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Religion and the recession Religious groups in the area report slight increase in attendance but a drop in monetary contributions

By Allison Seney For the IC

The following is the first article of a three part series on religion in the recession. The second article will look at the psychology of religion and its mental effects during tough times. The third article will be a feature on Pastor Chaz Boes.

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In these uncertain times, it is understandable that more people look for spiritual guidance — but that doesn’t mean they’re willing to pay for it.

Contributions are down in most religious organizations, the number of members is up and each organization is working to offer spiritual as well as material assistance to those who are struggling.

Associate Pastor Charles Ritter of St. Joseph Parish said everyone is in the recession together.

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Keeping you up-to-date: College councils

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Editor’s Note: The following article is based on the Jan. 11 meeting of the University of Toledo Language Literature and Social Science Council. The meeting was informal and open to the public. The contents of this article reflect the thoughts and opinions that were expressed at the meeting — and those sentiments only. This is in an effort, on part of the Independent Collegian, to keep our readers informed on developments on-campus.

At their Tuesday meeting, the College of Language Literature and Social Science Council discussed staffing issues and made some announcements about the new college.

The geography and planning and political science departments are moving their offices into Snyder Memorial.

Dean of the College of

Language Literature and Social Science Alice Skeens said she has in place a “transition team” for the college.

“I’ve asked them to come up with a strategic plan that will support the [Directions 2011] document,” she said.

“So they’re busy working on that.”

Skeens said chairs of departments in the CLLSS would receive a $10,000 stipend.

At the meeting, Skeens called on the faculty to help her “build the college.”

“I cannot do this job alone,” she said. “I need each of you to assist me. The college has been formed, but we, and I stress, ‘we,’ will build it.”

Chair of the LLSS Council Linda Rouillard said she was informed, during a meeting with Skeens, the three deans for the arts and sciences colleges are still working without a contract.

According to Rouillard, — LLSS, Page A6

“Everybody has a shared sense of knowledge about the effects of the economy, everybody knows somebody who has been hit by the recession,” he said.

St. Joseph Parish is located in Sylvania, Ohio, a suburb only four miles away from Toledo’s city limits.

“Sylvania is known to be a highincome city, but there are people here with houses foreclosed upon and some are on welfare,” Ritter said.

The parish has recently adopted 90 families at the end of 2010.

Though contributions are lower every year, the total number of attendance has increased annually.

Ritter pointed out that church income is increasing, but not as fast as the expenditures are increasing.

In order to help alleviate the — Religion, Page A7

‘Cream’ in a can

UT alum starts own company and product based on alcoholinfused whipped cream

By Vincent J. Curkov IC Staff Writer

With the first set of spring semester parties on the horizon, expect the product of a former University of Toledo student to be found on the shelf, right next to the vodka.

Chris Guiher, president and CEO of Kingfish Spirits, came up with the idea for Cream while studying business and graphic design at UT. “I was trying to come up with something interesting for my parties,” he said.

The origin of the product was hand-whipping cream, vodka and crushed candy bars. The product now comes in an aerosol can and is hard to distinguish from normal whipped cream at first glance.

Guiher left UT to pursue a career in real estate sales, but last year he revisited the idea of putting alcohol in whipped cream.

While prototyping the

product, he had one major problem: The alcohol does not mix well with the whipped cream. When the two mix, the combination can make the cream lose its shape and behave similar to a liquid.

“The alcohol has adverse effects on the product,” Guiher said.

This obstacle was overcome in time for last April’s launch at the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America Convention in Las Vegas, Nev. Feedback from the convention was hesitant initially because the product was more unconventional compared to other alcoholic accessories at WSWA. However, there was a “tremendous response,” according to Guiher.

Following the WSWA convention, Cream began selling in four states. It is now sold in 21 states including Ohio.

Cream is currently unavail— Cream, Page A6

Photo illustration by Nick Kneer / IC

“Cream” is an alcoholic whipped cream invented by former UT student Chris Guiher and sold in 21 states, including Ohio.

CPA renovations for summer in planning period University to add more space for performing arts

By Joan Pham IC Staff Writer

Renovations to the Center for Performing Arts will begin at the end of spring semester as the need for more space and newer equipment arises.

A refurbished recital hall, additional dressing rooms and additional building space are just some of the things included in the $2 million renovation.

According to Director of Facilities, Maintenance and Construction Victor Brigner, construction will begin the first week of March while interior renovations will start at the end of the

semester.

The project is expected to be complete in August.

“We are expanding on a lot of the production classrooms which will give the students additional space with the most advanced technology.” Brigner said.

“The building in the past has been used more for academics, but with the new layout of the building I think it will make the theatrical experiences so much more interesting.”

“The majority of the first floor is going to be renovated and the building’s band and choral rooms will be enlarged,” said David Serra, project manager with The

Collaborative Inc. which is completing the project. “We will also be putting on an addition to the building. The first floor will house a new office suite, and the second floor will house a few musical rooms.”

Two new dressing rooms and one green room will be built where the existing scene shop in the CPA is, and the scene shop will be reorganized within the additional space.

The seats in the recital hall will be refurbished and new finishes are being added.

Serra said some of the — CPA, Page A7

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The Center for Performing Arts will undergo renovations starting from the end of the spring semester and finishing in August. Construction will begin the first week of March. The renovations will include additional dressing rooms, additional building space and a refurbished recital hall.

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At memorial, Obama urges a discussion that ‘heals’ President travels to Univ. of Arizona to deliver speech, mourn

By Sam Stanton McClatchy Newspapers(MCT)

TUCSON, Ariz. — President Barack Obama played the part of "healer in chief" Wednesday night, honoring the victims of Saturday's mass shooting while seeking to calm an increasingly angry political debate, urging all Americans to stop pointing fingers and "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."

"I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand by you tomorrow," Obama told a crowd of 26,000 gathered inside and outside the University of Arizona's basketball arena. "There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts.

"But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight.

We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. And we add our faith to yours that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other living victims of this tragedy pull through."

The president, who devoted much of his speech to the bravery of the victims and recalled those who died, first detoured away from the basketball arena to pay an unannounced visit to Giffords, who is in critical condition but making steady progress, doctors say, toward an improbable recovery from a gunshot wound through her head.

"I have just come from the University Medical Center, just a mile from here, where our friend Gabby courageously fights to recover even as we speak," the

president said, adding that "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time," a statement that brought the crowd to its feet.

"And I can tell you this — she knows we're here and she knows we love her and she knows that we are rooting for her throughout what will be a difficult journey. We are there for her."

People stood in line for more than 30 blocks, waiting to see Obama pay homage to the victims of last Saturday's shooting rampage, which killed six and wounded more than a dozen, including Giffords.

The memorial service came the same day that authorities in Tucson revealed that a state Fish and Game officer had stopped the alleged gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, earlier on the morning of the shooting.

Loughner was stopped on a red light violation at 7:34 a.m. about six miles from the Safeway where the shooting occurred, but he was released because there were no warrants outstanding and his license was valid. Two and a half hours later, authorities say, he opened fire.

Loughner faces federal charges in the deaths of a federal judge and a federal employee, and he could face the death penalty.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department also revealed that among the writings that 22-year-old Loughner left behind in his home were documents he may have intended for investigators to find, including a paper that contained the phrase "Die bitch" and another that read "f — you pigs."

The sheriff's department released records showing

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President Barack Obama addresses the crowd at the “Together We Thrive” program at the University of Arizona, honoring the victims of the Tucson, Arizona, shooting rampage that claimed the lives of six people and wounded more than a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. visits to the Loughner home dating back to 1994 for various complaints. The records showed Loughner had been arrested as a juvenile in 2006 when he showed up at high school one morning "so extremely intoxicated" on vodka that he was sent to the emergency room.

He also was cited in September 2007 on marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges.

But the focus in Tucson Wednesday wasn't on the suspect. Instead, people gathered to honor the victims killed and offer hope for the survivors. Wednesday, Obama played a role similar

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Some of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ interns weep while Gabe Zimmerman is memorialized at the “Together We Thrive” program at the University of Arizona, honoring the victims of the Tucson, Arizona, shooting rampage that claimed the lives of six people and wounded more than a dozen others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

to that former President Bill Clinton assumed when he spoke after the Oklahoma City bombing in remarks that earned him the nickname "healer in chief."

