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Students will have the opportunity this semester to rate their campus dining experience through a new initiative hosted by Student Government. The Secret Shopper program, a student-driven initiative aimed at getting ideas for improving dining services, will be open to all students who wish to voice an opinion about dining on campus.
“Any student that uses a dining hall can take the survey and rate the quality of the food and if they liked anything else,” said SG Dining Liaison Elizabeth Greer. A link to the survey will be available online through the Auxiliary Services page later this semester. SG President Paulette Bongratz said the survey will evaluate things like food, service and cleanliness, as well as
polling student suggestions. In addition to rating dining hall experiences, students will also be able to comment on the selections and service of Provisions on Demand, also known as PODs. Data from the surveys will be collected by the university’s IT department and analyzed by the dining committee which is composed of members in SG, See Dining / 8
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Morgan Yeager, a freshman majoring in nursing, grabs some salad in the Ottawa House Dining Hall. Students will soon be able to take surveys rating their dining experiences.
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system will not only run continuously, but will also protect the university’s computer network, which is supported by the Computer Center, from going off-line during a city power failure. “If you wanted to back up two spots for critical power on campus, you’re going to want the hospital and the computer center,” Green said. “If University Hall loses power, yes, the president’s going to be without
Administrators are striving for a more bike-friendly campus as three new initiatives aim to put bikes in students’ hands and expand the trails they ride on. These University of Toledo initiatives include an expansion of the six mile University Parks Bike Trail, a new bike-sharing initiative and a new international student bicycle loan program. A resolution passed Monday at a Board of Trustees’ meeting allocates $2 million to expand the bike trail by about one and a half miles and add 1,000 new parking spots on Main Campus. The project, known as Phase I of a bicycle and pedestrian improvement project, is part of the Long Range Facilities Master Plan passed in 2005. Details of the plan include the addition of trails from Oakwood Avenue to Savage Hall, the removal of the railroad bridge over Bancroft Street and the Ottawa River and a new pedestrian bridge over Douglas Road. Chuck Lehnert, vice president of Facilities & Construction, said funding will be taken from the budget of fiscal year 2014. He said the project is underway now so construction can be coordinated with city initiatives in order to reduce cost. “This is important because part of our connection to the community stems from our bike trail,” he said. “The metropark system and our bike trail is a comprehensive way to participate in wellness and see the community.”
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See Bike / 8
In brief Parking lot closures for football games announced
Study Abroad Fair set for Monday The second annual Study Abroad Fair will be held in the Student Union Building from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24. The fair, sponsored by the Center for International Studies and Programs, will host study abroad program representatives, faculty members who lead their own international programs and financial experts to answer questions costs. For more information about the Center for International Studies and Programs, visit utoledo. edu/cisp.
Bicycle initiative approved By Danielle Gamble
Check out our Music Fest photos / 9
With the Rockets football season in full swing the University of Toledo Police Department has released its schedule of parking lot closures for games at the Glass Bowl. Parking lot closures began Saturday, Sept. 15, for the UT-BG game and will remain in effect for all home football games. Lots 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10, including the Greek Village Loop and Park Tower Loop will close starting at 7 a.m. on game days. Vehicles that are parked in Lot 9 on game days will be towed. Lots 3, 4, 18 and 28 will be closed beginning at noon.
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Michael Green, director of energy management, explains how the University Computer Center will remain cool because of the new cogeneration system. Excess heat from the system will be funneled into heating the Student Recreation Center’s swimming pools. Green said this system is the first of its kind in the country.
New system aims to reduce carbon footprint By Danielle Gamble News Editor
A new, eco-conscious technology at the University Computer Center is under construction and set to be finished this semester. This new system, known as cogeneration, will be used to simultaneously power the Computer Center and heat the pools in the Student Recreation Center said Director of Energy Management Michael Green. “Cogeneration means that you put one fuel in and you
get two products out of it,” Green said. “This takes natural gas in and one of the things that comes out is electricity, and the electricity powers the computer center.” Created by Capstone Turbine Corporation, this gasoline turbine functions like a jet engine, except this doesn’t fly planes — it powers a building. “We fire the gas, it spins the turbine, the turbine spins then it spins the motor,” Green said. “In a coal fire plant, they use coal to make steam to spin the turbine —
here, we’re using natural gas.” Green said while there has been a similar Capstone system at the Center for Visual Arts in downtown Toledo since 2006, the old structure does not have the same capabilities as the new system. “The downside of co-gen is that if you can’t use the waste heat all the time, you can’t run it all the time,” Green said. “We have a couple of them to reduce our costs down there, but we can only run them for about six months of the year.” Green said this new
provost confirmed
Scarborough gets approval, takes over as Main Campus Provost By IC Staff
Scott Scarborough was approved as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs Monday at a Board of Trustees meeting. Scarborough’s salary will be $389,000 with a bonus of $100,000 at the end of December and two additional bonuses of $75,000 in June 2015 and June 2017. Scarborough’s base pay is a $139,000 increase from the
$250,000 salary listed in former provost Bill McMillen’s oneyear contract. “As the chief academic and operating officer, Dr. Scarborough’s role will be expanded as compared to previous persons in the provost position, now including the strategy and implementation of the enrollment, research and student experience goals of the institution, in addition to the academic enterprise of the Main Campus,” UT President Lloyd
Jacobs said in a statement. McMillen is now serving as assistant to the president. Scarborough came to UT in 2007 as a senior vice president for finance and administration, and began working at UTMC in 2010. “I believe he will not only bring this knowledge to bear, but also his passion, dedication, expertise and versatility — leadership traits which he has demonstrated most effectively during his short, yet highly successful
time leading UTMC,” Jacobs said in a statement. Scarborough, former senior vice president and executive director of the University of Toledo Medical Center, was selected by Jacobs in August from four candidates. Norma Tomlinson was appointed interim executive director of UTMC to succeed Scarborough. Tomlinson moved from her former position as UTMC associate vice president and associate executive director.
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This week in UT history 15 years ago: After nearly four years of silence, the sounds of flowing water are once again filling Centennial Mall as the Edison Memorial Fountain was rededicated Monday afternoon. The fountain had become a controversy on campus in recent years after it was turned into a flower pot in 1994 when a then-estimated $30,000 repair cost was unavailable. 25 years ago: The University of Toledo is enclosing a second main campus parking lot which will provide an additional 60 parking spaces. The new parking lot will be located immediately east of the newly completed McMaster Hall, including the area between McMaster Hall and the Engineering-Science building.
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New citizens sworn in at the University of Toledo Members of the Toledo community were sworn in as U.S. citizens Monday at the Student Union Building as part of the University of Toledo’s Constitution Day celebration.
Catholic Student Association Purpose: Associated with Corpus Christi University Parish (CCUP), the Catholic Student Association serves as the Catholic student organization on campus, fostering spiritual, social, and academic growth through organizing retreats for the UT community, planning religious events in conjunction with CCUP, providing service to the local community, arranging educational opportunities and planning social activities. Leaders: Mary Page Dalrymple, President; Kara Hovest, Vice President of Committees; Samantha Stacks, Vice President of Outreach. History: CSA was founded as the Newman Club at UT in 1939. In 1999 the name Newman Club was officially changed to the University of Toledo Catholic Student Association. CSA continues the tradition of Catholic campus ministry at UT. Upcoming events: A drive-in showing of “The Hunger Games” will be held in CCUP’s parking lot on Sept. 22. How to learn more: Email CSA at utoledocsa@ gmail.com or visit their website at www.utoledocsa.org Would your group like to be featured as The Independent Collegian’s Student Group of the Week? Email Nate Pentecost at npentecost@independentcollegian.com.
