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Student artists display work in capstone exhibit / 9

Faculty leaders air concerns about changes to Senate’s constitution / 3

Former WXUT DJ’s comment about rape reflects bigger problem / 4

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Faculty say provost’s plan will hurt grad programs

Drugs involved in December on-campus stabbing, coroner says

GraDUaTe STUDIeS

By Danielle Gamble and Lindsay Mahaney Editor-in-Chief and News Editor

A synthetic drug was in-volved in the Dec. 19 stab-bing death of Josiah Galat on the University of Toledo’s campus, according to the Lu-cas County Coroner’s office.

Dr. James Patrick, a coro-ner from the office, con-firmed today that a halluci-nogenic drug named 25i-NBOMe, or 25i, was found in Galat’s system.

Senior engineering major Galat died of multiple stab wounds to the neck while staying at UT’s Horton Inter-national House residence hall over winter break. Erik Lit-tleton, 19, who was also an engineering student at the time, was hospitalized after the incident and later re-turned to his home in Detroit.

Chief of Police Jeff Newton said at this time no charges have been filed against Little-ton and the investigation is still active and ongoing. Po-lice have taken into account 25i was found in Galat’s system.

“If you do a little research on the drug, you’ll find it’s caused quite a bit of problems across the country,” he said.

According to the Erowid Center, an organization which provides information on psychoactive substances, 25i can be ingested in multi-ple ways, including smoking and dissolving drug tags un-der the tongue.

The drug has been com-pared to LSD, and symptoms can include increased heart rate, unusual body sensa-tions, confusion, euphoria, nausea, fear and panic.

Alexis Blavos, outgoing di-rector of the Alcohol, Tobac-co and Other Drug Preven-tion Program, said there was “no way the students could have known what was going to happen” in the December incident because of the natu-ral unpredictability of syn-thetic drugs.

Though she has never heard of this specific drug be-fore, Blavos said that’s com-mon with “designer drugs.”

CrIMe

By Nell Tirone Staff Reporter

The University of Toledo Graduate Council is express-ing their concerns about the survival of the university’s graduate programs.

A letter was sent to Pres-ident Lloyd Jacobs, Main Campus Provost Scott Scarborough and Health Science Campus Chancel-lor Jeffery Gold this month, stating the

proposed workload policy and new class size require-ments would “ultimately damage research and grad-uate education” at UT.

“Graduate students ac-count for almost one in five students and the university earns almost double the sub-sidy and tuition from the typical graduate student than it does from an under-graduate,” the letter read. “Members of the Graduate

Council perceive the pro-posed workload as a threat to the reputation, income, and survivability of the University.”

The current policy states that all tenured and tenure-track faculty members must have at least 12 semester credit hours for each semester.

It also requires at least 30 undergraduate students and at least 15 graduate students

per class.Scarborough said faculty

workload increases reflect issues that universities across Ohio are going through, not just at UT.

“I think those involved in graduate education are wor-ried about the impact … as universities struggle to kind of balance their budgets,” Scarborough said.

STUDeNT LeaDerShIp

Applications available for student Board of Trustees representativeBy Jayme MersingStaff Reporter

Students interested in influencing university policy can apply to be a student member of the University of Toledo Board of Trustees for the 2013-2015 term.

Brittney Brown, current student trustee and a senior marketing major, said others should get involved with the board because “it’s nice to see what is really happening” with UT rather than relying on “biased rumors.”

“This is one of the most influen-tial positions for students attending

UT,” Brown said. “By being on the board, it’s a very different experi-ence to see the major decisions be-ing made that impact the entire university.”

Kaye Patten Wallace, vice presi-dent for the student experience, said in an email that students should ap-ply if they are “eligible and a hard working student.”

She also stressed that candidates do not have to be members of Stu-dent Government.

Even though student trustees do not have an official board vote, they

attend all public board meetings. Student trustees must attend all

board meetings and will be appoint-ed to another committee within the board. They will be required to re-port the information discussed at the committee meetings to SG Senate.

Applications are available now under the “About UT” tab on the UT home page. The applications are due to Dean of Students Tamika Dobbins on April 1 at noon in the Student Union’s Office for the Stu-dent Experience, room 2521.

UT anime Society to finish spring film series

Students can still catch the final few epi-sodes of the shows featured in UT Anime Society’s spring anime series. The group meets on alternating Thursday and Friday nights at 6 p.m. in Stu-dent Union Room 1503.

The viewings sched-uled for Thursday night are “Higashi no Eden,” “Black Lagoon,” “Prin-cess Princess” and “Ebiten.” The viewings scheduled for Friday night are “Darker then Black,” “Hachimitsu to Clover,” “Toradora,” “Princess Tutu” and “Strawberry Panic.”

For a detailed sched-ule, visit utanime.com.

UT to host prison Week

Reform in the prison system will be high-lighted during Prison Week starting Monday, April 8. University of Toledo faculty and local community members will host lectures, dis-cussions and presenta-tions at different loca-tions around campus, including the Student Union and McQuade Law Auditorium. The event will culminate in a meeting inside the Toledo Correctional In-stitution. The week is sponsored by Toledo-ans for Prison Awareness.

For a complete schedule or more infor-mation about Prison Week, visit tinyurl.com/prisonweek.

requirements Students interested in becoming a board of Trustees representative must:

n Have 3.0 or higher cumulative GPA

n Be enrolled full timen Have attended UT for three se-

mesters as a full-time studentn Have a clean conduct record with

the universityn Be a registered Ohio votern Submit an application by April 1 at

noon to the Student Union’s Office for the Student Experience, room 2521

See Drugs / 8

See Grad studies / 8

STUDeNT GoverNMeNT eLeCTIoNS

BOB TAyLOR / ICStudents listen as both Student Government presidential tickets discuss their plans to help improve student re-tention and “rocket pride” at Tuesday’s first ticket debate of the year.

LINDSAy SRAj / ICpresidential candidate emily Kramp (left) and her run-ning mate Lauren Jencen.

LINDSAy SRAj / ICpresidential candidate Chris Dykyj and his running mate Nikeya Wilson.

Candidates detail plans at ticket debate By Josh eglerStaff Reporter

The Independent Collegian held the second annual Stu-dent Government Presiden-tial Ticket Debate on Mon-day where the candidates de-bated issues ranging from Rocket Pride to diversity.

The debate started with both tickets promoting their platforms.

The Emily Kramp and Lauren Jencen ticket’s plat-form includes plans to “con-struct and renovate” UT, make SG more transparent, promote Rocket Pride and improve the student experi-ence on campus.

The Chris Dykyj and Nikeya Wilson ticket’s plat-form includes improving ad-vising and student life, as well as increasing Rocket

Pride and creating more “real world experiences” for students.

The Kramp-Jencen ticket has, as part of their platform, a resolution to give every business that offers student discounts a rocket logo as a means to promote Rocket Pride and make chains and local businesses more acces-sible for the students.

“We would like to some-how post it, make it acces-sible to students so stu-dents know what business-es offer student discounts,” Jencen said.

Kramp added that the pro-gram will, “advertise on the storefronts so people will see that it offers student discounts.

See Debate / 8

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Purpose: Mortar Board is a senior honor society that focuses on scholarship, leadership and service.

Leaders: President - Karen Grajczyk, Vice President- Jill Fabo, Secretary- Sarah Dickey, Treasurer- Khayla Finnegin

History: The Peppers chapter of Mortar Board started in 1924. It started off as Pepper’s Women’s Honorary and was formed to increase the support and attendance for campus athletics and other events. In 1983, Peppers be-came a chapter of Mortar Board National Honor Society and began admitting men. Currently, Mortar Board consists of a co-ed group who have demonstrated exemplary lead-ership, maintained high academic achievement and partici-pated in campus activities and community service.

Upcoming events: Songfest on April 6How to learn more: contact Karen Grajczyk at Kar-

en.Grajczyk@rockets.utoledo.edu, or visit the Facebook page: UT Mortar Board Peppers Chapter

Would your group like to be featured as The Independent Collegian’s Student Group of the Week? Email Benjamin Jendrzejak at bjendrzejak@independentcollegian.com.

Who do you think is the SG

frontrunner?

