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New medical amnesty policy

How local theaters are preparing for the new age of 3-D and digital cinema

By Sura Khuder IC Staff Writer

Last year, 984 student conduct cases involved alcohol or drugs at the University of Toledo.

Twenty-nine of the students involved in these cases were transported to the emergency room for alcohol poisoning.

Those sorts of incidents are the basis of new measures taken by the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention committee to reduce high-risk drinking at UT, including the introduction of the Medical Amnesty Policy, The policy allows students to call the campus police for themselves or other students who are in need of medical attention after a night of heavy binge drinking.

Under the policy, the student will not have the incident recorded on their academic record.

“Assuming you didn’t do anything else — murder, rape,

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Left and Center: UT sophomore business administration major Jake Cline threads a 35 mm platter. Right: Cline checks the film being shown on this 3-D projector. Local cinema owners are making the transition from film to digital cinema, which could lead to an increase in the cost for a movie ticket.

By Vincent D. Scebbi Features Editor

The following is the first story of a three-part series about the cinema industry and its local impact. The second part will feature films made in the Detroit, Mich. area. The final part will be a regional comparison of the West coast and Midwest in terms of 3-D cinema.

Movie theaters across the country are now bringing box

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office hits to the silver screen the same way people download music to their MP3 players — digitally.

President of Great Eastern Theatres Company Jim Walter said there is a belief in the cinema industry that going digital will be required in order to stay in business, but he disagrees.

“I don’t think it’s necessary to stay in business,” Walter said. “I think a vast majority will add at least one screen for three-dimensional [movies] so they will have that capability.”

One of the biggest factors contributing to the digital push has been the rebirth of threedimensional films such as last year’s box office hit “Avatar.”

This most recent wave of 3-D movies requires a theater and movie screen capable of digital movies as well as other changes to the theater in order to utilize 3-D. According to Walter, who owns four cinemas across northwest Ohio, the cost to convert one standard theater to have the state-of-the-art

technology is about $100,000, and adding 3-D technology is an extra $30,000.

This expensive price puts pressure on many smaller, independent cinema companies such as Great Eastern, forcing them to decide if upgrading will help them bring in more revenue.

“Well, you’re asking the $64,000 question, and definitely the question on the mind of many independents

Avg. U.S. ticket prices 2007: $6.88 2008: $7.18 2009: $7.50

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Lecturer disputes death penalty

CNN anchor, alum, gives back

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UT grad Christi Paul delivers keynote address at press club

Sister Helen Prejean arrived at the University of Toledo and gave a provocative lecture titled “Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues” as part of Thursday evening’s Gandhi Lecture Series.

Prejean, the author of several books including “Dead

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Man Walking,” is also an outspoken anti-death penalty activist.

Prejean approached the podium and in a booming voice said, “Now, I just want you all to know, I’m a storyteller.”

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University of Toledo alumna Christi Paul is using her high-profile career as a tool for making a difference, most notably in locating missing children.

“I feel like I do something good,” she said. “There are days where we are talking about Tiger Woods and Brett Favre, and you wonder how it is impacting anybody. I know people are talking about it, but am I telling anybody anything positive?”

Paul is a weekday news anchor for Headline News on CNN. She started a segment

on the show called “Find Our Children” which partners with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Washington, D.C. to feature a story each week of a missing child.

“There are so many things I’ve learned from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children since I partner with them on a weekly basis,” Paul said. “I think they are people Paul things need to know to keep their kids safe, because we do entirely too many abduction cases.”

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The segment has helped track down five missing children and another who was found but not in connection with their report.

“We just found a family of three kids that had been taken by their paternal grandmother to Mexico,” Paul said. “They had been missing for three years and were found a month after our segment aired. That proves to me the reach that news has and the power that news has to do something good if you bring your passion into it and don’t give up. I had to fight for that segment for a year and a half.”

Paul is involved in several child-related organizations, serving as an ambassador for Safe Kids Georgia and on the board for the Starlight Starbright Foundation.

One of Paul’s most notable stories came during her time at KTVB in Boise, Idaho where she was an anchor, reporter and producer. She spent months covering fundraisers and other events for Julianne Prudhomme until the four-year-old underwent a five-organ transplant. Prudhomme survived for a year after the operation, according to Paul.

“It gave a lot of people

German Social Hour

Kaffeestunde: German Social Hour will be today in room 2440 of the Memorial Field House from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. Come and join students and faculty for an hour of informal conversation in German. All levels of German are welcome including beginning, intermediate and advanced.

French Conversation Group

The French Conversation Group meets every Tuesday at 1 p.m. in room 2295 of the Memorial Field House. All levels of French are welcome.

Come to converse or to play games in French.

Office of LGBT Initiatives

In honor of LGBT Awareness Month, UT will host a Same Sex Marriage Debate on Tuesday from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Student Union Building South Lounge. Come to the debate to hear discussion on “traditional definitions of marriage,” “equality for all couples” and “Proposition eight.”

National Alcohol Awareness Week

National Alcohol Awareness Week begins today with the Mad Alcohol Challenge from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. in Centennial Mall.

There will be a showing of the movie Haze on Tuesday in room 2591 of the Student Union Building from 9 p.m. until 11 p.m. There will be free popcorn and beverages.

There will be a mock crash with Life Flight on the grassy area across from Memorial Field House from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

A DUI simulator will be set up at the Student Union Steps on Thursday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. along with the student Safety Fair which will be in the Student Union Building South Lounge from 2:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. There will be free giveaways.

Campus Activities and Programming

Comedian Ralphie May will be performing today in the Student Union Building Auditorium from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. Admission is free to all UT students and $5 for nonstudents. For more information contact CAP at 419-530-2310.

CAP will bring Matt Glowacki to UT on Thursday to discuss “Diversity according to Family Guy and South Park” from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. in Doermann Theatre. In his presentation, Glowacki will discuss how diversity is portrayed in the popular adult cartoons.

OUTLaw and Equality Toledo

The College of Law chapter of OUTLaw and Equality Toledo present “Out in the Silence: Love, hate and a quest for change in small town America” on Friday from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. in the Law School Auditorium. Concessions will be available.

Amnesty From Page A1 steal, burglary — nothing will happen, outside someone would talk to you if they [thought] you were depressed or had underlying issues; they might recommend you see a counselor,” said assistant professor of health education and public health Tavis Glassman.

UT Chief of Police Jeff Newton said although the UTPD has a lot of discretion with these issues, they do not trump underage drinking laws.

“The scope of this policy only applies to the student code of conduct. They could still get criminally charged,” Newton said. “However, when the police arrive there, we have discretion. We can cite this person criminally or we could do nothing, just like in any situation.”

According to the medical amnesty policy, the student’s parents will be notified and each subsequent occurrence will be evaluated to determine whether the student qualifies for medical amnesty again.

