Olivier DOuliery/AbAcA Press/McTPresident Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden celebrate on stage last night in Chicago after the president was re-elected.

By Lindsay Mahaney and Danielle Gamblestaff reporter and News editor

Tuesday night found sup-porters of President Barack Obama on the UT campus celebrating his re-election vic-tory over Republican chal-lenger Mitt Romney. CNN called the election for Obama shortly after 11:15 p.m.

Landyn Jordan, a Demo-crat and a senior majoring in psychology, said he was thrilled to see Obama win.

Jordan, who was a campus leader for the university’s Democratic effort, said for his fellow supporters, work-ing on the campaign made the experience “close to their heart strings.”

“When you start to go to the rallies, follow the cam-paign, you find out a lot about what your neighbors are,” he said. “You don’t actually have that kind of look without ac-tually being a part of this.”

Jordan said he looks for-ward to Obama helping bring down unemployment.

“Lucas County especially knows Obama is bringing the auto industry, that’s where our family is,” he said. “Those are the jobs we created.”

Alex Tolfort, a Democrat and first-year graduate stu-dent studying film theory, said the results show Ameri-cans are “interested in hav-ing a real direction.”

“The proper way to build economy is to invest in it, not strip it down,” he said. “The American people showed they agree with that tonight.”

Tolfort said the biggest change he expects to see

over the next four years is a national referendum on gay marriage.

“Other than that it’s just incremental steps and poli-cies that have already been enacted,” he said.

Other than Obama’s poli-cies, Tolfort said he is most looking forward to the end of political ad campaigns.

“I have been actively avoid-ing watching live television for weeks,” he said. “I watch everything on the internet now, because at least if a polit-ical ad is on the internet I can just mute it and do something else for a second.”

College Republican Presi-dent Scott Mazzola, a senior majoring in psychology, was disappointed by the

election results. “I was as hopeful as any-

one when he got elected, but he’s had four years,” Mazzo-la said. “And I’m not sure with four more years he can put new policies in place that will change anything.”

Mazzola said while he hopes the administration will improve, he thinks Obama will “take things fur-ther into the ground.”

“I really don’t think we’re going to see any economic re-covery in the next four years,” he said. “You know I’m hope-ful, but I really doubt that.”

Mazzola credited Romney with a great campaign, and said Republicans should not be disappointed.

“I think he campaigned in

the right areas and I know people here worked really hard,” he said. “We just got to the point where a lot of Americans have their priori-ties out of order.”

“I think in four years Re-publicans will have a much better shot,” Mazzola said.

Kenneth Harbin, a senior majoring in chemistry, said he’s interested in seeing how Obama will work with Republicans.

“In order to get that done he’s going to have to cross the aisle and he’s never done that in the first four years,” he said.

Harbin said Romney “did not articulate his message as clearly as he could have, or

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Resolution passed by Senate asks for lights to be turned on earlier

DANielle GAMble / icIesha Holland, a freshman majoring in athletic training, and Qadriyyah Sutton, a freshman majoring in education, talk during an election watch party held in The Crossings last night. The group also watched the UT football game as results came in.

STUDENT GOVErNMENT

By Danielle GambleNews editor

University of Toledo Stu-dent Government last week passed a resolution asking that lights on campus be turned on earlier.

The resolution, presented by Senator Ben Lynn at the Oct. 30 meeting, claimed that outdoor lights do not turn on at the right time

due to the shift in daylight savings time. It also stated that there is a period of time after sunset where nothing is lighting the path, causing a potential safety hazard to students walking after dark.

Director of Facilities Op-erations James Graff said he had not heard from any member of SG about the

resolution or the complaint it presented. Graff also said facilities managers do not directly control when lights come on around campus.

Lights around Main Campus are controlled by approximately 20 different photo cells, which are small devices mounted on the sides of buildings. Once the amount of sunlight is low

enough, the cells turn the outside lights on.

Graff said it is possible a group of lights is not func-tioning properly due to a corrupt cell, but he does not currently know of any. Because of the number of lights on campus, the grounds crew cannot al-ways detect when certain lights are malfunctioning.

“I would not know that unless someone put in a work order and told me that,” Graff said.

Graff said if the lights are malfunctioning, anyone can send in an online work or-der to facilities through the university website.

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Student groups working to save energyBy Danielle GambleNews editor

Students will strive to cut down on UT’s energy con-sumption this month with two new programs.

A program named Friday Night Lights begins this week in which volunteers will spread throughout campus and turn off lights left on in academic buildings.

Set up by the Society for En-vironmental Education and Engineers Without Borders, students will meet in the Stu-dent Union Building, then split into groups. Volunteers will take a campus map with 14 ac-ademic buildings marked then go to the buildings marked and shut off any lights left on.

Brooke Mason, interim sus-tainability specialist in the En-ergy Management Department, said the idea comes from a sim-ilar program at Bowling Green State University.

“The whole process should take no more than an hour,” she said. “I’m not sure specif-ically here, but with my expe-rience at Bowling Green, it takes between 20 and 40 minutes depending on which buildings you get.”

Mason said the plan is to have the lights stay off all weekend and not turned back on until Monday morn-ing. After the kick-off, the event will continue through-out the academic year.

“Any student can come,” she said. “It doesn’t matter what your major is, what your interests are. You just do a little service on a Friday night. You don’t have to sign up, you don’t have to let any-one know if you’re coming or not coming. You can come once every few weeks, you can come once the whole year, it doesn’t matter. It’s all about how much you want to help.”

The group will check the building meters that will tally how much energy is saved.

Mason hopes about $10,000 a semester will be saved.

“From an environmental standpoint, anything saved is successful, because one less light left on is that much more carbon dioxide we’re keeping out of the atmo-sphere,” Mason said.

Lauren McCafferty, a se-nior majoring in biology and

Supporters celebrate Obama’s re-election

Canadian consul general to visit Thursday

uT students, faculty, staff and the communi-ty will have the oppor-tunity to learn more about the two centuries of diplomatic relations between the united states and canada when canadian consul General roy Norton visits rocket Hall room 1558 tomorrow at 3:30 p.m.

Norton fronts the ca-nadian consulate Gen-eral, which promotes canadian interests such as trade, invest-ment, the environment, culture and academic relations. He is based in Detroit and repre-sents canada in Michi-gan, Ohio, indiana and Kentucky.

before serving as consul general, Norton served in the canadian embassy in Washing-ton with the Parliament of canada, the govern-ment of Ontario and as a consultant to the ca-nadian Departments of Foreign Affairs and industry.

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ELECTION 2012

Man charged with shooting UT medical student

A st. louis man was charged Tuesday with robbing and shooting a university of Toledo medical student on Oct. 24 in st. louis.

Joseph Newman, 25, was arrested Monday, the st. louis Post-Dis-patch reported. He is accused of shooting Halley briglia, 27, who was in st. louis for a medical internship.

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Purpose: To break harmful stereotypes about women, feminists and femininity. We advocate for equal rights, women’s rights and gender equity and seek to raise awareness of and address important women’s issues.

Leaders: Hillary Gyuras, Co-President; Jeanetta Mohlke-Hill, Co-President

Upcoming events: Fake Clinic Awareness, Nov. 7-9; Meetings every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in SU 3016.

How to learn more: Go to the UT Feminist Alli-ance Facebook page, email utfemenistalliance@gmail.com, jmohlke2@rockets.utoledo.edu or hillary.gyuras@rockets.utoledo.edu.

Would your group like to be featured as The Inde-pendent Collegian’s Student Group of the Week? Email Nate Pentecost at npentecost@independentcol-legian.com.

Did you vote? Why or why not?

No, I couldn’t make it home to vote and niether candidate represented me.

Ryan WobserSophomore

Bioengineering

Yes, I felt it was im-portant and finan-cial aid was a key is-sue for me.

Andrea HarrisSenior

Fiilm and Theatre

Yes, because this was the first year I could vote.

Tyrone LaysonSenior

Exercise Science

No, I didn’t care who won before the registration deadline.

Jillian HarringtonSophomore

Early Childhood Education

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This week in UT history

75 years ago: That women dislike men who always take them to beer parlors after see-ing a movie was shown in themes recently written by 50 students in two English classes taught by Miss Ruby T. Scott, associate professor of English.

50 years ago: Fac-ulty members of the Arts and Sciences College met yesterday to appoint an advisory council for putting an honors program into effect.

25 years ago: A “mas-sive demonstration” is planned for tomorrow night against the showing of an X-rated movie on campus this weekend. Three cam-pus religious organizations are taking part in efforts against “Emmanuelle,” a 1974 X-rated movie. Jeff Cole, Student Government president, said he’s been told that the demonstration will feature signs, fliers and chants, and that protest-ers have threatened to take pictures of patrons to discourage them from attending.

