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UT looks to extend in-state tuition

By Sura Khuder News Editor

The University of Toledo is reaching out to nonOhio students by extending in-state tuition to bordering states beginning next academic year.

UT is looking to offer in-state tuition to incoming undergraduates from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan.

It has not been decided whether students coming from West Virginia and Kentucky will receive instate tuition.

Vice President for External Affairs Larry Burns said future plans may further extend in-state tuition to states outside of Ohio’s border.

UT already offers instate tuition to students of Monroe County, Michigan.

Other scholarships specific to out-of-state students will be created to further reduce student costs, according to Burns.

Tuition per credit hour for in-state students cost

$316.58 per credit hour this semester, while outof-state students pay $746.18 per credit hour.

Burns said his committee is still in the process of meeting with others, including UT President Lloyd Jacobs before the plan is finalized.

Some of the details still needing to be worked out include minimum student grade point average requirements, standardized test scores and whether this offer will be extended to out-of-state students currently enrolled at UT. Burns said the University of Minnesota already offers in-state tuition to bordering states.

Burns said the UT plan is a part of a greater strategy to reach out to states outside of the Ohio border.

“We do very well in the percentage of students who apply to UT and come here within a 50 mile radius,” Burns said.

“What we don’t do so well — Tuition, Page A2

By Allison Seney IC Staff Writer

Graphic by Nick Kneer / IC

UT is looking at expanding in-state tuition to undergraduate students from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Michigan. It is undecided whether students from Kentucky and West Virginia will receive in-state tuition.

Study shows relation between musical tastes and right handedness

By Sura Khuder News Editor

When an unpopular song starts to play on the radio, the

average listener switches stations.

What decides who will give the unfamiliar track a shot may be predicted not by individual

taste in music, but in handedness, according to a researcher at the University of Toledo.

A study, conducted by Stephen Christman, professor of

Graphic by Nick Kneer / IC According to a study by Stephen Christman, professor of psychology at UT, strong right-handed individuals prefer popular music while those who use both hands for daily activities are more likely to listen to jazz.

psychology, reveals strong right-handed individuals prefer popular music while their mixed-handed counterparts — those who use both left and right hands for daily activities — are more open to less popular music genres such as jazz, reggae and bluegrass. Popular music is categorized in the study by recording industry sales figures.

The study looked at 92 students who were enrolled in the Principles of Psychology course. Participants filled out a ten question inventory assessing which hand they use for daily activities such as writing, holding a spoon, opening jars and striking a match. The study was recently published in the “Psychology of Music” journal.

The study stated strong right-handedness is associated with “decreased tendencies to update beliefs,” arising from less interaction between the brain’s hemispheres.

This decreased interaction corresponds to righties having a smaller corpus

callosum, a band of fibers connecting the left and right brain hemispheres to each other.

The right hemisphere, Christman explained, “looks for inconsistencies [in thoughts] and can force an updating of beliefs,” while the left hemisphere is more prone to sticking to beliefs.

Righties are therefore more likely to stick to popular music because they are exposed to it often.

On the other hand, mixedhanded individuals have a larger corpus callosum, making them more likely to seek out new experiences.

“The things we don’t like, the more we are exposed to them, the more we start to like them,” Christmas said.

“Mixed handed people just get there faster.”

It isn’t that disliking jazz and reggae is not inherent to right handedness, but they need to push themselves more than mixed-handed people to like it, Christman — Study, Page A2

Student recovers after week-long hospital stay

By John Gumersell IC Staff Writer

David Mettert, the UT student who was severely injured in front of Maxwell’s Brew on West Bancroft Street, has been released from the hospital and says he is doing well.

The senior majoring in sales and marketing suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as a stroke after the impact.

“I lost nearly half of the blood in my body and thirty pounds,” Mettert said. “The doctors told me it was unthinkable that I lived through something like this, for how much blood I lost.”

Mettert, known locally and by his friends as the young hiphop artist “Yung Dizzy,” was walking out of Maxwell’s at around 1:30 a.m. when he ran

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into a high school acquaintance on Nov. 4.

