“Kasahnique Guest

Fresh., Criminal Justice

Do you plan on living in Toledo after you graduate? Why or Why not?

“Rachael Rovniak

Fresh., pharmacy

“Probably not — there

aren’t a lot of engineering

jobs here.

George HerbertFresh., mech. eng.

“I don’t know yet. It de-

pends on if I can find a good job

here.Monte Scott

Fresh., business admin.

“Right now it’s a no, but I’m

new to the area so it

may change.

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Former Lucas County Commissioner Ben Konop sits in the lobby of the University of Toledo’s Law College and shares his experiences with and perspective on local politics.

The first semester as a restructured university

Glass City reflections

By Hasan DudarEditor-in-Chief

Ben Konop’s advice on To-ledo politics goes something this: Welcome to local gov-ernment, don’t forget to bring your bat.

That is part of a metaphor for what the former Lucas

County Commissioner de-scribes as the “alleyway” that is Toledo politics.

“Sometimes I describe it as going to work every day with a baseball bat and going out to the alley and just seeing who gets out of there walking by the end of the day. It’s pretty rough. It’s rough —

rougher than I had anticipat-ed, actually,” he said.

Elected in 2006 by an over-whelming majority, the 34-year-old Democrat soon found himself in the minority — even on a board of all-Democratic commissioners.

Ohio to change districts

Beginning a new chapter:By Randiah GreenNews Editor

Seniors graduating in May will be the last class of University of Toledo students to graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences.

The beginning of the spring 2011 semester marks the beginning of the transition period for UT’s restructuring plan, which is now in full effect.

The CAS split into three area-specific colleg-es under the restructuring plan.

“Seniors graduating will be graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences because that’s where they matriculated from four or five years ago,” said Bill McMillen, Interim Main Campus Provost, Vice President for Govern-mental Relations and Chief of Staff in the Of-fice of the President. “We tried to create as much continuity as possible.”

Recruiters will no longer recruit new stu-dents for the College of Arts and Sciences but will begin advertising for the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Col-lege of Visual and Performing Arts and the College of Language, Literature and Social Science.

Student Government President Matt Ru-bin said he does not think students gradu-ating from colleges different than what they initially expected will have much ef-fect on their chance for employment af-ter graduation.

“You’re still going to graduate with a

Graphic by Nick Kneer / IC

By Casey CheapFor the IC

The University of Tole-do is offering students a way to avoid driving while drunk with a new partner-ship which gives students 24/7 taxi cab access.

The partnership with Black & White Transpor-tation provides students with a pre-paid debit card that can be used for cab fares.

“We approached the university about three

years ago, and it slowly progressed from there,” said Scott Potter, owner of Black & White Trans-portation. “Unfortunately, the software was not compatible with the stu-dents’ I.D.’s.”

Black & White Trans-portation has also devel-oped a smartphone appli-cation that estimates stu-dents’ blood-alcohol con-tent based on the number of drinks they have

UT teams with cab company

Photo courtesy of Judith and Scott Potter

Pictured above is the debit card that Black & White Transportation has begun to issue to UT students.

— Taxi, Page A2

By Jaimee HiltonIC Staff Writer

Due to the slow growth in the state’s population, Ohio will lose two seats in the Unit-ed States House of Represen-tatives come time for the 2012 general election.

The number of representa-tives from each state in Con-gress is based on the relative number of people in each state.

The 2010 United States Cen-sus determined that there are 308 million people in the U,S., an almost 16 million person increase since the 2000 census.

A formula determines the number of seats in the House. That formula, along with the number of people in a state, decide the number of repre-sentatives for each state.

“There are 435 seats and it’s getting bigger. As a result we have to adjust to ratio because some states are growing more and some are growing less,” said David Davis, a professor

— Konop, Page A3

Ben Konop shares his experiences in politics

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Yes. There is a lot of

crime, and I want to be a

homicide detecitve.

Probably not. I’m not too fa-

miliar with Toledo, but I’ve heard some bad

things and I’m fond of my hometown.

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of drinks they have con-sumed during a certain pe-riod of time.

If the application esti-mates a student’s blood al-cohol content to be over the legal limit, a link will appear that can call a cab for the student.

Black & White Transpor-tation also developed the Home Safe Program, which will send a driver to take the student and their car home for an additional price.

UT won’t bear the mone-tary cost of the cards.

“The cost of the cards did not fall on the univer-sity. The Toledo Blade paid to print them,” Potter said. “The cost of software to run this is on us, but we are also expanding our consumer base.”

In addition to providing cab service when students have had too much to drink, Potter also suggest-ed the new card could open up isolated areas of Toledo to students.

“The card can be used for the airport, the mall, going to Levis Commons in Perrysburg, or whatever,” Potter said.

Although keeping buzzed or drunk drivers off the road is one of the goals, accessibility is another ac-

cording to Potter. “We are the only cab

company in the area that has developed the soft-ware to text for a cab,” he said.

“We’re trying to remove all the impediments for people not to take a cab,” Potter said. “A lot more young people are taking cabs.”

Students can put howev-er much they want on the debit card, but the money can only be used for Black & White Transportation services. The company sends an automatic email when a student’s account drops below 20 dollars.

“It is going to take time, but as it takes off, you will see more cabs sitting out-side of where business oc-curs,” Potter said.

Vice President for Exter-nal Affairs and Interim Vice President for Equity and Diversity Larry Burns said UT had been consider-ing the partnership for a while.

“We originally wanted it linked to the Rocket Card, but [Black &White Trans-portation’s] cars are not equipped to handle the Rocket Card.”

Burns said he wanted to see cabs become part of everyday life at UT and be used for more than avoid-ing drunk driving.

“We are a metropolitan

university. This would make it easier for students to go downtown and see the Mud Hens,” Burns said. “Parking is a bit of an issue here, and not everyone has a car on campus.”

Burns said just having the card could save stu-dents time and avoid a has-sle later on.

“Let’s say you’re at a par-ty with some friends,” Burns said. “You want to leave but they don’t, and you drove them. Instead of having them walking home in the cold or dark, they can pull out their card.”

Burns said he encourag-es everyone to get the deb-it card.

The cards have been around for about seven weeks and are not limited to UT students, faculty and staff but are also open to the general public as well.

According to Burns, there are about a dozen students using the cards, most of which were pur-chased by the students’ parents.

“It will take about a year for this to be fully imple-mented,” Burns said.

There is no additional cost for extra passengers.

“Four people can ride for the cost of one,” Burns said.

— The cards can be pur-chased in room 1060 of Rocket Hall.

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By Jennifer IsonIC Staff Writer

The University of Tole-do’s environmental science department has big plans for research involving turf grass, which can be a breeding ground for many different types of harmful bacteria.

Last month, the NFL Charities awarded the Uni-versity of Toledo a $100,000 grant to further an investi-gation of turf-dwelling harmful bacteria. William Von Sigler, associate pro-fessor of environmental microbiology, heads this study with plans to identify and eliminate any threats that may live within the artificial turf grass systems.

The NFL Charities chose UT along with 16 other or-ganizations to receive grants in order to further research projects that were already under way. UT was the only institution chosen studying infectious bacteria, while most oth-ers were studying concus-sions and their prevention.

“I’m kind of proud to be the only institution award-ed who is studying

bacteria. It’s a feather in our caps,” Sigler said.

Although synthetic turf grass can be found on both in-door and outdoor football fields, his research in-volves only indoor fields. The exis-tence of bacteria on turf is a major prob-lem because indoor conditions allow in-fectious bacteria to multiply infinitely. For ex-ample, because sunlight kills bacteria, limited ex-posure to sunlight can lead to more bacteria on indoor fields.

Sigler has two main goals for this research: First, he plans to search for methi-cillin-resistant staphylo-coccus aureus, or MRSA, which he refers to as the super bug. MRSA, the most common cause of staph in-fections, is notorious for spreading throughout foot-ball teams who use indoor facilities.

Next, Sigler will do a comprehensive study of the turf to identify all of the different bacteria pres-ent. The research

w i l l involve systematic swab-bing of the artificial blades of grass and the rubber cushioning which absorb bacteria.

Each bacterium found will be studied extensively to identify whether it is harm-ful to players, how long it can survive in the condi-tions and how rapidly the bacteria can multiply. All of these factors can determine the best way to treat the issue.

He hopes to find hot spots that exist on the field, such as between hash marks and near the end zone. Bacteria could be more prevalent in those areas, according to

UT receives NFL grant for bacteria research

S i -g l e r,

b e -cause those

are areas in which most action

takes place on the field and where the most bacteria could exist.

After obtaining knowl-edge on bacteria patterns, new cleaning methods can be developed for the future, preventing the spread of the infectious bacteria that have been a problem in the foot-ball community.

Sigler has enlisted the help of his friend and col-league Ron Turko of the de-partment of agronomy and environmental sciences at Purdue University.

“We will be doing 75 per-cent of the work at UT and the rest will be done at Pur-due,” Sigler said.

Other universities have

committed to helping Sigler in his research such as Bowl-ing Green State University and the University of Ne-braska along with Purdue. They have volunteered their indoor practice facilities to test if the results will be similar at different loca-tions. Sigler is still waiting on confirmation from other universities and some NFL teams such as the Indianap-olis Colts and the Detroit Lions.

Sigler believes that this research stood out to the NFL Charities because it is a timely issue. Teams are struggling with controlling these bacteria, and it is im-perative that players are as healthy as possible. Sigler and Turko are experts in this type of research and they have a solid track record together.

“We can get things done and do the job,” Sigler said.

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Konop said he tried to in-troduce transformative change to the region through consensus building in his first year as commissioner, and he didn’t cast a single “no” vote against his fellow commissioners, Pete Gerken and Tina Skeldon Wozniak. He learned quickly that par-ticular approach wouldn’t bring about the region-wide change he was looking for.

The shift in strategy and his growing political indepen-dence meant he would stand alone on many issues at the county level, and he soon found himself outvoted 2-1 on a majority of proposals brought forward at county hearings.

