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ADMINISTRATION

New administrative changes shake up UT By Jessica Harker Editor-in-Chief

Welcome back! Independent Collegian editors tackle Welcome Week events as third-year students. COMMUNITY / 6 »

Spiking back A preview of UT’s women’s volleyball team as they get back into the swing of things. SPORTS / 5 »

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“But once a year, my sisters and I get guilt-tripped by our mother into canning tomatoes. And we suffer in the sweltering kitchen, all wearing “great-aunt Lucielle’s” homemade aprons.”

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My obsession with tomato sauce

OPINION / 3 »

Don’t be a blob get a job The University of Toledo gets ready for their annual on-campus job fair being held Friday August 26 in the Student Union. COMMUNITY / 6 »

“It is clear that the policy’s objective is to promote the highest levels of health and well-being for everyone on campus. What is not clear though, is how the university intends to effectively enforce the policy...”

EDITORIAL Is a tobaco-free campus a long shot

Since her appointment as university president a little over a year ago, Sharon Gaber has made many changes within the administrative staff at the University of Toledo. Throughout her first year we have seen many different administrators come and go: both long-term employees as well as new hires. “I joined the University of Toledo because I see what you see: a strong university with an incredible potential for greatness,” Gaber wrote in her welcome letter last year. “I am proud to be a part of this community and am grateful for the warm welcome I have received.” Helping her throughout this first year to accomplish these goals was Matt Schroeder, who was hired immediately as Gaber’s chief of staff when she became president. Schroeder worked previously as the chief

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operating officer for the University of Toledo Foundation. Other administrators who were hired when Gaber first began include Sam McCrimmon. He was the first ‘vice president for advancement’ — a new position created by combining the divisions of External Affairs and Institutional Advancement, which would form the Division of Advancement. Also hired by Gaber for her new administration was William Messer, the vice president of research, and James Mager, the interim vice president of

RENOVATIONS

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enrollment management. However, all three of these newly appointed administrators are already gone from these positions just as the new fall semester begins. Gaber announced on August 11 through a letter to the campus community that McCrimmion would no longer serve as the VP. Messer will also not be serving in his VP position during the fall, but will be returning to the faculty in pharmacology and medicinal and biological chemistry according to Cunningham. Mager will also be leaving his

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RACE

Carlson library opens with ribbon cutting ceremony By Meg Perry Staff Reporter

A small crowd gathered together on the third floor of the University of Toledo’s Carlson Library on August 18 to celebrate the newly renovated third and fourth floors. After a summer of construction, the ribboncutting ceremony officially welcomed students to try out the new facilities before the start of the fall semester. “This three-million-dollar renovation is proof that our library continues to accommodate all types and forms of studying and academic pursuit,” said UT President Sharon Gaber , one of the keynote speakers at the ribbon-cutting. The renovation, which was funded entirely by state capital investment funds, not only provides students with more study space, but has also equipped the third and fourth floors with new chairs, desks, carpeting, ceilings, lighting and added many easily accessible electrical outlets. Over 20 study rooms were also added to accommodate private individual studying as well as group studies. “It’s for the students,” said Elaine Reeves, the university’s online learning librarian. “We want them to have good lighting, more comfortable furniture and we want them to have nice study spaces.”  The library renovation began late last spring. Gaber, UT provost Andrew Hsu and the entire library faculty said they are incredibly pleased with the difference just one year of renovations has made. “I believe our students will not only be better, more successful, students as a result of these new spaces,” said Barbara Floyd, director of university libraries, in her opening speech. “They will be better citizens of the world because of the face-to-face exchanges that happen within these spaces.”  Minutes after the ribbon cutting — much to the library faculties’ delight — students began See Library / 4 »

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Corrections: In our summer edition of the Independent Collegian, UT101, we wrote an article titled UT Fee’s. Accompanying the story was a graphic with the fee’s added together. The number of average tuition printed in the graphic was incorrect. Additionally, in last week’s paper in the article titled ‘Mac Media Day kicks off season’ MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrecher’s name was spelled incorrectly. We regret there errors.

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position, though it was not left vacant for very long. According to UT News, Mager’s interim contract expired on May 13. After his departure, UT hired Stephanie Sanders as the interim vice president of enrollment management. The UT News article said Sanders was hired for two years after a failed search by the university for someone to be permanently hired for the position. “While the search identified some strong candidates, we weren’t able to bring it to conclusion,” Gaber said in the article. “Stephanie will help us to continue to build the foundation of strong recruitment and retention efforts at The University of Toledo. We will then be positioned to have a strong national search.” However there will be another vacant spot at UT in the

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Tyler Williams, a third-year electrical engineering major, writes a comment about the renovations at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

