By Antanella Tirone Staff Reporter

After a heated debate at Student Government’s meet-ing Tuesday evening, sena-tors voted in favor of passing a resolution urging the Uni-versity of Toledo against their decision to cancel a transfer agreement with a local abortion clinic and stop talks with another.

The transfer agreement and negotiations ended with a letter President Lloyd Ja-cobs sent to Capital Care Network of Toledo on April 4 stating that the university would not renew a deal with the abortion clinic in July. He also sent a letter to the Center for Choice stating that the University of Toledo Medical Center would no longer consider negotiations for a transfer agreement.

UT College Democrats wrote a resolution in re-sponse to the move, asking the university to reconsider these decisions, which they presented Tuesday night.

Voting was done by public roll call and the senate de-cided to pass the resolution by a wide majority. The final count was 12 in favor of the resolution, 3 opposed to the resolution and 2 abstained.

By law, the abortion clin-ics cannot legally operate unless they have a transfer agreement with a hospital that would accept the clinic’s patients in the event of complications.

“We feel that this would be detrimental because it will be harmful . . . it would put an end to safe abortion,” said Ben Lynn, the bill’s sponsor.

The debate began with Senator Nick McCullough, a

freshman majoring in politi-cal science, who said while he personally was against the issue, he did not feel it was an issue SG should be deciding.

“All fighting politics aside here, I’m throw-ing away any-thing conserva-tive, liberal, democratic, re-publican out the window, be-cause that’s not what we’re fo-cused on here,” he said. “What we’re focused on here is our university and whether we want to keep this transfer agreement. The way that I see it, Student Government, I really don’t believe that we have any right to decide what happens

with this.”Senator Ali Eltatawy re-

sponded that this was not a debate over personal beliefs, but a matter of providing the care that people may need from the university’s

facilities.“In this case,

isn’t [it] our job, as a university that has an epi-center to provide for anyone that needs [it], [to] care for anybody that deserves a chance at being better after they’re

hurt?” he said.Senators also debated that

passing this resolution would cause the students to believe that SG took an offi-cial stand as either pro-choice or pro-life. Lynn said

that was not an issue.“We understand that this

isn’t a stigma of coming out as pro-life or pro-choice. It’s coming out in support of those who need the services that UTMC and these abor-tion clinics give,” he said. “It’s a service that these peo-ple need, and who are we to tell them that they don’t get it?”

College Republican Presi-dent Scott Mazzola said after the debate that senate’s dis-cussion did not focus on the issue at hand.

“I think the whole debate was sort of a fallacy, because the way I see it, it’s a busi-ness proposal,” Mazzola said after the debate. “So I don’t really see why this is even an issue.”

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Former UT pitcher discusses spring training with Chicago Cubs / B1

Student zombies swarm UT campus / B5

New SG constitution passes with no discussion / A8

Editorial: Knee-jerk decisions cast UT in a bad light / A4

CorreCtIons

University replies to Faculty Senate complaint By Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

The University of Toledo is defending mandatory chang-es to the Faculty Senate’s con-stitution that have raised fac-ulty members’ ire.

Faculty members will be voting to include a suprema-cy clause in the Faculty Senate Constitu-tion, giving the University Council power to overrule Senate decisions.

At the April 9 Faculty Senate meeting, senators voted to allow this decision to be made by the entire faculty body and to include an official statement with the ballot stating, “A co-erced vote under threat of suspension is not deemed appropriate or fair.”

Main Campus Provost Scott Scarborough said the Board of Trustees passed the resolution in Januarty to im-prove the functionality and coherence of different orga-nizations at the university.

“Essentially what they said, I believe, is we’re going to put in a University Council, and we want it to sit on top of all the other governance institu-tions because we believe this will lead to a better environ-ment of shared governance,” he said. “And if anything be-low it conflicts with Univer-sity Council, we want Uni-versity Council to prevail.”

University Council is an advisory group comprised of faculty, students, staff, alum-ni and administrators who

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SG pushes UT to reverse decision on abortion clinics

Changes to student wellness programs raise doubts By Kevin BucherStaff Reporter

A restructuring of two student wellness programs at the University of Toledo have some concerned over the kind of service students will be receiving.

Angela Spoerl, coordinator of the new Sexual Assault Program, and Will Pecsok, coordinator of the new Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Program, are replacing Diane Docis and Alexis Blavos, former directors of their respective programs. The positions were cut to part-time af-

ter a restructuring of Student Af-fairs as well as budget cuts.

Director of the University Coun-seling Center Stanley Edwards said the university is working to find the best alternatives for students while dealing with a projected deficit in the several millions.

“Certainly any time any pro-grams are cut, it’s not the most op-timal situation. We’d rather have all our programs staffed full-time, but given the budget cuts, we under-stand that there’s some things that we have to do differently,” he said.

Tavis Glassman, an asssociate professor of health educattion, said he felt the counseling center will not be able to handle the tasks that Blavos and Docis formerly managed.

“The counseling center is already overwhelmed, so asking them to do a whole ‘nother job is really not go-ing to get it done,” he said.

Amy Thompson, an associate professor of rehabilitation services, said Docis’ position was being

ABORTiON dEBATE

pROGRAM RESTRUCTURiNG

FACULTy SENATE

In last week’s issue:The story “Faculty in

power struggle with trustees,” should have stated that Faculty Senate asked the en-tire faculty to decide if senate should add a supremacy clause to the constitution.

The story “UT deci-sion could force abor-tion clinics to close,” should have stated that President Lloyd Jacobs letter to local abortion clinics was dated April 4.

In a photo caption on page B2, we incorrectly spelled Egor Antipov’s name.

We regret these errors.

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LINdSAy SRAJ / ICStudent Government senator Nick McCullough argues at Tuesday’s Student Gov-ernment meeting against passing a resolution that asked UT to reconsider entering into transfer agreements with two area abortion clinics. The resolution passed with 12 for, 3 against and 2 abstentions.

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Follow the story onto page A7 to see online reactions the IC gathered about Ut’s decision to can-cel deals with local abortion clinics.

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SCARBOROUGH

“I don’t think the counsel-ors are going to be able to dedicate enough of their time to really be able to prevent things from hap-pening, which is going to increase their workload on the other end.”

ALExiS BLAvOSFormer director of UT’s substance

abuse prevention office

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Purpose: Public Relations Student Society of America is a professional organization on the University of Toledo’s campus that enhances the knowledge of public relations and provides access to professional development opportunities.

Leaders: Samantha Watson, President; Vice President of Public Relations, Mackenzie Lauka

History: The PRSA Board of Directors created the first PRSSA Chapters on April 4, 1968, at nine qualified schools. PRSSA had 196 members.

Upcoming events: PRSSA organizes the UT Student Organization Gala every Spring semester and works close-ly with the Marketing and Communications Office on campus.

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Do you plan to stay

in Toledo after you graduate?

“If I get an opportunity to stay here, I would because I have a lot of friends here.”

Abbas AldakheelFreshman

Mechanical Engineering

“No, I want to move close to home near Cleveland for work.”

Jennifer CrossSenior

Nursing

“No, I want to move to D.C. because I fell in love with that area after my internship there.”

Terah SpeignerSenior

Communications

“No, I probably will move home to New Jersey where there are more opportuni-ties in the bigger cities.”Guyton Matthews

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This week in UT history

25 years ago: Students for Dukakis, a support group for the Massachusetts gov-ernor running for the Demo-cratic nomination for presi-dent, will hold an open meeting at 3 p.m. April 18.

50 years ago: The UT Board of Directors voted to

increase the non-resident tuition from $20 to $26 per credit hour.

60 years ago: Selec-tive Service examinations for northwest Ohio college students will be given here April 23. The Princeton Testing Service has certified 83 men as eligible for ex-amination, on which draft deferment is based.

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next week’s Question: What are you doing this summer?

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dana ‘no Cancer’ CenterUT’s eleanor n. dana Cancer Center unveiled an up-dated sign Monday, April 15, at the front of the build-ing. The unveiling was followed by the first round of enrollment in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3.

By Angela PelusoStaff Reporter

University of Toledo stu-dents will be dancing the day away at this year’s RockeTH-ON in the Recreation Center to raise money for Mercy Children’s Hospital.

The event started in 2001 as “UT Dance Marathon.” This year, RockeTHON will be held Saturday, April 20, and the theme is “America in 13 hours.”

One of the largest philan-thropic events on campus, this dance-filled gathering is a fundraiser that raises mon-ey to ease the burden of medical bills for families with hospitalized children in need of hippotherapy treatments, which involve interaction with horses. It also raises money for other programs such as the Mercy Autism Center, the Neo-natal Inten-sive Care Unit and the Pediatric In-tensive Care Unit.

This year’s sign up has a record-breaking 722 peo-ple, which is ex-actly 100 more than last year’s turnout.

“It was a new record set last year; we want to surpass that and break the record again,” said RockeTHON’s overall director Price Mur-phy. “So as long as we find ourselves improving upon that, we should be able to hold our heads high and be proud of this already thrilling year.”

Since the fundraiser first began, it has earned over $420,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network. Last year, event participants raised $68,111 for kids and their

families, Murphy said. “It’s very rewarding,” said

Sarah Al-Alami, a freshman pre-accounting major. “I def-initely like to help in com-munity and it seems like a fun way to do so.”

Al-Alami is in charge of the 12-member Parks Tower team. Their goal is to reach $2,000.

Most of the students who live in Parks have commit-ments participating in RockeTHON with their fra-ternities and sororities, she said.

“We’re not there yet, but anything is better than noth-ing,” Al-Alami said, “It is just comforting to know that what you are doing is bene-fiting someone else in such a positive way.”

Another portion of the funds will go towards a play room for children who have

extensive stays in the hospital, Murphy said.

RockeTHON will host live entertainment by local bands Halero, and Clark and Danko. There will also be an obstacle course where student organization members can earn “spirit points.” Groups

who win the most points will be awarded special prizes, Murphy said.