“The Dykyj/Wil-son; because he has experience serving under President Bon-gratz and if she respects him, then he must have something going for him.”

Ross BennerSenior

Accounting

“I think the Dykyj/Wilson ticket has the best chance because I have heard the most information about them.”Thomas Singleton

Grad studentHigher Education Policy &

Administration

“The Dykyj/Wil-son because Chris has a lot of previ-ous experience.”

Alexis TrotterSophomore

Pre-pharmacy

QUeSTion of THe week

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This week in UT history

25 years ago: After 25 years at the University of Toledo, an era has ended. Dr. George P. Guthrie, pro-fessor of philosophy, has retired and been granted professor emeritus status.

50 years ago: Frank X. Lauterbur is the 10th

man to take over the reins as head football coach of the University of Toledo since the end of World War II.

75 years ago: A sound movie on syphilis shown at the Central YMCA was at-tended by members of the university biology and phar-macy classes.

STUdenT gRoUP of THe week

ediToRiALEditor-in-Chief Danielle GambleNews EditorLindsay MahaneyRocket Life EditorRussell AxonAsst. Rocket Life EditorJessica LinerSports EditorJay SkebbaOpinion EditorBenjamin JendrzejakDirector of PhotographyBob TaylorCopy EditorJasmine Townsend

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next week’s Question: What’s your favorite part of the Independent Collegian?

BOB TAYLOR / IC

“Big day” eventMary Page drymple, a senior in nursing, picks up remains of a burnt house with the group Blue key during the “Big day” restoration event.

“The Kramp/ Jencen ticket be-cause they have the biggest advertisements.”

kyle winfieldFreshman

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UT artists featured in graphic design magazine

A group of artists composed of UT stu-dents, faculty and alumni will be featured in HOW Magazine as part of the “You Are Here Toledo” project. “Here Toledo” consisted of 100 dots placed in historically significant locales around the city, and each dot was de-signed to artistically represent its location.

The project was set up by The Arts Com-mission and coordinat-ed in part by Dan Her-nandez, assistant pro-fessor of interdisciplin-ary art. It ran last year from May through Octo-ber and will receive an Outstanding Award from the graphic design magazine, one of 20 out of 242 design projects.

To view an archive of the project, visit youareheretoledo.com.

Women’s symposium slated for Scott Park

“Women of the World,” or “WOW,” is the theme of a new conference at Scott Park Auditorium sched-uled for Saturday, March 30, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will feature a keynote ad-dress from Margaret Wong who will discuss her experiences as an immigrant and informa-tion about female-ori-ented shops, crafts and health. Attendees will also be treated to per-formances, presenta-tions and vendors, and door prizes will be awarded throughout the day. The conference is free to attend, but do-nations are accepted.

To register or for more information, visit wowtoledo.org.

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Faculty Senate says changes to constitution could make UT more vulnerable to lawsuitsby angela PelusoStaff Reporter

Faculty Senate members said this week that an admin-istrative mandate to change the group’s constitution would leave the University of Toledo more open to legal problems.

The March 26 discussion concerned an administrative decision made earlier this year requiring all university organizations to revise their constitutions and bylaws to include two new clauses by June 30. One clause would say nothing in the Senate’s rules can conflict with the constitution of the recently formed University Council and the other would state that the Faculty Senate’s pow-er has been delegated to it by the trustees.

In an interview after the meeting, Faculty Senate vice president Linda Rouillard said that with a clause stating the Faculty Senate’s authority comes from the Board of Trustees, a student could more easily sue UT over grading policies passed by the senate.

Rouillard said currently Faculty Senate decisions are seen as purely academic, and the court system “tends to not get involved.” However, this additional clause would make those choices “come back to the administration, and the courts could make the university more vulnera-ble to lawsuits.”

She said she doesn’t want the university to be more susceptible to legal action, especially from a clause that is “unnecessary.”

“There’s no need for it — we’ve been operating quite fine without it,” Rouillard said.

If the senate does not make revisions by the deadline, its constitution will be suspend-ed by the board.

John Barrett, recently ap-pointed vice provost and pre-vious chair of the constitution rules committee, said during

the meeting that if the consti-tutions are not revised with the new clauses added, the constitution will be suspend-ed — not the organization.

Faculty Senate President Mike Dowd said he met with Jacobs and told him the dele-gation clause declares all de-cisions are administrative and no longer academic decisions.

“I encouraged him to speak with the university lawyers about this issue,” Dowd said.

Dowd encouraged all members of Faculty Senate to bring any proposed changes to the Senate constitution to the group’s April 9 meeting. Once all proposed changes are accepted by Faculty Sen-ate, the revisions will be sent to all members for ultimate approval.

In other Faculty Senate news:n UT archivist Barbara

Floyd was appointed to the constitution rules committee,

which she will also chair.n Health Science Campus

Chancellor Jeffrey Gold men-tioned the idea of creating a college of dentistry. He said it would be an enlargement of the Health and Science Cam-pus and no construction would need to take place.n Main Campus Provost

Scott Scarborough spoke about Intern in Ohio, the new internship matching program UT is piloting. Fac-ulty Senate members raised

several questions, including concerns about professors being able to stay in touch with students on internships.n The Judith Herb College

of Education’s implementa-tion team will begin meeting weekly to decide how to structure the current educa-tion, health science and hu-man service college’s split in-to three new colleges.

Danielle Gamble contribut-ed to this story.

BOB TAYlOR / ICFaculty Senate President Mike Dowd said at Tuesday’s meeting that changes to the senate’s constitution, which were mandated by the University council and the board of Trustees, could expose UT to legal problems.

By IC Staff

The UT Firebolts will play in World Cup VI, a national Quidditch tour-nament, on April 13 and 14 in Kissimmee, FL.

The Toledo team is a Division II entry and will compete against 20 teams from all over the country. Firbolts captain Alex Scheer, a senior music performance major, said the team is taking 10 play-ers, and is one of two teams from Ohio.

“Personally I’m really excited,” he said. “I think this is a good opportunity for our team to become a further staple in the Quidditch community, and will reflect well on UT and its legacy.”

In other news, the Fire-bolts took the top spot March 23 at the inaugural Dobby Memorial Tourna-ment, hosted by Ohio University, which included a moment of silence for the fictional house elf Dobby from the Harry Potter book series. Toledo finished 4 to 1 after com-peting against three addi-tional teams.

Toledo Firebolts head to World Cup tourney

BOB TAYlOR / ICSteven Scherer makes a play during a Decem-ber match.

constitution changesThe following clauses are required to be inserted in

the faculty Senate Constitution, rules, and Appendix:

(1) Nothing in this Faculty Senate (Constitution, Rules, or Appendix) shall conflict with the University Council Con-stitution as approved by the Board of Trustees of the Uni-versity. In the event of a conflict, the University Council Constitution and Bylaws shall prevail.

(2) The authority and power of the Faculty Senate to take the actions set forth herein has been delegated and, in the ordinary course of events, will continue to be dele-gated from the Board of Trustees through the President and Officers of the University to the Faculty Senate.

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No more shame

editorial

Recent remarks on Twitter by a WXUT DJ put UT’s radio station in the spotlight, but we must also shine the spotlight on a larger problem: our national tendency to blame the vic-tims of sexual assault.

Jimmy Momenee, a volunteer DJ for WXUT, resigned last week after he posted a message about the Steubenville rape trial on his personal Twitter account, saying, “If you’re drunk/slutty at a party, and embarrassed later, just say you got raped!”

These words are sickening, and someone who represents this university presenting those beliefs is intolerable. The sta-tion shouldn’t suffer as a whole for his words, having taken appropriate action by suspending his show and saying that his remarks “directly condradict” UT’s values. But we still need to discuss this issue because it is much larger than one DJ at one radio station at one university.

Momenee’s remarks were an example of “slut shaming,” a phrase that refers to verbally attacking a woman who actively expresses her sexual identity, whether through her actions or her appearance. Nobody deserves to be subjected to these kinds of attacks, especially those who are already dealing with trau-ma from an event, such as sexual assault.

This sort of treatment destroys a woman’s self-esteem. There is no room for anyone here at UT who believes that being drunk or acting “slutty” excuses someone else of committing sexual assault. This needs to stop — now.

