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FY12 budget brings increases in tuition and residence hall costs

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A lake full of dragons The Fifth Third Navigators pull ahead of the 180th Stingers and the Stautzenboaters at the Toledo Dragon Boat Festival Saturday. The annual event takes place at International Park on the downtown waterfront.

In order to cover a $34 million shortfall — $20.5 million of which originated from the state of Ohio — the UT Board of Trustees approved a budget for fiscal year 2012 with increased tuition and other fees to cover UT’s expenses for the upcoming year.

Hikes include a 3.5 percent tuition increase for undergraduates and a 6.5 percent increase for graduate students.

“Tuition increases are always a

policy of last resort,” said Bill Fall, former chair of the Board of Trustees. “We never want to increase tuition.”

Some of the budget adjustments also include a reduction in staffing and support costs as well as program elimination.

“Every institution has felt the brunt of this. Unfortunately, most of the budget adjustments have been downward,” UT President Lloyd Jacobs said, “We went from department to department looking to make cuts.”

The budget shortfall also

eliminated some adjunct faculty positions.

“There were some reductions in human positions,” Fall said. “We tried to be good to the human resource side, but some were eliminated out of necessity. Our preference was to give fulltime faculty priority over adjunct professors.”

Some UT professors might have to take on extra work loads to compensate for the loss of funding in their department.

“Every person in society is — Budget, Page A2

UT promotes anti-violence New green chemistry school Allison Seney IC Staff Writer

The University of Toledo currently administers a program on domestic violence called the Adults and Children Together Raising Safe Kids Program. The program is geared towards helping provide parents the right tools to raise children to become none violent adults.

ACT is serviced by the Great Lakes Regional Center.

Three cities already use the program; Toledo, Flint Mich. and Pittsburgh.

The ACT Great Lakes Regional Center is housed within the Department of Psychiatry at The University of Toledo.

This year’s workshops were held at the Kobacker Center Department of Psychology on the UT Medical Campus last week.

Michelle Knox, a clinical psychologist and UT associate professor of psychiatry, spoke at two workshops where young professionals of psychology learned to implement the skill sets of the ACT program into their services.

The eight session ACT

programs are being held at a variety of community agencies, schools, and healthcare settings.

UT’s main role of support includes providing the facilities and resources to research the program.

Knox credits the Verizon Foundation as one of the biggest contributors. The foundation donated a $9,000 grant to help with the research of the program.

The Verizon Foundation, a grant program established by the Verizon, focuses its efforts on providing financial, human and technical support to programs and organizations by offering grants.

“Verizon measures the effectiveness and success of a program that works towards reducing and prevention of violence used as a form of punishment,” Knox said.

Knox said there are several factors involved in providing a positive environment for children to grow up in and become nonviolent adults.

“For a child to grow up to be nonviolent includes an element called the protective factor and it includes nurturing, positive parenting, social support, and the

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Michele Knox, clinical psychologist at UT participates in the anti-violence program. neighborhood the child grows up in,” Knox said.

Knox also mentioned an important factor known as the “risk factor” which pertains to a child raised in a negative environment.

“What would be negative is having the risk factor of an unprepared parent and using — Anti-violence, Page A2

The University of Toledo introduced a new school that will teach students about green chemistry and engineering earlier this month.

According to a press release, the new school will focus on the need for sustainability with the design of products that use renewable raw materials and environmentally safe processes.

“Biomimicry, which is green chemistry and engineering that uses natural raw materials and processes that mimic nature and produce zero waste are the future of science at UT is positioning itself to be a leader in teaching, researching and applying this science,” UT President Lloyd Jacobs said in the release.

Director of the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation Matthew Platz applauded UT for having the “foresight to focus their department of chemistry around solutions to these great problems and to try to develop the faculty and the — Chemistry, Page A3

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Paul Anastis recieves a Resolution in regonition for his accomplishments in Green Chemistry from President Lloyd Jacobs at the opening of the School of Green Chemistry weeks ago.

Fulbright scholarship awarded to pharmacy student

By John Gumersell IC Staff Writer

Science is not just a field of study for Steven Lombardo, but also his passion.

“I have always had an internal drive to study science” he said. “It’s the driving force that has gotten me where I am today.”

