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Business school Change in Ohio trafficking laws grants 10K award Venture capitalists back best business plans from community By Vincent J. Curkov IC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo’s College of Business and Innovation awarded $22,000 in the first Innovation Enterprises Challenge Business Plan Competition on Thursday. Business plans were pitched by 49 teams from the colleges of business, engineering and medicine to eight judges from Toledo’s business community for a chance to win $10,000 to fund their business. The prize money is not just spending money for these participants: In order to use it, they must start their business in Northwest Ohio. The prize money awarded to recipients is raised through UTIE as well as the College of Business Administration, according to Kalicharan Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy, a graduate student majoring in information systems. “[The] university [is] playing its part as an engine for economic development,” said Sonny Ariss, chair of the management department. Kuppuswamy Parthasarthy said the winning business plans have “the most potential to succeed.” “These are companies that have the ability to generate a lot of jobs,” he said. Minal Bhadane, a

PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, took first place with her company Smart Orthosis. Her advisor Mohammed Elahinia, associate professor of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, accepted the award on her behalf since Bhadane is vacationing in India. Smart Orthosis created a “Hybrid Active Ankle Foot Orthosis” that is used to correct drop foot. Drop foot is a condition caused most commonly by a stroke where the patient’s muscles do not pull the foot back up. “The science was so welldeveloped,” said Greg Knudson, director and vice president of Rocket Ventures. What impressed Knudson the most was that Bhadane knew how to market the device. “Science by itself means nothing, but how it connects to the market is what matters,” Knudson said. Knudson was not only a judge for the competition, but his firm may be looking to invest in some of the companies. Rocket Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, responsible for helping companies such as Xunlight Corporation, a UT startup solar company, find their footing. — Awards, Page A7

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Ohio Senate Bill 235 will allow the state to punish offenders who exploit children and illegal immigrants. In the past, the children who were trafficked would be punished, but the new law has protections for them as victims.

Ohio State Senate passes legislation to make human trafficking a standalone felony and protect victims of child prostitution By Sura Khuder IC Staff Writer

Before the Ohio Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 235 on Wednesday, a child seeking help from authorities after being involved in human sex trafficking in Toledo would be prosecuted for prostitution. Senate Bill 235 has changed that, making human sex trafficking a

standalone felony in Ohio. This new legislation allows prosecutors to have a clear-cut punishment for offenders who exploit children and illegal immigrants, while protecting the victims involved. “Now we can begin to provide prosecutors with the tools they need to go after traffickers,” said Celia Williamson, professor of social

services at the University of Toledo who worked with State Senator Teresa Fedor in composing the legislation. “This is a way for the state to start to recognize that children are not responsible for having sex with adults. That’s child abuse, but they continue to prosecute the child.” Before this legislation, penalties for human

traffickers were based on an accumulation of various federal offenses. Bill supporters describe human trafficking as “modern-day slavery,” a problem well-recognized in Toledo, which ranks fourth in the nation in the number of human trafficking arrests each year. Previous attempts to push — Trafficking, Page A7

President and DHS determined to pass DREAM Act Nepolitano holds teleconference with national media, urging Congress to pass immigration bill By Vincent D. Scebbi Features Editor

If Congress passes the DREAM Act, undocumented minors who were brought into the United States by their parents without a choice will be able to gain residency as U.S. citizens by serving in the military or going to college. United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano urged Congress to pass the proposed Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act Thursday afternoon in a teleconference with national media. In the conference, Napolitano said the DREAM Act is part of President Barack Obama’s administration’s push to update and reform the nation’s immi-

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Grisanti Valencia, right of center, holds a sign along with others during a rally in support of the DREAM Act at Fresno State in Fresno, California, Friday, November 19, 2010.

gration laws. “I know that Congress is going to be considering the DREAM Act soon, and I wanted to reemphasize my support for it because the act will actually improve enforcement of immigration,” Napolitano said. Napolitano said the DREAM Act “fits into a larger strategy of immigration enforcement” and compliments efforts made by the DHS to prioritize enforcement resources. There are two parts to the immigration laws reformation, according to Napolitano. The first is a continuation of prioritizing the deportation of “dangerous criminal aliens from the country.” Napolitano said, in the past two years, the U.S. has removed a record number of

undocumented persons convicted of a criminal offense, including 195,000 in the 2010 fiscal year, a 70 percent increase from last year. The second half of the process is allowing minors who have been brought into the country against their will — whether by parents, relatives or through human traffickers — to gain residency into the U.S. if they pass a rigorous selection process, Napolitano said. Applicants would have to go through detailed background checks and have no offenses that hold grounds for removal. Aside from the checks, those seeking residency are required to attend college or serve in the — DREAM, Page A2

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Barack Obama winning the Democratic Election in 2008.

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The president of the United States is an AfricanAmerican.

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Come and relax at the UT Jazz Holiday Party tonight at 7:30 p.m. at Crystal’s Lounge at the Ramada Hotel & Conference Centre. Celebrate the holiday with a Jazz Party thrown by the UT jazz faculty at Crystals. For more information, please contact Angela Riddel at 419-530-2452.

Department of Chemistry

Dr. Nicholas Snow from Seton Hall University will give a seminar about chemistry this Wednesday December 8 at 4 p.m. at the Bowman-Oddy Laboratories in room 1059. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Snow will present “Multiple Dimensions of Separations: SPME with GCxGC-ToFMS.” For more information, contact Dr. Jared Anderson at 419-530-1508.

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Chime in the winter season with the Docapella & Vocal Remedy Winter Concert at the Atrium of Center for Creative Education. The concert will take place on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, contact Kathy Kacmarek at 419-383-6428.

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Eain Murphy, Ph.D., Assistant Staff, Department of Molecular Genetics at the Cleveland Clinic will present a seminar on “Bio Logical Sciences” Friday at 3:30 p.m. in Wolfe Hall Room 3246. The topic will include “The Role of Human Cytomegalovirus Micro [Ribonucleic acid].” The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Malathi Krishnamurthy.

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DREAM From Page A1 military and have a “good track record.” The act, Napolitano said, fits in with the United States’ tradition of pardoning those who are without fault. According to Napolitano, minors who were brought into the country without a choice deserve a strict and fair opportunity to gain citizenship. “These young people themselves have no fault for being here in the United States,” she said. “They were brought here by others. They’ve been raised here. They’re going to school. They have to have a good track record. They have to go to college or join our armed forces. These are the kind of brains and commitment to our country we like to see and that’s why the DREAM Act makes so much sense.” The most important thing to remember, she added, is the DREAM Act is not a replacement for immigration reform but is instead a way to compliment and improve what the DHS is already doing. “By figuring out a solution for this category of young people, the DREAM Act will enable [the DHS] to prioritize to a greater extent the enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws including the laws against those associated with smuggling drugs and other people,” she said. “I urge Congress to pass the DREAM Act, to enable those young people who were brought here not on their own accord to become legalized members of American society.” In the conference, Napolitano said the overall system the debut of her self-written play Friday from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Angela Riddel 419-530-2452.

