“Barack Obama win-

ning the Democratic Election in

2008.

Erica SparksSenior., healthcare admin.

What do you think is the most important event of the decade?

“September 11th, 2001.

Our country changed af-

ter that. thousands of

people lost their lives.

Lee McMairSoph., finance and

accounting

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cause it changed the

course of american history.

Nathaniel WestphalJunior., bio-engineering

“Cameron RothSenior, poli. sci.

“The presi-dent of the

United States is an

African-American.

Rhylie ThompsonSoph., psychology

Check out our list of the top ten most important events of the past decade in our Arts & Life section on Thursday.” ” ” ” ”

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President and DHS determined to pass DREAM Act

By Vincent D. ScebbiFeatures Editor

If Congress passes the DREAM Act, undocumented minors who were brought into the United States by their par-ents without a choice will be able to gain residency as U.S. citizens by serving in the mili-tary or going to college.

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Na-politano urged Congress to pass the proposed Develop-ment, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act Thursday af-ternoon in a teleconference with national media.

In the conference, Napolita-no said the DREAM Act is part of President Barack Obama’s administration’s push to update and reform the nation’s immi-

gration laws.“I know that Congress is go-

ing to be considering the DREAM Act soon, and I want-ed to reemphasize my support for it because the act will actu-ally improve enforcement of immigration,” Napolitano said.

Napolitano said the DREAM Act “fits into a larger strategy of immigration enforcement” and compliments efforts made by the DHS to prioritize enforce-ment resources.

There are two parts to the immigration laws reformation, according to Napolitano. The first is a continuation of priori-tizing the deportation of “dan-gerous criminal aliens from the country.”

Napolitano said, in the past two years, the U.S. has removed a record number of

undocumented persons con-victed of a criminal offense, in-cluding 195,000 in the 2010 fis-cal year, a 70 percent increase from last year.

The second half of the pro-cess is allowing minors who have been brought into the country against their will — whether by parents, relatives or through human traffickers — to gain residency into the U.S. if they pass a rigorous se-lection process, Napolitano said.

Applicants would have to go through detailed background checks and have no offenses that hold grounds for removal.

Aside from the checks, those seeking residency are required to attend college or serve in the

Nepolitano holds teleconference with national media, urging Congress to pass immigration bill

Change in Ohio trafficking laws

Ohio State Senate passes legislation to make human trafficking a standalone felony and protect victims of child prostitutionBy Sura KhuderIC Staff Writer

Before the Ohio Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 235 on Wednesday, a child seeking help from au-thorities after being involved in human sex trafficking in Toledo would be prosecuted for prostitution. Senate Bill 235 has changed that, mak-ing human sex trafficking a

standalone felony in Ohio.This new legislation al-

lows prosecutors to have a clear-cut punishment for of-fenders who exploit children and illegal immigrants, while protecting the victims involved.

“Now we can begin to pro-vide prosecutors with the tools they need to go after traffickers,” said Celia Wil-liamson, professor of social

services at the University of Toledo who worked with State Senator Teresa Fedor in composing the legislation. “This is a way for the state to start to recognize that chil-dren are not responsible for having sex with adults. That’s child abuse, but they continue to prosecute the child.”

Before this legislation, penalties for human

traffickers were based on an accumulation of various fed-eral offenses.

Bill supporters describe human trafficking as “mod-ern-day slavery,” a problem well-recognized in Toledo, which ranks fourth in the na-tion in the number of human trafficking arrests each year.

Previous attempts to push

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Ohio Senate Bill 235 will allow the state to punish offenders who exploit children and illegal immigrants. In the past, the children who were trafficked would be punished, but the new law has protections for them as victims.

Business school grants 10K awardVenture capitalists back best business plans from communityBy Vincent J. CurkovIC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo’s College of Business and In-novation awarded $22,000 in the first Innovation Enter-prises Challenge Business Plan Competition on Thursday.

Business plans were pitched by 49 teams from the colleges of business, engi-neering and medicine to eight judges from Toledo’s business community for a chance to win $10,000 to fund their business.

The prize money is not just spending money for these participants: In order to use it, they must start their busi-ness in Northwest Ohio.

The prize money awarded to recipients is raised through UTIE as well as the College of Business Adminis-tration, according to Kalich-aran Kuppuswamy Par-thasarathy, a graduate stu-dent majoring in information systems.

“[The] university [is] play-ing its part as an engine for economic development,” said Sonny Ariss, chair of the management department.

Kuppuswamy Parthasarthy said the winning business plans have “the most poten-tial to succeed.”

“These are companies that have the ability to generate a lot of jobs,” he said.

Minal Bhadane, a

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, took first place with her company Smart Or-thosis. Her advisor Moham-med Elahinia, associate pro-fessor of Mechanical, Indus-trial and Manufacturing En-gineering, accepted the award on her behalf since Bhadane is vacationing in India.

Smart Orthosis created a “Hybrid Active Ankle Foot Orthosis” that is used to cor-rect drop foot. Drop foot is a condition caused most com-monly by a stroke where the patient’s muscles do not pull the foot back up.

“The science was so well-developed,” said Greg Knud-son, director and vice presi-dent of Rocket Ventures.

What impressed Knudson the most was that Bhadane knew how to market the device.

“Science by itself means nothing, but how it connects to the market is what mat-ters,” Knudson said.

Knudson was not only a judge for the competition, but his firm may be looking to invest in some of the com-panies. Rocket Ventures is an early-stage venture capi-tal firm, responsible for help-ing companies such as Xun-light Corporation, a UT start-up solar company, find their footing.

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A look at the VoltEngineering students examine the new Chevy Volt on Friday morning at the engineering college. The Chief Information Officer for OnStar, Jeffery Liedel came to speak about the electric car in Nitschke Auditorium.

CorrectionsIn an article from last Thursday’s issue titled “Corner-

store and the cornerstone,” we forgot to clarify who one of our sources was in a quote. The quote read: “‘Every time we think we’ve reached a certain plateau, we get another ex-cuse,” Wozniak told the Detroit Free Press in November.’” The person we were referring to is Gary Wozniak, the direc-tor of Recovery Park urban farms in Detroit, Mich.

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military and have a “good track record.”

The act, Napolitano said, fits in with the United States’ tradition of pardoning those who are without fault.

According to Napolitano, minors who were brought into the country without a choice deserve a strict and fair opportunity to gain citizenship.

“These young people themselves have no fault for being here in the United States,” she said. “They were brought here by oth-ers. They’ve been raised here. They’re going to school. They have to have a good track record. They have to go to college or join our armed forces. These are the kind of brains and com-mitment to our country we like to see and that’s why the DREAM Act makes so much sense.”

The most important thing to remember, she added, is the DREAM Act is not a re-placement for immigration reform but is instead a way to compliment and improve what the DHS is already doing.

“By figuring out a solution for this category of young people, the DREAM Act will enable [the DHS] to priori-tize to a greater extent the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws including the laws against those asso-ciated with smuggling drugs and other people,” she said. “I urge Congress to pass the DREAM Act, to enable those young people who were brought here not on their own accord to become le-galized members of Ameri-can society.”

In the conference, Napoli-tano said the overall system

“doesn’t work the way it ought to work and we need to solve the problem.”