The growing tradition of Slut Walks, which are protests where women dress provocatively in opposition to slut sham-ing, allow women to speak up with a collective voice against these accusations.

And even though Toledo doesn’t host its own Slut Walk, the Toledo chapter of the National Organization of Women hosts events and protests against crimes on womanhood. Also, or-ganizations like UT’s Feminist Alliance work with the univer-sity to put on programming that promote equality and respect for women.

We can all take a stand against sexual violence, even here at UT.

WXUT DJ’s Twitter post was only one symptom of a national problem

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let your voice be heard

Student representatives on the Board of Trustees are an outlet for student opinion

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Danielle GambleEditor-in-Chief

Ben JendrzejakOpinion Editor

Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

Editorials appearing on this page represent the consensus view of the editorial staff. Columns and letters to the editor reflect the opinions

of their authors, not those of The Independent Collegian.

I remember the night of March 19, 2003 like it was yesterday. Sitting in my safe, comfortable home in my pajamas, I literally cheered as the first images of explosions in Baghdad reached my TV screen. That’s because we were going to kick Saddam Hussein out of power, keep ourselves safe from his massive stockpile of powerful weapons, get back at all of those terrorists that at-tacked us and spread democracy to the Arab World. It was all very exciting to a 13-year-old who played Grand Theft Auto and loved to watch 24.

Ten years later – yes, 10 years – it is difficult for me to write about the United States’ war in Iraq. This is partly because of my initial reaction to it, and part-ly because few words possess the ability to aptly describe the destruction, inexpli-cability and sheer tragedy of such an event.

For several years after the “shock and awe” of that night, I followed a trajec-tory most Americans did: watching with excitement as we easily overcame the Iraqi Army and toppled Saddam, and turning away with apathy when things went awry. For several years, I even passively continued to support the conflict even as the news got worse and worse.

After the fall of Baghdad – once one of the world’s greatest cities, a center for government, thought and trade – the city quickly fell into chaos. A power vacuum left in the wake of the end of Saddam’s Ba’athist regime resulted in a deadly civil war between extremist sec-tarian groups; a crucial contingency for which the Bush administration had not calculated.

Much is made of the more than 4,000 American troop deaths and high cost of the war to American taxpayers. But what is mentioned less is that at least 150,000 Iraqi civilians – innocent men, women and children who never volunteered to fight – perished during the course of this war. Countless others have been affected, and their nation torn apart by a carelessly executed war.

Iraq has suffered in many other

ways. After the U.S. invasion, the Iraq Museum was robbed of priceless his-torical artifacts; many religious shrines and archeological sites were destroyed, never to return. Environmental degra-dation has deeply affected agricultural outputs and an exodus of educated professionals has created a brain drain effect, handicapping the Iraqi economy for years to come.

To top it all off, the strategic objec-tives of the war were either unfulfilled

or moot. There were no weapons of mass de-struction. Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) was created, not destroyed, as a re-sult of this conflict since they were never there in the first place. Saddam’s replacement, Nouri al-Maliki, is not much more democratic or in-clusive than Saddam was, and he has allied

his Shi’a-dominated government more closely with that of Iran’s than the United States. So in addition to a hu-manitarian disaster, the War in Iraq has been a major geopolitical setback to the United States, not to mention the damage done to its standing in the Ar-ab World and in the international com-munity. The only “winners” of this war were Western oil companies, who have profited handsomely from the de-na-tionalization of Iraqi oil.

To me, however, these were still dis-tant or irrelevant issues as I completed high school and entered college. I could have easily read about them and realized the horror of what my country had done, but I didn’t give it much thought – until I met someone who had been personally affected by this atrocity.

Zaina lived in Baghdad until late 2006, at the height of the violence. At about 5:30 a.m. local time, as I sat in my basement with my eyes glued to the television, Zaina was probably awoken by the sounds of explosions a few miles away in the city center. It wasn’t the first time; she had lived through the much-worse bombing campaign of the 1991 Gulf War and the 1998 “Desert Fox” air strikes.

I met Zaina last summer. When I learned that she was from Iraq I asked

her about her experience and was amazed by what I heard. She told me of the days before the war, when she and her classmates were full of hope and excitement at the prospect of Saddam being removed from power. She told me of the first weeks of the war, when American soldiers were treated by Iraqis as guests of honor. She told me of how quickly things deteriorated after that; the sound of bombings became a part of everyday life, traffic grinded to a standstill whenever U.S. military con-voys passed through and a close friend’s uncle was shot to death after driving too closely behind an Ameri-can tank.

Zaina told me of a pre-war Iraq where sectarian differences simply didn’t matter; although her family is Sunni Muslim, her Shi’a Muslim neigh-bors would share food with them dur-ing festivals. In her opinion, it might have been better for Saddam Hussein to stay in power than what transpired.

I began to comprehend just how lit-tle I knew about the world and my own country; I’ve never had to “just keep going” about my daily life and school, as Zaina had to amid the turmoil of armed conflict. But she did, and she survived to tell an awe-inspiring story.

The U.S. War in Iraq is a single event encompassing a million tragedies. Al-though last week’s morbid 10-year “an-niversary” of the invasion has been brought up often in the media, it is something most Iraqis would prefer to ignore. After all, though American troops have packed up and left, the vi-olence continues. The division contin-ues. The people of Iraq are simply try-ing to survive, rebuild their country and salvage what’s left of a true Iraqi identity.

I now think of March 19, 2003 and can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of guilt; as if by applauding, I was somehow complicit in all that senseless destruction. But it doesn’t really matter how I feel; I’ve led a safe, sheltered ex-istence for the last ten years and my life will go on. But for the people of Iraq, so much has been lost, and it’s never coming back.

Adam Dellinger is a master’s of science candidate in industrial engineering.

The war in Iraq: a dreadful legacy

Not an original: the weight of educationCollege is a time of open doors, con-

fusion and growth. That means that while we are looking steadily to better ourselves and chase after our dreams like kite tails, we don’t always know what we’re doing.

When I started my undergrad at the Uni-versity of Toledo, I switched my major more times than I can remember. I thought my major would de-fine not only the way my peers perceived me, but essentially the rest of my future.

Education is impor-tant. Nobody can steal knowledge and wis-dom from you once gained, and that is something to be proud of. However, your declared ma-jor in a university does not dictate who you are. It is simply a reflection of who you are and your passions.

As often as we’re told that we ought to be original, I have to remind you that nothing we do today is original. We are a collection of people and expe-riences that were present in our child-hood, our teenage years and even to-day. What we do with those factors is what allows original thoughts to form. On your own, you are not an original. This is why education is encouraged everywhere; it is the key to a brand new perspective.

Education is your best bet for per-sonal growth. If you simply stop being influenced by people in their past, or even media and pop culture, you don’t get much of a chance to think for yourself. Thinking for yourself is one

of the most liberating experiences that hu-mans have accom-plished. We are a form of intelligent life. We are the only species that has formed civili-zations, languages and culture. We have risen to the occasion throughout history. Each new idea is based on a past one. This is how we have survived with our intellect.

What this means for us today is that we have so much more to build on than our ances-tors did. We can take their thoughts, ex-amine them and grow based on what we learn. That is the weight of education, that with your new freedom of thought you have a new responsibility. A re-sponsibility to grow and help others around you grows as well. That is a bigger challenge we realize.

The challenges that education poses for us are much harder than the

challenges we would face otherwise. We have many questions to answer for ourselves, regardless of what we have been told to follow or believe through-out the years. It is your responsibility to choose for yourself.

Originality is harder to achieve than we have been told. It is not about our clothes or our friends; it’s about the way we carry ourselves and how clearly we can think for ourselves. It’s about the choices we make to make this world a better place. You may take your college years lightly, but education is not limited to an institution only. It is also your duty to continue learning af-ter graduation.

I myself cannot claim to be an origi-nal. Everyday new ideas are thrown my way, and new thoughts and perspec-tives are forming in my mind. Where we are in life, we are young enough to spring into action passionately, and

mature enough to be taken seriously. This is a time to treasure, as it won’t always be around. Your life does not begin after gradu-ation, and assign-ments are not a daily routine anymore; it

begins right now, with you choosing to grow.

