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Students petition for eco-friendly grant fund By Danielle Gamble News Editor

A student-driven campaign is seeking support for a UT grant program to make funds available to students with ideas on how to make campus more

eco-friendly. Tony Bova, a junior majoring in chemistry, said the UT model plans to accept grant applications from any registered student or organization at the university. He said the criteria for acceptance will include “green”

ideas with a well developed plan, budget and timeline. The group’s goal is to “break the status quo, and empower students to increase the sustainability of our university without having to overcome a series of endless administrative

hurdles,” according to promotional flyer. Bova, who is one of about 10 members of the initiative, said this idea was inspired by a similar program at Bowling Green State University, as well as other universities around the

country. Student Government President Matt Rubin said he spoke with Bova and Braeden Gilchrist, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, about this idea over the course of the semester. Rubin invited Bova

and Nathan Weaver, a first-year graduate student in bioengineering, to speak at the Student Senate meeting before Spring Break. There, Bova and Weaver — Green, Page A5

‘One Million Bones’ of genocide Sex, lies and feminism topic of UT students to participate in One Million Bones project to help bring attention to genocide in Africa By Megan Vollmer IC Staff Writer

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Students at the Center for Creative Studies Studies in Detroit, Mich. also made clay bones for the One Million Bones project. UT students will be hosting a bone-making session for the project tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Ottawa East multi-purpose room.

Bones — they are not an everyday sight in our country and they are generally considered a symbol of death. But the UT community is taking part in a nationwide effort to use these morbid objects to help potentially save the lives of Africans. Students of the Arts and Living Learning Community have created clay bones to add to the One Million Bones Project collection. Katherine Abu-Absi, director of the ALLC, said they are making bones to to be viewed in a Washington D.C. art display in April. She said each bone represents the life of a victim of displacement or genocide. This is UT’s first year of involvment with the project. ALLC members have already created around 700 clay bones and are aiming to create one thousand bones with the help of the UT community. Today from 7:30 to 10 p.m., — Bones, Page A5

Black-Jew Dialogue encourages acceptance By Danielle Gamble and Boyce Swift News Editor / For the IC

Editors Note: Story includes vulgarity. Students were told to turn off their preconceived notions, hatred and bigotry and turn on the love for Blacks, Jews and humanity Monday night. Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tish took the stage in Doermann Theater and performed “The Black-Jew Dialogues” to show UT students that even different cultures are alike in some ways. To an audience of about 20 students and community members, Jones and Tish used a combination of video clips, puppets, reenactments, edge and comedy to educate about the similarities and differences in African-American and Jewish cultures. One skit featured Jones impersonating a rapper to address Caucasian families who are uncomfortable with the popularity of rap music. During the skit his character said, “If you don’t like who I am to your children, then f-ck you. Welcome to the new exploitation.” Jones said this skit is meant to highlight a shift in the status quo in America because the majority of successful rappers are supported by a mostly white

audience. “It seems ironic to me that the very thing your parents ran from in the ‘50s and ‘60s, that you ran from, now your kids are embracing in the ‘90s and ‘00s,” Jones said. “That to me is the new exploitation, the new hypocrisy, and the only reason it happened was because of this generic, unspoken belief that black people live in the corners of American society.” Jones and Tish explained to the audience that they used “racially insensitive” language and controversial ideas in the show to break down barriers. “Do I honestly believe Mexicans are trying to take over the country by overpopulating? No,” Jones said. “It’s not that we believe everything we say up there but we believe it needs to be aired out so that we can get past it.” The show included a serious video clip depicting atrocities that minorities have faced around the world and skits highlighting the topics at hand. “The Black-Jew Dialogues” provided the audience with facts regarding civil rights, slave trade and current social topics, but the show was not meant to be education-centered. “This show was not a social justice comedy; we wrote a comedy,” Tish said. Jones added, “And what

came out of that was people really liking the idea that we were talking about these attitudes, behaviors and the fact that people treat each other crappy, and it’s all based on fear.” Maxwell Gold, a senior majoring in philosophy, said he and others worked hard to bring the BlackJew Dialogues to UT. This event was emceed by Gold, of Jewish descent and Kenneth Harbin, of African-American descent. “[The show] highlights not just what Black and Jewish people have in common, but people of all ethnicities. The university has diversity, we have many people from different backgrounds and different cultures, but we should be working on bringing them together,” Gold said. After the main performance, both actors spoke briefly and then opened the floor to the audience where attendees, including an interracial couple and a student of mixed heritage, spoke of their experiences with deep-seated racism. Jones said the discussion at UT was unique in the amount of pain revealed, especially when a mixed student recalled how his extended family referred to him as both a “useless [N-word]” and a “sp-c.” Jones said he could tell that the more the audience member talked, the more the pain was coming back from member’s experience. “Everybody’s got hurt, a