And of course, there’s dancing. A dance lesson will be held every hour, teaching the 700 plus people moves to one big dance. The plan is to teach the entire program dance to all attendees by the end of the 13 hours.

Murphy applied for other positions in the organization

including the public relations and finance director but de-cided to apply for overall di-rector because he wanted to make a bigger impact on his community.

“I wanted to take an even bigger role in this organi-zation that I have fallen so deeply in love with,” Mur-phy said. “I applied for the position of overall director for the ‘12-13 school year and was fortunate enough to have been selected by the previous overall director.”

Murphy also volunteers with Mercy outside of RockeTHON as a side rider for the hippotherapy barn.

Senior Rhylie Thompson, a health care administration major, said she wanted to join RockeTHON because it’s her last year at UT.

“It’s a great thing because you’re raising money by just dancing for hours, and by helping you can help the children’s hospital,” Thomp-son said.

Registration will remain open until the morning of the event for students who still want to get involved. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Donations will be accepted until May 4 at midnight.

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RockeTHON 2013 recruits record number of dancers

ABOVE: Participants dance at UT’s 2011 Dance Marathon, now known as RockeTHON. A dance les-son will be held every hour, teaching the 700 plus people moves to one big dance. The plan is to teach the entire program dance to all attendees by the end of the 13 hours. The event raises money for programs such as Chil-dren’s Miracle Network, the Mercy Autism Center, the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit and the Pediat-ric Intensive Care Unit.

LEFT: Also available at this year’s RockeTHON are games and other activities like what these 2011 Dance Marathon partici-pants are enjoying. Other diversions available at this year’s event include an ob-stacle course where stu-dent organization mem-bers can earn “spirit points,” and live entertain-ment provided by Halero, and Clark and Danko, both local bands.

IC fIle phoToS

“It is just com-forting to know that what you are doing is benefiting someone else in such a posi-tive way.”

SARAH AL-ALAMIfreshman,

pre-accounting

If you goWhat: RockeThoN, one

of UT’s largest philanthrop-ic events on campus.

Theme: America in 13 hours.

Where: UT’s Recreation Center.

When: April 20 from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. Registra-tion is open until the morn-ing of the event.

Last year’s numbers: 622 participants raised $68,111 for Children’s Miracle Network.

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University folds under pressure

editorial

UT’s decision to enter into a transfer agreement with an ar-ea abortion clinic, then back out eight months later when crit-icized by an anti-abortion group, should be disturbing to ev-eryone — no matter how you feel about abortion.

Why?Because UT’s leaders need to make decisions they are will-

ing to stand by, and then stand by them — one of which they clearly didn’t do.

There are only two possibilities. Either the agreement was questionable, and UT failed to do its homework; or the agree-ment was legitimate, and UT administrators caved to pressure instead of sticking to their guns.

The pact was made last August between UTMC and Capital Care Network of Toledo. The clinic isn’t a full-service medical facility. This means it cannot legally operate without an agree-ment with a hospital that will accept its patients in the event of complications.

Capital Care Network of Toledo was inspected in March 2012 by the state and told it must have a transfer agreement. UTMC signed an agree-ment with the clinic, al-lowing it to stay open. Then, the Ohio Right to Life group argued in March that a publicly funded hospital having a transfer agreement with a clinic violates the spirit of state law, which bars taxpayer funds from pay-ing for abortions.

Within two weeks of receiving criticism, UT re-versed its stance. The university said the agreement would not be renewed at the end of its first year, and also ended talks with another clinic, Center for Choice.

Something went wrong somewhere. If the agreement was inappropriate, it means UT acted without thinking things through. If, however, UT believed the agreement was the right thing to do, it means administrators folded under pressure.

The quick turnaround of UT’s decision demonstrates that the university isn’t acting based on what it believes to be right, but based on who protests the loudest.

UT’s leaders have a responsibility to act thoughtfully, espe-cially on issues like these that affect the university’s reputa-tion. Like administrators often say, our university is a player on the global stage. Such a sensitive topic requires a sensitive touch, and knee-jerk decision-making sends a poor message to not only the university community, but also the world.

Decision to cancel abortion center agreement points to bigger troubles

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commentary

Danielle GambleEditor-in-Chief

Ben JendrzejakOpinion Editor

Lindsay MahaneyNews Editor

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

of their authors, not those of The Independent Collegian.

I remember it like it was yesterday. The room was dimly lit and I was

sitting at my kitchen table, contem-plating one of the biggest decisions of my life. I was about to join the United States Navy. I had nothing else better to do anyway, I told my-self. I had thought about it all sum-mer. I had no job, no money and no-body to stay here for. I couldn’t fig-ure out what I wanted to do, but I could feel within myself what I had to do.

Earlier in the semes-ter of fall 2011, I de-cided to visit the Navy recruiting station on a whim inspired by my grandfather. After all, he was the Navy man. Over three decades of service under his belt, I trusted his opinion on the Navy, but I was out to see for myself.

During my visit to the station I found a sort of unexplained culture of the Navy recruiters. As I entered the station, I was leapt upon like fresh meat. I was bombarded with prerequisite questions pertaining to drug use and school history as well as some police history. I was clean in every aspect and not too behind in physical shape.

I left the office leaving them hang-ing on the “I’ll think about it” no-tion, which left them calling me fre-quently to influence my opinion to join. After all, they were on a quota.

I continued the semester keeping it in the back of my mind with school being my focus. Spring se-mester went by with little to no thought about signing my life away. It happened May 27, 2012. I woke up around 2 p.m. that Sunday with nothing to do, no job to attend, and I felt worthless. I had no reason to remain in Toledo and I felt I needed to make a decision.

The idea of the Navy reared its head with no sign of relenting. It quickly consumed my thoughts;

after all, I had nothing to lose. I felt disconnected from my family, with my grandpa being the one I trust all the way down in Florida. My father had other things on his mind, and my mother, living elsewhere, with her own business to attend to. I was alone and ready to make a change.

When I say I trust my grandfather, I mean that impartially. When I

need someone to talk to, he can usually give me the classic grand-father responses. However, when it comes to some of the largest events in my family history, he isn’t the greatest person to talk to. This makes family communica-tion impossible. I had been left with the

burden of counseling in between my parents and I was ready to leave everything behind.

My revelation came swiftly, as if it were hiding in the back of my mind, ready to pounce on the situation as it unfolded. I called the Navy office and the response I re-ceived after announc-ing myself was “There he is.” It almost seemed as if they knew I was going to call. They knew as if they were in my sub-conscious helping me make the leap.

I proceeded to go to MEPS (military en-trance processing sta-tion), where they con-duct medical tests on you all day for 12 hours straight. We were like cattle lined up for slaughter in there. Everyone was silent and they looked intimi-dated. The drill sergeants treated ev-eryone as if they were already in their selected services. I remained as a ghost just floating through the

process. I was ready to commit, and nothing was going to stop me from doing this.

After MEPS, the next six months went by without a sliver of doubt. I was in the DEP (delayed entry pro-gram), where I sang the songs and ran the drills — I was ready for boot camp more than anything else. There was nothing that could have changed my mind, besides my own mind.

Around two weeks before my ship date, I had another revelation. I had to continue my school career. All of the time off gave me a mental break from everything that was happening around me. I felt rejuvenated and ready to get back in the game. But wait — I had just made one of the biggest decisions of my life. Now, I made one of the biggest mistakes. I’d have to put a screeching halt to ev-erything I put myself through for the past five and a half months. Al-though I felt lost and confused, I felt that school was the answer.

Quitting the Navy DEP program wasn’t easy but it felt right. I lined

up my next semester at UT and called off my departure date with some resistance from the recruiters, but I was hell-bent on school. I returned to UT with a whole new set of inter-nal goals, as well as a drive to succeed. It was like a whole new chap-ter opening in my life, and I now see my goals and purpose laid out in front of me, created by the gap from the previ-ous endeavor.

I went from nothing, to Navy, to motivated in school in under six

months, and the ride was nothing short of enlightening.

Benjamin Jendrzejak is a sopho-more majoring in linguistics and is the opinion editor for the IC.

Almost two weeks from boot camp

We need to come together, not apartIt is so easy to get caught up in

defending what we stand for, or fighting against what we do not agree with. Politics and religion are two things that could very easily unite us or divide us. We have been hearing rumors of wars, or of at-tacks, and it is hard to avoid thinking of these in light of re-cent events. The Bos-ton Marathon explo-sions have raised more questions than we have answers for. The Newton shoot-ing rocked the whole country. Kermit Gos-nell practicing illegal abortions, keeping babies’ feet in jars as a sick “trophy,” and where at least two women died of negligence have left many of us wondering, is it war from the outside or war from within our home we need to worry about?

There are no known suspects in the Boston explosions yet, so federal agents are led to believe it was a ter-rorist attack. In most shootings, the killer tends to terminate their own life after their horrid fit of rage. In the case of Gosnell, there has been a com-plete media blackout, when in reality more children died at his hands than at the Newtown shooting. I believe it’s an internal matter that we need to fo-cus on.

All political parties and religious groups will rise to blame and fight each other, which has happened so often in the past in light of

devastating events. I think the call for action is to do the opposite of that. The war has begun at home, with a nation divided, with fingers being pointed every which way in-stead of examining what part we may have played in these events. I’m

not asking you to change political par-ties, or to suddenly change your religious views or lifestyle at all. I’m asking that you take the best teachings of those and put them in action. As human beings, it is in our na-ture to love. Hatred is, unfortunately, also natural, but we all know how fatal that

can be. Instead of putting the blame on others, I think we are all to blame collectively. As one nation, as one group.

The rumors of the war that we should be spread-ing, is the war on hatred towards others unlike our-selves. This is not a time to defend our personal agendas, but to realize how much love we all need from each oth-er. Love can be expressed through kindness. As my pastor said, kindness is the most tangible expression of love there is. This is your time to give. You can donate your time, clothes, blood and money where

needed. You can volunteer with groups raising awareness and bring-ing communities together. We are under attack by our own doing — we are attacking ourselves. This is self-destructive and not beneficial for any group.