RAINBOW RUN

What it’s really like to participate in Toledo’s annual color run

By Emily Jackson

Assoc. Community Editor

It feels as if I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life, standing here in a sea of white t-shirts, brightly patterned socks and sparkly tutus. Music blares, bubbles float through the air and cheers rise from the crowd a hundred yards ahead as the next wave of people races away down the street. My friends and I take a couple minutes to stretch as we near the starting line. Soon enough, it’s our turn. Over the loudspeakers someone is yelling “Go!” And then we’re off. A group of about a hundred other people flows as one out into the street. A rush of adrenaline fills my veins and my tutu rustles wildly in the wind as we make our way down the street and around the first block. Mothers push strollers and toddlers waddle to keep up and the fastest runners whiz past us. A few more turns and I spot it: the first color station. We take off sprinting toward the yellow cloud. We pass under a huge inflatable arch where volunteers have lined the street, ready to douse us in color. I throw my hands in the air and skip - hop - twirl into the cloud. A blast of powdery yellow hits my face, my shirt, my shoes. Laughter bounces off the tall city buildings and I hear my own giggles join the noise. Never before have I felt so unashamedly giddy. Throughout the following four kilometers, my friends and I are repeatedly splashed with pinks, blues and oranges. Every so often, we stop to take pictures; to scoop color from the ground and throw it at one another; to do a cartwheel. Finally, we reach the end and, as we cross the finish line, one last color, a glittery metallic silver, powders my cheeks and shirt. For completing the race, each of us are awarded a gold medal, a bag of colored powder and a granola bar. The race is over, but it seems the real fun is just beginning. A large crowd

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Associate community editor Emily Jackson stands infront of the color run sign after a successful firsttime in running the color run race in 2015.

has gathered in a grassy area around a small stage and the DJ is blaring something loud and upbeat Brimming with smiles and covered head to toe in a rainbow of hues, my friends and I melt into the crowd, bouncing up and down to the beat of the music. Someone with a microphone climbs on-stage and tosses dozens of color packets into the crowd. Then, on the count of three, we rip open our packets and thrust them into the air. The sky above becomes a cloud of bright purple, green, blue, pink and gold. By the end of the day, our faces are caked with color and the only thing you can see are white toothy smiles and twinkling eyes. This is what it was like for me to be a color runner, to take part in the Color Run. And honestly, it was one of the most unforgettable days of my life. Held in downtown Toledo, last year’s run was an amazing experience for me and this year the Color Run is being held right on the University of Toledo’s main campus.

The Color Run

The Color Run, also known as the Happiest 5k on the Planet, is a one-ofa-kind race that encourages healthiness, happiness and individuality. Each year, the Color Run hosts events in over 200 cities and 40 countries where people of all ages and athletic ability come

out to run, walk and dance their way to the finish line. But the Color Run is so much more than just a fun run: it also partners with local charities to help raise much-needed funds. Last year, the Color Run helped to support Mercy Children’s Hospital and will do so again this year. On a much larger scale, the run is also affiliated with the Global Poverty Project, an international education and advocacy organization working to put an end to extreme poverty by 2030. So, if you want a feel-good way to spend your Saturday, you might want to consider signing up and joining in the fun. To celebrate the Color Run’s five-year anniversary, this year’s theme is “Tropicolor” and will include island-style music, a rainbow beach, inflatable palm trees and beach vibes. The race will take place Saturday, Aug. 27 at the University of Toledo. Free parking will be available in Lot 25, Lot 13 and the west parking garage. However because parking is limited, participants are encouraged to arrive early. The start-line will open behind Academic House at 10 a.m. with waves of runners going every few minutes until 10:30 a.m. It’s going to be an absolute blast and you better believe I’ll be out there again this year — running in my crazy striped socks and billowing tutu.

