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Once upon a dream Laurel Lovitt is making dreams

come true for many children through her princess parties.

COMMUNITY/ 6 »

UT students travel to regional theatre festivals

“Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine” were re-presented at two major theatre events.

COMMUNITY / 6 »

Do it yourself fashion: made by you, for you

Emily Modrowski has a few tips to warm up your wardrobe on a budget with do-it-yourself fashion.

COMMUNITY / 8 »

““The fact that we have this choice and that our opinions can change is central to the principle of free expression that some wish to regulate or even eradicate based on personally held beliefs.”

EDITORIALWhere do you draw the line?

OPINION / 4 »

““The more we sin-cerely draw others into revealing them-selves, and treat those revelations gently, the more we deepen the personal bonds of friendship between us. To have a friend, we must first be a friend.”

SHAGUFTA SAMIRemembering conversations

past OPINION / 4 »

Winter wrap-up recaps football and basketball SPORTS / 3 »

HONORS COLLEGE

Political consultant to speak Jan. 21 for lecture series

COURTESY OF UT MARKETINGThe UT Rockets beat the Arkansas State Red Wolves 63-44 in Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. The Rockets celebrated with GoDaddy Bowl trophies after the victory on Jan. 4.

Rockets beat Arkansas in GoDaddy Bowl on Jan. 4

By Samantha RhodesManaging Editor

Presidential adviser, political strategist, CNN commentator and professor — all are titles that describe Paul Begala, the next speaker in the University of Toledo’s Jesup Scott Honors College Dis-tinguished Lecture Series.

Begala, a renowned political consultant, will lecture in Doermann Theater at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21.

Assistant professor of po-litical science Jeff Broxmeyer feels that students who want to learn more about how cam-paigns work will be interested in hearing Begala speak and share his insights.

“Paul Begala was a cen-tral figure in Bill Clinton’s upset victory during the 1992 presidential race,” Broxmeyer said. “Elections

UNITY

By Colleen Anderson and Trevor StearnsAssociate News Editors

“What are you doing for oth-ers?” This year’s 14th-annual Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Celebration’s theme is centered around this, which according to Dr. King is “life’s most persistent and urgent question.”

Mayor D. Michael Collins and University of Toledo Interim President Nagi Naganathan held a press conference Jan. 12 to an-nounce that the celebration will be on Monday, Jan. 19, at 9 a.m. in Savage Arena. According to the press release, both the event and the community luncheon are free. The luncheon will take place after the ceremony.

“The theme for the 2015 Unity Celebration embraces Dr. King’s

devotion to serving others,” Naga-nathan said. “It’s a fitting tribute

to the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient that the national day in his honor has become a day of service for all of us to come together and serve our neighbors and our community.”

Collins said the day will be important in showing what the diversity we have in Toledo does for us as a community.

According to the press release, Collins and Naganathan will both be preparing remarks on Monday to accompany a number of other performances.

Performers include the Toledo School for the Art’s Afro-Carib-bean Dance and Drum Ensemble, FU5ION, and Madd Poets Society. The recipients of the 2014 MLK Award and the MLK Unity Award will be recognized as well.

FUNDRAISER

Local orgs raise $62,000 for children in refugee camps

ANDREA HARRIS / ICKeynote speaker Miko Peled shares his story about growing up in Israel. The event was held Jan. 10.

By Emily JohnsonStaff Reporter

Over $62,000 was raised at the third-annual Students for Justice in Palestine fundraiser Jan. 10 in the Student Union Auditorium. The money raised will be used to gift hearing aids to children in refugee camps in and around Jordan.

The fundraiser was spon-sored by Life for Relief and Development (LIFE), who have partnered with SJP for three years.

SJP has continually worked with LIFE as “LIFE has a particularly strong connection with the Toledo community,” according to Shahrazad Hamdah, the president of SJP.

“We do several cam-paigns, several projects, and one of the stuff that we focus on, avoiding duplica-

tion. A lot of [non-govern-ment organizations], a lot of organizations doing the same thing, food, shelter. Now we’re focusing on something never done be-fore,” said Ayman Aburah-ma, community relations coordinator for LIFE.

LIFE has many other projects they are running, including various projects on education, healthcare and community improvement among others according to the LIFE website.

“We are raising money for Palestinian refugees in Jordan,” Hamdah said. “A lot of them have faced ex-treme turmoil at the recent siege on Gaza, during the summer of 2014, so a lot of them are in refugee camps, and a lot of them lack de-cent medical treatment.”

Each hearing aid costs

By Colleen AndersonAssociate News Editor

Student Government is call-ing on the University of Toledo to pave a mile-long section of a new bicycle trail as part of a resolution during their first session of the new year.

SG Vice President Ali Eltatawy proposed a resolution that would urge the university to pave a mile of the Chessie Circle Trail near the engineering campus. The paving would be paid for with university money.

“Basically, this is the idea of having all of the bicycle routes throughout the city that can make Toledo a more accessible place and the University of Toledo is going to be a big part of that,” Eltatawy said.

The Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Government proposed the original city-wide bike path initiative. The resolution itself said the state of Ohio, the city of Toledo

and the University of Toledo have each made their own commitments to “the expansion of park trails and

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Student senate paves the way for Toledo bike initiative

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See Fundraiser / 5 »

See Lecture / 7 »

“It’s a fitting tribute to the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient that the national day in his honor has become a day of service for all of us to come together and serve our neighbors and our community.”

NAGI NAGANATHANUT interim president

‘I HAVE

DREAM’A

MLK unity celebration to inspire service in the local community

PAUL BEGALA

ANDREA HARRIS / ICSG Vice President Ali Eltatawy presents his resolution to senate members regarding the Chessie Circle Trail near engineering.

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ADDY MCPHERON

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

What’s your New Year’s Resolution?

“To be more proac-tive and involved in clubs.”

Eva NoriaFirst-year

Film

“Get straight-A’s this semester.”

Busayo AjayiFirst-year

Chemical engineering

“Start going to class.”

David PolakFirst-year

Mechanical engineering

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COMMENTARY

When healthy this past season, the University of Toledo football team ran the ball down the throat of any and all opponents.

When the Rockets weren’t com-pletely at full strength? Well, they still ran the ball down people’s throats.

It was this team’s identity, largely due to the skills of running back Kareem Hunt and the brick wall that was UT’s veteran offensive line.

But that O-line has now officially played their last snaps in midnight blue and gold. The Rockets do have some real question marks going into next season, starting with a yet-to-be-assembled, brand-spank-ing-new offensive line.