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave — are you brave enough to stand up where needed during these times? Demo-crat, Republican, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Homosexual, Heterosexual and every other group, isn’t it time to unite? Can we set aside our differences?

This idea of radical love has al-ways been considered idealistic and not realistic, but I want to challenge that. It starts with one person, then a whole movement is started. I have watched it happen in my own life. When I walk around with arms open instead of a stick of self-righteous preaching, I see how walls are shat-

tered and how easily people can come together.

Let’s not let love solely exist in fairy-tales, or in our minds, but actually in our lives. Let love play its role in unit-ing us. America can

either fall apart, or we can pull it back together making a stronger na-tion. Which side are you on?

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

commentary

Veralucía MendozaIC Columnist

UT’s decision demonstrates that the university isn’t making decisions based on what it believes to be right, but based on who protests the loudest.

America can either fall apart, or we can pull it back together making a stronger nation. Which side are you on?

Benjamin Jendrzejak

IC Columnist

I had no reason to remain in Toledo and I felt I needed to make a deci-sion. The idea of the Navy reared its head with no sign of relenting. It quickly consumed my thoughts; after all, I had nothing to lose.

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commentary

Two days ago, April 15, was the IRS tax-filing dead-line. Across the country, people scrambled to finish and submit their filings. If you didn’t go to a profes-sional to have your taxes prepared, you most likely found yourself in some sort of trouble.

Freedom is one of the greatest things about living in the United States, as very few would con-test, but our freedoms come with a few require-ments. One of these re-quirements is that people must file taxes. These taxes are used to fund govern-ment activities and pro-grams. They pay for public schools, roads, police and firemen, among other things. Without access to taxes, the society would be run entirely by the will of the populace. Since it can be nearly unanimously agreed upon that taxes are actually not a bad thing, the problem with taxes then becomes the act of fil-ing them, not the imposi-tion of them.

As a senior with a major in accounting, I am now finishing a class on indi-vidual taxation. As part of the curriculum, each stu-dent is asked to complete two separate 1040s for fic-titious taxpayers. Most students have some diffi-culty working through this assignment. This is an appalling idea considering

every wage-earner is re-quired to file an annual return. If a group of stu-dents who major in ac-counting can have trouble filling out a 1040, how can the government expect in-dividuals with less educa-tion, specifically less

training in taxes, to file cor-rectly and thorough-ly?

Many companies, like Tur-boTax and H&R Block, have made on-

line filing applications available to the general public. This makes it much easier for the average American to file, allowing them to simply fill out ap-propriate boxes and walk-ing them through the steps of filing. Many of these ser-vices are done at a cost though, often with the option to have the fee taken out of an individu-al’s return from the government. Additionally, the IRS has put numer-ous tools to help an individual through the filing process on their website.

This service is free but not necessarily as clear and simple as some individuals

may like. Finally, bringing your materials in to a tax prep service and have a trained individual take care of the hassle is always an option, just usually not at a very attractive price.

The current tax code has over 70,000 pages (73,608 for those keeping score at home). This is such an in-surmountable number of pages to learn that I would place a very confident bet that there isn’t a single per-son in the country who knows every single page of the code. If I am correct, this would mean that the government expects every citizen to file a return even though there isn’t a single person, including those who have been working in the industry their entire life, who knows the code fully.

Although it may be un-reasonable to expect the people in Washington to figure out what parts of our

tax code to re-vise and what parts aren’t quite out-of-date yet, it may be something necessary for the country to continue mak-ing forward progress. My opinion: just scrap it and start over, in-corporating only what is necessary in

today’s world in a concise, simple way that every indi-vidual can understand.

Christian Davis is a senior in accounting.

Taxes shouldn’t be this hard

Christian DavisIC Columnist

If a group of stu-dents that major in accounting can have trouble filling out a 1040, how can the govern-ment expect indi-viduals with less education to file correctly and thoroughly?

letters to the editor

Writer’s criticism

of abortion decision is

wrongIn response to Avneet

Singh’s April 10 letter head-lined “UT wants to end safe abortions in Ohio”:

First, I dispute the assertion that Dr. Jacob’s decision was unrepresentative of UT stake-holders. I am sure that none of Dr. Jacob’s decisions please everyone, but this decision is “representative” of the views of at least some percentage of UT stakeholders.

Second, despite the im-plied assertion in her last paragraph, Ms. Singh can-not claim the mantle of spokesperson for the female gender. Her views are not shared by all women. To characterize the issue as “women against the world” is specious.

Third, the issue is unques-tionably one of morality. For some reason, Ms. Singh twice implies that her point of contention is not based on morals (decision has nothing to do with morality . . . mo-rality aside). Yet her letter is peppered with morality/sub-jective-value based argu-ments: she’s not “proud” of UT anymore, the decision is “irrational,” and will result in “egregious” consequences. I think Ms. Singh tries to couch the issue as not being about morality in order to convince herself that her po-sition is somehow objective, something that cannot be the subject of disagreement between rational people. Re-spectfully, she is wrong.

Based on her letter, it sounds like Ms. Singh is on her way to becoming a dedi-cated provider of medical care. She will help people overcome disease and enjoy happier lives. For that at a minimum, I am grateful that Ms. Singh’s mother chose not to abort Ms. Singh. Sadly, our world has probably been deprived of many similar people as the result of different choices.

—Ray Meiers, senior ma-joring in EECS

Reinstate agreements,

keep women safe

We are very disappoint-ed by the recent decision made by University of To-ledo President Lloyd Ja-cobs to abruptly cancel medical transfer agree-ments with the Center for Choice and Capital Care Network. The Center for Choice and Capital Care Network provide a vital health service to the wom-en of Northwest Ohio by providing safe pregnancy terminations. The with-drawal of this agreement is concerning as both abor-tion clinics may be forced to close if they are unable to secure agreements elsewhere.

To be sure, abortion, when performed by a skilled-practitioner, is one of the safest medical proce-dures. Less than 0.5% of all abortions require addition-al surgery or hospitaliza-tion. In fact, in the U.S. risk of death associated with childbirth is 14 times high-er than that associated with legal induced abortion. However, as with any medi-cal procedure, serious com-plications arising from sur-gical abortion are possible including blood clots, per-foration of organs, infec-tions, and excessive bleed-ing. If women experienc-ing these complications are not able to obtain emergen-cy treatment, death may be imminent.

The decision of Dr. Ja-cobs to state that the Uni-versity of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) has decid-ed to “no longer pursue the establishment of a contrac-tual relationship” with the Center for Choice and Cap-ital Care Network has seri-ous health implications for the women of Toledo – and from a public health per-spective is poor health practice.

History has shown us that when safe abortion services are not accessible, this does not stop women from having abortions. They just have unsafe

abortions, and at later ges-tations. No, contrary to claims made by Ohio Right to Life, forcing the local abortion clinics to close does not help women or their families they leave behind. It is well docu-mented that in nations where women are unable to obtain abortion servic-es, a substantial fraction of maternal deaths are attrib-uted to unsafe abortion – the majority of which are preventable if women had access to safe abortion services.

Dr. Jacobs’ decision bears further legal scrutiny as UTMC is a Medicare-participating hospital, and Federal law requires via the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) that any Medi-care-participating hospital ensure public access to emergency services, and stabilize patients within their capability.

Thus, UTMC cannot in practice refuse to provide life-saving treatment to a woman who presents to the Emergency Department with post-abortion compli-cations. What Dr. Jacobs has done with his actions of canceling the transfer agree-ments with the Center for Choice and Capital Care Network, is attempt to take away women’s ability to ac-cess safe-abortion services — a legal medical procedure.

Should women of Toledo suffer serious complica-tions from self-induced abortions due to inability to access safe abortion ser-vices as a result of closure of these clinics, UTMC must provide care to them. But regardless of the law, UTMC should provide care to these women because it is the right thing to do.

The University of Toledo Medical Students for Choice are utterly dismayed at our institution’s willingness to place women’s health in jeopardy to pacify the Ohio Right to Life. We request that the transfer agreements are reinstated immediately. Otherwise, it is meaningless we pride ourselves on a “higher degree of healing.”

— Carolyn Payne, presi-dent of UT Medical Students for Choice

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given to someone who al-ready had a full-time job.

“The other piece of this is that the administration can’t handle the sexual assault is-sue,” Thompson said. “They’ve assigned this [posi-tion] to a person who is al-ready a full-time counselor.”

Blavos, who is no longer employed by the university, agreed that the counseling center was not prepared to take on more responsibilities.

“I don’t think the counsel-ors are going to be able to dedicate enough of their time to really be able to prevent things from happening, which is going to increase their workload on the other end,” she said.

Edwards said counselors currently do not have the kind of training required to deal with sexual assault cases, but it something they’re working on.

“Our counselors I wouldn’t say are at the level of the coordinator who was here in terms of specialized training,” Edwards said. “But now we’re collaborat-ing with the YWCA Hope Center; they have special-ized people who are very well trained, and so they’re going to provide training for us as we go through this whole process.”

Maintaining a good rela-tionship with the YWCA Hope Center, a local rape cri-sis center, is something Ed-wards said he wishes to con-tinue because it’s “a huge benefit.”

“It’s my understanding that in the past, the coordinator had a really good relationship with the Hope Center, so she might get that call in the middle of the night and be-cause she knows them well. They can coordinate quickly,” he said.

The partnership with the Hope Center will enable students who are the vic-tims of sexual assault to be connected with what are known as external advo-cates, he said. These exter-nal advocates are trained specialists through the

Hope Center; they are not associated with the univer-sity, but students will be able to connect with them.

Edwards explained that these external advocates would be available to help students if they would like to press charges or if they need to appear in court. The advo-cates will be available to as-sist them.

Another part of the new program will be adding inter-nal advocates. These indi-viduals will not be students; they will be employed through the division of Stu-dent Affairs.