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The Ritter Planetarium will feature “Old Lights of Holiday Nights” this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Ritter Planetarium. The program

“doesn’t work the way it ought to work and we need to solve the problem.” “One way is through effective enforcement,” Napolitano said. “On the other hand, the law needs to be re-examined to fit our nation’s labor needs and meet our grand historic tradition and that is where immigration reform comes in. That‘s where the DREAM Act comes in and that’s why it’s so important for Congress to show that it can take an important step forward in the immigration debate.” Napolitano said her current agenda is to continue to crack down on the deportation of illegal immigrants until the DREAM Act is passed. The DREAM Act was first introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2001 and was reintroduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in March of 2009. The Senate failed to pass the act in September 2010 and is reconsidering the act. Napolitano said she urges Congress to come together in passing it, because Obama is so supportive of the act. “The President is very supportive of the DREAM Act, and as he said repeatedly, he cannot just do these things on his own, just as I cannot and will not enforce the laws on my own,” Napolitano said. “That is why Congress needs to act and that’s why they need to come together on a bipartisan basis and recognize that in the grand tradition of our country, we do not punish those without fault and these young people themselves have no fault for being here in the United States.” traces the origins of our calendar and our holiday celebrations, and examines how they are related to the stars. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for children ages three to 12, seniors and UT students, faculty and staff. Doors open 30 minutes before each program. For more information, call 419-530-2650 during office hours, which are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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A look at the Volt Engineering students examine the new Chevy Volt on Friday morning at the engineering college. The Chief Information Officer for OnStar, Jeffery Liedel came to speak about the electric car in Nitschke Auditorium.

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Unresolved injunction Today, University of Toledo President Lloyd Jacobs will recommend the deans of the new colleges to be created by the restructuring plan. We urge the Board of Trustees to exercise good leadership by abstaining from voting on the new deans until the judge has finalized his decision on the pending injunction filed by the UT chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Jacobs continues to move forward with plans to restructure academic affairs at UT, dismissing the many critics of his attitude and the non-inclusive nature of the restructuring process. While the many members of the UT community obviously wish to create a more stable, successful university, few are willing to sit back and watch as decisions are made that will affect their education, career and future opportunities. There is nothing to be gained by continuing to rush the restructuring process, but much to lose. For the sake of everyone in the UT community, we should strive for the best result possible. This requires a respectful and cooperative administrative attitude and sufficient input from all facets of the university, something still missing from the current proposed restructuring. There has been consistent and vocal dissent toward the far-reaching restructuring process from Faculty Senate and the UT AAUP. Both groups have urged Jacobs to allow the restructuring process to be handled more inclusively, with input from all stakeholders in the university. What they received instead were empty excuses such as, “there is a big difference between listening to and obey-

ing” the faculty. If the injunction holds, all of the progress made in the restructuring process will have been a waste. Any decisions made or plans laid out will be scrapped and the work that could have been done in the intervening time will be forever lost. If the injunction is denied, the final product will be subpar and rushed. Jacobs has created a no-win situation by hastily pushing a broad plan of change without adequate community involvement or support. Jacobs even admitted that he didn’t consult with Faculty Senate before pushing forward with plans already set. This agreement was written under the laws of the state and will be judged accordingly. The president of the university is no different from the rest of us; he is bound by the same laws and is required to uphold any contract in which he is involved. Faculty input in academic and curricular decisions should be treated as a welcome guest, not an unwanted and legally-mandated burden. If an administrator respects his faculty, he should actively seek their counsel. By refusing to change course, Jacobs is saying that the faculty’s opinions are not worth hearing unless a legal body compels him. What does this say for future Collective Bargaining Agreements or any contract made between the UT administrators and faculty? The faculty and students of the future will not want to participate in an institution that is divided and headed by a leader with a record of ignoring the very people who pay his salary and operate the institution he heads.

Water privatization wastes resources, spreads disease and destroys the environment with cheap, safe tap water. This difference translates to tremendous amounts of waste from both individual consumers and bottled water producers. Water is not a private good to monopolize for profit; it is the most basic element of life on Earth. The survival of our bodies and our entire biosphere depends upon the continuous and energetic flow of water through its naturally-recycling system. Removing vast amounts of water from a remote region and selling it across the world for tremendous profit disrupts the natural flow, creating shortages that threaten the collapse of local ecosystems and thus the entire biosphere. Water privatization deprives local consumers, leading to preventable diseases and countless deaths. Disrupted ecosystems suffer, putting local flora and fauna at risk of extinction. Utterly reckless use of resources drains money from consumers and producers alike and perpetuates the deadly conditions in which millions of people live. How many fellow humans will we condemn to water deprivation, preventable disease and death just so that we never have to drink from the same bottle twice?

The commoditization of resources as basic and vital as water raises serious questions regarding human societies’ relationships with Earth and with each other. A human group cannot possibly justify processing and selling the resources of an area if this leaves the local inhabitants in danger of dehydration and disease. If a region is capable of supporting the population that inhabits it, but is made inhospitable and deadly by the actions of greedy, capitalist entrepreneurs in full knowledge of their actions, can we not call them murderers? Aside from the immediate human suffering caused by typhoid and other preventable diseases related to lack of clean water, the process of pumping, bottling and shipping millions of liters of freshwater from a remote island to the U.S. and other distant locations wastes immense amounts of resources and accomplishes nothing. The consumers of most brands of bottled water live in developed countries with functioning infrastructure and copious access to fresh water. Instead of buying and throwing away new bottles every day, a consumer can buy a permanent water bottle to fill and refill

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Buying just to buy As a child, the weeks leading up to Christmas seemed to last for eternity. Sure, I enjoyed the lights, winter activities, time away from school, w a r m cookies and the all-encompassing mystical spirit of the holiday season. But natStephen urally I Bartholomew l o o k e d forward to the moment delicately wrapped packages would mysteriously appear under the tree. Like most kids, I thought opening gifts was what Christmas was all about. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that is not true. No, this isn’t a rant about putting Christ back in Christmas. This is aimed at pervasive consumer culture corrupting the minds of generations into thinking material goods provide happiness while elsewhere people suffer simply because they had the misfortune of being born into poverty. Although I do enjoy giving and receiving gifts, I’ve realized it can sometimes be a superficial exchange. I don’t know what my brother or cousin want and they seem to be doing just fine without any of the useless junk I typically end up buying for them. Besides, if I knew my brother was really hoping to get the movie Hot Tub Time Machine, his world wouldn’t end if I bought him an ugly Christmas sweater instead. But what if his world did end? No, of course his world wouldn’t, but what if it meant that somebody else’s world did? What if instead of buying my brother a $20, over-hyped comedy that he would eventually realize wasn’t all that funny, I donated that money to a charity on his behalf? Instead of contributing to my brother’s lack of taste in good film, we would both be helping provide clean

water for the people suffering from cholera in Haiti, or helping prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa. Charities exist for every cause you can think of. If your grandparents are like mine and are satisfied with what they already have, then there is certainly a charity out there that they would feel good about you donating to on their behalf. Or if you’re seriously strapped for cash during this recession, simply buy nothing. There is nothing wrong with boycotting the act of spending just to spend. After all, Christmas is about enjoying time with friends and family. It is about celebrating the illuminating joy of life during the coldest and darkest time of year. This culture of consumer-