“One way is through ef-fective enforcement,” Na-politano said. “On the other hand, the law needs to be re-examined to fit our na-tion’s labor needs and meet our grand historic tradition and that is where immigra-tion reform comes in. That‘s where the DREAM Act comes in and that’s why it’s so important for Congress to show that it can take an important step forward in the immigration debate.”

Napolitano said her cur-rent agenda is to continue to crack down on the de-portation of illegal immi-grants until the DREAM Act is passed.

The DREAM Act was first introduced in the U.S. Sen-ate in 2001 and was reintro-duced into the U.S. House of Representatives in March of 2009.

The Senate failed to pass the act in September 2010 and is reconsidering the act.

Napolitano said she urg-es Congress to come to-gether in passing it, because Obama is so supportive of the act.

“The President is very supportive of the DREAM Act, and as he said repeat-edly, he cannot just do these things on his own, just as I cannot and will not enforce the laws on my own,” Napolitano said. “That is why Congress needs to act and that’s why they need to come together on a bipartisan basis and recognize that in the grand tradition of our country, we do not punish those with-out fault and these young people themselves have no fault for being here in the United States.”

UT Jazz BandCome and relax at the UT

Jazz Holiday Party tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Crystal’s Lounge at the Ramada Hotel & Confer-ence Centre. Celebrate the holiday with a Jazz Party thrown by the UT jazz faculty at Crystals. For more informa-tion, please contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452.

Department of Chemistry

Dr. Nicholas Snow from Se-ton Hall University will give a seminar about chemistry this Wednesday December 8 at 4 p.m. at the Bowman-Oddy Laboratories in room 1059. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Snow will pres-ent “Multiple Dimensions of Separations: SPME with GCxGC-ToFMS.” For more in-formation, contact Dr. Jared Anderson at 419-530-1508.

Docapella ConcertChime in the winter season

with the Docapella & Vocal Remedy Winter Concert at the Atrium of Center for Creative Education. The concert will take place on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more infor-mation, contact Kathy Kac-marek at 419-383-6428.

Department of Biological Sciences

Eain Murphy, Ph.D., Assis-tant Staff, Department of Mo-lecular Genetics at the Cleve-land Clinic will present a semi-nar on “Bio Logical Sciences” Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Wolfe Hall Room 3246. The topic will include “The Role of Human Cytomegalovirus Micro [Ribo-nucleic acid].” The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Malathi Krishnamurthy.

Department of Theatre & Film

The Department of Theatre & Film hosts Jennifer Rock-wood, director of UT's First Year Experience Program, and

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Ritter Planetarium The Ritter Planetarium

will feature “Old Lights of Holiday Nights” this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Ritter Planetarium. The program

traces the origins of our cal-endar and our holiday cele-brations, and examines how they are related to the stars. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for children ages three to 12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Doors open 30 minutes before each pro-gram. For more information, call 419-530-2650 during of-fice hours, which are Mon-day through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Today, University of Toledo Presi-dent Lloyd Jacobs will recommend the deans of the new colleges to be cre-ated by the restructuring plan. We urge the Board of Trustees to exer-cise good leadership by abstaining from voting on the new deans until the judge has finalized his decision on the pending injunction filed by the UT chapter of the American Associa-tion of University Professors.

Jacobs continues to move forward with plans to restructure academic af-fairs at UT, dismissing the many critics of his attitude and the non-inclusive nature of the restructuring process. While the many members of the UT community obviously wish to create a more stable, successful university, few are willing to sit back and watch as decisions are made that will affect their education, career and future opportunities.

There is nothing to be gained by continuing to rush the restructuring process, but much to lose. For the sake of everyone in the UT communi-ty, we should strive for the best result possible. This requires a respectful and cooperative administrative atti-tude and sufficient input from all fac-ets of the university, something still missing from the current proposed restructuring.

There has been consistent and vocal dissent toward the far-reaching re-structuring process from Faculty Sen-ate and the UT AAUP. Both groups have urged Jacobs to allow the re-structuring process to be handled more inclusively, with input from all stakeholders in the university. What they received instead were empty ex-cuses such as, “there is a big differ-ence between listening to and obey-

ing” the faculty.If the injunction holds, all of the

progress made in the restructuring process will have been a waste. Any decisions made or plans laid out will be scrapped and the work that could have been done in the intervening time will be forever lost. If the injunc-tion is denied, the final product will be subpar and rushed. Jacobs has cre-ated a no-win situation by hastily pushing a broad plan of change with-out adequate community involvement or support.

Jacobs even admitted that he didn’t consult with Faculty Senate before pushing forward with plans already set. This agreement was written under the laws of the state and will be judged accordingly. The president of the uni-versity is no different from the rest of us; he is bound by the same laws and is required to uphold any contract in which he is involved.

Faculty input in academic and cur-ricular decisions should be treated as a welcome guest, not an unwanted and legally-mandated burden. If an admin-istrator respects his faculty, he should actively seek their counsel. By refus-ing to change course, Jacobs is saying that the faculty’s opinions are not worth hearing unless a legal body compels him.

What does this say for future Col-lective Bargaining Agreements or any contract made between the UT ad-ministrators and faculty? The faculty and students of the future will not want to participate in an institution that is divided and headed by a leader with a record of ignoring the very people who pay his salary and oper-ate the institution he heads.

The commoditization of resources as basic and vital as water raises serious questions regarding human societies’ relationships with Earth and with each other. A human group cannot possibly justify processing and selling the re-sources of an area if this leaves the local inhabitants in danger of dehydration and disease. If a region is capable of support-ing the population that inhabits it, but is made inhospitable and deadly by the ac-tions of greedy, capitalist entrepreneurs in full knowledge of their actions, can we not call them murderers?

Aside from the immediate human suf-fering caused by typhoid and other pre-ventable diseases related to lack of clean water, the process of pumping, bottling and shipping millions of liters of freshwater from a remote island to the U.S. and other distant locations wastes immense amounts of resources and accomplishes nothing.

The consumers of most brands of bottled water live in developed coun-tries with functioning infrastructure and copious access to fresh water. Instead of buying and throwing away new bot-tles every day, a consumer can buy a permanent water bottle to fill and refill

with cheap, safe tap water. This differ-ence translates to tremendous amounts of waste from both individual consum-ers and bottled water producers.

Water is not a private good to mo-nopolize for profit; it is the most basic element of life on Earth. The survival of our bodies and our entire biosphere depends upon the continuous and ener-getic flow of water through its natural-ly-recycling system. Removing vast amounts of water from a remote region and selling it across the world for tre-mendous profit disrupts the natural flow, creating shortages that threaten the collapse of local ecosystems and thus the entire biosphere.

Water privatization deprives local con-sumers, leading to preventable diseases and countless deaths. Disrupted ecosys-tems suffer, putting local flora and fau-na at risk of extinction. Utterly reckless use of resources drains money from consumers and producers alike and per-petuates the deadly conditions in which millions of people live. How many fel-low humans will we condemn to water deprivation, preventable disease and death just so that we never have to drink from the same bottle twice?

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As a child, the weeks lead-ing up to Christmas seemed to last for eternity. Sure, I enjoyed the lights, winter activities, time away from

s c h o o l , w a r m c o o k i e s and the a l l - e n -compass-ing mysti-cal spirit of the h o l i d a y season.

