Jan. 14, 2015

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

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Once upon a dream Laurel Lovitt is making dreams come true for many children through her princess parties.

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COMMUNITY/ 6 »

“The fact that we have this choice and that our opinions can change is central to the principle of free expression that some wish to regulate or even eradicate based on personally held beliefs.”

EDITORIAL Where do you draw the line?

OPINION / 4 »

UNITY

HONORS COLLEGE

‘I HAVE A DREAM’

“Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine” were re-presented at two major theatre events.

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COMMUNITY / 6 »

“The more we sincerely draw others into revealing themselves, and treat those revelations gently, the more we deepen the personal bonds of friendship between us. To have a friend, we must first be a friend.”

SHAGUFTA SAMI Remembering conversations past OPINION / 4 »

Do it yourself fashion: made by you, for you Emily Modrowski has a few tips to warm up your wardrobe on a budget with do-it-yourself fashion.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

Managing Editor

MLK unity celebration to inspire service in the local community

Associate News Editors

“What are you doing for others?” This year’s 14th-annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration’s theme is centered around this, which according to Dr. King is “life’s most persistent and urgent question.”

Mayor D. Michael Collins and University of Toledo Interim President Nagi Naganathan held a press conference Jan. 12 to announce that the celebration will be on Monday, Jan. 19, at 9 a.m. in Savage Arena. According to the press release, both the event and the community luncheon are free.

The luncheon will take place after the ceremony.

“The theme for the 2015 Unity Celebration embraces Dr. King’s

“It’s a fitting tribute to the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient that the national day in his honor has become a day of service for all of us to come together and serve our neighbors and our community.”

NAGI NAGANATHAN UT interim president

devotion to serving others,” Naganathan said. “It’s a fitting tribute

FUNDRAISER

UT students travel to regional theatre festivals

By Samantha Rhodes

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ADDY MCPHERON

By Colleen Anderson and Trevor Stearns

Local orgs raise $62,000 for children in refugee camps

Political consultant to speak Jan. 21 for lecture series

to the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient that the national day in his honor has become a day of service for all of us to come together and serve our neighbors and our community.”

Collins said the day will be important in showing what the diversity we have in Toledo does for us as a community.

According to the press release, Collins and Naganathan will both be preparing remarks on Monday to accompany a number of other performances.

Performers include the Toledo School for the Art’s Afro-Caribbean Dance and Drum Ensemble, FU5ION, and Madd Poets Society. The recipients of the 2014 MLK Award and the MLK Unity Award will be recognized as well.

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Presidential adviser, political strategist, CNN commentator and professor — all are titles that describe Paul Begala, the next speaker in the University of Toledo’s Jesup Scott Honors College Distinguished Lecture Series.

Begala, a renowned PAUL political BEGALA consultant, will lecture in Doermann Theater at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21.

Assistant professor of political science Jeff Broxmeyer feels that students who want to learn more about how campaigns work will be interested in hearing Begala speak and share his insights.

“Paul Begala was a central figure in Bill Clinton’s upset victory during the 1992 presidential race,” Broxmeyer said. “Elections See Lecture / 7 »

Rockets beat Arkansas in GoDaddy Bowl on Jan. 4

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The UT Rockets beat the Arkansas State Red Wolves 63-44 in Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. The Rockets celebrated with GoDaddy Bowl trophies after the victory on Jan. 4.

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Keynote speaker Miko Peled shares his story about growing up in Israel. The event was held Jan. 10.

By Emily Johnson Staff Reporter

Over $62,000 was raised at the third-annual Students for Justice in Palestine fundraiser Jan. 10 in the Student Union Auditorium.

The money raised will be used to gift hearing aids to children in refugee camps in and around Jordan.

The fundraiser was sponsored by Life for Relief and Development (LIFE), who have partnered with SJP for three years.

SJP has continually worked with LIFE as “LIFE has a particularly strong connection with the Toledo community,” according to Shahrazad Hamdah, the president of SJP. “We do several campaigns, several projects, and one of the stuff that we focus on, avoiding duplica-

tion. A lot of [non-government organizations], a lot of organizations doing the same thing, food, shelter.

Now we’re focusing on something never done before,” said Ayman Aburahma, community relations coordinator for LIFE. LIFE has many other projects they are running, including various projects on education, healthcare and community improvement among others according to the LIFE website.

“We are raising money for Palestinian refugees in Jordan,” Hamdah said. “A lot of them have faced extreme turmoil at the recent siege on Gaza, during the summer of 2014, so a lot of them are in refugee camps, and a lot of them lack decent medical treatment.”

Each hearing aid costs See Fundraiser / 5 »

Student senate paves the way for Toledo bike initiative

By Colleen Anderson Associate News Editor

Student Government is calling on the University of Toledo to pave a mile-long section of a new bicycle trail as part of a resolution during their first session of the new year.

SG Vice President Ali Eltatawy proposed a resolution that would urge the university to pave a mile of the Chessie Circle Trail near the engineering campus. The paving would be paid for with university money.

“Basically, this is the idea of having all of the bicycle routes throughout the city that can make Toledo a more accessible place and the University of Toledo is going to be a big part of that,” Eltatawy said.

The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Government proposed the original city-wide bike path initiative. The resolution itself said the state of Ohio, the city of Toledo

ANDREA HARRIS / IC

SG Vice President Ali Eltatawy presents his resolution to senate members regarding the Chessie Circle Trail near engineering.

and the University of Toledo have each made their own commitments to “the expansion of park trails and See Resolution / 7 »

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Tie One On to take place Jan. 24

The Toledo men’s basketball team will host Bowling Green on Saturday, Jan. 24, for the fifth-annual Tie One On event, in which all proceeds will benefit cancer care, awareness and outreach at the University of Toledo Medical Center.

UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk and the rest of the Rockets’ coaching staff will sport bow ties during the contest.

Toledo fans are invited join in as well, with over 500 fans participating in last year’s event.

For $100, participants will receive a ticket to the game, a UT bow tie or scarf and a ticket to a pre-game bow tying reception. You can sign up at http://www.utoledo. edu/tieoneon, and for questions about the event, please call 419530-1273.

Toledo students can purchase the same package, but for a discounted price of $20.

