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Jacobs calls for freeze on student feesBy IC Staff

Administrators have priori-tized not introducing new fees as well as not increasing stu-dent fees for the 2012-13 aca-demic year.

Larry Burns, vice president for External Affairs and inter-im VP for Equity and Diversity, said this is an attempt to at-tract students to UT, ultimate-ly increasing enrollment.

UT is looking at increasing its international population by 20 to 30 percent next year.

“If we increase enrollment, that increases our revenue by

tuition,” Burns said.An increase in tuition is still a

possibility for the next academ-ic year.“It’s always been part of the discussion,” he said. “Tu-ition tends to be a lead topic in increases, but we realized that by increasing fees it does in-crease the overall price for families.”

Burns said UT President Lloyd Jacobs is the one pushing for the freeze on student fees.

“The president wanted to come right out and say this year we are not going to in-crease fees,” he said.

Burns said this will help

make UT an affordable, stu-dent-centered institution.

“We have fees, they have in-creased, and they have in-creased over the years,” Burns said. “To try to be true to what

we are trying to do, we said we are going to look at not increas-ing fees at all.”

Burns said making budget cuts will be a last resort.

“We don’t want to keep cut-ting, so we are really looking at increasing our revenue,” he said.

Burns said UT can in essence create more revenue, so al-though they are not generating more money through fees, they can still have a balanced budget through increased stu-dent enrollment.

“As we talk about the budget

and being student-centered, we just felt that one of the ways we could be more afford-able was to hold student fees and not increase them at all next year,” he said.

Burns said there is an “active group of people” working on a proposed budget shortfall for next year.

UT is looking at other possi-bilities for increasing enroll-ment, including expanding in-state tuition and offering schol-arships for transfer students.

“We’re looking at broadening that market,” Burns said.

Tuition tends to be a lead topic in in-

creases, but we realized that by increasing fees it

does increase the over-all price for families.

Larry BurnsVice President,External Affairs ”

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Library hours extended during finals weekBy IC Staff

Student Government is moving forward with an initia-tive which will allow students to utilize the upper floors of the Carlson Library after mid-night during finals week.

Beginning Saturday, the sec-ond through fifth floors of the library will be open until 2

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Deck the MallUT gets festive with a Christmas tree in Centennial Mall.

Students ‘Under Pressure’A look at study methods during final exams

By Stephanie SpencerIC Staff Writer

Shana Shannon, a junior majoring in communication, uses a study technique that may be unorthodox, but she finds it effective while prepar-ing for her final exams.

“I read the material into a tape recorder, and then listen to it while I sleep,” Shannon said.

With finals only days away, students around campus are employing unique studying techniques.

Chelsea Gaudet, a sopho-more majoring in criminal jus-tice, uses different study

methods depending on the subject.

“When I study for certain classes, flash cards and repe-tition work best for me,” she said.

Gaudet said she will also go over the end of chapter ques-tions in her textbook and then review the material covered in the questions.

Steven Berning, a sopho-more majoring in athletic training, has been studying since Monday for his two toughest exams. His studying method involves alternating between each subject every other day to give each one enough attention.

Aspen Seybert, a sopho-more majoring in communica-tion, said she does a lot of late-night cramming for her

I read the material into a tape recorder and

then listen to it while I sleep.

Shana ShannonJunior,Communication ”

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Cameras to be installed in Student Union

Robbery and arson reported over weekendBy Vincent D. ScebbiManaging Editor

A Timely Warning issued by the UT Police Department alerted the university com-munity Monday of two sepa-rate incidents, a robbery and an arson, that allegedly oc-curred on Main Campus this weekend.

According to the email, the alleged robbery took place Saturday night near Parks Tower and the possible arson happened Sunday evening in Carter Hall East causing no damage.

The police report stated the victim was standing in the ar-ea between Parks and Aca-demic House between 8 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. near the “Q,” when three black males re-

portedly approached him ask-ing for a cigarette.

The report stated when the victim reached for his ciga-rettes, he was allegedly punched in the left side of his face, fell to the ground and was told to give his money. The victim stated he then handed over his wallet, from which one of the males took $45 in cash and threw the wallet on the ground.

The report stated all three males began kicking the

victim while he was on the ground, when a witness saw the incident and the three males fled the area, running over the bridge located by

Wolfe Hall.The victim

was not se-verely in-jured, ac-cording to the report. He did state, however, he had a small bruise on his right hip, de-spite claiming to have been

kicked on all sides of his body.UT Chief of Police Jeff New-

I don’t see a pat-tern of events that

would require addi-tional concern. I never

want people to be lackadaisical.

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By IC Staff

Twenty security cameras will be installed throughout the Student Union Building due to thefts in student organi-zation offices.

Student Government passed legislation in November to in-stall closed-circuit TV system cameras, but UT is in the pro-cess of “prioritizing areas where the cameras will be installed.”

“When I wrote the legisla-tion in October, there had been [a theft] in the Black Stu-dent Union office,” said Stu-dent Senator Tion Taylor, a

junior majoring in law and so-cial thought. “Someone stole someone’s laptop and the next day they stole their car so that’s what real-ly sparked this whole security camera legisla-tion in the Stu-dent Union.”

Taylor said the Student Union office posted signs ad-dressing stu-dent leaders to lock the doors of their offices because of the recent thefts.

“This is just to make stu-dents feel safe in areas where most people hang out at. It

might not cut down the thefts, but it will make stu-dents more aware and in-crease the chances of us catching a per-son who is be-ing a thief around cam-pus,” Taylor said.

This is just to make students feel safe in

areas where most peo-ple hang out at.

Tion TaylorStudent Senator ”

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Some students use methods such as listening to recordings in their sleep, cramming aided by lots of caffeine or flash cards to study for their final exams.