The president visited Tucson as the community sought to show that it renounces violence, and Gov. Jan Brewer, who spoke before the president, vowed that Arizona's spirit "will not be shredded by one mad man's act of darkness."

More than 13,000 people gathered inside McKale Center, with another 13,000 in the football stadium watching on large screen televisions, and they cheered as firefighters and police who rescued victims of the rampage filed into the arena.

After days of shock and tragedy, the crowd was seeking release and looking for heroes, and they weren't in short supply.

Some of the loudest cheers and a standing ovation came when doctors from the University of Arizona Medical Center who worked feverishly to save Giffords and the other survivors filed into the arena in their white medical smocks.

Dr. Peter Rhee, the combat-trained trauma surgeon who has become a face of the university and who virtually guaranteed Giffords will survive, received extended applause when he arrived.

Cheers and screams greeted 75-year-old Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, a close friend of Giffords' who set off national debate with his denunciation of the nation's toxic political

arguments and his refusal to back down from his statements.

And intense applause repeatedly greeted 20-year-old University of Arizona student Daniel Hernandez Jr., a Giffords intern who rushed to save her and held compresses on her head wound until help arrived.

Political leaders including Attorney General Eric Holder; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a former Arizona governor; House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi; Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy; and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a native Arizonan, were among the guests. A number of House members who are friends and colleagues of Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, also attended.

Obama met with other victims Wednesday who remain hospitalized, and also had private meetings at the arena with survivors of the attack.

During his remarks, the president recalled each of the victims killed, including John Roll, Arizona's chief federal judge, and 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green, shot to death as she waited in line to meet her congresswoman.

As the president spoke of Christina, Michelle Obama, seated to the side next to Giffords' husband, appeared to be holding back tears.

"The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better, be better in our

private lives — to be better friends and neighbors, coworkers and parents," Obama said.

Wading carefully into the debate over political discourse, he told the crowd that "it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

"We cannot use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other," he added. "That we cannot do."

Before the ceremony, student volunteers painstakingly folded thousands of Navy blue T-shirts emblazoned with the theme of the evening — "Together We Thrive, Tucson and America" and placed them on the arena seats.

Some people said they had arrived as early as 7 a.m. to get into the arena for the 6 p.m. ceremony, and many said they simply felt the need to honor Giffords.

Michael Wong, a 20-yearold Arizona State University student, drove two hours from Tempe to his rival school's Tucson campus Wednesday because he wanted to help hand out small pieces of paper for people to write prayers and thoughts on. Later, they were taped into a paper chain more than 500 feet long.

"We've had people just sitting thinking for a long time about what they wanted to write," Wong said. "It's really making people think."

——— Stanton reports for The Sacramento Bee

Supreme Court is asked to rule on ‘In God We Trust’ California attorney and atheist claims invocation violates separation of church and state

By Michael Doyle McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — California attorney and dedicated atheist Michael Newdow is making another run at “In God We Trust,” with a new Supreme Court petition challenging the national motto.

In an uphill battle, Newdow is asking the nine justices to review an appellate court’s rejection of his claim that the invocation of God on official currency violates the constitutional separation of church and state.

“Devout atheists are forced to choose between not using what is often the only

available legal tender and committing what they consider blasphemy,” Newdow argued in his petition placed on the court’s docket Tuesday.

With his latest legal petition, Newdow now has multiple First Amendment arguments pending before the Supreme Court. Separately, he is also challenging the phrase “So help me God” in the presidential oath. Newdow said Wednesday that a third petition, challenging the Pledge of Allegiance, will soon arrive at the court.

Formal responses in the cases aren’t due until at least

mid-February, and it could take several months before the justices consider the petitions in a closed-door conference. Nonetheless, Newdow concedes the odds are stacked against him.

“I think it is a sheer cliff with any court comprised of justices who are not atheists themselves,” Newdow said in an e-mail Wednesday, adding: “I think they would rather avoid the political fallout than do what they are paid to do and uphold the rights of this disenfranchised minority; i.e., atheists.”

Few petitions survive their first review by Supreme

Court justices and their law clerks. The court hears only about 80 cases annually, picked from upward of 8,000 petitions. Even if at least four justices agree to hear Newdow’s appeal, the court’s conservative cast does not appear sympathetic to his overarching constitutional cause.

In 2004, the court heard Newdow’s challenge to the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in his daughter’s school, but the justices then ruled he lacked the legal standing to bring the case.

The four new justices appointed since 2004, including conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, have not measurably changed the ideological balance on the court.

The new petition seeks to overturn a March 2010

decision concerning “In God We Trust” by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

“Even the most liberal court in America, the 9th Circuit, agreed with us that the national motto is clearly constitutional,” declared Brad Dacus, president of the Sacramento-based Pacific Justice Institute. “We are confident that the U.S. Supreme Court will do the right thing and end this frivolous lawsuit.”

A conservative legal advocacy group, the Pacific Justice Institute helped defend the motto during earlier appellate battles.

A 1955 law authored by Florida Rep. Charles Bennett, a polio-stricken World War II combat veteran, mandated use of “In God We

Trust” on U.S. coins and currency. In a June 7, 1955, House floor speech, Bennett explained that the motto would “serve as a constant reminder of this truth” that “as long as this country trusts in God, it will prevail.”

Still, appellate judges have reasoned that the government’s use of the phrase does not violate the First Amendment.

“It is quite obvious that the national motto and the slogan on coinage and currency ‘In God We Trust’ has nothing whatsoever to do with the establishment of religion,” the 9th Circuit reasoned, quoting from an earlier decision. “Its use is of a patriotic or ceremonial character and bears no true resemblance to a governmental sponsorship of a religious exercise.”

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The power of suggestion of violent, often racist, anti-government militia groups tends to correlate directly to the party in power — a 2009 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center found that these groups, who became prominent during the Clinton years and dwindled during Bush’s two terms, have risen again following the election of President Obama. Also, startlingly more common during years of a progressive president are the nearly constant acts of vandalism and threats targeting the offices, homes and lives of elected officials.

Not all conservatives are hateful and willing to commit violence for political ends and not all liberals are compassionate and peace-loving; however, the recent history of political violence in this country makes certain things clear: political language that demonizes opponents and uses violent imagery comes overwhelmingly from the right, those who commit the violence tend to be supporters of right-wing pundits and policies, and the violence is almost always directed at a person or institution that supports or represents the agenda of the political left.

Responsibility for violence lies upon those who commit it — there is no doubt that when a man aims a gun at another person and fires, he is to blame for what happens. But it would be an intellectual catastrophe to view a person’s actions as having no outside influence. No one lives in a void — we are constantly affected by the words and actions of those around us.

Can we say for sure that the vivid, guninspired imagery employed by popular conservatives encouraged any of the recent violence? No, but we can definitively state that this violence has no place in our political dialogue, no matter the target. We need to come together as a nation and rebuild more than ever before — even a passing mention of using violence for political ends is unacceptable.

When acts of violence are committed in the Muslim world, to whom does the United States media turn to place the blame? The usual answer: those who have indoctrinated the terrorists. Video clips of radical Muslim clerics giving inflammatory, anti-American speeches and calling for violence have become commonplace in the American psyche. The blame for acts of political violence committed by Muslims is often directed at these leaders who incite their followers by playing upon their frustrations: having little money or political power, living in a nation occupied by American troops, etc.

Blaming those radical spiritual leaders is often a well-founded claim.

Politicians in this country use the same techniques to rally their supporters to action. By playing on the frustration many Americans feel at being out of work and insecure about their future, prominent figures on both sides of the political spectrum have mobilized millions in recent years to join in the shouting, gesticulating and threatening of anyone who opposes their agenda.

If we blame acts of terror committed by angry Muslim radicals on the figures whose words inspire them, why don’t we apply the same logic to the political violence committed by people here? Do we really believe we as Americans are so exceptional that we are not influenced by the words of public figures in the same way? Only those whose views require the blamelessness of society and the evil of the individual would support such an absurd idea.

Members of all political orientations can be found making the same claims: that the media favors the opponent, supporters of the opponent are immoral and their advocates are causing harm with their words. Everyone can make the statement, but only some can point to supporting facts.

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UT alumni find local business success and prove that opportunities exist in Toledo vania, also attended UT before starting his business.