Women’s History Month lecture By Samantha Watson For the IC

UT’s College of Law hosted the Stranahan lecture titled “Sex, Lies, and Feminism” yesterday in the Law Center Auditorium. Christina Hoff Sommers, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, was the guest speaker. Sommers said for the past two decades she has studied feminism in America and believes that it has become increasingly marginalized. She said less than 30 percent of women identify as feminists. “Contemporary feminism has taken a wrong turn,” she said. Sommers, author of “Who Stole Feminism?” and “The War Against Boys,” said there are two basic types of feminists: gender feminists and equity feminists. The foremothers who fought for women’s suffrage and equal employment opportunities are what she calls equity feminists. Sommers said they simply wish for everyone to have the same opportunities, including marriages between partners of equal power. Sommers identified herself as an equity feminist

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Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, spoke about the difference between equity feminism and gender feminism yesterday. and said in America, “the major battles have been fought and won.” She added that women in other parts of the world, however, have not had so much as a ripple of freedom, let alone two major waves of it. Sommers described gender feminists as women who believe they are still being blatantly oppressed by society and must fight to become socially equal to men. Sommers rejected the idea that women in America are as oppressed as gender feminists believe.

She did not agree with gender feminism for three reasons: she said those who practice it are reckless with statistics; they see the two sexes as being capable of total equality; and they have too little focus on genuine oppression. She also said these feminists often resort to “male-mashing.” Sommers’ ideology on feminism was poorly received by some of the audience. Anna Brogan-Knight, a — Feminism, Page A2

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Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tish performed the Black-Jew Dialogues at UT on Monday. The presentation “uses racially insensitive” language and controversial ideas to break down barriers. significant and profound hurt that if you knew about it, you would look at them very differently and treat them differently,” Jones said. “But we get so caught up in our ‘moving

through the world problems that we start viewing people as obstacles rather than opportunities.” “The Black-Jew Dialogues, which debuted in Boston in

2006 and premiered worldwide in Scotland, is now performed at colleges, high schools, religious centers and theatrical venues across the — Dialogue, Page A5

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Gold/Harbin: ‘Of the students, by the students, for the students’

Student Government candidates discuss their campaign platforms Engle/Teall: ‘Real plans for real students’

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Heather Engle and Brent Teall’s campaign aims to address parking through increasing “the alternatives to parking.” Engle said one way she hopes to accomplish this is by creating a bike-share program where students can rent out bicycles to use. “People from Michigan or 20 minutes away can’t [ride a bike to school], but once they get on campus, they can rent a bike and bike around campus,” Engle said. Engle said to address

Bongratz/Dykyj: ‘You are a big deal’ Paulette Bongratz and Chris Dykyj said their campaign focuses on issues to help better serve the student body. “We are running because Paulette Bongratz we want to make a difference to the student body,” Bongratz said. One of their goals is to help “get voices heard” through online and campus-wide suggestion boxes for students to give their feedback. “Student Government deal with Christopher Dykyj doesn’t

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game day parking concerns, she wants to advocate for an increase in bus shuttles from the Student Union Building to Engineering. In order to help make UT more affordable for students, Engle said she plans to look for certain fees that can be waived to help save money. “There are some services some people don’t use,” she said. Engle said the ticket plans to expand their presence on campus by attending at least five different student organization meetings a week once elected. She added this will help allow them to become more familiar with the

different organizations and “make everyone’s efforts more effective.” Engle said she wants to advocate for longer hours and more resources to be made available at Carlson Library. Engle said to help increase UT’s presence in the greater community, she plans to work with more businesses to accept Rocket Dollars and create a list of which businesses offer student discounts. Also, she wants to work on increasing the campus involvement in the 2012 election by making Main Campus a location where students can vote rather than filling out absentee ballots.

just students – it’s a bridge between students and the administration,” Bongratz said. Bongratz said she heard complaints of students who leave UT because they do not know which classes to take or who to talk to. To address this issue, she said she would like to work with each college to create tracks for each major so students can “find what they need.” Because of UT’s large commuter student population, Bongratz said their campaign aims to advocate for bigger programs to get more students back to

campus, such as concerts, comedians and inter-organization collaborative events. Bongratz said she plans to establish workshops for the student organizations to help them market and “utilize the resources they may not know they have.” Bongratz said their campaign hopes to connect SG to the rest of the student population by sending weekly emails updating the UT community about what they do. This is to help students see SG’s role at UT, Bongratz said.