The self-described progres-sive ascribes the resistance of his former colleagues to a lack of political will power that pervades local leader-ship circles — an attitude he hadn’t expected.

“In order to really change things around here — wheth-er it be the economy, whether it be ways to keep young people here, whether it be any important function of government — you have to be willing to change some-thing,” Konop said. “And I think the mentality of a lot of politicians is this ‘go-along-to-get-along’ mentality.”

However, Skeldon Wozniak said she believes there has been substantial change made in the region, citing the Huntington Center in down-town Toledo and downsizing the county by $20 million as examples where the county made progress. Commission-er Gerken was unavailable for comment.

A Toledo-area native, Ko-nop was familiar with local politics but was surprised by how quickly many of his ideas were dismissed. His biggest bruise: an $80 million college scholarship program that was shot down without debate.

After months of research-ing similar programs in other cities such as Kalamazoo, Mich., and after providing the other commissioners with

empirical evidence, Konop and his staff expected a dif-ferent response — not neces-sarily a welcome embrace, but at least some deliberation.

“It was like turf battles. It was putting politics over progress basically,” Konop said. “And the short-term, they may have won political-ly, but the long-term, they’re not going to win politically and the community suffers.”

Inward-looking politics

For someone who has lived, worked and studied in places such as Oxford, Eng-land, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Ga., the city of Tole-do is lacking a political frame of reference based on other communities — something that keeps it from catching up to other cities in terms of economic development.

According to Konop, the majority of politicians in-volved in local politics have not lived outside the Toledo area, and that trend perpetu-ates an inward-looking mindset.

Konop said, unlike his for-mer colleagues, his experi-ences in other cities exposed him to new ideas on gover-nance and many of his pro-posals were based on his knowledge of other urban communities.

“Part of it is that I have a different perspective from that, and not many of these people in office have that perspective,” he said. “They’re waiting for things to come in their laps, and they don’t have the background of living elsewhere also.”

For Konop, four years of working at One Government Center, a high-rise office building in downtown Toledo that houses many municipal departments, made it appar-ent to him that Toledo’s prob-lems stem from a systematic lack of urgency among local politicians. And that compla-cence, according to Konop, does nothing to steer the city away from the edge of eco-nomic devastation.

“The problem is we’re so far behind other communi-ties in the country, we need

to make up ground. Not only do we have to be defensive and not lose things, but we have to actually be on the of-fensive. And there’s just so little of that going on, and it’s just so shocking to me.”

Trapped in the 20th century

In Konop’s opinion, Toledo is stuck in the 1950s. Not the Pleasantville, Elvis and 15-cent hamburger 1950s, but more of the factory-town, one-industry economy 1950s.

Konop said the idea that Toledo’s economic vibrancy rests in attracting one or two factories that bring upwards of 10,000 manufacturing jobs is incongruous to the realities of the global economy.

“The idea that you can just walk out of high school now and have a solid middle class existence is not accurate —it’s just not realistic any-more,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve evolved in terms of leadership in the community — I don’t think we’ve evolved out of that mindset.”

Konop is quick to assure he is a firm believer in manufac-turing, but he thinks it’s time Toledo shifts its focus to de-veloping a knowledge-based economy.

According to 2007 U.S. Census reports, Toledo’s manufacturing-to-education ratio in terms of business done is 339 to 1, whereas Co-lumbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Mich., record 137-to-1 and 123-to-1 ratios, respectively, in the same category.

Though he thinks a strong manufacturing sector is part of the solution to Toledo’s economic woes, Konop said closing the gap on educa-tional attainment in the area is where he would start —and where he has tried to start.

“You want to make sure people have avenues to pur-sue education, where it’s af-fordable and encouraged,” he said. “But I don’t think any-one in government is going to come up with some amazing project that’s going to employ 20,000 people and raise the standard of living for all Toledoans.”

Creating a lively, attractive

environment where young, college-educated people would want to live is the key to reenergizing the city, ac-cording to Konop. And once those smart, young adults settle down in the area, the former commissioner says, they will be equipped enough to figure out the workings of the economy themselves.

“I would say put money in-to making this a place where people want to live and mak-ing education affordable and encouraging education,” Ko-nop said. “And then it’s going to be up to the citizens to figure out how to improve the community.”

Sacred solarKonop identifies himself as

a stalwart progressive Demo-crat, but he’ll be the first to tell you that he doesn’t think government picking winners and losers in the business sector is the best way to move the local economy forward.

He said the best local gov-ernment can do is to “tweak” their policies in ways that encourage certain types of behaviors — such as pursu-ing a college education — but he doesn’t think large invest-ments in one industry is how the government should con-centrate its resources.

Konop cited Northwest Ohio’s burgeoning solar in-dustry as an example of where government is begin-ning to play a bigger, riskier role in the economy.

The region’s relationship with solar makes him ner-vous: “I would love to see solar work and see Toledo become the Silicon Valley of solar energy, but the problem also is there are 50 other cit-ies doing exactly what Toledo is doing, and a lot of the cities have much more research and development and people working in the field.”

Many solar-related compa-nies, such as Xunlight Corp. and First Solar Inc., in the Toledo area got their start as university-incubated busi-nesses, but just this past sum-mer, the state government began playing a larger role in the region’s alternative ener-gy sector.

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Konop believes local politicians lack a sense of urgency that keeps them from enacting policies that will solve the area’s problems.

Back in July, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland vis-ited the University of Tole-do’s Scott Park campus and announced Northwest Ohio as the state’s official ‘solar hub.’

The designation meant that UT, Bowling Green State Uni-versity, and several other higher education institutions in the region would form re-search-oriented partnerships centered on the solar industry.

Konop fears that even if government and other parties put all their resources in the solar industry, the region may still lose. In his opinion, any substantive change to the re-gion will come from a Bill Gates-type entrepreneur.

“I get nervous when some-one from government, which I just served in for the last four years, is going to be picking winners and losers in a very technical, scientific field with thousands of vari-ables involved,” he said. “I’d put my efforts into starting at the lower levels of the food chain and letting really smart people who get a PhD in [say] electrical engineering figure out what’s going to work and what’s not, and not someone in Government Center, who maybe took geometry.”

The last great hopeThe city’s future, in Konop’s

opinion, rests in the hands of UT and its students.

“That’s the only way things will ever change here…is if students at the University of Toledo will probably form the nucleus of any potential transformative change in this community,” he said.

And if the students don’t come together to serve as a launching pad for develop-ment? In that case, Konop said he thinks positive change won’t take root in Toledo.

“One thing I can guarantee is that the current powers that be, this ‘good-ole-boys’ network, is not going to em-brace substantive change. It’s only going to come from peo-ple outside that network,” he said. “And I think, obviously, the University of Toledo stu-dents would be probably the chief driving force of any form of transformative change. And I hope they take that challenge.”

Although his $80 million college scholarship program was not enacted, Konop still has hope that such ideas will take hold across the community.

“I think on a lot of these is-sues, while they did not ex-actly come to fruition, I’ve moved things forward to the point where someone from your generation or a current student at the University of Toledo could take where I left it and then see some of the things actually become policy and enacted.”

Konop would like to see a reversal of the area’s ‘brain drain,’ the negative net migra-tion of college graduates to places other than Toledo, but he still encourages young adults and college students to experience other cities and regions.

“I think people should live elsewhere. Then after you’ve experienced different places maybe you can come back to a place like Toledo and say,

‘OK, maybe there are other ways [to manage the city] and we don’t have to continue to go down this path we’re on.’”

Back to the DistrictKonop could have run as an

incumbent for Lucas County Commissioner in last year’s midterm election, but he de-cided to take some time away from Toledo politics. Instead, he says half-jokingly: “I’m taking my talents to Washing-ton, DC — but not in a LeB-ron [James] analogy though.”

He will be in Washington by mid-February, where he will settle and work on Toledo’s behalf, but he wouldn’t dis-close any specifics about his position in the capital.

“Long-term, that’s probably the best psychologically for me, physically for me,” he said. “But also, I think if I ev-er wanted to get back into Lucas County politics, in any way, I think it’s healthy for me to step away for a bit, let things go a certain direction and get back in.”

But this won’t be Konop’s first time in the nation’s capital.

He lived in Washington for several years before he moved back to Ada, Ohio to run for the Fourth District House of Representatives seat against long-standing in-cumbent Republican Mike Oxley in the 2004 election. On the counsel of Ohio Ninth District Representative Mar-cy Kaptur (D), Konop, 28 years old at the time, quit his job as an attorney at Ful-bright and Jaworski — one of the country’s largest law firms — to begin his cam-paign for the Fourth District.

After being outspent 10-to-1 and losing what he called a ‘no-win campaign,’ Konop be-gan teaching classes at Ohio Northern University and UT’s law schools.

Then in 2006, while still in campaign mode, he ran for an open seat for Lucas County Commissioner against Toledo City Councilman George Sa-rantou, winning by a large margin and joining fellow Democrats Pete Gerken and Tina Skeldon Wozniak.

Three years later, and day-after-day of losing faith in county politicians, Konop de-cided to run for a position with a little more leverage: mayor of Toledo. Despite placing fifth out of six may-oral candidates, Konop said he enjoyed his campaign be-cause it gave him the oppor-tunity to go all across the city and bring up neglected is-sues such as systematic pov-erty and paid sick days.

He now hopes his move to Washington will help shed light on what people in Rust Belt communities like Tole-do have endured economically.

“I think there’s a real dis-connect between some of the policy that gets made in Washington and what it’s ac-tually like in places like To-ledo that need help from places like Washington,” he said.

Images of “alleyway” poli-tics aside, Konop said he was honored to serve the re-gion and hopes his four years in office made some traction for urgent issues in the strug-gling region.

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The problem is we’re so far be-hind other com-munities in the

country, we need to make up

ground. Not only do we have to be defensive and not lose things, but we have to actually be on the offensive.

