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An evening of stargazing in the dome.

Rockets set to face Bowling Green Wednesday on ESPN2

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Bell discusses future relations with China Toledo mayor looks to build international ties for community

By DC Guastella IC Staff Writer

Toledo Mayor Mike Bell spent 11 days in China in September with Deputy In order to M a y o r create this Dean Monrelationship, ske to help the impor- form fuecotant thing is ture nomic, edto look peo- u c a t i o n a l ple in the and busiface, shake ness relatheir hands. t i o n s h i p s They need to b e t w e e n hear your China and voice, even Toledo.

During if it’s an excluthrough an sive interinterpreter. view, he shared with the Mike Bell IndepenMayor, dent ColCity of Toledo legian his thoughts and visions for future relations with China.

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Toledo Mayor Mike Bell sits in his office in One Government Center and discusses his future plans to foster good working relations with China. Bell travelled to China with a delegation from Toledo in Sept. to establish business ties with the country.

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Bell said he believes he is taking the proper steps to nurture a relationship with China that would be mutually beneficial, and result in economic development in Toledo and northwest Ohio, a place Bell called “one of the most undermarketed regions in the state of Ohio, if not the whole United States.”

“I’m open to anything,” he said. “It could be bringing their companies here; we’re already buying their products, and if we had a portion of their products produced here, it could be a win-win for everybody.”

Bell’s philosophy was clear: attracting business from other American states and cities are not his goal. For him, such development strategies net no “true economic growth.”

Instead, Bell plans to attract business abroad, including not only China, but Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and India as other potential sources.

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Panel talks about Escaping through the silver screen Movies prove Islamophobia an escape for

By Sura Khuder IC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo’s Initiative for Religious Understanding addressed “Islamophobia” from the angle of an Islamic studies professor, a law professor, a journalist and a pastor last Wednesday at the Law Center Auditorium.

The panel consisted of Imam Khattab, Endowed Chair of Islamic Studies

Ovamir Anjum, Professor of Law Benjamin Davis, Religion Editor for the Toledo Blade David Yonke and Pastor of Park Congregational United Church of Christ Ed Heilman.

Each expert gave a 15-minute analysis of the growing aversion toward Islam and had an open dialogue with the audience after each speech.

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Panelists, from L to R: Benjamin Davis, J. D., M. B. A., Assistant Professor of Law, David Yonke, Religion Editor for the Toledo Blade, and Ed Heilman, Pastor, Park Congregational United Church of Christ.

viewers during down economy

By Vincent D. Scebbi Features Editor

The following is the final part of a four-part IC series on the effects of the cinema industry on the local community.

Whether it’s to get away from the everyday stress or from tough economic problems, the need to escape is a staple reason why people go out to movie theaters.

Trends in ticket sales show that, despite the slowing economy, the cinema industry tends to remain a solid, profit-making market.

UT Assistant Professor of Film Matt Yockey said the industry was at a high point during the 1930s and early 1940s.

“In the United States, film-going was at its peak period from the Depression to World War II,”

Photo Illustration by Nick Kneer / IC

— Escape, Page A3

During difficult economic times, movies provide an escape from reality for their viewers.

Do you frequent the Toledo Metroparks? Why or why not?

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Check out our story on the Toledo Metroparks in our Arts & Life section on page B4.

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Department of Chemistry

There will be a chemistry seminar today at 4 p.m. in Bowman Oddy Laboratories Room 1059. The seminar is entitled, “A New Strategy in Synthetic Biology: From Enzyme Inhibition, Natural Products Synthesis to PET Imaging by 6pai-Azaelectrocyclization.”

It is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kana Yamamoto at (419) 530-1507.

Department of Women and Gender Studies

The WGST Student Research Showcase is tomorrow from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. in University Hall Room 4180.

“Domestic Violence Related Suicide in 20th Century Plays

by Women” with Shelly Terry and “Women and Why: Questions for a New Generation of Feminism” with Shannon Orr. will be presented. The showcase also demonstrates to students, faculty, staff and alumni. For more information, contact Linda Curtice at (419) 530-2233.

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Prof studies spread of cancer cells UT unveils hospital Maria Diakonova receives $1.5 mil NIH grant room of the future

By Jaimee Hilton IC Staff Writer

Maria Diakonova, assistant professor of biology at the University of Toledo, works with four graduate students and two undergraduate students to research ways to stop breast cancer cells from moving throughout the body.

Diakonova and her team received a grant of $1.5 million from the National Institute of Health to continue their research, which uses invitro human breast cancer cells to study prolactin, the hormone responsible for regulating breast milk.

Apart from being found in breast milk, prolactin can stimulate cell movement away from the original tumor.

“If you have the original tumor, the cancer can be removed,” Diakonova said. “It would be nice if from there the cancer would stop. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.

The cells can move from the primary tumor to other tissues

in the human body.”

According to Diakonova, if the main players in the breast cancer spreading are known, something can be done to prevent it. Once those factors are established, they can then use anti-bodies that recognize the activated protein, making it possible to predict to where the cells are moving.

Diakonova and her research team plan to inhibit cell movement by manipulating the migration of breast cancer cells.

In order to do that, they plan on modifying the DNA in the proteins to make the cells move.

In January, the team will be testing one of these antibodies for diagnostic purposes.

Diakonova said that she “cannot say we have the tools to do it in medical practice.”

The level of lab research used to create the protein PAC-1, which modifies the assets needed to stop breast cancer movement, is not available, and the protein is not usable for patient treatment.

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society marked the 35th Great American Smokeout to be November 18. The day is to encourage smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit, or to plan in advance and quit smoking that day. By doing so, smokers will be taking an important step towards a healthier life. The event will include tables with any information needed to help quit, a photo simulation, a lung machine and a quit kit. Tables will be in the Student Union Building from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Native American Heritage Appreciation Month

There will be a screening of the movie, “Thunderheart” Friday from noon to 3 p.m. in the Health Science and Human Services Building Room 1600.

Following the movie will be a discussion with Barbara Mann of the department of English.

UT Bands

UT Bands will host a free clinic for brass instruments Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Center for Performing Arts.. The event is free and is part of the Accent Series, hosted by the UT Department of Music and UT Bands. For more information, contact Angela Riddel at (419) 530-2452.

UT Choir Department

The Community Choral Concert will be Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. Members of the community, the UT faculty and students comprise this talent and versatile choir. The concert is free. For more information, contact Angela Riddel at (419) 530-2452

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Diakonova pictured above (third from left) with her students.

Islam From Page A1 that we have,” Philosophy of Religion Professor Jeanine Diller said. “But in response to what we perceive as a growing anti-Muslim rhetoric and actions in America, we decided that we need to just talk about that as a community with the people who know it well.”

Diller pointed to the Park51 community center, labeled by many the “Ground-Zero Mosque,” and Reverend Terry Jones’ planned but later cancelled Quran-burning event as evidence of the rise in “Islamophobia,” or fear and hatred toward Islam.

Other issues concerning Islam mentioned in the dialogue included the recent banning of Sharia law, or Islamic law, in Oklahoma, and some political candidates’ defamations towards Islam in the recent midterm elections.

“Phobias are rising and are even getting much worse than in the wake of September 11,” Anjum said. “Today, Muslims in America are facing mounting phobias which are justified with reference to the actions of a few who were neither elected nor supported by American

Muslims.”

Davis explained that although people may have a rational fear of the terrorist group that carried out the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, the lines between Islam and Muslims as a whole have been blurred and much of the current Islamophobia is based on irrational fears.

He also credited the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as commentators, pundits and members of congress for contributing to this irrationality.

“We have the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, we have American soldiers in harm’s way who are being killed and wounded by persons of different customs and cultures,” he said. “As with any country at war, there is a tendency to present our side as the right side and good and to demonize the other side as the wrong side and evil.”

Davis said this is nothing new as history has shown that phobias of cultures are built on these sorts of generalizations.

He added that there is nothing specific about Islamophobia and its rise that distinguishes it from past demonizing of minorities.

Anjum referenced a

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‘Poet’s Love’ in the Great Gallery Dr. Eric Johanson, professor of music at the University of Toledo, performs “Dichterliebe” (The Poet’s Love) at the Great Gallery Series Faculty Recital yesterday at the Toledo Museum of Art.

“Maybe in the future with some kind of drug,” the protein may eventually become usable, Diakonova said.

The research helps scientists begin to understand how the cells function and why breast cancer works the way that it does, and the basic science would begin to work for usable treatments in the future.

“Basically, we just need to know how it works,” Diakonova said.

Although several side effects are associated with this research, the knowledge from the lab research can be used for some diagnostic purpose.

To Diakonova there really are no negative effects to this research, except for one thing.

“You can’t cure it,” she said.

Diakonova said she was inspired to focus on researching breast cancer due to the fact that it is the second leading cause of death in women.

“One in eight women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer,” she said.

The size of the issue isn’t the only contributing factor to her study of it. Diakonova has also experienced many incidents of women being diagnosed with the disease.