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Tate Stricklin and Victoria Delly said their platform aims to address parking by looking for alternatives such as bringing the UT bussing system into adjacent neighborhoods like Bancroft Hills. Delly said the ticket also wants to focus on keeping student organizations involved year-round and help “make those big decisions” by expanding the current incentive program SG has in place. “Your opinion is valued and we need you here,” he said. “It

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Although a recent hearing by the Student Government Election Board ruled the ticket to be disqualified, the duo is still considered an active campaign until an appeal hearing. Max Gold and Ken Harbin’s platform focuses on making UT more affordable by advocating for dining services to lower their overhead costs. Also, Gold said he wants to remove general fees by using private contributions. To help increase the student retention rate, Gold said their campaign will work to reform the freshman leadership program and develop an SG mentoring program known as Students

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Feminism From Page A1 graduate student in women’s studies, was “infuriated” by the speaker. “She did not mention one single contemporary feminist theorist. The narrowness and privilege that her point of view was coming from is just not applicable to a community like Toledo,” she said. Rebecca Facey, a secondyear law student, said was surprised by the speaker’s perspective. “Considering it is Women’s History Month, I was

One of Nancy Ngo and Patrick Richardson’s goals is to find ways to hold SG more accountable by setting up “The Voice” box, a suggestion box to be located in the Student Union Building. Also, Richardson said they would like to set up town hall meetings throughout campus where students can approach them with their concerns. “We want to be very approachable to all students,” Ngo said. To help increase SG’s presence, Richardson said the ticket will work to establish task forces knowledgeable in topics such as scholarships and student organizations in order to help students find their place in the university. Richardson said expecting the Law School to put something together that would be promoting women’s history, celebrating their accomplishments, whereas I felt this was a slap in the face,” she said. Sommers stated that false information is at the heart of the modern feminist movement. She said false statistics are “harder to kill than a vampire” because those who challenge this information cause some feminists to view dissenters as insensitive. Sommers said women make up a large portion of

Working Ahead to Graduate. Gold said in order to address concerns of student safety, the ticket will work with the administration to get security cameras in residence halls. “We understand the issue of privacy, but we are still concerned with the greater well-being of the students,” he said. In place of Diversity Week, Gold said he would establish UT Unity Month. “Diversity is the parts that when added together, create the body that is unity,” he said. The month will also showcase a variety of student organizations. Gold said with a $15 million renovation of the Student Union Building, he would like to set up a student contest to design the inside of the building and give it “a true sense of the Student Union.” ensures fairness of all organizations.” Delly said by reaching out to all the organizations it will build “a full-sized senate and different opinions.” After receiving complaints from students, the ticket hopes to “enhance the student dining experience” by advocating for better service, hours and providing more options to diversify the food selections. “I think they do a pretty good job right now having different foods there, but maybe having one day where [Horton International House] has Italian food or something different,” she said. “That’s what college is all about, teaching you about things you don’t usually do.” the campaign would like to reform the Rocket Dollar system by offering “one simple monetary unit” as well as expand businesses which accept the Rocket Card. He added he has been working with restaurants, specifically Olga’s located at Franklin Park Mall. To address parking, Richardson said the campaign wants to develop a “feasible solution” first. Ngo said they are looking for better ways to support students by planning a few large fundraisers a semester where all profits can be accessed by any student organization. Richardson said the two are working to get every student organization a vote in student senate. “Student organizations are, what I think, the heart and soul of the college experience,” Richardson said. Americans who live in poverty, specifically single mothers. She believes over the past few decades, marriage has become less of a commonality and has contributed to the amount of single women in poverty. Sommers said in order for women to change these poverty statistics, marriage must be reintroduced into our society. This was the last lecture of the Stranahan series. The next series, the Cannon series, begins on March 26 with “Sexual Harassment and

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Support women’s history So much of history is portrayed through certain lenses, which show only a small portion of what actually makes history. When young girls and young women read history, they usually read a womanless history. If history teaches a person who they are but they encounter a history where they are largely absent, they cannot actualize their dreams and potential. Their hopes are immediately diminished. Here is a look at what the University of Toledo is doing to counter this affliction. Today, March 15, the Catherine S. Eberly Center for Women will be hosting their weekly brown bag event. Barbara Kopp Miller, associate dean of the Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Human Services, will speak about taking care of yourself while taking care of your parents. The brown bag event takes place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Tucker Hall. Also today in Student Union Building Room 3018 at 6 p.m. the Women’s History Month committee will present “Human Trafficking.” The event will include a presentation by State Rep. Teresa Fedor and Celia Williamson, professor of Criminal Justice and Social Work. They will address the issue of human trafficking in Toledo. Dinner will be served promptly at 6:30 p.m. and there will be a chance for individuals to receive prizes. Saturday, there will be a class to help gain basic understanding of the publishing process. The class, presented by the Eberly Center, is from 9 a.m. to noon in Tucker Hall. On Thursday, March 22, the Women’s History Month Committee and the Black Student Union will present the “Body/Self Difficult Dialogue.” Fatima Pervaiz, program coordinator of Multicultural Student Services and Carmen Phelps, associate professor of English, will present on the topic of