Ben KonopFormer Commissioner,Lucas Country

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A new decade opens upon Toledo, promising both challenges and op-portunities for the great city. The cur-rent economic slump has many causes, both distant and local, but undeniably centers on the loss of most of the city’s primary industrial employers and its failure to fill the gap. In order to effectively stimulate Toledo’s recovery, city leaders need to set new goals and change policies where necessary, replacing our repu-tation as a has-been manufacturing hub with a new image of innovation and growth led by talented young professionals.

Toledo can no longer look toward industrial development as a panacea for unemployment and budget short-falls. A new auto factory or solar manufacturing plant, no matter how many jobs it creates, will not reverse the city’s long, downward economic slide or make the region more attrac-tive for talented young people and new ideas. Recent years have seen a reversal of the old economic status quo, but there has not been a corre-sponding change in city attitudes and goals — the focus is still heavily placed on lobbying for new automo-bile and solar factories. While the city’s economic re-growth obviously requires new jobs to be created, more of the same will not provide a long-term solution.

Unions and other special interests have long held sway in the Toledo area, advocating for economic growth in their sector but not necessarily for the best, most sustainable long-term economic goals. Manufacturing used to thrive in this region and drive the city’s economy, justifying the

tendency of the city to give priority to union and other interests over the public education system and the pro-fessional environment.

The reputation of UT and its home city is that of a stopping point be-tween one’s training and one’s fu-ture career; students come from around Ohio and out of state to re-ceive a UT degree, then pack up to make a career and life elsewhere. The city must make efforts to foster talent and scholarship and become more attractive to talented profes-sionals and young entrepreneurs who can bring the new ideas, prod-ucts and markets that the region desperately needs.

It is hard to imagine a thriving city in which the prominent university’s graduates spend years looking out-ward for employment instead of seeking ways to make a living in and improve the condition of the city in which they study. The University of Toledo has highly-respected engi-neering and pharmacy programs that turn out dozens of talented profes-sionals every year, but there is little opportunity for these graduates to find work locally. This contributes to the persistent atmosphere of “brain drain,” where most UT students now take it for granted that they will have to leave Toledo to find a good job op-portunity after graduation.

If the city could attract the jobs that students here prepare for and present a desirable long-term resi-dence, it could become not only a place in which to live and study for a few years, but a place in which to build a home and a career.

The new partnership between the University of Toledo and Black & White Transportation seeks to ad-dress two major issues facing stu-dents: responsible drinking and be-ing stuck on campus “with nothing to do.” Though many UT students do have access to their own vehicle, many either do not have a car or they do not keep it on-campus.

This lack of mobility not only in-spires boredom but can also lead to poor decisions involving drunk driv-ing. The new system will give students an easy alternative to driving drunk as well as access to the many entertain-ment and shopping centers that are not in the immediate campus vicinity.

Many students are familiar with the difficult situations that can arise dur-ing a night out. Say you ride to a party with a couple friends, but after a couple hours you want to leave. Your friend who drove wants to stay, and everyone else with a car is al-ready too drunk. A taxi provides the perfect solution to an otherwise ag-

gravating situation. Today’s youth tend to view taxis as

an outdated concept on par with landline telephones, the postal ser-vice and coffee. Black & White has considered these popular beliefs in its marketing strategy, making it more attractive for students to use a taxi. Black & White has even ac-counted for young people’s commu-nication preferences, becoming the only taxi service in Toledo you can order with a text message. Even if you’re too drunk to speak, you can find a safe ride home.

With a safe and simple way to get home from a bar or party, students will be less likely to drive drunk or accept a ride from someone else who is drunk. More importantly, having access to other areas of Toledo will give students more ways to have fun, more incentive to invest in the city and its future and more reason to participate in the campus communi-ty, instead of just attending class then going home every weekend.

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There may be no easy an-swer to the unresolved ques-tions surrounding Saturday’s tragic shooting. For now, we hold more questions than an-swers. The tragedy that left at least six dead and Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded will likely remain the subject of intense speculation for the coming weeks.

We don’t know whether or not the suspected shooter’s motives were political. From the initial reports given by officials and the press, it ap-pears that the 22-year-old gunman was mentally unsta-ble and acted without a di-rectly political goal. But with very little effort, we can imagine a scenario in which an unbalanced, paranoid in-dividual engages in this type of violence after taking too literally the hateful rhetoric and violent symbolism per-meating our modern politi-cal discourse.

There is reason to believe this is not the case, and we all hope it is not. But regard-less of the motives of the shooter, this tragic event should serve as a signal for everyone to tone down the rhetoric and imagery used in how we argue our beliefs.

Words clearly matter. They can inspire hope, fear and everything in between. In a political climate made in-creasingly hostile by a par-ticularly contentious two years in national politics, the power of words to do harm is magnified.

Over the past two years, we’ve seen congressional representatives call on con-stituents to be “armed and ready” in their opposition to cap-and-trade legislation. We saw a top aide to a Florida congressman claim that “If ballots don’t work, bullets will” at a Tea Party rally be-fore the election.

The mid-term elections al-so introduced the term “Sec-ond Amendment remedies” from a Senatorial candidate. One nationally influential po-litical figure’s PAC website featured a map with cross-hairs over the congressional districts of representatives that voted for the health care overhaul legislation. The map urged supporters to “Take a stand.”

The health care debate came with its own set of ex-treme imagery and rhetoric. After congresswoman Gif-fords voted in favor of the health care legislation last March, her office was van-dalized. In an interview the next day, she said “The rhet-oric is incredibly heated…things have really gotten spun up.”

The rise of violent rhetoric and imagery has been even more evident in the media. Pima County Sherriff Clar-ence Dupnik referenced,

“Vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business” in a news confer-ence when answering ques-tions about the shooting.

“When you look at unbal-anced people, how they re-spond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous,” said the sheriff.

To be clear, the shooter alone is responsible for what happened Saturday. The act of senseless vio-lence was absolutely inex-cusable and unjustifiable. Simultaneously, the violent rhetoric should never have gotten so out of hand and should come to an end.

Obviously, neither those on the right or left that in-voke this type of rhetoric or imagery do so with the intent of inciting violence or the belief that it could lead to vi-olence. But again, words have consequences. When we allow our rhetoric to turn

political opponents into ene-mies, we begin to see every-one who disagrees with us as a target of fear and violence. If the role of politics is to serve as an arena in which the public can work together to resolve differences and solve the problems we col-lectively face, there can be no room for violence-invok-ing political speech.

We can have an atmo-sphere of open debate, will-ing cooperation and con-structive compromise, or we can have an atmosphere of hate. We cannot have both, and we should not tolerate the latter.

Diversity of opinion has always been an unyielding source of strength. When opinions are surrounded with violent imagery, this source of strength becomes an incapacitating liability. It weakens our political pro-cess by silencing meaningful discourse. The power of great ideas is what has moved us forward histori-cally, not the power of fear.

It has been said that Satur-day’s shooting was an assault on our democracy. Gabrielle Giffords was meeting with constituents at a town hall-like event open to the public at the time of the attack. At a time in which people are anxious about the direction of the country and have no shortage of questions, she was there to answer them.

She was there to make her-self accountable and to listen to what her constituents had to say. If we allow ourselves to devolve into a country in which deliberate political vi-olence is a reality, then that freedom disappears. The lan-guage of violence is the lan-guage of devolution.

Saturday’s shooting could definitely be seen as an as-sault on our democracy, but our democratic system is strong despite its flaws. As congresswoman Giffords said in the interview last March, “We affect change at the ballot box, not because of these outbursts of violence.”

—Jason Copsey is an IC columnist and a junior ma-joring in public relations and political science.

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I have never been a fan of revisionist history and was disappointed to hear editors’ decision to eliminate the word “nigger” from the text of “The Adventures of Huck-leberry Finn,” and I’m sure Mark Twain would agree. What is even more offensive is the editors’ choice of the word’s replacement. I en-tered “slave” into several on-line thesauruses and didn’t see “nigger” listed as a syn-onym on any of them, so I don’t understand the purpose of the editor’s decision or choice of words.

Words have meanings that affect reality. For example, while I may be the descen-dant of slaves, I am no one’s “nigger,” so in my world, these words have no correla-tion. In Mark Twain’s text, the usage of the word “nig-ger” was exact and it was meant to stir up a reaction from its readers. Mark Twain’s word usage had a deliberate meaning; it was purposeful, relevant and in-tentionally not politically correct.

It is also disrespectful for editors to assume that our youth, their instructors and their parents are not capable of making abstract distinc-tions between the usage of the word “nigger” in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the usage of the word “nigga” within pop cul-ture, in hip hop music and in slang within the African American community.

By eliminating the word from the text, we are revis-ing history and denying our youth an opportunity to have authentic discussions about race and how it relates to American culture today. It also seems hypocritical for some to declare that we are existing in a “post-racial so-ciety” when we cannot even muster up the strength to discuss race as it relates to our past in the context of a satirical novel.

We owe our youth an op-portunity to explore their pasts. Whether it be in ele-mentary school, middle school or high school, issues of race and diversity should be explored beyond prede-termined monthly

celebrations set aside for cultural preservation. With many of our youth falling so far behind the rest of the world in almost every sub-ject possible, maybe it’s time to reintroduce some unedit-ed classics to spark discus-sion in hopes that young stu-dents be genuinely interested in what they’re reading.

We need not leave discus-sions of slavery and racism for Black History Month; there is so much more to know about than the Civil Rights Movement or Ma-dame CJ Walker. And if we have intentions of authenti-cally understanding one an-other, we may want to con-sider delving deeper than the “I Have a Dream” speech for a few days in the month of February.

For those that don’t be-lieve race matters, let me as-sure you it does. The Huff-ington Post just published an article stating that unemploy-ment among African Ameri-cans was hovering at around 15.8 percent — almost dou-ble the still undesirable 8 percent of unemployment amongst whites and still con-siderably higher than the “national average” of 9.4 per-cent reported by news media outlets everywhere.

