Wednesday, December 4, 2013 95th year • Issue 16 Students give dining feedback Serving the University of Toledo community since 1919 www.IndependentCollegian.com OPINION / 8 » STUDENT INVOLVMENT ON-CAMPUS HOLIDAY AFFAIR TOBACCO BAN ADMINISTRATIVE VACANCY UT works to fix fractured relations with student groups UTMC head set to leave in February Faculty calls for no tobacco on campus LINDSAY MAHANEY / IC Faculty Senate passed a resolution Tuesday calling for a university-wide ban on tobacco, including smokless varieties. A MAGICAL NIGHT UT students to dance at 4th Yule Ball INSIDE UT’s foreign language sing-a-long Students, faculty, staff and families are invited on Friday, Dec. 6, to sing classic holiday tunes in Chi- nese, French, German, Japanese, Latin and Spanish. COMMUNITY / 10 » Students write a play in 24 hours A variety of short plays from the minds of students — written and directed — in a 24-hour period will be performed Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in the center theatre of the Center for Performing Arts. COMMUNITY / 10 » Remembering a UT legend The University of Toledo community lost a legendary figure from its football his- tory on Nov. 20. Those who personally knew former head coach and athletic director Frank Lauterbur lost much more. SPORTS / 4 » By Veralucia Mendoza and Alexandria Saba Staff Reporter and Associate Community Editor Students will be “spell-bound” in the Student Union Auditorium as they dance the night away at the fourth annual Yule Ball. e Yule Ball will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Event chairman Sean Coyle, a senior and chemical engineering major, has been involved in the planning of the dance since the ball’s third year. “You can expect ‘normal’ dancing,” he said during a phone interview. “But you will see ball- room dancing.” Attendants are encouraged to wear formal attire, which can include their high school prom or homecoming attire. e Yule Ball mimics a dance described in the Harry Potter series, in the fourth book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Following J.K. Rowling’s books, attendants are separated into four houses just as the students of the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraſt and Wizardry. e four houses are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Alyssa Mohler, secretary of the event, said there will be games and trivia, also inspired by the Harry Potter book series. If an attendant wins one of the games, they earn points for their house, Mohler said. “ere are actually games every half an hour and they are usually dancing games,” she said. The Yule Ball also features a “House Cup Tournament,” with a House Cup awarded to the group with the most points at the end of the night. Coyle said the first year he went to the dance, he felt like he was finally a part of UT. “I really connected with the uni- versity,” he said. “It gave me a reason to be around than just school.” Similarly, Joanne Beckwith, a senior majoring in chemical en- gineering and the advertisement chair, said the dance offers a sense of camaraderie. “ere’s groups with different views and goals, but this is about bringing everyone together.” She said the ball was originally organized by a group of four members from the UT Ballroom Dance Society and the group asked, “We’re a dance society, why don’t we have a dance?” e goal was to have fun during the last few days of the semester. “at first year we drew in about 120 people,” Beckwith said. “Last year we drew in 200. Now we’re expecting to break the 200 mark.” Coyle said that originally the dance was also a fundraiser for UT Ballroom Dance Society but in its second year it became a charity event. “We couldn’t believe we raised so much money,” he said. Last year, the Yule Ball raised over $1,300 which all went to Toledo Public Schools. is year all proceeds will go to the charity Reading is Leading, the national philanthropy of Mortar Board, which benefits Toledo Chil- dren’s Hospital Library. e goal is to aid in the purchasing of young adult books for patients, Coyle said. The Reading is Leading char- ity was chosen in part because the dance is themed after a book, Coyle said. “It made sense to support literacy,” Coyle said. e event is sponsored by the Ballroom Dance Society, Campus Activities and Programming, Student Government, Student Activities Committee, Resident Student Association, WXUT radio station and Mortar Board Honor Society. Tickets are $8 for singles and $12 for couples. Tickets will be sold in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Friday, Dec. 6. “I know it’s close to finals but it’s important to take some time to support your community, your school and different organiza- tions,” Coyle said. “ere’s some- thing here for everybody, so come ready to have a blast.” IC FILE PHOTO Matt Sauter and Joanne Beckwith dance at last year’s Yule Ball, a Harry Potter-themed formal dance held annually on UT’s campus. This year’s Yule Ball will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium. By Lindsay Mahaney Staff Reporter Tobacco use of all types should be banned on University of Toledo campuses, Faculty Senate said Tuesday. While it did not pass unanimously, faculty passed a resolution Dec. 3 stating that Main Campus should join UT’s Health Science campus in becoming tobacco-free, which includes the banning of smokeless tobacco, snus and electronic cigarettes. It also asked the administration to take “necessary steps to ensure that the sale and marketing of tobacco products” be pro- hibited on campus, and that a task force be established to enforce tobacco-free rules by the beginning of the next academic year. Senator Amy ompson, rehabilitation ser- vices professor, spoke on the topic of smoking- related health hazards and the potential effects they would have on UT students. See Tobacco / 6 » By Samuel Derkin Associate News Editor Aſter the loss of three major Office of Student Involvement (OSI) staff members this summer, administra- tors in that office are attempting to strengthen what have been described as “shaky” relations with student group leaders through the recent hir- ing of a new program manager. OSI, a subgroup of Student Af- fairs, acts as the university’s link to student organizations. Jacob Torres, President of the Latino Student Union, said the transitions within OSI over the summer and at the beginning of the semester made him feel “pushed away” at the time. “I do notice that we stopped going to them a lot more,” said Torres. ree OSI employees leſt UT over the summer, said Sammy Spann, as- sistant provost. He said they leſt their jobs for a variety of reasons, includ- ing maternity leave and recruitment to another employment opportunity. See OSI relations / 6 » “We should be a service to the student orga- nizations and not just another hoop to jump through.” RUDY TAYLOR New program manager for the Office of Student Involvment Love CHOCO-TACOS Hullaballoo Wasteful Thoughtful By Danielle Gamble Editor-in-Chief Chancellor Jeff Gold, head of the Universi- ty of Toledo Medical Center, is set to leave in a little over two months to assume a similar position in Nebraska. Gold, who has been a part of UT since 2005, was publicly named the sole candidate Nov. 22 for the University of Nebraska Medi- cal Center’s chancellor position, and was approved by UN’s Board of Trustees Nov. 29. With his initial three-year appointment, Gold’s starting annual salary at UNMC will be $775,000 plus standard university employee benefits. In Gold’s UT posi- tion, he received about $463,000 in 2012, according to The Blade’s public employee salaries database. In a phone interview Monday, Gold said he began considering the position in mid-fall of this year when he was approached by a national search firm. “I thought that this was a unique opportu- nity in a different community that seemed to be very warm and receptive, and an See Gold / 6 » Have a great Winter Break!
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013 95th year • Issue 16
Students give dining feedback
Serving the University of Toledo community since 1919 www.IndependentCollegian.com
OPINION / 8 »
STUDENT INVOLVMENT
ON-CAMPUS HOLIDAY AFFAIR
TOBACCO BAN
ADMINISTRATIVE VACANCY
UT works to fix fractured relations with student groups
UTMC head set to leave in February
Faculty calls forno tobacco on campus
LINDSAY MAHANEY / ICFaculty Senate passed a resolution Tuesday calling for a university-wide ban on tobacco, including smokless varieties.
A MAGICAL NIGHTUT students to dance at 4th Yule Ball
INSIDE
UT’s foreign language sing-a-long
Students, faculty, staff and families are invited on Friday, Dec. 6, to sing classic holiday tunes in Chi-nese, French, German, Japanese, Latin and Spanish.
COMMUNITY / 10 »
Students write a play in 24 hours
A variety of short plays from the minds of students — written and directed — in a 24-hour period will be performed Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in the center theatre of the Center for Performing Arts.
COMMUNITY / 10 »
Remembering a UT legend
The University of Toledo community lost a legendary figure from its football his-tory on Nov. 20. Those who personally knew former head coach and athletic director Frank Lauterbur lost much more.
SPORTS / 4 »
By Veralucia Mendoza and Alexandria SabaStaff Reporter and Associate Community Editor
Students will be “spell-bound” in the Student Union Auditorium as they dance the night away at the fourth annual Yule Ball.
The Yule Ball will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Event chairman Sean Coyle, a senior and chemical engineering major, has been involved in the planning of the dance since the ball’s third year.
“You can expect ‘normal’ dancing,” he said during a phone interview. “But you will see ball-room dancing.”
Attendants are encouraged to wear formal attire, which can include their high school prom or homecoming attire.
The Yule Ball mimics a dance described in the Harry Potter series, in the fourth book “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”
Following J.K. Rowling’s books, attendants are separated into four houses just as the students of the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The four houses are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin.
Alyssa Mohler, secretary of the event, said there will be games and trivia, also inspired by the Harry Potter book series.