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exams but also uses prac-tice exams to study as much as possible.

As for getting enough rest during the last week of the semester, Berning said, “I will not be sleeping as much [this week] in order to do well on these exams.”

Gaudet said she is hoping to get at least six hours of sleep each night but she doubts that will happen.

Emily Mills, a sophomore majoring in special educa-tion, said while she plans on studying more than 40 com-bined hours in the coming week for her exams, she al-so plans on getting plenty of rest.

“You will be more confi-dent if you are prepared,” Mills said. “The best thing to do is study and get enough sleep.”

Sanford Kimmel, director of the Main Campus Student Medical Center, said stu-dents should try to get plen-ty of sleep so the brain can function better. He also said it is best to take short breaks every now and again from studying and engage in some kind of light exercise. Kim-mel acknowledged that many students will not fol-low his advice.

“Go for a walk or play Ping-Pong,” he said.

Some students believe the mood around campus has changed, too.

Seybert said people seem

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Changes made to FERPASecurity camera installa-

tion is currently in the initial stages and the entire process will be done in phases over a period of time, according to Vice President of Student Af-fairs Kaye Patten-Wallace.

“Safety of students is a top priority,” she said. “We are going to do an assessment of the Student Union to see where security cameras will make a difference for safety of our students.”

The cost of the security cameras and installation is still being calculated, ac-cording to Patten-Wallace.

While Patten-Wallace said it is unsure when the

cameras will be installed, Student Government Presi-dent Matt Rubin said he ex-pects the first set of cameras will be installed by Jan. 9.

Patten-Wallace said some students believe the cameras will make them feel safer.

Rubin said having security cameras installed in the Stu-dent Union is important be-cause most things in the Stu-dent Union are paid for through student fees.

“It’s important that we pro-tect those investments by the student body,” he said.

Rubin said this is the first time since he has been in SG that the need for security cameras in the Student Union has come up.

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Correction

In the Dec. 5 edition of the Independent Collegian, we inaccurately reported UT’s Relay For Life raised $32, 000. The story should have reported Relay For Life raised over $43,000 for the American Cancer Society. In the same story, we inaccurately reported the relay last-ed for 18 hours when it actually was 12 hours. The IC regrets these errors.

By John GumersellIC Staff Writer

The United States Depart-ment of Education announced changes to the traditional regu-lations of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Saturday.

Institutions from K-12 to uni-versities across the country will be able to disperse private student records for educational purposes, meaning if student records improve educational standards they may be released to the schools that ask for access.

They may also be released in situations that involve the health and safety of students, such as a school shooting.

The root of the action is stemmed from the Obama Ad-ministration’s efforts to safe-guard student records. The changes will be implemented Jan. 3.

Schools will be closely moni-tored when conducting re-search from personal student data.

“The information being re-leased in student files is very limited,” said UT Privacy Offi-cer Lynnmarie Hutt “It’s an analysis. For example, it’s a means of guidance for depart-ments to see if reasonable methods are working. It’s a good way to see if programs work.”

Hutt said the departments can only release age and demo-graphic performances under certain projects and standards.

Personal information and names cannot be released.

“All results will be terminat-ed after the observations and studies are included, to destroy any trace of personal student records,” she said.

Several students interviewed said the changes were not in-fringements on their privacy and welcomed them if they bet-tered UT and their education.

“I think that it’s for the best. [UT] has a graduation rate of roughly 20 percent,” said Keith Goatley, a sophomore majoring in marketing and professional sales. “Anything that can change that even slightly is worth it to an extent, even if it compromises our privacy. But to me, only a select handful of personally picked people should have the privilege.”

Matias Hidalgo, a sophomore with a concentration in pre-law, said she doesn’t see the purpose of the FERPA changes.

“I suppose it helps the states determine what’s working in their school systems for the taxes we pay, but not that our tax money actually goes any-where but the fed,” she said. “Regardless, it sounds biased.”

Kaylee Henman, a junior ma-joring in creative writing, said it was definitely an interesting idea.

“I don’t think high schools are preparing their students as well as they should be, and it will be interesting to see how it will affect the education sys-tem,” she said.

a.m. so students can go to a quieter space to study beyond the first floor.

Another piece of legislation coming from the Student Sen-ate states Carlson Library will remain open until 11 p.m. on Friday.

On Friday, Dec. 16, the ex-tended hours will end and the library will close at 7 p.m.

Only the first floor of the li-brary is open 24 hours while the other floors are off limits after midnight.

According to the legislation, “students often have a need to work on homework or study late at night,” “many of the as-signments students work on require the Internet,” and “the first floor of the Carlson Li-brary is often crowded or noisy from midnight to 2 a.m.”

Chair of the Student Senate Heather Engle, who wrote the legislation for extended li-brary hours on the upper floors, said it is distracting when students are in the mid-dle of studying, only to be kicked off the upper floors.

“Especially during finals week,” she said. “Students need a quiet atmosphere and also shouldn’t be disrupted when they are studying in the first place.”

Engle said students com-plained about the first floor being too crowded and loud after midnight during Student Government’s “Whatcha Want Wednesdays,” where mem-bers of SG go around campus asking students what initia-tives they would like to see brought to UT.

Carlson will also open at 11 a.m. on Saturday instead of noon.

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ton said this is the first report-ed robbery on campus in ap-proximately a year and a half.

“I think people should al-ways maintain a level of alert-ness and awareness wherever they are at,” Newton said. “I don’t see a pattern of events that would require additional concern. I never want people to be lackadaisical.”

According to the report, the

three suspects were black males between the ages of 18 and 22, wearing all black. Each was described as average build; the suspect who alleg-edly struck the victim was ap-proximately 6 feet 4 inches tall, and the other two were approximately 5 feet 4 inches and 5 feet 10 inches.

