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Collective bargaining not begging

By Randiah Green News Editor and Managing Editor

When union workers are under attack, what do they do?

They fight back.

Union workers and members of the working class made it evident they are not giving up the fight to preserve their collective bargaining rights as they gathered on the Student Union steps Monday.

Hoisting signs that read “Union Rights are Human Rights,” faculty and staff from UT’s Health Science Campus, Main Campus and others showed their disapproval of Senate Bill 5 and Ohio Gov. Kasich, or “K-suck” as one protester called him.

Senate Bill 5 will strip all public employees of their collective bargaining rights, which allow them to bargain for their wages, benefits, health care and working conditions among others, if passed by the Ohio House.

The bill was passed by the Ohio Senate with a vote of 17

to 16 on March 2.

Union blood is thicker than tea

“Senate bill 5 is an attack on democracy, plain and simple,” said Mark Buford from the UAW Community Action Program Council. “The right to collectively bargain is a right that people have died for; a right that we have no intention of giving up without one hell of a fight.”

Buford was just one of many community members who came to show support for UT unions and disapproval for UT President Lloyd Jacobs.

Jacobs sent a letter to Chair of the Ohio Senate Insurance, Commerce and Labor Committee Kevin Bacon showing his support for the bill in February.

In the letter, Jacobs stated as much as $10 million could be saved at UT with the passage of the bill, which would help fix “inefficiencies” in employees.

“Shame on you President Jacobs, for your support of Senate Bill 5,” Buford said. “Labor

unions, their employer partners, have spent millions of dollars in this university with educational benefits to their members, support of your programs and support of your athletic programs. Shame on you President Jacobs for supporting legislation that is so profoundly wrong for workers, so wrong for Ohio and so very wrong for our great University of Toledo.”

State Rep. Teresa Fedor said at the rally, Kasich and other supporters of the bill “forgot to read the constitution” and Kasich “thinks he’s at a CEO roundtable.”

“He forgot that he needs to have a fair share in this state,” she said. “They forgot about Ronald Regan who said ‘the nine most terrifying words in the English language are I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ That’s what I’ve heard from governor Kasich since he was sworn into office and I think he forgot those words because he wants to help

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Union workers, members of the working class and others attend a rally against Senate Bill 5 in front of the Student Union on Monday to fight to preserve their collective bargaining rights.

Company to commercialize UTdeveloped treatment

By Jaimee Hilton IC Staff Writer

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Earning the Elite Eight

ADS Biotechnology Ltd. is in the process of commercializing a new medical treatment developed by University of Toledo researchers that expands blood volume.

The treatment works to expand the blood’s volume to keep blood from escaping in certain scenarios where a patient’s blood vessels leak due to Capillary Leak Syndrome, a counter-adaptive response to any kind of severe injury.

Inventors at the UT Technology Transfer Office licensed this technology and gave it to ADS to manufacture and commercialize.

ADS is one of about 18

spin-off companies that have come from UT. “Spin-off businesses are generally highly regarded,” said Vice President for Technology Transfer at UT Daniel Kory. “It’s not that they’re more important, they’re more noteworthy because they create more local jobs.

They create wealth and opportunity in local communities and help diversify the economy and it’s a way for the university to attain recognition.”

The researchers at UT are responsible for licensing the technology. Their job is to put the license agreement together and manage it for the — Treatment, Page A4

The UT women’s basketbal team beat Alabma 74-59 on Tuesday night to advance to the Elite Eight of the WNIT. The Rockets will host the game on Sunday at 2 p.m. against the winner of tonight’s game between Syracuse and Eastern Michigan. Admission is free for all students with a student ID courtesy of the Office of the President.

American Wasteland

By Megan Gross For the IC

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Author Jonathan Bloom discusses the wasting of food in a presentation at Augsburg Lutheran Church Tuesday night.

More than 150 billion pounds of food, which amounts to about $250 billion, is wasted annually in the United States according to author Jonathan Bloom.

For almost two years, Bloom researched this growing problem to publish his book titled “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It).”

Bloom was invited to Toledo as a guest speaker for a series hosted by UT’s Urban Affairs Center Tuesday at Augsburg Lutheran Church.

The goal of the Urban Affairs Center is to “enhance economic mentality and way of life.”

Bloom said low prices, abundance, large serving

portions, superficiality, expiration dates and squeamishness are contributing factors to waste in the U.S. Blooms latest research shows food prices account for less than 10 percent of a household’s income, despite myths about prices having increased.

Bloom said food should actually cost more than it does, considering how many steps of production it has to go through.

Restaurants have taken food portion sizes to an outrageous level, according to Bloom.

“It’s taken on a life of its own,” he said.

Food superficiality has also been a driving factor in food waste.

“We want perfection and — Wasteland, Page A4

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Vice President for Technology Transfer at UT Daniel Kory discusses spin-off businesses at the Technology Transfer Office.

