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Playing the Field The UT marching band will be taking a trip from their familiar field to play in the Colts’ halftime show. COMMUNITY / 6 »

Mast e e r Plan h T FACILITIES

UT gathers input on utilizing facilities By Riley Sproul Staff Reporter

Rockets Blast Eagles #19 Toledo remains unbeaten in Saturday’s 63-20 win.

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“If the buildings are out of commission, then we won’t be able to have class, and the university will slowly halt while while repairs are being made.” EDITORIAL Back to the basics OPINION / 3 »

Toledo community gives back to those in need UT students are joining the community to participate in Tent City.

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“It feels like just yesterday that I was staring at a nearly blank agenda book, but today, I can barely squeeze in a nap.” ASHLEY GEARHEART My mid-semester blues OPINION / 3 »

Goals hard to come by, Toledo drops two games on the road The Rockets fell 3-1 to the Buffalo Bulls on Friday and 2-1 against the Akron Zips on Sunday. SPORTS / 5 »

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The University of Toledo recently signed a $750,000 contract with SmithGroupJJR to revitalize and renovate the multiple campuses over the next ten months. SmithGroupJJR is in the process of developing a Master Plan for the several campuses of UT, which involves taking an inventory of space and resources while gathering feedback from

students, faculty and the community. Doug Kozma, a coleader of SmithGroupJJR’s campus planning practice, held a number of interactive presentations Oct. 14 and 15, getting the public opinion on what aspects of UT can be improved upon. “We’re going to be talking with all facets of the institution, and all locations,” Kozma said. “We’re asking, how can we pull together assets that may be scattered in different locations, how can we better use the space we have?” Jason Toth, associate vice president for facilities and construction, wrote in an email interview that the decision to go forward with the Master Planning initiative was decided under former interim president Nagi Naganathan and the rest of the senior leadership team. During their time on campus, SmithGroupJJR will also ask opinions from various student groups on campus, including Student Government. SG

President Cody Spoon said he thinks the plan is timely since he believes many buildings on campus are lacking proper maintenance. “We should make sure that there isn’t a lot of deferred maintenance that needed to be done five years ago,” Spoon said. “I know that was a cause of a lot of frustration with students.” The initial contract with SmithGroupJJR cost the university $750,000 and this is expected to be offset through the efficiencies that are found and fixed across all of UT. This covers the cost of many analyses and investigations into each campus’s use of resources. “We’ll be looking at essentially two things: One, strategically, where are we going? Secondly, what do we have as schools already to get us there?” Kozma said. However, the cost of renovating and bringing these changes about does not yet have a price tag. “Part of the Master Planning process and document will be to identify opportunities and pathways with conceptual costs models associated with them. See Forum / 4 »

ADMINISTRATION

UT CFO search turns up short

By Colleen Anderson Managing Editor

After a six-month search, the University of Toledo’s president Sharon Gaber decided against both finalists for the position of chief financial officer and executive vice president for finance and administration. The final three candidates, Sherideen Stoll, Dawn Rhodes and Gregory Scott, all came to UT for public forums during the month of August. Following the forum, Stoll dropped out, leaving the choice between Rhodes and Scott. Almost two months later, the university announced the decision, and that current UTMC CEO Dave Morlock would be temporarily taking over the position of CFO. Morlock said he was happy to take over the position while Gaber searched for a replacement. “I am glad to be able to help UT by returning to the Office of Finance to provide temporary leadership during this period

“The money that we’ve spent is money that we’ve spent, and if it’s the right thing to go forward and engage a new search, then that’s what we need to do.”

KRISTEN KEITH President of Faculty Senate

of transition,” Morlock wrote in an e-mail statement. “We have a strong team of individuals in Finance and Administration who are committed to enhancing the financial strength, facilities, human resources, information technology and public safety of this university.” According to Gaber, Morlock will only be serving as interim CFO for a short period of roughly one or two months until a new, longer-term

interim can be selected. While the long term interim CFO and VP of finance and administration serves for six to nine months, Gaber plans to launch a new search. Gaber said the cost of the search was between $50,000 to $100,000, which she said is UT’s average cost range for an administrative search. The exact costs depend on whether a search firm is used and how the firm is paid, which can be based on either the firm’s fixed rate or a percentage of the salary. Kristen Keith, president of faculty senate and member of the search committee, said the importance of the position justifies the cost spent on the search so far as well as future costs. “This is such an important position for the university; we really need to get our finances right,” Keith said. “The money that we’ve spent is money that we’ve spent, and if it’s the right thing to go forward and engage See Search / 7 »

CITY ISSUES

UT hosts mayoral forums Students heard the candidates’ views on hot-button issues By Jessica Harker and Joe Heidenescher

Associate News Editor and Features Editor

The University of Toledo hosted two mayoral forums about a variety of current issues specifically directed at two student organizations on campus. The first forum, held Oct. 13, addressed issues surrounding the LGBT community. The second, held Oct. 19, was about the Black Lives Matter movement. “The main purpose was so that students and the community can come out and meet the mayoral candidates if they hadn’t already at previous events,” said Melaney Goosby, the vice president of the Black Student Union.

“The main purpose was so that students and the community can come out and meet the mayoral candidates.” MELANEY GOOSBY Vice president of BSU

LGBTQA Issues Jack Alferio, president of the campus LGBTQA group Spectrum UT, attended the first forum to better understand the candidates’ positions on issues relevant to the group. He thought the forum could have been more direct in which topics they discussed. “I felt like it could’ve gone better, to be honest,” Alferio said. “I thought the questions were really general and no one really asked questions; it was just a lot of ‘how do you feel’ about the general LGBT community and not really See Mayor / 7 »

ATTENDANCE COSTS

By Ashley Diel Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo submitted a proposal last Thursday to the Ohio Department of Higher Education with a plan for decreasing the cost of attendance for in-state students by at least five percent. The Ohio Department of Higher Education mandated all public Ohio universities to submit their plans on how to make college more affordable for students. In response, UT included a proposal in their budget last year, which also included a freeze in tuition for this year and next. UT’s proposal included an increase in the amount of scholarships and cutting back

That’s how much UT is required to cut from in-state cost of attendance.

on unnecessary costs. The proposal also details the cost-ofattendance saving options from the past two years along with any new saving options UT plans on implementing. According to the proposal, the average cost for in-state students is $16,217 a year and $64,868 for four years. This includes the cost for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, board and textbooks. Rhonda Wingfield, director of budgets and planning, said UT has already taken measures to help reduce the cost of attendance by increasing the scholarship budget for directfrom-high-school students by $7.5 million and offering a 25 percent housing discount to students living on campus. Wingfield also said UT’s

participation in the College Credit Plus program has helped high school students earn college credits, lessening the credits they will have to pay for in college. “The average participant completes 30 credit hours, which is equivalent to one year of undergraduate savings,” she

“UT has increased the number of students participating in the program by more than 40 percent in the last two academic years.” RHONDA WINGFIELD Director of budgets and planning

said. “UT has increased the number of students participating in the program by more than 40 percent in the last two academic years.” According to the proposal, UT has several ideas on how to further cut back the cost of attendance including lowering the minimum credit hours for a bachelors degree from 124 to 120, developing a program to assist faculty in transitioning to opensource materials and implementing a program to identify at-risk students to help them stay on track to degree completion. Wingfield said if a student took advantage of all the cost-saving incentives already in place or that will be in the See Budget / 4 »