UT alumni have created some notquite-standard businesses that have also found local success. Kingfish Spirits sells a vodka-infused whipped cream product, called Cream, at carryouts and liquor stores throughout the region. Also finding success is the UT graduate-owned Balance Pan-Asian Grille, which serves ethnic foods from all regions of the Asian continent.

Regardless of the product or service developed, one fact shines clearly amidst these happy tales: creativity and a willingness to take risks on a new idea are essential to innovation and can help a person launch a thriving business even in a region with a dangerously slow economy. Many students seem to embrace the popular lack of confidence in Toledo’s future opportunities; these stories are strong counter-examples proving that this city is as good a place as any to pursue one’s dreams and begin a career.

Even in the face of a depressing economy and a bleak future, inspired young people continue to show that a great idea can still become a successful business with patience, commitment and some entrepreneurial spirit.

With population, jobs and investment leaving the region, most University of Toledo students seem to accept the perceived inevitable by planning to find a job elsewhere after graduation.

However, a number of individuals have broken the usual pattern by successfully starting a business as a new graduate in Toledo.

Some of these success stories are visible from campus and cater to common interests of students. N.E.X., a clothing outlet, sells a small but quality selection of trendy clothing, shoes and hats from its boutique on Secor Road near Rocket Hall. Coco Beach, a tanning salon in the Rocket Center across Dorr Street, is also owned by a UT graduate. The tattoo artist Monk, who founded the Infinite Art tattoo studio near Secor and Syl-

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On the horizon It occurred to me the other day that I am almost done with school. Not that I wasn’t aware of its impending approach; it’s just that the time since I began has passed w i t h alarming speed.

Now in my fourth semester of raduate Alexandra gstudies, it Scarborough will only be a few short months until I — hopefully! — possess my Masters degree.

Of course, along with this realization is the knowledge I will be transitioning to the next phase of my life. I thought I had the next steps charted out before I came to UT, but now, in the face of America’s economic downturn, increased competition for decreasing numbers of jobs and my own everevolving interests, I find myself at a crossroads.

Should I continue on with a PhD? Should I earn another Masters in a different discipline? Maybe teach abroad? Become a wandering ascetic?

I’m an adult student — one who is significantly older than most of you reading this column right now.

As someone who has a number of varied careers under her belt, I can attest that it never gets easier to settle on one thing.

When does someone with interests in nearly everything intellectual and artistic finally settle on one career and commit to it? This is a question I have been

asking myself for nearly 20 years, now.

You could accuse me of flightiness; perhaps you would be correct. More than anything, though, I see myself as someone who has zeal for living — one who wishes to soak up as much information and experience possible in this oh-so-brief experience of being human.

When a career’s fascination/utility/challenge has dried up for me, off I shuffle to loftier goals.

An important thing to consider, though, is that I don’t have that luxury any-

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It’s no longer the 90s, when our country was more economically and socially stable, and dilly-dallying with one’s life plans was more excusable.

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more. It’s no longer the 90s, when our country was more economically and socially stable, and dilly-dallying with one’s life plans was more excusable.

As someone who is between college age and middle age, it’s time I start directing my attentions into one area of interest — for economic security, if for nothing else, right?

On the flip side of caution and my growing desire to lay down roots, however, I can say I’ve had one distinct and interesting life thus far.

From being a “cube jockey” to working as a professional actor to walking dogs for a living, I’ve got a lot of stories. They weave together to make up my sometimes humorous, always eclectic personal narrative.

So, the question is, do I follow my original plan, what so many responsible, centered students do: “sticking to it” and “riding it out” for stability and sanity’s sake? Or do I create more personal narratives, maybe even stumbling upon my best career of all, but continuing to live with economic and personal uncertainty?

Unfortunately, in today’s milieu, there are no guarantees of success in either scenario, but it is clear that one path is more practical than the other.

There is always time to reinvent oneself, and there is something to be said for diverse experience and knowledge. But I find myself almost envious when a student knows from age 18 that he/she is going to be a doctor or an attorney or a scientist. I tip my hat to you; you are likely to be the next American success story.

It is good to know what you want, to keep your “eye on the prize,” as they say.

It’s also fine to change your mind midstream. But leave that ongoing, vexing feeling — that I’m missing out on something if I stay in one place — to me.

—Alexandra Scarborough is an IC columnist and a graduate student in philosophy.

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Political violence forces tough questions White murder, brown terrorism

The recent shooting in Ari- The news channels would practically be chanting the zona has sparked a media maelstrom and a cacophonic word “terrorist.”

Are the actions of the debate. Accusations of hywhite men mentioned any perbolic different than those of some political bitter, darker-skinned males rhetoric who hatched unexecuted are being plans to knock down the fortossed mer Sears Tower, or blow up around. an airport, or buy missiles?

Gun laws Perhaps the dominant are being group within American socireconsidety, white males, is too big ered. The role of vio- to define using only one term. We can’t just lump Stephen lent video neo-Nazis with unstable alBartholomew games is coholics and crazy loners receiving with anti-abortion extremattention yet again. Gunman ists. To do so would be useJared Loughner’s use of mar- less, right? There are just ijuana has raised eyebrows. too many types of white Even the hateful members of male terrorists. I mean menthe Westboro tally unstable Baptist Church white males. are threatening It is easier to protest the When a men- for Amerivictims’ cans to retally ill, white funerals. duce Muslim male targets a But amidst extremists to the yammering a single, politician and of the political commits mass imaginary pundits, what group. Sunseems to be murder, terror- nis, Shiites, less of a topic Hezbollah, Al ism is not a of debate is the Qaeda, Talword the media iban, Saudi use of the word “terrorchooses to use. Arabian, Pakistani, ism.” When a Saddam, Bin mentally ill, Laden — it’s white male tarall the same. No? gets a politician and comNo; there are different mits mass murder, terrorism sects of Islam, many Arab is not a word the media nationalities have various chooses to use. lists of grievances — not to When Joe Stack, a white mention the fact that many male, wrote a manifesto deof these people falsely nouncing the US governlumped together actually ment and crashed his pridespise each other. vate plane into a federal Of course, the use of the building in Feb. 2010, he term “terrorism” boils down was not a terrorist. He was to semantics. The New Oxjust an unstable guy, angry ford American Dictionary dewith the IRS. fines terrorism as “the use of When Clay Duke, a white violence or intimidation in male, brought a gun to a the pursuit of political aims.”

Florida school board meetIt is an “ism” that hints at ing in Dec. 2010 and shot at something almost pandemic. board members before turnThe word conjures up the ing the gun on himself, he image of an elusive, dangerwas a relatively normal man ous threat lurking somethat just cracked one day. where unknown. Terrorism When Michael Enright, a could happen anywhere, at white male, slashed the anytime. The use of this throat of a Muslim New York term magnifies the most paCity cab driver in Aug. 2010, thetic threat, making mihe was by no means a ternuscule plots become bigrorist. According to his ger and scarier. The word is friends, Enright had a terria self-rationalization. ble drinking problem.

The white males’ acts of When Byron Williams, a terror, in contrast, are dewhite male, opened fire on picted as “hate crimes” or police officers in California “tragedies.” These terms more so depict isolated during a July day in 2010, he events. Those who commit was depicted as a disgruntled, unemployed, right wing such acts are thereby seen as individuals rather than felon, not a terrorist. Never lumped together as some mind that after he was arcollaborative, menacing rested he admitted he was on his way to the offices of a threat.

Some may think squabliberal foundation and a civil bling over such a word is liberties organization with unnecessary. However, lanthe intent to kill people. guage informs peoples’ When James von Brunn, a thoughts and actions; and white male, entered the Hotherefore popular terms relocaust museum, shooting peated in the media must and killing a guard in June be accurate. Everyone of 2009, he was not recogwould benefit if we started nized as a terrorist either. choosing our words more He was just some anti-Secarefully and articulating mitic nutcase. ideas more precisely.

Yet if any one of these white males had been Arabic —Stephen Bartholomew is or Muslim, there is no quesan IC columnist and an tion as to how the media English education student would have labeled them.