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What was your favorite band at Music Fest?
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Gloriana was because they sing my favorite song. Sabrina Looker Freshman Nursing
Gloriana because it’s country and they put on a good show.
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Bowling for Soup. They were the only band I have heard of.
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Bowling for Soup. I like their style and how they interacted with the crowd.
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calendar Wednesday 5:30 p.m.: Introduction to Entrepreneurship lecture, part one in series, Tucker Hall, room 0180, general admission: $10; free for students. Thursday 11:45 a.m.: Cannon Lecture, “An Improbable Life: From Feminism and Advocacy to the Bench,” by Judge Nancy Gertner, Law Center Auditorium. FRIDAY Noon: American League Institute 35th Anniversary Backyard BBQ, Snyder Memorial. 8 p.m.: showing of “Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity,” Ritter Planetarium, general admission: $7; children, seniors and UT staff and students: $5. MONDAY 11 a.m.: Study Abroad Fair, Student Union Building. 11 a.m.: Women’s Success Series, Tucker Hall, room 0180. 4 p.m.: Chemistry Seminar, presented by Dr. Greg Hillhouse, BowmanOddy Labs, room 1059. 7:30 p.m.: UT Jazz Night, Crystal’s Lounge, general admission: $5; seniors and UT students: $3. TUESDAY 7:30 p.m.: Northwest Ohio Candidate Forum on Clean Energy, Scott Park Student Center.
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Quidditch is a big sport at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the famous Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, but the magical game of Quidditch is becoming quite popular among college students here in the “muggle” world. UT students recently established a UT Quidditch team as a club sport. Alex Scheer, a junior trumpet performance major and Harry Potter fan, had the idea to form a Quidditch team after joking about it with friends at Ohio Northern University. “The idea never really went through [at ONU],” Scheer said. “But I always kind of wanted to do it.” When he transferred to UT, Scheer got in contact with an International Quidditch Association, or IQA, representative, filed the paperwork and began marketing the team and recruiting members via Facebook.
According to Scheer, about 20 students are currently members of UT’s Quidditch team. “You know the old saying, ‘If you build it, they will come?’ I built the Facebook page and they’re coming,” he said. The team will wear the signature Rocket blue and gold, but they’ll play as the Toledo Firebolts. Quidditch teams are appearing rapidly throughout the country. In 2005, Quidditch was altered by students at Middlebury College in Vermont to accommodate regular people, and the first real-life Quidditch game was played there on Oct. 9. Since this landmark in Quidditch history, hundreds of American colleges have started Quidditch teams. There are now 747 documented Quidditch teams in the United States, according to the IQA. Not including UT, there are 26 teams in the state of Ohio.
Scheer said he wants to schedule a Quidditch match between UT and Bowling Green State University is in motion. In the Harry Potter books, players fly on broomsticks and make goals in hoops far above the ground, and to end the game one of the players must catch the snitch, a flying golden ball.
More online Check out the IC’s Facebook page for more photos of UT’s Quidditch team practicing. Also, keep following the IC for news on any upcoming Quidditch matches.
In order for non-wizards to play, some modifications were made to the game. The game that was once played with magic now requires only a large field, various differently sized balls and hoops, and of course, broomsticks. The IQA Rulebook describes the sport as a mix between rugby, dodgeball and tag. See Quidditch / 8
MOVIES “Dredd 3D,” starring Karl Urban, Lena Headey and Olivia Thrilby. Opens Friday. “End of Watch,” starring Jake Gyllenhal and Michael Peña. Opens Friday. “House at the End of the Street,” starring Jennifer Lawrence and Elisabeth Shue. Opens Friday. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson. Limited open Friday. “Trouble with the Curve,” starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. Opens Friday. BOOKS “Confessions of a Murder Supect,” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Available Monday. “Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama,” by Ann Coulter. Available Tuesday. “Waging Heavy Peace,” by Neil Young. Available Tuesday. CDs “>album title goes here<,” by Deadmau5. Available Tuesday. “Awakened,” by As I Lay Dying. Available Tuesday. “Food and Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1,” by Lupe Fiasco. Available Tuesday. “Only Forever,” by Anita Baker. Available Tuesday. “Push and Shove,” by No Doubt. Available Tuesday. “St. Peter and 57th,” by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Available Tuesday. “Uno!,” by Green Day. Available Tuesday.
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Steven Scherer, a junior accounting major, launches the quaffle during a practice of the UT Quidditch team. Based on the fictional sport in the Harry Potter series, there are currently over 700 Quidditch teams on campuses around the nation, with a World Cup in Florida.
UT film and art major accepted to NYC master class program
releases Comics “Captain America and Hawkeye,” trade paperback by Cullen Bunn and Alessandro Vitti. Published by Marvel. Available Wednesday. “Doctor Who: Dave Gibbons Collection,” by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons. Published by IDW. Available Wednesday. “Green Lantern Corps. Vol. 1: Fearsome,” by Peter Tomasi and Fernando Pasarin. Published by DC. Available Wednesday. “Vampirella vs. Dracula,” by Joe Harris and Ivan Rodriguez. Published by Dynamite. Available Wednesday.
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Quidditch for UT ‘muggles’
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oUTbreak on campus Graphic by Bob Taylor / IC
New rules, missions bring freshness to annual ‘Humans vs. Zombies’ event By Amanda Eggert Staff Reporter
Nerf Blasters in hand, the team split into smaller groups and spread out from UT’s spirit rock. They cautiously treaded across the grass looking for their targets, but the threat of something else was in the air. Suddenly, someone shouted the last word anyone wanted to hear: “Zombies!” Foam darts and rolled-up socks flew through the air stunning the vicious swarms of undead whose numbers grew with each fallen human. This was the scene last Thursday at UT’s annual Human vs. Zombies event. Sponsored by UT BASH, this year’s event featured a new name — “oUTbreak” — along with new rules and missions meant to redefine the game. “We’ve got a wide variety of missions that involve moving items, difficult puzzles and requiring some serious teamwork on the part of the humans,” said Jeremy Wong, an event administrator. “Humans, after all, can only be tagged once, [while] zombies have their numbers. We are trying to reverse the mindset.” Wong said the new missions also allowed for more aggressive play.
The Thursday night mission tasked the humans with locating and rescuing four stranded humans. Teams were given maps with the locations of the humans and possible zombie hordes. Wong said the weekly missions combined theater elements with capture the flag, and they encouraged the humans to work together for survival. Natasha Fisher, a sophomore majoring in environmental science, was tagged by a zombie early in the game, but she said it made her less paranoid for the remainder of the event. “I survived longer last year, but this year is much better,” she said. “It’s really fun.” Prior to the event, players had to attend at least one of four safety and rule meetings. The game began Wednesday, Sept. 12, with one player as the “original zombie.” This player was disguised as a human for the first 24 hours, but then began tagging humans. Players were distinguished by the placement of their yellow bandanas — a human sported it on her arm or leg, a zombie around her head. Humans used Nerf blasters and “grenade” socks to hold
off the zombies. If an undead was hit by the one of the projectiles, then they were stunned for 15 minutes. However, if a zombie tagged a human, they permanently became a member of the walking dead.
“We’ve got a wide variety of missions ... requiring some serious teamwork.” Jeremy Wong UT Bash, “oUTbreak” Administrator
According to UT Bash figures, the event attracted over 180 participants. The game’s finale took place Tuesday night. “About the grand finale, anyone who is expecting a big standoff will have their expectations [turned] on their head,” Wong said prior to the event. Remaining human players had to stop a group called “The Hand” from resurrecting more zombies. Jessica Torres, a freshman majoring in biology, was tagged by a zombie the first day of the game, but she offered some advice for next semester’s event. “Future players — don’t get cocky.”