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Back to the basics

There needs to be a focus on the infrastructure in the Facilities Master Planning forums Last week, the University of Toledo held four sparsely attended Campus Facilities Master Planning forums. The goal of the forums was to gather input on how to best utilize UT’s various buildings. In at least one of the meetings, they discussed the use of certain spaces like Carter Hall and Scott Park Campus. No one from the IC spoke at these meetings, so we thought it would be worthwhile to say what we think facilities should focus on. The most important thing is infrastructure. This includes heating, cooling, water and electrical systems. These form the base of everything on campus, and without a strong infrastructure, buildings start to deteriorate and need constant overhaul to be functional. This is like when residents had to leave the Collingwood Arts Center, in 2014, after it was deemed unsuitable to live in when the fuses kept blowing and some of the heaters stopped working. The center is a beautiful building and a staple of the Old West End, but the building wasn’t managed well and it would have taken a million dollars to upgrade the building so people could live in it. If the buildings are out of commission, then we won’t be able to have class, and the university will slowly halt while repairs are being made. Remember when Sullivan Hall was closed in January 2014 when a pipe burst? All of the classes and offices housed there had to be moved to other buildings for the rest of the semester. Because of UT’s recent winter destruction, it is crucial that our buildings get proper maintenance. Student housing — which was heavily referred to by the authors of the survey sent out by President Gaber and referenced in at least one of the forums — does not need immediate changes. The dorms have to be up kept to house students, so they are regularly maintained. Think back to the last two winters when classes had to be shut down for faulty heating and cooling systems. Not only that, pipes burst in multiple locations around campus, shutting down the vendors in the Student Union and flooding different areas Fixing infrastructure on campus. Hot water might not be flashy availability was spotty at best for people in and impressive, but the dorms after the the long-term cost of incident and throughnot repairing these out the winter. These are the problems that issues is undeniable. need to be solved now. They cannot be pushed aside and postponed because they directly affect students and therefore should be the top priority. Fixing infrastructure might not be flashy and impressive, but the long-term cost of not repairing these issues is undeniable. Now is the time to fix the essentials, whether it’s heating and cooling issues, Americans with Disability Act compliance or empty classrooms and unused buildings. We want long-term fixes — not temporary bandages that will prevent a break in the next year. We are tired of the emails from UT that say whole buildings are closed due to system failures in buildings. This is something that takes time and money, but in our minds it will be time and money well spent. It will possibly take more than one summer to rip out all of the worn out pipes to replace them with new ones that can withstand record-breaking low temperatures. We understand if they can’t do it soon, but we want it to be on their radar when talking about facilities planning. We shouldn’t be at the mercy of the weather. Students shouldn’t have to map out alternative locations to eat in case the Student Union isn’t open on a school day.

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COMMENTARY

Recognizing U.S. government leaders as war criminals The legitimacy of the United orders, the Christian Science MoniStates’ military activity abroad is an tor reported in December of 2014 issue that has been on my mind quite that torture had been approved by a lot lately, and the recent bombing then-Secretary of Defense, Donald of a Doctors Without Rumsfeld. Borders hospital by the Even more heinous is Air Force has helped to the widespread devasmake something clear tation resulting from to me. We need to start the War on Terrorism, thinking of our politispecifically in Iraq. cal and military leaders Iraqbodycount.org is as what they are: war a public record of the criminals. violent deaths in Iraq The claim that our following the 2003 invaleaders are war crimision. They report that nals hardly falls within as of October 19, 2015 the mainstream political at least 144,434 civilians discourse in the United have been killed since States, and it is even the beginning of the war. IC COLUMNIST more uncommonly To put this in perspecargued that we should tive, 2,996 people were hold such a view, but there are good killed in the attacks on September 11, reasons for both claims. 2001. This means that the United States We’ve all (hopefully) been raised has killed 48 times as many civilians as with the view that war criminals are were killed on 9/11 in a country that among the worst of the worst. The had no connection to the attacks. The most famous example remains the widely accepted fact that Iraq posed no Nazi soldier senselessly ordering threat to United States in 2003 means helpless families to the gas chamthat these deaths were the result of bers, but there are many actions that unjust aggression and cannot be attribare considered war crimes. A few uted to military necessity. listed under the BBC guide to ethics U.S. war crimes are not just a relic of include torture or inhumane treatthe Bush administration, but are ongoment, devastation not justified by ing. The Obama administration has military necessity and the murder of largely conducted military operations civilian populations in conflict zones. through the use of drone strikes which To say that the leaders of the United are supposed to be more precise, States are war criminals is to say that thus minimizing collateral damage. they are responsible for some or all of However, the Guardian reported in these actions. November 2014 that attempts to kill Numerous news outlets have re41 men with drone strikes had resulted ported on the physical and sexual as- in the deaths of 1,147 people (many saults committed by U.S. personnel, of them children) with many of the including the rape of teenage boys, targets still alive. at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad A strike that kills dozens of civilin 2004. Similar abuses have also ians due to faulty intelligence is been widely documented at Guanpreventable. The continuation of tanamo Bay and in Afghanistan, strikes producing these deaths is often against detainees who were not predictable. The fact that they are even accused of any crime (in some not stopped is criminal. The terinstances informants working for ror created by the administration’s United States were mistakenly decampaign could not be any clearer tained and tortured). While some of than in the Air Force bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital these atrocities were committed by this month, which left patients burnservice members operating without

KYLE NOVAK

A strike that kills dozens of civilians due to faulty intelligence is preventable. The continuation of strikes producing these deaths is predictable. The fact that they are not stopped is criminal. ing alive in their beds and resulted in the death of 22 people. Certainly the activities being ordered by our leaders and carried out by the members of our military are criminal, but why is it important to recognize this? The facts mentioned above may be new to some readers but will be familiar to many. In some circles, it is denied that the United States could ever commit a war crime. In others the news of a new atrocity is met with apathy rather than denial, surprise or outrage. If that were to change, we might be able to see some positive results. By asserting that our political and military leaders (as well as some military members) are guilty of war crimes, we could shift the political discourse away from the current norm which idolizes the military and refuses to admit that United States could be guilty of any wrongdoing. This could save lives by producing an electorate less inclined to send service people ridiculous and destructive expeditions around the globe. Doing so might also allow the military budget to be reduced and funding to be shifted toward social and educational programs. Ideally, such an attitude shift could be part of the process of moving away from unsustainable empire building and toward a more responsible nation. Kyle Novak is a masters student of philosophy.

COMMENTARY

My mid-semester blues We’ve officially come to the worst Each week, my to-do list grows part of the semester: the middle. more and more. There’s a new test or Looking back on the eight weeks quiz popping up every week, presenwe’ve (finally) completed, it seems tation dates are approaching faster as though this semester has been and faster, and the second I think I’ve going on for a lifetime. But looking finally caught up on everything, I forward is even worse because there’s realize I’m just barely getting started. the terrible realization that we’re only How in the world am I going to make halfway through — we it through all the still have to make it remaining semesters through eight until graduation? more weeks. For now, I’m taking it It feels like just one day at a time. That’s yesterday that I was all I really can do. staring at a nearly I’m making detailed blank agenda book, to-do lists and taking but today, I can barely satisfaction from each squeeze in a nap. It’s and every item that entirely my own fault, I’m able to cross off. of course; after all, In my mind, I’m atI was the one who tempting to re-frame convinced myself that the rest of the semestaking 19 credit hours ter. Instead of thinkthis fall wouldn’t be ing, “we have a whole so bad. And then, eight weeks left,” I’m IC COLUMNIST because I apparently trying to tell myself, love biting off more “we only have eight than I can chew, I jumped into three weeks left.” new organizations. When I successfully finish something Fortunately, I know I’m not the only big, I’m rewarding myself with a nap one who is “so over” this semester. or some Netflix and sometimes even Nearly all of my classes have shrunk a little shopping splurge. Those little to a quarter of their initial attendance rewards give me a little boost to push numbers, and I can’t be on social through even more assignments bemedia for more than a few seconds cause there’s the promise of something without seeing someone post about good to come. how sick they are of school. Rather than staying up ridiculously

