’ lives or edu-cational opportunity for students isn’t something we take lightly.”

Kosek said he thinks the public is sympathetic to the union’s yearlong term without a contract, and is confident the union will continue to have the public’s sup-port, especially the back-ing of other unions around Toledo.

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Candy for KidsSophomore civil engineering major Stan Kosilesky (right) and senior nursing major Josh Fischer (center) hand out candy to five-year-old Sam Thomas from Toledo during the Edward C. Schmakel Homecoming Parade on Friday.

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The polarized nature of the United States’ political atmosphere is glar-ingly evident in the Congressional de-bate regarding the expiring Bush-era tax cuts. Opinions have been heard from economists, politicians, reli-gious figures and other groups, with the most intense debate focusing on the renewal of tax cuts for the wealth-iest two percent of U.S. citizens.

Some rightly argue that the majority of Americans need tax relief right now, but the extremely affluent mi-nority does not. For these reasons, President Obama supports letting the tax cuts expire for families making above $250,000 and individuals mak-ing over $200,000. The billions in ad-ditional tax revenue could be chan-neled into job creation and immediate economic assistance to the states.

Most Republicans are defending the position that the tax reductions for the wealthiest Americans must be renewed along with the rest of the 2001 and 2003 cuts. Some economists have agreed, saying that the expiration of these tax cuts will amount to a tax increase on the wealthy, which will discourage sav-ings and investment, slowing our eco-nomic growth. After all, nobody should face a tax hike in a recession.

Democrats have been more divided on the issue. Some Congress mem-bers, especially those facing tough op-position in re-election campaigns, have spoken in favor of prolonging tax cuts for the top two percent, at least while the economy is still suffering.

Many Democrats, however, argue that the most wealthy are the least likely to spend their tax savings and are not in need of government aid. On the other hand, low and middle-class families typically use most of their tax savings to buy food and clothes and pay utility bills, medical expenses and college tuition.

Progressives and small business ad-vocates such as the Maine Small Busi-ness Coalition have sided with the Pres-ident, arguing that it is most important to keep workers employed and ensure the health of local businesses. By pre-venting layoffs of public workers such as police, firefighters and teachers, and ensuring that families have money to spend, local economies can regenerate and stimulate further growth.

Others, such as Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, argue that we should not focus on whether or not to renew Bush-era tax cuts, but on re-vamping our broken tax system as a whole. Our current system, which he says consumes 7.6 billion hours of Americans’ time per year, stifles growth and job creation. The compli-cated nature of our tax code prevents most people from taking advantage of all the benefits offered.

Due to the massive influence of spe-cial interest groups lobbying Congress, countless tax breaks have been al-lowed for very narrow sectors of the economy. As Congress members cater to the needs of corporations, religious groups and other special interests, the constant pressure of well-funded lob-byists makes bipartisan agreement on tax reform nearly impossible.

It is hard to contest Senator Wyden’s call for a reformed, simplified U.S. tax code. U.S. citizens should be em-powered to take greatest advantage of tax benefits while closing unneces-sary loopholes paid for by millions of lobbyist dollars.

Significant barriers stand in the way of any such reform, however — the seemingly uncontestable influence of money in U.S. politics, the tendency of citizens to favor leaders who stub-bornly defend their position instead of compromise, and the intensely par-tisan nature of our politics.

The recent decision of Britain to rec-ognize Druidry as an official religion brings a sense of legitimacy to a minor-ity often looked down upon as an ille-gitimate or cult-like religion. Like oth-er pagan faiths, Druidry pre-dates most world religions and was present on the British Isles long before the faiths of the contemporary majorities.

Druids profess no dogma, but regard nature as an all-inclusive system in which all life is viewed with the high-est respect. Unlike most religions, which place humans at the center of the universe, Druids see us as just one tiny player in the universal order.

In addition to belief in the spirits of water, earth, plants and animals, some Druids worship a single god or “great spirit.” Others follow a duotheistic, pantheistic or polytheistic path, wor-shipping several or many major spirits.

What would be polarizing differences in other religions are embraced; Druids

of any specification are recognized and welcome at Druid ceremonies, which celebrate the sun, moon, Earth and sea-sons. The acceptance of varied spritual practice establishes a community in tune with the natural and necessary di-versity of human throught.

More a spiritual path than a religion, Druidry offers an alternative to the high-ly structured nature of Western-style mainstream religions.

Since the dawn of complex society, state and religious leaders have dis-couraged and oppressed those with beliefs diverging from the majority. One of the many ways that modern so-cieties continue to control and limit the spread of minority religions is by refusing to even recognize them.

England’s action, which grants demo-graphic recognition and charitable sta-tus to Druidry, is a small but significant step in the centuries-old battle against institutionalized religious persecution.

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This past weekend I expe-rienced art like never be-fore by visiting the Heidel-berg Project in Detroit, MI. I didn’t know a thing about

the place until I s t e p p e d out of my car and en-tered the vibrant ur-ban land-scape of the social-ly inspiring i n s t a l l a -tion art.

At first glance it looked like colorful junk art: a hodgepodge of discarded consumer artifacts. But as I looked closer, the art looked back at me and begged me to look into myself.

The Heidelberg Project encompasses roughly two neighborhood blocks in southeast Detroit where di-lapidated houses have been turned into art, sidewalks are painted with bright and colorful abstract faces, va-cant lots are decorated with pieces of painted plywood, stuffed animals cover light-poles, abandoned cars are adorned with symbolic im-agery and so much more.

The Project is the brain-child of Tyree Guyton who was raised on Heidelberg St. — the namesake of the project — and began trans-forming the area into a massive art environment in 1986. He enlisted the help of his grandfather, Sam Mackey and neighborhood kids, converting aban-doned houses into works of visual intrigue.

Guyton’s mission is to create an environment that inspires people to express themselves creatively as a means to enhance their lives and their community. His art evokes an emotional and intellectual response. He uses symbolism to ad-

dress issues such as pover-ty, corruption and violence.