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EDITORIAL

Is a tobaccofree campus a long-shot? Anti-tobacco policies are a growing trend on American college campuses. Many well-known campuses including the University of Michigan, American University, Clemson and Ohio State’s College of Medicine have instituted policies of their own. In January 2008, the University of Toledo’s health science campus became tobacco-free while main campus restricted smoking to so-called ‘smoking huts’. UT moved forward with this policy and on Aug. 1, 2014, the UT’s board of trustees made all University of Toledo campuses ‘tobacco-free zones’. Even though a UT Student Government survey found 60 percent support for the policy, student groups such as the Young Americans for Liberty resisted it. The policy has seen much resistance since it was enacted, both verbally as well as an outright ignoring of the rule. It is clear that the policy’s objective is to promote the highest levels of health and well-being for everyone on campus. What is not clear though, is how the university intends to effectively enforce the policy and to ensure it is followed. We must acknowledge that the existing anti-smoking services provided for students and faculty are great. These services include counselors at the Counseling and Wellness Centers, signage at vantage points across campus, maintaining a hotline for reporting violations and prohibiting the sale or advertisement of tobacco products on university properties. What we question however is another aspect of its implementation – the one that requires people to bear sharedresponsibilities in approaching violators in ‘respectful ways feasible’ to draw attention to these violations. Lets face it, how does a person who finds smoking repugnant ‘respectfully’ tell another person ‘who supposedly knows the policy but chooses to violate it’ to stop smoking on campus? Besides, while not watering down the depth of UT’s sense of community, how much space does our internalized culture of individualism permit us to approach a person in the first place and ask them to do what ‘we think is right’? In addition, we believe that the official position to not make the policy punitive does not help. As a community we must have clear punishments in place, such as the policy we currently have for checking parking permit violations with both warnings as well as fees. Clearly, repercussions for breaking the rule have not been enforced and so people continue use tobacco-products on campus. We must also make tobacco-free campus education mandatory components of our freshmen orientations as well as advertise it during university games. It is not fun to have to inhale second-hand smoke at the bus terminal, at a Rocket Football game or just around spots of relaxation on campus. Change requires sacrifices and challenging the status quo. As a diverse campus we may not adequately satisfy everybody’s desires, but it is important we remain true to what we know is right for the majority and be willing to take criticisms for it. We have to roll up our sleeves and show that we are truly committed to this policy in order to realize the goal of a healthier community sooner.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The promise of a Trump presidency I am a UT alumnus; as recently as 2003 I was a Master’s-level student majoring in Counseling Psychology. In 2000 I graduated Magna cum Laude with a degree in Psychology from one of the nation’s best Psychology departments, UT’s. I am addressing current UT students about a candidate to the Presidency who would ruin your future and our future as a nation, Donald Trump. Trump is a sick individual whom even a Republican leader, Senator Ted Cruz, characterized as a “pathological liar,” “serial philanderer” and “very narcissistic,” plus a “maniac.” Indeed, risking trouble with the State Boards, the licensing government agencies, clinical psychologists that never treated Trump have diagnosed him with Narcissistic Personality Disorder; the latter bringing echoes of Adolf Hitler’s diagnosis, according to Carl G. Jung, just after WWII: hysterical neurosis, which a former UT faculty member, Dr. John Lewton, said can be diagnosed using several of the DSM-IV, now DSM-V, axis. So ‘hysterical neurosis’ is rather a compound of mental health diseases. In fact, back in 2002 Dr. Lewton told his graduate students that mental health diagnosis are tentative sketches, not diagnoses in the sense of allopathic medicine. So to reduce the sickness of Trump to textbook narcissism is an oversimplification. Trump’s obvious mania, his obsession with always being on the offensive even at the cost of losses in polls, tells of a far more complex diagnosis. Nonetheless, Trump’s sadism is a quintessential symptom of sociopaths, like the German Nazis, and hard-wired psychopaths. I can’t help it seeing Trump as a Nazi. A faux populist, Trump promises to his WASP and WASC followers that he would never be able to deliver. Find someone who was a working class man in Toledo, forty-five years ago or so, when the city was full of factories. One of them told me, “When I did not like a factory job, I just quit and found another one across the street, that easy.” In short, the high-paying factory jobs that Trump promises will not come back; except for highly skilled workers in the high-tech industry and the like. Yet, from last year to date, Trump has kept fooling the gullible into believing that he can deliver, only because of his success in business. Whereas in real life Trump is

not nearly the excellent businessman he calls himself, his top deal-making skills notwithstanding. He has become a billionaire by lying, cheating, and filing four bankruptcies. In short, to rise to the top in U.S. politics Trump used many of Hitler’s tactics, and nonetheless the demonization of ethnic and religious minorities. In thus doing, Trump has transformed the Republican Party into a mass movement, a white supremacist political mass movement that at the grass-roots level is not altogether or intrinsically different from German Nazism.

Trump is not nearly the excellent businessman he calls himself, his top deal-making skills notwithstanding. He has become a billionaire by lying, cheating, and filing four bankruptcies. In short, to rise to the top in U.S. politics Trump used many of Hitler’s tactics, and nonetheless the demonization of ethnic and religious minorities. In real life, Trump never before cared about the ordinary folk. Neither did Hitler really care about the Volk, the ordinary German folk; he deceived the folks just to feed his colossal narcissism, exactly like Trump. Hitler set up a massive deception game to destroy German’s weak Weimar Republic, and so Trump has done to our far stronger democracy, a long shot at a doomsday scenario that this nation might look like. So like Hitler, Trump has blamed non-whites and foreigners for that which is a structural, and economic, problem: the ups and downs of industrial, and post-industrial, economies. So it is all the Mexicans’ fault, and here Trump promises devastating trade wars that have the potential of turning into actual wars. Then

maniac “President Trump” holding the nuclear codes: can you, current UT students, imagine what might come next, that is from a thin-skinned leader unable to tolerate any slight? Once in power Trump would not deliver but further scapegoat ethnic and religious minorities, hence fueling violent white supremacies. UT students, you do not want to get your degree and then watch the news about white supremacists brandishing assault rifles storming mosques or either Mexican-American or AfricanAmerican neighborhoods, and murdering scores; then, in revenge, your family being killed by New Black Panthers or other violent ethnic militants. But that is precisely the potentiality of what Trump has unleashed. Particularly because the drug cartels, now closely connected with both neo-Nazi state and nonstate actors and Islamic terrorism, would love to make of the United States another battlefield like Mexico. No, Trump will not have any SA-like Stormtroopers seize the Reichstag, i.e. U.S. Congress, although the infamous Trump tweet with his face, the White House, the flag, and the German SS troops marching makes one cringe: freedom in the U.S. can only be lost gradually, step by step, incrementally. In sum, this is not the normal presidential transition I experienced as a UT student at both the undergraduate and the graduate level; it calls for personal responsibility from each and every UT student, faculty member, and employee; plus all family members, friends, acquaintances, and neighbors. We all need to rally against white supremacist, mentally deranged Donald Trump. Those of you who happen to be conservative Republicans, and all others, can most certainly vote to reelect Republican U.S. Senator Rob Portman, whose Senate work for both Ohio and the nation has been outstanding. But please do not vote for Trump, or, in the event of the catastrophe of Trump winning next November, one day you will deeply regret it. There is a likelihood that the presidential election will be decided here in Ohio, so please, register to vote and vote against Trump. Ricardo Oscar Martinez UT Alumnus