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ism has gone too far. Twenty percent of the world’s population consumes 80 percent of the world’s resources. It is tragically ironic that this fact is most visible during the holiday season. I understand that parents want to buy toys, clothes and video games for their children because they want to give them a wonderful Christmas. Although that sounds so nice and innocent, the ecological, psychological, economic and political implications attached to such purchases are twofold. Reports show that an extra four million tons of waste are produced each holiday season just from gift-wrap and shopping bags alone. Using newspaper to wrap gifts is a great alternative.

The desire to buy things is fueled by the desire to fill a void. Retail therapy is a baseless term commonly tossed around. It only provides a fleeting moment of fulfillment. More than anything, it indicates that consumerism is an addiction. Material goods provide a short-lived illusion of happiness that keep consumers returning to the register. The richest one percent in America now own 70 percent of all financial assets in the country. This disparity of wealth is alarming. Since money influences politics, it is safe to say that 99 percent of Americans don’t have much of a voice in the democratic process. In gearing up for the holidays, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales were extremely enticing, prompting consumers to spend a little less to get a little more. These sales are merely a spectacle to coerce people into buying things because there is a perception they are getting a deal. Christmas has become a spectacle; just look at the advertisements. The holiday now encourages consumers to proliferate an economic system based on inequalities. It encourages buying for the sake of buying. I’m tired of the awkward gift exchange where I pretend I really enjoy my new coffee mug. And it’s uncomfortable to watch my cousin open some novelty bartending book I picked up off the promo table at Barnes & Noble, as she smiles and simulates excitement. This year I’m opting out of the mindless exchange and I encourage you to join me. For the people I hold near and dear, I will be donating to charities on their behalf. Otherwise, I am buying the most ecologically and economically responsible gift possible — nothing. —Stephen Bartholomew is an IC columnist and an English education student at UT.

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Dems still playing 2008 politics in 2010 I love the Indianapolis Colts. As a Colts fan, I’ve had a pretty great time up until this season. Even in the early to mid 2000s, when Peyton Manning seemed to be trying to play catch up with New England cornerbacks every winter, watching the Colts was fun. They had a unique blend of steady explosiveness; not a lot of flash, not a lot of grit, but enough of each to make them extremely successful and watchable. But, after seven straight 12win seasons and two Super Bowl appearances, the Colts are having an uncharacteristically shaky season. The problem could be blamed on injuries or the loss of a few key players over the summer, but the Colts have overcome each of these before. Their success often came from turning challenges into opportunities. But this season, Peyton Manning seems to be unwilling to adjust to changing defenses. Instead, he’s relying on the same game plans that have annihilated past defenses. Manning is playing 2008 football in 2010 and the Colts’ record is showing it. Similarly, the vision of what Washington could be that Barack Obama created in 2008 is not the Washington that exists right now. But he is operating as if it is.

Barack Obama ran a nearly flawless campaign in 2008. Even the complications turned into opportunities for Obama to appear more electable. The emergence of the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright resulted in Obama giving a powerful and inspiring speech on race in America. The all-out battle for the Democratic nomination became an opportunity for Obama to show his willingness and ability to reconcile his differences with rivals in the interest of working together toward a common goal. It seemed as though Obama and his campaign staff had devised a strategy that practically invited challenges simply for the sake of the opportunities they created. The common theme was always unity and cooperation when dealing with these challenges. Not surprisingly, those themes were common in nearly every major speech he gave as a candidate. It spoke well to a country that believes no challenge is too big to handle. It also spoke well to an electorate that was tired of the petty and childish fighting in Washington. The rhetoric with which he described both what is great about America today and what could be even greater about America in the future

became a viral sensation. It was super-charged packaging of the simple idea that we, as a nation, can come together and reach for great things. Unity and cooperation. The idea that Obama would bring that same reconciliatory energy to Washington was a major force in the wave of support that elected him President. More often than not, he has kept true to those ideals as President. Despite criticism

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in which the government can spend money. In the end, there was no support from the Republicans. As a concession to Republicans, Obama took the public option off the table before negotiations on health care even began. After a long, drawn out debate, there was again no support from the Republicans. And so it has been on every agenda item the Democrats have introduced to Congress,

Unless Obama and the Democrats fight back, defend their accomplishments and make a strong case for the same ideals that elected Democrats over the past four years, the 2012 elections are going to look a lot like 2010.

from the left, his strategy has been to make concessions to Congressional Republicans on nearly every piece of legislation, even when those concessions made the legislation less effective. Instead of getting the same in return, he has gotten obstruction from the GOP. A major portion of the stimulus package was tax relief demanded by Republicans, one of the least economically stimulative ways

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over and over again. Through their blocking of dozens of judicial nominees, constant threats to filibuster even the most routine pieces of legislation and general devotion to obstruction, Obama has treated the GOP as if they are willing to cooperate. Even as Republican Party leaders identify their primary goal as making him a one-term president, Obama continues to make concessions. In other words, Obama is

working on an entirely different process than Republicans in Congress are. As he and the Democrats try to work with the GOP on constructive legislation to improve the condition of everyday Americans, Congressional Republicans show no interest in doing anything but ensuring their own political success. I completely sign on with the ideal of working together, but the reality is that the GOP has no interest in compromise. To be fair, the Obama administration does not get the credit it deserves for passing a large portion of its agenda despite having zero support from House Republicans and a virtually inoperable Senate. But the reality remains that unless Obama and the Democrats fight back, defend their accomplishments and make a strong case for the same ideals that elected Democrats over the past four years, the 2012 elections are going to look a lot like 2010. So, just as Peyton Manning needs to stop waiting for AFC defensive backs to revert back to their old strategies, maybe Obama needs to accept that his vision of Washington as a place where opposing sides can come together and resolve differences reasonably is not going to

happen just yet. Football is a game. A lot of times, elected officials treat politics like a game. When they do, it can be nearly impossible to fight the good fight. You can only get punched in the head so many times before you admit you are in a boxing match. Overextended sports metaphors aside, I’m hoping the new year comes with a new strategy from Obama and the Democrats — a strategy energized by the same dedication to positive change that inspired the country in 2008. The Democrats need to prioritize giving a full and unequivocal defense of the values behind things like affordable health care for working families, relief for those hit hardest by the recession, jobs in industries that will carry the strongest economies of the 21st century and improved education. They need a strategy that is still open to and looking for unity and cooperation, but no longer willing to be pushed around by those that would rather keep Washington petty, embarrassing and childish. —Jason Copsey is an IC columnist and a junior majoring in public relations and political science.