body image and self-esteem. The dialogue takes place in Student Union Building Room 3018 at 5 p.m. On Tuesday, March 27, the “Women’s Empowerment Summit” will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the Toledo Hilton, Health Science Campus. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Yvette McGee Brown will deliver the keynote address. The summit begins at 9:45 in the faculty club at the Hilton. There will be three one hour sessions featuring Dr. Lisa Kovach, associate professor of Foundations of Education, Margaret Hopkins, associate professor of management and Fatima Pervaiz. Transportation swill be offered between Main Campus and HSC. There will be a pick up at the Student Union Loop at 8 and 9:30 a.m. This year’s theme is Healthy Personal and Professional Relationships. The summit is free to all faculty, staff and students. RSVPs are required and can be made at plsd@utoledo.edu or call 419-530-7232. On Wednesday, March 28, in Snyder Memorial 2110 at 7 p.m., the Women’s History Month Committee, 4AW and MINIYA will view the film “Miss Representation,” which shows how women are misrepresented in today’s society. To wrap up the month, the Women’s History Month Commitee will present the “Women and Religions Difficult Dialogue.” This dialogue will give a great opportunity to see the different roles women have played in religion. Presenters include Dr. Barbara Mann, associate professor of honors, Abdel Halim, associate professor of women’s studies, and Ashely Pryor, associate professor of honors. Though Women’s history month may be well underway, there is still no shortage of events on campus at UT celebrating women’s history. All of these events aim to counter the presence of a womanless history.

Liberty in chains the people which it serves? When did it all take a 180 degree turn? In America it is now illegal to protest. It is illegal to knowingly or unknowingly enter or remain in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so. It is illegal to knowingly or unknowingly impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of government business or official functions. The list goes on. If one violates H.R. 347, he or she can be fined, imprisoned for up to 10 years or both. Essentially, no matter what the cause may be – prochoice, pro-life, free Syria, nuclear disarmament, Republican, Democrat or Occupy – anyone participating in demonstrations can be arrested if nearby there is a person protected by the Secret Service. Americans can now be arrested for practicing their First Amendment right. In addition with other laws like the Patriot Act and NDAA, violating numerous amendments in the Bill of Rights, one has to ask, “When did Americans go from being citizens to subjects?”

America, the land of the free. Sadly, slowly but surely, it seems Lady Liberty is becoming shackled, against her will, into a type of bondage once thought impossible for the United States. In a chauvinistic and sadistic display it seems Uncle Sam is doing to Lady Liberty the same thing that would cause the average American to spend a decade and a half in prison. On March 9, with overwhelming support from Congress, President Barack Obama signed H.R. 347 into law. Under H.R. 347 – commonly referred to as the Trespass Bill – protesting is essentially criminalized in the U.S. This bill is in direct violation of the First Amendment, which reads as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Should not the Government have to answer to

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Click ‘Like’ Remember when Facebook was “the place to be” in terms of social media? Even local and global brands and businesses joined in on the wall posts. But starting March 30 , businesses may need to rethink how advertising on Facebook will help or Megan hurt their company. Gross Social media expert Jason Falls wrote an article titled The New Facebook Brand Timeline Mistake You’ll Likely Make discussing the interesting change Facebook will make later this month. The article was included in a newsletter sent out by Public Relations Society of America, the parent group of UT’s Public Relations Student Society of America. Since Facebook filed for IPO, the company’s stock popularity has skyrocketed. Facebook is no longer just a social media; it’s a name, brand, image and ridiculously large profit-maker. Because of this, Facebook is maturing and creating rules for the well-being of the brand’s name. It will no longer continue to be an easy-touse medium for advertisers. New rules require an ad to be at least 399 pixels wide, in terms of their size. It also cannot include purchasing or pricing information, prohibitingphrases such as “40% off!” or “Download at our website”. Companies will no longer be able to entice Facebook users to their sites with impressive prices and deals by simply clicking on their ads. Could this be a major obstacle? These rules also prohibit including contact information such as web addresses,

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like a pushing action. Marketers trying to dictate their customer’s behavior in a very direct way can often upset consumers and cause them to retreat from a potential purchase. The final enforcement will be the banning of interface elements such as “like” or “share” on ads. Because many companies do this already, starting March 30 they will be violating the new advertising rules. Some, like myself, may have looked at this article and thought, “Why would Facebook want to remove these advertisements due to recent violations in the rules? Don’t those advertisements produce a lot of important profit?” But this is because Facebook is revamping their style after stepping out into the stock market. Instead of being part of random ads, Facebook is putting marketers to the test by allowing them to use their creativity and create brand advertisements rather than marketing advertisements.