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Violence must be met with Mass media dehumanizes love and understanding with simplifying slurs From Sunday evening in- and religious righteousness. to Monday morning, I If you have not heard by watched the 24-hour telenow, the Westboro Baptist vision coverage of the Church intends to insult tragic shooting in Tucson, and taunt the family, Arizona that left six peofriends and colleagues of ple dead and 14 people inJudge John Roll by protestjured. I won’t engage in ing outside during his serpolitical rhetoric because vices, even after Arizona partisan politics shouldn’t passed a law prohibiting be our primary focus — protestors from picketing there are more important funerals one hour before or matters to discuss. after a funeral service.

I would rather focus on In fact, they intended to the hurt and pain of those protest nine-year-old Chrissuffering. Right now an tina Green’s funeral beendless sea of tears run cause she was a devout from stoic eyes and down Catholic. It wasn’t until the cheeks of the sullen fac- public and political outrage es of loved ones still trying from both the American to grasp the last memory of and international communia hug or kiss shared with ty grew so great that Westtheir deceased. There’s a boro Baptist Church chose classroom full a frightened to back down from their children who numbskull are now needidea to dislessly torhonor the There is so mented with memory of questions of much heartbreak this little girl, their own proving that and so few mortality bethere really is cause Christiwords, and al- power in numna Green and that though it seems bers could’ve easily we can’t just been one of almost impossi- stop there. them. Then We as a nable to compre- tion there is Chrisneed to tina’s hearthend, we must assure that broken and voices are be voices of rea- our guilt-ridden heard in order neighbor who to shut down son and is undoubtedridiculous understanding. the ly reliving evabuses of our ery moment first amendleading up to ment right to the shooting, freedom of pondering the seemingly in- speech — the outpouring of finite possibilities of “if onsupport for the families and ly’s” and “what ifs,” but “ifs” collective outrage against are conditional statements.

Westboro’s plan to protest The families of the victhis little girl’s funeral was tims must say their final a fine start. I hope thougoodbyes to husbands, sands of people show up to wives, soulmates and relastop Westboro in future tionships, some of which protests against fallen solhave spanned more than 55 diers, individuals who’ve years. There is a young died from AIDS and homowoman who is now forced sexuals alike, because their to put her young and prom- anger and bigotry make a ising fiancé to rest and a mockery of our rights as federal judge who is being citizens and should be met mourned by friends, relawith voices of tolerance, tives and colleagues after a love and peace. distinguished career of My heart is genuinely with public service to the comthe families of those who munity of Tucson, Arizona. have been affected by this Congresswoman Gifford event and while there may is fighting for her life after be no words that can bring taking a bullet to the head comfort to family, friends while other victims begin and other loved ones of their journey on the long those who have been inroad to recovery. There is jured or slain, prayer sure so much heartbreak and so does go a long way. Let this few words, and although it be a time of reflection and seems almost impossible to healing in our country and comprehend, we must be may our unity and cohesivevoices of reason and underness overwhelm all atstanding to help family, tempts to disgrace and friends and the community taunt those who have alof Tucson mend. ready suffered enough.

Even through all of the pain, sadness, rage and —Nicole Doan is an IC hurt, one “congregation” columnist and a senior has found a way to exploit the misery of others to pro- majoring in individualmote their own distorted ized studies. agendas of moral justice

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I am a writer still learning his neighbors and friends, to write and an activist still even before the event, learning the ropes of what thought him to be a little captures people’s attention “odd,” and not so much on most effectively, so the link how this kind of event is albetween language, rhetoric lowed to occur. and actions is familiar terriWhy, you ask, is the use tory. This link seems to be of the word “crazy” harmful missing in a lot of media dis- to the discussion and invescussions, or if it is acknowltigation of violent events? edged, the understanding is The word “crazy” perpetuskewed or misrepresented ates a stereotype concernin some way. ing issues of mental health, This unfortunately is very much like racial, religious common in the 24-hour or homophobic slurs. news cycle that pervades When a media person the American lifestyle. This calls a gunman “crazy,” the misunderstanding is espeviewer is excused from cially prevalent when the thinking too deeply about corporate media outlets fothe very real concerns of cus on a massacre, even those with mental health more so problems. The when the word is too cause is a broad to delone gunman.

When a media scribe the specific circumIt’s a noperson calls a and brainer that gunman “crazy,” stances influences inflammatory the viewer is ex- that led a gunlanguage gets a lot of attencused from think- man to take such extreme tion, but the ing too deeply action. link between about the very reThe investihate speech gation of the al concerns of and say, the shootactions of those with mental Tucson ings is ongogroups who health problems. ing — there is hear that lanno complete, guage and act factual picout in a ture of the matching background of the shooter. way, is still misunderstood So why do the media use a by the press and public. It derogatory, oversimplifying would be an oversimplificaterm to describe a spection to state that there is altrum of conditions he may ways a direct link between or may not have? The only inflammatory language in answer that I can come up political dialogue and viowith is that it’s easy. It’s lent acts of terrorism, but it easier to blame and dehuis hard to deny that there is manize an individual with at least some causal relaan alienating label than to tionship between the two. ask questions about our soIn the wake of the shootcial structure and seek the ing in Tucson, Arizona this past weekend, I realized that whole story surrounding a tragic event. the most disturbing aspect Why have potentially unof the matter to me is not stable people easily purthe motivations that led the chasing firearms legally? shooter to his actions, but How does the treatment of the circumstances in which mental health disorders in he was allowed to go untreated, if he was and is suf- this country contribute to such lone acts of violence? fering from a mental illness There are many negative or disorder. consequences resulting The second disturbing from public apathy to the factor, which still keeps me task of taking care of every up at night sometimes, is citizen’s health — the the political climate of this shooting of a public offiwhole country and its relacial and her constituents is tionship to firearms. I am just one. continually disheartened at the glossing over of such —Pamela McCray is an matters by media and pubIC columnist and a sopholic figures. The focus is more majoring in political more often on why the perpetrator is “crazy” and how science.

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A6 Police Blotter The following events occurred between Dec. 8 and Jan. 10. Anyone with information regarding these events should contact UT Police at 419-530-2600.

Theft from motor vehicle

On. Dec. 7, a police officer was dispatched to parking lot 46 to take a theft from motor vehicle report. The victim stated his vehicle had been broken into and several items totaling $110 were stolen. Pry marks were located on the window frame and the items were taken from the passenger side of the vehicle.

Theft

On Dec. 8, a police officer was dispatched to the memorial Field House to take a theft report. The victim stated she left her wristlet containing her birth control pills, $12 in cash, keys and cell phone in the common area to use the vending machine. When the victim returned, the items were missing.

The items were valued at a total of $404.

On Dec. 13, a police officer was dispatched the Horton International House to take a theft report. The victim stated his Xbox 360 and $60 in cash had been stolen from his room. The victim and his girlfriend fell asleep in the room and upon waking up noticed the video gaming system and cash was missing. The victim suspects his roommate and roommate’s guest had something to do with the theft.

On Dec. 14, a police officer was dispatched to the East Parking Ramp top take a theft report. The victim stated her Rocket Card was stolen, but she was not initially worried about it. The victim later obtained a statement citing a $300 scholarship was on the Rocket Card and her account was drained over the month of October.

There were 208 unauthorized purchases on the account. Video footage showed a black male suspect using the card several time to purchase candy from a vending area on the third floor of the Crossings. Additional video footage shows another black male suspect using the card at a

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Independent Collegian vending machine. The two suspects swiped the card 74 separate times for 74 purchases. One suspect used the card an additional 67 times for values ranging from 16 cents to $27.27. The first suspect was later identified by the Crossings staff members and admitted to using the card.

The suspect was then charged with identity fraud and receiving stolen property.

On Jan. 10, a police officer was dispatched to the Student Union Building to take a theft report. The victim stated he left some textbooks on a table in the Student Union food court while waiting in line to get food.

When he returned, the books were missing. The victim contacted the Student Bookstore and off-campus bookstore to see if the books had been returned. The victim was contacted by the off-campus bookstore and informed someone had tried to sell back his books. The victim was then able to retrieve two of the books. A suspect was later identified and issued a citation for receiving stolen property.

Burglary

On Dec. 8, a police officer took a walk-in burglary report from the UT Police Department office. The victim stated she and her suitemates have been having various items come up missing from their dorm room this semester that have not yet been recovered.

On Dec. 8, a police officer was dispatched to Parks Tower to take a burglary report. The victim stated a gold necklace was stolen from her room. The victim reported her roommate had numerous people over frequently and believed one of them may be involved in taking the missing property.