If an attendant wins one of the games, they earn points for their house, Mohler said.
“There are actually games every half an hour and they are usually dancing games,” she said.
The Yule Ball also features a “House Cup Tournament,” with a House Cup awarded to the group with the most points at the end of the night.
Coyle said the first year he went to the dance, he felt like he was finally a part of UT.
“I really connected with the uni-versity,” he said. “It gave me a reason to be around than just school.”
Similarly, Joanne Beckwith, a senior majoring in chemical en-gineering and the advertisement chair, said the dance offers a sense of camaraderie.
“There’s groups with different views and goals, but this is about bringing everyone together.”
She said the ball was originally organized by a group of four members from the UT Ballroom Dance Society and the group asked, “We’re a dance society, why don’t we have a dance?”
The goal was to have fun during the last few days of the semester.
“That first year we drew in about 120 people,” Beckwith said. “Last year we drew in 200. Now we’re expecting to break the 200 mark.”
Coyle said that originally the dance was also a fundraiser for UT Ballroom Dance Society but in its second year it became a charity event.
“We couldn’t believe we raised so much money,” he said.
Last year, the Yule Ball raised over $1,300 which all went to Toledo Public Schools.
This year all proceeds will go to the charity Reading is Leading, the national philanthropy of Mortar Board, which benefits Toledo Chil-dren’s Hospital Library. The goal is to aid in the purchasing of young adult books for patients, Coyle said.
The Reading is Leading char-ity was chosen in part because the dance is themed after a book, Coyle said.
“It made sense to support literacy,” Coyle said.
The event is sponsored by the Ballroom Dance Society, Campus Activities and Programming, Student Government, Student Activities Committee, Resident Student Association, WXUT radio station and Mortar Board Honor Society.
Tickets are $8 for singles and $12 for couples.
Tickets will be sold in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. until Friday, Dec. 6.
“I know it’s close to finals but it’s important to take some time to support your community, your school and different organiza-tions,” Coyle said. “There’s some-thing here for everybody, so come ready to have a blast.”
IC FILE PHOTOMatt Sauter and Joanne Beckwith dance at last year’s Yule Ball, a Harry Potter-themed formal dance held annually on UT’s campus. This year’s Yule Ball will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. in the Student Union Auditorium.
By Lindsay MahaneyStaff Reporter
Tobacco use of all types should be banned on University of Toledo campuses, Faculty Senate said Tuesday.
While it did not pass unanimously, faculty passed a resolution Dec. 3 stating that Main Campus should join UT’s Health Science campus in becoming tobacco-free, which includes the banning of smokeless tobacco, snus and electronic cigarettes.
It also asked the administration to take “necessary steps to ensure that the sale and marketing of tobacco products” be pro-hibited on campus, and that a task force be established to enforce tobacco-free rules by the beginning of the next academic year.
Senator Amy Thompson, rehabilitation ser-vices professor, spoke on the topic of smoking-related health hazards and the potential effects they would have on UT students.
See Tobacco / 6 »
By Samuel DerkinAssociate News Editor
After the loss of three major Office of Student Involvement (OSI) staff members this summer, administra-tors in that office are attempting to strengthen what have been described as “shaky” relations with student group leaders through the recent hir-ing of a new program manager.
OSI, a subgroup of Student Af-fairs, acts as the university’s link to student organizations.
Jacob Torres, President of the Latino
Student Union, said the transitions within OSI over the summer and at the beginning of the semester made him feel “pushed away” at the time.
“I do notice that we stopped going to them a lot more,” said Torres.
Three OSI employees left UT over the summer, said Sammy Spann, as-sistant provost. He said they left their jobs for a variety of reasons, includ-ing maternity leave and recruitment to another employment opportunity.
See OSI relations / 6 »
“We should be a service to the student orga-nizations and not just another hoop to jump through.”
RUDY TAYLORNew program manager
for the Office of Student Involvment
Love
CHOCO-TACOS HullaballooWasteful Thoughtful
By Danielle GambleEditor-in-Chief
Chancellor Jeff Gold, head of the Universi-ty of Toledo Medical Center, is set to leave in a little over two months to assume a similar position in Nebraska.
Gold, who has been a part of UT since 2005, was publicly named the sole candidate Nov. 22 for the University of Nebraska Medi-cal Center’s chancellor position, and was approved by UN’s Board of Trustees Nov. 29.
With his initial three-year appointment, Gold’s starting annual salary at UNMC will be $775,000 plus standard university employee benefits. In Gold’s UT posi-tion, he received about $463,000 in 2012, according to The Blade’s public employee salaries database.
In a phone interview Monday, Gold said he began considering the position in mid-fall of this year when he was approached by a national search firm.
“I thought that this was a unique opportu-nity in a different community that seemed to be very warm and receptive, and an
See Gold / 6 »
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CAMPUS DIGESTFollow us on Twitter @The ICToledo www.IndependentCollegian.com
25 years ago: A computer was stolen from the Student Union Com-puter Center last week. The computer, a Macintosh SE valued at approximately $2,400, was cut from its security cables sometime Tuesday morning before 8 a.m., and taken from the lab.
75 years ago: A skel-eton — minus the family closet — has been added to the University. It’s an A-1 skeleton, one of the finest available. It only cost $165. The purchase was autho-rized by the Board of Direc-tors after the pre-medical department had requested a skeleton. No ghosts have yet been requested.
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Study abroadLydia Kane, a fourth-year film major and student ambassador the Center for International Studies and Programs (CISP), talks about the benefits of studying abroad to fellow film major, fifth-year Andrew Cooper. Kane previously studied in Barcelona, Spain. The table was up from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 12 for students to learn more about study abroad, National Student Exchange and Camp Adventure. CISP also holds informational meetings in room 1100 in Snyder Memorial nearly every Monday through Friday.
STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Student Physical Therapy Organization
Purpose: Our mission is to be a professional organization that pro-vides graduate student physical therapists of the University of Toledo with opportunities for profes-sional growth and social well-being. In addition, we strive to generously give our time, services and finances to the community and other philanthropies both locally and globally.
Leaders: President Lauren Heibertshausen, Vice President Drew Ingels, Treasurer Justin Rice and Secretary Kyle Jones
Upcoming events: Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser —Jan. 15 5:00-9:00 p.m. on Cen-tral Ave. — (contact Lauren for a ticket) — Ohio Physical Therapy Association annual conference in Columbus —March 27-29
Learn more: Contact Lauren Heibertshausen at [email protected]
Would your group like to be featured as the IC’s Student Group of the Week? Email Morgan Rinckey at [email protected].
What are you doing over
winter break?
“Traveling to see family.”
“Probably just going to stay at home.”
“I’m going home and going Christmas caroling at my local mall.”
Madison Roze Fourth-year
Environmental studies
Evan Perkins First-year
Electrical engineering
Aaron Mickey Third-year
Middle childhood education
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IN BRIEF
AIDS Awareness Gala to take place Dec. 6
The African Peoples Association and the Center for International Studies and Programs will hold the fourth annual AIDS Awareness Gala Friday, Dec. 6, in the Student Union Auditorium.
The event will have a formal dress code— black, red and white — and will feature UT students’ poetry, singing and dancing. Also present will be speakers who will discuss the effects of the AIDS virus and ways to reduce the spread of the infection.
Tickets are $8 for members of the African Peoples Association, $10 in advance at the “Ask Rocky” desk in the Student Union and $15 at the door. Doors are set to open at 7 p.m.
A portion of the ticket sales will be donated to the Ryan White Program at The University of Toledo Medical Center.
For more information on the gala, contact Aberdeen at [email protected] or call 614-707-8302.
Legal services to cover summer semester
Student Legal Services sent an email to UT students on Nov. 25 announcing that students now have the opportunity to have legal ser-vices coverage over the summer. During spring 2014 registration, a $20.00 legal service fee will appear on each student’s bill, and students will be covered for both spring and summer so they do not experience a gap in legal services coverage. As always, the fee is optional and may be waived. Student Legal Services said students will have the following options:
• Only having legal services cov-erage for the spring semester; OR
• Having legal services coverage for both the spring and summer semesters; OR
• Waiving the legal services fee and having no coverage for the spring and /or summer semesters
For more information, contact the Student Legal Services office in Room 1610 Rocket Hall or call 419-530-7230.
REGISTRATION
By Becky WittkofskeStaff Reporter
First-year music major Damaris Sims is tired of being charged late fees by the University of Toledo. Within her first year of college, Sims was charged with two when she didn’t pay her tuition bill on time.
“I do have one problem with the deadlines,” Sims said. “If you do have a late bill and they charge you a late fee, how am I supposed to know?”
And she isn’t the only one struggling with deadlines, ac-cording to Kaye Patten Wallace, vice president for the student experience.