“This summer we are go-ing to train a handful, four to five, internal advo-cates—folks who are more specific to the UT culture,” Edwards said.

They will specialize in be-ing able to assist students better in issues pertinent to UT, such as modifying their class schedule or making new living arrangements.

Additionally educational programs continue to be taught by Student Wellness Awareness Teams (SWAT), Edwards said. SWAT is a peer mentoring group which provides information about issues dealing with sexual assault, alcohol, to-bacco and drugs.

“I believe they’re effective in providing education, not necessarily for treatment; they’re not there for support, but I do think they’re effec-tive to provide education mainly because it’s peer-to-peer,” he said.

Thompson said she does not agree that peer-to-peer education is the way to go because she doesn’t believe it’s affective when it comes to alcohol prevention. Students need prevention methods and policies in place for the programs to be successful, she said.

“I think our administra-tion has to step up and send a clear message that we care about our students and this is the right thing to do, and we’re going do this and right now. I’m really con-cerned about the message that were sending to our students,” she said.

give recommendations to the board.

Faculty Senate President Mike Dowd said the su-premacy clause was already stated by the Board of Trustees when the Universi-ty Council was put in place.

“It’s already university policy,” Dowd said. “The only motivation I can see for the board wanting that supremacy clause in the Faculty Senate constitution is that they can say the fac-ulty voted to include it.”

Scarborough said those who oppose the inclusion of these clauses see the uni-versity being structured with a balance of powers, similar to how America’s government system is set up. However, he said UT is not designed that way, which is what he believes is the root of faculty anger.

“They don’t want to view the university as having a Board of Trustees that is em-powered by state legislation to govern the institution who appoints a president, who then appoints everything else,” he said. “It kind of flows in that linear manner.”

The purpose of creating University Council was to “lead to more balanced dis-cussions,” Scarborough said. With all the different groups of individuals repre-sented at the university at one time, a better discus-sion could take place.

Dowd said the purposes of University Council and Faculty Senate are two dif-ferent things. Faculty Senate is an academic group, not political, and makes aca-demic decisions pertaining to curriculum. University Council does not have that authority, he said.

Scarborough said the lin-ear system of power at the university has always been this way, and is the same in universities across the country. He said the reason faculty members are feeling it so acutely now is due to UT’s budget deficit and the national economy.

“When there was more

money, there weren’t as much difficult issues to re-solve. Therefore it didn’t matter how big, hard deci-sions were made,” he said. “However, in a contracting resource environment where everybody feels threatened that you might contract my program, these issues of how decisions get made, whether it’s linear or tri-part balance of power, become really important at that moment.”

Scarborough said the board is also frustrated that univer-sity organizations are claiming they are being unfair.

“To the board, it’s equal-ly upsetting to have groups say that [board members] don’t have this fiduciary or this delegated authority,” he said. “It is a conversation that is occurring every-where that I’ve been.”

If faculty members decide to vote against including the supremacy clause in Senate’s constitution, Facul-ty Senate would be at risk of suspension.

“This university would be a very, very different uni-versity if Faculty Senate doesn’t exist, and that’s what’s tearing me apart,” Dowd said. “The suprema-cy clause is not needed, but do you want to risk the loss of the Faculty Senate over a duplication issue, that it’s in two different documents? That’s the question every faculty member is going to have to answer.”

Faculty members will re-ceive their ballots later this week and will have two weeks to cast their vote.

Scarborough said he hopes senate and adminis-trators can find a way to work together.

“They have to find a way of turning shared gover-nance into good team work, where everybody is per-ceived to be on the same team,” he said. “My ap-proach is to say ‘I’m glad you guys are working on clauses.’ I’d rather be focus-ing my attention on what do we need to do to prac-tice better team work. I think that’s a more produc-tive use of my time.”

briefsUT to host digital media conference on May 10

The Division of External Affairs will be hosting the “uHeart Digital Media Con-ference” on Friday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Union Ing-man Room.

This event will have Da-vid Hunke, chief strategy officer at Digerati and for-mer president and pub-lisher of USA Today, pre-senting the inaugural key-note address.

The uHeart Startups Pitch & Pour After Party will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. for conference attendees.

Registration prices for the event are $20 for stu-dents and $50 for general admission.

Visit uHeartDigitalMe-dia.com to register, or contact Amelia Acuna at amelia.acuna@utoledo.edu or 419-530-5874. Fol-low the event on Twitter at @uhrtdgtl.

UT to present multicultural leadership awards

The University of Toledo will host the seventh an-nual “Multicultural Student Leadership Awards” cere-mony on Wednesday, April 24, from noon to 2 p.m. at Student Union Room 2582.

These awards are pre-sented by the Office of Multicultural Student Suc-cess (OMSS) through the Division of Student Affairs.

The titles are Emerging Leader Award, Advocate Award, Community Spot-light Award, Defying the Odds Award, Excel Award, and the Distinguished Mul-ticultural Student Leader Award.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society to initiate new members

The University of Toledo chapter of the honor

society of Phi Kappa Phi will hold its initiation cere-mony for new members on Sunday, April 21, at 1 p.m. in the Student Union.

More than 100 under-graduate and graduate students, who are among the top students as juniors or seniors or in their grad-uate program, and three UT faculty members will be inducted into the honor society this year. The chapter is award-

ing three $500 scholar-ships this year to Ryan Beckwith from Kent, Ohio; Kazem Majdzadeh from Toledo, Ohio; and Hanan Saleh from Ross-ford, Ohio. The chapter will also nominate Zacha-ry Henz for the national Phi Kappa Phi graduate fellowship award, which provides $5,000 for fur-ther education, and the winner will be announced next month.

For more information, contact Wade Lee, associ-ate professor of library ad-ministration and chapter president, at 419-530-4490.

Info session on study abroad opportunities set for April 24

A study abroad infor-mation session by Sören Köppen with focus on the USAC (University Studies Abroad Consortium) Lüneburg, Germany pro-gram will be held on Wednesday, April 24, at 3:15 p.m. in the Memorial Field House Room 2420. A reception will follow the presentation in the same location until 5 p.m.

Sören Köppen is the Lüneburg program resi-dent director, a native of Northern Germany and is a seven-year veteran of USAC. The Lüneburg pro-gram offers field studies, internships and volunteer opportunities. Study abroad exchanges can be over the summer ses-sions, for a semester or a year.

To learn more on study abroad opportunities visit utoledo.edu/cisp or call 419-530-5268.

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Here’s a sampling of what Independent Collegian readers said on Facebook and on independentcolle-gian.com about UT’s deci-sion not to renew the trans-fer agreement that allows a local abortion clinic to con-tinue operating.

“If abortions can’t be done legally and safely, they’ll be done illegally and unsafely. This isn’t about UTMC con-doning the practice of abor-tion, it’s about saving lives, specifically the lives of wom-en that make this difficult choice to begin with. And I’m sure this clinic doesn’t deal solely with people who decide to get an abortion; it’s likely also responsible for conception due to rape. The University is limiting the choices of women in such a situation by proxy, for no ap-parent reason other than pressure from Ohio Right to Life.”

— Brad Wallace

“This is just terrible. I would not have expected this from a university whose WGST program taught me that my inner feminist in-stincts were not something to be ashamed of — and that a woman’s right to choose is sacred. I’m ashamed of UT-MC’s decision.”

— Amanda Victoria Patton

“It is a violation of the law to use public funds for abor-tion procedures except for extreme cases such as rape, etc. The clinic in question is

an ambulatory facility and needs a full service medical facility in order to legally perform the procedure. As the emergency is created by a procedure that UTMC is le-gally unable to perform or provide space to perform (except in certain circum-stances), UTMC entering in-to the agreement promises those things to the recipient. The clinic is only able to per-form the procedure because of UTMC’s involvement. UT-MC’s involvement violates the spirit of law forbidding the use of public money. It’s not a difficult argument to make and it’s naive to think that the pro-life lobby would just give up if the University said no.”

— Chris Mosetti

“As an alumni of UT (MBA, 1994) I have strong feelings about the University bowing down to this anti-abortion group. Abortion is not illegal in this state, or any state of the U.S. It makes me very sad to remember wom-en who died from abortions gone bad back in the 1960’s. My only recourse and way I can make a statement is to cease further financial sup-port of the University of Toledo.”

— Nancy Gurney

“I am a student at UT and a woman of reproductive age. I deserve access to abortion, birth control pills, and other medical care re-lated to my sexuality and uterus. Period. These clinics

cannot legally operate with-out the agreement with a hospital to take on patients with complications from abortion (rare as they are). This is just going to lead to women suffering, and even possibly becoming injured or dying if they try and take matters into their own hands. In short? This deci-sion is unconscionable.”

— Cheyenne Connors

“The University of Toledo is first and foremost, a medi-cal facility that functions to serve the needs of its pa-tients. I am in disbelief that Jacobs would make a public statement, and that UTMC would stop referrals that could be life saving, and the right of every woman. I am continually shocked at how anti-woman this institution is becoming and even more so that the community sits back and watches it happen. As usual, the university made a decision to maintain an im-age, rather than acknowledge and fulfill its duty to patients and students.”

— Alcy Barakat

“Less than 1% of abortions are for life saving reasons. Regardless of why UT did it or whether or not it is right, have your baby and I’ll adopt it. I spoke with an infertile couple today and all they want is to have children. It saddens me when life, re-gardless of age, is thrown away. Don’t take it for grant-ed, please!”

— Jordan Maddocks

Senior Kenneth Harbin, a chemistry major, said he thought the whole debate was “sad.”

“You can tell that this is a

Democratic playground in here, because they did vote down concealed carry when students voted for it, and now they’re voting in favor of this,” he said. “It’s quite clear on what side the senate stands on.”

However, despite disagree-ing with the outcome for the vote, Mazzola said he was glad they chose a public vote over a secret ballot.

“I think it’s at least a step in the right direction for sen-ate,” he said.