Sophomore running back Kareem Hunt has the skill set to continue lighting up the Glass Bowl next year, but can he match this year’s production behind five fresh faces? Hunt finished the season with 1631 yards on the ground on only 205 carries. That’s a whopping 8.5 yards per carry average and he didn’t even play in every game this season. That probably wouldn’t have happened without the five fifth-year seniors in front of him.

True, the Rockets survived a couple of games this season without the services of senior center Greg Mancz, but that was just one of the five men. Now, head coach Matt

Campbell has lost the whole group.And the complete overhaul now

needed along the offensive line is just the beginning for Toledo. Like any college football team, there are plenty of question marks for the Rockets heading into the offseason.

One of the big-gest wildcards at play for Toledo is the quarterback position, but this issue is one any head coach would love to have.

It felt like just about everybody on the roster lined up behind center at one point or another this past year. Junior Phillip Ely lasted less than two games before an ACL tear ended his season. Sophomore Logan Woodside was the next man up, and he led the Rockets to the brink of a berth in the Mid-American Confer-ence Championship game.

Had Woodside not been injured against Kent State, he probably would have taken the Rockets the rest of the way. Instead, he was forced to sit out as redshirt fresh-

man Michael Julian and senior wide receiver/emergency quarter-back Dwight Macon each got their turns at the helm.

Woodside came back to play well at the end of the season and, with

Ely well on his way to recov-ery, it appears the Rockets have at least two starting-caliber quarter-backs.

So who gets to start?

With such a small sample size on Ely, this might come down to another quarter-back competition. Either way, Toledo has to feel com-fortable at this position.

They have to be extremely uncom-fortable, however,

on the other side of the football. Rocket defenders began dropping like flies once the year kicked off and the UT never really seemed to recover.

The secondary talked a good game and played with a sense of swagger and emotion, but when it came time to walk the walk, they

were often gashed for big plays. Consider that the Rockets sur-

rendered 468 total offensive yards in the GoDaddy Bowl against Arkansas State. UT held the Red Wolves to 2.0 yards per rush, but gave up an unacceptable 403 yards through the air. The defensive is-sues need to be addressed in spring and summer camps.

Any time your opponent is aver-aging 17.5 yards per completion, it is clear something is not working.

Flipping back to the offense, the Rockets are pretty loaded. UT will return a host of offensive weapons next year, with Hunt leading the charge and wide receivers Alonzo Russell and Corey Jones rounding out the potent unit.

Freshman running back Terry Swanson shouldn’t be lost in the conversation either. Swanson car-ried the ball for 732 yards in relief duty behind Hunt, averaging 6.5 yards per clip.

As with any team heading into the offseason, the Rockets have some problems to fix and some question marks on the roster. But many bright spots still remain on a team that knows what kind of football it plays best.

If Toledo fills in the gaps and tight-ens up the defensive leaks, fans will be in for quite a treat next year.

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IN BRIEF

Tie One On to take place Jan. 24

The Toledo men’s bas-ketball team will host Bowl-ing Green on Saturday, Jan. 24, for the fifth-annual Tie One On event, in which all proceeds will benefit cancer care, awareness and outreach at the Uni-versity of Toledo Medical Center.

UT head coach Tod Kowalczyk and the rest of the Rockets’ coach-ing staff will sport bow ties during the contest. Toledo fans are invited join in as well, with over 500 fans participating in last year’s event.

For $100, participants will receive a ticket to the game, a UT bow tie or scarf and a ticket to a pre-game bow tying reception. You can sign up at http://www.utoledo.edu/tieoneon, and for questions about the event, please call 419-530-1273.

Toledo students can purchase the same package, but for a dis-counted price of $20.

For a third straight sea-son, Toledo’s jerseys from the event will be auctioned off. Fans can bid on the duds until Saturday, Jan. 17, with bids beginning at $100 and increasing in increments of $25 at http://www.utoledo.edu/tieone-on. The winning bidder will have their name placed on the back of the player’s warm-up and receive the player’s jersey and warm-up after the game.

Larry Burns, UT Vice President for External Affairs, started Tie One On. The event was in-spired by the Coaches vs. Cancer effort, but instead of tennis shoes, Kowalc-zyk and his staff wear bow ties to support the fight against cancer. In the first four years, over $70,000 has been raised in support of cancer care, awareness and outreach.

UT to host youth soccer tournament

The UT women’s soc-cer program’s annual Three-vs-Three Tourna-ment will take place on Sunday, Feb. 15 (boys) and Sunday, Feb. 21 (girls). Youth soccer teams for children ages 8-14 will lace up their cleats and faceoff in the Fetterman Training Cen-ter. The cost to participate is $80 per squad.

Fetterman’s turf will be sectioned off into six small-sized soccer fields (20 yards wide by 35 yards long) to hold the one-day event. The seven age groups (Un-der-8, Under-9, Under-10, Under-11, Under-12, Under-13, Under-14) will compete in a format to determine the eventual champion.

The entire contest is coordinated, run and refereed by coaches and players from the Rockets’ women’s soccer program, with the tournament serving as a fundraising opportunity for the team.

Teams can register up to six players, with three players on the field at any time, but no goalkeeper. Each team is guaranteed 60 minutes of activity (the length and number of matches determined based on the number of teams in each age group.)

Champions at each age level will be given “cham-pionship medals.”

For more information, or to sign up for the event, visit rocketsoc-cercamps.com.

It’s not Rocket Science! (Trivia)

What Fox Sports per-sonality has supported the Rockets’ Tie-One-On event nationally, wear-ing a bowtie during big sporting events like the last three World Series Broadcasts?

Visit us online!There is much more to read at www.IndependentCollegian.com/Sports. Check out our

basketball game stories each week, as well as exclusive recaps, such as sports reporter Keith Bogg’s story on UT women’s track and field and their participation in the Bowling Green Opener.

MATT CAMPBELLUT HEAD COACH

LETTER

A letter to UT

studentsOn behalf of our players,

coaches and staff, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to all the UT students who made the long bus ride to Mobile to cheer us on to victory at the GoDaddy Bowl.

Your presence made a big difference from the min-ute you marched into the stadium until you joined us for the amazing victory celebration after the game. Our players fed off your energy and enthusiasm all night long. When our players came to the student section after the game, it was our way of saying thank you. Part of that beauti-ful GoDaddy Bowl trophy belongs to you!