Even amongst African American college graduates, unemployment is just under 8 percent compared to 4.3 percent for white college graduates. This isn’t a new phenomenon; African Ameri-cans have experienced high-er rates of unemployment throughout history regard-less of economic conditions and avoidance of discussions of race in America helps to perpetuate these realities.

As numbers of multiracial and multicultural peoples continue to grow, as the na-tion’s population of “brown” people continues to increase and as we progressively move into the 21st century with new hopes of achieving “post-racial relations,” we should consider discussing what got us to this point in the first place. To solve the problem, you must first ac-knowledge its existence — it’s that simple.

—Nicole Doan is an IC columnist and a senior ma-joring in individualized studies.

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Call for a new depression support group at UTAnyone you meet might be

depressed, and you might never know it. It could be someone smiley, talkative and friendly, with a facade of happiness that never reveals what lies beneath. Like an iceberg, there could be a mountain below that is never seen. It could be someone chubby, who eats compul-sively to cope with his sor-row, or someone skinny, who throws up whatever they eat because they quantifies self-worth by what they weighs. A friend could need your help, but without asking, you might never know.

If I am lucky, some of you will see my byline and re-member I used to write a column devoted mainly to politics, hoping to inspire support for what I cared about and mobilize people to action. Since then, I have

taken time off from school for medical reasons, and in this column I propose that people dealing with depres-sion, including myself, should start our own sup-port group here at the Uni-versity of Toledo. I would like to organize such a group and would welcome anyone interested.

First, I should briefly ex-plain what depression is. As everyone who has struggled with it can tell you, it is not just sadness. Everyone feels sad some of the time, but like a pendulum swinging back and forth, it eventually recedes as happiness re-turns. Depression does not just go away, and it can exist regardless of changing or even improving circumstanc-es. It is believed to be caused by a malfunctioning of the brain, which inhibits normal, healthy behavior.

You might be depressed if you find you can no longer enjoy the activities you used to enjoy or are no longer in-terested in the things that used to interest you. There are different types of de-

pression, so symptoms can differ widely, but in addition to an unending sadness or feeling empty, they often in-clude difficulty concentrat-ing, fatigue, irritability and irrational feelings of guilt. It

could result in persistent in-somnia or excessive sleep-ing, and an increase or de-crease in appetite.

If you or someone you know is suffering or has thoughts of suicide, it is im-

portant to get help. Of course, a support group would not replace therapy or medications, but it could provide a different kind of help, especially for people who have trouble being

sociable, as many depressed people do. It would provide a social circle for people who can relate to each other and be sensitive to the spe-cial problems that come with depression. Talking with peers in similar circumstanc-es could ease feelings of loneliness and begin the long road toward recovery.

If there are people inter-ested, the group could be whatever its members want. There could be movie nights, a book club, group trips or meet-ups, in addition to reg-ular meetings. Anything could be discussed and any-one would be welcome. De-pression is too draining and exhausting to face alone, re-gardless of how functional a person may appear. Some-one might not want to open up about it in a normal so-cial situation for fear of meeting indifference or

incomprehension, but in a support group everyone in-volved could feel safe to be open and honest.

I hope you will consider contacting me if you or someone you know are inter-ested in forming such a group. I can be reached through my university e-mail, and I will respond to anything I hear back. I am motivated to start the group because I think it would help me and I hope it will help others. An organization could provide a welcoming community of concern to help people cope with the crushing, unrelenting abyss that is depression.

—Matthew Provonsha is

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Everyone feels sad some of the time, but like a pendulum swinging

back and forth, it eventually re-cedes as happiness returns. De-

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Huck Finn, sans contextWe cannot fix the

problems we ignoreThis past Friday morning I

got online for a quick Face-book check-in when I came across an interesting head-line from the Kingston

Whig-Stan-dard — never heard of it before — about NewSouth Books’ de-cision to offer a new, cen-sored ver-sion of Mark

Twain’s book, “The Adven-tures of Huckleberry Finn”. “Hmm,” I thought, “Another controversy-invoking head-line. Better bite on it.”

Personally, I have already read the original book and don’t really have plans to re-visit it, but I took away a slightly different message than other people who may have read the article.

Suzanne La Rosa offered a brief explanation of why the new edition was being of-fered: “Teachers were in-creasingly uncomfortable with teaching it because students were really uncom-fortable reading the words ‘nigger’ and ‘injun,’“ said La Rosa. She went on to ex-plain how it might create new fans of the book, and that the demand seemed to be there for such an edition.

An opposing argument was made by Robert Morri-son, an English professor at Queen’s University. Ac-cording to the article, “Morrison says the under-tones of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” are writ-ten from Twain’s perspec-tive of race relations at that point in American his-tory. He says that the best way to deal with racial is-sues is to challenge them, not sidestep them.

‘It’s wrong not to teach it,’ said Morrison. ‘We need to confront the past, not au-thor it to make ourselves feel better…This is clearly touching a nerve and we need to know why this word is upsetting us ... if some-one’s upset, that’s not a rea-son to stop talking, that’s a reason to keep talking.’

La Rosa agrees that the words shouldn’t be glossed over, but she says in this case it’s the education sys-tem, not the censored

editions of the books, that has failed students. ‘We hope that this edition will spark debate as to why ... teachers are not equipped to teach this and students are not worldly enough or prepared enough to read this,’ said La Rosa.”

And here you see what I am writing about this week. I am not particularly inter-ested in writing whether or not the book should be cen-sored, but rather in writing about how we as a society got to the point where stu-dents and teachers are so uncomfortable dealing with “controversial” subjects that things need to be glossed over or sugarcoated.

Sure, not everyone en-joys talking about uncom-fortable things — the “sex” talk with par-ents, saying the “L” word, admitting you were wrong — but a not-so-recent arti-cle on Psy-chologyToday.com explores the phenome-non of baby-ing children to the point where it is al-most comical once they reach college age. I thank a friend of mine for linking “A Nation of Wimps” on his Facebook page.

The article discusses how parents are so overbearing and obsessed with coddling their kids that more than a third of them send their kids to school with hand-sanitizer, and how many parents can’t even sit on a park bench and let their kids play — they have to “play-coach” them.

Wow. I’m not the world’s biggest psychology fan, but a lot of this article made sense to me. The whole thing is quite lengthy, so I’ll focus on some of the high-lights, but the article does explain how the problems experienced at the college level are rooted in a child’s younger years.

At the college level, the article notes how parents — and students — overreact when they receive a less-than-desired grade. The par-ents think it’ll ruin the child’s life, and the child feels like they deserve a

better grade because that’s what they’re used to receiv-ing. The result, according to the article? Grade inflation.

“When he took over as president of Harvard in July 2001, Lawrence Summers publicly ridiculed the value of honors after discovering that 94 percent of the col-lege’s seniors were graduat-ing with them. Safer to low-er the bar than raise the dis-comfort level. Grade infla-tion is the institutional re-sponse to parental anxiety about school demands on children, contends social historian Peter Stearns of George Mason University.”

In addition, I found this section particularly inter-esting: “Even in college — or perhaps especially at col-

lege — stu-dents are typically in contact with their parents several times a day, report-ing every flicker of ex-perience. One long-dis-tance call overheard on a recent cross-cam-pus walk: ‘Hi, Mom. I

just got an ice-cream cone; can you believe they put sprinkles on the bottom as well as on top?’

‘Kids are constantly talk-ing to parents,’ laments Cor-nell student Kramer, which makes them perpetually homesick. Of course, they’re not telling the folks every-thing, notes Portmann. ‘They’re not calling their parents to say, ‘I really went wild last Friday at the frat house and now I might have chlamydia. Should I go to the student health center?’ “

The perpetual access to parents infantilizes the young, keeping them in a permanent state of depen-dency. Whenever the slight-est difficulty arises, ‘they’re constantly referring to their parents for guidance,’ reports Kramer. They’re not learning how to man-age for themselves.”

I can’t speak for others, but when I was growing up, my dad would want my brother and I to do more chores and my mom would say no because she thought we’d mess them up. Well,

we did laundry, vacuumed and mowed the lawn. When college came, I could do things on my own. Laundry? No problem. Trouble with fi-nancial aid? I knew who to call. I wish I could say the same about some of the people I knew through my first few years. Their par-ents must have been the hand-sanitizer-wielding type.

The article also goes on to explain how cell phones may be suppressing the need to plan ahead, which leads to less mental stimula-tion, and perhaps anxiety and depression. In 1996, anxiety overtook relation-ship problems for the num-ber one issue at counseling centers. In addition, the arti-cle states that The Universi-ty of Michigan Depression Center estimates that fifteen percent of college students are depressed — the article was from 2004.

Anyhow, there is a lot of information in the piece to condense to a single editori-al. However, I agree with the premise of the article. I feel that oftentimes people “over-parent” to the point where their children devel-op a sense of entitlement. Things aren’t always going to be easy. Come exam week, nearly every Face-book status is something re-garding freaking out about or studying for exams. May-be in some programs grades are more important than others. I get that. But guess what? Exams are supposed to be hard, as the article bluntly states.

Likewise, reading the “n–word” may not be the most pleasant thing for a student. And I’m sure if I were a teacher, the ensuing conver-sation might not be fun ei-ther. You don’t have to praise it, you don’t have to repeat it, but for the sake of humanity, don’t pretend it was never written. It won’t kill you, and what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Try hard at school, but don’t go crazy doing it. Worst comes to worst, as Judge Smails from “Caddyshack” notes, the world needs ditch-diggers too.

—Anthony Russo is an

IC columnist and a senior

majoring in economics.

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WASHINGTON — A gun-man fired into a town hall meeting in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Ariz., Saturday, killing six people, including a federal judge, and critically wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat who hosted the event.

At least 18 others were injured in the shooting, in-cluding members of Gif-fords’ staff. Giffords, 40, was shot through the head at close range and airlifted to a local hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery. She’s listed in criti-cal condition, but doctors are cautiously optimistic about her chances for survival.

U.S. district Judge John Roll, Arizona’s chief federal judge, was among five who died at the scene. A 9-year-old girl died of her wounds later at the hospital.