On Jan. 9, a police officer was dispatched to Ottawa House West to take a burglary report.

The victim stated when she returned from winter break, she discovered her 32-inch television missing from the common area of her dorm. The television was valued at $358.

On Dec. 15, a police officer was dispatched to Carter Hall West to take a theft report. The victim reported someone had taken his laptop from his unlocked room. The laptop was valued at $450.

Cream From Page A1 able in Michigan.

“We had a great response from distributors all over the country,” Guiher said. “It’s been on the market for eight months [and] business has been tremendous.”

Many UT students, who were told about the product in interviews, responded optimistically about the product.

LLSS From Page A1 Skeens has asked that the “status quo” for the colleges remain until the end of the year.

“The deans have requested to retain the status quo until the end of this year, in a meeting with [Bill McMillen, interim Main Campus provost, vice president for governmental relations and chief of staff in the Office of the President] and the provost could not quite make that promise,” she said. “He seemed to indicate the status

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“Oh my gosh, that stuff sounds so good,” said Diana Gadriel, a senior majoring in human resource management.

Jamie Haeger, a sophomore art history major, said the product would either have a love-orhate response from its users.

“It would be one of those things that if you like it, you would love it, and if you didn’t, you would throw the bottle away,” Haeger said.

According to

Guiher, although the majority of buyers are between 21 and 25 years of age, older generations have used the product as a top-off in their late-night cup of coffee.

The closest Cream can be found near campus is at the Secor Carryout, located near the corner of Dorr Street and Secor Road.

Cream so far has only one competitor in Whipped Lightening. Whipped Lightening has been on the

market four years longer than Cream, but is only available in 12 states, not including Ohio.

Cream comes in raspberry, vanilla, chocolate, cherry and caramel. It is 30 proof, or 15 percent alcohol, which is slightly higher alcohol content than most wines.

quo could remain in place throughout the semester, but he didn’t seem to make any promise for the whole year.”

The LLSS Council executive committee, according to Rouillard, also requested that the college budget committee, which consists of faculty who examine the college’s budget, be re-activated.

Skeens agreed to the request.

The council also discussed the termination of three computing assistants, one from the former College of Arts and Sciences, Judith Herb College of Education and

College of Health Science and Human Services.

Skeens said they will lose their jobs in April and have already been notified of their termination dates.

Skeens and the other deans of the new arts and sciences colleges sent a statement to McMillen and UT President Lloyd Jacobs expressing their concern over the terminations.

Skeens said she and the other deans were not notified about the terminations until after they were already effective.

At Tuesday’s meeting, the

council brought forth a resolution questioning the dismissal of the computing technician for the former CAS, but then later reconsidered the resolution and voted to discuss drafting a resolution in support of the technician at their next meeting.

Skeens told the council she is a “different kind of dean” and asked faculty to inform her of any issues she would need to be aware of within the college.

“I think it’s really important to inform me of issues, email me, call me,” she said.

More information about Cream can be found at the company website: GiveMeCream.com.

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Computers don’t age; software gets younger

By Craig Crossman McClatchy-Tribune News Service

I can hear the groans from all those people who recently bought computers equipped with Intel's latest processor.

They wanted the fastest computer their money could buy and they paid top dollar for it.

And for a brief moment in time, they were happy. Some even bragged they owned the speediest Windows-based personal computer on the planet. But their happiness was short-lived.

Intel has announced an even faster multi-core processor.

When I heard about the imminent arrival of Intel's newest speedster, it brought to mind one of the more frequently asked questions I hear: "I'm afraid that what I buy now may soon become obsolete.

So when should I buy a computer?"

My reply is a simple one: No

matter what you buy, it will be considered old in about 18 months, so stop worrying about it. My advice is to buy the best you can afford when you're ready for a new model.

Buying anything less doesn't save you money. In fact it may cost you more in the long run as it will become obsolete more quickly.

Ever hear the rationale that tries to explain why computers shouldn't be any different than automobiles or other consumer electronic devices? After all, the rationale goes, consumers accept that new car models come out every year. New model consumer electronics and appliances such as TV sets, washing machines and the like constantly come out with better features. So what's the big deal with newer-model computers?

I'd like to point out that your

car, whether last year's or older, will still get you from point A to point B. Older TVs will still receive next year's programming, and older washing machines will still wash your new clothes. But an older computer may not be able to run all the newer programs and operating systems. And even if it can, it more than likely will not run them as well as a newer computer.

Basically, it's the software that makes a computer different from all those other consumer electronic devices and products. Newer-generation software continues to evolve in its complexity and places more and more demands on a computer's resources. Granted new hardware can be added but eventually some limiting physical barrier such as its bus speed will finally prevent you from upgrading the hardware on your PC. Plus there

comes a point in time when adding new hardware becomes more costly than just buying a new computer.

The software is also what's eventually going to make your computer obsolete. You just won't be able to play those newest games with mindblowing graphics, or view the newest websites that utilize the latest technologies to display 3D images and richly textured animations along with smoothly playing sound. Or it will be the newest operating system that fills up your inadequate supply of memory, brings your microprocessor to its knees or bogs down your slowly rotating hard drive.

So I offer up the following insight to try and make you feel a little better: It's really not that your computer is getting older. It's your software that's getting younger. Enjoy it while you can.

CPA From Page A1 acoustic issues in the hall will be readdressed as well and a new wooden stage floor will be put in place.

The corridors will also be renovated to be more open for big events, according to Brigner.

“The corridor will act as a meeting place before the event and as a smoother transition into the theatre,” Brigner said. “As of now, the Center of Performing Arts is confined and not inviting, but the new design will make the building more directional. You’ll be able to find your way around easier.”

The project is still in the design phase as the university and The Collaborative Inc. work on construction drawings.

The project will not interfere with any scheduled classes or performances at the CPA. Holly Monsos, professor and chair of theatre, is looking forward to seeing the new building.

“I’m very excited,” Monsos said. “There is stuff that has been needed for a long time. The architect will be able to give us our first priority needs.”

The renovations have been delayed in the past due to lack of funding.

A new studio is being built for video production, according to Monsos.

“As far as theatre and film, the room that we have been using is half a screening room and half a production video room,” Monsos said.

“Now it will be completely a studio and dedicated to production solely.”

The makeup laboratory and dressing rooms will also be moved.

“We are moving the makeup and dressing rooms to the other side of the building so that the actors no longer have to walk across the audience to get to their rooms,” Monsos said.

Timothy Brakel, associate professor and chair of music, is also looking forward to the renovations.

“This new building will improve the students’ experiences a lot, and will allow us to better incorporate technology in association to different courses because we will have more lab space to work with,” Brakel said.

“Rehearsal facilities will be expanded as well as our instrumental program. We will also see a larger computer lab for the music students.”

Brakel said he hopes this is the first of many phases of renovation to the CPA.

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years old to make a gift to a not-for-profit organization from their IRA, or Individual economy, St. Joseph Parish Retirement Account. “[Contributors] can gift up offers opportunities to its to $100,000 per taxable year. members who are in need of For 2010, an individual has a job.

“There are people who lost until January 31, 2011 to their jobs that did not expect make the gift and have it to,” he said. “We have what is count,” Szymanski said.

“For 2011, they have until called St. Joe’s networking group that would work to December 31, 2011 to make steer people in the right their gift. The important item is that the money needs to go direction.”

Karen Szymanski, the fund directly from the IRA to the officer of the Catholic Foun- organization and not to the dation, a non-profit organiza- individual,” she said.

Szymanski said the passing tion located on Spielbusch of the act will benefit their Avenue in downtown Toledo, helps organize a fundraiser organization immensely.

Christian establishments every year to support the were not the only ones affoundation’s programs and fected. The drop in contribuministries.

“The funds support such tions has also taken its toll on things as the broadcast of the many other sectors including Sunday mass for homebound local Jewish temples.

Rabbi Moindividuals, sha Saks of the campus We can all help the Congregaministry programs at unipaddle the canoe tion B’Nai Israel in Sylvaversities like Toledo, Bowl- or we can complain be- nia said in orcause the guy on the der to reduce ing Green, Lourdes as other side is not pad- the cost, the temple was well as Cathodling as hard enough. moved into a lic charities,” smaller buildshe said.