“Even though their parents will get notified, if they were to get in trouble with the law anyway they would have all these other huge consequences and their parents to deal with,” said Zach Reaver, a junior double majoring in bioengineering and chemistry. “This way, students can feel assured that

Correction In the Oct. 7 edition of The Independent Collegian we ran a typo in the headline for our story about the merger of the Judith Herb College of Education and College of Health Science and Human Service. Instead of using “JHCOE” as the College of Education’s acronym in the headline, we used “JCHOE.” We sincerely regret the error.

hope,” she said. “It was a real blessing for me to be involved in that story and with that family. They are very special people.”

Paul was honored by the Idaho Press Club for the series of stories. She is glad to see a trend in news toward more personable stories.

“They are very concerned with making sure we show the human side of the story now,” Paul said. “It’s not all being stoic and cut and dry.

It’s almost like they are giving people permission to show their emotions.”

Paul said the quality of a story decreases as the reporter becomes more distant from their story.

“You have to be sensitive to these people,” she said.

“It’s not as though we’re talking about characters — these are peoples’ lives.”

Paul left Boise for ABC affiliate KNXV before being hired by CNN affiliate KTVK, both of which are in Phoenix, Ariz. She was an anchor, weathercaster and reporter at KNXV and a consumer reporter and anchor for KTVK. While in Phoenix, Paul started a segment called “Sunday Sweethearts,” which remains one of the Humane Society’s most successful placement programs.

According to Paul, every animal featured on the show during her five years was their friend will get treated and they won’t get in that much trouble for it.”

Coordinator of the ATODPC Alexis Blavos said so far this year no one has asked for medical amnesty more than once.

As part of a research study, the ATODPC is embarking on a new social marketing campaign this year which aims to de-glamorize alcohol consumption with ad logos such as “don’t be that girl” featuring images such as a male holding a female’s hair as she vomits into a toilet.

Some students do not have faith in the campaign’s efforts.

“I don’t think these sorts of things will work because a lot of girls have firm beliefs on their views of alcohol,” said Summer Jiang, a junior majoring in accounting.

“Some girls will go to a party and they will not drink, but other girls have this belief that you need to drink alcohol to be social no matter what [is said by the ad] campaign. This won’t convince them, unless something bad happens to them.”

Another initiative the ATODPC is exploring involves getting UT to have more classes on Fridays and Saturdays to defer students from beginning their drinking early in the week, although Glassman said this has been a hard project since some professors do not want to teach on the weekend.

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adopted. She even adopted two dogs from the Humane Society.

“I like the fact that my stations have been so supportive of the ideas I’ve come up with,” Paul said. “I’m a lunatic for animals and kids.”

Paul was the keynote speaker at the Touchstone Awards held last Thursday by the Press Club of Toledo.

Ashley Roth, a senior majoring in communications and the producer of UT:10, a student broadcast news program, won the 2010 scholarship at the awards ceremony.

Roth has met Paul on several occasions, including a tour of the CNN facilities in Atlanta, Ga. in the summer with fellow UT:10 member Amanda Patton, who is also a senior majoring in communications and received the scholarship at last year’s awards.

“She is my role model in this industry,” Roth said.

“This past summer, Amanda Patton and I visited her in Atlanta. She gave us an inside tour of CNN and HLN. It is amazing to see someone from Toledo has been so successful. Her personality makes her who she is. She is not only successful with her career, but she is also successful with her family. That is a high value to me. She is phenomenal.” of students on campus are excessive alcohol drinkers, many are under the impression this number is nearly three times higher, according to a survey conducted by the ATODPC. In recognition of Alcohol Awareness Week, several events including a mock DUI crash with a Life Flight rescue are scheduled to educate students on the effects of alcohol.

The ATODPC also hopes to educate students on statistics involving alcohol consumption and alcoholrelated incidents on campus through the survey.

The Harvard School of Public Health defines highrisk drinking for men as five or more drinks in one sitting and for women as four or more drinks in one sitting.

The online survey of 425 participants conducted last Spring indicates the number of high-risk drinkers at UT is down almost five percent, but when asked how many UT students consumed four or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting, the response was 94 percent.

“People more than double this notion of the excessive drinking that goes on, and we need to correct that misconception in order to change the culture,” Glassman said.

Out of the 33 percent of students who are high-risk drinkers, the division between genders is practically

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell emceed the ceremony and also praised Paul’s personality.

“It’s very classy having a Rocket that is so high profile out there doing it every day,” Bell said. “She is a very nice, down to earth person, a straight shooter. That gives you more appreciation for the person. She’s a very pretty lady, but her personality is even deeper than that. It was fun talking to her and hanging out.”

Paul’s first lead anchor position came in Clarksburg, W. Va. where she also worked as a reporter, photographer and editor.

“I feel like I learn something new every day, which is really ironic because I was a really bad student,” Paul said. “Once I got out in the world, I had a natural curiosity. That’s one of the biggest traits you need as a reporter.”

Her versatility extends beyond the realm of news. Paul was the third runner up to Miss Ohio in 1993 and has sung the National Anthem at many professional sporting events, including Cleveland Cavaliers and the Atlanta Braves games. She even sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” for the Toledo Mud Hens.

Paul has been collaborating with the songwriter for

even with 16 percent male and 16.4 percent females.

This year there have been four reported sexual assault cases, with one recently occurring at an off-campus location.

A timely warning about the assault was sent out to the UT community on Friday.

Newton said these numbers are likely an understatement of the number of sexual assault cases that are occurring on campus as national data indicates less than 15 percent of sexual assault cases are reported to authorities.

Blavos said something

country singer Martina McBride.

“I love songwriting,” she said. “I love writing in general. It’s a part of this business. I love the whole creative process of it.”

While Paul participates in a wide array of activities, her passion still lies in reporting.

“I like being able to do breaking news where you don’t know what’s happening and it’s kind of coming at you fast and furious,” Paul said. “You feel like you’re telling people something important and doing something productive.”

While Paul is proud of her work, she also understands the value of humility and staying humble.

“Sometimes you are live,” she said. “One of my biggest flubs, which is now on YouTube, was when I was talking about Hillary Clinton.

She was out on the campaign trail, trying to become our next president, and [I said] ‘Hillary Clinton is on a sixtitty tour.’ I said it. It went out live. Don’t get too big for your britches.”

— Paul can be seen on weekdays between noon and 3 p.m. on HLN. important for students to know concerning sexual assault and alcohol consumption is that date rape drugs that are often involved with sexual assault cases mimic the “blacking-out” symptoms that are associated with excessive consumption of alcohol.

“These symptoms may not make them think that there is something going on and they need to get help,” Blavos said.

“Is every sexual assault case getting reported? I don’t know, I’ve had many students tell me they think blacking out is a normal thing.”

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Life for a life, not how to live thus awkwardly married to an understanding of its brutal effectiveness.

Negative reinforcement as a deterrent for crime also fails to account for the fact that the most violent of crimes often occur in emotional states that preclude rationality. For a person to be discouraged from murder by the threat of revenge, they would have to be thinking clearly about consequences.