For a third straight season, Toledo’s jerseys from the event will be auctioned off. Fans can bid on the duds until Saturday, Jan. 17, with bids beginning at $100 and increasing in increments of $25 at http:// www.utoledo.edu/tieoneon. The winning bidder will have their name placed on the back of the player’s warm-up and receive the player’s jersey and warmup after the game.

Larry Burns, UT Vice President for External Affairs, started Tie One On. The event was inspired by the Coaches vs.

Cancer effort, but instead of tennis shoes, Kowalczyk and his staff wear bow ties to support the fight against cancer. In the first four years, over $70,000 has been raised in support of cancer care, awareness and outreach.

UT to host youth soccer tournament The UT women’s soccer program’s annual Three-vs-Three Tournament will take place on Sunday, Feb. 15 (boys) and Sunday, Feb. 21 (girls). Youth soccer teams for children ages 8-14 will lace up their cleats and faceoff in the Fetterman Training Center. The cost to participate is $80 per squad.

Fetterman’s turf will be sectioned off into six small-sized soccer fields (20 yards wide by 35 yards long) to hold the one-day event. The seven age groups (Under-8, Under-9, Under-10, Under-11, Under-12, Under-13, Under-14) will compete in a format to determine the eventual champion.

The entire contest is coordinated, run and refereed by coaches and players from the Rockets’ women’s soccer program, with the tournament serving as a fundraising opportunity for the team.

Teams can register up to six players, with three players on the field at any time, but no goalkeeper.

Each team is guaranteed 60 minutes of activity (the length and number of matches determined based on the number of teams in each age group.)

Champions at each age level will be given “championship medals.”

For more information, or to sign up for the event, visit rocketsoccercamps.com.

It’s not Rocket Science! (Trivia) What Fox Sports personality has supported the Rockets’ Tie-One-On event nationally, wearing a bowtie during big sporting events like the last three World Series Broadcasts?

MATT CAMPBELL UT HEAD COACH

Winter wrap-up ADDY MCPHERON / IC

UT football team wins GoDaddy Bowl, basketball teams head into MAC play

By Blake Bacho

three-point line.

That number is a school record in conference match ups and second best in program history.

Toledo will hit the road to face Ohio University on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

Sports Editor

Classes have resumed, the weather has turned lousy and the University of Toledo’s parking structures are once again filled to the brim.

The spring semester has officially begun.

However, it’s important to remember that not all Rockets spent the holiday season relaxing.

If you missed out on any of the action, don’t fret. Here is what you missed:

Rocket women soar

UT wins bowl game

UT left quite the impression in a 63-44 victory over Arkansas State in the GoDaddy Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 4. The Rockets were led by sophomore running back Kareem Hunt, who set the bowl game’s record for rushing yards with a careerhigh 271 yards on 32 carries.

Hunt also set a new careerhigh with five touchdowns, a GoDaddy Bowl record that tied the all-time bowl record.

The last person to reach five touchdowns in a bowl game was Oklahoma State’s Barry Sanders in 1988.

Hunt’s performance earned him the game’s Most Valuable Player award.

The Offensive Player of the Game award was given to a different Rockets’ running back. Sophomore Damion Jones-Moore, who replaced injured freshman Terry Swanson on the depth chart,

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Sophomore running back Kareem Hunt celebrates with head coach Matt Campbell during the Rockets GoDaddy Bowl game versus Arkansas State on Jan. 4.

The Rockets won 63-44.

totaled a career-high 103 yards on 15 carries.

When Arkansas State does arrive in Toledo next season, the Rockets’ running game will definitely not come as a surprise.

Toledo men stumble

No one was happier to see the end of non-conference games than the UT men’s basketball team.

The Rockets (9-6, 1-1 MAC) self-imposed a rigorous road to Mid-American Conference play in an attempt to boost their RPI. The plan netted Toledo five losses, including an 86-69 defeat at Duke on Monday, Dec. 29.

The kickoff of MAC play, however, didn’t go as smoothly as UT would have hoped.

The Rockets opened the conference schedule with a 65-62 loss to Central Michigan on Tuesday, Jan. 6th. In that contest, senior guard Justin Drummond and sophomore Jon Jon Williams were the only members of head coach Tod Kowalczyk’s squad to reach double-digit scoring.

Four Rockets reached double figures in UT’s second MAC game, an 84-67 win over Akron last Friday night. Senior forward J.D. Weatherspoon led the onslaught, notching 17 points in a contest in which UT shot 81.8 percent from the

Every year is a new season and the Rocket women’s basketball team is out to prove that the past has no bearing on the future.

UT (9-5, 2-1 MAC) head coach Tricia Cullop’s players are on their way to erasing the scars of last year, when the Rockets limped to a 16-16 mark.

Toledo has already notched nine victories this season, but a five-game winning streak was dashed Saturday afternoon with a 65-58 loss at Ohio. Junior Brenae Harris notched 20 points in the contest, but she was the only Rocket to reach double-digit scoring.

Before the loss, UT posted a pair of victories to kick off MAC play, extending a winning streak that began back in mid-December. Both MAC wins were home games, the first a 63-53 win over Miami on Jan. 3 and the second a 67-49 victory over Kent State on Jan. 7.

UT will host defending MAC Tournament champion Akron on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m.

A letter to UT students On behalf of our players, coaches and staff, I would like to extend a heartfelt thankyou to all the UT students who made the long bus ride to Mobile to cheer us on to victory at the GoDaddy Bowl.

Your presence made a big difference from the minute you marched into the stadium until you joined us for the amazing victory celebration after the game.

Our players fed off your energy and enthusiasm all night long. When our players came to the student section after the game, it was our way of saying thank you. Part of that beautiful GoDaddy Bowl trophy belongs to you!

Your presence made a big difference from the minute you marched into the stadium until you joined us for the amazing victory celebration after the game.

It was personally gratifying for me to see so many of you getting the opportunity to share in such a great experience. You represented your university with pride and class for everyone to see on national television. Thanks for being such great supporters of our program, and we’ll see you at the Glass Bowl next fall!

Go Rockets!

Head Coach Matt Campbell

COMMENTARY

Questions surrounding the Rockets’ offseason When healthy this past season, the University of Toledo football team ran the ball down the throat of any and all opponents.

