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Serving the University of Toledo community since 1919 95th year • Issue 23 www.IndependentCollegian.com INSIDE Law Center gas leak solved free of charge Students were evacuated from UT’s Law Center Feb. 12 after au- thorities discovered a gas leak. NEWS / 3 » Black Student Union presents annual FASHION SHOW Wednesday, February 18, 2014 COMMUNITY / 7 » UNIVERSITY FACILITIES REPAIRS IN PROGRESS Repairs continue on East and West parking ramps Damage to UT’s buildings still being assessed “ “In the end, it’s basically the same work load that your regular classes dump on you — the differ- ence usually ends up being that you get asked to do more thought-provoking work about things you actually enjoy learning.” DANIELLE GAMBLE Editor-in-Chief “College appealed to me because it provided avenues of learning outside of the classroom — avenues that I would find very difficult to explore if I was stuck in the classroom in order to jump through more hoops than necessary.” SAMUEL DERKIN News Editor Should students care about the honors college? OPINION / 4 » SPORTS / 5 » Zach Garber and Jonathan Williams make a mark on Rocket basketball Honors college changes raise excitement, concern STUDENT RECRUITMENT By Amanda Pitrof Associate News Editor Making students more aware of their op- tions and expanding recruitment are among the changes being made in the Jesup Scott Honors College. “What concerns me is that we’re attracting these bigger numbers of well-prepared, aca- demic, band-one students, and yet a very large percentage … are choosing not to be a part of the honors program even though they are eligible to be a part,” Provost Scott Scarborough said at the Feb. 11 Faculty Senate meeting. What is worse, according to Scarborough, is that half of those who do choose to take part in the honors program drop out before they get to the end. “So what it says to me … there’s something wrong about the program,” Scarborough said. “How do you alter the honors college experi- ence so that 100 percent of these students who are capable and willing and able to benefit from experience like this would choose to be a part of this experience?” Only 40 percent of students who start out as honors students end up graduating with honors, according to Lakeesha Ransom, dean of the honors college. Based on conversa- tions she has had with students, she feels this is partly because many students don’t realize they have options other than writing a thesis. “When they got to the thesis, they didn’t necessarily see how it related to what they wanted to do long-term, and it seemed like it was incongruent with their longer-term vision for what they’d like to do,” Ransom said in a recent interview. While there has always been the option to write a thesis or to conduct a project, she thinks that “what most students have inter- preted is ‘You have to write a thesis.’” To remedy this, Ransom said, the honors college is trying to make students more aware of the types of projects they can do instead of writing a thesis. e projects are tailored to the students’ individual needs while maintaining the stan- dards of the honors college. Some examples Ransom gave of what students may do for their projects are: • Engaging in core research, which usually leads to students publishing an article about their findings. • Studying in another country and writing a report about research they conducted there. • Starting an entrepreneurial venture. • Putting together a gallery exhibition of their work. In addition to creating and paying attention to new pathways for honors students, See Honors college / 3 » “I think we’ll really be able to see the impact this fall when we start analyzing the numbers...” DEAN LAKEESHA RANSOM By Samantha Rhodes Features Editor e University of Toledo has filed two claims so far aſter 24 buildings on the University of Toledo’s Main Campus and Health Science Cam- pus suffered water damage when pipes burst in January. Repairs are expected to be completed by the end of March. Chris Levicki, manager of structural maintenance, said the total costs and coverage for all damages have not been deter- mined at this time, but that UT’s Office of Risk Management said UT is responsible for the first $100,000 worth of cost per claim because of their deductible. e deductible refers to the amount the policy holder has to pay before the insurance com- pany begins covering costs. Levicki went on to say that many of the buildings sustained damage to the interior finishes (walls, flooring