Often, murderers have a history of violence and/or mental health problems. Because prisons are packed full with small-time drug offenders and other non-violent criminals, many convicted of violent crime are prematurely returned to public life. Because the federal budget prioritizes law enforcement and incarceration over education and treatment, many criminals have no incentive or resources to improve their lives and are likely to commit violence again.

The government should work to empower criminals to overcome their problems instead of simply punishing them and expecting improvement. If punishment was enough to discourage a would-be criminal, the crime would not occur in the first place. If criminals were treated with respect and not revenge, they could grow and learn, perhaps one day contributing positively to society. Instead, tragedy ends in tragedy, death follows death and nothing is gained.

How can the state have the right to end someone’s life if killing another human is forbidden? What does society gain by executing criminals that it doesn’t gain from imprisoning them?

Until these questions can be answered, state-sanctioned murder is paradoxical at best.

When a loved one is murdered and the killer is apprehended, it is only natural to cry out for the killer’s execution. Revenge is often the first thought that arises from such tragedy, but killing a killer invites a tangled mess of interrelated issues. With incredible amounts of faith placed in the moral correctness of “the law of the land,” it is important for the public to understand that laws are the imperfect creations of humans.

For the corrections system to live up to its name and purpose, it must help correct improper behavior and improve society. To scratch murderers off our list of problems by killing them is to deny the value of their human life and ignore society’s influence on personal behavior. Capital punishment relies on the twisted premise that discouraging one immoral act with the threat of another is better than working to promote peace and remove the factors that foster violence.

Parent-child interactions can reveal the contradictory nature of negative reinforcement. When a parent reacts to a violent child with violent punishment, they reveal the contradictory nature of negative reinforcement. The child is expected to learn not to hurt others because they will fear the same pain coming back to them from someone else.

This focuses on the perspective of the authority figure, ignoring how the offender perceives the situation. If a child were to analyze his parent’s actions, he may apprehend the truth of the matter: physical force was used by a responsible adult as a means to an end.

They used violence to prevent someone else from doing the same. Using violence to discourage violence is

Medical amnesty closes the debate between safety and staying out of trouble a student who calls for help in a drug or alcohol related emergency. A clean record should never take priority over someone’s life.

Instead of worsening the situation by making students afraid to seek help, the policy acknowledges the reality of underage substance abuse and makes it easier for students to get medical help for themselves or someone in danger.

Even though UT will not take action against a student who makes use of the policy, the police can still do so. It is worth noting, however, that police often favor those who cooperate with them and may be lenient on students who come clean.

In addition to potentially saving lives, the policy encourages students to take responsibility for their actions.

It also goes a long way toward showing that rules are often put in place to protect people, not just to restrict their choices or “ruin their fun.”

Disaster strikes as your friend collapses to the floor, passed out from drinking too much. Just like many other overconfident youth who thought they knew how much they could handle, your friend has reached the point of alcohol poisoning and needs immediate medical attention.

If you don’t make a decision soon, you could be watching your friend die right in front of you. What do you do?

Calling for an ambulance means that the police will be involved, and that means you and everyone else drinking underage is in hot water.

The thought of getting in trouble for drinking underage is terrifying, and losing your hard-earned scholarship money is the last thing you want to do. Precious seconds pass as you debate your future and that of your friend on the floor.

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Out of control

I was driving back to Toledo the other day from the eastern suburbs of Cleveland when it started raining pretty heavily on the west side by the lake. There are two things I really dislike in this w o r l d : bridges and highway driving in the rain.

For those of you who ever Anthony have driven on Russo Ohio State Route 2, you may be familiar with the Thomas A. Edison Bridge that spans over Sandusky Bay. With Lake Erie all around me and some pretty heavy rain falling, I wasn’t too excited to be crossing Sandusky Bay. To make matters worse, it was especially windy. For whatever reason, I always feel like I’m going to be blown off of a bridge while driving, and the rain intensified this fear.

The bottom line is that I made it across while going 55 mph, with my knuckles white from clenching the steering wheel.

This column isn’t about fear, though. Driving over a bridge in the rain and wind is scary, but only because of the perceived lack of control I have over the situation. In reality, tires are made to work in the rain, and cars don’t just blow off bridges. But I can’t control the vehicle as easily in the rain, and I definitely can’t control the other drivers whom I perceive as driving too fast and too close to each other.

That’s right, this is a control issue. When it’s dry, I like to go fast. Maybe 10 or 15 over on the highway. But I am fully in control of my car. I can put on some music and enjoy the ride. I feel it’s completely normal to want to be in control, not just in your own car, but in your own life as well.

In my life, not too much has been out of my control, other than the circumstances I was born into.

Nearly everything I’ve worked hard for has turned out well. However, there are some things we cannot

control no matter how hard we work at them.

People’s feelings are one such uncontrollable factor.

It sort of reminds me of when genies grant wishes; they can’t make people fall in love with you.

It can be overwhelmingly frustrating. Not just in romantic relationships, but in general. Sometimes, no matter how hard you work on improving your character, there are going to be people who just don’t like you. We can devote as much time as we want to managing others’ impressions of us, but it shouldn’t be our sole purpose in life to be liked.

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in control. I like to hold the remote and flip between football games exactly when I want to. I like to make plans so I know what’s going on. I prefer certainty over chance — except when I play poker.

To me, control isn’t the same as power. I don’t want to control the world, though that would be fun.

However, it often is hard to resist the urge to control other people’s lives.

It’s hard for me to stop myself from putting my two cents into a situation, but I’ve been trying to save it unless I’m explicitly asked. It just makes things easier, unless of course, you see someone doing something extremely detrimental to themselves.

Golf is a perfect example of control and restraint.

With the right swing and touch, it is possible to make a golf ball do almost anything you want. Putting and chipping require the utmost control to place the ball exactly where you

want it to go, down to the millimeter.

It’s exasperating to hit a perfect drive right down the middle, and then not duplicate it over and over. Muscle control is key, and sometimes I just don’t have it.

We can’t control the weather, we can’t control other people’s actions and we can’t control illness. My own body attacked me and there was nothing I could do about it. The government does things every day that we have no direct control over. If Ohio State loses to Wisconsin this weekend, it won’t be because of anything I did.

While some people, like me, have the desire to control every little thing in our lives, sometimes you just have to let go. This doesn’t mean you should stop caring about everything, but there are different degrees of worrying.

Obviously, if you get dumped, you should make an effort to try and get that person back, if you care about them. You might do some good in getting them to take you back.

However, worrying about an asteroid hitting the Earth won’t do you much good. Outside of funding your own space program to send Steve Buscemi into space to drill a nuke into it, you aren’t going to save the Earth from an asteroid.

Studying for that math test next week will give you more control over your grade, but no matter how careful you are while driving, it’s still possible to get a flat tire.

When I line up a pitch shot, sometimes I don’t know exactly where the pin is, or every little ridge on the green. Sometimes you just have to aim as well as you can, take your best swing and hope the ball nestles up to the target.

You’re never going to control the wind, or take into account slight elevation changes and other people’s ball marks. Just like in life, you have to understand you’re not fully in control.

—Anthony Russo is an IC columnist and a senior majoring in economics.

