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Toledo Pride LGBT community to celebrate their pride starting Aug. 28

By Colleen Anderson Managing Editor

Ely’s Return After an injury during his second game last year, Ely is back on the field and ready to play.

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“There is a fine line between natural turnover and hemorrhaging employees, and UT is toeing that line.”

Downtown Toledo will burst with rainbows of color, performances and people from all walks of life as the sixth-annual Toledo Pride Festival takes place.

This three-day party begins Aug. 28 for the sixth-annual Toledo Pride festival.

Toledo Pride is an event centered on celebrating Toledo’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender

(LGBT) community with three days of activities and entertainment.

To Kelly Heuss, marketing director of Toledo Pride, the importance of the event is to create a sense of community. For her, it was a way of connecting with the LGBT community after feeling a sense of isolation.

“After graduating college, I moved to Orlando, in Florida, which has a really just massive, huge, open, vibrant LGBT community, and when I moved back home there definitely was not that at all,” Heuss said. “I felt very isolated because I didn’t know

any other gay people in town…and I was sure that I wasn’t the only one that felt that way.”

Heuss said the festival has grown significantly since its first year in 2010, when it exceeded the original expectations for attendance by far.

“We were planning for about 250 people; 2000 showed up. It was clearly something that the area wanted, and for several years the attendance doubled every year,” Heuss said.

Last year the festival attracted about 20,000 people after

increasing from the original one day of Toledo Pride to the current three-day schedule.

Jack Alferio, president of Spectrum at the University of Toledo, said Toledo Pride can help attract students from smaller communities and make them feel welcomed to the university.

“It must feel really good to be like, I’m coming to a town that celebrates me and I get to celebrate with the rest of the town,” Alferio said.

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EDITORIAL What’s in a name?

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COURTESY OF TOLEDO PRIDE 2014

HOUSING

It’s all Greek to me Community Editor Alexandria Saba finds a home among her sorority sisters.

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AFFILIATION

Carter closes, A-House opens

By Joe Heidenescher Associate Community Editor

The University of Toledo has made some major residence life changes over the summer, leaving Carter Hall standing empty and abandoned while Academic House and the Honors Academic Village teem with life.

“We closed Carter this year and I know one of the questions that everyone asks is what we are doing with Carter,” said Bradley Menard, associate director for housing. “There really, right now, isn’t a plan. So there’s not really a plan to tear it down, but there’s no plan to reuse it right now and so the university is going to wait and see if there’s a need for

that building or not.”

According to Menard, the plan to close Carter Hall has been in the works for several years and should come as no surprise.

“There really, right now, isn’t a plan [for Carter].

So there’s not really a plan to tear it down, but there’s no plan to reuse it ...”

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By Jenna Nance Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo struck a 50year, $250 million educational deal with ProMedica Health System, one of the largest healthcare providers in Northwest Ohio.

The Academic Affiliation Agreement will move UT medical students, residents and fellows to ProMedica facilities, and is expected to present

students a broader display of medical cases, according to Chris Cooper, dean of the College of Medicine and Life Sciences.

In exchange, ProMedica will provide $250 million to “rebuild” the college and at least $50 million per year in “academic support payments,” according to a slideshow presented at a May 2015 meeting of the UT Board of ...

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ProMedica and UT finalize agreement

EDUCATION

By Trevor Stearns

UT opens season with a road win

BRADLEY MENARD Associate director for housing

“We made a strategic decision to put money into Academic House in lieu of Carter Hall just based upon the amount of money that needs to be put into Carter Hall to renovate it to bring it back up to standards,” said Jason Toth, associate vice president for facilities and construction. “So that’s why we took the direction of taking Carter Hall offline for the time being.”

In Academic House, Menard said the hall has been given new carpet, new paint, new furniture and some basic remodeling. He said the plan was to “freshen up” the lobby and building.

The only thing that has not

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University of Akron President Scott Scarborough’s recent actions, including his attempt to rebrand the school as Ohio’s “polytechnic university,” have created significant friction between himself and Akron’s students.

At a speech made in the City Club of Cleveland on May 15, the former University of Toledo provost said, with its rebranding as polytechnic, UA will be one of the “great public universities,” placing itself alongside Ohio State University, Miami University and

the University of Cincinnati.