The true enemies Corporate America makes machines. Machines make money. Money makes people. The sad part of the first statements is that the sequence of the statements only goes one way. When machines break down, they are fixed. When p e o p l e break down, they are reCarmen p l a c e d . Awad Therefore, machines are more valuable assets than people. Corporate America applauds itself for its relative inefficiencies. For it has given every American the idea of the American Dream. It has taught society that the world can sustain every desire as long as money is available. Corporate America has even succeeded in creating god. I don’t mean the intelligent design of the universe; I mean the god that is sold in spiritual gatherings and yoga classes. Corporate America will sell you anything ranging from your early morning coffee to your infatuation with psychiatric diseases. It will sell you mania, news, 9/11, god and the list goes on. On the other hand, corporate America forgot to mention a few side effects. It forgot to mention the price to pay in order to have glory. When you go to an emergency room in this country and you realize that you have been waiting for more than an hour to be seen by a doctor that attended medical school to “help people,” you start wondering why you are waiting that long in a mostly empty hospital. You look around to see if all the doctors and nurses are attending other patients only to realize that the only thing present in the hospital other than yourself is the eminent presence of insurance and bureaucracy. I understand that regulation

from countries eager to increase their military might.” Madslien also stated that “shareholders and employees in the aerospace and defense industry are clearly the ones who benefit most from growing defense spending.” This is an example of corporate America’s servitude to industries that make money instead of industries that are truly needed. It is a shame that such a budget goes to a military that fights ghosts instead of going to American families who still need basic food supplies to sustain their families. We must decide whether we want to be a militant country stuck in a perpetual war on terror or if we want to truly help hungry and unemployed Americans. Where is the line that clearly shows where homeland security ends and where slavery begins? Do those who support this new world order truly believe that by invading the privacy of citizens more — such as the TSA’s humiliating pat-downs — terrorism will decrease? We must understand that our desire to have that big house with a nice patio and lawn is what’s enslaving us. In order for us to have that nice car, we end up selling our oxygen and our water. To have freedom, we sell our liberty. We must transcend beyond 9/11 and see that fear tactics have been present way before the Twin Towers were ever built. Terrorism is Corporate America’s legitimized instrument that is used whenever a need arises that requires votes or citizen concession. Not too long ago, Native Americans and Martin Luther King were deemed America’s enemies. It all goes back to capitalism and the transition of a want to a need.

is important in order to keep matters in check, but when the victim of a car accident is bleeding to death right in front of you, please keep his insurance status as the last priority. This is what happens when things such as insurance and protocol take more precedence over humanity as a whole. This is the inhumane price that we pay in order to have lower taxes than other, socialist countries. Free market economies are only great if they are not achieved at the expense of those who do not have the voice to object. The U.S. would rather have its supposedly efficient system where people cannot be treated in the world’s richest and most powerful country. It has been reported that federal spending on the “national defense” category is

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typically over half of the United States discretionary budget. According to GlobalIssues.org, in 2009, 54 percent of the US budget was spent on defense, 6.2 percent on education and 5.3 percent on health. The United States also had the highest military expenditure across the globe accounting for 46.5 percent of the $1.53 billion and the next highest was china at 6.6 percent. Jorn Madslien, a BBC news online journalist, stated that “At a time when a deep economic recession is causing much turbulence in civilian world…defense giants such as Boeing and EADS, or Finmeccanica and Northrop Grumman, are enjoying a reliable and growing revenue stream

—Carmen Awad is an IC columnist and a junior majoring in accounting.

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Subprime opportunities Reserve space in the annals of marketplace greed on behalf of for-profit colleges managing to rake in record profits while turning out unsuccessful students burdened by heavy debt. Education Trust, a nonpartisan D.C. think tank, used public data including graduation rates and student loan trends to argue convincingly that the forprofit sector of higher education has taken a page from mortgage industry. They are profiting from a business model based on student failure, rather than student success. Federally bankrolled Pell Grants and student loans provide healthy revenue streams, injecting $24 billion into the mushrooming career-college industry. Taxpayers’ return on this investment is a six-year graduation rate for bachelor’s degrees of 22 percent. For comparison, the sixyear graduation rate at public colleges is 55 percent and 65 percent for private, nonprofit colleges. And the one in 10 who manages to graduate from for-profit schools has nearly twice the debt load of students at private, nonprofit colleges and nearly quadruple the debt carried by students at public schools. No surprise, these debt-laden graduates default on their loans at twice the rate of students at traditional schools. The poster child for this perverse education business model is the University of Phoenix — the nation’s largest for-profit university with more than 200,000 students at campuses nationwide. U of Phoenix took in more than $1 billion in federal Pell Grant aid last year and this year could exceed a federal

cap preventing schools from deriving more than 90 percent of their revenues from federal financial aid. Oh, and the school’s sixyear graduation rate? Nine percent. Our tax dollars barely at work. This is what happens when unchecked federal education spending teams up with lax regulatory oversight. For-profit schools hide their poor showing behind an open admissions policy. Indeed, these schools have helped broaden educational access. A greater proportion of minority students

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and those from low-income backgrounds start out at for-profit schools. Nice try, but academic failure is not a function of demographics. The students are holding up their end of the bargain. They’re striving for a college education, often under tough circumstances at poorly resourced urban and rural K-12 school systems. We’ve asked more young people to aspire to college and they have. Federal government statistics report 86 percent of African-American high-school seniors and 80 percent of Hispanics see college in their future. Profiting from the business of education isn’t the

problem; a lack of return on the public’s investment is. And at stake is American competitiveness and the goal of equal educational access. There are pockets of success. Technical and arts colleges produce strong graduates at an impressive rate. But the industry overall must do better, particularly as it absorbs an increasing share of students. In the past decade, enrollment shot up by 236 percent, compared with 20 percent at our public and private nonprofit colleges. New rules on financial aid from the Obama administration and ongoing hearings in Congress signal a willingness to tackle these issues. Efforts have spawned heavy lobbying and even television ads exhorting government to keep its mitts off free markets and individual choice. How well did a hands-off regulatory approach work with lending institutions? Just asking. There are more similarities than differences between predatory lending in the mortgage industry and in higher education. An investigation ordered by Congress found that students at for-profit colleges who balked at taking out large loans were reassured the debt would be offset by high-paying jobs, which never materialized. These students weren’t lifted out of poverty; they were mired deeper into it. Time for swift action that will make good on America’s promise that education is the route upward. —Lynne K. Varner is a columnist for The Seattle Times.