“It gets to a point when you have a list of hundreds of students who haven’t paid their bills, and
you get on the phone and call them and in a two or three day period, the majority of them have it taken care of. Then we real-ized there is something probably wrong with the way we are com-municating with students,” Patten-Wallace said.
That’s why Rocket Solu-tion Central, the Treasurer’s Office, and the Office of Student Experi-ence have come together in an effort to improve communication with students.
According to Patten Wallace, vice president of student experi-ence, related notifications from the three departments will be combined into one form and accessible to students through email, the university website and social media, such as Facebook and UT blogs.
“As opposed to having three messages from three different offices, we thought we could start with giving students all of the information we’ve got on deadlines in one format with links they can
follow for more information,” Pat-ten Wallace said.
Sims thinks improving com-munication and adding additional reminders about deadlines would
be helpful, since the only way she hears about dead-line-related information is through word of mouth.
“Usu-ally people talk about dead-lines and that’s how I know. I don’t check my email and stuff like that,” Sims said.
Moulaye Baby, a first-year inter-
national student working on a master’s degree in business, said the only problem he had was in remembering the deadline, not finding the information.
“I think it is easy to miss the deadline, especially for tuition, and then you don’t have any kind of reminder to tell you that you have like two days until your deadline for tuition to be paid,” Baby said.
Baby was late by one day and was also charged late fees as a
result.“When you don’t pay, they start
charging interest on your tuition. That’s the only problem I had,” Baby said.
Lisa Hasselschwert, director of Rocket Solutions Central, said late bills can result in more than just fees and classes may be dropped by UT until the bill is paid.
“Hopefully the biggest impact of sending students an email of consolidated information will be timely payment of [student] bills, so they can jump right into classes when they start Jan. 6,” Hassel-schwert said.
UT offices to remind students of deadlines
KAYE PATTEN WALLACE
“I do have one prob-lem with the dead-lines. If you have a late bill and they charge you a late fee, how am I supposed to know?”
DAMARIS SIMSFirst-year music major
Spring 2014 deadlines to keep in mindDec. 27, 2013: Due date for spring 2014 semester payment.Jan. 6, 2013: Spring semester classes begin.Jan. 13, 2013: Late fees assessed for past due balances.Jan. 20, 2013: Last day to drop for spring semester.
If you decide not to attend a class you are registered for, you must drop it before class begins to avoid financial responsibility. Use the MyUT portal or go to Rocket Solution Central to drop any classes.
“I think it’s especially easy to miss the dead-line...and then you don’t have any kind of reminder to tell you that you have like two days until your dead-line for tuition to be paid.”
MOULAYE BABYFirst-year business
graduate student
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IN BRIEF
Undefeated UT men return from 10-day break for rematch against Detroit
The 6-0 Rockets will look to continue their best start in over a decade when they host Horizon League foe Detroit (4-4) in Savage Arena Wednes-day, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.
Toledo’s six straight wins to open the 2013-14 season are the most since UT won its first 10 contests 15 years ago.
The game is a re-match of an encounter 11 days ago in the Motor City where the Rockets defeated the Titans 80-78 in the 2K Sports Classic Subregional.
Toledo has won 16 of its last 21 home games dating back to 2011-12. They are 2-0 in Savage this season.
Toledo falls to Akron in last game of the season
Despite getting 100-yard rushing efforts from a pair of freshman running backs, Toledo lost to Akron, 31-29, in the regular season finale at Akron last Friday.
Redshirt freshman Marc Remy scored on a three-yard touchdown run with 59 seconds left to pull the Rockets within two points, but quarterback Terrance Owens’ pass in the corner to Justin Olack for the 2-point conversion was wrestled away from him by a Zip defender. There was contact on the play, but no flag.
Akron then recovered the ensuing onside kick to give the Zips their biggest victory of the season. To-ledo fell to 7-5, (5-3 MAC), and Akron finished with a 5-7 mark, (4-4).
This loss marked UT’s first to a MAC East op-ponent since 2009. Toledo is still bowl eligible and should know about a pos-sible invitation in the next week.
Toledo earns MAC’s top recruiting class
The Toledo women’s basketball program has earned the top Mid-American Conference ranking and a No. 90 national grouping among recruiting classes for the 2014-15 early signing pe-riod, according to recently released All-Star Girls Basketball Report.
UT inked six players during the early signing period, and will also wel-come junior Branae Harris (Marion, OH – Marion Harding), a transfer from the University of Michigan. The next highest MAC schools in the ASGR are Eastern Michigan at No. 122 and Miami at No. 124, respectively.
Toledo finishes tied for sixth nationally in team GPA
The Toledo women’s soccer team was recently recognized for its achieve-ments in the classroom by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) as it received the 2012-13 NSCAA Team Academic Award.
The Rockets posted a 3.62 overall grade-point average during the 2012-13 academic year to rank tied for sixth among Divi-sion I programs, marking the eighth consecutive year they have posted a top-10 mark.
The three-time MAC regular season and four-time tournament cham-pions have posted team GPAs above 3.5 in 17 of the last 25 semesters under head coach Brad Evans.
BLAKE BACHO
SPORTS EDITOR
FRANK X. LAUTERBUR: 1925 - 2013
REMEMBERING A UT LEGEND
COMMENTARY
PHOTO COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICSFrank Lauterbur (middle) poses with two of his players. Lauterbur, who passed away last week, was head coach and athletic director at UT from 1963 to 1970, posting a 48-32-2 record, two Tangerine Bowl victories, and 23-straight wins from ‘69 to ‘70. As athletic director, he was responsible for the hiring of legendary basketball coach Bob Nichols.
Frank Lauterbur’s friends and former players reflect on the late coach’s legacy
Sitting in Savage Arena’s media section during a men’s or women’s basketball game allows you a unique perspec-tive.
With writers on either side of you frantically at-tacking their keyboards and the furious deep bellows of head coaches Tod Kowal-czyk or Tricia Cullop, the entire place seems filled to the brim with life and excitement.
Then I glance at the student section and life and excitement are the last words that come to mind.
Empty space outnumbers fans at least 2-to-1 and the band frantically calls for cheers that are only echoed if there is a big enough crowd of regular attendees in the house. Of course, this isn’t as big of a deal for the women, who have some of the best fan attendance numbers in the country. But for the men, Savage can feel on some nights almost empty in comparison.
Several students try, they really do. They show up dressed head to toe in mid-night blue and gold. They wave the familiar oversized head cutouts of the players.
But, for the most part, it just doesn’t seem like the rest of the student body cares. And that’s sad.
And a little baffling. The men are off to their best start in 15 years. They fill each game with electrifying dunks, awe-inspiring floaters from the three-point line and nail-biting, buzzer-beating victories.
By Blake BachoSports Editor
The University of Toledo community lost a legend-ary figure from its football history on Nov. 20. Those who personally knew former head coach and athletic di-rector Frank Lauterbur lost much more.
“He was an amazing guy,” said UT’s radio commenta-tor and Lauterbur’s former neighbor, Jim Heller. “He was a great neighbor; he was always willing to lend a hand, always wanting to know how things were going.
“If there were significant events in your life, and Frank Lauterbur called you a friend, he wanted to know about it.”
Lauterbur passed away last Wednesday in a Toledo nursing facility at the age of 88, leaving behind a legacy of greatness stretch-ing far beyond Northwest Ohio.
The former head coach had a 48-32-2 record dur-ing his seven years at the University of Toledo. He coached the Rockets to back-to-back Tangerine Bowl victories, while also engineering the beginning of Toledo’s legendary 35-0 win streak that lasted from 1969 to 1971.
“He was the architect of that group,” said former Toledo quarterback Chuck Ealey. “He was the stone builder to that, which was something that went on to
probably change the Uni-versity of Toledo as far as the football program.
“It began to create the momentum of where
the university is today, I believe.”
Lauterbur’s eye for talent was responsible for giving many famous Toledo fig-ures their shots at great-ness, including Ealey.
“I had gone to Miami of Ohio, Dayton University, and Ohio University,” the now 64-year-old busi-nessman explained. “Bo Schembechler offered me third-string quarterback or defensive back [at Miami] as far as he was thinking, and that was not what I wanted to do.
“Frank just came out and said ‘No, we want you as quarterback and we will give you a full scholarship.’
“He was the architect of that group. He was the stone builder to that, which was something that went on to probably change the Uni-versity of Toledo as far as the football program.”
CHUCK EALEYFormer UT quarterback
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Student Attendance at Savage Arena
needs to improve
Rockets travel to California, fall 81-57 in Thanksgiving tourney championship game
JACKIE KELLETT/ ICJunior forward Inma Zanoguera, shown here against Purdue, has led UT in scoring in four different games so far this season. She led the team in scoring over the weekend, and has scored double-digit points in UT’s last ten games.
Toledo Men face Detroit at Savage Arena The University of Toledo Men’s basketball team returns to action tonight in a 7 p.m.
face off with Detroit. You can read the game story after the action wraps up by visiting www.independentcollegian.com/sports.