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Rocco’s modern life Many of our habits, customs, “polite gestures” and other social behaviors are maladaptive and extraordinarily wasteful. From energy inefficiency to overuse and overconsumption, many of us go through each day of our lives pointlessly using far more resources than we need. Possibly worst of all, these behaviors seem to either go completely unnoticed or are acknowledged as positives by society.

Any one of us can probably find countless examples of these wasteful behaviors. As soon as one starts taking stock of each item that uses electricity or must be replaced frequently, the material cost of each person living the average American lifestyle begins to be revealed.

How often have you walked into a building — whether restaurant, retail store, university building or private residence — and been greeted with full electric lighting, despite it being midday and already fully illuminated by the sun? Besides being bad for the eyes and disorienting to the human psyche, the use of electric lighting in bright sunlight is a pointless and constant drain of electricity-producing resources.

Many of us have become overly fond of bottled water — billions of advertising dollars and exaggerated stories of worsening tap water quality have gifted us with this new addiction. It’s been tested, proven and publicized that nearly all brands of bottled water are of the same quality as tap water in most areas.

Yet we continue to shell out anywhere from 50 cents to 10 dollars for a small quantity and a plastic bottle that will most likely be mixed with the garbage. Ten dollars will buy a quality, reusable bottle that lasts many years and never has to be paid for again.

The amount of food wasted in the United States is possibly the most disturbing and disgusting result of our consumption habits. According to Jonathan Bloom’s new book, “American Wasteland,” Americans throw away 160 billion pounds of food annually.

Nearly half of the food produced here either rots in the field or finds its way to a landfill, uneaten.

Huge portions in restaurants and an expectation that appetites match advertisements often leave us with more on our plate than we could possibly need. While the take-home box AKA doggie-bag can easily be used to save extra food for later, many reject the option, choosing to let the rest of their still-edible food to be put in the trash.

Is it pride? Desire to conform? Or do these choices go so unnoticed they don’t seem to be choices?

These problems have no simple or catch-all solutions. Some can be assuaged with government subsidies and tax breaks for business that work to reduce waste. Food producers could be forced to disclose the origins and means of harvesting and disposal of raw materials and packaging, letting consumers choose which practices to support.

Our schools need to introduce these questions early on, promoting awareness of the impact of our lifestyles. Our advertisement-filled, consumerist culture breeds an ignorance of any consequences beyond the cost to our wallet.

How different would our culture of buying be if instead of just a price tag, each bottle of water, gallon of gas, electric bill or glittery, 3-dimensional Hallmark card was also labeled with the plant, animal, mineral and other resources that were consumed or made permanently unusable in order to produce it?

From snake oil to Zoloft and original CocaCola, medicine rarely what it claims to be A lecture was given earlier this week

by Petar Bajic in which he discussed the dynamic history of medical advertisement. As with anything that can be commoditized and profited from, medicine has never been brought to full clarity or awareness in the public mind. A constant barrier of disinformation is maintained by clever and contrived advertising.

These advertisements try — and often succeed — in convincing us that we can’t possibly solve problems on our own. By reaching out to everyone with incredibly generalized symptoms like “not feeling like you fit in,” “feeling depressed” or “lacking energy,” pharmaceutical companies urge us to consult our doctors to see if we should try medication.

Lo and behold! The doctors, who are often encouraged through one incentive or another to prescribe more drugs, agree that your symptoms — some of which you actually perceive and some of which you borrowed from the advertisement — warrant your use of the drug.

The presentation of many medications nowadays also seeks to overcomplicate our ailments, denying the all-too-obvious fact that our technological progress

has vastly outstripped our biological evolution. Where earlier humans had millennia for their bodies and behaviors to adapt to a gradually-changing climate, we have forced a tremendous amount of change upon ourselves and our world with a few short centuries.

Instead of asking which pill or injection could be used to end our discomfort, we should examine our lifestyle and change our unhealthy behaviors.

With all the time we spend sitting in automobiles, sitting at desks in classrooms and offices and sitting in front of TV and computer screens, it’s little wonder that our bodies find endless ways to break down and function poorly.

It’s doubtful that many in the early 20th century predicted that television would become such a central and dominant fixture in the American lifestyle, producing billions in advertising revenue and spawning numerous other industries.

Likewise in doubt are any predictions of the rise in attention and other behavioral disorders, urge to conformity, monopolization of industries and maladaptive behaviors encouraged by TV.

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- in Your opinion Prioritize education, not cut The loss of $19 million in state funding for fiscal year 2012 at the University of Toledo (UT), as recently outlined by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, is yet another blow to Ohio’s public education system.

Casey Cheap’s recent article titled “UT to lose $19 M” (3/21/11) in the Independent Collegian underscored how this funding cut will directly affect students at UT. Possible changes include tuition rate hikes along with a shorter degree completion time. In the current struggling economy, our state has become too focused on quick fixes without thinking about how these decisions will affect the future of our jobs and the overall quality of our education.