ASHLEY GEARHEART

late to finish a project, I’m making sure that I’m in bed at a reasonable hour (well, usually, that is). Sacrificing my health and well-being for an assignment or a commitment just isn’t worth it. Whenever I manage to get myself into a really productive streak, I keep riding that until it ends. Motivation just isn’t always there for me, so when it is, I try my best to take advantage of it until it runs out. On days when I really need an extra push, I sit down and think about the goals I set for myself. I’m not in college just for fun — I’m here because college is a huge, necessary step towards successful future I’ve been imagining for myself since elementary school. And while I’m here, I have a number of things I intend to accomplish. Reflecting on my goals keeps me on track. Finally, when it feels like the end of the semester will never get here, I remind myself that time is actually flying by. This isn’t the first time I’ve felt like a semester was dragging, but when I look back, even the longest times seem to have passed in the blink of an eye. In January, when I think back on this semester, I won’t remember this feeling that it can’t end soon enough. What I’ll remember is that it flew by even faster than the semester before. Ashley Gearheart is a second-year majoring in communication.

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future, they would save a total of $36,280. Cody Spoon, Student Government president, said he believes UT can reduce the extra cost of tuition is by eliminating the fees which occur when a student takes over 16 credit hours. “This incentivizes students to take more classes, which can decrease graduation time and allow students to pursue heavy course loads affordably,” Spoon said. “As an

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engineering major, I have already paid the university an extra one percent of my total collegiate costs thus far just to take my bareminimum course requirements during 17- and 18-credit hour semesters.” Spoon also said UT should look at the cost of on-campus housing and focus on getting more students to live on campus. “Why is it that we don’t have a housing occupancy close to 100%, yet apartment complexes thrive along the borders of campus?” Spoon said. “I am fairly confident

that by finding ways to reduce the cost of on-campus living, more students will live on campus. This may in fact result in UT gaining money by making cuts.” Wingfield said UT is committed to continuing to offer discounts for students so they can continue their education. “The programs UT has put in place help reduce the cost of attendance to potentially more students and also support those students to be successful in completing their courses and achieving their goal of a college degree,” Wingfield said.

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A budget will be established through the process of the planning exercise,” Toth wrote. Community, student and faculty support is a major contributor to the changes that SmithGroupJJR will recommend, according to Kozma. They will also continue to meet with a variety of committees and organizations within the campus. Spoon said the students are already involved in the discussions and will continue to give input. “The students have already had a pretty active role,” Spoon said. “SmithGroupJJR has already held several focus groups and there are going to be more in the future.” Kozma said that as the Master Plan is aimed at all UT locations, changes can be expected to influence most, if not all, of those who interact with the university. “The theme I’m getting out of them is that they’re seeing tons of resources that we’re underutilizing, and others that we may not even need. This mostly pertains to other [non-main] campuses,” Spoon said. Some specific changes that are being discussed include a footbridge from the Main Campus to the Engineering College, bringing the variety of testing centers into one office, and preventative maintenance.

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No. 19 Toledo remains unbeaten in Saturday’s, 63-20 win

By Marcus Dodson Sports Editor

The University of Toledo’s football team rolled past Eastern Michigan on Saturday in a 63-20 blowout to remain unbeaten this season. It was the most points scored in a regular-season game for Toledo since a 66-63 shoot-out over Western Michigan in 2011. With the win, UT also jumped up three spots to No. 19 in the Associated Press Top 25 in the country — the highest rank in school history since 1997, when the Rockets peaked at No. 18 in the AP Poll on Nov. 3. Toledo’s all-time highest ranking came in 1970 when UT was No. 12 in the final AP poll, a mark that this 2015 football team is flirting with. The Rockets (6-0, 3-0 MAC) were held scoreless and trailed 6-0 after a pair of first-quarter field goals by EMU. The biggest blow however came with 11:01 left in the first quarter when junior linebacker Jaylen Coleman was carted off with a broken right leg. “When you lose a guy like that there’s some adversity early in the game,” said Head Coach Matt Campbell. “Our kids buckled in and we

started to play great football and got into a rhythm.” In the second quarter the UT offense started connecting on all cylinders scoring 28 unanswered going into the locker room for halftime.

13:07 remaining in the game. Toledo’s defense created havoc all afternoon accumulating 12 tackles from behind the line of scrimmage and four sacks. Junior safety Delando Johnson paced UT’s defense with 11 tackles.

“When you lose a guy like that there’s some adversity early in the game. Our kids buckled in and we started to play great football and got into a rhythm.” MATT CAMPBELL UT head football coach

“I challenged our kids to go out and execute during halftime and they answered the call,” Campbell said. After the break, Toledo kept rolling, scoring four more touchdowns and jumping out to a 56-6 lead entering the fourth quarter. EMU (1-6, 0-3 MAC) would score two fourth-quarter touchdowns after the game was long decided. The Rockets allowed a defensive touchdown for just the second time in the last four games, when Darius Jackson ran it in from 21-yards out with

The Midnight Blue and Gold offense grooved to a season-high of 611-yards of total offense led behind the right arm of senior quarterback Phillip Ely. “It was awesome,” Ely said. “We haven’t played a great game so far. We’ve been winning games but we haven’t played like we wanted too. Today I thought we did a great job and need to keep the momentum going.” Ely had the offense moving with all eight scoring drives taking less than four minutes to develop. He threw for 327yards and four touchdowns in-

COMMENTARY

Defense is the key

KEITH BOGGS

SPORTS REPORTER

The Toledo Rockets finished the 2014 season with a respectable 9-4 record ending the season with a 63-44 win against Arkansas State in the GoDaddy Bowl on Jan. 4. This season, the Rockets are off to a 6-0 start and ranked 19th in the country. So what’s the big difference between this year and the previous one? Last year, Toledo’s defense allowed 30.5 points per game ranking eighth in the Mid-American Conference. This year, Toledo has allowed a shade over 13 points per game, good for best in the conference and seventh in the nation. Let’s take a deeper look into why UT’s defense is playing so well.

cluding a season-long 88-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Cody Thompson. The Rockets spread the wealth around as nine different Rockets scored a touchdown in Saturday’s contest including senior linebacker Chase Murdock who returned a blocked field goal 45-yards for the score. Sophomore tailback Terry Swanson led the ground attack with four carriers for 99 yards and a touchdown. Juniors Kareem Hunt and Damion Jones-Moore assisted to combine for 127-yards and a touchdown apiece. The win extends UT’s current winning streak to nine games dating back to last season. The Rockets have been unbeaten since losing 27-24 to Northern Illinois on Nov. 11, a team they currently hold a five-game losing streak to, dating back to the 2009 season. Toledo will travel to Foxboro, Mass. on Saturday to challenge their unbeaten record against UMass (1-5, 0-2 MAC) at 3 p.m. “I think this game coming up will be a huge road game for us,” Campbell said. “For us to be successful we have to win on the road, and this is going to be a great challenge for us.”