In one vacant lot a rusty old stove sits with piles of shoes stuffed inside as a haunting reminder of the Holocaust. Near the stove, whimsical faces are painted on bent-up old car hoods — “faces in the hood.” There is a boat covered with stuffed animals, a piece suggestive of Noah’s Ark.

There are myriad reli-gious references scattered throughout the project. The colorful faces painted prac-

tically everywhere are re-ferred to as the “faces of God,” the idea being that God is in everything, wheth-er ugly or beautiful.

The most famous land-mark of the Heidelberg Project is the “Dotty Wotty House.” The house has been in Guyton’s family since 1947 and it is where Guy-ton’s grandfather first placed a paintbrush in Guy-ton’s hand. Today, the house is covered in bright polka dots, symbolizing the unity of all people.

The Project has had a controversial history. City officials in the past took is-sue with the barriers to ur-ban planning it represented. In 1991 Mayor Coleman Young ordered the demoli-tion of four house installa-tions, and in 1999 Mayor Dennis Archer directed three more house installa-tions bulldozed.

Guyton and his support-ers filed a civil lawsuit against the city of Detroit after the second demoli-tion. The Wayne County Circuit Court ruled that the Heidelberg Project was pro-tected under the 1st Amend-ment as political speech in the form of outdoor art.

The Heidelberg Project continues to be a voice of creative expression for a community surrounded by social struggle. It is recog-nized as the most influen-tial art environment in the country. It emphasizes the power of creativity and its ability to change lives. Visi-tors from around the world come to see, feel and move through this urban land-scape of living art.

People were once afraid to walk around this neighbor-hood, but it is now a shining example of positive commu-nity outreach. Guyton and other artists that now live there welcome the help of volunteers in an effort to in-spire a rebirth of Detroit.

The goal is for this spirit of goodwill to spread, even beyond Detroit. Being at the project is almost like walking on sacred ground. There is an aura of respect and gratitude for what the artists have accomplished.

The Heidelberg Project conveys a sense that there is beauty in everything — every scrap of abandoned rubbish. The only thing one needs is a little paint, a twist of imagi-nation or a slight juxtaposi-tion with another object to manifest new meaning.

Everything is connected; that is the art of life. The Heidelberg Project inspires these ideas. Go there with an open mind and let your-self be transformed.

—Stephen Bartholomew is an IC columnist and an English education stu-dent at UT.

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SportsMonday, October 4, 2010Section B Page1

www.IndependentCollegian.com Zach Davis – Editor

We needed to score and I just tried to do my best

to get the offense running, move the ball and put some

points on the board.Terrance OwensUT Redshirt-Freshman Quarterback ”“

Owens replaces Dantin at QB; Wyoming halts comeback 20-15 By Zach Davis and Joe MehlingSports Editor and Ast. Sports Editor

Trailing 20-0 with under a minute left in the third quar-ter on Saturday, the Rockets pulled sophomore starting quarterback Austin Dantin in fa-vor of redshirt fresh-man Terrance Ow-ens, who nearly led Toledo to a fourth quarter win in a 20-15 loss to Wyoming.

“We needed to score and I just tried to do my best to get the offense running, move the ball and put some points on the board,” Owens said.

Dantin was pulled against Ohio earlier this season but it was in favor of senior Alex Pettee, not the younger Owens who has four years of eligibility left at UT.

Dantin spoke ex-clusively to the In-dependent Colle-gian after the game and expressed he still plans on starting next week against No. 4 Boise State.

“If I wasn’t [planning to start] I wouldn’t be here,” Dantin said.

Dantin later ex-pressed he would be behind Beckman’s decision next week of who to start, re-gardless of if it was Owens or himself. Dantin has previous-ly expressed his strong desire to be the starting quarter-back, telling the IC before the year how he felt about being a backup.

“Being all the way from Florida I don’t want to come

up here and just sit the bench, sit on the sidelines and cheer,” Dantin said in August.

Dantin threw for just 76 yards on 8-of-20 passing against the Cowboys and rushed for 45 yards before being benched. He attributed the team’s poor play to penalties.

“We killed our-selves,” Dantin said. “We shot ourselves in the foot. Our first drive, we had a mis-

communication between the center and I— he snapped it when I wasn’t ready.”

Owens completed 6-of-15 passes for 108 yards as Tole-do scored 15 unanswered in

the fourth quarter. “I’m just going to

keep working hard and keep doing what I’m doing and everything will fall into place,” Owens said.

The Cleveland Glenville graduate opened things up with his second pass attempt of the game as he connected with sopho-more wide out Eric Page to set up Toledo’s first touch-

down with 14:57 left in the game.

Two possessions later, Owens drove the Rockets 68 yards in 1:47 to bring the score to 20-15. Ju-nior running back Adonis Thomas punched in the one-yard score with 6:59 left in the fourth quarter.

Junior safety Mark Singer intercepted a pass on the

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Redshirt-freshman quarterback Terrance Owens entered the game with under a minute remaining in the third quarter with a 20-0 defecit and led the Rockets to 15-unanswered points in a loss to Wyoming on Saturday. Owens completed 6-of-15 passes for 108 yards, including a 53-yard pass to sophomore Eric Page for his first career completion.

UT’s slide continues losing 10 of last 12

Rockets win five straight

By IC Staff

The Toledo women’s soc-cer team extended their win-ning streak to five games with road wins over Akron and Ohio this weekend. The Rockets have not lost since Sept. 3 in a 4-1 game against Louisville.

The victories give Toledo an 8-2-2 record on the season including a 4-0 mark in Mid-American Conference play. UT has been strong in all phases this this year ranking second in the MAC in scoring

(2.3 goals per game) and fifth in goals-against average (1.227).