Every once in a while, an opportunity arises which can potentially change a person’s life. UT senior Jeremy Pellington recently took one of those opportunities. The fifth-year sculpture and film double major was chosen to participate in a five-day performance class at the Museum of Modern Art PS1 Summer School in New York City. According to the MoMA’s website, the PS1 Summer School program is “modeled after European summer academies,” and artistic professionals from multiple disciplines work with the students. “It is truly an amazing opportunity for an artist such as Jeremy,” said Tammy Kinsey, professor of film and video at UT. Kinsey alerted Pellington to the highly selective program. “The class Jeremy was admitted to only took twelve students, so this is an amazing set of circumstances,” she said. Pellington’s class was taught by performance pioneer Marina Abramović, who teaches the art of using the body as a medium. Her style pushes the limits of the performers and challenges their dynamic with the audience. Pellington said he learned much from Abramović’s class. “Meeting Marina was such a wonderful experience,” Pellington said. “What she and her assistants had to teach us was very helpful in terms of having a greater awareness of my body.” This year’s Museum of Modern Art program featured master classes taught by Abramović, Steve Paxton and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with final public performances from select members of each class.
The Museum of Modern Art PS1 Summer School annually accepts a limited number of art-related majors, including film, music, drama, creative writing and visual arts. This year’s applicants required a resume, a statement of intent, an academic reference letter, and basic proof of enrollment and identity. Along with being a rare opportunity to learn from “the greats,” Pellington said the school offered other lasting benefits for his career. “I think the class will have an impact on my resumé,” Pellington said. “It was also a great opportunity to network with the other students in the class, who were all extremely talented.” Though this was a great success on Pellington’s part, he admitted he owed part of it to the influence and instruction he received at Toledo. “The professors at UT have all been very helpful, willing to have discussions and critiques outside of class,” he said. “I have had a wealth of inspiration from the whole faculty.” Kinsey, who wrote the letter of recommendation which helped secure Pellington’s spot, was less than eager to take credit. “I told him about the opportunity, and greatly encouraged him to apply, but he made it happen,” she said. “My recommendation letter was but one component.” Either way, this was a one-of-a-kind chance that, according to Kinsey, couldn’t have gone to a better candidate. “I believe he is indeed a perfect fit for this master class,” she said. “I find Jeremy fascinating to teach and truly a joy to work with. [His] future is wide open.”
“[The class] was also a great opportunity to network with other students, who were all extremely talented.”
Jeremy Pellington Senior, film and sculpture
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Valuable new teaching tool Although some questions remain, UT president’s proposed new methods may help school stay up to date In his State of the University address, Lloyd Jacobs said the University of Toledo will soon be emulating the methods of Samuel Khan, an education innovator who creates videos for coursework as a tool for improving education. It’s good that UT is taking steps to explore and to innovate because this is necessary to remain a useful and evolving university. However, this must be done with caution and always in the best interest of the students. With these methods, professors can focus on fine tuning their course work and more effectively use class time. With something like Khan’s methods in place, students will be able to learn the basics of their coursework at home through videos. They will be able to review the videos in order to refine what they’ve learned in a way they can’t in class. This allows the professors to begin building upon the basics of the course work in the classroom after watching the videos. It will make UT’s curriculum innovative and interactive. If UT is to be a top university, it must continue to discover the best methods for education and these videos could help. The method allows UT to be a frontrunner in new methods for education. It grants students opportunities for more advanced It’s good that material in more advanced UT is taking courses because they won’t have to learn the basics of the curricusteps to explore lum in class before building upon and to innovate them. It will allow them to go because this is further in their studies. It will allow professors’ class necessary to time to be reserved for helping remain a useful students understand the intricaand evolving cies of the subject of the course. UT professors will be able to university. spend class time addressing the individual questions and concerns of students instead of addressing broad topics which may fall short of a student’s potential and knowledge base or be beyond a student’s current knowledge base. Concerns with this method are UT’s integrating it fully before research shows it’s effective and students’ allowing it to work. It’s easy for an institution to get caught up in a craze and for students to simply decide not to watch a video. The best way to address this is to acknowledge a student’s education is that student’s responsibility. Also, how does a professor address the individual personal questions of a class of 150 students? How well will this work in upper level seminars? How will students be assessed in this system? Is this better as just a supplement? These questions and others must be addressed before moving forward.
Earlier editorial was unfair IC opinion piece should have given a more balanced assessment Everyone makes mistakes. The IC Editorial Board is no different and two weeks ago, we made one in the editorial titled “Sexual assault victims require private space.” That doesn’t mean our overall opinion is wrong. We still believe caution must be taken when deciding the location of the Office of Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program. Regardless of whether it is supposed to be used in this way, victims may still use the office as a safe haven for guidance and wish to keep their visits private. Moving to a more public location could be problematic. The editorial was Where we erred was in unfairly condemning Dean of Stuwritten without dents Michele Martinez. The all the informaeditorial was written without tion in the story all the information in the story and also leveled accusations and also leveled without supporting them or accusations withgiving the people in question a out supporting chance to respond. n We repeated without questhem or giving tion a claim that Student Afthe people in fairs “dismissed” a petition question a chance from the UT Feminist Alliance. While the allegation was made, to respond. we should not have assumed it to be true without getting both sides of the story. n We accused Student Affairs of handling the situation poorly, but in the end, they showed they were willing to listen to students and postpone the decision. This editorial was written without considering the news story and the procedural error was never caught during production. n Lastly, we proposed a hypothetical scenario of what the Office of Student Experience “might” say and argued against it when the argument was of our own creation. The Independent Collegian has an obligation to present a fair version of events to our readers and in this case, we fell short. By correcting our mistake publicly, we wish to show the UT community that we take this duty seriously.
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Perfectionism brings goods and bads
This week, I learned something about myself — I am a perfectionist. I get the feeling most people my age despise people like me, and sometimes, I truly understand why they’d feel that way. Whenever I work on a presentation or class project, I want it to be taken seriously and done right, but not necessarily perfect at every point. Because I’m a curious individual, I decided to take a personality test to determine whether or not I truly am a perfectionist. As it turns out, my need for everything to be managed just right, my fear of failure and my desire to achieve all make me a qualified candidate for perfectionism. Yes, I’ve gotten C’s on papers and have been home past my curfew several times. But overall, I’m highly critical of myself and I see the mistakes before anything else, some traits of a perfectionism. Certain traits make a true perfectionist, some of which I agree with and others I don’t. I didn’t even know the true definition, which is why I decided to look it up myself. Perfectionists have a critical eye. They’re critical of themselves and even their own work, always looking first at the small mistakes. When I’m handed back a paper I’ve done, I’ll admit that I look at the red marks first, whether they’re good or bad. Another trait is the “push versus pull” theory. Perfectionists tend to be pushed toward their goals because they have the fear of not reaching them, which would constitute as “failure” to them. I hope I’m like most
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when I say I don’t care for failure, but I’ve learned to accept it. Unrealistic standards start with goals being initially formed out of one’s reach, and perfectionists aren’t as successful because of this “flaw.” I, however, believe I’ve been somewhat successful in certain areas of my life. I’m an intern in a corporate office, I’m in a wonderful and loving relationship and I’ve made it to the top 10 percent of my College of Business graduating class. I don’t think that’s too bad. We only see the goal, the prize at the end of the race. Normally when I do a project with a group, I don’t care how the rest of the group does their part of the project, but I want the end result to be close to perfect. When perfectionists can’t meet their goals, they feel a disappointment from the “failure.” We mull over what we couldn’t reach and think negatively about our work. I do beat myself up for
things that are either out of my control or just not worth worrying about. I should work on that. We’re all victims of this next trait— procrastination. Perfectionists take the time for every project to be free of all mistakes and end up turning in their work at the last minute. I check my work so many times that I almost memorize it. I would rather spend more time to turn in an excellent paper than take little time and hand in a mediocre paper. Perfectionists are also incredibly defensive. I defend myself on many occasions, but a lot of times I’m not sure why. I feel like I have the right to explain my reasoning to those who just might not understand my need to meet the grade. Low self-esteem is the final perfectionist trait. My thoughts on this come and go. Some days I love myself and think God made me perfectly and beautifully like everyone else. Then there are other days when there’s a bad hair day, I feel 50 pounds heavier or I just feel like the ultimate failure. Out of all the perfectionist characteristics, this is one I’d change about myself the most. So, are you a perfectionist? Take a perfectionist test and let me know. I would love to hear from my fellow perfectionists! Trust me, I hate being a perfectionist, but that’s how I was created. It’s who I am, and I’m learning to accept it. Megan Gross is a senior studying marketing and minoring in communications.