Abortionfrom page A1

Online community reacts to UT’s recent reversal of abortion clinic agreement

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in brief

Book drive, fundraiser for kids scheduled

The American Lan-guage Institute (A.L.I.) at the University of Toledo will host a book drive and fundraiser.

The event, which in-cludes a hotdog sale and a dance party, will happen on Thursday, April 18, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Centennial Mall outside Snyder Me-morial at the north en-trance of A.L.I.

They will be accepting brand new books and cash donations to go to “Room to Read,” a non-profit organization work-ing to improve literacy among children in devel-oping countries.

For more information, contact the A.L.I. office at Snyder Memorial Room 1400.

UT sets FAFSA workshop

The University of Tole-do will help students and parents to fill out the free application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) on Wednesday, April 17, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Rocket Hall Main Lobby.

Tri Delta to host silent charity auction

The ladies of Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) will be hosting a silent auction, “Bids for Kids,” to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital. The ac-tion will occur on Satur-day, April 27, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Student Union Room 2582/2584.

The ticket prices for the event are $5 for stu-dents and $10 for adults. You can R.S.V.P. for the event by contacting Emi-ly Wallace at emily.wal-lace@rockets.utoledo.edu or going on their event page at www.facebook.com/ 513397238719084.

STUDenT PoliTicS

Student Government OKs new constitutionBy Antanella TironeStaff Reporter

Despite having been an ob-ject of debate in the past, the new Student Government constitution passed Tuesday night with no debate or objections.

The new constitution will bring about structural chang-es to the current SG system such as combining the legis-lative and executive branches, eliminating college caucuses and decreasing the number of senate seats.

Public Relations Chair Clayton Notestine, the brains behind the new SG plans, was pleased with the outcome.

“I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it passed, on-ly because it did seem like there was a great deal of con-tention last week,” he said af-ter the meeting was over.

Notestine said the only change that was made from the original proposal was the maximum number of voting Senate seats increased from 30 to 40. Under the old con-stitution, there were 50 vot-ing seats.

“There wasn’t any proof that reducing the seats would increase the quality of sena-tors, so I was willing to make an exception,” he said in an email interview.

Senator Ben Lynn, a soph-omore majoring in history and political science, said he was also pleased with the outcome of the vote.

“I think it’s a vast improve-ment from our current con-stitution,” he said prior to the voting.

In other news, former dean of students Michele Martinez said the constitu-tion must go to the Uni-versity Council, an

advisory organization which gives recommenda-tions to the Board of Trustees, for approval. It will then be either be ap-proved or denied by Presi-dent Lloyd Jacobs.

Senate Vice Chair Emily Kramp said SG does not un-derstand why the organiza-tion is required to submit its constitution when they don’t make official policies.

“We don’t make policy, we give recommendations — so I don’t understand why we have to include this,” Kramp said.

In response, Martinez said the “proper procedure goes through the Office of Student Involvement, so whatever constitution they have on file will be followed.”

Also discussed in the meeting:

n Student Judicial Council Justice Alejandro Vera said that SJC is still looking for more members and encour-aged SG to “spread the word.”

n The Committee of Aca-demic Affairs announced the hours for Carlson Library during exam week, which are April 27 until May 3. The li-brary will remain open 24 hours every day, and all floors will be available.

new senators elected for the 2013-14 year

New senators were elected to student govern-ment April 4. Senators serve two year terms. All candidates were elected due to the number of seats available in senate.These are the results of this year’s election:

Judith Herb College of education and Health Science Human Service (688 people voted)

Matthew Sutter : 557 votes (80.96%)

None: 131 votes (19.04%)

College of engineer-ing (388 voted)

Moath Elhady: 275 votes (70.88%)

None: 113 votes (29.12%)

College of Literature, Languages and Social Sciences (284 voted)

Nicholas McCullough: 208 votes (73.24%)

None: 76 votes (26.76%)

College of natural Sci-ences and Mathematics (228 voted)

Kevin Samson: 89 votes (39.04%)

None: 58 votes (25.44%)

Mikaela Kucera: 47 votes (20.61%)

Ali ElTatawy: 34 votes (14.91%)

LINDSAY SRAJ / ICclayton notestine, public relations chair and author of the new constitution, smiles after the senate voted unanimously and without debate in favor of changes that will alter the structure of Student Government. The document will combine the executive and legislative branches.

“I think it’s a vast improvement from our current constitution.”

Ben lynnSG Senator

n SG Vice President Chris Dykyj told senators he is or-ganizing a second Study Bash, which would include a 12-hour study session and party mix similar to the gath-ering SG threw last semester. Participants would study for 50 minutes and have 10 min-ute breaks at the end of each hour, during which students could dance to music, eat snacks and win door prizes.

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In BrIeFCullop flirts with Ohio State, doesn’t get job

After a 24-hour period filled with rumors and speculation about the Ohio State coaching vacancy, Tricia Cullop will return to coach the Rockets’ wom-en’s basketball team next season.

The Columbus Dispatch first reported Monday, April 15, that Cullop was or al-ready had interviewed with the Buckeyes. It was re-ported by multiple outlets Tuesday that she was not offered the job.

Just a few minutes after those reports, Cullop tweeted “To end all specu-lation…I am a Rocket!”

Cullop signed a contract extension last week through the 2021-22 sea-son, but it does not have a buyout clause, giving her most of the leverage in contract negotiations.

She will earn $250,000 next year.

Tennis team falls to Northern Illinois 6-1

The UT men’s tennis team suffered a 6-1 drub-bing to Northern Illinois Sunday, April 14, in their fi-nal home contest of the season.

The Rockets (18-9, 0-3 MAC) won two of three doubles matches to secure their only point of the match.

The team of sopho-mores Tomas Stillman and Nicky Wong beat Don Amir and Axel Lagerlof 8-4. Se-nior Francisco Stuardo and sophomore Grant Adams breezed past Max Phillips and Simon Formont 8-1.

NIU swept all six singles matches to nail down the 6-1 win.

“This was the second week in a row where I felt like our guys just aren’t quite experienced enough versus their opponents to realize it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon to compete in these matches,” said UT head coach Al Wermer.

Toledo will close out the regular season next week-end when they travel to Western Michigan in search of their first league win of the season.

Women’s golf finishes in fourth place at IU Invitational

Toledo left Bloomington, Ind. Sunday with a fourth-place finish at the Indiana Invitational with a 54-over par 918 (308-308-302) at the IU Golf Course.

UT saved their best for the last day of the three-day event, firing a 14-over 302. Freshman Manisa Isavas, who carded a two-over 74 and finished tied for 16th at 13-over. She was one of three Rockets who finished in the top 20.

Junior Kate Hoops (227, T12) and freshman Sathika Ruenreong (228, T14) fin-ished just ahead of her.

Indiana won the tourna-ment with a final score of 26-over par. Kansas (+29) and Eastern Michigan (+53) rounded out the top three while Ball State (+60) finished fifth.

UT will compete in the Angola Shootout Saturday, April 20, their final event before the MAC Championship.

baSeball

Path from the draft Former Ut pitcher Mike Hamann reflects on his time with the Chicago Cubs in spring training

make sure Hamann’s foot was completely healed, rather than ship him to a minor league team right away.

“It’s not like I was put on the backburner,” Hamann said. “they knew that they have time with me so they wanted to keep me back and build up my innings before they send me out to wherever it may be.”

there’s no question that Mike Hamann has the poten-tial to make it in professional baseball.

He finished his career at Ut with a 4.12 ErA and started 37 games for the rockets. His career record was 11-11 and he surren-dered 116 runs (98 earned) on 218 hits with 162 total strike outs.

Hamann says his experience at toledo has helped prepare him for his current career.

“Coming out of high school, I had the opportunity to sign and I chose to come to toledo,” he said. “that was probably the best decision that I could have made. It prepared me to handle things on my own, both in life and on the baseball field. Just get-ting ready for the daily grind of getting up and always be-ing competitive was impor-tant. prepping myself colle-giately was a big help for me.”

Hamann was originally drafted in 2009 by the Cleve-land Indians but opted to at-tend Ut instead. Due to MLB rules, Hamann was not eligible to enter the draft for another three years and spent all three seasons with the rockets.

While making the decision to go to college was the right one for Hamann, it can be a different case for other high school graduates.

by Nick DelwicheSports Reporter

Former University of tole-do baseball player Mike Ha-mann is getting the chance of a lifetime after being drafted and signed by the Chicago Cubs in the 16th round of the 2012 MLB am-ateur draft.

Hamann — a former pitcher in the rockets’ week-end rotation — took part in spring training this season and got a chance to show his stuff in front of big league scouts and players. For the native of port Clinton, ohio, it’s a dream come true.

“It was great,” Hamann said. “It was everything I was expecting it to be when I was growing up as a kid. It was so exciting day in and day out with everything being thrown my way and meeting a lot of the players.”

Hamann shared the locker room with big names such as Jeff samardzija, David Deje-sus, Alfonso soriano and An-thony rizzo. Although some players tended to keep to themselves, a few were still able to offer some advice to the young player beginning his professional career.

“they just told me to stick to my game, don’t worry about any of the outside fac-tors,” Hamann said. “Don’t worry about what other peo-ple are saying, even your teammates. they can be cru-el sometimes. You have to stick with what you do best and it will take care of itself in the end.”

surrounded by big league talent and coaches, reality kicked in when Hamann saw his name on the back of a Cubs jersey.

“the first day I walked in-to the locker room and saw

my name on the back of the jersey it was a gratifying feel-ing,” Hamann said. “Not to say I’ve reached where I want be — I always want more — but it was gratifying to see my name on the back of a

Major League Baseball teams’ uniform.”

Hamann was left with just a taste of the show as he is currently in extended spring training after injuring his foot at the end of last season.

Extended spring training is a program of workouts for mi-nor league players who aren’t quite ready for the full length season due to either injury or inexperience. the organiza-tion opted to See Hamann / b3

PHOTO COURTESy OF UT ATHLETICSMike Hamann pitches against bowling Green last season before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs. He pitched in rookie ball for the boise Hawks after being selected in the draft. Hamann participated in spring training with the big league club and got to appear in one game. He is currently awaiting his next assignment.