OPINION

My obsession with tomato sauce My aunt Laura always has to sort through each tomato herself, as she insists on making sure the tomatoes are up to par. Each tomato is carefully checked over for bad spots and for color. Bad tomatoes can ruin an entire jar of tomato soup. Just one, small rotten tomato can ruin an entire good thing that you spent time laboring over.

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Last weekend, my family canned tomatoes. If you’ve never made homemade tomato juice, sauce or whole tomatoes, you probably don’t know that hot tomatoes smell. The scent gets into your clothes, your hair and your skin. No amount of scrubbing gets rid of the tomato. I’ll forever smell like the acidic redness. But once a year, my sisters and I get guilttripped by our mother into canning tomatoes. And we suffer in the sweltering kitchen, all wearing “great-aunt Lucielle’s” homemade aprons. I’ve never met my great-great aunt Lucile because I’m pretty sure she died in the 1970s, way before I was born. But because my great-great aunt and her daughters, their daughters and my mother and her sisters all canned tomatoes together, we all have to can tomatoes together. The first step is to wash all the tomatoes and separate the good from the bad.

But because my great-great aunt and her daughters, their daughters and my mother and her sisters all canned tomatoes together, we all have to can tomatoes together. Next, the tomatoes have to be cooked. You can do this by filling up a large pot with quartered tomatoes and small amount of water and boiling them. It amazes me every time that the pot is quickly filled with water, even though I’ve only added the tiniest amount. This is where the smell comes into play. Hot tomatoes reek like three-day dead road kill. I cannot stand the smell of them. But in the end, I still eat them even though I know they smell like complete garbage when boiling. Growing up, my job was the tomato squisher, which is the next step. Starting as early as age 5, I got to stand on the chair

and squish the hot and cooked tomatoes with a plastic plunger and crank the handle on the gear. Tomatoes go into the funnel and juice comes out the other end. But there’s another exit on the machine. All the gunk of tomato skins and seeds get smushed into a paste. It’s gross, but fascinating. It’s what is left of the tomato after all the juice is squeezed out. But in my family, nothing goes to waste. That garbage which we will eventually throw out, has to be squeezed once more through the machine to get every last drop of tomato juice. There’s a large amount that comes out the second time. It proves that everything has worth, even when I insist that I don’t have to run it through again because the tomato has no juice left in it. Finally, you fill hot jars with the hot tomato juice, cover them with hot lids and screw on the rings. Place the jars in the pressure cooker and wait until you hear the whistle blow. My favorite part is hearing the lids pop while they are cooling; that is the way we know we have a job well done. This process isn’t anything new to my life or my family. Every summer since I can remember, we’ve made tomato sauce at my grandpa’s house. And the same tradition occurred way before I or even my mother existed. It’s something that is distinctly old-world, brought over and handed down from generation to generation. It was much easier to can something with heat and store it that way because it stayed for months, not days. Canning isn’t

popular anymore because it’s not needed. Anyone can run down to the grocery store and buy a can of whole tomatoes or juice for less than two dollars. Someday, this tradition will be left up to my sisters and I. Well, mainly me. Even though I gripe and complain every year, I know that growing vegetables and canning them is a family tradition and I should keep it up. I probably even end up forcing my future children to help just like my mom and aunts have done to my generation and their mother did to their generation. It’s a family bonding experience.

It is something that is distinctly old-world, brought over and handed down from generation to generation... Someday, this tradition will be left up to my sisters and I [to] keep it up. I get to hear stories from my mother and her sisters about my extended family, stories about these people I’ve never met because they’ve been gone long before I was born. My grandmother died when I was just two years old. Canning tomatoes is a way for me to connect with these family members that I’ve never met.

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beginning of the school year. The position of VP of marketing and communication, previously held by Jonathan Strunk, will be left open after Strunk resigned from the University on July 14, though according to UT spokesperson Meghan Cunningham he will continue to work remotely for the university until March 31. UT lost a few key administrators this past year, but gained several as well. Willie McKether came on board as the new vice president of diversity. Previously, McKether worked as the special assistant to the president for diversity before he was given the more permanent vice president role. He has worked with Gaber throughout the 2015-16 school year to reach out to the community — both on and off campus — to create a

“What needs to be changed will have to be a collective decision with input from the students, from faculty and staff — from the current leadership at the university” Andrew Hsu Provost

diversity plan catered to their needs. The new plan was published at the end of the 2015 spring semester and will be officially enacted at the start of the fall semester. Around the same time, Andrew Hsu was brought to UT to serve as the provost. He was appointed after a nationwide search that resulted in three finalists. “What needs to be changed will have to be a

collective decision with input from the students, from faculty and staff — from the current leadership at the university,” Hsu said in a previous interview. Overall, the University of Toledo has seen a variety of changes throughout the first year of Gaber’s presidency. With the new school year starting off with huge changes as well, her next year is sure to be full of surprises.