But nat-urally I l o o k e d

forward to the moment deli-cately wrapped packages would mysteriously appear under the tree. Like most kids, I thought opening gifts was what Christmas was all about.

As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that is not true. No, this isn’t a rant about put-ting Christ back in Christ-mas. This is aimed at perva-sive consumer culture cor-rupting the minds of genera-tions into thinking material goods provide happiness while elsewhere people suf-fer simply because they had the misfortune of being born into poverty.

Although I do enjoy giv-ing and receiving gifts, I’ve realized it can sometimes be a superficial exchange. I don’t know what my broth-er or cousin want and they seem to be doing just fine without any of the useless junk I typically end up buy-ing for them.

Besides, if I knew my brother was really hoping to get the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, his world wouldn’t end if I bought him an ugly Christmas sweater instead. But what if his world did end?

No, of course his world wouldn’t, but what if it meant that somebody else’s world did? What if instead of buying my brother a $20, over-hyped comedy that he would eventually realize wasn’t all that funny, I do-nated that money to a char-ity on his behalf?

Instead of contributing to my brother’s lack of taste in good film, we would both be helping provide clean

water for the people suffer-ing from cholera in Haiti, or helping prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa.

Charities exist for every cause you can think of. If your grandparents are like mine and are satisfied with what they already have, then there is certainly a charity out there that they would feel good about you donating to on their behalf.

Or if you’re seriously strapped for cash during this recession, simply buy nothing. There is nothing wrong with boycotting the act of spending just to spend. After all, Christmas is about enjoying time with friends and family. It is about celebrating the illu-minating joy of life during the coldest and darkest time of year.

This culture of consumer-

ism has gone too far. Twenty percent of the world’s popu-lation consumes 80 percent of the world’s resources. It is tragically ironic that this fact is most visible during the holiday season.

I understand that parents want to buy toys, clothes and video games for their children because they want to give them a wonderful Christmas. Although that sounds so nice and inno-cent, the ecological, psy-chological, economic and political implications at-tached to such purchases are twofold.

Reports show that an ex-tra four million tons of waste are produced each holiday season just from gift-wrap and shopping bags alone. Using newspa-per to wrap gifts is a great alternative.

The desire to buy things is fueled by the desire to fill a void. Retail therapy is a baseless term commonly tossed around. It only pro-vides a fleeting moment of fulfillment. More than any-thing, it indicates that con-sumerism is an addiction. Material goods provide a short-lived illusion of hap-piness that keep consumers returning to the register.

The richest one percent in America now own 70 per-cent of all financial assets in the country. This dispari-ty of wealth is alarming. Since money influences pol-itics, it is safe to say that 99 percent of Americans don’t have much of a voice in the democratic process.

In gearing up for the holi-days, Black Friday and Cy-ber Monday sales were ex-tremely enticing, prompting consumers to spend a little less to get a little more. These sales are merely a spectacle to coerce people into buying things because there is a perception they are getting a deal. Christ-mas has become a specta-cle; just look at the adver-tisements. The holiday now encourages consumers to proliferate an economic sys-tem based on inequalities. It encourages buying for the sake of buying.

I’m tired of the awkward gift exchange where I pre-tend I really enjoy my new coffee mug. And it’s uncom-fortable to watch my cousin open some novelty bartend-ing book I picked up off the promo table at Barnes & Noble, as she smiles and simulates excitement.

This year I’m opting out of the mindless exchange and I encourage you to join me. For the people I hold near and dear, I will be donating to charities on their behalf. Otherwise, I am buying the most ecologically and eco-nomically responsible gift possible — nothing.

—Stephen Bartholomew is an IC columnist and an English education student at UT.

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I love the Indianapolis Colts. As a Colts fan, I’ve had a pretty great time up until this season. Even in the early to mid 2000s, when Peyton Manning seemed to be trying to play catch up with New England cornerbacks every winter, watching the Colts was fun. They had a unique blend of steady explosive-ness; not a lot of flash, not a lot of grit, but enough of each to make them extreme-ly successful and watchable. But, after seven straight 12-win seasons and two Super Bowl appearances, the Colts are having an uncharacteris-tically shaky season.

The problem could be blamed on injuries or the loss of a few key players over the summer, but the Colts have overcome each of these before. Their success often came from turning challeng-es into opportunities. But this season, Peyton Manning seems to be unwilling to ad-just to changing defenses. Instead, he’s relying on the same game plans that have annihilated past defenses. Manning is playing 2008 foot-ball in 2010 and the Colts’ record is showing it.

Similarly, the vision of what Washington could be that Barack Obama created in 2008 is not the Washington that exists right now. But he is operating as if it is.

Barack Obama ran a near-ly flawless campaign in 2008. Even the complications turned into opportunities for Obama to appear more electable. The emergence of the controversial Rev. Jere-miah Wright resulted in Obama giving a powerful and inspiring speech on race in America. The all-out bat-tle for the Democratic nomi-nation became an opportu-nity for Obama to show his willingness and ability to reconcile his differences with rivals in the interest of working together toward a common goal.

It seemed as though Obama and his campaign staff had devised a strategy that prac-tically invited challenges simply for the sake of the op-portunities they created.

The common theme was always unity and coopera-tion when dealing with these challenges. Not surprisingly, those themes were common in nearly every major speech he gave as a candidate. It spoke well to a country that believes no challenge is too big to handle. It also spoke well to an electorate that was tired of the petty and child-ish fighting in Washington.

The rhetoric with which he described both what is great about America today and what could be even greater about America in the future

became a viral sensation. It was super-charged packag-ing of the simple idea that we, as a nation, can come together and reach for great things. Unity and coopera-tion. The idea that Obama would bring that same recon-ciliatory energy to Washing-ton was a major force in the wave of support that elected him President.

More often than not, he has kept true to those ideals as President. Despite criticism

from the left, his strategy has been to make concessions to Congressional Republicans on nearly every piece of leg-islation, even when those concessions made the legis-lation less effective. Instead of getting the same in return, he has gotten obstruction from the GOP.

A major portion of the stimulus package was tax re-lief demanded by Republi-cans, one of the least eco-nomically stimulative ways

in which the government can spend money. In the end, there was no support from the Republicans.

As a concession to Repub-licans, Obama took the pub-lic option off the table before negotiations on health care even began. After a long, drawn out debate, there was again no support from the Republicans.

And so it has been on every agenda item the Democrats have introduced to Congress,

over and over again. Through their blocking of dozens of judicial nominees, constant threats to filibuster even the most routine pieces of legis-lation and general devotion to obstruction, Obama has treated the GOP as if they are willing to cooperate. Even as Republican Party leaders identify their primary goal as making him a one-term presi-dent, Obama continues to make concessions.

In other words, Obama is

working on an entirely differ-ent process than Republi-cans in Congress are. As he and the Democrats try to work with the GOP on con-structive legislation to im-prove the condition of every-day Americans, Congressio-nal Republicans show no in-terest in doing anything but ensuring their own political success. I completely sign on with the ideal of working to-gether, but the reality is that the GOP has no interest in compromise.