Rockets swept in weekend series by Falconsby blake bachoSports Reporter

the University of toledo baseball team spent their weekend at scott park where the Bowling Green Falcons handed them three consecu-tive defeats. the series ended on sunday, April 14, with a 6-3 loss.

the rockets dropped the series opener Friday with a 5-0 loss to their archrivals. Bowling Green pitcher Cody Apthorpe led his team to vic-tory with a four-strikeout performance over 8.0 in-nings. Apthorpe allowed only six hits during his time on the mound.

toledo senior LHp Kyle shaw answered Apthorpe’s performance with an im-pressive pitching display of

his own, yielding five hits and getting a strikeout dur-ing his 7.0 innings on the hill. Unfortunately for the rockets, the fifth-year se-nior was not able to com-plete Ut’s comeback, walk-ing a Falcon and putting toledo’s opponent in scor-ing position.

shaw gave up the first of the Falcon’s five runs and his relief, sophomore righty Ad-am tyson, gave Bowling Green the other four during the ninth inning.

“Kyle pitched really well to-day,” said Ut head coach Cory Mee. “He was outstand-ing all day and made a mis-take in that inning — walked a number nine guy and put them in scoring position — where they got a clutch hit

when they needed it. other than that, he pitched really well and gave us opportunities to win when we needed it.”

Ut stayed close until the very end of Friday’s game, making the loss that much harder to swallow.

“We had a number of chances to score and we just couldn’t get the hit when we needed to today,” coach Mee said. “their pitcher made some big pitches when they needed it and hopefully we can turn it around here saturday and sunday.”

Unfortunately, for the rockets, that turnaround never came and things got even worse.

BOB TAyLOR / ICFirst baseman Matt Delewski records an out on defense for the Rockets Sunday, april 14, at Scott Park.See Swept / b3

Mike Hamann throws from the mound as a member of the boise Hawks (Class-a Cubs affiliate) during his time in rookie ball last summer. He posted an eRa of 5.91 over 10.2 innings. Hamman also struck out six hitters and walked only two.

PHOTO COURTESy OF MIKE HAMANN

By Jay SkebbaSports Editor

The University of Toledo football team has some depth and experience issues at quarterback behind their starter, but that won’t matter as long as senior Terrance Owens can stay on the field.

Owens completed 19-of-29 passes for 223 yards on Fri-day, April 12, to lead the Gold team over the Blue 21-10 in UT’s annual spring game.

It was revealed earlier this spring that he was playing with a pair of injured ankles for the majority of last season.

“I’m really proud of what T.O. looks like,” said head coach Matt Campbell. “[He made] very few, if any mis-takes. He led two drives, was very smart with the football. I saw him make some big throws. He looks like he’s in midseason form.”

He added about 10 pounds to his frame this spring and said he would like to keep add-ing before the season starts.

Owens benefitted from good fortune as fellow se-niors David Fluellen and Bernard Reedy — two of UT’s best offensive weapons — were assigned as the other two co-captains for the Gold squad, who then picked the rest of the team together.

Toledo’s defensive senior captains (seniors Elijah Jones, Jayrone Elliot and Ross Mad-ison) chose players for the Blue side.

“T.O.’s smart, he kind of stacked the deck in his favor; he’s not stupid,” Campbell said with a wry smile. “I’m not quite sure where the draft thoughts were on some of these guys, but we put the se-nior leaders on both sides of the ball.”

Russell hauled in eight catches for 135 yards. He

caught 56 balls as a redshirt freshman in 2012 for 960 yards and five touchdowns.

Entering his second season as an emerging weapon, Ow-ens expects big things from him.

“Alonzo did a pretty good job for us this spring and took it to the next step,” he said. “All our receivers did a good job; they had an excel-lent spring.”

Reedy was a first team All-MAC performer a year ago after catching 89 passes for 1,120 yards and six scored. He had three catches for 22 yards Friday night.

A potential x-factor for the Rockets is junior Dwight Ma-con, one of the most athletic and versatile players on the team. He’s gone back and forth from quarterback to wide receiver and is expected to be listed at both positions on the depth chart.

He reeled in four passes

from freshman Logan Wood-side for 65 yards and could be yet another weapon in an al-ready electric receiving corps.

“Dwight Macon has done a great job this spring,” Owens said. “I feel like we can do some big things this year. Our receiving corps can be pretty dangerous.”

Woodside — who graduat-ed high school early and en-rolled at UT this spring — is battling for the backup spot behind Owens. He has shown flashes of talent this spring, but needs to be more consistent for the Rockets to feel comfortable with him as the backup.

Still, Campbell has sung his praises throughout spring ball.

“I can’t say enough about him,” he said. “He started off like I’d expect a freshman getting ready for prom right now to look like. He’s had re-ally good days, he’s had days where he’s taken [a step] back. He’s athletic, he’s mo-bile, but he’s also got an arm that can do a lot of things.”

Woodside completed 9-of-24 for 88 yards and showed off that running ability with a 16-yard touchdown run in the second quarter after avoiding pressure in the backfield.

The Gold team jumped out

to a 14-0 lead after the first quarter.

Fluellen put them on the board with a 12-yard touch-down run right up the mid-dle and untouched with 6:39 to play in the opening quarter.

Russell hauled in a 64-yarder on the previous play to set up the score.

Like Owens, Fluellen is al-so coming off nagging ankle injuries that hampered him in the later stages of 2012, es-pecially against Northern

Illinois. He re-aggravated that injury in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, but looked like his usual self Fri-day night.

“We limited his reps to-night as you can tell, but he’s really had a good spring,” Campbell said. “I think he started off a little rusty, but by the second scrimmage he looked like he was really ready to win and be success-ful. I’m proud of David, he’s a guy that’s really tutored those young guys around him and has given them a chance to be successful.”

One of those younger backs who benefitted from Flu’s limited reps was junior Ricky Pringle. He ran for 54 yards on 11 carries and found the end zone twice for the Gold.

The Blue team threatened to score late to make things interesting, but Woodside was intercepted on a tremen-dous leaping play by sopho-more linebacker Chase Mur-dock to seal the deal.

“I saw a guy right behind me and right when I looked back, I saw the ball was in the air and just made a play on it,” Murdock said.

UT will open the 2013 sea-son when they travel to Gainesville, Fla., to take on the Gators Saturday, August 31.

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Owens, Russell shine as Gold beats Blue in annual Toledo spring game

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Spring-loaded

left: Senior quarterback terrance owens led the Gold team to victory, com-pleting 19-of-29 passes for 223 yards. Head coach Matt Campbell said he was in “mid-season form” after recovering from ankle inju-ries this offseason.

aBove: former head coach frank lauterbur throws the opening coin toss at midfield for Ut’s spring game friday, april 12. He was honored prior to kickoff for his acco-lades during his time at toledo, which lasted from 1963-70. His ‘69 and ‘70 teams went undefeated.

RiGHt: Senior running back David fluellen looks for a seam in the defense. “flu” is also recovering from ankle problems and saw limited action in the game. However, he did find the end zone for a first-quarter touchdown from 12 yards out. fluellen ran for 1,498 yards in 2012 and added 13 touchdowns. He will be key cog in the toledo offense in 2013 and is one of many key return-ing offensive starters.

aBove: lena Herrett, a senior psychology major, auditions for drum major with three other candidates friday as part of the Rocket Marching Band’s spring game tradition. Herrett was named the RMB’s 2014 head drum major and Jake Cassidy, a sophmore electrical engineering major, was named assitant drum major. Drum majors serve as student conductors and leaders of the marching band.

left: the offensive line gets ready to block for the Gold squad. toledo lost only one offensive lineman from last year’s team (a.J. lindeman) and will return a highly-skilled unit led by senior center Zac Kerin. He sat out all of spring practice recovering from surgery, but is expected to be 100 percent for the start of the regular season. Kerin was a preseason nominee in 2012 for the nation’s best center.

“Alonzo did a great job for us this spring and took it to the next step. All our receivers did a good job, they had an excel-lent spring.”

“I feel like we can do some big things this year. Our re-ceiving corps can be pretty dangerous.”

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“It would have to deal with the upbringing that they had,” Hamann said. “I wasn’t comfortable signing out of high school because I came from a small town close to family. For someone in my situa-tion where they could sign, it would be up to

them if they think they are prepared to move hun-dreds of miles away from mom and dad, family, friends, your girlfriend and being able to handle it.

“Every day is a grind and it can be very stressful.”

For anyone who does de-cide to take on the challenge that comes with being a pro-fessional baseball player,

Hamann’s advice is simple: work on the little things.

“It might sound repetitive and annoying, but it’s the truth,” Hamann said. “The coaching staff our here actu-ally put it a good way. They said you work out every day and you want to try to get one percent better every day, because at the end of the year, you’re looking at a 365% increase from where

you started.”The Kane County Cou-

gars, the low-A farm team for the Cubs, could be the next stop for Hamann, al-though it’s not uncommon for players to jump past low-A teams depending on their talent level.

Time will tell where Mike Hamann will land, but one thing is for certain; his ca-reer is just getting started.

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Toledo lost again Saturday 14-1 –their biggest defeat of the weekend. Bowling Green posted season-high runs and hits against five UT pitchers who tallied just three strike-outs total.

Two of those strikeouts came from junior starter Cam-eron Palmer, who gave up eight runs in his 4.2 innings.

“I thought our starting pitching was good all week-end,” Mee said. “Palmer bat-tled through five innings on Saturday and we really didn’t give him much help there.”

Sophomore Anthony Smith was the most help Palmer received from his teammates, with a game-ty-ing best three hits.

None of Smith’s hits ended with runs, however, as fresh-man Tyler Baar was the only Rocket to get on the board with an RBI Saturday.

The Falcons gained the lead early yet again, but didn’t open it up until late in the fifth when three Toledo errors turned into six Bowl-ing Green runs.