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For all sad words of tongue or pen

It seems like it was only yesterday. Just five years ago President Lloyd Jacobs arrived to administer over the University of Toledo’s Main Campus. He invited us all into Doermann Theater where he humbly introduced himself and enthused over the bold essentials of his innovative “Directions” Strategic Plan.

He gave us a rousing, spirited speech on that historic day, immediately winning the hearts, minds, trust and confidence of the entire campus community. Etched into my mind and the minds of all those in attendance — my professional colleagues, inspired students, staff and alumni — were the opening words of the President’s heartfelt address: “What do you want to be, and I’ll help you become that!” he promised.

The rest is history. Those famous twelve words became our UT “brand” of academic excellence, the flying carpet of success that has brought us at supersonic speed from that historic event to the present day. President Jacobs has kept his word — and then some!

We recall how the entire main campus community responded to his address as one.

We helped build the realization of our common dream, which

was to dramatically and rapidly improve the academic reputation of our beloved university. We recall with pride how our College of Arts & Sciences, under its charismatic new dean, swiftly led the campus surge toward unprecedented academic excellence.

We will never forget how all this growth was made possible by the president’s generous promise of investing great sums immediately into new faculty lines and into myriad teaching and research resources.

We now recall best of all how in five short years and to the entire nation’s great surprise, the University of Toledo surged to the head of the MAC pack and earned its first top-tier ranking in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report. Today, our shining star is still rapidly on the rise. Our future remains boundless. Or does it?

What you have just read is not a lie, nor is it a fairy tale. It is called a “counterfactual history” and it is an increasingly popular learning tool in many of today’s higher education classrooms. A counterfactual classroom exercise basically surveys present conditions in history, geography, society, etc. and asks in order to

stimulate critical thinking: “What might have been” if only a few initial conditions leading to “what is” are altered?

“Counterfactuals” are part of a toolkit of successful New Millennium teaching methods often termed “postmodern” by both the supporters who embrace them and by the detractors who disparage them.

If someone asks you “What is postmodernism?” I suggest

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a belief system as much as it is an attitude. For example, a postmodern attitude in the classroom is deliberately iconoclastic and irreverent.

We see this when postmodernism manifests as “counterfactuals,” as it toys with reality and with history. Postmodernism behaves like a cat having its way with a ball of yarn. As an intellectual exercise, postmodernism is con-

A counterfactual classroom exercise basically surveys present conditions and asks in order to stimulate critical thinking: “What might have been” if only a few initial conditions are altered?

you can respond with confidence “Back to the future!”

Sometimes a simple “whatever” will suffice to sum it up. If postmodernism in higher education teaching seems like madness to you and makes you howling mad, I can only say that there is some method in its madness and that its origins are reputable.

First, about its method. It helps to speculate that postmodernism is not a “thing” or

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trolled chaos.

You might ask yourself, “Am I a postmodern thinker?”

Perhaps you are and never realized it. Do you practice random acts of kindness instead of giving to United Way? How postmodern!

Are you willing to explore the following ideas when mapping out your lifestyle?

“Put to the question all basic assumptions;” “Speak and write with contingency

instead of with certainty;” “Cross boundaries without a license;” “Present the un-presentable;” “Never explain, never complain;” “Expect the worst, hope for the best.”

Why do some of the above words contain strikethroughs? Think it through, and if you are stumped please stop by my office or email me so we can discuss it.

The postmodern attitude as a best practice in higher education classroom teaching has its reputable origins at Harvard, as inspired by the writing of Professor Ellen Langer, author of The Power of Mindful Learning (1997).

She has a Wiki page that notes that she is the first woman ever to be tenured in educational psychology at Harvard University — how’s that for postmodern! Go girl!

Her postmodern attitude motivated her to challenge these seven “myths” in traditional classroom learning: 1) The basics must be learned so well that they become second nature. Myth.

2) Paying attention means staying focused on one thing at a time. Myth.

3) Delaying gratification is important. Myth.

4) Rote memorization is necessary in education. Myth.

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5) Forgetting is a problem.

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6) Intelligence is knowing “what’s out there.” Myth.

7) There are right and wrong answers. Myth.

Perhaps my examples of a postmodern attitude combined with my introduction of Ellen Langer’s “myths” help you better understand why counterfactual histories today can help promote critical thinking and writing in the college classroom.

Perhaps you now better appreciate what might be had these twelve words, “What do you want to be, and I’ll help you become that!” been boldly spoken in Doermann Theater five years ago.

What nobody needed to hear was a twelve-word supercilious sentiment like: “You are broken. I’m a fixer. Stand with me or stand aside.”

Where might the University of Toledo and the College of Arts & Sciences be today, if only …?

—David Nemeth is an IC columnist and can be reached at David.Nemeth@utoledo.edu.

Dying to be equal Last Saturday evening was spent in the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican friend, her sister, her half-Afghani nephew and Italian girlfriend from New Jersey.

The next day we all, including my California born-andraised, half-Mexican best friend, took a venture out to a Chino-Latino restaurant featuring Chinese-Dominican cuisine in the Bronx.

After lunch, we separated at Times Square and I met up with my German/Native American/African American childhood friend, who roamed the grounds of the Autumn Festival with me for a little over an hour. While listening to the trembling vibrations of reggae that rhythmically pulsated with a blaring mix of car-horns and laughter, we had not a care in the world.

Possibilities in New York City seemed limitless, bigotry minute and diversity plentiful, but even utopias have their shortcomings. I was but a few feet away from turning right onto 42nd Street when I saw ABC’s news ticker, which read “Three gay men brutally beaten and sodomized by gang in The Bronx…”

Just like that, the limitless array of possibilities in NYC seemed to shrink back down to the meager realities of a not-so-subtle and ever-present overcast of hatred that not even the Big Apple can escape.

There is nowhere we are safe. Not my lesbian Puerto Rican friend and her Italian girlfriend, not my openly bisexual half-Mexican friend, and not me, the brownskinned, curly-haired queer girl who’s been out of the closet since age eighteen.

It seems that every week there are new stories about gay teen suicides and gay bashing featured in headline news, and yet some politicians are still willing to throw the LGBT community under the bus for a few cheap political points. Too many community leaders are sitting on the sidelines because homosexuality is a topic too taboo for open public discussion.

Discussions are reduced to debate over empty sound bites and catchphrases because it’s easier to keep the people’s attention with thirty

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Just like that, the limitless array of possibilities in NYC seemed to shrink back down to the meager realities of a not-sosubtle and everpresent overcast of hatred

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second slogans and slander than truth and substance.

Meanwhile, young adults are jumping off of bridges, teenagers are hanging themselves, and children as young as eleven are shooting themselves in the head after being the targets of homophobic taunts and ridicule for years on end.

The perpetrators are rarely punished to the full extent of the law, leaving families and friends with few alternatives to advocate in the media on syndicated television in hopes of touching the life of just one child considering ending the pain.

Words like “bullying” are used as generic terms to justify the treatment of children that are targeted on the sole basis of their sexuality. This gives a false sense of normality to the situation, as if being called a “faggot” is a rite of passage.