By implementing these policies, Facebook is forging a potential social experience between consumers and brands instead of love/hate relationships with in-yourface advertisements. Although many are against these new rules, some are really impressed by them. One person said he believes Facebook is finally pushing for a strategy marketers should have been using all along. They are now being forced to recognize that creative marketing in this technological and social medium leads to loyal followers, and “buy now” campaigns have a less satisfying outcome. Falls goes on to say these rules also apply to non-profit companies. Even these businesses can provide creative ways to draw interest in their product or service. I agree with Falls when he says these rules won’t be easy for everyone to follow. This is especially correct for industries which lack the ability to use visual creativity – including pharmaceutical sales, contractors and industrial work. Creative advertising isn’t for everyone, so maybe neither is Facebook. Many companies these days are pressured into using social media when in reality there is no need for it. Once March 30 rolls around, check out Facebook to see changes made to advertisements. Hopefully there will still be some companies fighting to remain on Facebook. —Megan Gross is an IC columnist and a junior majoring in marketing with a minor in communication.

Voices, oh the voices I like burgers. I love burgers. Why don’t we have burgers for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Burgers are my favorite. My favorite thing to eat is burgers. Burgers are my best friend. Burgers are my boyfriend. Burgers aren’t food; they’re the air to lungs and the cholesterol clogging up the heart. I breathe burgers. How could I live today without a burger? There are many ways to love a burger. Sadly, this isn’t about how to love burgers. All of those sentences are different ways to communicate the same idea. There are many ways of saying things, and they’re not all the same. At base, that’s the work of voice – of tone – and there are many different ways to communicate an idea. How one says they love burgers can be defined by the environment they grew up in. They might say it loaded with swear words, or they might say it in an accent. Depending on their age or a multitude of other things, they might not even call a burger a “burger.” In France, burgers are “les hamburgers.” In Spanish, the burger is “una hamburguesa.” There are all these different voices in the world. There are all these different ways of speaking, and each one tells something about the speaker’s background: where they grew up, who their parents were, what time they lived in and even their socioeconomic status. With all these varying voices, there’s diversity. Often, though, American students are encouraged to write in one voice.

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email, mailing addresses or any other information one could find in the “About” section of a company’s webpage. To me, putting contact information on an advertisement seems like an annoyance. If I want to contact you, I will figure out a way. You don’t have to push it at me. There will also be no calls to action allowed on Facebook advertisements. Picture no more ads telling you to “Get it now!” or “Tell your friends!” Again, this seems

One can’t hear all the accents and differing ways of saying things through reading. odern English classes generally don’t teach or encourage students to write in their own voice but to write in proper English with respect to grammar. They’re taught to mimic the ways of old, not write in a way that they know. This is evident reading to-

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day’s newspapers and literature. A writer’s choice of voice depends on the function of the piece of writing. It doesn’t make sense to load slang into a lab report because it hinders understanding of procedures.But in narratives, essays and articles, the language is often stilted and reads stiff. Nobody can imagine the voice behind the words. It’s hard to paint a picture of the person, and the quality – voice – that makes a piece so enticing is lost. Some of the best poets of all time didn’t adhere to grammar conventions. They wrote in a voice that resonated with them and it made their work that much stronger. They experimented with their writing; they broke the rules. For instance, E.E. Cummings frequently abandoned capitalization and Emily Dickinson capitalized and punctuated things in the most random

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of spots. Despite this, they’re both revered as great poets. Even if one can’t stand poetry or found their disregard for English appalling, their works are great because they encouraged diversity. They saw how other writers wrote in their age and opted to write differently. They were true to themselves. Nonetheless, the work of voice is very effective in novels like “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The narrator’s age and her innocence are way more believable because of the way it’s written. The narrator writes and speaks in the same manner. People don’t speak English correctly. People use slang. They swear. They stammer. They speak in fragments. Some people are sarcastic. Others use flowery language and metaphors, and some are straight to the point. People pronounce things differently than they spell them. All of these things are strongly discouraged in modern English courses, but all of these qualities can make a reading experience so much more interesting. English courses should encourage people to love burgers in a way true to themselves. They shouldn’t have to love burgers the same way Shakespeare, Twain and Thoreau did.

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Green From Page A1 explained their plan and asked for senate to help by posing the idea of a Green Fund as a referendum on the upcoming election ballot, which will include the vote for Student Government President. Bova and Weaver also invited members to attend an informational meeting on Tuesday in Rocket Hall. The presentation will include a detailed outline of the initiative and will provide petition packets to those who would like to support it. Bova said anyone can pick up petition forms on which to gather student signatures. He said the goal is to gather at least 2,000 signatures for their petition. The group plans to use this support to compile a presentation for the university Board of Trustees. Bova said the idea started when a group of students went to a sustainability conference in Columbus, Ohio, and heard representatives

