Independent Collegian Fall11 Issue 14

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Arts & Life, A6

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Helping victims become survivors

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www.IndependentCollegian.com 92nd year Issue 14

Monday, October 10, 2011

Serving the University of Toledo since 1919

Students wear same dress for one month By Emily Sweeney For the IC

are someone’s daughters and sisters.”

Wearing the same outfit a few days in a row is a fashion faux pas for many people, but for UT students, this fashion crime is for a good cause. In order to raise awareness of human sex trafficking, females will be wearing one dress and men will wear one purple shirt for the entire month of October. This is the first year men will be participating in the project. “This is a guy issue just as much as a girl issue.” said Joel Waldman, a senior majoring in biology and one of the men involved this year. “It starts with guys being aware of what they are doing; these

Once young people get involved in an issue, that’s when things get changed.

Celia Williamson Professor, Criminal justice, social work

Purple was chosen for the shirts because it is associated with justice, fighting injustice and a representation of human trafficking survivors, according to the online blog for the One Dress One Month project.

This is the second semester students are sporting the same dress or shirt for one month. Last year, 150 students were involved and this year the number of participants has increased. Participants do not have to sleep or work out in their dress or shirt. They are asked to not shop for clothes or buy fast food or video games during the month and to donate at least $10, representing the money they would have spent on clothes, to the Daughter Project, a non-profit Christian organization which aims to aid human sex trafficking victims. According to Celia Williamson, professor of criminal — Dress, Page A2

Nick Kneer/ IC

Female students who participate in the One Dress One Month project wear the same dress for a whole month to raise awareness for human sex trafficking. Males will be wearing the same purple shirt for the whole month. Toledo is ranked the third city in the nation for child sex trafficking.

Survey says Facebook photos Budget restraints limit colleges may correlate with alcoholism By Jennifer Ison IC Staff Writer

By IC Staff

Photo illustration by Nick Kneer / IC

According to a survey by researchers at the University of WisconsinMadison, 60 percent of participants who were found to be “at risk” for alcoholism had drunken photos of themselves on Facebook.

Every drunken picture or status update about a hangover after a night out posted on Facebook may give insight into who is at risk for developing a drinking problem. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison analyzed over 200 Facebook profiles and found students who posted statuses about drinking, particularly drinking while driving and blacking out, are more likely to be at risk for developing alcoholism and other problems associated with alcohol abuse. The study gave students between the ages of 18 and 20 the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test, a 10-question survey used to assess potential problems with alcohol. Participants’ Facebook pages were then searched for drunken photos and statuses that mentioned the participant being drunk. The study found 60 percent of those who tested at risk in the survey had a greater number of drunken photos and statuses. The study was published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine last week. Megan Moreno, the study’s lead author, told ABC News the study was used to indicate if there was a correlation between drinking as a simple rite of passage between college students or an actual sign that Facebook photos are an indication of something more.

One of the primary reasons for the College of Arts and Sciences splitting last fall was for the newly established colleges to develop programs that were more focused on particular disciplines. While the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics announced specific plans to make the college more focused on serving the needs of science and mathematics students, attention has turned to the College of Languages, Literature and Social Science and the College of Visual and Performing Arts and questions have been raised concerning what changes they are undergoing in order to make themselves more focused on particular disciplines. The answer, so far, is not many. For the CLLSS, this is due to an unequal distribution of funds after the CAS was split, according to Linda Rouillard, associate professor of French. The budget for the CAS was split equally regardless of how many departments each college contained. The CLLSS contains 33 departments, the CNSM has eight and the CVP has three. Rouillard said because the CLLSS has the greatest number of departments, they have experienced the brunt end of the consequences created by the split and are not able to develop additional programs while current programs are being strangled. The CNSM has a proposal to eliminate foreign language

requirements for students in the Bachelors of Science program and talks of eliminating some foreign language are occurring in the CVP according to Roulliard. Additional programs such as Bioinformatics are being looked at to be included in the CNSM, according to Anthony Quinn, professor of biology and chair of the committee to reevaluate the college curriculum. Currently, the CLLSS and CVP are focusing on submitting courses to be included in the general education of the university. UT is currently up for its 10-year accreditation and in order to attain accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, the university core is being reevaluated to satisfy areas of competencies. The competencies include communication, science and quantitative reasoning, global responsibility, information literacy and critical thinking. According to Raymond Marchionni, a professor at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the changes being made to the former Arts and Science departments will bring about a major overhaul of the core curriculum UT students take. “The new core, beginning Fall 2012, will be based on competencies, though many of the competencies actually already exist in the current core, though they may be defined, perhaps, a bit differently,” Marchionni said. The process of proposing a course includes choosing two competencies and providing an

assessment method for each elaboration. Each course is proposed to the Faculty Senate after receiving approval by the department’s curriculum committee, department faculty and the Academic Affairs Committee of the respective college. “Re-thinking general education in terms of competencies may have effects ranging all the way from no change to a designated course other than adding a new competency assessment, to completely eliminating some courses and replacing them with new ones,” said President of the Faculty Senate Lawrence Anderson-Huang. “The senate will have final approval on the outcome.” Black said the actual benefits of possible adjustments is unclear at this stage, though he hopes they will beneficial to students. According to AndersonHuang, all of the changes being made to the separate college’s curriculums seek to improve the process of reviewing and assessing what students are learning and if they are actually becoming competent in the areas needed to succeed in their chosen field. Students who are already enrolled in one of these colleges may choose to adopt the competency-based curriculum or choose to stay with the core curriculum they began studying. Incoming freshman, however, will be required to participate in this new curriculum, beginning in the fall 2012.

Are you aware that Toledo is ranked the third largest city for child sex trafficking in America?

No. Thats pretty bad.

Lucas Cooley

Senior, accounting

Tre Simms

Fresh., Int. bussiness

Sarah Farehitin Senior, poli., sci.

No, but it makes sense considering where Toledo is in relation to Detroit.

No. I knew it was big in Ohio, but its shocking to know about Toledo.

Yes, I heard about it in class. I was very surprised to hear it.

No. I was not aware.

Dzias Pearson

Freshman, undecided

Alexandra Afloari

Grad., rec., leisure ed.

Read our story about what students are doing to raise awareness about sex trafficking and slavery in Toledo at the top of this page.


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