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UT professor lectures on native American cultureBarbara Mann, UT assistant professor of humanities in the Honors College, dis-cusses traditions, practices and Western misconceptions of native Ameircan spirituality in the sullivan Hall Hoch Conference Room Monday evening. Her free, public talk, “native American spirituality: spirits of Place” is part of the UT Cen-ter for Religious Understanding’s fall lecture series.

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ecology and president of the Society for Environmental Education, helped organize the event.

She said in the past, her group has tried to organize similar events but was unable to communicate effectively with the administration. That changed when Mason, the uni-versity’s first sustainability spe-cialist, was hired.

“I reached out to her immedi-ately with hopes of enlisting her help on our projects, and of-fering our ser-vices for any projects she had,” McCaffer-ty said in an email. “Brooke’s position with Plant Operations has been invalu-able, as she has been able to eas-ily communicate with the appro-priate parties about the build-ings and securi-ty, and her con-nections to other student organi-zations have re-ally broadened our audience.”

McCafferty said the organiz-ing the event has been a “pretty big task.”

“Any event that is going to occur weekly over a long peri-od of time requires a lot of careful planning by a dedicat-ed leadership team, as well as

constant reevaluation of the logistics to make sure that the event is running as smoothly as possible,” she said.

McCafferty said constant re-evaluation of the project will be necessary, as a project of this scale presents many quirks. She said the groups have been working with Plant Op-erations and UT Police De-

partment to make sure ev-erything goes smoothly.

The first of the month kicked off the other sustain-ability event, BlackoUT. This program is an energy consump-tion competition between the on campus resi-dence halls for the month of November.

“We have data from how much energy each hall used last year for the month of November, so we’ll be able to take this month and compare the two,” Mason said. “Because resi-dence halls are different sizes and some have dining halls and

things, the way to keep it even is to see who can reduce the energy the most from last year.”

BlackoUT started at the uni-versity a few years ago and Ma-son said previous savings have

totaled about $14,000 per a month.

McCafferty said she remem-bers an earlier form of Black-

oUT as a fresh-man but she felt it was not as well-organized as the updated version.

“It was not ad-vertised very

much and a lot of people didn’t know about it,” she said. “I think the ORL has done a really great job of advertising this year, and the program is more comprehensive than ev-er. There are more aspects to the event than just the energy saving competition, including quite a few educational pro-grams, which is fantastic.”

McCafferty said she hopes the convenience of these events will encourage people to participate. “A lot of vol-unteer opportunities are off-campus, posing a problem for those without vehicles or those who don’t like to drive much, and a lot of volunteer events require several hours of dedication,” she said. “This is a great way to give back in a convenient place and for a short amount of time before starting the weekend.

McCafferty said she has seen the university’s sustain-ability initiatives improve greatly over the years, and she hopes to see that continue.

“It is now crucial that we don’t lose that momentum - we need to keep moving forward with sustainability initiatives, both by improving and ex-panding the things I’ve already mentioned, and by constantly coming up with new ideas for new initiatives to get students involved in,” she said.

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The following reports were issued by the UT Police De-partment. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

Victim reports car scam: At approximately 4:59 p.m. Oct. 17 an officer was dis-patched to a walk-in report of a man who was scammed out of money. The victim said he was walking out of the law center around 3:30 p.m. and was approached by

a heavy black male, around 5-foot-9. The suspect said his car ran out of gas and asked to borrow $40.

The victim gave the sus-pect a ride to rocket Fuel where he said his car was parked. When they arrived at the gas station the suspect changed his story and said the vehicle needed an alter-nator and that it was parked down the street. The victim drove to the Family Food center located at 1212 N. Detroit Ave. to pull money out of the ATM for the

suspect.After they left from the

ATM the suspect had the victim drop him off at a house at a location the vic-tim could not identify to the police.

The victim then saw the suspect again near bow-man-Oddy. When he asked him if he would go to the po-lice station to exchange in-formation, the suspect en-tered a white blazer and drove away.

Trespassing suspect puts stickers on stop

signs: Around 6 p.m. on Oct. 22 an officer responded to a report of a suspicious person putting stickers on the stop signs. The officer located the individual by lot 12e. When asked what he was doing the suspect, Dan-iel A. rutt, said he was put-ting stickers up for Joe vice President biden’s speech at the university of Toledo. rutt was given a trespassing warning, told to leave cam-pus and that he was not al-lowed on uT property.

iPhone stolen in Union:

An officer was dispatched Oct. 23 at approximately 9:41 p.m. to a theft of prop-erty at the student recre-ation center. The victim set his book bag down to use the restroom and it was gone when he came back. The victim searched the area for his belongings and found his bag hanging in one of the restroom stalls. The only things absent from his book bag was a black iPhone 4s valued at $500. There is nothing further at this time.

Instagram threats reported: On Oct. 23 around 7 p.m. an officer was dispatched to a walk-in re-port of a student being threatened on instagram. The victim stated that the suspect has been making threats about fighting her over an old boyfriend. The victim said the issue has been going on for a little over a year now. The victim filed a police report and was advised to contact the uTPD if any further contact or threats are made.

PolICe logS

a look at the 2012 results

As of 2:15 a.m. U.S. Senate

a Sherrod brown: 50% Josh Mandel: 45%

House of representatives

a Marcy Kaptur: 73% Samuel Wurzelbacher : 23%

State Issue 1 Pass: 39.14% a fail: 60.86%

State Issue 2 Pass: 47.2% a fail: 52.8%

Issue 5: Parks & recreation for: 46.13% a Against: 53.87%

Issue 20: Toledo Public Schools for: 47.49% a Against: 52.51%

Issue 21: Metroparksa for: 54.90% Against: 45.10%

Issue 23: Library Servicesa for: 65.38% Against: 34.42%

Issue 24: Mental Health Servicesa for: 50.95% Against: 49.05%

Issue 25: Children’s Servicesa for: 54.85% Against: 45.15%

Issue 26: Imagination Station for: 49.74% a Against: 50.26%

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each Friday Night lights event, join the Facebook group at tinyurl.com/ uTFNl

residence Hall BlackoUT Events

Nov. 2: Glow in the Dark volleyball at the crossings, 7 p.m.

Nov. 4: viewing of The 11th Hour at Parks Tower, 7 p.m.

Nov. 5: Glow stick Mania!, hosted by inter-national House in the Flatlands, 8 p.m.

Nov. 7: bonfire, hosted by Mccomas village be-hind the Theta chi house, 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 7: light Writing & s’mores, hosted by Ottawa House at carter Field, 9 p.m.

Nov. 14: viewing of Food, inc. at Academic House (1st floor back lounge), 8 p.m.

sex in the Dark, hosted by Alexis blavos in the carter Huddle, 8 p.m.

ultimate Frisbee & s’mores, hosted by Ot-tawa House at carter Field, 8:30 p.m.

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In other Student Senate news:n SG allocated $300 to

help members of Spectrum attend the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally Collegiate Conference from Feb. 8-10 in Lansing, Mich. According to the leg-islation, 18 students are in-terested in attending the event at a cost of about $2,400. Spectrum had al-ready secured $1,125 through fundraising and aid from the Student Activi-ties Council. n The Senate passed a

resolution by Vice President Chris Dykyj urging UT to make all printing paper on all campuses recyclable.n SG agreed to help with

the “You Are a Target” cam-paign, a program intended to keep students’ homes safe over Thanksgiving

break. Members of SG will help evaluate and clean up properties in the Bancroft Hills neighborhood from 10 a. m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 17. n A resolution written by

Senator Matthew Ellis allo-cated $250 to provide food for an administrative meet-and-greet event. n The Senate allocated

$104 to purchase 1,000 cop-ies of Office of Academic Affairs stationery in order to make legislation look more professional. The res-olution was written by Sen-ator Kevin Samson and sponsored by Senate Chair Lauren Jencen. n A resolution from

President Paulette Bongratz was passed, encouraging the use of school colors and a “Rocket theme” when building or remodeling on all UT campuses. Bongratz’s resolution stated the change would “encourage school spirit” and is “important to the student experience.”

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people were not listening as they should have.”

“Personally, it’s sad to be in America,” Harbin said. “I think it’s a little disappoint-ing what happened.”

Nick McCullough, a fresh-man majoring in political sci-ence, voted for the first time this year. He took advantage of UT’s transportation servic-es, which bused students to area voting locations.

McCullough said he is “very conservative on most issues,” which is why he voted for Romney.

Iesha Holland, a fresh-man majoring in athletic training, also voted for the first time. She said when she voted at noon with sev-eral other UT students, there was almost no wait.