It was personally gratifying for me to see so many of you getting the opportunity to share in such a great experi-ence. You represented your university with pride and class for everyone to see on nation-al television. Thanks for being such great supporters of our program, and we’ll see you at the Glass Bowl next fall!

Go Rockets!

Head Coach Matt Campbell

UT football team wins GoDaddy Bowl, basketball teams head into MAC playBy Blake BachoSports Editor

Classes have resumed, the weather has turned lousy and the University of To-ledo’s parking structures are once again filled to the brim.

The spring semester has officially begun.

However, it’s important to remember that not all Rockets spent the holiday season relaxing.

If you missed out on any of the action, don’t fret. Here is what you missed:

UT wins bowl gameUT left quite the impression

in a 63-44 victory over Arkan-sas State in the GoDaddy Bowl on Sunday, Jan. 4. The Rockets were led by sophomore run-ning back Kareem Hunt, who set the bowl game’s record for rushing yards with a career-high 271 yards on 32 carries.

Hunt also set a new career-high with five touchdowns, a GoDaddy Bowl record that tied the all-time bowl record. The last person to reach five touchdowns in a bowl game was Oklahoma State’s Barry Sanders in 1988.

Hunt’s performance earned him the game’s Most Valuable Player award.

The Offensive Player of the Game award was given to a different Rockets’ running back. Sophomore Damion Jones-Moore, who replaced injured freshman Terry Swanson on the depth chart,

totaled a career-high 103 yards on 15 carries.

When Arkansas State does arrive in Toledo next season, the Rockets’ run-ning game will definitely not come as a surprise.

Toledo men stumble No one was happier to see

the end of non-conference games than the UT men’s basketball team.

The Rockets (9-6, 1-1 MAC) self-imposed a rigor-ous road to Mid-American Conference play in an attempt to boost their RPI. The plan netted Toledo five losses, including an 86-69 defeat at Duke on Monday, Dec. 29.

The kickoff of MAC play, however, didn’t go as smoothly as UT would have hoped.

The Rockets opened the conference schedule with a 65-62 loss to Central Michigan on Tuesday, Jan. 6th. In that contest, senior guard Justin Drummond and sophomore Jon Jon Williams were the only members of head coach Tod Kowalczyk’s squad to reach double-digit scoring.

Four Rockets reached double figures in UT’s second MAC game, an 84-67 win over Akron last Friday night. Senior forward J.D. Weatherspoon led the onslaught, notching 17 points in a contest in which UT shot 81.8 percent from the

three-point line.That number is a school re-

cord in conference match ups and second best in program history.

Toledo will hit the road to face Ohio University on Wednesday, Jan. 14. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m.

Rocket women soarEvery year is a new sea-

son and the Rocket women’s basketball team is out to prove that the past has no bearing on the future.

UT (9-5, 2-1 MAC) head coach Tricia Cullop’s players are on their way to erasing the scars of last year, when the Rockets limped to a 16-16 mark.

Toledo has already notched nine victories this season, but a five-game winning streak was dashed Saturday afternoon with a 65-58 loss at Ohio. Ju-nior Brenae Harris notched 20 points in the contest, but she was the only Rocket to reach double-digit scoring.

Before the loss, UT posted a pair of victories to kick off MAC play, extending a win-ning streak that began back in mid-December. Both MAC wins were home games, the first a 63-53 win over Miami on Jan. 3 and the second a 67-49 victory over Kent State on Jan. 7.

UT will host defending MAC Tournament champion Akron on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m.

Questions surrounding the Rockets’ offseason

ADDY MCPHERON / IC

Your presence made a big difference from the minute you marched into the stadium until you joined us for the amazing victory celebration after the game.

ROBERTHEARONS

ASSOC. SPORTS EDITOR

Answer: Ken Rosenthal

Winter wrap-up

UT SPORTS

PHOTO COURTESY OF UT MARKETING Sophomore running back Kareem Hunt celebrates with head coach Matt Campbell during the Rockets GoDaddy Bowl game versus Arkansas State on Jan. 4. The Rockets won 63-44.

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Where do you draw the line?

Remembering conversations past

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

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STUDENT GROUP OF THE WEEK

The University of Toledo Hillel

Purpose: This group provides Jewish campus activities, social events and religious programming for all University of Toledo students.

Leaders: President: Jessica Moses; VP Religious: Mitch Horn; VP Social: Devin Billstein; outreach coordinator: Maddie Isenberg; FYSH coordinator: Micki Pittman and Rachel Feder-man; secretary: Delaney Gilligan

Upcoming events: We have a free Shabbat dinner every Fri-day night that starts at 5:30 p.m. We will be having a glass blow-ing event and going to a Walleye game. We are having a cook-ing class to teach our members how to cook some basic Jewish meals. We are going down to Florida for Alternative Spring Break where we volunteer at Give Kids the World. This will be our third year doing it. For information and dates contact us.

Learn more: To learn more, you can call the Hillel House at 419-724-0377. Our house address is 2012 Brookdale Rd, To-ledo, Ohio 43606. Everyone is welcome at any time. The house is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Email: [email protected]. Our website is http://www.toledohillel.org/, and go to https://www.facebook.com/utoledo.hillel/timeline for our Facebook page.

Would your group like to be featured as the IC’s Student Group of the Week? Email Morgan Rinckey at [email protected].

The university should re-view policies after terrorism

Many in USA and Europe are mourning the deaths of the French cartoonists who were assassinated by radical Isalm-ists. The cartoonist's offenses were creating cartoons that offended the assassin's Islamic sensibilities.

Both American and French citizens and institutions reacted by affirming the necessity of freedom of expression. In the United States, the right of freedom of expression has been protected via the 1st Amendment to the Constitution which bars governmental agencies, such as UT, from prohib-iting speech that others may find offensive.

Yet, if those French cartoonists had been UT students or employees, they would have been in danger of expulsion or being fired. UT policies authorize university officials to pun-

ish UT's students, faculty and employees who make “offen-sive statements, insults, epithets, or jokes” regarding religion. (UT Policy 3364-50-01 – Sexual Harassment and Other Form of Harassment policy). Thus, UT students and faculty are prohibited from displaying, perhaps even discussing, the very cartoons at issue. Further, UT's policy applies to all UT faculty, staff, and students off campus, which spreads the speech-chilling effect.