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Second place and $5,000 went to Sarit Bhaduri, professor of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, for his business Regentiss, LLC that is developing advanced ways of regenerating bone and cartilage. Third place and $2,500 went to Three Sisters Bakery. Jessica Reese accepted the award on behalf of the team. Three Sisters Bakery sells health-conscious baked goods that are naturally sweetened and have no added-sugar. The competition was initially only going to have six honorable mentions, but due to the quality of the business plans, the president’s office made sure that all 12 semifinalists walked away with at least $500 as well as six months of free rent in UT’s small business incubator. “The quality of entrepreneurial ideas exceeded our expectations,” Knudson said. The competition was created in collaboration with the president’s office, College of Business and UTIE. “[The] idea [for this competition] has been floating around for a while,” Ariss said. Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy said the competition helps stimulate the local economy by supporting innovative ideas from local entrepreneurs and ultimately creating jobs through the money raised. “The only way we can create new jobs is to create new companies, and new companies create new entrepreneurs. The UTIE competition is setting an example,” he said. “UT is supporting young entrepreneurs even if they don’t have any background in business,” Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy said. Because this is the first year, he said UTIE will have to follow how the winning business plans from this year’s performance and to see “how things are going.”

similar legislation through the Ohio House and Senate have failed five times, according to Williamson. In a press release, Fedor acknowledged the Senate passing the legislation was a victory resulting from five years of work. “In 2005, we were first awakened to the width and breadth of human trafficking in Ohio when more than 30 minors from Toledo were caught in a prostitution ring,” she said. In 2009, Jeff Wilbarger, part-time instructor of mathematics at UT, began the Daughter Project, a nonprofit Christian-based organization in Perrysburg, Ohio that reaches out to victims of sex trafficking. Wilbarger said a felony conviction is proportionate to the heinous nature of the sex trafficking business. “There is no crime more egregious than sex trafficking,” he said. “It is sexist,

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sometimes racist, always de- underage. humanizing, and it causes “It’s a manipulation proimmeasurable trauma to its cess, and over time, they victims.” convince you that you really Williamson said the chil- can’t make a decision and dren who become part of you can’t make a move withhuman trafficking are vul- out asking them. You really nerable to exploitation and rely on them,” she said. the majority of victims come “Often times your network from poverty, have sub- of friends is doing this and stance-abusyou all know ing parents, you are doing There is no crime this, but you are homeless more egregious don’t really and runaways, gay than sex trafficking... It tell other peomales or have ple, and so mental health is sexist, sometimes rac- you are ist, always de-humaniz- trapped and issues. “All those ing, and it causes im- you feel ‘If I kids are going don’t do this, measurable trauma to s o m e t h i n g to be vulneraits victims. dreadful will ble to needing something, happen to my and someone Jeff Wilbarger family, somewill come in Part-time lecturer, thing dreadful and magically Dept. of Mathematics is going to provide for happen to them, but it’s never what it me.’” seems,” she said. Williamson said they are Williamson said human only beginning to make adtrafficking has become a so- vances in human trafficking phisticated underground by putting the blame where business that involves sev- blame belongs — on the eral persons who act as re- trafficker, not the victim. cruiters and are often also According to Williamson,

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there is still a deep level of sexism, racism and homophobia latent in trafficking issues. “The law does not say that women involved in prostitution are the ones committing the crime, but you see that 95 percent of the time women are arrested and the men are not,” she said. “When you start doing that to kids, that’s unacceptable because that tells the kid that ‘yes, you are responsible for your own victimization,’ and that’s not the message we want to send.” According to Williamson, human trafficking is about supply and demand, and the focus has been restricted to the supply. “You are never going to reduce the problem, but men are very protected in our society and so going after them is very difficult,” she said. “It’s difficult for society to see that every human being is valuable. They say it, but I really believe that many people still think there are some expendable people.”

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U.S., S. Korea pact awaits approval By Kate Gibson Market Watch (MCT)

NEW YORK — A deal between the United States and South Korea should create at least 70,000 American jobs and could be the biggest trade pact since 1994's North American Free Trade Agreement. The newly created agreement, subject to congressional approval, was announced by the White House Friday, a day that also brought a November payrolls report that hiked the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent. A week of talks had representatives from the U.S. and South Korea on Friday morning clearing a threeyear impasse over auto-industry issues. Specifically,

South Korea will let the U.S. remove a 2.5 percent tariff on Korean cars in five years, rather than halting it right away. The agreement will have to be ratified by the new Congress in January as well as win the approval of lawmakers in South Korea. In a White House release, President Barack Obama called Friday's agreement a "landmark deal" that should bolster U.S. job creation and agricultural exports, defend American manufacturing jobs and open South Korea's services market to U.S. firms. The deal is part of an effort to reach the administration's goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years, Obama added.

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Rockets to face FIU in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl By Zach Davis Sports Editor

Toledo accepted an invitation today to play in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl on Dec. 26 at 8:30 p.m. at Ford Field, just over 60 miles north of the UT campus in Detroit, Mich. The Rockets will be making their MACbest 11th bowl game (8-2) and their first since a 45-13 victory over UTEP in the GMAC Bowl in Mobile, Ala. in 2005. “We are very excited to be selected for the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit,” UT Athletic Director Mike O’Brien said. “Ford Field is one of the finest football facilities in the country. It will be a memorable experience for our student-athletes, and because of our close proximity to Detroit it will also be a great opportunity for our fans and students to see their Rockets in a bowl game.” “It’s a great opportunity for us,” sophomore linebacker Dan Molls said. “We are very excited to have a chance to turn this program around. We are just excited to continue the season and have a chance to win a bowl game. It’s an unbelievable feeling right now and we are

just excited to get there and hopefully get a win under our belt.” The Rockets will take on a familiar opponent in Sun Belt member Florida International (6-6, 6-2), as the teams have squared off in each of the last two seasons. The Rockets topped FIU 41-31 in Miami, Fla. last year as 2010 First Team All-MAC performer Eric Page had five receptions for 113 yards and two touchdowns. The Panthers won Molls 35-16 in the Glass Bowl in 2008. “The players know some of their players,” UT head coach Tim Beckman said. “We know they are a very good opponent and they’ve had an outstanding year. They’ve done a good job this year being co-champions of the Sun Belt, so we know it will be a task in front of us.” FIU was winless out of conference with a home loss to Rutgers (4-8) as well as on the road at Texas A&M (9-3), Maryland (8-4) and Pittsburgh (7-5). They beat just one team with a winning record this year in Troy (7-5). All six of their wins came out of the