Newton said the investiga-tion is still open and the wit-ness is being interviewed again to see if a better descrip-tion can be given.

The police report stated the second incident occurred Sun-day around 6:15 p.m. in Carter Hall where two girls reported they opened their door after hearing a knock and found a burnt piece paper on the ground and saw smoke out-side their room.

According to the report, the residents believe someone taped a piece of paper to their door and lit it on fire.

No suspects were seen but one of the residents heard

someone run from the door and out the south stairwell door, the report stated.

Newton said he suspects the incident “could have been a bad thought-out prank.”

According to the timely warning, arson is a fourth-de-gree felony and is defined as when someone knowingly creates risk of physical harm to a person or property by fire.

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quieter and a lot more stressed. Berning said there are more people using the library’s re-sources because it’s impossible to find a study room anymore.

While some students started buckling down on their study-ing earlier this week, others have taken a more laid back at-titude towards the week loom-ing ahead.

Kelsey Woltmann, a sopho-more communication major, said she’s not as worried as she should be about her upcoming exams. Despite her relaxed de-meanor, she still plans on hit-ting the books in the days to come.

“I grab a bag of Dove choco-late, a blanket and my books,” Woltmann said.

Chocolate, late-night snacks, coffee and an excess of junk food are common themes with students during finals week.

“I eat a ton to stay awake when I study,” said Kayla Char-gin, a sophomore majoring in communication. She said it helps keep her occupied so she doesn’t doze off.

But all the late night snacking and overdosing on coffee may not be the best way to help with studying.

Kimmel said it is best to avoid drinking excess amounts of coffee, consuming energy drinks or taking pills to stay awake because it can be un-healthy for students.

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The Holocaust dissolved in 1945 with the death toll totaling approximately 6 million Jews, but unknown to many today, traces of concentration camps still exist with struggling North Koreans in them.

Photographic evidence of these concentra-tion camps only emerged recently through sat-ellite imagery. Otherwise, the only testimonies to their existence are the accounts of escapees that lived there. North Korea’s extreme isola-tion has prevented many journalists from get-ting in, and it’s also prevented many citizens from getting out. What media North Koreans have is heavily controlled by the government, with Internet being a privilege reserved for top government officials. From birth, North Kore-an citizens are raised to praise the dictator Kim Jong-il, referring to him as their “Dear Leader.”

Details of what goes on within concentration camp fences were confirmed through the countless rehashes of escaped prisoners. There are at least six well-known political camps with at an estimated 150,000 people in them. Speak-ing ill of Kim Jong-il or being disfavored by government officials can land you and your family, up to three generations, in for life, ac-cording to a Washington Post article. There’s no trial-by-jury protecting people; some are placed in camps without knowing their crimes. Over half of the “criminals” perish from malnu-trition, working conditions and torture.

It’s through torture that officials have inno-cent people confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. After being suspected of a crime, sus-pects are deported to detention centers, where they’re interrogated and tortured. In one ac-count, a man was driven to confessing he was a spy, although he wasn’t, after they came at him with baseball bats.

Prison guards are taught to view prisoners as pigs. Permissible forms of entertainment in-clude beating, killing and raping prisoners. They’re encouraged to do so when they’re bored. Camp rules state that prisoners who don’t meet their work quota receive less food. They can’t sleep before their work is complet-ed. If their work is still incomplete, they’re sentenced to a prison inside the camp for three months. It’s there they die.

Food theft and escape attempts are also pun-ishable by public execution. Anyone over 16 must attend. Parents enter the camp with the vague hope their children will experience the limited taste of freedom North Korea offers. By their teenage years, they’re well-acquainted with death, and the thought of a Thanksgiving dinner is a dream. Their voices are trained to recite what the government wishes to hear, but anything opposing it will mean death. Outside their country, their voices are silenced by the threat of nuclear war.

When a tsunami left Haiti in shambles, the United States sent food and its people to help contain the situation. When the Japanese earth-quake shook the nuclear power plants, the United States did this again. As terrorist groups threatened to oppress citizens in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel, the United States sent its mili-tary through scorching desert sands to do the same. In North Korea, the people are silenced by the totalitarian government.

Very few people have had the opportunity to travel to North Korea. When they do, they’re tracked by government officials and are forbid-den to enter certain buildings. There’s no tell-ing what exactly goes on in those camps. There’s no knowing the true numbers of those dying there today. Keep in mind the only ones keeping their hope alive are the voices of the prisoner escapees.

During World War II, reports of the Holo-caust were often overshadowed by other news. Over 1,000 publications concerning the Holo-caust made it into the New York Times, but American apathy was partly responsible for the death of six million Jews. The event was often not considered front page material and the lack of coverage slowed efforts to aid those in need.

The nightmare of the Koreans is ongoing; the silence of worldwide media coverage has only increased the death toll. We hear of Kim Kar-dashian’s divorce, but the plight of the people in these camps is ignored. The stories of pris-oner escapees need to be heard. People are dying as this is being read, and lives could be saved if the world took a more proactive stance. The Holocaust is repeating itself in Ko-rea right now, but the results don’t have to be the same.

Students may or may not be aware, but UT offers an Arabic program that’s the only one of its kind in Northwest Ohio. Classes in this program which

will be of-fered in spring 2012 include Ara-bic through the elemen-tary and in-termediate levels, Sur-vey of Ara-bic Civiliza-tion, Arabic Syntax and

Stylistics, Culture and Com-merce in the Arabic-Speaking World and Media in the Arab World. These courses cover a broad range of material con-cerning Arabic language and the culture of Arabic speakers.

I am enrolled in Arabic at UT and would like to offer my strong support and apprecia-tion of this program. Having been born and raised in an Arabic speaking family, I do have prior knowledge of the language to a certain extent, but have been learning it ir-regularly. Taking it at UT has helped me vastly improve certain grammar skills of mine, especially because it covers more formal Arabic. Additionally, I am further mo-tivated to continue improving beyond graduation because of the boost I received while taking Arabic here.