By Austin HenrySports Reporter
After traveling thou-sands of miles to San Diego, California, The University of Toledo women’s basketball team came up an inch short of victory in the SMC Hilton Concord Thanksgiving Clas-sic.
Toledo pulled off a 59-58 victory over Cal State Ful-lerton (1-4) on Friday, but they suffered an 81-57 loss to Saint Mary’s (CA) (7-0) in the championship game the following afternoon.
Junior Inma Zanoguera and senior Brianna Jones set the tone for the Rockets during the first game, with Jones scoring a career-high 14 points.
Jones also added on a collegiate-best 11 rebounds to post her first double-dou-ble, and Zanoguera has now led let UT in scoring in four different games so far this season.
“It’s just something we have been working on in practice;
all of the shooting drills pay off,” Zanoguera said.
The Titans had two at-tempts in the final 20-plus seconds to win the neutral court game, but the Rockets forced a pair of air-balls to secure the win, improv-ing their record to 29-17 in games decided by five points or less under sixth-year head coach Tricia Cullop.
The Rockets shot 34.8 percent (24-of-69) from the field, including 21.1 percent (4-of-19) from three-point land and 87.5 percent (7-of-8) from the free-throw line.
The Titans took an early 8-5 advantage, but UT received two consecutive bas-kets from Zanoguera to take a 9-8 lead at the 15 minute mark of the first half.
The Rockets then took advantage of freshman Elena de Alfredo to extend their margin to 18-13 at 11:05. The Spanish native, who missed the first four games due to an elbow injury, knocked down a three and a jumper in the
lane to give UT the five-point cushion.
After CSF tied it up at 22-22, Toledo composed a small 7-2 burst that lead to a 29-22 lead with 2:48 left in the half. Jones sparked the run with three consecutive field goals to make it a three-possession game.
They were not able to come up with anymore points dur-ing the remainder of the half, and Cal State Fullerton led at intermission 29-26.
UT bounced back after halftime with a pair of jump shots from Zanoguera and a three-pointer by Reed-Lewis. The Rockets hit four of their first six shots in the first three minutes of the second half to increase their lead to 38-30.
Cal State Fullerton countered with a 20-6 run to assume a 50-44 lead with 6:35 remaining in the contest, forcing UT to take a time-out. The Titans butted three straight three-pointers to
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He was very direct with what he wanted, he mea-sured me up and he had me in as his quarterback.”
Lauterbur and Ealey — who wasn’t able to start until his sophomore season due to the NCAA rules of the day — would never know defeat while they were together in the Glass City.
“He would be able to be calm with me; he would listen to me on the side-lines even very early on, and we would almost be team coaching,” Ealey said. “I don’t think I ever heard him get riled up on the sidelines. We were always winning which helped, but we always had times we were behind or something that could create a sense of frustration. That wouldn’t
happen with him.”Former Toledo corner-
back, safety and placekicker Tom Duncan was also there during Lauterbur’s reign in Toledo. UT’s career leader in interception return yardage recalled how his former coach’s strict yet fair approach with the team helped keep them steady, even in the midst of their undefeated streak.
“We never as a group became arrogant or had a chance to take advantage of anything,” Duncan said. “We had a thing called Frank’s Time, where if you had a meeting at three, you better be there ten minutes before three. He was very strict on that, and that kept us ground-ed, knowing that he was strict like that.
“Through my whole time there he was very fair but very strict.”
Lauterbur’s strict approach to coaching gave way to a softer approach in teaching his young football players about life.
But that didn’t mean they got away with much.
“He used to call me if the guys would get in scuffles, snowball fights, a few panty raids, those type of things,” Duncan remembered. “He would always call and he would ask what happened. I knew him well enough to know I had to tell the truth because he already knew the answer.
“It’s interesting now because you see all the con-troversy today where col-lege coaches say they had no idea what happened. Frank knew everything that was going on. I don’t know how he knew it, but he knew everything that was going on.”
Lauterbur also knew what
was going on as an athletic director. The winningest football coach in Toledo history was responsible for hiring several great coaches, including the winningest basketball coach in To-ledo history, the late Bob Nichols.
“Frank felt — and he told me this on more than one occasion — that Bob Nich-ols was the best hire he ever made as athletic director,” Heller said. “The record certainly speaks for itself.
“Frank was outstanding at identifying talents and qualities in other people. That was one of the things that made him successful, not only as a coach and an athletic director, but frankly as a person.”
Lauterbur would leave Toledo for the Iowa head-coaching job following the Rocket’s 1970 season. He would finish his career
in the National Football League, serving as an assistant coach for the Bal-timore Colts, Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks.
The coach would return to Toledo after he retired, filling his days with caring for his wife — who passed away in 2010 — watching football and basketball, and telling his stories to anyone willing to listen.
And there were always plenty of people willing to listen.
“Frank had a lot of stories,” Heller said. “He walked a lot of miles, coached a lot of places, shook a lot of hands and instructed a lot of young people. Through age comes wisdom, and he was always willing to share that wis-dom with the generation after him. I think it was one of his greatest characteris-tics.”
turn an eight-point deficit into a six-point lead.
Logan ignited the burst with a pair of threes and eight total points during this stretch, while Nata-lie Williams also buried threes.
The Rockets responded well from the stoppage of play and scored nine of the next 11 points to reclaim the advantage, 53-52, with 2:00 remaining. Jones started the run with the first four points, before Reed-Lewis finished it off with the final five.
CSF replied with a layup by Miles and another three from Logan before UT received a layup from Zanoguera and two made attempts from the free-throw line by freshman Janice Monakana to set the dramatic closing seconds of regulation.
“Both teams played excep-tionally well,” Cullop said. “I wish it would not have came down to such a nail biter at the end. But a win is a win.”
The following afternoon, UT was limited to a season-low 30.9 percent (21-of-68) from the field during the championship game of the tournament.
Toledo also coughed up a season-high 17 turnovers, with only 12 assists, marking the first time this year that they had more miscues than assists.
Zanoguera was the only UT player who finished in double digit scoring num-bers (12).
The 2013-2014 pre-season All-Mid American Conference West Division Team honoree was also named to the all-tourney squad. She has now scored in double digits in the last 10 games, dating back to last season.
As a team, SMC shot 49.1 percent (27-of-55) from the floor and an 83.3 percent (25-of-30) from the free throw line.
The Rockets struggled from the start, missing six of their first seven field-goal attempts to find themselves behind 8-2 at 16:42.
Toledo was not able to maintain momentum after cutting their deficit to 16-13 with 9:56 left in the first half, and Saint Mary’s pulled ahead to a 35-25 lead.
The Rockets will return to Savage Arena on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-7, as they host the second-annual Toledo Invite. UT will compete against Detroit on Friday at 7:00 p.m. and again Saturday at 4:30 p.m. against Valparasio.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF UT ATHLETICS Frank Lauterbur, pictured in both of the above images, left the University of Toledo following the 1970 season for the head coaching job at the University of Iowa. He would later coach in the NFL with several teams before retiring.
IC FILE PHOTO/BOB TAYLORLauterbur flips coin at UT 2013 spring game. The former coach remained very connected to the UT community.
“Frank had a lot of stories. He walked a lot of miles, coached a lot of places, shook a lot of hands and instructed a lot of young people. Through age comes wisdom, and he was always willing to share that wisdom with the generation after him. I think it was one of his greatest character-istics.”
JIM HELLERUT radio commentator
Thanksgivingfrom page 4
The fans that are sitting in Savage stand and cheer every time they see senior guard Rian Pearson, junior guard Juice Brown or any of the other players fly up and down the court.
But the cheers mostly come from alumni and children who are prob-ably just as confused as I am with the apparent lack of interest in UT athletics among the current campus dwellers.
The student numbers at the women’s contests are not much more impressive — a surprise considering they have long been seen as the more popular of the two teams.
While the women have not gotten off to as hot a start as they have become accus-tomed to in recent years, they are still as electrifying to watch as their male counter-parts, and Cullop will have them competing once again for a chance to play in the WNIT.
They are also eligible to
play in the NCAA tourna-ment hosted at Savage this year.
But none of it seems to be enough to entice students out of their dorms and homes and into the bleachers.
I was less inclined to worry about these atten-dance issues at the football games, where cold weather competed against even the fiercest football fan’s devotion. But at Savage, where it’s warm and dry all season long, students have no such excuses available to them.
They also can’t complain about pricing, as each and every game is free as long as you bring your Rocket Card.
So what’s the issue? Is it a lack of interest in the sport? A lack of pride in this school? Or are stu-dents simply not motivated enough to journey through campus in the dark of win-ter just to watch a basket-ball game?
Now, I am not filling this space with my own complaints simply because I can. I am not trashing the
student body just for the fun of it.