MORE ONLINE Things you must do in Toledo before you graduate By Jared Hightower Copy Editor

1.Visit the Toledo Museum of Art a.Toledo’s own art museum is the sight to see. It’s a world-class museum with hallways that seem to go on forever. It’s really easy to get lost in there, so make sure you grab a map! My favorite piece is this ornate gold clock which sits in the middle of one of the permanent exhibits. Since we are the “Glass Capital of the World,” it is only fitting that we have a museum of glass art. The Glass Pavilion is just across the street from the main building. Admission is free, and one of the UT bus routes drops you off right there, so you really have no excuse not to go. b.Current and upcoming exhibits: i.The Libby Dolls: Fashioning the Story (Oct. 28-Feb. 12) ii.Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Private Collections (ends September 18) iii.Shakespeare’s Characters: Playing the Part (sept. 2- Jan. 8) iv.Jaume Plensa: Human Landscape (ends Nov. 6) v.I Approve This Message: Decoding Political Ads (ends Nov. 8) c.Website: http://www.toledomuseum.org 2.See the performing arts: Symphony, Theater, Opera, Ballet a.Toledo has its own orchestra, appropriately named the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, which plays nearly every week at the beautiful Peristyle inside the art museum. They also have concert series at other beautiful locations, like the chamber music series at the Toledo Club and the Pops series which features orchestral versions of modern music at a variety of venues. UT students can purchase heavily discounted at the door right before a lot of shows, which is nice. Just remember to bring your student ID! (http://www.toledosymphony.org) b.Toledo has three community theater groups: the Toledo Repertoire Theatre (toledorep.org), the Village Players (thevillageplayers.org) and the Glacity Theatre Collective (glacity.org). Since these are community troupes, you can volunteer and audition! These are neat ways to get involved outside of campus. Current and future performances: 1.REP: 110 Stories (Sept. 9-11) The Complete Works of Shakespeare (sept. 30- Oct. 9) Out of Sight...Out of Murder (Nov. 11-20) 2.Village: Vanya and Sonya and Masha and Spike (Sept. 16-25) An Empty Plate at the Café du Grand Boeuf (Nov. 4-13)

UT offers new Media Communication major By Bryce Buyakie Staff Reporter

This fall the Department of Communication here at the University of Toledo is offering a brand new Bachelors degree called Media Communication. Media Communication focuses on all sides of media from journalism and broadcasting to social media. Students will be able to work in production behind and in front of the camera for various events. To keep up with the demands of this media driven world, students will learn many practical skills such as writing, reporting, shooting, editing, performing and social media. This major expands on traditional journalism and mass communication in a way that an individual journalism degree or mass communication degree would fail to achieve. “The field of communication has evolved and changed a great deal in the last ten years,” wrote Jackie Layng in an email interview, a UT Professor of Communication who has been working on the new degree program. “The various fields of broadcasting, journalism and production have merged

“We created the new Media Communication major to help our students and UT not only compete but also become the leaders in this field.” Jackie layng Professor of Communication

and our department needed to change as well, so we created the new major to meet the ever increasing needs for communication professionals.” A huge component of the new communication degree is hands-on learning. Involvement at various campus media outlets will be encouraged and intern-

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Rocket Hall is where most of the communication students take classes.

ships could be required in the future. There will also be classes that provide students the opportunity to learn by experience.

Communication Alumni to create this degree. In 2013 their work was presented to the Department of Communication who agreed

“There is no field or area of life that is not impacted by the daily use of media. Thus, the need for professionals who know how to create content for that media is growing exponentially and very few colleges or universities are meeting that need,” John Eidemiller Executive Producer and Interim Media Services Coordinator.

This is not a new teaching method for the comm. department here at UT. In fact, two classes that already do this are Comm-4100 Multimedia Journalism that produces UT:10 News and Comm-3260 Live Event Production, a class that is responsible for producing UT athletic events that are streamed online at ESPN3. “In television, college graduates are not getting jobs as reporters, or as videographers, or as editors; they are getting jobs as Multimedia Journalists, a one-man-band who goes out and does everything,” wrote John Eidemiller in an email interview, Executive Producer and Interim Media Services Coordinator. “We are creating wellrounded professionals, who have the ability to specialize in a particular area by gaining enough hands-on experience.” Layng along with Don Reiber, an associate professor who passed away last year, conducted years of research contacting media professionals and UT

that it was time to expand the program from one to two majors to meet the ever increasing growth in the fields of media. Finally, this summer the State of Ohio Board of Regents approved the new degree to be offered this fall. “There is no field or area of life that is not impacted by the daily use of media. Thus, the need for professionals who know how to create content for that media is growing exponentially and very few colleges or universities are meeting that need,” wrote Layng. “We created the new Media Communication major to help our students and UT not only compete but also become the leaders in this field.” The Bachelor of Arts in degree in Media Communication is now being offered this fall through the College of Arts and Letters. For more information on the major you can reach out to communication adviser Lisa Bollman at 419.530.4436 or at Commdept@utoledo.edu.