“He’s been trying to, not necessarily change UA, but shift its identity into a different direction,” said Taylor Swift, Undergraduate Student Government President at UA. “The way he’s painting the picture, it’s not a bad thing at all.”

Swift said there isn’t anything wrong with the change, but there has been a lack of transparency concerning the process.

“There were murmurs about it for awhile, even before I was elected president for this year I heard about it.” Swift said. “He denied it a lot, and then he goes and

announces that this isn’t necessarily a name change. In reality it’s more of a rebranding or a reimage.”

This prompted Swift and the vice president, Richard Angeletti, to write an open letter to Scarborough asking him to take a step back and look at how his decisions are “directly harming the student body’s and public’s opinion of our university.”

The letter also mentioned how the changes brought increasing financial pressure to current students.

John Barrett, interim provost and vice president of academic affairs, said while Scarborough had some good ideas while at UT, he didn’t implement them correctly.

“Scott had some good ideas, like enhancing the Jesup Scott

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EDITORIAL

What’s in a name?

Positions are open, but the titles of administrators keep changing We have a hunch that the University of Toledo likes long titles.

As silly as it sounds, there may be some truth to our conjecture. After all, no one can deny the fact that some of UT’s administrators have rather long titles. For example, Rudy Taylor’s former position was the program manager for the Office of Student Involvement — geez, what a mouthful!

While it can feel like trying to master a tongue-twister just to address someone correctly, some position titles got a little bit longer due to the addition of one word — interim. This is because UT is seeing a lot of position changes between administrators leaving and other administrators temporarily taking their places.

How many is a lot, exactly? Here’s our administrative count so far: • Seven are interim.

• Interim Provost John Barrett • Interim Chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department Asma Abdel Halim • Interim Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Thomas D. Biggs • Interim Dean of the Honors College Kelly Moore • Interim Dean of the College of Nursing Kelly Phillips • Interim Dean of the College of Education Virginia Keil • Interim Director of University Libraries Barbara Floyd (see promoted) • Four filled recently-vacated positions.

• President Sharon Gaber • Event Coordinator for the Office of Student Involvement Callie Cannon • Program Manager for the Office of Student Involvement Evita Thompson • Chief Information Officer Bill McCreary • Four went to the University of Akron.

• Former Provost Scott Scarborough • Former Honors Dean Lakeesha Ransom • Former Vice President for External Affairs Larry Burns • Former Vice President for Information Technology Godfrey Ovwigho • Three went elsewhere.

• Former Medical Center Chancellor Jeffery Gold • Former UT President Lloyd Jacobs • Former program manager for the Office of Student Involvement Rudy Taylor • Two positions were combined into one.

• External Affairs and Institutional Advancement Vice Presidencies combined to become the Vice President of Advancement, held by Sam McCrimmon. (see hired) • Two people were hired.

• Vice President of Advancement Sam McCrimmon • Chief of Staff in the Office of the President Matt Schroeder • Two people were promoted.

• Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Director of ResLife Virginia Speight • Interim Director of University Libraries Barbara Floyd • One position remains unfilled.

• Former LGBTQA Director Fatima Pervaiz • One person retired.

• Former Vice president for Advancement Vern Snyder • One person was fired.

• Former Dean of YouCollege Program D’Naie Jacobs That’s quite a bit of moving around!

Not all change is bad. Firing administrators who are not doing their jobs is what universities are supposed to do, and promoting people into new positions is natural during periods of growth. With a new president and a lot of change-up in the administration, UT is going through just that — a period of growth as an institution.

However, there is a fine line between natural turnover and hemorrhaging employees, and UT is toeing that line. Why is it that so many administrators have left? Is there a problem within our administrative system, or do they just see UT as a stepping stone on the way to bigger and better things?

We would like to see some stability in UT’s leadership in the coming years. Hopefully, the time taken to fill permanent positions will be worth the wait. We are hopeful that it will be worth it; the university has scheduled open forums for different administrative positions, which we think is wonderful and we would like to see this method continued in the future. It’s great that there are open forums to gain the input of the whole community, as it allows those affected to have a voice in the matter. Additionally, President Sharon Gaber has been consistent in updating everyone of the staffing changes she has made.

We like the openness and transparency, and see it as a sign of improvement.

We just hope UT takes the administrative game of musical chairs as a fresh start and an opportunity to step forward instead of falling back.