Mettert said when his old friend was driving off from the coffee shop, Mettert playfully jumped on the back of his friend’s car.

The driver ran the red light on Bancroft and Westwood Avenue with Mettert hanging on the back. Mettert slipped off and held onto the spoiler, but then quickly fell off of the vehicle, landing hard on his face.

“It felt like the driver floored the car when I jumped on the back,” he said.

Mettert said luckily one of his friends, Courtney Behmlander, a senior majoring in nursing, found Mettert at the scene.

“I’m so glad his friends found him in the street when they

did, or else he could have gone unseen for too long,” said Ashley Sadlowski, Mettert’s girlfriend.

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I’m so glad his friends found him in the street when they did, or else he could have gone unseen for too long.

Ashley Sadlowski Student Cleveland State University

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Mettert was equally thankful for Behmlander’s presence.

“She saved my life,” he said.“She found me walking by the street — I was spitting up blood. I don’t remember much after I fell off.”

Behmlander immediately phoned the police and ambulance. When they arrived, Mettert was rushed to the Toledo hospital.

Mettert was then air-lifted to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor where he stayed for a week.

Mettert said despite his quick recovery, he must be closely monitored. He is not permitted to be left alone for too long, as his brain injury could spontaneously subject him to further physical complications.

Mettert has since moved out of his Toledo apartment and back in with his family in Perrysburg.

“I’ve been sticking close to my family and friends since I was taken out of the hospital,” Mettert said.

Mettert said Sadlowski immediately put everything on hold when she found out about Mettert’s accident.

“My girlfriend was so supportive of me through all of this,” Mettert said.

While Mettert was in the hospital, he unfortunately missed a show that his hip-hop crew “Subpar Sound” played at the Omni, opening for hip hop singer Mike Posner. The band dedicated the show to Mettert in his absence.

Ethan Ladowitz, Mettert’s bandmate and roommate, said in a previous interview that despite Mettert’s absence, performing without him felt like the right thing to do.

“We got a great response from the crowd and that’s what he wanted,” Ladowitz said.

Ricky Walker purchased a home at the intersection of Central Avenue and Cherry Street shortly after graduating from the University of Toledo.

Although Walker is no longer taking classes, the former political science major still chose to purchase a home in the area.

“The relative low cost of my home, even when the selling market was up, was a definite factor,” Walker said. “It was very appealing.”

Toledo has been recently ranked the fourth most affordable college town in the country by the College Home Listing Report released by Coldwell Banker, a real estate agency.

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The relative low cost of my home, even when the selling market was up, was a definite factor. It was very appealing.

Ricky Walker UT Alumnus

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The report provides the average home listing prices for three-bedroom, two-bathroom properties between August 2010 and August 2011.

The average home around UT, meeting these criteria, costs $112,688.

The University of Memphis in Tennessee, ranked as the country’s most affordable college market with the average home listed at $89,244, followed by Ball State University at $107,346 and Eastern Michigan University at $107,458.

Topping the list as most expensive was the area surrounding the University of California, Los Angeles at $1,271,428.

Director of Resident Life Jo Campbell said although UT ranks high on the list of affordable college towns, it is less expensive to live on campus.

The cheapest double room costs $2,823 per semester at Dowd, Nash and White and the most expensive double rooms are at Ottawa and The Crossings at $3,656 per semester.

Campbell said buying a home would also not be a financially wise decision because students would still have a house on their hands after graduation, something that could be problematic if the student chose to leave the area.

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Tuition From Page A1 yet is 50 miles out.”

Although many students beyond that radius apply to UT, Burns said the number isn’t as high as the administration would like.

UT has been using aggressive advertisement, using traditional methods such as billboards and newer techniques with the help of social networking, to increase recruiting efforts.

Facebook and Twitter campaigns asked UT students “Why UT,” and students whose responses, hash tagged with the question, garnered the most votes were used in the campaign.

“What we are doing is marketing our programs more succinctly, in more detail… meaning our business, pharmacy, our fine art program, nursing,” Burns said.

“So people know about us, but now they need to know our programs are worth coming to.”

During October, Burns said UT focused a lot on marketing the College of

Study From Page A1 said.