Actually, I’m issuing a challenge.
Come to the Savage Arena Wednesday night at 7 p.m. The men will be facing off against Detroit in a rematch game that is sure to be incredibly excit-ing — no matter who ends up walking away with the victory.
Bring a group of friends, a date, your parents — whoever you want. Show up with posters, horns, thundersticks and, most importantly, your enthu-siasm. As I’ve tried to explain, the place is sorely lacking in it from students.
I dare you to show up. Prove me wrong. Prove that the student body of the University of Toledo can be just as loud and spirited as any school in this country.
Cheer and boo as much and as loud as you want. Eat popcorn, be obnox-ious, sing with the band — it doesn’t matter what you do once you are there.
Just show up.
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What’s next for women’s basketball:
The Rockets face off against Detroit at Sav-age on Friday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. in the first round of the second-annual Toledo Invite. They will then face Valparasio at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. Both games will be covered and live tweeted by the Independent Collegian Sports staff, and the stories can be viewed afterward at www.indepen-dentcollegian.com/sports
opportunity for my own personal growth, which is always exciting to me,” he said.
Gold said he plans to leave UT sometime in early February, with details of his departure being worked out between UT’s President Lloyd Jacobs and UN’s President James Mil-liken.
“I have committed to [Jacobs] that I will help in any way possible, not only during the period of transition, but thereafter,” Gold said
In an interview Nov. 22, Jacobs said Gold has performed “a marvelous job here, and he and I have been very open about him inter-viewing at a few other places over the course of a couple of years.”
Jacobs also said he is “proud when people try to recruit our leaders away.”
“I’ll be proud of his sojourn here, and we’ll support him in every way,” Jacobs said.
Jacobs on Dec. 3 declined to discuss details of what will happen next, saying through a UT spokesman that it is “too early,” but that he is confident the university will “have no trouble filling the position.”
According to UN communications manager Melissa Lee, Gold was the fifth candidate to be considered for the UN chancellor position since four candidates from this summer fell out of contention.
At Nebraska, interim chancellor Harold Maurer has been holding the position despite announcing his retirement in June.
According to UN, the medical center has an annual operating budget of about $600 million, a staff of more than 5,000, and about 3,700 students in colleges of dentistry, medi-cine, nursing, pharmacy and public health, and a school of allied health.
Gold said he is interested in “the challenges
and opportunities” in his new position. He said UN is “putting together a large hospital faculty practice plan and academic university” similar to the merger Gold oversaw between UT and the Medical University of Ohio in 2006.
“While I’m sure I will be very busy in my new job, I’m also 100 percent sure that I will stay in touch with this family of friends,” he said.
Gold was brought in to UT in May 2005 from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, where he was professor and chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery.
Besides his work in Toledo, Gold also serves as chair of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, chair of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Associa-tion and on the Board of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education.
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Last week’s solution
Positions were vacated by Sara Clark, former assistant director of CISP, Becki Bair, former OSI secretary, and Jessica Spradley, former OSI assistant director.
Torres feels that OSI’s lack of organizational stability harms student organizations.
“I feel that these positions change every year or two, and it’s just going to hurt the organizations in general,” he said. “It’s not going to help them at all. We need some consistency.”
Stephanie Cai, president of the Interna-tional Student Association, said she feels OSI wasn’t communicating well with students.
“In the beginning of the year, it was pretty shaky because the staff was learning about their new duties, additional to what they already have in their positions,” Cai said. ”So they were learning and they weren’t really communicating it back to the students.”
Enter Rudy Taylor, a new OSI program manager, who Spann said was hired in November in part to help strengthen the rela-tionship between OSI and student organiza-tions.
In Taylor’s first few days in his new office, he said he sent out apology emails to student organizations like LSU who have had negative experiences with OSI.
“There’s been a lot of transition and a lot of things lost in transition,” Taylor said.
Taylor said he also used the first few days of his new position to start helping plan events and meet with student organization leaders.
“It’s really hitting the ground running,” Tay-lor said. “My job is to make student organiza-tions successful, because they’re the ones that help students connect with the university.”
Taylor said he plans to mend the commu-nication issues between OSI and new student organizations and help make the application process easier.
“Some [new student organizations] are behind because communication broke down last spring,” he said.
Taylor said the process for finding the current student organization forms is more difficult than it should be, with multiple forms scattered throughout UT’s website. For
instance, he said, one new organization had to do extra work because they found an out-of-date application and used that instead of the current form.
“When you’ve taken the time to do all this work, how frustrating is that?” Taylor said. “It’s not acceptable — so we have to fix it.”
Taylor said he has been working with the IT department to make sure all the forms on UT’s website are the right ones.
“We should be a service to the student orga-nizations and not just another hoop to jump through,” Taylor said. “There are hoops that we should be holding your hand through, not just saying ‘Go jump thorough it.’”
Taylor’s job has included meeting with stu-dent group leaders such as Torres to discuss previous communication issues, mend where necessary, and maintain forward momentum.
“We have to own up to it,” Taylor said. “Ex-plain kind of where we stand, why we do what we have to do and where we’re going forward.”
To help make up for the loss of staff members over the summer, Sammy Spann, assistant provost, said he wanted to “streamline some of the responsibilities that were overlapping that [directors] didn’t need to be doing.”
Spann said one way to do this was to use more graduate assistants, a process which has been ongoing this semester.
“I don’t want to just make it happen,” Spann said. “I want it to be more organic so where people don’t think ‘Oh, this is just another responsibility.’ It’s now inviting them in.”
Cai said that throughout the semester, she has seen OSI improve its communication with students.
“They’ve settled down now,” Cai said. “So they’re more settled into more what they need to do, what needs to be accomplished and understanding their new, additional duties — that way they can explain to students what it is that they do and who to go to.”
Regardless, Spann said the main goal of OSI will not change.
“Their goals should be three-fold: get students involved, be innovative and creative — create opportunities for students, for them to get experiences and to participate,” Spann said. “The last thing would be to create mile-stones and help build on the legacies that we have here at this institution.”
OSI relationsfrom page 1
“What we’re talking about here is second-hand smoke exposure,” she said. “So we’re looking at other people’s health, not just your health.”
Senator Kristen Keith, associate economics professor, voted against the resolution and said she felt it was not well researched.
“I am against an absolute ban on tobacco on campus until I know that we have actually tried to enforce the current policy and I’m not sure we have,” she said after the meeting. “I think that as long as tobacco is a legal prod-uct, it is OK to allow people to smoke.”
In agreement was Senator Sharon Barnes, women and gender studies professor. She said after the meeting that the current policy, which includes providing designated smoking areas, was a good compromise.
Keith said some of her other concerns included how the ban would be enforced and where the students who smoke would go if they were no longer allowed to do so on campus.
“If they go across the street to my neighbor-hood, they’re creating a nuisance for people across the street,” she said.
Keith also said that she felt this was a student issue, and that it was something SG should work with.
“I would really like to see them take the lead on this,” she said. “I know that the SG president is actually going to revisit the issue, but let them take the lead — they haven’t quite done that yet.”
In an interview, Student Government
President Emily Kramp said she was pleased the Faculty Senate resolution passed, after a similar SG resolution was voted down on Nov. 5.
Kramp spoke about the failed legislation at the last Faculty Senate meeting, and an-nounced later that night to SG senate that she and SG Vice President Lauren Jencen would continue supporting the smoking ban as a “Kramp/Jencen initiative.”
“We didn’t pass the smoking ban, but Lau-ren and I are still going to use the survey re-sults to move forward because ultimately the student voice is what we’re here to represent,” she said on Dec. 3.
As far as the use of smokeless tobacco, Kramp said SG’s resolution purposefully did not include electronic cigarettes, and she could not support banning them because she feels there is not currently enough research about their effects.
In the SG student survey asking students if they supported a smoking ban, 60.2 per-cent of the 5,080 students who participated called for a smoke-free campus. Kramp and Jencen are also asking faculty their opinion in an online survey, available on faculty, staff and administrative MyUT portals until Dec. 20.
Kramp said she plans to take both survey results to University Council after winter break and let them move forward with a smoking ban.
“Once that presentation goes down, if all bodies are in favor of it, I’m sure University Council will draft something to put up before Board of Trustees to propose a policy change,” she said. “That’s the next step at this point.”
Tobacco from page 1
IC FILE PHOTOUTMC Chancellor Jeffrey Gold addresses faculty senate at a meeting last year. Gold is leaving UT by early February for a position at the University of Nebraska.
Gold from page 1
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The University of Toledo announced the commis-sioning of its ReliaFlex Advanced Power System, an advanced gas turbine-based power system meant to reduce the university’s total carbon emission by giving UT a Green Data Center that will increase its electric reliability.
The new system has been fully operational for three weeks, saving UT $1,000 with its current his-torically low energy rates.