COMMENTARY

How a small, green piece of paper changed my life thousand screaming fans behind me.

Looking back at my freshman year, I to admit I was shocked and disapWe stood for what seemed like days, don’t have very many memories of getpointed at the fact I had waited six which really was only six hours as the ting out, going to events, taking classes hours in line for a show that lasted glaring sun beat down on the pavement close to one hour. I entered the green out of my comfort zone or giving anywe sat on. We wound our way through thing new a chance. room after the show ended, pulling aluminum fences as we inched closer I thought I wouldn’t know anyone out every John Green book I owned, and closer to the doors at these events or in these groups so and every one he had of the theater. It was I didn’t think I would be comfortable written. I had received when we reached to go and do new things. It was also a many entertained looks the east side of the notion that I would then be swamped by the body guards on line that we noticed with so many events and so many duty and the other five people walking around groups that I wouldn’t have time to girls who merely carried handing out fan gear, focus on my schoolwork, and I would one or two. I walked up end up losing my academic scholarship. posters, prizes and to the table where he even pizza (ordered I was stuck in a perpetual rut that I sat and he looked at the specifically by John didn’t think was boring or uneventful stack in my hands with himself). until I happened to experience a onceamusement. He personI was leaning on in-a-lifetime moment this summer. alized each one, signing one of the aluminum I am an English major here at the it with a message for fences, close to hopUniversity of Toledo, and I love whenme to read later. He sat ping over it and giving ever authors come to visit Toledo. It and talked to me for a IC COLUMNIST up, when a woman gives me an opportunity to learn from while about writing, how walked up to two girls beside me and someone who has made it, and also get it takes guts to get into the business, asked them a trivia question. They a feel of what I could possibly become how he admired college students who answered and she gave them a bright in the future. So you can guess when I wrote for their college newspapers, green bracelet to strap around their found out John Green was coming to what kinds of writing I indulged in right wrists. Unbelievably, they were Columbus for the Get Lost Get Found and finally he gave me advice. meet-and-greet passes. I really wanted Tour, I had to find a way to get there.

“The road is long and hard for to get one of those bracelets, and I did It was almost as if the idea of makwriters, but doing what you love something that I never have done in ing it to Columbus and meeting him makes it all worth it. Really it’s about my life, and something I doubt anyone not giving up, and believe me, you’ll was calling my name to make the best thought of doing. summer of my want to. You said it was an honor to I stepped out of life come true. Of meet me, but actually it’s an honor my comfort zone course, I never for me to come out here and meet and politely asked expected the events people like you who make what I do for one. of what happened and love possible.”

She looked at to actually come to Not only was it just an honor to me as if impressed fruition, nor did I have this simple piece of advice, by my brazened ever think in some something I’ve heard from countless attitude and asked way it wouldn’t feel of other people — my mom, my teachwhere I had come quite right. ers, librarians, friends, family — but from, when I had The Get Lost Get finally to hear it from someone who I arrived and what Found Tour to proadmired for doing what I loved really school I went to. mote the upcoming solidified it. He also wished me luck in After telling her movie adaptation the copy of his very first novel, “LookI wrote a column of John Green’s ing for Alaska.” for The Indepen“Paper Towns” was This day made me realize that it’s not dent Collegian, she a free event, so we weeks on end, or even months that can handed me my own make a year or a summer memorable. knew it was going bracelet, and I was to be crowded It can be something that you’ve always COURTESY OF FAITH SNYDER allowed to go into when we left from wanted to do, someone you always John Green, the author of “The the meet-and-greet. wanted to meet, or trying something my hometown of I sat and thought Delta, Ohio. It was Fault in our Stars,” signs a book new, but doing it is what makes the at the Get Lost Get Found Tour in about how many a partial reason event worthy.