Veralucía Mendoza is a former Uni-versity of Toledo student who last at-tended in the spring of 2012.

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Veralucía MendozaIC Columnist

Adam Dellinger IC Columnist

We all want a say in what happens at UT because it affects the academic experience we pay for. But it seems like there is a belief among several students that opportunities to make an impact on university policy are hidden or impossible to get into.

That belief couldn’t be more wrong.They are everywhere, and it doesn’t take much to get active.

Join a student organization, spend a few extra hours a week at a Student Government meeting or apply for a student trustee position on the Board of Trustees. There are many outlets for you to be heard.

The student voice is a powerful thing and should not be taken for granted. Who else knows this campus better than the students?

One of the most overlooked opportunities is the Student Board of Trustees representative position. The president of UT is overseen by the board to ensure outcome balance of power. While student trustees don’t have voting power, their position as students gives them a lot of political sway.

Get up, get out there and let your voice be heard.

We still need to discuss this issue because it is much larger than one DJ at one radio station at one university.

Nobody can steal knowledge from you once gained, and that is something to be proud of.

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About two weeks ago I decided to go out and pur-chase a nice road bike for my commute to and from class. At the time, I was so excited to have a nice, new bike to ride. I expected it to carry so many advantages for me in my daily life, since I live within five miles from my gym and the uni-versity. This was right around the time when the weather start-ed getting nic-er, and it seemed like spring was in full-swing and then the weekend ended, and tem-peratures dropped back down into the 30’s. Still, de-termined to test out my new wheels, that Monday I grabbed my book bag and my bike, and set out for my first class.

I have four classes in a row on Mondays, so my book bag is stuffed full of textbooks, notebooks and my laptop, weighing in over 30 pounds. I live off Dorr Street, down by Reynolds Road, so, if I wanted to trav-el safely I have to find a dif-ferent route instead of going straight down Dorr, since it had no sidewalks and no bike lane. It was so cold during the trip that halfway to campus it began to snow, albeit very lightly.

All of the negatives tak-en into account, I did in fact get a nice easy work-out in. It was nothing spectacular and definitely nothing that I would brag

to my friends about ac-complishing, but an easy bike ride is a considerably better workout than an easy car ride. Also, I found to my great surprise that it took me less time to get to class on my bike than it did in a car. The path for

my bike al-lowed for absolutely no stops. I was able to find a side street that took me to Bancroft, which took me to the University Trails Path,

which I could take all the way to campus.

In contrast, the route I would have taken in a car would have caused me to stop up to 11 times, if I were to have hit ev-ery red light and every stop sign. That includes entering the Southeast park-ing garage, struggling to find a parking spot, and the five minute walk to my class in Stranahan. I estimate that I saved about five minutes on my commute.

Another benefit was the fact I spent no money on gas for the trip. With gas prices nearing $4 per gallon, reducing my usage of my car should never be consid-ered a bad thing. Finally, for whatever it’s worth to each individual, I was incredibly eco-friendly that day. I had

no carbon footprint during my travels, which tends to make me feel a little bit bet-ter about myself at the end of the day.

Clearly, the benefits great-ly outweighed the costs when I decided to ride my bike to school. However, the next day it was 30 degrees once again. I grabbed my car keys and headed to class. I did so the next following days. Actually, I have only taken my bike to class once since buying it.

Was it the fact that it has been below or near freezing every day since I have pur-chased my bike, and I really did not like the feeling of all of my fingers being frozen and numb when I got to class on the one day that I did ride my bike? Was it the lack of accommodating and convenient paths to ride my

bike to school, causing me to jump from road to road to bike trail? Was it the

fact that I’m just incredibly lazy and couldn’t take riding 6 to 10 miles (or whatever short trip it was to and from class) on my bike in a day?

It was most likely some combination of all of the above. I plan to start riding to class once again, after the weather rises to a tempera-ture where I don’t have to worry about feeling my cheeks when I get to my first class.

Christian Davis is a senior majoring in accounting.

I want to ride my bicycle

Christian DavisIC Columnist

Also, I found to my great suprise that it took me less time to get to class on my bike than it did in a car.

PUzzleSTHEME: SPRING IN

THE AIR

ACROSS1. Father of Hector, Paris

and Cassandra6. Young newt9. Perching place13. Fungal skin infection14. Tap order15. Less than right angle16. On pins and needles17. Bottom line18. Isabel Allende’s

“Portrait in _____”19. *Say ______ to

winter and hello to spring

21. *Celebrated saint23. One of peeps24. Cobbler’s concern25. Mudbath site28. Cellist great30. *The ______ Spring,

led by Alexander Dubcek

35. Snaky swimmers37. *Daffodil or tulip,

originally39. Yuletides40. Competitive

advantage41. Skedaddle43. Profit44. REM picture46. Fuzzy fruit47. Second-most traded

currency in world48. Kinda50. One who speaks a

Slavic language52. OB-GYN test53. Boor55. *These sox train in

spring57. *Precedes May

flowers61. Okinawa martial arts64. Great reviews65. Lawyer group67. She turned to stone69. Amber _____70. “Family ___”71. Ar, atomic number

1872. Homework to a

student73. a.k.a. Tokyo74. City on Rhone River

DOWN1. “Harper Valley ___”2. Sign of engagement3. A fan of4. Famous for his fables5. *Dance-around-the-

pole holiday6. _____ button from

Staples7. 1918 pandemic, e.g.8. Dancer’s beat9. Maple, to a botanist10. Brazilian indigenous

people11. Relating to the ear12. Reach a high15. Rearward

20. Splotches22. European peak24. Lonely musician?25. *Garden’s

beginnings26. Peter in Spain27. Tattered Tom’s

creator29. Exclamation of

disgust31. First rate32. “Faster!” to a horse33. U in UV34. To impede36. The Vatican to

Catholics, e.g.38. B in BCS42. Miss America’s

topper45. Harass49. Either ___ or against51. *Occurring now54. Utilization or

employment56. Farm type57. 32-card game58. Maui dance59. Lyric poem, pl.60. W in W=Fd61. Boxer’s last blow62. Not for here63. Jet black

66. *Spring Growth68. European Nuclear

Society

Last Week’s Puzzle Solved

Last week’s solution

Letter to the editor

Our University is in fi-nancial trouble and Su-preme Commander Scar-borough’s nefarious plan to save us from a financial crash is egregious for stu-dents. The provost’s budget, which I painstakingly drudged through, labels stu-dents as “customers” who need to be “marketable out-puts” to the economy. Scar-borough, along with lord Jacobs, has colluded with Wall Street to write the re-port. In the budget power point, Moody’s Investment Services is quoted several times. That is, our Supreme Commander has used the advice from the very blood sucking corporation that contributed to the financial collapse of 2008 causing a global recession.

I do not have retrograde amnesia. I haven’t forget how our parents lost their mortgages and their retire-ments — have you forgot-ten? What will our lord and masters do to our education and our higher educational system?

If a large, powerful corpo-ration is allowed to inflict the business model view of higher education upon our

institution, we will have a dystopic vision on the pur-pose of education that is skewed toward the ad-vancement of the produc-tion of cheap laborers who are incapable of thinking abstractly. Students’ stamped-out, watered-down degrees will be nothing more than technical train-ing for the workforce — not for a more just, equal, col-lective, peaceful society. Af-ter all, higher education’s purpose is: social mobility for the lower economic class, self-awareness, meta-cognition, and creating free-willed citizens capable of the abstract thought pro-cesses and reasoning that is required to be an active par-ticipant in Democracy and in society.