Mixed-handedness is different than being ambidextrous, Christman explained.

Ambidexterity means an individual uses both right and left hands equally for all activities or that one uses their left hand for half of all activities and their right hand for the other half.

It is estimated that 43 percent of humans are mixed handed, compared to 55 percent who are categorized as right handed.

Christman maintained there is nothing about jazz or reggae that makes the music less appealing, but fewer people are likely to hear the genres because they are less likely to get airtime.

“These are the types of music that need to be sought out and mixed-handed people are more likely to do that,” Christman said. “And when they do, they’re more likely to keep

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November did not involve as aggressive marketing techniques, but the business school was still the main focus.

UT has also utilized Customer Management System software, allowing the university to specifically target high school students based on their interests.

“Technology is allowing us to take information we learn about our prospective students and try to develop messages specifically for them,” Burns said. “As we get more information about prospective students, we are able to take that information and send messages specifically for you.”

Burns said UT has made progress in attracting students who come here for reasons other than finances.

“We used to be a fallback school for local students,” Burns said. “We are changing that — more and more students are coming to UT because it’s their number one choice.” listening to them until they like them.”

Unpopular music isn’t the only thing righties are less likely to seek out.

According to Christman, any experience that requires more exposure before one begins to accept it, such as trying new foods, is not likely to be sought out by a right-handed person.

Additionally, strong righties have more conservative stances in life, while mixed-handers are more liberal and open to alternative ideas.

Christman left out strong left-handed people in the study because, true lefties are rare and represent only 2 percent of the population, and prior research has shown strong lefties give similar results as strong righties, therefore giving no further insight to the study.

Christman, who is mixedhanded, has been studying handedness for the past 15 years. He said his mission is to give people a different way to look at handedness and the

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Affordable From Page A1 take advantage of other opportunities on campus such as making lifelong friends and enjoying the security benefit of dorms.

Emily Liske, a senior majoring in psychology, said while students can have a great experience living in a house, living on campus may actually prove to be a less costly alternative.

“I think people can save more money living on campus because they have the student financial aid and discounts to help,” Liske said.

Liske said living offcampus means students are often not the center of campus events.

Cindy Sammons, majoring in respiratory care, said living off campus is more private and quieter, but gas prices can make it difficult to commute. implications it may have.

Christman’s prior research has shown eating disorders have more to do with a person’s handedness than their gender.

This research found the left hemisphere of the brain may be partly responsible for an individual’s perception of a distorted body representation.

“The right hemisphere is normally better at updating and helping maintain accurate left hemisphere-based representations of body image,” according to a study from the “International Eating Disorders Journal” in 2006.

Christman said his future research will look at degrees of mixed handedness and the consequences they may have.

He said he generally finds inspiration for his research from personal thoughts.

“I’m kind of lucky where I can use observations about myself as starting points for my research,” he said. “Is it just Steve Christman or is it everyone else?”

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Toledo has been recently ranked the fourth most affordable college town in the country by the College Home Listing Report released by Coldwell Banker, a real estate agency.

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Piracy act is Internet censorship shutdown these websites, then lawsuits over copyright infringement from Hollywood media producers are sure to do it. However, the bill doesn’t mention how the government is going to evaluate the effectiveness of each company’s piracy policy.

For the millions of people accessing Facebook, Youtube and Google each day, there’s only a handful of staff available to keep each website in check. To require every video be evaluated by staff members before being posted would be exhausting. Website viewers are usually attracted to these sites because they can upload content quickly, but that feature is lost with this bill.

There are millions of songs and videos out there; it’s not possible for companies to investigate every upload. Also, there’s going to be someone who posts a link to a site that violates copyright laws. Whole companies should not be shutdown because one user violated that law. These companies should keep an eye out for infringement, but ultimately, the task of searching for these violations should be with the companies that made the original product. Facebook, Youtube and Google shouldn’t receive lawsuits or threats to be shutdown unless it’s apparent they’re rejecting requests to take down copyrighted material.