Not only does learning a foreign language

make college a more fruitful endeavor, it is crucial for stu-dents to hone foreign lan-guage skills in an increasingly interconnected world with in-tercultural blending. The Ara-bic language is currently in high demand due to its rele-vance in foreign affairs and the global economy; its popu-larity is only growing.

This is not just “my opin-ion” and I do not simply praise a program because it has helped me. Truly every person with whom I have spoken regarding this pro-gram can attest to its useful-ness as well as the two per-sonable faculty members, Gaby Semaan and Andree Ge-bara, a part-time faculty mem-ber. Both have demonstrated they sincerely care about stu-dents’ success in this pro-gram. One of the best quali-ties of their courses is the in-dividualized attention they give students, motivating them to advance.

Yet Semaan and Gebara agree the Arabic department needs more tenure-track po-sitions in order to handle the number of courses and solidi-fy the minor program. The staff have been doing their utmost to run it and have done an excellent job thus far. But to progress the Ara-bic program and compete with comparable ones around the nation necessitates posi-tions beyond a mere associ-ate professor and part-time position. Not to mention, the foreign language department,

while morally supportive, is finding it difficult to manage with just a part-time secre-tary, considering their large department. With further sup-port from the administration in developing the Arabic pro-gram by providing necessary resources, such as a full-time secretary for the foreign lan-guage department, the possi-bilities of what students and faculty can do in this area are truly endless.

I strongly urge the adminis-tration to consider my point of view, and I enthusiastically encourage students to further explore this program. Stu-dents should look out for an-nouncements regarding the 3rd Annual “Arabic Workshop 101” in the spring semester, where students and faculty of the Arabic program will intro-duce the program and its ben-efits, as well as the rich com-plementary Arab culture. It is a great opportunity to learn more.

Arabic is undoubtedly a beautifully challenging lan-guage, but the experience and the high quality instruction, as well as the encouragement of peers, is well worth it. Thank you all, or rather, shukran lakum.

— Butheina Hamdah is an IC columnist and a se-nior majoring in political science.

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Ohio was host to 1,021 accidents in 2009, ac-cording to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Imagine how many lives would be saved across the county if there was a way to predict accidents fast enough for people to react. Even if a person lands in the hospital, that’s one less person in the graveyard.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun developing an algo-rithm that predicts which cars were most likely to run red lights. The algorithm detects the car’s deceleration rate and its distance from a light. Using this data, it determines which cars are most likely to obey traffic laws and which cars are most likely to disregard them.

Interestingly enough, the algorithm worked 85 percent of the time, according to an article on Popsci, a magazine that highlights popular science. It successfully identified potential vio-lators seconds before they reached the light. Researchers contend the algorithm detects po-tential violators in enough time for others to react. This technology would be able to prevent vehicle collisions. In doing so, this handy piece of work could save lives. The traumatizing and discouraging videos shown in driver’s educa-tion of people running red lights may not be a future concern if researchers can find a way to implement this in cars.

As of now, researchers are developing a sys-tem that enables vehicle communication. Vehi-cles would have computers that transfer data, such as one car’s speed, to another car. It could potentially warn a driver not to go on a green light because somebody is about to run a red one. The technology would warn drivers in

enough time to prevent a rise in insurance costs, costly vehicle repairs and possible trips to the hospital. If researchers can perfect this technology, it could be integrated into future cars.

While this would reduce the number of acci-dents, the use of technology in vehicles poses an interesting future for traffic laws. The algo-rithm detects which cars are most likely to vio-late the law, but they don’t detect why someone is about to run a red light. At each intersection, researchers should collect data to study how many people run that red light. It could simply be because the light is poorly timed; people might have to slam on their breaks to catch it and when they can’t they run it. In instances when the road is slippery from ice and water or a car has poor suspension, poorly timed lights pose more of a risk than a safeguard. Other times, a person could have a health problem or be part of a funeral brigade; the algorithm wouldn’t be able to detect this. If law enforce-ment adapts this algorithm technology, they should be sensitive to matters in which a per-son really had no choice.

Researchers should spend more time testing this technology before it’s widely released. Once it is refined, vehicle owners should be taught how to maintain the system, and it should be checked to ensure that it can’t be hacked or manipulated. If widespread manipu-lation could occur, it could mean more deaths than lives saved. It’s also going to be prone to bugs and false alarms, and it’s best the company spends at least a year monitoring and develop-ing the technology before it’s implemented into cars.

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Toledo falls to 6-2 as Temple dismantles Rockets 77-58

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Junior Dominique Buckley and the Rockets are 6-2 overall after falling 77-58 to the Temple Owls last night at Savage Arena.

Toledo looks to avenge loss against Green-Bay

Rockets will face uncommon foe in 2011 Military Bowl

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Junior Eric Page has yet another shot to impress crowds at a national level in the Military Bowl.

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Senior guard Courtney Ingersoll has averaged 12.7 points and five rebounds in the 2011 season.

By Jay SkebbaSports Staff Writer

After losing the first matchup earlier this season, the Lady Rockets will get another shot at Wisconsin-Green Bay tonight at Savage Arena.

Back on Nov. 16, the Rock-ets were defeated in Green Bay, 84-68. The 7-0 Phoenix are ranked 16th in the coaches poll and 21st in the AP.

Toledo will look to do a better job defending UW-GB’s top two scorers, junior forward Lydia Bauer (12.7 ppg) and senior guard Julie

Wojta (20.3 ppg). Bauer and Wojta each scored 22 points and shot a combined 68 per-cent from the floor in the first meeting.