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End of year brings new opportunities We live in a society today where the Earth and Her resources are being exploited, violence and war are celebrated and commonplace, poverty is rampant, irreplaceable animal and plant species are becoming endangered and extinct, and women and other subordinate groups are demonized, degraded, dominated and demeaned beneath a patriarchal social hierarchy. The human race itself has become fragmented, divided and disconnected — focusing on our religious, racial, ethnic, economic, sexual and gender-related differences rather than our more important, deep-rooted similarities. We fear those who are different from ourselves. Despite the fact that we walk the same Earth, breathe the same air and live under the same sky, we’ve lost touch with the sense of oneness which I believe we had at the beginning of time — the sense of family, the idea of the planetary web that unites and connects and affects all people and all of Nature. If we, as a planet, can begin to put these principles of universal oneness and Earthconsciousness into practice, we could, essentially, save the world. This world is growing smaller and dying a little more everyday with our current way of life. In the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) “Environmental Outlook to 2050: The Consequences of Inaction,” it is predicted that if we don’t change our self-destructive ways by the year 2050,
world energy demand will be up 80 again, and as a result, is known as a percent, and 85 percent of our power time of renewal, hope and rebirth. To will come from fossil fuels. add to that theme of regeneration, the Greenhouse gas emissions end of 2012 will also be the are expected to rise 50 percent, end of the Piscean Age, which driven by the expected 70 perhas lasted 2,150 years, and the cent increase in energy-related start of the Age of Aquarius, CO2 emissions from fossil fuwhich is predicted to be an IC Columnist els. The world is expected to age of innovation. experience a six degree rise in Regardless of whether or not temperature over the next 38 years, which you believe the Mayan prophecy, or even is three times the two degrees that scienin Astrology, it is undeniable that the tists would consider “safe.” world is in a state of disorder, not just enForests are set to shrink 13 percent vironmentally, but as evidenced by other due to expanding agriculture and cliworld events around us, politically, somate change by 2050. World water decially and economically. It is irrefutable mand is expected to increase by 55 perthat the need for a new way of life is vital cent, due to a 400 percent rise in conto our survival. sumption for manufacturing. It is estiPersonally, I don’t believe the world mated that 40 percent of the world pop- will end in December. However, I do ulation will be living in areas affected by believe that we are living in an imporwater stress in 2050. tant time right now and that the end of Air pollution is predicted to become this year will bring about a crucial the world’s top environmental cause of turning point for our planet. premature death, and by 2050, is expectI see the Earth right now as contained ed to result in over 3.6 million untimely within a sort of chrysalis like a butterfly mortalities. It’s also estimated that 1.4 waiting for the warmth of spring—a billion people will still be without access chrysalis of change, if you will – and to basic sanitation in the year 2050. when we get out of this cocoon, we can Taking a look at those cold, hard either unite, blossom and fly or, divided, facts makes apocalyptic predictions, fall and die. It is up to us what we such as the Mayan end-of-the-world choose. This is a time of transformation prophecy set for Dec. 21 of this year, and we cannot look back. seem a little less ridiculous. However, Dec. 21, is also the Winter Solstice, Calinda Lowler is a junior double which is traditionally the time of year majoring in religious studies and women when the days begin to get longer and gender studies.
Calinda Lowler
Letter to the editor
Thank you for the support To UT Students, On behalf of the players and coaches on the Rocket football team, I would like to thank all the students who came out and packed the Glass Bowl for our great victory over “that team down south” on Saturday. It was inspiring for our team to
step out onto the field and witness a sea of gold in the student section, and simply awesome to sing the fight song and alma mater with you at the end of the game. The atmosphere in the Glass Bowl was electric, and there is no doubt in my mind that it was one of the keys that helped us win that game. But our work is just beginning. We have five more home games to play in our quest to win the MAC Championship. We need you at every game,
beginning with this Saturday’s game vs. Coastal Carolina (don’t forget to wear Midnight Blue for this game). We are all in this together. Players, coaches...and you. You always hear that UT has the best football stadium in the Mid-American Conference. Well I say we have the best student section in the MAC, too! Go Rockets and we’ll see you at the game! —Matt Campbell, Head football coach
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Manhood is more than being macho
A few winters ago, I was in class when an acquaintance of mine made a remark that has been with me to this day. As it was a proper Ohio winter, it was quite cold that day and I had on a scarf. This friend looked at me with my scarf and said to me, “Brad, why are you wearing a scarf? I never took you to be a scarf person.” IC Columnist I told my friend that I was unaware of my lack of masculine. Should any of us “scarfy-ness” and asked him, stray too far from that nar“Did you think I was the row definition, we are ostrakind of person that enjoyed cized and labeled as “other,” having a cold neck, or is it on in yet another attempt by husome way not masculine for man beings to establish an me to be wearing a scarf?” “Us and Them” philosophy. The second option was a My friend’s remarks in no jest, but when it seemed to way affected how I perceived unnerve him, it dawned on myself. The things I do are me: he associated, in some fulfilling to me, because I do odd way, the wearing of a them and I feel no shame in scarf as a so doing. I sing, Maybe if we stop though not well; lack of masculinity. I I can dance, onshutting out the was just cold. slightly better parts of the world lythan As a I sing; I that scare us, we can cook, which straight man, it seems that is my strong can finally start the only charsuite; and I can creating a society throw a perfect acteristic I’m challenged on where it’s OK for a spiral. is how “manIn high guy to grill when school, ly” I am, like I played he’s hungry, cry there is going football and to be a ranwas in choir, when he’s sad. dom inspecspeech and the tion of my person and bemusical. I can tell you the longings to determine if I am names of every professional meeting my Manly Quota. football, ice-hockey and basAssumed gender roles are ketball team and also rattle something that we all combat off last-year’s Tony Award everyday. winners. I like red meat and All too often, we men like red wine, football and Footto pretend we define what is loose. My self-perception or isn’t proper behavior for isn’t created by someone else someone else. We have infor- or by their arbitrary convenmal lists of what is and isn’t tions. I’m the only person
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who decides my own worth or identity. But is that enough? More and more the perceptions of others seem to be percolating into our ascribed gender subconscious. A July 17, 2012 article by The Huffington Post, “Women Making More Money: Macho Men Can’t Find Happiness In Women’s Financial Success,” discussed a Fordham University study where it was found women are becoming the primary wage-earners. Brava, I say. The study suggests the commonly assumed gender role of the male bread winner is being challenged and men are finding it difficult to cope with. I can imagine this is true. But I’d say this is not a bad thing. Too often “being a man” means putting on a front of stupidity, degrading women and being less than rational. Think of how many videos of guys doing reckless crap you’ve seen compared to women ... exactly. Perhaps this is exactly the kind of realization we need in order to become better husbands, boyfriends, brothers and friends. Maybe if we stop shutting out the parts of the world that scare us, we can finally start creating a society where different is just a word, masculinity is a false construct and where it’s OK for a guy to grill when he’s hungry, cry when he’s sad and — for crying out loud — wear a scarf when it’s cold. Bradley Sommer is a senior studying history.