To be fair, the Obama ad-ministration does not get the credit it deserves for passing a large portion of its agenda despite having zero support from House Republicans and a virtually inoperable Sen-ate. But the reality remains that unless Obama and the Democrats fight back, de-fend their accomplishments and make a strong case for the same ideals that elected Democrats over the past four years, the 2012 elec-tions are going to look a lot like 2010.

So, just as Peyton Manning needs to stop waiting for AFC defensive backs to re-vert back to their old strate-gies, maybe Obama needs to accept that his vision of Washington as a place where opposing sides can come to-gether and resolve differenc-es reasonably is not going to

happen just yet. Football is a game. A lot of

times, elected officials treat politics like a game. When they do, it can be nearly im-possible to fight the good fight. You can only get punched in the head so many times before you admit you are in a boxing match.

Overextended sports meta-phors aside, I’m hoping the new year comes with a new strategy from Obama and the Democrats — a strategy en-ergized by the same dedica-tion to positive change that inspired the country in 2008. The Democrats need to pri-oritize giving a full and un-equivocal defense of the val-ues behind things like afford-able health care for working families, relief for those hit hardest by the recession, jobs in industries that will carry the strongest econo-mies of the 21st century and improved education.

They need a strategy that is still open to and looking for unity and cooperation, but no longer willing to be pushed around by those that would rather keep Washing-ton petty, embarrassing and childish.

—Jason Copsey is an IC columnist and a junior ma-joring in public relations and political science.

Corporate America makes machines. Machines make money. Money makes people.

The sad part of the first statements is that the se-

quence of the state-ments only goes one way. When m a c h i n e s break down, they are fixed. When p e o p l e break down, they are re-p l a c e d . Therefore,

machines are more valuable assets than people.

Corporate America ap-plauds itself for its relative in-efficiencies. For it has given every American the idea of the American Dream. It has taught society that the world can sus-tain every desire as long as money is available.

Corporate America has even succeeded in creating god. I don’t mean the intelligent de-sign of the universe; I mean the god that is sold in spiritual gatherings and yoga classes. Corporate America will sell you anything ranging from your early morning coffee to your infatuation with psychi-atric diseases. It will sell you mania, news, 9/11, god and the list goes on.

On the other hand, corpo-rate America forgot to men-tion a few side effects. It for-got to mention the price to pay in order to have glory.

When you go to an emer-gency room in this country and you realize that you have been waiting for more than an hour to be seen by a doctor that attended medical school to “help people,” you start wondering why you are wait-ing that long in a mostly empty hospital. You look around to see if all the doctors and nurs-es are attending other patients only to realize that the only thing present in the hospital other than yourself is the emi-nent presence of insurance and bureaucracy.

I understand that regulation

is important in order to keep matters in check, but when the victim of a car accident is bleeding to death right in front of you, please keep his insur-ance status as the last priority. This is what happens when things such as insurance and protocol take more precedence over humanity as a whole.

This is the inhumane price that we pay in order to have lower taxes than other, social-ist countries. Free market economies are only great if they are not achieved at the expense of those who do not have the voice to object. The U.S. would rather have its sup-posedly efficient system where people cannot be treat-ed in the world’s richest and most powerful country.

It has been reported that federal spending on the “na-tional defense” category is

typically over half of the Unit-ed States discretionary bud-get. According to GlobalIs-sues.org, in 2009, 54 percent of the US budget was spent on defense, 6.2 percent on educa-tion and 5.3 percent on health. The United States also had the highest military expenditure across the globe accounting for 46.5 percent of the $1.53 billion and the next highest was china at 6.6 percent.

Jorn Madslien, a BBC news online journalist, stated that “At a time when a deep eco-nomic recession is causing much turbulence in civilian world…defense giants such as Boeing and EADS, or Finmec-canica and Northrop Grum-man, are enjoying a reliable and growing revenue stream

from countries eager to in-crease their military might.” Madslien also stated that “shareholders and employees in the aerospace and defense industry are clearly the ones who benefit most from grow-ing defense spending.”

This is an example of corpo-rate America’s servitude to in-dustries that make money in-stead of industries that are truly needed. It is a shame that such a budget goes to a mili-tary that fights ghosts instead of going to American families who still need basic food sup-plies to sustain their families.

We must decide whether we want to be a militant country stuck in a perpetual war on terror or if we want to truly help hungry and unemployed Americans. Where is the line that clearly shows where homeland security ends and where slavery begins? Do those who support this new world order truly believe that by invading the privacy of citi-zens more — such as the TSA’s humiliating pat-downs — ter-rorism will decrease?

We must understand that our desire to have that big house with a nice patio and lawn is what’s enslaving us. In order for us to have that nice car, we end up selling our oxygen and our water. To have freedom, we sell our liberty. We must transcend beyond 9/11 and see that fear tactics have been present way before the Twin Towers were ever built.

Terrorism is Corporate America’s legitimized instru-ment that is used whenever a need arises that requires votes or citizen concession. Not too long ago, Native Americans and Martin Luther King were deemed America’s enemies. It all goes back to capitalism and the transition of a want to a need.

—Carmen Awad is an IC

columnist and a junior ma-

joring in accounting.

Reserve space in the an-nals of marketplace greed on behalf of for-profit col-leges managing to rake in record profits while turning out unsuccessful students burdened by heavy debt.

Education Trust, a non-partisan D.C. think tank, used public data including graduation rates and stu-dent loan trends to argue convincingly that the for-profit sector of higher edu-cation has taken a page from mortgage industry. They are profiting from a business model based on student failure, rather than student success.

Federally bankrolled Pell Grants and student loans provide healthy revenue streams, injecting $24 bil-lion into the mushrooming career-college industry. Taxpayers’ return on this investment is a six-year graduation rate for bache-lor’s degrees of 22 percent. For comparison, the six-year graduation rate at pub-lic colleges is 55 percent and 65 percent for private, nonprofit colleges.

And the one in 10 who manages to graduate from for-profit schools has near-ly twice the debt load of students at private, non-profit colleges and nearly quadruple the debt carried by students at public schools. No surprise, these debt-laden graduates de-fault on their loans at twice the rate of students at tradi-tional schools.

The poster child for this perverse education busi-ness model is the Universi-ty of Phoenix — the na-tion’s largest for-profit uni-versity with more than 200,000 students at cam-puses nationwide. U of Phoenix took in more than $1 billion in federal Pell Grant aid last year and this year could exceed a federal

cap preventing schools from deriving more than 90 percent of their revenues from federal financial aid.

Oh, and the school’s six-year graduation rate? Nine percent.

Our tax dollars barely at work.

This is what happens when unchecked federal education spending teams up with lax regulatory oversight.

For-profit schools hide their poor showing behind an open admissions policy. Indeed, these schools have helped broaden education-al access. A greater propor-tion of minority students

and those from low-income backgrounds start out at for-profit schools.

Nice try, but academic failure is not a function of demographics.

The students are holding up their end of the bargain. They’re striving for a col-lege education, often under tough circumstances at poorly resourced urban and rural K-12 school systems.

We’ve asked more young people to aspire to college and they have. Federal gov-ernment statistics report 86 percent of African-Ameri-can high-school seniors and 80 percent of Hispanics see college in their future.