Columbus, Ohio. things had to play I never expected College is full of memories and out perfectly in order for me to have to get up close and personal with my opportunities to create memories like been standing at that exact spot at favorite author. So we decided to leave mine — something as a freshman I that exact time. The two girls beside a day early and rent a room at a hotel didn’t take advantage of. Now as a me were actually at the end of a long in Columbus to be at the doors of the sophomore who learned that one day chain of people that wrapped around Palace Theater right when they opened can change how I see a year, I’m learnthe front of the theater from my end in up the next morning. ing to open up and explore the groups an S-shaped loop approximately 1,000 Ironically, on the drive down to and events we have on campus. I want people behind me. Right as I received Columbus, we got lost frequently, an to make my years at college memoinside joke that my family and I carried my bracelet the line began to move rable, and the only way to do that is to away from the side of the rectangular with us as we stood in the very long, step out of my comfort zone, and ask, long lines at the Get Lost Get Found enclosure and into the middle of the explore, meet people, learn and enjoy Tour. We awoke the morning of at crowd. In just two minutes I would the opportunities that are given to me about 6:45 a.m. and went to stand outhave never received the small paper because I’ll never have the chance to side the doors of the theater at 8 a.m. bracelet that was key to meeting the au- experience them again. I only have two When we arrived there, I was horrified thor that had changed the way I viewed minutes to make the decision to say to see the line had made its way around my future in writing. hello to a friendly face, skip a nap and the building and was within feet of Inside I was given front-row seats, attend a new group meeting, an event doubling itself. Hours later I would feet away from the stage, and yards or take a class I never thought about chuckle at the idea that I hadn’t gotten from John Green, Nat Wolff, Cara taking before. there early enough being one of the first Delevingne and Halston Sage. The Faith Snyder is a second-year major500 in line, and seeing more than two entire show took about one hour, I had ing in English.

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Making the most of my major A few years ago, I wanted to be a storyteller, a writer.

I had a story, a plot and characters. If you had time, believe me, I could flesh out all those story ideas, explain their origins to you, describe in fine detail my vision of all the characters and plots and show you how I would apply some magic and turn it all into something really awesome.

For at least six years, I’ve been daydreaming, noting hundreds of ideas on sheets of paper and storing

them up in a box in my imagination — a personal encyclopedia of to-dos.

My situation, I know, is not unique. Who doesn’t have big plans they never get around to acting on? The grand plan of being a writer was choked as the years passed by the weight of my career. Along the way, I became an engineer, and my writing projects were all going nowhere. In spite of this, I held on to writing because I enjoyed it as much as engineering.

Why do some people’s passions blossom into their careers, and others are left

only with daydreams?

It might be internal — most people prefer to choose the career that benefits them rather than the one they enjoy doing.

One theory of why people can never actually excel in what they want is because people prefer a comfortable and secure existence to a risky one.

Everyone wants to be better off in the future.

Even as I began to do alright as a writer, I naïvely discounted it as something I never intended to stick with, preparing myself for the so-called profession that..

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four years now. During his first year, he attended as a volunteer while still presenting as feminine, before he started transitioning.

“It was exciting,” Alferio said. “I went with really close friends, and it was just really exciting to actually see the parade, and see everyone in it, and to just be there and be around people like you, and know you’re safe.”

The festivities start on Friday at 6 p.m. Heuss said all the money raised on Friday will be donated to the Northwest Ohio Food Bank, and attendees are encouraged to bring canned goods to donate.

Each day of the festival features different events.

Friday will have live entertainment in Promenade Park and the ‘Nite Glo’ nighttime 5K run across the street at International Park.

92.5 Kiss FM will also be hosting the Kiss N’Drag event, where one of the DJs from the radio station will be hosting along with one of the local drag queens.

On Saturday, the parade participants will be marching from Adams and 21st street to Promenade Park, led by a special guest.

“The grand marshal for the parade this year is Jim Obergefell,” Heuss said.

“He is the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that won marriage equality, which is amazing, so we’re so excited that he’s going to be joining us for Pride.”

Following the parade, attendees can enjoy live entertainment, vendors, food trucks, drag performances and an Abba cover band called Always Abba coming in from Canada to perform. Heuss said the following day is a familyfocused, quieter day and admission on Sunday will be free.

Alferio said in honor of

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Honors College, but he also had a number of initiatives that were very controversial,” Barrett said. “His management style tends to be top-down rather than getting input from various constituencies before finalizing decisions, which I don’t think is the best approach for UT.” Linda Rouillard, associate professor of French, was faculty senate president during Scarborough’s time here and said she believes he was a hard worker but didn’t learn from his time at UT. “I don’t think he knows what ‘shared governance’ means,” Rouillard said.

“I am saddened by the fact that as he has gone to the University of Akron, he hasn’t learned from his time here at UT. He’s missed some important

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shifted to Academic House is the P.O.D. that was located in Carter Hall.