SOPA’s objective was to protect jobs, but more jobs are at risk of being lost from this bill. At base, SOPA’s goals protected business interests, but the powers granted to the government and media corporations borders on control for control’s sake. The bill needs to be drastically rewritten to include what counts as copyright infringement and how the government intends to evaluate policing efforts. In the end, SOPA is just another bill Americans can’t afford to have around.

The Stop Online Piracy Act is one of the government’s recent attempts to curb piracy in the United States. But as written, SOPA functions more as a censorship tool than as a safeguard for the intellectual properties of artists.

The bill grants Internet service providers the authority to block websites deemed as violators of copyright infringement. Critics of the bill argue that this authority sounds like internet censorship used in China and Egypt. The Internet is something that should be subject to little government regulation because that it promotes innovation. Although this bill only allows an ISP to block websites that infringe copyright laws, it introduces the idea of Internet censorship.

There’s no guarantee this power isn’t something that will be abused down the road.

The definition of copyright infringement, as written in the bill, should be expanded on.

Uploading a movie or a song is infringing copyright laws, but what about artists uploading remixes and covers? Is it copyright infringement when a person’s uploading their child covering a Disney song at a concert? Should the creators of video game walkthrough be subjected to lawsuits from Nintendo or Microsoft? Unless an individual is using the creator’s material to gain profit, is what they’re doing really worth a fine?

Cover songs and remixes attract audiences to the original artist, not repel. There isn’t any harm in what many are doing, but the bill makes streaming copyrighted materials punishable with up to five years in prison.

Companies such as Google, Youtube and Facebook are opposed to the bill because the vague wording of it threatens their businesses.

It grants the government the ability to shutdown websites that aren’t proactively preventing piracy. If government interference doesn’t

Black Friday madness requirement is almost necessary to ensure one doesn’t get plowed by shopping carts.

These sales are attractive to people trying to save money. Those on a budget often surrender their budget plans to spur-of-the-moment spending. When setting out for some cheap pajamas, customers are also lured by cheap jeans and sweaters. However, customers should limit themselves to purchasing just what they set out for, and they should ask themselves if what they’re purchasing is worth the long lines and the brutal attitude of others.

They should ask themselves if the short-term spending will derive any long-term pleasure.

“Black-eye Friday” has people forgetting to treat people as people, not obstacles. People are seen as competition for a scarce prize, no better than animals. These rabid shoppers should remember to treat people better than the scum at the bottom of the shoes they just bought.

Besides, Cyber Monday is today, who needs the long lines when you can shop from the comfort of your own home?

Black Friday is our country’s dearest capitalist tradition. Only in America will people rush out the day after expressing thanks for all they have just to buy even more things.

One woman resorted to spraying other customers with pepper spray to snag the first Xbox at a Walmart in California. Ten were injured while a few others sustained bruises, according to a Washington Post article. The same article reported crowds looted a clothing store in New York, gunshots were fired at a mall in North Carolina and a man was beaten because an officer was suspicious he was shoplifting a video game in Phoenix.

This Black Friday violence should have people questioning if the madness is worth a killer bargain. People frantically charge into stores hoping they’ll be the first to get their hands on a new game system or television.

Parking spots become a myth as cars fill lots and people resort to makeshift spaces. No mercy is spared to anyone blocking a bargain; sleep-deprived and caffeine-induced customers shove and trample over fellow shoppers for a good sale. A certain weight and height

- Letter To the editor Traffic and parking around the University of Toledo can be chaotic at times. We all know that. A fantastic initiative that Student Government has been working on for over a year aims to alleviate the strain on students’ gas tanks and road rage: the Bike Friendly Initiative.

While the project was initially proposed as a temporary parking solution, the initiative has evolved into incorporating the ever-present mission at the University of Toledo to improve the human condition. By providing increased marketing and safer routes for bikers to travel, more students, faculty and staff have more opportunities to improve their health through exercise and the health of the environment by decreasing carbon emissions.

Following a campus study conducted by Eta Sigma

Gamma, UT’s health education profession honors society, which evaluated Main Campus’ “bikeability,” Main Campus now boasts new bike corrals, bike lanes, and signage directing bikers to trails and new corrals.