The Rockets avoided Ak-ron (3-8-0, 1-3-0 MAC) halting their winning streak yester-day in dramatic fashion with a 1-0 double-overtime victory over the Zips.

“I’m excited for today’s re-sult, because I thought our kids played extremely hard,” Toledo head coach Brad Ev-ans said. “Akron is a very good team. They are well or-ganized and tough to break down. Today was a tough

match.”The game’s lone goal was

scored by sophomore mid-fielder Kristen Mattei, the first goal of her career.

“It was an amazing goal for myself and the team,” Mattei said. “Kristen [Lynn] played a good ball into the box, and I was able to get my head on it and direct it into the back of the net. We showed great ef-fort today and came out with the win against a good team.”

“Kristen [Lynn] did a good

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Junior right-side hitter Cassie Kleespies had a team-high 16 kills and a match-best .484 attack percentage in the Rockets 3-1 loss to Eastern Michigan on Friday.

File photo by Joe Herr / IC

Kristen Mattei scored the game-winning goal for the Rockets yesterday against Akron in a 1-0 double-overtime victory. It was the first goal of the second-year midfielder’s career.

By Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

The Rockets have lost 10 of their last 12 games after drop-ping both contests this week-end. Toledo fell in four sets to Mid-American Conference West Division leading Eastern Michigan (24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 25-10) on Friday and in three sets against Central Michigan (25-19, 25-22, 27-25) on Saturday.

“Were not a very consistent team,” junior outside hitter Cassie Kleespies said. “We will have people playing awesome at different times and if we could ever pull our efforts to-gether we would be unbeatable.”

“The practices this week were really good,” UT head coach Greg Smith said. “It was probably one of our best weeks of practice since the beginning of the season. [The team] is staying positive and they know they have the po-tential. We just have to carry through with everything and right now they are struggling to do that.”

The Rockets (5-10, 0-4 MAC) opened their weekend against Eastern Michigan with their first victorious set since Sept. 12 to take a 1-0 lead in the match.

“That first game, we were so confident and we won,” Kleespies said. “As people can see we have been losing 0-3

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We needed to score and I just tried to do my best

to get the offense running, move the ball and put some

points on the board.Terrance OwensUT Redshirt-Freshman Quarterback ”“

Owens replaces Dantin at QB; Wyoming halts comeback 20-15 By Zach Davis and Joe MehlingSports Editor and Ast. Sports Editor

Trailing 20-0 with under a minute left in the third quar-ter on Saturday, the Rockets pulled sophomore starting quarterback Austin Dantin in fa-vor of redshirt fresh-man Terrance Ow-ens, who nearly led Toledo to a fourth quarter win in a 20-15 loss to Wyoming.

“We needed to score and I just tried to do my best to get the offense running, move the ball and put some points on the board,” Owens said.

Dantin was pulled against Ohio earlier this season but it was in favor of senior Alex Pettee, not the younger Owens who has four years of eligibility left at UT.

Dantin spoke ex-clusively to the In-dependent Colle-gian after the game and expressed he still plans on starting next week against No. 4 Boise State.

“If I wasn’t [planning to start] I wouldn’t be here,” Dantin said.

Dantin later ex-pressed he would be behind Beckman’s decision next week of who to start, re-gardless of if it was Owens or himself. Dantin has previous-ly expressed his strong desire to be the starting quarter-back, telling the IC before the year how he felt about being a backup.

“Being all the way from Florida I don’t want to come

up here and just sit the bench, sit on the sidelines and cheer,” Dantin said in August.

Dantin threw for just 76 yards on 8-of-20 passing against the Cowboys and rushed for 45 yards before being benched. He attributed the team’s poor play to penalties.

“We killed our-selves,” Dantin said. “We shot ourselves in the foot. Our first drive, we had a mis-

communication between the center and I— he snapped it when I wasn’t ready.”

Owens completed 6-of-15 passes for 108 yards as Tole-do scored 15 unanswered in

the fourth quarter. “I’m just going to

keep working hard and keep doing what I’m doing and everything will fall into place,” Owens said.

The Cleveland Glenville graduate opened things up with his second pass attempt of the game as he connected with sopho-more wide out Eric Page to set up Toledo’s first touch-

down with 14:57 left in the game.

Two possessions later, Owens drove the Rockets 68 yards in 1:47 to bring the score to 20-15. Ju-nior running back Adonis Thomas punched in the one-yard score with 6:59 left in the fourth quarter.

Junior safety Mark Singer intercepted a pass on the

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Redshirt-freshman quarterback Terrance Owens entered the game with under a minute remaining in the third quarter with a 20-0 defecit and led the Rockets to 15-unanswered points in a loss to Wyoming on Saturday. Owens completed 6-of-15 passes for 108 yards, including a 53-yard pass to sophomore Eric Page for his first career completion.

UT’s slide continues losing 10 of last 12

Rockets win five straight

By IC Staff

The Toledo women’s soc-cer team extended their win-ning streak to five games with road wins over Akron and Ohio this weekend. The Rockets have not lost since Sept. 3 in a 4-1 game against Louisville.

The victories give Toledo an 8-2-2 record on the season including a 4-0 mark in Mid-American Conference play. UT has been strong in all phases this this year ranking second in the MAC in scoring

(2.3 goals per game) and fifth in goals-against average (1.227).

The Rockets avoided Ak-ron (3-8-0, 1-3-0 MAC) halting their winning streak yester-day in dramatic fashion with a 1-0 double-overtime victory over the Zips.

“I’m excited for today’s re-sult, because I thought our kids played extremely hard,” Toledo head coach Brad Ev-ans said. “Akron is a very good team. They are well or-ganized and tough to break down. Today was a tough

match.”The game’s lone goal was

scored by sophomore mid-fielder Kristen Mattei, the first goal of her career.

“It was an amazing goal for myself and the team,” Mattei said. “Kristen [Lynn] played a good ball into the box, and I was able to get my head on it and direct it into the back of the net. We showed great ef-fort today and came out with the win against a good team.”