Now, “Imagine 2017” when the privatizing of our University will continue to keep the poor from reach-ing higher consciousness and create robotic techno-crats incapable of function-ing properly in community with other human beings. This will bankrupt us fur-ther foisting upon us (the taxpayer or the students) the bill as the administra-tors abscond with our mon-ey and create further ineq-uities. The humanities and arts will be lost in a way that slowly squeezes them out of higher education complete-ly. Combining the tradition-al liberal arts studies by first integrating them with other more “employment orient-ed” classes is just a strategy

to eliminate them entirely.The recent college grad-

uates, now prosaic and ap-athetic laborers lacking the time or ability for meta-cognition, will be forced into huge amounts of debt to satisfy the investors’ wallets and provide the transfer of wealth to the investing classes and those institutions which manage their investments — for a fee, of course, that we pay, indirectly. Then the major-ity of the students will have to take a low-wage job to pay their insur-mountable debt. This is the same old neoconserva-tive battle against orga-nized, free-thinking, ab-stract thought capable la-bor, only manifested in higher education and its “outputs” in the market. How much is the “market” price for a person, or in Moody’s lexicon a com-modity, now? Return our institution to the public because the free-market has no place in higher edu-cation! Students are not marketable commodities that can be exploited per-fidiously by rapacious cor-porations like Moody’s.

Please for the veracity of my argument, read the bud-get report by contacting the Office of the Provost at 419.530.2729 or email Maria.Stachowiak@utoledo.edu.

Peace. love. Unity, — Zachary I. Rasey,

student

Don’t let corporate masters

destroy UT

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In brIeFFree WNIT game tickets, giveaways for students

Once again, all UT stu-dents can attend Thurs-day’s WNIT game free of charge, courtesy of Presi-dent Lloyd Jacobs’ office. Students must show their ID’s at the gate to gain admittance.

In addition, two $25 gift cards to the Rocket Shop, three $50 cash prizes and an iPad Mini will be raffled off to students, courtesy of head coach Tricia Cullop.

The Rockets take on the Illinois Illini in the third round of the tournament at 7 p.m. Men’s golf team takes seventh at snow-shortened tournament

The Toledo men’s golf team finished in seventh place at William & Mary’s C&F Bank Intercollegiate at Kingsmill Resort River Course in Williamsburg, Va last weekend.

The final two days of the tournament (Monday and Tuesday) were can-celled due to snow.

Sophomore Chris Self-ridge was UT’s best per-former with a one-under 69 and finished tied for fifth, two shots back of the leaders.

Sophomore Mike Lan-caster fired a three-over 73, the second-best round for the Rockets. He fin-ished in a tie for 48th.

Softball team adds several games to schedule

The Rockets softball team added six games to their schedule Thursday, March 21.

Instead of playing only at Oakland April 23, Tole-do will now have a home-and-home series with the Grizzlies. UT will host a double-header with Ohio and play an additional game with the Bobcats at Oakland.

The Rockets will also take on the Michigan State Spartans April 17 in East Lansing. A week later, UT will play an away double-header at Detroit.

Hawkins to remain with Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals tendered a contract to for-mer UT receiver Andrew Hawkins, meaning he will stay with the squad.

Hawkins caught 51 balls for 533 yards and four touchdowns last season.

Hawkins is entering his third year in the NFL — all with the Bengals.

He began his career in the Canadian Football League.

BOB TAyLOR / ICSophomore forward Inma Zanoguera is averaging 20 points per game in the WNIT to lead the Rockets. Toledo will host Illinois Thursday night at 7 p.m. with a spot in the tournament’s third round on the line.

WoMeN’S BaSkeTBall

FooTBall

Byron Best aiming to latch on with NFL teamFormer rocket safety has drawn comparisons to Lions’ Houston

Rockets set to battle Big Ten’s Illinois in third round of the WNIT at Savage ArenaBy Jay SkebbaSports Editor

the University of toledo women’s basketball team has tried to schedule Big ten teams in the past, but not many of them have a willing-ness to come to savage Arena where the rockets have lost just nine times in the last five years.

Illinois — one of the teams toledo attempted to bring in — won’t have a choice thurs-day night at 7 p.m. when the two teams clash in the third round of the WNIt.

the Illini (18-13, 9-7 Big ten) will give the rockets a rare opportunity to mea-sure themselves against a team from a power conference.

“the WNIt has brought quality opponents in here that we couldn’t schedule a home-and-home with, and we tried,” said head coach tricia Cullop at a tuesday press conference. “And yet in this tournament, they come here. It’s not up to them, they’re in the tournament and it’s up to the WNIt and the bids. We’ve gotten oppor-tunities to play opponents we could never schedule a home-and-home with.”

Home sites for WNIt games are determined by home attendance — and Ut ranks 20th in the nation. they led all MAC women’s programs for over two de-cades straight and outdrew all but one men’s team in the league this year.

In addition to Illinois, Ut also tried to schedule Butler and Youngstown state during the regular season, the two teams toledo beat in this year’s tournament to get to this point. All three have now been forced to come to sav-age for the WNIt.

Finding quality opponents

in the non-conference season has been extremely difficult for Cullop and her staff in the last few years.

“It’s really tough to get a Big ten opponent in here,” she said. “I think the only reason we were able to get Indiana and Northwestern for the three-year run that

we did was because I just took the job and coming off that many losing seasons, they agreed to it pretty quickly. As we started to build the program, those phone calls weren’t returned as often.”

the fan support that Ut receives provides an

intimidating environment for opposing teams not often seen, even in the bigger leagues.

“there are certain hotspots in the country for women’s basketball and we’re certainly one of them,” Cullop said.

By Blake BachoSports Reporter

the dream to play in the National Football League is one many college football players share. they shed their blood, sweat and tears in the hopes that one April evening in radio City Music Hall, NFL commissioner roger Goodell will step up to the podium and announce them as the next new NFL player.

Former University of tole-do safety Byron Best is clos-er to this dream than many of his fellow athletes will ev-er get.

Best participated in Ut’s pro day event, a chance for players who were not invited to the NFL’s annual combine to show off their athletic abil-ities to the league’s scouts. the 189-pound, 5-8.5 safety far outperformed his size and

stature by recording times and heights in the various events that rivaled and sur-passed stats recorded at the combine.

Best tied the scouting combine’s fifth overall ver-tical jump for his position with a score of 36 inches, and his 4.37 seconds 40 time tied for second overall with Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner — widely pre-dicted to be a top ten pick in this year’s draft.

He also tied Milliner’s sev-enth-best broad jump score, and his bench press effort tied the second-best of the combine’s participant’s with 18.

Best’s agent soji Awe — who recorded his client’s pro day results - compared the safety’s speed and stats with those of Detroit Lions cor-nerback Chris Houston, a

six- year veteran who recent-ly signed a five-year, $25 mil-lion contract to remain in Motown.

For Best, who was ap-proached by members of De-troit, as well as the Houston texans scouting staff, the comparison to Houston is fitting.

“He is a great player,” Best said during a phone inter-view. “I know he is a sEC guy, and I think our numbers kind of match for some things in terms of speed and strength. I think if Detroit picked me up we could do a whole lot of things in the secondary.”

NFL teams are in the ad-vanced stages of draft prepa-ration and they’ve started to show interest in Best and his athletic prowess. FILE PHOTO By BOB TAyLOR / IC

Former safety Byron Best flattens Central Michigan re-ceiver Cody Wilson during a game oct. 6, 2012.

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“No one has called me yet, but my agent explained that they are not going to start calling until after all the pro days are over with,” Best said. “I should be getting calls sometime around April 3rd to the 10th. After my pro day I spoke with the Lions and I shook hands with the Texan’s scout. I would not be sur-prised if Detroit drafted me.”

The NFL combine has long been known as a chance for the 32 teams to poke, prod and examine each athlete as intensively as possible in or-der to determine the player’s chance of success in the league. Best said that the pro-cess for pro days is a little different.

“It is pretty extensive, but not as bad as the combine,” Best said. “They treat all the guys the same. Nobody is different like at the combine.”

Even if a particular player is invited to participate at the combine, the results do not always accurately represent the athlete in question. Pro days are no different, but Best believes his performance reflects the player he can become.

“I feel my numbers are very good,” he said. “I feel that it tells how athletic I am and, to me, all that ties to-gether and shows what type of football player you are. It just proves how athletic you are when you put up big time numbers.”

Indeed, Best’s big time numbers make him a poten-tial sleeper in this year’s draft class. Many of the NFL’s greatest players throughout the years were sleepers in their own time, and they traveled a similar path as Best.

“Absolutely, I feel that I could prove a lot of people wrong,” he said. “I feel that whoever decides to take a chance on me would not

regret it. I feel whoever takes a chance on me would like me enough that I could fit in that organization and system.”