Diakonova teaches undergraduate and graduate students at UT. This semester she is teaching a “Writing Across the Curriculum” course, a biological communication course and a course that teaches students to read scientific papers. In the spring, she plans on teaching an advanced cell biology course for graduate students.

Gallup poll conducted last year that indicated Muslim youth as being the saddest youth in America.

Muslim youth are also the least likely to identify themselves as thriving compared to the rest of the general population according to this poll.

“Unlike their parents, [Muslim youth] are totally at the mercy of how other Americans, both people and media, think of them and say about them,” Anjum said. “Young American Muslims, who in fact ought to represent the hope for Muslims in America, are at the risk of being stunned by hopelessness.”

An argument often made by critics of Islam has been questioning why moderate or progressive Muslims are not doing enough to denounce radical Muslims and terrorist organizations.

Anjum argues that Muslims have in fact been screaming against violence and terrorism at the top of their lungs, however, the media has shunned American Muslims as a whole.

Yonke has covered several stories on Islam in the Toledo area and said he has witnessed numerous sermons at local mosques condemning the acts of Al Quada and other terrorist organizations.

“A lot of times I hear people ask ‘well if Muslims are so against terrorism why don’t they denounce it, why don’t they speak out against it,’” he said. “This is such a misperception because I’ve been in Friday prayers and heard the imams denounce terrorism and clearly, strongly, no compromise, and I’ve written about that. They are doing what they can, but people are not listening.”

Although each member of the panel was meant to bring a different standpoint on Islamophobia, some members of the audience thought the panel was one-sided and did not address legitimate criticism of Islam.

Some of these issues brought forth by audience members were honor killings committed by Muslims both in the United States and overseas, inequality of women, discrimination of Jews, stoning as a form of punishment and Sharia law movements trying to “overthrow the world.”

“If you are really going to talk about [Islamophobia], how do you tackle the real issues that are there?” retired member of the Toledo Public School Board of Education

By Vincent J. Curkov IC Staff Writer

An old man wanders out of his hospital room late at night, wheeling his IV bag around with him, wearing nothing but a hospital gown and exposing his rear end to the other hospital patrons.

This a common stereotypical joke involving the revealing nature of hospital gowns. But the University of Toledo Medical Center is breaking it by revamping their look with new patient gowns, uniforms and a room redesign.

The new gowns are designed with a more “conservative look” and go along with the UTMC’s goal to increase

patient comfort and privacy, according to a press release from the university.

The new gowns look very similar to graduation gowns, except they have snaps down the front and from the collar to the end of the sleeve. The gowns have also been designed to match UT’s colors and are mostly blue with yellow stripes along the buttons.

Old patient gowns were tied in the back and were designed to give the physician easy access, said Interim Executive Director of UTMC Scott Scarborough, but as a result they were less than private.

There has never — Hospital, Page A8

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The new rooms at UTMC are displayed above. They are more technology capable and aesthetically pleasing.

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David Gosser, a sophomore majoring in nursing, gives a point of praise to the panelists at Islamaphobia Tuesday night in the Law Center.

Pete Silverman asked. “Part of the way phobia grows is if you’re afraid to discuss the hard issues.”

Silverman said that while there is evidence of an increase in irrational Islamophobia in the United States, he believes there is a whole area of legitimate criticism to the religion that was not discussed.

“I wanted to ask the pastor what he thought about Muslims killing Christians in the Middle East or how Christians are leaving the Middle East in droves, but I realized I already made the panel too uncomfortable,” he said.

As for the majority of Muslims in the United States who are law-abiding and have always been, Davis argues that they should not accept how others are demonizing their religion.

“I think it’s important that Muslims in America should feel comfortable with saying ‘This is not possible in America,’” he said.

He believes Islamophobia is an unfortunate part of American reality and Muslims should react to discrimination they may be facing with nonviolence and by reaching out to non-Muslims and engaging

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in dialogue with them.

“If you have this abstract theory of what a Muslim is or what a Hindu or Jew is and you don’t meet them and talk to them, you can only have an abstract concept,” Yonke said. “It’s easy to hate an abstract concept.”

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feel more connected.

“You and everybody in that theater have one thing Yockey said. “These are in common for three hours: times of tough national and you’re there to watch that international times. These movie,” she said.

Like a roller coaster that were at the times when people were really cutting grabs your attention, UT professor of psychology back.”

In an article from the Stephen Christman said a New York Times published film distracts someone’s in 2009, movie attendance voluntary attention, which increased 17.5 percent is used when a person from 2008 to 2009 despite thinks, reads or studies.

“What I think movies are the slow-moving economy.

“People see it as a good good for is they distract value and they are really you. Your conscious, topwatching their pennies,” down voluntary executive said Patrick Corcoran of functions we use to think the National Association of and solve problems and Theatre Owners in an arti- make plans are completely shut down cle from ABC by movies -News pubI think movies are they comlished in good for is they pletely grab 2008. “And they want to distract you. Your con- us,” he said. “ W h e n get out and scious, top-down vol- y o u ’ r e get entertained, and untary executive func- strapped in this is a very tions we use to think that ride, you’re not reasonable and solve problems t h i n k i n g way to do it.” and make plans are about the At the core of every hucompletely shut down h o m e w o r k that’s due or man being is a desire to be by movies -- they com- the tax bill pletely grab us. that’s due, social and inyou’re totalteract with ly in the moother hument.

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Ac- Stephen Christman from a cogcording to Professor, nitive perYockey, a Psychology spective, movie theater that’s why is able to satisfy that desire as well as being able to al- people like [movies].”

McPhail said the movies low people to connect with each other through the are her time to herself and a way to relax and take film.

“We are not just social time away from the stress animals, we are creative of college life.

“It’s my time away from and we like to share our dreams,” Yockey said. everything; it’s my time “Film more vividly articu- away from school,” she lates a kind of shared, col- said. “It’s my time away lective dream we can tap from everyday stress. I get into and respond to indi- to forget everything that’s vidually. It can speak going on in my life for two uniquely to us individually, and a half hours and get to but confirm our belonging watch someone else go to a group. It comforts us through their problems.”

People don’t just escape and inspires us to get to movies just to avoid connected.”

Referring to the 1942 stress and tough times. classic “Casablanca,” Yock- President of Great Eastern ey said that despite its pro- Theatre Company Jim Walpagandistic script trying to ters said a film gives somepersuade Americans to one a chance to see things support the war effort, au- out of the ordinary.

“You like to see the kinds dience members can still connect with the film be- of things that James Bond cause they can understand gets involved in with all of and relate to the love story his gadgets and his fantasof main characters Rick tic locations, hotels, beaches and women,” Walters and Ilsa.

“The audience can under- said. “Men like to see beaustand the whole story of tiful women. Just like how love,” he said. “It also has women get to see goodthe ideological plot and to looking guys.”

Escapism is only one reasupport the supposedly side of good versus the son as to why going out to the movies is popular. Walsupposedly side of evil.”

Stacey McPhail, a sopho- ters said other reasons are more majoring in political to be entertained for a reascience, said audience sonable price.

“People like to be entermembers in the theater can enhance the social experi- tained,” he said. “They can ence because everyone escape to a movie they cheers or laughs at the want to see easier than to a same time, helping people $125 concert.”

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TPS levy fails, budget troubles loom District’s $38 mil budget gap will force cuts in many programs

By Sam Fetters IC Staff Writer

The failure of a $7.8 million school levy earlier this month leaves Toledo Public Schools with big problems.

Even if the levy had passed, the district would have needed to make huge budget cuts. Currently, the TPS budget deficit is at $38 million.

“We can’t get there just by cutting back; we need to rethink how we do business,” said Interim Dean of the Judith Herb College of Education Thomas Brady.

School closings and consolidation, teacher layoffs and additional program cuts in athletics and transportation are currently proposed to help solve the deficit problem.

Leigh Chiarelott, chair of curriculum and instruction at UT, said many of the problems stem from “trying to run a school district with too much personnel.”

He said while enrollment has declined over the past two decades, the number of teachers has remained relatively stable.

Brady added TPS has been spending nearly $13,000 per student per year. This number is much higher than the $7,000 to $11,000 per student per year many other school districts and charter schools are spending, according to Brady.

The TPS school board declined to comment.

Brady said drastic cuts can be made while still raising the quality of education by asking if these dollars are going toward instruction.

“We pay teachers to do a lot of non-teaching functions like hall and lunchroom monitoring and recess duty,” he said.

Brady believes TPS can save money by increasing class sizes and keeping teachers in the classroom.

Brady’s solution would require the hiring of additional personnel to monitor hallways and perform security duties, but it would also free teachers up to be more involved in instruction.

Chiarelott said while many classes in the TPS district currently have a fairly manageable 15 to 20 students, that number could soon climb to 25 to 30 students if proposed layoffs happen.

“That certainly won’t help achievement,” he said.

Brady said while schools have been moving toward increasingly smaller class sizes, there is “not a whole lot of evidence that lower class size is necessarily better or worse.”