Sun Belt conference with the combined records of the teams they beat at 24-48. The Rockets finished the season 8-4, including a 7-1 league record. Their lone loss came on the road against the Mid-American Conference’s West Division Champion Northern Illinois (10-3). The Rockets also defeated just one team with a winning record this season at Ohio (8-4) but picked up a road win at Big Ten member Purdue (4-8). The combined record of the opponents that Toledo defeated was 34-62. “They are a real solid team,” junior running back Adonis Thomas said. “They made it to a bowl game so they’re not a push over. They haven’t been to a bowl game in a very long time so I’m pretty sure they’re going to try to get after us. We just have to try and get after them first.” This will be the final game for Toledo’s 11 seniors, including linebacker Donald Archie Donald, defensive ends Alex Johnson and Douglas Westbrook, offensive linemen Nate Cole and Kevin Kowalski and cornerback — FIU, Page B2

Cincinnati slams Rockets By Zach Davis Sports Editor

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Cincinnati forward Ibrahima Thomas dunks over freshman center Delino Dear in the first half of Saturday night’s 81-47 loss. Dear scored a career-high 18 points and nine rebounds.

Unbeaten Cincinnati hammered the winless Rockets 81-47 last night at Savage Arena. Toledo has started the season 0-8 and lost 29 of their past 30 games. “I’m sick and tired of learning lessons, and I hope our players are sick and tired of it,” Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “It’s time for us to consistently be a team that can compete. We understand what we are. We know that we have to be tough, gritty and disciplined to give us a chance to beat anybody on our schedule. When you don’t play that way, this is what happens.” “It’s tough because we don’t have a win yet,” freshman center Delino Dear said. “We understand that we are young right now, and we are just trying to keep fighting to get that first one.” Cincinnati (7-0) outscored UT 36-7 in the opening 10:47 of the game and took a 53-21 lead into the half. The Bearcats shot 64.5 percent from the floor in the opening half and made eight three-pointers. “You want your team to respect your opponents,” Kowalczyk said. “You play Temple, Illinois and now Cincinnati, these high major programs, but you hope that they don’t fear them. Today we really played scared to start the game. We played afraid. We played scared and had too much respect for Cincinnati. I thought that really set the tone for us. We were on our heels.” “They made a lot of shots early, but it was on us too,” Dear said. “We closed out slow, and if you get an open look anybody can knock it down. They had open looks at the basket.” Dear led Toledo with a career-high 18 points and nine rebounds. Freshman forward Reese Holliday was the only — Cincinnati, Page B2

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Eric Page runs after a catch in last season’s 41-31 win at FIU. The sophomore wide receiver finished the game with five catches for 113 yards and two touchdowns. Toledo will face the Golden Panthers again on Dec. 26 at 8:30 p.m. in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl at Ford Field.

Toledo blown out 102-69 at Dayton By Joe Mehling Assistant Sports Editor

The Toledo women’s basketball team was blown out at Dayton yesterday afternoon 102-69, ending their threegame winning streak. The Flyers point total was the highest to ever be scored against the Rockets in regulation; Xavier scored 108 points in a triple overtime victory back in 2001. “It was a frustrating game all the way around,” UT

head coach Tricia Cullop said. “Dayton is a very talented team, a well coached team, a veteran team, and they taught us some painful lessons today. “I think there are a lot of things that we want to go back and change and we can’t. Not only is Dayton talented but they’re deep and we are working our way through some injuries.” Goodall UD (5-3) shot 37of-62 (59.7 percent) from the field, including 11-of-21 (52.4 percent)

from beyond the arc and was 17-of-19 from the free throw line. Kristin Daugherty led Dayton with 19 points while Olivia Applewhite (14 pts), Justine Raterman (12 pts), Casey Nance (11 pts), Kari Daugherty (10 pts) and Cassie Sant (10 pts) also reached double digits in the 33-point victory. The Rockets (4-4) shot a season-high 48.1 percent from the floor and 72.7 percent from the charity stripe but just 20 percent from three-point range. Senior — Dayton, Page B2

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Fishing for the Puck Toledo defenseman Sebastien Piche pokes the puck away from an opponent in Friday’s 4-3 win over Bakersfield. The Walleye finished a three-game home stand yesterday with a 3-2 loss to Cincinnati after beating Bakersfield 6-4 on Saturday. Yesterday’s loss dropped Toledo six points behind Cincinnati in the division with an 8-12-2 record this season.

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Sophomore guard Malcolm Griffin gets blocked during the second half of Saturday night’s 81-47 loss to Cincinnati at Savage Arena. He scored five points with a game-high six assists.

“He’s been inconsistent,” Kowalczyk said. “It’s not fair to evaluate it because he other Rocked in double-fig- hasn’t practiced a whole lot, ures with 13. Sophomore but he had a very poor pracguard Malcolm Griffin was tice on Thursday and he the next highest thinks that’s acceptscorer with five and able and it’s not aca game-high six ceptable. When you assists. are a starting point Cincinnati’s guard in a good Dibench outscored vision I league, you Toledo’s 34-8 and Cincinnati 81 can’t have a bad 47 UC held a 21-5 ad- Toledo practice and he vantage in points played like it off turnovers. tonight.” Starters Hayden Humes Thomas was also not utiand J.T. Thomas shot a com- lized in bringing up the ball bined 0-12 from the field. against Cincinnati’s press as Thomas, who was 0-5 with Griffin and Humes mostly two assists and four handled the duties. turnovers, has strug“We have got to gled since missing have someone bring the preseason and up the ball without the first two games turning it over,” Kowof the year from foot alczyk said. “We have surgery. He has avergot to have someone aged just 4.8 points who wants to bring and 2.3 assists in six the ball up.” games this season Toledo will look while also turning for their first win of the ball over 3.2 Dear the year while trying times per game. He to break a 35-game is also just three personal fouls behind Humes road losing streak when they for the most on the team de- travel to Fort Wayne, Ind. to spite playing in two less face IPFW (5-2) Wednesday games. at 6 p.m.

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Freshman guard Reese Holliday attempts a shot in the first half of Saturday night’s 81-47 loss to Cincinnati at Savage Arena. He scored 13 points with four rebounds in 27 minutes.