The suspected gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, 22, of Tucson, is in custody after several witnesses tackled him to the ground. There was no security at the town hall event.

Pima County Sheriff Clar-ance Dupnik wouldn’t con-firm that Loughner was the suspect, but he said the shooter intended to target Giffords.

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U.S. Army Sgt. Jay Warner salutes a candle-light memorial for the victims of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona, at the State Capitol in Phoenix on Saturday, January 8, 2011. Six people were killed and 12 injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, in gunfire at a town hall meeting outside at a strip mall in Tucson earlier in the day.

“He ran into the crowd and when he got to (Gif-fords), he started shooting,” Dupnik said.

In a statement Saturday, President Barack Obama said the shooting is “a trag-edy for Arizona and a trag-edy for our entire country.” The president dispatched FBI Director Robert Muller to Arizona to personally co-ordinate the investigation by multiple law enforce-ment agencies.

“We are going to get to the bottom of this and we are going to get through this,” Obama said Saturday after-noon. “I know Gabby is as tough as they come and I’m hopeful that she’s going to pull through.”

Giffords’ husband, Mark Kelly, a NASA Shuttle astro-naut, arrived in Tucson Sat-urday evening aboard a NASA jet to join his wife.

Dr. Peter Rhee of the Uni-versity of Arizona Medical Center said Giffords was conscious and following commands.

Officials originally said they were “very optimistic” about Giffords’ chances for recovery, but later Saturday night said they had “guard-ed optimism” about her chances for survival. She could face additional sur-gery if complications develop.

“She’s fighting for her life,” said Obama, who called for the nation to

Gabrielle Giffords

© 2011 MCTSource: Giffords congressional web site, AP, Reuters, MCT Photo ServiceGraphic: Judy Treible, Tim Goheen

Democratic congresswoman from Arizona

Early life

Career

Born June 8, 1970, Tucson, Ariz.Education B.A., Scripps College; masters degree, Cornell University; Fulbright scholar

Before politics CEO for her familyÕs Tucson tire and automotive business

Pro-immigration Supports tough border security with long-term path to citizenship for illegal immigrantsVoted for health care bill Hours after the bill passed, her Tucson office was vandalized

Family Married to NASA astronaut Mark Kelly who piloted shuttles Endeavor and Discovery

2001-05 Served a term in both the Arizona House and Senate

2006 Elected to U.S. Congress; member of Blue Dog Coalition of Democrats who push for conservative budget and tax policies; serves on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs and Science and Technology committees

2011 Shot by assailant while meeting with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket

2010 won election to third term in close race with tea party favorite

said.Jonathan Cowan, presi-

dent of Third Way, a moder-ate, centrist advocacy group, echoed similar sentiments. “We don’t yet know — and may never understand — what drove the assailant in this case to such a terrible crime. But we do know that politics has become too per-sonal, too nasty and perhaps too dangerous.”

Dupnik said that the slain judge decided to visit the event because he was a per-sonal friend of Giffords.

“Because he knows Gabby very well, he decided to come around the corner and say ‘hi.’ Unfortunately, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Dupnik said.

Several years ago, Roll re-ceived death threats for rul-ing a civil-rights lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants could proceed. The Arizona Republic newspaper report-ed Saturday that Roll and his wife were under protec-tive detail for a month after the ruling as death threats poured in from people who opposed the ruling.

Oliver W. Wanger, a U.S. district judge in Fresno, Ca-lif., noted that rulings can make judges targets of dan-gerously angry individuals. In the wake of the Arizona shooting, Wanger said he expects courthouse securi-ty will be “closely scrutinized.”

Dupnik said the suspect-ed shooter had previous contacts with local law en-forcement in which he made threats to kill. Investigators are trying to determine if another man was involved.

Calls to Loughner’s home went unanswered, but a YouTube page established by Loughner contains a se-ries of anti-government sen-timents and incoherent

ramblings.“My ambition is for in-

forming literate dreamers about a new currency: in a few days, you know I’m conscience dreaming! Thank you!” Loughner post-ed on the Web page several weeks ago.

Her House colleagues de-scribe Giffords, a moderate Blue Dog Democrat, as an affable lawmaker with a knack for winning tough races in a southern Arizona swing district that borders Mexico.

“I am horrified by the senseless attack on Con-gresswoman Gabrielle Gif-fords and members of her staff. An attack on one who serves is an attack on all who serve. Acts and threats of violence against public officials have no place in our society,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Giffords first won her congressional seat in 2006 with 54 percent of the vote, against Randy Graf, who proved too conservative, particularly because of his hard line on immigration, for the swing district. In November, she squeaked out a win against conserva-tive Jesse Kelly, a favorite of the conservative tea par-ty movement.

Giffords faced some po-litical trouble because she often sided with Democrats on bigger issues. She voted for the party’s health-care overhaul, economic stimu-lus plan and environmental cap-and-trade legislation.

But part of Giffords’ ap-peal to swing voters in her district has been her tough line on immigration. She backs hiring more border patrol agents, stiffer sanc-tions for employers that hire illegal immigrants, and more technology to protect

Brain trauma and languageOne of the worries of a severe injury to the left side of the brain, such as the injury suffered by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords* (D-Ariz.), is that a person can develop aphasia Ñ loss of the ability to express or understand spoken or written language.

Source: Merck Manual, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (U.S.), AP Graphic: Lee Hulteng, Judy Treible

*Bullet traveled the length of the left side of the congresswoman's brain, from back to front; extent of trauma is not yet known

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BrocaÕs aphasiaDamage to left frontal lobe

WernickeÕs area

Temporal lobe

• Person may understand the meaning of words and know how to respond, but forces words out slowly with great effort

• Person has difficulty understanding spoken, written language; speaks fluently but in nonsense words

• Person may be unable to understand, speak or write

• Right arm and leg can be paralyzedAnterior

(front)

Types of aphasia

WernickeÕs aphasia Damage to temporal lobe

Global aphasia Extensive damage to language centers

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come together after the shooting.

Giffords had experienced previous brushes with vio-lence in recent months. In one incident, Dupnik said, an audience member dropped a weapon at one political event Giffords hosted. In another incident, windows were broken at her campaign headquarters. Authorities were also inves-tigating a suspicious pack-age found Saturday at Gif-fords’ Tucson office.

The incident is already being cast as an outgrowth of the intemperate and po-larized political climate that swept the country following the Great Recession and the 2008 presidential election.

Heated confrontations at town hall meetings during the health-care debate, pro-testers carrying guns to po-litical rallies, and members of Congress being spat up-on outside the Capitol in Washington are just some of the acts that have charac-terized the political land-scape recently.

While the motive for the shooting is unclear, Dupnik suggested the heated politi-cal rhetoric in the media may have played a role, and said the atmosphere in Ari-zona has become especially toxic.

“The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And, unfortu-nately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry,” Dupnik said.

Giffords was among the Democratic members of Congress singled out for de-feat last spring by former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who used rifle scope-like crosshairs to sin-gle out the 20 seats she wanted to turn Republican. Like Giffords, many were Democrats who’d support-ed Obama’s health-care overhaul last year but were elected from districts where Palin and Arizona Sen. John McCain had won in 2008.

Palin issued condolences on her Facebook page to Giffords’ family Saturday.

Paul Helmke, the presi-dent of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said it’s unacceptable that politicians are at risk for their lives when meeting in public.

“We are deeply concerned about the heated political rhetoric that escalates de-bates and controversies, and sometimes makes it seem as if violence is an ac-ceptable response to honest disagreements,” Helmke

the border.———(Barbara Barrett, Erika

Bolstad, James Rosen, Mike Doyle, William Douglas, Nancy A. Youssef, Margaret Talev, Lesley Clark and Ber-yl Adcock contributed to this report from Washington.)

By Michael DoyleMcClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The shooting of Arizona Rep. Ga-brielle Giffords on Saturday struck home with members of Congress, reminding them anew of their own vulnerabilities.

Shortly after the shooting, Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Ca-lif., said he and other House members received multiple e-mail warnings from Capi-tol Hill law enforcement officials.

"They told us to increase our vigilance, and to have more security at our public events," Cardoza said,

adding that "we will follow the recommendations of the police."

One e-mail advised law-makers that "the U.S. Capitol Police are directly involved in this investigation" and urged members and staff to "take reasonable and pru-dent precautions regarding their personal security."

During past security scares, as in the days follow-ing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, some House members un-dertook some simple precau-tions such as keeping the doors closed to their Capitol Hill offices.

At the same time,

lawmakers are obliged by their profession to be out in public. House Minority Lead-er Nancy Pelosi, for instance, made a point of declaring Saturday afternoon that she would still be holding a pre-viously scheduled "Commu-nity New Year's Celebration" on Market Street in down-town San Francisco.

As a member of congres-sional leadership, Pelosi al-ready receives the protec-tion of armed, plainclothes officers from the U.S. Capi-tol Police. Rank-and-file members of Congress, in contrast, do not typically re-ceive federal protection out-

side of Capitol Hill."It's a real problem," Car-

doza said of the security co-nundrum. "You want to be accessible, but I also care very deeply about the secu-rity of my staff and of the people who attend these public events."

Cardoza said security con-siderations contributed to his previous decision to relo-cate his congressional dis-trict offices to government buildings that already main-tain a security presence. He indicated security concerns also played into his earlier decision to curtail some pub-lic town hall meetings during

the politically heated sum-mer of 2009.

Threats against lawmakers are not uncommon. Cardoza said his office has been on the receiving end of some. He added that Giffords, a friend and political ally for whom he campaigned in Ari-zona during 2008, had previ-ously reported that one of her own congressional offic-es had been vandalized.

"She's been concerned," Cardoza said.

Giffords and Cardoza are both members of the so-called Blue Dog Caucus, largely composed of moder-ate House Democrats.

Congress tightens securityWashington lawmakers receive post-shooting warning emails from Capitol Hill police

© 2011 MCTSource: Glock AG

Glock pistolThe person suspected of shooting U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others in Tucson, Ariz. reportedly used a 9mm Glock pistol.