Holland said she voted for Obama because his plan was more in line with her personal views.

“I voted for him be-cause I know Mitt Rom-ney, he honestly has some great points and some great plans, but I wanted to vote for a president that has a lot to do and pertains with me and my situation,” she said.

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UT’s Greek community shows ‘blanket’ support for Toledo’s poor

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Saturday’s Wrap Up Toledo event collected blankets, new and gently used, for those in need in the Toledo area as well as for Hurricane Sandy victims. This excellent cause raises awareness about poverty and helps the homeless in Toledo, while keeping students involved in a fun, interactive and philanthropic event.

This program is part of the Wrap Up America movement, and was sponsored by the University of Toledo’s Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society. Mortar Board con-tacted student organization presidents to be a part of Wrap Up Toledo, then the organizations, in addition to The Blade, donated blankets over the course of a month.

At the event, students built forts out of the blankets, giving them a creative outlet and simultaneously allowing them to give to their community in a valuable and unconventional way.

This event allowed Greek Life, who encompassed the ma-jority of the participants, to showcase their philanthropic side this weekend. While many associate fraternities and sororities with partying or National Lampoon mischief, a big part of Greek Life is about giving back. This event and its over-whelming success demonstrated that these organizations stand for more than their stereoetype.

The event was well-planned and well-timed. As Ohio heads into the winter months, it’s increasingly important that students become aware of the poor and homeless in Toledo. In the comfort of heated dorms and homes, it’s easy to forget those who don’t have such amenities. This event will remind students to serve others throughout the winter and give them an opportunity to have a direct posi-tive effect on poverty in Toledo.

Through Wrap Up Toledo, nearly 2,000 blankets were collected. The blankets will be distributed among local and national organizations. A quarter will go to Hurricane San-dy victims, and the rest will be given to different local or-ganizations — Family House, Food for Thought and the Cherry Street Mission.

This was the third year Mortar Board hosted Wrap Up To-ledo. It’s great to see this program become an important UT tradition which incorporates a large combined student ef-fort, a creative outlet and a charitable outreach to the Toledo community.

commentary

I usually don’t think too often about how other people see me or what their opinions are of me. But as I sit here writing, I realize that people’s first im-pressions of me are probably a bit con-fused. The reason for this confusion is likely due to my hair.

You see, for over a year now, I’ve been culti-vating dreadlocks. How-ever, I don’t fit most of the stereotypes associat-ed with dreads. I’d like to take a minute and dispel some common misconcep-tions about dreads and briefly describe their history.

Perhaps the most common myth about dreads is that they’re dirty and can’t be washed. On the contrary, clean hair locks up faster and looks better, too. Also, it’s appropriate to wash dreads as if it were regular hair at least once or twice a week.

If you see dreads that smell or look bad, they were most likely formed with wax. Rather than allowing the hair to tangle with itself and form a lock, wax

effectively glues hairs together and traps dirt, grease and water, which in turn promotes the growth of mold.

Another common stereotype people have about dreads is their association with the Rastafari movement and Jamai-

cans. They are certainly correct in that many Ras-tas had dreadlocks. For them, the growth of dreadlocks was seen as a sign of spiritual struggle

and growth and began in accordance with the Nazarite vows described in the Hebrew Bible.

However, to believe that dreads are solely a Jamaican style is certainly na-ïve. For thousands of years, cultures around the world have allowed the growth of dreads. To understand why this is so, you must understand that hair left uncombed for several years naturally becomes dreaded.

As a consequence of abandoning mate-rial pursuits, many ascetics from Hindu-ism, the Ngagpas sect of Tibetan Bud-dhism and the Sufi sect of Islam

developed dreads over time. In addition, there are major figures from religions who are commonly depicted with dreads in-cluding the Hindu god Shiva, Samson the Nazarite and John the Baptist of the Bible.

In addition to these cultures, dreads also have their history in Celtic and Norse cultures, Kenya, Egypt and countless tribes across Africa. So the next time you see someone with dreads and you want to make a Bob Marley reference, just remember they were around long before he was.

If you’re interested in starting dread-locks, I’d advise you to do research before you begin. There are several different ways to start them which I won’t bother to describe here. Whatever you do, do not put wax in your hair. Also, remember dreading is a long process which can take years before you see them form how you would like. If you’re not sure how to start, you can also just not comb your hair for about three years.

Luke Kwiatkowski is a senior studying physics.

Don’t diss my dreadlocks

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I was just at Toledo’s annual week-end-long Tent City event for services to those in poverty or homeless, and I saw a lot of students from the University of Toledo there, some volunteering indi-vidually and others with a fraternity, sorority or other student organization.

A few students I recognized from pre-vious Tent Cities, as well as some from other volunteer events, and it started me thinking about motivations for volun-teering and community service and what role it may play in a college student’s life.

For some, the motivation may be ex-ternal factors — a requirement of ser-vice hours for a group they’re a member of, as part of a class assignment or even as part of a court-ordered community service. Believe me, I have seen this.

In the organizations I’m associated with, these sorts of volunteers usually start out reluctantly, but by the end of their mandatory hours, some are just happy to be done with the assignment and have checked off all of the right box-es while others have begun to love what-ever they were volunteering to do and the community that they had grown into. Their motivations shifted from external obligation to internal rewards.

These intrinsically motivated people still have a variety of reasons for volun-teering, but are driven by choice rather than duty. Some may feel strongly about a political cause or issue and vol-unteer to get the word out.

I volunteered with a phone bank for a local ballot measure that I strongly be-lieved in, even though I hate talking on the phone, especially to strangers. It was my belief in the cause itself that over-came my reluctance. Similarly, a sense of justice or one’s spiritual or ethical be-liefs may bring out the passion of a vol-unteer to build a house, feed the hungry and provide clothing or even just con-versation to those that don’t have it.

Others may be motivated by the so-cial aspects of volunteering and enjoy the community that forms around it, es-pecially if you volunteer with a friend. Finally, I know that some volunteer with an eye for how it looks on a résumé or scholarship application, though this isn’t

usually their primary motivation.For myself, I’ve found volunteering

to be something transformational, showing me new aspects of myself and of my world. A few years ago, a col-league in the library invited me to read to pre-school kids as part of a literacy project she was involved in through the West Toledo Kiwanis and the UT Cir-cle K student organization, and now the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Anyone who knows me knows that kids and I don’t mix — frankly, they scare me a bit. So, it was with mounting reluctance that I approached our first session, facing the eager faces of count-less 3-and 4-year-olds. But I discovered that the kids just loved the attention of a “special guest” at school and receiving their very own copy of the book.

They weren’t expecting a stellar per-formance by me and were a true exam-ple of unconditional acceptance. Some-thing I took for granted, the ability to read and a love of reading, was some-thing they admired and I could plant the seeds of in them.

For many at college, the world can be-come sort of a comfortable bubble. Your friends are mostly the same age, have similar goals and background and are liv-ing within a few miles of each other, or even just down the hallway. Even on such a diverse campus, you can tend to self-segregate into “affinity groups” that draw like-minded people and further reinforce your own experience by forming rela-tional communities of people like you.

Whether intentionally or not, student organizations tend to bring people to-gether with similar religions, races, eth-nicities, sexual orientations or politics and can make your college experience even more homogenous. However, find-ing volunteer opportunities, especially off-campus, can bring you into contact with a far more diverse group of people and experiences. While I was in college, I rarely got into downtown Toledo.

As my Tent City experience that started this musing indicates, I’m now a regular in downtown Toledo, because that’s where many of the organizations that address homelessness, poverty and hunger are based and do much of their work. I’ve meet people I now consider friends that, quite honestly, I would’ve never met had I remained on UT’s campus and not ventured out.

Many of you may be thinking you don’t have much to offer; when you’re in college time and money are in short supply. But most volunteer opportuni-ties don’t cost any money, and even a little time can go a long way toward making a difference, especially a differ-ence in you and your outlook.

There are some off-campus organiza-tions who have an on-campus pres-ence, such as the UT Bridge Club, which meets every other Friday after-noon at the Crossings to make lunches for Food for Thought to hand out downtown on Saturdays, to give just one example. UT has a Service Learn-ing & Community Outreach Office, which lists community organizations that welcome student volunteers, or you can check with the student organi-zations that you’re already a part of to see where you can help.

All of us have a passion, skill, talent or ability that could be used in service to oth-ers or to a cause. Whether your motiva-tion is social, political, ethical or you’re just looking for something to look good on a résumé or scholarship application, finding a way to share that can make your life richer, not only those whom you serve.

Wade Lee is an associate professor in the library.