3.Glacity: House of Vinyl (June 24-25)

c.Don’t ever be the person who says you “know opera” because you once saw Phantom on tour. Get yourself over to the beautiful, historic Valentine Theatre to see the Toledo Opera. With Student Rush tickets, just

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Carlson Library celebrated the opening of the renovated third and fourth floors Thursday August 18.

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to fill the newly renovated floors. “I’m very excited to use these modern study spaces,” said Emily Davis, a third-year criminal justice major. “The renovations on the third and fourth floor have created opportunities for students to utilize an updated and creative workspace.”  These new workspaces were created for students to take advantage of a more effective and comfortable study environment while using library resources and professionals to

“The new group study rooms and the individual study carrels will help Carlson Library to further meet the changing need...” Sharon gaber UT Preseident

“The renovations on the third and fourth floor have created opportunities for students to utilize an updated and creative workspace.” EMILY DAVIS third-year criminal justice major

help them access greater information. Carlson Library is striving to stay in touch with the times and trends. “The new group study rooms and the individual study carrels will help Carlson Library to further meet the changing need of both current as well as future generations of students,” Gaber said at the ribbon-cutting. The hard work put into the third and fourth floors has resulted in a complete transformation; however, Gaber said that it does not stop here. Renovations to the other floors of the library will continue on starting in the spring semester.

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VOLLEYBALL

Spiking back Volleyball returns to the court By Jackson Rogers Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo women’s volleyball team will look to stake its claim in the ranks of the Mid-American Conference for its 2016 campaign. The Rockets went 3-13 in the MAC and 6-23 overall last year. UT seniors Lindsay Smith, Maggie Johnston and Mary O’Connor return to the court this year for the rockets. The team will also see returning key contributors junior Rachel Vidourek, junior Lauren Bakaitis and sophomore Carly Townsend. Toledo will have plenty of experience going into the season as these players played significant time as underclassmen. The coaching staff will look to these upperclassmen to establish a veteran presence among the team. Preview for the expected starters and position battles on the team: Right Side Hitter O’Connor and sophomore Haley Sendelbach will compete for the right side hitter position. O’Connor started 23 games last season as a junior, posting 2.08 kills per set and 0.35 blocks per set, which ranked third on the team. Her best games were against Evansville where she recorded a career high 16 kills (Sept. 5) and Green Bay (Aug. 28), recording a career high 433 hitting average.

Sendelbach started 10 matches at the middle position for team needs and rotated to the right in the offseason. She ranked second on the team 0.68 blocks per team and averaged 1.46 kills. Middle Hitter Rachel Vidourek will assume the duties of middle hitter for the Rockets this season. She was one of the best middle hitters in the conference last year as lead the team with 0.83 blocks per set and a .315 attack average. Outside Hitter UT will have a committee of outside hitters with junior Sage Thomas, sophomore Gracey Tuifua and redshirt freshman Machayla Leonard. Thomas started in all of the Rockets’ 29 contests last season with 2.59 kills per set. She posted a career high 18 terminations against Bradley (Aug.28).

Tuifua started out the 2015 season at the middle hitter position and then switched to the left side. She had 1.91 kills and 0.49 blocks per set. Leonard started in the season opener for UT but dislocated her ankle, ending her season. In high school, Leonard was a two-time first team all-conference selection at Normal Community High School. Libro/Defensive Specialist Johnston and sophomore Maurissa Leonard are the two main contenders for Toledo’s Libero. Johnston was second on the team last year in digs per set with 2.64. She started in 24 matches in her career for the Rockets. Leonard, as a sophomore, ranked fifth in the MAC with 4.49 digs per set last season. Setter Carly Townsend will be the Rockets’ setter for the 2016 season. Townsend started 9 of Toledo’s last 10 matches last season. She registered 4.95 assists, 1.43 kills and 1.36 digs with a .209 attack average. Schedule The Rockets will start the 2016 season with the Wright State’s Holiday Inn Invitational Aug. 26-27 and Houston Baptist’s Labor Day Classic on Sept. 2-3. Toledo will start out MidAmerican Conference play by hosting Eastern Michigan Sept. 23 and Central Michigan Sept. 24.

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Rockets celebrate Victory Day

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The rain didn’t make the smiles and cheers go away last Saturday as the Toledo Rockets football team hosted their third annual ‘Victory Day’ for impaired students from the Toledo area schools. The storms from last Saturday made the Rockets move the event inside into the Fetterman Training Center. During the now inside event everyone stayed dry as they scored touchdowns. Each student was paired with a football player and the football player was his or her mentor during the event. The students got to wear their own Victory Day jerseys throughout the event, and were even awarded medals representing their victory throughout the day. “It is just a tremendous day for our guys and for the kids. Sometimes I think our guys get more out of this than the kids do,” said Rockets head football coach Jason Candle to UT Athletics.