“Kristen [Lynn] did a good

Zach Davis / IC

Junior right-side hitter Cassie Kleespies had a team-high 16 kills and a match-best .484 attack percentage in the Rockets 3-1 loss to Eastern Michigan on Friday.

File photo by Joe Herr / IC

Kristen Mattei scored the game-winning goal for the Rockets yesterday against Akron in a 1-0 double-overtime victory. It was the first goal of the second-year midfielder’s career.

By Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

The Rockets have lost 10 of their last 12 games after drop-ping both contests this week-end. Toledo fell in four sets to Mid-American Conference West Division leading Eastern Michigan (24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 25-10) on Friday and in three sets against Central Michigan (25-19, 25-22, 27-25) on Saturday.

“Were not a very consistent team,” junior outside hitter Cassie Kleespies said. “We will have people playing awesome at different times and if we could ever pull our efforts to-gether we would be unbeatable.”

“The practices this week were really good,” UT head coach Greg Smith said. “It was probably one of our best weeks of practice since the beginning of the season. [The team] is staying positive and they know they have the po-tential. We just have to carry through with everything and right now they are struggling to do that.”

The Rockets (5-10, 0-4 MAC) opened their weekend against Eastern Michigan with their first victorious set since Sept. 12 to take a 1-0 lead in the match.

“That first game, we were so confident and we won,” Kleespies said. “As people can see we have been losing 0-3

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job of earning the restart and played an excellent ball into the goalbox that Kristen [Mattei] was able to finish for the match winner,” Evans said.

Junior goalie Vicki Traven saved the only two shots on goal against her for her fifth

shutout of the year and third in the last four matches.

On Friday the Rockets edged out the Bobcats (3-5-2, 0-2-1) in a 2-0 victory in Ath-ens, Ohio.

Senior forward Brittany Hensler put the Rockets ahead early with a goal in the 15th minute and Lynn put UT up two in the game’s 56th

minute.Traven saved seven shots

earning another shutout as Toledo outshot OU 12-7.

The Rockets will return home trying to extend their winning streak with a match-up against arch-rival Bowling Green on Friday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. before taking on Miami (OH) on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 1 p.m.

first play of the Wyoming drive following the touch-down, giving the offense good field position at the Toledo 42-yard line.

Owens and the UT offense could not take advantage of the take away as they were forced to punt, giving

Wyoming the ball back with just over five minutes remaining.

Once again the Toledo de-fense came up with big plays, forcing the Cowboys to punt with 3:50 remaining.

Owens began the drive with a nice strike to Page for nine yards followed by a one yard run by Thomas to give the Rockets a first down.

Following two incomple-tions and a five-yard pass to Thomas, Owens rushed for no gain on fourth down.

Wyoming was able to run out the rest of the clock as Toledo had just one timeout left following the failed fourth down conversion.

The Rockets will travel out west to face No. 4 Boise State on Saturday at 8 p.m.

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Freshman running back David Fluellen scores a fourth quarter touchdown as the Rockets fell to Wyoming 20-15 on Saturday. Fluellen had six carries against the Cowboys for 56 yards and a touchdown.

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Junior tight end Danny Noble recovers a fumble by freshman David Fluellen against Wyoming on Saturday.

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Amber DeWeerdt registers one of her 13 kills against Eastern Michigan in Friday’s 3-1 loss. The junior outside hitter has a team-high 159 kills this season.

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and that first set was a big step for us.”

However, that would be the only set UT would win in the match as they dropped the next three despite lead-ing early in each of the final three sets.

Kleespies led the team with 16 kills and a .484 kill percentage. Junior outside hitter Amber DeWeerdt and fresh-man OH Becca Reidy each reached dou-ble-digit kills with 13 and 10, respectively. Senior libero Katie Westerfeld led UT with 17 digs.

“It’s tough, they are a good team,” Smith said. “They are a year older and had everyone back from last year’s team. It’s one of those things where you know what your going to ex-pect when you play Eastern, they are going to play hard and they are going to be scrappy. We just struggled

finding ways to score.”The Rockets took the court

against Central Michigan Sat-urday and this time it was the visitor who struck first. The Chippewas jumped out to a 12-4 lead and kept UT at least five points down the rest of the way to take the set 25-20.

The second set was once again all CMU as they led 8-3 early in the set. The Rockets

rallied late, scoring three straight points to bring the match to 24-22, but a kill from CMU hitter Lauren Krupsky put UT down 2-0.

Toledo held a com-manding 21-16 lead in the third set but CMU rattled off an 8-1 run and finished off the Rockets 27-25.

“We’re getting there and there are some bright spots, but we just have to continue to work at it and see if we get better results,” Smith said.

The Rockets return to ac-tion on Thursday at 7 p.m. as they host Ball State at Savage Arena.

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job of earning the restart and played an excellent ball into the goalbox that Kristen [Mattei] was able to finish for the match winner,” Evans said.

Junior goalie Vicki Traven saved the only two shots on goal against her for her fifth

shutout of the year and third in the last four matches.

On Friday the Rockets edged out the Bobcats (3-5-2, 0-2-1) in a 2-0 victory in Ath-ens, Ohio.

Senior forward Brittany Hensler put the Rockets ahead early with a goal in the 15th minute and Lynn put UT up two in the game’s 56th

minute.Traven saved seven shots

earning another shutout as Toledo outshot OU 12-7.

The Rockets will return home trying to extend their winning streak with a match-up against arch-rival Bowling Green on Friday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. before taking on Miami (OH) on Sunday, Oct. 10 at 1 p.m.

first play of the Wyoming drive following the touch-down, giving the offense good field position at the Toledo 42-yard line.

Owens and the UT offense could not take advantage of the take away as they were forced to punt, giving

Wyoming the ball back with just over five minutes remaining.

Once again the Toledo de-fense came up with big plays, forcing the Cowboys to punt with 3:50 remaining.