Brady said economic efficiency could be improved by raising class capacity across the board to 25 students.

He believes this would save the district nearly $1.4 million. He acknowledged this would not be possible in some situations such as special needs classes.

Due to the failure of the

levy, Brady said, efficiency needs to be improved across the district.

“To efficiently use some buildings, we will have to close others,” he said.

Though closing schools may seem like a bad thing, Chiarelott said it could provide a possible opportunity for TPS to make money to help fill their budget gap.

“TPS might try to rent them out, or the buildings could be used by charter schools or nearby districts,” he said.

Another problem with combining schools is that putting groups who do not get along together in the same building can have catastrophic effects.

“We’ve already seen the effects of rivalries [in schools] whether it be sports rivalries or gangs or neighborhood rivalries,” Chiarelott said.

Chiarelott cites ongoing discipline problems at Scott High School with former Libbey High School students.

The two schools were consolidated earlier this year.

Another proposed solution for the budget problems could be for TPS to “share resources” with other struggling local districts. Brady said information technology and accounting services as well as some administrative and purchasing systems could be shared with other districts.

Brady said TPS needs to find a way to minimize all costs that are “necessary but don’t go directly to the education of a child.”

On Thursday, the school board announced TPS had been shortchanged by the state at least $12 million over a three-year period.

TPS plans to sue the state for the money.

According to the Blade, the missing money is the product of a miscalculation and TPS could propose another levy for the Spring 2011 election.

Graphic by Nick Kneer/ IC

File Photo by Kevin Sohnly / IC

The administrative offices of the Toledo Public School District is pictured above. TPS is suffering from $38 million budget shortfall, which will lead to a cut in programs such as varsity sports and busing. A $7.8 million levy to help curb the shortfall was rejected by voters during the midterm elections.

Environment

Native Americans sue over solar power plant in desert

By Tiffany Hsu Los Angeles Times(MCT)

LOS ANGELES — A Native American tribe has filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an attempt to block construction of Tessera Solar's Imperial Valley solar power plant in the Sonoran Desert.

The 709-megawatt solar farm, planned for more than 6,000 acres of public land near El Centro, wrapped up its approval process in October.

But the Quechan tribe alleged in a complaint against the Interior Department that the installation could damage "cultural and biological resources of significance."

The tribe said that department officials ignored

Quechan concerns and rushed through or skipped important permitting steps, violating federal law.

State and federal agencies have fast-tracked several major solar projects, aiming to break ground by the end of the year to take advantage of expiring federal stimulus funds.

More than 28,000 SunCatcher solar dishes intended for the site could harm a region known for the flat-tailed horned lizard, which plays a key role in the tribe's creation mythology, the complaint said.

Tessera, which is also moving ahead on a similar installation near Barstow, has agreed to buy 6,600 acres of lizard habitat to offset its activity on the Imperial Valley project.

In a region that has been economically hard hit, the project is expected to create up to 700 jobs during construction along with 160 permanent operation positions.

The Quechan tribe, which has about 3,500 members, is asking a federal judge in San Diego to issue an injunction against the project. For thousands of years, the tribe has lived on a broad sweep of desert crossing from Arizona into Southern California, according to the complaint.

Tessera now joins BrightSource, SunPower and other solar energy companies that have been stymied, if only temporarily, by wildlife concerns on proposed solar farm sites.

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Facebook gears up for e-mail service

Social networking giant to compete with Yahoo, Google and Microsoft for share of e-mail market

By Mike Swift San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

Facebook may be on the verge of offering e-mail to the 500 million members of its social-networking site, making it the largest e-mail service on the planet.

More significantly, the offering could lead to a fundamental transformation of e-mail.

Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are already scrambling to retool their e-mail services to build them more around people's social connections. Facebook would have a tremendous advantage because it owns a vast trove of data about people's relationships and would find it easier to graft email onto its existing social services such as photo-sharing.

Facebook has invited the media to what appears to be a significant announcement in San Francisco on Monday morning, adding a prominent hint that the news could involve a new e-mail service — a press invitation bears a message icon. However, while tech blogs hummed Friday with speculation that Facebook will release "a Gmail killer," the Palo Alto-based company declined to confirm or deny those rumors, and a source with knowledge of the social network's plans said at least part of the speculation was incorrect — adding even more uncertainty.

If it is announced, a Facebook e-mail service would allow its more than 500 million members to communicate with anyone inside or outside the walls of the social network. If they use it, Facebook would leapfrog the 361 million global users of Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail's 273 million users and Gmail's 193 million users, according to comScore.

However, a Facebook e-mail service would be most remarkable not for the size of its network, but for how it could use its web of social connections to transform one of the oldest — and perhaps still the most important — functions of the Internet.

"There is a huge opportunity for these guys to fundamentally change the nature of e-mail," said Matt Cain, an analyst for the research firm Gartner who expects Facebook to unveil an external e-mail service Monday.

Imagine, Cain said, a Facebook system that could prioritize mail from any external source based on the closeness of your relationship to the sender, or that allows you to easily flip a one-to-one e-mail exchange into a conversation with a group of friends.

Facebook now offers an internal message service that is less functional than most Webbased e-mail, and only allows members to communicate with other Facebook accounts. But Facebook may hope to use a new external e-mail service to capture even more adherents, said Augie Ray, senior analyst for social computing for Forrester Research. Forrester says that while about 90 percent of U.S. adults check e-mail regularly, only 59 percent use social networking tools such as Facebook or Twitter.

An e-mail service "makes sense just largely from a reach perspective. Facebook has grown so large that we forget that it still has room for growth," Ray said.

And by adding e-mail to the Internet's most popular photosharing service, smartphone location-sharing service and social gaming site, Facebook would make an even stronger claim as a hub of personal communications, placing "Facebook as much into competition with AT&T as it is now with Google," Ray said.

The tech blog TechCrunch first reported in February that Facebook was working on an e-mail service, internally dubbed "Project Titan." And while it is possible that Monday's announcement will be something more modest, both TechCrunch and VentureBeat claimed Friday to have confirmed the e-mail service with anonymous sources.

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connections by adding socialnetworking features to existing e-mail services. Google had disastrous results when it based its Google Buzz social-networking service on people's Gmail contacts, running into a privacy Waterloo when it automatically imported people into the service. Yahoo, the most popular U.S. e-mail provider, recently launched a new version of Mail that allows users to broadcast their status on both Twitter and Facebook _ just as if they were actually on those sites.

Unhappy with Facebook's unwillingness to let people export their contacts from Facebook into a service like Gmail, Google last week blocked Facebook from allowing users to import their Google contacts directly into the social network.

Gmail is the hot property in e-mail right now, with its global audience up 21 percent during the 12 months ending in September, while Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have both lost share, according to comScore data.

Given Gmail's momentum, a Facebook e-mail service "puts tremendous pressure on Google," Cain said. "Gmail is the place to be, and all of sudden, in one fell swoop, Facebook can enable e-mail for 500 million users, and I would suspect there is a huge overlap."

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CHICAGO — The vast number of twisting rivers, canals and backwater channels funneling into the Great Lakes present a daunting challenge for those

safeguarding the lakes from dangerous invasive fish, mollusks and algae.

Though a federal judge soon will decide whether to close Chicago-area shipping locks to block the movement of Asian carp, most on both sides of

the contentious debate say sealing locks may disrupt shipping routes but are unlikely to stop the carp's northward migration.

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Asian Carp try and make their way upstream on the Kansas River near Edwardsville, Kansas, August 19, 2010. The invasive fish, which starting to take over rivers across the Midwest, has had a population explosion in the Kansas River between Lawrence and Kansas City.

Great Lakes, officials say, putting pressure on government officials, scientists and environmental advocates to come up with a solution.

The Army Corps of Engineers is embarking on an exhaustive, multiyear study of the Great Lakes water basin to find out how many alternative pathways exist and to better understand the depth of the invasive species problem threatening the world's largest freshwater body of lakes.

The price tag for this study, which was born out of the Water Resources Development Act passed by Congress in 2007, is estimated at $25 million. But officials concede it could ultimately be much higher before the study's expected completion in 2015.

"The scope of this study is massive and complex," said Maj. Gen. John Peabody, commander of the Army Corps' Great Lakes and Ohio River Division. "It deals with dozens of different kinds of aquatic species which migrate naturally through a variety of means, and there is no known or

simple single or set of apparent solutions for this problem."

Asian carp, a voracious species of fish introduced into the U.S. from China in the 1970s, have overwhelmed native fish populations in the Mississippi and Illinois rivers on its 30-year trek toward Lake Michigan.

However, the carp are just the latest in a long line of invasive species that have threatened or upset the environmental balance of the Great Lakes.

The Army Corps' study will look at how easily Asian carp and other invasive species navigate the Chicago waterway system to reach Lake Michigan, but it also will focus on alternative routes where dozens of small canals and channels form a direct connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. This will include areas where rising flood water could allow species to breech land masses and enter a new water pathway, such as the upper Des Plaines River or waterways in Indiana, Ohio and other states.