Charles Ritter ing four years S z y m a n s k i Associate Pastor, said that due St. Joseph’s Church ago. to the reces“The numsion, people ber of contriare more cautious with dona- butions is down, but memtions to places of worship; bership is stable,” Saks said. however, toward the end of “With member turnout being 2010 there was a start of a consistent, the recession has turnaround in donations not affected any openings or received. closings of Jewish temples in “We see people are more the Toledo area.” careful with their monetary A representative from the gifts, but we see confidence Greater Islamic Center of Toin the economy building in ledo was unavailable for people,” Szymanski said. comment.

In 2010, President Barack While many congregations Obama signed into law a leg- report that attendance has islative bill that addressed remained stagnant, Ritter becharitable donations in a pro- lieves it’s good for the comvision known as the IRA munity to come together in Charitable Rollover. The leg- difficult times. islation is the Tax Relief, Un“We can all help paddle the employment Insurance Reau- canoe or we can complain thorization and Job Creation because the guy on the other Act of 2010, which allows an side is not paddling as hard individual over 70 and a half enough,” Ritter said.

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For-profit colleges fight negative federal report

By Becky Yerak Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — A for-profit college coalition co-chaired by a Chicago private-equity executive is suing the U.S. Department of Education over an August report that accused the fast-growing industry of deception and questionable marketing practices.

The Dec. 9 lawsuit stems from the coalition's failed efforts to gain access to documents, notes and videotapes the U.S. Government Accountability Office referred to in concluding all 15 for-profit colleges visited by undercover student applicants engaged in deceptive practices, including encouraging applicants to falsify their financial aid forms to qualify for federal aid.

On Nov. 30, the GAO reissued its 27-page report "to clarify and add more precise wording." The revisions generally made the colleges look better. But the GAO said it stands by its findings. The Department of Education declined to comment about the suit.

The Coalition for Educational Success, whose members include career colleges, maintains in its suit that the report is being used by critics of career colleges to tarnish the reputation of all for-profit schools and to advance the Obama administration's effort to push what are called "gainful employment" rules.

The rules essentially tie for-profit schools' access to federal student aid to their graduates' ability to repay their student debt.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, a critic of for-profit colleges, said at a Senate education committee hearing that federal financial

aid to students at for-profit colleges has ballooned to more than $23 billion a year from $4.6 billion a decade ago.

The GAO contends that students who attend forprofit colleges are more likely to default on federal student loans than students from other colleges. Over the past decade, for-profit college enrollment has risen to more than 2 million students from 600,000, Harkin said.

But for-profit college advocates say default rates are mostly related to students' socioeconomic status, not the type of school.

Colleges that serve more minority students have lower loan repayment rates, one study found. The average loan repayment rate is 30 percent at colleges with more than two-thirds minority enrollment, compared with 62 percent at colleges where less than a tenth of students are minorities, according to a September report by FinAid. org, an online resource about student financial aid.

Avy Stein, managing partner of Chicago-based private-equity firm Willis Stein & Partners — whose holdings include Birmingham, Ala.-based Education Corp. of America, which operates Virginia College — told the Chicago Tribune that the government's actions against for-profit schools will cost jobs and eliminate options for minority students. Stein is co-chairman of the Coalition for Educational Success.

On Nov. 29, Stein and other coalition members met with four Education Department officials in Washington, about the gainful employment issue, according to the DOE. The following day the GAO reissued

its report.

Suspecting that errors and biases still permeate the revised report, the coalition sued the DOE in U.S. District Court in Washington, accusing the department of "wrongfully withholding records by failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request."

The original FOIA request, filed Oct. 15, sought documents, including tapes, videos and notes related to the GAO report, according to the lawsuit.

On Oct. 27 the DOE acknowledged the request, and under federal law has 20 working days to respond, the lawsuit contends. The coalition said its request is being stonewalled.

In its Dec. 9 suit, the coalition said it also requested documents related to communications between DOE and investors who may have "shorted" stocks of forprofit colleges. Short-sellers bet against stocks.

Since the beginning of 2010, an index of 13 forprofit colleges is down 24.3 percent on an otherwise up year for the broader market. Career Education Corp. and DeVry Inc. are down 9.7 percent and 14.8 percent, respectively, in that time.

In August, the GAO said all 15 for-profit colleges made questionable statements to undercover applicants.

The GAO report didn't mention the schools by name, but their identities were divulged in Aug. 4 Senate testimony by the report's author. They included the College of Office Technology in Chicago and Chicago's Argosy University, which is owned by publicly traded Education Management Corp., whose stock is down 23 percent since the beginning of 2010.

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Center for Performing Arts — “American Me” (Rated R) will be shown this week, the first film in the Film Fridays Series. It is the tale of a Mexican-American Mafia kingpin who, after being released from prison, falls in love for the first time and begins to question the Mafioso lifestyle.

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The following article is the first in a two-part series. Part one examines the opinions of students at UT and local artists regarding tattoos. Part two will more closely examine tattoos, the job market and recent college graduates.

sion is free, but a $3 donation is welcome.

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Few art forms are as polarizing as tattoos; advocates have long felt it to be advanced art form that uses the human body as the canvas. For many others, tattoos represent the implication of dangerous and unsavory subcultures.

In the past, white collar society was amongst the latter group – however, this may be changing. Pharmacists, nurses, even a preacher are among the clients of one local artist. For Brian “Monk” Taylor, a wide range of people enter into his studio in search of artistic expression.

Taylor, a Toledo native and former UT student, spoke on his 20 years of experience tattooing less than three miles from the university.

“It’s all over the board, maybe 20 years ago when I first got into the industry; it was

The museum will be hosting Wine by the Glass Pavilion at 7 p.m. Four wines will be available along with a view of their “Hot Shop.” The event is $15 for members and $20 for non-members.

Frankie’s Inner-city — I See Stars will be performing at Frankie’s with Abandon All Ships, Close Your Eyes, Let’s Get It, Kid Icarus and Us, From Out-

mostly your blue collar factory workers.

[Now] you see a lot more white collar individuals,” said Monk, the owner of Infinite Art, a tattoo parlor located on Secor Road, south of Monroe Street.

In 1994, Taylor and account friend Joseph Kondalski opened the studio. Taylor had honed his skills on friends, but saw the need for another studio in Toledo.

Taylor believes that the stigma concerning tattoos in the corporate world is changing considering many of their clients at the parlor are white collar workers.

Art Work in the Work Place “There’s a lot less discrimination these days as far as people being hired,” Taylor said, “Corporate people have no choice but to open themselves to hiring people who are heavily tattooed because they’ll have nobody running their businesses.”

He added, “They know that they’d be overlooking talented employees.”

Clients in these fields are likely to have the artwork on portions of

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ets are $12 in advance and $14 at the door, the night of the show.

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Toledo Zoo — Admission will be free for Lucas County residents this weekend, Jan. 15-17, in celebration of Martin Luther King Day. All Frozentoesen Winter Weekend activities offered will also be available free of charge.

Toledo Museum of Art — The Toledo Symphony Orchestra and Toledo Museum of Art are collaborating to host a Symphony-Inspired dinner in the GlasSalon from 6-6:30 p.m. prior to the night performance in the Peristyle. The event features a threecourse meal that will be prepared by TMA Chef Erika Rapp while a Docent discusses objects from the Museum’s collection that share the theme of the concert. Tickets for the event are $55 and include tax, gratuity and wine. They can be purchased at the TSO box office at 419-2468000 or 800-348-1253. Seating is limited and tickets are sold separately.

Carlson tables tell stories of former UT students By: Weslie Detwilier IC Staff Writer

Ancient or aged engravings and drawings are sources studied by historians and researchers alike in an attempt to discover the past.

This form of capturing history is not generally applicable to the average student.

David Hale, a junior studying history, is one of the exceptions.

While studying on the fifth floor of Carlson Library, Hale discovered and took interest in 18 long, wooden tables

covered in marks and etchings. These tables, along with Hale’s interest in folklore, will be the subject of his upcoming independent study project.

Folkloric intrigue began for Hale in the fall, when he studied the subject in a folklore class taught by Associate Professor of English Daniel Compora. There, he analyzed epitaphs and grave markers, both of which are considered forms of oral folklore.

In this same way, the inscriptions on the old tables are also categorized

as oral folklore due to their anonymity, as opposed to material or customary, both other forms of folklore.