Owens began the drive with a nice strike to Page for nine yards followed by a one yard run by Thomas to give the Rockets a first down.

Following two incomple-tions and a five-yard pass to Thomas, Owens rushed for no gain on fourth down.

Wyoming was able to run out the rest of the clock as Toledo had just one timeout left following the failed fourth down conversion.

The Rockets will travel out west to face No. 4 Boise State on Saturday at 8 p.m.

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Freshman running back David Fluellen scores a fourth quarter touchdown as the Rockets fell to Wyoming 20-15 on Saturday. Fluellen had six carries against the Cowboys for 56 yards and a touchdown.

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Junior tight end Danny Noble recovers a fumble by freshman David Fluellen against Wyoming on Saturday.

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Amber DeWeerdt registers one of her 13 kills against Eastern Michigan in Friday’s 3-1 loss. The junior outside hitter has a team-high 159 kills this season.

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and that first set was a big step for us.”

However, that would be the only set UT would win in the match as they dropped the next three despite lead-ing early in each of the final three sets.

Kleespies led the team with 16 kills and a .484 kill percentage. Junior outside hitter Amber DeWeerdt and fresh-man OH Becca Reidy each reached dou-ble-digit kills with 13 and 10, respectively. Senior libero Katie Westerfeld led UT with 17 digs.

“It’s tough, they are a good team,” Smith said. “They are a year older and had everyone back from last year’s team. It’s one of those things where you know what your going to ex-pect when you play Eastern, they are going to play hard and they are going to be scrappy. We just struggled

finding ways to score.”The Rockets took the court

against Central Michigan Sat-urday and this time it was the visitor who struck first. The Chippewas jumped out to a 12-4 lead and kept UT at least five points down the rest of the way to take the set 25-20.

The second set was once again all CMU as they led 8-3 early in the set. The Rockets

rallied late, scoring three straight points to bring the match to 24-22, but a kill from CMU hitter Lauren Krupsky put UT down 2-0.

Toledo held a com-manding 21-16 lead in the third set but CMU rattled off an 8-1 run and finished off the Rockets 27-25.

“We’re getting there and there are some bright spots, but we just have to continue to work at it and see if we get better results,” Smith said.

The Rockets return to ac-tion on Thursday at 7 p.m. as they host Ball State at Savage Arena.

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In recent weeks, Warner and New Line have been scrambling to clean up some underlying rights issues with the Tolkien estate that partly stem from earlier litigation between the studios and the late author’s heirs. After in-tense negotiations between lawyers, the studios have agreed to pay millions of dol-lars to the estate to resolve matters, said people with knowledge of the situation.

Last year, Warner/New Line reached a settlement of

reportedly more than $100 million with the Tolkien heirs, who in 2008 had sued the stu-dios over royalties to Jack-son’s three “Lord of the Rings” films, saying the studio owed the estate more than $150 million in profits. The studio also has settled lawsuits over profit participation with Jack-son and his partners as well as producer Saul Zaentz.

The estate, Zaentz and Jackson will participate in the gross revenues of “The Hobbit,” as well as Walt Dis-ney Studios and Bob and Harvey Weinstein. The Wein-steins had originally

developed the “Lord of the Rings” movies when they ran Miramax Films, which was at the time a division of Disney.

Warner and MGM have each sunk tens of millions of dollars into preproduc-tion on “The Hobbit,” in-cluding script fees, visual effects work, set prepara-tions and casting meetings.

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It would almost be com-parable to bands like Hoo-tie and the Blowfish, Goo Goo Dolls or Simple Plan if it were actually good. If you’re looking for some-thing deep or meaningful,

it would be wise to look elsewhere.

Track listing:1.“Don’t Change for Me” 4:052.“I Don’t Want to Lose

You Now” 4:113.“Miss Disarray” 3:304.“Wave Bye Bye” 4:075.“I’m Ready” 4:22

6.“Somewhere Tonight” 3:56

7.“Go Crybaby” 5:008.“If You’ll Be Mine” 3:149.“Dead or Alive on the

405” 3:0210.“Something Real” 4:0311.“Goin’ to California” 3:4412.“Please Don’t Ask Me

(iTunes Bonus Track)”

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“No Chocolate Cake” is the latest release from Gin Blossoms. The first single was released Aug 2, 2010 and debuted number one on Amazon.com.

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Arts“Tomorrow we can drive around this town; and let the cops chase us around; The past is gone, but something might be found to take it’s place; Hey jealousy.” — Gin Blossoms, “Hey Jealousy” andLife

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tuesdayFrankie’s Inner-city — Agnostic Front will be performing at Frankie’s with Mother of Mercy, Product of Waste and Homeward Bound. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $13 in ad-vance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

wednesdayFrankie’s Inner-city — It Boys will be headlining with Summerfield opening the show. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door, the night of the show.

Stranahan Theatre — The Goo Goo Dolls will be performing at Stra-nahan Theatre with special guest The Spill Canvas. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. There is limited VIP seating. Tickets are $35 or $45 on Ticketmas-ter.com or the Stranahan box office.

thursdayFrankie’s Inner-city — The Slack-ers are performing at Frankie’s along with Green Room Rockers DJ 100 DBS and El Blanco Diablo. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in ad-vance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

fridayRitter Planetarium — “Fall Skies Over Toledo” is a live interactive program that takes a look at the To-ledo fall sky. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., but doors open at 7 p.m. Tick-ets are $6 for adults and $5 for chil-dren 3-12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Reservations are not accepted. For more information call 419-530-2650 Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., or call the 24-hour information hotline at 419-530-4037 for a recorded message.

Glass Pavilion — Four wines, light snacks and a view of their Hot Shop will be available on Friday from 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for members of the Toledo Museum of Art and $20 for nonmembers.