The recent attack on public employee’s unions through Senate Bill 5 is a similar poor attempt to balance the budget. The bill proposed cutting the salaries and benefits of teachers among other public employees. Because of this, many experienced teachers are ready to quit teaching in the public schools or leave the state of Ohio altogether.

We have already been losing skilled workers to other states because of the recession, but now through Senate Bill 5, we are making the jobs available in the state of Ohio even less attractive. This, along with the tuition hikes, will leave our university filled with less qualified workers willing to work for less and will cause students to enter into greater student loan debt to cover the rising costs.

With the decrease of state

funding for UT Cheap discusses, cuts are being made in the quality of our education. Experienced professors are being encouraged to retire early and are being replaced with overworked adjunct professors.

Our four year degree as well may be reduced to a pathetic three years of education — one year more than an Associate’s degree.

This cheapened education is not going to win over employers or help students prepare for a career.

There is a need to cut our state’s budget but education is not the area to do it. Instead we need to support our teachers and our programs of study, in order to foster an environment of learning for the next generation.

Phillip Clayton

Can’t pick and choose It’s hip these days for conservatives to lovingly quote Franklin D. Roosevelt. There’s a sentence I never expected to write.

They’ve been over the moon about FDR ever since Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unleashed the GOP’s master plan to break the public unions. I know this because they have been blogging and tweeting, and sending me scores of identical e-mail messages detailing why they have fallen so hard for FDR. Buoyed by their successful crusade in Wisconsin, Republicans want to go national and strip other public unions. And they feel justified because even Roosevelt, the sainted liberal icon, opposed public bargaining rights.

Granted, their FDR invocations are a tad selective.

They’re not quoting from Roosevelt’s various attacks on the big-business conservatives of his era, the “economic royalists” who practiced “economic slavery” and opposed all New Deal efforts “to protect the citizen.”

FDR scoffed that these conservatives “seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness, they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”

No, I’m getting no such e-mail, nor anything about how he fashioned the federal safety net by signing the law that created Social Security. Rather, conservatives are limiting their love to one letter he wrote during the summer of 1937.

While congratulating the National Federation of Federal Employees on its 20th anniversary, FDR stated in the fourth paragraph: “All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.”

Some pro-union liberals, mindful of the fight in Wisconsin and its potential resonance elsewhere, have tried to knock down the letter by citing other passages

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where Roosevelt appeared to be hedging. (FDR, a famously subtle politician, was practiced in the art of telling people what they wanted to hear.)

For instance, he also wrote: “The desire of government employees for fair and adequate pay ... is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical.”

But, on balance, conservatives are correct about the overall thrust of FDR’s letter. And besides stating his opposition to public union bargaining, he contended that any and all “militant tactics” that public union workers used, especially strikes, were “unthinkable and intolerable.”

So doesn’t this mean that

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Who cares what Roosevelt wrote in a letter 74 years ago? Roosevelt took his stand against public unions at the dawn of the collectivebargaining era.

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conservatives can now go forth nationwide in their campaign to strip public unions of their bargaining rights, with a de facto endorsement from, of all people, FDR? They’ll certainly continue to spin it that way, but here’s my rebuttal: Who cares what Roosevelt wrote in a letter 74 years ago?

Roosevelt took his stand against public unions at the dawn of the collective-bargaining era. The world moved on soon after his death. By the ‘50s, public union bargaining was on the ascent, and presidents in both parties supported or broadened those rights.

Presidents take all kinds of positions, many of which

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look archaic with the passage of time. If conservatives want to justify their assault on public unions by invoking that ‘37 letter, perhaps they’d also like to argue for resegregating the U.S. military — because, lest we forget, FDR presided over a segregated military and never lifted a finger to end it.

And if the past is to be treated as prologue, perhaps conservatives would like to bar the Japanese from becoming U.S. citizens — because FDR once wrote in a letter, prior to becoming president, that “anyone who has traveled in the Far East knows that the mingling of Asiatic blood with European and American blood produces, in nine cases out of 10, the most unfortunate results.”

This is why the lauding of FDR’s ‘37 letter is so fatuous. In the words of the British novelist L.P. Hartley: “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”

Here’s how life looks in the present: In the latest bipartisan NBC-Wall Street Journal survey (conducted

by Republican and Democratic pollsters), 77 percent of Americans say that public unions should have the same bargaining rights as private unions; only 19 percent disagree.

Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, a new Rasmussen poll reports that 57 percent of the citizens are already down on their antiunion governor — spiking to 67 percent among parents with public school kids. This is significant because Rasmussen typically delivers Republican-friendly stats, and conservatives typically love to cite them.

The upshot is that Republicans, in their national mission against public unions, would be wise to ditch the dead president and heed the backlash that seems to be gaining among the living.