UT would end their chilly weekend at Scott Park with a 6-3 loss. Sunday’s defeat pro-duced the most runs for To-ledo in any of their three games, a staggering fact con-sidering that the Rockets en-tered the weekend series leading the Mid-American Conference in overall team batting average (.290).

“Bowling Green pitched very well and we just have to have more quality at-bats,” Mee said. “We had some good at-bats but we need to have more. I think that is something we are capable of doing and really we just need to execute when we get op-portunities to score. Some-thing we talk about all the time are our keys to success as a team: to pitch well play good defense and hit well in the clutch.

“This past weekend unfor-tunately we had some oppor-tunities and just couldn’t get the big hit when we needed it.”

Toledo did not enjoy a lead all weekend until — after ty-ing the score at 2 in the fifth inning — an RBI-single off the bat of senior Matt Delewski ended the drought.

The Falcons took the lead back in the eighth thanks to centerfielder Jake Thomas getting plunked with the bas-es loaded. This would start the Falcons’ final push for the victory to close out the series.

These losses now put the Rockets in bounce-back mode heading into their next MAC matchup against Cen-tral Michigan this weekend.

“Obviously we are disap-pointed in the outcome of the weekend,” Mee said. “We didn’t get the results we wanted, but the thing we have to understand is that it is one weekend. We have got five really important

weekends in front of us in the conference so we have got to really put that behind us and really focus on getting better and preparing our-selves to go out this next weekend against Central Michigan.”

Coach Mee took a similarly optimistic approach when it came to his team’s hitting woes.

“Hitting is kinda funny,” he said. “Sometimes it happens and other times it doesn’t. Hopefully we got it out of our system and move for-ward and just have more quality at-bats in the games ahead.”

Mee said for him and his team, losing to their archrivals is no bigger a setback than any other loss would be.

“A loss is a loss,” he said. “We are trying to compete and get qualified for our

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conference tournament and compete for a confer-ence championship. In that regard, a loss is a loss and obviously you want to play well in those kind of games and unfortunately it didn’t happen.”

The Rockets will have a chance to move beyond a tough weekend set when they face Michigan State Tuesday in East Lansing at 3:05 p.m.

BoB TAylor / ICJunior starting pitcher Ryan Wilkinson threw seven strong innings Sunday, giving up just three earned runs. However, it wasn’t enough as Toledo lost 6-3.

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puzzlesTHEME: EARTH DAY

ACROSS1. It’s a wrap6. *A call to being green,

acr.9. Fog effect13. Solo14. Mother, sister or

daughter15. “_____ truly”16. Teacher’s pet, e.g.17. Radio knob18. Consume19. Bungle21. *Biology branch23. Long time24. Niels Bohr’s study

object25. Cleopatra’s killer?28. Christening

acquisition30. On which Romney

and Obama were found

35. It must go on?37. *Like animal near

extinction39. Marilyn Munster to

Herman Munster, e.g.40. Delhi dress41. Sends by posts43. Imitator44. Are not46. Mosquito net fabric47. End of the line48. Noontime50. Give certain

impression52. DNA transmitter53. Boll weevil, e.g.55. Car display57. *Garden helper61. Iron Man’s robotic

nemesis64. French farewell65. Galley tool67. Vociferously praises69. Choral composition

with sacred lyrics70. Fix a game71. He lives on Sesame

Street72. *You do it to your

garden’s soil before planting

73. “... ___ he drove out of sight”

74. Homes are often tested for this

DOWN1. Maple syrup precursor2. Reunion attendee3. Lariat, e.g.4. Used in some liquors5. *Earth Day founder6. Please get back to me7. 17th letter of Greek

alphabet8. Rent again9. Delivered by a mare10. *Its emissions are

regulated11. Pharma product

12. Grammy of sports15. Tower of London

guard20. Render harmless22. *Corn holder, often

left behind to protect soil quality

24. Most aerial25. Indian state26. Harry Belafonte’s

daughter27. Focused or riveted29. “Yes, ___”31. One who fabricates32. _____ colony, middle

ages33. *An earthly body34. *Earth to ancient

Romans36. *Prop pusher38. Do it “or ____!”42. Beach souvenir45. To give up or bow

out49. Up and down nod51. *______ earth54. Mercantile

establishment

56. Kate Middleton’s head gear

57. Barack’s David58. One wafting59. Possible indoor

allergy cause

60. Voyeur’s glance61. Impulse62. “____ your manners”63. Assortment66. *Clean ___ Act68. Congressional title

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music

Faculty concert to spotlight professorsBy Lindsay srajStaff Reporter

Professors from the music department will be stepping out of their roles as teachers for a night and stepping into the spotlight to perform.

Michael Boyd, a piano pro-fessor, will accompany assis-tant professor of voice, De-nise ritter Bernardini, and her husband, Don Bernardini.

this concert will to feature songs from a variety of opera composers.

“the composers would take great poems from liter-ary greats like Jean cocteau and set them to music. they would try to make the music part of the story,” ritter Ber-nardini said. “they are small little pieces of art.”

even though they do this

concert every year, this year’s is a little different because it will be held at the toledo Museum of Art, she said. this location is not a usual venue for these performances.

each year the concert highlights different types of music, ritter Bernardini said. last year’s concert focused on french cabaret music of 1889. then the performers worked their way up to mod-ern cabaret.

While getting ready for this concert, a challenge rit-ter Bernardini faced was hav-ing time for her own music between teaching Ut’s Wom-en’s chorus, opera ensemble and private voice lessons.

However, this concert gives her a chance to perform some songs that are her

favorites from some of music history’s greatest composers.

“A lot of music wouldn’t

exist if it weren’t for those ‘dead guys,’” ritter Bernardi-ni said. “they were the rock

’n’ roll heroes of their era.”Both ritter Bernardini and

Boyd picked the songs they will be performing on Sun-day, which include pieces in french, Spanish, english and italian.

Most advanced music stu-dents are trained in nine lan-guages, and undergrads are just trained in four, ritter Bernardini said.

Music students are trained to be able to read foreign words and then use their training to the best of their ability when it comes to sing-

ing pieces in other languages. Besides showcasing differ-

ent language, ritter Bernar-dini is excited to also be per-forming with her husband.

Don Benardini is an inter-nationally-acclaimed Ameri-can tenor and has been sing-ing for about 25 years.

“i enjoy singing with my husband. it’s easy to perform with each other and it makes the experience better,” she said.

in past years, these con-certs have gotten big turn-outs, filling the halls where faculty performs. ritter Ber-nardini sees no reason why this year won’t be the same.

the faculty concert will open Sunday, April 21 at 3 p.m. in the Great Gallery at the toledo Museum of Art and is free for everyone.

Professors to perform in opera concert at the toledo Museum of Art

Virus outbreak brings walking dead back to campuszomBies

michael Boyd (left) will be playing piano at the concert with Denise Ritter Bernadini, who will be singing opera alongside her husband, Don Bernadini.

By Josh eglerStaff Reporter

even though Walking Dead is over, Ut students will still be living through a zombie apocalypse on campus when oUtbreak begins on Wednes-day, April 17.

Ut oUtbreak is a weeklong event in which students try to survive a role-played, campus-wide zombie apocalypse.

the event involves over 200 students and is spon-sored by Ut Benevolent Ad-venturers’ Strategic Head-quarters (BASH) and Ut Ad-Hoc.

Alex Holewinsiki, the oUtbreak planning commit-tee chairman, said the game’s premise of a zombie out-break is why it has had con-tinuous success.

“the line we’ve been using on the flyers asks, ‘can you survive a week-long campus-wide zombie outbreak?’ i think that’s the real selling point of the game,” Holewinsiki said.

every semester has a differ-ent plot that the players find themselves wrapped up in. Ac-cording to oUtbreak planning committee member Jerry rand, this semester is no different.

“this semester’s oUtbreak sends [the players] back in time to 1956, where zombies may or may not be interrupt-ing a presidential campaign,” he said.

the premise includes two teams, humans and zombies. the humans are represented by a bandanna tied around their arm or leg.

their goal is to survive the

onslaught of zombies, who wear a bandanna tied around their head.

All students start out as hu-mans with the exception of one student who starts as the “original zombie.” the original zombie’s identity is unknown and they are not required to wear a bandanna for the first 24 hours of the game.

the goal of the zombies is to infect and turn all of the hu-mans into zombies. they in-fect students by two-hand tag-ging a human, thus turning them into a zombie.

When this happens, the hu-mans move their bandanna from their arm to their head.

All’s not darkness, though. Humans are permitted to carry around Nerf blasters and balled-up socks in order to “stun” the zombies, which means they’re out of the game for 15 minutes after getting hit. to signal they’re stunned, they must put their bandana around their neck.

throughout the week, hu-mans and zombies will par-take in different missions with different objectives. the missions will change the tra-jectory of the week’s game play by either helping or hurting one of the teams.

the objectives will be changed daily depending on the result of the previous mis-sions. the missions will be re-vealed to the players the morning before the mission. the game begins Wednes-day, April 17 at 5 p.m. and goes until tuesday, April 23 at 10 p.m. May the odds be ever in the humans’ favor.

celebrate the planet with Ut’s 14th annual earthfest event eaRth Day

By Jayme mersingStaff Reporter

Spring is finally here, so why not celebrate everything nature has to offer by attending earthfest?

the University of toledo’s Soci-ety for environmental education (See) is sponsoring the 14th annual earthfest tuesday, April 23 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in centen-nial Mall.

earthfest is about celebrating the earth and recognizing the efforts that lo-cal businesses have been trying to accomplish, said See president lauren Mccafferty.

She said she hopes students real-ize people can impact the world by doing little things because those actions accumulate and make it a better place.

“one of the things that i want it to show students is that going green is something that everyone can do in different ways,” Mccafferty said.

Going green doesn’t necessarily mean cutting all use of oil, coal

and nuclear energy, according to Sasha VonSacken, a junior business major and earthfest coordinator.