According to Meghan Cunningham, the assistant director for media relations, the P.O.D. will reopen in Ottawa East in early September.

According to Menard, the number of on-campus residents has remained about the same in the past few years, but because the new Honors Academic Village

“Carter Hall has been taken offline for two reasons, the major one being the fact that those beds are not needed from a numbers standpoint.”

JASON TOTH Associate Vice President for Facilities and Construction

marriage equality being legalized this year, UT Spectrum is bringing a banner that says ‘I Vow to…” to their table and encouraging attendees to write vows of support related to the LGBT community on the banner.

In addition to Obergefell’s attendance in recognition of the legalization, Heuss said there will be a special ‘Marriage Equality’ raffle.

“We’re going to be doing

Admissions Info • Friday: $5 until 7 p.m., $7 after 7 p.m.

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• All money collected during Toledo Pride will go to the NWO Food Bank.

a giant marriage equality raffle, and essentially raffling off a giant wedding package,” Heuss said. “It’s something we kind of put together with our sponsors to really celebrate marriage equality, and hopefully give a couple a really nice wedding.”

The prize package for

the raffle contains items like vouchers for tux/dress rentals, gift certificates for invitations and jewelry store gift cards to help the winner with their wedding.

Heuss said religious organizations will also be present to affirm and support those who identify as LGBT. Trinity Episcopal Center is holding a Multifaith service on Friday at 7:30 together with several other churches and denominations on Friday night in honor of Pride.

“Our whole goal is we just kind of want to build that sense of community, not just with the LGBTQ community but with all of our allies,” Heuss said.

Alferio said he encourages both LGBT-identifying individuals and those who consider themselves allies to attend the event.

“I think it [Toledo Pride] gives a place that says there’s a place for everyone here. Even if you aren’t LGBT you can still go and feel celebrated because you’re different,” Alferio said. “But you know, I think for the LGBTQ community specifically it definitely makes you feel like you’re included and you are celebrated for who you are.”

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One of the many live musical performances taking place during the 2014 Toledo Pride event. This year, Pride attendees can watch live entertainment following the parade, including drag performances and an Abba cover band.

Scarborough, Uphold Mission for Education, Not Bad Business.” Since this article was written, the petition has received nearly 11,000 votes.

Scarborough was only avail-

able for this written statement: “My colleagues have identified many of the contributions and strengths that northeast Ohio public universities provide by offering high quality educational opportunities for the many, not just for the selective few. I also agree that the benefits of cooperation among our universities yield great benefits for the region, and I look forward to expanding those ventures. The future of higher education will require each of our universities to adapt in ways that are unique to their individual institutional missions and historical strengths. There is strength in diversity, and northeast Ohio will be best served by colleges and universities that choose to be great in different ways.

Our path is as a great polytechnic university.”

was built, the residents have shifted. Carter Hall is also much older than the other residence halls, having been built in the 1960s.

“Carter Hall has been taken offline for two reasons, the major one being the fact that those beds are not needed from a numbers standpoint,” Toth said. “We have enough available beds on-campus without Carter Hall being online, and just due to the conditions in Carter Hall, it’s one of our older ResLife facilities.”

Toth and Menard said there is currently a master planning initiative that is

slated to begin meeting next week to discuss what to do with dated buildings and how to best use the facilities on campus. This discussion will include Carter Hall and other ResLife facilities.

The initiative will look at enrollment projections, talk to students, faculty and staff and work with President Sharon Gaber to develop new strategic initiatives.

Toth said the plan is “to talk about and look at the entire institution, all facets of the institution and gelling everything together so we can make informed decisions on which way to go forward.”

lessons from his time here.”

In light of recent events, parody T-shirts of Akron’s “Fear the Roo” slogan have been made that say “Fire the Scar.” Rubber City Clothing, the Akron-based clothing company that sells the product, has received mixed reviews on the shirt.

There is also a change. org petition entitled “Scott

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Carter Hall will remain closed for this academic year.

As of now, there are no current plans as to whether it will reopen, be demolished or be put to new use.

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Baseball walkon tryouts

The University of Toledo’s baseball team will be holding walk-on tryouts in early September, according to Head Baseball Coach Cory Mee. Mee announced Monday that before the tryouts a meeting will be held at the Scott Park Campus on Sept.