Lombardo’s passion not only lead him to graduate Summa Cum Laude from the University of Toledo’s College of Pharmacy, but also receive a Fulbright Scholarship for excellence in research and academic achievements.

Katherine Wall, professor of pharmacy and biochemistry at UT and said, “The scholarship is open to any student of any degree.

In addition, Wall, the honors director of the UT College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Studies, was the first to inform Lombardo of the scholarship.

According to the Fulbright website, applicants must be U.S. citizens, hold at least a Bachelor’s Degree and be proficient in the language of the host country.

Bryan Yamamoto, professor chairman of the department of neurosciences at UT, said,”The Fulbright Scholarship offers an opportunity to study abroad in exchange for the sharing of knowledge between the United States and other countries,” Lombardo said. “Students outline and develop a specific project

relevant to their field before departure and proceed with their research as they enter a new country.”

Lombardo said he will be going to Sydney, Australia in the fall for one year to conduct experiments to develop therapeutics to treat anxiety disorders as well as spread awareness of mental illness through community outreach programs.

Yamamoto said the Fulbright Scholarship is considered one of the most prestigious academic awards and he believes Lombardo will be ready for any challenge he will face.

“It is a very competitive award that is highly coveted — Scholarship, Page A2

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President Lloyd Jacobs shakes hands with Matthew Platz at the opening of the School of Green Chemistry two weeks ago. The event took place in Libbey Hall.

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A research-based diversity training that provides statistics, definitions, tools, strategies and resources regarding LGBTQ issues will be held Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Student Union Building Room 2591. For more information, contact Fatima Pervaiz at 419-430-5324.

Cell Biology Seminar

The Department of Pharmacology will host a seminar Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Health Science Campus’ Health Education Building Room 015D. The guest speaker will be Tomoko Obara from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and he will be discussing centriolar satellite protein Wtip regulates cilia mediated processes by modulating non-canonical Wnt signaling. Refreshments will be served before the seminar.

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Anti-violence From Page A1 violence as a form of punishment,” Knox said. “Isolation, media exposure, and violence in the community are risk factors.”

According to the Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence website, children react to their environment in different ways depending on the child’s gender and age.

Children exposed to family violence are more likely to develop social, emotional, psychological and behavioral problems than those who are

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According to UT President Lloyd Jacobs UT had to go from department to department making cuts to fill the budget gap.

Scholarship From Page A1 by student applicants from the best schools in the U.S.,” Yamamoto said. “Steven is a mature, bright, inquisitive and thoughtful individual. He is collegial and he easily integrated himself into the busy and relatively crowded working environment of my laboratory.”

Yamamoto said Lombardo is the first Fulbright Scholar from Toledo’s College of Pharmacy.

Lombardo spent approximately two years of his undergraduate research working under Yamamoto, and where much of his interest in neuroscience flourished.

While working in Wall’s laboratory for two summers, Lombardo said he learned the basics on lab procedure and protocol.

“She really helped to stimulate my interest in applying for a Fulbright Scholarship,” he said.

Wall said Lombardo was naturally highlighted as a young undergraduate researcher.

Lombardo came to Wall as a freshmen looking to perform graduate level research.

“Steven was very not.

Recent research indicates that children who witness domestic violence show more anxiety, low self esteem, depression, anger and temperament problems than children who do not witness violence in the home. The trauma children experience can show up in emotional, behavioral, social and physical disturbances that effect their development and can continue into adulthood.

The ACT program is to help parents learn the proper skills to eliminate the risk factors and elevate the pro-

impressive, he always read into everything thoroughly,” Wall said. “He applied everything from his research into the classroom.

Steven cares deeply for his work and I believe he is delving into neuroscience to help the people of the future and influence their health.”

Through his undergraduate studies, Lombardo said he received various achievements.

Wall said Lombardo is listed as a co-author of an article published in the “American Chemical Society” along with doctoral researchers from the College of Pharmacy, a procedure he participated in as a freshman undergraduate researcher.

Lombardo, who was named valedictorian of the Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences Program, plans to pursue graduate studies in neuroscience at Wake Forest University located in WinstonSalem, N.C. “I wish to gain a better understanding of what causes abnormal behavior, what makes us unique, and what causes us to behave the way we do,” Lombardo said. tective factor.