This policy has created an environment where students are being deprived of a robust education as some UT faculty have refused to cover important, yet controversial, topics out of fear of accusations of violating UT's overly broad and vague harassment policies. UT’s policy is so restrictive that it has earned a “red light” from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (thefire.org). It is time to abolish UT's repressive and unconstitutional harassment policy.

— Douglas Oliver, Associate Professor (MIME)

Whenever I try making new friends, I credit my childhood tele-phone and my dad, the professor. Despite competing with thousands of other events from over the past year, the "friendship lesson" from him still burns as brightly as the glint off the chrome on a Schwinn in July.

The lesson, like so many others, sprang from the most com-mon of events. On Sundays at exactly 9 a.m. some 15 years ago, I would hear the phone ringing loudly through the hallway of the fairly middle class house I lived in, back in India. My four siblings and I would eagerly run to answer the phone knowing that the one who answers gets to give all the details of the past week to the caller. Since I was the youngest in the family, I got to talk to the professor last.

The caller, the professor, was my father. My dad, who stayed abroad to earn and fund our living and educa-tion. The only thing I remember of the childhood Sundays was my dad’s phone calls at 9 and that famous “Moghli” cartoon at noon.

Finally by the time I would get the phone, I knew I had nothing to say. All the news, events and daily rou-tines were well-delivered by the older siblings as the phone passes from one hand to another. My dad laughed as I greeted him awkwardly. I could hear the vulnerability in his laugh. He missed us. And like always, this laugh would keep playing in my mind throughout the week.

Eventually, as we talked and had nothing to say, I would ask him, "Tell me a story about your life, dad."

All my other siblings would leave me as they thought I was lame for asking such questions. How odd, they were just trying to grow up in a time lapse. They did things that weren’t their age. I, at that age, really believed I was lame. But I couldn’t help but ask.

He did as asked, sharing the "caught bringing a snake to school" story.

"Tell me another," I grinned, scooting into the seat further.

He complied, this time sharing the "caught drawing figures in classes" tale. As the anecdote unfolded, my eyes would grow wide, and my expanding grin exploded into a laugh that shook

all the way to my little ponytails."Tell me another!"And another. And then another.

He lost himself in the telling of those pleasant childhood memories. I snug-

gled further the more animated his voice got. My mom would peep through the kitchen, shake her head, smile and walk away. I especially liked the stories he had the most of — the ones revealing dad doing something

really dumb — which felt unnatural consid-ering I thought he was just too perfect. The more he revealed, the more familiar and real he felt.

Five stories, continents across and one phone call later, I finally figured out that dad had been the student I was always scolded not to be. Eventually, I also realized his voice sounded livelier and dad-ish.

My dad’s Sunday calls had taught me that when we show special interest in someone by asking those questions about their life, they feel good about themselves. The better they feel about themselves while around us, the better we feel about ourselves.

The more we sincerely draw others into revealing themselves, and treat those revelations gently, the more we deepen the personal bonds of friend-ship between us. To have a friend, we must first be a friend.

Time flies, memories fade and years later that little girl is now an adult. Stories about dad living a retired life with mom and how he picks on her are now more interesting than mine. Even recently, as I celebrated a Thanksgiv-ing with the Walsh family, my adopted American family, I smiled remember-ing something.

I quietly excused myself and stepped out into the cold and dialed ‘home.’ I heard my dad say “salam” like he always greets.

After a brief pause, swallowing the heaviness of heart, controlling that tear that was about to run down my cheek, I smiled. I closed my eyes and said, “Tell me a story about your life, Dad."

I heard a sigh.I called home and told them how I

missed them, my parents who sac-rificed the most for my future, my siblings who shared their lives with me, so I could learn about the world which

I haven’t even faced. Sometimes being the youngest of a family made up of five children makes you live five differ-ent lives at once. Yes, you are made fun of, picked on the most and blamed the most, but it’s all worth it. You see each person struggling, falling and yet mak-ing a career. It guides and grows in you. Life simply guides you with the help of different stories in one family.

Stepping out of the festival season, I hope everyone had an opportunity to spend time cherishing old, good memories and appreciate the good that came into our lives the past semester. It’s time to be thankful and hope for a good semester ahead.

All my friends (especially interna-tional friends), call home and make your mom laugh at the dumbest thing you did today. Ask her how her day was. Ask for advice from your dad on what he did when he couldn’t report his results on time at his job. Text that one annoying brother with his naked childhood picture. Call your sister and ask her where she got that pretty dress she wore to her friend’s wedding. Get something for your nephew and niece. Anything, be it even a small Play-Doh. Call that one friend you left behind in India and talk like crazy.

Reasons matter, but the fact you called makes them feel even more im-portant. If we care for the other being, we eventually will start to feel better about ourselves. You suddenly find yourself so much closer to being genu-inely happy than you have ever been before. And when you are mentally pleased and happy, you tend to give your 100 percent at every other thing you do. With that, I wish everyone a good new semester full of hard work and opportunities.

Shagufta Sami is a second-year computer science graduate student.

SHAGUFTA SAMIIC COLUMNIST

Stepping out of the festival season, I hope everyone had an opportunity to spend time cherishing old, good memories and appreciate the good that came into our lives the past semester. It’s time to be thankful and hope for a good semester ahead.

Advocates of the principle of free expression are in a state of shock following a gruesome shooting last Wednes-day at a Paris magazine called Charlie Hebdo, which led to two simultaneous stand-off hostage situations and a national crisis.

In response, the French military placed Paris under the highest military alert level last week. Right now in France’s capital there are over 8,000 soldiers and riot police standing guard in synagogues, kosher stores, other Jewish cultural cen-ters, schools, mosques, monuments, important government buildings and media agencies.

Charlie Hebdo can be considered a French version of what we in the U.S. know as The Onion. It’s satirical news that doesn’t let anyone or anything off the hook. All kinds of people, beliefs, ideologies and political doctrines are fair game.

Last week, the magazine published a cartoon depict-ing the prophet Muhammad, which many Muslims found offensive. Many believe depictions of the primary prophet of God are sacrilegious, something that is not right for anyone on this planet to make. Unfortunately, a small handful of religious extremists took their offense to the extreme and invaded the Charlie Hebdo office, shooting 23 journalists and staff inside.

When they did this, one of the attackers said they had “avenged the prophet Muhammad.”

It is very important to point out that the murderers who violated one of our most cherished principles represent the very small minority of Al Qaeda extremists. We have pub-lished stories before which include interviews with students who practice Islam and who have said such extremists are not true Muslims and have actually done a very evil thing. Internet memes fill Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit expressing the same message.