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53 percent of their shots in the first seven minutes. A From Page B1 15-5 run later in the half forward Melissa Goodall led gave Dayton a 40-19 advanToledo with 15 points while tage as they took a 22-point sophomore Lecretia Smith lead into the half at 52-20. Last year, Toledo reboundhad a career-high 14 ed from a 19-point points and junior second-half deficit Naama Shafir added for a 68-65 win 10 points with seven against then No. 20 assists. Dayton at Savage “I think the girls Arena in what Cullop are still growing into called one of her their roles that are “all-time favorite new,” Cullop said. victories.” “Some nights they However, it was fill into those roles more of the same in pretty good, and Smith the second half for when the baton used the Rockets this year to be passed to as UD knocked down four someone else for the scoring consecutive three pointers or the defensive stop, the early in the half to take a girls are still trying to learn commanding 70-40 lead. Tohow to do that.” ledo came no closThe Flyers er than 25 points jumped out to a 13for the rest of the 1 lead just four mingame at UD Arena. utes into the conThe Rockets must test as Dayton juregroup quickly as 102 they face off with nior guard Brittany Dayton 69 Oakland on Fri. Dec. Wilson scored the Toledo game’s first six 10th at 7 p.m. to bepoints in the first minute of gin a three-game homestead play. UD expanded their at Savage Arena. Toledo beat lead to 21-6 with 13:34 left in the Golden Grizzlies 87-75 on the first half as they hit over the road last season.

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Cincinnati Showboats to Crowd after Halftime After emerging from the locker room while leading 53-21, Cincinnati altered from the typical layup drills by instead choosing to each perform highlight dunks one after another featuring windmills, double-clutches, reverse dunks and more. Toledo head coach Tod Kowalczyk was not yet out of the locker room as it occurred. After learning about it in the press conference he said, “It’s the referee’s fault for not handling it.” Under NCAA rules, the Bearcats should have been assessed a technical foul for each dunk. Toledo’s student section didn’t seem to mind, as a chorus of cheers followed most of the dunks.

Desmond Marrow. It is still possible that Marrow may return for 2011 as he has requested a medical redshirt for last season after not playing due to recovering from a torn ACL and meniscus in 2008. “Going to a bowl game in my final season is huge,” Donald said. “That’s always been a goal for me to accomplish, especially for the seniors who have been involved with this program and haven’t had a winning season until this season.” Rounding out the senior class is kicker Nate Brodbeck, quarterback Alex Pettee, linebacker Terrell Willis and defensive backs Drey’Lon Pree and Myshan Veasley-Pettis. Toledo will also see a familiar face in FIU offensive

coordinator Scott Satterfield, who was the passing game coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Toledo last year. The Panthers averaged over 80 yards and five points more per game than they did in 2009. “Coach Satterfield’s down there,” Beckman said. “He does an outstanding job. Coach Satterfield is as good of a coordinator as there is in the country. I know he will be very well prepared for us.” Tickets will go on sale tomorrow at the UT Athletic Ticket Office at 8:30 a.m. and will be $45 and can also be purchased by phone at 419-530-GOLD or online at www.UTRockets.com. The UT Athletic Department will be meeting tomorrow morning to discuss a per person ticket limit as well as discounted rates for students.

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complement and enhance the stories of theirs,” said Downham. In a room devoted to the history of X-rays and medical imaging, for instance, there is, lying face up, a plastinated body of a person who stood five feet six inches tall. Cut into one inch horizontal slabs spaced a few inches apart, the body stretches out to 18 feet and shows the relationship of all the internal organs, similar to images produced by a CTscan images. Many of the cadavers are elaborately posed, as many will remember from “Body Worlds.” One is a standing man, his skin carefully peeled off but left intact like a body suit, which he holds draped over an extended arm. Another male cadaver, his skin and internal organs removed to show muscle structure, is posed in a dramatic “bicycle” overhead soccer kick, the ball just leaving his foot while his back is parallel to the ground. There are displays built around single organs, showing the difference between healthy lungs and diseased smokers’ lungs, and there are displays built around entire organ chains in the body. A

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From Page B4 participation in these plays. She also finds that thinking on your feet “makes you stronger.” For Allen, it’s exciting to be in a show and “make it blossom.” “I like the acting. I really do,” she said. Christopher Douglas, a sophomore majoring in psychology with a minor in theatre “took a lot of experience” away from the event, though he found it to be exhausting. Although it was tiring to both memorize and rehearse lines and blocking within approximately 10 hours, he also felt that it was “fun and entertaining.” Since none of the plays are perfectly polished, Douglas

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Monday, December 6, 2010 complete digestive system is hung like a mobile sculpture, starting with the rear of a mouth and descending through the esophagus, stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen, small and large intestines, appendix to the rectum. Since the first “Body Worlds” exhibition in Tokyo in 1995, the plastinated cadavers have captured the imagination of tens of millions of people around the world. “An extended stay in setting of a building of this size makes putting an exhibit on the order of ‘Our Body’ a new experience for their company and for us,” said Downham. “The agreement is to keep it here one year but is open-ended in that we will talk about extending that.” The surgical museum’s building, a replica of a building at Versailles in France, was designed by renowned architect Howard Van Doren Shaw and is the last of the great turn-of-the-century Lake Shore Drive mansions open to the public. Built in 1917 as a wedding present from a Chicago industrialist for his daughter, its interior spaces remain a gem of cut and polished stone, marble fireplaces and gilded metal staircases. “We loved the idea of sending the exhibit here (the

surgical museum),” said Heidi Pinchal, spokeswoman for the American company touring “Our Body” in the United States. Most of the touring plastinated cadaver exhibits, including “Body Worlds,” have been challenged at one time or another over the source of the cadavers they use. “Our Body” in the past was accused of using cadavers of executed prisoners from China. But the Hong Kong and Beijing entities that own and operate the exhibit have rebutted those charges. “When we checked the background to this, we found the specimens came only from individuals or families of individuals who willingly consented that their bodies could be used for educational purposes,” Downham said. “The bodies came from accredited medical schools in China.” Downham said his museum is talking with the “Our Body” exhibition company about collaboratively developing new exhibits that the museum could use to change out with ones already in the exhibit. “We have already done some planning work on developing an exhibit around diabetes” Downham said. “This is the future and this is where we are headed, focusing on different serious health issues.”

thinks that the audience’s enjoyment comes from the spontaneity. “What you see is what you get,” he said. Despite his love for acting, the real reward for Douglas is “hearing people laugh.” Luckily, the sound of laughter rising from the audience is a prominent part of “The 24 Hour Plays”, providing comics with the perfect outlet for their talents. Jillian Albert, a junior majoring in theatre and psychology, also likes making people laugh. “We work so hard, and [the plays] are always so funny,” she said. Albert’s favorite part of the event is performing, as well as watching the other plays; however, with such a tight time schedule, she said, “You’re always curious about the others, but you don’t

have time to watch.” She also enjoys meeting new people. “It’s cool to see non-theatre majors in main roles,” Albert said. Seeing the hard work of others come to life is also exciting for Emily Wessendarp, a first year graduate student in the speech pathology department. While she is “very proud of everybody” and their successes, she realizes that “The 24 Hour Plays” event doesn’t just benefit the actors. Wessendarp believes the event “brightens people’s days.” “If talented members from both in and out of the theater community can come together and leave a few faces with a smile, there is good reason to believe in the power of performance,” she said.