The Phoenix are 29th in the country in scoring of-fense, averaging just over 77 points per game. They rank fifth nationally in shooting percentage, with a 49 per-cent mark. Green Bay also ranks in the top 25 in three-point shooting, making nearly 37 percent of their attempts.

Green Bay has beaten sev-eral schools from major c o n f e r e n c e s t h i s

year, including Marquette, Illinois, and 25th ranked Georgia Tech. They also won the San Juan Shootout in Puerto Rico last month.

UT’s star senior guard Naama Shafir will not suit up for the rematch or any other game this season after suffering a serious knee in-jury November 25th against Indiana. Shafir struggled in the first game, scoring just seven points on 1-of-9 shooting.

Since Shafir’s injury, the Rockets are 2-1 and have

— Avenge, Page B2

By Nate PentecostAssistant Sports Editor

After being spurned by the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit, the Rockets were in-formed late Sunday evening that they will travel to Wash-ington D.C. to play Air Force in the Military Bowl.

“We’re very excited,” said ju-nior linebacker Dan Molls. “This is a great opportunity for us and the program. Especially coming off of last season with the way the season ended on the bowl game.”

Last year Toledo (8-4, 7-1 Mid-American Conference) re-turned to the postseason for

the first time in six campaigns, falling 34-32 to Florida Interna-tional University in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. Aided by a questionable call, FIU picked up a first down on 4th and 17 en route to scoring the game-winning touchdown. The loss dropped the Rockets to 8-3 all-time in bowl games.

The co-champions of the MAC West Division will be looking to improve their bowl record against the Falcons (7-5, 3-4 Mountain West) squad which has won their last two postseason contests, in addi-tion to receiving a bowl bid the past five seasons.

“It means a lot [to receive a bowl bid for the second-straight year],” said junior run-ning back Adonis Thomas. “It means this program is on the rise. Any recruit that comes in, it just goes to show you we’re only getting better. We really want people to buy into our program and get top recruits here.”

The game being aired on ESPN certainly will not hurt in exposing recruits to the devel-oping Toledo program, but on the field the Rockets will have unique test in the Air Force

By Joe MehlingSports Editor

The Rockets fell behind early and watched Temple run away at the end of last night’s game inside Savage Arena.

Led by sophomore guard Aaron Brown’s 19 points, the Owls improved to 5-2 on the season with the 77-58 victory.

“I just don’t think we played very well,” said UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk. “I think our struggles was more us. I think we lost our ball pressure and we lost the intangibles that make us pretty good.”

Temple shot 52.8 percent from the floor and had two other players join Brown in double figures as Juan Fer-nandez tallied 13 points and Khalif Wyatt added 11.

The Owl defense however was the real story, forcing 14 Rocket turnovers and hold-ing Toledo to just 23-of-58 from the floor.

“Give temple credit,” Kow-alczyk said. “They’re a good defensive team, typically one of the best defensive teams in the country and to-night they took us out of a lot of things.”

Temple also won the re-bounding battle, 36-29, in-cluding 28 defensive boards. Owl freshman forward An-thony Lee led all players with nine rebounds.

“I think we got killed on the defensive glass,” said UT guard Rian Pearson. “We weren’t rebounding early in the first half which killed our

energy… We wanted to come out in the first half with high defensive energy. I think once they started out-rebounding us, we hung our heads a little bit.”

Pearson led the Rockets in scoring 16 points, 12 of which came in the first half. Joining Pearson in double figured for Toledo was fresh-man point guard Julius “Juice” Brown and junior guard Dominique Buckley with 12 points each.

“I have said all along, I like this team,” Kowalczyk said. “I have also said that we have a long way to go. Tem-ple is good, there one of the preseason top 25 teams in the country. They played well, we didn’t.”

The Rockets fell behind early after Temple jumped out to a 12-4 lead.

The Owls just continued to build that lead throughout the half, stretching it to 30-12 with 8:55 remaining in the half.

Toledo countered with a 12-0 run of thier own and trailed by just nine at the break.

UT struck first in the sec-ond half with a three from Buckley but once again watched the Owls slowly build that lead back up.

With 2:52 left in the game, Temple had a 23 point advan-tage before taking the contest by 19.

The Rockets, now 6-2, con-tinue there early season homestand with a matchup against Loyola on Saturday at 3 p.m. following the wom-en’s game at noon.

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been led by sophomore guard Andola Dortch, who is averaging 14.3 points per contest in that span and 12.6 on the year.

Senior guard Courtney In-gersoll has been the best player to this point for To-ledo, averaging 12.7 points and five rebounds per game, leading the team in both categories. She is also shooting 45 percent from the floor and 46 percent

from beyond the arc, which are also team highs.

UT (5-2) is in the middle of a four-game homestand and is coming off back-to-back victories over Iona and Colorado State. Tip-off is scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m.

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offense. The Falcons run a highly-dis-

ciplined triple option capable of wearing thin a Toledo de-fense which has been inconsis-tent as of late.

“It’s something different that we haven’t seen,” Molls said. “It’s a good thing we have extra weeks to prepare for it. We’re excited.”

Air Force, who finished their 2011 campaign with two blow-out victories over UNLV (45-17) and Colorado State (45-21), ranks 19th nationally, averaging 458.8 yards of total offense. By the way, 320.3 of those yards averaged came on the ground.

The Falcons attack is led by senior quarterback Tim Jeffer-son who has thrown for nearly 1,500 yards on 60.9% passing with 12 touchdowns and six interceptions.

Jefferson was named Moun-tain West Player of the Week for his performance in Air Force’s season finale against Colorado State. He completed 9-of-12 passes for 221 yards for a ca-reer-best three touchdowns.