and ceilings) as well as office equipment. “ere are a number of office type equipment such as comput- ers and printers that were dam- aged,” Levicki said. e labs in Sullivan Hall are still closed for repairs. ough many of the damages are already repaired, Levicki said the “worse cases” are still in progress. “e damage in Scott Hall, Tucker Hall, Bowman-Oddy, Sul- livan Hall and Wolfe Hall was sub- stantial,” Levicki said. “Only classes in Bowman-Oddy and Sullivan Hall were affected though. Some of the labs had to be held at other locations within the building.” According to Associate Vice President of Facilities and Con- struction Jason Toth, the extreme cold temperatures and wind chill caused a number of situations resulting in frozen pipes and equip- ment on campus such as fire sup- pression lines and plumbing lines. NICOLE GREEN / IC The East parking garage, located by McMaster Hall, has been under construction since emergency repair work began in September. Acording to Dan Klett, university architect, the university committed $900,000 to associated repair costs. COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO After a pipe burst at Sullivan Hall on Jan. 30, areas of the building suffered water damage. Final repairs are expected to be completed by the end of March. See Sullivan pipes / 3 » By Samantha Rhodes Features Editor After discovering the need for emergency repairs in both the East and West Ramp parking garages in September, the University of Toledo has completed portions of repairs, but is still working to finalize construction. According to Dan Klett, university architect, UT has worked on portions of both the East and West Ramp parking garages beginning on Sept. 20, 2013, when contractors conduct- ing inspections as part of sched- uled maintenance discovered the need for emergency repairs. Temporary emergency mea- sures were implemented im- mediately and resulted in partial closures for the remainder of the fall 2013 semester. Phil Whaley, a structural engi- neer at Poggemeyer Design Group and a regional expert in the repair of concrete structures, coordinated the repair work on the East Ramp, according to UT News. e West Parking Ramp and the lower three levels of the East Parking Ramp opened Jan. 6 while the top level remained closed for needed repairs. See Parking repairs / 3 »
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Serving the University of Toledo community since 1919
95th year • Issue 23
www.IndependentCollegian.com
INSIDE
Law Center gas leak solved free of charge
Students were evacuated from UT’s Law Center Feb. 12 after au-thorities discovered a gas leak.
NEWS / 3 »
Refer Head Xxxyyxy xxy yxx
YYYYY / X »
Black Student Union
presents annual
FASHION SHOW
Wednesday, February 18, 2014
COMMUNITY / 7 »
UNIVERSITY FACILITIES
REPAIRS IN PROGRESSRepairscontinue on East and West parking ramps
Damage to UT’s buildings still being assessed
““In the end, it’s basically the same work load that your regular classes dump on you — the differ-ence usually ends up being that you get asked to do more thought-provoking work about things you actually enjoy learning.”
DANIELLE GAMBLEEditor-in-Chief
“College appealed to me because it provided avenues of learning outside of the classroom — avenues that I would find very difficult to explore if I was stuck in the classroom in order to jump through more hoops than necessary.”
SAMUEL DERKINNews Editor
Should students care about the
honors college? OPINION / 4 »
SPORTS / 5 »
Zach Garber and Jonathan Williams make a mark on Rocket basketball
Honors college changes raise excitement, concern
STUDENT RECRUITMENT
By Amanda PitrofAssociate News Editor
Making students more aware of their op-tions and expanding recruitment are among the changes being made in the Jesup Scott Honors College.
“What concerns me is that we’re attracting these bigger numbers of well-prepared, aca-demic, band-one students, and yet a very large percentage … are choosing not to be a part of the honors program even though they are eligible to be a part,” Provost Scott Scarborough said at the Feb. 11 Faculty Senate meeting.
What is worse, according to Scarborough, is that half of those who do choose to take part in the honors program drop out before they get to the end.
“So what it says to me … there’s something wrong about the program,” Scarborough said. “How do you alter the honors college experi-ence so that 100 percent of these students who are capable and willing and able to benefit
from experience like this would choose to be a part of this experience?”