Toledo Museum of Art — There is a free presentation of Tutankha-mun’s Footwear on Friday in the Little Theater. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and ends at 8:30 p.m. For more information see the ToledoMu-seum.org.

Frankie’s Inner-city — Murder By Death is performing with Girl In A Coma and Ninja Gun. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

saturdayRitter Planetarium — “The Moon-Witch” is an entertaining and infor-mative look at the Moon. The event begins at 1 p.m. and doors open at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children 3-12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Reser-vations are not accepted. For more information call 419-530-2650 Mon-day through Friday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., or call the 24-hour infor-mation hotline at 419-530-4037 for a recorded message.

Frankie’s Inner-city — Ashes of Soma is performing with Rotation, OnceOver, 8th Street and Jeff Bugert. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, the night of the show.

Headliners — Will Hoge will be performing at Headliners. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in ad-vance and $12 at the door, the night of the show.

sundayToledo Museum of Art — A free recital featuring Joan Layne and Kevin Bylsma will be held in the Great Gallery as a part of the Great Performance in the Great Gallery Series. The event will be from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m.

Collingwood Arts Center — The Glass Slipper Review will be held at the center on Sunday. The event be-gins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15.

Aroundtown

Oct. 5 — Oct. 10

By Claudia Eller and Ben FritzLos Angeles Times(MCT)

LOS ANGELES _ After several years of delays that have frustrated eager fans, moviegoers might soon be able to return to Middle-earth.

Warner Bros., its subsidiary New Line Cinema and partner Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appear to be close to green-lighting the hugely anticipated two-part “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Hobbit,” according to several people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Barring a last-minute glitch, pro-duction could begin in mid-Janu-ary so that the first of the two movies would be ready for a holi-day 2012 release, according to people close to the project. The second film is planned for a De-cember 2013 opening. If produc-tion doesn’t begin by the first quar-ter of next year, the people said, “The Hobbit” will miss its planned release dates and likely will have to once again be delayed.

The one remaining hurdle is getting an official go-ahead from MGM, which for more than a year has been virtually out of cash and whose debt holders have been trying to decide upon a plan for reorganization. Under a long-standing agreement, MGM owns half the rights and controls inter-national distribution. MGM is ea-ger to co-finance the films, people close to the situation said, and could give Warner Bros. the offi-cial OK in the next few days.

The studio partners also have nearly finalized a deal with di-rector, producer and co-writer Peter Jackson to make the two movies and have resolved most other key issues that have long held up the project, including those related to underlying rights from the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson has long

planned to shoot the movies in his home country of New Zea-land, but this week he ran afoul of various performer unions, in-cluding the Screen Actors Guild, which are advising their mem-bers not to work on what they allege is a non-union production. One person close to the situation said that dispute also is close to being resolved, further clearing the way for a green-light.

Jackson took on directing duties after “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guill-ermo del Toro, who had been set to handle the job, backed out earlier this year because of the ongoing delays.

The two “Hobbit” films, which will be shot together, are expected to cost close to $500 million to produce.

Warner and New Line, which pro-duced the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and control domestic distribution for “Hobbit,” are ready to commit their half of the money, said people familiar with the matter.

Negotiations between MGM and Warner are at a very tenuous stage. MGM needs to reach agreement among its more than 100 debt own-ers, which control the future of the studio. MGM’s creditors are scram-bling to finalize a reorganization plan through which Spyglass Entertain-ment chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are expected to take over management. Barber has been lead-ing negotiations on “The Hobbit” for MGM with top Warner executives, including home entertainment group President Kevin Tsujihara.

MGM will need to secure its half of the financing. Barber is expected to approach a number of potential investors, among them studios in-cluding 20th Century Fox, which has an existing deal with MGM to release its movies overseas. Other possibilities include outside finan-cial investors or Warner Bros., which could loan MGM its share in exchange for additional distribution rights to the pictures.

Studios near a deal on ‘Hobbit’

‘no Chocolate Cake’The latest release from 90’s sensation Gin Blossoms offers simplistic and generic lyrics

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The Hobbit movie, which is the prequel to The Lord of the Rings se-ries, is predicted to be released during the holiday season in 2012. — Hobbit, Page B3

Employing the use of simplistic lyrics and basic chord progres-sions, the Gin Blossoms fall flat with their album “No Chocolate Cake” in more ways than one.

The 90’s sensation is most well-known for their 1992 hit “Hey Jealousy” and, unfortunately, hasn’t been the same since. The untimely loss of guitarist and songwriter Doug Hopkins is one contributing factor to the decline, and, even though Robin Wilson, the vocalist of the group, is still around, his vocals don’t have the same effect in the absence of Hopkins’s lyricism. Most of the album consists of slow jam, soft rock that is typical of this group. However, their modernized pop rock sound doesn’t seem to have the catchy beat or lyrics of the previous compositions that made them famous.

Wilson sounds off-key, or flat, in many songs and there was also a lack of synchronization in the harmony sections of “If you’ll be mine.” This lack of quality, which is seen throughout much of the album, is off-putting to most, es-pecially music aficionados and musicians.

The first single off of the al-bum, “Miss Disarray,” sounds like nearly every other song on the album, but luckily the singer dropped out of the falsetto regis-ter for it. The single was released on Aug. 2, 2010 to radio, but as a habitual radio listener, I have not heard the single until now; aston-ishingly, the album debuted at number one on Amazon.com.

“No Chocolate Cake” seems to be reminiscent of early Hansen,

but without popular appeal. They also include the stereotypical love songs and “bubble gum” positive messages that were prevalent in 90’s pop rock.

“Wave Bye Bye,” just like its title, hosts extremely simple and mindless lyrics that detract from the overall appeal of the song. It is almost com-parable to a modernized “No Rain” by Blind Melon, sans complexity.

Fortunately, the album wasn’t a total loss. “I’m Ready” is a song that possesses actual merit and

Wilson’s voice even reminds me in spots of Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell.

