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In brief Diabetes Awareness meeting set Students for Diabetes Awareness Kick-Off Meeting will take place Monday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. in room 3018 of the Student Union. The event is an opportunity for Students for Diabetes Awareness to promote healthy lifestyle choices, give students access to educational information about diabetes and provide support for those dealing with type I and type II diabetes.
Correction In last week’s special section UT 101, the name Daniel Giffin was misspelled in the “Embracing Diversity” article. We apologize to Mr. Giffin for the error.
Provost nominee: Liberal arts won’t be abandoned By Danielle Gamble News Editor
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Michael Gammo, a junior biology major and Alyssa Brown, a senior majoring in new media, remove string from the sculpture which is part of the Raoul Wallenberg exhibit in the hallway outside of Carlson Library. Brown said every nail signifies 10 people Wallenberg saved during the Holocaust. There are 10,000 nails part of the artwork.
Holocaust hero Wallenberg honored by UT students By Danielle Gamble News Editor
Michael Gammo believes the U.S. has become a country of bystanders. “We see problems and we hear what is going on in the world, but you don’t see anyone jumping on a plane to try and help solve them,” the junior majoring in biology said. “These are ideals we should aspire to, not as students, but as human beings.” Gammo believes Raoul Wallenberg embodies these ideals.
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who used his skills as a document forger to save about 100,000 people during the Holocaust. “I’d heard about Oskar Schindler and ‘Schindler’s List,’ but I’d never heard of Wallenberg, so I was really surprised by the amount of amazing stuff the guy did,” Gammo said. “He just went above and beyond what you would expect a normal person to do.” To celebrate the life of Wallenberg, Gammo and
Alyssa Brown created a gallery of about 14 panels of information about Wallenberg, complete with a sculpture by Brown. At the site, a reception for this year’s Raoul Wallenberg Award scholarship recipient Carolina Wishner, a master’s student in public health, will take place Wednesday at noon. S. Amjad Hussain, professor emeritus of surgery in the UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences, will also be honored for his lifetime of teaching and research.
The display will stay up for about two months in the hallway outside of Carlson Library. Gammo said he was approached by Tom Barden, Dean of the Honors College, about assisting with the display. “It started back in May, doing the initial research, and then it kind of continued into reading a couple biographies and finding out about his life story and how we wanted to portray it,” Gammo said. See Wallenberg / 4
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Student Government: Chick-Fil-A unwelcome By IC Staff
Chick-fil-A is no longer welcome on campus, according to a resolution passed last night by Student Senate in the first meeting of the year. The legislation, sponsored by SPECTRUM UT,
stated Student Government would oppose a Chick-fil-A on campus because the business “promotes inequality and ignorance of diversity.” Last semester, administrators from Auxiliary Services spoke at a Senate meeting and proposed
adding a Chick-fil-A in the Student Union Food Court. Senator Mattew Ellis, author of the legislation, said the resolution was drafted as a response to the food chain’s support of famously anti-LGBT organizations, like the National Organization for Marriage.
Ellis, a member of the LGBT Advisory Board, said he wrote the bill because it is “what the students want.” “I didn’t go around interviewing people – I was just going off how I thought,” Ellis said. The resolution was passed with no debate.
Main Campus Provost nominee Scott Scarborough said he wants every student to have a “wow experience” on campus, including those with majors in humanities fields. Scarborough was nominated for the post by UT President Lloyd Jacobs, who some professors and students see as shortchanging the liberal arts. Communication professor Paulette Kilmer said she was disturbed by the lack of liberal arts background from all four finalists for provost, including Scarborough. She said retiring provost Bill MacMillan, who has a PhD in creative writing, was a “voice and presence for the liberal arts.” “It is really a concern of mine that we are headed too far in the direction of science and technology,” Kilmer said. “What we should be doing is celebrating our strengths in liberal arts and developing both areas equally.” While Scarborough is a proponent of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, he said he wants to stress balancing both disciplines. He said he learned his appreciation for humanities from his mother, an English teacher. “The foundation of any good person is humanities,” Scarborough said. “It may be the basis of their character or, as it is in many cases, it may be their destination. I want to follow the critical rules of supplying the foundation for some students and the entire curriculum for others.” Scarborough, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the University of Toledo Medical Center, said he likens student centeredness to patient satisfaction. “You want people to be happy with the care they receive, and we can do that on Main Campus by finding out what the students really need,” Scarborough said. Scarborough said beginning on his first day, after the Sept. 17 Board of Trustees meeting, he plans to work with the idea of “making the mundane memorable.” See Liberal Arts / 4