“Parents learn how to handle a situation and rethink things through,” Knox said.

“They learn how to recognize their anger and make a support system to establish a verity of coping skills.”

Knox said there are many situations in early child development that can open the door to frustration for any parent.

“A baby crying is a good example. If a parent is frustrated they need to identify their anger and handle the situation with a level head,” Knox said.

Correction In the June 13 issue of the Independent Collegian, we inaccurately quoted Alcohol Prevention Specialist Alexis Blavos as saying caffeine is a key ingredient proven to help deal with hangovers. We also misquoted Blavos as saying sugar along with caffeine helps with hangovers. Blavos did not say the above statements. The IC regrets these errors and apologizes for any confusion this may have caused. Corrections have been made in the story above.

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working harder than they did five years ago, and UT is no exception,” Jacobs said. “People at the institution are being asked to step up their work loads.”

Despite the strained economic times for every school budget, Fall remained upbeat on longterm predictions for UT. “We hope that it is short term,” he said. “Historically, UT has been a leader in not increasing tuition.

We had to consider options that would be strong in the long-term.”

Many of the changes were made to enhance the competiveness of the institution, according to UT Chief Financial Officer David Dabney, in a memo to the board.

“Multiple steps were taken to ensure there was good transparency with all the stakeholders,” Fall said.

Jacobs told the Independent Collegian he would be voluntarily

Monday, July 25, 2011 rejecting a pay increase for the upcoming fiscal year.

“I said ‘thank you for the vote of confidence,’ but never considered a pay raise. What is important now is our ability to be humanistic and student-centered in our approach,” he said.

The budget also makes some assumptions, such as a slight increase for undergraduate enrollment and a relatively flat enrollment in most graduate programs from fiscal year 2011.

“There could be some amendments if the state legislature makes some changes in funding,” Fall said.

Other noticeable increases will come in the form of housing fees for campus residency halls.

Of 18 living options in the nine listed campus residences, just four of those options will avoid increased housing fees.

Ottawa House, Parks Tower, The Crossings and Academic House will not increase their housing fee. However, the “single” option for all residency halls will

increase.

McComas Village, Horton International House, Mackinnon Hall, Carter Hall, Dowd Hall, Nash Hall and White Hall will see also increases in their housing fees.

The increase in housing fees will jump from a couple hundred dollars per school year to over $1,400 for a single bedroom at International House -- the largest increase of the group -- 19 percent compared to last year’s charge.

There will also be a whole host of new general and lab fees and a 400 percent increase in the late registration fee, the fee assessed when students register for a class after the 15th day of the semester.

The late registration fee will be adjusted from $200 to $1,000.

Some fees will remain untouched, however: new meal plans are being offered, but most of the existing meal plans will remain the same from a price standpoint.

Also untouched is UT’s $125 per semester parking permit fee.

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Colleges see dwindling ranks of high school graduates

By Mara Rose Williams McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ The Columbia and Kansas City campuses of the University of Missouri again will be awash in freshmen this fall.

But it may be a high tide.

In eight years, if a recent national report is correct, the number of high school graduates in Missouri will fall by 5 percent.

An aging population, coupled with a decline in high school graduates entering college and the workforce, is a matter for national concern, experts say.

Seeing the writing on the marker board, some area educators are looking past the freshman glut and trying to entice other sources of college fodder, including former dropouts.

Overall, fairly flat national high school graduation rates until 2020 are predicted by the Center for Law and Social Policy and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.

The decline is most pronounced in parts of New England, Ohio, Michigan, North Dakota, Massachusetts and New York. Connecticut, for example, expects a 10 percent drop in high school students, the report says.

Kansas will fare somewhat better with a dip of only 1 percent.

Some of the Midwest declines come from out-migration but, in general, the report said, the high school student population is shrinking with declining birth rates, said Vickie Choitz, senior policy analyst

with the law center.

On the Kansas City and Rolla campuses, educators already are addressing shifting trends, including encouraging old faces to return and finish up.

In December, UMKC began an aggressive search for adults who left in the past decade without a diploma.

Using the National Student Clearinghouse, which verifies college enrollment and degrees granted, UMKC found 475 to call about returning to finish up.