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Wednesday, Aug. 24 12 – 2 p.m. Student Involvement Fair

Want to get involved? This annual fair is held in Centennial Mall and is a great opportunity to meet student leaders and find an organization that you are passionate about. Whether it’s Greek life, intramurals sports, an academic club or a religious organization, there’s bound to be a group for you. There will be over 150 student organizations present so come out, check it out and get involved. Thursday, Aug. 25 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. De-Stress Fest

Are classes stressing you out already? Stop by the University Counseling Center for free pizza, a chance to win prizes and spend a few minutes in the massage chair. You can even cuddle up with some dogs from the Toledo Area Humane Society. What better way to spend a Thursday afternoon? Saturday, Aug. 27 8 to 11 p.m. Paint UT Due to rain, this giant paint party has been moved to Saturday in the Flatlands. The night will be full of black lights, electronic dance music and an abundance of glowpaint. Be prepared to get colorful. Monday, Aug. 29 12 – 1:30 p.m. ALICE Session The Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate (ALICE) program will take place in the Center for Creative Education Room 0111 on UT’s Health Science campus. Learn how to survive life-threatening situations that involve a shooter or violent intruder and be able to lead others to safety. Attendance vouchers will be provided. Tuesday, Aug. 30 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tuesday Tidbits Come out to the Student Union’s Trimble Lounge for free food and enlightening tidbits. This meeting will highlight academic resources designed to help students succeed and graduate. Representatives from various different academic services will be present to share information and advice. Tuesday, Aug. 30 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. All Sorority Meet n’ Greet Want to join a sorority but not sure which one? Learn more about going Greek this Tuesday in the Student Union Auditorium. Each group has their own process of recruiting new members and each one offers different unique opportunities. Come find out which one is right for you and how to join. Wednesday, Aug. 31 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Personal Safety and Self Defense This course is free and open to all University of Toledo students, faculty, and staff. During the course, you will learn personal safety tips as well as self-defense tacticsin a safe and compfortable setting. You must sign a liability release form to participate. Wear comfortable clothing and tennis shoes.

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CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Welcome Back! By Emily Schnipke Managing Editor

Welcome Week is a rite of passage for college students across the country. It’s the way that college campuses ‘seal the deal’ and make you think, “I think I’m going to like it here.” The face you show at the events and parties during the first 72 hours you’re on campus will set your place for the next four years. Just kidding. Welcome Week events are super fun for those who go and if you don’t go or do other activities, it doesn’t matter. The University of Toledo does their Welcome Week events very well, making sure to include different things that appeal to the vast majority of freshman. Free food, free clothing and giveaways are enough to entice even the oldest student on UT’s campus and it works well to bring freshman to an event.

“So we set out to become freshmen again because college is only as fun as you make it.” But looking back on it two years later, I wish I would’ve gone when I was a freshman. I missed all of the welcome week activities and parties because of marching band practice. Now in my junior year, I wondered what it would be like to have attended Welcome Week like a true freshman. But why couldn’t I still do that now? What was stopping me? Honestly, I needed a buddy. You can’t party like a freshman by yourself. I recruited fellow junior Jessica Harker, editor-in-chief of the Independent Collegian. She also never went to any events during welcome week. Not because of marching band, but because she ‘didn’t feel like it at the time’. Psh. Whatever, she was going to go to them now. So we set out to become freshman again because college is only as fun as you make it. We grabbed our list of events and tried narrowing down the list to a more manageable calendar. It was harder than I thought. We couldn’t possibly go to everything because we have jobs and don’t live on campus anymore. So we chose what we thought were the four most popular events. First up was the bonfire. We showed up an hour late, like normal people do, but quickly realized that we made a rookie mistake. The Flatlands were filled with freshman milling about. We honestly forgot just how many students were on UT’s campus. The annual campus bonfire during welcome week brings out almost every freshman with enticing food, music and prizes (and more free t shirts!). I quickly got lost in the crowd and felt like a true freshman again. We watched the Blue Crew engage in a dance battle with a freshman student that made the crowd go crazy. But then WXUT

announced they were giving away prizes. I just had to win a free t-shirt. I don’t care if I already have 30 UT themed shirts; I need another one. So I moved myself up to the front and answered the next question they shouted out, which happened to be the easiest one. “What are UT’s school colors?” I mean, come on. Seriously. But I got a free t-shirt and that’s basically what I came to UT for. The next day, we went to the annual Convocation BBQ. Free food surrounded by fun activities always attracts students and, once again, it did not fail to disappoint. The Toft’s ice cream was a real big hit with us, as was watching other students fall off the rodeo shark and get knocked out by the inflatable sweeper arm. We even saw UT’s Dean of Students, Dr. Phillip “Flapp” Cockrell, dancing along with students to the Wop. Then we chilled until it was time for the CAP Foam Party. And when I say foam party, I mean FOAM party. Basically, a bunch of freshman shoved inside of this big blowup pool, standing underneath a bubble machine. It looked like a communal bath, but insanely fun. Jessica and wandered around and watched as students shoved bubbles into each other’s faces. Then there was the annual Slip N’ Slide. Boy, it is crazy. Free pizza, Brew Toledo coffee and a chance to break a leg or arm? Best time ever. Students slide down Parks Tower hill and try to not to die as they do so. We came, we saw, we conquered. But, in the end, we’re just not freshmen anymore. We don’t live on campus and have too busy lives to even think about partying for four straight days. But that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate the time and effort students and administrators put in to host these events. We love the opportunity that it creates for students to have the “true” college experience.