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You’ve gotta get the name right
Over the last few months, professionalism to do this simlanguage.” This is so true. I’ve been making a lot of new ple courtesy of taking the time Since this is true, it makes contacts and have received nu- to know who you are the importance of saying a merous e-mails and phone addressing. person’s name correctly all the calls from individuals I’ve nevSince this has been something more important. To you, it er met in person before. I’ve personally been may be an inThroughout these corresponoffended by, I take significant dences there has been one my time to try my oversight to abcommon error: my name. No best to address inbreviate a perone can seem to get it right. dividuals properly. son’s name, but IC Columnist I receive e-mails to an adI’d like to say that I to that person it dress that contains my full understand a cercould potentialname in it yet the body of the tain amount of human error, but ly be very offensive. You never message is addressed to Paula the occurrences that cause me know what kind of emotional or Pauline, most distress are or sentimental connection a In the professional those that include person may have with their neither of which are multiple e-mails name. world, the my name, where I’ve signed In the professional world, the impressions you nor have I off with my full impressions you make with make with your ever gone by name but am still your peers are vital to your sucthese names. called Paula or cess and getting a potential clipeers are vital to Then I will phone calls referent or customer’s name wrong your success ... receive a ring to me as Paula could make all the difference. phone mesafter written correDoes anyone else have this sage after these e-mails also spondences with my name problem? Do you have a name calling me by the wrong name. printed in them. that no one can ever get right? I am dumbfounded by The imporEven worse, do ... and getting a these indiscretions. I’ve never tance of this you have a written an e-mail to a Patrick little thing of potential client or name that can I didn’t know and called him getting one’s shortened customer’s name be Pat or a Samuel and called name correct with a nickwrong could make name but insist him Sam. I find it best until is something I otherwise notified to call never comall the difference. on using your them by their full name. pletely underfull name? I do. In my case specifically I have stood even in My name is an aunt named Paula and it’s my personal experiences unPaulette. I understand it’s a litclear she and I are not of the til I read a quote by Dale tle long and that people would same name sake. While others Carnegie in the book “How prefer not to say the whole may not know that little fact, it’s to Win Friends and Influence thing, but the fact is my name the reason for when I receive an People.” In this great book on is Paulette. email addressed to Paula I’m leadership he says, “Rememtempted to not respond. I feel ber that a person’s name is to Paulette Bongratz is a MBA so passionately about this topic that person the sweetest and student studying leadership because I feel it’s important in most important sound in any and SG President.
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Shhh... silence should be observed
the opportunity to plan, orWhen people find out ganize my thoughts and set I’m a librarian, one of the priorities based not on imfirst images that may come mediacy but on real, objecto mind is ‘the shush,’ that tive importance. Thus, a I’m a brutal enforcer of siperiod of silence may actulence. Of course, anyone ally make my busy life more that has been to the Inforefficient, as it gives me time mation Commons on the to order my life and be profirst floor of Carlson Liactive rather than reactive. brary is quickly disabused Another benefit is in atof such a mental image. IC Columnist tention. We all have probaThe library has many acintentionally bring into or bly had the experience of ceptable levels of sound on exclude from our environbeing distracted by a nearby different floors, and on the ment. Often, especially if conversation, intrusive mufirst floor ‘silence’ is not you live in a residence hall sic or other auditory intruone of them. Hint: for the or apartment building, you sions while we try to absorb old-school library experimay have even less control and process new informaence head up to the 5th over your sonic landscape. tion. Silence can train us in floor quiet study area. Silence has become rare attentiveness and focus. In I often see thankful tweets in our world, composer John Cage’s infaabout the eerie Silence has and like most mous piece “4’33,” consistquiet that perrare things, ing of just over four and a vades the upper become rare in this has inhalf minutes of silence from reaches of Carlour world, and creased its the performer, he challenges son Library. like most rare value. Last the audience to be attentive Some days, I week I was reto the other, ambient sounds work at Mulford things, this has minded of in the performance space. Library on the increased its this on the These sounds were presHealth Science anniversary of ent already, and would be Campus, and value. the tragedy of drowned out by the other the respect for 9/11 when music performed, but silence there is Cage’s conceptual piece inso deep that it is more often many paused for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. We vites us to listen to that that the library staff get give silence as a gift to mark which is present by unshushed by the students! moments of particular revheard in normal life. SiI’ve only occasionally erence or import. However, lence can function similarly had to deploy ‘the shush’ its rarity also lends it an air in training us and in giving in a professional capacity, of unfamiliarity and disour undivided attention to but in my non-work life, comfort, as well. a task, when our normal my relationship with siSocially, we don’t know habits may tend toward the lence is more ambivalent. what to do with silence, and questionable efficiency of At times, I tend to fill evin a group situation, silence multitasking. ery moment with sound. is often modified by the adSo, where does a college My car radio is on when student go to experience simy car is, and I often have jectives ‘uncomfortable’ or ‘awkward’. It’s lence? Aside my iPod’s earbuds lodged We give silence from the this rarity that firmly in my ears while causes us to have walking around campus. as a gift to mark lofty heights of the library Yet, I also seek out silence to seek out simoments of lence; rather than listed above, on a regular basis: I particular being the default what are choose the trails at the condition, we other places Metroparks that take me reverence or must actively that can be furthest back in to the import. relied on for quiet of the woods, I prac- look for or create silence if we are providing a tice a form of prayer that to enjoy it or benefit from it. temporary escape from the entails sitting in silence How might we benefit noise and busyness of our for long periods, and I from silence? One positive lives, whether the noise be haven’t had a television effect of silence is to slow us external or metaphorical? I for over a decade, in part down in a very busy world. am fond of the Cloister because I prefer silence While we may think we room at the Toledo Museover empty noise. don’t have time to slow um of Art, and the paths of This last point is particuthe Toledo Botanical Garlarly significant during cam- down, that the over-scheduled life of a college student den. What spaces do you paign ad season. Perhaps precludes it, even a short know of? you find yourself with the period of intentional silence same love-hate relationship may be just what we need. Wade Lee is an associate with noise? This is only refOften in silence, I have professor in Carlson Library. erencing the sounds that we
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Fans in the student section of the Glass Bowl had a lot to cheer about Saturday night as the Rockets defeated archrival Bowling Green 27-15.
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in brief UT Cornerback Norrils receives weekly award Sophomore cornerback Cheatham Norrils has been named the MidAmerican Conference’s Western Division Player of the Week. Norrils recorded a season-high seven tackles against rival Bowling Green Saturday night. He also came away with his first career interception, undercutting a route and picking off BG’s Matt Schilz.
Lady Rockets stumble against Illinois State The Toledo soccer team was shutout 1-0 Sunday afternoon by Illinois State in their final game before the Mid-American Conference schedule begins The Rockets outshot the Redbirds (5-2-2) 18-7, but were unable to get on the scoreboard for the fourth time in eight games, falling to 2-6-0 on the season. Toledo has scored zero or one goal on all but one occasion. UT was short-handed Sunday, playing without the 2011 MAC Offensive Player of the Year Rachel MacLeod as well as junior Emily Tustin who were both nursing ankle injuries. The lone goal of the contest was scored by ISU’s Sarah Mussallem in the 58th minute. After receiving a pass, she dribbled and kicked the ball over the head of UT goaltender Sam Tiongson and into the upper portion of the net. The favorites to win the MAC will begin conference play this weekend. Toledo will hit the road to face Western Michigan Friday at 4 p.m. and return home Sunday at 1 to play Eastern Michigan.