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MAC Overall

EAST DIVISION Miami 5-2-1 9-5-1 Buffalo 5-2-1 9-5-2 Kent State 5-3 9-5-2 Ohio 3-5 5-10 Akron 3-5 6-9-1 Bowling Green 2-6 6-9-1

WEST DIVISION Ball State 7-1 11-3-2 Western Michigan 6-1-1 9-3-3 Central Michigan 4-3-1 5-8-2 Eastern Michigan 2-5-1 5-9-2 Toledo 2-6 6-11 Northern Illinois 1-6-1 2-12-1 School

Volleyball

MAC Overall

EAST DIVISION Ohio 8-0 18-3 Miami 6-2 14-7 Kent State 6-2 12-8 Buffalo 2-6 3-17 Akron 1-7 7-14 Bowling Green 1-7 5-16

WEST DIVISION Northern Illinois 7-1 11-9 Western Michigan 6-2 10-13 Eastern Michigan 4-4 12-9 Central Michigan 4-4 9-12 Ball State 3-5 9-13 Toledo 0-8 3-18

SOCCER A lot of it is due to an experienced group returning from last year. The Rockets returned eight starters from the 2014 season including a defensive line that will most likely end the season with three All-MAC performers in tackles Orion Jones and Trevon Hester and defensive end Trent Voss. Toledo’s defense has settled into their own under second-year defensive coordinator Jon Heacock defensive philosophy. In Heacock’s first year the Rockets allowed 407 yards per game which was good enough for seventhbest. This season, UT’s defense have held opponents to 363.7 yards per game which is fourth-best in the conference. The Toledo defense has been extremely stout in the red zone. So far this season, out of 15 tries, opposing offenses have only scored three touchdowns and three field goals in the red zone. That 40 percent success rate is the second-lowest in the country. The Rocket’s front seven has been a force all season and a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks. Toledo ranks second in the MAC with 17 sacks throughout their first six games. UT have also been turnover machines. Toledo holds a plus-5 margin in the takeaways category. The Rockets have intercepted six passes this year,

returning one for a touchdown and have come up with five fumble recoveries. The front seven of the Rockets may be their strength but the secondary definitely isn’t a weakness. The most important and missed player from the 2014 team is senior medical redshirt defensive back Cheatham Norrils. After missing all of last year with an unknown illness, Norrills has returned to full health and has been a key role in helping solidify the Toledo secondary. Norrils generally locking down a third of the field is one of many reasons that UT currently ranks 18th in the country in passing defense efficiency. Rolan Milligan and Chaz Whittaker also have a lot to say about the much-improved secondary as both safeties have two interceptions apiece. The Rockets have been strong not only on offense and defensive but also special teams. The special teams are credited with three blocked field goals and two blocked punts this season — a stat that may be overlooked but has huge impacts on changing the momentum of football games. If the ‘D’ can keep up what it’s been doing, look for Toledo to continue this magical run. Remember the old adage in football is, “Defense wins championships.”

Goals hard to come by, UT drops two on the road put the ball in the back of the net.” The Rockets have struggled all year but even more so on the road. UT has won just two out of eleven games away from the Glass City. On Friday the Rockets started off behind early with a goal from UB’s Celina Carrero in the 10th minute for the only goal in the first half. Early in the PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICS second half Senior Megan Connor takes a rip Buffalo’s Kassidy against Ohio State on Sept. 2, 2014. Kidd extended By Justice Sunderland the Bulls’ lead to Sports Reporter 2-0 with her first of two goals The University of Toin the afternoon. ledo women’s soccer team Just seconds after Kidd’s dropped back-to-back Midgoal in the 53rd minute the American Conference games Rockets responded with this weekend. The Rockets their first successful free kick (6-11, 2-6 MAC) fell 3-1 to of the season. Buffalo on Friday and 2-1 Sophomore Isa Echeverri against Akron on Sunday. stepped up to take the kick, UT now sits in fifth place curving the ball in over the wall in the MAC West division to find the back of the net for with only three games reher third goal of the season. maining on the schedule. Toledo’s comeback would “We thought we had some be short-lived. Kidd iced the really good chances this week- game, completing her brace in end,” said Head Coach T.J. the 78th minute and putting Buchholz. “We just couldn’t the game out of reach.

Toledo finished off their twogame road trip in Akron on Sunday with a 2-1 defeat despite outshooting the Zips 20 to 7. “We’re getting the opportunities,” Buchholz said. “The heart is there; the work rate is there. We just aren’t putting the ball in the back of the net.” UT jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the seventh minute. Senior Megan Connor ran onto a ball played in the box by sophomore Regan Price. Connor then chipped Akron keeper Katie Wilson for her first goal of the season. “We came out strong,” Buchholz said. “But when the moment is on the line, we struggle with that.” Akron senior Katie George tied things up in the 29th minute with her fifth goal of the season. In the second half, UT applied heavy pressure with 10 shots but continued to struggle finding the back of the net. Zips’ senior Hannah Werth had the deciding goal in the 58th minute. Werth scored her first goal of the season scoring directly from Akron’s third and final corner kick. Toledo will return home for their last home stand of the year. The Rockets are set to face Ohio on Friday Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. and will host Kent State on Sunday Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. during senior night.

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5 p.m. -- 7th-Annual S. Amjad Hussain Visiting Lecture, Professor emeritus of surgery at the University of Michigan Dr. Robert Bartlett will be speaking. The event will be located in the Health Education Building, Room 100. Thursday, Oct. 22

5 p.m. -- NaNoWriMo Informational Meeting, Anyone who has ever wanted to write a novel is invited to attend. The event is in Carlson Library, room 2010. Saturday, Oct. 24 9 a.m. -- Pay It Forward International Conference, A collaborative effort between the University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, Lourdes University and the WSOS Community Action Commission will be discussed at the event, which will be located in the Law Center. 10 a.m. -- Bookbinding Workshop, A one-day class will be held to learn three different binding methods. Attendees will be able to keep the books they make along with instructions. Bring a pencil, ruler and scissors. The class is $60 (includes materials) or $80 (materials plus a kit to take home). This will be located in the Center for Performing Arts. Monday, Oct. 26 8 a.m.-- SBA’s Annual Pumpkin Penny Wars, Individuals or student organizations are invited to carve a pumpkin. Spare change and/or dollar bills are required to participate and will be used to judge the pumpkins. All proceeds raised will go toward Family Services of Northwest Ohio. 12 p.m.-- Anatomy Survival Guide, The Student Wellness Organization and Surgery Club will be holding an informational session on how to succeed academically while maintaining a healthy life balance. The event will be located in the Health Education Building.

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ROCKET MARCHING BAND

Playing the crowd UT’s Rocket Marching Band will be playing at the Colts’ half-time show on Saturday, Oct. 25 By Emily Schnipke