The University’s new project called “Rail to Trail” will transform a rarely used railway into a bike trail to the Health Science Campus. This path will increase physical and recreational activity among UT’s students and surrounding community members.

Main campus is currently connected to Wildwood Metropark by the University/ Parks Trail. I have personally ridden my bike many times on this trail from UT as it is a safe, quick and healthy method to travel to my favorite Metropark in Toledo.

Students living near the Health Science Campus do

not have the luxury of a safe bike route from HSC to Main Campus or the metroparks as of now. The “Rail to Trail” project will further enhance the University’s mission of improving the human condition and the underlying goal of any health facility to promote healthy living. Heart disease is the number one killer of Americans today.

Physical activity is one way to decrease risks for attaining such disease and increasing quality of life.

The new bike trail from Main Campus to Health Science Campus is a welcomed renovation that I am more than thrilled to see coming to our future community!

— Elizabeth Greer Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Human Service

UT needs a green fund The University of Toledo is on a path towards a sustainable future judging from its plans to reduce energy consumption 20 percent by 2014.

UT has done okay so far, but I want to see more engagement from the students.

I would love see Braeden to Gilchrist more energy efficient buildings and renewable energy come to Main Campus to transform it into a living laboratory.

UT is already dedicated to sustainability; I want there to be resources for student-driven initiatives. I advocate the creation of a student-controlled fund for creative sustainability initiatives on campus, named The Green Initiative Fund.

The student-majority green fund committee would be able to fund projects that benefit students and the environment. Some students have spoken to me about increasing access to recycling and composting on campus. The recent bike lockers on campus are an example of something TGIF could work with.

Bowling Green State University is one of many universities that have already

created sustainability funds and are working to go green.

The Ohio State University is working towards zero waste for every home football game.

A conservation program called UTakeCharge at the University of Texas at Austin has revamped lighting, water and steam systems to save the campus thousands of dol-

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The recent bike lockers on campus are an example of something TGIF could work with.

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lars. Keeping the operating costs of our university down could reduce pressure to increase tuition rates.

TGIF committee would be staffed by students and advised by faculty; they can use organizations like the Student Advisory Committee, a group that allocates special request funding to student organizations, as a model. We already have countless professors directly working on green research and initiatives, and the committee will be able to link students to existing green opportunities and provide guidance on new ones.

A green fund would give students an opportunity to gain experience for the next industrial revolution. The Midwest has been dealing with economic troubles long before the latest recession, but Ohio’s economic future can be saved by green technology. Ohio is second only to Iowa in manufacturing for the wind industry. An example of our state’s presence in the renewable energy industry is First Solar, a company with its first factory in Ohio and one of America’s largest photovoltaic manufacturers.

TGIF would help elevate UT’s sagging reputation as a university committed to sustainability. UT received a “C” rating on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card and an “F” for shareholder engagement. TGFI must include multiple shareholders like students, faculty and alumni to be effective.

I’m proposing a new student fee of just $10 to create TGIF; this is just 0.1 percent of the current tuition rate.

Don’t forget, this isn’t about taking student money, it’s about putting money in students’ hands.

— Braeden Gilchrist is an IC Columnist and a senior majoring in mechnical engineering.

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Rockets take care of Ball St. but fall short in MAC West

By Nate Pentecost Assistant Sports Editor

Northern Illinois bested Eastern Michigan 18-12 early Friday afternoon to dash the Rockets hopes of appearing in the Mid-American Conference championship game.

But Toledo still put on a strong showing in Muncie Ind. later that day, topping a solid Ball State squad 45-28 to finish with 7-1 record in conference play.

“It was kind of a heartbreaker [to hear NIU won] but we still had a game to play,” said UT running back Adonis Thomas.

“We feel as though we’re the best team in the conference but Northern Illinois one-upped us. It’s kind of hurtful. We put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears in the offseason. To fall short of your goal is upsetting.”

A trip to Ford Field for the MAC championship game was not in the cards but the Rockets will almost certainly receive a bowl bid with the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl or the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl being the most likely destinations.

“We’ll go anywhere,” said UT Head Coach Tim Beckman. “We need bowls, because it enables our young players to continue to improve and it gives our seniors the opportunity to play one more game.”