When the Rockets weren’t completely at full strength? Well, they still ran the ball down people’s throats.

It was this team’s identity, largely due to the skills of running back Kareem Hunt and the brick wall that was UT’s veteran offensive line.

But that O-line has now officially played their last snaps in midnight blue and gold. The Rockets do have some real question marks going into next season, starting with a yet-to-be-assembled, brand-spanking-new offensive line.

Sophomore running back Kareem Hunt has the skill set to continue lighting up the Glass Bowl next year, but can he match this year’s production behind five fresh faces?

Hunt finished the season with 1631 yards on the ground on only 205 carries. That’s a whopping 8.5 yards per carry average and he didn’t even play in every game this season. That probably wouldn’t have happened without the five fifth-year seniors in front of him.

True, the Rockets survived a couple of games this season without the services of senior center Greg Mancz, but that was just one of the five men. Now, head coach Matt

Campbell has lost the whole group. man Michael Julian and senior And the complete overhaul now wide receiver/emergency quarterneeded along the offensive line is back Dwight Macon each got their just the beginning for Toledo. Like turns at the helm. any college football team, there Woodside came back to play well are plenty of question marks for at the end of the season and, with the Rockets heading into the Ely well on his way to recovoffseason. ery, it appears the One of the bigRockets have at gest wildcards at least two startingplay for Toledo is caliber quarterthe quarterback backs. position, but this So who gets to issue is one any start? head coach would With such a love to have. small sample size It felt like just on Ely, this might about everybody come down to on the roster lined another quarterup behind center at back competition. one point or another Either way, Toledo this past year. Junior has to feel comPhillip Ely lasted fortable at this less than two games position. before an ACL tear They have to be ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR ended his season. extremely uncomSophomore Logan fortable, however, Woodside was the next man up, and on the other side of the football. he led the Rockets to the brink of a Rocket defenders began dropping berth in the Mid-American Confer- like flies once the year kicked off ence Championship game. and the UT never really seemed to Had Woodside not been injured recover. against Kent State, he probably The secondary talked a good would have taken the Rockets the game and played with a sense of rest of the way. Instead, he was swagger and emotion, but when it forced to sit out as redshirt freshcame time to walk the walk, they

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were often gashed for big plays.

Consider that the Rockets surrendered 468 total offensive yards in the GoDaddy Bowl against Arkansas State. UT held the Red Wolves to 2.0 yards per rush, but gave up an unacceptable 403 yards through the air. The defensive issues need to be addressed in spring and summer camps.

Any time your opponent is averaging 17.5 yards per completion, it is clear something is not working.

Flipping back to the offense, the Rockets are pretty loaded. UT will return a host of offensive weapons next year, with Hunt leading the charge and wide receivers Alonzo Russell and Corey Jones rounding out the potent unit.

Freshman running back Terry Swanson shouldn’t be lost in the conversation either. Swanson carried the ball for 732 yards in relief duty behind Hunt, averaging 6.5 yards per clip.

As with any team heading into the offseason, the Rockets have some problems to fix and some question marks on the roster. But many bright spots still remain on a team that knows what kind of football it plays best.

If Toledo fills in the gaps and tightens up the defensive leaks, fans will be in for quite a treat next year.

Answer: Ken Rosenthal

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EDITORIAL

Where do you draw the line?

Advocates of the principle of free expression are in a state of shock following a gruesome shooting last Wednesday at a Paris magazine called Charlie Hebdo, which led to two simultaneous stand-off hostage situations and a national crisis.

In response, the French military placed Paris under the highest military alert level last week. Right now in France’s capital there are over 8,000 soldiers and riot police standing guard in synagogues, kosher stores, other Jewish cultural centers, schools, mosques, monuments, important government buildings and media agencies.

Charlie Hebdo can be considered a French version of what we in the U.S. know as The Onion. It’s satirical news that doesn’t let anyone or anything off the hook. All kinds of people, beliefs, ideologies and political doctrines are fair game.

Last week, the magazine published a cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad, which many Muslims found offensive. Many believe depictions of the primary prophet of God are sacrilegious, something that is not right for anyone on this planet to make. Unfortunately, a small handful of religious extremists took their offense to the extreme and invaded the Charlie Hebdo office, shooting 23 journalists and staff inside.

When they did this, one of the attackers said they had “avenged the prophet Muhammad.”

It is very important to point out that the murderers who violated one of our most cherished principles represent the very small minority of Al Qaeda extremists. We have published stories before which include interviews with students who practice Islam and who have said such extremists are not true Muslims and have actually done a very evil thing.

Internet memes fill Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit expressing the same message.

This crisis brings up a very important question for journalists and media organizations in general — where do you draw the line between championing freedom of expression and saying “that’s too far”? This isn’t a new question. Newspapers and U.S. courts have made many (and sometimes contradictory) rulings before. There are many subjects that are banned in the U.S., including some obscenities, child pornography, language that incites lawlessness and false advertising.

The principle of free expression in this country does have some limitations. They are considered reasonable limitations, and the beautiful part is that the limitations can be changed, rewritten and removed with the same or higher level of deliberation that media agencies (including The Independent Collegian) use to decide whether it is acceptable to publish something.

With every editorial we publish, we ask ourselves if we are willing to stand up for what we write, if we are willing to put our personal reputations and the reputation of The Independent Collegian on the line and if we will be able to sleep knowing our flag prefaces our opinion. Sometimes the entire newsroom feels the same way, and that is beautiful. Sometimes the newsroom is divided, and our editorial represents the majority opinion, and that is also beautiful.

What is important is that we discuss what we write every single time, and that from time to time, our opinions change.

Just because we decide one way doesn't mean we will decide the same way in the future. It's important that we take current events, the present cultural atmosphere and the viewpoints of our audience into consideration when we take a stance on some topic.

The Internet is talking about a hot-button issue right now — whether publications and media agencies around the planet should reprint the controversial cartoons, whether in an act of defiance and championing of the principle of free expression or simply to show media consumers what the cartoons are that the murderers used as justification for killing 12 journalists and staff, wounding 11, and holding hostages around Paris.