Chamber 9 mm Luger/Parabellum

Length 7.4 in. (188 mm)

Weight 21.9 oz. (620 g)

Barrel length 4.49 in.(114 mm)

Magazine 17 rounds; options for 19, 22 rounds

Lightweight• Steel slide mounted on polymer frame with alloy inserts

Easy to operate • Trigger is designed to be activated only by a proper pull from the operator's finger, eliminating need for other manual safety devices

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of political science at the Uni-versity of Toledo.

The result of the population change will leave Ohio with 16 seats come time for the 2012 election — a substantial de-crease from its record-high 24 seats as recently as 1970.

“Ohio has lost one-third of its representation,” said Steve Fought, secretary for Con-gresswoman Marcy Kaptur.

The belief is that states in

the Northeast and Midwest re-gions saw their population di-minish while states in the South and West have increased causing a population shift.

“That’s not exactly true,” Fought said. “The South and West have increased substan-tially, while Midwest and North didn’t necessarily decrease in population. It just didn’t grow as quickly.”

Ohio has increased about 1.6 percent over the last decade with a national increase of about 10.7 percent. The popu-lation is relative to other

states, although it doesn’t in-crease at the same rate.

Fought said there are sever-al reasons for increases in population in the South and West.

“The states in the South, Southwest and West have at-tracted more immigrants — and weather [is another big factor], because people have decided they want to live where it is warm and sunny,” he said.

The increase in job opportu-nities is another reason for the population shift.

“There are more job oppor-tunities because a lot of com-panies have moved to the Southwest,” Fought said.

The so-called ‘brain drain’ is also a contributing factor to the slower growth rates in states that are losing seats. The brain drain is the tenden-cy for highly skilled individu-als and those with an educa-tion to leave one place for another.

Fought said the outlook for political power is dim.

“It’s hard to find a silver lin-ing with that. It means Ohio

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Bachelor of Arts or Bach-elor of Science degree,” Rubin said. “Those aren’t going to change. When students speak to future employers, I don’t think the name of the college that’s on the diploma is going to make a big differ-ence for students.”

But McMIllen said graduating from more ar-ea-specific colleges will be beneficial to students.

“Think about a graduat-ing senior putting togeth-er their resume and they could say ‘I graduated from the College of Visual and Performing Arts,’” he said. “Employers will be more interested in a stu-dent that graduated from an actual College of Art.”

Though students will soon no longer be gradu-ating from the CAS, Col-lege of Health Science and Human Services or Judith Herb College of Educa-tion, McMillen said stu-dents will not “see any changes.”

“There will not be any bad things happening like courses dropped or ma-jors disappearing or any-thing like that,” McMillen said. “There will be a lot going on within the ad-ministration with faculty governance and things like that, but the students will not see any change.”

Dean of the Judith Herb College of Education, Health Science and Hu-man Services Beverly Schmoll said in an email the college is in the pro-cess of “unifying a vision that will link education, health sciences and hu-man services in an innova-tive manner.”

The Judith Herb College of Education and College of Health Science and Hu-man Services are now one unified college.

“Our students will con-tinue to take classes in the same buildings, with the same faculty and in the same course of study,” Schmoll said. “In the

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Over the past century, AmericaÕs population, and subsequently its congressional districts, have shifted from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West. New census data point to a continuation of that shift: Northern and Midwestern states lost almost a dozen seats to their Southern and Western neighbors.

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will have less power in rela-tion to other states. It means that states such as Texas will basically capture political power that formerly resided in the northern states. Strength [is] in numbers, and it’s true in the Congress as well,” he said.

Fought compared the power in Congress to a football game.

“It’d be like if you were play-ing a football game with nine people one side and 15 on the other. Not every vote is decid-ed by regional factors but some votes are,” he said. “Cer-tain policies are more geared to one region than another. In that case it’s not really so much about political parties as regional alliances. Ohio will lose power, and it [political power] will go to Florida, Tex-as and Arizona.”

Davis said with the loss of two seats, there will be less voting.

“I think what’s more inter-esting from a political point of view is what is going to hap-pen to the districts,” he said.

In 2011 new district lines in Ohio will be established by the Ohio General Assembly. The new congressional district lines will be drawn by the leg-islature and approved by the governor.

Fought said it’s hard to tell how the new district lines will affect power.

Davis discussed what party dynamics for each district will look like.

“Both parties want to strengthen themselves in a couple of ways, one by

packing as much of one party as they can in each district. Republicans seem to be in control, so they’re in good shape,” Davis said.

In some districts Republi-cans want at least 60 percent of the population to be their party. Davis said that because the lines favor Republicans, there will be at least as many elected to the House. He said that if Democrats were in con-trol they would be doing the same thing.

There will be 16 districts in Ohio, and each district will be equal.

“Each congressional district will contain approximately 720,000 people — not voters, but people. We get that num-ber by taking the population and dividing it by 16,” Fought said.

According to Fought, in the next couple weeks the Census Bureau will release a detailed census number of how many people live in Toledo, Wauseon and Bowling Green. From there the legislature will break it down to census tracks, and after the detailed population statistics are evaluated, the legislature will go about draw-ing districts based on that data.

“The goal is to come up with 16 districts of 720,000 as close-ly as they can,” Fought said. “To do that there can be very little variance so sometimes people on one side of street will be in one district while on the other side of the street they can be in a different one.”

future we hope to develop several inter-professional learning oppor-tunities for our students to par-ticipate in.”

McMillen said some of the new colleges are already discussing creating new schools that are interdisciplinary.

“There is some discussion about the creation in the College of Visual and Performing Arts of a School of Creativity,” he said. “The purpose of it would be to attract areas of the university that are not in the College of Visual and Performing Arts that are cre-ative to help come in and collabo-rate. A poet might collaborate with a jazz musician. Or a novelist might collaborate with a film ma-jor. A short story writer might collaborate with a theater person. I think that’s one of the big future benefits of this new college arrangement.”

McMIllen said ideas such as these are still just in the discus-sion stage and are things that will have to be worked out during this semester.

“We are still transitioning with the new deans and administra-tion and everyone is separating into their respective college,” he said. “At the end of the semester, we will have three fully functional

colleges with all the staffing and faculty and programs that a typi-cal college would have, and we will just go on from that point.”

Rubin said he is “nothing but optimistic for the new colleges,” and Student Government plans to help inform students about the new structure at their Tuesday meeting, where they will have a guest speaker explain all aspects of the changes.

“I think it’s going to give stu-dents better access to administra-tors in their particular fields of study and encourage collabora-tions in related fields,” he said.

Schmoll said everyone in her college is very excited about the possibilities the new college brings.

“Students, faculty and staff will benefit from this reorganization by enriching the learning environ-ment for students and facilitating greater degrees of inter-profes-sional activity among the faculty, students and staff,” she said.

One thing McMillen said he hopes the reorganization plan will do is help give more recogni-tion to the arts at UT.

“The departments within the [CAS] were evolving, and we needed to promote and give more recognition to those areas, espe-cially the arts,” he said.

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www.IndependentCollegian.com Zach Davis – Editor

We are not a team that can play from behind. We are

not built that way. I wish we were and next year we will be.

Tod KowalczykUT Head Basketball Coach ”“

UT drops MAC opener to EMUBy Zach DavisSports Editor

The Rockets lost their first conference game of the sea-son 71-48 against Eastern Michigan on Saturday at Sav-age Arena.

Toledo (3-12, 0-1 Mid-Amer-ican Conference) had their three-game home winning streak snapped while the Ea-gles (4-10, 1-0 MAC) defeated a Division I opponent for the first time this season.

“I don’t think we played with anywhere near the ener-gy we need to play with in conference play, particularly in our home opener,” UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “Our freshmen tonight played too much like fresh-men. They’ve been getting a lot of min-utes and at this point in the season they should be more ag-gressive, assertive and tougher than that.

“Give them credit, that team—they’re a lot better than a 3-10 team from what I saw tonight. They’re long, ath-letic and have guys that can make shots.”

The Rockets only three scholarship guards – Malcolm Griffin, Reese Holliday and J.T. Thomas – all returned to the lineup after being sus-pended for last Monday’s matchup at Alabama for “missing curfew and violating a team rule.”

Griffin had a team-high 14 points while Holliday scored 13 with 12 rebounds. Thomas, who lost his captaincy after the suspension, had one point and one assist in 22 minutes

off the bench.“I don’t think we responded

very well,” Holliday said. “We didn’t play with a chip on our shoulder that we were sup-posed to. We got out-toughed. I know for a fact this next week we are going to practice hard and in the next game you can expect a great performance from us. I can guarantee you that.”

“We have 15 more in conference,” Grif-fin said. “We are not going to panic or hold our head now. We just are going to look at the next game and come out

fighting.”Two-time All-MAC

forward Brandon Bowdry led the Ea-gles with a game-high 19 points and 13 rebounds. The se-nior is 14th in the nation in scoring

(21.4 ppg) and 18th in re-bounds and leads the MAC in both categories.

“From what my staff says, the most talented player in the league is Brandon Bowdry,” UT coach Tod Kowalczyk said. “He sure looked like it tonight.”

“He plays with a chip on his shoulder every night,” Holliday said. “I can respect that.”

The Rockets latest lead in the game was 11-10, but East-ern Michigan used an 11-3 run to take a 33-26 lead at the half. The Eagles scored eight of the

first 10 points in the second half and EMU rolled to a 71-48 victory.

“We are not a team that can play from behind,” Kowalczyk said. “We are not built that way. I wish we were and next

year we will be.”“At the end of the

first half they went on a little run and it car-ried over to the sec-ond half,” Griffin said. “We just didn’t punch back. We didn’t main-tain composure and we just let them get away from us.”

The Rockets shot just 36 percent (18 of

50) from the field and made just 3-of-15 attempts from be-hind the arc.

“It’s a morale thing,” Kowal-czyk said. “When you get the ball around the goal and you just don’t finish, it sucks the life out of the building and our players. We have to do a bet-ter job of finishing around the basket.”