The National Football League has moved fully into a pass-first era. Wide receivers are growing taller and faster every single year, and each team’s secondary needs to be able to match up against these towering athletes.

Best knows he is slightly undersized for his position, but believes his numbers show how much his athleti-

cism outdistances his stature.“They had me at 5’8” but I

think my vertical proved a whole lot,” Best said. “I think my height didn’t really matter when it came to me jumping to 36”. I feel that all the num-bers that I put up opened up a lot of eyes and proved that I have the potential to be a great player on the next level.”

Best will discover just how much he proved to the league next month when the annual NFL draft begins April 25th at Radio City Music Hall.

fIle phoTo by vIInCenT d. sCebbI / ICByron Best recorded 25 tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery as a senior in 2012. His 4.37 40-yard dash time, along with some of his other impressive mea-surables at pro day, have made him a potential sleeper.

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“We are very fortunate to have a fan base in this com-munity that really appreciates basketball — but more im-portantly for us — women’s basketball. They really have done a great job supporting this program for many years.

“Maybe their favorite team got knocked out of the NCAA Tournament and they miss basketball and they know it’s winding down, so they come watch us and they get hooked. I’ve heard that story a million times in the offseason.”

The Illini are led by a 6-2 center in Karisma Penn who is averaging 19 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. She is one of four players who aver-age at least 12 points a game.

“She can take you off the dribble and she’s very, very good on the low block at finding an opportunity to go one-on-one and score,” Cullop said. “She’s also a great shot-blocker and she can also go out and get 13 or 14 boards. You’ve got to get a body on her, deny her the basketball and make sure

you’ve got a good matchup on her that can contain her. It’s not going to be easy be-cause she’s a phenomenal player.”

Cullop added that Penn is a bigger version of Youngstown State’s Brandi Brown, the tal-ented post player that UT shutdown last Saturday.

As a whole, Illinois is a long and athletic team that could give Toledo some fits.

“Even though they weren’t a team that was at the top of the Big 10, they’ve got a coaching staff that did a tre-mendous job at Green Bay,” Cullop said. “We’re very fa-miliar with their style of coaching because we played a home-and-home with Green Bay last season.”

Illinois runs a distinct style of defense called the 2-3

Buzz Zone. A standard 2-3 zone is commonplace in to-day’s game, but this version is a unique defensive blend.

“[It] has some quirkiness to it,” Cullop said. “They’re not going to let you make passes, they’re going to trap you a lot. It’s not a 2-3 that’s very passive. We started working on it before we even knew who we were going to play just in case because it’s something very different.

“A big key to the game is making sure we block out be-cause they can out jump us at almost every position.”

The Rockets may look to-wards sophomore forward Inma Zanoguera who has had the hot hand throughout the tournament, scoring a to-tal of 40 points in the first two games. She recently poured in a career-high 24 points to lead UT over YSU.

“Inma’s one of our best players,” said senior forward Kyle Baumgartner. “I think she’s becoming the player that we all knew she could be. I really wouldn’t be sur-prised if next year – what she did in the last game – be-comes her regular season average.”

If you goWhat: WnIT - Round 3:

Toledo Rockets (29-3) vs Illinois Illini (18-13)

Where: savage ArenaWhen: 7 p.m.TV: bCsnRadio: AM 1230What to watch for: To-

ledo aims for their 30th win of the season, which would be a new school record.

WNIT from page 6

By Nick Delwichesports Reporter

The University of Toledo baseball team grabbed its first conference series win over the weekend when the Rock-ets took two of three games against Ohio University. Toledo now stands at 9-12 overall and 2-1 in the MAC.

UT opened play against the Bobcats (4-18, 1-2 MAC) on Friday where they won 8-5 with an impressive showing of pitching and hit-ting. The Rockets brought in four runs in the sixth in-ning to grab a lead they would not surrender for the rest of the game.

Senior Kyle Shaw (2-3) got the job done on the mound for Toledo, allowing five runs on eight hits with six strikeouts through 8 full innings of play. Senior Ad-am Tyson came on in relief in the ninth to shut the door on OU and grab his first save of the season.

“Kyle Shaw did a great job,” said UT head coach Cory Mee. “I wouldn’t say that he had his best stuff but he really competed like a champ and gave us eight re-ally strong innings.”

Senior Ben Hammer had the big stick in the sixth in-ning when he blasted a three-run homer to give the Rockets the lead.

Senior Matt Delewski, ju-nior Wes White and sopho-mores Anthony Smith and Nate Langhals each went 2-for-5 on the day with a run scored. Delewski and Langhals also recorded one RBI each. Collectively the Rockets put up 11 hits against four Ohio pitchers.

Toledo played a double header on Saturday where they split their final pair of games against the Bobcats. Toledo fell 9-3 in the first game of the day after OU put up eight runs in a two inning stretch.

“The story of the game is we just put too many guys on base for them,” Mee said. “It doesn’t matter who you’re playing, if you do that it’s going to make it very dif-ficult to win.”

Freshman Kyle Slack (1-2) took the loss, allowing four runs on four hits with three strikeouts through four in-nings. Slack managed to keep the Bobcats off the board through the first four innings but surrendered four runs in the fifth to end his day.

The Rockets grabbed an early 3-0 lead but couldn’t produce offensively as Ohio scored nine unanswered runs to secure their first conference win of the season.

Delewski led UT offen-sively, going 3-for-4 with a run scored. Hammer led the way in scoring, bringing in two of the Rockets three runs on two hits.

Toledo took the rubber match later in the evening, defeating the Bobcats 5-2 due in part to an impressive outing from junior Ryan Wilkinson.

Wilkinson (2-1) pitched a complete game for the first time this season, allowing two runs on four hits with three strikeouts. Wilkinson sat down 14 straight Ohio hitters, retiring the side on six occasions. After surrendering

two runs in the second in-ning, Wilkinson pitched sev-en consecutive shutout in-nings to close out the game.

“Ryan Wilkinson was the star of the game,” Mee said. “He was just fantastic.”

The Rockets were not short on offensive power ei-ther. Junior James Miglin was perfect on the day, go-ing 5-for-5 with one RBI and a run scored. The Tole-do catcher went 6-for-9 in the double header and sin-glehandedly outhit Ohio in the final game of the series..

Freshman Ryan Callahan recorded three RBI’s on three hits, including a two run homer, while White and Hammer recorded two hits each.

Toledo was down 2-0 ear-ly in the second inning but brought in three runs to grab the lead in the fourth. The Rockets then added one insurance run in the fifth and ninth innings to close the book on the Bobcats.

“I was really proud of our guys,” Mee said. “A tough loss in game one of the dou-ble header, then we have to turn around and play game two immediately following that which is the rubber match of the series. Our guys really responded well to that challenge on the road.”

Toledo’s game against Ohio State Tuesday night was cancelled due to snow.

UT’s next challenge will be their weekend series against Miami (OH) for their home opener. Game one of the three game series is set for Friday, March 29, at Scott Park.

fIle phoTo by vInCenT d. sCebbI / ICRight-handed starter Ryan Wilkinson fired a complete game March 23, against the Ohio Bobcats in Athens, Ohio. He allowed just two runs on four hits, fanned four and at one point, sat down 14 straight hitters.

Rockets take two of three from Ohio to begin conference play

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“The challenge is with these synthetic drugs is there’s a new one every week,” she said.

she estimates less than .01 percent of UT students take “hard” chemical substances like 25i, and she said she has not heard of other students using this particular drug.

Kristyn Nichols, a freshman with an undecided major, said she doesn’t think there are a lot of drugs on campus, but if

someone wanted to get drugs they would know where to find them.

The best way to prevent incidents like this from hap-pening is to educate the stu-dents and make them aware of the effects synthetic drugs have, she said.

Josh Tantari, a freshman majoring in chemistry, agreed that students should be better educated on syn-thetic drugs and what goes into them.

“They always have bad re-sults,” Tantari said.

“something should be done to stop such dangerous situations.”

amanda Nusbaum, a ju-nior majoring in psycholo-gy, said that drugs should be better regulated, but so should weapons. if weapons were better regulated, then the incident would not have been as serious, she said.