This crisis brings up a very important question for journalists and media organizations in general — where do you draw the line between championing freedom of expression and saying “that’s too far”? This isn’t a new question. Newspapers and U.S. courts have made many (and sometimes contradictory) rulings before. There are many subjects that are banned in the U.S., including some obscenities, child pornography, language that incites law-lessness and false advertising.

The principle of free expression in this country does have some limitations. They are considered reasonable limita-tions, and the beautiful part is that the limitations can be changed, rewritten and removed with the same or higher level of deliberation that media agencies (including The Independent Collegian) use to decide whether it is accept-able to publish something.

With every editorial we publish, we ask ourselves if we are willing to stand up for what we write, if we are willing to put our personal reputations and the reputation of The Inde-pendent Collegian on the line and if we will be able to sleep knowing our flag prefaces our opinion. Sometimes the entire newsroom feels the same way, and that is beautiful. Sometimes the newsroom is divided, and our editorial represents the majority opinion, and that is also beautiful.

What is important is that we discuss what we write every single time, and that from time to time, our opinions change. Just because we decide one way doesn't mean we will decide the same way in the future. It's important that we take cur-rent events, the present cultural atmosphere and the view-points of our audience into consideration when we take a stance on some topic.

The Internet is talking about a hot-button issue right now — whether publications and media agencies around the planet should reprint the controversial cartoons, wheth-er in an act of defiance and championing of the principle of free expression or simply to show media consumers what the cartoons are that the murderers used as justification for killing 12 journalists and staff, wounding 11, and holding hostages around Paris.

We’re not publishing those cartoons. We must remember that the principle of free expression includes the right to not express anything at all. This is not censorship as some argue; we’re not telling anyone else what to do. We discussed this as an organization and chose not to print cartoons that our audience would very likely find offensive for the sole purpose of pointing out that they’re offensive. In a way, that is an expression in itself.

Of course, this leads to the question of how far our reserva-tions should go. It’s unreasonable to expect to offend no one. This comes down again to a decision we have to make while taking public opinion into consideration. If there is a very large subset of people in our audience who would be offended by something, that holds a lot of water in our decision whether to finally publish it.

Maybe in the future this staff will decide to publish controversial materials that others use to justify extrem-ist actions (though we want violent extremism to stop completely). The fact that we have this choice and that our opinions can change is central to the principle of free expression that some wish to regulate or even eradicate based on personally held beliefs.

Of all the things we’ve seen this week, the greatest act of defiance against those who would murder journalists is this: Charlie Hebdo published today. Just like they did last week, just like they will next week. In fact, their normal print runs are 60,000 copies each, but today they ran three million in 16 different languages.

While we disagree with the idea of publishing what they’re publishing (more cartoons depicting Muhammad), we stand behind the legal and ethical ability of Charlie Hebdo to make well-informed, deliberate decisions. They’re taking a stance, a very brave stance, that they should be able to say what they want without fear of (and especially in the face of) death.

We suppose the basic question comes down to this: are we as journalists willing to die for the belief that all people should be free to express themselves? That answer is not simple. Everyone will give you a different answer for different reasons, and that’s beautiful.

Jared Hightower

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Last week’s solution

“The Toledo community is a more resilient community and it is a very diverse and passion-ate community,” Collins said. “I think this day will show that there is strength in diversity and that it is realistically what creates our commu-nity and defines our community as to what it is. Having said that, I think this should be a way of addressing this on an annualized basis.”

He also said he thinks there are challenges to be addressed regarding diversity and as we progress through them, we will be a stronger country for it.

Naganathan said he believes Martin Luther King Jr. brought a new way of thinking to the people of the United States which has continued to this day.

“Every so often someone challenges us to reach new heights and he challenged people to think of things that were not on people’s radar and he challenged people to think differently and to live life differently. He challenged people to rise to the occasion,” Naganathan said. “That is always an uplifting message.”

He went on to say that when it comes to being good citizens in the community, people need to ask themselves, “What is it that I need to do to make a difference?”

Naganathan said he asks himself the same question when considering his position.

“In my own life, when I walk into my office,

I say, ‘Am I making a difference in the life of our students?’” Naganathan said. “That’s my goal and mission that drives me in my office.”

Recently, UT received a classification from the Carnegie Foundation for com-munity engagement. Naganathan said the recognition is an example of UT’s dedica-tion to the community and a reflection of the theme for the day’s event.

“I am proud to say the University of To-ledo’s deep commitment to community en-gagement was recently recognized by one of the nation’s top education foundations. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance-ment of Teaching recently awarded UT with its 2015 community engagement clas-sification,” Naganathan said. “UT pursued this selective distinction because it aligned so closely with our mission to engage with our city and our region.”

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“I think this day will show that there is strength in diversity and that it is realistically what creates our community and defines our community as to what it is.”

D. MICHAEL COLLINSToledo mayor

$200, according to Aburahma, and the goal for the night was to raise enough money for 600 hearing aids — a total of $120,000.

Aburahma said there are partners working with LIFE who would match every dollar raised, doubling the number of hearing aids gifted.

According to Hamdah, the fundraiser raised over $62,000. The money raised came from donations from various audi-ence members and from a silent art auction at the end of the evening.

The excitement from the fundraiser total was no different than the energy that emanated from the start of the event.

As the guests arrived for the event, there was a meet and greet with Miko Peled, the author of the book “The General’s Son.”

Linda Mansour and Aburahma were the hosts for the evening and delivered the opening remarks, after which “My Home Land,” the Palestinian national anthem, was played.

Two poems were read next, one by high school student Hamza Suqair, and the other by Hamdah.

After Hamdah’s reading, Peled took the stage as the guest speaker, and discussed his passion for Palestine.

“The issue we are here to address today

is the fact that we have Palestinian refu-gees in … and around Palestine that are in need of charity,” Peled said. “They are in need of benefit; they are in need of this kind of work, which is really sad.”

According to Peled, there are $4.3 mil-lion refugees in camps, sometimes only minutes away from established cities, where there is no heating and electricity, no running water, sewage in the streets and no healthcare.

“There is no good reason why Palestinians anywhere should be in need of donations,” Peled said.

A video from the HearCare Mission was shown, after which Aburahma took pledges for donations. Dinner was served soon after and was followed by a Dabkeh, which is a traditional Palestinian dance.

According to Hamdah, around 160 people attended the event this year, which was lower than the previous year.