UT volleyball squad wins two of three Toledo dropped a 3-0 decision to host Wake Forest on Friday, but rebounded with a pair of victories Saturday at the Black and Gold Challenge in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Demon Deacons made quick work of the Rockets (25-18, 25-17, 25-15) Friday morning. After taking the first set, Wake Forest used a 9-2 run in the second and third sets to take the match. Junior outside hitter Jordan Kielty led UT with six kills. Junior middle blocker Dakota Harkins and sophomore MB Brooke Frazer had five each. The Rockets fortune changed dramatically as they swept Appalachian State (25-20, 25-20, 2518) and Campbell (2520, 25-23, 25-11) Saturday. Harkins posted a career-best 14 kills against the Mountaineers and Kielty had 13. UT kept the momentum going in their second match of the day as Harkins and junior Lauren Rafdal combined for 27 kills to beat Campbell. Toledo hit .343 for the match and held the Camels to just .187. The Rockets begin MAC play tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at Ball State. They return home Saturday at 3 p.m. to play Buffalo.
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Toledo ready to move on to Coastal Carolina after big win By Jay Skebba
last two weeks, he’s come out and played steady, consistent After disposing of archrival and made some really good Bowling Green Saturday, the throws.” Rockets are flying high and In addition to T.O.’s big look to keep the momentum game, the Toledo defense put going as they prepare for FCS together their best perforopponent Coastal Carolina mance of the season. this weekend. After allowing well over Toledo emerged victorious 500 yards of total offense a in the Battle of I-75 for third game in their first two games, consecutive year, knocking UT held BG to just 351. off the Falcons 27-15 in front One reason for the Rockof a capacity crowd at the ets success against the FalGlass Bowl. cons was the play of sopho“It was a really hardmore cornerback Cheatham fought, tough victory for our Norrils, who has started to football team,” said head grow up right before the coach Matt Campbell. “I eyes of the coaching staff. couldn’t be prouder of our 19 The secondary graduated a seniors. I thought the leader- pair of starting corners last ship of our team was outyear and Norrils made the standing through all 60 minswitch from safety prior to the utes of the game.” season to help fill the void. Junior Terrance Owens The St. John’s graduate once again took every offenhas been on the field with sive snap and appears to have the first-team defense all cemented himself as the full- year and came up with his time starter. first career interception SatOwens threw for 303 yards urday. He also recorded — the second week in a row seven tackles to bring home he hit the 300-yard mark — MAC West Defensive Player while connecting on 20-of-28 of the Week honors. passes and a touchdown. “Cheatham Norrils is a For the season, he’s comyoung man who has great pleted 56-of-91 athletic ability (61 percent) for What happened and he’s got 737 yards, six the potential to Saturday touchdowns and be as good as Toledo defeated archrino interceptions. he wants to val Bowling Green 27-15. He sports a suQB Terrance Owens threw be,” Campbell perb passer ratsaid. “He has for 303 yards. ing of 151.3. decided to beOwens has come an exbeen interception-free on his tremely good player. How last 194 pass attempts, a he’s practiced, how he trained streak that dates back to Nov. in the offseason, what he’s 8, 2011 against Western done through fall camp and I Michigan. think he’s played very steady “Terrance is playing exand very consistent.” tremely well right now, he’s Norrils and the rest of the playing with great confiRocket defense will be tested dence,” Campbell said. “The against the Chanticleers. Sports Editor
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Junior quarterback Terrance Owens stiff-arms a Bowling Green defender in the fourth quarter of Toledo’s 27-15 victory Saturday at the Glass Bowl.
If you go... What: Toledo Rockets vs Coastal Carolina Chanticleers Where: Glass Bowl Stadium — Toledo, Ohio When: Saturday, 7 p.m. TV: ESPN3 Records: UT (2-1, 1-0) CC (1-2, 0-0) Series Record: First meeting Point Spread: no line Weather: High of 68, low of 44. 20% chance of rain with a 12 mph wind.
Despite being an NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (formally Division IAA) member, they have players on both sides of the ball capable of making plays and causing issues. The Chants, from the FCS’s Big South Conference, enter this game 2-1 and are led offensively by quarterback
Receiver Bernard Reedy drawing comparisons to wideout Eric Page By Nate Pentecost
Aramis Hillary, a fifth-year senior who transferred from South Carolina after 2009. Hillary has thrown for 771 yards, four scores and four interceptions in three games. His athleticism makes him a dualthreat and a quarterback that Campbell compared to Wyoming’s Brett Smith who he faced two weeks ago. “Offensively, they have a tremendous quarterback,” Campbell said. “He’s got the ability to run and throw and we have tremendous respect for this team coming in. He’s a young man who is a transfer and a young man that I believe is up for the National Player of the Year in FCS football this year. [He] makes all the plays.” Campbell was also quick to praise Coastal Carolina’s defense, which features two members of last year’s allCross country
UT’s Emma Kertesz finishes 12th at national meet
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By Nick Delwiche
Bernard Reedy hears it every day on his way to class. He hears it all the time around the city of Toledo. He has even heard it a few times while pumping gas. But as UT’s junior wide receiver admits, there simply is no escaping the comparison between him and former teammate Eric Page. From their reserved, soft-spoken demeanor, to their shifty moves on returns and crisp route running, down to their stature — both are 5-foot-9 — the similarities are striking. In fact, first-year Toledo head coach Matt Campbell, the pair’s offensive coordinator from 2009-11, struggled to find any dissimilarities. “Maybe the only difference is a little bit of speed,” Campbell said. “Bernard has that extra gear he can kick into.” Reedy saw playing time his freshman season but emerged in 2011 as the complimentary receiver to Page. Reedy finished second on the team with 40 catches, 758 yards and nine touchdowns, providing the onetwo punch the Rockets lacked at receiver since Arizona Cardinal Stephen Williams graduated in 2009. He capped off his sophomore year with the best performance of his collegiate career, hauling in four passes for 126 yards and three touchdowns to garner MVP honors in the Rockets 42-41 Military Bowl victory over Air Force. With every reason to expect Reedy and Page to put forth even better performances, for the briefest of moments following the
Senior All-American runner Emma Kertesz took part in the 2012 USA Track and Field Road Circuit Women’s 5k Championships Sunday, finishing12th with a time of 16:27. “I thought she did great,” said UT head coach Kevin Hadsell. “This was her first experience racing against professional women so I was interested to see how she would handle it emotionally. She handled herself great.” Kertesz took on Olympian runners such as Katie McGregor and Molly Huddle, a new experience for her in her fourth year at UT. “I’ve never been in a race of that caliber before,” Kertesz said. “For my first experience in a race like this, I was very happy.” Huddle won the race with a time of 15:29.90. Coach Hadsell was impressed with Kertesz’s ability to compete with such elite athletes. “It’s pretty intimidating when you’re lining up against women like that,” Hadsell said. “She’s confident in her talent and fitness level so it went really well.” Even though she was matched against some of the best runners in the nation, Kertesz never lost her composure, hanging with the elite runners for much of the race and beating several professionals. “I just went into it with a mentality that I had nothing to lose,” Kertesz said. “This is my first crack at it so I might as well try to hang with the best of the best.” Coach Hadsell knew she would be able to handle her
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Junior wide receiver Bernard Reedy had big shoes to fill after Page’s departure. So far, he’s lived up to the hype, leading the team with 19 receptions.