We’re not publishing those cartoons. We must remember that the principle of free expression includes the right to not express anything at all. This is not censorship as some argue; we’re not telling anyone else what to do. We discussed this as an organization and chose not to print cartoons that our audience would very likely find offensive for the sole purpose of pointing out that they’re offensive. In a way, that is an expression in itself.

Of course, this leads to the question of how far our reservations should go. It’s unreasonable to expect to offend no one.

This comes down again to a decision we have to make while taking public opinion into consideration. If there is a very large subset of people in our audience who would be offended by something, that holds a lot of water in our decision whether to finally publish it.

Maybe in the future this staff will decide to publish controversial materials that others use to justify extremist actions (though we want violent extremism to stop completely). The fact that we have this choice and that our opinions can change is central to the principle of free expression that some wish to regulate or even eradicate based on personally held beliefs.

Of all the things we’ve seen this week, the greatest act of defiance against those who would murder journalists is this: Charlie Hebdo published today. Just like they did last week, just like they will next week. In fact, their normal print runs are 60,000 copies each, but today they ran three million in 16 different languages.

While we disagree with the idea of publishing what they’re publishing (more cartoons depicting Muhammad), we stand behind the legal and ethical ability of Charlie Hebdo to make well-informed, deliberate decisions. They’re taking a stance, a very brave stance, that they should be able to say what they want without fear of (and especially in the face of) death.

We suppose the basic question comes down to this: are we as journalists willing to die for the belief that all people should be free to express themselves? That answer is not simple.

Everyone will give you a different answer for different reasons, and that’s beautiful.

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The university should review policies after terrorism

Many in USA and Europe are mourning the deaths of the French cartoonists who were assassinated by radical Isalmists. The cartoonist's offenses were creating cartoons that offended the assassin's Islamic sensibilities.

Both American and French citizens and institutions reacted by affirming the necessity of freedom of expression.

In the United States, the right of freedom of expression has been protected via the 1st Amendment to the Constitution which bars governmental agencies, such as UT, from prohibiting speech that others may find offensive.

Yet, if those French cartoonists had been UT students or employees, they would have been in danger of expulsion or being fired. UT policies authorize university officials to pun-

ish UT's students, faculty and employees who make “offensive statements, insults, epithets, or jokes” regarding religion.

(UT Policy 3364-50-01 – Sexual Harassment and Other Form of Harassment policy). Thus, UT students and faculty are prohibited from displaying, perhaps even discussing, the very cartoons at issue. Further, UT's policy applies to all UT faculty, staff, and students off campus, which spreads the speech-chilling effect.

This policy has created an environment where students are being deprived of a robust education as some UT faculty have refused to cover important, yet controversial, topics out of fear of accusations of violating UT's overly broad and vague harassment policies. UT’s policy is so restrictive that it has earned a “red light” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (thefire.org). It is time to abolish UT's repressive and unconstitutional harassment policy.

— Douglas Oliver, Associate Professor (MIME)

COMMENTARY

Remembering conversations past Whenever I try making new all the way to my little ponytails. friends, I credit my childhood tele"Tell me another!" phone and my dad, the professor.

And another. And then another.

Despite competing with thousands of He lost himself in the telling of those other events from over the past year, pleasant childhood memories. I snugthe "friendship lesson" from him gled further the more animated still burns as brightly as his voice got. My mom the glint off the chrome would peep through on a Schwinn in July. the kitchen, shake her The lesson, like so head, smile and walk many others, sprang away. I especially from the most comliked the stories he mon of events. On had the most of — Sundays at exactly 9 the ones revealing a.m. some 15 years ago, dad doing something I would hear the phone really dumb — which ringing loudly through felt unnatural considthe hallway of the fairly ering I thought he was middle class house I lived just too perfect. The in, back in India. My more he revealed, the four siblings and I would more familiar and real IC COLUMNIST eagerly run to answer he felt. the phone knowing that the one who Five stories, continents across and answers gets to give all the details of one phone call later, I finally figured the past week to the caller. Since I was out that dad had been the student I was the youngest in the family, I got to talk always scolded not to be. Eventually, I to the professor last. also realized his voice sounded livelier The caller, the professor, was my and dad-ish. father. My dad, who stayed abroad to My dad’s Sunday calls had taught earn and fund our living and educame that when we show special interest tion. The only thing I remember of the in someone by asking those questions childhood Sundays was my dad’s phone about their life, they feel good about calls at 9 and that famous “Moghli” themselves. The better they feel about cartoon at noon. themselves while around us, the better Finally by the time I would get the we feel about ourselves. phone, I knew I had nothing to say.

The more we sincerely draw others All the news, events and daily rouinto revealing themselves, and treat tines were well-delivered by the older those revelations gently, the more we siblings as the phone passes from one deepen the personal bonds of friendhand to another. My dad laughed ship between us. To have a friend, we as I greeted him awkwardly. I could must first be a friend. hear the vulnerability in his laugh.

Time flies, memories fade and years He missed us. And like always, this later that little girl is now an adult. laugh would keep playing in my mind Stories about dad living a retired life throughout the week. with mom and how he picks on her are Eventually, as we talked and had now more interesting than mine. Even nothing to say, I would ask him, "Tell recently, as I celebrated a Thanksgivme a story about your life, dad." ing with the Walsh family, my adopted All my other siblings would leave American family, I smiled rememberme as they thought I was lame for ing something. asking such questions. How odd, I quietly excused myself and stepped they were just trying to grow up in out into the cold and dialed ‘home.’ a time lapse. They did things that I heard my dad say “salam” like he weren’t their age. I, at that age, really always greets. believed I was lame. But I couldn’t After a brief pause, swallowing the help but ask. heaviness of heart, controlling that tear He did as asked, sharing the "caught that was about to run down my cheek, I bringing a snake to school" story. smiled. I closed my eyes and said, “Tell "Tell me another," I grinned, scooting me a story about your life, Dad." into the seat further.

I heard a sigh.

He complied, this time sharing the I called home and told them how I "caught drawing figures in classes" tale. missed them, my parents who sacAs the anecdote unfolded, my eyes rificed the most for my future, my would grow wide, and my expanding siblings who shared their lives with me, grin exploded into a laugh that shook so I could learn about the world which

SHAGUFTA SAMI

Stepping out of the festival season, I hope everyone had an opportunity to spend time cherishing old, good memories and appreciate the good that came into our lives the past semester. It’s time to be thankful and hope for a good semester ahead.