Eighteen-year-old Tyler Clementi had a right to privacy in his dorm room and 13-year-old Asher Brown had a right to see his freshman year of high school. I have the right to feel safe in a country in which the Declaration of Independence mentions not only my right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness but reiterates my rights to life and liberty in the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution — the same Constitution I swore to protect while serving as a member of the US Armed Forces.

The Matthew Shepard Act was signed into law on October 28, 2009 to include crimes motivated by actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation or gender identity of an individual, and it’s about time our public officials use our laws and resources to put it to good use.

Our youth have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which include the rights to feel safe and prosper. When we have children as young as eleven that would rather commit suicide than face another day in a classroom with their bullies, it’s time for us all to stand up against bigotry by acknowledging equality as a right that should never be the topic of debate.

—Nicole Doan is an IC Columnist and a senior majoring in individualized studies.

Freedom at a cost Everyone has the right to freedom of speech, even nutcases like members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The problem is that we s o m e t i m e s have to tolerate the most offensive of speech to ensure that the integrity Stephen of the Bartholomew F i r s t Amendment is preserved and an open democratic debate is still possible.

That means tolerating the Westboro Baptist Church, who take advantage of public forums by picketing funerals and high school plays with signs that read, “God Hates Fags,” and “Thank God for AIDS.” Among many other things, The Westboro Baptist Church believes that homosexuals are going to hell and that because the United States tolerates homosexuals, service men and women fighting in the Middle East are getting killed.

Fred Phelps is the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church. The 70-member congregation consists mainly of his extended family. Currently, the Supreme Court is hearing the case of Snyder v. Phelps, which involves the Westboro Baptist Church and the controversial First Amendment issues their protests provoke.

Back in March 2006, members of the Westboro Baptist Church flew more than 1,000 miles from their church in Topeka, Kan. to Maryland so they could bear signs that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “You’re Going to Hell” at the funeral of Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, a marine killed in Iraq.

Matthew’s father, Albert Snyder, filed a lawsuit citing physical and mental trauma imposed by the group of protesters obstructing his only son’s funeral. Snyder won $10.9 million from a court that held the Westboro group responsible for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and civil conspiracy.

A trial judge later reduced this sum to $5 million and a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the verdict entirely, ruling that the First Amendment protected Westboro’s speech.

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The case raises questions about when public comment becomes personal harassment and where to draw the line in terms of decency and respect.

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The case raises questions about when public comment becomes personal harassment and where to draw the line in terms of decency and respect.

The case will determine whether there should be limits on freedom of speech in regard to funerals of private citizens.

The Westboro Baptist Church is trying to make the argument that Albert Snyder is not a private citizen but a public figure. It is more difficult for a public figure to defend themselves against defamation because according to law, a public figure can expect a certain amount of attention and criticism.

The Westboro Church argues that Snyder made public statements about

the war after his son’s death and that makes Snyder a public figure. According to Snyder, however, he just wanted to bury his son peacefully. Snyder argues that the memory of his son is now tainted by the insensitive Westboro Church.

The Phelpses must have anticipated legal action.

They did everything they could to follow the law during their protest at Matthew Snyder’s funeral.

They checked with the police beforehand to see how far away from the funeral they should stand and they left right before the funeral began. In fact, they were completely out of view from the funeral.

As much as I dislike defending these Westboro Church loud-mouthed, holier than thou yahoos, they deserve to be protected under the rights guaranteed by the First Amendment. It is especially difficult in this extraordinary case to argue that someone has the right to diminish the sanctity of a funeral.

But it is even more difficult to set standards for freedom of speech, to delineate the appropriateness of one form of speech over another. You can’t be a little bit pregnant; you either are or you’re not. Just as so, you either have freedom of speech or you don’t.

The Westboro Baptist Church is vile and repulsive, but they are free to exercise their right to free speech. Sometimes we have to accept unpopular speech in order to insure everyone has a voice. And sometimes the most offensive speakers remind us all to exercise our right.

—Stephen Bartholomew is an IC columnist and an English education student at UT.

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From Page A1 throughout the country,” he said. “Is it ‘can we afford it,’ or is it a good business investment so that tomorrow or five years from now we’re in a position to operate profitably and more profitably with digital and 3-D.” Walter said one of his theaters, the Maumee Indoor Theatre in downtown Maumee, Ohio, is working out the paperwork, and he expects the duplex cinema to cross over to digital in the next 90 to 100 days.

According to the National Association of Theater Owners’ website, there has been an approximate four percent increase in the cost for a ticket every year from 2006 to 2009.

Walter said he predicts a larger increase in ticket sale prices, partially because of the extra charge for 3-D movies.

“With the 3-D price, you’re paying for the experience — the projector, screen and so on,” said Jake Cline, a sophomore business management major at UT as well as a manager at Franklin Park Cinema.

Cline said Franklin Park 16 is in the process of ordering and installing new digital equipment.

From the dimly lit upstairs of the mall’s cinema, Cline can download, assemble and control digital movies from a small LED screen attached to a brand new digital projector.

With the new technology, cinemas access a server and pay for the rights to download a movie through a satellite along

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Both Sonniers were convicted, with Eddie eventually receiving life without parole, his death sentence being overturned in a second hearing, and Patrick being sentenced to death both times.

Prejean was asked to become the brothers’ spiritual adviser, and she grew to know them well.

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The film projectors used by most companies require an employee on staff at all times in order to guide the film into the machine through a complex pattern series, wheels and gears — a process that demands a level of precision similar to that of a surgeon. The margin of error is miniscule — one mishap could potentially cost the cinema thousands of dollars.

When film is shipped to the theater, it comes on six different reels. Projectionists have the task to assemble the film, usually taking about 30 to 45 minutes to “build” one feature.

Digital equipment removes the processes of building and threading movies as well as delivering flawless picture and sound to the audience. “[Digital has] made things so much simpler for us. It guarantees a better quality picture for [the audience], no scratches on the film on digital, it’s flawless,” Cline said.

Cline said some benefits of digital cinema include allowing cinemas to become more costefficient by hiring fewer projectionists and avoid paying companies to ship the films ordered.

Cline added that digital eliminates a majority of the human errors that come with 35 mm film.

“You wouldn’t think it happens as much as it does; the wrong movie gets threaded, the prints gets scratched from not threading them right,” he said.

“You don’t get a lot of people who notice stuff like that. It

seems that with digital, you take a lot of human error out of it.”

While there is a compliance among the industry’s members that digital is the next step, there appears to be a schism as to whether 3-D is here to stay, or is just another fad past its peak.

Mike and Carol Beckwith, owners of the Hickory Ridge Cinema in Brunswick, Ohio, said based on their observations, 3-D is a “passing fad in history.”

“There are certainly people who are thrilled to pay the extra money, there is no doubt about it. The question is how many of those people are going to the movies regularly enough to

Patrick’s crime, she does not feel it was ethical for the state to take his life, particularly in light of Eddie’s assertion that he actually committed the murders.