Military Bowl, the receiving duo’s ceiling for the 2012 season seemed sky high. The following week, however, the Rockets alltime leading receiver chose to forego his senior year of eligibility to enter the NFL Draft. Reedy was thrust into the No. 1 wideout spot on the depth chart. Reedy is confident that he is prepared for the role and he credits Page, in part, for showing him the way. “He’s a hard worker. He does everything quietly but
he does everything right,” Reedy explained. “Doing the small things lets you do the big things right. That’s why he made so many big plays and had so much success here.” Reedy, unsurprisingly, shares Page’s lead-by-example approach to leadership as well. “I’ve never really been the vocal type,” Reedy said. “I just try to go out and do the right thing so the younger guys can follow me.” So far, so good.
conference team. Senior linebacker Andrae Jacobs was a first team selection and senior defensive end Chris Thomas was named to the second team. Jacobs had 10 tackles for loss last year and was named the Big South’s Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore in 2010. Both players have been relatively quiet in 2012 with just a 0.5 TFL between them. The Chants are coming off a 35-17 defeat at the hands of Eastern Carolina, but Campbell and the Rockets refuse to take them lightly. “For us, it’s the next step,” Campbell said. “This team has great leadership and [it’s] all about our seniors. They’ve done a great job leading this football team and I expect them to do the same this week.”
Women’s cross country ranked No. 18 The Toledo women’s cross country team has been ranked 18th in the nation for the second consecutive week. This is the highest ranking in the history of the program, surpassing last year’s No. 21 spot. They’re ranked third in the Great Lakes Region, behind No. 11 Michigan and No. 13 Michigan State.
emotions on the track. “She took the same approach as she does with any race and that is to go out with the leaders and hang with them for as long as she can,” Hadsell said. “I think she did a great job.” Kertesz sees this race as a success and an opportunity to gain confidence and experience for national and conference meets, including the USATF Women’s 10k Road Racing Championships. “Looking toward the 10k in three weeks, I think this will give me a good seasoning experience,” Kertesz said. “I’ll be even more mentally prepared going into another elite caliber race.” UT will be hosting an inter-regional track meet on Friday, Sept. 21. 14 men’s teams and 20 women’s teams, including Kertesz and the Rockets, will compete at Ottawa Park in Toledo. “Anytime you put yourself in a race at that level and then come back to race against NCAA women or Mid-American-Conference, your confidence level is even higher,” Hadsell said. “This will go a long way in her development in indoor/ outdoor track.”
8 | The Independent Collegian | Wednesday, September 19, 2012 address to the community
UT president highlights past, looks ahead in annual address By Danielle Gamble News Editor
University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs spoke to a full Doermann Theater today about future plans and past events in his annual address to the community. Jacobs opened the address with thoughts on America’s “education bubble,” the idea that higher education is becoming unaffordable and is unsustainable. “The combination of an unprecedented recession and a plethora of writings questioning the value of higher education produce unprecedented instability and a profound questioning of the American Dream,” Jacobs said. Despite negative national attitudes, Jacobs was positive about the university’s future. “I have come to recognize that the University of Toledo is not only weathering the storm, but succeeding,” he said. “We are a university rising in the midst of a storm of
Quidditch from page 3
IQA Ohio Representative Alexis Moody said each team needs at least seven players: three chasers, two beaters, one keeper and one seeker. It is the job of the chasers to handle the quaffle, which Moody described as a “slightly deflated volleyball.” The team scores points by throwing the quaffle through one of three goals. Scheer said the goals look like “a giant hula hoops attached to poles in the ground.” Moody said the two beaters handle the bludgers, which are dodgeballs used to hit players on the other team. “When hit, a player must drop the ball, if they have one, and return to their own hoops before re-entering play,” he said. Moody described the keepers as goalies who can come out of the keeper zone and attempt to score with
Cogeneration from page 1
air conditioning and we’ll temporarily figure out how to get him over to Driscoll or one of the other buildings. But if you lose the computer center, you lose the whole place — you might as well shut down.” Green said the Computer Center currently has partial back up power, but this new system will offer a completely self-sustaining and fully backed up energy source. “So in this case, we’re going to put gas into these gas turbines and then the exhaust that comes out of the gas turbines comes over here to the absorber and the absorber has two heat exchangers on it,” he said. Green said the heat produced by the turbine works with liquid in the system to create condensation, which in turn works as a coolant for the large network of computers at the Computer Center. “Basically it’s a brine solution,” Green said. “It works at a different temperature and pressure so that at the higher heat it can produce chilled water that can absorb heat out of the building.” Green said the
Dining from page 1
Auxiliary Services, Aramark and Residence Life. The online surveys will ask students to rank components of their dining experience as well as give space for students to write down their opinions and suggestions for menu items, food choices and service improvements. “A big thing to remember is that we want to offer more options, not take anything away,” Bongratz said. “We are hoping students will ask for more specific healthy options that we could use to put changes in place.” Bongratz and Greer said
uncertainty and tumult.” Jacobs endorsed Main Campus Provost candidate Scott Scarborough, the senior vice president and executive director of the UT Medical Center. Scarborough’s appointment will be voted on Monday, Sept. 26, at the next Board of Trustees meeting. “It is of course clear that Scott Scarborough is an unconventional choice for the role,” Jacobs said. “I think his selection will mean more than that. It repositions the locus of institutional tension that invariably exists between value and cost to a different place in the institution.” Besides recognizing success, Jacobs addressed UTMC’s recent medical blunder that led to a kidney meant for donation becoming unusable. “Now the fact that human errors occur is regrettable but not surprising,” Jacobs said. “But far more important is that safeguards must be in place to protect us from human error.
available online that students can access anytime for free. In this program, started by Salman Khan and Khan Academy, each video covers a different subject at a different educational level, and allows students to pause or review the video at their own learning pace. “Knowledge is now fluid, moveable, mercurial, and exists in cyberspace,” Jacobs said. “The Khan revolution opens endless possibilities if only we have the courage to adapt.” Jacobs listed examples of ways in which to utilize these videos, including making them a revincent d. scebbi / IC quired resource for certain classUT President Lloyd Jacobs addresses the over 200 in attendance Thursday during his speech to the community. es and for struggling students. While Jacobs did not identify a timeline in which these videos When errors do occur, how we want you know that I trust react to such errors is of exyou and appreciate you,” Ja- would be implemented into the treme importance.” cobs said. “We have learned curriculum, he did stress the importance of their installation. Jacobs said the university much in the process.” “So once again, we here at a is in the midst of a “root Looking forward, the prescause analysis” to assess ident announced a new ini- small state supported institution like the University of Tolepolicy changes and prevent tiative he called Innovative do are challenged with choice future mistakes. Customized Education. “I join you in being sorry He said the project will in- — adapt and integrate these offerings into our algorithms and for the isolated incident, but volve using video lectures
the quaffles. Scheer is the team’s seeker, the position played by Harry Potter in the books. “That is a very fun and challenging position at the same time,” he said. The seeker’s objective is to find the snitch. But in non-magical Quidditch, the way to perform this task was changed. Scheer said the snitch, instead of a golden ball, is now a person. He described the snitch as being “someone very athletic who will run and hide and pull pranks on you.” The snitch is an unbiased player who carries a tennis ball in a tube sock attached to the waistband of their shorts. In order to earn 30 points and end the game, the seeker must catch the snitch and remove the tennis ball from the tube sock. While all of this is happening, a broomstick must remain between the legs of the players.