Jefferson is joined in the backfield by senior running back Asher Clark who rushed for 1,096 yards during the regu-lar season. Asher carried for over 100 yards on four occa-sions this season, including 111

yards against Colorado State. “I’m going to do the best I can

to make my reads and be disci-plined football player,” said se-nior cornerback Desmond Mar-row. “We’re definitely going to have to be disciplined when we play them.”

Of course, as the entire coun-try is now aware of, Toledo is no stranger to offensive production either. The Rockets high-pow-ered assualt was on display again in their regular season fi-nale, in which UT topped Ball State 45-28.

Though the Falcons defensive unit has given up less than 16 points per game the past five contests, they will need to stop one of the most explosive run-ners in the country in Thomas.

“Their defense is undersized but they play really hard,” Thomas said. “They run an ag-gressive 3-4 defense and they really get after it.”

The shifty Thomas is known for being relentless in his own right, and it has paid off during his abbreviated season. He has scored 11 touchdowns to go with his team-leading 963 rush-ing yards despite missing the better part of four games with a broken arm..

The second-team All-MAC selection is 18th in nation and fourth in the conference in rushing yards per game (107) and leads all MAC run-ning backs with 6.5 rushing

average. He went off for 145 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries against Ball State.

The Toledo offense boasts another NFL-bound threat in junior wide receiver Eric Page whom the Falcons will also need to account for. To-ledo’s all-time leading receiv-er has caught a program-re-cord 112 receptions this year, ranking third in the nation and second in the MAC in re-ceptions per game (9.3).

Factor in the first teammates both to be in the top 20 in pass-ing effeciency (quarterbacks Terrance Owens and Austin Dantin) and the 2011 Military Bowl has all the fixings of an old-fashioned shootout.

“Bowl season is all about offense,” Thomas said. “No-body wants to go to a bowl game and see a 6-3 or a 12-6 game.

“But they don’t take plays off and they have guys out there on both sides of the ball giving a relentless effort. So, it’s going to be a good game on both sides of the ball.” The Military Bowl will take place on Dec. 28 at 4:30 p.m. at RFK Stadium.

“It’s an amazing opportuni-ty,” Molls said. “Anytime you get to play in an NFL stadium like that it’s great. It’s going to make the experience that much better for us and we’re excited to get there.”

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Senior running back Adonis Thomas will be a key factor in the Rockets bowl game on Dec. 28th.

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From pen to paper

“Kozak Springs and Winters”

The old farmhouse, big red brick, two story, with a fancy porch, next to the ball field,where my little league practiced and played,when I was six, still stands there,haunting empty farm fields that surround it. He wasn’t my blood grandfather, he married in,but Grandpa Kozak’s housestill felt like held familial emotion.

A foyer to the front, still sealed off with duct tape and fabricto keep out the cold air in winter filled with games from the late 70’sand early 80’s. Covered in dust and the stenchof mothballs - a treasure trove of entertainment.

Outside I squished green caterpillars, to watch them ooze,I peddled a big, broken 4-wheeled kids tractoraround on green grass and gravelwhile waiting for my mom to take me home after the Easter egg hunt.

Next winter, when he died, he was in a medical bed in the front room.His daughter, some woman I never knew in a wind-breakerand sweats, was with him holding his hand, releasing him from his form.

I got an old hubcap from the barn.tarnished, old, Ford scrawled across the middle.Two years ago, I polished it,Before hanging in my garage.

Send any form of creative writing to carthurs@Independent-Collegian.com to be featured in the Arts and Life section.

Submissions from student literary artists

- Peter is a second year Gradu-ate student in the Masters liter-ature program.

By Peter Faziani

Since I switched my major to theatre, I have been in-volved in at least one produc-tion every semester in vari-ous positions. For my major, participation in two produc-tions is required; to excel in both departments, though, one must have a passion for what they do.

The professors offer an ex-uberant amount of assistance and attention to the students’ work — they genuinely care about students’ success.

Therefore, while their

support is very helpful, finals week can be much more stressful; to dissatisfy or fail to meet requirements would be disrespectful. After all of the consideration the profes-sors have put forth into en-suring the retention of knowl-edge, I do not want my pro-fessors to feel like I took ad-vantage of the attention they offered.

My experiences within both departments have been pro-foundly beneficial in my de-velopments as a person and an artist.

I am utterly thankful for all of the hard work my

professors have required me to complete.

Next semester is my last, and I feel completely pre-pared for anything I choose to do — whether that is attend-ing a graduate program or applying for jobs.

I plan to continue my theat-rical studies and have sent out applications for various graduate programs.

Since I have been associated with two completely different departments, it is safe for me to say that those involved in the arts experience a contrastive and intense week of finals.

The winning designs are then produced to wrap around TARTA buses.

Running since 2003, Art in TARTA has progressively been integrating visual and literary arts into the commu-nity. Binder said the program produces six to eight bus wraps and hundreds of po-ems a year and they have an impact on people.

“The visibility of the de-signs and poems are quite clear when the buses roll around the region, which strikes a diverse reaction from the general public,” he said.

Binder said winning artists also receive benefits from the program. Artists involved are provided with a local and viable experience, as well as an opportunity that can form the rest of their career.

“We’ve wanted to provide

job experience, networking and internships for individu-als that can utilize arts as careers,” he said. “Through this program, we’ve found that past participants have built their portfolios and landed jobs locally by just meeting people and showing their work here in this region.”

While mainly a project of TARTA and the ACGT, repre-sentatives from BGSU and UT are part of a steering committee that meets monthly to determine as-pects of the program.

According to Binder, work-ing with both schools helps provide guidance, resources and collaboration to the project.

Binder said Art in TARTA has remained successful since its start due to the sup-port of the community and the people involved.

“Without the guidance of the Art in TARTA committee and participants involved,

we would not have had this program go on for this long,” he said. “The longevity has been contributed by the suc-cess of the committee mem-bers who have been dedicat-ed and valuable.”