She did not deny they deserve to be incarcerated for what they did, but that life without parole would be sufficient enough.

However, despite Eddie’s claims that he was the murderer, Patrick was executed on April 5, 1984.

Witnessing the execution compelled Prejean to begin counseling other death row inmates, such as Robert Lee Willie, who — combined with Patrick Sonnier — inspired the character Matthew Poncelet, played by actor Sean

Penn in the film version of “Dead Man Walking.”

Beyond the drama of Prejean’s personal experiences with death row inmates, counseling them and praying with them in their last moments, she describes in her lecture how she “woke up” to this sort of advocacy needing to be central to her work as a nun.

With that understanding manifested the realization she has to reach out to victims’ families, too.

Upon coming face-to-face with the LeBlanc and Bourque families at Patrick’s clemency hearing, she admitted to LeBlanc’s father that she had been avoiding them for fear they would not want

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keep it going,” Carol said. “I don’t think it’s on the rise anymore. I don’t know but we’ll have to go season by season.”

Cline said the quality of 3-D has changed radically compared to the days of red and green glasses because of the technological leaps made in the past 25 years, and if every cinema conforms to the ways of digital and 3-D, then prices will even out and the premium charge for these movies will decrease.

“I think at one point it will even out,” he said. “I feel once we’re all 3-D or digital, and that’s the only way to go, then it will even out. We’re going toward a good direction; we’re just not there yet.”

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to associate with her, given her support of the accused.

Nevertheless, Prejean eventually forged a relationship with LeBlanc, who she cited as inspiring her to begin “Survive,” a victims’ advocacy group.

During the question and answer session, a woman approached the microphone and said she appreciates what Prejean does. The woman went on to say that she is David LeBlanc’s aunt, and despite the tragedy of everything that happened, a bridge was forged between her family and Prejean.

During a discussion after her speech, Prejean said she still counsels Eddie Sonnier and he is “like my brother.”

Franklin Park 16 Manager Jake Cline guides the 35 mm film from the platter over to the projector. Threading a movie requires a delicate touch and a small margin of error. The new wave of 3-D films being produced has brought about the need for cinemas to switch over to digital projection platforms. Many local cinema owners are predicting that digital is here to stay and film projection soon will be obsolete.

Prejean said she had close collaboration with actors Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon during the making of “Dead Man Walking.”

“There was such an attention to detail with Tim, line by line. I even corrected his punctuation,” she said, laughing.

Prejean said conversations about capital punishment should be a two-way thing: no matter what someone’s opinion is, everyone should be open to others’ opinions.

“What did you see when I was talking to that audience,” she asked. “Conversations are a two-way thing.

Did you hear all those people listening out there? What you give out comes back to you.”

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Austin Dantin returned from a slight concussion for UT (4-3, After trailing 21-7 at half- 3-0 Mid-American Conference) time, Toledo scored 27 unan- suffered at No. 2 Boise State swered and allowed just 34 last week and completed 30-ofyards in the second half, in- 47 passes for 229 yards and cluding -25 yards in the third one touchdown. He also quarter, to defeat Kent State rushed for 72 yards and a score 34-21 on Saturday in the Glass against the Golden Flashes (24, 1-2 MAC).

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“We expect great “I thought our things and I expect to coaches and players do great things,” Dandid a good job of tin said. “I had a little making some minor confidence coming adjustments at the half,” Toledo head Toledo 34 out of Boise. We coach Tim Beckman Kent State 21 moved the ball pretty well at times and that said. “That first half transitioned well into was nothing what Rocket football needs to be. I this game.”

Although Dantin had been thought our seniors and the rest of the team stepped up splitting time with redshirtand did an outstanding job of freshman Terrance Owens, he finishing the football game. received every snap at quarterThat’s why they play four quar- back for the Rockets on Saturday. ters of football.”

“The big thing was if “We heard about Austin was healthy their defense all enough after last week,” sophomore deweek’s game,” Beckfensive end T.J. Fatiniman said. “He proved kun said. “Their dehe was on Tuesday fense is the best in the and Wednesday in MAC and the [nation’s] practice. We went with No. 1 rush defense, Austin and he debut we didn’t want to served the opportunihear that. We had a Dantin ty he got tonight.” chip on our shoulder Wide receiver Eric that nobody is looking at how well we’ve played and Page had a game-high 14 catchthe opponents that we’ve es for 109 yards against the played. We came out in that Golden Flashes. The sophosecond half and just played more has 41 catches for 424 great.”

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Running back Adonis Thomas (above) leaps over a defender on a 22-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. The junior had 101 total yards and two touchdowns against KSU. Junior defensive tackle Malcolm Riley (below) had one sack, giving him a team-high 4.5 on the year.

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The Rockets matched two school records extending their winning streak to eight games and unbeaten streak to 11 games with two wins this weekend at Kent State and Buffalo.

Senior Brittany Hensler was the star of the weekend for Toledo (12-2-2, 8-0-0 MidAmerican Conference), scoring the match-winning goal in both games.

Hensler scored less than one minute into Friday’s match at Kent State and put in her team-best seventh goal

in the 83rd minute against Buffalo.

In Friday’s matchup, Hensler’s early goal was all the Rockets needed in their 1-0 victory over Kent State (2-9-4, 1-6-1 MAC).

“It feels great to continue our win streak against a good, physical Kent State team,” Toledo assistant coach Eric Steege said. “I thought our midfielders played hard and our backs held strong, especially in the second half. It was exciting to see our team jump out to an early lead and be able to sustain it throughout the rest

of the match.”

Junior Vicki Traven had three saves at goalie and recorded her seventh shutout of the season, including her fifth shutout in eight MAC games.

In their game against Buffalo (1-13-2, 0-6-2 MAC) yesterday, UT remained unbeaten in league play with a 2-1 victory over the Bulls.

Senior Erin Flynn gave Toledo an early lead with an unassisted goal at the 23 minute mark. The Bulls converted a second period penalty — Unbeaten, Page B2

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The Toledo women’s cross country team finished ninth at the Pre-NCAA Invitational this weekend, the highest finish by a Mid-American Conference school in league history.

“The team ran incredibly well,” UT head coach Kevin Hadsell said. “Our times were slowed by the slow early pace of the race, but in this sport the times don’t matter and the place does. We ran tough, we ran it Toledo-style and that’s what I wanted to see.”

The Rockets finished

ahead of Arizona State, Florida and Harvard, who all are just outside the nation’s top25 poll. They also finished just one point behind NC State and 31 points behind No. 19 Michigan.

“We are now turning our attention to the MAC Championships and placing ourDeWitt selves in a position to challenge for another MAC title,” Hadsell said. “I feel as though we placed ourselves in a position to earn our first-ever NCAA bid. We beat

the teams we needed to.”

Junior Ari Fisher (20:37.6) led most of the race but finished 13th out of the field of 274. Her finish was the best by a MAC runner since 2002.

“Ari made the mistake of pushing too hard too early,” Hadsell said. “Our race got out way slower than the first race so she felt really good.