take on a new venture as they travel to Indianapolis, Ind. This Sunday, the Rocket On Oct. 25, they will conduct Marching Band has another an exhibition performance football team to support. This for high school bands at the time they won’t be cheering on Bands of America Super the Rockets. Instead, they will Regional. Kathryn Reinhardt be performing for the Indiais the market coordinator at napolis Colts as they take on the Music For All, a non-profit New Orleans Saints on Oct. 25. organization and one of the This is the first time in a most influential national decade that the RMB will music education organizaperform the half-time show tions, according to Reinhardt. at a national football game. “Music for All’s mission is “I think it is so cool that to create, provide and expand we’re going to be actually perpositively life-changing experiforming at an NFL game,” said ences through music for all,” Delaney Carnes, a secondReinhardt wrote in an email inyear majoring in psychology terview. “As an educator, I have and a piccolo player in the witnessed the Bands of America RMB. “It’s such a big deal. I Championships have a positive never thought I would have impact on how band is taught that opportunity being in a in our Nation’s schools.” college band.” Sixty-four bands will be The Glass Bowl can seat up performing at the competition to 25,000 people, but in Lucas from eight different states — SAVANNAH JOSLIN / IC Oil Stadium, home of the InOhio, Indiana, Illinois, MisKarissa Burns (left) and Adam Lukas (right) are just two of many trumpeters in the dianapolis Colts, that number Rocket Marching Band who will be playing in the Colt’s half-time show this weekend. sissippi, Kentucky, Missouri, is almost tripled. It’ll be one Texas and Tennessee. More of the largest crowds these than 85,000 high school stucatapulted to national attention last said. “We like to continue on where students have ever performed for. dents participate each year in services season with their win in the Gowe left off.” “The Colts game makes me so that Music for All provides, according Daddy bowl and this season’s great Jessica Butler, a first-year majornervous, but I’m so excited,” said to Reinhardt. success, band members say the coming in criminal justice who plays the Ashley Brogan, one of the RMB’s fea“It’s really exciting to be around the munity is more aware of the RMB clarinet, had high remarks for her ture twirlers and a first-year double BoA bands, because I know a lot of than ever. band instructor. Butler said Rhodes majoring in psychology and criminal them are at a very high level, musiJake Cassidy, who has been one lets them have their fun, but when justice. “It’s like butterflies in your cally,” said Dylan Cramer, a trumpeter of the RMB’s drum majors for three there is something he sees that needs stomach. You’re pumped for it, but and second-year senior majoring in years, said one way the RMB has to be fixed, the students are deternervous at the same time.” music education. “I love seeing them been interacting with the community mined to correct it. The band is comprised of UT perform and showing them what we is through the pop-up pep rallies. students with a wide variety of can do.” The pep rallies, which take place at “It’s like butterflies majors and backgrounds. EngineerThe band will be performing their a few downtown Toledo restaurants, ing, pharmacy and nursing students in your stomach. Earth, Wind and Firebird show, which were the idea of some of the business represent a large number of the RMB, owners who remember similar events puts their musical and performance You’re pumped for according to the RMB website. The abilities on display. It’s a harder set for taking place a few years ago. it, but nervous at the RMB also includes color and auxilthem to perform and it’s something “I was totally surprised by the iary guards, twirlers and the Dancing the band has been working hard to same time.” support we got,” Cassidy said. “Every Rockettes, a group of dancers that are time we go into the bars, the people achieve, said Adam Miller, a fourthASHLEY BROGAN featured with the marching band. year music education major and one of are hyped up and clapping. They’re RMB feature twirler “Just like people on campus in Greek the RMB’s drum majors. getting into it and they’re having a first-year double major in Life have their sisters, I think I have “I want the school to be more good time.” psychology and criminal justice that close bond with them,” said Jenna proud of the Rocket Marching Band,” The 220-member marching band Lundy, a third-year Rockette majoring Cramer said. “I know a lot of bigger is one of the largest in the university’s in communication. “We see each other schools are so excited about their history and is orchestrated by Andrew “He is awesome,” Butler said. “Mr. every day and every weekend, more marching bands and show them off. Rhodes, assistant director of bands Rhodes is the best band instructor than I need or want to, but we’re all I want the Toledo community to say, and the director of athletic bands. I’ve ever had.” friends and there’s never any drama.” ‘This is our band,’ and to be proud of “It’s been a really good year and last In addition to their halftime perJust as the UT football team was it. And it’s starting to happen.” year was very strong as well,” Rhodes formance for the Colts, the RMB will Staff Reporter

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Toledo Community gives back to those in need By Anna Glore

different groups who have come to help out and to show the compassion that the comToledo community members, University of munity has. Toledo students and organizations are invited to The next day, students and community come show their compassion for those in need members will serve the lunches and The Bridge next weekend at an annual event called Tent City. will run a kids’ tent from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. This year, it will take place in Downtown Lauren Banks, president of The Bridge, Toledo from Oct. 23-25. wrote that she has really been encouraging The event started 26 years ago after the UT students to come to Tent City. founder, Ken Leslie, went through some tough This event has allowed for many to turn times of his own. their lives around, most of which Leslie has Leslie said that in the late eighties, he was seen firsthand. a traveling comedian. Driving around the “Last year, a 15-year-old girl came to Tent City country made him realize how many homehomeless; her parents had abandoned her. Her less people were on the streets. He himself auntie took her in; she was getting D’s and F’s and was unhoused at one time, which made the reading at a fourth grade level. And now she’s getissue much more personal. ting A’s and B’s and will be the mayor of Tent City It wasn’t until he read this year at the age of 16.” a statistic that he tried to Banks also wrote that in the If you go change things though. years she has taken part in Tent “I read a statistic that City, she has been able to experiWhat: Parade of said that 60 percent of the Compassion. ence the true compassion of Where: Promenade Park, homeless in Toledo were Toledo. Downtown Toledo. families with children,” “Tent City is a way to build reWhen: Friday at 6 p.m. Leslie said. “Something lationships with others from ToSponsored by: 1Matters. just snapped and the next ledo whether they have a home thing you know, we started or not,” Banks wrote. “It is a way the whole Tent City thing to put ourselves on an equal level and here we are 26 years with everyone and show that we do not think later, still there for people in need.” we are better or worse than anyone else. It is a Leslie continues to see the impact it has on definitely a very humbling experience.” not only the community, but those in need as Volunteers are welcome to spend the night well. He said it is not an “‘us’ and ‘them’” situin tents on Friday night, and then will get the ation, but a “we” situation. chance to serve on Saturday alongside Project That “we” helps out the community and Connect, which Leslie said provides medical, its homeless residents in a variety of ways dental and a variety of other services. throughout the weekend. One of those ways is A full schedule of events can be found on by making lunches for those in need, a project 1Matters.org. headed by UT’s Bridge Club. Leslie said Tent City is one of many events This will happen on Friday, the first day in which community members have the of the event, after which a bus will take chance to show their compassion. them to where Tent City is located on Mich“Every human needs to matter to someone,” igan and Jackson Streets, for what Leslie Leslie said. “I’ve found one of the secrets in said is the “Parade of Compassion.” life to be when you feel you matter to no one, Leslie said this is to showcase all of the go matter to someone.” Associate Community Editor

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UT students affiliated with Greek Life and campus organizations spent their Sunday afternoon at Wrap Up Toledo, an annual event. Wrap Up is UT’s personal event in connection to Tent City.

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getting to issues.” The candidates were asked a variety of prewritten questions all relating to their personal opinion about the LGBTQA community and policies they would enact surrounding those issues. “I didn’t really know a ton about most of the candidates so it was just scary going into the unknown,” Alferio said. “These people could say something possibly offensive and harmful.” At the end of the forum, Alferio’s favorite candidates were Mike Ferner and Paula HicksHudson. He JACK liked Ferner ALFERIO because he President of seemed Spectrum UT charismatic and well-spoken, though Hicks-Hudson also seemed charismatic and has more experience in office. “I definitely went in there thinking, ‘OK, these are my top two,’ and they stayed my top two, but I think it was important to know who I am not voting for,” Alferio said. “I think information is power.” Alferio said that not all the candidates were as well-spoken and some even made negative and aggressive comments throughout the forum. “The one guy, Carty Finkbeiner, at one point called his niece’s wife her friend, that was a little weird ... people definitely caught on to that, especially if you were an LGBT person in the audience,” Alferio said.

“People were definitely not happy about that.” While Alferio felt portions of the forum could have been better, he said it went well and it was important that the issues were addressed by the candidates.