Nichols also said better safety measures could have helped prevent the stabbing.

“There should be more se-curity over the break, particu-larly in the dorms,” she said.

Much of the plan involves increasing the workload while decreasing the work-force, relying more on full-time faculty and less on part-time faculty. faculty mem-bers said they were con-cerned about due to “nega-tive consequences,” which they cited in the letter.

“The high cost of making changes can offset expected savings which can then plunge a company into seri-ous decline,” the Graduate council wrote, citing edwin c. Thomas, co-author of “The challenges of cutback Management.”

The Graduate council said they were also con-cerned that if class were eliminated, students would not be able to graduate in a timely manner.

“The consolidation and reduction of course offer-ings reduces the educational opportunities available to students and places timely degree completion at risk,” they said. “students will avoid the university once it is discovered that we cannot guarantee that a course of-fered will not be cancelled. students will find delays to graduation, and subsequent delays to entering the work-force, to be intolerable and unacceptable.”

faculty members also said they were concerned about the plan affecting future stu-dents’ decisions to attend UT.

“…[T]he indiscriminate loss of many of these under-graduate and graduate pro-grams also has the potential for a devastating impact on our ability to retain and re-cruit high quality faculty and the students they attract.”

The letter also spoke on how the quality of student’s education would decrease as faculty members were given a larger work load.

“This wholesale approach to establishing instructional loads, while ignoring insti-tutional needs for service and research, emphasizes quantity of work over the nature and quality of the work performed,” it read.

scarborough said that it doesn’t matter how many students are in a class, the professor and the students would give the same amount of dedication and attention to the class no matter how many individu-als were enrolled.

The letter suggested sev-eral alternatives that would avoid risking any faculty member’s position, which include:

n decentralize decision-making.

n collaboration between faculty and enrollment officers.

n each college develop-ing its own plans to deliver instruction more efficiently, based on student population and needs.

n Providing incentives to faculty who deliver instruc-tion more efficiently or economically.

despite the letter’s con-cerns, scarborough said he found the letter to be “very positive and constructive . . . in its tone.”

Jacobs, scarborough and Gold responded to the Uni-versity council executive committee with a letter of their own, stating that they “agree that graduate education is a strength of the University,” but that they found parts of the letter to be “incorrect and possibly irrelevant.”

scarborough said the let-ter will not affect the ad-ministrative decisions al-ready underway.

faculty senate President Michael dowd said at the faculty senate meeting Tuesday afternoon that he was not pleased with the way the president and pro-vosts responded.

“i am disappointed the president chose to not re-spond to the faculty senate and instead chose to address the University council,” dowd said. “disappoint-ment is an understatement.”

Lindsay Mahaney contrib-uted to this story.

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Drugs from page 1

“That way we will see Rocket Pride around the community and see more rockets.”

another topic debated was the low student reten-tion rates of the university and each ticket’s plan on how to change that.

“We’re here to make sure the retention is better is starting up with the advis-ing,” dykyj said.

dykyj said he is trying to change the “brand” of the university to make it more prestigious.

Vice presidential candi-date Nikeya Wilson dis-cussed the future housing incentives as programs their ticket is trying to do to in-crease student retention.

“Residence life will be making housing incentives because they believe if you live on campus, you’re more apt to go to on-campus events,” Wilson said.

Kramp said her ideas on how to increase student re-tention revolved around get-ting freshmen more in-volved on campus, which will in turn lead to students being more apt to stay at the university for the next four to five years.

“i think the issue is that the freshmen that come in do not feel involved in Tole-do,” Jencen said.

“We encourage them to

get involved, and that way they will enjoy it . . . That’s one of the most important parts of the freshmen be-coming acclimated to Toledo.”

another topic brought up with the candidates was the alleged sG “disconnect” with the students.

after the concealed car-ry resolution, voted upon by student senate in feb-ruary, was rejected, many people accused sG of be-ing disconnected from what the students really want. dykyj said he be-lieved this was false.

“i don’t think the word disconnect would actually accurately depict what happened there,” dykyj said. “We did our job as student Government. We brought in legislation from an outside organization as if any other organization would draw something from student Government.”

clayton Notestine, public relations chair, asked at the debate why the candidates have not put their plans into action with their current sG positions.

Kramp said she did not feel like she had the experi-ence before this year to run for president.

dykyj said he felt in his current administration he was doing a lot of work writing legislation and help-ing it get passed.

Notestine said he doesn’t think the tickets understood his question and did not an-swer it adequately.

“You have these plans; you have these goals. Why haven’t you worked towards them?” he said.

Notestine said he was dis-appointed in the candidates’ responses during the debate.

“in my honest opinion it lacked content and conflict,” he said. “at least last year, despite the chaos, there was critiques of the other platforms.”

The topic of Rocket Pride was discussed, and both tickets had similar ideas.

“Rocket Pride is really loving your university or having pride about the fact that you go to the universi-ty,” said presidential candi-date emily Kramp, a junior pharmacy major. “i think that’s important that all of our students feel happy and proud of the education you’re receiving on campus.”

Presidential candidate chris dykyj said Rocket Pride is, “having pride in your university but also, you want that experience that is supposed to be the best years of your life.

“We want to recreate the student experience,” he said.

However, Notestine said he wanted emily Kramp and lauren Jencen to win this election.

“Of the options they are the best,” he said.

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Holy Week events set

This week is Holy Week – the last week of Lent for Christians. Corpus Christi University Parish has sever-al service times throughout the week.

Wednesday: Tenebrae Mass at Rosary Cathedral – 7:30 p.m.

Students should meet at Corpus Christi to carpool at 6 p.m.

Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper – Corpus Christi at 7:30 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place after Mass until midnight.

Good Friday: The Cele-bration of the Passion of the Lord – noon

Sung vespers – Corpus

Christi at 7:30 p.m. Holy Saturday: The Eas-

ter Vigil in the Holy Night – Corpus Christi at 8:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday: Mass – Corpus Christi at 11 a.m.

Students work to finish Christian Leadership service projects

Students in their fourth year of the Christian Lead-ership Program, a scholar-ship program through Cor-pus Christi University Par-ish, are working to complete their final service projects for the program.

CLP is a nationally recog-nized scholarship program that prepares students at UT for a future in church

leadership. David Gosser, a member

of CLP, said the fourth year challenges students to brain-storm and create a project which gives back to the pro-gram or the community. It re-flects the knowledge gained from the program.

CLP has put together 16 “lesson plans” for instructors that teach students about “different types of relation-ships in regards to the litur-gy, environment and servant leadership.”

“The goal of the project is to provide a resource for a variety of settings from re-treats and youth group meetings to actual classes,” Gosser said.

The presentation will take place April 21 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at CCUP.

IN bRIEF

New CVA exhibit showcases ‘interesting mix’ of senior worksBy Jessica LinerAssistant Rocket Life Editor

Art students are drawing more than a crowd as they spotlight their work in this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibition.

This year’s exhibit will showcase the work of 10 stu-dents spread across two

shows. The first group of se-nior fine art students — Da-vid Folck, Lisa Franko, Mor-gan Hayward, Kevin Leiter and Austin Tuttle — already have their work on display in Center for the Visual Arts Main Gallery. An artists’ re-ception, which will be free and open to the public, is scheduled for Friday, March 29, from 6-8 p.m.

This annual exhibition is one of the final stepping stones in the BFA program.

“What we do expect from our BFA students is that they do learn more than one me-dium [and] that they become strong with a number of them,” said CVA Gallery Di-rector Ben Pond.

He said he deliberately

grouped students he felt would provide an “interesting mix of media” for the show.

“I think the range of possi-bilities that [the] students are showing is really broad. It’s

really strong, it’s really dy-namic and it’s really contem-porary. Students are really thinking about art and how it fits today,” Pond said.

Tuttle’s work is primarily abstract sculptures and in-stallations, while Folck creat-ed a series themed around insects.

Hayward used photogra-phy and film to capture the heart and faces of her small-town community.

“I kind of describe [my pictures] as instances that don’t exist everywhere, like a moment in time that wouldn’t happen so elegantly again,” she said.