Service leads to new opportunities

Luke Kwiatkowski

IC Columnist

Zero tolerance

could be a bad thing

The University of Toledo re-cently announced a step to-wards censorship and authori-tarianism. A recent letter from UT administrators Kevin West and Michele Martinez states that “the university has zero tolerance for harassment.”

Enforcement of this vague policy with “zero tolerance” may result in unfair treat-ment of the accused and can lead to Kafkaesque outcomes.

While no one should con-done harassment at our univer-sity, it’s informative to note that West and Martinez defined ha-rassment as “any … conduct of an offensive … nature” that is “based or directed at” certain protected personal attributes.

The list of protected attri-butes is long and includes clas-sifications such as sex, religion, age, even political affiliation.

Consider how this “zero-tol-erance” policy might cause harm. Regarding religion, it’s not difficult to imagine how one could easily become offended by someone who states that the on-ly way to God is through Jesus, or the same for submission to Allah through Islam and that non-believers are destined for an eternity of torment in hell.

As such, UT’s harassment policy could be used against either a Christian or a Mus-lim who expressed a sincere, yet potentially offensive, view of heaven, hell and eternity.

UT should be a place where students are exposed to differ-ent ideas and feel free to criti-cally consider and debate those ideas. “Zero tolerance” policies such as UT’s harassment poli-cy will induce students and faculty to bury their opinions with self-censorship, resulting

in a repressive and impover-ished intellectual environment.

— Douglas Oliver, associate professor of mechanical, in-dustrial and manufacturing engineering

Donation drive for

Sandy victims

We are writing to let you know that we as international students from the American Language Institute at the Uni-versity of Toledo are making an international Thanksgiving and donation drive event. We’re collecting money, coats and canned food donations to give to the American Red Cross for the Hurricane Sandy victims in the Student Union Building on Nov. 27.

— Mohammed Alhabib, UT student

Sandy’s ‘broken

window’ not for the best

Has Hurricane Sandy creat-ed wealth? The obvious answer is no. Property was destroyed and most every sane person would say they were better off the days preceding the storm than the days after. This is of course assuming you didn’t ask any looters. However, though most recognize this concept as common sense, many econo-mists like Paul Krugman seem to disagree.

They claim since property was destroyed, new property

needs to be purchased in its place which in turn will spur growth in the economy.

The absurd theory Paul Krugman believes in is called the “Broken Window theory.” Frederic Bastiat was the first to disprove this theory and make it a fallacy in his 1850 essay “That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen.” Bastiat uses the parable of a storekeeper’s broken window to illustrate his point.

The story begins with a careless child playing around with a baseball when he throws the ball into the shop-keeper’s window and it breaks. The shopkeeper runs out of the store chasing the child, bound by rage to give him a good tongue lashing. Unfortu-nately for the shopkeeper, he’s out of shape and the hooligan runs off in a flash.

When the storekeeper gets back to his store to survey the damage, he notices a crowd has gathered and a figure in the middle of the crowd broadcast-ing a lecture. Once the shop-keeper gets to the front of the

crowd he recognizes the figure as the town’s economist who is lecturing to the town on how the child’s act of destruction has actually created.

Perplexed by the statement, the shopkeeper asks how. The economist then states “the $100 you spend on a new window will give the window repairman $100 to spend on his family, maybe buying gro-ceries or using to improve his business. When he spends money, others will acquire money and they’ll spend it as well, causing a cascading ef-fect of economic growth!”

When we first look at the situation, many may think the economist was correct after his detailed explanation, but con-sider this. If the window wasn’t broken, the shopkeeper could do the same thing the window repairman was going to do and buy $100 worth of grocer-ies for his family or invest that $100 back into his store.

When the window is broken, the window repairman has $100, but his spending has just about the same effect on the

economy as the shopkeeper. So in both situations $100 is spent, yet if the window isn’t broken, the world is still one window richer. If breaking windows re-ally did make us better off, then it would only make sense to hire an army of kids to go around breaking windows to provide work for people.

This concept is so basic my largest concern about writing this article was people getting annoyed because it’s so simple. But I’m sure some of you are confused as to why I even told the parable of The Broken Window Fallacy when the arti-cle is about Hurricane Sandy. We can imagine Hurricane Sandy as an army of kids breaking windows.

The residents of New York, New Jersey and the other ef-fected areas would be the shopkeepers in this scenario. The metaphorical economist would be certain economists including Paul Krugman. Lastly, the contractors coming to repair disaster areas would be the window repairman.

The contractors themselves

are obtaining wealth by doing a needed service just like the window repairman. However, if Sandy never hit, the contactors could’ve been hired to expand/remodel buildings rather than rebuild them. The millions of dollars of property damage could’ve been used to purchase other assets and services. These purchases would have created true wealth and created jobs without destroying property.

Much like how we as a world were one window better before the kid threw his ball, we as a world were thousands of windows and hundreds of homes wealthier before hurri-cane Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy hasn’t created wealth. In fact many people in affected areas need help. If you’d like to help, you could donate $10 to an amaz-ing private charity, The American Red Cross. The money you give will help vic-tims a whole lot more than telling them they’re provid-ing economic growth.

— Ron Johns, UT junior

letters to the editor

Wade LeeIC Columnist

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | The Independent Collegian | 5

You can complain only if you participate

Graduate Student Association is important for UT

Ohio is one of the most ag-gressively sought-after states for the political arena, which is evident from the multitude of advertisements and voting reminders all around Toledo these last few months. We were bombarded with statis-tics, negative publicity and telemarketers — it’s amazing we didn’t pull out our hair in frustration. At some point we eventually tuned out all forms of political advertising and made our own opinions when it came our time to vote.

For me, voting in this elec-tion takes me back to my se-nior year when Barack Obama, a senator of Illinois, won the presidential election during a time of catastrophic turmoil in our economy. Our media couldn’t stop saying how the induction of an Afri-can-Ameri-can president in the U.S. was just one of the many signs of change in our society. It was, for some, a monumental stepping stone for our country in politics.

For the presidential election in 2008, I was one month shy of turning 18. I lost the op-portunity to participate in something our country found so historic. Then again, I knew nothing about the can-didates or what the major is-sues of the election were.

This year, in 2012, it was my first year voting in a presidential election — so much pressure.

Hopefully, most of you did the early voting thing and

exercised your right to vote. Being from Michigan, I had to wait until Tuesday to cast my vote. But since I’m always in Northwest Ohio, I heard advertisements all the time, even for senators or repre-sentatives I didn’t even know or had to vote for.

I knew a lot of people who thought their vote wasn’t worth any-thing or they didn’t know

enough about the candi-dates, so they decided not to take part is the voting process.

Why would you waste the opportunity? Even though my vote was one of millions, my right to vote solidifies my citi-zenship in a great country. We may not be the greatest place on earth to live, but who says we’re trying to be?

This election was a big deal, and regardless of who wins, it still will be. The thing we vot-ers had to keep in mind was what mattered most to us. I wouldn’t be lying if I told you I actually looked up what Democrats and Republicans

stand for in order to decide who to vote for. I compared them with my own beliefs and chose a side. When people tell me they don’t know enough about the issues to vote, I say go look it up.

On Monday, our professor asked us what was going on in the world to start off our cur-rent events discussion. It seemed to most of us that the main thing in the news the last few days was the election. It masked every other news event.

By the time this column is printed, the votes will have been decided. I don’t know how much of an impact each candidate will have on your lives, but I hope you chose to voice your opinion. So if you took the time to wait in line and vote for your choice of candidate, then good for you. I hope you wore that “I Vot-ed” sticker proudly.

Basically, all I’m trying to say is stop complaining about an election if you don’t even choose to participate.

Try to look up definitions, descriptions of candidates, and regulations around certain is-sues. Wouldn’t you rather vote about something you know than vote randomly about something you don’t? If you didn’t vote this year, hopefully, you’ll take the time to do so in 2016 and learn more about the big issues in the election. I may not have been a deciding vote this year, but participation is everything in life. The least I can do is be a part of it.

Megan Gross is a senior studying marketing and mi-noring in communications.

The Graduate Student As-sociation is a young and pre-dominate organization at The University of Toledo. Thanks to the leadership of past pres-idents, Michael Bechill and Thi-hal Ponnaiyan, GSA has seen tremendous growth over the last four years.

GSA prides its self on be-ing an effective organization that facilitates the profes-sional, academic and social development of graduate students at UT.

In 2009, when Ponnaiyan and Bechill took over GSA as president and vice presi-dent, respectively, only a small group of regular members consisting of pri-marily the officers were re-sponsible for keeping the organization afloat.

Previous to their adminis-tration, the GSA struggled to convince graduate stu-dents of the added benefit of being a part of the orga-nization due to a lack of program offerings and ser-vices and as a result failed to maintain support from the UT administration.