Hale will be analyzing, cataloging, documenting and cross-referencing the carvings on the tables this spring with the help of Compora and Carlson Library archive specialist, Barbara Floyd.

As for the wooden subjects themselves, there is much to be studied and examined.

The tables have been on campus since the 1930s when the library was still located on — Tables, Page B2

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‘Green Hornet’ succeeds as action comedy

By Jason Mack Managing Editor

“The Green Hornet” walks a fine line between believable and absurd but manages to balance atop the tightrope throughout. The end result is a superhero movie that is pure fun.

Seth Rogen stars in the movie, is an executive producer and co-wrote the script with frequent collaborator Evan Goldberg. Friends since childhood, Rogen and Goldberg have collaborated on films such as “Knocked Up,” Superbad” and “Pineapple Express.” The banter and sense of humor in “Green Hornet” is similar to their previous efforts.

Rogen plays Britt Reid, a

rich playboy who inherits the family newspaper after his father’s sudden death. He meets his father’s genius mechanic Kato (Jay Chou) and the two bond immediately. A night of vandalizing his father’s statue turns into the two stopping a crime in progress, and a brilliant concept is born: they will fight crime while using the newspaper to label themselves as criminals.

At one point Kevin Smith was in line to write and direct the film. He summed the plot up perfectly when he said, “I dig the fact that he kicked off a run of billionaire playboys who decided to put on a mask and fight crime and that he was Batman before there was a Batman.”

The major difference between the Green Hornet and Batman is the dynamic between hero and sidekick. Kato is no Robin. He constantly bails out Reid with lightningquick martial arts thanks to an ability to slow time down with his quasi-superpower heightened adrenaline ability. Director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) uses this skill to create unique and entertaining scenes that combine elements of fights from “The Matrix” and “Sherlock Holmes.”

Chou is an overseas star with an American breakout waiting to happen after a nearly flawless performance in a role originally intended for his idol Jet Li. Along with

acting, writing and directing, Chou is a famous pop singer in Taiwan.

Despite the new role of a hero, Rogen comes off as the same witty slacker with a heart of gold that he has always played, and it works.

He would not be believable as a true superhero, but the script smartly calls for him to play second fiddle to Kato.

Reid’s ego and the duo’s misunderstood dynamic lead to plenty of snide remarks and amusing arguments.

The film benefits from the brilliant casting of Christopher Waltz as Benjamin Chudnofsky. Nicolas Cage originally had the part, but thankfully he dropped out due to creative differences in the first week of filming.

Fresh off his Oscar win as Col. Hans Landa in last year’s “Inglourious Basterds,” Waltz brings the same sarcastic wit to “Green Hornet” as an aging crime lord facing an identity crisis. He won’t be winning an Oscar for this role, but like the rest of the film, his character is humorous and entertaining.

Cameron Diaz plays Reid’s secretary Lenore Case, the third point in a barely existent love triangle. Her character provides little to the movie other than someone for Reid and Kato to fight over while she unknowingly supplies the duo with direction in their vigilante endeavors. Diaz is the weak link in — Hornet, Page B2

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The other star of the film is “The Black Beauty,” Kato’s supercar creation featuring bullet-proof windows, flame throwers and turret guns, among other gadgets. The car was created by modifying 29 Chrysler Imperials from 1964-66.

“Green Hornet” benefits from daring to be different. It manages to provide a sarcastic take on the typical dynamic duo while avoiding becoming campy. While no 3D effects are worth the extra ticket cost, “Green Hornet” creatively implements the technology with some of the best postproduction 3D to date. The film is more comedy than action, but fans of either genre will enjoy it.

“The Green Hornet” hits theaters tomorrow.

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Artist Brion Norwalk tattoos an octopus on the forearm of Drew Hire, a BGSU graduate and current video editor.

(Jaimie Trueblood/Courtesy Columbia Pictures/MCT)

Jay Chou, left, and Seth Rogen star in Columbia Pictures’ action film, “The Green Hornet.”

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still believes it is “interesting to see what has happened throughout the years” in terms of pop the fifth floor of University Hall. culture.

As is to be expected, a number When Carlson Library opened in of fraternities and sororities are the 1970s, the tables were refinrepresented on the tables, oftenished and moved to their current times becoming involved in arguhome. ments over superiority – docuMany of the etchings found on mented in table etchings. the tables still remain from the “It’s funny to see initial refinishthe [Greek societing in the I t ’ s i n t e r - ies] battle,” Hale 1970s. e s t i n g said.

“There is so For Hale, the w h a t p e o p l e etchings much on these represent tables I could c h o o s e t o more than an arspend an entire e t c h i n chive of petty semester just and othh i s t o r y . squabbles working on er vapid remarks. one,” Hale said. David Hale To him the tables The engrav- UT Junior, History are preserved ings and graffiti history. range from “It’s interesting profanity to what people names of possible athletes choose to etch in history,” he said.

The tables in Carlson are a simadorned by their respective numbers, and a variety of other ple reminder of how student life has changed and remained the drawings.

Of course, the tables also sport same over the past 30 years.

This form of history isn’t necesthe legacy of lovebirds, their names etched inside carvings of sarily common, but its intrigue hearts. When scrawled in hearts, and usefulness are evident Hale has already observed that nonetheless.

“Students should take more men’s names tended to be listed time to explore the university and above women’s.

While Hale said that there is the history and folk that surround “more crudeness than I’d like to it. You can really get a sense of say” etched into the wood, he spirit from that,” Hale said.

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Brian “Monk” Taylor of Infinite Art Tattoo talks history, theory and philosophy of tattooing with the IC in his office.

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One of the tables in Carlson Library that Hale studied.

Tattoos From Page B1 their body that can be easily covered by clothing. The upper arms and lately the side of the abdomen are common places body art is found, especially among women One reason Taylor believes that the corporate stigma has dissipated is that people are beginning to view tattoos differently.

“They’re thinking more in aesthetic terms now, instead of a novelty,” Taylor said. “It used to be if you saw a person with [fully tattooed arms] they were an artist. Now you don’t know what they are.”

In the January 10 edition of The Independent Collegian article on the newest generation of e-readers, we mistakenly stated that the Amazon Kindle was incapable of reading PDFs. As it turns out, the most recent ones do have this feature. The IC apologizes for this mistake.

Brion Norwalk, a 17-year veteran of the skill, has spent his entire professional career tattooing at Taylor’s shop.

Like many of the artists at Infinite Art, Norwalk has his own office – adorned with paintings, incense and soothing music though, it’s really more of a sanctuary.

“I’m going to spend half of my life here,” Norwalk said. “I might as well enjoy it.”

Norwalk began tattooing after leaving the Columbus School of Art and Design. Taylor has admired the art since he was 13 and says he always knew he wanted to do tattoos.

“We’re artists here. All of us have been tattooing for 14, 15,

18 years,” Taylor explained.

Tattoo Luxury The economic recession of 2008 and onward has affected many creative industries; however, according to a recent article on design news site Dexinger.com, many are thriving despite unemployment and decreased spending capabilities. Tattooing is amongst these industries.

“We did see a hit a year and a half ago, but we’ve been growing strong for a while,” Taylor said. “Maybe 10 percent are out of work, but 90 percent have jobs and are getting tattoos. We draw from a large pool of people.”

Taylor has perhaps reached one of the most coveted positions in the tattooing world – a fully booked schedule.

Unlike many parlors, Taylor and his associates do not accept impromptu walk-in appointments. Those desiring ink must first meet with Taylor for a consultation to discuss and draw the design and then schedule time for the tattoo.

“People usually come from around the area, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago – but I did once have a woman fly in from San Francisco,” Taylor said, adding that the majority of his clients now resulted from referrals of friends and family members that had been tattooed by him in the past.

“It’s the ultimate compliment to have somebody want to wear your art. It’s an honor and responsibility,” Taylor added.

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get those points.”

Smith grabbed a teamhigh nine rebounds and addjust nine points in the first ed eight points, including half, all by guard Marke back-to-back baskets giving the Rockets a Freeman on three 13-point lead with triples. Toledo held 3:39 left to play.

NIU to just 13 per“Coach told me cent from shooting at the beginning of (3 of 23) in the first the second half half.