Black Lives Matter Goosby said she felt the questions for the Black Lives Matter forum were “pretty dynamic and very bold” and addressed a lot of important issues in the movement. “A lot of the questions were basically what they can do for the city of Toledo as far as employment, education, roads, stuff like that,” Goosby said. “As a politician you have to kind of stay in a box sometimes and as the night progressed you got to see how people really feel about certain issues.” During the forum, Goosby said one of the main focuses was the issue of police brutality, both as a broad topic and specifically for the Toledo area. “One of the main issues that I think all the candidates could agree on was the disconnect between the police and the community here,” Goosby said. “They mentioned that it was very hard for the police to police an area that they don’t live in.” Goosby said she thought the forum was successful, and her experience in helping to organize it with BSU was one she wouldn’t forget. “It was extremely humbling because the turnout was really great,” Goosby said. “It was also very powerful; it sent the message that BSU is not just a small minority group, we are actually out reaching out to the community.”

Goosby said BSU does not support one candidate over the other, though some community members present felt strongly about certain candidates.

The mayoral role

Twila Page, a member of the Old West End Neighborhood Initiative, attended the Black Lives Matter forum. She supported Paula HicksHudson, though she felt all the candidates had a lot of good things to say. “I am still feeling strongly for Paula, but if we could take one thing that each one of them said and put it into one mayor then you would have a ticket for a successful city,” Page said. “Everyone was in tune as to what we’re looking for in a mayor.” The importance of these forums, Alferio said, is to be sure that Toledo doesn’t decline in its social progress. “I think Toledo’s really progressive so I think just keeping someone in office who can uphold our standards is important,” Alferio said. “As long as you don’t reverse things I think we’ll be OK.” The elections for mayor will be held on Nov. 3.

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a new search, then that’s what we need to do.” While she had no concerns with the cost, Keith said she felt some possible downfalls were that the length of the original search may have limited the range of candidates, and that some of the initial candidates did not appear to be properly qualified. For the next search, Keith said the committee should start from scratch with a new firm. “I was on the search committee as I said, and I was amazed when they told me how quickly this search was going to take place,” Keith said. “It seemed like we were trying to do an awful lot in a short period of time.” Gaber said that while both candidates had some of the qualities she was looking for, she felt the consensus was that both were “pretty good, but not perfect.” Due to the key nature of the position at the university, Gaber said she

wanted to look for someone who was already a match as opposed to someone who might “grow into it.” “I think the people we had had bits and pieces of knowledge, but maybe not the whole package at this point,” Gaber said. Keith said she personally felt Scott had less experience than either of the other two candidates. Although Keith said she would have been comfortable with Rhodes in the position, she stands behind Gaber’s decision against hiring either candidate.

“If she didn’t have that confidence in the two remaining candidates for whatever reason, then I think we were right to go forward.” KRISTEN KEITH President of Faculty Senate

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[Left] Ting Li, an English as a second language specialist in the American language institute, plays jumbo Jenga at the Oct. 17 CISP tailgate as other students watch, wondering which piece she will choose to remove. [Right] Sai Kameshwar Rao Nittala, a fifth-year electrical engineering major, enjoys playing cornhole — or bean bag toss — with other students at the CISP tailgate. He joined other students and faculty as they tried new foods from around the world and listened to President Sharon Gaber talk at the tailgate.

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“If we could take one thing that each one of them said and put it into one mayor then you would have a ticket for a successful city.”

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“Ultimately, Dr. Gaber has to hire somebody that she believes can do the job, and if she didn’t have that confidence in the two remaining candidates for whatever reason, then I think we were right to go forward,” Keith said. Qualities Gaber said she looked for were experience with budgets specifically with a background in handling academic finance and administration, handling situations that required costsaving measures, as well as someone who could handle the administration aspect of working with areas like facilities and the police. For the new search, Gaber said she would like to take more time and allow for a more methodical process of selection for the candidates. “We felt constrained; the interim CFO was Tom Biggs, and we knew he was leaving Sept. 30, and we felt pushed ahead really quickly,” Gaber said. “This might be one where plodding along a little slower might bring some people in a different way.”

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Local Fall Attractions MacQueen Orchards

7605 Garden Rd, Holland, OH 43528 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. every day of the week. MacQueens is a farm market open all year round. They have pick your own apples, bake goods, other fruits and vegetables and home goods.

Erie Orchards & Cider Mill

1235 E Erie Rd, Erie, MI 48133 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday – Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sundays Erie Orchards is a farm and market where you can pick your own apples as well get pumpkins and purchase things such as cider and doughnuts.

Bennetts Orchard

5647 Consear Rd, Ottawa Lake, MI 49267 Open through the end of October 9 a.m. – 7 p.m. Monday –Friday 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday Bennett’s Orchard is a market opened seasonally from August until the end of October. They offer multiple items in their country store ranging from fresh baked goods to their own homemade honey and maple syrup as well as having a “U-pick” option available for apples.

Fleitz Pumpkin Farm

7133 Seaman Rd, Oregon, OH 43616 Open through the end of October 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. every day of the week Fleitz Pumpkin Farm is open every day from September 12 until October 31. They offer corn mazes of multiple sizes, a Craft Barn and sell pumpkins.

Wheeler Farms

Open through end of October 5 p.m. – Midnight Friday 12 p.m. – Midnight Saturday 12 p.m. – 8 p.m. Sunday Wheeler Farms opens their corn maze every year in mid-September until Halloween. Their corn maze offers four regions ranging from easy to challenging. They also offer other attractions throughout the year including a butterfly house throughout Spring, then a Christmas tree farm starting in November.

Terror Town

1406 Key Street, Maumee Oh. 43537 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday Terror Town is the largest group of haunted houses and other haunted attractions in Northwest Ohio.

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Why Halloween will never be the same

s a kid, there was nothing like Halloween. Not only was it the one day I could walk out of the house dressed as a mermaid without my mom telling me to go back inside and put on “real clothes,” but it was the day I could drown myself in sugar and no one would think twice.

how smeared the makeup all over my face. Although I left the local costume contest emptyhanded that night, I was still the cutest Chiquita Banana Lady to roam the streets of Woodville. All of the costumes my mom made were thoughtful and well planned, but it all went downhill when I decided it was time to make a decision on my own. I didn’t want a one-size-fits-all 1950s Pink Lady costume from one of those cheap Halloween stores, I wanted a costume that embodied true strength and power. After many nights spent online looking for a costume, it came to me: what is more powerful than the force of nature? In 2007, I decided to be a tornado. Once a disaster, always a disaster. First, I stuffed pillow filling into white mesh tubing and sewed the ends by hand. I strategically placed and glued various debris around the outline of the funnel. I was an unemployed 13-year-old at the time and I was working with a small budget. The buckDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY eye tree in my side yard graciously provided the sticks and leaves, and my aunt’s basement providMy mom would hand-make my costumes every ed the toy cars, army men and farm animals. fall. She would drag me and my sister to the nearest After wrapping the mesh around me and teasing craft store and fill up the cart with various sewing pat- my hair to look like a modern day Ke$ha, I was an terns and obnoxious fabrics. F-5 waiting to do some damage. For hours, she would slave over her Singer sewing That year I went from house to house with my sequins and hot-glue felt circles like she was a pageant closest friends and begged for candy. mom on TLC. I don’t know about you, but I didn’t sport the From Humpty Dumpty to a cupcake with a cherry typical, glow-in-the-dark, plastic pumpkin on top, my mom knew how to go above and bearound my wrist. I was a classy lady and I backyond the typical witch and princess costumes. packed a pillowcase, Tom Sawyer-style, and When I was five, she dressed me as the Chiqyou can bet your ass that at the end of the uita Banana Lady. The costume consisted of a night, it was full. ruffled, cream-colored pirate shirt; a long, Unfortunately, there’s always a time in your Reese’s, black, ruffled skirt; purple-ruffled wrist life when you do something for the last time. Snickers, cuffs; large clip-on hoop earrings and an 2007 was my last year trick-or-treating. assortment of fake fruit hot-glued to a The years after that were spent collectMilky Way hat on my head. ing money for UNICEF and helping My mom was pretty much a Pinmy parents pass out candy on the M&Ms, Kit Kat, terest board. front porch, and till this day nothI distinctly remember standing comes close to the feeling of Pay Day, Baby Ruth, ing over the bathroom sink sitting down after a long, sweaty Butterfinger, as my mom applied eyeliner trip around town, grabbing Three Musketeers, Rolos to complete the costume. the bottom corners of my She gave me strict inpillowcase and watching structions to not open my night’s accomplishmy eyes until the ments spill before me. Tootsie Rolls, Nerds, Lollypops, black liquid had Although Halloween bubble gum, Jolly Ranchers, Almond Joy, dried, but like any now lacks candy and Air Heads, Smarties, Laffy Taffy child, I did the well thought-out complete oppocostumes, it will site of what forever remind my mother me of my caretold me free childPencils, small comic books, hugs, candy corn, and hood and anything “gluten free,” fresh fruit, old fruit, coupons someendless imagination.