Due to the lack of perceived impact that the GSA had on UT graduate students, the or-ganization’s budget fell from $18,859 in 2002 to $3,676 in 2011. The GSA budget was continually cut despite in-creased interest in graduate education nationwide.

The impact of graduate education on economic growth is becoming increas-ingly well known. Data pub-lished by the Bureau of La-bor statistics suggest that by the year 2020, jobs requiring graduate degrees will in-crease by 2.5 million.

To no surprise, this statistic has resulted in a 45 percent increase in the rate of gradu-ate program enrollment na-tionwide. Given the in-creased impact of graduate education on economic growth, it’s vital that universi-ties begin facilitating the de-velopment of graduate educa-tion and the students therein.

One way a university can facilitate the development of their graduate student pop-ulation is to have an effec-tive organization targeted toward graduate students, such as GSA.

Leadership of GSA under-stands the role of an effective graduate student association on the development and fu-ture success of graduate stu-dents enrolled at UT. This is why they have implemented programs such as the Mid-west Graduate Research Symposium and the Travel Reimbursement Program.

The MGRS is aimed at

developing the presentation and speaking ability of graduate students as well as encouraging collaboration with other universities

throughout the region and nation. It’s a multidisci-plinary multi-university pro-gram open to

all graduate students, and it’s been recognized for its impact on graduate educa-tion at the regional and na-tional level.

This year, 62 universities have been invited to partici-pate in the event. In addition to the MGRS, among other programs, the GSA facilitates development of graduate stu-dents by providing partial funding to support national and international travel to conferences, allowing UT graduate students the chance to present their research to a global audience.

This not only facilitates the development of the stu-dent, it also helps raise awareness of the UT brand. Raising brand awareness will play a pivotal role in al-lowing UT to continue es-tablishing itself as a pre-miere institution.

Despite the obvious impacts of these programs on graduate education at UT and sur-rounding universities, the pro-grams offered by GSA have struggled to meet the graduate student’s demands largely due to inadequate funding.

Not only was 2011’s bud-get inadequate to support the pro-grams offered by GSA, it also was in-adequate when compared to peer uni-versities. For example, in 2011 Kent State University allocated $33.24 per student through its GSA. However, with a budget of $3,676 and a graduate student popula-tion of 4,776, UT only allo-cated 77 cents per graduate student through its GSA.

Armed with this data, along with data suggesting the large amount of revenue generated from graduate students based on variables such as state subsidy, among others, GSA leadership met with several UT administra-tors in order to propose an increase in the size of the GSA budget by $154,000, an amount that would allow UT to adequately support GSA’s programs and an amount that would allow UT to be comparable to that of its peer universities.

Given the benefits of in-creasing the financial

support for the UT GSA, the Senior Administration decided to approve the re-quest from the GSA leader-ship and increased the GSA budget by $154,000.

Upon receiving an addi-tional $154,000 towards the organizational budget, GSA leadership tasked itself, among other things, with in-creasing the regional and na-tional awareness of the grad-uate programs offered at UT. The decision by UT to in-crease the size of the GSA budget has already begun to benefit the university.

Recently, the GSA made great strides towards achiev-ing their goal of showcasing UT graduate programs to a national audience. On Nov. 1, three members of the GSA leadership team traveled to Duke University to speak among other graduate stu-dent organization leaders from MIT, Cornell University, University of California Davis and the like at the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students’ 24th annual conference.

The NAPGS serves as the representative body for the more than 500,000 graduate and professional students en-rolled in institutions through the U.S. In addition to being invited to speak of its pro-grams at the national level, UT GSA was also chosen among dozens of the nation’s top universities to receive two national awards.

On Nov. 3, at a dinner ceremony held at Duke, GSA leadership accepted

the “2013 NAGPS New Mem-ber Organi-zation of the Year” award and, on be-

half of Dr. Patricia Komuni-ecki, Dean of the College of Graduate Studies, accepted the national “2013 Friend of Graduate Students” award in recognition for the posi-tive impact that GSA and Dr. Komuniecki have had on graduate education at the national level.

The GSA leadership is grateful for the support of UT’s administration and is honored to be able to con-tribute to the present and future success of UT and its graduate programs.

UT’s administration should be commended for their willingness to support GSA, a decision that will help to increase the national awareness of the superb programs offered at this great university.

Joshua Waldman is a doc-toral student studying medi-cal sciences.

COmmentary

COmmentary

Rocket pride simply must improveI’ve always been a proud

Rocket, but reading this weekend that our Rocket football team is ranked No. 23 in the AP Poll was a de-fining moment. School spirit is something that fuels me, and sometimes I look around and wish more students felt the same way I do.

We have our ups and downs in Rocket pride. An example is that the student section stands were close to empty by the fourth quarter at our home-coming game, but when we played our rival BG and at the Cincinnati game the stands were packed until the end.

I wonder what would remedy the inconsistency in our sup-port of the Rockets. I also wonder where the lack of pride in Rocket athletics stems. Even when many stu-dents attend our games the proportion compared to our school population is not comparable.

One of my theories of how school spirit could be in-creased deals with changing the culture from top down. It isn’t enough to just ask stu-dents to buy into Rocket pride when there isn’t evi-dence that those in the lead-ership of our school bleed blue and gold themselves.

I dare you to go ask your professor to sing the UT Fight

Song. Some of them may be able to, but I imagine there are far too many who can’t. No wonder I’m saddened by the lackluster performance of the

same power-ful tune at football games. If in the class-room stu-dents saw ev-

idence of the Rocket Spirit from their first day in class, I imagine there would be a different en-thusiasm for our Rockets.

We have football games dur-ing the week in order to get prime ESPN time, but what good does that do us if the stu-dent section is empty because everyone is in class? If I were a professor I would excuse my students if they were attending the game. With some sort of proof, I would offer them an excused absence. After all “Love of Rockets” is a good ex-cuse don’t you think?

Recently I visited Ohio State’s Union. This building is

made top-to-bottom of red and gray, buckeyes and O’s. The tiles are in the shape of O’s, and the chandeliers are made out of O’s, and the door handles are made out of Buck-eyes and O’s, and even the tile in the bathroom is a thousand shades of gray and red.

It almost made me feel pride for the Buckeyes. And this made me think. Why is our school not as prideful of our blue and gold, of our Rockets and UT?

When decisions are made to remodel or redecorate, why do I see mixtures of shades of red, green, yellow, blue and of all the horrible colors in the world — orange? If we surrounded ourselves with Rocket spirit, it would be bet-ter engrained in us. If our fac-ulty and staff supported Rock-et Pride and felt it themselves, it would create a foundation on which students could build.

Student Government passed a resolution asking that Rocket pride and school spirit be thought of and used in any new aesthetic projects on all cam-puses. I think this is a start, but what I really want to see is a campus environment so in-fused with passion for what we are, Rockets, that every individ-ual that steps on our campus is filled with Rocket pride as well.

Paulette Bongratz is Student Government President and an MBA student studying leadership.

COmmentary

JoshuaWaldmanIC Columnist

UT’s administration should be commended for their willingness to support GSA.

If I were a professor I would excuse my students if they were attending the game.

Stop complaining about an election if you don’t even choose to participate.

Megan GrossIC Columnist

Paulette Bongratz

SG President

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Pianist to hold master class this weekend

Mary Towse-beck will be the second guest artist featured in the fall Dorothy Mackenzie Price Piano series saturday

and sunday, Nov. 10-11 in the cPA recital Hall.

The pianist will hold a mas-ter class at 10 a.m. saturday and a recital at 3 p.m. sunday.

Towse-beck will perform selections by schubert, beethoven, liszt and rachmaninoff.

UT celebrates International Education Week

The university of Toledo center for international stud-ies and Programs will cele-brate international education Week from Nov. 12-16. events include international food tastings, lectures, musi-cal performances and a pho-tography contest.

A convocation address by scholar Janice Perlman will address urban growth in the cities of Asia, Africa and latin America. she will

speak at 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the student union building Auditorium.

For a complete schedule, go to utoledo.edu/cisp/iew.

Department of Veteran affairs to have open house

The u.s. Department of veteran Affairs Toledo com-munity based Outpatient clinic will hold an open house Nov. 9 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at its new location, 1200 south Detroit Ave. on the university of Toledo Health science campus.

The 66,000-square-foot fa-cility was built on land pur-chased from the uT Founda-tion and replaced the existing clinic located on Glendale Ave-nue that the Ann Arbor veter-ans integrated service Net-work leases from the uT.

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A painting by assistant art professor Dan Hernandez’s is currently featured in a london gallery exhibit.