“We advertise each year with flyers, phone calls, emails, letters to potential donors, word of mouth, et cetera,” Hamdah said.

According to Peled, he enjoys coming to campuses and speaking at events put together by students.

“Their ability to put together fantastic events never ceases to amaze me, and … it’s very important to recognize the tremen-dous work that you guys do as students on campuses in the U.S.”

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Piano Recital, Robert Ballinger will perform a piano recital at the Center for Performing Arts in the Recital Hall. Ballinger is a DeV-illbiss H.S. alumni and an active conductor, pianist, violinist and lecturer. The recital is hosted by the College Communication and the Arts and admission is free. Tuesday, Jan. 20

All day -- Guest Art-ist Exhibit, Rebecca Zeiss will present a gallery of her artwork and photographs. The title of the exhibit is “Reverence & Irrever-ence.” The art will be displayed in the CVA Clement Gallery The exhibit will be on dis-play until March 2, and Zeiss will speak about her work and pro-cess when the exhibit closes. Thursday, Jan. 22

12:30 p.m. -- Guest Artist Exhibit Lecture, Jim Jipson presents his exhibit of art titled “Chthonic.” The exhibit is free and open to the public. It will be open until Feb. 23. Jipson will give a lecture about his exhibit at 12:30 p.m. in the CVA Main Gallery An open-ing reception will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Jan. 22. Saturday, Jan. 24

10 a.m. -- Dorothy MacKenzie Price Piano Recital, the annual master class re-cital will be performed by Ning-Wu Du and Helen Sim. This duo has performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall, and in other venues in the US, China, Italy and Norway. The re-cital will be held in the Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

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Once upon a dreamCOMMUNITY

PRINCESS PARTIES

UT student Laurel Lovitt makes dreams come true for children through her princess partiesBy Amanda EggertEditor-in-Chief

Laurel Lovitt is making her dreams of being a princess and the dreams of children come true.

Her business, Laurel’s Princess Par-ties, was launched in May 2013 and has substantially grown since then.

Within the first six months of the business, Lovitt performed at 33 parties.

In 2014, there were over 330 appearances made by her and the performers, which included parties, workshops and events.

The third-year marketing major said, “We are still teaching them how to be a princess, we are still instilling all of those aspects, except for the fact that we have changed princesses.”

At parties, Lovitt hosts “princess training,” which includes teaching proper posture, how to curtsy and bow and why manners are important. There are also games, story-time and tiara-making.

Lovitt said the company performs an entire entertainment package. The performers sing, dress up in custom costumes, wigs and full makeup art.

There are five performers total at Laurel’s Princess Parties and they each play their own character and princess-es established from fables. Lovitt said they are looking to add more performers to their royal court —males and females.

Erin Momany, a second-year math education major, is one of the performers and describes her job as “princessing.”

“It will be like ‘oh what are you doing on Saturday’ and it’s ‘oh I’m princessing from 1 to 2 and then I have a meeting,’” Momany said. “It’s like the best job ever and it’s really fun being best friends with my boss too.”

Lovitt said when she started her business she was doing parties on her

own. Now with a team, it has taken time for her to get used to sharing responsibilities.

“At first it was very hard being able to trust someone else with the mes-sage and with the kids,” Lovitt said. “Over time I have gained so much trust and confidence with these girls and they’ve done an exceptional job and always give 100 percent, 110.”

Lovitt said the teamwork between the women she works with is “won-derful” and “unique.”

“They have great voices, but one thing we have in common is we truly love kids and we love to create the magic for them,” Lovitt said. “It’s really cool how we all can come to-gether and it’s very hard to find other girls like that because they have to sing, they have to be good with kids, be quick on their feet.”

The company includes a cast of characters that perform at various events and parties.

“The original fable of the ‘Snow Queen’ has impacted us tremendously now that the light has been shed upon it because we do anywhere from 5 to 10 a weekend,” Lovitt said.

Lovitt said she loves to play the Snow Queen’s sister ‘Ana’ and they perform them differently from the fables.

“The Snow Queen, we make a version that is really outspo-ken and really funny that plays well with Ana,” Lovitt said. “If we didn’t, we would have more groups than we have now that are afraid of us. I’ve walked into a room of 5-year-olds that wouldn’t talk to me for the first half hour because they were afraid of my powers.”

The real power of being a princess comes from the ability to adapt to circumstances and still act proper.

“There’s two types of parties, the

deer in headlights that you have to crack within the first ten minutes, or the ones that are so enthusiastic and ready and are about to have fun,” she said.

Lovitt said a lot of the parties are gender neutral.

“A lot of parties have boys. We teach them how to be princes,” she said. “We really touch on burping and why you don’t do that kind of stuff, and how to treat a lady and the kids love it.”

The kids and the magical fun are the reasons Lovitt said she stays motivated.

“We get drained, completely

drained, but it’s the smiles,” Lovitt said. “It’s the kids and the joy that we bring to them.”

For Lovitt, she said since she lives on her own, finding her balance is “mentally very, very hard.”

Lovitt said she is “creating every-thing from nothing.”

“I literally have nothing to go off of. I had to create everything from scratch. It’s been a lot of work and with living on my own, work is prior-ity number one, to be able to support myself and support the girls,” she said.

Lovitt said she has 90-day plans

COURTESY OF LAUREL’S PRINCESS PARTIESLovitt poses as Princess Laurel with some little girls from one of the events that she appeared. Princess Laurel is known by her blue dress, just as other princesses are known by theirs.

THEATRE

UT students travel to regional theatre festivals By Josie SchreiberStaff Reporter

Two of the University of Toledo Theatre Department’s productions were invited to be re-presented at two major theatre events in December 2014 and January 2015; “Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine.”

“Strip Tease,” directed by Cornel Gabara, was invited to be part of a theatre festival titled Tribute to S. Mrozek and Z. Herbert. The production was presented at the Cho-pin Theatre in Chicago in December 2014.

This festival was a celebration of the work of playwrights Slawomir Mrozek and Zbig-niew Herbert. The performances of “Strip Tease” were held Dec. 5-7.

According to a press release by Angela Riddel, “Strip Tease” is a comedic social commentary that explores the response of two characters faced with a voiceless and faceless authority figure that seems to be demanding.

The release also stated that they shed not only their clothing but their dignity as well.

“I believe that ‘Strip Tease’ represents the inner struggle that people have when they choose to make a decision, a battle of logic vs. reason,” said Khara Sims, a fourth-year English and theatre major.