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The Maumee Indoor Theater, located on Conant Street, first opened in 1946 and shows not only second and third run movies, but musical performances and rooms that can be rented out.

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From Page B4 the contemporary needs of wireless internet, cable television and connections for video game systems or DVDs. “We’ve had a wide variety of events here,” said employee Morgan Cheung. “Anything from wedding receptions and bridal showers to concerts, and we’ve even had bodybuilding competitions.” Saturday night the theater held a bluegrass concert featuring Jim Hurst, a multiple award winning singer and guitarist from Kentucky. For the upcoming weekend, The Maumee Indoor Theater has “Bette Midler Christmas Tribute” planned for Friday at 8 p.m. and a showing of “White Christmas” at multiple times on Saturday. “White Christmas” is part of

one of the theater’s recurring events called “Movie Classics.” “We like to show movies from the 1950s during ‘Movie Classics’ night, and it’s pretty popular,” said employee Katie Roberts. Since the cinema receives strictly second or third run movies, meaning they come from other theaters when the newest flick has come out, the Maumee Indoor costs much less to attend than other movie houses. Tickets start at $3.50 every day for a movie or just $1.50 on their special “Wild Wednesdays,” when even the concession prices are cut drastically. The price of reserving an entire auditorium costs around $100. But that doesn’t mean every day features an old-fashioned classical film. For example, the movie house is currently showing “Easy A” and “Despicable Me,” both of which were re-

leased in the past few months. “We usually show the movie about a month before it comes out on DVD,” Cheung said. The second theater can seat a group of 125 people, which is the perfect size for private showings of the theater’s current movie collection, or it can be rented out by a group to watch any movie they bring. There are even tables in the back of the theater so patrons can bring their own food and eat it there or enjoy the large variety of snacks offered at the concession stand. Finally, the third venue is not a movie theater, but rather a large meeting room located in the lower level of the building. The 100-person room could be used for large gettogethers or study sessions and can use all the commodities the rest of the building has, such as wireless internet, cable TV and access to the concession stand as well.

“Survival is pretty much the only prize.” Holly Monsos — chair, department of theatre and film.

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Throughout the course of 24 hours, teams of UT students, write, direct, produce and perform plays as part of the 24 Hour Plays which were presented Saturday evening in the Center for Performing Arts. By Weslie Detwiler IC Staff Writer

While majority of playwrights, directors and actors are given ample amounts of time to write, coach and learn their material, for participants of “The 24 Hour Plays,” time is of the essence. The format for the highly anticipated event was developed by a company in New York and is in its fifth year at UT.

This year, just over 50 students partook in the rushed festivities, including five playwrights, five directors and 40 actors that collectively formed five groups plus two technicians. At 7:30 p.m. Friday night, actors were randomly drawn from a hat to be placed in a group with a director and playwright, and from there the clock began ticking.

Most participants in each group were able to go to their respective homes and get some rest before a day of hard work, but for the playwrights the night was just beginning. They worked through the night to create a script that would then be handed over to the director and actors the next day. In terms of the final product, Holly Monsos, chair of the department of theatre and film

and self-proclaimed “food caravan” for the event said, “You get a whole range, from funny to serious.” There is no physical award given to the winner, but there is certainly motivation driving the groups forward. “Survival is pretty much the only prize,” Monsos said. Tyria Allen, a senior majoring in theatre, has been taking part in “The 24 Hour Plays” for four

years. Her first year was spent as a playwright, staying up through the night to come up with ideas to put together a show and incorporating props. She has spent the last three years as an actress. Allen also hopes to try her hand at directing. She enjoys the reward that comes from the performances and the opportunity of stepping into the theater and being able

to say “Okay, let’s make a show.” Allen hopes that the audience experiences “the joy of art, and to see it’s actually possible to put on a production in such a short time.” With hopes of graduate school and eventually landing a spot on television, Allen has found experience on how to move quickly because of her — Plays, Page B3

Small museum sees a big future in cadavers By William Mullen Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Along Lake Shore Drive’s glittering Gold Coast, a handsome sculpture of a physician comforting an ailing man stands in front of an elegant four-story mansion, calling attention to the museum inside, one known to many as the place they might visit someday but never do. The 56-year-old International Museum of Surgical Science brings in 20,000 visitors in a good year. It could soon become a much busier place as it taps into a fascination, shown over the last decade, with seeing perfectly preserved human cadavers, dissected to display the complexity of human anatomy. The plastinated bodies, produced since the 1990s by “Body Worlds,” a German company, have proved so popular in exhibits that competitors popped up to produce similar displays. One of those competitors has produced an exhibit called “Our Body: The Universe Within,” which opened early this month at the Surgical Science Museum. It’s an

exhibit close in size and scope to “Body Worlds” and is being mounted with the hope of boosting attendance by a “factor of three, four or more,” said Max Downham, executive director of the International College of Surgeons, which owns the museum. If it does, it could become a permanent part of the museum’s collection. At the Museum of Science and Industry, the original “Body Worlds” exhibit pulled in 800,000 visitors who plunked down $21 to see it during a 7-month run in 2005, and when a sequel to the original returned there in 2007 for a 3-month run, 400,000 paid $23 to see it. What’s different at the Museum of Surgical Science, its advocates say, is that the exhibit is set among the permanent galleries at the surgical museum that depict the history and evolution of medical practice and treatment. “Our curators have worked with the curators of ‘Our Body’ to place their material in our existing galleries where our artifacts — Cadavers, Page B3

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By Mitchell Rohrer IC Staff Writer

hough to many it has been a place to get together to watch recently released movies for a low price, the Maumee Indoor Theater has evolved into a venue for visual and performing arts. Old-fashioned movie houses are hard to come by these days with theater chains owning most of the market. However, Uptown Maumee

has kept one art deco theater alive and thriving. The Maumee Indoor Theater, located on 601 Conant Street, first opened its doors in 1946. It wasn’t until May 2004 that the Great Eastern Theatre Company began to run the show to, “continue our tradition as an independent movie exhibitor operating indoor and outdoor theatres in Northwest Ohio,” according to their website. Even though the building itself is

a historical landmark, the theaters have been modernized to accommodate a large audience with two separate screens and another reception room located in the building’s lower floor. The first theater can hold close to 500 people and exhibits a full-sized movie screen and a theatrical stage. It can also be rented out for football games or parties and is set up with — Maumee, Page B3