Hernandez’s piece, “Wall fragment with flying

transport,” was selected for the “Bad for You” exhibit at the Shizaru Gallery in london’s Mayfair area.the exhibit

featured 68 works from the same number of artists, and included big names like An-dy Warhol and ed ruscha along with many rising stars.

He work was chosen after renowned art collector and patron Beth rudin De-Woody saw his work at his first solo show in New York city. DeWoody is the exec-utive vice president of ru-din Management and on the board of directors of the Whitney Museum of Amer-ican Art. Hernandez said she was ranked in forbes 250 top art collectors and is “kind of a big deal.”

DeWoody purchased two of Hernandez’s pieces and selected his piece to be fea-tured in her exhibit. While he offered his piece for the exhibit, Hernandez wasn’t originally planning on see-ing it in the gallery.

“financially, flying over-seas is not cheap and … london is a pretty expen-sive city,” he said.

luckily, he was ap-proached by Debra Davis, dean of the college of Visu-al and Per-forming Arts.

“She said, ‘this is real-ly a great opportunity for you, this is a good opportunity for the uni-versity, in terms of exposure. Do you think it would be beneficial for you to go to this

opening?’ i thought about it, and [said] of course.”

funds for Hernandez’s trip consisted of funds raised by the dean’s office and the art department, and some of his own start-up money which he received at the beginning of his univer-

sity tenure.

Ac-cording to Shiza-ru’s web-site, the exhibit “high-lights the unwaver-ing rela-

tionship between art and vice.” the theme was per-fect fit for Hernandez,

whose work combines clas-sic art and old school video games and cartoons.

“As an artist, [i’m] satu-rated in art history, i’m fas-cinated with early chris-tian paintings … some of these pre-re-naissance art-ists that have a very specif-ic, almost symbolic, non-realistic rendering of things, or semi-realistic; as an Ameri-can kid who grew up in the ’80s, i’m interested in video games and G.i. Joe.

“the paintings are kind of a weaving together of these two things through a

lot of different ideas. for instance, some of the ideas are more rooted in painting ideas about how pictures work, pictorial space and

what not. there are, to me anyway, parallels be-tween how some of these early christian paintings function vi-sually, how

they work mechanically, how they’re constructed, and how an early video game might be constructed in terms of space. So i try to make paintings that bridge that idea and bring in characters from both,

and sort of marry the two together in a way that they seem to be neither video game nor painting but this kind of new thing.”

His work has incorporat-ed elements of “Super Ma-rio Bros.,” “Street fighter 2” and “Space invaders.” Her-nandez said the opening was a unique experience thanks to the people he met and the gallery’s original construction.

“i’m pretty sure it was converted from a bank,” he said. “there was a big vault on one of the walls, and there was some what looked like safety deposit rooms. But the space had been fin-ished like a gallery, so de-spite the fact that it may have once been a bank, it was definitely transformed.”

He also had an interesting experience when he visited one of the local museums.

“the great thing about london is all the museums are free, so you can go and don’t have to pay for any-thing, you can stay as long as you want, and you don’t feel guilty if you just cruise through. So i was walking around the National Gallery, and i saw a bunch of these paintings that i’d never seen before in person but had bor-rowed stuff from for my paintings. So it was kind of like that weird relationship where you’re like, ‘Hey, i know you from somewhere.’”

Hernandez said the ex-perience helped him with future ideas for his work, as well as ideas for his roles as an interdisciplin-ary studies professor and the art in public places co-ordinator for the toledo Arts commission. He also has upcoming shows in New York city and the Southern ohio Museum in Portsmouth, ohio.

“i feel like [my focus is] always expanding, but it’s always building on the same idea,” he said. “each time i’m getting better at the craft, but each time i’m at a different starting point.”

PHOTO COURTESy OF DAN HERNANDEzdan hernandez’s piece, “Wall Fragment with Flying Transport,” is currently featured in the exhibit “Bad For you” at the shizaru Gallery in London. hernandez said his work combines his passions for classical, pre-renaissance art and ’80s video games and television shows.

BOB TAyLOR / ICCast members from “The Medium” rehearse the seance scene from the show. uT Opera’s “Murder, Mayhem and The Medium” will showcase a selection of opera classics and Menotti’s “The Medium” in it’s entirety. This will be uT first opera performance in 20 years.

channeling the spirits of opera

hernandez

If you goWhat: Students will

perform Gian Carlo Menotti’s modern opera “The Medium,” along with selec-tions from “Sweeney Todd,” “Hansel and Gretel” and “Dido and Aenaes.”

Where: The performances will be held in the Center for Performing Arts in the Studio Theatre.

When: Perfor-mances are sched-uled for Friday, Nov. 9, and Saturday, Nov. 10. Shows began at 7:30 p.m. and run for 90 minutes.

Cost: Attendance is free; a donation of $10 is requested but not required. Seats can be reserved by contacting the UT Department of Music at 419-530-2448.

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More onlineFor more info about the

artist and his work, visit danhernandez.org.

For more info about the “Bad For you” exhibit at the Shizaru Gallery in Lon-don, visit shizaru.com.

‘London calling’Ut art professor featured in ‘Bad for You’ gallery exhibit across the pond

“For me, there are parallels between some early Christian paintings and video games.”

dan hernandezAssistant Professor of Art

More onlineFor a full preview

of the performance, check The IC’s web-site on Thursday.

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PHOTO COURTESy NBC-UNIVERSALThe Blacksmith (rza) prepares for a final showdown with the gangs attacking his vil-lage over a large shipment of gold. rza also directed, wrote and scored the movie.

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By John GoodspeedStaff Movie Critic

this movie was pretty awesome. Although it had the feel of a foreign film all the elements of a classic kung fu movie, the actors all spoke per-fect english with no ac-cent. there were also no subtitles, which was convenient – some for-eign films have amazing stories but are restricted by the subtitles.

the story takes place in 19th century china. the Blacksmith, played music producer and the director of rZA, is forced to create elabo-rate weapons to defend his small village against a band of warriors and assassins.

Although many of the actors, besides lucy lui and russell crowe, aren’t too popular, the cast was quite talented. the nice part about

casting these types of ac-tors is that at no time did i have that moment of “i’m not watching ethan Hunt, i’m watching tom cruise play ethan Hunt.” each actor did a phe-nomenal job of really be-coming the characters. Surprisingly, Bautista was not too bad, though may-be not on par with some of the other characters.

russell crowe especial-ly was fantastic in this movie, doing an amazing job at portraying his mul-tidimensional character. in a technical sense, he was the comic relief, which is something you don’t normally get from him, but he wears it well. He could easily be the crowd favorite.

the distinction be-tween the characters had a legendary feel to it. each guy represented sil-ver, gold, brass and iron,

and their strengths corre-lated with how strong the metals are.

the actual cinematog-raphy was really cool, and you could definitely tell it had tarantino touches to it.

overall it was a good movie. i’m a sucker for kung fu movies and this was definitely a good one. it wasn’t the greatest kung fu movie of all time, but i would proba-bly put it up there in my list. the acting was great, the production was good and the story kept my interest.

overall i give this a “Go on $5 tuesday” rat-ing. i would give it a “Go rent the DVD when it comes out” rating, but you really should see all of the graphic and gory fight scenes the way they were intended – on a gi-gantic screen.

‘Man with the Iron Fists’ connects with strong visuals, characters

eberly center celebrates Wonder Womanthrough the ages

By Nate PentecostManaging Editor

NCAA sanctions have tak-en the possibility of postsea-son play off the table for the UT men’s basketball team, but the Rockets have every intention of making a run for Mid-American Conference regular season title.

Toledo registered the sec-ond-largest turnaround in Di-vision I basketball last year with a 19-17 record, advanc-ing to the postseason for the first time in five campaigns. Improving upon that record, however, has been made more difficult by the NCAA penalty structure for the program’s low Academic Progress Rate under former head coaches Gene Cross and Stan Joplin.

The team is to play eight of its first nine games on the road, including contests at Minnesota, Cleveland State and Detroit.

“It’s going to be a big chal-lenge,” said UT junior for-ward Rian Pearson, a second team All-MAC selection in 2011-12. “We’re going to have to channel our energy and just try to get as many wins as we can before we come back home.”

The extended road trip begins Friday against a fa-miliar foe, Loyola

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Rockets ranked for first time since 2001

The Toledo Rockets football team cracked the Top 25 in all three polls Sunday.

UT came in at No. 23 in the AP Poll, No. 25 in the Coaches and No. 25 in the BCS. This is the first time in school history Tole-do has landed a spot in the BCS standings since its inception in 1998.

Toledo women cruise to exhibi-tion victory

Senior guard Naama Shafir made a triumphant return from injury to lead the Rockets to a 73-47 drubbing of Wayne State in UT’s final tune-up be-fore the regular season.