However, she now knows to wait and the last Fisher push 1000-meters.”

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Senior Brittany Hensler had two match-winning goals this weekend for the Rockets. Hensler has a team-high seven goals on the season.

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Record From Page B1 Emma Kertesz (21:42) and senior Lindsay Toussant (21:48.7) rounded out the Rockets top-five finishers.

The men’s cross country team also competed and finished 31st out of 36 teams in the Pre-NCAA Invitational.

Junior Jonathan DeWitt (25:10.2) was UT’s top finisher placing 112th out of 241 runners. DeWitt was followed on Toledo by senior Barnabas Kiprotich (25:31.2), sophomore Nick Thomas (25:32.4), senior Elisha Kipchumba (25:45.6) and freshman Jacob Barnes (26:32.1).

The Rockets compete in the Eastern Michigan Invitational on Oct. 22 as they get ready for the MAC Championships in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Oct. 30.

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Toledo is now 8-0-0 in the Mid-American Conference this year.

Unbeaten From Page B1 kick to tie the contest at one before Hensler’s game clinching goal.

Traven had four stops and earned her 11th victory on the season while UT’s defense has given up one goal

or less in the last 10 matches.

Toledo looks to extend their winning streak with a battle for first place in the MAC West Division as they face off against defending league champion Central Michigan on Friday, Oct. 22 at 4 p.m. at Scott Park.

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Dig Pink The University of Toledo women’s volleyball team raised money this weekend for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation.

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Sophomore quarterback Austin Dantin played the entire game against the Golden Flashes accounting for 301 total yards and two touchdowns.

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Junior running back Adonis Thomas had 101 total yards and two touchdowns and freshman wide receiver Bernard Reedy scored his first career touchdown on an 11-yard run in the third quarter.

The Rockets defense struggled early giving up 227 yards in the first half, including 155 yards on Kent State’s opening two drives as they jumped out to an early 14-point lead. Toledo’s defense dominated the second half, holding the

Golden Flashes without a yard in six of their seven second half possessions.

“Hats off to Toledo,” KSU head coach Doug Martin said.

“They came out and played much better in the second half than we did. It is unfortunate that we didn’t compete offensively in the second half.”

Senior linebacker Archie Donald had a game-high 11 tackles for UT. Fatinikun had five tackles (2.5 for loss) with one sack and junior defensive tackle Malcolm Riley also recorded a sack for a team-leading 4.5 on the season.

Junior kicker/punter Bill Claus connected on his first

two field goals of the year, including a 38-yard field goal which put the Rockets in front 24-21 after it ricocheted off the goalpost and bounced through.

He also made a 31-yard field goal in the fourth quarter.

“I felt pretty calm,” Claus said. “We’ve been working very hard in practice so I just felt like it was another kick. I tried to stay calm and snuck it in there. It was a little bit of a low snap but [Vince Penza] picked it up and put it down.”

The Rockets will look to stay unbeaten in the MAC as they host Ball State (2-5, 1-2 MAC) on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.

The Rockets won their first game on Friday with a 3-0 sweep over Akron but fell to defending Mid-American Conference Champion Ohio on Saturday 3-1.

Sophomore Sondra Parys (above) led the Rockets with a combined 27 kills in two games.

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second. Director Jeff Tremaine also successfully employs the old-school 3-D tactic of objects popping out at viewers, albeit in an inappropriate fashion.

“Jackass 3-D” marked the 10th anniversary of the franchise with its thirdstraight No. 1 opening. It broke the record for an October release by grossing $50 million, a number inflated by the higher ticket cost for 3-D films.

With a production budget of only $20 million, “Jackass 3-D,” much like all reality TV shows, has proven to be relatively cheap to produce and highly lucrative. One can only hope MTV doesn’t get greedy and start adapting other reality shows such as “Jersey Shore” or “16 and Pregnant” into feature films. The big screen would not be flattering to Snooki and the gang.

You get exactly what you expect from “Jackass 3-D,” which means 90 minutes of cringing, testing your gag reflex and laughing hysterically.

dynamic and more relevant to multi-tasking tech-savvy audiences who are used to fast-paced editing and have a myriad of styles available to them at the click of a button,” Gabara said in his statement.

The televisions offer a unique look at the rest of the play: since the audience is situated to look at the set from 360 degrees around it, the sets can show the movements, facial expressions and arrangements that not all of the audience members can see, such as one point at which the jurors posed to allude to Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper.”

Images generated for the televisions came from two cameras operated by video crew members filming from outside the cage, giving the video feed a sensation of voyeurism, enforcing the idea that the audience is truly on the outside looking in.

Other images on-screen included diagrams and projections of evidence laid out on the table as the jurors discussed evidence.

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Juror 3, played by Tyria M. Allen, pretends to stab Juror 8, played by JoEllen Jacob, during a scene in which a murder is reenacted in “12 Angry Jurors” last weekend. The play will continue to run from Oct. 20-24 at the Center for Performing Arts.

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“I could possibly never get to do something like this ever again,” Layman said.

Her teammate, senior Braeden Gilchrist, was equally as excited. While he admits that Humans vs.

Zombies “is probably for nerds,” he and his fellow comrades are having a lot of fun.

On top of this positive attitude toward the social status of the competition, the same was held in reference to whether the humans or zombies would

come out victorious. Gilchrist believes that the humans will defeat the zombies.

“I mean, we’re the protagonists,” he said matterof-factly. “The protagonists always win.”

On the other hand, sophomore Brynn Schultz said being the “bad guy” can be entertaining as well.

“When you’re a zombie, it’s fun to stalk people,” Schultz said.

Other zombies, with a sense of security in the knowledge that they cannot be killed, only stunned, may very well feel the same way. Schultz also mentioned that next semester would hold another round.

A full list of rules, along with a variety of other information can be found at utoledo.hvzsource.com.

One particularly amusing image was one of a toy train during Juror 8’s description of the sounds created by an L-train passing.

“12 Angry Jurors” is a solid start to this year’s theatrical season, entitled “Imprisonment.” Gabara’s overall directorial vision set a strong foundation for the theme of imprisonment, accentuated by the jail-like set.

Additionally, all of the actors had strong performances during the Saturday (Oct. 17) performance. Juror 8 in particular, played by senior JoEllen Jacob, performed with a sense of almost overwhelming compassion that reached beyond the other actors and into the audience. The performance of Juror 10, played by junior Starr Chellsea Cutino, was equally riveting as a juror who wanted to convict the accused simply because he was from the tenements.

Theatre-lovers and provocative thinkers alike will enjoy the UT production of “12 Angry Jurors.” The play’s concept is well-developed and relatable with more relevancy to current events than first appears.

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A charitable concert Grammy Award-winning solo pianist George Winston plays at the Collingwood Arts Center in downtown Toledo yesterday. Proceeds from the performance raised over $700 for the Northwest Ohio Food Bank.

Winston is known, among many other things, for his pieces from the Peanuts TV specials. He is also a solo Hawaiian Slack Key guitarist and harmonica player.