Bones From Page A1 there will be a clay-bone workshop in the multi-purpose room of the Ottawa East Building. Abu-Absi said no artistic ability is needed to make a clay bone, rather just the will to help the fight against current genocides. Megan Valley, a freshman majoring in nursing, said the project has a lot of benefits. “The One Million Bones project is a creative and captivating way to promote awareness to the global conflict of genocide. It’s a great way to have your voice heard as well as the voices lost by genocide,” she said. “Plus, it’s a fun way to spend the night with a good group of friends.” The clay bones will first be displayed for the rest of the UT community to view on April 5 and 6 in the Student Union Building. “It is a national movement that is an art installation,” Abu-Absi said. “It will

from BGSU speak on a “Green Funds” program they started at their campus. He said some of these students then met with Nick Hennessy, sustainability coordinator at BGSU, who provided them with details concerning their student financed grant fund. This Student Green Initiative Fund became open to student applications January 2010, according to BGSU’s website. Bova said applications for use of the fund are submitted to a panel of students, overseen by the sustainability coordinator and other administrators. Bova said an example of a project that could funded by the Green Fund grant is a bike sharing program, similar to programs in cities and universities around the world. Most systems work when an individual either leaves a monetary deposit or swipes a valid form of identification, like a credit card or university ID card, at a bike check-out station. A rider may then use the bike for a designated time, be a visual of each bone representing the life of someone. It will be visually overwhelming.” Jeanne Kusina, faculty member of the College of Innovative Learning, said once the display ends at UT, ALLC students will transport the bones to Columbia College in Chicago and add them to that collection. “Ultimately [our clay bones] will be added to bones made all across the country and displayed with the national One Million Bones display on the capital lawn in 2013,” she said. Abu-Absi said another reason she loves this project is because it is very “green.” The bones are all made of clay or other “green material,” and most of it will go back into the earth after the viewing in 2013. April is National Genocide Awareness Month. Kusina said the project is a great opportunity for students to be a part of something big which is also for a good cause.

after which he or she drops the bike off at one of several other return stations. Bova said a form of this program would be practical and beneficial at UT for both residential and commuter students. “With students now, it’s a lot of jumping in your car to get to a class across campus in 10 minutes, and that’s inefficient  you waste time parking and you waste fuel. Also, with commuter students, they live too far away to ride a bike to school and they may not want to strap it to their car,” he said. Rubin said he would like to see these students “create their own change at the university.” “If this were to pass, it would show that students are willing to put their money where their mouth is in support of green initiatives on campus,” he said. An informational presentation on the Green Fund initiative will be held on March 20 at 6:30 p.m. in Rocket Hall Room 1520. It is free and open to the public.

Dialogue From Page A1 U.S. and Canada. The pair said over time they have changed the show to reference the sufferings of other minority groups, including women and gays, along with allowing the show to evolve in order to keep it more relevant to their young audience. Jones and Tish said they both work hard and travel a lot, but the work is well worth their effort. “It’s a great privilege to have something in your life that you’re able to work tirelessly for –— that is a special thing, and if you can find it, that’s where the joy and the stuff of life lives,” Tish said. Jones and Tish explained that if people want to help them, they ask for them to be their ambassadors by spreading their message of love and empathy. For more information regarding the Black-Jew Dialogues, students can view their website theblackjewdialogues. com.

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Thursday Toledo Repertoire Theatre — Come see the story of 13-year-old Evan Goldman as he moves from New York City to Appleton, Indiana in the show “13.” The show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are $6 for students and $11 for adults.

Friday Toledo Museum of Art — Get in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day with the traditional Irish dancing of the Arden Acadamy. The show starts at 6 p.m. Frankie’s Inner City — The Shame Game is playing with Chaos Rules, Ryan Started the Fire and Eyes of the City. Tickets are $5 for anyone over 21 and $7 for anyone under. Show starts at 5 p.m.

Saturday St. Patrick’s Day! Celebrate the day at your favorite pubs, bars and restaurants. Festivities are being held at such places as The Blarney, Mickey Finn’s, The Attic on Adams, The Barn Bar, Parkway Sports Bar and Grill and more.

Sunday Stranahan Theatre — The world’s premier classical Chinese dance company returns to Toledo in “Shen Yun.” Tickets can be purchased at www.ticketmaster. com. Show starts at 2 p.m.

Monday McMaster Center Library — Experience the powerful second film in the Film Focus Independent Film Festival. This week’s feature is “A Small Act,” a docu-

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This month UT is offering students, faculty, staff and the community a chance to take a leap into Harry Potter’s world and enroll at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry — but not in the literal sense. Instead of flying to London and boarding a secret train, people simply have to walk into the magical halls of Carlson Library and Raymond H. Mulford Library Building. UT was chosen as one of the few colleges in Ohio to feature an exhibit focused on the popular teenage wizard. The exhibit is more than just a tour of magical potions and spells. It is also an excellent learning opportunity filled with factual information regarding medieval practices. The exhibit, conceived and presented by the National Library of Science, explores the link between middle-age science and pop culture in a

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very interesting and fun way according to Wade Lee, associate professor of general libraries. “The exhibit is a cool link of medieval science and magic through the eyes of those who grew up with Harry Potter,” Lee said. The exhibit consists of posters filled with information and fun facts as well as a lecture series. Each lecture will feature a UT professor correlating aspects of the Harry Potter world to academic subjects such as English, law and philosophy. Additionally, Carlson will host a special event Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. The event, titled “Lightning Strikes!”, is an “all-ages Harry Potter party,” according to Lee. A short presentation will jumpstart the festivities which include many fun activities, a poster board exhibit and games about the magical fantasy. Also, a “potion” lesson will be given by UT’s Student American Chemistry association and Ritter Planetarium will