Profiting from the busi-ness of education isn’t the

problem; a lack of return on the public’s investment is. And at stake is Ameri-can competitiveness and the goal of equal educa-tional access.

There are pockets of suc-cess. Technical and arts col-leges produce strong gradu-ates at an impressive rate.

But the industry overall must do better, particularly as it absorbs an increasing share of students. In the past decade, enrollment shot up by 236 percent, compared with 20 percent at our public and private nonprofit colleges.

New rules on financial aid from the Obama admin-istration and ongoing hear-ings in Congress signal a willingness to tackle these issues. Efforts have spawned heavy lobbying and even television ads ex-horting government to keep its mitts off free markets and individual choice.

How well did a hands-off regulatory approach work with lending institutions? Just asking.

There are more similari-ties than differences be-tween predatory lending in the mortgage industry and in higher education. An in-vestigation ordered by Congress found that stu-dents at for-profit colleges who balked at taking out large loans were reassured the debt would be offset by high-paying jobs, which never materialized.

These students weren’t lifted out of poverty; they were mired deeper into it. Time for swift action that will make good on Ameri-ca’s promise that education is the route upward.

—Lynne K. Varner is a

columnist for The Seattle

Times.

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Unless Obama and the Demo-crats fight back, defend their ac-

complishments and make a strong case for the same ideals

that elected Democrats over the past four years, the 2012 elections are going to look a lot like 2010.

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Second place and $5,000 went to Sarit Bhaduri, pro-fessor of Mechanical, Indus-trial and Manufacturing En-gineering, for his business Regentiss, LLC that is devel-oping advanced ways of re-generating bone and cartilage.

Third place and $2,500 went to Three Sisters Bak-ery. Jessica Reese accepted the award on behalf of the team. Three Sisters Bakery sells health-conscious baked goods that are naturally sweetened and have no added-sugar.

The competition was ini-tially only going to have six honorable mentions, but due to the quality of the business plans, the president’s office made sure that all 12 semifi-nalists walked away with at least $500 as well as six months of free rent in UT’s small business incubator.

“The quality of entrepre-neurial ideas exceeded our expectations,” Knudson said.

The competition was cre-ated in collaboration with the president’s office, Col-lege of Business and UTIE.

“[The] idea [for this com-petition] has been floating around for a while,” Ariss said.

Kuppuswamy Parthasara-thy said the competition helps stimulate the local economy by supporting in-novative ideas from local en-trepreneurs and ultimately creating jobs through the money raised.

“The only way we can cre-ate new jobs is to create new companies, and new compa-nies create new entrepre-neurs. The UTIE competition is setting an example,” he said.

“UT is supporting young entrepreneurs even if they don’t have any background in business,” Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy said.

Because this is the first year, he said UTIE will have to follow how the winning business plans from this year’s performance and to see “how things are going.”

— Vincent D. Scebbi con-tributed to this article.

similar legislation through the Ohio House and Senate have failed five times, ac-cording to Williamson.

In a press release, Fedor acknowledged the Senate passing the legislation was a victory resulting from five years of work.

“In 2005, we were first awakened to the width and breadth of human trafficking in Ohio when more than 30 minors from Toledo were caught in a prostitution ring,” she said.

In 2009, Jeff Wilbarger, part-time instructor of math-ematics at UT, began the Daughter Project, a non-profit Christian-based orga-nization in Perrysburg, Ohio that reaches out to victims of sex trafficking.

Wilbarger said a felony conviction is proportionate to the heinous nature of the sex trafficking business.

“There is no crime more egregious than sex traffick-ing,” he said. “It is sexist,

sometimes racist, always de-humanizing, and it causes immeasurable trauma to its victims.”

Williamson said the chil-dren who become part of human trafficking are vul-nerable to exploitation and the majority of victims come from poverty, have sub-stance-abus-ing parents, are homeless and run-aways, gay males or have mental health issues.

“All those kids are going to be vulnera-ble to needing s o m e t h i n g , and someone will come in and magically provide for them, but it’s never what it seems,” she said.

Williamson said human trafficking has become a so-phisticated underground business that involves sev-eral persons who act as re-cruiters and are often also

underage. “It’s a manipulation pro-

cess, and over time, they convince you that you really can’t make a decision and you can’t make a move with-out asking them. You really rely on them,” she said.

“Often times your network of friends is doing this and

you all know you are doing this, but you don’t really tell other peo-ple, and so you are trapped and you feel ‘If I don’t do this, s o m e t h i n g dreadful will happen to my family, some-thing dreadful is going to happen to

me.’”Williamson said they are

only beginning to make ad-vances in human trafficking by putting the blame where blame belongs — on the trafficker, not the victim.

According to Williamson,

there is still a deep level of sexism, racism and ho-mophobia latent in traffick-ing issues.

“The law does not say that women involved in prostitu-tion are the ones commit-ting the crime, but you see that 95 percent of the time women are arrested and the men are not,” she said. “When you start doing that to kids, that’s unacceptable because that tells the kid that ‘yes, you are responsi-ble for your own victimiza-tion,’ and that’s not the mes-sage we want to send.”

According to Williamson, human trafficking is about supply and demand, and the focus has been restricted to the supply.

“You are never going to reduce the problem, but men are very protected in our society and so going af-ter them is very difficult,” she said. “It’s difficult for society to see that every hu-man being is valuable. They say it, but I really believe that many people still think there are some expendable people.”

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Lining up for lifeStudents prepare for “Relay for Life” at the Student Recreation Center on Friday night.

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The children of illegal immigrants

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By Kate GibsonMarket Watch (MCT)

NEW YORK — A deal be-tween the United States and South Korea should create at least 70,000 American jobs and could be the big-gest trade pact since 1994's North American Free Trade Agreement.

The newly created agree-ment, subject to congressio-nal approval, was announced by the White House Friday, a day that also brought a No-vember payrolls report that hiked the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent.

A week of talks had repre-sentatives from the U.S. and South Korea on Friday morning clearing a three-year impasse over auto-in-dustry issues. Specifically,

South Korea will let the U.S. remove a 2.5 percent tariff on Korean cars in five years, rather than halting it right away.

The agreement will have to be ratified by the new Congress in January as well as win the approval of law-makers in South Korea.

In a White House release, President Barack Obama called Friday's agreement a "landmark deal" that should bolster U.S. job creation and agricultural exports, defend American manufacturing jobs and open South Korea's services market to U.S. firms.

The deal is part of an ef-fort to reach the administra-tion's goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years, Obama added.

U.S., S. Korea pact awaits approval

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We played afraid. We played scared and had too

much respect for Cincinnati. I thought that really set the tone

for us.Tod KowalczykUT Head Basketball Coach ”“

Rockets to face FIU in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl

IC file photo by Tim Kershner

Eric Page runs after a catch in last season’s 41-31 win at FIU. The sophomore wide receiver finished the game with five catches for 113 yards and two touchdowns. Toledo will face the Golden Panthers again on Dec. 26 at 8:30 p.m. in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl at Ford Field.

By Zach DavisSports Editor

Toledo accepted an invita-tion today to play in the Lit-tle Caesars Pizza Bowl on Dec. 26 at 8:30 p.m. at Ford Field, just over 60 miles north of the UT cam-pus in Detroit, Mich. The Rockets will be making their MAC-best 11th bowl game (8-2) and their first since a 45-13 victory over UTEP in the GMAC Bowl in Mo-bile, Ala. in 2005.