UT’s Green Data Center is one of only two in the country and is based off of the award-winning system at Syracuse University. The Data Center is the only one of its kind in Ohio.
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DINING FEEDBACK
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Responses to dining at the University of Toledo
Smoking and soda: UT needs to follow its
mission statementWith the introduction of even the possibil-
ity of a tobacco ban on Main Campus, there emerges an opportunity to create further dialogue about the health of the community.
As the mission of the University of Toledo is to:“Promote the physical and mental well-being and safety of others, including stu-dents, faculty and staff; provide the highest levels of health promotion, disease preven-tion, treatment and healing possible for those in need within the community and around the world” — not only is the banning of to-bacco products an extension of this mission, but other public health endeavors as well.
Then, it is proposed that the university extends itself further as a creative institu-tion that promotes the health of its com-munity by removing the self-serve pop machines in the dining hall. From a public health standpoint, it is fairly obvious; in the US 26 million have diabetes, around 30% of adults are obese, and around 60% are overweight. The University of Toledo is a microcosm of those national trends.
Further, the soda is addicting, high in sugar, and full of non-nutritional dis-cretionary calories. With the addition of poor food choices that are also extremely unhealthy and addicting, this creates a toxic environment for students that is Obeso-genic. The cues to action to make healthy choices is absent and/or lacking in power, as students are still developing the ability to make rational choices period and are busy studying, working, or socializing.
In summation, the university should: consider fostering an environment that allows students to make healthy choices regarding diet; removes the barriers to a healthy lifestyle, which includes the en-abling of poor choices; contributes to the prevention of chronic diseases; reflects its commitment to student health; increases the environmental cues to action that promote a healthy lifestyle; and recognizes that the institution is, collectively, more powerful than the individual.
The removal of the self-serve pop ma-chines, then, is a serious opportunity to demonstrate the above. It is imagined that students will not support this movement because of several factors including the idea that it is infringing upon rights and that per-sonal choice should be more important than collective health. It is, however, not reality or rational. Students would ideally be allowed to purchase pop with the exception that they wouldn’t be allowed to continually get refills and they wouldn’t be allowed to bring in personal containers to fill with pop.
— Zach Rasey, former student
Is sitting down while working unprofessional?
Attending The University of Toledo for graduate school, I have been exposed to an amazing environment that is not only conducive to learning, but also to fostering many forms of compassion that accompany our day-to-day interactions. I have truly felt privileged to attend an institution devoted to service and academic excellence with the aim of producing healthcare professionals who genuinely care about the wellbeing of others.
UT’s commitment to excellence is ex-pressed in its mission statement which states, “The mission of The University of Toledo College of Medicine is to improve the human condition. We do this by providing a world-class education for the next generation of physicians and scientists, by creating new knowledge that is translated into cutting edge clinical practice, and by providing the high-est level of professionalism and compassion as we deliver university quality health care. ” Thus, the virtue of compassion is essential for ensuring the best possible outcome for the patients we are being trained to serve.
Unfortunately, we have violated this mis-sion in our very own hospital cafeteria. Our cashiers are not allowed to sit for their 6 to 8 hour shifts. Unless an employee has a dis-ability, UT deems a chair at the cash register unprofessional. This is in direct conflict with both the mission statement of our hospital and the core values of the university: com-passion, professionalism, and respect.
The character of an institution is displayed by the manner in which the least compen-sated employee is treated. We must show compassion to our hospital cafeteria cashiers by providing them with chairs so they can sit during their shifts. This will not dimin-ish the respectability of our institution, but rather will demonstrate a commitment to our mission statement. That it is not just a mere statement of eloquent words stringed together to adorn the halls!
Talking with the cafeteria cashier staff, many of them are upset that the UT adminis-tration has not heard their voices while other hospitals in the area, such as Toledo Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital, permit this simple yet important allowance. Thus I implore our University and Hospital to uphold our inspiring mission statement and core values. It must listen to the voices of our wonderful cafeteria staff members who make our meal time amiable with their dedicated service to the hospital. It must supply them with chairs so that they no longer have to stand six to eight hours at the register. This is the only compassionate solution!
—Hanna Tegegne
Pushing the smoking ban is an abuse of power
I can only imagine what it must have been like for Student Government President Emily Kramp and V.P. Lauren Jencen. All that power, and not one group of people they could impose their will on. I remember my first job, what a mess! I find it interesting that they are so proud of themselves for find-ing a way to tell other adult people, how to live their own lives. Thank God for these two humanitarians!
Imagine the horror: full grown adults making their own decisions. I would like to point out that even if 6 out of 10 people who bothered to answer the smoking survey said no to smoking, 4 out of 10 said yes. No one took a vote; they answered a survey, two completely different things. I wonder what the statistics folks in the math dept. would say about sampling bias. But who cares, we have Kramp and Company to make our life decisions for us. Does anybody know what percentage of students voted these people into office? I bet it was a lot less than 40% of the student population. Think about it.
I am a 52-year-old junior enrolled at U.T. I have been here 3+ years and I pay full tuition. Smoking is a legal activity. I have smoked for longer than these two people have been alive. I agree that smoking should not happen in buildings and in public ven-ues such as sporting events. I concede that smoking is bad for me but, it is my choice. What business is it of yours if I smoke or not; I am not making you smoke. What? It’s not good for me and it stinks? Let’s explore that, shall we.
I don’t like tattoos, so let’s ban them — they will affect your future job prospects and I will have to support you with my taxes. Sure it’s cute, it’s a butterfly now but, in 20 years it will look like Pterodactyl.
I do not drink, nor do I care to be around people who do. Drinking is also bad for people and dangerous, many students have drinking problems. So let’s get the dynamic duo working on banning all alcohol sales on campus, before we are all killed by drunk drivers or get caught up in a fight on campus.
How about texting and driving —, there’s a good one; we all know the dangers of that, better put a stop to that too. I bet sitting in class with that phone in your hand texting or playing on the computer (we see you Emily and Lauren) is bad for your grades. We had just better immediately ban all cell phones on campus too. I bet class GPAs move up dramatically!
If we are going to impose some rule, let’s do this right. Please Lauren and Emily, tell us how to live. We have been struggling without your divine guidance.
You hate the smell of smoke; I hate cheap perfume — it nauseates me. You know they test that stuff on cute little animals, right? Better stop that too. Hey, what about those crazy guys wearing shorts on campus in winter? They could get sick and then make us sick too. We better establish a dress code while we are at it.
Who else can we oppress with perfect justi-fication? Hmm? I know, that pesky Student Senate seems to be causing some problems too, right? They just don’t understand how to run other people lives the right way; they actually think it is not their job. We might as well get rid of them too, because with our fearless student leaders at the helm, there is no room for compromise and no need for discussion — they can make all the decisions for all of us. They alone have the moral au-thority to decide all by themselves just what we shall think and just how we should all act. After all, it is for our own good. I think I remember hearing about something like that in a history class once.
And one more thing — how do you expect to enforce this rule of yours? Are you going to hire a smoking cop and write out tickets? Have a crazy old lady run around and yell at people? Are you going to put me in jail? What good is a rule you cannot enforce? Are you going to have your classmate’s father arrested for smoking on campus when he visits? Good grief!
— Steve Kapela, student
One thing that I think is frustrating: Dining Services claims to want our feedback. They give us a link to complete a survey online. Has anyone tried to complete it? It's a complete mess. It's not something I can complete after leaving a dining hall or in between classes. It takes about 20-30 min asking about every interaction with every employee, the time you came, what you ate, cleanliness, visual appearance, etc. If all I want to say is, "WOW! I LOVED THE CHOCO-TOCOS in South”....why are you making it so hard to get feedback? Can you reinstate the cards that we could drop off in the bin before leaving the dining hall like last year?
— kevin.rose
I honestly don't have any clue what the hullaballoo is about. The food tastes great in my opinion. Sure, there are minor things, but it's a mess hall that serves hundreds of people an hour...it can't be a Morton's. Every interaction I have had with members of the Aramark team have been thoughtful, compassionate, and kind. They routinely ask, at least the ones in South...how I'm doing...how my day is...how exams are...etc...and I really appreciate that. Heck, twice this week I was asked: "Is there anything you'd like us to carry that we don't". I was shocked. What's the problem guys? There are now Choco Tacos in South. What more could you want? Consider me dumb, but I really don't see what the issue is.
— elongoria
Sure, I would LOVE to have longer hours. South Dining Hall is my favorite this year. Last year was iHouse. However, can we really be ragging on Dining Services that much? Enroll-ment is skyrocketing down; thus, less money is coming in to the university. As a results, less university money is being allocated to dining services. While we can complain, unless more people are going to come here, it isn’t going to be feasible to operate more dining halls. Can we really fault Aramark when it’s UT’s position to allocate money? It is clear they would rather see Lloyd Jacobs hit $400,000 with his salary as opposed to wiring some of that money in to our dining halls. Suck it up. If you want more dining halls, then attendance at the institu-tion has got to increase.