An Art in TARTA exhibit at the Toledo Museum of Art will feature all of this year’s designs and poems and will be at the Parkwood Gallery through December, until the displays are moved to the gallery of the Downtown Lat-té Coffeehouse for January.

Busses with new designs will be unveiled at the ex-hibit’s opening.

The Art in TARTA exhibit will be on display Dec. 11 to 23. The kick-off unveil-ing event will be held on Dec. 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. with an award recognition ceremony at 3 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

TARTAFrom Page B4

Courtesy of Mark Easterwood / http://www.artintarta.org/jazbus03.html

One of the past bus wraps for the “Jazz” theme, designed by Ben Morales of BGSU.

LifestyleFrom Page B4

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Lights in Centennial MallBroadway stars (from left to right) Brad Greer, Jesse Nager and Michael Kadin Craig gave a vocal performance in Centennial Mall on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Their show helped to celebrate the lighting of windows and a Christmas tree in the mall.

are taking matters into their own hands.

Kupresanin, president of Al-pha Psi Omega, is working with his fellow members to raise enough money so this year stu-dents have the chance to par-ticipate at the festival at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Alpha Psi Omega will raffle an iPad, Target gift cards rang-ing from $50 to $100, movie tickets and other various gift cards. The raffle will be held Dec. 16.

From the sales of raffle tick-ets, as well as the money the department is able to offer, the

students should have the chance to attend ACTF.

Lynnette Bates, secretary for Alpha Psi Omega, said the goal of the organization is “to be able to support our department and fellow students, especially by promoting professional stan-dards and helping students real-ize opportunities for growth and improvement in their field.”

For this reason, the organiza-tion feels it is important to sup-port the nominees in their pur-suit of the festival’s awards.

To accomplish this, Alpha Psi Omega has held bake sales, de-signed departmental merchan-dise and is currently holding a raffle in hopes of raising the

necessary funds.“This fundraiser is an attempt

to fulfill one of [Alpha Psi’s] main goals: to support students in our program financially so that they may seize every op-portunity to become better, more professional theatre art-ists,” Bates said.

It is extremely important to the nominees, members of Al-pha Psi Omega and the theatre program to get the unique op-portunity to compete at the event.

Tickets are available for $20 at the theatre department’s on-line box office at www.utoledo.tix.edu or the CPA’s main office.

Alpha PsiFrom Page B4

By DaQuala Hunt

Time

Moving, passing me by,I guess thats why they say it fly.Even when I try to move backwardsFind a direction, moving against itIt ignores my intentions and don’t listenTo my cries to buy more and wishesTo go back, to change what has beenTo what I want it to be.

Moving, passing me by,with a gracefulness that I barely even notice.I just recognize the change in my body, in my voice, in my thoughtsThen I think about the years lost in the mist of it all.I try grasp it but it slips through my fingers.I try to run with it but its faster.The ticking tock of the time clock is the only rec-ognitionit gets,the only way I can manage to keep up with it.

Moving, passing me by,Don’t even give me a warningOr ask me to tag alongJust swoops me up and carries mewhether I like it or not.There’s no way to prepare for it.No going back.Time is not on my side.Time is not all I have.Inspiration, Love, MotivationThings it can’t kill, as it moves alongemptying the hour glass.

- DeQuala is a sophomore ma-joring in social work.

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Dec. 8-Dec. 15

Students SpeakExam lifestyle

I miss the days of typical exams. Memorizing terms and regurgitating them onto multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank tests are what I con-sider an “easy fi-nals week.”

Three years ago, I was enrolled as an English educa-tion major – finals week required writing a paper and taking a test.

Now, as a the-atre and film ma-jor, my finals are completely differ-ent. Exams in-clude creating films and per-formances in addition to writing papers and taking tests.

Thankfully, this is my last year and my class load is lim-ited, considering I have tak-en almost every class offered in both of my departments. Did I mention I am a sixth-year senior?

As of now, I have experi-enced finals week 12 times at a college level, and they keep getting better – just kidding.

This semester, I have two classes that conclude with final exams: a class on Shake-speare from the acting per-spective and a film produc-tion course involving optical printing and animation.

For my Shakespeare final, I have to perform a scene with a partner, create and perform a parody of a sonnet and write my own sonnet in perfect form. These perfor-mances must exhibit an un-derstanding of the text, as well as include props, cos-tume and makeup.

The film course final in-cludes an exam in which the class must label all parts of both the optical printer and animation stand. We must

also turn in a film that exhib-its aspects of all the exercis-es we have done in class us-ing either or both machines.

Not only does the actual film for the final need to be pur-chased, but mon-ey also needs to be set aside for the processing of the project.

The department provides the sup-plies and expens-es for the exercis-es, but the final is up to the student.

Mind you, I’m not complaining; this is my passion and I am creating art I can use in the future. The pursuit and implementation of my passion has taught me some of the greatest lessons I have learned.

However, the funds needed for these projects have to be available in my budget, and I am a broke college student. This was the same case for the first film production class I took.

The result, though, was a film good enough to send to film festivals, and some of the other students in the class reaped the same bene-fits. It was definitely worth the money.

Most people do not under-stand the work that is re-quired of theatre and film majors. Projects and exams are not the only plans for these students, particularly those involved in theatre.

This semester alone, I have been involved in three plays, including our department’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as well as two other shows by the Glac-ity Theatre Collective.

Ut students raise money for national theatre competition

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Ten theatre students hope to head to the KCACTF in January.

By Ben LynnIC Staff Writer

For 10 UT theatre stu-dents, a chance to present their talents and realize their dreams may be in reach. The Kennedy Cen-ter American College The-atre Festival is the desti-nation for them in Janu-ary, but they are in need of some help.