“We are very ex-cited to be selected for the Little Cae-sars Pizza Bowl in Detroit,” UT Athletic Direc-tor Mike O’Brien said. “Ford Field is one of the finest football facilities in the country. It will be a memo-rable experience for our student-athletes, and be-cause of our close proximity to Detroit it will also be a great opportunity for our fans and students to see their Rockets in a bowl game.”

“It’s a great opportunity for us,” sophomore line-backer Dan Molls said. “We are very excited to have a chance to turn this program around. We are just excited to continue the season and have a chance to win a bowl game. It’s an unbelievable feeling right now and we are

just excited to get there and hopefully get a win under our belt.”

The Rockets will take on a familiar opponent in Sun Belt member Florida Inter-national (6-6, 6-2), as the teams have squared off in

each of the last two seasons. The Rock-ets topped FIU 41-31 in Miami, Fla. last year as 2010 First Team All-MAC per-former Eric Page had five receptions for 113 yards and two touchdowns. The Panthers won 35-16 in the Glass Bowl in 2008.

“The players know some of their players,” UT head coach Tim Beckman said. “We know they are a very good opponent and they’ve had an outstanding year. They’ve done a good job this year being co-champions of the Sun Belt, so we know it will be a task in front of us.”

FIU was winless out of conference with a home loss to Rutgers (4-8) as well as on the road at Texas A&M (9-3), Maryland (8-4) and Pittsburgh (7-5). They beat just one team with a winning record this year in Troy (7-5). All six of their wins came out of the

Sun Belt conference with the combined records of the teams they beat at 24-48.

The Rockets finished the season 8-4, including a 7-1 league record. Their lone loss came on the road against the Mid-American Conference’s West Division Champion Northern Illinois (10-3). The Rockets also de-feated just one team with a winning record this season at Ohio (8-4) but picked up a road win at Big Ten member Purdue (4-8). The combined record of the opponents that Toledo defeated was 34-62.

“They are a real solid team,” junior running back Adonis Thomas said. “They made it to a bowl game so they’re not a push over. They haven’t been to a bowl

game in a very long time so I’m pretty sure they’re going to try to get after us. We just have to try and get after them first.”

This will be the fi-nal game for Tole-do’s 11 seniors, in-cluding linebacker Archie Donald, de-fensive ends Alex

Johnson and Douglas West-brook, offensive linemen Nate Cole and Kevin Kowal-ski and cornerback

Jason Mack / IC

Cincinnati forward Ibrahima Thomas dunks over freshman center Delino Dear in the first half of Saturday night’s 81-47 loss. Dear scored a career-high 18 points and nine rebounds.

Cincinnati slams RocketsBy Zach DavisSports Editor

Unbeaten Cincinnati ham-mered the winless Rockets 81-47 last night at Savage Arena. Toledo has started the season 0-8 and lost 29 of their past 30 games.

“I’m sick and tired of learn-ing lessons, and I hope our players are sick and tired of it,” Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “It’s time for us to consistently be a team that can compete. We under-stand what we are. We know that we have to be tough, gritty and disciplined to give us a chance to beat anybody on our schedule. When you don’t play that way, this is what happens.”

“It’s tough because we don’t have a win yet,” fresh-man center Delino Dear said. “We understand that we are young right now, and we are just trying to keep fighting to get that first one.”

Cincinnati (7-0) outscored UT 36-7 in the opening 10:47 of the game and took a 53-21 lead into the half. The Bearcats shot 64.5 percent from the floor in the opening half and made eight three-pointers.

“You want your team to re-spect your opponents,” Kow-alczyk said. “You play Tem-ple, Illinois and now Cincin-nati, these high major pro-grams, but you hope that they don’t fear them. Today we re-ally played scared to start the game. We played afraid. We played scared and had too much respect for Cincinnati. I thought that really set the tone for us. We were on our heels.”

“They made a lot of shots early, but it was on us too,” Dear said. “We closed out slow, and if you get an open look anybody can knock it down. They had open looks at the basket.”

Dear led Toledo with a ca-reer-high 18 points and nine rebounds. Freshman forward Reese Holliday was the only

— FIU, Page B2

— Cincinnati, Page B2

Jason Mack / IC

Fishing for the PuckToledo defenseman Sebastien Piche pokes the puck away from an opponent in Friday’s 4-3 win over Bakersfield. The Walleye finished a three-game home stand yesterday with a 3-2 loss to Cincinnati after beating Bakersfield 6-4 on Saturday. Yesterday’s loss dropped Toledo six points behind Cincinnati in the division with an 8-12-2 record this season.

Toledo blown out 102-69 at DaytonBy Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

The Toledo women’s bas-ketball team was blown out at Dayton yesterday afternoon 102-69, ending their three-game winning streak. The Flyers point total was the highest to ever be scored against the Rockets in regula-tion; Xavier scored 108 points in a tri-ple overtime victo-ry back in 2001.

“It was a frustrating game all the way around,” UT

head coach Tricia Cullop said. “Dayton is a very tal-ented team, a well coached team, a veteran team, and they taught us some painful

lessons today.“I think there are

a lot of things that we want to go back and change and we can’t. Not only is Dayton talented but they’re deep and we are working our way through some injuries.”

UD (5-3) shot 37-of-62 (59.7 percent)

from the field, including 11-of-21 (52.4 percent)

from beyond the arc and was 17-of-19 from the free throw line. Kristin Daugh-erty led Dayton with 19 points while Olivia Apple-white (14 pts), Justine Ra-terman (12 pts), Casey Nance (11 pts), Kari Daugh-erty (10 pts) and Cassie Sant (10 pts) also reached double digits in the 33-point victory.

The Rockets (4-4) shot a season-high 48.1 percent from the floor and 72.7 per-cent from the charity stripe but just 20 percent from three-point range. Senior

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Molls

Donald

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Desmond Marrow. It is still possible that Marrow may return for 2011 as he has requested a medical red-shirt for last season after not playing due to recover-ing from a torn ACL and meniscus in 2008.

“Going to a bowl game in my final season is huge,” Donald said. “That’s always been a goal for me to ac-complish, especially for the seniors who have been in-volved with this program and haven’t had a winning season until this season.”

Rounding out the senior class is kicker Nate Brod-beck, quarterback Alex Pet-tee, linebacker Terrell Wil-lis and defensive backs Drey’Lon Pree and Myshan Veasley-Pettis.

Toledo will also see a fa-miliar face in FIU offensive

coordinator Scott Satter-field, who was the passing game coordinator/quarter-backs coach at Toledo last year. The Panthers averaged over 80 yards and five points more per game than they did in 2009.

“Coach Satterfield’s down there,” Beckman said. “He does an outstanding job. Coach Satterfield is as good of a coordinator as there is in the country. I know he will be very well prepared for us.”

Tickets will go on sale to-morrow at the UT Athletic Ticket Office at 8:30 a.m. and will be $45 and can also be purchased by phone at 419-530-GOLD or online at www.UTRockets.com. The UT Athletic Department will be meeting tomorrow morning to discuss a per person ticket limit as well as discounted rates for students.

other Rocked in double-fig-ures with 13. Sophomore guard Malcolm Griffin was the next highest scorer with five and a game-high six assists.