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But Kasich is only helping the UT administration receive more bonuses, according to Fedor.

UT Board of Trustee member Baldemar Velasquez also spoke out against the bill.

“It seems to me that they’re asking us to pay for the mess they created with our tax dollars,” he said. “They’re asking us to continue to marginalize more and more Americans into low wage workers.”

The rally called for a vote of no confidence in Jacobs, which was unanimously supported by the crowd. When asked for any opposition to the vote, a still silence hung in the air.

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Though the rally had little opposition, a few supporters of the bill did make an appearance with signs that read “shut up and teach” and other proSenate Bill 5 banners.

Patrick Richardson, a sophomore majoring in business marketing at UT, agreed to an interview with the Independent Collegian to discuss why he supported the bill.

“Most of the people here are public employees so they are looking out for their own money and salaries,” he said. “What

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Independent Collegian it comes down to bottom line is money. Our state is broke.

We have $8 billion of debt. We need to start making cuts and this is where it needs to start.”

Richardson said if someone doesn’t like their job, their working conditions, or their wages they should “quit and get another one, or talk to your boss about it. The whole idea of collective bargaining is not even necessary. There’s no collective bargaining in the private sector.”

Richardson said the bill will decrease the amount of money the state pays for public employees’ health insurance and salaries which will save a lot for Ohio.

“That comes from taxpayer money from the state,” he said.

“Right now the state takes taxpayer money and pays 85 percent of public employees’ health insurance. This bill’s going to cut that down to 80 percent. That’s saving a little bit of taxpayers’ money. Honestly I think it should be more, but at least it’s going to save a little bit. Also, salary cuts all across the board will save taxpayer money. Passing this bill is going to save $1.3 billion per year.

We’re not going to get back to Eden right away, but it’s got to happen.”

Just before the interview, one protester claimed the small group of supporters were only present because

Kasich paid them to make an appearance.

Richardson along with others in the group denied the accusation and asked “is my check coming in the mail then?”

Legal counsel for UT’s AAUP Amy Zawacki said the bill fails to provide accountability for university finances that have never been a part of collective bargaining including wages and pension of administrators and other nonunion members.

“We have never been able to negotiate when, how or where the University of Toledo Board of Trustees spends the university’s money,” she said. “Instead [SB5] comes after the wages benefits and working conditions of [union workers] who actually do the work of the university.”

Fedor said union workers need to “show the Republicans we are mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.”

“Governor Kasich, President Jacobs, if you’re listening, and I know you are, we are in the fight of our lives,” Buford said. “A fight that you chose to start; a fight for all working men and women of our great state; a fight where losing for us is not an option.”

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What We Waste • 40% of our food (160 billion pounds, $240 billion) • About ¼ of food in a household goes unused • 7% of a household’s income goes toward the purchase of food • The U.S. produces 2 times the amount of calories we eat • A family of four can lose $1,300-$2,200 per year • The “National School Lunch Program” in schools wasted about $1.5 billion • The amount of food wasted equals 2% of energy consumption for the U.S. • 90% of our water goes toward agriculture • Landfills, which hold 20% of wasted, rotted food, are the number two source of methane production • 50 million Americans go hungry and don’t have to money to buy the food they need • In 2050, it’s predicted that we will have 9 billion people o Waste of food will increase the struggle to feed all of them.

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A group in favor of Senate Bill 5 discusses the issues with a man who is against the bill at Monday’s rally in front of the Student Union.

Treatment From Page A1 institution. From there, they work with UT Innovation Enterprises to help fund business and access innovation enterprises.

The goal of the technology transfer office is to identify things that are discovered or invented at the university and help make them available to the general public.

The office helps identify the right commercial partners for products that come about through research at UT. The blood volume expanding treatment was developed in a laboratory and still needs to be tested, made into a product, moved to a company, marketed and produced.

This is where ADS comes in.

“As a university we’re not the best people to start manufacturing things and selling

them,” said Patent Technology Associate Mark Fox. “Obviously we don’t do that.

We do the research side.”

According to CEO of ADS Todd Davies, $1 million was raised locally to develop the medical treatment.

“And we’re in the process of raising more money,” he said. “We’ve raised it through Rocket Ventures and through University Enterprises.”

Money will also come back into the university for licensing the treatment.

The amount of money UT will get out of the commercialized treatment depends on how much work the company has to put into turning the idea into a product on the market.

UT and ADS will each receive 50 percent of the profit.

Patent costs ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 are also reimbursed to UT. “We typically ask the company to reimburse us for

those costs in addition to the percentage of royalties based on sales,” Fox said.

“The money that comes back to the university is then split amongst the inventors so that they have the same share. Forty percent of that goes back to them. Ten percent of royalties go toward further research at the university [including] five percent to the college, five percent to the department. The remainder of the money is held to help to build prototypes to further research to a point where a company would be interested in taking over.”