“In 2007, I decided to be a tornado. Once a disaster, always a disaster.... After wrapping the mesh around me and teasing my hair to look like a modern day Ke$ha, I was an F-5 waiting to do some damage.”

ABIGAIL SULLIVAN

This is Abigail Sullivan’s hierarchy of Halloween candy.

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Abigail Sullivan dresses up as a tornado in 2007. That was her last year trick-or-treating and her first year making her very own costume.

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5 costumes in under 30 min.

Rosie the Riveter

By Emily Modrowski, Fashion Columnist

Unleash your strong and confident female self with this option. This costume is super easy to accomplish and is a really cute look. All you need is a jean or plain blue button-down shirt and a red bandana. Throw your hair up in a ponytail or bun, tie on the bandana and maybe add some red lipstick to make more of a statement. Flex your bicep in midair and yell, “We can do it!” for the full effect.

It’s 8:30 p.m. on Halloween night. You’re in your pajamas watching “Hocus Pocus” when your best friend texts you: “Hey. We’re going to a Halloween party. I’ll pick you up at 9.” You only have half an hour to get ready, but you don’t have a costume! Don’t freak out; here are five costume ideas that I picked out of my closet and threw on in only 30 minutes.

4. The Greek Goddess This is probably the simplest option to accomplish, but also the prettiest. All you need is a plain sheet to wrap around you and something to tie around your waist. Put your hair up in wavy curls or braids and you’ll look fresh out of Olympus. Make sure to wear some leggings under the sheet — just in case.

2. The 1950’s Greaser It may just be my bias over the best movie adaptation ever created (“The Outsiders”), but a greaser is a perfect costume choice. You’ll look cool, you’ll be stylish and you’ll be festive all at the same time. You’ll need a plain white T-shirt or tank top, a leather jacket, blue jeans rolled up at the bottom and Converse. Sunglasses and snapping your fingers while calling people “daddy-o!” are optional.

3. The Lumberjack Lumberjack plaid is one of those things that never go out of style. It’s a staple in any wardrobe. And let’s just admit it to ourselves: we’ve all had lumberjack fantasies. Whether it’s being one or being with one, that’s your business, but take this night as an opportunity to live out your wildest dreams. For this costume you’ll need a plaid flannel, blue jeans and boots. Bonus points if you wear a white T-shirt and suspenders with the flannel.

Ginger bread person I had to include a special option just for my people. This one only works if you’re a redhead, because if you have red hair, congratulations; you’re already halfway done with this costume. You’ll need string and bread. What you have to do is put bread on the string (by the slice or loaf, whichever you prefer) like a beaded bread necklace, then tie it around your neck and ta da: a gingerbread person. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF EMILY MODROWSKI

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By Joe Heidenescher Features Editor

Pumpkin Bread Cupcakes

Maybe you’re not a costume person, but you still love going to Halloween parties. Instead of spending time making a costume, you could put together festive foods that’ll still make you a hit at the party. Here are five super-simple treats that are affordable on almost any college budget.

Pumpkin treats are a fall staple. Simply go buy a box of pumpkin bread mix, follow the instructions and mix with the correct amount of water, eggs and other ingredients. The cooking is simple: dish the batter into cups and cook for about a half hour. Since pumpkin bread isn’t exactly as sweet as cupcakes, you can add frosting if you would like, but the bread will be great by itself too. In total, a box of mix and cupcake liners will cost around $10 and make about a dozen cupcake-sized goodies.

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S’mores Hot Chocolate

In addition to food, hot chocolate is perfect this time of the year. To add some Halloween pizazz, it’s easy to turn it into a hot chocolate s’more. Mix your hot chocolate packet with hot water or hot milk. Then roast some marshmallows to add to the drink. Serve the treat with a graham cracker stirrer. If you want some additional haunting spirits, add a splash of Baileys Irish Cream. The hot chocolate and additives will only cost you $8, and the bottle of Baileys is about $20.

Dirt Pudding

Even if you don’t have an oven, you can still make cookies. You will need sugar, milk, a stick of butter, cocoa powder, oats, peanut butter, vanilla extract and kosher salt. For an exact recipe, look one up in a cookbook or Google one. All you will need to do is heat the sugar, milk, butter and cocoa in a pan. Next, remove the mixture from the heat and mix all the ingredients together. Then just scoop them out into cookie-sized globs and put them onto wax paper. Allow them to cool and harden, and then they are ready to eat. To make them more festive, you can add candy corn or other Halloween candy favorites. Because of the number of ingredients, these cookies might cost closer to $20, but you will be able to make way more than just a dozen.

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This is a classic recipe from childhood. Get some chocolate pudding; you can make your own or even buy the easy snack packs. Once you get the pudding, pour it into a bowl or little cups. Now take half a pack of Oreos and smash them up and sprinkle them on top of the pudding. For added effect, add gummy worms and bone candies to turn the dirt pudding into one tasty dessert. You’re looking to spend $15 for pudding, Oreos and candy.

Chocolate Popcorn

For this simple treat, you will need plain white popcorn, milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and orange food coloring. Take your popcorn and pop about two to three bags and spread it evenly out onto wax paper. Next, pour your chocolate into a microwave-safe bowl. Melt the chocolate in 30-second intervals because chocolate burns easily. Once it is melted, drizzle the chocolate over the popcorn with a spoon. Repeat this step with the white chocolate and add the orange food coloring to make it festive. Let the chocolate cool before eating. In total, this recipe costs less than $10.