C i n c i n n a t i ’ s bench outscored Toledo’s 34-8 and UC held a 21-5 ad-vantage in points off turnovers.

Starters Hayden Humes and J.T. Thomas shot a com-bined 0-12 from the field. Thomas, who was 0-5 with two assists and four turnovers, has strug-gled since missing the preseason and the first two games of the year from foot surgery. He has aver-aged just 4.8 points and 2.3 assists in six games this season while also turning the ball over 3.2 times per game. He is also just three per-sonal fouls behind Humes for the most on the team de-spite playing in two less games.

“He’s been inconsistent,” Kowalczyk said. “It’s not fair to evaluate it because he hasn’t practiced a whole lot, but he had a very poor prac-tice on Thursday and he

thinks that’s accept-able and it’s not ac-ceptable. When you are a starting point guard in a good Di-vision I league, you can’t have a bad practice and he played like it

tonight.”Thomas was also not uti-

lized in bringing up the ball against Cincinnati’s press as Griffin and Humes mostly

handled the duties.“We have got to

have someone bring up the ball without turning it over,” Kow-alczyk said. “We have got to have someone who wants to bring the ball up.”

Toledo will look for their first win of the year while trying to break a 35-game

road losing streak when they travel to Fort Wayne, Ind. to face IPFW (5-2) Wednesday at 6 p.m.

forward Melissa Goodall led Toledo with 15 points while sophomore Lecretia Smith had a career-high 14 points and junior Naama Shafir added 10 points with seven assists.

“I think the girls are still growing into their roles that are new,” Cullop said. “Some nights they fill into those roles pretty good, and when the baton used to be passed to someone else for the scoring or the defensive stop, the girls are still trying to learn how to do that.”

The Flyers jumped out to a 13-1 lead just four min-utes into the con-test as Dayton ju-nior guard Brittany Wilson scored the game’s first six points in the first minute of play. UD expanded their lead to 21-6 with 13:34 left in the first half as they hit over

53 percent of their shots in the first seven minutes. A 15-5 run later in the half gave Dayton a 40-19 advan-tage as they took a 22-point lead into the half at 52-20.

Last year, Toledo rebound-ed from a 19-point second-half deficit for a 68-65 win against then No. 20 Dayton at Savage Arena in what Cullop called one of her “all-time favorite victories.”

However, it was more of the same in the second half for the Rockets this year

as UD knocked down four consecutive three pointers early in the half to take a commanding 70-40 lead. To-

ledo came no clos-er than 25 points for the rest of the game at UD Arena.

The Rockets must regroup quickly as they face off with Oakland on Fri. Dec. 10th at 7 p.m. to be-

gin a three-game homestead at Savage Arena. Toledo beat the Golden Grizzlies 87-75 on the road last season.

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Cincinnati Showboats to Crowd after HalftimeAfter emerging from the locker room while leading 53-21, Cincinnati altered from the typical layup drills by instead choosing to each perform highlight dunks one after another featuring windmills, double-clutches, reverse dunks and more. Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk was not yet out of the locker room as it occurred. After learning about it in the press con-ference he said, “It’s the referee’s fault for not handling it.”Under NCAA rules, the Bearcats should have been assessed a technical foul for each dunk.Toledo’s student section didn’t seem to mind, as a chorus of cheers followed most of the dunks.

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complement and enhance the stories of theirs,” said Downham.

In a room devoted to the history of X-rays and medical imaging, for instance, there is, lying face up, a plastinated body of a person who stood five feet six inches tall. Cut into one inch horizontal slabs spaced a few inches apart, the body stretches out to 18 feet and shows the relationship of all the internal organs, similar to images produced by a CT-scan images.

Many of the cadavers are elaborately posed, as many will remember from “Body Worlds.” One is a standing man, his skin carefully peeled off but left intact like a body suit, which he holds draped over an extended arm.

Another male cadaver, his skin and internal organs re-moved to show muscle struc-ture, is posed in a dramatic “bicycle” overhead soccer kick, the ball just leaving his foot while his back is parallel to the ground.

There are displays built around single organs, show-ing the difference between healthy lungs and diseased smokers’ lungs, and there are displays built around entire organ chains in the body. A

complete digestive system is hung like a mobile sculpture, starting with the rear of a mouth and descending through the esophagus, stom-ach, liver, pancreas, spleen, small and large intestines, ap-pendix to the rectum.

Since the first “Body Worlds” exhibition in Tokyo in 1995, the plastinated cadav-ers have captured the imagi-nation of tens of millions of people around the world.

“An extended stay in setting of a building of this size makes putting an exhibit on the or-der of ‘Our Body’ a new expe-rience for their company and for us,” said Downham. “The agreement is to keep it here one year but is open-ended in that we will talk about ex-tending that.”

The surgical museum’s building, a replica of a build-ing at Versailles in France, was designed by renowned architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and is the last of the great turn-of-the-century Lake Shore Drive mansions open to the public.

Built in 1917 as a wedding present from a Chicago indus-trialist for his daughter, its in-terior spaces remain a gem of cut and polished stone, mar-ble fireplaces and gilded met-al staircases.

“We loved the idea of send-ing the exhibit here (the

surgical museum),” said Heidi Pinchal, spokeswoman for the American company tour-ing “Our Body” in the United States.

Most of the touring plasti-nated cadaver exhibits, in-cluding “Body Worlds,” have been challenged at one time or another over the source of the cadavers they use. “Our Body” in the past was accused of using cadavers of executed prisoners from China.

But the Hong Kong and Bei-jing entities that own and op-erate the exhibit have rebut-ted those charges.

“When we checked the background to this, we found the specimens came only from individuals or families of individuals who willingly con-sented that their bodies could be used for educational pur-poses,” Downham said. “The bodies came from accredited medical schools in China.”

Downham said his museum is talking with the “Our Body” exhibition company about collaboratively developing new exhibits that the museum could use to change out with ones already in the exhibit.

“We have already done some planning work on devel-oping an exhibit around dia-betes” Downham said.

“This is the future and this is where we are headed, fo-cusing on different serious health issues.”

participation in these plays. She also finds that thinking on your feet “makes you stronger.”

For Allen, it’s exciting to be in a show and “make it blossom.”

“I like the acting. I really do,” she said.

Christopher Douglas, a sophomore majoring in psy-chology with a minor in the-atre “took a lot of experience” away from the event, though he found it to be exhausting.

Although it was tiring to both memorize and rehearse lines and blocking within ap-proximately 10 hours, he al-so felt that it was “fun and entertaining.”

Since none of the plays are perfectly polished, Douglas

thinks that the audience’s enjoyment comes from the spontaneity.

“What you see is what you get,” he said.

Despite his love for acting, the real reward for Douglas is “hearing people laugh.”

Luckily, the sound of laugh-ter rising from the audience is a prominent part of “The 24 Hour Plays”, providing comics with the perfect out-let for their talents.

Jillian Albert, a junior ma-joring in theatre and psychol-ogy, also likes making people laugh.

“We work so hard, and [the plays] are always so funny,” she said.