The original patent for this product was filed in 2004.

The product is still preclinical, but Davies said the treatment is going very well.

“It will probably be a number of years before we can get in to clinical trials and a number of years after that before the product gets marketed,” Davies said.

Jonathan Bloom discusses his book “American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It).”

Wasteland From Page A1 uniformity from our food,” Bloom said, “Appearance seems to trump taste.”

Because of their “deformity,” he added, consumers consider bad-looking food trash without even tasting it.

Bloom said expiration dates tend to instill fear and caution in the consumer, but assures there is nothing to fear if food is a couple days old.

“The only product that the federal government requires an expiration date on is infant formula,” he said.

Bloom discussed several possible solutions for food waste reduction.

He broke it down into things the government can do, and what people can do on the local level.

This includes shopping only for what is needed, serving only the amount of food consumers will eat, avoid using trays, ignore the fear of expiration dates and using leftovers.

Today, food waste has become tolerated and widespread, Bloom said. Advertising campaigns have focused on issues such as littering and recycling, which people now take to action seriously.

“We’re terribly good at it,” Bloom said “I believe the power of action is contagious.”

UT was able to host the speaker series discussing environmental impacts on the agricultural sector with help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Research Assistant at the Urban Affairs Center and major planner of the event Jeanette Eckert said Bloom’s speech will hopefully make people “enlightened as they hear not just about how much food we waste, but about the reasons why it happens and the simple, everyday things we can all do to bring that number down.”

The series will continue with John Riehm of Riehm Farms on Tuesday and a “Local Food: Strategies for Jobs and Health” conference on Friday, April 15.

Bloom issued a challenge to the audience and everyone else who would hear his message.

The challenge is to buy 25 percent less food than they normally would which Bloom believes would lead to a decrease in food waste and less overeating.

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by nostalgia” —Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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today Frankie’s Innercity — Cerebral Ballzy will be headlining at Frankie’s with Lyle Exile. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for ages 21 and over and $7 for under 21. For more information visit CerebralBallzy.com or FrankiesInnercity.com.

The Village Players Theatre — The troupe will be performing “The Rainmaker” this weekend.

Showtimes include Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $14 for adults, $12 for students and $12 for seniors.

For more information contact The Village Players Theatre at 419-472-6827.

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Revolution and the future

By David Harris IC Staff Writer

Approximately one year ago, the Imam Khattab Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of Religious Studies Ovamir Anjum predicted in his lecture that democracy in the Middle East would be a natural transition. He argued that the people in the region would embrace the change.

To say that he was dead-on with his prediction is an understatement.

On Tuesday, Anjum gave his annual Imam Khattab Lecture on the “Revolution in Egypt and the Future of the Middle East,” a talk that was on-point with its timing, as it relates to current situations and uprisings that flood the media on a seemingly endless wave of development.

Anjum’s lecture described support and optimism for the rise of democracy within the Middle East. He cited the revolutionary spirit of the youth, as well as

the rejection of their current situations by the revolutionaries as indicators that the overthrow of many of the governments was forthcoming .

Anjum said democracy is a possible achievement for those in the Middle East and it is only a matter of time before actions are taken for it to succeed.

Omar Subei, a sophomore majoring in chemistry, said Anjum gave inspiring words.

“The lecture was very informative,” said Subei, who

is also an intern with the University’s Initiative for Religious Understanding (IRU), a campus-based initiative that helped organize the event. He is also an education chair for the Muslim Student Association.

“Dr. Anjum was very deep in an intellectual aspect. The speech was directed more towards a scholarly audience, and that’s how I believe it was delivered. Quite a few people told me afterwards that they enjoyed the lecture, and I couldn’t help

but agree.” Subei said.

Subei, who was born in Saudi Arabia and whose family still resides in the Middle Eastern nation, believes that the lecture came at the perfect time.

“I believe that it was definitely important for people who are not in the [Middle Eastern] region to see what was happening from an insider’s perspective. It was important considering the negative images that the —Revolution, Page B2

saturday

Frankie’s Innercity — The Taken with I Of Radio and Minus Elliot will be performing at Frankie’s on Saturday. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5 for ages 21 and up and $7 for under 21. For more information visit FrankiesInnercity.com.

Huntington Center — Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band will be performing at the center on Saturday. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Tickets information can be found online at LiveNation.com, TicketMaster.com, the Huntington Center Box Office, which can be reached at 419-321-5007, or charge by phone at 800-7453000. There will also be a second performance on March 31.

Pearson Park — There will be a Maple Sugaring event at the park at noon on Saturday. There will be story telling, syrup tasting, hands-on historical activities, Native American Indian demonstrations, nature walks and some tree tappin’ fun. For more information visit MetroparksToledo. com.

sunday

Pearson Park — The next installment of the March Lecture Series will be discussing creatures of the night, specifically owls will be featured. The lecture begins at 2 p.m. and there will be a nature walk following the discussion.

monday Frankie’s Innercity — Once again, Auto Tune Karaoke will be offered at Frankie’s on Monday.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Admission is free. For more information visit FrankiesInnercity.com.