I haven’t even faced. Sometimes being the youngest of a family made up of five children makes you live five different lives at once. Yes, you are made fun of, picked on the most and blamed the most, but it’s all worth it. You see each person struggling, falling and yet making a career. It guides and grows in you.

Life simply guides you with the help of different stories in one family.

Stepping out of the festival season, I hope everyone had an opportunity to spend time cherishing old, good memories and appreciate the good that came into our lives the past semester.

It’s time to be thankful and hope for a good semester ahead.

All my friends (especially international friends), call home and make your mom laugh at the dumbest thing you did today. Ask her how her day was. Ask for advice from your dad on what he did when he couldn’t report his results on time at his job. Text that one annoying brother with his naked childhood picture. Call your sister and ask her where she got that pretty dress she wore to her friend’s wedding. Get something for your nephew and niece.

Anything, be it even a small Play-Doh. Call that one friend you left behind in India and talk like crazy.

Reasons matter, but the fact you called makes them feel even more important. If we care for the other being, we eventually will start to feel better about ourselves. You suddenly find yourself so much closer to being genuinely happy than you have ever been before. And when you are mentally pleased and happy, you tend to give your 100 percent at every other thing you do. With that, I wish everyone a good new semester full of hard work and opportunities.

Shagufta Sami is a second-year computer science graduate student.

STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

The University of Toledo Hillel Purpose: This group provides Jewish campus activities, social events and religious programming for all University of Toledo students.

Leaders: President: Jessica Moses; VP Religious: Mitch Horn; VP Social: Devin Billstein; outreach coordinator: Maddie Isenberg; FYSH coordinator: Micki Pittman and Rachel Federman; secretary: Delaney Gilligan Upcoming events: We have a free Shabbat dinner every Friday night that starts at 5:30 p.m. We will be having a glass blowing event and going to a Walleye game. We are having a cooking class to teach our members how to cook some basic Jewish meals. We are going down to Florida for Alternative Spring Break where we volunteer at Give Kids the World. This will be our third year doing it. For information and dates contact us.

Learn more: To learn more, you can call the Hillel House at 419-724-0377. Our house address is 2012 Brookdale Rd, Toledo, Ohio 43606. Everyone is welcome at any time. The house is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Email: uthillel@jewishtoledo.org. Our website is http://www.toledohillel. org/, and go to https://www.facebook.com/utoledo.hillel/timeline for our Facebook page.

Would your group like to be featured as the IC’s Student Group of the Week? Email Morgan Rinckey at mrinckey@independentcollegian.com.

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$200, according to Aburahma, and the goal for the night was to raise enough money for 600 hearing aids — a total of $120,000.

Aburahma said there are partners working with LIFE who would match every dollar raised, doubling the number of hearing aids gifted.

According to Hamdah, the fundraiser raised over $62,000. The money raised came from donations from various audience members and from a silent art auction at the end of the evening.

The excitement from the fundraiser total was no different than the energy that emanated from the start of the event.

As the guests arrived for the event, there was a meet and greet with Miko Peled, the author of the book “The General’s Son.” Linda Mansour and Aburahma were the hosts for the evening and delivered the opening remarks, after which “My Home Land,” the Palestinian national anthem, was played.

Two poems were read next, one by high school student Hamza Suqair, and the other by Hamdah.

After Hamdah’s reading, Peled took the stage as the guest speaker, and discussed his passion for Palestine.

“The issue we are here to address today

is the fact that we have Palestinian refugees in … and around Palestine that are in need of charity,” Peled said. “They are in need of benefit; they are in need of this kind of work, which is really sad.”

According to Peled, there are $4.3 million refugees in camps, sometimes only minutes away from established cities, where there is no heating and electricity, no running water, sewage in the streets and no healthcare.

“There is no good reason why Palestinians anywhere should be in need of donations,” Peled said.

A video from the HearCare Mission was shown, after which Aburahma took pledges for donations. Dinner was served soon after and was followed by a Dabkeh, which is a traditional Palestinian dance.

According to Hamdah, around 160 people attended the event this year, which was lower than the previous year.

“We advertise each year with flyers, phone calls, emails, letters to potential donors, word of mouth, et cetera,” Hamdah said.

According to Peled, he enjoys coming to campuses and speaking at events put together by students.

“Their ability to put together fantastic events never ceases to amaze me, and … it’s very important to recognize the tremendous work that you guys do as students on campuses in the U.S.”

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“The Toledo community is a more resilient community and it is a very diverse and passionate community,” Collins said. “I think this day will show that there is strength in diversity and that it is realistically what creates our community and defines our community as to what it is.

Having said that, I think this should be a way of addressing this on an annualized basis.”

He also said he thinks there are challenges to be addressed regarding diversity and as we progress through them, we will be a stronger country for it.

Naganathan said he believes Martin Luther King Jr. brought a new way of thinking to the people of the United States which has continued to this day.

“Every so often someone challenges us to reach new heights and he challenged people to think of things that were not on people’s radar and he challenged people to think differently and to live life differently. He challenged people to rise to the occasion,” Naganathan said. “That is always an uplifting message.”

He went on to say that when it comes to being good citizens in the community, people need to ask themselves, “What is it that I need to do to make a difference?”

Naganathan said he asks himself the same question when considering his position.

“In my own life, when I walk into my office,

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I say, ‘Am I making a difference in the life of our students?’” Naganathan said. “That’s my goal and mission that drives me in my office.”

Recently, UT received a classification from the Carnegie Foundation for community engagement. Naganathan said the recognition is an example of UT’s dedication to the community and a reflection of the theme for the day’s event.

“I am proud to say the University of Toledo’s deep commitment to community engagement was recently recognized by one of the nation’s top education foundations.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently awarded UT with its 2015 community engagement classification,” Naganathan said. “UT pursued this selective distinction because it aligned so closely with our mission to engage with our city and our region.”

“I think this day will show that there is strength in diversity and that it is realistically what creates our community and defines our community as to what it is.”