She poured in a game-high 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting and added nine assists and three steals in her first 29 minutes of game action since tearing her right ACL Nov. 25, 2011 at Indiana.

Junior Janelle Reed-Lewis also scored 19 and was 3-for-6 from downtown.

After a close first five minutes, Shafir gave Tole-do a 9-7 lead with 14:38 to play and they would stay in front for the rest of the afternoon. The Rock-ets led 33-17 at the break and did not trail by less than 15 points throughout the second half.

Senior center Yolanda Richardson and freshman guard Kendyl Nunn were held out due to injuries.

UT opens the season Friday night at Savage Arena when they take on the Arkansas State Red Wolves at 7 p.m.

Shafir nominat-ed for Senior CLASS Award

Naama Shafir was named a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award for the second year in a row last Thursday.

She is one of just 30 NCAA women’s basket-ball players up for the award. Players must have senior status and make an impact in competition, in the classroom and in the community and pos-sess great character.

The MAC Player of the Year candidate is a three-time All-conference selec-tion and is averaging 13.7 points per game for her career.

Shafir is fourth in UT history in assists (569) and tenth in points (1,452), steals (168) and minutes played (3,210)

She carries a 3.58 GPA and has been on the Dean’s List five times. The native of Israel is an active member in many charities, including Race for the Cure, Habitat for Humanity and Wendy’s Little Dribblers.

The winner will be an-nounced in April during the Women’s Final Four in New Orleans, La.

Gaitan receives postseason recognition

Soccer standout Natalia Gaitan was named to the All-MAC’s second team last Thursday.

The senior defender represented her native Co-lombia in the Olympics this past summer and played every minute for the Rock-ets this season. She scored four goals in addi-tion to her defense.

Gaitan was also named a first team member of the Capital One Academic All-District 5 Team. She holds a 3.93 cumulative GPA in business and found herself on the Dean’s List in each of the last six semesters.

She is the second Rocket to receive the hon-or, joining former team-mate Kristen Lynn who was a member of last year’s team.

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BOB TAYLOR / ICJunior running back David fluellen follows the block of junior center Zac Kerin Tuesday night at the Glass Bowl. fluellen ran for 200 yards in Toledo’s 34-27 losing effort against Ball State.

Toledo men ready to begin the season Friday, face unusual circumstances

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University Chicago. Toledo hosted the Ramblers last Dec., suffering a narrow 57-55 defeat.

“I was disappointed with how we played in that game,” said UT head coach Todd Kowalczyk. “But they’re going

to be improved and we’re go-ing to be improved so it will be a good test for us.”

In the teams’ most recent meeting, 6-foot-8 senior for-ward Ben Avercamp racked up 31 points on 50 percent (13-of-26) shooting against

the Rockets. He was, however, the only LUC player to tally double figures in the scoring column. Sophomore forward Christian Thomas added 9 points and grabbed a game-high 13 boards for the Loyola.

“Averkamp certainly had a

vINCENT D. SCEBBI / ICSophomore point guard Juice Brown drives on a Robert morris defender during the first round of last year’s College Invitational Tournament at Savage Arena. The 2011-12 mAC freshman of the Year will be a key component to UT’s success this season.

great game against us,” Kow-alczyk said. “We’ll have to do a better job of defending him and making it more personal.”

The Ramblers out-rebounded Toledo 21-15 last season, including 6-1 on the offensive glass, resulting in an 11-3 differential in sec-ond chance points.

At 6-foot-9, 250 pounds, freshman center Nathan Boothe should give Toledo a more physical presence in the post and potentially decrease the rebound disparity. Boothe — who is also a force on the offensive end — recorded a team-high 15 points in last week’s 75-52 exhibition win against Northwestern ohio.

“Nathan is a guy we feel is a very talented freshman,” Kowalczyk said. “He’s our starting center from day one and he has a chance to be a special player here.”

Junior center Richard Won-nell will move to the bench to make room for Boothe, who will join the other four re-turning starters, including Pearson (league-high 16.4 points and team-high 8.3 re-bounds per game) and reign-ing MAC Freshman of the Year Juice Brown.

No. 25 Toledo falls flat against Ball State; MAC title still possibleBy Jay SkebbaSports Editor

Well, it was nice while it lasted.

The Toledo Rockets entered the Top 25 in the BCS, Coach-es and AP polls this week, but didn’t resemble the team that got them there Tuesday night at the Glass Bowl.

UT committed 10 penal-ties — three of them per-sonal fouls — for 111 yards and junior running back David Fluellen had a costly fumble deep into Ball State territory helped spell the end of their eight-game winning streak and spot in the national rankings.

“Ball State made the more disciplined plays through-out the football game,” said UT head coach Matt Camp-bell. “We played behind much of the game tonight and we did some things that have been uncharacteristic of us this season.”

Perhaps the most pivotal moment came with six min-utes to go in the fourth quarter.

With the score tied at 27, Toledo faced a 4th-and-2 from the BSU 14. Instead of allowing sophomore Jeremiah Detmer to attempt a chip shot to give the Rockets the lead, Campbell elected to go for it.

Fluellen took the handoff and was promptly stuffed by a host of Cardinal de-fenders, giving the ball

back to Ball State.“I really felt like we were

in a groove,” Campbell said. “We just converted on the 4th-and-1 earlier in the quarter and I thought we had a pretty good read on what they were going to do. Unfortunately, we didn’t exe-cute it and they stopped us. That’s on me.”

After taking over on downs, BSU marched down

the field and grinded away at the clock with an 11-play, 86-yard drive capped off by Jahwan Edwards’ 15-yard run around the left side for a back-breaking score. With under two minutes to play and no timeouts, UT had no choice but to let him have it.

“We brought all the pres-sure, pinched everybody and felt if they run the football outside, we’d let them score

and see if we can give our-selves a chance to go win the game,” Campbell said.

The Rockets had one last shot to find the end zone and force overtime, but ju-nior Terrance owens failed to connect on third and fourth down.

Cardinal quarterback Keith Wenning completed 29-of-42 passes for 280 yards and three touchdowns to shred a

Toledo defense that was without the services of senior safety Mark Singer.

one of the biggest leaders on the defense, Singer tweaked his knee in prac-tice and was forced to sit out. Campbell expects him to be ready for next week’s showdown at Northern Illinois.

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Cullop and company ready to make title run

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By Jay SkebbaSports Editor

The Toledo women are just two days away from their regular season tip-off and face lofty expecta-tions, something that has become an annual occur-rence for Tricia Cullop and the Rockets.

UT was tabbed to win the Mid-American Conference’s West division for the fourth consecutive season by the media and coaches and re-turn four starters from last year’s team that finished 24-10. They captured a share of their third straight division title going 13-3 in the league.

Cullop called the pre-season pick a compliment, but knows the road ahead can be tough to navigate.

“Last year, we were re-minded after our first game of MAC play just how much it means to be picked pre-season number one,” she said. “We went out to West-ern Michigan and lost the first game. We really were fighting tooth and nail the rest of the way. our players understand that it doesn’t mean a whole lot.”

The road to a MAC title could be a bit easier this time around with the return of se-nior guard Naama Shafir. The conference Player of the Year candidate tore her right ACL last November against Indiana and missed the re-mainder of the season.

The native of Israel decid-ed to take a medical redshirt and return for a fifth year.

Cullop thinks she could be an even better player after watching from the sidelines.

“She looks great,” Cullop said. “Sometimes when you take a year off, you sit and you watch, and you learn so much by not playing. [It’s] little things that you maybe can’t see when you’re on the court. She has much more court awareness now.”

Shafir played a key role in Toledo’s run to a WNIT championship in 2010-11, averaging a team-high 15.3 points for the season in-cluding 19.5 in the tourna-ment. She dropped 40 on USC in the championship game and was named the tournament MVP.

Junior guard Andola Dortch — who has suffered through serious knee inju-ries of her own — was forced to step up in Shafir’s absence last year and han-dled the task well. She led the team with 13.6 ppg and 4.8 apg and was the first player in school history to win MAC Defensive Player of the Year honors.

The return of Shafir should complement Dortch’s game and create the best backcourt in the conference.

“She takes some of the ball-handling pressure off of Andola,” Cullop said. “It al-so takes some of the pres-sure [off of us] when some-one is really up pressuring us to have another kid who can handle the ball, shoot the ball and pass the ball well. Those two work really well together and for Ando-la, it was tough for her to play aggressively last year because she couldn’t afford to be in foul trouble. “

Junior Janelle Reed-Lewis has had an impressive pre-season and could be an x-factor for the Rockets. She appeared in 28 games off the bench last year but averaged just two minutes per game.