“We don’t fly, but it’s the next best thing,” Scheer said. While players running around on broomsticks may look silly to some, many Quidditch players take the competition seriously. “It seems really, really stupid on the outside, but once you get in the moment and get to playing it, it’s one of the most incredible things you’ll ever do,” Scheer said. The team’s ultimate goal is to reach the annual Quidditch World Cup, which will be held in Florida this year. Out of 200 official member teams around the world, only 80 will make it to the world cup. While Scheer expressed interest in playing competitively and possibly even making it to the Quidditch World Cup, he said that Quidditch isn’t just about competition. “If you’re not having fun, then I don’t want you on my team,” he said. “It’s one of those things that’s competitive, but you got to love it.”
cogeneration plant should be running this winter after some construction that will connect the cogeneration plant to the Student Recreation Center. He said the construction involving the steam and chilled water plants on campus are expanded will involve blocked traffic on the southeast corner of campus. Green said the project was funded partly by the university utilities and partly through a third-frontier grant. While a similar model of this system is being used in Syracuse, N.Y., the portable model at UT is the first of its kind in the nation. “If someone wants to order a cogeneration plant for their computer center, you just tell how many kilowatt hours we need, how much cooling you need, how much heating you need and so on,” Green said. “Then they fill a shipping container with everything you need, ship it to you, drop it on a concrete pad and plug it in.” Green said once UT’s new system gets “a few bugs worked out,” it could be the first step toward mainstreaming cogeneration systems. “If this one works as well as everyone thinks it will, they’re
going to start selling these things and they’re going to be running trucks out of Northwest Ohio,” he said. Green said while going green is good for the environment, a smaller carbon footprint is means a more balanced budget. “We’re trying to hold our maintenance costs flat while the campus is expanding,” Green said. “That’s really tough to do, but that’s one of the ways we’re doing it.” He said after the current equipment is replaced by the new cogeneration set-up, the old heating and cooling system from the Computer Center will be recycled at another location on campus. Green said while it’s important to invest in big projects, students can take small steps now to reduce their impact on the environment. “Let’s say you turn your air conditioning in your car on in the morning and leave it on all day just so you can come back and have it nice and cool for you,” Green said. “How long can you sustain that? If all the students and all the thousands of people at our school and our community just turned off their AC, think of how much we could save.”
the secret shopper program has been at UT for several years and was originally started by SG and Auxiliary Services to give students a voice. “A lot of people forget that the purpose of government is to represent the people and as Student Government we have to represent the students and what they feel,” said Dylan Clement, assistant dining liaison. Dining committee members expressed the desire to give students eating in the dining halls the best possible experience, regardless of whether they had a meal plan. Bongratz said the program resulted in positive changes to campus dining,
which is why the program is being expanded to include even more student voices. “I noticed direct changes to things I reported in my surveys, with regards to customer service, that were fixed by the next week or so,” said Ryan Beckwith, a secret shopper from last semester. “It wasn’t like we were tattling on people, but they took our suggestions to heart and made improvements.” Secret shoppers were given a Rocket Dollar incentive for participating in the program. “It was a good deal,” Beckwith said. “I mean I was surprised that they were even paying us to do that since it seemed like such an easy thing to do.”
modules or ignore the revolution and hope it will go away before we wither and die.” Toledo Mayor Mike Bell, a UT alumnus, said he the address was “very upbeat.” “A lot of what’s happening here makes me proud of the university, makes our city proud,” Bell said. “I really salute his efforts and being able to keep this university at the highest level of education in the state of Ohio and even in the United States.” Bell said projects such as the new Gateway development on Dorr Street demonstrate what kind of a working relationship the city of Toledo has with the university. “Since I became mayor, I sit down with Dr. Jacobs on a regular basis,” Bell said. “I think the different projects that are coming up not only put people back to work, but also stabilize various portions of our community increase the quality of life. We’re really playing on the same field.”
Bike from page 1
With new bike paths on the way, a bike-sharing program is just beginning to take shape. The new system will consist of strategically placed bike racks around campus that allow students to swipe their Rocket Cards and check out a bike for a certain period of time, Lehnert said. Possible innovations could include GPS tracking for individual bikes or even solarbob taylor / IC powered holding stations, but Tommy McNichol, a sophomore majoring in mechanical Lehnert said very few details engineering, rides his bike on the University Parks Bike are currently available. Trail Tuesday. “This is still in its infant stages,” he said. “It’s probably getting student feedback was Lehnert said he can trace not going to happen this fall, placed on the Student Govback the administration’s inibut it will be implemented ernment’s executive branch. tiatives to former SG Presiwithin this fiscal year. We still SG President Paulette Bon- dent Matt Rubin and his runneed to know how to do it.” gratz said she and SG Vice ning-mate Jordan Maddocks. Sammy Spann, Center for President Chris Dykyj sent “At the beginning, Matt International Studies and out an online survey for came to me and told me he Program’s assistant provost, about a week that reached al- wanted to make his presidency said UT’s bike most 200 about bikes and a bike-friendly project is “This is important students. campus,” Lehnert said. less influThe surBongratz said even though because part of our enced by vey allowed the project wasn’t a specific connection to the programs at students to portion of her platform, she institutions rank on a fully supports the current community stems like Bowling one-to-five bike-friendly projects. from our bike trail.” Green State scale a vari“I think it’s neat to see University, someone’s administration carChuck lehnert ety of locaand was Vice president of Facilities & tions ry into years after, so we’re defConstruction around more ininitely all for helping to push spired by campus. those things forward,” she said. city proBongratz Spann said he believes grams in Bossaid some of the top locathese initiatives are being ton, Washington D.C. and tions chosen include Rocket pushed through because of Chicago. Hall, Stranahan Hall, North popular demand. Lehnert said this was done Engineering Building and “This came from the stuso in the future, the universi- the Student Union Building. dents,” Spann said. “This ty could place bike-sharing Another initiative already in wasn’t just because we had corrals around Toledo and place, called Rocket ReCycle, some extra money lying even as far as Sylvania. leases donated bicycles to inaround. And it’s something “We want to engage in the ternational students for $25 a the students can really put community both in-bound semester, according to Spann. their mark on.” and out-bound,” Lehnert said. “There was a need to proBongratz said she was Lehnert said the university vide international students hopeful to see student input plans on applying for outside with transportation,” Spann remain important to admingrants in order to fund exsaid. “They’re over here and istrative bike initiatives. panding the program. they don’t have access to a “I think transportation in “We’re committed to this car, so they may not get as general is relevant to stuand we’re going to designate much exposure to the comdents,” Bongratz said. “This some seed money to it, but munity as they should.” is a commuter school and we before it gets too big we need Spann said the program is also have a high international to see how it works,” he said. also educational, as students student population, and bikLehnert said because the who rent a bike are required ing initiatives are really helpprogram was oriented toward to purchase a helmet and ful in supporting both of students’ needs, the task of take safety courses. those student populations.”
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Music Fest hits ut
Fans gather around the stage located on the grassy area beside Memorial Field House Friday night for the University of Toledo’s third annual Music Fest.
The crowd at Music Fest waits for Bowling for Soup to take the stage.
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Khadirali Hobbs, an undeclared sophomore, Asha Townsend, a junior majoring in psychology and theatre, and Makala White, a junior majoring in nursing, look on as Hot Sauce performs during Music Fest Friday evening. bob taylor/ic
Bishop Random (left), a freshman majoring in business, dances to the music of K’Jon with his friend and fellow freshman Dequan Justice.
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Kelly Mossing, a freshman majoring in biology, and Jae Huth, a freshman majoring in business, enjoy the University of Toledo’s third annual Music Fest Friday night outside of Memorial Field House. Bob taylor/ic
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John Harris (right), a vocal performance major at the University of Toledo, enjoys the festivities at Music Fest with friends Amy Wiginton (left) and Lisa Dye.
Country group Gloriana performs Friday night at Music Fest.
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