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screen a Harry Potterthemed show at 5:30 p.m. During the exhibit, two identical jelly bean-filled jars will “magically” appear at Carlson and Mulford Library. The community will get the chance to guess the exact number of jelly beans in each respective jar. The closest guesses will be awarded the jelly beans and a DVD collection of all eight “Harry Potter” films. Lee said he hopes the event will be enjoyable and a huge success. “The movies are finally at the end and many college students have grown up with Harry Potter and have learned many things from J.K. Rowling’s books,” he said. The free exhibit will be at Carlson from March 12 to 29 then at Mulford Library from April 3 to 20. Visitors can attend during regular library hours. Two lectures will be given at Carlson on March 22 and 29 and two other lectures will be given at Mulford Library on April 12 and 19.

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Various Harry Potter memorabilia and posters are currently on display in the Carlson Library for students to view and enjoy.

Gallery displays Jumping back to ‘Jump Street’ A new spin on a classic takes theaters Friday students’ works By IC Staff

For some students in the art field, their dream is for their artwork to be presented as part of a distinguished exhibit. For some lucky UT students, this dream has become a reality. The 2012 Juried Student Exhibition puts the artistic works of 39 undergraduate, graduate and postbaccalaureate students on display. Since the beginning of the year, any student could submit work from any medium. The students did not have to be part of the art department, rather, just an aspiring part of the UT community. Over 150 works were submitted. A board of 14 faculty members from the UT Art Department sat down and determined the artworks to be included in the exhibit. Only 39 lucky pieces were chosen and are now on display in the Center for the Visual Arts. According to Angela Riddel, promotions specialist for the Departments of Theatre, Film, Music and Art, the pieces don’t

stop there. “First, they go through the UT faculty who chooses who will be in the exhibit itself. Then those pieces are juried by an outside juror, who determines who of those will receive awards,”she said. The outside juror this year is Amy Horst of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center. At the artists’ reception tomorrow, Horst will give a lecture and present various awards to the selected artists, including Best of Show, the President’s Award, first, second and third places. 14 awards will be presented. The exhibition is at the CVA gallery next to the Toledo Museum of Art and will be open until April 1. The CVA Gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The artists’ reception will take place Friday in the gallery with a lecture from Horst at 6 p.m. and the award ceremony at 7 p.m. Both the exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.

When I used to hear the big screen remake of “21 name “21 Jump Street,” I Jump Street.” It follows would think of the gor- Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko geous Johnny (Tatum), who Depp and his were enemies in role in the high school. Jenshort-lived ‘80s ko was the stetelevision show. reotypical jock Hearing that — popular and name n o w, dumb — and though, my Schmidt was the mind goes to smart kid who the hilarious anjust wanted to tics of Jonah be accepted. Hill and the By Maranda Carlson Years after IC Staff Writer washboard g r aduation, abs of Channing Tatum. These two popular stars however, they enroll in the play the lead roles in the police academy together

and realize they need each other — Jenko doesn’t do well on the tests while Schmidt doesn’t do well on the physicals. The two work together to graduate from the academy, becoming friends in the process. After graduation they expect to be hardcore cops, which doesn’t exactly happen. The two end up with the exciting job of park patrol. One day while patrolling the park, they find a wanted gang and manage to — ‘21 Jump Street,’ Page B2

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Taylor Dennis Pasquala’s piece “Sunset at Sea Level” is one of the lucky artworks chosen for the exhibition.

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‘21 Jump Street’ From Page B1 catch one of the members. Jenko — being the genius he is — forgets to read him his Miranda rights, allowing the member to get away and the two officers get in trouble with the chief. Their punishment? An undercover assignment at 21 Jump Street. Their assignment? Pose as high-school students in order to crack a new drug which was created in a local high school. I found this movie hilarious. Even though it didn’t really need to be remade, it was a great idea. They even made a jab at themselves when the chief makes a comment saying how they have to bring back old assignments because they can’t come up with fresh ideas. They also joke about action movies and how everything blows up. For example, there is a chase scene where Schmidt and Jenko assume two different vehicles are going to blow up, but a different vehicle they don’t even expect explodes.

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The Oscars for UT’s aspiring filmmakers

Only the best will be featured in the Annual Student Film/Video Showcase March 24. The winning student films of the previous juried competition will be screened, with a reception held afterwards that is free to all showcase attendees.