She will likely be counted on to help fill the void left by Courtney Ingersoll, the lone starter from last year’s team who graduated.

Reed-Lewis scored 19 points in UT’s exhibition victory Sunday and made three three-pointers.

“obviously, it would be great if she could take some of the scoring load off of some of our other players,” Cullop said. “She’s explosive getting to the basket, she’s got a quick first step and she has really improved her three-point shooting from a year ago. I’m really excited to see what she’s capable of doing this year.”

With plenty of scoring and leadership left over from last year’s team, the goal for this year’s seems quite clear.

Cullop has done an ex-traordinary job in her first four years at Toledo, posting a 96-40 mark and a domi-nant 50-14 record in MAC play. In addition to the

WNIT title, she’s captured three MAC West titles and a regular season conference championship.

The only thing left to do is win the MAC Tourna-ment and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

“I joked with our players that by the fifth try we should have this thing down,” she said.

Cullop scheduled her team to play in four pre-season tournaments — two of which will be played in Toledo — in an effort to better prepare them for postseason play.

“We scheduled them with that intention,” Cullop said. “We definitely want to get used to tournament-style play because that’s been something where we need to get the monkey off our back. It’s hard to prepare for those unless you do them.”

These tournaments also of-fer another way to schedule home games. With UT’s home success under Cullop (57-8, .877 winning percent-age), many teams are reluc-tant to come to Savage Arena.

In the Glass City Tourna-ment and Toledo Invite, op-posing teams will have the chance to play away from Savage against other teams before coming to Toledo.

“We had to get creative in how we scheduled home games because being 28th in the country in attendance and having the home court winning percentage that we do, it was very difficult to find people who were will-ing to come in here and play,” Cullop said. “These tournaments provided an opportunity for opposing teams to have a neutral game in addition to playing us. Anything we can do to play in front of our home court, our fans have just been outstanding.”

Toledo will also partici-pate in the John Ascuaga Nugget Classic in Reno, Nev. (Nov. 23-24) and the Georgia State Holliday Tournament in Atlanta, Ga. (Dec. 29-30.).

UT begins their season Friday night at 7 against Ar-kansas State at Savage Arena.

The Cardinals offense came out firing on all cylin-ders as junior Keith Wen-ning picked apart the UT secondary, completing 7-of-8 on the game’s opening drive. He found junior wideout Jamil Smith on a seven-yard out route to give BSU an early lead.

The Rockets stalled at the BSU 45 on their first posses-sion and watched Wenning march right down the field for a second time. He com-pleted all five of his passes to run his streak to 12 straight completions, including a 25-yarder to junior Connor Ryan to put the ranked Rock-ets in an early 14-0 hole.

The Rockets got on the board with 1:30 to play in

the first when Terrance ow-ens sold a play fake to Cas-sius McDowell allowing Bernard Reedy to get be-hind the entire defense for a 25-yard touchdown to cut the lead in half.

After forcing a three-and-out and finally knocking the Cardinals out of their rhythm, the Rockets went back to work.

David Fluellen found the end zone from 13 yards out, but Reedy’s illegal block in the back forced the Rockets to settle for a 29-yard field goal from Jeremiah Detmer to make it 14-10. Fluellen had another scoring run called back in the first quarter.

“our guys were playing hard and mistakes will hap-pen,” Fluellen said. “We all make mistakes and it’s not anyone’s fault because of

penalties. We have to move on and learn from it.”

The Rockets took their first and only lead of the night on a 16-yard run by Fluellen on a pivotal 4th-and-1 play to start the fourth quarter.

Junior receiver Bernard Reedy went in motion, ow-ens faked the handoff to him and gave it to Fluellen who scampered untouched up the middle for the go-ahead score, making it 27-24.

Ball State would outscore UT 10-0 the rest of the way to seal the deal.

Fluellen ran the ball 30 times for 200 yards, his third game reaching 200 and sixth consective game in triple digits.

UT will face NIU next week in a must-win game to reach the MAC Championship. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p.m. CST Wednesday in Dekalb, Ill.

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Soccer team falls short, ends tumultuous season

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By Nick DelwicheSports Reporter

No. 6 seed Toledo fell to No. 2 seed Central Michigan 1-0 on Friday, ending their short run in the MAC tournament.

Toledo had previously beaten Eastern Michigan in a shootout to advance to the semifinals in oxford, oH.

CMU (15-5-1) now moves on to the finals to battle top seed Miami (oH).

“We had to get better dur-ing the regular season and we kept talking about it and talking about it,” said UT head coach Brad Evans. “I know it’s a cliché but I think we improved during the course of the season.”

This season saw the Rock-ets facing adversity through tough losses and injuries. Even though the loss is dis-appointing, Coach Evans is proud of his team.

“I’m really proud of the re-siliency of this team,” he said. “There were a lot of tough things but our players and coaches held together. This gives us positive momentum for this team and hopefully for our team next year.”

The Chippewas Autumn Hawkins scored the only goal of the contest, her fourth of

the year, in the 28th minute to foil the Rockets (7-12-2) chance to defend their MAC Tournament title.

Toledo had the wind at their backs in the second half and held a 5-1 edge in shots. Unfortunately the Rockets could not manage to tie the game as they suffered only their second league tourna-ment loss under head coach

Brad Evans (12-2-5).“We had our opportuni-

ties,” Evans said. “We didn’t finish and they did. I thought it was a good game and con-gratulations to Central.”

Toledo had a prime oppor-tunity to score with 29 min-utes left in regulation when UT caught the Chippewas too

far up the field and took two shots with the hopes of tying the game. Junior forward Rachel MacLeod took the first shot from about 12 yards out, but bounced it off the cross-bar. Freshman Megan Connor found the loose ball and fired a shot from about eight yards out but a CMU defender redirected her shot with a header.

With less than one min-ute remaining in the match freshman Angelica Hernandez received a cross from senior Rachael Kravitz in the middle of the Chippewas goal box but sailed her shot over the net, ending UT’s hopes at overtime.

The Rockets finished with a 6-5 edge in shots, and broke even with CMU on corner kicks (1-1). To-ledo also had 15 fouls to Central Michigan’s nine.

CMU’s Stefanie Turner was credited with three stops to shut out the Rockets, her ninth clean sheet of the season. Sam Tiongson went the dis-tance for the Rockets, recording three saves but surrendering the lone goal to Hawkins.

The defeat closes the book on the careers of UT’s six seniors (Megan Blake, Rachael Kravitz, Kristen Mattei, Jaimie Morsillo, Blair Sorg, Dani-elle Leblang and Natalia Gaitan). The group won a combined 47 matches over the last four seasons and was part of four consecu-tive MAC Tournament ap-pearances, two conference regular-season titles (2010, 2011) and one league tourney crown (2011).

“I’m sorry to see our se-niors go,” Evans said. “I thought they gave a good accounting of themselves when it mattered most.”

“There were a lot of tough things but our players and coaches held to-gether. This gives us positive mo-mentum for this team and hopeful-ly for our team next year.”

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He was second on the team last season with 11.9 ppg and fourth in MAC with nearly five assists per contest.

“I try to do everything my teammates need me to do and get to the rim and start inside out,” Pearson explained.

Absent from the Rockets roster will be an important factor in last year’s turn-around, forward Curtis Den-nis. The All-MAC Honor-able Mention awardee aver-aged 13 points off the bench for Toledo but transferred to Iona in the offseason in light of UT’s postseason ban.

“[We will replace Dennis] by committee,” Kowalczyk said. “Matt Smith and Reese

Holliday are both capable of scoring off the bench for us and A.J. Matthews and Josh Lemons are guys who can step up and give us minutes as well. When you lose 13 points a game I don’t know that there’s one guy who can take those 13 but I expect Juice to score more, Dominque [Buckley] to score more as well and we’ll certainly have more scoring out of our cen-terpiece in Boothe.”

Averkamp will anchor the Loyola attack, boasting team-highs in points (15.4 ) and rebounds (7.1) in 2011. His supporting cast, howev-er, will be of a considerably different makeup this time around.

The Ramblers, who ranked 329th in the country with 62.7 possessions per game and 243rd with 14.4

turnovers per game last year, feature two new point guards — Iowa transfer Cul-ly Payne and heralded fresh-man Jeff White. Five other newcomers have also been added to the LUC squad, giving the Rockets an edge in experience.

As with all UT’s oppo-nents, however, Loyola will have more time to prepare for the matchup as NCAA restrictions have reduced Toledo’s practice time 20 weekly hours over six days a week to 16 hours in five days.

“We’re going to be as pre-pared as Loyola is, we’re go-ing to play harder than Loyola is and we’re going to move on,” Kowalczyk said.

Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. Friday at Gentile Arena in Chicago.

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