Sims attended both “Strip Tease” and “The Adding Machine” while it was at UT, and she also attended the production of “The Adding Machine” in Cleveland.

“The Adding Machine,” directed by UT theatre lecturer Irene Alby, was chosen to be performed at the regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Jan. 6 at the Ohio Theatre in Cleveland.

Judges from the KCACTF attend mem-bers’ productions and choose the best ones for invitation to the festival, the press release said.

“The Adding Machine” follows the story of Mr. Zero, an accountant who murders his boss after learning he was going to be re-placed by an adding machine. After Mr. Zero is sentenced and executed for the murder, the play follows him into the afterlife.

Sims said she wanted to see the produc-tion in Cleveland to show her support

for the theatre department as well as her friends who were part of the production.

“I think the production was a big insight on the way that technology is controlling the newer generations,” Sims said. “Mr. Zero was replaced with a machine — was reincarnated by a machine — to work on the machine that replaced him.”

Sims said it also shows the audience how we settle for mundane activities and keep all our thoughts and desires to ourselves.

“We were very excited when we received email notification that the show had been selected,” Alby said. “Thanks to our dean and provost, who were supportive, we were able to tour the show.”

Alby said she chose “The Adding Ma-chine” because she is interested in expres-

sionism. She started her career as an actor with The Other Theatre/L’Autre Theatre in Montreal. She said they did a lot of expres-sionistic plays.

“I was interested in the themes within the play as well,” Alby said. “The idea of free will, and the concept of going through life on automatic pilot is extremely relevant today, as people are increasingly isolated and desensitized by technology.”

Alby said she liked how Elmer Rice, “The Adding Machine’s” playwright, took the play out of the Judeo-Christian context and “allowed us to explore themes such as right and wrong through a different lens.”

She also said she wanted to make the play relevant to today rather than staging it as a museum piece. She said she was intrigued by the lengthy monologues and inner thoughts of the characters.

“I think the play went really well at the festival. I was really proud of the actors who managed to adjust to a one-thousand seat proscenium after performing in a 150-seat black box with thrust seating,” Alby said. “We set up in four hours and didn’t have time to run the show, but they were still able to keep the precision of the choreogra-phy.”

Alby said there were a few lighting glitches and other technical issues but she said that “nonetheless, the show went really well and we got excellent feedback from many people.”

“We were definitely the talk on Yik Yak and other sources,” Alby said. “While that isn’t a measure of excellence, it demon-strates that people were thinking about the show long after it was over.”

Alby wasn’t the only one who had good things to say about the production.

“I think these two shows really showed the uniqueness that is within the Univer-sity of Toledo Theatre department,” Sims said. “Rather than being plays that are merely for show, they require the audience to think, and to turn the characters in the play into themselves with their own doubts and fears.”

ANDREA HARRIS / ICAbove, Elif Erturk, a theatre alum casted as Daisy Diana and Tyler Mitchell, a second-year finance major cast as Mr. Zero in “The Adding Machine,” act out a scene from the play. Right, “The Adding Machine” cast and crew poses on stage at the American College Theatre Festival.

“We are still teach-ing them how to be a princess, we are still instilling all of those aspects, ex-cept for the fact that we have changed princesses.”

LAUREL LOVITTThird-year marketing major

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today are multibillion-dollar, blockbuster affairs. Students curious about the nuts and bolts of how campaigns work from the inside will be fascinated to hear what he has to say.”

Begala, along with past UT lecturer and busi-ness partner James Carville, helped Bill Clinton win the 1992 presidential election, serving as a chief strategist for the 1992 Clinton–Gore campaign. He also served as a White House counselor to Clinton, where he coordinated policy and communications.

While Begala was a commentator and mem-ber of the CNN political team, it won an Emmy for its coverage of the 2006 U.S. elections and a Peabody Award for its coverage of the 2008 presidential election. Begala was a co-host of CNN’s political debate program, Crossfire, until 2005 and also co-hosted the show Equal Time on MSNBC.

Serving as a senior adviser for the pro-Obama Super Political Action Committee dur-ing the 2012 presidential campaign, Begala has also advised politicians worldwide, including in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.

Currently an affiliated research professor of public policy at Georgetown University, Begala also teaches at the University of Georgia School of Law.

As an author and co-author, Begala has writ-ten five political books, including, “Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room” in 2002.

Along with Carville and strategist Karl Rove, who was also a part of the lecture series, Begala was a 2012 inductee into the American Associa-tion of Political Consultants’ Hall of Fame.

Begala is married with four sons and lives in Virginia.

Tickets for the event are free, but seating is limited. To reserve tickets, visit utole.do/begala.

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ANDREA HARRIS / ICRecent snowfall has University of Toledo student Dylan Lettie, a third-year majoring in business, uncovering his car from the latest dusting of frozen precipitation. The freezing temperatures and snow have many students venturing out to scrape their windshields clear of ice and brush the snow off their vehicles before driving anywhere. If you notice any slippery spots while walking or driving on campus, call the Work Control Station at 419-530-1000.

Brushing off snow

“Paul Begala was a central figure in Bill Clinton’s upset victory during the 1992 presidential race.”

JEFF BROXMEYERAssistant professor of political science

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bicycle accessibility within the community.” The Chessie Circle Trail is a 6-mile bi-

cycle path that would stretch from Bancroft to Bowman Park. According to Eltatawy, the Chessie Circle Trail runs all the way from Wood County and Rossford, through the Perrysburg area, and extends into upper Toledo, the Temperance junction and the northeast side of Toledo.

“We want the University of Toledo to make an actually written commitment that they want to extend the bike trail and that they are fully invested with the city of Toledo’s plan to extend the bike trails and make Toledo in general more accessible to everyone, including our University of Toledo students,” Eltatawy said.

Eltatawy’s presentation of the resolution was met with only two questions by SG senators: timetable and cost. He said he hopes for the uni-versity to have their section paved by the fall, and that TMACOG plans to have their sections paved by either the fall of 2015 or the spring of 2016.

Eltatawy said that though he has a general time-line for the project, he did not have an estimate.

“I really don’t know, to be honest,” El-tatawy said, adding that the cost was not expected to be excessive.

“From what I was led to believe by TMA-COG, it, again, is more of a symbolic gesture rather than a large financial endeavor by the

University of Toledo,” Eltatawy said. After being met with no debate, the resolu-

tion passed unanimously, and Eltatawy said he plans for SG to act on it immediately.