"This study is

another accomplishment in the aggressive strategy to protect our Great Lakes from Asian carp," said John Goss, the so-called carp czar appointed by the White House this summer to lead the federal response against Asian carp.

In compiling the research, the Army Corps will lean heavily on departments of natural resources in various states and other experts whose local knowledge of water routes and topography will provide clues to how invasive species move through the system, Peabody said.

Some environmental advocacy groups have criticized the Army Corps for reacting too slowly to the Asian carp problem, suggesting this multiyear study is just the latest example.

But Peabody said that it takes time to understand the complexities of invasive species migration and that the corps is interested in the best long-term solution, not a quick fix.

"I'm not personally concerned about the level of public interest waning on this issue, given my experiences over the last year," Peabody said.

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When the levy fails The failure of Toledo Public Schools’ $7.8 million levy will have drastic and unfortunate consequences on the city’s youth. While the funds would have only dented the massive budget shortfall facing the district, they would have at least allowed for basic services to be continued. Instead, students will face an increasingly grim situation. In order to maintain a minimum operating budget, the district will further cut programs as well as transportation.

Most sports and extracurricular activities will be cut, leaving students with no means or incentive to involve themselves in their school. Countless studies have shown the impact of extracurricular programs on academic performance. With fewer school-sponsored activities to occupy their after-school time, students will be more tempted to delve into drug abuse, gang violence and other destructive activities.

Busing will probably be eliminated as well, forcing parents and children to arrange alternative transportation. For the many parents who are employed full time, this will force them to compromise on working hours or leave their children to walk. For younger children who live miles away from their school, walking several city blocks presents a danger that is avoided when riding a bus. The added stress of this situation upon students and parents will further damage an already suffering educational atmosphere.

To reduce staffing costs, even teachers with many years of seniority may be fired. Increased class sizes means decreasing the quality of each student’s education. Basic classroom supplies like tissues, crayons and paper, once supplemented by students, will now depend fully on student contributions.

If parents cannot afford to send the supplies with their children, the class-

room will have to do without.

In spite of the negative consequences of the levy’s failure to pass, the perspective of the Toledo taxpayer is understandable. Ohio homeowners have suffered among the worst in this recession, losing huge portions of their property value and household income. It is of little surprise that families are hesitant to make further sacrifices from their already strained household budgets.

Furthermore, the TPS administration of recent years has made some highly-publicized mistakes that may have a considerable impact on voters’ decisions. It is unlikely that the public will support any funding measure for a school district whose leadership they see as untrustworthy. The recent disappearance and reappearance of nearly $1 million from the TPS budget is just one example of such blunders that reduced Toledoans’ trust in TPS administrators.

No matter what faults are perceived in the leaders of the district, taxpayers should keep their priorities in order and realize who and what suffers most from shortfalls in public school budgets. The many elements adversely affected by the levy’s failure — transportation, extra-curricular activities, staffing, etc. — combine to present a dim future for the city’s youth and thus its future.

Perhaps more important than the dayto-day struggles of classrooms is the lasting psychological impact on students in failing education systems whose communities cannot or will not help them recover. How can a child believe in the importance of education if their community will not help provide that education? How does a child find self-value if society refuses to grant the basic tools for improvement?

Kasich plans to scrap Strickland’s 3C rail program and send 16,000 jobs elsewhere In spite of the inflammatory criticism he leveled at Strickland regarding the Governor’s responsibility in Ohio’s rising unemployment, Governor-elect Kasich vows to prevent future work on the proposed 3C passenger rail system that would connect Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Making constant claims that Strickland personally led to 400,000 jobs disappearing from Ohio, Kasich campaigned heavily on the issue of unemployment and stated that creating jobs would be a top priority of his administration.

Having made such promises, it is an interesting contradiction for Kasich to oppose an action that would bring federal funds to the state and provide employment for thousands. The state of Ohio received $400 million in federal funds to start construction on the new transit system, which is estimated to create 16,000 permanent jobs for Ohioans.

With rising oil prices making long-distance auto transportation increasingly

impractical, is it prudent to kill a project that would provide energy-efficient transit between Ohio’s largest metro areas? Also, considering the dearth of federal funds available for state infrastructure projects, should we reject millions in federal subsidies that other states are eagerly waiting to absorb? Officials from New York and Florida are already pressuring Washington to reallocate Ohio’s $400 million to them if Kasich refuses to make use of it.

As Strickland has already said, he will not reject federal money and abandon the program simply because the Governor-elect plans to nullify it when he takes office. If Kasich wants to be remembered as the governor who surrendered federal funding and new jobs to other states, then that is his prerogative.

No matter how thoroughly Ohioans were convinced that Kasich would reverse Ohio’s trend of job loss, the impact of his decisions, not the content of anti-Strickland attack ads, will be the real judge of his performance.

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‘Corrective rape’ South Africa leads the world in rapes per capita. In June of 2009, the Huffington Post reported that one in four South African men have admitted to raping someone at some point in their life. It is believed that “only a fraction of those rapes go reported and of those rapes that are, only 7 percent lead to conviction.”

On Thursday, a friend of mine posted an article on Facebook from Gayrights.

Change.org about yet another “corrective rape” perpetrated in South Africa.

Millicent Gaika, a young woman in her mid-twenties, was forced into her own home by her neighbor, beaten, choked with barbed wire, raped repeatedly for five hours and was nearly strangled to death. It was only after hearing her screams that several neighbors charged the home and caught the man in the act.

What is even more disgusting is that this isn’t the first time Millicent was raped. Just a few years prior she’d experienced a “corrective rape” at the hands of a gang who felt, as many men in South Africa do, a civic responsibility to punish Millicent for being a lesbian.

And although this case should have been pretty open-shut and her rapist should be in prison, the South African legal system has proved their inadequacies yet again by releasing

her violent attacker on bail after only a few short hours of interrogation.

I don’t want to give off the impression that this phenomenon is unique to South Africa, as you may recall the brutal rape and murder of a transgender male by the name of Brandon Teena who inspired the movie “Boys Don’t Cry.” He was beaten, raped and murdered after a group of males

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I am hoping a few of you will lend me a helping hand by contacting both the South African Embassy and UNIFEM to question them on their policies and support of the women in South Africa.

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discovered that he was a biological female.

With all of the recent attention given to bullying, I think now is as good a time as any to discuss the brutal victimization of women, children and LGBTQ-identified individuals from all around the world who are subjected to rape, torture and murder on a continuous basis. In the past year I’ve read over a dozen more stories of women in South

Africa who were raped, whether they are lesbians or not, simply because men know their chances of punishment are minimal and gang rape is looked upon as some perverse form of male bonding.

In frustration, I called UNIFEM and the South African Embassy in Washington to see if there were any agencies capable of facilitating any form of asylum, legal or financial support to Millicent and other women in her situation, but I have yet to hear a response.

Regardless, I refuse to give up and I am hoping a few of you will lend me a helping hand by contacting both the South African Embassy and UNIFEM to question their policies and support the women in South Africa because many voices are more powerful than one.

If the women of South Africa cannot rely on their own government to support and defend their freedoms then I believe it is our duty as citizens of the world to assist them to the best of our ability. Please call.

South African Embassy: 202-232-4400 UNIFEM: Tel: 212-906-6400 —Nicole Doan is an IC columnist and a senior majoring in individualized studies.

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Natives respect nature and sustainability Whenever I am on a long drive, I often gaze at the landscape and imagine what it must have looked like several hundred years ago, before European encroachment.

I imagine the clusters of forest, encampments of tribes and stretches of prairie dotStephen ted with Bartholomew herds of grazing bison. No roads, buildings or traffic lights: just open land and open sky. Rivers running unobstructed, air free from pollution, people living in a reciprocal relationship with nature.

This month celebrates Native American heritage. Out of all the unique qualities Native Americans possess, it is their connection to nature that attracts me the most.

There are hundreds of tribes, and all of them are culturally different. Each have different ways of dressing, song, ceremonies, stories and dance, but they all seem to be linked by their relationship with

nature.

It is tempting to go on a rant detailing the injustices stacked upon the stoic people who first inhabited this land: the treaties broken, the small-pox blankets, the manipulation of warring tribes, the relocating of tens of thousands to undesirable land and so on.

But what I think is most important to consider is the difference between Native Americans’ and Western civilization’s relationships with nature.

Native Americans believe the Earth is sacred and they are connected to it and everything on it. As Chief Seattle once said, “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

Clearly, as settlers pushed west, these ideas were not adopted, at least not on a large scale. Forests were cleared away. Factories polluted rivers. Bison and elk were slaughtered en masse to make room for settlers and deprive the Native Americans of a primary food source.

Once the Native Americans

were sequestered to reservations and the United States stretched from coast to coast, there was no longer a frontier to advance forward geographically, but the industrial civilization now in place urged the nation to expand further and to secure a dominant position within the global hierarchy.