Toledo was outrebounded 45-31 by the Eagles and their bench was outscored 26-9.

“Our biggest prob-lem with rebounding is our guards,” Kowal-czyk said. “It’s been an issue with us since day one getting them to get in there and get dirty, be tough and scrap up rebounds. They haven’t done it.”

The Rockets will look to break a 39-game losing streak on the road when they take on Central Michigan on Wednes-day, Jan. 12 in Mount Pleasant at 7 p.m.

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Freshman forward Reese Holliday returned from a one-game suspension he served last week at Alabama and had 13 points and 12 rebounds in a loss to Eastern Michigan on Saturday.

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Stanley Cup Visits ToledoThe Stanley Cup, currently posessed by the Chicago Blackhawks, was on display for fans to take photos with at Friday’s Toledo Walleye ECHL game. View the IC Facebook page for game photos.

Shafir leads Rockets to third straight win

File photo by Jason Mack / IC

Junior point guard Naama Shafir had 27 points, including 23 in the second half, in a 63-60 overtime victory at West-ern Michigan on Saturday.

By Joe MehlingAssistant Sports Editor

Junior point guard Naama Shafir scored 23 second-half points, including six of the eight overtime points, to lead the Rockets to a 63-60 over-time win at Western Michigan Saturday night. The victory ex-tends Toledo’s winning streak to three games and gives them a perfect 2-0 record in the Mid-American Conference.

“Naama came to life in the second half,” UT head coach Tricia Cullop said. “I thought Naama played tremendous in the second half and she put the team on her back and said ‘We’re not going to lose.’”

Shafir had a team-high 27 points while sophomore Lec-retia Smith joined her in dou-ble-digits with 10 points. Se-nior Melissa Goodall led the Rockets (10-2) with nine re-bounds and added eight points.

Ebony Cleary led WMU (4-11, 0-2 MAC) with 20 points and 13 rebounds while Taylor Manley scored 14.

The Broncos were 5 of 7 from three-point range in the first half and finished with sev-en triples in the game.

“We did not do a good job of playing smart on our scouting report,” Cullop said. “We talk-ed about three-point shooters and boy did they shoot the lights out from three-point land in the first half. I blame us.”

The Rockets led 7-6 with 10:55 to play in the first half but failed to regain the lead until the overtime period.

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Leading by nine at the break, the Broncos jumped out to a 35-23 lead after Bren-na Bankston nailed her sec-ond triple of the half with 17:23 to play.

The Rockets cut the lead to five after a fast break lay-up by Smith four minutes later forcing a Western Michigan timeout.

Toledo continued to chip away at the deficit and trailed

by just one following back-to-back three’s by Shafir.

Western Michigan led by five with 2:29 left in the game, but a three from Jessica Wil-liams and a fast break bucket by Goodall tied the game with just over a minute remaining.

Cleary knocked down two clutch free throws for the Broncos with 25 seconds re-maining but Shafir tied the game with a short range jumper with just nine seconds left to send the game into overtime.

The Rockets took the lead with a Shafir triple and held off the Western Michigan at-tack for the remainder of the extra period.

“I thought we were really gutsy, resilient and very proud,” Cullop said. “It was a good road win and there’s a lot of things that we need to go back and get better at, but you always love a win.”

Toledo returns to Savage Arena on Wednesday to bat-tle Northern Illinois (6-8, 0-2) at 7 p.m.

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At their first meet in over a month, the Toledo swimming and diving team performed well but were unable to upset the No. 19-ranked Buckeyes in Columbus. Four Rockets totaled five first-place finish-es, but Ohio State prevailed, 177-117.

Junior Laura Lindsay paced the Rockets at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion, earning first-place finishes in both the 100 Breaststroke (1:02.74) and 200 Breaststroke (2:17.74). The wins continue Lindsay’s undefeated mark in breast-stroke competitions in which she has officially competed in 2010-11, and brings her win total to 32 in her last 34 offi-cial races. Her time in the 100 also was an NCAA “B” cut, her second consecutive in as many races.

A trio of Toledo swimmers also contributed first-place performances on Saturday. Senior captain Jacy Dyer, the

2010 MAC Co-Swimmer of the Year, earned first in the 1000 Free by eight seconds with a time of 10:01.83. The time was a season-best for Dyer and the fastest time by a Rocket this season. Junior Louise Smyth finished close in her wake to earn third in the event with a time of 10:12.87. Along with Dyer, freshman Christina Noens and sophomore Carly Harter also earned first-place finishes in the 200 Back (2:02.74) and the 200 IM (2:04.97), respectively.

Harter also took second in both the 200 Free (1:50.23) and 100 Free (51.87), while Noens earned second in the 100 Back (58.34) and Dyer earned second in the 500 Free (4:57.75).

Other strong performances included the 200 Medley Re-lay team of Noens, Lindsay, Harter and Amanda Thomp-son who finished second (1:45.03) by just one second, Thompson who placed sec-ond in the 100 Fly (57.24) and

senior Kelsey Atchison who placed third in both the 100 Breast (1:06.51) and 200 Breast (2:23.13) events.

“We performed very well on the road and after three weeks of intense training,” said Head Coach Liz Hinkleman. “The girls raced very well today against a nationally-ranked program. There are a few things that we need to im-prove on over the next six weeks to prepare for the MAC Championships.”

The loss drops Toledo, ranked 21st in the latest Col-legeswimming.com/CSCAA Mid-Major Div. I Poll, to 3-3 on the season as national No. 19 Ohio State remains unblem-ished at 6-0. Following a week off, the Rockets will next trav-el to Piscataway, NJ for the third-annual Swimming World College Conference Carnival hosted by Rutgers on Jan. 21-22. Along with the Scarlet Knights, Toledo will face off with Minnesota, Harvard, Rid-er and St. Francis (Pa.).

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The Rockets dropped their first match in the past month in a 177-117 loss at No. 19 Ohio State.

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Senior Amanda Kaverman took first in both the 60 me-ter dash (7.66) and 200 meter dash (24.84) - breaking the the WMU track record in the latter - and junior Ari Fisher broke the track record in the mile run (4:55.22), but the Rockets were unable to de-feat Western Michigan in the annual “Ice Breaker” meet, falling 75-63.

The Broncos jumped out to an early 16-4 lead after the 20# weight and shot put events, but 1-2 finishes by sophomore Katie Bollin (18-08.00; 5.69m) and Yuhong Fu (36-10.25; 11.23m) in the Tri-ple Jump and 1-3 finishes by Fisher and sophomore Em-ma Kertesz in the mile pulled the score to 28-24. The Bron-cos pulled away over the last few events and secured the 75-63 win in a very close meet.

“We had some chances to win the meet today, particu-larly with the high jump and the 3000-meters,” said Head Coach Kevin Hadsell. “We didn’t run any of our top-eight runners in the 3000-me-ters and that was a big swing in the points.”

Kaverman, the defending MAC Champion in the 200 meter dash, broke the track record of 25.15 formerly held

by Toledo’s LaShawn Vaughns. She improved on her time from last year’s first-place effort in this meet by .60 seconds and her time in the 60 meter dash was just .01 off her lifetime best.

“Amanda has been training very hard and is incredibly strong right now,” said Had-sell. “She knows that people are gunning for her and she wants to make it very diffi-cult for someone to beat her. Her philosophy is total ‘Tole-do-style’ in that if someone is going to beat her, they are going to have to run incredi-bly fast and work incredibly hard.”

Fisher, a three-time MAC Champion and 2010 All-American, also surpassed the record of a former Rocket, trumping the 5:03.79 mark recorded by April Williams. Her time marked a personal best and was the third-fastest time in school history with the conversion (4:54.02). Al-so running personal-best times in the mile was Kertesz in 5:02.07 (5:00.87), freshman Megan Wright in 5:04.75 (5:03.25) and senior Audra Brown in 5:10.01 (5:08.81). All four performances earned spots on the school’s all-time Top-20 list.

Senior Alexandra Afloari took first in the Triple Jump with a distance of 37-07.75

(11.47m) to cap off the Rock-ets’ first-place efforts.

Other strong performances for the Rockets included freshman Amber Brown who finished third in the 60 meter dash (7.94), sophomore Sar-ah Woodrum who placed sec-ond in the 400 meter dash (58.42), Wright who took sec-ond in the 800 meter dash (2:18.66) with Fisher close behind in third (2:20.13), sophomores Lei Bornhorst (10:42.87) and Samantha Condron (10:48.51) who fin-ished second and third in the 3000 meter run, respectively and freshman Princetta Cum-mings who took third in the 60 meter hurdles (9.27).

“In order for us to have a great MAC Championship performance next month, we have to continue to improve in our areas of strength,” said Hadsell. “Our distance, jumps and sprints are doing really well and I think we are well ahead of where we were at this point last year.”

Next weekend, the Rock-ets will travel back to Michi-gan to take on the Central Michigan Chippewas on Jan. 15 in their last dual-style meet of the indoor season. Following their trip to Mt. Pleasant, the Rockets will head to Kent, OH for the All-Ohio Championships on Jan. 21.

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Senior Amanda Kaverman took first place in the 60 and 200 meter dash on Friday.

“When [Sonia] meets Joey, she likes him as a boyfriend, but she also warns him that she’s not really looking for that much of a relationship: she wants to learn mechanical engineering and she wants to get Joey to tutor her,” Kneer said. “One of the lines of the songs is kind of funny because she’s saying that she ‘doesn’t really have time to kiss’ and Joey says ‘I can wait a date or two to get some makeout time with you,’ and that’s kind of their relationship.”

Joey lives in the Ottawa West dormitory with his best friend Marky Layman. Marky, the instigator of Ottawa, is played by Gage Howell, a sophomore majoring in math education.

The overly-romantic Joey and practical joker Marky are offset by the grounded charac-ter Ben Ramirez, played by

sophomore psychology major Katie Nelson, who keeps the two in line – whether they are joking about flirting with girls or procrastinating studying for midterm exams.

