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Independent Collegian IC The
www.IndependentCollegian.com 91st year Issue 34
Monday, January 31, 2011
Serving the University of Toledo since 1919
Retention up, enrollment down By Randiah Green News Editor
Graphic by Nick Kneer / IC
Enrollment at the University of Toledo dropped from 21,594 in the Spring 2010 semester to 21,108 in the Spring 2011 semester. While enrollment is down, 3,107 of 3,550 direct-from-high school students returned from the fall semester for an 87.3 percent retention rate.
Almost 90 percent of freshmen who came to the University of Toledo last fall have returned for the spring 2011 semester. This Spring Semester, 3,107 of the 3,550 directfrom-high school students who came to UT in the fall returned to take classes, an 87.3 percent retention rate. Larry Burns, vice president for student affairs and interim vice president of equity and diversity, credits the high retention rate to UT’s three-step plan. The first step was recruiting large numbers of students with initiatives such as the Blue and Gold Scholarship program. The second step was to only recruit the “most prepared” students and the last phase is to increase the number of prepared students admitted to UT.
UT is in the second phase of the plan. In the fall 2010 semester, 300 students who were considered to be underprepared were deferred and encouraged to go to a community college for a semester and transfer to UT the following semester. “The idea is the most prepared students have a better chance at coming back and doing well, and as we have seen, that has been the case,” Burns said. “We’re pleased with the progress we are making with our freshmen class that are returning That is up 87.3 percent from direct from high school freshmen and that compares to 80 percent last year. Though the number of freshmen students retained has increased this semester, very few of the 300 deferred students re-applied to UT. — Enrollment, Page A2
‘The Other Wes Moore’ author speaks at Toledo By Vincent J. Curkov IC Staff Writer
Wes Moore was studying abroad in West Africa when his mother called to tell him the Bronx was papered with wanted posters that had his name on them.
The police were looking for four men including ‘The Other Wes Moore’ who robbed a jewelry store and killed an off-duty police officer who had been moonlighting as a security guard for the store. Moore, a 10-year army
Photo courtesy of Random House Publishing Group
veteran, author, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity member and youth advocate visited UT Saturday to speak at the Aspiring Minority Youth Conference sponsored by UT Joint Committee and Toledo Office of EXCELLence. The theme of the conference this year was “Success or Failure: the Consequence of Choice.” Moore grew up in the Bronx in the early 1980’s during the introduction of crackcocaine. According to Moore, he has seen a decrease in deaths; last year New York had about 400 murders compared to about 2,500 in 1980. “[I grew up] seeing the family fabric begin to tear away,” he said. Moore describes himself as a child as a class clown and by the age of nine, he was picking and choosing which days of school to attend. He was arrested for vandalism when he has a kid, but he got off easy. “I was given a second chance, one I frankly didn’t take advantage of,” Moore said. He describes his mother as a constant source of tough love. She often threatened to ship him off to military school when he would act out. “My mother always said ‘I
Wes Moore is a 10-year army veteran, a youth advocate, an author and a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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The University of Toledo has installed three electric car charging stations around its campuses, including this charger on the Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation in Parking Lot 22.
Car chargers installed By Vincent J. Curkov IC Staff Writer
Three electric car charging stations have been installed at various locations on the University of Toledo’s campuses. One charger is located on the Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation in Parking Lot 22, another on is on the main campus in the service parking lot behind Carter Field, and the last is located by the facilities building on the Health Science Campus.
But UT is not giving students fuel for their electric cars for free. According to Chuck Lehnert, special assistant to the president and interim director for the Scott Park Campus of Energy and Innovation, the chargers are only for UT’s service vehicles. Currently UT only has one electric vehicle, but this will inevitably expand, according to Lehnert. “The chargers are easy enough to use,” Lehnert said. “They work very similarly to
gas pumps.” These chargers adhere to the automotive industry’s current standards for electric cars. It works with things like the Chevy Volt and other electric [vehicles,]” Lehnert said. In a press release from UT sent out last week, Lehnert said the chargers were installed in anticipation of members of the UT community purchasing electric vehicles such as the Chevy Volt. “The University of Toledo — Chargers, Page A2
How do you feel about pornography?
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I think its disgusting and I think it puts the female gender(s) down.
Tatjana Grubesic
— Veteran, Page A2
Nick Kneer / IC
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It’s alright, if you are into that.
Matt Lazette
Fresh. Bioengineering
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Antonio Olvera Fresh. Psychology
I’m practicing abstinence. To the people that are doing it that don’t have relationships, I pray that you get a relationship.
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Ben Harrison Soph. Chemical Engineering
It’s degrading to women. It’s a waste of peoples time and money and just bad for society.
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Check out our story on pornography on page B4 and our editorial on page A4.
I would be very offended if my boyfriend watched pornography.
Lauren Bliwas
Senior Marketing
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