The Rockets jumped out to a 14-0 lead on a pair of scores by senior running back Adonis Thomas and Morgan Williams. UT would not relinquish the lead.

Thomas punched the ball in from four-yards out before sophomore quarterback Terrance Owens hit Williams for an 11-yard touchdown strike.

Owens completed his first

14 passes, including eight to junior wideout Eric Page in the first quarter. Owens finished 27 of 32 passing for 267 yards and four touchdowns.

Page caught a career-high 16 passes for 145 yards and set a program record for receptions in a season (112).

He also tied current New Orleans Saint Lance Moore’s record of 25 career touchdowns and broke Moore’s record of 103 receptions in a single season.

“It’s a great feeling to know that we broke those records,” Page said. “But I’m glad that we got the win more than anything, and we can have a better record than last year. We finished 8-5. We’re 8-4 right now and going to a bowl game, so that’s the best feeling.”

The Cardinals responded to Toledo’s 14-point spurt with an 80-yard drive capped off by 1-yard touchdown run by Jahwan Edwards with 8:57 remaining in the second quarter.

A 30-yard TD heave from Owens to sophomore receiver Bernard Reedy in the closing minute made the score 21-7 at the half.

After forcing Ball State to go three-and-out on the opening drive of the second half, the Rockets drove 87 yards, scoring on a 3-yard pass by Owens to redshirtfreshman wide receiver Cassius McDowell. The touchdown, which made the score 28-7, was McDowell’s first as a Rocket.

The Cardinals managed to score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter but a 35-yard field goal by Ryan Casano and 58-yard pick-six by junior safety Jermaine Robinson kept the game well in hand for the Rockets.

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Senior running back Adonis Thomas and junior wideout Eric Page combined for 312 yards and two touchdowns in the win over Ball State.

Pearson leads Toledo in win over Illinois-Chicago

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Sophomore guard Rian Pearson led the Rockets with 27 points in an 82-67 victory over UIC.

By Jay Skebba Sports Writer

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Upset, Upset After the Rockets upset Indiana on Friday, they were upended by Arkansas St. yesterday. Toledo lost guard Naama Shafir (above) in the first half of the IU game with a knee injury. Her timetable to return is unknown. Toledo returns to action on Thursday.

The Toledo men’s basketball team kept their hot streak alive and knocked off the Illinois-Chicago Flames Saturday night at Savage Arena, 82-67.

Sophomore guard Rian Pearson led the way for the Rockets, pouring in a careerhigh 27 points to lead all scorers. UT shot 53 percent from the field and held UIC to just 37 percent.

“A great way to open up our home season,” said UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk. “I thought we had tremendous

intensity and ball pressure.

Our team defense was really good.”

Joining Pearson in double figures for Toledo was freshman guard Julius Brown who finished with 17 points on 6 of 13 shooting.

“Ryan’s playing at a high level at both ends,” said Kowalczyk.

“His energy and enthusiasm has been very good and that’s been infectious and contagious throughout our team. If he makes his foul shots, he might have went for 40 tonight.”

The 4-1 start for the Rockets is the best start to a year

since the 2003-2004 season when they won their first five games.

Toledo is coming off backto-back four win seasons and did not win their fourth game last year until January 19th against Western Michigan.

“More-so than any program I’ve been a part of, the start of our season was more important than any time I’ve been a head coach,” Kowalczyk said.

UT will returns to action on Wednesday to take on the 0-4 UNC-Wilmington Seahawks Association at Savage Arena.

Tip time is set for 7 p.m.

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The Faux Paus to remain in style Tips for auditions Local indie rock band released new album ‘Basement’ Friday

By Megan Aherne Arts and Life Editor

Go to college, meet good friends, start a band, travel the country and pursue passions perpetually.

Such is the progression of local band, The Faux Paus, who released their second album “Basement” at the Ottawa Tavern on Friday.

Amanda Thompson, Carrie Theuring and Hannah Fritch met at UT as three film majors two years ago.

Fritch, who plays keyboard, guitar and vocals, said the group met in various classes.