8 at 5:30 p.m.

Any student attempting to tryout must have proof of a physical examination within the past six months and proof of health insurance.

For additional information, contact Assistant Coach Nick Mcintyre at 419-530-3097 or at nick. mcintyre@utoledo.edu.

QB Phillip Ely overcomes torn ACL to be ready for 2015 season

By Marcus Dodson Sports editor

Blue and gold scrimmage The University of Toledo’s volleyball team held an inner-squad scrimmage Saturday evening at Savage Arena as a final tune-up for the 2015 regular season.

The scrimmage pitted the blue squad against the gold, with the blue squad coming out on top winning 2-1 (28-26, 20-25, 16-14).

Sophomore outside hitter Saige Thomas led the way for the blue team with 12 kills and a .321 attack percentage. Junior hitter Mary O’Connor tallied nine kills to go along with a team-best .350 attack percentage for the blue.

UT begins their season Sept. 28 when they host the Rocket Invitational.

Toledo will play Bradley at 10 a.m and Green Bay at 7 p.m on Friday before playing Youngstown State at 5 p.m on Saturday.

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Senior quarterback Philip Ely threw for 541 yards and four touchdowns in 2014 before tearing his ACL in the first half against the Missouri Tigers.

With just under three minutes left in the third quarter against Missouri, Toledo’s senior quarterback Phillip Ely dropped back to pass and got sacked for a loss of nine on the play. That would be Ely’s last drop back of the 2014 season just two games in, as he would tear his right ACL on the play.

“I think when you talk about Phillip’s story, it’s remarkable where he’s at right now,”

said Head Coach Matt Campbell. “He not only gets hurt by tearing his ACL in the Missouri game playing at a really high level, but not a lot of people know he tore his labrum in his non-throwing shoulder in that game. For that kid to go through those two surgeries in the off season, I don’t know if I’ve seen someone work as hard as he has to get back on the field.”

Ely, who transferred from Alabama after the 2012 season, won the QB battle in the off-

season and played well in his first two starts throwing for a total of 541 yards and four touchdowns but saw his dreams of a starting college quarterback vanish before he knew it.

“Coming from someone who never had a serious injury it was really hard at first,” Ely said. “It took me a night to get over all the emotions that come with an injury like this, I had a lot of support from my coaches, family and friends that really helped.”

Like many athletes who have been injured, Ely’s career was in question and his return was uncertain.

“I don’t know if you have anyone with a serious injury not feel down on themselves and think that their dreams are over,” Ely said. “But I was told growing up to always work hard and control what you can control.

And when I thought about that, that’s when things started going in the right direction for me.”

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SOCCER

UT opens season with a road win

By Jackson Rogers Sports Reporter

The University of Toledo women’s soccer team opened up their 2015 campaign on the road with a 3-2 double-overtime win against Detroit on Friday before succumbing 3-0 to No. 9-ranked Notre Dame on Sunday.

First-year Head Coach TJ Buchholz was impressed with the way his team responded in the opener come from behind victory.

Sophomore Isa Echeverri

led the comeback with her second career brace.

“We started off slow, but the team responded well to the adversity, battled back and never quit,” Buchholz said.

“That’s what I love about this team; they have a fighting attitude.”

The Rockets (1-1, MAC 0-0) found themselves in trouble early when the Titans’ redshirt senior Sara Zawacki found the back of the net in the seventh minute.

UT would be able to hold off Detroit for the remainder of the half and took a 6-2 shot advantage into the half.

The Titans came storming out in the second half, applying heavy pressure before capitalizing on their second goal of the game just four minutes into the half thanks to the right foot of junior Anna Mindling.

Toledo would settle down after the goal and found their rhythm.

In the 58th minute, senior

Geri Siudzinski placed her corner kick into the middle of the box which found the head of Echevarri to cut the lead in half, 2-1.

Just minutes later in the 67th minute, UT would get their equalizing goal with a blast from 15 yards out by sophomore Sophie Pohl.

Both teams struggled to find the winner in regulation pushing the game into a “Golden Goal” rules overtime.

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Sophomore Isa Echeverri scored four goals last season in her debut year.

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COMMENTARY

It’s all Gr

k to me

I never thought my sorority would become my home My eyes were on the floor as I walked down the hall questioning every decision that brought me to this moment. I had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it. I was completely nervous, but something was pulling me forward and forcing me to walk in. I saw that I wasn’t alone waiting, and that helped me to lift my head a little higher as I walked through the door.