“We only looked at people from the Kansas City, Missouri, area,” said Jennifer DeHaemers, assistant vice chancellor for enrollment management.

“People who would logistically want to come back.”

One reason for this initiative is Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon’s goal to improve the ratio of residents with a college degree from 37 percent to 60 percent by 2025.

Besides the soon-to-stagnate student pool, the state institutions also find themselves struggling with an 8.1 percent budget cut in fiscal year 2012.

“We know from history and from studies such as these that post-secondary education provides enormous economic benefits to individuals and their communities,” said David Russell, Missouri higher education commissioner.

“We need to graduate 4,000 more students each year if we are to meet our state’s future workforce needs.”

While in this slow economic recovery jobs for college students may be slim, employment demanding some postsecondary training will rise 16 percent by 2018. At that point, two-thirds of all jobs will re-

quire it, according to a stateby-state analysis.

With more non-traditional students being recruited, colleges and universities also are embracing some different ways for their campuses to deliver credit hours. That means four-year schools are launching more online courses and are being more flexible about when classes are offered. In some cases, it may even mean designing classes more attractive to older students.

Unlike the Kansas City and Columbia campuses, Missouri University of Science & Technology is not expecting more freshmen this year. However, the Rolla school last year had a record enrollment, the largest since the 1980s. The school’s strategic plan had projected 6,500 students at this point, but it’s now 7,200.

“We do have capacities, and we do have some programs that are bursting at the seams, mechanical and civil engineering for example. We can’t grow much more,” said Andrew Careaga at Missouri S&T. Educators acknowledge that enrollment is cyclical and are well aware of the expected demographic changes.

So at Rolla, too, dropouts are considered an important source of college fodder. Many located by S&T are only one math class away from a degree.

Richard Sluder, vice provost for enrollment management at the University of Central Missouri, said the Warrensburg school enrolls about 50 such students a year, many on a general studies track.

“And with a little work, maybe a three-hour class, they finish with a degree,” he said.

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OSLO, Norway _ He wanted to ignite “a revolution,” one that would upend contemporary Norwegian and European society. The goal: to purge the continent of Muslims and punish the “indigenous Europeans” who had failed to protect their nations from “cultural suicide.”

As Norway grieved for the 93 people cut down in twin terrorist attacks, the radical views of the accused killer came into clearer view Sunday, and raised questions about the threat posed by farright extremists in this country and the extent to which the authorities can control it.

The threat reflects a bitter resentment toward demographic changes that reaches beyond Norway to neighbors such as Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands, where far-right and anti-immigrant parties have made major political gains in recent years.

Investigators here in the Norwegian capital continued to pore over a 1,500-page treatise that was apparently posted on the Internet by suspect Anders Behring Breivik shortly before a massive bomb exploded Friday in downtown Oslo, followed by a shooting spree at a youth camp tied to the ruling Labor Party, which is relatively more tolerant toward immigration.

The chilling manifesto advocates an armed campaign against the Muslims it says are overrunning Europe. A hate-filled brew of political, ideological and militaristic cant, the treatise denounces Europeans who support multiculturalism and argues for spectacular violence using tactics similar to those seen Friday, such as adopting a police disguise to fool victims before killing them.

Breivik has admitted to the twin attacks, which left nearly 100 injured and at least four people still missing, without accepting criminal responsibility for them, police said.

His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK on Sunday that

students who are going to come up with the answers to these problems.”

Platz spoke at the university’s announcement of the School for Green Chemistry and Engineering two weeks ago.

Robert Peoples, director of the Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society, said he believes this century will be known as the “century of sustainability.”

“There has probably never been a more excited and important time to be a chemist, because chemistry is going to a critical part of the solution of every problem facing humanity at this point,” Peoples said. “Green chemistry and hearing it is the engine that will power innovation, invention, and economic prosperity for our nation and the rest of the world.”

Processes involving green chemistry can help produce safer products for consumers, since according to the California Department of Toxic Substances; consumers do not have complete information about chemicals in the products they use or

about the possible negative effects of those chemicals.

The California Department of Toxic Substances found some products that are labeled as non- hazardous can still contain harmful materials.