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Dr. Ovamir Anjun speaks on globalization and democracy in Egypt and the Middle East at the Imam Khattab Annual Lecture.

Catwalk Outrage Spring Shift

tuesday Frankie’s Innercity — Astronautalis with special guest Sims and Great Lakes Crew will be performing at the venue.

Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, the night of the show. For more information visit FrankiesInnercity.com.

By Barb E. Dahl IC Fashionista

clothes and accessories.

On warm days, an entire wardrobe complete with a flowing skirt and a flirty, floral purse is fashiontastic to sport to class.

To avoid the horrid irrationality that accompanies wearing high-heels across campus (we’ve all seen the distress in the eyes of a tired girl in heels), flip-flops or a pair of cute tennis shoes can be worn just as easily with a skirt. The contrast is even pleasantly out of the ordinary.

Sweet-as-candy hair clips and bows are a cheap and simple way to treat yourself to a look that’s classic and

chic.

Another affordable way to catch the wave of spring trend is to take the route of nail polish. From pale, mint greens to bright, bossy pinks, your fingers will thank you for drawing attention to them with a slick coat of color. Dull nails don’t stand a chance amongst the bold hues of spring.

For the average college dude, on the other hand, who may not be into pushing back his cuticles for an at-home manicure, spring may not seem to hold much of the same promise of a stunning wardrobe that it

does for women.

However, a classic sporty jacket fit for a casual stroll across campus or even a light workout is the perfect staple for the rainy season.

While all fashions of spring tend to be fun and pretty, there is just one piece of advice to live by and it applies to summer as well.

Ladies and gentlemen, please be modest. I’m not advising apparel fitting of Amish farmers – floorlength skirts paired with blouses and jackets that totally conceal your shoulders. However, there is a — Spring shift, Page B2

Late night talk has younger audience Cable hosts O’Brien and Lopez attract youngest viewers

By Rick Bentley McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

wednesday Frankie’s Innercity — Champagne Champagne will be headlining. Doors open at 9 p.m.

Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door, the night of the show. For more information visit FrankiesInnercity.com.

Spring has finally begun to show its warm, rainy face amidst the ever-present gloom known as Toledo weather. This time of year brings greenery back to life, as well as downtrodden spirits that had previously been lost in snow.

The season of puddlehopping and Easter egg hunts isn’t simply for lifting moods, however. Spring is the fabulous time for—you guessed it—spring fashion!

Not only does spring entice the colors of nature out of their hiding places across country- sides and gardens, it also yields plentiful crops of punchy, bright-colored

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BURBANK, Calif. _ The one-two punch of TBS talk shows “Conan” and “Lopez Tonight” have in four months won over a key TV audience: young viewers.

The shows have become the late-night choice for

viewers with an average age of 32 _ a coveted demographic for most advertisers.

It’s not even a close race with the major network late-night shows.

The average age of a Jay Leno or David Letterman viewer is 56. Jimmy Kimmel _ the youngest of the five major late-night talk

show hosts at 43 _ attracts an audience that averages 51 years old.

What’s making the unusual TBS pairing work with young viewers has a lot to do with being on cable, where the hosts have found fewer restrictions on their comedy.

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O’Brien and Lopez are taking advantage of the freedom by cranking up the funny material.

“Lopez” executive producer Robert Morton, who spent 14 years in the same position with David Letterman, went to TBS executives as soon as word broke O’Brien was coming to the cable channel.

“I think when the show started, it was approached more as a talk show, and we met with the TBS people and basically said, ‘Hey, look, we want to do comedy,’ especially with Conan coming on, who is so comedically strong,” Morton says. “You know, we have to create a comedy block with this two hours.

“So we pretty much just refocused everything.”

O’Brien was glad to throw off the network constrictions once he moved to cable.

“I came to this show thinking I just want to go for it in every single way creatively, and I don’t want to overthink things. If someone has an idea and it sounds like ‘Gee, I haven’t seen that before,’ we try it,” Conan O’Brien says during an interview on his rather intimate set on the Warner Bros. lot. “What’s nice is we are partnered with people who have encouraged that since day one.

“The people at TBS have made it very clear that we want you to do what you think is funny and what you enjoy doing, and I think that’s led to a feeling here anyway of experimentation in silliness.”

O’Brien seems to have come through the talk show hell that took him from the ecstasy of hosting “The Tonight Show” to the anguish of being forced

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Independent Collegian out when Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. (EDT) series fell apart faster than a paper canoe.

If he’s still nursing wounds, the pain is hidden behind the satisfaction of working for a network that gives him so much creative freedom.