D. MICHAEL COLLINS Toledo mayor

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Sunday, Jan. 18

4 p.m. -- Faculty Piano Recital, Robert Ballinger will perform a piano recital at the Center for Performing Arts in the Recital Hall.

Ballinger is a DeVillbiss H.S. alumni and an active conductor, pianist, violinist and lecturer. The recital is hosted by the College Communication and the Arts and admission is free.

Tuesday, Jan. 20 All day -- Guest Artist Exhibit, Rebecca Zeiss will present a gallery of her artwork and photographs. The title of the exhibit is “Reverence & Irreverence.” The art will be displayed in the CVA Clement Gallery The exhibit will be on display until March 2, and Zeiss will speak about her work and process when the exhibit closes.

Thursday, Jan. 22

12:30 p.m. -- Guest Artist Exhibit Lecture, Jim Jipson presents his exhibit of art titled “Chthonic.” The exhibit is free and open to the public. It will be open until Feb. 23. Jipson will give a lecture about his exhibit at 12:30 p.m. in the CVA Main Gallery An opening reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Jan. 22.

Saturday, Jan. 24 10 a.m. -- Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Recital, the annual master class recital will be performed

by Ning-Wu Du and Helen Sim. This duo has performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall, and in other venues in the US, China, Italy and Norway. The recital will be held in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

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PRINCESS PARTIES

Once upon a dream

UT student Laurel Lovitt makes dreams come true for children through her princess parties

By Amanda Eggert

own. Now with a team, it has taken time for her to get used to sharing Laurel Lovitt is making her dreams responsibilities. of being a princess and the dreams of “At first it was very hard being able children come true. to trust someone else with the mesHer business, Laurel’s Princess Par- sage and with the kids,” Lovitt said. ties, was launched in May 2013 and “Over time I have gained so much has substantially grown since then. trust and confidence with these girls Within the first six months of the and they’ve done an exceptional job business, Lovitt performed at 33 parties. and always give 100 percent, 110.”

In 2014, there were over 330 Lovitt said the teamwork between appearances made by her and the the women she works with is “wonperformers, which included parties, derful” and “unique.” workshops and events.

“They have great voices, but one The third-year marketing major thing we have in common is we truly said, “We are still teaching them how love kids and we love to create the to be a princess, we are still instilling magic for them,” Lovitt said. “It’s all of those aspects, except for the fact really cool how we all can come tothat we have changed princesses.” gether and it’s very hard to find other At parties, Lovitt hosts “princess girls like that because they have to training,” which includes teaching sing, they have to be good with kids, proper posture, how to curtsy and be quick on their feet.” bow and why manners are important.

The company includes a cast of There are also games, story-time and characters that perform at various tiara-making. events and parties.

Lovitt said the company performs “The original fable of the ‘Snow an entire entertainment package. The Queen’ has impacted us tremendously performers sing, dress up in custom now that the light has been shed upon costumes, wigs and full makeup art. it because we do anywhere from 5 to There are five performers total at 10 a weekend,” Lovitt said.

Laurel’s Princess Parties and they each Lovitt said she loves to play the Snow play their own character and princess- Queen’s sister ‘Ana’ and they perform es established from fables. Lovitt said them differently from the fables. they are looking to “The Snow Queen, add more performers we make a version to their royal court — “We are still teachthat is really outspomales and females. ken and really funny ing them how to be Erin Momany, a that plays well with a princess, we are second-year math Ana,” Lovitt said. “If education major, is one still instilling all of we didn’t, we would of the performers and have more groups those aspects, exdescribes her job as than we have now cept for the fact that that are afraid of us. “princessing.”

“It will be like ‘oh I’ve walked into a we have changed what are you doing room of 5-year-olds princesses.” on Saturday’ and it’s that wouldn’t talk to

LAUREL LOVITT ‘oh I’m princessing me for the first half Third-year marketing major from 1 to 2 and then hour because they I have a meeting,’” were afraid of my Momany said. “It’s powers.” like the best job ever and it’s really fun The real power of being a princess being best friends with my boss too.” comes from the ability to adapt to Lovitt said when she started her circumstances and still act proper. business she was doing parties on her “There’s two types of parties, the Editor-in-Chief

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Lovitt poses as Princess Laurel with some little girls from one of the events that she appeared. Princess Laurel is known by her blue dress, just as other princesses are known by theirs.

deer in headlights that you have to crack within the first ten minutes, or the ones that are so enthusiastic and ready and are about to have fun,” she said.

Lovitt said a lot of the parties are gender neutral.

“A lot of parties have boys. We teach them how to be princes,” she said. “We really touch on burping and why you don’t do that kind of stuff, and how to treat a lady and the kids love it.”

The kids and the magical fun are the reasons Lovitt said she stays motivated.

“We get drained, completely

drained, but it’s the smiles,” Lovitt said. “It’s the kids and the joy that we bring to them.”

For Lovitt, she said since she lives on her own, finding her balance is “mentally very, very hard.”

Lovitt said she is “creating everything from nothing.”

“I literally have nothing to go off of. I had to create everything from scratch. It’s been a lot of work and with living on my own, work is priority number one, to be able to support myself and support the girls,” she said.

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THEATRE

UT students travel to regional theatre festivals

By Josie Schreiber

Two of the University of Toledo Theatre Department’s productions were invited to be re-presented at two major theatre events in December 2014 and January 2015; “Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine.”

“Strip Tease,” directed by Cornel Gabara, was invited to be part of a theatre festival titled Tribute to S. Mrozek and Z. Herbert.

The production was presented at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago in December 2014.

This festival was a celebration of the work of playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Zbigniew Herbert. The performances of “Strip Tease” were held Dec. 5-7.

According to a press release by Angela Riddel, “Strip Tease” is a comedic social commentary that explores the response of two characters faced with a voiceless and faceless authority figure that seems to be demanding.

The release also stated that they shed not only their clothing but their dignity as well.

“I believe that ‘Strip Tease’ represents the inner struggle that people have when they choose to make a decision, a battle of logic vs. reason,” said Khara Sims, a fourth-year English and theatre major.

“I think the play went really well at the festival. I was really proud of the actors who managed to adjust to a one-thousand seat proscenium after performing in a 150-seat black box with thrust seating.”