“We can take it to Kaye Patten Wallace’s office, we can take it to President Nagi, we can take it to the UT foundation, and say explic-itly we have student support for this initiative; where can we get the monetary funds to make

this happen? Who do we need to talk to about the infrastructure of it?”

SG President Clayton Notestine said the issue is of interest to a significant portion of the student body.

“You can see from the green fund and other initiatives on campus that there is a huge push for green and proactive activity involved with developing UT, so I think there is a good population who may well be interested in this,” Notestine said. “But this legislation is the first step; it is by no means the last one.”

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“We want the University of Toledo to make an actually written commitment that they want to extend the bike trail.”

ALI ELTATAWYStudent Government vice president

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FASHION

Do it yourself fashion: made by you, for youEMILY MODROWSKI

FASHION COLUMNIST

Coming back for the spring semester, we all want to bring our best fashion out for the new start. Shopping can kill our bank accounts, so since I know we’re all college students, I’m sharing a few of my tips to vamp up your wardrobe on a budget with do-it-yourself fashion. These are really easy tricks that are not only money-saving, but fun.

Give old clothes a rebirthOne of my favorite things to do is go thrift

shopping. With some patience you can find great things at places like Goodwill or Sav-ers. An easy way to give some jeans or jean shorts a new life is to add your own rips. All you need is a piece of sandpaper and rub it on the fabric of the jeans. When you’re done, you’ll have a pair of jeans that look like they came straight from American Eagle, but you actually got them for only $3. Another idea is a simple fix for a plain old T-shirt. Find any fabric you like and cut a small piece in the shape of a pocket out of it. Then sew it on the shirt. It’s a really easy way to give a plain shirt a little something extra.

Something else I love is shortening a skirt. I was at Goodwill once and I found a skirt with a great pattern, but unfortunately was way too long — an easy fix though. Cut the skirt a little longer than the length you want. Fold over the bottom edge all the way around, then sew a new seam along the fold for a new hem length.

Make your very own graphic shirts or sweatshirts

Do you ever want that band T-shirt so bad, but it’s priced at an ungodly amount? Do you ever want that sweatshirt online with your favorite TV show logo on it, but the shipping just makes it not worth it? Do you ever want a T-shirt with something specific on it but you can’t find it sold anywhere? Let me let you in on a little secret: you can totally make your own. This is something I really love doing. I’ve made tons of my own graphic shirts or sweatshirts. Go to a thrift store and find a plain shirt or sweatshirt. Then, go to Michael’s and find iron-on transfer paper in the T-shirt and iron-on sec-tion. (I also suggest using RetailMeNot because they usually have good Michael’s coupons.) Print the picture, logo, quote or anything you want on the transfer paper, peel off the backing and iron it onto the plain shirt. That’s all there is to it. Warn-ing: once you start using this trick, you may not stop.

Search through a new closetDig deep in the archives of your mom’s,

your aunt’s, your cousin’s, whoever’s closet and see if you can find anything you love that they might not want any-more. I can’t tell you the amount of old things I’ve found in my mom’s closet that I find great but she hasn’t worn in years. Another good idea is to go through your

closet and get rid of things you don’t want anymore, and have friends go through their closets. Once you’re both done, go through each other’s throw away piles and see if you want to trade anything.

A jewelry trickThis one is for all you book-

worms out there. A really cute idea for a necklace is a mini book necklace. Get an eraser and cut it to the size you want for the necklace. Print off the cover (back and side covers if you want) of the book you chose to fit the size of the eraser. Glue the cover on the eraser, then color in the sides that are left open with paint or any color Sharpie you want. Cover the entire thing in topcoat nail polish to give it shine and protection from the elements. Stick something in the top of the eraser to hold a chain (I used part of a safety pin) and secure with super glue. Add a chain, and you’re all done.

Fashion does not have to be expensive. With these tricks you’re bound to find something new to add to your wardrobe.

Emily Modrowski is a second-year communication major.

EMILY MODROWSKI / ICEmily Modrowski poses in her plaid skirt that she measured and cut to her standards, along with a black long-sleeved shirt and her book necklace.

that include what type of events the performers will do, how many parties they will reach and what type of promotions they plan to have.

They also set goals for how many likes they want to get on Facebook, when the launch of new prin-cesses are and when they will have new costumes.

Lovitt said the performers travel outside of Toledo to cities like Ann Arbor, Troy, Findlay, Wauseon and Archbold.

Lovitt said the ‘winter sisters,’ the ‘Snow Queen’ and ‘Ana’, performed at the Walleye game on Nov. 8.

“The Walleye game was a thrill,” Lovitt said. “It was sold out at 8,600 people and I was able to sing the national anthem on national television as the Snow Queen at the event.”

Lovitt said the princesses also performed at

two tea parties and met 2,000 children in five hours’ time.

“It was absolutely crazy,” Lovitt said. “The line to meet us was wrapped around the entire arena which is a mile around.”

Lovitt said “Festival Feast,” a buffet style dinner and entertainment, at the Lights Be-fore Christmas was “absolutely wonderful.”

The princesses met over 200 families be-tween two nights. Lovitt said the princesses were able to have a lot of quality time with each child which is something they “absolutely love.”

On Jan. 10, the princesses made an appear-ance at the Appliance Center in Maumee. Lovitt said 400 families attended to meet the ‘winter sisters.’

Upcoming events include a Toledo Walleye game on Feb. 22 and Chick-Fil-A on Airport Highway on Feb. 24 from 6-8 p.m.

Lovitt said The Toledo Zoo booked Laurel’s

Princess Parties for the second year at the Spring Alive program on Feb. 28 and March 1. At the event Lovitt said they will launch new characters, Jake and Tinkerbell.

Lovitt said her family has been supportive of her dream from the beginning.

“There’s never been a doubt,” she said. “They’re like ‘OK keep dreaming and going farther’ and ‘OK what’s your next dream.’”

Lovitt said that her business isn’t about making money; it’s about creating an experi-ence for the kids.

“In society, they are not able to dream anymore for some reason because they are so fo-cused on technology, they just don’t play,” Lovitt said. “We want to give them an hour of our time to play, to just have a good time to empower them to know that they can dream and those dreams can become reality, and that’s our mis-sion — empower children and their dreams.”

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COURTESY OF LAUREL’S PRINCESS PARTIESErin Momany (left) and Laurel Lovitt (right) are dressed as the Ana and the Snow Queen and posing with Rocky and Rocksy.