Only 40 percent of students who start out as honors students end up graduating with honors, according to Lakeesha Ransom, dean of the honors college. Based on conversa-tions she has had with students, she feels this is partly because many students don’t realize they have options other than writing a thesis.
“When they got to the thesis, they didn’t necessarily see how it related to what they wanted to do long-term, and it seemed like it was incongruent with their longer-term vision for what they’d like to do,” Ransom said in a recent interview.
While there has always been the option to write a thesis or to conduct a project, she thinks that “what most students have inter-preted is ‘You have to write a thesis.’”
To remedy this, Ransom said, the honors college is trying to make students more aware of the types of projects they can do instead of writing a thesis.
The projects are tailored to the students’ individual needs while maintaining the stan-dards of the honors college. Some examples Ransom gave of what students may do for their projects are:
• Engaging in core research, which usually leads to students publishing an article about their findings.
• Studying in another country and writing a report about research they conducted there.
• Starting an entrepreneurial venture.• Putting together a gallery exhibition of
their work.In addition to creating and paying attention
to new pathways for honors students,
See Honors college / 3 »
“I think we’ll really be able to see the impact this fall when we start analyzing the numbers...”
DEAN LAKEESHA RANSOM
By Samantha RhodesFeatures Editor
The University of Toledo has filed two claims so far after 24 buildings on the University of Toledo’s Main Campus and Health Science Cam-pus suffered water damage when pipes burst in January.
Repairs are expected to be completed by the end of March.
Chris Levicki, manager of structural maintenance, said the total costs and coverage for all damages have not been deter-mined at this time, but that UT’s Office of Risk Management said UT is responsible for the first $100,000 worth of cost per claim because of their deductible.
The deductible refers to the amount the policy holder has to pay before the insurance com-pany begins covering costs.
Levicki went on to say that many of the buildings sustained damage to the interior finishes (walls, flooring and ceilings) as well as office equipment.
“There are a number of office type equipment such as comput-ers and printers that were dam-aged,” Levicki said.
The labs in Sullivan Hall are still closed for repairs.
Though many of the damages are already repaired, Levicki said the “worse cases” are still in progress.
“The damage in Scott Hall, Tucker Hall, Bowman-Oddy, Sul-livan Hall and Wolfe Hall was sub-stantial,” Levicki said. “Only classes in Bowman-Oddy and Sullivan Hall were affected though. Some of the labs had to be held at other locations within the building.”
According to Associate Vice
President of Facilities and Con-struction Jason Toth, the extreme cold temperatures and wind chill caused a number of situations resulting in frozen pipes and equip-ment on campus such as fire sup-pression lines and plumbing lines.
NICOLE GREEN / ICThe East parking garage, located by McMaster Hall, has been under construction since emergency repair work began in September. Acording to Dan Klett, university architect, the university committed $900,000 to associated repair costs.
COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDOAfter a pipe burst at Sullivan Hall on Jan. 30, areas of the building suffered water damage. Final repairs are expected to be completed by the end of March.
See Sullivan pipes / 3 »
By Samantha RhodesFeatures Editor
After discovering the need for emergency repairs in both the East and West Ramp parking garages in September, the University of Toledo has completed portions of repairs, but is still working to finalize construction.
According to Dan Klett, university architect, UT has worked on portions of both the East and West Ramp parking garages beginning on Sept. 20, 2013, when contractors conduct-ing inspections as part of sched-uled maintenance discovered the need for emergency repairs.
Temporary emergency mea-sures were implemented im-mediately and resulted in partial closures for the remainder of the fall 2013 semester.
Phil Whaley, a structural engi-neer at Poggemeyer Design Group and a regional expert in the repair of concrete structures, coordinated the repair work on the East Ramp, according to UT News.
The West Parking Ramp and the lower three levels of the East Parking Ramp opened Jan. 6 while the top level remained closed for needed repairs.
See Parking repairs / 3 »