“There’s nothing like leaving, walking away from ‘The Tonight Show,’ to make you really appreciate getting to be on the air and getting to do a show. And so I think some of that spirit is coming through,” O’Brien says.

“The dynamic here is very different. The people I’m working for, the feeling here is a very different feeling, and I think that contributes to it a lot, too.”

O’Brien’s show is the laid back part of this talk tandem. Lopez brings the lunacy.

On his stage _ that’s four times larger than O’Brien’s _ Lopez treats late-night talk like a rock concert after-party. Guests who show up with no energy get their comical butts kicked.

Lopez, who started his show in November 2009, could have been upset by O’Brien’s arrival.

It bumped his show to midnight. But the later slot is a better fit for his party feel, and Lopez thinks the teaming should have some longevity.

The change also allowed him to make his show even edgier _ from jokes to guests.

“It’s a nice partnership.

We are both guys who haven’t turned 50 yet ...,” he says. “They don’t put on air-conditioning this extravagant for a show that’s not going to be around a long time.”

The result is that both talk show hosts are changing late-night. They’ve gone back to using a very simple formula that O’Brien expressed when he left NBC: “This is really not a big deal because all we are here to do is to have fun on television.”

And that fun is attracting viewers _ and a lot of young viewers _ to late-night.

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media portrays of the events throughout the day.”

Subei said.

Subei believes that the Middle East will continue to be in a state of revolution, whether the events are being talked about in the media or not.

“Every country is going through uprisings,” said Subei. “Before now, when people tried to protest in the streets, the people never saw the hope or the light at the end of the tunnel, and so the revolution went unsuccessful. But now, everyone is taking these revolutions seriously. When [former Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak fell [on February 11], it set the stage for other revolutions to take place across the Middle East. People didn’t have hope before Egypt fell, but now they see that change can happen, and they have hope in change.”

Subei gave a promising outlook for the future of the Middle East, in a similar manner to Anjum.

Thinking on a possible picture of the Middle East five years in the future, Subei said, “There will be no perfect countries in the [Middle East] region in five years. However, people will be improving the conditions within their own country. People will learn new things as time goes on, not only as a people, but as a country, as a government, and as a Muslim community. Every year that elections are held, there will be improvements made.”

Subei also said, “Democracy is definitely coming to the Middle East.”

Subei concluded with his thoughts about the current situation in the Middle East as of now. “In this moment in time, every person, every Arab, every Muslim is cautiously optimistic. We [the Arab people] like and embrace the idea of revolution and change, but at the same time, we are analyzing it each and every step of the way. Every day we are getting more and more sure that this is truly the People’s Revolution.”

line that is sometimes crossed the moment the sun comes out.

Call it fashion spring fever if you will, but even on the chillier days of the season, the skirts seem to get hiked up a few inches or so.

There is certainly nothing wrong with showing some leg, as long as that concept isn’t taken to the extreme. Skintight miniskirts have been out of season for, well, seasons.

Just keep in mind that spring is perfect for flirty fashions and the promise of warmer days ahead, not indecent dress that turns heads in all the wrong ways.

Keep it classy as the weather gets warmer and your sense of style, paired with the nice weather, will take you a long way.

Kevin Sohnly/IC

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Side Lines

Softball canceled at Oakland

The Toledo women’s softball team’s doubleheader last night against Oakland was canceled due to inclement weather.

The games are postponed as of now to be made up at a later date.

The Rockets will now prepare to take on Miami (OH) in Oxford this weekend.

Elezovic named MAC Player of the Week Aleksandar Elezovic earned Mid-American Conference Player of the Week honors this week for the second time this season.

With the honor, the Toledo’s men’s tennis squad has won the award in three of the last four weeks.

Elezovic helped the Rockets to a 3-0 week after he went 5-1 in his singles and doubles matches.

The Rockets host Buffalo on Sunday, March 27 with a six match winning streak on the line and will be televised on tape delay on BCSN.

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chipped away at the Toledo lead, with a jumper by senior guard Varisia RaffWilliams knocked down ington at the 9:47 mark back-to-back three-point- cutting the advantage to ers to give Toledo a 17-12 49-47.

A pair of three-pointers advantage at the 10:46 mark of the first half. After by Linn helped stretch the a 5-0 Crimson Tide spurt, Toledo lead to 57-49 but the Williams hit another triple Crimson Tide would again that gave the Rockets a 20- cut the lead to one posses17 edge with 9:27 left be- sion at 59-56 with just under five minutes left in fore the break. the contest. The Alabama counRockets countered with a 9-2 tered with a 15-3 run sparked by run to finish off five-straight Alabama 74-59. points from ju“We come out nior guard Ericka Sun, March 27 here every night Russell late in the Syracuse / and try to play as first that gave the E. Michigan hard as we can for Tide a 30-27 lead at our fans,” Williams with under two Toledo said. “You don’t minutes remainwant it to be ing in the half.