“Dead or Alive on the 405” was another unique track. The single was like 311 meets the Beach Boys with its ska-like sound.

Critic’s Conclusion: It might be telling of my own preference, but I feel this album is not some-thing that sounds as if it was pro-duced by professional musicians. It is not even comparable to EP’s

that are put together in some-one’s garage.

The simplicity, instead of being a positive attribute like it is for many modern bands, only served as an annoyance that seemed mindless and shoddy. The beat was repetitive and it felt like something one could dance the “Carlton” to. Perhaps the band should consider putting more time into an album before they release it.

By LaShae NaszradiArts & Life Editor

— Gin Blossoms, Page B3

Photo courtesy of Chikkadora.com

“No Chocolate Cake,” which was released on Sept. 28, 2010, is the latest album from Gin Blossoms. The first single was released Aug 2, 2010 and debuted number one on Amazon.com.

Independent CollegianTheMonday, October 4, 2010 B3

In recent weeks, Warner and New Line have been scrambling to clean up some underlying rights issues with the Tolkien estate that partly stem from earlier litigation between the studios and the late author’s heirs. After in-tense negotiations between lawyers, the studios have agreed to pay millions of dol-lars to the estate to resolve matters, said people with knowledge of the situation.

Last year, Warner/New Line reached a settlement of

reportedly more than $100 million with the Tolkien heirs, who in 2008 had sued the stu-dios over royalties to Jack-son’s three “Lord of the Rings” films, saying the studio owed the estate more than $150 million in profits. The studio also has settled lawsuits over profit participation with Jack-son and his partners as well as producer Saul Zaentz.

The estate, Zaentz and Jackson will participate in the gross revenues of “The Hobbit,” as well as Walt Dis-ney Studios and Bob and Harvey Weinstein. The Wein-steins had originally

developed the “Lord of the Rings” movies when they ran Miramax Films, which was at the time a division of Disney.

Warner and MGM have each sunk tens of millions of dollars into preproduc-tion on “The Hobbit,” in-cluding script fees, visual effects work, set prepara-tions and casting meetings.

___(c) 2010, Los Angeles Times.Visit the Los Angeles Times

on the Internet at http://www.latimes.com/.

Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

HobbitFrom Page B4

It would almost be com-parable to bands like Hoo-tie and the Blowfish, Goo Goo Dolls or Simple Plan if it were actually good. If you’re looking for some-thing deep or meaningful,

it would be wise to look elsewhere.

Track listing:1.“Don’t Change for Me” 4:052.“I Don’t Want to Lose

You Now” 4:113.“Miss Disarray” 3:304.“Wave Bye Bye” 4:075.“I’m Ready” 4:22

6.“Somewhere Tonight” 3:56

7.“Go Crybaby” 5:008.“If You’ll Be Mine” 3:149.“Dead or Alive on the

405” 3:0210.“Something Real” 4:0311.“Goin’ to California” 3:4412.“Please Don’t Ask Me

(iTunes Bonus Track)”

Photo courtesy of Amazon.com

“No Chocolate Cake” is the latest release from Gin Blossoms. The first single was released Aug 2, 2010 and debuted number one on Amazon.com.

Gin BlossomsFrom Page B4

Arts“Tomorrow we can drive around this town; and let the cops chase us around; The past is gone, but something might be found to take it’s place; Hey jealousy.” — Gin Blossoms, “Hey Jealousy” andLife

Monday, October 4, 2010BSectionwww.IndependentCollegian.com LaShae Naszradi – Editor

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tuesdayFrankie’s Inner-city — Agnostic Front will be performing at Frankie’s with Mother of Mercy, Product of Waste and Homeward Bound. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $13 in ad-vance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

wednesdayFrankie’s Inner-city — It Boys will be headlining with Summerfield opening the show. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door, the night of the show.

Stranahan Theatre — The Goo Goo Dolls will be performing at Stra-nahan Theatre with special guest The Spill Canvas. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. There is limited VIP seating. Tickets are $35 or $45 on Ticketmas-ter.com or the Stranahan box office.

thursdayFrankie’s Inner-city — The Slack-ers are performing at Frankie’s along with Green Room Rockers DJ 100 DBS and El Blanco Diablo. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 in ad-vance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

fridayRitter Planetarium — “Fall Skies Over Toledo” is a live interactive program that takes a look at the To-ledo fall sky. The event begins at 7:30 p.m., but doors open at 7 p.m. Tick-ets are $6 for adults and $5 for chil-dren 3-12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Reservations are not accepted. For more information call 419-530-2650 Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., or call the 24-hour information hotline at 419-530-4037 for a recorded message.

Glass Pavilion — Four wines, light snacks and a view of their Hot Shop will be available on Friday from 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for members of the Toledo Museum of Art and $20 for nonmembers.

Toledo Museum of Art — There is a free presentation of Tutankha-mun’s Footwear on Friday in the Little Theater. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and ends at 8:30 p.m. For more information see the ToledoMu-seum.org.

Frankie’s Inner-city — Murder By Death is performing with Girl In A Coma and Ninja Gun. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $13 in advance and $15 at the door, the night of the show.

saturdayRitter Planetarium — “The Moon-Witch” is an entertaining and infor-mative look at the Moon. The event begins at 1 p.m. and doors open at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for children 3-12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Reser-vations are not accepted. For more information call 419-530-2650 Mon-day through Friday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., or call the 24-hour infor-mation hotline at 419-530-4037 for a recorded message.

Frankie’s Inner-city — Ashes of Soma is performing with Rotation, OnceOver, 8th Street and Jeff Bugert. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, the night of the show.

Headliners — Will Hoge will be performing at Headliners. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in ad-vance and $12 at the door, the night of the show.

sundayToledo Museum of Art — A free recital featuring Joan Layne and Kevin Bylsma will be held in the Great Gallery as a part of the Great Performance in the Great Gallery Series. The event will be from 3 p.m. until 4 p.m.