— shawn.nungaster
Can Aramark please start serving normal soups as opposed to crazy concoctions? HUN-GARIAN GOULASH SOUP, TOMATO RICE SOUP, FIVE BEAN SOUP, BEEF BARLEY SOUP, HUNGARIAN MUSHROOM SOUP...have no place in a quick service dining hall. Perhaps these soups taste good when prepared correctly at a fine dining establishment, but I would venture to say your soup consumption dramatically goes down when you have a soup like this. If that is your goal, and you want to save money, then you're doing it right. If you want the students to be happy, enjoy the food; thus, resulting in an increase of meal plans, then you're doing it wrong. Please stick to the basics — Chicken Noodle, Broccoli Ched-dar, etc. On days when a "crazy" soup is being served, I see the pot as almost completely full. When a "traditional" soup is in the pot, it's almost completely empty.
Why does only Ottawa get to have fun French fries? Can South please have curly and shoe-string fries too? :)
— ali.alebracht
Perhaps these soups taste good when pre-pared correctly at a fine dining establishment, but I would venture to say your soup con-sumption dramatically goes down when you have a soup like this.
I love the sandwich bar at Ottawa which is new this year. But, if you're going to have it...please have someone there to make the sandwiches. There's a sign out front that says "Please let us serve you." That's great....but if no one's going to be there....then I'm frustrated.....because I could just reach in there and make my own sandwich. Why have it if no one's going to be there? That wastes food which loses you money anyway?
— samuel.horne
On the ice cream case in South Dining Hall, it is flanked with pictures of M&M ice cream cookie sandwiches and M&M ice cream, along with the M&M logo. Now, when was the last time we saw a tasty looking dessert in there as opposed to cups of super frozen ice cream with the Styrofoam falling off, or a fudge bar that's so hard it will chip your tooth and you get paper from the wrapper in your teeth? Can we bring some of those TASTY desserts back in the case?
—joseph.bruno
Crystal Esquilin
Please make the two clocks in south WORK. It’d be nice to know what time it is while I eat. The clocks were broken at iHouse the entire year last year....Can you put a clock in Ottawa? There isn’t one. Can you put the money you saved by not replacing the batteries in the ten iHouse clocks in my putting batteries in the two at South and one in Ottawa?
—carol.fitzpatrick
As you may know, The Independent Collegian published an editorial in our last edition entitled, “What dining options do you want?” In it, we requested that students, student groups, student leaders, faculty, staff — anyone with a stake in the university community — email us their thoughts and suggestions about dining services. Except for two responses, which we didn’t feel comfortable publishing but have forwarded on to dining services, here are the email responses that we received.
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Would you like or want anything changed with dining at the University of Toledo?
“The food is un-dercooked, espe-cially the pizza. The workers also have attitudes.
Radi Cheaib Second-year
Political science
“They are easy to get to and they have good food.”
Jennifer Elsholz Third-year
Psychology
“I wish there were more options.”
Bri Walker Second-year
Early childhood education
DINING FEEDBACK
I would have more respect for Auxiliary Services if they would actually start serving real portions on a plate [see picture to the right].This is unbelievable. When you're paying between $6.59-9 per meal swipe (depend-ing on what time you go on), they should be putting that value on a plate. It doesn't help when the constantly are creating erroneous truths to cover up the issue. They didn't throw away all of the big circle plates and buy plates the size of a postage stamp to encourage healthier eating. They ran out of circle plates and had the bright idea that if they bought super small plates, perhaps they could make the kids eat less; thus, saving them money. Don't worry Joy, I'll [make] a bunch more trips up to the line now, causing you more money in dishwashing due to the increase in my plate usage, and I will be consuming more food. I would encourage any member of the Aux-iliary Services to dine there sometime and taste the food. Is a hot dog and fries worth $8? Most restaurants charge between $6-10 for a plate of food. There’s actually tastes
good, is hot, isn't a fried chicken sandwich, and I don't have to get up to refill my water or see the last batch of French fries go to a highschooler on a campus tour. Heck, can we at least keep the forks and ketchup stocked? If you want me to call them, "Resi-
dential Dining Restaurants,” then please allow me to eat
with metal silverware. Running out of metal silverware at Ottawa for 4 nights at dinner time in a row needs to be fixed.
I love how today the card swiper at South was wearing a UT tie!!!!! :) Despite Aramark being a contracted company, I would love to see them join in the “rocket nation” by encouraging school spirit and lining up their promotions with some-thing on the UT calendar...for example...carnival night during the day of Carter Fest...or stadium food on the day of a football game. I think that would be kind of cool. :)
—jacob.wilson
Love beverages and large arsenal of cereal selection that's new this year! Thanks.—tony.blackburn
They ran out of circle plates and had the bright idea that if they bought super small plates, perhaps they could make the kids eat less; thus, saving them money.
Despite Aramark being a con-tracted company, I would love to see them join in the “rocket nation” by encouraging school spirit and lining up their pro-motions with something on the UT calendar.
I’ve had interactions with Tony, the head district manager, who is in charge of all things food here at UT and he is one of the nicest people I have ever met and is actu-ally FOCUSED and COMMITTED to delivering a quality experience to the student. Perhaps the reason it isn’t executed is because the people are working are 40+ adults earning minimum wage. This isn’t his fault.....same with the “lack of food options”....with enrollment declining and UT not earning enough money...thus giving him less to work with....what is he supposed to do? We now have under 20K undergradu-ates....seriously...why should we keep iCrave, Palette, or iHouse?
—gregory.barga
I love the sink in Parks! THANK YOU!! For years I've been wanting to be able to wash my hands before I eat. This common practice before a meal has left me grumpy when I can’t be clean at Parks. Thank you.
—ethan.ball
I'm paying way too much money to enter Ottawa to eat with plastic silverware. This happens at least three times a week. How hard can it be? It's frustrating. You guys exert a facade of being a 'fine dining restaurant' when you look at some of your soups and dinner entrees. Please act like one with real silverware! :(
— jordan.peelman4
What happened to International House of Pancakes? We used to have this every Tuesday in iHouse...but now with it closed...where can I get my pancakes for dinner craving solved? :(
—bradley.doolittle
How come for the ENTIRE year there have been NO Macadamia Nut cookies regardless of dining hall? They used to have them all the time last year, but this year they are nowhere to be found?—kenzie.waludbauer
— steve.johnson
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COMMUNITYCALENDAR
Wednesday, Dec. 411 a.m. -- Wii
Wednesdays, play the Wii with fellow rockets in Trimble Lounge, spon-sored by the Office of Student Involvement. Thursday, Dec. 5
7 p.m. -- UT Jazz holiday concert, guest artist, Jon Hen-dricks, the UT Jazz faculty ensemble Cross-Currents, the UT Jazz Ensemble, the UT Latin Jazz Ensemble, Vocals-tra and GuitArkestra per-form your favorite holiday jazz classics, tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors, located in Doermann Theater- University Hall.Saturday, Dec. 7
7 p.m. -- Holiday Choral Concert, UT concert choral and Da Capo, a program of holi-day classics and more, located in the Center of Performing Arts- Recital Hall.Sunday, Dec. 8
1 p.m. -- Shred Free for a Toy, Allshred services will shred up to five bags or boxes of your personal docu-ments when you donate a new, unwrapped toy or gift card to the Lucas County Children Services Holiday gift drive, located at Burger King, 4870 Monroe St.
3 p.m. -- UT Sym-phonic Band and Wind ensemble, program to include holi-day favorites and more, admission is free, located in Doermann Theater- University Hall.Monday to Friday, Dec. 9 to 13
All day -- Fall Finals.
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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM
Students to embrace their creativity with 24-hour challengeBy Sohan MuthaStaff Reporter
“Ever have those moments when you are wearing thin from lack of sleep and you begin to enter the giddy stage of depriva-tion where everything seems funny and out-of-this world?” said Sean Koogan. “24 Hour Plays is kind of like that.”
A variety of short plays from the minds of students — writ-ten and directed — in a 24-hour period will be performed Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Center Theatre of the Center for Performing Arts.
“24 Hour Plays” is an annual collaborative student driven event hosted by Alpha Psi Omega, a theatre honor society and the University of Toledo Department of Theatre.
“It’s always intriguing to see what students create,” said Koogan, a fourth-year majoring in theatre and communica-tion and the president of Alpha Psi Omega.
Koogan, who has participated as a writer during previous events and plans to again this year, said the performances can include dark comedy, spoof and absurdist ideas — often with plenty of cursing. He said the exercise allows students to “delve into the creative facets of their mind.”
“Because it happens in 24 hours, the challenges come as writing in a very sleep-deprived manner,” Koogan said. “As the night clicks away, I find that sleep deprivation definitely influ-ences the way you think.”