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There has probably never been a more exciting time to be a chemist, because chemistry is going to be a critical part of the solution of every problem facing humanity at this point.

Robert Peoples Director, Green Chemistry Institute at the American Chemical Society

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This includes a child’s necklace labeled “nickel and lead free” tested by the CDTS that was found with nearly one percent lead – this exceeds the hazardous waste criteria.

Those are the sorts of issues green chemistry is aimed at addressing.

Paul Anastas, “the father of green chemistry” and the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for the office of research and development, said the leadership in green chemistry at UT began when people such as former Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences started to question “the status quo of undrinkable water, of unswimmable water [and] unfishable water.”

“Because of the leadership that Toledo is showing, and establishment of this new school we are saying that this is not going to be the trajectory of the future,” Anastas said. “We’re going to make a change; we are going to take a stand and we are going to make sure that tomorrow is different from today.”

Platz said he would place UT’s sustainability programs and efforts in the top ten of the United States.

“A lot of departments try to be all things to all people,” he said. “I think Toledo is wise to focus their resources and their chemistry department around some sustainability issues. The world is counting on chemists to come up with and discover the new chemistry to allow us to maintain the standard of living.”

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Breivik “wanted a change in society and, from his perspective, he needed to force through a revolution. He wished to attack society and the structure of society.”

The 32-year-old is expected to appear at a court hearing Monday and wants to “explain himself,” Lippestad added.

Authorities are now trying to determine the credibility of a claim in the manifesto that, in London nine years ago, Breivik attended a meeting of like-minded radicals calling themselves the Knights Templar.

Even before Friday’s attacks, right-wing fanatics had long been part of Norway’s social and political landscape.

They were especially active throughout the 1980s and ‘90s, in the form of skinhead gangs engaged in street violence. For many years, farright groups were considered the main source of concern in the Norwegian intelligence agency’s threat assessment.

But their influence was muted after a young biracial man was knifed to death in 2001 by a right-wing extremist, a killing that shocked a country that prided itself on peaceful coexistence.

“That caused such a popular uproar against these movements that it stopped recruitment to a certain extent,” said Tore Bjorgo, a professor at the Norwegian Police University College and an expert on violent subgroups.

A crackdown by police and preventive work by social organizations succeeded in breaking up many of the groups in the last decade, enough that they were no longer seen as much of a threat.

At the same time, immigration by Muslims _ who still represent only a few percentage points of Norway’s population _ and the Sept. 11 attacks turned authorities’ attention to radical Islam and stirred up a new set of fears.

Polls show that as many as half of Norwegians oppose the government’s immigration policy, which they deem too liberal. Breivik’s own anti-Islam obsession comes against a backdrop of a general hardening of sentiment

toward immigrants, reflected in the rise of Norway’s rightwing populist Progress Party, which won more than 20 percent of the vote in an election two years ago.

Such right-wing political muscle is also evident in Denmark and the Netherlands, where strong electoral gains by such parties have forced the governments to accede to some of their demands in order to pass other legislation.

“The debate about Muslims in Norway has changed in the last decade,” said Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor at the University of Oslo.

“The threshold has been lowered about what you can say” about Islam and its adherents, with statements that would have been regarded as inflammatory a decade ago now an acceptable part of social discourse.

Breivik joined the Progress Party, but reportedly dropped out several years ago because he found its anti-immigrant stance too weak. He began nursing far more extreme views, some of which he appears to have expressed in Internet postings.

Those views don’t reserve their anger just for Muslims themselves. The ire of extremists like Breivik extends to “what they perceive as the political elite and what they perceive as the socialist establishment’s betrayal of the Norwegian nation,” Eriksen said.

“I often ask myself, who do they hate the most _ Muslims or people who defend Muslims? It seems to me they hate us the most, the people they see as the politically correct establishment,” he said.

Right-wing radicals like Breivik are now presenting authorities with a different kind of challenge from that posed by the skinhead groups of the ‘80s and ‘90s, experts say. They do not belong to organized groups but rather form loose networks, often in online communities, which are harder to track and infiltrate.

“They are not street-oriented,” Bjorgo said. “They are more intellectual; their main arena is discussion forums and Internet debates. ... It’s a much more sophisticated kind of right-wing activism.”

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