IRENE ALBY UT theatre lecturer

Sims attended both “Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine” while it was at UT, and she also attended the production of “The Adding Machine” in Cleveland.

ANDREA HARRIS / IC

Above, Elif Erturk, a theatre alum casted as Daisy Diana and Tyler Mitchell, a secondyear finance major cast as Mr. Zero in “The Adding Machine,” act out a scene from the play.

Right, “The Adding Machine” cast and crew poses on stage at the American College Theatre Festival.

“The Adding Machine,” directed by UT theatre lecturer Irene Alby, was chosen to be performed at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Jan. 6 at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland.

Judges from the KCACTF attend members’ productions and choose the best ones for invitation to the festival, the press release said.

“The Adding Machine” follows the story of Mr. Zero, an accountant who murders his boss after learning he was going to be replaced by an adding machine. After Mr. Zero is sentenced and executed for the murder, the play follows him into the afterlife.

Sims said she wanted to see the production in Cleveland to show her support

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for the theatre department as well as her friends who were part of the production.

“I think the production was a big insight on the way that technology is controlling the newer generations,” Sims said. “Mr. Zero was replaced with a machine — was reincarnated by a machine — to work on the machine that replaced him.”

Sims said it also shows the audience how we settle for mundane activities and keep all our thoughts and desires to ourselves.

“We were very excited when we received email notification that the show had been selected,” Alby said. “Thanks to our dean and provost, who were supportive, we were able to tour the show.”

Alby said she chose “The Adding Machine” because she is interested in expres-

sionism. She started her career as an actor with The Other Theatre/L’Autre Theatre in Montreal. She said they did a lot of expressionistic plays.

“I was interested in the themes within the play as well,” Alby said. “The idea of free will, and the concept of going through life on automatic pilot is extremely relevant today, as people are increasingly isolated and desensitized by technology.”

Alby said she liked how Elmer Rice, “The Adding Machine’s” playwright, took the play out of the Judeo-Christian context and “allowed us to explore themes such as right and wrong through a different lens.”

She also said she wanted to make the play relevant to today rather than staging it as a museum piece. She said she was intrigued by the lengthy monologues and inner thoughts of the characters.

“I think the play went really well at the festival. I was really proud of the actors who managed to adjust to a one-thousand seat proscenium after performing in a 150-seat black box with thrust seating,” Alby said.

“We set up in four hours and didn’t have time to run the show, but they were still able to keep the precision of the choreography.”

Alby said there were a few lighting glitches and other technical issues but she said that “nonetheless, the show went really well and we got excellent feedback from many people.”

“We were definitely the talk on Yik Yak and other sources,” Alby said. “While that isn’t a measure of excellence, it demonstrates that people were thinking about the show long after it was over.”

Alby wasn’t the only one who had good things to say about the production.

“I think these two shows really showed the uniqueness that is within the University of Toledo Theatre department,” Sims said. “Rather than being plays that are merely for show, they require the audience to think, and to turn the characters in the play into themselves with their own doubts and fears.”

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Brushing off snow

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Recent snowfall has University of Toledo student Dylan Lettie, a third-year majoring in business, uncovering his car from the latest dusting of frozen precipitation. The freezing temperatures and snow have many students venturing out to scrape their windshields clear of ice and brush the snow off their vehicles before driving anywhere. If you notice any slippery spots while walking or driving on campus, call the Work Control Station at 419-530-1000.

Lecture

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today are multibillion-dollar, blockbuster affairs.

Students curious about the nuts and bolts of how campaigns work from the inside will be fascinated to hear what he has to say.”

Begala, along with past UT lecturer and business partner James Carville, helped Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election, serving as a chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton–Gore campaign. He also served as a White House counselor to Clinton, where he coordinated policy and communications.

While Begala was a commentator and member of the CNN political team, it won an Emmy for its coverage of the 2006 U.S. elections and a Peabody Award for its coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Begala was a co-host of CNN’s political debate program, Crossfire, until 2005 and also co-hosted the show Equal Time on MSNBC.

“Paul Begala was a central figure in Bill Clinton’s upset victory during the 1992 presidential race.”

JEFF BROXMEYER Assistant professor of political science

What: Jesup Scott Honors College Distinguished Lecture Series.

Where: Doermann Theatre.

When: 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21.

Sponsored by: Jesup Scott Honors College.

Serving as a senior adviser for the proObama Super Political Action Committee during the 2012 presidential campaign, Begala has also advised politicians worldwide, including in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.

Currently an affiliated research professor of public policy at Georgetown University, Begala also teaches at the University of Georgia School of Law. As an author and co-author, Begala has written five political books, including, “Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room” in 2002.

Along with Carville and strategist Karl Rove, who was also a part of the lecture series, Begala was a 2012 inductee into the American Association of Political Consultants’ Hall of Fame.

Begala is married with four sons and lives in Virginia.

Tickets for the event are free, but seating is limited. To reserve tickets, visit utole.do/begala.

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bicycle accessibility within the community.”

The Chessie Circle Trail is a 6-mile bicycle path that would stretch from Bancroft to Bowman Park. According to Eltatawy, the Chessie Circle Trail runs all the way from Wood County and Rossford, through the Perrysburg area, and extends into upper Toledo, the Temperance junction and the northeast side of Toledo.

“We want the University of Toledo to make an actually written commitment that they want to extend the bike trail and that they are fully invested with the city of Toledo’s plan to extend the bike trails and make Toledo in general more accessible to everyone, including our University of Toledo students,” Eltatawy said.

Eltatawy’s presentation of the resolution was met with only two questions by SG senators: timetable and cost. He said he hopes for the university to have their section paved by the fall, and that TMACOG plans to have their sections paved by either the fall of 2015 or the spring of 2016.

Eltatawy said that though he has a general timeline for the project, he did not have an estimate.

“I really don’t know, to be honest,” Eltatawy said, adding that the cost was not expected to be excessive.

“From what I was led to believe by TMACOG, it, again, is more of a symbolic gesture rather than a large financial endeavor by the

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University of Toledo,” Eltatawy said.

After being met with no debate, the resolution passed unanimously, and Eltatawy said he plans for SG to act on it immediately.