42 that she wanted a Toledo “I think we came 31 big half from me,” out with a defen- N. Illinois Smith said. “I got sive intensity and I think that’s what kept them hit in the nose so I was kind to nine points in the first of out of it for a minhalf,” sophomore Lecretia ute but I knew I had Smith said. “We came out to come off the and knew we had to stop bench and give some type of energy.” them on defense.”

Despite trailing Junior guard Naama Shafir led the team with 12 points 25-9 and having just and shot 5 of 8 from the one player in the field, including one of UT’s scoring column in the first half, NIU three triples for the game.

“I just try to do whatever I opened the second can to help my team,” Shafir half on a 10-4 run said. “My teammates set and cut the deficit to good screens and make 10 points with 14:07 left to good passes. They help me play.

The Toledo defense halted the Husky scoring spurt and retook a double-digit lead after a three-pointer from senior Jessica Williams, which gave UT a 32-19 lead with 11:30 remaining.

Northern Illinois took advantage of a Rocket scoring drought, lasting just over five minutes, and trailed by nine points after a 5-1 run.

Two quick buckets from Smith pushed the lead to 3724 and cemented the Rocket victory.

“We just have to keep getting better and prepare for the next game,” Smith said.

The Rockets travel to Ypsilanti, Mich. to square off against Eastern Smith Michigan (11-6, 2-1 MAC) at noon on Saturday to begin a twogame road trip.

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University of Toledo head coach Tim Beckman signed eight new recruits yesterday. The student athletes have been added to the roster and will attend classes this spring at UT. The Rockets finished the season 8-4 overall and 7-1 in the Mid-American Conference.

By Tony Bibler IC Staff Writer

National Signing Day for incoming freshmen isn’t until Feb. 2, but Rockets head coach Tim Beckman has already added eight players who will join the team this spring “We are very excited to add these eight young men to the Rocket family,” Beckman said. “To be able to go through our off-season workouts and then later participate in spring practices will be a huge advantage for them.”

The student-athletes who will contribute on the field in 2011 are linebacker Jordan Barnes, defensive lineman Keenan Gibbs, cornerback John James, tight end Colby Kratch, defensive lineman Phil Lewis and cornerback Keith Suggs. Gibbs, James and Suggs are incoming

freshman while Barnes, Kratch and Lewis transferred from junior colleges.

Two other recruits, Vladimir Emlien and Jordan Haden, transferred from Michigan and Florida, respectively. Both will have to sit out a year per NCAA rules before their debuts with Toledo in 2012.

Emlien was ranked by Rivals.com as the nation’s 14th ranked safety coming out of high school before signing a letter of intent to Michigan and will have two years of eligibility left in his collegiate career.

“Vlad has speed and size, and he’s a big-time hitter,” Beckman said. “He’s been at Michigan for the two seasons, so he understands what Division I football is all about. He could be a big asset to our defense.”

Jordan, younger brother of

Cleveland Browns rookie Joe Haden, was ranked by Rivals. com as the 12th best safety in the nation before agreeing to join his brother at Florida.

Haden, who did not accumulate any time on the field for the Gators in 2010, will transfer to Toledo with three years left of eligibility.

“I knew about Jordan through Urban Meyer,” Beckman said. “Coach Meyer had only great things to say about Jordan. He’s a great kid from a great family. He has the size and speed needed to be a key player in our defensive backfield.”

These recruits will attempt to replicate the success of offensive lineman Kevin Kowalski, linebacker Archie Donald and the nine other seniors that helped the Rockets finish the 2010 season with an 8-4 record and a spot in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.

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Melissa Goodall attempts a shot over a NIU defender in last nights 42-31 victory over the Huskies. The senior forward struggled offensively as she shot 2 of 14 from the floor including 0 for 5 from beyond the arc. She also grabbed eight boards and blocked three shots.

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suspension against Alabama for “missing curfew and vioToledo extended the na- lating a team rule” by Maltion’s longest road losing colm Griffin, Reese Holliday streak to 40 games at the and J.T. Thomas, the three site of its last victory as they guards returned in a 71-48 fell 65-52 in Mount Pleasant loss to Eastern Michigan to Central Michigan last last Saturday. Holliday said night. The Rockets last road after the loss that win came against the Chip- the three “didn’t pewas on March 9, 2008. play with a chip on The next largest road losing their shoulder” and streak belongs to Chicago guaranteed they State at 27 games. would respond with The streak has lasted “a great perforthrough two coaches in- mance” against the cluding first year head Chippewas (4-11, coach Tod Kowalczyk (0-8) 1-1 MAC). and former coach Gene Holliday backed it Cross (0-32). Only one play- up with a team-high er on Toledo’s roster, senior 14 points and six reforward Justin Anyijong, bounds. Griffin, the Rockets was a part of the Rockets leading scorer at 10 ppg, last road victory. In had just four points Anyijong’s four against CMU. seasons, the RockThomas had five ets are 1-55 away points off the from Savage bench.

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“I thought they C. Michigan 65 Although Toledo Toledo and 52 responded (3-13, 0-2 Midthey had two good American Conferdays of practice ence) has just three players and they did some good that played in a game before things tonight,” this year, this season’s team Kowalczyk said. has lost all eight of their Over the last eight road games while posting a games, Holliday has 3-5 record at home. averaged 12.6 points “As far as this team we and 8.5 rebounds have to play tougher on the per game, compared road,” Kowalczyk said. “I to 5.8 points and 2.4 think we have been keeping rebounds in the first our routine as normal as we five games of the did at Wisconsin-Green Bay. season.

We had good success on the “Reese is our most road at Green Bay and we consistent and will have good success here. toughest guy, our best deIt’s just a matter of good fender and best rebounder,” teams win on the road and Kowalczyk said. “He’s we are not a good team right played very well.” now. That’s just what it is.

Senior forward Anthony It’s got nothing to do with Wright scored in double-digthe road or home.” its for the sixth time this Following a one game season with 12 points off

the bench and junior guard Jay Shunnar had seven.

Toledo struggled to contain freshman guard Trey Zeigler, who registered a career-high 30 points on 12of-21 shooting. CMU senior forward Jalin Thomas had 15 points and a game-high 11 rebounds.

The Rockets were outrebounded by Central Michigan 38-24 and apart from Holliday’s six boards the next highest total by a UT player was three.

Holliday The Chippewas also had 12 offensive rebounds.

“Reese is certainly the guy that goes and gets it,” Kowalczyk said. “We certainly need to rebound the ball better.”

The Rockets led 21-18 midway through the first half before a 17-8 run gave Central Michigan a 36-28 lead at the break.

Toledo cut the lead to six at 45-39 but the Chippewas ran away with it after a 16-3 run and cruised to a 65-52 victory.

“I thought we competed, battled and got better in some areas,” Kowalczyk said. “I thought Wright we got better tonight. I thought we were bad against Eastern Michigan but I thought we were better tonight.”

The Rockets will look for that elusive first road victory on Saturday, Jan. 15 when they travel to Dekalb to face Northern Illinois (5-9, 1-1).

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Malcolm Griffin scored four points in last night’s 65-52 loss at Central Michigan. Toledo has now lost 40 straight road games, dating back to March of 2008.

UT defense stifles NIU

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Naama Shafir makes a steal on a pass in last night’s 42-31 victory over Northern Illinois. The junior guard scored a team-high 12 points and recorded two steals. The Rockets have won four straight games and are a perfect 3-0 in the Mid-American Conference.

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The Rockets women’s basketball team survived an offensive struggle last night at Savage Arena as they defeated Northern Illinois 42-31 for their fourth straight victory.

Toledo (11-5, 3-0 Mid-American Conference) shot 29.6 percent (16 of 54) from the field and just 16 percent from

behind the arc (3 of 18) but held the Huskies to the fifth fewest points in school history.

NIU (6-10, 0-3 MAC) shot just 23.5 percent from the field in the game (12 of 51) and committed 20 turnovers.

“This was a defensive juggernaut,” Cullop said. “If people came to see an offensive, high-powered, potent game,

they are going to leave disappointed. If they came here wanting a Rocket victory, they got what they wanted.

“We keep saying ‘it was ugly,’ but it was a win,” Cullop said. “Maybe that’s our identity. Maybe we are the ‘win ugly team.’ I will take that.”

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Kowalski headed to Senior Bowl Senior offensive lineman Kevin Kowalski was selected to play in the 2011 Senior Bowl in Moblie, Ala. on Jan. 29, 2011. The game will be televised on NFL Network.