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either industrialized or striving to become industrialized, yet this way of life categorically divorces human beings from the natural world.

Human beings have become more familiar with the levers and gears of machines than the textures and uses of plants. They have a stronger relationship with digital interfaces than the soil of the earth.

I’m not saying we should all go live in teepees and longhouses, just that we need to consider the consequences of our current way of life. We must ask ourselves what must be done in order to live sustainably.

ventions is long and complicated. Generally, many of the interventions occurred to secure financial investments, create a cooperative environment for American corporations, prevent the rise of any successful government as an alternative to the capitalist model and to secure the political and economic hegemony of US power.

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Industrial civilization is destroying the natural world. It is an unsustainable way of life. It systematically exploits people, land and resources. It is a beast that consumes more resources than it replenishes. To think this way of life can continue is insane.

It hasn’t been until recently that power apparatuses of industrial civilizations have

truly considered proposing caps on carbon emissions, manufacturing hybrid automobiles and engineering ways to produce cleaner energy.

These solutions, although well intended, are impotent.

Climate change is happening now. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising and average temperatures are increasingly warmer.

The EPA website states there is clear evidence that the atmosphere is being altered by human activities and the climate is changing.

Greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, from human activities have increased 26 percent from 1990 to 2005 worldwide.

Electricity generation is the biggest contributor of greenhouse gases; the second biggest is transportation.

The entire system of industrial civilization is based on violent control of the natural world. Its economic system depends on the continuation of this violence. People rely on automotive transportation to get to work, coal powered electricity to heat their homes, wood to construct buildings, dams to provide water and electricity, etc.

The Native Americans that once thrived throughout this land knew that the needs of the natural world are greater than the needs of any economic system. They believed no one could own the land, that we belong to the land, and we must honor that relationship.

I’m not saying we should all go live in teepees and longhouses, just that we need to consider the consequences of our current way of life. We must ask ourselves what must be done in order to live sustainably and we must be willing to make the sort of sacrifices required to accomplish this.

So if you’re ever out driving, looking out at the landscape of an unfamiliar town and you happen to turn down a street named Cree, think of this Cree prophecy: “Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught.

Only then will you find money cannot be eaten.”

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

Ranked choice voting Democrats face immense challenges to hold onto their majorities in Congress and state governorships. As a partisan, I want my party to do as well as it can.

But democracy is more than what’s best for a party. It’s what best for voters. Among Americans’ inalienable rights should be a commitment of their elected officials to set aside partisan calculations when structuring the rules governing our democracy.

Too often, that’s not what we see. In the redistricting soon to take place across the nation, for example, expect rampant partisan ugliness as legislators pick their voters before their votes pick them. But other leaders sincerely want democracy to work for voters.

That helps explain increasing adoptions of ranked choice voting, a reform that addresses two of the most urgent problems in our democracy: upholding majority rule when voters have more two choices and curbing the increasingly negative character of campaigns.

Debated vigorously when Ross Perot earned 19 percent of the presidential vote in 1992 and Ralph Nader tipped Florida away from Al Gore in 2000, split votes have become a regular feature of our elections. It wouldn’t surprise me if a dozen races for governor and U.S. Senate were won with less than 50 percent of the vote.

Ranked choice voting handles voter choice with a sensible change. After indicating your first choice, you have the option to rank alternate choices.

If no candidate wins a 50 percent plus one majority, then those rankings are used

to simulate an instant runoff: the weak candidates are eliminated, and their backers’ votes are added to the totals of the frontrunners. The candidate who wins a majority in the final instant runoff is the winner.

I learned to appreciate ranked choice voting in 1998, when running for governor of Vermont. I faced strong nominees of both the Republican and Progressive party. With votes split three ways, I barely won a majority. Major parties

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Having more competition forces candidates to clean up negative campaigning and stick to the issues.

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can react to such an election in one of two ways: fight the very existence of third parties or change laws to handle increased voter choice. Ranked choice voting represents this more democratic approach.

My state has had ongoing debates about it — the legislature even approved it for congressional races in 2008.

Elsewhere, it’s now law in cities like Minneapolis, Oakland, Calif., and Memphis, Tenn.

North Carolina is using ranked choice voting to fill a statewide judicial vacancy.

Several Utah Republicans won RCV lections to fill state legislative vacancies.

The United Kingdom next year will vote in a referendum on whether to join Australia and Ireland in using it for national election. Ranked choice voting is even used now to

pick the Best Picture Oscar.

This year’s elections demonstrate why it makes sense. In races for governor in Rhode Island and Colorado and for U.S. Senator in Alaska and Florida, major party nominees are running third, put in the “spoiler role” usually assigned to third parties. Elsewhere, the very lack of such viable independent and third party candidates will keep potential voters from the polls.

Having more competition forces candidates to clean up negative campaigning and stick to the issues. Knowing they may need support from supporters of other candidates to win, candidates have to tone down personal attacks.

Reaching out to more voters also helps them govern better when they win.

The fundamental issue is majority rule. Without a majority standard, you can’t hold power accountable. It’s a blight on democracy when an incumbent can be returned to office even though 60 percent of voters reject that candidate as their last choice.

That’s why both Sen. John McCain and President Barack Obama have actively backed ranked choice voting. No party has a lock on majority rule, and both major parties can stand up for it.

With ranked choice voting, we can uphold majority rule, make campaigns less negative and foster less partisan elections. Let’s make democracy work for all of us.

—Dr. Howard Dean was governor of Vermont, chair of the Democratic National Committee and a candidate for president.

Permission to live Much has been said about the recent Arizona law that requires police to verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.

Critics argue the law is vague, unconstitutional, and will lead to racial profiling as police try to enforce it. Defenders respond that it is simply a means to enforce the rule of law — if people are committing crimes, shouldn’t the police be empowered to bring them to justice?

On its face, there seems to be a conflict between two compelling cases: the rights of citizens on the one hand, and the rule of law on the other. The issue has become a confusing maze of seemingly unrelated aspects. A short list would include racial profiling, police-public relations, federal versus state jurisdiction, drug smuggling, employment of undocumented workers, untaxed welfare benefits, and social impacts on immigrant families.

Consequently, our media pundits and politicians offer up uncertain, inconclusive attempts at solutions. Despite this, the Arizona law has done something clarifying: The chilling image of a police officer demanding proof of citizenship from a person they “suspect” of being illegal has reminded us of the fact that all one has to do to break the law is to have been born in the wrong country.

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is the fact that even the most peaceful, hardworking, and good-natured person is considered a criminal simply by lacking the permission of the federal government to pursue his peaceful, hardworking life in the United States. But there is no rational basis for such policies, and never has been.

America’s founding doctrine of freedom rightly

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The very existence of the term ‘illegal immigrant’ is a disgrace. Immigration is a legitimate human activity fully consistent with individual rights.

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framed a society where no man is causelessly presumed a threat to his neighbor. So long as one respects the freedom of others, he was to be granted the same.

Unfortunately, that idea was distorted and replaced by the contradiction that still persists today: that a nation literally born of immigrants considers outsiders criminals until and unless they are granted legal permission to breathe, walk, and work inside our borders.

Fundamentally, there is only one thing to say about

the issue of immigration: the very existence of the term “illegal immigrant” is a disgrace. Immigration is a legitimate human activity fully consistent with individual rights.

Provided he poses no objective threat to anyone else, any man who wants to work or live in America should have his freedom respected by our government — not violated by it.

Politically, this means a policy of open immigration, where immigrants are able to register with the government upon arrival in order to properly participate in the legal system and receive protection of their rights.

So long as a would-be immigrant poses no clear threat by entering the country — for example, by having a criminal background or an infectious disease — the government imposes no obstacle to entrance.

Immigrants would then be free to live their lives as any other resident, bearing full responsibility for earning their own livelihood.

The other issues — racial profiling, legality, alleged economic impact — only serve to distract from the crucial question that the Arizona law prompts us to confront: what has a man done wrong by standing on an American street without permission?

—Noah Stahl is a columnist for The Undercurrent.

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Success may already be on its way for Bell – since his trip, two delegations from China have already come, and at least one additional delegation is planned.

“Right now, when you look at a city, or the state or federal government, most of them are running a fairly wide deficit, and what we need is new sources of money,” Bell said.

“We need to go global.”

Bell believes much can be learned from China’s forward thinking expansion.

“They build for the future, we build for the present,” he said. “What we need to do is to be able to develop long-term strategies. Both can learn from each other. I think that as we move forward we need to be able to have that relationship.”

Some economic development involving Toledo and China is already underway.

During his 11-day trip, during which he meet with politicians and businessmen, Bell emphasized, some Toledo businesses were already there, including many American companies such as Caterpillar and Owens Corning.

Bell also mentioned Xunlight Corporation, a Toledo-based solar cell production company founded by UT professor onleave Xunming Deng.

Xunlight, along with First Solar and UT are competing for a $23 million federal grant from the Department of Energy.