“We can take it to Kaye Patten Wallace’s office, we can take it to President Nagi, we can take it to the UT foundation, and say explicitly we have student support for this initiative; where can we get the monetary funds to make

“We want the University of Toledo to make an actually written commitment that they want to extend the bike trail.”

ALI ELTATAWY Student Government vice president

this happen? Who do we need to talk to about the infrastructure of it?”

SG President Clayton Notestine said the issue is of interest to a significant portion of the student body.

“You can see from the green fund and other initiatives on campus that there is a huge push for green and proactive activity involved with developing UT, so I think there is a good population who may well be interested in this,” Notestine said. “But this legislation is the first step; it is by no means the last one.”

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FASHION

Do it yourself fashion: made by you, for you EMILY MODROWSKI FASHION COLUMNIST

Coming back for the spring semester, we all want to bring our best fashion out for the new start. Shopping can kill our bank accounts, so since I know we’re all college students, I’m sharing a few of my tips to vamp up your wardrobe on a budget with do-it-yourself fashion. These are really easy tricks that are not only money-saving, but fun.

Give old clothes a rebirth One of my favorite things to do is go thrift shopping. With some patience you can find great things at places like Goodwill or Savers. An easy way to give some jeans or jean shorts a new life is to add your own rips. All you need is a piece of sandpaper and rub it on the fabric of the jeans. When you’re done, you’ll have a pair of jeans that look like they came straight from American Eagle, but you actually got them for only $3. Another idea is a simple fix for a plain old T-shirt. Find any fabric you like and cut a small piece in the shape of a pocket out of it. Then sew it on the shirt. It’s a really easy way to give a plain shirt a little something extra.

Something else I love is shortening a skirt. I was at Goodwill once and I found a skirt with a great pattern, but unfortunately was way too long — an easy fix though. Cut the skirt a little longer than the length you want. Fold over the bottom edge all the way around, then sew a new seam along the fold for a new hem length.

Make your very own graphic shirts or sweatshirts

Do you ever want that band T-shirt so bad, but it’s priced at an ungodly amount?

Do you ever want that sweatshirt online with your favorite TV show logo on it, but the shipping just makes it not worth it? Do you ever want a T-shirt with something specific on it but you can’t find it sold anywhere? Let me let you in on a little secret: you can totally make your own. This is something I really love doing. I’ve made tons of my own graphic shirts or sweatshirts. Go to a thrift store and find a plain shirt or sweatshirt. Then, go to Michael’s and find iron-on transfer paper in the T-shirt and iron-on section. (I also suggest using RetailMeNot because they usually have good Michael’s coupons.) Print the picture, logo, quote or anything you want on the transfer paper, peel off the backing and iron it onto the plain shirt. That’s all there is to it. Warning: once you start using this trick, you may not stop.

Search through a new closet Dig deep in the archives of your mom’s, your aunt’s, your cousin’s, whoever’s closet and see if you can find anything you love that they might not want anymore. I can’t tell you the amount of old things I’ve found in my mom’s closet that I find great but she hasn’t worn in years.

Another good idea is to go through your

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that include what type of events the performers will do, how many parties they will reach and what type of promotions they plan to have.

They also set goals for how many likes they want to get on Facebook, when the launch of new princesses are and when they will have new costumes.

Lovitt said the performers travel outside of Toledo to cities like Ann Arbor, Troy, Findlay, Wauseon and Archbold.

Lovitt said the ‘winter sisters,’ the ‘Snow Queen’ and ‘Ana’, performed at the Walleye game on Nov. 8.

“The Walleye game was a thrill,” Lovitt said. “It was sold out at 8,600 people and I was able to sing the national anthem on national television as the Snow Queen at the event.”

Lovitt said the princesses also performed at

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Erin Momany (left) and Laurel Lovitt (right) are dressed as the Ana and the Snow Queen and posing with Rocky and Rocksy.

closet and get rid of things you don’t want anymore, and have friends go through their closets. Once you’re both done, go through each other’s throw away piles and see if you want to trade anything.

A jewelry trick

This one is for all you bookworms out there. A really cute idea for a necklace is a mini book necklace. Get an eraser and cut it to the size you want for the necklace. Print off the cover (back and side covers if you want) of the book you chose to fit the size of the eraser. Glue the cover on the eraser, then color in the sides that are left open with paint or any color Sharpie you want. Cover the entire thing in topcoat nail polish to give it shine and protection from the elements. Stick something in the top of the eraser to hold a chain (I used part of a safety pin) and secure with super glue. Add a chain, and you’re all done.

Fashion does not have to be expensive. With these tricks you’re bound to find something new to add to your wardrobe.

Emily Modrowski is a secondyear communication major.

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Emily Modrowski poses in her plaid skirt that she measured and cut to her standards, along with a black long-sleeved shirt and her book necklace.

two tea parties and met 2,000 children in five hours’ time.

“It was absolutely crazy,” Lovitt said. “The line to meet us was wrapped around the entire arena which is a mile around.”

Lovitt said “Festival Feast,” a buffet style dinner and entertainment, at the Lights Before Christmas was “absolutely wonderful.”

The princesses met over 200 families between two nights. Lovitt said the princesses were able to have a lot of quality time with each child which is something they “absolutely love.”

On Jan. 10, the princesses made an appearance at the Appliance Center in Maumee.

Lovitt said 400 families attended to meet the ‘winter sisters.’

Upcoming events include a Toledo Walleye game on Feb. 22 and Chick-Fil-A on Airport Highway on Feb. 24 from 6-8 p.m.

Lovitt said The Toledo Zoo booked Laurel’s

Princess Parties for the second year at the Spring Alive program on Feb. 28 and March 1.

At the event Lovitt said they will launch new characters, Jake and Tinkerbell.

Lovitt said her family has been supportive of her dream from the beginning.

“There’s never been a doubt,” she said.

“They’re like ‘OK keep dreaming and going farther’ and ‘OK what’s your next dream.’”

Lovitt said that her business isn’t about making money; it’s about creating an experience for the kids.

“In society, they are not able to dream anymore for some reason because they are so focused on technology, they just don’t play,” Lovitt said. “We want to give them an hour of our time to play, to just have a good time to empower them to know that they can dream and those dreams can become reality, and that’s our mission — empower children and their dreams.”