Even before I entered the room, the questions circling my head stopped. Every fear or nerve I may have had left me as I stepped inside, because what I found on the other side wasn’t what I had expected.

It was so much more.

I saw 30 unique women staring back at me, smiling. I saw women who today I call not only my friends but my sisters.

Some would say my junior high and high school experience was not very ordinary.

Even to me, it was a little strange, going to an all-girls school for six years.

I never realized how much of an effect my high school had

find. Still, there was something missing in my life. What that was, I had no idea until halfway through my first semester of my second year at UT. One of my friends mentioned she was going to an informal recruitment for a sorority and she thought I should go with her because she didn’t want to go alone. I had never heard of the sorority before or even had thought about joining one but I agreed for her benefit.

Oddly enough, something came up and she couldn’t make it that night but I decided to go anyway. When I walked in the door, I was surrounded by smiling, confident and excited women who wanted to talk to me. I was rushed with ladies who wanted to get to know me on a deeper level than just the superficial. They all made me feel like I mattered to them and that I was meant to be standing right next to them.

Lucky for me, they all felt the same and now today instead of standing in front of them, I stand beside them. I have

ALEXANDRIA SABA

COMMUNITY EDITOR MEMBER OF DELTA PHI EPSILON

on me until my first year of college. I can honestly say that when I got to my first class and a guy sat next to me, I freaked out a little — not only because he was cute, but because I thought he was in the wrong place.

I survived my first year of college, realized what it was like to have guys in my classes again and made friends with people I never thought I would

never felt more at home than I do standing next to 50 unique women.

I found what I had been missing my first year of college.

I found the support of girls who are living and loving the college experience. I found ladies who acknowledge each of our differences and use them to help us grow together.

I found women that are now my closest friends and who I could never live without.

But most importantly, I found a place where I belong.

I would have never thought what I was missing was a room full of loudly laughing girls, all different in their own ways but completely connected to each other.

Joining a sorority was strange in the fact that Hollywood has definitely lied to every girl out there. Sororities are NOT like the movies, let me just put that out there right now.

Sororities are about being with each other, supporting each other and supporting others outside of our sister-

hood. We do service together, we study together and we hang out together. There is no tearing each other down, there is only building each other up.

I think that this is the one thing I love most about my sorority and my sisters is that no matter who you are, you’re the perfect you and no one can change that.

Sorority recruitment and especially sorority life is a path that I never thought I would go down, but I have never regretted my decision. The thought of not having my sisters in my life is strange to me. Who would I go get lunch with?

Who would help me study?

Most importantly, who would love me for exactly how I am?

I joined because I found what I had been missing in my college experience: amazing women who are all confident and beautiful in their own ways.

I hope that if you decide to go through formal recruitment, you are able to find a home where you belong, just like I did.

COURTESY OF COREY HODGSON

SORORITY RECRUITMENT WEEK Thursday, Aug. 27 7 p.m. -- Meet the Sororities, located in the Ingman Room of the Student Union.

Friday, Aug. 28 4 p.m. -- Recruitment in the Dark, located in I-House.

Sunday, Aug. 30 6 p.m. -- Meet the RhoGams, location to be announced. This is the last day to sign up for sorority recruitment.

Monday, Aug. 31 5 p.m. -- Open Round, located in the Student Union.

Tuesday, Sept. 1 and Wednesday, Sept. 2 5 p.m. -- Passport Days 1 and 2, located in the Student Union.

Thursday, Sept. 3 7 p.m. -- UT vs. Stony Brook, home football game.

Friday, Sept. 4 4 p.m. -- Philantrophy Day, located in McComas Village.

Saturday, Sept. 5 12 p.m. -- Final Party, located in the Student Union.

INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT

RedBall Project rolls into town

ABIGAIL SULLIVAN / IC

from page 5

That’s just what he did — took control of the situation and kept his sprits high.

“He inspired us,” Campbell said. “When we got to the hospital, we get there and he has a smile on his face. The first text [Woodside] gets after the Cincinnati game was from Phil telling him great game and that he’s proud of him. That’s the type of kid we are talking about here.”