“I think that we have already attracted international interest.

Just look at the visitors from the UAE and other places,” Deng said.

Deng said he hopes the partnered proposal is accepted by the DOE. Bell expects to reap the benefits of these and other meetings with Chinese companies within the next year.

been a standard scrub color, according to Scarborough, but now all of the hospital staff must wear UT’s blue and gold. The new uniform is already hospital-wide.

“The whole idea is to modernize the hospital,” Scarborough said.

The new “suite style” patient rooms are the largest change at the UTMC, designed with a new aesthetic that goes against the normal sterile hospital look.

The room has a lot of earth tones on both the wall and the sleeper sofa.

“Healing is not just about the biological,” Scarborough said.

“We will turn the double bed rooms into single bed rooms,” Scarborough said.

However, the hospital will not lose any beds because more patient rooms are being added in other parts of the hospital.

The new rooms also come with several high-tech amenities such as Internet access, iTunes, and a digital picture frame.

“The idea was that we would take a flash drive and put their own family pictures up,” Scarborough said.

The right relationships

Guanxi, the Chinese term for developing networks and interpersonal relationships in the business and political world, is quickly becoming an important term for those heads of American corporations looking to expand to China and invest in Chinese companies.

The central tenant is building friendly relationships with potential new business partners.

While Bell promises that he was never specifically employing guanxi, his policy on developing closer ties overseas reflects its spirit.

“In order to create this relationship, the important thing is to look people in the face, shake their hands. They need to hear your voice, even if it’s through an interpreter,” Bell said. “[The Chinese businessmen we met] may have been practicing guanxi, but mine is basically North Toledo — what I learned growing up as a kid, and what my parents taught me.”

The enthusiasm for personal administrative relationships seems to be mutual.

Bell mentioned excitement on the part of Chinese businessmen, and research by the delegates into Toledo and northwest Ohio’s resources —something he believed expressed real interest in future progress.

He even recounted his original intentions to travel to China — a delegate named Mr. Chang from Toledo’s sister city Qinhuang Dao made a visit early in his term. After a dinner at Real Seafood Co., Bell told him bluntly “I’ll see you in China.”

Chang was there months later to greet Bell when he arrived at the Beijing International Airport.

“It’s very easy to do business and not go visit their country, to say ‘They should take the 16 hour flight, not us,’” Bell said.

Bell said criticism didn’t bother him, and other mayors should consider international options for curbing economic downturn.

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Bell said that a major lesson to be learned from the Chinese is that they build for the future, not just the present. That is something he would like to see Toledo adopt.

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New hospital rooms at UTMC will have iPod ports available.

The demonstration room also includes a restroom that resembles a spa and patient beds that help monitor patients who are at risk of falling out of the bed.

The “demo” room built in the stroke unit on the fifth floor cost UTMC $75,000, Scarborough said, but the cost per room will come down when they are mass-produced.

Fortunately, these renovations are not going to increase the cost of a hospital stay.

“Medicare is not going to pay us because we have prettier

rooms,” said Charton Budd, an UTMC systems analyst.

UTMC is already starting to create rooms like this on the third floor in their new addition, but will need the Board of Trustees to provide more money to make the changes hospital wide.

The changes to the rooms and patient gowns will only go into effect in minor ways until UTMC goes to the BOT to request $35 million to help with the renovations.

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An alumnus of the University of Toledo, Bell still wears his class ring. He hopes UT and China can foster business ties.

“For mayors waiting for this to happen, I salute them; but I’ll be on a plane,” he said.

“You can’t worry about criticism. Accept it and move forward.”

Bell said the natural resources, business opportunities, geographic location and the city’s friendliness, commenting that Toledoans are some of the “friendliest people in America,” make Toledo a “marketable American city.”

Bell will be returning to China soon to continue building this relationship, as well as a possible visit to a sister city in India.

“I guess I’m going to be an international mayor,” he said.

Bell’s optimism goes beyond the office.

He said he is not concerned so much with whether he receives credit for his visit, only that the success comes.

His potential success he believes is based on his idea of nurturing relationships and directness when communicating with delegates overseas.

“I didn’t go with political rhetoric, I didn’t go with a bunch of notes. When developing relationships, you want something real. We cut to the chase.”

The university’s role

The proposed partnership would not just include business and political ties with China, but also educational.

Chinese delegates reportedly showed interest in UT, and expressed a desire to create a student-exchange program.

“Education is a big point for them. The idea of establishing contacts with universities came up multiple times at meetings, and it was interesting how much they understood the University of Toledo,” Bell said. “You should feel good as UT students, because

you’re well-known over there.”

Bell also believes potential partnerships could result in green industry advancements — something UT has made a priority. He mentioned technological advancements in clean coal and solar power.

He believes that he and the delegates with whom he met were concerned with lessening China’s “carbon footprint.”

Bell said he hopes UT will expand its foreign language programs.

“It would be beneficial if we had places to teach foreign language,” he said. “It is a global economy, and things are more international.

Speaking the language is part of that. You’re at a bit of a disadvantage if you’re at a meeting and your interpreter isn’t there yet.”

Vice President for Research Development and Economic Development at UT Frank Calzonetti said UT was particularly interested in economic development and promoting job growth and business expansion in northwest Ohio.

“The University in particular is interested in forming alliances with these companies that are working on developing new products, and [we] are interested in having our students and faculty members work with them,” Calzonetti said.

UT Vice President for External Affairs Larry Burns feels the same.

In September he told the Independent Collegian, “I see China as an important part of our future at this university.”

Bell said he’s “hanging tough” and is looking to make international business one of the targets of his tenure as mayor.

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We wouldn’t want any other team to play after a loss like that. B.G. is our rival and we need that Peace Pipe back where it belongs.

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By Zach Davis Sports Editor

The Rockets will look to rebound from a 65-30 loss to Northern Illinois last week while trying to regain the Peace Pipe Trophy against arch-rival Bowling Green Wednesday in the Glass Bowl at 8 p.m. on ESPN 2. The award is given annually to the winner of the rivalry game.

“I’ve been involved in this game for a long time, longer than any of our players have been involved,” said UT head coach Tim Beckman, who was the defensive coordinator/assistant head coach at Bowling Green from 19982004. “I know the importance of it to not only the university but to the community, city and everybody.”

“We wouldn’t want any other team to play after a loss like that,” senior cornerback Desmond Marrow said. “B.G. is our rival and we need that peace pipe back where it belongs.”

Toledo’ s (6-4, 5-1 MAC) chances of reaching the MidAmerican Conference Championship game took a major hit after losing to the Huskies (7-2, 6-0) in a battle of the league’s last unbeatens. The Rockets would have to win their final two games while NIU lost both of their last contests. UT finishes up the season with a pair of home games against the Falcons (2-7, 1-4) and Central Michigan (3-7, 2-5) on Nov. 26. Northern — Falcons, Page B2

UT qualifies for NCAA Title meet

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The University of Toledo women’s cross country team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship yesterday. The Rockets have never competed in the championship meet in school history.

“We felt all year that we are talented and tough enough to make it,” said Head Coach Kevin Hadsell. “We controlled our own destiny and the women proved themselves every meet. To earn our way into the meet on our own merit is particularly satisfying. We are honored to be representing the University of Toledo and the Mid-American Conference at the most exclusive NCAA Championship.”

The Rockets are one of 31 teams to be selected to the championship meet. In NCAA history only three MAC schools have ever qualified for the NCAA Championship and UT will be the first since 2002.

“This is a great testament to how hard work and sacrifice can put you in a position for greatness,” Hadsell said.

Toledo finished in third place at the Great Lakes Regional meet on Saturday finishing short of an automatic bid into the tournament. Since they were not automatically eligible, the Rockets had to rely on a résumé which included wins over two automatic qualifiers (Florida and Rice) and the MAC Championship. Toledo also has the fifth-most votes of any team ranked outside of the top 25 polls.

This year’s NCAA Championships will be hosted at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. at noon. The race will be televised online on NCAA.com.

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Location: The Glass Bowl Toledo, Ohio Game Time: Wednesday, Nov. 17 8 p.m.

Records:

Toledo: 6-4 (5-1 MAC)

Bowling Green: 2-8 (1-5 MAC)

Television: ESPN 2

Notes: - The Rockets will look to regain the Peace Pipe Trophy by beating BGSU for the first time since Nov. 2006.

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Senior cornerback Desmond Marrow and his team prepare for the start of the Northern Illinois game last week. Marrow is one of just five players (Nate Cole, Archie Donald, Alex Johnson and Douglas Westbrook) on the roster who have beaten BG in their career.

Rockets lose to second ranked opponent at No. 22 Temple

By Joe Mehling Assistant Sports Editor

In their second-straight game against a Top 25 opponent, the Rockets fell to No. 22 Temple 82-49 yesterday.

Toledo opened their season on Nov. 10 at No. 13 Illinois with an 84-45 loss.

“If I had to do this whole scheduling stuff all over again, I would do it again,” UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said.