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REVIEW

EMPLOYMENT

A Fusing of Cultures

Don’t be a blob; go get a job

By Emily Jackson

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Associate Community Editor

Attention all foodies: A new food spot in Toledo fuses the flavors of Asian, American and Mediterranean tastes in the form of a pita. Fusion Pitas, located in the Talmadge Town Center, offers a diversified culture of cuisine, while also serving traditional and modern style bubble tea. The new restaurant opened its doors July 31 and is the brainchild of brothers and co-owners Issa and Sam Bai. Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Sylvania, Ohio, the siblings grew up learning about both traditional Lebanese and American cultures. Fusion Pitas is less than four miles from the University of Toledo and is next to the Franklin Park Mall, making it a great spot for students to try a unique kind of dining experience. “We’ve always been into the fusion type of market,” Sam said. “And here we offer freshness and an authentic way of making bubble tea.” With the wide variety of items on the menu Fusion Pitas expects to lure an assorted crowd. “We’re hoping we can attract the high school and college crowd in the local Toledo area,” Sam said. Though Fusion Pitas is not the only place in Toledo to serve Bubble Tea, they do offer a wide

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selection of food items and smoothies as well. Their menu features items such as Korean Bulgogi Cheesesteak and Traditional Thanksgiving Day Turkey, which comes wrapped in pita with a unique mix of stuffing and raspberry relish. Also available, for those with who are less adventurous, is their Chicken Fried Bacon or Taiwanese Salty Crispy Chicken bites. The restaurant also has vegan and vegetarian options, as well as fresh ingredients, meat bought from local suppliers and bobas, the flavorful little balls you find in your bubble tea, that are made daily. Although the restaurant is already opened, the brothers are hoping to hold a grand opening sometime in September.

If you go What: Fusion Pitas Where: Talmadge Town Center, near corner of Talmadge and Sylvania. When: Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

School’s back in session, which means it’s time to jump back on the broke college budget boat. Fortunately, the University of Toledo is providing an opportunity to get your finances straight. Whether mother and father have cut the financial umbilical cord or enhancing your skills has become a top priority, then spruce up that resume and put a crease in those pants because the job fair is on the way! This Friday, Aug. 26 ‘The On-Campus Student Employment Part-Time Job Fair’ will be held in the Student Union rooms

“Working on campus has really strengthened my skills. Making sure you have a strong resume at the job fair wil definitely set you apart from others.” DANA THOMAS TRIO Student Support Services Employee

2582 and 2584 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. “’The On-Campus Part-Time Job Fair’ is an opportunity for students to connect with different departments to be hired on campus,” said Joshua Vail, student employment specialist in Career Services. This annual event provides students with the opportunity to potentially find out about the career departments they didn’t know existed at the university. According to Vail, 15 departments are scheduled to be at the job fair, ranging from Residence Life to the Recreation Center to Transit Services. “Some students may not even know that we have a bus system here; they may not know what’s going on at the rec center; maybe they are a little shy to go to the rec center and work out,” said Shelly Drouillard, director of Center for Experiential Learning and Career Services. “This op-

portunity opens up the doors for them to know about other services on campus.” In addition to the different opportunities working on campus provides, it may also be a little easier for students when it comes to working with school schedules. “We’re working on campus so the goal is for education first and departments here on campus see that whereas jobs off campus may not see that same cooperation,” Vail said. “You may have an exam and need off and the faculty and staff here will work with them; it keeps students on campus working where their education is still the number one priority.” The main goal is to provide students with a job to help supplement their income while still allowing them to be in an environment that puts the focus on school. “Working on campus has really strengthened my skills,” said Dana Thomas, a student worker at TRIO Student Support Services. “Making sure you have a strong resume at the job fair will definitely set you apart from others.” According to Vail, seeking resume help prior to this event is recommended in addition to having an elevator speech, which is a one to two-minute introduction of yourself. “Plan on coming semi-casual,” Vail said. “As we know it is a campus job fair and students are now coming back so we’re not expecting to see students in suits. We’re hoping they come dressed to impress, take it serious and not like they’re going to the beach.” According to Vail, there were over 3,000 student workers on campus last year and this year’s number is anticipated to be similar. If you need resume help or have any questions about this upcoming event, please contact Joshua Vail at josh.vail@utoledo.edu.

If you go What: On-Campus Student \ Employment Part-Time Job Fair When: Student Union rooms 2582 and 2584 When: Friday, Aug. 26, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.