“We decided to make a band in the editing lab one day when Carrie stumbled upon Amanda and myself playing around on guitar in there,” Fritch said.

Thompson plays the guitar, keyboard and vocals with Theuring on the drums.

Their first self-titled EP was released last year at Culture Clash Records. Since then, The Faux Paus have taken their indie folk rock music to cities through Eastern states such as New York, New Jersey and Ohio.

Fritch said since their debut EP they have begun developing their individual sound.

“I think on the first CD we were still trying to figure ourselves out as musicians. But on ‘Basement’ I feel we’ve got a coherent collection of songs,” she said.

Inspirations for their sound include bands such as Beirut, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s, CocoRosie, Wolf Parade and Arcade Fire.

The Faux Paus established a

Photo courtesy of MoonMob Art

From left to right: Carrie Theuring, Hannah Fritch and Amanda Thompson of The Faux Paus. solid fan base within Toledo and the love continues to spread. They have played at almost every venue and in various events throughout the city and plan on continuing to perform.

“On the list of highlights would definitely be our ‘Basement’ CD release party,” Fritch said. “Great turnout and so much support. Felt like all the work we’ve been putting into the CD, and the band for that matter, got a nice shot of affirmation with how excited and into [the music] everyone was.”

Being filmmakers as well, the band shoots and edits their music videos. They have created videos for songs such

as “Scratch Paper,” “Come Along Evangeline,” “Shane West” and “Athena.”

They also created documentary videos about their experiences in New York.

Andrew Makadsi, another alumnus of the UT film department, also created a video for the song “Two Weeks,” from The Faux Paus’ first album. All videos are on their self-titled Youtube channel.

Work for The Faux Paus does not end here. The band is currently making plans for more tour dates in and around the city.

“Next on the schedule is releasing a couple more EPs,” Fritch said. “We’re really trying to focus on recording

while we have such great resources here in Toledo, plus regional touring.”

Platinum records are not necessarily what these women have in mind for their band’s future.

“Self-sufficiency would be the ultimate goal,” Fritch said. “But mostly, always being able to create the music that we love and truly believe is uniquely ours to offer.”

The Faux Paus new CD, “Basement,” is available at the Allied Record Exchange on South Reynolds Road.

For tour dates, samples and more information about The Faux Paus, visit www.facebook.com/ TheFauxPaus.

Some things actors should know before auditioning for UT’s spring productions this week

She explained “In the Next Auditions are never as mysterious as people believe them to be. Room” is completely about laFor anyone unsure about what bels and our subjective cultural to do, the directors are more than context.

“The play is about willing to provide labels and how we guidance. It’s not a label things to make secret what they are them safe. We see an looking for in an auobject, name it, and dition; all you have to it becomes ours in a do is ask. way,” Alby said.

With auditions for The play is set in UT’s productions of the Victorian era, a “In the Next Room” society where everyand “Oedipus Rex” thing is labeled by approaching, interwhat is deemed apested actors should propriate. “The By Ashley Stephens understand the var- IC Staff Writer characters label ious aspects of the sexual pleasure as audition process. something medical, then when From my experience as an ac- they begin to see it as sex there is tor, the most important thing in a lot of panic,” Alby said. “I want an audition is the actor’s capabil- to incorporate the obvious labels ity to take direction. If the direc- and make things thought of as tor offers suggestions, try it. An safe and known, completely actor’s willingness to work will unknown.” be noticed.

This can be accomplished with The biggest mistake made by a prop, an object or even through those auditioning is misunder- the character the actor portrays. standing what they are audition- Alby suggests for the created ing for. characters to behave in a way One needs to be clear about the show they want to be a part that they wouldn’t normally.

The other performance, “Oediof and what the director has in pus Rex,” is a classic made conmind for the production.

A great way to display knowl- temporary by Director Edmund edge of a production is for the Lingan, assistant professor of monologue to reflect the theme theatre, who will aesthetically touch on a post-apocalyptic of the show.

“I would love to see an audi- society.

Auditions will be held in the tioner find a way to make the familiar [objects] strange, to be Center for Performing Arts from surprised by seeing something I 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow and don’t expect to see,” said director Wednesday.