“For this team and this program at this point in our rebuilding process, they needed to be humbled and they needed to understand how hard you have play and how hard you have to defend. Let’s be honest, we have got embarrassed in two games. I would like to think I as a coach and our coaching staff have a lot more of their attention, which I am not sure we had before these two games.”

Toledo held an early 4-2 lead but trailed by 24 at the break as they were held scoreless for over six minutes during the opening half.

“I think we came out and had a good start,” Kowalczyk said. “The first five or six minutes of the game we played well—we were right there.

Then I think we went into a lull of turnovers and bad shots, which turned into layups for them. Then we just couldn’t get stops.”

The Owls controlled the second half as well and outscored Toledo 42-33 to take the 33-point victory. This was the 34th consecutive road loss for the Rockets in the past three seasons.

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Freshman guard Zack Leahy led the Rockets with 15 points in an 82-49 loss at No. 22 Temple yesterday.

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“We are refocused already,” senior center Kevin Kowalski said. “Records don’t really mean anything in rivalry games. They are going to come as hard as they possibly can because they want this more than anything and we want it too. It’s going to be a fight and a struggle for four quarters.”

“I’m disappointed in the way we played [against NIU] and I’m sure the players and fans are but we were in that game and we haven’t been in that type of game for a long time,” Beckman said. “We just didn’t perform the way we were capable of performing and now we have an opportunity to play the Falcons here at the Glass Bowl.”

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Although the Rockets have reached bowl eligibility with six victories on the season, there is still no guarantee UT will be selected to a bowl game, which makes the final two games important to win.

“We are still talking about getting this program back to championship years and we were last week playing for one,” Beckman said. “Seven or eight wins is huge to

getting back to that. We have to play one at a time and if we take care of business and that seventh game is a win then we have to do that same thing against Central Michigan.

These are huge games for this program.”

Toledo hasn’t defeated Bowling Green since Nov. 2006. The Rockets have just five players on their roster from that year in seniors Nate Cole, Archie Donald, Alex Johnson, Douglas Westbrook and Desmond Marrow, who made his first start against the Falcons in a 31-21 victory.

“I was nervous,” Marrow said. “It was such a big game.

The older guys stressed the importance of the game to me and the rivalry. I just wanted to go out there and make plays and help us win.

Now I’m trying to tell [the younger players] history, but this year there’s more to it because it gets us closer to that eighth win and a nice bowl.”

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Shafir clinches opening game win with late three

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Junior point guard Naama Shafir had a game-high points and six assists with six rebounds in a 71-66 victory over St. Francis (PA) on Friday.

By Zach Davis Sports Editor

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Adonis Thomas rushed for a game-high 152 yards with two touchdowns against Northern Illinois in a 65-30 loss in Dekalb, Ill. The junior running back also caught three passes for 32 yards against the Huskies.

Junior point guard Naama Shafir clinched a seasonopening victory for Toledo after hitting a near half-court shot with 20 seconds remaining to give the Mid-American Conference West Division Champions a 71-66 victory over St. Francis (PA) in the opening round of the Preseason WNIT on Friday at Savage Arena.

After missing near the basket and missing the rim, Shafir came back out to the top of the key where the ball came to her with just two seconds remaining on the shot clock. Shafir heaved up the shot from between the three-point arc and mid court as the ball bounced off the backboard and in as the shot clock expired. The Red Flash missed two three-pointers on the other end as Toledo (1-0) came away with the victory.

“After all the easy baskets that we had designed and missed all game, for us to hit the half court one it’s almost like it was meant to be,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “The hardest shot of the night we hit and the easiest ones we missed. It was one of those nights.”

The Rockets shot just 36.8 percent (25 of 68) against St. Francis (0-1) and will move on to the second round of the WNIT today in their second round matchup at Purdue, Cullop’s alma mater, in West Lafayette, Ind. at 7 p.m.

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Ranked From Page B1 Leahy led the Rockets with 15 points knocking down 5-of-9 from the floor but was just 1-for-4 beyond the arc.

Other Rockets reaching double digits were sophomore guard Malcolm Griffin with 11 points and senior Michigan transfer Anthony Wright, who also added 11 points.

This was Wright’s first action of year as he had been dealing with a foot injury during the exhibition season.

“I think the first half [Wright] looked very rusty and tried to force things,” Kowalczyk said. “Often times guys who come back from injury and don’t get practice time do that. The second half he settled in and gave us some good minutes.”

The Rockets hope to be at full strength for their home opener on Fri. Nov. 19 against Illinois-Chicago as freshman point guard J.T Thomas is

tour- nament for us to be playing in,” Cullop said. “It’s not about me it’s about our players having an opportunity. I know the Purdue system very well. There have been a lot of coaches since then so it’s not the same program that I came from but the thing is they’ve won continually through those coaches.

They are going to be prepared for us. We look forward to the challenge.”

Toledo fell behind early 154 and didn’t capture their first lead until taking a 49-48 advantage four minutes into the second period.

“We just tried to focus on the fact that we knew we were better than we had played and things weren’t exactly going our way but if we kept pushing and staying together then we would push through it and pull out a win,” senior center Melissa Goodall said. “No matter what they did we knew that we could play our game and still pull out the game.”

Shafir had a game-high 21 points and six assists with six rebounds while Goodall had 20 points, six boards and five blocks and senior guard Jessica Williams scored 15.

Sophomore center Yolanda Richardson made just 3-of-11 attempts but had a gamehigh 11 rebounds.

“Hopefully the next game we can put defense and offense together,” Goodall said.

“The first half I didn’t feel proud of either end. We just didn’t get off to a very good start. In the second half our team rebounded and played more inspired.”

“I wanted to find five people that would play defense,” Cullop said. “I was really puzzled by why we weren’t getting back in transition and why we weren’t stepping in for charges. We want to be the team that outhustles the other team and I felt like in the first half that was St. Francis, unfortunately. The second half we buckled down and I didn’t have to fiddle as much because we found five people (Lecretia Smith, Goodall, Courtney Ingersoll, Shafir, Williams) that wanted to play defense.”

St. Francis is the reigning Northeast Goodall Conference Champions after winning the title for a record 10th time last season following a 17-15 campaign. The Red Flash lost in the NCAA Tournament’s first round to Ohio State.

“The one thing that I told our players before tonight’s game is that we are facing a team that’s been in the NCAA Tournament,” Cullop said. “They have something we’ve not experienced lately and something that we want. They play passionately. They are very aggressive and well coached team.”

still questionable as he recovers from foot surgery.

“We are trying to get him cleared for practice on Thursday,” Kowalczyk said.

“I can tell you this, we drastically need him” The Rockets host the second round of the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer as the University of Rhode Island, College of Charleston, and UIC will be playing Savage Arena this weekend.

four quality players to our program”, UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “The first thing that comes to mind is that they are all winners.

“All four of them have an opportunity to come in and make an impact for us. Julius Brown is someone that we needed to bring in at point guard. With J.T. Thomas being the only point guard in the program so that was certainly a huge need for us. We absolutely think we hit a home run with him.”

This was Kowalczyk’s first class for Toledo after recruiting the last eight years at Wisconsin-Green Bay. “UT just has so much more to offer, so much more campus-wise, socially, diversity-wise and facilitywise with its location,” Kowalczyk said. “You really cant compare the two as far as recruiting ability and thats why I chose to take this job.”

Rockets sign four recruits

The Toledo men’s basketball team officially signed four players to their Letter of Intent Wednesday, including Illinois point guard Juice Brown, and three Michigan recruits in shooting guards A.J. Matthews and Ryan Marley and power forward Justin Moss.

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These two machines inside Ritter Planetarium compare a person’s weight on both the Moon and Earth. Tickets for programs are $5 for UT students, facutly and staff, seniors and children from three to 12 years old and $6 for adults.

Play From Page B4 with the visual concept of the piece,” Lingan said. “I give pictures that resemble what’s going on in my head to the designers, and the designers work off of that.”

The designer for “The Labyrinth” is Frankie Teuber, a senior majoring in theatre.

“The Labyrinth” also incorporates elements of video and film, put together by student designer Meg Sciarini, who worked on last year’s production of “Machinal” at UT. “She’s a really creative video designer, and I liked her work,” Lingan said.

“She has a good handle on the experimental and abstract, which I really liked about her. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to work

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with her.”

The text of the play is very abstract and experimental. Posters describe “The Labyrinth” as “Alice in Wonderland meets S&M,” which, Lingan explains, is the way Arrabal wrote it, describing the play as combining several opposing concepts: funny and horrifying, control and chaos, comedy and tragedy.

Lingan, who has read the play about 20 times, described “The Labyrinth” as one of his favorite plays and said he has wanted to direct it for 17 years.

“I choose to direct plays that I keep reading over and over, and that’s how I decide what to direct,” he said. “If I don’t feel compelled to read something more than once, I more than likely won’t direct it unless somebody just pays me to.”

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year on telescopes, amateur observing, astro-photography and other topics of similar interest.