Collingwood Arts Center — The Glass Slipper Review will be held at the center on Sunday. The event be-gins at 3 p.m. Tickets are $15.

Aroundtown

Oct. 5 — Oct. 10

By Claudia Eller and Ben FritzLos Angeles Times(MCT)

LOS ANGELES _ After several years of delays that have frustrated eager fans, moviegoers might soon be able to return to Middle-earth.

Warner Bros., its subsidiary New Line Cinema and partner Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer appear to be close to green-lighting the hugely anticipated two-part “Lord of the Rings” prequel “The Hobbit,” according to several people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of ano-nymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Barring a last-minute glitch, pro-duction could begin in mid-Janu-ary so that the first of the two movies would be ready for a holi-day 2012 release, according to people close to the project. The second film is planned for a De-cember 2013 opening. If produc-tion doesn’t begin by the first quar-ter of next year, the people said, “The Hobbit” will miss its planned release dates and likely will have to once again be delayed.

The one remaining hurdle is getting an official go-ahead from MGM, which for more than a year has been virtually out of cash and whose debt holders have been trying to decide upon a plan for reorganization. Under a long-standing agreement, MGM owns half the rights and controls inter-national distribution. MGM is ea-ger to co-finance the films, people close to the situation said, and could give Warner Bros. the offi-cial OK in the next few days.

The studio partners also have nearly finalized a deal with di-rector, producer and co-writer Peter Jackson to make the two movies and have resolved most other key issues that have long held up the project, including those related to underlying rights from the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson has long

planned to shoot the movies in his home country of New Zea-land, but this week he ran afoul of various performer unions, in-cluding the Screen Actors Guild, which are advising their mem-bers not to work on what they allege is a non-union production. One person close to the situation said that dispute also is close to being resolved, further clearing the way for a green-light.

Jackson took on directing duties after “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guill-ermo del Toro, who had been set to handle the job, backed out earlier this year because of the ongoing delays.

The two “Hobbit” films, which will be shot together, are expected to cost close to $500 million to produce.

Warner and New Line, which pro-duced the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and control domestic distribution for “Hobbit,” are ready to commit their half of the money, said people familiar with the matter.

Negotiations between MGM and Warner are at a very tenuous stage. MGM needs to reach agreement among its more than 100 debt own-ers, which control the future of the studio. MGM’s creditors are scram-bling to finalize a reorganization plan through which Spyglass Entertain-ment chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum are expected to take over management. Barber has been lead-ing negotiations on “The Hobbit” for MGM with top Warner executives, including home entertainment group President Kevin Tsujihara.

MGM will need to secure its half of the financing. Barber is expected to approach a number of potential investors, among them studios in-cluding 20th Century Fox, which has an existing deal with MGM to release its movies overseas. Other possibilities include outside finan-cial investors or Warner Bros., which could loan MGM its share in exchange for additional distribution rights to the pictures.

Studios near a deal on ‘Hobbit’

‘no Chocolate Cake’The latest release from 90’s sensation Gin Blossoms offers simplistic and generic lyrics

Photo courtesy of Seagirlreads.Wordpress.com

The Hobbit movie, which is the prequel to The Lord of the Rings se-ries, is predicted to be released during the holiday season in 2012. — Hobbit, Page B3

Employing the use of simplistic lyrics and basic chord progres-sions, the Gin Blossoms fall flat with their album “No Chocolate Cake” in more ways than one.

The 90’s sensation is most well-known for their 1992 hit “Hey Jealousy” and, unfortunately, hasn’t been the same since. The untimely loss of guitarist and songwriter Doug Hopkins is one contributing factor to the decline, and, even though Robin Wilson, the vocalist of the group, is still around, his vocals don’t have the same effect in the absence of Hopkins’s lyricism. Most of the album consists of slow jam, soft rock that is typical of this group. However, their modernized pop rock sound doesn’t seem to have the catchy beat or lyrics of the previous compositions that made them famous.

Wilson sounds off-key, or flat, in many songs and there was also a lack of synchronization in the harmony sections of “If you’ll be mine.” This lack of quality, which is seen throughout much of the album, is off-putting to most, es-pecially music aficionados and musicians.

The first single off of the al-bum, “Miss Disarray,” sounds like nearly every other song on the album, but luckily the singer dropped out of the falsetto regis-ter for it. The single was released on Aug. 2, 2010 to radio, but as a habitual radio listener, I have not heard the single until now; aston-ishingly, the album debuted at number one on Amazon.com.

“No Chocolate Cake” seems to be reminiscent of early Hansen,

but without popular appeal. They also include the stereotypical love songs and “bubble gum” positive messages that were prevalent in 90’s pop rock.

“Wave Bye Bye,” just like its title, hosts extremely simple and mindless lyrics that detract from the overall appeal of the song. It is almost com-parable to a modernized “No Rain” by Blind Melon, sans complexity.

Fortunately, the album wasn’t a total loss. “I’m Ready” is a song that possesses actual merit and

Wilson’s voice even reminds me in spots of Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell.

“Dead or Alive on the 405” was another unique track. The single was like 311 meets the Beach Boys with its ska-like sound.

Critic’s Conclusion: It might be telling of my own preference, but I feel this album is not some-thing that sounds as if it was pro-duced by professional musicians. It is not even comparable to EP’s

that are put together in some-one’s garage.

The simplicity, instead of being a positive attribute like it is for many modern bands, only served as an annoyance that seemed mindless and shoddy. The beat was repetitive and it felt like something one could dance the “Carlton” to. Perhaps the band should consider putting more time into an album before they release it.

By LaShae NaszradiArts & Life Editor

— Gin Blossoms, Page B3

Photo courtesy of Chikkadora.com

“No Chocolate Cake,” which was released on Sept. 28, 2010, is the latest album from Gin Blossoms. The first single was released Aug 2, 2010 and debuted number one on Amazon.com.