Savage Arena ever your last game.”

Goodall and at 2 p.m.

Toledo will host Shafir scored the the winner of tofinal four points of the half from the foul night’s matchup between line as Toledo took a 31-30 Eastern Michigan and Syracuse on Sunday, March 27 lead into the break.

The Rockets scored the at 2 p.m. EMU eliminated first seven points of the the Rockets from the MAC second half to extend the Tournament earlier this advantage to 38-30 with month after the Rockets 18:45 remaining in the won both regular season game. The Crimson Tide matchups.

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Toledo rolls Tide in Sweet 16 Advance to the WNIT’s Elite 8

percent (23 of 53) from the field while making nearly 80 percent (20 of 26) from the foul line on the night.

Alabama (18-5) made

By Nate Pentecost 42.6 percent (26 of IC Staff Writer 61) of its field goals Toledo pulled away from while shooting just the Crimson Tide to register a over 30 percent (4 of 74-59 victory on Tuesday at 13) from the charity Savage Arena in front of a stripe. crowd of 3,740. Toledo ad“I think we did a revances to the quarterfinals of ally good job from the Women’s National Invita- the free-throw line,” tion Tournament for the first UT junior guard Naatime in school ma Shafir history. said.

“We The Rockets also know it’s important, extended their especially when home win-streak to games are close.”

15 games and tied Toledo Shafir (4 of 8) 74 for the second most Alabama 59 fronted the Rocket wins in team history charge with at 26, one shy of the a game-high school record.

19 points and five as“I want to thank our fans sists along with redfor coming out tonight,” UT shirt-freshman guard senior guard Jessica Williams Andola Dortch (4 of said. “It was a great turnout 8) who added 10 and we always appreciate ev- points and a teamerything they do for us. They high nine boards. Sewere definitely behind us to- nior forward Melissa night and we needed it.”

Goodall (3 of 7) also Toledo (26-8) is now 3-0 at added 10 points to go home against Southeastern with eight rebounds Conference opponents and and two blocks.

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Williams (4 of 11) and juThe Rockets shot 43.4 nior guard Haylie Linn (3 of

6) knocked down three shots each from beyond the arc to finish with 13 and 10 points, respectively.

Five Rockets reached double-figures for the second time this season.

“I though Haylie Linn had a tremendous game and Jessica Williams caught fire early and really sparked us,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop Shafir said. “But overall it was just a great team victory.”

Alabama was led by freshman forward Kaneisha Horn who put up a team-high 11 points and grabbed five rebounds while classmate Tierney Jenkins added nine points and a game-high 10 boards. Senior guard LaToya King contributed eight points to go with seven rebounds and five assists.

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Naama Shafir (above) had a game-high 19 points as UT topped Alabama in front of 3,740 fans.

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UT tops Cincinnati 7-5

By Joe Mehling Assistant Sports Editor

Courtesy of the UT Athletic Department

Junior Tyler Scott grabbed his first win of the season in three innings of relief work last night.

3, 3 RBI) and junior Ben Hammer (2 for 3, RBI) who The Rockets took the one each recorded two game series against Big East hits in the game.

Toledo jumped out foe Cincinnati 7-5 last night at Marge Schott stadium to to a 1-0 lead at the end a two-game slide. Junior end of the third after Tyler pitcher Tyler Scott earned sophomore his first victory of the sea- Grogg knocked in son, after taking over for Mix following an inRyan Wilkinson, and allowed field single from Dudics. UT bejust one hit and one gan to open run in three innings the game of work while regisup with a tering two three run fourth instrikeouts. ning highlighted by Senior leadoff 7 a double man Chris Dudics Toledo 5 from Mix continued to pace Cincinnati that scored the UT offense with a team-high three hits (3-for- the runs.

The hot hitting 4) and ran his current hot streak to ten games. Last continued for the season Dudics had the na- Rockets in the fifth tions third longest hit streak and caused UC to and set the Mid-American make a pitching sending Conference record after reg- change, istering a hit in 39-straight starter Brad Mergen to the bench. UT contests.

Also providing offensive tacked on two more sparks for the Rockets were run in the inning.

The Bearcats finally found sophomore Andy Mix (2 for

home plate in the sixth inning on a fielders choice RBI from Justin Riddle off of Scott. UC would face a 7-1 deficit heading into the seventh inning but used the momentum of Riddle’s RBI to spark a four-run inning capped off by a two-run homer from Chris Peters to make Dudics the score 7-5.

UT head coach Cory Mee then turned to his bullpen to finish off the Bearcats with fresh Adam Tyson and senior Matt Zahel each pitching scoreless innings. Zahel picked up his fourth save of the season.

The Rockets open MAC play with a road series against Kent State this weekend Zahel from March 25-27 with the first game’s opening pitch scheduled for Friday at 3 p.m.