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Even though the idea was generation today. It has technically remade, it could parties, drugs and people have been just a movie that who are crazy about the they made as an original. It environment. It also offers didn’t necessarily go with an older view, showing how the old version at all. If Jenko is so caught up with they had given another his teenage years that it’s name to the movie, I don’t hard for him to accept the think that anyone would way it is today. “21 Jump have thought it was con- Street” also relates to parnected to “21 Jump Street.” ents and how they feel To me, the movie was sort about their children’s lives. of cliché, but I assume that Their generation is nothing was the point. They weren’t like ours. I really hope there will be really making fun of the television show and fo- a sequel coming along and I cused on how everything is have a strong feeling there always being remade. is. “21 Jump Street” may be a Sometimes, in cases like this movie, the new version remake and unoriginal, but it was still ridiculously funis better than the original. What I did not like about ny. All-in-all, I give it a B+. the movie is that it’s pretty much just like every other movie out there right now. I don’t want to ruin anything, but I feel like the ending is almost the typical Production movie ending. Even 21 Jump Street though it was a remake, the director Rating Grade could have taken a different route and changed it up a bit. Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah One positive, Hill, though, is that it relates to our

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Rockets open 2012 season with MAC title on the mind By Jay Skebba Sports Writer

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Senior QB Austin Dantin hopes to end his career on a high note.

At the conclusion of their first spring practice of the year, the Toledo Rockets broke the huddle yelling, “MAC champs” in unison. The Mid-American Conference title game is about nine months away, but the goal for the 2012 season is crystal clear. “Our program goals, year in, year out, are to win a MAC championship, get to a bowl game, win a bowl game,” said UT head coach Matt Campbell. “Those three things are things we talk about and continually strive to get to.” The 32-year old is the youngest coach in Division I FBS, but wasted little time making a statement. After taking over for the departed Tim Beckman just 19 days before the Military Bowl, Campbell led Toledo to a big victory over Air Force in his first game as head coach. With several key players returning from last year’s 9-4 team, the Rockets had a smooth transition into spring ball. “Anytime you win your last football game, it carries over into the offseason and gives you some great credibility as you go on,” Campbell said. “For our staff, it helped us more than anything in recruiting and our kids believe in the plan here.” Although the players were wearing jerseys and shorts, the intensity level made the first spring practice feel like one in September or October. Coaches and players alike looked focused and fired up. There was even a little jawing between some of the players. Defensive end T.J. Fatinikun batted down a pass at the line of scrimmage, which drew high praise from

his defensive coaches and teammates. The Perrysburg native figures to be a key component to the UT defensive line in 2012. After dislocating his elbow, he missed the final eight games of the 2011 season. “I missed out on a lot of football and a lot of workouts,” Fatinikun said. “It took a while for me to really get back into it, but I’m starting to get back into shape and things are feeling good.” Fatinikun will be asked to do a lot for the Rockets defense, including taking on the responsibility of being a senior leader. “Every single one of (the seniors) has a characteristic that will help our team,” Fatinikun said. “It’s about us banding together, understanding each other’s roles, trying our best to lead the younger guys, and come out of here with a MAC Championship.” The beginning of spring ball means the end of winter conditioning and a chance for the players to finally return to the playing field. “Just to get out here with the guys, it’s a great feeling and it’s a lot of fun,” said senior quarterback Austin Dantin. Much like last year, Dantin will be in a position battle with junior Terrance Owens. The two alternated reps with the first team offense and coach Campbell suggested that will continue all spring. Dantin and Owens both saw action last season and often split time during games. UT will practice every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday until the Blue-Gold game, which will take place at the Glass Bowl on Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m.

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UT will need Terrance Owens to perform at a high level in 2012.

UT takes down McNeese St. in first round of CIT

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Freshman Julius “Juice” Brown recorded his first double-double with 15 points and 11 assists. By Nate Pentecost Assistant Sports Editor

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Can we get a repeat Tricia Cullop and the Rockets will have a shot to repeat as WNIT champions as they begin their quest tomorrow against Detroit at 7 p.m. at Savage Arena.

Toledo advanced to the second round of the CollegeInsider.com Tournament with a 76-63 win over Southland Conference opponent McNeese State Tuesday at Savage Arena. Julius “Juice” Brown (4-of8) fronted the Rockets (1916) offensively as the team shot a season-high 61 percent (27-of-44) from the field. Toledo’s MAC

Freshman of the Year recorded his first double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 assists. “Juice is a great point guard,” said junior Curtis Dennis. “He’s (MAC) Freshman Player of the Year. When he’s not scoring he finds players.” Dennis (6-of-10) poured in a team-high 18 points and Second Team All-MAC honoree Rian Pearson (7-of-11) added 17 points and teamhigh seven rebounds. Junior

guard Dominique Buckley rounded out the Rockets in double figures with 11 points. “We knew we got lackadaisical (at the end of the first half) and we had to pick that up,” Brown said. “We just got in the locker room, talked with each other, told everyone we had to pick it up and that’s what we did.” Oakland (18-15) will host Toledo in the second round of the CIT on Saturday at 2 p.m.