“She’s also a good friend to Joey and helps give him ad-vice,” Kneer said.

Ben’s boyfriend, Ashleigh Carter, is played by Dale Bali-ster, a junior majoring in art and theatre.

“Ashleigh is very unfortu-nate,” Kneer said. “He gets hurt a lot, and he’s definitely a comic relief sort of character.”

The Ottawa group also in-cludes two main ensemble members played by sopho-more Joe Repka and junior Randiah Green, both majoring in communication.

Part of the show focuses on Sonia, who faces blocks in her path mainly because of her parents’ expectations.

“She has been sort of pushed towards one life working in

sales, and really what’s in her heart is to follow her dream of becoming an engineer, a me-chanical engineer, which she thinks is a lot cooler than just making sales because she can create things,” Kneer said.

Sonia is the younger sister of the overprotective Greg Long, played by senior music major Nick Bellmyer. Greg is the leader of a group of stu-dents living in the Dowd/Nash/White dorms.

Rounding out the Quad half of the cast are Jaleeah Wil-liams and Munich Hodgeson, both played by freshmen: in-ternational business major Sarah Fatemi and film major Tyler Holtzman, respectively.

“[Jaleeah is] Sonia’s best friend and her brother’s girl-friend,” Fatemi said. “They don’t approve of [Sonia] see-ing Joey.”

“[Munich] is absolutely in love with Sonia, and he and Greg are old friends, but aside from that he just seems very

reserved, I’d say,” Holtzman said.

The Quad cast also includes a major ensemble member played by David Bousonville, a junior majoring in psycholo-gy and theatre.

“Basically, all the characters just have some kind of – some-thing that makes them differ-ent from the other characters in the show,” Fatemi said. “Like for instance, Munich. He doesn’t talk. He talks with his hands and with background music. It’s just great. All the characters are unique in their own way.”

Unlike other musicals cast members have participated in, “West Bancroft Side Story” will be filmed rather than per-formed on stage.

“It’s definitely a lot different from a stage production be-cause you can’t put everything together at once,” Kneer said. “You film in short bunches and you record things in a stu-dio and you can’t see them all

come together at once in one long take, so it’s a lot different.”

The cast began filming in November and continues this semester.

“I think one of the biggest things is how accessible it is,” Kneer said. “You take modern songs and rewrite them to fit the script, you take a story that’s familiar to everybody, you throw in some little in-jokes to people who have seen ‘West Side Story’ and things like that... It’s light-hearted, it’s fun, entertaining, it’s got great music, and I think that it’ll re-ally be a lot of fun for people to watch.”

Kneer said that the idea of starting filming next weekend is a little intimidating “for me as a cast member who’s just starting a week of classes,” but he agrees with Fatemi and Holtzman, who both ex-pressed excitement for film-ing to begin.

“I’ve been looking forward

to this all winter break,” Holtzman admitted.

Fatemi sees the filming as more than just a way to end winter break boredom or liven up the spring semester.

“I know it sounds vain, but I feel like a movie star, kind of, just because I get to get dressed up and having hair and makeup done, singing and acting, basi-cally being in a music video,” she said. “It’s just an experi-ence. I’ve never done anything like that before.”

For Kneer, though, the expe-rience means something different.

“I really missed being a part of something like this ever since I left high school, and I didn’t really think I was going to get another opportunity like I have to work on something like this,” he said. “I think it’s a real-ly cool project and I’m proud to be part of it.”

- To learn more, check out the “West Bancroft Side Story” page on Facebook.com.

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Cast from left to right: Megan Beckett as Sonia Long, Nick Kneer as Joey DeMarco, Gage Howell as Marky Layman, Nick Bellmyer as Greg Long, Katie Nelson as Ben Ramirez, Sarah Fatemi as Jaleeah Williams, Dale Balister as Ashleigh Carter and Tyler Holtzman as Munich Hodgeson in ‘West Bancroft Side Story.’ Not pictured: major Ottawa ensemble members Joe Repka and Randiah Green and major Quad ensemble member David Bousonville.

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For those concerned with price, the best choice out of all these is the original Nook. It has the best of both worlds - a touch screen way to navigate and an e-ink screen for reading. It sup-ports all types of PDFs, includ-ing those “rented” from librar-ies and created on home com-puters. For only $10 more than the cheapest Kindle or Kobo, customers get a greater

selection from within the Barnes and Noble store and from classics they provide, many of which are free.

While the e-reader makes reading and buying books easi-er, the world may soon forget the simple aesthetics of read-ing. Though each misses the feeling of physically turning the page, any e-reader makes a great gift for the tech-minded bookworm in your family.

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E-readers: one consumer’s critique of new gadgetsBy Mitch RohrerIC Staff Writer

For those who are not in the know on the gadget scene, tablet display electronic book reading devices, commonly called e-readers, were one of the hottest gift items this holiday season.

E-readers are typically book-sized devices equipped with a computer screen or two that show

text and pictures using either a grayscale e-ink display or a full color touch screen display, such as Apple’s iPad. Invented for reading digitalized copies of books, the most recent versions have come equipped with internet access for web browsing and direct downloading of materials.

During the Spring 2011 se-mester at the University of Toledo, be on the lookout for something suspiciously musi-

cal on UT’s campus channel.UTTV Student Broadcasting

and WXUT are collaborating to create “West Bancroft Side Story,” a three-episode minise-ries parodying the classic sto-ry of “Romeo and Juliet.”

“[The show] takes the musi-cal ‘West Side Story,’ which was based on ‘Romeo and Ju-liet,’ and puts it into the uni-verse of the University of To-ledo campus,” said Nick Kneer, a junior majoring in psychology. “You replace the gangs with factions of

different dorms that people live in, the locations obviously are all Toledo-based, and it’s a lot of fun.”

“West Bancroft Side Story” follows Joey DeMarco and So-nia Long, two UT students who fall in love but stand di-vided because they live in dif-ferent dorms.

The role of Joey is played by Kneer and the role of Sonia is played by Megan Beckett, a senior majoring in theater.

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By Feliza Casano / IC

West Bancroft Side Story stars Megan Beckett and Nick Kneer posing at the UT Library

Not all touch screen tablets created equal; a look at the Kindle, Kobo, Nook and iPad

E-books have been available for decades, but it wasn’t until 2007 when Amazon.com released their first e-reader, the Kin-dle, that digital books became popular. Considering that they are America’s largest online book retailer, it seemed appropri-ate that Amazon.com would start the e-reader revolution.

The Kindle, which is on to its third version, falls under the e-ink category of readers. This means that the screen shows up as black text with a grey background - seeming eerily simi-lar to standard books. The big advantage to e-ink and why it has been the standard for many e-readers is that it does not reflect glare from sunlight or lamps. This same protection al-so reduces strain on the eyes, making it a superior choice for reading over an extended period of time.

The Kindle also comes in two different sizes: the standard 6 inch screen or the “DX” 9.7 inch screen. The larger version, though slightly bulkier than the latest paperback, is the per-fect size for the vast textbook collection that Amazon.com offers. When comparing the weight of a collection of text-books to the one-pound Kindle DX, it’s easy to choose which one to lug around campus. Additionally, Amazon.com’s text-books are in an electronic format, saving the publishing com-panies and the consumer money; some are even available for rent.

($139 Amazon.com)

Just this year, Borders released their E-reader, Kobo, which is similar to the Kindle in that it also employs an e-ink display feature. However, the Kobo is lighter and thinner than the small-est version of Amazon.com’s Kindle and according to Borders’ website includes one hundred preloaded “classic” books.

Additionally, the Kobo can be used at participating libraries to download and borrow books – the only difference is there is no need to go back and return the book; it will simply disappear from the reader when it is due.

Just like the Kindle, the Kobo’s downloads can be done through WiFi. Unlike the Kindle, it can also be done over Bluetooth.

The Kobo is somewhat more universal than the Kindle, with the ability to download PDFs and similar files. As for the Kindle, the only readable files are books available from Amazon.com.

($149 Koboreader.com)

Another contender in the e-reader revolution is Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Nook Color.

Barnes and Noble’s original plan was to put in production another e-ink tablet reader. Yet, the Nook stands out - it has a second full color touch screen below the e-ink one. The controls are simple buttons that clearly display the content of the e-reader, such as books, internet files or games. The touch screen handles easier than Kindle’s or Kobo’s cursor track pad in a way that is similar to the most recent incarna-tion of Blackberry phones.

The Nook also has the largest memory capacity, meaning it can store more books and blogs on it then the other two, which can also expandable by adding a microSDHC mem-ory card, not unlike a digital camera.

However, the newest version, released right before the holidays, boasts a full color touch screen. Although this means readers will suffer from the aforementioned glare and eye strains problem, it also means that is can be viewed without a light source. The Kindle offers an attach-able lamp and book cover combo, though these must be purchased separately for $60.

($149 BarnesandNoble.com)

All three of the previous e-readers either use a keyboard or a partial touch screen in order to navigate online or through the bookstore, but if a completely digital experience is what one de-sires, look no further than Apple’s iPad.

The iPad comes equipped with only a few buttons for either turn-ing it on or returning to the home page; the rest is done completely on its 9.7 inch screen display. Even though it may be a little bulkier than the large Kindle DX, each ounce packs accounts for so much more.

Not only can the iPad download from the bookstores that Kin-dle, Kobo and Nook can use, it also has an application called iBook. True to Apple form, the application is easy to use and is sprinkled with fun and simple ergonomic features. For example, pages can be turned by dragging the edge from one side of the screen to the other, and the opening screen is a welcoming wood-en bookshelf with each e-book placed atop one of the shelves.

For those not too concerned with glare and eye strain, the full color screen of the iPad is a definite boon.

Beyond its e-reader functions, the iPad is a fully operational tablet computer; considering the numerous apps and internet surfing abilities the iPad has much more to offer in features than its competitors.

($499 Apple.com)

Graphic by Nick Kneer / IC

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West Bancroft Side Story: cast and back story

By Feliza CasanoCopy Chief