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Daring to scare :

By Samantha Rhodes Staff Reporter

During the day, Desiree Baird is a sign language interpreter. But at night, she transforms into something entirely different — a childish, cannibalistic girl seeking patients in a hospital ward. Her name is Mae Hemm. And she’s obsessed with socks. “She can often be found chewing on a sock, licking it and jumping at people trying to show them her sock ‘Socko,’ or the larger one ‘Socky,’” Baird said of her character. Baird, a 2012 University of Toledo astronomy graduate, is a first-time ‘screamster’ for Cedar Point’s Halloweekends, the amusement park’s seasonal haunted attraction. The 25-year-old developed her own character persona — Mae Hemm — to mesh perfectly with the haunted house she works in, Eternity Infirmary. This house-maze is one of six seasonal attractions at Cedar Point, including the Slaughter House and Eden Musee, along with six other outer scare zones and numerous haunted shows and experiences. According to Baird, nearly 300 screamsters from all over the country were hired for the season along with makeup artists, costume designers, help staff and security guards. Another of these new hires is Jill Jablonski, a 2014 UT English grad with a passion for folklore and situational acting. As a “hillbilly Victorian zombie girl,” Jablonski can be found in the Blood on the Bayou zone, either practicing mannequinlike scare tactics from the ground or swinging wildly from tombstones with her long, dark hair dangled over her gruesome mask. “Being a screamster has been on my bucket list since I was 15,” the 24-year-old said. “My uncle always used to take me for my birthday, and now that I was done with college, I was like ‘yeah, I’m doing this.’” Though Halloweekends only runs weekends from mid-September through November 1, Jablonski and Baird both agree that clocking in around 30 hours of screamster work in only three days is exhausting. Loosely-scheduled makeup appointments begin around 3 p.m. and after standing stock-still all night, shivering while waiting for the perfect scare, it’s not uncommon to clock out around 1:30 a.m. When it comes to training their staff, Cedar Point doesn’t skimp. Though new hires don’t need prior scare experience, all screamsters must complete a pre-season extensive training program, memorize the monster parade dance and attend all dress rehearsals. For Jablonski,

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Desiree Baird, dressed as her sock-obsessed character Mae Hemm, lurks within Eternity Infirmary, one of Cedar Point’s six haunted house mazes. Baird works as a screamster for the amusement park’s seasonal Halloweekends, which runs mid-September through Nov. 1.

“It’s the one time of the year when people suddenly stop caring if you’re able to match up to the standards of beauty. The whole point is to become something spooky, bloody or crazy. You get to be something very different from yourself, which is very freeing.” DESIREE BAIRD Cedar Point Halloweekends Screamster and sign language interpreter

that means she’s worked seven consecutive weekends with two still left to go. Bruises, sore feet and throats, grumbling stomachs, layers upon layers of clothing and Advilpopping — all are common in this line of work. Baird said the makeup can take anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes to put on and even longer to wash off — especially if you have a mask glued to your face. “A lot of people still have makeup stuck on them the next day,” Jablonski said. “It’s all over your neck and when you wash that off, it peels and flakes and goes down you. And with the sprayers, they’ll get it in your ears so you need Qtips. Glues hurt to get off, red paint is the worst and black isn’t easy either because it’s oil-based.” The only things screamsters can take with them into zones are water bottles and cough drops — phones are a big no-no. Using the bathroom isn’t easy either since two people have to be in each zone at all times; if not, it’s a safety hazard. Though Cedar Point has a ‘we don’t touch you, you don’t touch us’ policy for screamsters, Jablonski said it doesn’t always work out that way. “In training, they teach you how to quickly get away from people if you scare them so much they throw a punch at you,” Jablonski said. “But we actually had one person blow their whistle ‘cause they got elbowed in the face just a couple weeks ago.” Regardless, Baird said it’s all worth it for the sake of Halloween — her favorite holiday. “It’s the one time of the year when people suddenly stop caring if you’re able to match up to the standards of beauty,” she said. “The whole point is to become something spooky, bloody or crazy. You get to be something very different from yourself, which is very freeing.” Plus, the gig has other appealing incentives, according to Jablonski. Making $8.50 an hour isn’t so bad when Cedar Point also gives out free food, hoodies, screamster shirts, admission to a local festival and the chance to ride the rides free of charge in your off time, she said. Anyone who lives more than 30 minutes from the park also qualifies for free housing in Cedar Point’s dormitories. But above all else, both Baird and Jablonski agree that getting a good scare is the biggest perk of the job. According to Baird, the “mental scares” are a ton of fun. “I really like getting in their personal bubble and putting my face just beside their ear and whispering ‘Hi there,’” she said. “Finding out their names is fantastic, too. Many people wear hoodies with their names on it and forget it’s there.”

What it takes to be a screamster

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Zombie girl Jill Jablonski lies motionless on the ground, waiting for the perfect moment to scare a visitor passing through the Blood on the Bayou scare zone. Working as a Cedar Point Halloweekends screamster, Jablonski lives in Erie, Michigan, and commutes to Sandusky every weekend, taking advantage of Cedar Point’s free dorms for those who live more than 30 minutes away from the park.

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A screamster sits patiently while waiting for his makeup to be completed. This process can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour, depending on whether a mask is glued to the face. Cedar Point hired nearly 300 screamsters for this year’s Halloweekends, according to Baird.

Scaring certain types of people is also all Millennials, or those born between more satisfying. For Baird, the thrill 1981 and 1997, will visit a haunted comes from terrifying dads and house this year, according to the Nationboyfriends. al Retail Federation’s Halloween Con“They’re usually the sumer Spending Survey. ones who are trying to But why? act tough, and when I Jablonski vouches that it’s “There’s a rush of get them scared, the kids a safe way to experience teradrenaline you and girlfriends start ror, so in an oxymoronic laughing at them,” she way, people are enticed by get when you’re said. “But my favorite the opportunity to feel fear scared, and that part is when I scare safely. But in Baird’s opinion, fight-or-flight someone so much they people are fixated on the fun, fall to the ground. These out-of-control element. reaction kicks are fairly rare, but even “There’s a rush of adrenain, too,” she said. rarer are those who get line you get when you’re “I’ve noticed so scared they wet themscared, and that fight-orselves. It’s just flat-out flight reaction kicks in, that many times hilarious to watch their too,” she said. “I’ve noticed after I get a good reactions. These are the that many times after I get scream out of moments that tell me I’m a good scream out of peodoing my job, and I’m people, they start ple, they start laughing.” doing it well.” However, Baird said laughing.” Jablonski has experithere’s one thing she can’t JILL JABLONSKI enced everything from stress enough for visitors to Cedar Point Halloweekterrifying an old man remember: the actors are ends Screamster with a cane to scaring people with feelings, too. the living daylights out “For some reason, when of twelve-year-old girls we put on makeup and cospoking her to see if she’s real. She even tumes, we lose our humanity in the eyes won the “Rookie of the Week” award and of the visitors. They think it’s cool to get has had visitors compliment her acting all cocky and point us out when in realitalent and take selfies with her. ty, it makes us really mad and makes our It’s a fact: people are willing to pay See Scare / 8 » money to feel scared. Nearly one-third of

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job that much harder.” If you think the scare industry might be for you, both screamsters urge you to try it, even if you don’t consider yourself a good actor or have an outgoing personality. “It feels good to know you’re doing a job that directly affects someone and you’re creating a feeling inside them,” Jablonski said. “I mean how many jobs can you think of where you actually create an emotion in someone? And even better yet, you can actually see and hear it.” According to Baird, physical fitness is an important part of the application process, and though you can choose what kind of character you want, sometimes you are assigned one based on your physical appearance or size. “I’d say if you can enjoy making a fool of yourself and think it’d be a blast to scare people, go for it,” Baird said. “But don’t think it’s a cake walk. There are some crazy things that can happen, and you need to be on your toes to keep you and the visitors safe. I was

once told that if you can’t scare them, at least try to make them laugh. Go big or go home — that’s how this works.” For more information about Cedar Point’s Halloweekends or the screamster application process, visit www.cedarpoint.com/haunt. To locate other haunted attractions in America, check out www. HauntedHouseOnline.com or www. HauntWorld.com.

“It feels good to know you’re doing a job that directly affects someone and you’re creating a feeling inside them. I mean how many jobs can you think of where you actually create an emotion in someone? And even better yet, you can actually see and hear it.” JILL JABLONSKI Cedar Point Halloweekends Screamster