Since the planetarium is partially self-supporting, all monetary income from such programs goes directly to its funding.

The planetarium assists all students, particularly those studying astronomy or in the Astronomy 1010 course. Jessica Ostrander, a junior majoring in New Media with a concentration in Photography, is a student in Astronomy 1010. Not only did she find the Friday night program she attended in the planetarium quite helpful, but she also added, “I like that it shows what the night sky looks like here in Toledo,” and says that “the program really went in depth with the planets and extrasolar planets.”

Aside from the collegiate learning aspect of the planetarium, the dome has brought other simple enjoyments to campus as well.

Stephanie Horne, a graduate student and employee of the planetarium, has witnessed her fair share of memories beneath the faux stars.

While the demographics of those in attendance are wide in range, generally consisting of college students, families, senior citizens, former professors and astronomy enthusiasts, her favorite part of her job is the kids’ reactions.

“I love when the little kids look through the telescope for the first time and they’re like, ‘Whoa,’” Horne said.

Alex Mak, associate director of the planetarium, feels similarly. He loves working with grade school students, especially when he sees them come to a greater understanding.

His reward comes from the light-bulb going off in their heads, or “the moment that I can see it in their eyes that they finally get something.”

While Mak matter-of-factly states that the planetarium is “basically a cheap date,” Horne notes that proposals and even marriages have even taken place under the stars.

Metropark From Page A1 around them because “it is unpredictable and requires our voluntary attention at all times,” Christman said.

He also explained another psychological treatment called ecotherapy, where therapists take their patients outof-doors to help them to feel calm and less stressed.

“It provides innumerable benefits because we need that regular exposure to nature,” he said.

So when college students need something new to do, or simply need to relax, they should visit the Metroparks of Toledo, where everything is constantly changing and there is something for everyone to enjoy. Plus, it is always free to get in.

Students might even improve their test scores or lower their anxiety levels before their next big exam thanks to the healing power of nature.

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A squirrel in a tree at Wildwood Preserve. The Metroparks offer a variety of free programs open to the public.

“When I read ‘Labyrinth,’ I see a really disgusting bathroom.”

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An evening of stargazing in the dome

By Weslie Detwiler IC Staff Writer

The view of the stars in Toledo is more often than not smothered by a blanket of light pollution. However, simply looking up at the night sky isn’t the only way of gaining an accurate view of the cosmos.

UT’s Main Campus is home to Ritter Planetarium. This 40-foot domed auditorium seats 92 and holds a vast amount of knowledge-enhancing programs geared toward all ages.

Their mission is to “provide educational and entertaining activities for the dissemination of material related to astronomy, the sky, and our place in the universe,” as well as to “provide opportunities for the university community and the public to view celestial phenomena with mediumsized telescopes.”

About 120 public programs and 200 school programs are held per year in hopes of fulfilling this mission.

Beginning the first Friday of every month, a new program is launched that repeats every

Friday for the remainder of the month. Annual programs are held as well, such as “The Moonwitch” that occurs near Halloween, focusing on the face of a folkloric witch in the moon.

Around Christmas, “Santa’s Secret Star” tells the story of the North Star and how it has proven itself capable of guiding those who are lost, including the beloved Santa Claus.

A variety of resources go hand-in-hand with these programs to make the experience educational as well as entertaining.

An interactive lobby is located just outside the doors of the planetarium, and while it is mostly aimed at children, there is still plenty of information to be found within each display, including large scales estimating both your weight on earth and in space.

The most integral part of the star and planet-based programs comes from the content of the complex Spitz A3P central projector, which has the ability to reproduce the sky as it would be seen from anywhere on earth and can speed up time to show

progression of the sky as it changes.

While it is seemingly just a mid-sized sphere with light illuminating from miniscule holes poked precariously into its surface, the Spitz A3P impressively and accurately scales the stars down to make them viewable in the planetarium.

Also, if weather conditions permit, guests are invited to the roof of McMaster Hall after each program where they can peer through the one-meter telescope located in Brooks Observatory to get a

feel for what planets and stars look like just a bit closer up.

This Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope is the largest one found in Ohio.

For happenings such as comets, eclipses or other unusual astronomical events, the observatory may also provide planetarium interpretations or additional public viewings.

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Ritter Planetarium holds educational events on a regular basis. Friday, the Planetarium will hold a program titled “The Search for Life,” which will discuss the possibility of life on other planets.

‘Labyrinth’ director talks about concepts behind the play

By Feliza Casano Copy Chief

The UT Department of Theatre and Film’s current production takes place in one of the least desirable places students can imagine: inside a park latrine.

“When I read ‘Labyrinth,’ I see a really disgusting bathroom,” said Edmund B. Lingan, assistant professor of theatre and the director of the production. “[The Labyrinth’s] a play about what happens when human beings are subjected to the rules of any kind of a system – political, religious, educational, whatever – in which maintaining control over human beings has become more important than serving the needs of human beings.”

“The Labyrinth” is second in this season’s theme of “Imprisonment” in the Department of Theatre and Film.

Written in 1961 by Fernando Arrabal under the title “Le labyrinthe,” the play follows the “Everyman” Etienne, who awakens in a park latrine and finds himself in a strange maze of blankets from which no one has ever found a way out.

Lingan said the protagonist is a “normal person trapped in an inhumane system.”

“In the ‘Labyrinth’ I see a world in which the needs of human beings are completely ignored and the legal formalities of the world in which the person lives dominates every aspect of the person’s life,” Lingan said. “That’s why there’s this giant labyrinth that will

kill you if you try to go in it and why [Etienne] lives in these really squalid, horrible conditions: because his physical and his mental health are not a concern in this world.”

Etienne is played by Pat Miller, a senior majoring in film, in UT’s production.

Heis at first chained to Bruno, played by Christopher Douglas, a sophomore majoring in psychology with a minor in theater.

Bruno is described by Lingan as “practically a pile of mobilized, barely-moving flesh that just sort of accepts” the confines of the labyrinth.

“We can’t see his face.

He’s kind of lost his humanity,” Lingan said. “He’s the opposite of Etienne, who is trying to fight the system and escape.”

The primary antagonist, Justin, set up the weird bureaucracy that Etienne is in, according to Lingan.

“He refuses to bend the rules to help anybody, but he pretends he will help you,” he said.

Etienne also interacts with Michaela, Justin’s daughter.

“She’s somebody who’s part of a system that is essentially inhumane, and she likes to think that she’s humane, but she’s actually promoting the system by being a part of it,” Lingan said. “She’s promoting the inhumaneness of the system.”

The “inhumane system” of the labyrinth inspired much of the set design.

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Just a walk in the park

Metroparks offer fun things to do around the Toledo area Mitchell Rohrer IC Staff Writer

beautiful scenery the parks have to offer.

The next time you need What if visiting the trails to study, you can literally could improve test scores make it a walk in the park. and overall cognition? This While the more common is the idea behind places college students Ecopsychology. look for entertainment inEcopsychology is a belief cludes clubs, bars and mov- that human beings feel ies, a less well-known site more comfortable and infor some weekend fun are spired while being outside, the Metroparks of Toledo. such as in the parks -- not The Metroparks have al- just while running or skatways been open to the pub- ing the trails for exercise, lic with free admission to but by simply being out of anyone. Aside from walk- noisy city environments ing through the miles of and in the quieter, more trails, there are many serene wildlife landscape. events and programs the “Generally exercise is parks have to offer that ap- good for you,” said UT Propeal to a fessor of Psyb r o a d e r SteGenerally exercise chology audience. phen ChristThe free is good for you, man. “But we p r o g r a m need regular guide, which but we need regular ex- exposure to is released posure to being outside being outside quarterly by due to our past. due to our the parks syspast.” tem, outlines Christman events such described a as bike tours Stephen Christman study at the around the Professor, University of trails, pho- Psychology Michigan in tography conwhich a group tests or exof volunteers were asked to hibits run by the National memorize a set of numbers Center for Nature Photog- and then repeat those numraphy at the Secor Me- bers back in reverse order. tropark and trips through However, the difference time, such as the historical was that some of the group Manor House at the Wild- had taken a stroll through wood Preserve, all of which downtown Ann Arbor that are completely free. day while the other half The parks also hold op- walked through UM’s portunities for students Arboretum. looking for volunteer hours “The nature group perin their area, like the proj- formed significantly betect with the “Helping Hands ter,” he said.

Team” on Dec. 4 or through The results are thought to “Volunteer Naturalist Train- show that, while humans ing” happening Friday and can drown out the sounds Saturday. of the city after a while, From the wide open spac- they are less attentive. But es to relax and read a book when they were out in the to the deep woods filled arboretum, the subjects with unique plants, animals were more engaged with and extensive hiking trails, w h a t was it is hard to imagine someone couldn’t be entertained — Metropark, Page B3 with the 10,500 acres of

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A study at the University of Michigan said those who walk through nature perform intellectual tasks better than those who walk through a more urban environment.