“But we have a reasonable doubt, and that’s something that’s very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it’s SURE.” -Juror 8. “12 Angry Men (1957)”

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ohnny Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew are back with a new dimension added to their captivating sadomasochistic stunts, pranks and downright stupid acts.

“Jackass 3-D” showcases too much male genitalia and human waste, e v e n f o r their standards, but it a l s o p r o vides some of t h e

By Jason Mack m o s t Managing Editor painful, disgusting and hilarious stunts in the history of the franchise.

Some of the nudity is nothing more than crude, such as the point-of-view shots of Bam Margera sneaking up and urinating on people.

Others were a creative use of 3-D, like the “Heli-cockter” stunt. As juvenile as it makes the viewer feel, they are all funny.

The “Lamborghini Tooth Pull” stunt is one of the most painful and most disgusting scenes in the movie. It is exactly what it sounds like.

One end of a string is tied to a Lamborghini, the other end to a man’s tooth. The result is a man crying and some of the only blood seen in the movie.

They recruited NFL players for a couple of stunts, brining in Seahawks kicker Josh Brown and Vikings defensive end Jared Allen.

In a stunt titled “The Blindside,” Allen flattened Knoxville with several bonecrushing hits. After cast member Preston Lacey painted himself like a goalpost, Brown sent him to the ground with a ball kicked straight into the crossbar that was his face.

Several scenes featured the aggression of animals including Knoxville’s unsuccessful attempt to hide in camouflage from a bull.

There was also Margera’s

tearful encounter with a pit of snakes, Steve-O’s game of tetherball with a nest of Africanized bees and a game of pin the tail on a live donkey.

The most painful scene had to be the hallway of 950,000-volt stun guns that several members sprinted through, each receiving at least one zap.

Steve-O was featured in the two most disgusting scenes, each of which truly tests the gag reflex. A cameraman and several cast members vomited during a stunt called “Sweatsuit Cocktail.” Even the patron behind me in the theater claimed multiple times during the scene that he was going to vomit. Thankfully he was mistaken. Steve-O was also featured in “Poo Cocktail Supreme” where he was strapped into a loaded Porta Potty rigged with bungee cords and sent flying through the air.

Based on the history of the participants and the insanity of stunts performed, it’s hard to believe they were not under the influence in some way during filming.

Knoxville released a statement discussing Steve-O and his past problems with alcohol.

“Steve-O’s sobriety is at its best, and there is no beer on set this time around even if some of us wish there was,” Knoxville said. “And to be honest, it’s going great. Everyone has had different injuries throughout which is a good sign, and Steve-O is probably getting the best footage out of everybody. He is really going for it. He wants to prove to everyone he can do these stunts sober.

It’s been two years since he had a drink now. Everyone has been real supportive of him.”

While the 3-D gimmicks are hit and miss, the attempts at creatively implementing the technology are well received. There are multiple slow-motion scenes achieved using Phantom high speed cameras that shoot at 1,000 frames per — Jackass, Page B3

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Johnny Knoxville, left, stars in and Jeff Tremaine directs “Jackass 3D.” They are shown in Chicago, Illinois, on September 29. 2010.

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A guard stands outside the caged-in jury room for the production, “12 Angry Jurors.” The play ran Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

By Feliza Casano Copy Chief

Imagine being locked in a room.

The room, measuring 15 feet by 15 feet, has 12 chairs, each to be occupied at some point by a person.

The 12 people inside bicker, threaten and physically confront one another – and inside the 12-foot-high fence stringed with barbed wire, the life of one man is at stake.

This vision of a cage is just what audiences of the UT Department of Theatre and Film’s production of “12 Angry Jurors” watch as the cast of the play brings

the story to life.

“12 Angry Jurors,” adapted from the 1954 teleplay “12 Angry Men,” is a story that takes place entirely in a small, heated jury room as 12 jurors come to a conclusion about the fate of the man on trial. It’s a difficult task, considering they must come to a unanimous decision of whether the man will face the death sentence or walk free.

Much of the play focuses on the case of one juror, known only as Juror 8, the only juror who at the beginning of the play believes there is reasonable doubt that the accused actually committed the crime.

At first, the case seems very simple: a 19-year-old boy got into an argument with his father, left the house for a few hours and bought a knife, then returned to stab him. There is much evidence against him: the switchblade bought by the suspect, the lack of an alibi and the testimony of two eyewitnesses against him.

However, as the jurors discuss the case, unforeseen details come to light, and the uncertainty of the entire situation slowly permeates not only the set, but the audience as well.

The UT production was directed by Cornel Gabara,

assistant professor of theatre, who took a different spin on the script, described in the Director’s Statement as “extremely rigid.” The set, striking in the center of the theater with audience’s seats divided from the actors by a grimy fence, incorporates more than just traditional set pieces. Four television sets – one facing each direction – hang above the rest of the set.

“My reason for choosing this text was to see whether we could make it interesting and re-invent it in a way that was more — Jurors, Page B3

‘Humans vs. Zombies’ reaches UT

By Weslie Detwiler For the IC

Strolling around campus, most students have probably picked up on what the paranoid side effects of being a “human” can do to a person.

The nervousness is evident in those stealthy students adorning a bandana wrapped tightly around an arm or leg, Nerf gun in hand, peering anxiously over one shoulder.

It may seem strange to the non-players of Humans vs. Zombies, but judging by the intensity and gung-ho attitudes of the competitors, it’s not only fun -- it’s an epidemic of the walking dead.

In 2005, Humans vs.

Zombies began at Goucher College and has since gained an international fan base. One student at the University of Toledo was selected to take on the challenge of being the “Original Zombie” while 176 students registered to play and started the game off as “humans.”

Despite its popularity on the UT campus, there is still some confusion over the rules and the point of this game.

The battle began at 7 p.m. last Wednesday and continues until the final mission begins Tuesday night. Humans can be identified by a bandana tied around one arm or leg, and may often be seen carrying a Nerf gun and/or socks, which are used as valuable weapons to stun the zombies.

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A human, identified by a bandana on his arm stands his ground as two zombies approach him. hand, wear their bandanas with pride around their heads, sometimes traveling in hordes, in hopes of “killing” a human.

When a human is tagged by a zombie, they enter a short process called incubation, The player then in that time goes through zombie metamorphosis.

Should zombies conquer all humans, taking them down one by one and feasting on delicious brains at least every 48 hours in

order to keep from starving, they will emerge victorious.

However, if the humans manage to survive the zombie apocalypse long enough for the non-original zombies to starve, or if they complete the final mission, then the humans will win.

Surprisingly, the rules are plentiful, designed for prime performance, and rely heavily on the honor system.

On Sunday morning, just a few hours after midnight,

combat was in full swing as zombies sought to kill the humans in search of clues for their mission. It appeared that the humans were a bit on edge as comments like, “C’mon, I’m not scared” and “I’ve got a bullet with your name on it” flew unabashedly from their mouths.

While freshman Caitlin Layman was no such human, she said playing — HvZ, Page B3