Emily Werner, a third year music and theatre major and the treasurer for Alpha Psi Omega, said that she is really excited to see the fresh and creative ideas students will show for the production.
Students have registered for this event as a writers, directors, actors or technical professionals over the past two months.
These students will meet Friday, Dec. 6 at 7p.m. and groups will be established through a random selection process with one writer and one director assigned per group of actors.
According to Koogan, the student directors will each bring two theatrical props to the meeting and pool them together, which will then be assigned to the groups randomly.
“What you bring in, you might not necessarily get,” Koogan said.He added that they have had a severed head, a Pokemon
ball, a Harry Potter book and a set of plastic skeleton bones as props during previous events.
The directors and actors leave after this process, while the writ-ers pen down a one-act play over the course of the night, incorpo-rating the theatrical props assigned to their group, Koogan said.
In the morning, directors and actors arrive and begin to work on their piece that will be performed later that evening, exactly 24 hours after the event began.
“It’s something original — you’re not going to see it again and it’s awesome to see what students can do, just bringing their creativity out there,” said Gina Gass, a fourth-year theatre major. “They’re a bunch of people who don’t get to do this in classes and they get to do this just for fun, to see what it’s like.”
“It’s a fun time for everybody to come and let out their creativity,” Gass said. “A whole lot goes on in 24 hours — you’d be surprised.”
Gass said she thinks the excitement and hype has been at an all-time high this year with more people aware of the event.
“Usually we have a lot of people flock up to act, but this year
seems to be more of a variety, so that’s an interesting new change,” Werner said. “I’m really excited — it’ll be a new experience.”
Gass said the objective is to promote theatre and Alpha Psi Omega, and to get students working with each other to realize their potential.
“We just like to try and spread theatre throughout the com-munity,” Koogan said. “You don’t have to be a theatre major to participate.”
Tickets are available at the door: $5 for adults and $3 for students.
HOLIDAY TRADITION
Sing-a-long with songs of the seasonBy Angela PelusoStaff Reporter
As Johnny Mathis would say, it’s the most won-derful time of the year, which means food, fun, holiday carols and — a piñata?
Students, faculty, staff and families are invited on Friday, Dec. 6, to sing classic holiday tunes in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Latin and Spanish at the Foreign Language Department’s 19th Annual Holiday Sing-a-long.
“The purpose of the event is to learn some seasonal songs in other languages, celebrate the end of the semester and just socialize as a depart-ment,” said Linda Rouillard, associate professor of French. “It’s also for students to hear some other languages and celebrate the culture of the languages they’ve learned.”
Nick Rienerth, a first-year psy-chology major and Spanish stu-dent, said he will be singing in the event.
“It’s a good chance to prac-tice the language in a creative way and I think other students should do it to take advantage of good practice and a good time,” Rienerth said.
According to Oscar Lepeley, associate professor of Spanish, some of the classics that carolers will sing include: French song, “Il est ne, le dinvine enfant,” German song, “Kling Glockchen,” Spanish song, “Campana Sobre Campana,” Chinese song, “Ping an ye” and the Japanese version of “Joy to the World.”
“This sing-a-long is an opportunity for the university’s community to try some singing in some of the most important languages around the world,” Lepeley said.
In addition to learn-ing traditional songs, participants can also try some traditional holiday foods and beverages from differ-ent cultures.
Rouillard said one dish that will be served at the event is called Stollen, which originated in Germany. It’s a sweet bread-like cake that contains dried or candied fruit and is covered with powdered sugar or icing — some-thing Americans would consider a fruitcake. Stollen is typically only
eaten during the German holiday season known as Christstollen.
Some of the other foods being served include tortillas from Spain and French cheeses, all pro-
vided by members of the Foreign Lan-guage Department.
“I love trying foods from other countries,” said Caitlin Ward, a second-year com-munication major and first-year Span-ish student. “It might be helpful to learn a little more about the culture behind the language I’m learning for the next 2 years.”
Rouillard said her favorite part of the event is the end
when a piñata is smashed by all of the children in attendance.
“The children’s excitement is delightful and inspiring,” she said.
The Holiday Sing-a-long is free and open to the public.
It will take place on Friday, Dec. 6 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on the first floor common area of the Memorial Field House.
COURTESY OF OSCAR LEPELEYThe attendants of a previous Holiday Sing-a-long event, conclude the night by smashing a piñata.
COURTESY OF OSCAR LEPELEYParticipants sing Christmas carols in French, German, Spanish, Latin, Chinese and Japanese at a previous event.
If you goWhat: Holiday Sing-a-
long.Where: Memorial Field
House, first floor common area.
When: Friday, Dec. 6 at 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Sponsered by: The Department of Foreign Languages. “The purpose of
the event is to learn some seasonal songs in other languages, celebrate the end of the semester and just socialize as a department.”
LINDA ROUILLARDAssoicate professor of
French
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Ugly sweaters — you know when you see them. Puff balls cascading down a thickly-threaded cable knit, dark patterns competing with nauseating tones, or blobby snowmen cavorting across an oversized turtle-neck. They’re the wardrobe choices of many an aged holiday party veteran or mom who wants to take matching family portraits.
The origin of the ugly sweater is still mind-bog-gling. Whether they’re worn by Bill Cosby or someone’s grandmother, these holiday knits have made their way to Osklen and Dolce & Gab-bana runways, becoming an annual winter fashion trend. Now, with our generation, winter break begins the competition to see who can find the most horrific sweater.
Gingerbread houses may be a tempting design, but I prefer “pretty” ugly sweaters. Here are three alternatives that will leave you in the holiday spirit with a stellar look.
PatternsUgly sweaters tend to be
loud when it comes to pat-terns. Nevertheless, that’s not the route that always has to be taken. Avoid flamboy-ant designs by choosing universal winter jewel tones (emerald and amethyst) sweaters.
While the opaque hues give you a sense of regal-ity, your attire will be subtle and tolerable to those around you. Accom-modate vivid jewel tones such as topaz yellow and sapphire blue with darker tints by purchasing a tartan plaid sweater. The festive print is associated with the Scottish, but dates back to the pre-Roman era. It is a matrix of lines crisscrossing each other in the geomet-ric shapes of a square or rectangle. To complete the grid fabric, lighter threads are usually layered above the dark, and the width of each color varies.
Thrift shopping gives you the best selection of sweaters to choose from at prices no more than $5. Tartan can be worn after the holiday season, especially in amethyst and emerald. If you opt ruby, topaz and emerald, save your sweater for next year. This bright grid print will never go out of style.
Cardigans and Crews
Ugly sweaters are tradi-tionally knitted pullovers. Be unconventional by wearing a red, green or black cardi-gan over a holiday screen tee. This can be a causal O.O.T.D. (outfit of the day)
with a pair of jeans transition-ing smoothly into the winter gala at night with a pair of D’orsay heels. If you’re not into screen tees, wear a simple tank under your cardigan, and add accessories like a holiday-themed waist belt, a scarf or a brooch. You can find crewnecks at just about any store — but for a vintage-styled cardigan, don’t forget about Goodwill or Savers.
Crewnecks are extremely comfortable and warm, but are usually plain. American Eagle got into the winter spirit by adding a sequined penguin on a grey pullover. Create your own rendition by purchasing $5-7 crew-necks (found at Target), and whatever embellishments you’d like. For something funky, find old or used buttons and sew them on the front of your crewneck in random places. If you’re more of a traditional per-son, purchase iron-on felt from Michael’s or Walmart and make a snowman!
TextureVeer away from the itchy
wool or thick yarn textiles by playing into trending textures. Opt for the more silk-like mohair material, which originates from the Angora goat and is spun into a soft yarn. It is easy to dye, malleable, and the fibers carry a shine that isn’t found in lackluster wool knits.
Mohair sweaters have made a comeback (for the life of me I can’t understand why), and are festive in ruby red and snow white. So you don’t come across as “Ew, the girl with the sweater” — more like “Ooo, the girl with the cool sweat-er” — pair the wild fabric with a skater skirt and thick tights. Sleek leather-like leggings would also look nice, and the mohair won’t come off on them.
Velvet is a winter fabric, and a diverse material for a pullover. Let a velvet turtle-neck or bodysuit (that serves as a long-sleeved shirt) function as your sweater. Again, jewel tones will put you in the holiday spirit and leave you standing out for all to admire. You can find this creamy-textured clothing at AmericanApparel.com or Ebay.com
Isis Darks is a fourth-year majoring in marketing and has a blog at TheNaiive.com.
FASHION
‘Pretty’ Ugly Sweaters
KIM SANCHEZ / ICIsis Darks models a ‘pretty’ ugly sweater, with an amethyst colored maxi dress.
The ultimate guide to a great holiday wardrobeISIS DARKSFASHION EDITOR
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