However, Ely couldn’t make his comeback alone. It took many months of rehab and

Staff Reporter

Toledo residents got a dose of playtime this week as the RedBall Project rolled into town.

This summer, the Toledo Museum of Art hosted an interactive exhibition known as “Play Time,” which involved a collaborative exhibit with New York artist Kurt Perschke.

Perschke is the artist behind the big red ball that popped up all over Toledo this week. The ball inspired numerous selfies and even went viral when it escaped one of its locations downtown.

“The piece has been traveling since 2001 and it really moves through a city as a series of sites, and each site’s just a day,” Perschke said. “So, some people think of it as a sculpture but it’s kind of, in a way, more like a performance.”

Perschke described his red ball as a way for people to explore their own cities, and maybe even bring them to places that they have never seen before.

“Yesterday, in the middle of Side Cut Park we had over 3,000 people come by,” he said. “So, you know, it’s been really interesting to explore Toledo, and also have people who live here to be a part of that. I think all those things, like the imagination to see your own city is what really the piece is about.”

Since the ball arrived in Toledo on Aug. 14, it has visited the TMA Glass Pavilion, the Toledo Farmer’s Market, across from Fifth Third Field, the Toledo Edison Building, ProMedica Steam Plant, Roulet Jewelers, North Erie and Adams Streets, Boyd’s Retro Candy Store, Side Cut Metropark and ended back at the TMA on Aug. 23.

Pershcke said the museum invited him to be a part of the exhibition.

“I came out in the winter to look for all the sights and then we wanted, ideally, for it to be able to start and end at the museum. So we started at the glass pavilion, and now it’s our last day and we’re back.”

Perschke said the idea for this project came about from a piece he had done early on in his work.

“The art that I’m interested in is sculpture that can also move in the environment,” he said. “I got the opportunity to do a piece when I was in St. Louis, to do a sculptural piece responding to a sight, and RedBall kind of came out of that, actually.”

The ball is to travel with Perschke to Marsielle, France for its next performance, and has also visited Barcelona, Chicago and Abu Dhabi.

For more information on Kurt Perschke and the RedBall Project, visit redballproject.com.

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Ely

By Anna Glore

strength building to get him ready for fall camp, nearly 11 months after his injury.

“Our strength coach did a great job with him,” said Quarterback Coach and Offensive Coordinator Jason Candle.

“They got him through tough times with the rehab and getting his strength numbers back to the way they were before the injury. Coach [Rudy] Wade [strength and conditioning coach] did a great job of helping him get back to that player he used to be.

“It’s a testament of both Phil’s and our staff ’s hard work and efforts.”

Ely can almost say that he’s 100 percent again, but his comeback story isn’t over. In his absence, junior quarterback Logan Woodside went 8-2 as the starter which opened the door for yet another quarterback competition this offseason.

“He has to come back and he’s in a position battle again and that’s not an easy thing to do,” Campbell said. “But with Phillip, he comes to work the same way every day, and that’s with a phenomenal attitude and work-ethic.

“You wish that every one of your kids had the ability to do that and he’s got it.”

Win

from page 5

Just minutes before the end of the first overtime period, Toledo would get their winning goal with the same combination of their first goal. “[The win] felt good,” Buchholz said. “It was an exciting game from beginning to end.”

On Sunday, the team traveled south to face Notre Dame but the No. 9-ranked team in the country proved to be too much for the Rockets as they were blanked 3-0.

The Fighting Irish outshot

Toledo 24-1 in a very physical match that saw 14 fouls committed from each team. “[Notre Dame] was just a fantastic opponent,” Buchholz said. “There’s a reason they are ranked number nine in the country; they put us under pressure for 90 minutes. There were moments where we played well and worked hard, especially on defense.

“Overall, this was a test you want to learn from.”

Toledo fell into an early hole that they couldn’t recover from. The Fighting Irish scored two goals in the first 17 minutes.

ND would find their third goal in the 75th minute on a header by sophomore Taylor Klawunder off of a corner kick. The Rockets did not lose fight as they kept attacking late.

Senior goalie Sam Tiongson did her best to keep the Rockets in the game as she was credited with seven saves.

The Rockets will get back to the pitch when they travel to Xavier on Friday, Aug. 28 at 5 p.m. before taking on No. 16-ranked Kentucky on Sunday Aug. 30 at 6 p.m. which can be viewed on WatchESPN or the SEC network.