—Ashley Stephens is a junior of “In the Next Room” Irene Alby, associate lecturer of theatre. majoring in theatre.

The world just got even smaller Some find the world too through the entrance and cov“big,” and a group of five art- ered the walls. Most of his ists is working to bring it works consist of natural elements, such as moss and down to scale.

Small Worlds, an blades of grass, fused with typical exhibit at the Toleart components do Museum of Art, such as canvas and offers a unique and paint. genuine insight inOne of his more to the worlds of popular pieces, these artists.

“Capture #9,” Before reaching the door of the looked surprisingly realistic, using Canaday Gallery, I the pieces of nawas greeted by a Caitlin Arthurs ture to create a large archway By Asst. Arts and Life Editor miniature stream composed of shipping crates, tree branches and forest. and other odds and ends. This Just around the corner lay didn’t seem significant at first, the reminiscent and slightly but it proved to be part of unsettling collection of George Euclide’s “Take It Charles Kanwischer. All of With You — Toledo,” a site- Kanwischer’s pieces, done in specific piece stretching graphite pencil, depict the throughout both floors of the houses and streets of a neighmuseum. borhood one might remember This initial exposure draws from childhood.

The sketches may seem the audience into the rest of peaceful on the surface, but the the exhibit.

Euclide’s pieces continues abandoned-looking scenes

have a rather creepy undertone.

It was a refreshing change of pace to view Joe Fig’s work, whose miniature houses drew my attention and admiration instantly.

Fig’s pieces were intricate and detailed; it was impossible not to gape at them. A couple of the works were model artist studios, complete with a polymer clay artist working in the studio to perfect the scene.

The pieces were enclosed in order to see the entire picture - I had to circle them while looking into the small windows and open doorways to take it all in. Every detail was considered, including CDs for a stereo and the tools on a garage wall.

The time and effort put into each piece was obvious and it made the scenes realistic and fascinating.

Lori Nix and her vibrant, post-apocalyptic prints were next. At first, her works

Photo courtesy of Lori Nix / www.smallworlds.toledomuseum.org

Artist Lori Nix’s, “Aquarium,” from “The City” series, featured at the Small Worlds Exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art. Chromogenic print, 2007.

appear as simple as digitally altered photographs, but they were remarkably complex.

Each piece is originally a painstakingly intricate diorama Nix constructs, after which she photographs and makes chromogenic prints of.

This allows viewers to see every detail on a larger scale, rather than looking at the miniatures through a magnifying glass.

Every one of Nix’s works depict a scene from a typical human setting, such as a library or a museum, abandoned after the apocalypse and overrun by plants or other creatures. The haunting desolation of each piece made me wonder what happened to bring the world to the depicted ruins.

As if the eeriness of Nix’s lost world wasn’t enough, the final part of the exhibit is a single piece, created by Japanese artist Tabaimo.

This piece, separated in another room from the rest of the exhibit, is entitled “danDAN” and consists of a video installation loop playing on a unique, three-paneled screen.

Eerie music played in the background, setting the mood of the strange, almost disturbing pictures on the screen.

Constantly changing and moving, the work combines both modern and traditional Japanese artwork, creating tension in the piece and in the audience.

As these artists show, the world doesn’t have to be so “big,” and the smaller world might be just a bit more interesting.

Try to make the time to see Small Worlds; there’s no better way to spend an afternoon than losing yourself in another world.

The Small Worlds exhibit runs at the Toledo Museum of Art through March 25, 2012 and admission is free.

— Caitlin Arthurs is a freshman majoring in English.

Photo courtesy of Gregory Euclide / www.smallworlds.toledomuseum.org

Gregory Euclide’s, “Bent Around The Making of Land’s Use.” Acrylic, found foam, moss, pen, pencil, sedum, wood, 2010. Lent from the collection of Alistair and Allie Miller.

From pen to paper Submissions from student literary artists

Our love in chains That shall never break It’s unique to us For no one to take

Austin Petrie is a sophomore majoring in exercise science.

By Austin Petrie

Send any form of creative writing under 100 words to carthurs@IndependentCollegian.com to be featured in the Arts and Life section.