The theatre department has participated in vari-ous KCACTF competi-tions for years and several students received awards for their work in acting, scenic design, stage man-agement, costume design and dramaturgy.

Unfortunately, nominat-ed students were unable to attend last year’s festi-val due to the depart-ment’s inability to fund their registration and trip.

Marshall Kupresanin, a senior double majoring in theatre and history, was one of the students nomi-nated for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Com-petition, but he was un-able to attend the contest.

By Megan AherneArts and Life Editor

“Funding from the adminis-tration fell through,” Kupre-sanin said. “For the first time in recent memory, students were not sent to the festival. I can tell you from experiencing it first hand, it was heartbreaking.”

For many students, receiv-ing a nomination for the Irene Ryan Competition is their chance at a big break.

“Since joining the depart-ment, it was my goal to win such a nomination and help

show the country that UT the-atre and film could compete on that national scale,” Kupre-sanin said. “That opportunity, which seemed so close, had been pulled away from me. No efforts to fund-raise were made and the festival passed us by.”

This year, members of the theatre department’s honors organization Alpha Psi Omega and other nominated students

Annual Art in tARtALocal transit service makes effort to

brighten up the community with artistic designs for eighth year in a row

Members are raising money to send theatre students to Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Pennsylvania

By Caitlin ArthursAsst. Arts and Life Editor

For those who use Tole-do’s public busses, their mode of transportation will soon become a little more colorful.

Art in TARTA is an an-nual artistic promotion be-ginning next week.

In correspondence with Young Artists at Work, the Graphic Design Depart-ment of Bowling Green State University, Toledo School for the Arts and UT, Art in TARTA offers oppor-tunities to artists and po-ets all around the area.

Jason Binder, transit planner of TARTA, said the promotion helps bring the arts to people who may not experience it instead of making them seek it out on their own.

Put on by the Toledo Ar-ea Regional Transit Au-thority and the Arts Com-mission of Greater Toledo, Art in TARTA is meant to

raise greater artistic awareness throughout the community.

“Our purpose is to pro-vide a format for public participation of input for new construction and ren-ovation projects using funds from the annual one percent federally mandat-ed Transportation Im-provement Program,” Binder said. “But our ulti-mate goal is to provide opportunities for the col-laboration of the public schools, businesses and lo-cal agencies through young individuals.”

By using graphic de-signs, TARTA artistically enhances its buses, bus shelters and stops through-out its service area to pro-duce a more positive influence.

Past themes for the proj-ect have been “Bridges,” “Jazz,” “Glass” and most recently “Restore Planet Earth: Our Universal Sun,”

a theme which has been consistent and expanded upon throughout the past couple of years.

This year’s theme con-tinues the newfound tradi-tion, representing TARTA’s hope for a more environ-mentally-friendly future of public transit.

Potential themes are se-lected from hundreds of poems submitted by Young Artist at Work members and BGSU graphic design students then create vari-ous designs interpreting the chosen theme.

“We give the opportuni-ties to the graphic design-ers to come up with the best prototype that re-flects the ‘heart’ of the se-lected winning poems,” Binder said.

The design prototypes are judged by the Design Jury, a committee of graph-ic designers from the area.

— TARTA, Page B3

Finals week from the perspective of a senior theatre and film student

Courtesy of Mark Easterwood / http://www.artintarta.org/bus02.html

Previous bus wrap designed by Steve Fowler of BGSU for Art in TARTA’s “Bridge” theme.

IC’s Christmas Wish List

— Alpha Psi, Page B3

1. Matt Rubin

2. The zombie apoca-lypse

3. An Associated Press Stylebook

4. More readers

5. A golden unicorn that can run on rainbows. Or world peace.

6. Snow!

7. Justice, with a side-order of spaghetti

8. A blunt dispenser at the butt huts

9. Woolen socks and a big lump of coal

Thursday

The Omni – Kenny Wayne Shepherd is performing. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance and $25 at the door, and can be bought at the Strana-han Theatre box office, ticket-master.com, or the Omni.

Friday

Valentine Theatre – “The Santaland Diaries” and “Season’s Greetings” are being performed this weekend. Shows start at 8 p.m.

Toledo Museum of Art - The Rejoice Handbell Choir from Olivet Lutheran Church in Sylva-nia will be performing. Admis-sion is free and show starts at 7 p.m.

Saturday

Shops at Fallen Timbers – Come and enjoy an afternoon of free ice skating. Skate rental is included. Open from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The Omni – The Wheeler Brothers are bringing their unique brand of indie-folk music to Toledo. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door.

Elks Lodge – Come and sup-port those in need at the craft and gift show. There will be food drives for the Salvation Army and Humane Ohio. Free prizes and a bake sale will be offered. Admission is free and the event runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sunday

Toledo Zoo - The Lights Be-fore Christmas continues through the end of December. Admission included in zoo tickets.

Levis Commons - Visit with Santa from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and get pictures with him and his house by the fountain.

Tuesday

Manhattan’s Restaurant - Come and support local music at Tuesday Night Jams. Show starts at 9 p.m.

Toledo Museum of Art - The Small Worlds Exhibit is continu-ing until March 25. Admission to the museum is free and includes all exhibits.

Wednesday

Owens Community College - Ring in the holidays with a classic! Come watch Owen’s Community College perform a stage rendition of “It’s A Won-derful Life.” Tickets are $12 for students, and the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Frankies Inner City - Boon-dox is performing with Mars, DRP, Cousin Cleetus, Sixx Digit, Restriktid and C-Fifth. Tickets are $10 in advance and the show starts at 7 p.m.

Thursday

Huntington Center - Disney on Ice: Treasure Trove is com-ing to Toledo! Come and have some fun with your favorite Dis-ney characters. Show starts at 7 p.m. and tickets are availiable at www.ticketmaster.com.

— Lifestyle, Page B3