Albert’s favorite part of the event is performing, as well as watching the other plays; however, with such a tight time schedule, she said, “You’re always curious about the others, but you don’t

have time to watch.” She also enjoys meeting

new people. “It’s cool to see non-theatre majors in main roles,” Albert said.

Seeing the hard work of others come to life is also exciting for Emily Wessend-arp, a first year graduate stu-dent in the speech pathology department.

While she is “very proud of everybody” and their suc-cesses, she realizes that “The 24 Hour Plays” event doesn’t just benefit the actors.

Wessendarp believes the event “brightens people’s days.”

“If talented members from both in and out of the the-ater community can come together and leave a few fac-es with a smile, there is good reason to believe in the pow-er of performance,” she said.

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The Maumee Indoor Theater, located on Conant Street, first opened in 1946 and shows not only second and third run movies, but musical performances and rooms that can be rented out.

the contemporary needs of wireless internet, cable televi-sion and connections for video game systems or DVDs.

“We’ve had a wide variety of events here,” said employee Morgan Cheung. “Anything from wedding receptions and bridal showers to concerts, and we’ve even had bodybuild-ing competitions.”

Saturday night the theater held a bluegrass concert fea-turing Jim Hurst, a multiple award winning singer and gui-tarist from Kentucky.

For the upcoming weekend, The Maumee Indoor Theater has “Bette Midler Christmas Tribute” planned for Friday at 8 p.m. and a showing of “White Christmas” at multiple times on Saturday.

“White Christmas” is part of

one of the theater’s recurring events called “Movie Classics.”

“We like to show movies from the 1950s during ‘Movie Classics’ night, and it’s pretty popular,” said employee Katie Roberts.

Since the cinema receives strictly second or third run movies, meaning they come from other theaters when the newest flick has come out, the Maumee Indoor costs much less to attend than other movie houses.

Tickets start at $3.50 every day for a movie or just $1.50 on their special “Wild Wednes-days,” when even the conces-sion prices are cut drastically. The price of reserving an entire auditorium costs around $100.

But that doesn’t mean every day features an old-fashioned classical film. For example, the movie house is currently show-ing “Easy A” and “Despicable Me,” both of which were re-

leased in the past few months. “We usually show the movie

about a month before it comes out on DVD,” Cheung said.

The second theater can seat a group of 125 people, which is the perfect size for private showings of the theater’s cur-rent movie collection, or it can be rented out by a group to watch any movie they bring. There are even tables in the back of the theater so pa-trons can bring their own food and eat it there or enjoy the large variety of snacks offered at the concession stand.

Finally, the third venue is not a movie theater, but rather a large meeting room located in the lower level of the build-ing. The 100-person room could be used for large get-togethers or study sessions and can use all the commodi-ties the rest of the building has, such as wireless internet, cable TV and access to the concession stand as well.

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By Weslie DetwilerIC Staff Writer

While majority of play-wrights, directors and actors are given ample amounts of time to write, coach and learn their material, for participants of “The 24 Hour Plays,” time is of the essence.

The format for the highly an-ticipated event was developed by a company in New York and is in its fifth year at UT.

This year, just over 50 stu-dents partook in the rushed festivities, including five play-wrights, five directors and 40 actors that collectively formed five groups plus two technicians.

At 7:30 p.m. Friday night, actors were randomly drawn from a hat to be placed in a group with a director and playwright, and from there the clock began ticking.

Most participants in each group were able to go to their respective homes and get some rest before a day of hard work, but for the playwrights the night was just beginning. They worked through the night to create a script that would then be handed over to the director and actors the next day.

In terms of the final product, Holly Monsos, chair of the de-partment of theatre and film

and self-proclaimed “food cara-van” for the event said, “You get a whole range, from funny to serious.”

There is no physical award given to the winner, but there is certainly motivation driving the groups forward.

“Survival is pretty much the only prize,” Monsos said.

Tyria Allen, a senior majoring in theatre, has been taking part in “The 24 Hour Plays” for four

years.Her first year was spent as a

playwright, staying up through the night to come up with ideas to put together a show and in-corporating props. She has spent the last three years as an actress. Allen also hopes to try her hand at directing.

She enjoys the reward that comes from the performances and the opportunity of stepping into the theater and being able

to say “Okay, let’s make a show.” Allen hopes that the audience

experiences “the joy of art, and to see it’s actually possible to put on a production in such a short time.”

With hopes of graduate school and eventually landing a spot on television, Allen has found experience on how to move quickly because of her

Small museum sees a big future in cadaversBy William MullenChicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Along Lake Shore Drive’s glittering Gold Coast, a handsome sculpture of a physician comforting an ailing man stands in front of an elegant four-story man-sion, calling attention to the museum inside, one known to many as the place they might visit someday but nev-er do.

The 56-year-old Interna-tional Museum of Surgical Science brings in 20,000 visi-tors in a good year. It could soon become a much busier place as it taps into a fasci-nation, shown over the last decade, with seeing perfect-ly preserved human cadav-ers, dissected to display the complexity of human anatomy.

The plastinated bodies, produced since the 1990s by “Body Worlds,” a German company, have proved so popular in exhibits that com-petitors popped up to pro-duce similar displays.

One of those competitors has produced an exhibit called “Our Body: The Uni-verse Within,” which opened early this month at the Surgi-cal Science Museum. It’s an

exhibit close in size and scope to “Body Worlds” and is being mounted with the hope of boosting attendance by a “factor of three, four or more,” said Max Downham, executive director of the In-ternational College of Sur-geons, which owns the museum.

If it does, it could become a permanent part of the mu-seum’s collection.

At the Museum of Science and Industry, the original “Body Worlds” exhibit pulled in 800,000 visitors who plunked down $21 to see it during a 7-month run in 2005, and when a sequel to the original returned there in 2007 for a 3-month run, 400,000 paid $23 to see it.

What’s different at the Mu-seum of Surgical Science, its advocates say, is that the exhibit is set among the per-manent galleries at the surgi-cal museum that depict the history and evolution of medical practice and treatment.

“Our curators have worked with the curators of ‘Our Body’ to place their material in our existing galleries where our artifacts

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By Mitchell RohrerIC Staff Writer

Though to many it has been a place to get together to watch recently released movies for a

low price, the Maumee Indoor The-ater has evolved into a venue for vi-sual and performing arts.

Old-fashioned movie houses are hard to come by these days with theater chains owning most of the market. However, Uptown Maumee

has kept one art deco theater alive and thriving.

The Maumee Indoor Theater, lo-cated on 601 Conant Street, first opened its doors in 1946. It wasn’t until May 2004 that the Great East-ern Theatre Company began to run the show to, “continue our tradition as an independent movie exhibitor operating indoor and outdoor the-atres in Northwest Ohio,” according to their website.

Even though the building itself is

a historical landmark, the theaters have been modernized to accommo-date a large audience with two sepa-rate screens and another reception room located in the building’s lower floor.

The first theater can hold close to 500 people and exhibits a full-sized movie screen and a theatrical stage. It can also be rented out for football games or parties and is set up with

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Photo Illustration by Nick Kneer/ IC

Throughout the course of 24 hours, teams of UT students, write, direct, produce and perform plays as part of the 24 Hour Plays which were presented Saturday evening in the Center for Performing Arts.

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One night

One crew

One play