The BFA exhibition isn’t just an occasion to celebrate her art, but to celebrate the

art of all the peers she has known through her time at UT.

“I love it just because I per-sonally know these people and can feel their struggles with everything. I can under-stand where they’re coming from,” she said.

She’s grateful for the “tight-knit” community and small classes UT’s art community offers.

“My professors here have been a really great support to everything I’ve done,” Hay-ward said. “It’s really great to have small classes and that interaction with a professor you can get in a creative school.”

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RussELL Axon / ICMorgan Hayward, a senior majoring in new media, poses next to her piece “Barber Bob,” part of her installation for the first half of the BFA Thesis Exhibition at the CVA.

GRAphIC CouRTEsy of AuTIsM spEAks

BoB TAyLoR / ICRepresenting the Arts Living Learning Community, from left, Lauren Kerr, a vocal major; Kate Abu-Absi, di-rector of the ALLC; DJ Kulp, a chemical engineering major; and Taylor Fowler, a psychology major, prepare a dish for the UT Iron Chef Competition on March 20. Five teams cooked head-to-head in the style of the popular cooking show, which included secret ingredients, a 60-minute time limit and guest judges.

Cooking like an Iron Chef

Toledo sorority to don blue for autism awareness

GREEK LIFE

By Jayme Mersingstaff Reporter

The ladies of Alpha Xi Delta may look a little blue soon, but it’ll be for a good cause.

The sorority’s UT chapter will celebrate National Au-tism Awareness Day by par-ticipating in “Light It Up Blue,” a national movement meant to increase awareness of autism.

Alpha Xi members will wear blue t-shirts and install blue-tinted lights around their house in McComas Village on Tuesday, April 2.

The event was estab-lished by Au-tism Speaks, a national advocacy that funds autism research and promotes awareness of the disease.

“The main thing that we want to do is raise aware-ness,” said Taylor Nelson, Alpha Xi’s vice president for public relations and a junior psychology major. “There’s only so much money you can raise, but getting people aware is what we want to do.”

As part of that effort, Nel-son said members of Alpha Xi will wear blue on the

days leading up to Light It Up Blue so curious students can inquire more about the event. She added that stu-dents can show their support on National Autism Aware-ness Day by changing light bulbs to blue, wearing blue shirts or jackets, or wearing a blue ribbon on their clothing.

Alpha Xi will continue their autism awareness cam-paign after Light It Up Blue.

The sorority’s annual “Fuzzie Funnel Cakes” is scheduled for Thursday,

April 11, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Students can stuff them-selves with end-less funnel cakes for $4 presale tickets or $5 at the door. All the

proceeds will be donated to Autism Speaks.

Alpha Xi will also host families and members of lo-cal autism groups during the event from 8-10 p.m.

Members of the sorority have also promoted autism awareness outside of Alpha Xi.

Ashlee Banas, a member of Alpha Xi, used her unique skills as one of Toledo’s fea-ture baton twirlers to start a baton training seminar with

By Josh Eglerstaff Reporter

UT professor Brian Anse Patrick puts a new spin on everyone’s favorite rotting monsters with his upcoming book.

Patrick’s book “Zombolo-gy: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns)” us-es the images and mytholo-gy of the decaying ghouls to discuss what he sees as the decline of Western culture.

“The zombie phenome-non represents a disturbance in the Western collective un-conscious concerning the decline of Western civiliza-tion,” Patrick said.

In the book, he argues

that the technological revo-lutions over the past decade have actually made modern culture more isolated and stunted, with cell phones and computers being some of the most distracting offenders.

“We no longer have religious vi-sions or dreams of the Blessed Virgin or the saints because no one knows what the hell those are anymore,” he said.

“Now we just have dreams of zombies.”

Patrick said that “the zom-bie is the perfect symbol of the times” because they rep-resent the death and decay of Western culture and the hive-mind mentality replac-ing it.

“The zombie themes are getting deeper and deeper and appealing to more peo-ple. It’s the only thing that is deep enough or basic enough to symbolize the disturbances in this collec-tive unconscious,” he said.

According to Patrick, guns became relevant to the book because “one of the collec-tive anxieties that zombies

are representing are the same anxieties that gun peo-ple are interested in. You think society is falling apart [and] you want to have some sort of insurance policy.”

In the book’s first chapter, titled Zombies r Us, Patrick notes other similarities be-tween the living and the un-dead. one example he offers is the prerequisite shopping mall scene in films where zombies shuffle aimlessly from store to store.

“In a sense it’s also us. We know we’re walking around half dead. We’re spiritless pieces of meat,” he said.

BRIAn AnsE PATRICK

Author of the forthcoming “Zombology”

FACULTy

Professor’s new book to dissect the walking dead

ART

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If you goWhat: Light It up Blue,

hosted by Alpha xi Delta sorority

Where: McComas Greek Village

When: Tuesday, April 2

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The book details the zom-bie phenomenon’s rise and development, from George Romero’s classic 1968 film, “Night of the Living Dead,” to the over 500 zombie mov-ies which followed it. He also used television shows and books for his ideas.

Patrick feels that the zom-bie phenomenon says a lot about where people think they are going in the future.

“We don’t believe we’re about to enter a Golden Age,” he said. “Now most people are wondering when we’ll hit the point of asking, ‘Where will we be getting electricity next week?’ It’s concerning.”

Patrick said the book is in the final stages of publishing and will be released on e-book and print formats. He expects it to be eye-opening to most people.

“I would use this as part of a class. If I could I would do an honors seminar on zom-bies,” Patrick said. “The zom-bie is a powerful symbolic ar-chetype, and it’s working.”

If you goWhat: 2013 BFA Thesis

Exhibition I artists’ reception

Where: The Center for the Visual Arts, Main Gallery, next to the Toledo Museum of Art

When: Friday, March 29, 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public

For Leiter, who focuses on silkscreen, the BFA exhi-bition is a learning opportunity.

“I feel like the way I pres-ent my work and the way I go about presenting things has matured. You just learn what people respond to by showing your work so much,” he said. “Just having a chance to display, you see how people react and what they like or don’t like.”

As a freshman, Leiter didn’t see himself becoming an artist, let alone having work in a gallery.

“Initially, when I came to UT, I was studying po-litical science because I wanted to be a lawyer,” he said. “So things definitely have a way of changing.”

His interest in politics hasn’t deserted him — por-traits of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are among his works featured in the gallery.

“There are things we’re supposed to know about that are supposed to be public, and it’s very priva-tized actually,” Leiter said. “I’d say all my work has a little bit of political overtone.”

Franko said she was “honored” and “really excit-ed” to have her abstract

work featured in the exhibit.

“The program really pushes to you to take a hard look at your work and what you’re doing,” she added. “It really just pushes you to ex-pand your horizons and look at different artists.”

Franko said she now ap-proaches her work in a more professional manner.

“I hope my work is well-received, but it’s most im-portant to me I’m happy with it,” she said.

The second half of the BFA Exhibition will run from April 19 to May 12 at

the CVA and feature the talents of Alyssa Brown, Jeremy Pel-lington, Josh Kline, Jessica Ostrander and Noah Roszczipka.

“We hope that this be-

comes a nice sort of cele-bration for them, that we can recognize their success-ful achievement in the pro-gram and that they present strong work, a strong show,” Pond said. “It’s supposed to be a capstone experience for them and for us to sig-nify the completion of this program.”

The first BFA Exhibition reception will be held Fri-day, March 29 from 6-9 p.m., and BFA II Exhibi-tion’s reception will be Fri-day, April 19 from 6-9 p.m. at the CVA.

her coach and twirling part-ner. This year, half of the seminar’s proceeds went to-wards autism research.

“It felt so great to put on a phenomenal clinic for young girls and also support autism which I feel so strongly about,” the junior accounting and finance major said.

Nelson said that every member of the sorority knows at least one person who has autism.

“It’s so prevalent, that ev-eryone, whether or not they really know it, they have a connection with it,” she said.

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Breaking down autism n Autism is the fastest growing serious develop-mental disability in the U.S. n 1 in 88 children are af-fected by autism. n Only 5 percent of re-search funds for childhood diseases goes towards autism.— Info courtesy of Autism Speaks