“We need to take a balanced ap-proach,” he said. “We shouldn’t dive off the deep end and say we can’t burn oil or coal. We just need

to understand what true costs are of every decision we make and make the best one based on all the information available.”

one way See is trying to teach students about going green is through the Sustainability Pledge, which is a list of 10-20 little things students can do to help the environment. Students check off the goals they will try to accom-plish and put brown and green leaves with their names on them, which they will shape into a tree to be displayed in Bowmen-oddy laboratories.

little things like turning off the water while brushing their teeth can help preserve the earth’s re-sources, Mccafferty said.

local businesses will have booths set up at the event. the to-ledo Zoo, Metro Parks of the tole-do Area, Sage organics and toledo farmers’ Market are looking for students interested in internships and seasonal or full-time jobs. Applications will be accepted at earthfest.

other activities include live music, free food, free bike tune-ups, yoga and a drum circle. earthfest is completely free and open to students and the general public. if students bring 10 plastic bags or bot-tles to earthfest, they are giv-en reusable water bottles.

Mccafferty wants to not only to get students more aware of environmental prob-lems, but to spread awareness of the event in general. She hopes earthfest will become bigger and more popular within the next few years.

“i think it would be cool to have an entire earth Week, like we have Homecoming and Diversity weeks. Have different events throughout

the week and end the week with the big earthfest,” Mccafferty said.

bob TAyloR / IC Participants of last year’s outbreak gear up in preparation of the zombie attacks that are sure to await them during the weeklong outbreak. During this event, players arm themselves with Nerf blasters and socks to “stun” zombies as they accomplish different missions. each year’s outbreak has a different plot and each team must accomplish different tasks. Players mark themselves with bandannas during the week.

What to bring:n your biken your portable drumsn Ten used plastic bags or bottlesn your resume

if you goWhat: Faculty concertWhere: Great Gallery at

the Toledo Museum of ArtWhen: Sunday, April 21

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Arts

BFA Exhibition II highlights different UT students’ art

music

By Josh EglerStaff Reporter

WXUT is partnering with the Office of the Student In-volvement to create the Rocket Radiofest in con-junction with Student Ap-preciation Day.

“This year what we’re do-ing is that we’re collaborating with Student Appreciation Day, which is on April 22,” said WXUT Station Manager Tyler Mattson.

The senior studying pharmacy says he hopes this event will become a new UT tradition like Mu-sic Fest.

“Everybody knows about Music Fest, and everyone knows how Music Fest is community-centered. WXUT wants to do one that is more student-centered,” he said.

Mattson explained this is the first year WXUT has ever done an event like this, after years of discussion.

“Every year WXUT has al-ways wanted to do something

for the past 3 years. They’ve always wanted to do some-thing but it’s never happened. This year we finally just said ‘that’s it, we’re going to do it,’” he said.

The event will be split into two parts, a morning set from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and an evening set from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., according to Mattson.

The first set will include individual student acts and organizations including the winners of Songfest, and the evening set will include stu-dent and local bands.

“We want students to show what they can do,” Mattson said. “This year we want to mainly feature students and community artists.”

To try out for Rocket Ra-diofest, stop by the WXUT office, Student Union room 2515 to become an act.

“We want the word to be out, we want students to know, we want students to say, ‘Hey, I can play guitar; I

want to come play three or four songs,’” he said.

WXUT only asks that you email the station at wxute-vents@gmail.com if you are interested in performing for Rocket Radiofest.

Tryouts for the event will be held on April 8, 9 and 10 in the WXUT office. Mattson says all acts are welcome, in-cluding singing, dancing, DJing, rapping and any other talents the students might have.

Mattson says there will be free food supplied to those at the event.

“We want to get a bunch of free food too, so we’re go-ing to talk to local businesses to get them involved,” he said.

For more information on the event, contact the Office of Student Involvement at 419-530-4944 or via email at studentinvolvement@utoledo.edu. To contact WXUT, call 419-530-4172, or email them at 883wxut@gmail.com.

By Amanda EggertStaff Reporter

Senior fine art students tackled different media with their own spin during the second half of the Bachelor of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition.

The exhibition will run from April 19 to May 12 at the Center for the Visual Arts Main Gallery and fea-ture the talents of Alyssa Brown, Jeremy Pellington, Josh Kline, Jessica Ostrand-er and Noah Roszczipka.

“It’s pretty exciting and I’m definitely thrilled about it,” Brown said. “I have been wanting this for a long time.”

This show exhibits a va-riety of artwork, from por-trait photography, sculp-ture, abstract art, illustra-tions and conceptual installations.

“It’s really a dynamic group of people and sepa-rate ideas,” Roszczipka said. “None of us are making the same type of artwork so you can get every basis covered almost in the show. So there will literally be something there for everyone.”

Roszczipka focuses on abstract paintings and the concept of using physical space to display them. He’s excited to be working with other students.

Brown’s work consists of environmental portraits of

students in their living spaces. Drawing was her first passion, and photogra-phy wasn’t something she mastered until college.

“Once I got comfortable enough with the technique of photography I sort of switched it over and went from film photography to digital photography, which is what the pieces are that will be on display,” she said.

Ostrander’s work focuses on her family relationships through photographs and sculpture. She wants people to see her work and think about their own relationships.

The BFA exhibition isn’t about displaying one’s own art, but celebrating works of other art students who have made the journey through UT as a whole as well.

“I think it makes it all the better because I care about them and I know the meaning behind their piec-es, and for me I find all of them to be very strong art-ists themselves,” Brown said. “It’s really exciting to be able to present with them and it’s encouraging to work together.”

Ostrander said the more people who show up to the event, the better.

“We get our stuff out there, our names out there and then people are going

to recognize our work,” she said.

Students should attend the event for the overall ex-perience, Roszczipka said.

“I think it’s good to have culture in your life,” he said. “I feel like a lot of people don’t understand the benefit of looking at art. I think if you look at it, it can change the way you look at things.”

For him, looking at art has opened him up to see-ing things through alter-nate lenses.

“There is a lot of revela-tion that can happen in the self when you look at it [art] so it’s kind of like you’re discovering different ways to view something on your own,” he said. “It [art] can have a really meaning-ful impact on someone.”

Brown said art is a cre-ative process which allows her to express herself.

“Art to me is the manifes-tation of thought,” she said. “I really find it to be an in-credibly empowering oppor-tunity to express ones feel-ings, and I think every single person in the whole world could benefit from an outlet or a creative process that al-lows them to express themselves.”

An artist reception, which will be free and open to the public, is scheduled for Friday, April 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the CVA.

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rEcycling

By Jessica linerArts & Life Editor

Rubbish and trash were anything but a waste for stu-dents competing in the eight-week long RecycleMa-nia competition.

“RecycleMania is a na-tional competition where colleges and universities compete against each other to see who can recycle the most during the eight-week competition period,” said Brooke Mason, interim sus-tainability specialist. “It started in Ohio, but now there’s over 600 schools that participate across the country.”

In an effort to spread awareness about recycling, Mason, her intern Caroline Beck and workers in Resi-dence Life informed stu-dents about recycling by previewing documentaries and offering trade-in ses-sions where students could exchange recycled goods for other things.

“If you can get students in the habit of recycling throughout the weeks of those competitions, you can hope those habits will stay,” Mason said. “Even though the competition is over, they still remember to take the time to recycle their plastic bottles … because it’s the right thing to do.”

Recycling categories that UT competed in included paper, cardboard, bottles, cans and electronics. UT was the 42nd school in the nation that contributed the

most paper, which placed them first in the Mid-Amer-ican Conference school rankings. UT also recycled 36,512 pounds of electron-ics, averaging about 2 pounds per person.

“Since I’ve gotten here, I’ve been working really hard to ramp up recycling, in terms of education, but as

well as number of bins we have on campus to make it convenient for students,” Mason said.

Overall, UT saved the planet by recycling 175,443 pounds of goods during the eight-week period, with an average

UT gets trashy in recycling contest

LindSAy SRAj / iCJeremy Pellington prepares for the opening of BFA Exhibition ii at center for the Visu-al Arts main gallery.

LindSAy SRAj / iCJessica Ostrander decorates her space for the BFA Exhibition ii. Ostrander, a Bachelor of Fine Arts student in new media, captures her family through photographs and sculp-ture. the BFA Exhibition is the final showcase event for students graduating in the BFA program. Due to the high number graduating this year, there were two BFA exhibitions.

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“If you can get students in the habit of re-cycling throughout the weeks of those competitions, you can hope those habits will stay. Even though the competition is over, they still remember to take the time to recycle their plastic bottles… because it’s the right thing to do.”

BrOOkE mAsOnut interim Sustainability Specialist

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bob TAylor / ICEl Corazón de Mexico Ballet Folklorico performs at the International Festival.

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bob TAylor / IC The Kitka Bulgarian Macedonian Folk Dancers (above, below) celebrate their Bulgarian heritage through traditional song and dance at the festival Saturday, April 13.

International FestivalThe International Festival featured food, music, language lessons and games from a variety of cultures. Eight different ethnic restaurants offered food, and 21 musical groups performed. Lessons were offered in 15 languages throughout the day.

of 6 pounds of paper recy-cled per person.

An internal competition also took place among UT’s resident halls.

Parks Tower, International House, Ottawa House East & West, the Crossings, Carter Hall East & West, McComas Village and the Academic House competed to recycle

the most per resident, with promises of a pizza party and t-shirts to egg them on.

“There were fluctuations in the ranking throughout the competition. We weren’t sure who was going to come out on top in the end,” she said.

Parks Tower won, with an average of 3.5 pounds being recycled per resident at the end.

Mason didn’t accomplish this feat alone. She said she’s

thankful for the help of Beck and Residence Life, particu-larly project manager Erin Baker, for supporting her.

However, she has higher hopes for the university with next year’s competition.

“I hope next year we can blow those numbers out of the water,” she said. “I’m hop-ing that next year, up until the next competition, we’ll be increasing recycling the whole time.”

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